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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-02

r,. martial success Of the Russian Of
....,ve-,hat IS. the actual success achieved
. b-ealinC through the Austrian lines and
,be partial success 50 far in extending
n. advance beyond the old front-offers
=, interesting basis for study of the
.,,ation on the Western front. We know
.t.. sooner or later the British must at
tack the German lines between the Somme
piyer and the sea. No man can forecast
,oe result Of such an attack. but since the
attack is becoming imminent it is worth
while 70 examine certain possibilities.
In this article I am gong to set forth
s.ieav what would happen if the British
were presently able to break the German
ines in Artois and Flanders on the same
scale that the Russians have broken the
Austrian lines in Volhynia. Bukowina and
CaHcia. 90 not desire to be understood
as making any prophecy that the British
will break the German lines; they failed
az Neuye Chapelle and az Loos. after very
..bs,anual initial successes. because Of
an inability to prepare for subsequent
operations. They may fail again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-02
The Coming Offensive.

Now on the Western front we have
sound reason for believing that within a
relatively brief period there is to be an
other Allied offensive. 1t is possible that
it will be made on a narrow front, say or
a fifteen mile front, between Arras and
La Bassee, on the familiar ground Of the
earlier contests for the Vimy ridge and
Lens. But all such Allied attacks have
failed and the Verdun operation does not
invite imitation.
Behind this line from the Somme to the
User we know that the British have con-
centrated nearly million and half Of
men, that they are just about through
with the task of getting over big guns
and that they are beginning to have suf-
ficient ammunition and have had no call
to use large quantities of shells since the
Loos fighting of last September.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-02
On a Broad Front.

The Russian success has established
rev fact in the trench warfare. It has
demonstrated that, all things considered.
The attack upon a broad front is the most
successful method Of piercing the trench
lines of an opponent. 1t stands in direct
contrast to the relative failure of all save
enc Of the attacks upon narrow front,
which have become the classic form of at
tempting to change a war Of position into
d war Of movement.
At Loos the British attacked on front
of some ten miles. at Neuve Chapelle on a
'front.' Of five. In Champagne the French
attacked in the spring Of 1915 on front
Of less than twelve miles, and in the au-
tlmn or a iron; Of less than twenty miles.
The German attack upon Ypres in the
sane spring and the present attack upon
Ierdun both have been made upon fronts
very circumscribed. All of &iese attacks
have gained ground; al Of them have re-
suited in large captures of men and ma
teral; but in no Ise has there been
permanent piercing Of the line, although
there have been temporary punctures, not
ably by the Germans at Ypres, the British
d, Loos and the French in the second
Champagne battle.
An absolute success flowing from the
attack upon narrow front was scored by
the Germans more than a year ago at the
Dunajec Here they massed huge
amount Of artillery on front Of little
more than ten miles, annihilated the Rus
sian trenches, opened gap in the Russian
line and poured through. This was in the
hrst days of May. 1t was September be
fore the Russian retreat had stopped, and
II had covered several hundred miles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-02
A Waiting Game.

The French are making a gallant and
so far sustained resistance before Yer
dun The Allied strategy plainly envis-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-02

ages a waiting game to the point where
the Germans have used up as much OF
their reserve as can be eliminated with
out risk to Allied fortunes incident to
German progress either at Verdun or
elsewhere.
The Russian success has drawn large
numbers of German troops to Kovel. They
may have come from France; they may
.ave come from the free reserves that
we're on foot in Germany and intended
Tor an offensive this summer. Some OF
the great mass Of German troops winch
we're concentrated behind the lines facing
the British last winter have certainly
been transferred to Verdun.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-02
hck black line shows present other lines show railways

broken country and away from the lines
Of railroad by which they have been sup
piled. If the French chose the same time
to make an attack on the Champagne
front. this would complicate the situation.
But | do not mean to carry this specu'
lation to absurd limits. What is interest
ing is that we have just seen success
full breaking of trench lines on very
wide front. We have seen the penetration
of the Russians for thirty and even forty
miles within the former Austro-German
front; we have seen the Austro-Germans
to reestablish their line well be-
hind their old position and there is Stl.l
doubt as to the degree to which they have
succeeded
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-02
The Question of Railroads.

