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ODDS AND ENDS
OF DAY'S DOINGS
"Airnats" Flyers' Nickname.
Paris. Sept. 25. "Airnats" will
take its place beside "Poilus" and
"Yanks" if the world will accept the
result of the anneal made bv the
Plane News, organ of the American !
air eririi fn t U - ........ C I
w .v, wis; ucai luiniidllic 1U1
fighters in the air service. About
300 names were proposed from
which a committee selected 25. By
a vote bf the aviators at the great
American aviation school where the
Plane News is published, "Airnats"
was chosen. It was suggested by
Sergeant C. B. Swafford, of the
655th aero squad, to whom was
warded the first prize of $20. Other
names considered were "Sky Larks,"
"Joy Boys," "Eagles." "Starshoot
ers," "Skyscraners," "Larks." "War
Eagles," "Sky' Bo," "Sky Jackies,"
ind "Joy Stickers."
Bars Kimonos on Streets.
Honolulu, T. H.. Sept. 25. R.
Moroi, consul-general of Japan, has
forbidden 'his countrymen in Hono
lulu to wear kimonos on the streets.
To enforce his order he has had the
sheriff swear in M. Nishigaya, an at
tache of the consulate, as a deputy
and it will be his duty to arrest
Japanese men who appear on the
streets in kimonos, on charge of
wearing improper clothing. ,
Skunk Skins $9 Each.
New York, Sept. 25. What is said
to be the highest price ever paid in
this country for raw skunk skins was
obtained at the fall auction of furs
here today when the finest lot of
fered brought $9 each. A "freak"
fox fur, auctioned for the benefit
of the Red Cross, brought $500.
Total sales for the last three days
amounted to $1,750,000. Prices for
house cats were fifty per cent higher
than last spring and those for
ermine 35 per cent higher.
Makes Digging Pay Well.
Moundsville, W. Va Sept. 25.
Digging and loading coal is a profit
able, in addition to being an "essen
. tial" industry during times of war
as demonstrated by the record pay
check of $169.89 for 11 days' work,
handed recently to Charles Fogle,
a local miner. In one day Fogle
loaded 30 tons and 17 hundred
weight, earning $18.20 for eight
hours' work.
HOST TO SEE
HIGHWAY AS
LIGHTS GLOW
Ak-Sar-Ben Carnival Attracts
) Bin Crowd First Niaht:
Shows of High Merit
Amuse Gay Throng.
ATTENDANCE RECORD.
1917. 1918.
Wednesday. 4,102 5,884
The opening night of the Ak-Sar-Ben
carnival was surprisingly
lively considering war conditions.
Threatened rains failed to keep away
the crowd and more than the usual
"pep" was noticeable. Shows re
ported a rushing business and were
surprised at the opening night at
tendance. 'Hot dog men shouted their
wares in the usual carnival fashion,
and the hungry rushed up to b,
fed. Confetti and other things that
go to make up a joyous entertain
ment were plentiful and joy reigned
supreme.
Fort Omaha was represented by
a plentiful sprinkling of men in uni
form. Girls engaged in war work
were evident by their costumes, en
joying a little recreation after their
day's toil.
Patriotism to Fore.
Women's patriotic organizations
have booths on the grounds where
they sell merchandise for the "inner
man." and were constantly kept busy
' by the merrymakers. Plenty of mu
sic adds to the festival feelings of
those in attendance.
' A battle of royal between mere
man Captain Dan Riley, the lion
tamer, and seven vicious snapping
lions, two leopards, two pumas, and
one jaguar.-in which the latter were
subdued, was one of the spectacles
that attracted attention.
The captain, who is a veteran of
the game, carries many scars of pre
vious battles with the untamable
beasts, but his "morale" is still un
broken as the cowering mien of his
snarling antagonists obviously in
dicated. An amusing incident occurred
when Harry Lewis, another trainer,
endeavored to show a crowd of
spectators how really harmless the
"cats" were.
"Baby Strikes Back.
