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VOL. XLV NO. 105.
OMAHA, TUESDAY MOIINIXC., OCTOHKU 10, 1015 TWELVE VMWH.
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THE
GRACE SLATER
TELLS STORY OF
SMITH'S MURDER
Girl . Wno' Wu with Woodmen
Cashier When He Was liiled
Gives Her Version to the
Newspapers.
DID HOT KSOW THE THUG
Says She Had Fever Seen Murderer
Before Was Once Engaged
to Marry.
ENGAGEMENT WAS BROKEN OFF
. Mlas Grace Blater, 21 years old.
'whom William H. Smith, Woodmen
of the World cashier, was accom
panying to her home, when he was
murdered at Thirty-first and Dodge
itreets Saturday night, said Monday
that the bandit whom she saw shoot
Mr. Smith knew that his victim was
a married man.
. Mlas Slater talked to newspaper
men after having-gone through an
hour's examination by Chief of, Police
Dunn. She said:
"After the man shot Mr. Smith be
laid to me:
" 'He Is a married man?'
;'l said 'Yes.'
''"He said, 'You are marrledV
"I said 'No.' "
Wu te Hare Be Mrrl4.
Mis Slater was to bar been married
to a, fireman In the employ of the city
about October 1, she said.
The engagement was broken by mutual
agreement.- Mlaa Slater declared. "We
found that we did not care tor each
other longer. ' We had planned to be
married several time before. The last
date we fixed was about the first nf thla
moith. The engagement waa broken Just
before the time came when we were to
bave been married."
Did Net Kinr Asaallaat.
Mlii Blater declared positively that the
' man who shot Mr. Smith wag. unknown
to her and that she had never seen him
before.
Measurements of footprints left by a
man and a girl, believed to bave been those
of Mlaa Blater and the murderer, aa he
waa taking her from the scene of the
crime, have been taken by the police.
Those of the man's footprints snowed
that he slipped as he stepped In the mud.
Miss Slater said today she did not re
member that the man bad slipped.
"It waa muddy a good deal of , the
way," She said. '
Miss Slater . explained how the bullet
, came to strike Mr. Smith from the rear.
Tried ta Get Away.
. "Mr, Smith turned, after telling the
robber he had nothing." she said, "He
was trying to get away" .
The nan shot I saw Mr. Smith fall
ing, but I did not see blm reach the
ground.
"Xhe man took bold of me and took
me away."
The story of the robbers outrageous
treatment of her which Mlas Slater gave
to police officials she did . nott repeat
to newspaper men. "
The bandit took her money. Miss Blater
believes he intended to kill her.
"But after I pleaded with him his man
ner changed entirely," she continued. "He
said, 'I believe you are a good working
girl. . .
Beadlt Waats t Kuw,
"He asked many questions about my
self, where I worked, where I lived, how
much pay I got and even what else shoe
I wore.
. "I told him where I lived, and he said:
"No you don't; I know where you live.' -
"But I do. not believe that be knew
where I lived,"'
Misa Slater said she and Mr. Smith had
beea discussing holdups before the robber
appeared. The subject arose, ' she said,
on account of the streets which they were
gassing through, and tha fact that Mr.
Smith had been held up In Council Bluffs
aot long ago. .. .- a
The .girl cleared up the question as to
Just bow the robber approached them.
' Merderer Crosses Street.
"He followed ua from the opposite side
of the street,", she said. "He came across
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The Weather
Forecast till 1 p. m. Tuesday:
For Omaha. Council Bluffs and Vicinity
Fair.
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YOUNG WOMAN WITH SMITH
WHEN HE WAS MURDERED.
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ODD FELLOWS COME
TO OMAHA MEETING
ansssnae
Sessions of Grand Lodge and Several
Auxiliary Organizations Are
in Progress.
EACE FOB THE OFFICES STABTS ,
Hundreds of Odd Fellows from all
over the state are in Omaha.
Rebekahs are here, too.
The fifty-eighth annual session of
the grand .lodge will commence to
morrow. The forty-fourth annual
session of the Grand Encampment is
in full swing. The thirty-second an
nual session of the Rebekahs will
commence tomorrow, and the Depart
ment Council Patriarchs Militant Is
In its twenty-second annual session.
