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Show Somewhere in the U, S. FIERCEST BATTLE OF A. The first straw lmt uppi.ur(Mi the .streets of Salt, Lake the courageous weurer ciiumul- n.n? tie comment. OF FIVE MILLION .t - MONS'fL.I CANNON SHOWERS CAPITAL WITH SHELLS FROM DISTANCE OF 70 MILES. SPEED HUGE AMERICAN ARMY TO FIRING LINE TO SAVE DAY, GENERAL WOODS PLEA. When Shells Began Falling in City Every Twenty Minutes, Parisians Believed That Huns Had Broken Through the Lines. Every Other Consideration Should Be Laid Aside, in His Opinion, to Crowd Trained Armies Upon French Soil. Purls. The German monster can-nobeen bombarding Purls, litis hern located In the forest of Kt. Gobuln, west of Isioii, uml exactly 122 kilometers (upproxltuutcly seventy six miles) from the Purls city hull. At first the shells begun arriving ut Intervals of twenty minutes, uml the detonations, considering the Sunday ca I mi, seemed louder than those of Sul iirduy. Their power to dlsturh the equanimity of the populuee, however, Seemed less, the people refusing to he dlstructed from their Sunday habits to nny greut extent. The greut (ierumn gun which Is reloaded to be uhlo to shell Purls from u distance of seveuty tulles could accomplish these feats with the same which Iiiin range: Shell I lover uml Canterbury, Eng-lumucross the English channel from Osteud, llelglum. Throw shells Into Venice from Trieste, In Austria, bring ucross the Adriatic seu. Peach Purls from nny point ulong the eighty tulles of the (Sermnn front.Shell New York City from TrciKon, K. J., or Poughkeepsie, N. Y. l, BIG GUN IDEA NOT NEW. Hudson Maxim Says It la Possible to Secure a Range of Over 60 Miles. New York. Hudson Muxlm, Inventor, declared In a statement Issued Sunday regarding the bombardment of Purls by the new (ierumn eunmm, tlmt It Is entirely possible to secure u range of over sixty miles with u gun, hut there Is nothing new lu the Iden. I understand tlmt the new projw-til- e Is practically of nine-inc- h calibre," With a nine-incsaid Mr. Maxim. gun from forty to fifty feet In length, aud with a maximum elevntlon of 45 degrees, a projectile may he throwu to a distance of more limn twenty miles. Now, If we double the culihre of the gun, we quadruple the ureu of the base of the projectile. If we were to tnke a culihre und shoot gun of clghtecn-Inca nine-inc- h projectile from that we would huve four times the propelling energy on the hast of the shell during the entire flight of the projectile through the bore of the gun. It would he perfectly imsslble to employ u gun for such purpose of tweuty-lue- h culihre, throwing a projectile of nine Inches. Then we would have a good deal more than four times the area upon which the powder gases would push against the projectile." h h sub-culih- SOVIET TO DISBAND ARMY. Trying to Eliminate Influence of Sol- - Wiishliiglnii, Amorim niu-- have an army of 5,000,000 men. half ( wlnuii must lie sent at once to tin- - western hnttlc front of Europe. This Is the message which Major (iciicrul Lcoimrd Wood brought from France to the mlliiary affairs committee of tlie senate and delivered to that commit lee in fxcculive session Monday afterniHiii. It may result lu action hy Hie eomiultiee to speed upon legislation for raising the draft age and otherwise increasing the nation's urinles. The supreme need of the hour, lien-eru- l Wood told the committee, Is more mini power. The sooner an army of 2,500,000 lueu Is landed In France hy the I'niteil States, the sooner will come the end of the wur. livery other consideration should he laid aside, In General WimmI's opinion, to crowd trained armies und their ueeessury supplies upon French soil, So overpowering Is this need for men, tienerul Wood said, tliut although there Is no ordnance of American manufacture on the allies' front, the Brit-Isand French governments will he able to supply all the guns needed if Aiucricft will ouly furnish the men to handle them. General Wood praised highly the national army and expressed the opinion that all of the men of this classification now In trulnlng camps should he dispatched to France immediately, lie pronounced them us a whole a splendid body of soldiers, wjiose devotion to training hud rendered them ready for active service. To take the pluces of these men, (Ieneral Wood recommended Immediate drafts from the eligible registrants and raising of the druft limit so that there inuy he more men to druw from until SJNto.ooo are in the training camps. (ieneral Wood found no discouragement In the latest news of the Ccrmun offensive. He said that the Ilrltlsh had fully prepared for It, ulthough they had not anticipated the drive would he so rapid