Reaching his hand through the
bars of one of the cages he essayed
to bestow an effectionate stroke on
the furry back of a baby jaguar.
While his efforts obviously were
appreciated, the "baby" in recipro
cating "accidentally" stroked back.
But he stroked too hard, apparently,
,for his gentle massage removed a
Jiberal quantity of skin from the
trainer;1 hand. However, in justice
to the juvenile one, it must be said,
he made all effort to undue his mis
take. With his tongue he lovingly
caressed the wound, which bled
copiously. But, certain suspicious
witnesses were inclined to believe
the act was inspired by his weak
ness for the red fluid rather than
contrition over the accident.
The knights of Ak-Sar-Ben have
engaged a band -for the carrSval
m-oiinds and the Kennedy shows
have another band. There will not
be a dull moment during the next
10 days. .
The annual electric parade and pa
will be held on Wednesday
night, October 2, and the military
and civic parade will be on Ihurs
afternon. October 3.
"The Answer of the Allies." is the
title of this year's electrical parade.
The military and civic parade will
l one of the' most interesting and
impressive demonstrations ever wit
nessed in Omaha, according to the
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FIREMEN
STAND PAT
FOR UNION
City Council Opposes Affilia
tion With American Fed
eration and Clash May
Come; Police Yield.
Omaha is face to face with
the possibility of the mayor
and city council declaring
that 225 members of the fire
department are guilty of in
subordination. The situation which involv
es the unionization of the
fire department will be
brought to a climax at this
morning's meeting of the city
council when Mayor Smith's
resolution, offered last week
and deferred from last Mon
day morning, will be brought
up for consideration.
Indications are the resolution will
be adopted. Its adoption will mean
that 225 members of the fire depart
ment, who have joined a union re
cently affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, will be placed
in the position of defying the or
ders of the mayor and council un
less they recede from their position
as publicly announced yesterday aft
ernoon. Men Will Not Yield.
C. F. T. Jensen, Fred J. Bloemer,
Walter Bernhardt and John J.
Cavaugh, a committee authorized to
represent the new firemen's local
union at a conference held in the
mayor's office yesterday afternoon,
stated that their union will not draw
back from its determination to hon
or an affiiation already accomplished
with the American Federation of
Labor.
Affiliation with other organizations
was the sticking point which the
conferees could not bridge in a dis
cussion affecting the firemen.
Neither the mayor nor Commission
ers Ringer nor Zimman, who attend
ed the conference, would weaken in
their position that the affiliated
unions for either police or fire de
partment are against best public in
terests. Policemen Yield Point.
The policemen's union, represent
ed by Foster Burchard,- James Mc
Donald and James Hughes, yielded
to the extent of agreeing not to affil
iate with the American Federation
of Labor or the Central Labor union,
which concession disposed of that
matter, at least for the present. It
was agreed that the policemen shall
continue their organization within
their own ranks, which they will do,
subject to approval of the new chief
of police, who will take charge Oc
tober 1. They intend to obtain a
state charter and will not be iden
tified with any other organization,
but organize only as a metropolitan
police department.
Mayor's Resolution.
The mayor's resolution, which will
be considered this morning, follows:
"Resolved, That it is the judgment
of this city council that any move
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Spain Ready to Aid in
Repression of Bolsheviki
Madrid, Sept. 25. The Spanish
government has not yet made any
statement concerning the receipt of
President Wilson's recent note urg
ing allied and neutral governments
to take action in condemnation of
the massacres in Russia.
According to information obtain
ed from reliable sources, however,
Spain is ready to assist in any ac
tion having the re-establishment of
order in Russia as its objective as
King Alfonso and the Spanish gov
ernment are greatly interested in
the future of that country, while
Spanish capitalists hold 50,000,000
pesetas of the Russian debt.
SPANISH INFLUENZA'S
DEATH TOLL ALARMING
More Than Thousand Succumb to Malady in New
England in 10 Days; Massachusetts Calls Upon
Red Cross for Physicians and Nurses; Theaters
and Other Public Resorts Ordered Closed.
