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Evening star., 1917-09-30

Sent Forward to Village.
'At 4:30 in the morning I was sent
forward wi n seventy-fve men and six
officers to village between the lines.
The Germans were there in greater
force than we had expected. and they
attacked with three or four machine
guns. We retired into a farmhouse,
and the Germans attacked US there.
setting fire to the house with hand
grenades. fire confetti ard petrol
squirts.
The thatched roof began to burn
and one whole half was burned before
we got it out. We got into the other
emo of the building. and there we had
hand-to hand fighting, shooting at close
quarters. Our own artillery was fir
ing over our heads at the Germans, but
no reinforcements came up. | have
learned since that they thought we
were all gone.
by midafternoon I had a bullet
wound in my leg; five of the six other
officers were wounded and there were
only six men out of the eighty-one left
who could fight. AS fast as the men
were wounded we carried them to the
cellar.
AT pm. it grew dark and the Ger
mans commenced to charge the build
ing, putting dynamite under the house
and blowing up one end of it, Most
Of the time I was in the loft, firing
down. My revolver was useless but
l had bayonet and rife.
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HaEersfOwn. Md-TWo Blue Ridge
Summit caddies could not agree in a
game of golf. fight ensued and John
Schenn. aged thirteen years, is in the
Chambersburg Hospital with an injured
skull, and Maurice Molesworth, aged
twelve. accused of injuring Schenn, is
under $500 bail for trial for court. The
boys are caddies for the Monterey Coli
Club. They were playing a game them
selves when an argument arose. Moles-
worth. it is alleged. struck Schenn over
the head with a golf club.
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Wounded Men Thirsty.

I'VE had no water and the wounded
men were thirtsy. We had to stand
on bodies to shoot
AT last, at $50 that night. there
were only six of us left. The wounded
in the cellar were being burned The
Germans had heaped stacks of straw
about the building and had set fire
to it.
Il surrendered to a Prussian cavalry
guard, who shook hands with the sur
vivors and treated US very well. We
were ordered to come out one by one
our arms in the air.
The next day they marched US from
La Basse to Lens. Here. AS | had been
shot In the leg. asked for convey
ance. and was finally put in a motor
From that time our ill-treatment be-
gan.
We were stood up in a market square
IN Douay, with sentry to guard us
There we were insulted and cursed bv
both German officers and soldiers. Al
night. although I was wounded, | was
put IN an empty shed. without ever
straw to lie on. / had had no food all
OF that day But at night some French
women brought one tin of sardines FOR
eleven men.
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those two vital positions they limited
their effort to this objective and the
enemy still held all the nearby heights.
The successive drtves--that in Decem-
weeks-completed the task. But 1t is
well to remember that the French were
merely seeking to dlsengage Verdun
and not preparing any great offensive.
They were satisfied when they had re-
occupied all the important positions
from Hill 304 to Fort de Vaux. which
had been in their hands before the
Germans attack of EehruarY 1915
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Frederick. Md.-Joseph c. Eaton died
at the home of his son. Samuel Eaton, at
Mountain'lale, in the seventy-f fDurth
year Of his age. The deceased was a
Union veteran. having served in Coles
Cavalry.
Pulaski. Va.-Owing to the continued
drought and the fact that there has
heen practically no rainfall in the
watershed since the first day of Nav.
the water supply is getting low and
II VIII be necessary for the people of
PULASKI TO be very economical in the
use of water until the fall rain begins.
winchester. Ia.-During a severe
electric storm several days ago in north
ern Frederick county lightning struck
and destroyed a large barn on the farm
OF Luther Hartman, near Brucetown.
Four big hogs perished. Large quanti-
ties of farm products and implements
We're destroyed. The loss was about
5000.
Adansto,yE. Nd-Stephen A. Thomas
a prominent farmer of this place died
at his home recently after three weeks
Illness, in the sixty-fourth year of his
age.
Richmond. Na.-State Corporation
commission has changed demurrage
rules so as to make the rates 81 a day
for each of the first five days in the
loading and unloading of cars after ex-
piration of the usual forty-eicht hours
of free time. and beginning the sixth
day the charge is to be s. a day.
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Coats Were Taken AWAY.