or tliut they would he compelled to lose so large u number of guns. The roads behind the Pritish lines may also he used hy the retreating forces, but not by the enemy. It was pointed out hy (ieneral Wood that while- - the Germans are obliged to make their advances over rough, shell-torrouds, the Pritish have the advantage of smooth territory over which to conduct their withdrawal. (ieneral Woods view of the entire fdjuutlon was highly optimistic and ho expressed himself to the committee as being entirely satisfied of the success of the ullles in stopping the present drive. He praised the morale of the British und French, who are in uctive contact with the enemy, und said he was much gru titled to find the splendid Spirit und courage of the Americans. h n diers from Public Affairs. Moscow. The soviet government Is rapidly dlsurudng the okl army and eliminating Us tnltueuce from public affairs. The Moscow soviet has reMexico Rejects Agreement moved froui its executive committee all President Carranza Washington. soldier representatives, aud similar economic agreement the lias rejected ltus-slnctiou Is taking place throughout drawn here by Ambassador Fletcher the Mexican commissioner, Itafael and The new voluntary army will select and 1ms appointed three men to Nieto, representatives In the vurious soviets. formulate a new pro sisal for presentaThe old soldiers are unwilling at tion to the tldted States. many places to surrender their arms and return to work. At I'etrogrud three GENERAL AVARESCU regiments declined to he demobilized. The Petrograd soviet has Issued u statement sajing that these regiments were under influences contrary to the revolutionary movement. a. GENERAL BELL OPTIMISTIC. Hat Not tne Slightest Doubt That the Consideration of the providing for the regthe selective service who have reached the age of 21 years since June 5 lust 1ms been tuken up in the senate. Washington. Joint resolution istration under act of all men " Utah Aviator Killed. Lieutenant Flu. Second Lester C. Puuman of Salt Lnke Oily, uu aviator lu the murine corps, was instantly killed Suturduy afternoon us the result of a full in a Miami, hydro-all-plan- AMERICANS TROOPS ENGAGED ARE THOSE RECENTLY ACTIVE ALONG THE CHEMIN DES DAMES. 10 GUT SUPPLY AT THE BATTLE FRONTS MUST BE DOUBLED TO MEET ARMY NEEDS. Boys From United States Making Sacrifice in Wheat Ration Will Entail Successful Raids in No Mans Land No Hardship to Americans Bein Toul and Lorraine Sector, cause of Supply Potatoes, Corn, According to Latest Reports. Oats and Milk Is Ample. Washington. America n troops have been engaged in the attempt to stem the greut German offensive, according to reports reuehing the capltul. The American troops reported to he engaged are thought to he those which were recently active along the Chemln des 1 lames. American troops are making successful raids in No Man's Land," In Toul und sectors, according to the weekly review of the conflict Issued hy the war department. Official French advices say thnt ninely-seve- n Germun divisions, approximately 1,000,000 men, have beeo employed in the grent offensive. According to thete dispatches the guln attained hy the Teutons is not more tlmu seven kilometers, or ubout four und one-humiles. Officers of the entente armies on duty here say that if lf Washington. Further reduction In the consumption of wheat wus asked of the public March 23 by the food administration, that the scant supplies available before the next harvest may be stretched to meet the needs of the army, domestic consumers and the allies. Every American Is requested to cut his average ration of wheut hy f0 per cent, which would reduce the total monthly normal consumption to 21, 000,000 bushels. That gives a ration of not more tlmn one and one-hapounds of wheut products weekly for each person. Flour sales will he cut to h of u barrel for n town customer and to of a barrel for any country customer, , that retailers Atoeks may he distributed to as great a number as possible. The wheat content of bakers' bread will he reduced to 75 per cent on April 14, which Increases hy ft per cent the amount of substitutes that must be used. Sacrifice In the wheat ration will entail no hardships in the opinion of food administration officials, because the supply of potatoes, corn, oats and milk Is ample to iiiulntuin health. lf one-eight- one-quart- er the latter figures are correct, the offensive has not brought forth a success. Officials of the British embassy declare that If these figures stand, a great victory has been scored h.v the British and French arms. Other advices which lead the British into an almost jubilant frame of mind wqs the brief statement of General llalg that the positions remained unchanged; that the line had not been U. S. to Keep I. W. W. Papers. broken, and the hint coming from Chicago. The plea of counsel for United Stutes sources tliut the Amer- the Industrial Workers of the World ican forces nre heavily engaged, fight- for the return of papers seized by feding side hy side with the French and in the nation-wideral action agents British. against members of thnt organization under the espionage uct, has been deTHREE BILLION DOLLAR LOAN. Ger-iiui- u e nied. McAdoo Announces Third Liberty Loan Will Be at Per Cent Interest. 