Boston, Sept. 25. Alarmed by the rapidly mounting
death toll in New England from Spanish influenza, Massa
chusetts, the center of the epidemic in the west, today began
a concerted effort to stamp out the disease. The executive
council, in special session set aside a fund of $100,000, and
Acting Governor Coolidge immediately created the emer
gency public health committee.
The first step taken was to call on the American Red
Cross at Washington for physicians and nurses to take the
places of those who have died or who have been exhausted
by their arduous work. The committee then sent out a state
wide request for the temporary closing of all theaters, motion
picture houses and other places of public gathering, except
churches.
It was estimated today that there-
were between su.uuu ana o.uuu
cases ofinfluenza and pneumonia in
New England. There have been
more than 1,000 deaths in the New
England states in 10 days.
There were 107 deaths from in
fluenza and pneumonia in Boston for
the 24 hours ending at 10 o'clock
tonight. Deaths from the disease in
this city since .September 14 have
totalled 697.
Washington, Sept. 25. Spanish
influenza has spread over the coun
try so rapidly that officials of the
public health service. War and Navy
departments and Red Cross con
ferred today on measures to help
local communities fa combating the
disease.
Surgeon General Rupert Blue of
the public health service said tonight
that latest reports showed that the
malady made its appearance in 26
states from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific. The disease is epidemic in
New England, where it first made
its appearance.
Influenza has appeared on the Pa
cific coast in Washington and Cali
fornia, but is not yet epidemic there.
It also has been reported in Minen
sota and Iowa, but with few cases.
East of the Mississippi, however,
there are few states where it has not
been found.
The disease continued to spread
today in army camps, 5,324 new
cases being reported to the office of
the surgeon general of the army up
to noon.
The total reported from the camps
today was the largest in any one
day and brought the total to 29,
002 cases. The number of pneu
monia cases reported among t the
soldiers since the outbreak of the in
fluenza epidemic September 13, is
2,313, and the number of deaths
since that date is 530, with 155 re
ported today.
GERMANY'S BAD
PLIGHT BARED
BY HERRING
Admission of Gravity of Situ
ation Only Noteworthy
Feature of Chan
cellor's Speech.
Washington, Sept. 25. There was
just one thing in Chancellor von
Hertling's speech which interested
American officials. It was his frank
and open admission of the serious
ness of the ineernal situation in
Germany.
Following so closely upon the
formal declaration by the social
democrats of the conditions upon
which their party would consent
to participate in the government,
the speech was regarded as intend
ed primarily for internal consump
tion in Germany. It is regarded
as part of a plan to pursuade the
socialists to come to the aid of the
government in its grave straits by
demonstrating that there are no sub
stantial differences of principles be
tween their party and the govern
ment. The inclination of the govern
ment to regard the speech as the
latest movement in the German
peace offensive and as insincere and
unworthy of consideration is based
upon the feeling that in scarcely a
single point does the premier make
an unqualued declaration of ad
herence to the 14 principles laid
down by President Wilson. Every
where in his speech officials said
there were limitations and qualifica
tions. Through neutral countries have
come reports of disorganization,
mutiny, rioting and desperation in
Germany, but it remained for the
German chancellor to add the official
confirmation which was wanting.
Sedition Trial at Norfolk
Involves Priest and Nun
Norfolk, Neb., Sept. 25. (Special
Telegram.) Anonymous letters
sent in large numbers through the
mail attacking the character of Rev.
Father William Windolph, pastor of
the Creighton Catholic church, and
of a sister in charge of the parochial
school at Creighton, were offered in
evidence this afternoon by the de
fense of the United States against
Father Windolph charging the de
fendant with violating the sedition
and espionage laws by his utter
ances.
The anonymous letters came to
light when the government put Mrs.
ponahue Green on the stand, who
on cross-examination identified the
letters and admitted she had written
them and mailed them to various
persons connected with-t,he Catholic
cnurchr
Mrs. Green, wh.i a widow, and
promises gl QSO tljQ are ia charge.who lives near .no church, was
thought to be the star witness for
the government.
