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SITUATION IN RUSSIA NOT ENCOURAGING
Roosevelt Volunteer Provison Certain to Pass the Congress
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF WORKMEN’S
SOLDIERS’DELEGATES REFUSE TO JOIN
' IN THE FORMATION OF COALITION PLAN
PETROGRAD, May 14.—Tin* executive committee of the
council of workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates decided, by a
vote of 33 to 33, not to participate in the formation of a eoali
• tion ministry. A proposal to this end was passed in the Duma.
The failure of the executive committee of the delegates to agree
to participate in the formation of a new government compli
cates the internieine situation.
Those in favor of accepting.the proposition to .join in the
organization of.a coalition cabinet will carry the question to
the council proper, which has plenary power in the matter.
If the council declines to participate in the cabinet formation,
the provisional government, it is believed, must fall, and a con
dition of chaos would follow.
WAR MINISTER RESIGNS.
PETROGRAD, May 14. General Gutchoff, war minister
in the provisional government cabinet, tendered his resigna
tion today.
BETHMANN-HOLLWEG AND GENERAL VON
H1NDENBURG IN SERIOUS DISAGREEMENT
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THE HAGUE, May 14.—Grave dissension has broken out
between Von Bethmanu-Uollweg, chancellor of the German em
pire, and You llindonlmrg, commander-in-chief of the German
field forces, growing out of the political reform movement. It
is understood that the chancellor is in favor of granting im
mediate reforms, to appease the public demands, while Von
1 linden burg wishes to delay political matters until after the
war ends. The foregoing comes from Bergen, Germany, today,
from accurate sources.
EXPANSION OF REGULAR ARMY TO FULL
WAR STRENGTH WILL BEGIN TOMORROW
WASHINGTON, May 14.—The expansion of the regular
army to the full war strength, contemplated in the administra
tion array bill as passed by the congress, has been formally au
thorized by the president. An additional force of 183,000 will
be added to the regular army regiments. Recruiting will be
* gin tomorrow. <
BRITISH OOPS OCCUPY BULLECOURT
AND SI L BEAT DOWN THE OPPOSITION
LONDON, Ma\ 14.—It is officially announced bv llu*
British war office today that the Brtish troops last mg hi
gained possession of the important town of Bulleeourt an<
also the western section of Koeux. General Haig reports toda\
that tin* Brtish advance is continuing, heavy lighting prevail
ing in the vicinity of Bulleeourt. He says the Germans an
putting up a stubborn resistance, but their opposition is be
ing beaten down by his forces.
GREAT FIRE SERIOUSLY DAMAGES THE
IMPERIAL WHARVES AT WILHELMSHAVEN
AMSTERDAM, May 14.—For seven hours Wednesday, a
great fire raged on the imperial wharves at Wilhelmshaveu,
Germany, according to advices received here today. The sub
• marine building department was seriously damaged and the
entire burned district has been closed to the public.
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SENATE AMENDMENT FORBIDS USE OF
CEREALS AND GRAINS IN MAKING LIQUORS
WASHINGTON, May 14.—As an amendment to the es
pionage bill, the senate Saturday afternoon adopted a provi
sion forbidding, during the war, the use of cereals or grain in
% the manufacture of intoxicating liquors.
BY VOTING TO RECOMMIT THE ROOSEVELT
DIVISION AMENDMENT TO THE CONFEREES
PASSAGE OF THE AMENDMENT IS ASSURED
WASHINGTON', May 14. Ily a vote of JIN to 17s. ilie
house Saturday afternoon voted to recommit the conference
report on the selective conscription hill to the con
lerces. with instructions to embody therein the senate amend
merit providing for the Itoosevelt division for service at the
l•’reneh trout. The motion to remit the report was made bv
1 ongressman Anthony, who of the conferees, who declined to
sign the conference report because it eliminated the Itoosevelt
division amendment. In returning the bill to the conference.
th<‘ house binds itself to accept the senate amendment for the
itoosevelt volunteers. Tin* chief opposition to the Itoosevelt
amendment came from regular unm officers. Polities were not
considered. < hie of the strongest supporters of the amendment
is Senator .lames Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, the democratic
w hip, who himself proposes to join the Itoosevelt volunteers.
M’ADOO WILL TOUR MIDDLE WEST, TO
AROUSE INTEREST IN LIBERTY LOAN
WASHINGTON, May 14.—William G. McAdoo, secretary
ot the treasury, will make a tour of the middle states, going as
far as Chicago, departing from Washington May 17. to bring
home to the people the need for unanimous co-operation with
the government in making the Liberty Loan more than a suc
cess. lie will tell his audiences that the I'nited States is not
engaged in a war, but with a light to a finish with autocracy,
which is still strongly entrenched, lie will seek to unloose the
pursestrings of all classes, so that the Liberty Loan will not
only be fully subscribed, but tremendously over-subscribed, so
that Germany may realize that the I’nited States ha- billions
to sacrifice in the cause of liberty.
