To the "preparedness" Issue, the convention adverted twice. One section of its formal resolution notes the fact that "no navy in English or American history ever endangered the liberties of the people," and approves "any reasonable expenditure which may be necessary to equip and maintain the efficiency of the American navy." Another section, reviewing the constructive acts of the administration, registers the convention's approval of the party's action in enacting measures "looking to the national defense, one of which assures a basis for such expansion of the army and militia of the States" as to provide adequate protection against any immediate or future foreign aggression.

The convention expressed its approval of the business-like administration. (Continued on Third Page.)

GREAT HOLES IN
Throw Them Back in Violent Encounters Near Fort Vaux.
RE-ENFORCING TROOPS
RETIRE IN DISORDER
Germans Again Try, but Ineffectually, to Pierce Defending Lines.
HEAVY ARTILLERY DUELS
Home Risks Desperate Fighting Between Austrians and Italians.
Again the Germans have tried, but ineffectually, to breach the French line near Fort Vaux, northeast of Verdun. In the fighting, characterized by Paris as having been of unprecedented violence.  ence. the Germans threw attack after
Attack against the French line, but the
French nuns and machine guns took
great holes in their ranks, and threw
them back. In addition, re-enforcing
battalions were caught by the French
Kims as they essayed to throw themselves into the fray, and were forced
to retreat in disorder northeastward
upon the slope. 