The defense announced that the
letters were being introduced foi
the reason of showing the bitter per
sonal feeling which the witness had
against the defendant.
It is understood that the sister in
question, the father of the sister, a
number of the sisters who taught
at the school at Creighton, and med
ical men are to testify for the de
fense. v
Dr. George Mullen, for the eov-
i ernment, testified that the defendant
had made disloyal statements in his
presence.
Judge Woodrough interrupted the
proceedings to announce emphatical
ly that some of the examination was
grossly improper and that the Catho
lic church was not on trial in the
present case and cautioned the de
fense not to get the church mixed up
with the trial.
AHEAD OF BOCHE,
SAYS LEADER OF
NEGROJROOPS
Colonel William Hayward Tells
of 129 Days in Trenches
and Interesting Facts
of the War.
Col. William Hayward, at the
head of a regiment of negro troops,
picked from the Harlem district in
New York, has been in the thick of
the fighting in France, has been
commended by General Chabord,
his commander, for the work he and
his men performed, and is now in
a rest camp after hard fighting for
a sustained period of 129 days.
Writing to William H. Pitzer, his
former , law partner, at Nebraska
City, he says:
"Well, we are "at rest." A few
days ago a tired, ragged, lousy,
battle-scarred regiment trudged
out of sector after being under fire
every day for 129 days, after being
through the greatest battle in the
world's history and after holding
what was at one time, (14 months
after the United States declared
war on Germany), one-fifth of all
the ground the whole American
army was holding, when that army
had about ten times as many com
missioned officers in France as we
had enlisted men.
"The French generals, from Gen
eral Gouraud down, say we did our
work as well as the veteran French
infantry regiments on either side of
us. We captured prisoners, includ
ing a German officer and lost none
to them. We killed many of them
in their trenches and inside our own
lines. We were never driven from
our front trenches, although assault
ed repeatedly. "No Man's land"
soon became 15th B. Y. land after
we took over each of the sectors
we held, the last one being the
most active and dangerous sector
from Switzerland to the channel, so
the French tell us.
On total killed and captured we
are away ahead of the boche may
be 100. And we did what we were
given to do with a minimum of
losses.
General Gouraud has inscribed to
me a copy of his now famous ad
dress to his soldiers before the
great battle in which he expresses
his great esteem "Au Cotanel Hay
ward et son brave regiment."
So as we tramped away to the
south in the. sunshine and dust of
the late days of August ' and the
sound of the damned guns grew
fainter and fainter, and we took off
our steel helmets fcnd put away our
gas masks, temporarily, you can
imagine how the spirits of the men
grew high, and how they sang
marching songs lustily and what our
thoughts were.
And when one remembers the be
ginnings of this little old hand
picked, home-made regiment of
Harlem colored boys and that we
were never inspected, never trained,
never coached, by an officer outside
the regiment, that we were never in
an American brigade or division,
that we never had a training period,
even ever so short, as all the other
American regiments had, but in
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U-BOATS
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Reichstag Told Germany Now
Has More Submarines in
Service Than at Any
Period of War.
Amsterdam, Sept. 25.
Captain Bruenninghaus,
speaking for the German
navy department in the main
committee of the Reichstag
today, said that U-boats were
sinking more cargo space
than was being built by the
entente allies and that the
number of German submar
ines in service today was
larger than at any period of
the war.
"The navy," Captain Bruenning
haus continued, "is still convinced
thyt our U-boat warfare is the sole
means for making the Anglo-Saxon
race see reason."
The captain made a strong appeal
to the members of the reichstag to
keep up the German belief in the
effectiveness of the submarine.
Von Payer Defends His Speech.