There IS. however, one essentlal dlffer-
ence between the Eastern and Western SIT
uation. In the East the main railroads fol-
low an east and west direction. The Rus
slams. therefore, having broken the Aus
tro- German lines, marched westward along
the railroads. But in France the railroads
run north and south-that is, parallel
with, not perpendicular to, the front. Ac-
cordingly. successful offensive by the
British pushed as far as that the Rus
SLAMS have carried beyond Lutsk toward
Kovel would cut all the vital railroads IN
German possession west of the Disc.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-02
Where the British Must Attack.

1t is clear from the past then that the
Allied strategy has disclosed the points al
which a successful attack can be hoped for.
We are fairly safe in believing that when
the British attack they will attack moving
cast out of Bethune and out of Arras, which
is now in their keeping. They are equally
certain to strike east from Albert, north
of the Somme, and probably from Ipres.
where their movement will be north, not
east. Roughly speaking, the detectives will
be Lille. La Bassee, Lens and Bapaume,
which lie in their immediate front, and
then Douai, Cambria and lie Cateau, which
lie behind these places and are on the rail
road lines essential to German military
existence in Northern France
We have here then front Of something
less than a hundred miles, as compared
with the two hundred on which the Rus
slams made their great anu ~ idI ouOOo0'
ful advance of a month ago. Lille at the
north and Peronne at the south OF the
German front here recall the Austrian
stronqholds of Lutsk and Czernowitz.
Douai is about in the same relation to
Lille that Dubno is to Lutsk. Cambria
recalls the German position facing Tar
nonol in the centre of the Austro-German
front from Pripet to Rumanla'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-02
Great British Drive Expected in July
From La Bassee to PerOnne the
Chief Blow Will Be Struck
Railroads of Germans-Ihe
Chance of Success.
Copyright 10 6-Ihe tribune Assn.

When there does come a report of Brit
sh activity it is we'll 10 watch the official
reports for mention of La Bassee, Lens,
Bapaume and Peronne, as well as Menin
and Roulers, north of Ypres. Unless sew
eral of these places yield promptly to the
British attack it will be safe to conclude
that the drive has been held at the outset,
as all Allied drives have hitherto been
held.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-02
Sometime in July.

We may expect, then, some luIIHei ue-
Law on the part of the British, delay
not due to unwillingnesS or unprepared
ness. but delay that is a main point IN
Allied strategy. The British will attack
whenever their Allies ask them; this IS
sure. We may expect that the British
will wait until the Germans have to
weaken their Western lines to meet the
Russian drive This simply follows out
the plan of the Russians, who waited un-
til the Eastern lines had been stripped for
attacks upon the Italians and for the Yer
dun operation.
But sometime in July, unless all the
forecasts are wrong and all the better in
formed military observers mistaken, the
British will make their first great con
centrated effort to break the Western lines.
They may or may not be helped by
French operation in Champagne. Per-
sonally | do not believe the French will
be asked for any great effort. But what
the French are now doing is daily reduc-
ing the German electives before Verdun
at rate which must be high, although
the cost to themselves is great
We may expect that when this British
thrust comes it will be delivered on wide
front, that it will possibly be accompanied
by a very heavy attack north of Lille, from
: the Ypres salient down the Lys Valley
toward Menin and Courtrai, threatening
Client and the German communications
with Ostend and Zeebrugge.
The Chief Blow.
But the chief blow must come south Of
Lille and from La Bassee to Peronne.
Here is front of some fifty miles, which,
aside from the Vimy ridge, part of which
is in British hands, offers no considerable
natural obstacle. The slope is with the
British and they will advance down hill
into the broad plain of Northern France.
Only a small advance, dozen miles,
would seriously menace Lille and cut the
Lile-Doua railroad, it would take Peronne
and threaten St. Quentin to the south, it
would make the German position in all of
this region from the Disc to the sea eX-
ceedingly dangerous.
Yet such an advance, if it were to go
no further. would mean that the great
, British effort had failed to accomplish
anything really considerable. 1t would
mean that the Germans would be able to
hold on in France and Belgium until next
spring, for the British will not be able to
deliver more than one blow this year, and
if it does not come until late July or Au-
gust the season for operations wiz be rel
atively short
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-02
What the Russian Success in the East
Suggests May Happen in the West
Attack on a Broad Front the
Likely MethOd-Where the
Move Must Come.
Bv FRANK II. SIMONDS,
Author Of The Great War

