Show UNION NI N LABOR T AI I SI I 1 IN DEFENSE fN I r l A N Gover Government ov ent Not Ex Expected P ec tod to Take New ew ewA A Action tion on Sinking of Oil Tanker He ddt p I BULL BULLETIN rIN By International News Service c THE HAGUE March 23 Emperor Emper r William is o on ih the verge of a nervous collapse I tit it was stated in private dis dispatches I patches from Berlin today According to the dispatch the emperor has been i in ill health for some time his his- condition condition con condition con con- being heing aggra aggravated ted by bythe bythe bythe the brought because be be- sorrow v on r cause of new de developments lo m 1 rM in In t the h e war l IF By John Edwin Nevin International News Service Sta Stiff Staff f Correspondent ASHINGTON March WASHINGTON Destruction of the Standard Standard Standard Stand Stand- ard Oil tanker Healdton with consequent loss o of twenty one lives merely added today to the grave e tension in official circles It increases the list of oC the crimes which will be cited to congress by bp dent Wilson when that body meets OI one C week eek front from next Monday It It is I not expected expected- that any auy new nets new action will wm be taken laken at this time The very fact act that the t tinker tanker was at I without warning almost in hl the thA very ery shadow of the lightship on the coast const of ot neutral Holland intensifies in in- the concern here bere anti ana brings A home to officialdom that no vessel now Is safe anywhere on the ocean from submarine frightfulness Completo Com Com- pleto peto official reports have o been requested re rev I quested by the time state department President Wilson is in direct charge I of nC all immediate defense defenso lions Elaborate reports of ot every deI do- do tan tall are kept before him and until I he has presented the situation to con con con- gr press gress ss he lie will see sec only essential 1 callers At h his request Secretary of War Var Baker has summoned H tho advisory ad idIson id- id Ison council to tn meet here hore tomorrow with the the council of oC national defense At that time bate reports will be presented I by all aU committees showing what already al- al I rendy ready has been ac accomplished i I I I I I I It also lies lias been arranged for tor the committee on labor of the coune council of oC I which Samuel Gompers is chairman to meet hero simultaneously with congress cont con con- t I gress press on oil April 2 to devise plans for far speeding up all alon along the line In I defense preparation I It t is expected e that the committee will at al that ti time make arrangements so that when a i state of war officially is declared in to pro progress re tho the hour eight d day w will he waived In ht all lines of or hidu industry Uy in n which the needs of oC the go government are and arrangements will willbo willbo bo made matlo to permit private Industries to follow the example of the tho yards to work men as long as possible possible Dossi ble paying them overtime at al the r rate rate- to of oC time and one half t to Russians Win Back Lost Ground By International News Se Service vice March 23 All 23 All tb the ground round lost to tho the Germans near nar LI ln on the river on Wednesday ha has hai he been n won back by the Russians at the point of oC the bayonet This VR announced b by the thi war wor office today Thor There has been much scouting activity trench raiding nn on the rest of or the front um oC tho town I J |