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field guns, turned them around, and
loosed the enemy's own artillery
against him. II was no question OF
accurate range. The guns were aimed
point blank at the dense masses of
the German gray.
AS this Is writ4en, the enemy is fall
ing back on Pronville%a suburb OF
Csmbrsi-hghting desperately, but
steadily forced to give way.
Now Are No Mans Land.
Fontaine's blazing ruins are be-
lieved now to be No Mans Land, the
battle raging across their illumined
desolatIOn.
Crown Prince Rupprecht ordered
his troops to hold Bourbon Wood at
all costs. They failed-and the cost
OF this unsuccessful attempt was
staggering to his fast dwiDdling
ranks.
Bourlon's commanding heights are
now in British hands. They give a
fsr-reaching view OF all the battle
field beyond
Germany's stan Is concentrating
every man who can be spared to de-
fend Cambrai. The city's usefulness
as a base is already gone.
Prisoners have been taken belong
ing to the 3Oth and 10th divisions.
The first division had been rushed
from the Aisne 'front.' the second
from Flanders. They were hastily
flung into the struggle.
WITH THE ITALIAN ARMIES. Nov.
25.-Fighting hand to hand, half sub
merged in flooded marshes, Italian
troops today are eno.ding the enemy at
bay on the lower Piaye.
General Borovich's Austrian troops
are striving desperately to fght the
foods loosed by the Italians, in de-
fense of Venice, no less than they are
lighting the troops themselves. The
men on both sides are battling from
hummock to hummock.d Aassed at
tacks are Impossible. The fighting
has resolved itself into man to man
battles. scattered mile after mile
along the river or beyond It's banks.
italian ayiators report the Aus
trians hurriedly constructing boats
behind the lines. Some have already
unsuccessfulIy attempted the passage
OF the watery No Mans Land. Teu-
tonic cons yuction engineers are work
ing feyerishly trying to drain the
territory.
From the upper end OF the great
line fighting has been reported
around Lake carda- The Austrians
unsueeessfully tried 70 psnstrats
AbAaiAn nnea.
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Coming to the present crewiess
raiders OF the Germans, We learn
from statements OF the British ad-
that these are electrically
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SOLDIER DESERTED
TBJOIN GERMANS
MUST DIE

Convicted by eourt-nartial Of
deserting to join the enemy, an
American soldier today faces the
death penalty.
Detailed information Is with
held by The War Department, ex-
-cept that Secretary Baker, refus-
ing to discuss the case, indicated
II was q foreign matter" not
an oFense committed in this
country.
The death penalty, though
usually left to the President or
the Secretary Of War, may be
summarily carried out in war
time by military authorities in
the field. g.
Before taking final action on
the case, Secretary Baker will
consult President Wilson, it is
understood.
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Icontr6iisd bcafs, propeusd ~ ,tsfa
gesolehs engines. partially. slossd b, /,
and are capahlse .oe sfsaxsling ~. .
highs ratsa0f speed EAehsraIdse car.
Tiesfa drum f;vlth 'betNseh Ehlftysxnd
hfty miles OF insulated. 6fhkis- -ccro
cable. which. Is paid ous In ID HllEs
Of the vessel and thropgh which 5ths
mechanism fs controlled fram shore.
The forepArt 9arriessa eonsiaosdbIo
charge. Of hish explosive. prosaBly
from so0-to 500 V0uhdss svAieh = ar.
ranged tOEsxploas on slmteca,
The method OF operating thssereRs
less raider u ito start the engines
after which the. men, leave the boat.
A seaplane protected BY. q gtrope
hshting patrol. then Aceompanie5 tie
,vesael AZ a dtstancS o. from thres to
i've miles and signals d tke '.ah6re-
operator-of the helm These giEnbls
need sonly be 1stareoafd Hort o.
.-.ss,---s-l rs-s 1,s--.s- ,r--.s-
= - .rIarEIsaaI .Dlssaaees -
.ts.By an obriousIys clever grouping
Of the wireless idea. the hlEhLsDeed
Eas6isne -efaft, and The .sisStEteelIy-
eoptrorss plsns ne Gerpans Ave
fnadsenGssf of aAe ezessless setder
sensuis an aas ~ end sEh osnluapgN
T6ey ehsSE Not Sssresng TIE eszsd-
vantSsss ot.a ,trailipE sEbiss s be
sure, hut. they have overcome Abe
pfohlsn of-visibshty fop .tbs aerial
observer in the seapa4nes winch con =
voys: the taidsSr il 81 ali 1t1heE VIM
in visual distance. ,s-sS{
~sInes power to drive .ths craft -
entirely sslrcontainAd and need not
Be transmitted thtoagha the cable.
the Germans have been able TO use
a much Smaller cable and thus over
come the difneuItiss In this dfrection.
It Is evident tk&t they use i onsS%irs
cable, sdependfhg on the saIg -Nfter
for tis' return ioarrtAt: 70 e6Aaplsts
the circuit The a1schanisA6a EDoard
the boat probably includes q contact
device operating by steps, 20
that certain cOmbinatioassof Impulses
sent over the single wire cable bring
any desired set OF; contacts into POSI-
ton to perform the required opera
ton" @S -.H
lCopyr1ght.. 1871. Anunn q CO.. se8sntfao
American. By Otis ,. Wood.I +.
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BOATS ARE MADE
OEXPL ODE, WHEN
THEY HIT VESSELS