44 third Liberty Washington. The loan, to open April 0, will he for 000,000 and all oversubscriptions at 4',i per cent 'interest. Bonds of the first loan, hearing ilia per cent Interest, und of the second loan at 4 per cent, limy he converted into the new bonds, hut those of the third loan will not he convertible Into any future Issue. This imnouncement was made Monday hy Secretary McAdoo with the comment that "the great events now happening in France must tire the soul of every American with a new determination to furnish all the dollars and all the material resources of America that are needed to pul un end to tlic execrable atrocities of German militarism," Nearing Pleads Not Guilty. New York. lleas of not guilty to charges of violating the espionage act in the publication and distribution of a pamphlet entitled The Great Madness" were entered in the federal court Saturday hy Scott Nearing. MAJ. R. W. SHUFELDT Forces Sent to Front London. In a message to Field Marshal llalg, David Llnjd George, the British premier, says that the men necessary to replace those lost are either now in France or already on their way. All guns will he replaced and still further reinforcements of men and guns ure ready to enter the battle. General Avareecu, who has been appointed head of the newly formed Roumanian cabinet, Is one of that country's most famous soldiers Sizzling Politics in Wisconsin. Milwaukee. Congressman Irvine L. I .enroot, Republican candidate for United Stutes senator. In a spvsM-- at Kenoslm called on 1resldent Wilson to keep his hands out of Wisconsin's state polities. Lack of Preparedness. Washington.- - Had this nation begun Americans Aiding British. Washington. General lershiug has reported that two regiments of American engineers have been engaged with MaJ. R. W. Shufeldt, who served as the British in the operations connected a Junior officer in the Civil war and with the (ierumn offensive. through the Indian wars on the western frontier, has been placed on the Symphony Leader Alien Enemy. Bostou. Drr. Karl Muck, leader of active list of the medical corps of the the Boston Symphony orchestra, was army at his own request His work taken Into custody as an enemy alien will be to assist in compiling a medical at his residence In the Back Bay dis-trl- and surgical history of ths present war. of this city on Monday. Germans Execute Priests. Huns Torpedo Argentine Steamer. London. The execution In Brussels A.vres. Advices Buenos received here seem to confirm the reports cur- of two Roman Catholic priests on the rent Wednesday that the Royal Mail charge of espionage Is reported In a Steam Racket companys steamer Ama- dispatch from Amsterdam. Eight other zon. n 10, 000-tovessel, had been tor- priests, the dispatch ays, have been given life Imprisonment. pedoed. n Must Hold Wool Pelts. Washington. Wool pullers and dealuniversal military training three years ers in wool jielts have been ordered hy ago, hy this time pence would have 'the war Industries hoard to hold all been declared, was the assertion In the stocks for the option of government senate hy Seuutor Harry S. New of purchusc ut a uiuximum price of 11 Indiana. leouts per pouud. Londo.i. In the first three days of the German spring drive, on a front of sixty miles or more, the Germans have broken through two lines of British trench systems, have forced the BrltMi from the Camhrai salient, and are k Hie third British lines west of Sail (Jut-li- t In and east of IVroime. Sun Quentin und lcroime are about fittceu miles apart. While at first the pm pose of the Germans was doubtful. It soon became clear that the great offensive which they had been threatening was under way. No concentration of guns on n flfiy-mll- e front hud ever approached the Hun concentration between Arras and Lit Fere. It Is reported that In one small area presumably III the northern sector near Crolsllles 1000 guns were posted. The bombardment preceding the Infantry uttuck was the heaviest of the war. It began In misty weather, which was u disadvantage to the Invudcrs, because their flyers could