The patriot., July 26, 1918, Morning, Image 3

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HUNS UNABLE TO.
CHECK BIG DRIVE
AMERICAN AND FRENCH TROOPG
CONTINUE TO MAKE GAINS
ON 25 MILE FRONT.
17,000 PRISONERS TAKEN
Offensive On Entire Front in Franc.
Seems Now Definitely To Have Stif
fened From Hands of Germans
and Their Allies.
With the American Army in France.
—Although the Germans have thrown
large reinforcements into the new
battle line between Soissons and the
region of Chateau Thierry, they no
where thus far have been able to
stem the tide of the onslaughts the
American and French troopä are malt
ing against them.
Their gains were carried to their
depth in the center of the 25 mile line
and on the southern flank northwest
of Chateau Thierry where the Ameri
ID8 are holding forth.
The fignting was particularly vio
lent throughout the day around Sois
sons and in the region of Chaudun,
where the Germans sent in large
forces of reserves in an endeavor to
push back the allied troops. Here
the American artillery did notable
work, killing or wounding many of the
enemy and aiding greatly in staving
off the Germans.
On the sector where the Americans
are fighting, nortnweSt of Chateau
Thierry, the German line was driven
in upon the plateau northwest of
Bonnes and to the height to the north
of Courchamps, the former position
representing a gain of three and a
half miles from the point of original
departure at Torcy. While it is not
possible as yet geographically to limit
with exactitude the gains made in the
wo days fighting along the front by
the French and Americans, it is
known that at its deepest point the
penetration has reached approximate
ly seven miles and that over the en
tire 25 miles it rangea down to about
two miles.
In addition to the infliction of ex
tremely heavy casualties on the ene
my, the French and American forces
up to the present have taken more
than 17,000 prisoners, including two
colonels with their chiefs of stafi, and
more than 3G0 cannon.
The offensive on the entire western
front in France seems now' definitely
to have shifted from the hands of
the Germans to those of the entente
allies. East and west of Rheims,
where the Germans last Mondas'
started a battle along a 65-mlle front,
from Chateau Thierry to eastern
Champagne, the enemy is now on the
defensive on most of the sectors
where there is any fighting.
In the region southw'est of Ypres
the British have carried out another
successful incursion into the German
lines, capturing the village of Meta
ren, a point of strategic value for ob
servation purposes, while further
south Australian troops gained
ground. The two maneuvers cost the
Germans nearly 400 men made pris
oner and the loss of several machine
guns.
Pol'cc Suspend Paper.
Seattle, Wash. — On instructions
from Police Chief J. F. Warren, police
raided the plant of the Unionist, a
new weekly paper which the police
allege is a revival of the Industrial
Worker, formerly published by the I.
W. W. here. The police ordered oat
all occupants of the plant and placed
locks on the doors.
Army Has First Call.
Washington.—In response to a re
quest for postponement of the July
draft call In the Northwest, where
wheat Is ready for harvest, Provost
Marshal Genera'. Crowder has in
formed the Department of Agricul
ture that the military program will
not permit of delay in filling the
monthly demand for drafted men.
Abandon Indian School.
Washington. — The Carlisle (Pa. F
Indian School has been permanently
abandoned and turned over to tha
War Department for hospital purposes
and for the rehabilitation and re-edu
cation of sick and wounded soldiers.
The students will be transferred to
other Indian schools.
Plague In Petrograd.
London.—Several hundred persons
are dying dally in Petrograd from
cholera, according to travelers who
have arrived In Stockholm, says an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen. The disease, they add
is now prevalent in many parts of
Russia.
5,000,000,000 Marks.
Amsterdam.—The Reichstag has
adopted the budget of 5,000.000 marks,
according to a Berlin telegram. The
independent' Socialists voted against
.the measure and the Poles abstained
from Toting.
:h Aid To Farmers,
ton. — June loans by the
banks aggregated $3,341.
3g the total lent to farm
>rganization of the system
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WITH OUR ENGINEERS IN FRANCE
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This photograph shows a 25-ton litt with two American cranes. Ameri
can engineers are unloading locomotive parts from freight cars in b ranee.
AMERICANS RETAKE
TWO LOST TOWNS
GERMANS CONTINUING THEIR
EFFORTS TO BREAK THROUGH
FRENCH AND AMERICAN LINES.