: HaHa q - Il a.
One of the eccshtric engines OF de-
Struction which the war has called
into existence Is the electrically
operated crewIesss sea raider. which
the Germans are now employing
against the British monitors patrol
Ing the Belgian coast. While several
OF. these little boats have been re-
ported sunk. nons of them has as
yet been able to reach It's mark II
the reports of the British have told
the whole story, the ,crtwlsss raider
is failure. The idea behind the in.
ventidn. arrefdihE I'd the 1scisntihc
American, is by, no gaeans,-neyEs and
other nations have failed bSfore to
hrLns- tt into prsepcAl We, Is. x. :
Scientific American. ''the British Ad-
miralty experimented. with q SINH
larry controlled known a. the
Vernon. In our own country /. the
same idea was put forward some
twenty years GgoS In the form OF the
s-Edison. directive torpedo. which
was driven by an electric motor car
ried. within the shell .oe tina torpedo; !;
The crewless craft vas steersd. hX e1.
citing certain ndsnsts thSe eshtrciied.
the steering gear. Current, for OPP
Grating the motor and magnetA. were
supplied through q dexible cable that
was wound upon a reel carried With
In the she'll OF the 'torpedo' w4th--ene
end contested 10, the shore.sls sc: I
-'S Tive OfAer Typea- - ~
''Ths Victoria, Gp Australian inven-
tion, differed from the last mentioned
in being entirely submergfble and In
using compressed air ss its motive
power.
still another type OF crewless de-
stroyer was the Brennon, which re-
ceived considerable attention as the
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GERMS
F0UNDIN VACCINE
!. START ANINQu!RY
fcontInued from FIrst PaEe.l

CONTINUED from First Page.)
traceable to the use of vaceines, only
to have It later discovered that the
patient became infected from quite
another agent.
A clean bill Of health Is given the
National Vaccine Company by Dis
;trict Health Officer woodwaEd.f who
said today:
rThe National Vaccine Company IL,
one OF the best-known and most re-
liable nrms of.its kind in the United
suspicion ceuid. be, direfted against
this firm
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GEN. RYNG'SGUNS
BATTER. .DEEENSES
OFeAMBRAI BASE

LONDON. Nov. eS-BOurlOn
J wood, Which dominates Camhrai, /,
from the rest, Is probably BOW
in British hands, The latest re.
ports from BEitish headquarters
I'm Franee stated that, after re-
puIsing ferfe Gefman counter
attacks, fhe n was agala. ad-
IaneIng. Meaesr reports indi-
cate MOeuIres also has fallen
and FOntalne Is said TO be ablaEe.
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WOMAN, IS; Girls,
SUCCUMB AFTER
BEING Burned

