The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-11-22
YUKON PACKS
ARE POPULAR
AN AMERICAN IDEA PLEASES
THE FOREIGN ALLIES.
SURGEONS ARE TRIM FELLOWS
Their Appearance Is Subject of Com
ment in Paris and London-Smith
College Girls Doing An Heroic
Work In Stricken France.

Paris, Nov21.-A colonel in charge
of the largest of the British ordnance
stores in France tells me that the
Tommies are now sending in requisi-
tions for Yukon packs by the thous-
ands. =....
On the march the English soldier
finds it more convenient to pack his
kit in these capacious brown canvas
sacks, which he carries first over one
shoulder and then the other. With
a knapsack on his back he cannot
comfortably sit down and lean back,
being somewhat in the predicament of
sandwich man. The Yukon bag
an American camping institution
can be deposited at his feet and he
can recline with the comfort of a
With the Italian Armies in the Field,
Nov. 2l.yBecause of the disadvant-
ages of all the ground which is offered
al ound the Pave river line, further
stragetic retreat of the Italian forces
may be necessary according to the
most reliable information which was
received here today.
AS yet neither the British nor the
French re-enforcements have gone in
to action, and the Italian troops are
significantly bearing the full burden
of the Italian forces with great fury.
Soldiers and People Firm.
The morale of the Italian forces is
the best possibly it has ever yet been.
So also is the spirit of the people in
Rome.
The public is supporting the war as
never before. All of the fruits of the
Italian forces which they have made
il their two years of strife in the great
war have been completely swept away
by the enemy who has aimed her all
at Italian industrial centers.
German Intrigue Fails.
The internal dessention which the
German classes have hoped to start
against the Italian people has never
appeared.
The enemy won his first blow by his
treachery in the army, and by the sud
den overwhelming spectacle Of the
equipment of the Teutonic armies in
which many of the Italian officers lost
their heads.
Germany is playing for a revolt i'll
the Italian lines like the one in Russia.
She will never attain that hope.
The Scene Of Battle.
Correspondents today made a tour
of thirty miles along the Pieve battle
front visiting Zenson, Fagare and the
Sega mill, where desperate fighting
has occupied, and saw the Duke of
Aosta, commander Of the third army,
guarding the Piave line, whose men
hurled the Austrians in the river and
established the solidity of the Piave
front. .,gi&a
Road Strewn With Dead.
On the cemetery road, where the
Austrians advanced and set up their
line of quick firers, fearful scene was
spread before the party. The road was
Uttered as though a tornado had pass
ed by. Dead soldiers lay all about.
The highway was strewn with enemy
helmets, bloodstained clothing, cart
ridge belts and all kinds of accourter-
ments. The trees on either side were
cut in two and the lines of bushes
were leveled like grain before a storm.
Just ahead on the road was Sega
mill, where the bloodiest fighting was
centered. The mill wheel was still
running and the water was flowing
peacefully. But all about were evil
dences of fearful carnage. The SOL
diers who held the mill stood uncon-
cernedly at the door while all over
the ground were tatters left by by the
Austrians as they were driven from
the mill and thrown into the river.