London.—Furiously launching new
attacks against the allied positions on
the Marne front from Chateau Thier
ry to llheims, the Germans are con
tinuing their efforts to break through
the French and American defense.
They have made progress during the
past night, but it has been decidedly
slow in comparison with the sweep of
the Teutonic legions in their attacks
in Picardy, Flanders and along the
Aisne.
It appears that i:ne enemy, after
crossing the Marne between Dormans
and Chatillon, has reached in this
area the villages of St. Agnan, La
Chapelle and Muntlu don, which are
approximiately a mile and three
quarters south of the river, but in the
outskirts of these towns they have
been held up.
West of Dormans, which is 24 miles
east of Chateau Thierry, American
troops are holding the battle line.
Unofficial advices stale that in this
area they "have retaken the villages
of Fossoy and Crezancy, south of the
Marne, where tiie Germans gained
ground in the first rush across the
river.
The deepest penetration along this
line approximately is three and three
quarter miles northeast of Chatilon
in the Rodemat wood. This marks
the greatest advance of the Germans
at any point along the line since their
offensive began. East of Rheims the
situation also appears reassuring.
The French battle positions are de
clared Intact, and the Germans hav&
noL been able to advance southward
further than the outskirts of the
woods that parallel on the north the
ancient Chausee Romaine, the mam
highway running eastward from
Rheims. They are being held ell
along this line as far as the region
north of the town of Suippe, which
virtually overlooks the easterly lim
its of the great battle.
In the German offensive during the
spring and summer delay was one of
the prime factors in the situation,
The Germans have never been able
to gain materially when faced by
forces that were numerically equal,
and all of their drives have come to
a pause when allied reinforcements
were rushed up to the threatening
points.
The Germans are now more than
24 hours behind schedule, and there
is little to indicate that they still
have striking power greater or as
great as they possessed when their
attacks began. The allies, therefore
seem to have reason to believe that
the supreme test of their defense has
been met successfully.
The battle is not over as yet, and
there may be a possibility, if not a
probability, that the German high
command has not played its trump
cards in the mighty game that is
going on. There, is however, a feel
ing of satisfaction over the Ural
phases of the new drive and confi
dence that the allied forces will con
tinue to resist as vigorously as they
have during the terrible first hours
of the conflict.
To Bar Foes After War.
Memphis, Tenn. — The Memphis
Cotton Exchange unanimously adopted
a resolution to expel any member
who, for a period of 10 years after
peace has been declared, engages in
trade with persons who are enemies
of the United States in the present
war.
500,000 Austrians Returned.
Amsterdam. —The Austro-Hungarian
war minister, says a Vienna dispatch
to the Vossische Zeitung, announces
more than 500,000 Austrian war pris
oners have been returned from Rus
sia.
2,000,090 British in France.
Paris. — The British fighting forces
In France now aggregate two million
men. says the Havas correspondent
on the British front. This equal«
the number on the front in 1M7.
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ALLIES HOLDING
THEIR LINE INTACT
GERMANS STILL ATTACKING VIC
IOUSLY ON BOTH SIDES OF
RHEIMS SALIENT.
London.—Although the Germans
are still attacking the allied
lines viciously on both sides of
the Rheims salient, what gains
they are making continue to be
small ones on isolated sectors, and
apparently are confined to the region
along the Marne and immediately
southwest of Rheims.
Eastward from Rhelms, through the
Champagne sector, the French report
that they everywhere are holding the
enemy and keeping their line intact,
despite the prodigious expenditure of
shells by tlie Germans and the deter
mination with which their troops are
delivering tlieir thrusts.
Everywhere the battle are being
stubbornly resisted, and where the
French and Italians have been com
pelled to give ground, it has been on
ly after the infliction of extremely
heavy casualties on the invaders. The
Americans nowhere have been forced
to withdraw. On the contrary, near
Fossoy, near tne bend of the Marne
between Chateau Thierry and Dor
mans, they have made further im
provements in their positions. Like
their French comrades in arms, the
Americans also have been engaged in
violent fighting.
Daily it becomes increasingly ap
parent that the strategy of the Ger
man high command in the present
battle has, foremost in its considera
tion, the blotting out of the Rheims
salient and the straightening of the
line eastward through Champagne to
ward Verdun. The hardest fighting
of Tuesday was southwest of Rheims,
where the enemy is endeavoring to
break through the hill and forest re
gion, reach the railroad running from
Rheim3 to Epernay and force th'j
evacuation of Rheims.