A nye-year-old girl. neigiborhood
Pet, and a woman OF eighty five. af-
fectionately known throughout the
s~otton where she lived both he dead
today. vlctims e iniae seciderts
ore IS golden hsfred ATa.y Eiisabeth
Rociss. dauEkter u .la7nes AZ Roteier,
- = - -Esz4tse1g street Hortheast,
saa ne other. Mrs. 81 bersue 4ccar-
EIsx. q Is * ssrese - IN sst.
Little Mary, attempting the domes-
tie duty OF cooling the latrobeg IN
the absence OF her parents. was fatal
ly burned before the eyes OF q play
mate and her grandmother yesterday
when tongues OF flames enveloped her
from the open stove
Mrs. Mccarthy, lighting the lamp In
her dining room, ignited her clothing
and was dead before neighbors, at
tracted by her cries for help, could
beat out the fire.
Plays In Kitchen.
Mary, with four-year-old Julia
Ryan, played in the kitchen OF the
home while the grandmother, Mrs.
James Patton, was upstairs. Mary
opened the red-hot stove to let 1t
Al A1AaAA AaANAa -AAe- ALUM
Gpe9 TO the aid Of the tortured child
was enveloped in flames.
Ars. Patton tried to extinguish the
blaze, burning her hands, but to no
avail. The child was rushed to Cas-
uai;y Hospital in an ambulance and
hsr family gathered about her bed
side after physicians had pronounced
her case hopeless.
81 don't want to die. I'm hurt, and
want TO go home" was Mary's pa
thetic appeal Her father watched his
only child die, after she gasped out
the story Of the accident.
He had left his work at the Wash
ington navy yard Immediately on be-
ing informed of the accident. The
end came at $3.50 o'clock in the af-
ternooh
The father thanked T. P. Ryan. a
neighbor, who helped roll the child
In rug trying to put out the flames
Aged Woman Alone.
The aged Mrs. Mccarthy was also
alone in her house when her fatal
accident occurred. After lighting
paper torch, she started to apply It
70 the lamp on the dining room table,
but struck her apron instead and i'm
mediately was enveloped in. flames.
Three neighbors, Joseph H Haynes,
Of 6lT K street; James 7. Q'Brien, 47S
street, and John Frye. 4T6 street,
ran 20 her assistance, but she was
dead before they could do anything
toward putting out the FIRE.
DR.. Haynes with an Emergency Hos
pital ambulance was called to the
house but pronounced life extinct and
notified Coroner hewitt, who later
gave /: certificate OF accidental death,
a. he did IN the case OF Mary Eliza
beth Boteler. Both bodies were turn
ed over 10 the families.
Mary Colbert, colored. sixty-fve years
ed. Is In a series condition today at the
Casually Hospital as the result Of burns
she received from an oil stove AT her
home, {7S Washington street northwest
Thursday afternoon at 5 O'Clock.
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result OF It's being taken up by the
British admiralty and subjected to
exhaustive experiments. ss-.s o.
ss-s Lew TIslbIIlty Haanieap. y
The main objection. howevsr, was
IN the matter ofsyistbility-s Thessims-
Edison. torpedo. for, instance. could
only be followed by the eye % q
distance Of about two. miles, beyond
which Il Tas,lost co. sight. 's-g7
During 1908 ;Nil1ola Tesla, the
wsli-known inventor, OF New York
'ctty proposed, ereWiesS raider or.
torpedo operated by wireless waves.
aad Obtained patent On such 4 de-
vice. Praotical Wireless eSlegraphy
Was then barely q year old and III Il
very doobtful indeed II. he would have
had much Hueeess swfth Els radio con-
trot II II had been put TO a pra0ticaI
test And1s even allowing : that Il
would have proved siIcees8ful, Tesla
only solved half the probIsms.s name
lE. those having to DO with the trail
Ing cable: there ;stiil remained the
paramount question OF visibility.
= fs'Since Tesla's wireless raider, in
yentors In practically every country
IN the world have at some time or
a9othsr suggesteda radIo-controlledi
craft for destroying hostile Warships.
In goms instances even building and
trying out such vessels with pron1is-
ing results. ~ For ou- part John Hays
Hammond. Jr., developed a radio-eon-
trotled craft which performed re-
parkably we'll in experiments at:
Gloucester Bay. Mas. and It is.Quite
likely that this young inventor
the greatest advancement in
this Held.
The German Raider.
Coming to the present crewiess
raiders OF the Germans. We learn
from statements Of the British ad-
that these are Electrically
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eHIPWoRKERs en- -.