Vice Chancellor Von Payer de
fended his Stuttgart speech in
which he declared the treaties of Bu
charest and Brest-Litovsk must
stand. The vice chancellor said it
would be a mistake to abandon those
treaties insofar as they regulate
the relations between the signator
ies, but he added:
"If one day we are able to display
so much insight, self-control and un
selfishness that we can, without in
jury to our interests, permit our
enemies to collaborate in questions
which pjily affect them indirectly if
at all, we can, after all, come to an
understanding with those who, with
us are concerned, whether we will
discuss on the basis of reciprocity
these questions also with our ene
mies." General Explains Defeats.
General von Wrisberg explained
that the failure of the Ger
man ottensive on the western
front was due to the failure of the
German army to surprise the entente
allies and the necessity of assuming
the defensive on the arrival of the
(Continued on Tnge Two, Column Four)
Hoover Guarantees
Clothing Donated
Will Reach Belgians
New York, Sept. 25. Assurances
that clothing contributed for desti
tute Belgians would not fall into
German hands, was given by Her
bert Hoover in a message made
public here tonight by R. Arrow
Smith, manager of the clothing col
lection campaign now being con
ducted by the commission for relief
in Belgium.
"All clothing collected in America
Jor Belgians," said Mr. Hoover's
message, "is consigned to the office
of the commission for relief in Bel
gium at Rotterdam, is placed -in
barges, and is sent into Belgium by
a neutral Holland-Spanish commit
tee, which, working under protec
tion of the Dutch and Spanish min
isters in Brussels, controls the final
distribution of this clothing to Bel
gian civilians. Absolutely none of
the clothing falls into German
hands."
Douglas County Loan
Quota Is $10,541,500;
Sarpy's Is $428,000
Douglas county's qnota of the
fourth Liberty loan is $10,541,500,
O. T. Eastman, chairman of the
local committee in charge of the
campaign for selling the bonds, was
informed last night by telegram
from the tenth federal reserve dis
trict bank at Kansas City, which
made the allotments. This county's
quota of the third Liberty loan was
$5,319,900.
W. E. Rhodes, chairman of the
Sarpy county loan committee, was
notified last night that Sarpy
county's quota was $428,000. Its
quota of the third loan was $163,000.
Germans Prepare for
Hurried Evacuation of
Civilians From Metz
"Amsterdam, Sept. 25. "It is an
nounced that owing to the long
range bombardment of Metz and
other places preparations are
making for the expeditious evacua
tion of civilians and movable
property from places within
range of such guns when the
evacuation becomes necessary,"
says a dispatch received here from
Berlin,
Chairman Hays' Clarion Call
Mighty Fighting Force to Be Rallied Throughout Nation
to Help Put Over the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive.
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New York, Sept. 24. To Republican State Chairmen,
District Chairmen, County Chairmen, and all Republican
Workers :
THE MISSION OF AMERICA IS ABOUT TO BE
ACCOMPLISHED.
American soldiers in France are at this moment dem
onstrating to the world the reason for America and the stuff
of which this republic is made.
Their complete success and the consequent eternal es
tablishment everywhere in the world of the integrity of
American rights, interests and honor and the right of men to
govern themselves, are all assured with the proper perform
ance of the plainest duty of the citizenry at home.
THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN IS OUR NEXT
OBJECTIVE.
There is no geography, political orphysical, in the pa
triotism of this country. Democrats and republicans alike
love their flag and are ready to die for it. We continually in
sist for all parties that the war be kept out of partisan politics
and that partisanship be kept out of the war.
Just as in congress the republicans led the fight that
made possible the passage of the great war measures, so now
the party membership and organization has an immediate,
definite war wish in the accomplishment of which it can
fully function. I repeat, let there be no contest in this coun
try as to anything that touches the war except that contest
WHO BESTJ CAN SERVE, WHO MOST CAN GIVE.
The success of the Fourth Liberty Loan shall be the re
publican party's supreme motif of thought and action until
that objective is attained.
Wherever republicans are together, by two or two
thousand, it shall be a win-the-war meeting. Just as the
republican party's every action at all times has been and shall
be determined solely by how we can contribute most to the
war's success, so now our every thought and action shall be
determined entirely by how we can make certain the quick
over-subscription of the Fourth Liberty Loan.