Thus members of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and members of
the auxiliary organisations are simply
swarming Into the city. They will , con
tinue to swarm for three days, ending
Thursday night. It Is expected that for
the. various organisations and auxiliaries
between 1.500 and 1,000 delegates and vis
itors will be' In Omaha during tHo three
davs. " ..'.
Delegates began . to . arrive Sunday.'
Grand Master 1 Urn I ah of t'Neillr Grand
Patriarch 3. A. Davis -of Lincoln, Joe
Hoagland of North Platte, president o(
the Odd Fellows', home board, and O. O.
Snyder of O'Neill,' chairman of the
finance committee, arrived at headquar
ters at the Fontenelle botel Sunday even
ing. Grand Scribe I. P. Gage of Fremont
arrived early this morning.
Enaaaipaaeat CoBveaea.
The Grand Encampment branch of tbs
order convened In regular session at t
o'clock at the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows' hall. Fourteenth and Dodge
streets.- This was presided over by Orand
Patriarch Davis of Lincoln. Reports were
read and degrees were conferred upon new
representatives of y the Orand Encamp
ment. Last Saturday the home' board was In
session all day at York. The home board
has charge of the Odd Fellows' home
maintained at York. . Routine business
was transacted and some of the rules of
the institution were revised. The superin
tendent of the home waa authorised to
make a number-of permanent improve
ments on the farm buildings.
Superintendent and Mrs. J. H. Wilson
were re-elected superintendent and
matron respectively of the home for
the ensuing year. .
During this session the youngest guest
ever taken in the home was accepted.
This was the J-month-old baby of C. A.
Jones of Oresham, Neb., who appeared
In person before the board. He made a
personal appeal for admittance of the
baby, and brought. tears to the eyes of
every one of the board. The mother of
the Infant died when the baby was born.
Charles E. ' Wyman of Chicago, for
merly superintendent of the Odd Fel
lows' Old Folks' Home of Mattoon, Ill
made an Interesting talk before the board
on the management of the Odd Fel
lows' home.
Baaaagrardaer Talks.
C. A. Baumgardner of Omaha gave a
talk on the Printers' Home , of Colorado
Springs, explaining how the funds are
raised and how the money la expended,
and praised ths splendid results obtained
both In the home and In the tubercular
hospital In connection with it.
Last evening the Fatrlarchlal degree
was exemplified by Hesperian en
campment No. I at Odd Fellows' ball.
The Royal Purple degree was con
ferred by Crusader encampment No. ST.
A genera! get-together meeting was
held after the degree work was given
and refreshments were served.
, .Hats Arc. la RIbst.
Candidates for the . position of grand
Junior warden of ths grand encampment
are already in the field. Thla Is the office
from which a man steps almost automat
ically In the. succeeding years Into the
shoes uf grand high priest, grand senior
warden-and grand patriarch. Those al
ready in the. field for the office of grand
Junior warden are . A. P. ' Hansen of
Omaha, Otto Steele of the South Side,
Omaha; J. R. Snyder of Chadron, J. O.
Swops of North Platte, N..E. Welch of
Lincoln. A. P. Hanson, who. Is in the
race, is secretary of Dannebrog lodge No.
lit. the largest Odd Fellows' lodge In the
state. . . '
Mr. and Mr. W. V. Hoagland of North
Platte have arrived and are stopplqg at
the Fontenelle. They bear' the unique
distinction of being grand warden of the
grand lodge and warden of the state, Re
bekah assembly, respectively.
The Rebekahs are to hold their first
meeting of the week Tuesday evening at
I JD at tha Fontenelle botel for the pur
pose of conferring the state assembly de-grue
FIGHTFORSUFFRAGE
in JERSEY OH TILL
POLLS OPEH-D AY
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jV. iver Known in the
Commonwealth.
BOTH SIDES ABE CONFIDENT
Votin- Begins at Six in Morning and
Will Continue for Thirteen
Honrs. "
COUNT EXPECTED TO BE SLOW
NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 18. The
vigor of the hot campaign waged by
women workers tor suffrage rose to
Its highest pitch tonight, election
ve in every section of New e'Jrsey.
