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Thirty-two Cantonments to Be Established for Army Bases
SELECTIVE CONSCRIPTION BILL NOW
, LAW OF THE LAND, PRESIDENT WILSON
ATTACHING SIGNATURE LAST NIGHT
WASHINGTON, May 1!).—When tin* selective eonserip
tion bill reached the white house last'night, President Wilson
* quickly attached his signature to the document, making it
the law of the land.
CONGRESS PASSES CONSCRIPTION BILL.
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WASHINGTON, May 1!).—The selective conscription bill
passed both houses of congress last night, the conference report
being adopted by each of the legislative bodies. The Gill was i
immediately signed by Vice-President Marshall and Speaker
Champ Clark and was sent to the white house for the presi
dent’s signature. After the conscription bill had been perfected
by both houses and sent to the president for signature, the
senate adopted an amendment to the war budget bill, which is
pending in congress, to put conscription out of force four
months after the end of the war.
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GENERAL PERSHING TO LEAD FIRST
MILITARY EXPEDITION TO THE FRONT
* WASHINGTON, May 19.—Immediately following the I
signing of the conscription bill, President Wilson issued a fro- ;'
* clamation calling five hundred thousand men to the colors,
under the terms of the measure. I It* likewise announced that
an expeditionary force composed of a division of the regular
army, under the command of General Pershing, late command
er of the Mexican expeditionary forces, would proceed to
France at as early a date as practicable. General Pershing and j
his staff will precede the expeditionary force, leaving for the
French front within a few days.
REGIMENT OF U.S. MARINES TO
ACCOMPANY PERSHING ARMY DIVISION
WASHINGTON, May 19.—A regiment of United States
marines, commanded by Colonel Charles A. Doyan, will ac- 1
company the Pershing division to France, according to an of
ficial statement made by Secretary of the Navy Daniels to
t day.
BRITISH LIGHT CRUISER SUNK IN
BATTLE WITH AUSTRIAN WARSHIP
LONDON, May 19.—The admiralty today announces that
*the British light cruiser Dartmouth was torpedoed recently
during an engagement with an Austrian warship in the
Adriatic sea. The admiralty also reports the sinking of the
transport Cameronia by a German submarine and says that
140 soldiers that were on hoard are missing and believed lost.
ARMY OF JAPANESE TROOPS ARRIVE
IN FRANCE TO FIGHT WITH ALLIES!
NEW YORK, May 19.—The New York Herald today an
nounces that a great army of Japanese troops arrived at Mar
sailles, in France, on April 30, to augment the allied armies
in France. The Herald does not give the number of Japanese
troops that landed in France, brought there by Japenese trans
ports and escorted by Japanese warships, but says the army is ,
#a potential force.
PRESIDENT WILL NOT IMMEDIATELY
AUTHORIZE THE ROOSEVELT DIVISION
WASHINGTON, May 197—Acting on expert military ad
vice from both sides of the Atlantic, President Wilson said he
would not, at the present time, authorize Col. Theodore Roose
velt to organize a volunteer division. The president, paid the
^ former president a high compliment and said his services
would be employed in due time.
IHIRTI 0 NEW TOWNS WILL SPRING
UP TLANTIC AND PACIFIC COASTS
AS TRAINING CAMPS FOR NEW RECRUITS
WASHINGTON, .May lb.—-Thirty-two new towns will
spring up like mushrooms in district" selected for cantonments,
m the Atlantic and Pacific coast lines, to house the soldiers that
ivill lie called to the colors under the conscription plan and that
.vi 11 go into training at these places. The railroads of the na
ion have been ordered to connect up with these new army
>osts, in order to facilitate the transportation of men and sup
plies. All available American vessels will be concentrated at
these new ports, plans for which are well under way. and will be
*mployed in transporting supplies to Furopean nations, particu
arly Great Britain, France and Russia.
NATIONAL GUARD ORGANIZATIONS TO
BE CALLED TO COLORS IN MIDSUMMER
WASHINGTON, May 19.—The national guard organiza
tions in the states of the union will he called to the federal serv
ce between duly l.i and August 5, according to a semi-official
mnouncement coining from the war department today. Be
cause of the lack of supplies, the new army to be raised by con
scription will not be called to the colors for training before
•September, said Secretary of War Baker today. The work of i
•ecruiting the new armv, however, will begin immediatelv.
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HARD-PRESSED BY ALLIED FORCES
GERMANS ABOUT TO EVACUATE LENS
PARIS, May 19.—Hard pressed by the vicious attacks of
lie allied forces, the German forces defending the important
•ity of Lens are applying the torch, preparatory to evacuation,
'(•cording to an official report given out by the war office today,
rhe report also states that the French forces penetrated the
jerman lines in the Lorraine sector.
GERMANS EVACUATE BULLECOURT.