The entire republican organization in every voting pre
cinct in this country shall be a fighting force in this Liberty
Loan drive.
THIS IS THE REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION'S
BUSINESS.
This is the real business of every man, woman and child
in America.
"EVERYTHING ELSE IS CHORES."
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PRELATE'S BODY
TO LIE IN STATE
FORJNE DAY
Many Church Dignitaries Will
Attend Funeral of Arch
bishop Ireland in St.
Paul Wednesday.
St. Paul, Sept. 25. Hundreds of
telegrams and cable messages from
many parts of the world, paying
honor to the memory and achieve
ments of Archbishop John Ireland
of St. Paul, were received today at
the home of the Roman Catholic
prelate, who died early this morn
ing, after a long and lingering ill
ness. It was decided this afternoon that
the body will lie in state Tuesday
in the cathedral. The funeral will
be held Wednesday with solemn
services at 10 a. m. It is expected
that most of the church dignitaries
who attended the impressive ser
vices for Cardinal Farley in New
York will attend the funeral of
Archbishop Ireland.
Rev. Thomas Welch, secretary to
Archbishop Ireland, announced that
the dying prelate had asked to have
his body buried in Calvary ceme
tery, instead of being placed in a
crypt, as had been intended.
Turkish Joke.
Constantinople, Via London, Sept.
25. The retreat of the Turks in
Palestine was still being carried out
Tuesday, according to the war office
communication issued today, "in
conformity with prepared plans."
BULGARIANS IN
RETREAT ALONG
130-MILE FRONT
Allies Gain Road Connecting
Two Enemy Armies and
Vardar River; Serbs
Capture 30 Guns.
London, Sept. 25. The whole of
the Monastir-Prflep-Gradsko road,
connecting up the two Bulgarian
armies, is now in the hands of the
allies, according to news received
here tonight. The allied cavalry
is within 10 miles of the second
line extending between Vcles, Ishtip
and Prilep.
The enemy is fighting hard to
obtain possession of these roads,
also in the sector west of Prilep,
and it seems to be a race for Uskub,
as the allied forces are as near to
the city as the Bulgarians.
The allies are now in possession
on the whole course of the Vardar
river from Gievgeli to Gradsko. To
nights reports say that the Serbians
have takenOl guns in addition to
those already reported.
The Bulgarians are now retreating
on a total front estimated at abouH
130 miles, the second Bulgarian
army, under General Feodoroff, be
ing in retreat before the British and
Greeks on a front extending from
the Vardar to the Struma. A Brit
ish invasion of Bulgaria seems
likely and the Bulgarians are re
ported to be fortifying the old road
from Fobrovo to Strumitsa, which
the British cavalry is approaching.
U. S. Aviator Sinks U-Boat
Which Shelled Seaplane
Germans and Bulgarians in
Jeopardy in Macedonia;
Allies Tighten Grip on
St. Quentin.
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London, Sept. 25. The first case
in which it is known that a sub
marine . fought back when attacked
by a seaplane resulted in the prob
able destruction of the submersible
by an American aviator, Reserve
Ensign J. F. Carson, it was an
nounced today by the admirality.
With shrapnel from the elevated
forward gun of the submarine burst
ing around his seaplane, Ensign
Carson maneuvered until he was
able to pour machine gun fire into
the crew, felling two of them and
driving the others inside. The sub
marine submerged and as it was
diving, two bombs were dropped on
it.
Within a few minutes the bow of
the U-boat appeared on the surface
and remained visible about four
minutes. More bombs were dropped
in this interval and it is believed
the undersea craft was either badly
damaged or destroyed.
Ensign Carson's machine, with
two others, was on patrol when the
submarine was sighted on the sur
face, and the ensign made for it.