perhaps thirty miles more. Between the
User and the sea the French and the Bel
g.ans hold rather more than fifteen miles
Allowing for the curves the whole line
may cover 100 miles between Noyon and
Newport.
Roughly speaking. the portions of the
line held by the British completely cover the
sectors from which an offensive may be
expected to move. The region occupied by
the Belgians. supported by the French is
a swamp, after two years Of inundation.
The sector in front of Foch is too strong
to hold out much hope for a successful
drive. Resting. as the German TANKS here
do, on the fortress of Peronne and the
Somme marshes at the north and the
Noyon Hills on the south. it is an exceed
ingly difficult front to break
The Western Line.
Looking backward. we see that the Bel
gian sector and the Foch sector those about
the User and west OF Roye, have been in the
main inactive since the weeks Immediately
following the Marine and the Battle Of
Flanders. The Germans after the Marine
made a great effort to move west from the
Disc upon Amicns and turn the French
flank; they failed in battle little known
TO the war readers, but one Of the most deS-
perate of the Western operations. More
familiar is the German thrust at Calais.
which was checked at the User when the
sluices were opened and the country flooded.
Subsequently the British made their
first effort to break the German lines at
Neuve Chapelle. Here they almost reached
the Aubers ridge, which is the key to
Lille. 4 few months later they attacked
from trenches to the south of La Bassee
and reached Loos. This time they almost
succeeded in turning the Germans out of
both La Bassee and Lens Finally, the
French in June. 1915, made a terrific as
sault upon the German front south of Lens
and northeast Of Arras. In this struggle
the French took the Lorette heights the
villages west of the Vimy ridge. including
Souchez; they also took foot on the Nimy
ridge, but could not progress.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26
LOCAL NEWS

The Chautauqua is solid week of
fun, pleasure, amusement, education
and moral uplift. 1t is the biggest
thing any community can offer. Plan
to attend. Camp out during Chautau-
qua week. Join the tent colony.
Let the family enjoy this privilege.
Mrs. Frank Jones and daughter
Margaret motored to Nez Perez Satur-
day, visiting friends.
Chas. Fisher, newly appointed
secy trea. of the Clearwater Timber
Protective Association, has been in
Orofino this week opening up head
quarters. He succeeds Ben E. Bush,
resigned.
Mrs. Mayme Fisher, county super
intendent of schools, has been in Elk
River and vicinity on official business
this week.
Mrs. O. r. Bounds and children,
accompanied by Mrs. Bounds mother,
Mrs. u. J. Hammond, were guests
at the Fred Hammond home over
Sunday.
Mrs Geo. Wilson and children of
Ahsahka, and Mrs. and Mrs. G. E.
Latten and chi of Spokane. visit
ed recently with their mother, Mrs.
G. w. Moody.
The Misses Pearl. Ethel and Myrtle
! Dobson, and their brother Earl, who
spent the past nine months in Orofino
attending school, have moved back
home near Gilbret for the summer.
C. o. Portfors and son Frances
were in Orofino the first of the week,
returning to their home near Fraser
Tuesday.
Mrs Portfors and daughter are
visiting Orofino friends for a few
weeks.
A. C. Baker of Glenwood has
moved his fsmily to the Anderson
place on Whiskey creek where they
will spend the summer. They left
Monday.
Miss Grace Larkin, graduate Of
the 1915 class of the Orofino High
School, has returned to her home aftel
spending the past year in Oregon
having just closed successful tern
here.
George Adams of Wapato, Wash.
is visiting his mother. Mrs. G. w
Moody. Mr.. Adams is accompanies
by Miss Marguerite Site of Lewiston
Orchards and Miss Matte Grasss
of Charleston. WASH, grand daughter
of Mrs. Moody.
! What's your number?
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26

