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THE GARDEN ISLAND, TUESDAY. DEC. 31, 1918 i t t "J-M" Exterior Washable Paint Especially efficient and economical for mill work Sanitary weatherproof fireproof. A high grade cold water paint for exterior and interior work. Put up in 350 pound barrels. "A reputation behind it" and approved by the National Board of Fire Underwriters. Honolulu Iron Works Co. Honolulu, T. H. Stirring Experiences in France P. C. Woloott, a member of Mr. Hoover's personal staff, who was with the United States Food Ad ministrator on his previous visit to France, tells several heart gripping stories oT; their, visit to Chateau-Therry : "On the fifteenth of July the Germans began feeling their way with long-range, heavy-caliber guns, firing toward the I'lrmli and American lines; and for three tumbled out; it was rain-soaked. I opened it, and on the flyleaf was a lender message from the boy's mother a woman in Indiana to her buy at Paris Island. "One afternoon I visited a Prciuli evacuation hospital near SoIssoih, alau'st in range of the guns, fu.ji ally bombarded by ilie German aeroplanes at night; ih ere weie ",'10 cots all filled. I hey had moved four times in Order It By Mail! days that kept up, eventually com-! Miree months, and among the 300 ing down to the smaller caliber woun.ieu mere were about sixty guns. During those three days! Americans. The casualties we the machine gunners of the O Jr-, so ,,0i,v.v 1,,e Americans had to be man line crept up under cover 0f;,flkpI1 hl wi1h ,,,e French. Sixty darkness and occupied a place tllo"'l Americans in a month about three miles, nearer Paris!'11 that Chateau-Thierry sector, than Chateau-Thierry, a place T1,ese fellow were piling into the that will always be known in his-!tl,e evacuation hospitals at night, tow as the must advanced posi-j "Pirated and sent back to the lion toward Paris, called Relleau ,,i,se """P'tnl" quickly as pos sible. "Let us stop at three or four of j these cots and see how our boys talk. 1 was introduced as a mein our Mail Okpkr Dkpartment is excep tionally well equipped to handle nil your Drug and Toilet wants thoroughly and at once. We will pay postage on all orders of 50? and over, except the following: Mineral Waters, Baby Foods, Glassware and articles of unusual weight and small value. Non-Mailable: Alcohol, Strychnine, Rat poisons, Iodine, Ant poison, Mer cury Antiseptic Tablets, Lysol, Car bolic Acid, Gasoline, Turpentine, Ben zine and all other poisonous or in flamable articles. If your order is very heavy or contains much liquid, we suggest that you have it sent by freight. Benson, Smith & Co., Ltd. "Service Every Second" The Rexal Store Box 426 Honolulu (bristled undergrowth rug Jibe seeu in the open before the Germans began to fire. A hurried i General Woods, a woods about 100 acres; 'of second growth hard wood with dense undergrowth. It was a ltiw-lying piece of ground Hanked by low hills. "The hills had been taken by the Germans, who had entrenched there; Belleau Woods literally with machine guns. The had been cut away in front of each gun in a radius of 1.1 to IS feet, so that the attack- parties coining through could Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd. HONOLULU and HILO Sugar Factors and Commission Merchants IMPORTERS OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE GENERAL HARDWARE Builders' Hardware Crockery Glassware Silverware Sporting Goods Fishing Tackle Firearms Ammunition Safes Paiuta Harness Refrigerators Spark Plugs Varnishes Brushes. Oils Saddlery Hoofing Trunks etc. etc. GROCERIES Fancy ami Staple Lines, Feed, etc. Flashlights Greases Suit Cases Shoes DRY Toilet Supplies GOODS Stationery etc. etc. INSURANCE AGENTS Writers of Fire, Marine, Compensation, Automobile and Miscellaneous . s ' Insurance Policies. AGENTS FOR Canadian-Australian Royal Mail Steamship Line Upon application information will lie cheerfully furnir-hed in regard to any of our lines in which you may be interested. cenferenee was held between the Trench and American oflicers. Degoutt. General Kd- i1 wards, General Bundy and others rppresenting the army that held that sector. General Degoutt in i v.rrinaiul. the situation was .liiical. Some of the Trench sol-! i'dieis were telling our men that laey believed i lie only thing left for them to do was slow retire ment with heavy rear-guard ac tion. You could not say the 1- renchinan was frightened ; but discouraged. At ' o'clock on the morning of the 18th of July they threw into the breach against the very apex of the German army three American divisions brigad ed among the French. " "You can't be on French soil many hours today without hear ing the numbers of those divisi ons. Every man, woman and child in France knows them. See that you never forget them the 1st, 2nd and 2(ith. There are many others the 2Sth, :12nd, 4."