All of our coats were taken awav. so
we walked about to keep warm. At one
place one of my officers was insulted
by German officer, VINO spat in his
face. 49,
AT the railway we were lined nm and
entralned, ffty-two of US being shut in
one small horse car built to hold only
SIX horses. with no windows and per
fectly dark. The bottom was several
inches deep in manure. As the car was
a very small one there was no room
either to sit or to lie
For three days and three nights we
stood. on my wounded leg The doors
We're not even opened for eighty hours
There was no air whatever and we were
fainting.
"At Mons the doors were opened. and
l was pulled out by order of the officer
IN charge OF the station and cursed in
hlthy language. Then he ordered a
German soldier to kick me, wounded as
was. back into the car. He did this
and L fell sprawling in the filth at the
bottom of the car
AT the end of thirty hours they gave
US water and one slab of black bread Il
for each man.
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Statement of Officer.

| have before me the statement of 4
British officer who was made prisoner
during the first winter of the war. He
escaped through Holland, and on the
third day of his return he called to
see me at Claridge's Hotel. In London.
The story of Maj (now Col.) Eandeleur.
which I here reproduce in his own
words, as / recorded it at the time.
needs no comment
Although pressure from high places
was brought to bear on the British
war Office. Lord Kitchener refused me
permission to publish it, for fear that
its use In this then neutral country
would Prejudice the lot OF other un-
happy prisoners in Germanys hands.
But 1t belongs properly in this case
of Humanity VS.. Germany. and I give
it here in Col Nandeleur's own words.
He recovered from his early wound.
returned to the front after his escape
and was again wounded. this time very
seriously. at the battle Of Neuve Cha
pelle. A brave man. this British Of
f1cer and very honorable gentleman.
Il was stationed near La Basse on
October 13. 1914. with the 18th Infan-
try Brigade. The trenches at that point
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Difficult to Say.

I said it was difficult to say what any
army would be in an occupied country.
But she protested.
DO you think the Belgians would
have done such things? Never. Never.
Isolated instances might be possible.
But the Germans have committed thou
sands of crimes. 1 have sat in this
very room while the diaries of German
soldiers were read. Even If we had had
no other means of knowing those
diaries would have told us everything.
They relate unspeakable crimes.
We cannot impeach that testimony.
But we can add to it. At British head
quarters later on an officer high on the
staff of Lord French told me Of follow
ing the German retreat at the battle
of the Marine and verifying with his
own eyes. for his own satisfaction, the
brutalities OF the invaders in occupied
towns.
1T is hard for US to understand" he
said. Il was incredulous myself But
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Germany, sent q large sum to be ex-
pended for British prisoners Of war.
I have been careful to give only such
testimony as reached me direct. The
King and Queen Of the Belgians and
Col. Vandeleur each told Of these Ger
man inhumanities to me, myself.
wrote them down at the time. They are
unexaggerated. unemphasized. fat state
ments Of witnesses in the case against
GERMANY
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Conditions Were Bad.

In Crefeld, thirty-five miles from the
Dutch frontier. were 500 officers. Con-
ditions were very bad there, and in the
following February Col. Vandeleur
undergoing terrible hardships. On his
arrival in England the king sent for
him, and the immediate result was that
the king. through our ambassador to
Evening star., 1917-09-30
Queen Elizabeth Deplores
Treatment to Nuns and
the Church.
Col. VandeIeur Relates Story of
Great Torture After
Capture.

1 saw enough to convince me that the
worst l had heard true"
But here another question arises. The
Germans made much of their military
necessities in Belgium excuse for
their cruelties there. How about later
on. when no military eXigency dictated
brutality?
Evening star., 1917-09-30

