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British Airman Drops Bomb Near Kaiser
 COPENHAGEN, April 26- A British airman bombarded Zeebrugge mole while the Kaiser was inspecting the results of the recent British raid there, German newspapers declared today. The Kaiser remained in the mole and completed his inspection. 
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CARTOONS OF THE DAY
[Copyright: 1918: by John T. McOutcheon.]
[[large man with sword on one side of a barbed wire fence labeled 'no trespassing', inspecting the other side. On the other side is a smaller man on land labeled 'Holland' in front of mountains labeled 'England']]
TWIXT THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA
[[some 12 men climbing a hill with sacks over their shoulders, the hill being labeled 'Liberty Loan Hill'. The top of the hill is labeled 'The Top'. A man with a hat and fist raised stands watching them, holding a stop watch and labeled '"Hey! More PEP! You Fellows!"'. The cartoon is signed McOutcheon]]
THE LIBERTY LOAN PARADE
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SWEDEN OPPOSES DRY LAW, FEARING CRIME INCREASE
STOCKHOLM, April 26,-Bone dry prohibition for Sweden is opposed by the excise board, which has sent to the first chamber of the Swedish Parliament a report against the adoption of a course which has not been approved by public opinion. Prohibition at this time, the board says, would encourage law breaking. Home distillation already has reached great proportions due to wartime restrictions, the report says.
 GERMANS SEND TROOPS FROM RUSSIA TO FRANCE
 MOSCOW, April 26.- The Germans are steadily withdrawing troops and sending them to France.
 Polish citizens refused to enlist in a proposed Polish corps to fight against the allies in Flanders.
GARFIELS HOSPITAL SANITATION UNDER SCRUTINY IN HOUSE
The contagious ward at Garfield Hospital has come in for sharp criticism before the District Appropriations Committee.
The criticism comes from Jerry South, chief clerk of the House of Representatives. Hearings before the subcommittee made public today disclose that Mr. South criticised the sanitary conditions at the hospital severely. He told of his own observations while his child has scarlet fever and was at the hospital. Mrs. South, mother of the child, a boy of eight, was in the contagious ward with the lad, and the two remained there forty days or more. 
The subcommittee took a keen interest in Mr. South's experiences, and asked him to testify. In fact, Chairman Sisson, of the subcommittee, was taken to the hospital on an inspection trip by Mr. South, whos son was in
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150 JEWISH WOMEN KILLED AS POGROM WAVE HITS RUSSIA
MOSCOW, April 26.-Each day brings new reports of massacres of Jews as the pogrom wave sweeps Russia. The latest relates to the Glukhoff massacres, in which more than 150 Jewish women and children were murdered and violated. The atrocities surpas the horrors of the massacres in Kishineff, Kleff, Odessa, Kherson, Turkestan, Koudonoff, Gerodok, Volozhin, Kletz, Roadohovitch, Stolbtsl, Rakovien, and other districts.
Appeals from Bolshevik council have failed to put an end to these outrages. The council adopted a resolution which, in part, said: 
"It is a debt of honor of the Russian revolutionists to combat the Jewish pogroms and show that there is no room for the pogrom in Soviet Russia. All must come in defense of an innocent people attacked by pogromists."

DRAFTEES TO LEAD PARADE OF CAPITAL'S BOND BUYERS

50,000 Patriotic Citizens Will Follow Boys Whom Their Money Will Help Maintain in Fight for Democracy.

THE PARADE

The Liberty loan parade today will start at 2 o'clock at Peace Monument, First street and Pennsylvania avenue northwest. 
Will march from Peace Monument west on Pennsylvania avenue to Fifteenth street, north on Fifteenth street to the Avenue, west on the Avenue to Seventeenth street, and thence to the Ellipse, south of the White House. 
Liberty bond owners who intend to march should read the official program printed in The Times today, so they may find their proper places in the line.

Washington laid aside all cares today and prepared to show to the world its bond-buying patriotism. 
With banners flying and Liberty loan buttons gleaming in the sunlight, a great procession of men, women, and children- an estimated 50,000 of them- each one the owner of a Liberty bond, waited for the word that will send the marching columns down Pennsylvania avenue in a parade that in some respects will be the most significant in the history of the National Capital.

Spirit Is Martial.

To the strains of patriotic music from many bands, the marching columns this afternoon will proclaim the patriotic spirit of the people of Washington and their willingness to make the material sacrifices to provide the sinews of war for those who are
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U.S. TO CLEAR UP DUTCH RESENTMENT OF SHIP SEIZURES

With Holland and Germany appearing close to the breaking point, this Government today continued efforts to clear up Dutch misunderstanding of the American position on supplies for Holland. 
While the Government has been annoyed at the tone employed by some of the Dutch press in questioning American intentions, it is evident that negotiations are under way to clear away that feeling, and if possible, to increase the American aid to Holland.
Holland insists that she have a written guarantee that the United States will not seize ships she sends after supplies. While awaiting such a statement, three ships are held up in the United States, supply-laden, expecting that other ships would sail from Holland.
The Government has felt that American intentions were sufficiently well known so that further guarantees were not needed. While resentment is manifest in some quarters, it is plain that the Government as a whole is anxious to be fair about the whole situation and to give Holland even more than stipulated if it can be arranged.

