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The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal VOLUME XIV. BRITISH PLAN NEW DRIVE IN MA CEDONIA BATTIE STARTED ON FOOD CONTROL BILL IN BOTH HOOSES TODAY Most Progressive Republicans In Senate Favor Measure, While Strongest Opponents in House Are Republicans BY MALPK SMITH WASHINGTON. June It- —The ques tion of food control through legis'.at.ve enactment tn coniplixr.ee with the rec onunend&tion • of the president, today occupies both branches of congress to the exclusion of everything else. Both the senate and the bouse have under consideration the »o-<»lled Lever bill, and it la the purpose of leaders in both houses to force the issue until the bill has been enacted. Senators Smith and Hardwick ane counted as among the leading oppo nents to the legislation in the senate, while in the house at least two Cracker fee semen—Gordon Lee and W.ll.am Schley Howard —are among the ener getic forces supporting the measure. Senator Hardwick opposes considera tion of the bill in the senate at this time, since he contends no senator has the constitutional right to vote for it In Its present shape His contention is . based on the fact that the measure pro pose * to raise certain revenue through license taxes Under the constitution all revenue legislation 'must originate in the house . , . The point raised by Hardwick is not combatted in the senate, since there is no purpose on part of senate administra • tion leaders to force a vote on the measure until after the house has pass ed the bl IL Then the house measure will be substituted for the bill being considered in the senate. The idea of precipitating consideration in the senate at this time is to expedite final passage of the legislation. •••it is like playing horse with the sen ate to force debate on this measure now. when every' one knows that it can not be voted on,’ said Senator Hard wick. ■senator Smith contends that the food bill control is unnecessary since the l-ill recently passed by the senate to stimulate food production and take a food census fully meets the require ments of the situation. ■ More than two weeks ago the sen ate passed the house bill, appropriat ing »1«,000.000 to enable the secretary of agriculture to take a census of the food supply for production." he said. The senate added to this bill an amendment which will stop food manip ulation and suppress the speculator The bill has now been in the house for more than two weeks W e have asked for a conference and the house has not given It- Many of us believe that the acceptance of the senate amendment will do away with the necessity for further food control legislation." Senator Smith commended the efforts ts the administration, through Herbert C Hoover, to provide a voluntary or ganisation for the conservations of foodstuffs He takes issue, however, with the contention of Chairman Lever and* others that the maximum price fixing provision has been eliminated for the present bill. "While nominally the present bill strikes the maximum prices fixing pro vision. the powers still retained in the bill, really give that privilege." he stated. "They are covered up. but they are in the bill, just the same." The view of congressman Gordon Lee deserves consideration. He Is a prac tical farmer and operates one of the largest farms in n«»rth tleorgla. He s familiar with the requirements and has the interest of the farmer at stage. He is the ranking member of the house agriculture committee that wrote the food control legislation. His familiari ty with its provisions and practical eperations is attested by the fact that he is Chairman Lever’s lieutenant in the management of the bill in the house. Here Is what he thinks of the leg’.slar "I am for the food control legislation first, last and all the time. I am proud of a committee membership that enabled me to help draft the measure. I know that it will prove helpful to the farm ers of the country and especially to our southern farmers It will stimulate them to raise an abundance of foodstuffs and diversification of crops is needed in the south. •There is nothing in all this talk about the bill injuring the farmers by en abling the government to take over his produce There is no maximum price fixing permitted by the measure The minimum price will Insure the farmers against loss. That is why the provision was written in the bill. In case of an over-production, the minimum price will protect the farmers The bill will stop speculation in foodstuffs, and that is to be desired It will destroy the gamblers and jobbers who control the prices to the advantage of themselves and to the loss of the producers. It will enable the farmers to reap their just benefits from the in creasing demand instead of putting this money in the pockets of gamblers and manipulators. “It is well enough to remember also that the southern people, including the farmers, are consumers, broadly speak i •*. We do not produce as much as we consume tn the southern states. We must go into the markets to get many of our provisions. We do not raise enough wheat to supply us with flour, and unless we get this legislation I coo- U flour will coat M s3® a barrel before long.” While the bill was being explained to the house by Representative Lever, as a measure which would harm no hon