As he was getting into position to
use his machine gun or to bomb
the undersea boat the German fired
five shrapnel shells, three of which
burst close to the seaplane, doing
it some damage. The other sea
planes did not take part in the at
tack. Ensign Carson remained over the
spot 15 or 20 minutes, but the U
boat was no longer in evidence,
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The Teutonic alliedforce3
in Macedonia and Turkey still
are in flight before the' armies
of the entente, while on the
highly important St. Quentin
sector in France the British
and French armies, after hard
fighting, have drawn more
closely their lines in the in
vestment of the town on the
northwest, west and south.
The stubborn resistance of
the Germans, in defense and
in counter-attacks, has been
unvailing except to impede
the progress of the men of
the armies of Field Marshal
Haig and General Debeney.
In Macedonia the Bulgarian and
German troops still are faced with
disaster; in Palestine the remaining:
Turks seem to have scarcely a
chance to escape from the British ;
forces and tribesmen who are clos
nig in upuu uicm cast or. xnc nvqs
joraan. More man iu,uuu prisone
and 265 guns have been taken by't
British and yet General Allenby's s
petite for further emoluments frc
his hard campaign has not been sa
ated. I
Gauged by the swiftness of i
strokes Allenby is delivering, 'gral
nis purpose aDsomteiy to overw iy
the Ottomans. And the fulfill! ,
of his plans seems appreciably far
in no less ?;r" f
Germans and' J
Macedonian thea
immediately on thl
tier, where the5 4 ft
gives them grou H,
sistance to the invasion d
territory through the
Bulgarians and Germans everywhere
are in rapid retreat before the Ital- !
ians, Serbians, Greeks and British. ' !
Rent in twain at several points, the 1
enemy forces are bewildered and . ;
operating separate units. ?'
Respectively on the western and j
eastern flanks the Italians and the i
Greeks and British are fast throw
ing forward their lines in endeavors I
to envelop the enemy, while in the r1!
. i .t r I . . I "
center, wnere ine oerDS nave ariven
their sharp wedge toward Ishtip,'
there is no lagging, notwithstanding
the difficult territory that is being
encountered. Rear guards of the
enemy, armed with machine guns,
are but little delaying the men whose
task it is to reclaim their kingdom.
As yet there is no news of great
activity in Albania, but a resump
tion of operations there in conjunc
tion with those in the east apparent
ly cannot long be delayed. . .
British Take Selency.
On the French front the British"
have taken the village of Selency,
a scant two miles from the western
environs of St. Quentin, and both '
the British and French troops north
and south of this line have driven v
further wedges into the German
front. More than 1,000 prisoners;
and many machine guns have been
taken by the British in these opera
tions. Numerous strong counter at
tacks were delivered by the enemy,
both at Selency and at Cricourt. but
Haig's men put all of them down,
with heavy losses to the Germans.
The Germans have also reacted
strongly in the region lying west of
the Chemin Des Dames, endeavor
ing to regain the territory held by,
the French as a menace against both
the Chemin Des Dames and the'
Laon sectors. Here also the enemy
was beaten off. . ;
Good weather has returned to the'
American sector on the Lorraine
front, but nothing has occurred -there
except the usual reciprocal
bombardments and a resumption of
aerial activity on a great scale. Ad
vices from Berlin are that there is
much perturbation in Germany over "
the long-distance guns of the Amer
icans, which are shelling the areas '
behind the German line. The ad
vices say that preparations are being
made for the expeditions evacuation'
of the civilians from Metz and other
places within range when such a -
move Becomes necessary.
Chief Examiner Named.
oryi. Appoint
ment of Henry Thurtell of Neva
as chief examiner of the Interstal
v,uimncn.c commission, and otl
Ueorge M. Lrossland of SotithM
caronna as cnict ot the bureau of
tariffs was announced today by thPj
commission.
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Prisoners' Conference Ong?y
Berne, Tuesday, Sept. 24. TJ
American-German war prisoneM
conference began yesterday unC
tne presidency of Paul Dinkh'-
owiss minister plenipotentiary. '
conference wii nnnr) k :;
Calonder of Switzerland, f,
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