Mrs. Bert Fraser is in a Moscow
hospital.
Miss Lilly Simpson of Eureka ridge
visited friends in Orofino Sunday.
2 The Christian Sunday school will
enjoy a basket dinner Sunday, June A..
Mrs. James Mccain and daughters
have moved back to the farm home at
Gilbert.
A Sunday school has been organized
at the Blake school house with rs
enrolled.
Harry Deal, accompanied by his
family, of Reds Prairie, left this
week, for Spokane to reside.
The first Sunday in June is Rally
Day for all Christian church Sunday
schools. Special exercises. Every
body come.
Orofino is to have a twilight base
ball league, and will probably play
two games a week, from to 6 p. m.
This will eliminate Sunday base ball.
l.. C. Boehl and family were over
from Palouse this week visiting
friends. They resided in Orofino for
some time.
J. NJ. Bartlett and son Herbert Wis.
tied the North Fork section the first
of the week, to look after timber
claim
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26
Plans for Ahsahka Bridge Cost Nothing.

The Orofino Tribune would have the
people understand that when farmer
buys pillow he pays for pillow plans;
that when he goes to the store and
buys hat he pays for hat plans; that
to the price of every roll of butter
must be added the cost of plans for
butter moulds. In the face of facts,
in the face of the great truth that
at the recent open bidding for the
Fords Creek and Ahsahka bridges 10
sets of plans were submitted FREE,
insists that the county bought and
must pay for plans. The truth is
that Latah county and Nez Perez
county. and other counties of the
Northwest have officially stated to the
Republican that they do not pay for
bridge plans. The Nez Perez county
authorities two years ago wrote the
editor of this paper, which letters
were read publicly all over Clearwater
county, that while the county at one
time paid for plans, that of recent
years had not done so. Latah county
has no official record of ever having
paid one cent for bridge plans and
! specifications. And the FACTS ARE
that today since the Orofino Tribune
gang has been superseded by repub-
licans, Clearwater county is getting
its bridge plans and specifications
FREE, on exactly the same basis as
Latah and Nez Perez and other
counties. The Orofino Tribune gang
has been caught with the goods, and
is once more trying to lie out of a
dirty mess that LOOKS LIKE
GRAFT.
The next thing we may expect
from the Tribune will be statement
that the gang did not manipulate
county funds in way to give the
Fidelity Bank free use of thousands
of dollars of county funds, while the
same bank and other favored banks
held thousands of dollars of county
warrants drawing seven per cent. in.
terest giving the banks II, or perhaps
10 per cent interest on the people,
money. Instead Of paying off equity
warrants and stopping Z per cent
interest the gang let banks use county
funds which could be loaned back t.
the people for ten or twelve per cent,
netting the banks seventeen per cent
Tor better. These facts were estab
lished in court when Blair Hoar suck
the editor of the Republican for libel
but this ought not prevent the Orofnt
Tribune from solemnly insisting thu
the gang didn't do it.
The Oro6no Tribune. in the fac,
of official records, told the peopl,
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26
Gilbert.

Mrs. Mary Plank visited at j. E..
Cordell's last week, remaining We'd
nesday and Thursday.
Harve Miller and family visited
friends near Russell Sunday.
Ben Dickson and family were Oro-
fino visitors Saturday.
v. M. Richardson has sold Ross
Pratt fine COW.
Mrs. Burnie Powell and children
visited the county seat Tuesday.
Will Plank was in Orofino last
week.
Charley Strickafdden and wife Of
Ferdinand, have been visiting Mrs.
Strickfadden' parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Abe Hill.
We are having cool and cloudy
weather.
Elder M. C. johnson of Lewiston
will preach at the Christian church
Sunday, May %.
Huey Strobe and wife, and daugh-
ter Sella, were Sunday visitors at the
f. O. Rice home.
Jay Cordell is working for V.
Richardson this summer.
M. l.. Dickson and wife of Drain,
Oregon, came to Orofino Friday even
ing enroute to Gilbert where the,
will visit Ben Dickson and Mrs. Juns
ard Mrs. Junius Dobson.
Clean IN Orofino. Keen it clean
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26
SIMPLICITY.