Los Angeles ship yard ifefhes.5
were yesterday granted q iaes essf
IN wages Of 30 10 50 per c-ni bF IA
United States Shipping Il srd ave
wage scale applicable - sssttAs
Portland. Ore, and San EIsncfsen
yards was put into ef - Ios
Angeles also.
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By WILLIAM PHILIP sIMMS,
United Press stan Correspondent.
HTTH THE BRITISH ARMIES


WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES
IN THE FIELD, Nov. 25.-General
Byng's guns are battering down
German defenses within two miles of
Cambria today.
His men are fighting their way on
ward despite a concentration of Ger
man reserves that fairly foods the
depot city. The fighting is the most
desperate since the great surprise
attack of Wednesday morning.
Early in the day British Tommies
hurled the enemy back upon Fon-
taine Notre Dame. The village is a
hollow shell of ruins smoking and
burning.
Tanks SCarry On
The tanks continued their marvel.
Gus exploits in yesterdays red hot
fighting.
At Bourbon wood they crawled into
action and swept onward through the
forest. Smaller trees and saplings
were crushed under their giant sides
as a field of rye straw is battered
down by giant terrapins. Their fash
ing gunfire> >Incinerated the forest.
Behind them came the infantry.
rapidly moppinE up the snipers and
taking dazed prisoners.
Fire Enemy's Guns.
At one point two enemy IT'S were
seized from the Germans. their car
riages twisted around. and the FIRE
from their two throats so speeded
against the enemy by the British
gunners that the muzzles glOwed red
Field Marshal Haig reported his
men established once In Bourbon
Wood, elected by desperate German
onslaughts, and once again occupying
that high ground Dy fierce counter
attacks.
Fierce Fighting.
an the neighborhood OF Bourbon
Wood" the British commander-In-
chief reported, there was fierce night
ing. The enemy made determined It
tempts to regain the high ground.
We were compelled to give ground
slightly.
Later, in counter-attsclSs, we re-
established our former line"
The Boulon copse has furnished
Germany with her most valuable oh.
seryatIop point In this section OF the
isne. II Is at the top Of . eonsider.
8 bic knoll beyond which the country
slopes away on all sides.
At Moevures two armies clenched
and swayed in the battle. Then the
British doggedly battered away the
enemy lines. They. seized German
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strips of flesh, bits of bodies, uni
forms, metal and cloth.
Into the Jaws of Death.
Using thier old storming methods,
the Germans charged full into the
British machine gun positions in
densely packed masses. Into the wall
of humanity, the machine guns poured
a steady fire.
British artillery, far behind, accu-
rately caught the wall with heavy
shells, they exploded, tearing to pieces
still stood on the face of the tearing
of the machine guns.
The advancing wall melted away.
Exploding shells flung bits of what
had been human beings over the field.
Machine guns continued to slice holes
into the-quivering column.
Then the pitiful remnants turned
and dissolved in flight.
Attacks Were Continuous.
This was only one of numerous al
most continuous German counter-at-
tacks. All were heavy. Crown Prince
Rupprecht evidently has determined
on every effort by massing of every
available man, to regain some if not
all the ground newly won by the Brit
ish.
He hopes for some blow which will
regain the prestige German arms have
lost. 1t is evident from the attack of
German prisoners that Byng's drive
was the hardest blow struck German
morale since the French drove the
German crown prince back from YER
dun in February, 1916.
A great German attack around
Graincourt cost countless dead for
every few yards of gain-and that
gain did not hold in the face of an in
Simultaneous British infantry counter
blow.
The Prussian artillery thruout the
whole Cambria sector is laying down
an almost ceaseless barrage of shrap-
mel, high explosive shells and gas.
Sensational Aero Feat.
airmen were buster than usual. I saw
one exceptionally daring exploit by a
German fighting pilot.
While the sky was literally flecked
with British a1rmen, a lone German,
watching his chance, slipped through
the Gordon and charged a British
sausage observation balloon. He
swooped above it, loosed an incen-
diary missile and curved beyond. Then
capped back home in whirlwind of
shell bursts.
The balloon had been hit. 1t burst
suddenly into mass of flames. One
observer in his basket leaped out, his
parachute gracefully unfolding and
gently depositing him on the ground.
The second occupant of the basket,
loon started falling before he too,
jumped with his parachute. BY a
miracle, the heavier and more rapidly
falling mass of flames just grazcd
him as it slid to earth. He got of
unscathed.
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CLEO TO RESCUE!
Recommend Reduction of 10
Cents a Pound Tax.
Urge Govt Control of Narcotic
Drugs Needed by Red Cross.