ITALIAN STEAMER CAVOUR SUNK AND
SIX HUNDRED RESERVISTS LOSE LIVES
111 KNOX AS ILLS. May 14.- The Italian steamship (’a
vour. having on board (!(M) reservists, was sunk by a German
submarine near Hakir, Africa, recently, according to a report
which reaches Ibieiios Ayres today. Tin* reservists were eri
route to Italy to join the Italian armv at tlm front.
FORMER ALASKAN CABLE OPERATOR GAINS
PROMOTION AS LIEUTENANT SIGNAL CORPS
SKATTLK. May 14. ('harles Murphy, master electrician
of the Alaska cable office at Seattle, litis been eommi>sioned a
first lieutenant in the I'nited Slates signal corps and is ordered
to report forthwith to Fort Leavenworth. For years, previ
oils to bis connection with the Seattle cable effiee, Murphy
-erved in Alaska, at various points.
APPROPRIATION OF $500,000 FOR ROADS
AND TRAILS IN ALASKA NOW AVAILABLE
:TO.\, May 14. The army appropriation bill,
carrying items aggregating $1*70*000,OOO, was signed by the
president Saturday afternoon. In the appropriation is an item
appropriating $500,000 for the construction of roads and trails
in Alaska, under the auspices of the Alaska road commission.
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE CLOSES
FOR TWO DAYS TO CHA POLICY
CHICAGO, Ma 14.—The board of directors of the Chicago
board of trade, fearing federal prosecution for stock gambling,
lias ordered the suspension of the exchange for a period of two
days. When that time expires, a definite policy will be an
nounced.
BRITISH WARSHIPS BOMBARD GERMAN
NAVAL BASE AT ZEEBRUGGE; SUBMARINE
SH )S DESTROYED, 60 PEOPLE KILLED
LONDON. May 14. British warships bombarded Xee
brugge. the (iermaa naval base. Saturday afternoon. While
the bombardment was taking place. 14 aerial combats between
allied and (iermaa aerial machines occurred. I'our cnemv run
chines were destroyed and live others put out of commission.
I’vvo British aeroplanes are missing and it is believed they
were destroved.
NAVAL ATTACK DESTRUCTIVE.
AMS I Elf DAM, May I 1. The British naval attack on the
Borman naval base at Xeehrugge was the most destructive vet
made by the British fleet against a Berman position. Two sub
marine sheds were blown up, till persons were killed outright
and a hundred others were badlv injured and wen* taken to
hospitals.
AMERICAN LINER MONGOLIA ENJOYS
ANOTHER ADVENTUI • WITH A DIVER
NEW S ORJ\, May 14. The American liner Mongolia
reached an American port this morning, from Europe, and
brings a report of another apparent encounter with a U-boat
•oil the voyage over. The second adventure occurred on May
4. The gunners of the Mongolia fired one shot at a submarine
that was sighted. 'Che diver submerged and did not reappear.
The Mongolia is the liner that sank a submarine on the way
to Europe.
HIGH COMMISSION TO RUSSIA GOES
TO WHITE HOUSE FOR INSTRUCTIONS
\V ANJ11 NBT< >N, May 14. Special Ambassador Hoot and
other members of the high commission that will visit Russia
went to the white house today to receive final instructions.
■The enmmision expects to depart en route to IVtrograd tomor
row. For obv ious reasons, the details of the voyage are not
! given out.
FOUR MILLION DOLLARS EXPENDED
FOR SUPPLIES SINCE WORK BEGUN
SPATTLK. May 14. Purchasing Agent Dole, of the Alas
kan engineering commission, says that requisitions for sup
plies that are on hand for the Alaska railwav project aggre
gate Sd.i’Oi 1,1)00. With these requisitions included, $4,000,(100
has been expended for supplies, material, equipment, etc., for
tl'e railway since the work was inaugurated. About one fourth
of this amount was for steel rails.
SON OF FORMER PRESIDENT ENLISTS AS
PRIVATE IN ARTILLERY BRANCH OF ARMY
WASHINGTON, May 14.—Charles 15. Taft, aged 1!) years,
a. son of former President William Howard Taft, has enlisted
as a private in the artillery branch of the United Sttaes army.
The sons of other great men of the nation are promptly re
sponding to tlic> call of l nch‘ Sam, and in most cases are en
listing as privates, rather than seek officers’ straps at the be
ginning.
PRESIDENT THINKS WAR WILL SERVE
TO UNITE PEOPLE IN THIS NATION
WASHINGTON, May 14.—In a speech accepting, on be
half of the nation, the new memorial building for the Ameri
can Red Cross society, President Wilson predicted that the
entrance of this country into the world war would serve to
make a single people out of the great body of those who call
themselves Americans.