est. business man. but would drag "crooks" and speculators into the sun light. a letter from President Wilson to Representative Borland was made pub lic. in which the president warned op ponents of the bills that should they defeat them they must be prepared to take the responsibility for food condi tions and prices which were predicted to follow. The great majority of the house greet ed the opening of debate with bursts or applause and approval, but tne op position was silently making ready for its attack. In the senate, the opposition also was ready. Led by Senator Reed, of Missouri; Senator Smith, of Georgia, and Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, all Full Associated Press Service MANY GO THROUGH WAR AND ESCAPE DEATH, MAJOR SAYS Dunbar, Canadian Officer Here With Rotarians, Says Troops Are Much Safer in Modern Fighting Than Formerly “When a man goes to war It doesn’t neewaarily follow that he gets killed. On the contrary, a great percentage of the chaps I fought with have been in the trenches since the war began and are olive and kicking yet. Some of them arc wounded, but that matters very llttla Fifty per cent of the men that are wounded are able to return to j the trenches in six weeks." Pipe Major Charles Dunbar, In At lanta with the Canadian Rotarians, was speaking, and he ought to know, for he has served in the British army for near ly twenty-five years, fighting through the Boer war and through the present European struggle until he was wound ed Counoelette. on the Somme. ’This is the healthiest war the world has ever known.” he continued. "It is three times as healthy as the Boer war, when typhus knocked out men by the thousand. There is practically no death from disease in Europe. and that, too, when it is impossible to keep conditions In the trenches from being insanitary. "The war is healthy because, since It began, the doctors and surgeons have made gigantic strides. They have found cures for practically any disease that can be caught in the trenches, and they can save a man who Is shot to pieces. "The first thing they do to a man after he has been wounded is to innoc ulate him against tetanus, the lockjaw which has been the terror of war In years past. There is hardly any lock jaw or gangrene in the armies fighting in Europe. ’That is one reason I say that a man stands every chance of coming out ‘ alive when he goes to the trenches. The average American has the idea that when he enlists he has signed his own r j death certificate. That is utter non sense ' "He probably thinks that because he ( bears of so many that are killed and does not hear of the many, many more that are not killed. While It Is true that there are millions of men who are maimed and wounded in England and Canada today and that after the war is over, the allied nations will be thick with one-legged men and one-armed men. the majority of them will come out of it alive.” Pipe Major Dunbar Is himself a good example of one of the ones that came out alive. He went with the first Cana dian contingent to the front in France and for many long weeks was in the trenches. The night before his regi ment was to "go over the top,” he was wounded by shell Are. That was In September, 1916, on the Somme. He was sent to his home In Hamilton, Ont., and came to Atlanta with the Hamilton Ro tary club as their guest. Major Dunbar wears his Highland kilt and tarleton and plays the bag pipes wherever he goes. He wears the "distinguished conduct” medal and was mentioned three times in dispatches for services rendered. Major Dunbar is very anxious to go to Fort McPherson to see the interned German sailors. "From what I have heard," he said. "I imagine they are much better off than are the prisoners in France. There the Gfrmim are behind barbed wire and they have a ‘dead line.’ If any goes beyond the dead line, they are shot down by the sentries.” Democrats. It was contended that the first food bill, already passed and now awaiting conference with the house, contained provisions to check specula tion and price fixing which made the second bill unnecessary. To bring "food crooks out into tne sunlight,” but not to injure honest business, it the aim of the food con trol bill. Chairman Lever, of the agri culture committee, declared In opening debate in the house. A wave of applause greeted his state ment. adding strength to his prediction that the bill will pass the house by a large majority perhaps by tne eno or the week. opponents of the bill, under the lead ership Os Representative Haugen ot lowa; former Speaker Cannon, of 111-. r and Representative Moore oJ Penn., were , ready to lead an attack. "The contest between autocracy and • American democracy.” said Representa- I tive Lever, "will be determined in the end by the character and strength of t the organization which one can put . against the other. , A loose-jointed, unorganized democra , cy has no ghost of a chance in a con j tst with such an autocracy as is Ger , many. Organization is the only weapon 1, with which organization can be over , come. An organization, as the term is I used here, means not only the whipping I into shape the man power of the na- II tion, the money power of the nation, t but as well every resource of the na , tion which may be used in the con » test.” 9 Anticipating attacks on giving the , president extraordinary powers, Mr. . j contended the situation warranted ■ them. j J -We must either confer the so-called | autocratic powers upon the constitu- > tional head of our government or be a prepared to have them assumed by -' the German kaiser." he said. “No war • was ever won by a debating society. “ The time is upon us for getting down f to brass tacks Every man, woman and 9 child must be prepared to make sacri ’. tices —great sacrifices —and no man is - going to be permitted to stand behind • fine spun theories and technicalities In his opposition to those measures. This > is no pink tea affair, nor is It a ladies* 5 sewing club matter. It is war against - the most powerful autocracy the world I ever saw. ‘The supreme duty, as well as the > supreme necessity, .is to feed our fight- - ing forces, the fighting forces of the allies, and absolutely provide neces- ’ ■ saries at living prices for our own peo- > pie and as largely as we can the civilian ■ j population of our allies.” I Progressive Republicans with the ex ception of Senator I-A Follette who is bitterly opposed to the bill, for the most > part support it. They are making clear, - however, that the atuocratlc power ’ which It Is proposed to sweep Into the lap of President Wilson is for the war ‘ only. f In the house the strongest opponents . of the measure are on the Republican lj side. , MEN NAMED FDD SELECTIVE SERVICE SOON TO BE KNOWN President’s Proclamation Probably Will Be Issued Within Forty-Eight Hours Giving Rules for Selection WASHINGTON, June 18. —The Ameri can war machine which is to select 626,- 000 soldiers for service In France is geared up and ready to start work to day. President Wilson’s proclamation of regulations, which will start the ma chine by putting into operation the act ual selection of men, is completed and ready to be Issued. This proclamation tells In detail how the fate of every’ man eligible for army service will be decided. It directly af fects every American on the registra tion Hate. Since Saturday the president and Sec retary Baker have been going over the final draft of the regulations, prepared by a special advisory board. Within twenty-four hours the rules will probably be promulgated and the most vital phase of the selective con scription ’will begin. The regulations create two classes of exemption boards, outline their duties and enunciate gen eral rules for exemption or selection. The personnel of local exemption boards In twenty states was* decided to day. They will be announced within forty-eight hours. President Wilson’s proclamation does not set an exact day for the great lot tery which results in the men for Amer ica’s first armies being summoned from thousands of homes. But all Provost Marshal General Crowder’s plans are predicated upon conducting this moment ous lottery during the first week of July. DHTHCOMES SUDDENLY TO JOBSON C. CLEMENTS Member of Interstate Com merce Commission Dies of Acute Indigestion BY RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON, June 18. —Judge Jud son C. Clements of Georgia, member of the interstate commerce coifimisslon, died suddenly in this city this morning jof acute Indigestion. His death came a s a distinct stock to official Washing ton and was the source of profound sor row to Georgians in the national capital. He was the oldest member of the com merce commission in point of service, having served since 1891. He was reap pointed about two years ago by Presi dent Wilson for a term of six years. Judge Clements was a native of Walk er county, where he was .born in Feb ruary. 1846. He was edcuated In the common schools of LaFayette and later graduated from Cumberland univeslty at Lebanon, Tenn. He began the prac tice of law at, LaFayette In 1869. judge Clements’ public service began in 1872 when he was elected to the Geor gia legislature from Walker county. He j subsequently served as a state senator, and was elected to the forty-seventh con gress, redeeming the Seventh district for the Democratic party. He served con ■ tinuously in congress for ten years, re : tiring voluntarily to accept a place on | the commerce commission. Sixteen Cantonments For Army to Be Built Under Special Contract WASHINGTON. June 18. —The sixteen great cantonments for the new army will be built under a special form of contract by the terms of which no con tractor will be permitted to overcharge the government, the maximum profit of any contract being fixed at $250,000. The government also will have complete supervision over the work and may ter minate any contract at will. The terms of the contract were made public by the war department today. The primary object In the wording of the agreement is to secure speedy con struction and avoidance of unnecessary expenditures. The contractor is to be paid his ex penses and percentage of their total amount, out of which he must meet his overhead costs. His profits are to come from the difference between this per centage arM overhead expenses. Spot Cotton at 25.60; Highest for Fifty Years Following the sensational advance in Liverpool of 12 a bale and a rise of 83 to 102 points in New York futures, the i local sj>ot cotton market was quoted 90 points higher Monday than Saturday, at 25.60. This is the highest mark for half * a century. At noon New York futures stood at 88 to 104 points up from Saturday, and New Orleans at 90 to 112 points. * New York spot cotton was quoted at 26.20 cents, an advance of 90 points from Saturday. New Orleans spots were up 56 points at 21.75 cents. Mrs. Elizabeth Camp Ends Her Own Life (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) CLARKSTON, Ga., June 18.