In these endeavors the German
war office says the Germans have
driven back the allied troops on the
mountain of Rheims between Mante
nal and north of Pourcy, the last nam
ed place being a scant five miles dis
tant from the Rheims-Epernay rail
road. The French official communi
cation admits that the Germans hold
the line west of Nanteuil-la-Fosse,
about a mile and a half south of Pour
cy and relatively five miles west o!
the railroad.
The German war office now claims
the capture of 18,000 prisoners since
the present offensive began.
No Vacation For Wilnon.
Washington. — There will be no
vacation this year for President Wil
son. With matters of tremendous
importance demanding his attention
every day, the president has decided
that he cannot leave his desk and it
was definitely announced at tha
White House that he wil remain in
Washington throughout the summer.
More Federal Control.
Washington. — To assure sufficient
chlorine for the manufacture of gas
shells and for other war purposes,
the War Industries Board with the
approval of President Wilson, took
over the chlorine industry of the
United States.
Makes Call For Walnut.
Washington. — The Bureau of Air
craft Production called upon all per
sons who have any walnut wood,
growing or cut, to sell it to the saw
mills holding government contracts
for manufacturing gun stocks and air
plane propellers.
Italy Building Ships,
London.—Italy has launched 55,000
tons of merchantmen this year, ac
cording to an official announcement
made here. Twenty-three steamers
totaling 166,000 tons are under con
struction besides 71,000 tons of steel
sailing vessels and 16.838 tons ci
wooden steamers.
Brazil Hit By Frost.
Washington. — Tremendous dam
age from frost in Brazil was reported
In official dispatches.
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SHEEP REQUIRE LITTLE CARE
Big Value of Wool and Mutton Gives
Boost to Industry—Business
Now in New Light.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
The development of the sheep indus
try will contribute materially to the
nation's food and clothing supply. War
conditions have brought about a re
newed interest in sheep growing in
the United States and the high value
of both wool and mutton will place
the farm sheep business in a new
light.
The mutton sheep is a necessary In
strument in highly intensive and self
supporting agriculture. The still more
Intensive use of land in farms, an ef
fort to secure the more economical use
of every acre, every facility, and avail
able labor, all of which are necessary
under the present conditions, necessi
tate the general inclusion of sheep in
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Judging a Well-Bred Sheep.
our system of mixed farming and live
stock production. This gives the rais
ing of sheep a new appeal in older
farming areas.
The main factor lh determining the
cost of other animai products is the
value of grain and mill feeds ; pastur
age and roughage are important, but
both beef and pork require a consider
able use of concentrated feeds. The
production of lambs and mutton re
quire a very much smaller proportion
of fat and therefore a smaller use of
grain than Is required in these other
meat animals. Sheep are able to get
a good portion of their feed from
rough, permanent grass pasture and at
the same time keep it clean of weeds.
This increases rather than decreases
the cattle-carrying capacity of the pas
ture. As sheep require comparative
ly little of the owner's labor, the labor
cost per dollar's worth of wool or
Iambs Is lower than in any other farm
animal product. While the labor re
quired in raising sheep is not heavy
it Is continuous and somewhat differ
ent from that required In the care of
other stock.
Many of the obstacles that have
hindered the progress of sheep rais
ing in Intensive farming districts have
been or are being overcome. The com
petition given sheep growing on farms
by the production of sheep on lower
priced range land Is being removed.
A second but only temporary obstacle
to a quick increase in sheep produc
tion lies in the fact that comparative
ly few farmers are as well qualified
to cure for sheep as for other classes
of stock. The needs and habits of
sheep differ from those of horses, and
swine, but present no problems that
will not be met by interested study
and observations supported by satis
factory returns.
GOOD TEAMS ARE VALUABLE
Mean More to Up-to-Date Fanner
Than la Generally Believed—
Plan to Raise Colts.
Good teams mean more to the up
to-date farmer than is generally be
lieved. Without good teams it is a
very difficult matter to do good farm
ing. But at present prices farmers
may hesitate to buy heavy draft horses
and mules, notwithstanding the fact
that they are after all economical.
It would be a good plan to get some
heavy mares and raise colts for sale
or to take the place of lighter animals
and old teams on the farm.
CARE FOR FARROWING SOWS
No Feed Should Be Given for Twenty
Four Hours—She Must Have Wa
ter at Frequent Periods.
