Big Flock of Flyers
WASHINGTON—A mammoth fleet of 5000 standardized types of aircraft is planned by the members of the National Advisory Committee on aeronautics, it is said. The committee, with army and navy officers and 30 men to decide the factors of aircraft met quickest way for constructing the flyers in the event of war.

SMALLPOX IS DEADLY
Reports Tell of the Ravages of Disease in Germany
MOEWE RETURNS TO PORT
Official Statement from Berlin Tells of the Harvest Reaped in Atlantic Ocean
WASHINGTON
Thirty thousand cases of smallpox exist in Germany and the scourge is spreading, according to a speech of the Socialist Reichsag member, Hoffman, received at the state department. Brief portions of this speech reached America recently. Thursday the complete text was received. It shows that Hoffman charged the rich with getting fat; that the government was hoarding sausages, and that the poor were starving.
Vaccination, according to Hoffman, is futile against the smallpox.
Moewe's Big Harvest
BERLIN—Prince Frederick Karl of Prussia has not returned from an airplane raid over the hostile lines between Arras and Peronne, it is announced. 