—Despon dency as the result of ill health is be ’ lieved to have been the cause of the sui ' clde of Mrs Elizabeth Camp, forty years old, who ended her life here yes • terday with a pistol. Resides her husband she Is syrvived ' 1 by three children —Edith, Felix, Jr., and ’ I Harriet Camp, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Barnes: two brothers, Henry ' Barnes, of Atlanta, and Lieutenant 1 Clifford Barnes, of the United States navy. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1917. LET HIM PASS! uwSR Sv 4j WOMAN AND SON KILLED WHEN EMIN HITS AUTO Mrs. Minnie Turner and Fred Turner Folk, Met Death at Jonesboro Mrs. Mlnne Turner and her four-year old son, Fred Turner, were killed; Miss Grace Dorsett was seriously injured and three others were slightly hurt Sunday afternoon at 4:45 o’clock at Jonesboro, when Central passenger train No. 12, At lanta to Macon, smashed into the Ford automobile in which Mrs. Turner was being driven to the bedside of her sick daughter at Fayetteville. Mrs. Turner is the widow of the late Rev. James Turner, of Fayetteville, and at the time of her death was living with her father, L. P. Jackson, four miles from Jonesboro. Miss Grace Dorsett is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Dorsett, who live four miles west of Fayetteville. She was brought in Poole’s ambulance to the Atlanta hospital, where it was found that her right leg is broken and that she is badly bruised. It was not until midnight that she regained conscious ness, but it was believed Monday morn ing at the hospital that she will recover. Others in the automobile were J. D. Adams, driver of the car, and Ursie Denham and Miss Cora Denham, all of whom live near Fayetteville. None of the three suffered injuries beyond cuts and bruises. The party had been to dinner at the home of J. P. Jackson near Jones boro, and in the afternon it was ar ranged that Mrs. *Turner, with her four year-old son, should be driven to Fayetteville to see her daughter, who is seriously 111. Two hundred yards north of the Jonesboro depot at Stockbridge cross ing the accident happened. In a statement to The Journal's cor respondent, J. D. Adams, driver of the car. says that as he approached the track he saw the Central suburban train parked just above the crossing, and this led him to think the way was clear. With the automobile going at a low rate of speed, he started across the track, and just as the front wheels touched the rail he saw the Central No. 12 bearing down on him. He tried to quicken his speed, but too late. The engine crashed Into the car, pitch ing it twenty yards and grinding it into bits. The six occupants were tossed out, but all fell clear of the engine wheels. Mrs Turner’s son, Fred, was brained by the fall, and was dead when picked up. Mrs. Turner lived for several hours at a near-by residence to which she was carried. Miss Cora Den ham was taken to the home of J. O. Blalock and afterward to her own resi dence. Neither J. D. Adams nor Ursie Denham suffered anything more than bruises. The train was in charge of Engineer Lavender and Conductor Frank Pritch ett. The former was on the opposite side of the cab from the automobile and says it was impossible for him to see the car. Th bodies of Ms. Minnie Turner and her young son were taken to Fayette ville for funeral and interment. Mrs. Turner is survived by four daughters. Pershing’s Nephew Has Enlisted as a Private CHICAGO, .Tune 18.—Frank E. Persh ing, twenty-two, nephew of Major Gen eral Pershing, and captain of the Uni versity of Chicago football team for next fall, today enlisted as a private in the regular armyi IRON HAND USED BY KERENSKY ON ARMY IN RUSSIA War Minister Is Gaining ' Strength in His Efforts to Force Troops to Continue Fighting Against Germany PETROGRAD, June 18.—Minister of War Kerensky discarded the pleasant phrases of oratorical persuasion today for iron-handed disciplinary measures to force Russia’s troops to fight. He issued orders depriving all desert ers from the army of the right to vote ' and from participation in the dlstribu i tion of Russian lands. He overruled a subsidiary branch of I the Workmen’s and Soldiers’ delegates I in granting permission to nine compa nies of soldiers to leave the front. He refused leave to a whole division of Ukranian troops who wanted to jour ney back home and attend a conference urging autonomy for L'kranla. He sponsored a government order is sued- today making all anti-war agita tors in the army liable to te nyears’ im prisonment. "1 hopeT never hear of such an inci dent again,” was Kerensky’s short dis missal of a request from a committee of soldiers, approved by the Workmen's and Soldiers’ council of the city of Bui gulma for leave for nine companies of soldiers. Moreover, he ordered immedi ate arrests of the soldiers’ committee. That Kerensky is gaining strength in his efforts to make Russia fight is evi denced by several incidents of the past 1 i few days. The private soldier Stephano, made famous throughout Russia because Ke- ■ rensky called him a “coward” and dis missed him from the army because of his pacifist views, today requested per- 1 mission from the minister to re-enlist, i go to the front, and die for Russia. |He explained his former views were "be cause he did not understand Russia’s duty.” Women of Moscow and Odessa have | formed a “legion of death” and applied ' formally for permission to go to the front and die for Russia If need be. Evidencing art increasing antagonism I to\vard Germany one Russian newspaper today “played up" the recent London air raid as "proof of German inhumanity.” Billy Sunday Weeps as He Leaves New York > ■ l NEW YORK, June 18.