With luck the British will have
something like four weeks more of
Ypres lasted rather longer. up to the
middle of November. in fact, but its
main effort was ended by the first day
of November. and only the sensational
charge of the Prussian Guard along the
Menin road from Gheluvelt supplied a
really important detail In the fighting
after November began. The problem
that remains then is whether in the
month of lighting weather they have
reasonably surely to count on the
British viii he able to get over the
crest of the ridge from Rroodseinde to
the Menin road. front Of perhaps FIVE
miles. II they 90. th"n the spriug VIII
see the British holding all the Inn
portant high ground in the sallyport
between I.angemarcll and the Lys, save
perhaps the tip of the ridge about
Passchendaele.
In the same fashion, by the coming of
spring. this year. the Brltlsh held an
Of the summit of the Bapaume ridge
and were in position to push on into
that town and break the southern end.
or re-entrant. of the Baparme salient.
had the Germans chosen to stay. a
German retreat from the Flanders front
upon Courtrai and Roulers might easily
follow British success this fall, as 1T
did in the Rapaume sector this spring.
Meantime attention should be fixed
upon the front between the Roulers
ii
last fight of the campaign of 1917 will
| probably be fought on the ground that
| three wears ago at the very same time
| saw the bitterest phases of the first
battle of Ypres. Then the Germans out
numbered the British five to one and
the British fought without heavy artil-
lery or high explosives. Today the
! Germans are outnumbered and outgun-
ned. Then a thin line of British infan-
! try fighting with rifles against machine
| guns and field pieces against heavy ar
| tillery blocked the German road to
| Calais now the German line with equal
| desperation Is seeking to block Brit
| .sh army aiming to push eastward
through the Ypres sallyport and cut off
the Germans from the Belgian coast.
Here is a measure of the fashion in
which the conditions of the world war
have changed in three years. Instead
of 100. 900 British, there are today near
ly 5000, 900 in France and at least If
teen times as many on the firing line as
Field Marshal Sir John French had at
Ypres. And it is rather an impressive
| evidence of British obstinacy and ten
acity that now, after three years, they
are retaking the ground the Germans
| captured in the opening months of the
war. A. victorious British army ad-
vancing over the ground on which the
''Old Contemptibles" stood and died,
holding the new Thermopylae. Is one
more evidence Of the amazing Justice
| of the comparison Of the Briton to the
bulldog.
Evening star., 1917-09-30

Annapolis, Md-Dr. Louis B. Henksl.
5r.. has been appointed chairman of the
republican state central committee for
Anne Arundel county.
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Get the Habit of Drinking Hot Water
 Before Breakfast
Says we can't look or feel right with the system full
 of poisons.

Millions of folks bathe internally now instead of loading their system with drugs. Whats an inside bath?" you say. We'll, it is guaranteed to per form miracles if you could believe these hot water enthusiasts.
 There are vast numbers of men and women who, immediately upon arising in the morning, drink a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of lime stone phosphate in it. This is a very excellent health measure. It is in- tended to flush the stomach, liver. kid neys and the thirty feet of intestines of the previous days waste, sour bile and indigestible material left over in the body which if not eliminated every day, become food for the millions of bacteria which infest the bowels, the quick result is poisons and toxins which are then absorbed into the blood causing headache, bilious attacks, foul breath. bad taste, colds, stomach trou- ble. kidney misery, sleeplessness, i'm pure blood and all sorts of ailments.
 People who feel good one day and badly the next, but who simply can not get feeling right are urged to obtain a quarter pound of limestone phosphate at the drug store. This will cost very little but is sufficient to make anyone a real crank on the subject of internal sanitation.
 Just as soap and hot water act on the skin, cleansing, sweetening and freshening, so limestone phosphate and hot water act on the stomach, liver Kidneys and bowels. It is vastly more important to bathe on the inside than on the outside, because the skin pores do not absorb impurities into the blood. while the bowel pores do.
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who will visit in the latter place for an indefinite period
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 The last issue of the Editor and Publisher, New York, one of the highest class journals in the nation. published in the interest of the news papers of America, contained a very striking halftone picture of Frank Dancy Caruthers, nephew of Mrs. B. M. Govan of this city. MT. Caru- thers, who is assistant business man. ager of the New York World, was recently married to Miss Fife Lil- lian Wheeler, a famous southern beauty who now resides in New York
 p S. Morgan, local agent for the Missouri Pacific railroad, announces that hereafter the local freight will not be operated on Sundays. The freight has been leaving here at seven o'clock each Sunday morning on the same schedule followed on week days, the purpose being to ex- tend additional accommodations to passengers desiring to make connec- tions east and west at Forrest City and Wynne. However, the traffic has been so light the company has decided to discontinue the Sunday schedule for the local
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NOTICE TO TREssPAssERs