IF power were mine to WELD control
OF time within my heart and soul.
Saving from ruin and decay
i What old dearest. | should pray:
That | mav never cease to be
Wooed daily by expectancy:
That evennc shadows In mine eyes
Dim not tn light Of new surprise:
That l may feel. till life be spent
Each day tie sweet bewilderment
or fresh delight in simple thugs
In snowy W .lters. golden springs,
And quicker heart beats at the thought
OF all the good that man has wrought.
But may l never face dawn
With all the awe and wonder gone,
Or in late twilight fail to see
Charm in tho stars old sorcery.
Meredith Nicholson.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26
ADVANTAGES.

ADVANTAGES.
TlHE BRIDES home
4 Is cool and nice
without screen doors
Or fans or ice.
youngstown Telegram.
THE rabbit In
l His burrow lies
And meier Is reused
BY pesky flies.
Denver Republican.
TIME polar bear
4 On icebergs lurks
without q care
Fur fireworks
Seattle Post intelligence
TUE nishtha~k sleeps
= With peaceful sQutrma.
II careth not
Ter early wormA.
Boston Transcripts.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26

Notice Of Redemption of County Warrants.
Notice is hereby given that the
following Clearwater County warrants
a e subject to payment on presentation
to the county treasurer of Clearwater
county, Idaho:
All warrants drawn on the current
expense fund of the. 1914 series, regis
tered November 9TH, 10th. and llth.,
1914 and warrants Nos. 1902, 1903,
Toss, Toss, 7057, 7O58, 7059, TOGO and
7o6l, registered November IL. l9l4.
Interest on all the above warrants
ceases June 8, 1916.
OREN CROCKETT,
County Treasurer
Dated at Orofino, Idaho, May "a
1916.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26
To Remove Adhesive Plaster.

1t is usually painful and disagree
able task to remove adhesive plaster
that has been used to strap the dress
ing over a wound, especially If the
sufferer is small child. It can be
done with very little effort if small
piece of absorbent cotton is first
moistened in gasoline, and then rub
bed over the adhesive. 1t usually
loosens the coating over the tape
which may be gently pulled off. The
coating may then be removed from
the skin by a few applications Of the
gasoline. TIE usual precautions for1
the use of gasoline must be observed.
Among the improvements this spring
we should have included a coat OF
new paint for the residences Of Theo.
Foil and Frank Jones.
Good morning.! Have you used
your talcum powder?
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26
You Can IT
Afford

To miss this, the greatest
of Educational and enter
ment events. AS a furth-
er inducement to get you
to attend this greatest of
events we will take your
eggs, and they will count
as cash in securing your
ticket. In other words
bring in your eggs and
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26

Ben Trutton and wife were down
from Gilbert Monday. Mr.. Trutton
has been appointed agent of the St.
Paul Mutual Hail Insurance Company,
for the Peck and Russell ridge sec.
tions.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26
is biggest thing the Clearwater Valley

when they total $500
you will receive one sea-
son ticket which admits
YOU to twelve different
performances, each COM
plete in itself. Think of
it! Twelve shows given
by the worlds greatest
artists is offered you at
your very door. ABSO-
LUTELY FREE. Cost
you nothing. Remem-
Der we take your egg at
Is cents a day, and your
slips count as a cash pur-
chase.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26

that Clearwater county did not owe a
cent; that $126, 600 of gang debt was
a lie; that the July apportionment,
totaling only about SIS, 900, would be
ample to pay off every cent of the
$l26, 600 gang debt, shown by both
the expert report and the records Of
a democratic county auditor.
1. R. Crow and his paper have been
proven to be most persistent liars.
If they will deceive about county in
debtedness, will they not lie about
bridge plans?
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26

Good morning! Have you used
your talcum powder?
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26

Clean up Orofino. Keep it clean.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-05-26

The store that keeps the crimp in
the high cost of living in Orofino.