The sotf should have no feed what
ever for 24 hours after farrowing. She
must have water at frequent inter
vals; that drawn directly from the
well is about the right temperature.
Increase the feed gradually for ten
days, when she may be got onto full
feed.
Breeding Draft Horses.
Remember, if you are breeding draft
horses, that the market buyer insists
on soundness, weight, type, substance,
bone, feet, pasterns, clean hocks, qual
ity and action. ,
That Lovely Man!
"At last," cried Miss Torchance.
esetatieally, "I have found a man who
truly loves me, and whom I can truly
love !"
Miss Kreant looked at her skeptic
ally. "Are you sure that he Unes you?"
she asked.
''Sure. For that's what I asked him,
and oh ! the beauty of his reply !"
"Tell me about It."
"I said, 'How can you love me when
I'm so cross-eyed?'
" 'You wrong yourself, darling,' be
replied. 'You are not cross-eyed. Your
eyes are so pretty that they just can't
help looking at each other—that's how
it is."
Chances Are She Had.
He—"I'm afraid you'll be shocked
by this story !" She—"I will be if 1
haven't heard it."—Widow.
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Save the Babies
I NFANT MORTALITY is something frightful. We can hardly realize that
of all the children born in civilized countries, twenty-two per cent.,
or nearly one-quarter, die before they reach one year; thirtv-seven
per cent, or more than one-third, before they are five, and one-half befora
they are fifteen !
We do not hesitate to say that a timely use of Castoria would save
many of these precious lives. Neither do we hesitate to say that many
of these infantile deaths are occasioned by the use of narcotic preparations.
Drops, tinctures and soothing syrups sold for children's complaints contain
more or less opium or morphine. They are, in considerable quantities,
deadly poisons. In any quantity, they stupefy, retard circulation and lead
to congestions, sickness, death. There can be no danger in the use of Caa
toria if it bears the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher
as it contains no opiates or narcotics of any kind.
Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of
Journalistic Amenities.
"Our wart of a contemporary." says
the Tazville Gazette, "claims as far
is the war is concerned to have the
earliest intelligence. That is the kind
af Intelligence they always have at
that office. It is more than early ; it
is primitive."—Boston Transcript.
He Knew.
Kind Old Lady—And what <lo little
boys say when they are given candy?
Little Boy—Gosh, izxat all 1 get?
A girl can nevex' understand why a
man persists in staying in the bachelor
class after having met her.
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How France Has
Been Fed
"Before the war, a distin
guished French Officer, General
Maitrot, wrote a series of ar
ticles in the 'Echo de Paris' to
warn France, that in case of
war, the French meat industry
would be unable to supply the
French army in the field with
fresh meat, —owing especially
to the lack of modem refriger
ating plants and of refrigerating
transportation,—and too, owing
to the deficiency in the national
herd."
"Since the war begah the
French army has never been
short of fresh meat, thanks j
mainly to the prosperous condi
tion of the American meat in
dustry, and too, to the American
live stock breeders."
The foregoing state
ment was made by a
representative of the
Allies now in the United
States.
Another representative
of the Allies said recently:
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"that the American packers
have been of the greatest pos
sible assistance to the Allies
and have, by their efficient co
operation, contributed in the
utmost degree to the successful
prosecution of the war."
Swift & Company,U.S.A.
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FOR SICK HEADACHE
TRY THIS MILD AND
SURE REMEDY. FINE
FOR BILIOUSNESS
Bilious headaches are due to Inactive
liver. Stir up your liver, get it worktns
right again, get your bowels regulated,
the poisons cleaned out and you will fee!
like a new person. Do this by taking
BOND'S LIVER PILLS, one each night
for two or three nights. A large bottle
costs only 25c at any drug store. They
are mild, safe; never gripe, yet thorough
in action.—Adv.
The Busy Moments.
"Bliggins complains that he is over
worked."
"Yes. But he never seems as busy
ns when he is making just that com
plaint."
The salary of the president of Swlta
erland amounts to $2.200 a year, with
an additional $3,000 for expenses.
Cautious Man.
"You must stand in front of an open
window every morning and take deep
breaths."
"I can't do that, doctor."
"Why not,"
"I have only one window in my room.
That faces the apartment of an old
maid. I don't want her to get tb»
idea that I'm trying to start some
thing."
Just a Dream.
"I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls."
"Eh?"
"Fell asleep in the union depot."—
Louisville Courier-Journal.