—Billy Sunday ) wept when he told New York good-bye. Today he is speeding to his home at , Winona Lake, Ind., for a rest. I He started to leave the platform once, •I but turning, he yelled to the crowd: >j “I don't want to go. I don’t want to ■ i go.” And the cry from the crowd was: ■ [ "Come again. Bill.” : Sunday’s $1 14,000 freewill offering he 1 • did not touch. It will be divided be tween the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. ■ i A. army field work. Sunday’s trail ■ ' hitters for-the ten weeks campaign to • taled 98,264 I Peanut Acreage Shows Big Increase in Georgia WASHINGTON. June 18.—Almost 61 I per cent increase in the peanut acreage J this year is indicated in the prelmiinary j report of the department of agriculture. ■ The total acreage is 2,001,000 acres. All southern states except North Carolina ■ and Tennessee show greater acreages this year than last. Georgia, with 420.- 000 acres, shows an Increase of 121 per cent; Texas, with 600,000 acres, shows an increase of* 118 per cent, and Ala bama, with 268,000 acres, shows an in crease of 97 per cent. STATE DEPARTMENT ASKS ITALY TO HOLD COCCHI Alleged Slayer of Ruth Cruger Is Indicted in New York City WASHINGTON, June 18—At the re quest of the of New York, the state department has requested the Italian government to hold Alfredo , Cocchi, now at Bologna, Italy, in con nection with the murder of Ruth Cruger, a New York high school girl. , whose body was found Saturday beneath Cocchi’s shop. Whether Cocchi can be extradited and • returned to the United States is prob i lematical. A diplomatic controversy is . expected, because Italy always has In terpreted her treaty with the United 1 States so as to require the trial In . Italy. Despite this, the United States , always has taken an opposite view, and in fulfillment of it, returned Por . ter Charlton to Italy, in the celebrated . case which ended with his conviction . but short sentence. The indictment was signed by Judge Wadhams in general session court and 1 f-.t once forwarded to Governor Whit -1 man at Albany. 1 Police Commissioner Wood flatly con demned his own department for its in ' efficient handling of the case and turn- • ed the police end of it over to the district attorney with the suggestion 1 that the pelice department be included in the general probe of the Cruger j murder mystery. Wood will drive the police to a vigor- , ; ous hunt for the "white slave” ring | ■ ; Mrs. Grace Humiston, the woman law- | • I yer,' who, he admits, cleared up the . ’' case his own men had boggled, declar- • I ed is responsible for at least twenty , I two missing New York girls she knows I of. • 1 Wood's men may dig in the cellars i i of five other locations where Cocchi had i motorcycle repair shops, in an effort to ! unearth other bodies, the commissioner I I declared. , . : Belgian War Mission Spends Day Calling on Government Officials WASHINGTON, June 18.—The Bel | gian mission, headed by Baron Mon cheur. spent its first full day in Wash ington in paying calls on President Wil son and other high government officials. These formalities are preliminary to lhe beginning of conferences with Ameri can officials on war problems. A round of official entertainments has been arranged for the Belgians including a dinner at the White House tonight and receptions by the senate and house. The main object of the mission in coming here is to express its gratitude for the relief extended to Belgian by tne United States and to take up with; officials demands to be made on Germa- 1 ny for her violated faith when the war began and international crimes since then. Judge J. R. Grant Kills Himself by Accident (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) TOCCOA, Ga., June 18.—Judge James R. Grant, attorney of Toccoa, formerly I of Hazlehurst, accidentally killed him ; self Sunday morning. Judge Grant jokingly pointed his pis tol at himself and pulled the trigger. By mistake he had left a loaded cartridge 4n the gun and was fatally wounded, dying two hours later. Judge Grant was formerly judge of the city court of Hazlehurst and was the son of W. D. Grant, of Clarkesville. He was forty years old. He is sur vived by Mrs. Grant and fiv» children. NUMBER 74. BRITISH RETIREMENT BELIEVED FORECAST OF ATTACK IN EAST Preparations Are Under Way for Blow at Teutonic Power in the Balkans, Is Indicated by Reports LONDON, June 18. —Replying to ques tions in the house of commons as to whether the British government had de cided on reprisals for the German air raid on England, Andrew Bonar Law, of the British war council, aaid the gov ernment intended to take steps not only for damaging the enemy but for pre venting raids on England. NEW YORK. June 18. —(By foreign cables from European capitals.)