WASHINGTON, May 20. — Attempted frauds and evasions of the Income-tax law, aggregating $8,380,185, have been frustrated by the Treasury Department, it was announced tonight, during the first nine months of the current fiscal year.
The $8,380,185 has been added to the incorrect returns, assessed against the delinquent corporations and individuals, and will be collected. More than 80,000 individual and corporation returns have yet to be examined before the total of the amount withheld can be stated.
Life Spared, Pending Investigation
JEREMIAH P. LYNN.
WASHINGTON, May 20. — Ambassador Page at London has been notified by the British Foreign Office that the sentence of Jeremiah C. Lynch, of naturalized American, arrested for complicity in the Irish revolt, will not be confirmed until it has been submitted to the Prime Minister. President Wilson had requested that execution of the sentence be delayed until the American government had investigated.
BAPTISTS HAVE TO RAISE
190,000 IN TWO MONTHS
Southern Convention Confident of Wiping Out Foreign Mission Board's Debt.
APPORTIONED BY AMONG STREETS
Defeat on Joining Other Protestant Denominations in Missionary Work Herein, and President Burrows Delivers Delegate.
WASHINGTON, May 20. — It was announced at tonight's session of the Southern Baptist Convention that  The remainder of the fund to meet the $500,000 debt of the foreign mission board had been apportioned among the States in such a manner that it was hoped the sum of approximately $600,000 necessary to complete the fund would be raised within two months. Taking up miscellaneous business, the convention, which at the present session had voted down a proposition to join with other Protestant denominations in union missionary work, tonight voted not to join other denominations in maintaining a school in Shanghai, China, for children of Protestant missionaries. 