RUTH LAW FLIES UP THE AVENUE 90-MILES AN HOUR
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Ruth Law.
Famous woman flyer, who this afternoon will attempt to break records both for bond selling and aerial stunts. 

Sales of $1,000,000 worth of Liberty bonds and an aeroplane performance, that will outdo all sky manuevers ever seen in Washington.
That is the program of Ruth Law, premiere aviatrix, for this afternoon. The thousands that watched her biplane roar up Pennsylvania yesterday afternoon were willing to wager that she had "shown her best," but "far form it," says she. Miss Law's two sensational flights today will be at 3 and 4 o'clock.

Will Autograph Bonds.

Miss Law will autograph a receipt for every bond she sells, and hopes to dispose of $1,000,000 worth, which would be better than she ever has done. The sales will be made after her first flight, and while she circulates among the throng on the Ellipse. 
This morning mechanics are working busily over Miss Law's pet plane, the one in which she smashed the long-distance record for the United States. 
The peculiarly constructed machine is fitted with a driver's seat jutting far out from the framework on two poles, giving the operator the appearance of truly "riding on air." The plane is of the pusher type.

Delivers the Punch.

A 6 o'clock yesterday Miss Law ascended from the Ellipse, and for some time amazed the crowds below with a bewildering series of aerial evolutions.
Then, when everyone though the performance was over, she raced over the housetops to Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, wheeled about and delivered the climacteric punch of the exhibition flight.
Dropping to about thirty feet above the ground, she roared up the thoroughfare. Skimming street cars and trucks, she rose just high enough to clear the Treasury building, and returned to the Ellipse, her afternoon's demonstration finished. It was the most daring flight that has ever been seen in the Capital.

Program and Formation Of Loan Parade

The route of the parade, which will start at 2 o'clock sharp, will be from the Peace Monument along Pennsylvania avenue to Fifteenth, north on Fifteenth to Pennsylvania avenue, west on Pennsylvania avenue to Seventeenth and south on Seventeenth to New York avenue where the parade will turn into the Ellipse.
Organizations will march in platoons of eighteen files front including right and left guides, single rank. The guide will be left throughout the entire march. Organization commanders will see that the proper salute is given to reviewing party. Following is the official formation:

First Division.

The first division will form on Pennsylvania avenue facing west, the head of column opposite Second street northwest, at 1 o'clock.
Grand Marshal, Melvin C. Hazen and staff.
Gen. R. D. Simms, chief of staff. Section United States Marine Band. Liberty loan executive committee. Executive committee D. C. branch. 
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FOE MAKES ONSLAUGHT ON HEIGHTS OF KEMMEL

British Recapture the Village of Villers-Bretenneux and Capture 600 Prisoners in Strong Counter Assaults.

LONDON, April 26.- German forces have secured a footing on Mont Kemmel, one of the most important heights in Flanders following an all day battle on a ten-mile front, Field Marshal Haig reported today. "After severe fighting throughout the day on the Bailleul-Hollebeke front, the enemy obtained a footing on Kemmel hill," Haig said.

LONDON, April 26.- The Germans are again making a determined effort to capture Kemmel ridge, a strategic stretch of high ground in Belgium just west of the lower end of Messines ridge. 
A belated report from the Germans war office, issued last night and received here early today, stated that General Sixt von Arnim's army was fighting for possession of Kemmel ridge and the village of Kemmel on the crest. 
The great double battle, which developed two days ago on the Picardy and Flanders fields was still raging last night with varying success. The British recaptured the village of Villers-Bretenneux, but slightly retired their lines at some points on the Flanders front of avoid useless losses. 

Australians in Battle.

Australian troops have played a brilliant part in the fighting south of the Somme river (opposite Amiens).
Australian forces, in conjuction with English solders, attacked in the sector of Villers Bretenneux, and not only drove the Germans from the village, but captured more than 600 prisoners.
Earlier German attacks in the same neighborhood had been carried out with about 50,000 troops. Despite the vigor of the assaults the Germans were unable to get in any ground and Field Marshal Haig in his official dispatches on Thursday night emphasized the severity of the German losses.
The Germans were unable to renew their infantry attacks and the artillery on both sides was very active. The big guns were active all the way to the Avre river.

Tanks in Duels.

A feature of the engagement on the Picardy field was duels between tanks. The British remained complete masters in this phase of the fighting, however. The British tanks, with their machine guns spitting fire, plowed through the German ranks mowing down Germans right and left. 
French troops are now fighting alongside of the British all along both battle fronts. They are reported to be taking a prominent part in the defense of Kemmel ridge, and the village of the same name where the Germans now seem to be concentrating their greatest efforts.

COPENHAGEN, April 26.- Twelve British prisoners were captured in British raid against the German submarine base at Zeebrugge, the Local Anzeiger, of Berlin, states. 
The paper stated that nearly the whole harbor passage as Zeebrugge was blocked by sunken ships, but that submarine still are able to leave through a narrow passage.