All day the yellow banners of the
suffrage association and the green,
white and purple of the woman's
political union fluttered from hun
dreds of automobiles from Cape May
to the New York line and tonight
tl ere were few communities In the
state, even of the smallest where the
voices of feminine orators were not
lifted In the streets for the cause.
' President Wilson's vote for suf
frage will be cast In Princeton.
Both aides Coaftdeat.
Any man's guess or any woman's
was as good tonight as any other's as
to how - the battle would go tomorrow,
The campaign has ben entirely non
partisan and both aides declare they are
equally confident of a victory at the
polls.
In this city, on the spot where the
first settlers hoisted their standard
nearly 2S0 years ago, a score or more
of women campaign workers have spoken
without cessation since 6 o'clock this
morning, pausing only long enough te
spell one another. Dawn and daybreak,
they say, will find them still at their
post, for this twenty-four-hour meeting
Is not to end till ths polls open at f
o'clock.
Everywhere in the big cities of the
state groups of women workers are speak
ing in the streets, hundreds of them,
utilising the waning hours of the long
campaign for what they believe to be a
smashing drive against their political
foes. Far and away, the last hours of
this fight bave set a new record for
political activity In New Jersey, The
so-called whirlwind finishes of bygone
campaigns within the memory of living
Voters have failed to equal tonight's in
tense activity.'
i: n r' Claims mt Bommi ' w
'.'We expect to carrjtNew Jersey by
tt.000." was the prediodoti of Mrs Lillian
F. Feickert, prealdent of the New Jersey
State Assooiation, for Woman Suffrage.
"Woman suffrage will be defatsd In
New Jersey by a large majority," suoh
was the 'last word, from Mrs. Edward
Yards Breese. president ' -of the New
Jersey association, opposed to woman
suffrage.
Ths polls open at o'clock tomorrow
morning and will remain open until
o'clock at night. The vote on suffrage
will be cast between a. m. aad 1 p, m.
There is not a ' voting machine in the
state and returns, it Is thought, will be
slow in coming In. The task of the
counters, however, will be light, com
pared with their work on a general elec
tion, as there are but three constitutional
amendments to be voted on, the suffrage
amendment and two others of minor im.
portanee.
"Billy" Sunday in
St. Joseph to Talk
"Billy" Sunday spent yesterday in St.
Joseph, Mo. He, with Mrs. Sunday,
Homer Rodeheaver and A. O. Brewster
of ths Sunday party left on an early train
for the southern city. He preached there
yesterday afternoon and last night
The visit to Bt. Joseph was made to
give assistance to Mel Trotter of ths
Union Gospel mlslon, who at present is in
a hospital at Baltimore taking treatment
for cancer.
Sir Edward Carson
Quits the Cabinet
LONDON, Oct. 14. Sir Edward Carson,
attorney general, has resigned from the
British cabinet.
QBAND MASTEB OF THE ODD
FELLOWS' MEETING HEBE.
J. C. 11ARMH.
WHERE MANY LIVES WERE LOST-Scene at Fancy
creek, near Randolph, Kan., where a motor train plunged
into a washed out bank on Saturday, and many passen
gers were caught in the swirling waters.
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SUTHERLAND DIES
AT KANSAS CITY
Former Nebraska Congressman from
Fifth District Dead After .
Long Illness.
FUNERAL TO BE WEDNESDAY
KANSAS CITY,. Oct. 18. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Roderick Dhu
Sutherland, former representative
from the Fifth district of Nebraska,
died this morning at St. Margaret's
hospital, Kansas X:ity, Kan.
Mr; Sutherland's noma was In Nel
son;' Neb., where the funeral will be
held, Wednesday afternoon.' He had
been critically 111 of Brlght's disease
for several months. -
Dora la Iowa.
. 'Rhoderio 'Dhu Sutherland ' was born In
Jonss county, ' Iowa, In 1861. While a
lad his parents moved to northern Mis
souri, where they lived for seven years.
It was bare that be secured his earlier
education. ' '
The family moved to eastern Nebraska,
living there two years,' after which they
moved to - Nuckolls - county, where Mr.