Some of the boys of the town have been trespassing on the school prop erty They have broken into the building several times and have talk en a small motor, blank pistol, hammer and several other articles from the building and have smoked cigarettes in the building, leaving the stubs on the floor. The Board does not wish to cause anyone any trouble but they will not have this trespass- ing any longer. This is notice to such boys and their parents that the Board will prosecute anyone caught trespassing again, to the full extent of the law They know who some or the parties are and will use every means at their disposal to find the others.
 Marianna Special School District, Is HUGH NIXON, Sec.
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ago for being a stacker. Cade will be gwen hearing before Commls- sioner J. B. Connolly at Helena.
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 A LOST = Monday, small diamond stud, either on Main street between Hugh Leary's store and the postoffice or on Poplar street between Leary's store and the Hotel Rarianna. Re- ward for return to this office. 1S
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 Harry Houck, Ewing McClintock, Bob Foreman, Philip Hassell, Geo. l. Norris and Love D. Banks, of this city, and Will Hughes of Haynes, re- gently selected as members of the second officers training camp, will leave tonight for Leon Springs, Tex, where they will report Sunday morn ing for duty.
 Frank P.I Babcock, who has been here several weeks the guest of Wal lace Greenhaw and family, left Tues day evening for St. Louis to get his line of samples preparatory to re- suming his work on the road as salesman for the Rice-Stix Dry Goods Company. MT. Babcock has his headquarters in Batesville.
 Advertising is the modern method of communication between the busi' ,oo, ,,oo,, opd tho ooncumar ShrpWO business men who have desirable propositions to offer KNOW THIS and advertise. If you want to know what these desirable propositions are read the ads in this paper each week They tell the story and name the merchant.
 Row Watson who was formerly em- ployed in the Lee County National Bank and who recently returned to his home in Paragould where he has been holding a position in the offlce of the Joseph Mercantile Company has been appointed private secretary to Congressman T. H. CaraWaS MT. Watson has gone to Washington to take up his new work.
 #xS
 MILLER LUMBER COMPANY will make or get for you what tne' ! hay yen't
 On last Friday evening Miss Vir ! ginia Bush entertained with an Tn formal dinner party in honor of he guests, Miss Dorothy Block and MS ! Minnie McKie of Wynne. The colo motif was red white and blue, wnicl was carried out through all the couI ses. The guests were as Ioiio"s Messrs. Philip Hassen, George Ne" bern. Frank McAlexander, Edwar 1 Robertson, feyton Bradley, Haroi J Derrick, Andrew Nixon, and Misse
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MORE LIGHT ON THE WAR

The revelations being made by James w. Gerard, former ambassa- dor to Berlin, in the series of articles from his pen appearing in the Phila- delphia Public Ledger, show conclu- sively the German Kaiser and his advisors deliberately planned the war and were so fearful lest they be de- nied some shadow of excuse for pre- .cipitating this world conflagration that they played dastradly trick on Russia that caused the Car to mobi- iize his soldiers and furnish Germany with the pretense of an excuse which she sought. This disclosure came out recently in an editorial appear ing in the London Times dealing with the Gerard articles. In the first or this series of startling revelations Nr. Gerard reproduced fac-simile pages of the Kaiser's letter to Presi- dent Wilson on August IA, 1914, soon after Austrian troops had invaded Serbia. In this letter to the presi- dent the kaiser sought to justify the war on seven grounds, the sixth of which was that Russia had moboliz- ed her troops on the eastern frontier and threatened an immediate invasion of Germany The London Times. dis cussing this phase of the kaiser s cablegram to Wilson, exposes the shameful trick the German war lords played on Russia It must be re- membered that Austria had agreed to accept the proposal of the other powers for a cessation of hostilities pending a conference Germany, how ever. stepped in and prevented this conference on the pretext that Rus sia had already mobilized for an in- vasion. Answering this the Times says:
 Tn the sixth point the kaiser ac- knowledges that Austria-Hungary accepted the proposal and proceeds to try to explain why the acceptance was not transmitted. He says he wa just going to prepare a note to the Czar telling him that Austria-Hun- gary would accept mediation when he heard that Russia had ordered general mobilization.
 'sWhy had Russia done so? AS the outcome of a trick more dastard' 1y than Bismarck's alteration of the Ems telegram At the instance of the German authorities sham edit ion of the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger was issued. declaring that Germany had ordered general mobilization. The Russian Ambassador at once tele- graphed the news to Petrograd. The edition of the newspaper was then withdrawn, a contradiction publish ed. and the Russian ambassador at once teiegraphed the contradiction but his second telegram was inten tionally held up twelve hours in Der lin until after the Czar had decreed what he believed to De a counter mobilization If Germany meant to force Russia to mobilize she achiey ed her final purpose. She pretends to rest her whole case upon it.'
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Dorothy Block, Minnie McKie, Jamie P. Brown, Pearl Mann, Ruth Freeman and Wilma Beazley.
 The Rev. w. c. Boone, pastor of the First Baptist church of this city, who is now in Memphis on his an- nual vacation, writes friends here he has just undergone an operation for the removal of his tonsils. He hopes to be able to return to Marianna in time to resume his regular appoint ments on the first Sunday in Septem- Der.
 ATTENTION, YOUNG MEN: = Don't buy your fall and winter togs until you have given our swell line the "once over" We're in the mar ket for your trade and if nifty, down-to- -the-minute garments and fur nishings and close prices interest you we're going to dress some of you young men up. Grove-Reed Go. l
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 J. A. Shields, superintendent of the plant at Phillips Bayou operated by the Walsh Tie and Lumber Co.,, will move his family from LaGrange to Mar:anna within the next two weeks. He will occupy the dwelling to be vacated by MT. and Mrs.I D. McFall, who will leave about September l for Cody, where MT. McFall will be- come manager of T. c. Corners store.
 %xA
 J. P Grantham, stenographer in the law offices of Smith & McCulloch recently successfully stood the civil service examination to enter the em ploy of the government, and has been notified that position is open to him in the census bureau of the department of commerce. Mir. Gran. than expects to leave here Sunday for Washington to enter upon his new duties.
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 We want every young man to make it a special point to look al our line of furnishings for fall ant winter weal. Of course, we have hundreds of seasonable articles foI immediate service. You are going to like what we show you, just as cer tain as fate Come in today. Grove Reed Co.
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 Mrs Ray Case, who spent a DOT tion of the past week here visiting her parents, MT. and Mrs. B. M Go van, left Tuesday for her home a Mountain View. She had been t' Chattanooga on visit to he brother, F. D. Govan, who is a mem Der of the First Tennessee Ambu lance Company Upon her return t Mountain View she was accompan jed by her sister, Miss Frances
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Chr Uurt ipr-Jnnrx

