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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1917
Page
6
American troops in France intensify training with full-depth trenches, fire and support lines, and intricate communications. Barricades of barbed entanglements rise as sham battles with grenades, bayonets, and trench mortars prepare men for actual combat.
In memoriam of Louis Biandt who died a year ago today. The verse recalls how he faded and passed away gently. Family notes life was desired but eternal rest was best, as prayers linger in daily memories.
Obituaries list multiple local residents with July 1917 death dates, including John W Allen near Branchville Maryland and Captain Roger Bellis in Hyattsville Maryland. Also notes on James D Howl, John Curran, Amilda Haul, Fitz Gibbon, James Edward Gibbons, Herbert, William Hickey, Hoover, Jeffries, Peckham and others with funeral arrangements and church interment details.
Special correspondent Heman Bernstein reports on Petrograd turmoil as Kerensky leads a socialist dominated cabinet amid agrarian scandal and fear of constitutional assembly becoming socialist. Milukoff warns military support may waver. Lenine, Trotsky, Zinovieff blamed by critic Bourtseff for aiding Germany and derailing Russia’s war loan.
Three Socialist leaders C E Ruthenburg Alfred Wagenknecht and Charles Baker were sentenced to one year in the workhouse for hindering selective service registration. They were convicted by a jury last week and bond set at $5,000 pending appeal. Judge Westenhaver also sentenced seven others convicted of failure to register to varying terms.
Ottawa reports government proposals for a federal income tax passed unanimously in the House of Commons. Rates begin 4 percent for unmarried incomes over 2000 and married over 3008, with a progressive supertax up to 25 percent on higher brackets. Corporations taxed 4 percent above 3000. supertax excluded. Taxation to apply to 1917 and onward. Finance Minister White estimates 15 to 20 million. War expenditures totals noted, with Britain borrowing and repayments accounting for a net balance.
Rome announces a July decree cutting minimum enlistment height by four inches. The change allows about 100,000 men who were previously barred by height to join the military after August. It broadens the pool of eligible recruits and alters recruitment prospects across the nation.
British and German artillery clash on 200 yard Infantry Hill as flame throwers aid a local attack. Berlin and London reports describe intensified shelling in Champagne Meuse Flanders with repulsed assaults and reconnoitering thrusts. Several German aircraft were shot down and prisoners taken in Ypres area.
Hundreds of government clerks in Washington join the national army as the War Department readies 687,000 men. Notices go out for medical exams while district and local boards organize to place workers and civilians in approved roles or return to civil positions after service. The air plan faces a wide program with $640,000,000 budget and ongoing innovations to equip the United States for combat over Germany.
London July 25 official report of the Irish convention says after opening by Chief Secretary presiding a committee recommended Sir Horace Plunkett as chairman and Sir Francis Hoopwood as secretary. Ninety two delegates present. Dublin July 25 convention opened at Regent House Trinity College with Redmond Devlin arrivals and varied clergy observers. Plunkett credited with proposing a constitution draft for all Ireland while leaving Ulster to face its position.
In New York eighty five Catholic priests in the archdiocese volunteered as chaplains for the regular and new national armies. Cardinal Farley approved eighteen after evaluating leadership. Nationwide about nine hundred priests have offered service, sixteen already serve, and diocesan requests for more candidates are being circulated. The Chaplains' Aid Society under Cardinal Farley now supplies troops with devotional items literature and Bibles.
Surgeons in Philadelphia treated Dr Alfredo Gonzalez former president of Costa Rica for appendicitis. He was brought from Washington and officials reported he was doing well the day after the operation.
The London Times reports that the national service department will be abandoned and merged parts absorbed by the ministry of labor. Neville Chamberlain's resignation is expected as the department failed to render services proportional to its estimated value.
Havana reports that Maj Solano, a key rebel commander aligned with February’s uprising against the Menocal government, has been captured. He was second in command to Col Quinones, who received a death sentence later commuted to life imprisonment.
Edwin J Justice of Greensboro North Carolina special assistant to Attorney General Gregory collapsed and died in his San Francisco office. He had been on the coast two years prosecuting all cases under the Taft withdrawal act and was formerly a member of the North Carolina legislature.
London reports British troops in German East Africa won fresh victories. The main German force retreats south after heavy losses from July 19 near Nar oncombe. A small German column remains near Lake Manyara while pursuit continues toward Muahenge and the Hovuma River in Portuguese East Africa.
Halifax July 25 British sailors arriving claim they were near the transports carrying American troops to France when German submarines attacked. They report a heavy and continuous fire and say all U boats were sunk, with only one escaping. The witnesses were aboard three former Dutch vessels taken over by Britain and en route to Europe.
Petrograd July 25 The Countess Sophie Panin 45, recently named assistant minister of social tutelage in the department of public welfare, has resigned her portfolio. She has been an active member of the constitutional democratic party in Russia and was the world's first woman minister. Her palace was described as a Doone house before her appointment.
Amsterdam reports the German steamship Norderney carrying coal was torpedoed in the North Sea on Monday and lies aground off the south coast of Texel in the Frisian Islands.
Five men were killed and three injured when the A-7T submarine exploded Tuesday at Cavite in the Philippine Islands. The victims named include Lieut Arnold Marcus and Chief Electrician Jesse M Currie among others. Secretary Daniels said the accident unlikely to recur on newer vessels and attributed the blast to gasoline fumes igniting in a pocket.
New York city corrections commissioner Burdette G Lewis banned delivery of letters written by women to prisoners in city institutions through the Oriental Esoteric Library League of Washington. He cited a complaint a prisoner at the penitentiary wrote to a 14 year old girl and said women correspondents misunderstand prisons and prisoners.
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