Sutherland has made his home for over
thirty years.
As a young man Mr. Sutherland taught
school and studied law during his spare
moments. He wau admitted to the bar in
Nuckolls county twenty years ago. Ho
has always ' been Identified with the
politics of his county and state and has
been twice elected prosecuting attorney
of Nuckolls county. He was elected to
congress from the Fifth district, being
elected on the populist ticket.
He wss a candldats for the presidential
nomination of the people's Independent
party In l00. .
Neaalaer la 1013.
He was also the democratic nominee in
1913, being defeated by Silas R, Barton.
Mr. Sutherland was appointed attorney
for the receiver of the defunct First Na
tional bank of Superior and was acting
In that capacity when he waa taken ill.
He has made his home In Nelson since
he ' was admitted to the bar and has
always enjoyed a lucrative law practice
there.
A wife and two daughters survive him.
Mrs. Dexter Barrett of Lincoln and Mrs.
Friend of Kansas City, Kan..
Mr. Sutherland' bore a striking resem
blance ' to .William J. Bryan ' and - waa
often taken for Mr.' Bryan by those. who
were not personally acquainted with
either one.-
War is Declared'
On the Chipmunk
TJEADWOOD, S. P.. Oct. (Special)
What to do with the little chipmunk
which has become a serious Impediment
to their work, is problem that la vexing
the Black Hi:la national forest officers.
For several years past during the fall
season when the forest service is col
lecting the pine cones for ths seed for
replanting the burned over a real, the
chipmunk plays havoc with their work
by getting the seed first. Various means
bave been tried to check him and even
exterminate him, but this year he is plen
tiful again.
Now seed soaked with in strychnine Is
being scattered on the ground In spots
wher ths little animal feed, lit. the hope
that it will finally prove effective. Super
visor Kelleter has established a special
camp between Hanna aad Dumont from
which men are working out In each di
rection, spreading ths poisoned seed, un
der the direction of the biological expert
from Washington who was summoned for
advice.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
IN WAR STAMPS ARE TAKEN
EVAN3VILI.H. Ind., Oct U.-Hobberg
today forced the safs In the office of the
t'nlted States Internal revenue collector
and took 115 Out In emergency war stamps.
The theft was committed while poitoffice
employes were buy on the floor below.
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WILSON TO OUTLINE
DEFENSE PROGRAM
President Will Present Preparedness
Policy in Speech at New
York November 4.
TO BE LAID BEFOBE PEOPLE
WASHING TON, Oct. 18. A na
tional defense program that probably
means the expenditure on the army
and navy of upwards of 11. 000, 000,
,000 in the next six years will be
laid befora the people by President
Wilson November 4, when he goes to
New Yorkr to make; $1; , first, public
address since the scope of the policy
upon which .his administration, has
embarked became known. ' ' 1
.The president will speak before
the . Manhattan club In New York
City on . national defense and the
reasons which have Impelled him to
approve plans to about double the
navy and quadruple the trained fight
ing forces ashore within a few years.
With the estimates of the War and
Navy, departments submitted - for the
coming year, the breadth of the admin
istration's policy as to preparedness is
being realised.
Polley of Preparedness,
It shapes up in totals as follows:
Navy For new ships and Increased
personnel in tlve years, SSde.OCe.000.
Army For reserve, material (arms and
ammunition), within four veara SlOS.oM .
000. For new coast defenses and mod
ernisation or old foils within four years,
isi.ooo.ooo.
For the new continental army and the
proposed Increase in the regular army,
M.000,000 (this amount probably will be
a continuing,, and .if anything, Increas
ing appropriation through the first sis
year period, which would make ths total
expenditure at that time SIM.OOS.OOO). -
The grand total expenditure thus act
ually planned would be ftt.000,000.
Rrsalt ky IPSO.
According to plana laid out by experts
of the Navy and War departments,
these expenditures .would produce by Hit
a first line of dreadnaughts and battle
rruumn numbering.! forty-three; .a .fleet
of coast defense submarines that would
fringe the Atlantic and Paclflo coasts
with an ' alrnont . solid ' line ' of , defense
against attack, a fleet of nearly 176 de
stroyers and squadrons of huge seagoing
submarines to operate with the battle
squadrons at great distance from shore.