BERLIN, May 19.—It is officially announced by the Ger
nan war office today that the ruins of Bullecourt were evacuat
'd bv the German forces vesterdav.
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CONGRESSMAN GARDNER RESIGNS AND
IS APPOINTED AN Al UTANT-GENERAL
WASHINGTON, May 19.—Congressman Augustus Pea
tody Gardner, of the sixth congressional district of Massachu
setts, placed his resignation in the hands of the governor of
lis state today and was immediately appointed by President
Wilson as adjutant-general in the reserve corps of the United
■Mates army and assigned to duty at Governor’s island, New
Fork. As a congressman, Gardner was active in support of the
administration’s preparedness policy and selective conscrif
ion measure. He served as an officer in the Spanish-American
var. Gardner is a son-in-law of U. S. Senator Lodge.
HIGH COMMISSIONS HAVE ABOUT
ENDED MISSION IN UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, May 19.—Secretary of State Lansing
md Foreign Minister Balfour, of the British high commission,
leld an etxended .conference yesterday afternoon. The work
if the British and French commissions is about completed and
the distinguished visitors will soon depart for their respective
lomes. The high commissions unite in declaring that their re
ception in the United States was all, and more, than they had
•eason to expect. Balfour and Viviani, heads of the respective
•ommissions, are outspoken in expressing the opinion that
President Wilson ranks with Washington and Lincoln and that
vlien the history of the world war shall have been written, the
^resident of the United States will take rank as the foremost
statesman in the world.
PIONEER WOMAN DIES.
SEATTLE, May 19.—Mrs. Susan Maddocks, wife of M. R.
Vtaddocks, died at her home in this city last night. She had
•cached the age of 82 vears and was a pioneer resident of Seat
le.
PREMIER LVOI OF RUSSIA HAS
HIGH HOPES THAT COALITION CABINET
WILL WEATHER THREATENING STORM
PETROGRAI), .May l!f. Prince Lvoff, premier in the Rus
"hm ministry, lias issued a statement in which he expresses
high hope that the coalition cabinet will weather the storms
that convulsed the country and demoralized the lighting
forces ot Russia and that raised, for a brief time, the sinister
spectre of anarchy throughout the nation. “Russia will do, as
she is in honor bound to do,” declared the premier. “She will
light by the side of the allies until a yictorv has been achieved.
She will not consider a separate peace. The high command
ing generals ot the Russian armies, who tendered their resig
nations when it looked as it Russia was going to lav down and
puit fighting, have resumed their respective commands, and
will resume offensive movements against the Germans.”
WILL REJECT SEPARATE PEACE.
PE I ROGRAD, May 19.—The provisional government has
issued an o'ticial statement declaring that the new cabinet
members were united in opposition to a separate peace on the
part of Russia. The statement says that Russia will remain true
to the entente allies.
DECREASE IN SUBMARINE ACTIVITIES.
DUE TO INCREASED PATROL VESSELS
WASHINGTON. M ay 19. Tnere has been an appreciable
decrease in German submarine activities during the past few
days, according to official reports received by the navy depart
ment. The submarines are being held in their home bases by
the new and greufpv increased and strengthened patrol system
in vogue. The arrival of American and Japanese warships
and destroyers to aid in patrol duty makes it exceedingly dan
gerous for the divers. A submarine can hardly stick its peris
cope out of the water unless a shot is taken at it, by one of the
hundreds of patrol boats on duty.
AMERICAN DESTROYERS SAVE BIG
LINER FROM A GERMAN SUBMARINE
LONDON. May 19.—-American torpedo boat destroyers
put to rout a German submarine that was about to attack the
liner Adriatic in the English channel yesterday, says a report
issued by the British admiralty today. The timely arrival of
the American destroyers saved the big steamship from des
tructions. says the report.
JAPANESE GUNBOATS WILL AID IN
PATROL OF THE COAST OF FRANCE
PALIS, May 19.—A number of Japanese gunboats have
arrived at Marsailles, France, to aid the allies and the United
States in fighting the Teuton submarine menace. The Japan
ese warships were given a great reception upon their arrival
at a French port. They will be employed in a patrol of the
French coast, while the American vessels will aid in the patrol
of the British coast line.
“NOW THE AMERICANS,” SAYS BERLIN
PAPER, COMMENTING ON DESTROYERS
AMSTERDAM, May 19.—All the German newspapers
print the news of the arrival in European waters of the flotilla
of the United States torpedo boat destroyers. The Lokal
Anzeiger, of Berlin, under the single headline, says “Now the
Americans. ’ ’
PRESIDENT WILSON’S CALL TO ARMS
SENDS THRILL THROUGHOUT ENGLAND
LONDON, May 19.—The passage of the selective con
scription bill and President Wilson’s call to anus, published in
the British newspapers this morning, has sent a thrill of 5ov
throughout the United Kingdom