?rd, 4th and 5th which were gradually brought in ; but these three, divisions stood the apex. The 2(!th had marked their motor trucks "Y. 1." They were known as the 'Yankee Devils'; they cor respond to the 'Blue Devils' of Trance; and the French will tell you that no men ever fought hard er than those men fought for diese three vital days that turned the 1 i;h Tliov IimjI ihii.tu-ii f J -elves in wave upon wave; their niliics in a few davs had ieiriii'i ,.n ner cent anion'' the per (cut among the .Martin's o; the 2nd were thnr.vn in., then ike re-T of Nawiliwili Garage C. W. SPITZ, Prop. NAWILIWILI.' KAUAI TELEPHONE 494 Automobiles to all Parts of Kauai, all hours, Day and Night AUTOMOBILES AND LIGHT MACHINERY REPAIRED FORD CARS, MeFARLAN, STANLEY STEAMER, LOCOMOBILE, COLE, REO, CHEVROLET (except Model "490") AND 8AJON, also REO, COMMERCE, LOCOMOBILE AND MORELANO TRUCKS. We tarry a complete etoek of U. S. L. Batterlee and Battery Parte alto Automobile and Tire Acceeeorlee. A COMPLETE LINE Of FORD PART8 1 Goodyear Tires and Tubes The best in the Market for the Money. t i '! i ! !"'ii il i'l " i ethVers ; the "iXt I JW HHi;imiMmmiiniirBWMaili-i .mmm.. mil iim'V H gjl Distributors : 1 TERRITORY OF HAWAII WlM G et o ar teS Pf '" !hi .VI" r v. 'er. we lie 1st. then the walked through Tn'lMeiie-ss of 1 strr.g:l's w" i :-yw:-.eve. They 2(ith. tllO.V thes" ii evi-ha,i 1 bui'ving ti e de rl ''! s i, v.';j " vre ihere. Snme of the ::;-a:-hy villages were still smok "in jr. Dead !:o?srs were in the read covered over with a little :!:kride of lime. Hodies were ; "i j cl of their clothes and bur ied w! -ere they fell; here a Ger- lan and (here a Frenchman or an 'American; and as we walked I through these nests of machine her of the U. H. Food Administra tion to one fellow, a captain, from Texas, and the captain said: "You are just the man I want to see. My mother writes me she has not eaten any wheat since April last, and I think you are overdoing it. She is worried a bout me and I am afraid this will make her sick. Why won't you let up?' I told him not to worry, that the people of the United States were not being injured, that his mother would not stoo iier sacrifice until the order was rescinded, even if we t hi her. I thought I had satisfied his mind. I then asked him about his wound, and lie said, ' Have a hole in my hip; but I am not suffering; much pain,' and turning to his nurse said, 'I will soon be around, won't I ?' and she nodded gravely. I went on, but his nurse soon came ulter me and said, 'The cap tain would likv to see yon agi.in I went back, lie said, 'I won't be satisfied unless you promise me that as soon as you get back you will write to my mother and tell her she can go on eating wheat.' 1 said, 'Of course I will do that. You mustn't worry about your mother. We are doing nothing in America compared with what you are doing.' ''The nurse walked along with me, and I asked her, 'How badly is he hurt?' She replied- 'I'm afraid he won't live; his spinal column is injured.' Another case, a boy sat with his head propped up, sipping a cup of tea. He had but one arm that he could use and lie was sipping away at his tea. He looked a little bit sheepish as he said, 'There is something I would like to ask yon to do and I don't think I ought to.' I said, 'What is it?' (He was a private.) I wish you would reach under my pillow; I can't do it; I am not just right.' (lie was paralizcd.) I reached mi l r Ids pillow and found a small package, and in a kind of cii:').u ; issed' aitob'iret ic way. ! said. 'That isn't anything tittle head brace ild like to have it We are in ;t get ; I havvu't heard Uoopw EAR NAWILIWILI GARAGE, Agents f of fcauai. 4 f i t: hilt on 'I.-, b tii'g any i;:.'"; iY,-M l.".':-.Ui f:)i- G.' : :.vid, 'It i.--i'r ; ;.l;ed. 'My de..v will think tl.,': :!::-g she ever 1 1 would. He :ing.' I re v. your sister i !i)r precious n; t felh the ad in her life.' He Coprrisbl Hwi (chaHnci It Miri Silva's Toggery, Honolulu. j ( eje"- 3e4 tfr a '. been hit in the back and the nurse said he would die that night. There he was, sipping lii.s tea, -u.iiling, thinking of his sister. Another boy I saw had his arm bandaged. I asked how badly lie was hurt. He said. 'Oh. thev had guns, with the guns still in place. ,() tilkt. I11V h.n il:)ll1 oir. ,,nt it , healing up perfectly; it is about all right now,' and he added with we could see see the hamhtohaud conflicts, the clothing ripped by the bayonet, or a helmet battered with the butt of a musket. "A leather cartridge pocket had been torn off from the belt in a bay.-net duel betxvevn an Ameri can a id a German, -md we picked it up. It had been opened in fall ing, and a small lestameut in stead of of a cartridge clip had a sly glance at his nurse, 'here I lixed it up with my nurse here to get me a new hand; my trigger linger is all right, and I will soon be back at the Hoche.' "I would have gone to France just to hear that boy make that statement. I knew then the ISoche were beaten." ELEELE STORE J.SL SILVA, Prop. i t X i ALWAYS LEADS IN JLOWEST PRICES ON t Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Mens Furnishings, Cigars and Tobacco, Notions of all kinds. MAIN STORE, ELEELE, PHONE 72 W. BRANOI STORE KALAHEO HOMESTEAD 5