EX-NEBEASXA CONGRESSMAN
WHO IS DEAD. ' '
R. D. SUTHERLAND.
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UNITED SHOE SUED
UNDER TOUST ACT
Government Files Action Against
Compsny Charging Attempt to
Lessen Competition.
ASKS PERMANENT INJUNCTION
ST. LOUI3. Mo., Oct. 18. The
first Important government suit un
der the Clayton anti-trust act was
begun here today by Attorney Gen
eral Gregory against the Vnited Shoe
Machinery company. The petition
filed in the federal district court
thargea the shoe company with un
lawful practices Unit substantially
lessen competition and tend to mo
nopolise.' Temporary and permanent
Injunctions are sought.
The suit Is distinct from that
against the same concern under the
Sherman anti-trust art begun sev
eral years ago In which Its dissolu
tion as an unlawful combination and
monopoly In restraint of trade was
sought and which now is before the
United 8tates supreme court. The
present action does not seek dissolu
tion, but asks the court to enjoin
the company perpetually from fur
ther engaging in alleged unlawful
practices. There also Is the usual
prayer for such other "general and
further relief" as the court may see
fit to give.
Vaaseal Featara at Case.
One of ths unusual features la that the
petition contains a request for a tem
porary order restraining tha Vnited Shoe
company from resorting to the practices
complained of until determination of the
suit.
Ths government's petition charges.
That tha United Phne Machinery com
pany is a monopoly controlling MVj per
cent of the trade In shoe machinery In
the United States, Its prtncliwl business
being the making and leaalng of these
mschlnes.
That In certain eases 11 has fixed and
la fixing the prices of such machinery
on the condition and with the agreement
that the leasee or purchaser shall not use
the machinery supplies or other commod
ities of its competitors.
' That It grants rebates on prices fixed
tn some Inetanoee In consideration of the
uie by a leniee of other of Its machines:
that other leases contain clauses whose
effect Is to establish prices 10 per cent
leas to those who agree not to use the
machinery supplied by competitors than
to those who do not so bind themselves.
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One More Nebraska
j Man's Body Found :
p in Eandolph Wreck
' BRATRICW. Neb., Oct. JI.-tFp.clal
Telegram.) The body of a young man
from Virginia, this county, wnloh waa
taken from ths wreck at Randolph, Kan.,
today was Identified as Edwin Peterson,
a graduate of ths Beatrice High school
last year. .. , .
:Mr. Peterson , had been employed at
Olay Center. Kan., for aoms time with
Kllpatrlck Brothers, the railroad con
tractors of this city and was en routs
borne for a visit when he was killed. - He
was IS yeara of age and the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Peterson of the Virginia
Vicinity. , ' . -. . . c i .
. At but tha trucks of ths wrecked car
was . taken from the creek , last, night.
Several bodies bave not been recovered,
one of them a little child of Mr. and
Mrs. rtanllnger of Frankfort. Kan. ,
The track was cleared today and trains
are again being operated over the line
between Beatrice and Manhattan, Kan.
Denies that He
Would Take Over
Smelting Plants
Et, PASO, Tex., . Oct. 11 dovernor
Avlla of Chihuahua, a Villa adherent. In
a telegram addressed to Ueorge C.
Oarothers, special State department agent
here, today denied that he had ordered
the confiscation of plants and mines of
the American Smelting and Keflnlug
company, as previously reported,.
'In mining circles, however, It was' de
clared that the confiscation of the prop
erty bad been threatened If the smelters
were not operated by October IS In the
reduction of government ores.
Seventy-Four Lids
Tilted in Chicago
CHICAGO. Oct. lB.-Keventy-four viola
tions of the Sunday saloon closing law
wsre recorded in' revised polios reports
today, an' Increase over the number re
ported a week ago when Myor Thomp
son's order went Into effect.
All cases of violations will be submitted
to Mayor Thompson with the recom
mendation that licenses be revoked, -
Henry Bolln Dies at
Age of Sixty-Eight
Henry Bolln, formerly treasurer of
Iouglas county, died Monday afternoon
at 10U South Twenty-ninth atreet at the
age of SS years.' Mr. Bolln had been a res
ident of Omaha for forty-seven years.