Published on Friday of each week sn Marianna, Lee. County, Arkansas, py the Press Publishing Company, and entered in the postoffice in Marianna as second-class mail matter under per- init from the postoffice department. Subscription price $1.50 per year. H. R. Jackson, Editor Manager.
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BRUNDIDGE FOR SENATE

Little Rock, Aug. 22.-Formtr Congressman Stephen Brundidge or Searcy today authorized the state ment that he would be candidate for United States Senator in opposition to Senator Joe T. Robinson, who sev, eral days ago stated that he would seek another term.
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IN THE LEE PROBATE COURT

IN THE LEE PROBATE COURT
 Notice is hereby given that the fol- lowing administrators and guardians have filed their settlement accounts for Confirmation at the August term, 1917, in the Probate Court of Lee County, Arkansas, to-wit:
 785-Estate of Jaunita Johnston Burnett, s. D. Johnston, Guardian. Final settlement.
 1452-Estate of J. F. Holloway, de ceased T. L. Holloway, administra' tor. Final settlement
 996 1-2-Estate of H. P. Rodgers deceased. Final settlement. J. E. Stevenson & D. s. Clark, Executors
 997-Estate of Clark Lemen Rod. gers, minor o. L. Williamson, GU rator Final settlement. 1397-Estate of Jack Hays, deceas ed. o. M. Hill, administrator. Final settlement.
 14O6-Estate of H. H. Bellamny deceased. w. s. Beaty, administrat or. Final settlement.
 1415-Estate of John Trimmings deceased H. B. Derrick, administra tor. Final settlement.
 1434-Estate of Albert Garrett, de ceased. w. H. Farrar, administrator Final settlement.
 All persons interested in same art called upon to come forward and file exceptions on or before the second day of the Probate court for sait county, or they will be barred iron excepting to any settlement or any part thereof.
 6s E. w. KING, Clerk.
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That's some swell line of young mems furnishings. embracing Hats, Caps, Shoes, Tailored to measure Clothing, Sox. Ties, Belts, etc, at Grove-Reed Company's. You're go- ing to lose out on many exclusive styles if you fail to make a purchase from this new stock. l
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Two thousand letters, each one of fering a solution 70 the submarine problem, were received by the navy department in one week. If these wise heads would only screw up their patriotism to the point of enlisting in the navy we might see some ap- preciabIe results. But they won't