not make observations. About noon, on the first day, the sun cume out and the flyers began to direct the artillery fire. Many buttles In the ulr nre recorded. The British aviators flew low, droje ping bombs or sweeping the enemy's ranks with machine gun fire. In fact, all the weapons known to modem warfare were used flying machines, balloons, tanks, liquid fire, poison gas und gas shells, In addition to the various forms of firearms. Field Murshull von Hindenhurg uml Generul von Ludendorff had Inspired their soldiers and the German people with the utmost confidence hy means of publicity lasting several months. Flnully, with a great flourish, neutral correspondents were invited to the front, and the emperor went to take command of the offensive in person. The success attained hy the Germans are must notable, hut they huve been achieved at frightful cost. At the same time the losses of the Brit-N- h may he conjectured by the figures contained In the Berlin report, for the success has been so greut tliut even the Wilhelmstrasse Is probably not exaggerating. By the end of the second day, or perhaps the morning of o the third, the Germuus had taken This might indicate prisoners. a British loss approaching 70,(HX) or 75, IXH). No such losses on the British front have occurred heretofore In such a brief Hriod, nor huve the Germans ever before been uble to take so muny British prisoners. Inasmuch as the Germans gained every foot of ground only hy the most violent fighting against an enemy utmost ns well armed as themselves, at least as to machine guns and lighter cannon, their losses must have 1wn quite severe. 25,-Oo- Dutch Are Indignant. London. A report that Influential Interests at Rotterdam have commenced agitation to have the Dutch government requested to break off relations with the tldted States because of the requisitioning of Dutch merchantmen Is contained in an Exchange Telegraph company dispatch received from Copenhagen, which quotes the Iolitikens Rotterdam correspondent. Summit county commission, j. meeting with the stute mh.i tdon, decided to spend !j!''Viua tl u year on road construction and r In that county. The Salt Lake recruiting Mi,t,,n the United States marine crl eelved Instructions last ve ( every effort to aid In the ciiistl,J! of 22(H) by May I. Mrs. John Sunlger, wumcii fllf the ulleged theft of dlam.neU money to the value of Mrs. Sarah Mansfield of Is under arrest in Los Angi i The citizens of Ogden li her county made u splendid ieq(nuw to the cull of the Red ('mss f,,P Uswl clothing which will he Hint t0 refugees of Belgium aud Fiance, The teachers of Boxchh r unty have made un appeul to the hoard $ education for nn Increase in salaries t meet the advanced demands upon them In every line iif activity, A poker Is designated as a deadly weapon In a complaint filed in the of. flee of the county uttoruey at Salt Ixike against Hurry Cuius, He ulleged to have used It as such in as nttuck upon a friend. Dr. E. G. Hughes of Provo lias bees appointed surgeon und cousuituut at the stute mental hospital. Dr. Hughes will not live at the hospital and Intends to retain Ids private practice, us his appointment will nut in. terfere with It. News has been received of the death at Whittier, Cul., of Edwuril W. (.'lurk, mining expert, and until last October employed hy former United Slates Senator W. A. Clark of Montumi. Mr. Clark cume to Utah In lsx!. H made Ids home lu Utuh at Ophir. The Ogden Iteul Estute iccvociutloa bus voted to lend its aid to the war garden movement, which has been launched at Ogden. All vacant loti held by the realty deulers will t turned over to the garden committees for use as gurdeus during the summer. Members of the 145th (Utuh) regiment, now at Camp Keurny, are la tiptop condition from every concelv&bla military standpoint, and are chafing at their hits, awaiting the order tliut will tell them to break comp und begin the long march to flprs-tlvel- y Berlin. Acting Governor Harden Bonion has signed requisition papers on the governor of California for the return to Utuh of Walter K. Yorston, who is under arrest ut Los Angeles on a charge of huving deserted Ids wife und chili and refusing to contribute to their support. While he was caged like a mad dog, growling, frothing und tearing at his face with his finger nails, death came to George C. Chandler of Ogden, a victim of the dread hydrophobia, w ho aud refused, despite the pleas of physicians and relatives, to take a preventive treatment. As a preliminary step toward the enforcement of the curfew law la Ogden, nil motion picture houses have served notice on their patrons that children under 10 years of age would not he udmltted to