Funeral services will be held st ths H.
K. Btrkstt chapel. Twenty-ninth and
Leavenwor'Ji streets, Wednesday sfter
noon st I o'clock with burial In Forest
Lawn cemetery.
Victor E, Bender Is
Dead at Galesburg
GALBSBURO. III., Oct., IS. -Victor K.
Bender, one of the most widely known
newspaper men In Illinois, died heis to
night from Blight's disease, lie . was
brought here two weeks agl from Spring
field, where he published tne Daily News.
Earlier he had publ'shed the Omaha Mer
cury and the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Mr. Bender was born In 141 at Granville,
111., aad was s graduate of Knox college.
ALLIES TURN THE,
GULGAR ADVANCE
INTO A RETREAT
Serbisns Succeed in Preventing- tha
Bulgarians from Cutting . tha
Saloniki and Nish
Kailroad Lines. '
GERMANS ACTIVE IN THE EAST
ssssajaeaaaasss (
Attacking1 Buss Positions in Coos
try Southeast of ' Riga ' and
Pushing On Rapidly. ' ' '
FIERCE 'FIGHT IN CHAMPAGNE
BT'LLKTIW.
LONDON, Oct. 18. Tha Entente
Allies have effected a' landing at
Enos, on the Aegean sea. In Eu
ropean Turkey, close to the Bulgar
ian border, and have seised the rail
road at that point, according to a dis
patch from Athens to the Messaggero
of Rome, transmitted by the Central
News.
LONDON, Oct. 18. -8crblan and
Anglo-Frtnch troops have oocupled
the Bulgarian town of Btrumitsa,
thirty miles north of Saloniki, ac
cording to official telegrams from
Athens. This follows closely upon
news that Serbians, with allied as
sistance, have repuused a Bulgarian
attack at Vllandovo, turning the ad
vance of the Bulgars Into a retreat
beyond their own border.
Thus the Anglo-French and Ser
bian action In the Balkans has leaped
out of the field of surmise Into a
vivid foreground of fact, and is as
serted by London military observers'
to have been crowned at the outset
with success.
This arrival of French troops at the
phychologlcal moment when the Serbian
struggle with 40,000 newly arrived Bul
garians at Vltanftovo and Hundovo still
hung In ths balance has dramatic quali
ties which for the moment bave com
pletely eclipsed tha military exploits in
the other theaters, - .
The ohief military Importance of the"
allled-Kertnan success is the defeat of
the Bulgarian - project of cutting the
Sslonikt-Nlsh railroad, which is known
to have been the Bulgarian objective. It
Is not clear whether British' troops co
operated with ths French in this opera
tlon,. but a message from Athens, stating
they had left Saloniki Saturday for the
SerberHulgarisjvrontler Indicated they
at least were near the scene of the fight
ln., ' '
Russian and Italian help thus far has
been only indirectly exerted by increased
aggressiveness . sgalnst , the Austro-Oer. -mans,
which makes a further defleatton
of Teuton! forces to the Balkans Ina-.
practicable. '.'.'
In the tastsrn theater the Germane
sre again' attacking the Rusilaa posi
tions southeast of Riga, - but Petro
grsd commentator! regard this to ' be
purely a demonstration calculated to dis
tract attention from the Dvtnsk region
, and Oallcla, which have gained greatly
In Importance with the Balkan develop
ments. ' It Is clear that although ths bat. .
tis which General Von Ivanoff is fight
ing, continued with varying suooess, tha .
Germans have been unable to establish
themselves on the eastern bank of the
river Btrtpa. , . ;
With a particularly Intense artillery
fire continuing on both sides la the
Champagne region, tha French war office
r ports slight progress. A strong barri
cade to the southeast of NeuvlUe has
been captured and the Glvenchy wood
positions have been consolidated.
Three NlarM Attack' Revalsed.
PARIS, Oct IS. French forces repulsed '
last night three German attacks, accord
ing to ths announcement given out this
afternoon by ths French war office. These
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