—Devel opments of osme importance apparently are impending on the Macedonian front following the recent clarification of the military situation in Greece coincident with the abdication of King Constantine. The most pronounced movement is a withdrawal by the British without press ure of their advanced positions estab lished some distance east of the Struma river, on the extreme easterly end of the front. Several towns have been evac uated by them and occupied by the Bul garians. Simultaneously comes news of pro nounced reconnoitering activty by the entente forces In other parts of the front notably along the Vardar In the central sector. It has ben frequently pointed out by military obeervers that virtually the only practicable route for a successful advance to cut the lines of the central powers in the Balkans and reclaim Ser bia is up the Vardar valley, alon£ the railway line there. The present activities while they have not developed far enough to make the thing a certainty, none the less points to the probability that an offensive by General Sarrail in the only likely sector —that embracing the Vardar—is Immi nent. Had this been decided upon. It would be a natural move for the British co’ relinquish the advanced ground they held along the Struma and withdraw, as they have done, to the bridgehead near the riv er nearby, thereby strengthening the en tente right flank for defensive purposes while the offensive stroke was deliver ed by the centr. All aggrssive move it would seem has now been made pos sible by the removal of the menace to the allies from the rear, which existed as long as Constantine was on the Greek throne and his pro-German political ad visers in control of the Greek military situation. Both the Russian army and the Rus sian navy are giving more evidence of aggressive intent. Recent German and Austrian statements have instanced In creasing activities by the Russian mili tary forces in .various sectors, notably Volhynia and Galicia, where the great Brussllloff offensive was in full swing at this time a year ago. The Russian naval arm also has been so largely in evidence in Baltic waters that Berlin announces it has been found necessary to carry out extensive air raiding operations on Russian bases in this area. In the Arras battle area the British are subjected to a heavy counter attack this morning on the new position they won last Thursday east of Monchy le Preux. They held fast to the main point, the important infantry hill, but had to fal back from some positions they had established farther in advance. I British Admit Retirement From Advanced Positions LONDON, June 18.—The British have fallen back from some of their advanced posts in France, according to an official statement isued by the war office this morning. The main new positions are still held. ■* Berlin official reports today hinted at I readjustment of fighting activities on I two widely separated fronts. First was the resumption of offensive | war by the Russians in the Lui.sk sector, which, combined with Petrograd dis patches detailing the vote of a secret : esslon of the duma urging an immediata 1 offensive gave great hope here that Rus sia was making ready to "do her.bit." Second was the Berlin statement indi cating a withdrawal by the British Sa lonika expeditionary force from certain * positions in the Struma lowlands. • Combined with news of the work of the American mission, now in Petrograd, the duma resolution for an immodiate of fensive was taken as a favorable sign of crystallization of Russian sentiment against Germany and complete failure of the German peace plots. There ha\e been numerous attempts I In the house of commons to obCaiff from the ministry an explanation of the full reasons of the British partlciation In the Macedonian offensive. Certain members have insisted that the British forces now there under General Serrail could be utilized to vastly better effect on the western front, backing up Field Marshal Haig’s offensive. British Give Figures On Submarine Toll WASHINGTON, June ffc.—The Ger man submarine toll of British merchant shipping since February 17, as shown in official British figures compiled here to day, is 322. vessels of more than 1,600 i *jons’ and 135 of less than 1,600. Brlt ; -team fishing vessels sunk in that 1 period numbered 78. Records for sailing fishing vessels *re Incomplete, but a three weeks’ total was 78. Submarines in the period given at tacked 299 ships unsuccessfully and the weekly percentage of unsuccessful at tacks has ranged from 51 to 75. Dur -1 ing the last week given—the seven days : ending wtih June 9—it was 58. Arrivals and sailings In British ports since the intensive submarine campaign began have averaged about 2,500, in cluding channel sailings. The British figures do not give the tonnage of vessels sunk, but officials here say 5,000 tons probably would be a fair average for vessels of more than 1.600 * tons destroyed. Computing the, total at that average and putting the average of the smaller ships at 1,000 tons, the total loss during slightly less, thn four months submarine warfare would reach 1,745,000 tons, or about 250,- 000 tons less than the entire world’s shipping output during ISIS.