the show house after 9 o'clock, unless accompanied by the proper guardian or parent. One county in Utuh saved directly last year from the efforts of one woman. Such Is the remarkable report that comes from the extension division of the Jtuh Agricultural college regarding The work of Mis llettie White, county home demonstrator for Millard county. With a view of determining the effFrench Defeat German Attack. of the daylight saving movement, icacy I'aris. The Germans launched an which goes Into effect March 31. the attack on the French lines In the Manufacturers' Association of I 'tub I Woevre district Saturday al night, sending out communications which was dispersed by the French urging manufacturers of the state, fire. The Germans suffered apprecis that they keep carefully compiled able losses uml lost some prisoners of the results of this change. In the hands of the French. Fifteen thousand copies of "German Wur Code," "Conquest and Kultur," Kahn Would Hang Traitors. American Interests In Popular G"v New York. Prompt hanging was the eminent Ahmad," nnd German War remedy proposed by Representative in th Julius Kahn of California, In un ad- Practices" will he distributed high schools of Utah, If the plans of dress here Sunday, for those who raise Dr. E. G. Gown ns, stute superintendent "a seditious or traitorous voire." "We of public Instruction, mutcrhilUe must make an example of these people, Paul Vultlnke, who was arrested at uml do it quickly, he said. Salt Lake for Interment at the "iff s prison at Fort Douglas as a dinger-ouRich Find in Aztec Ruins. of enemy ullen, Is not the author New York. Announcement of the a eertuln patriotic song as, reported. (KK) recovery of 70, specimens of It transpired the song was written by Aztec civilization from the a Salt Lake woman who ashed Aztec ruin" In the Animas valus a composer of music." .0 in northwestern New Mexico, ley set to music. Is made hy the Amerlcun Museum of Thnt ull organized lubor throughout Natural History. the United States declare a general strike on May 1, If Thomas J. Mooney Baker Visits King of Belgians. nnd W. K. Billings, convicted In 'a0 London. Newton 1). Baker, Fran.'lseo for complicity In the American secretary of war, visited are day parade bomb plots. King Albert of Belgium and the Bel- not recommendapardoned, was the gium front on March 23. tion adopted at u meeting held at SnK Lake on Sunday. German Dyes Made in America. Singing songs of home nnd country Washington. Manufacture of Geraround old fashioned bonfires, th man dyes hy American companies has lucmhcrN of the Mutual Improvement already been began. A dye famine, It which has existed since Bill, vvlil he Associations of the Mormon church will relieved. Proper formulas have been every town und hamlet In Utah arrived at after months of experiment. Usher In the third Liberty loan drlv the night of April 0. Will Reduce Milk Prices. Even grape Juice allowed to ferment 1 lilladelphla. Milk prices, beginning sufficiently to exhibit alcoholic symlf April 1. In this city, will he reduced toms cannot lie sold with Impunity un ft nm 13 to 12 cents n quart m -- der Hie Utuh stute law. This fact '" when cents u pint, and hefore-hrenkfude demonstrated to Mike Smllovlch liveries will he resumed ut once, It win found guilty of bootlegging hecatt I Wits shown to have sold such u unnoutiecd on Monday, .umllly In Mldvule.' rtc-ord- All Guns Will Be Replaced and Fresh h Senate Considers Draft Resolution. Bombardment That Preceded Infantry Attack Heaviest of the War, All the Weapons Known to Modern Warfare Being Uted. NEW TROOPS RUSHED TO HAIG. Allies Will Win. New York.- - There Is not the slightest occasion for pessimism or discouragement, (ieneral J. Franklin Pell, dieoMmun.ier of the seventy-seventvision of the national army, declared here Friday In his first Interview since Ids recent return from the fighting rmnt in Frunce. We are engaged In u serious undertaking, but there Is not th. slightest reason for doubting that we will finally accomplish our task und accomplish It thoroughly," Gonernl Pell said. "Pa- and perseverance are all that lit will he required." Redmond Is Chosen to Parliament. London. Captain William Peduiond succeeds his father, John Iledmond. the Nationalist leader in parliament. Returns from the election for the east 'uptulu for Waterford show that Itedmoud was elected. HEAVY SIDES SUFFER LOSSES WHEN HUNS BEGIN ADVERTISED SPRING DRIVE. BOTH Two Spanish Ships Sunk. Washington. Sinking of the Spanish vessels, the steamer Aprlllao and the ship Begomi, h.v German suhnmrlnes Is reported in official dispatches from Barcelona. The Begomi was attacked while on Its way to Piraeus. i. |