Washington, Dec. Reduction of
the ten cents a pound tax on colored
oleomargarine, both as a war measure
to increase the production Of food
fats and as a means of actually yield
ing more aggregate revenue, was rec
commended in the annual report of the
internal revenue bureau issued today
over the name of w. H. Osborne, who
has recently been succeeded as COM
missioner by Daniel c. Roper.
Another recommendation prompted
by the war condition was that the
government should assume control,
manufacture and use of narcotic Drugs
needed for Red Cross work. The re-
port cited the $S09,393,000 internal
revenue receipts for the fiscal year
ending last June 80. as the largest in
out that that record would be broken
by the estimated receipts for the cur
rent year under the new war tax
law.
The greatest source of taxation was
distilled liquors, the production of
which showed a marked increase de-
spite the extension of prohibition ter
ritory.
During the year covered by the re-
port 25,15S,000 pounds of uncolored
oleomargarine were produced, taxable
at one-fourth of a cent a pound. and
100000 pounds of colored material.
taxed at ten cents.
To conserve the drug supply, it was
suggested that congress amend the
Harrison narcotic law so as to impose
stamp tax on all narcotic drugs and
place the manufacture or sale under a
federal license system.
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A DAY FROM OCTOBER

Continued from Page One.)
er, according to a statement made this
morning by S. D. Flora, local weather
observer Canada is enjoying a tenn
perature of or 10 degrees above,
but nothing points to a sudden drive
into this section of weather of such
caliber.
The temperature is expected to go
The highest temperature ever re-
corded for December 1 was in 1889.
when the mercury climbed the tube
to the Sc mark. The lowest tempera-
ture recorded was 9 in 1897.
The forecast foc the day promises
fair and warmer tonight and Sunday;
probably unsettled Sunday.
No protection against freezing is
necessary for 36-hour shipments in
any direction.
The month just ended had the least
precipitation of any November on rec
ord in Topeka, and was one of the
warmest and most pleasant months
northeastern Kansas has ever ex-
cording to the summary completed
at the weather bureau office. Tenn
peratureS were above normal more
than two-thirds of the time, and there
were no cold waves.
An exceptionally fine stretch of
Indian summer weather prevailed the
first two weeks. (which, however, was
partly offset by cloudy weather and
fog the last week of the month,
making the percentage of sunshine
| less than that of any month since last
May and considerably less than that
of November a year ago.
The detailed summary of the month
gives the average temperature as At
degrees, or 5 degrees above normal.
The highest temperature was rs de-
grees on the 9Th, and the lowest 21
degrees, on the oath, which is not
as low jas the minimum of october
preceding. Temperatures were above
freezing on more than half the nights.
The total rainfall was but .05 inch, or
121 inches less than the normal
There was no snow except a trace on
the forenoon of the oath. The aver
age wind velocity was about normal.
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Threatened U. S.!
VIII Kaiser Be Able To Garry
1t Out After the War.
Gerard Warns Against Leaving
Militarism Unimpaired.

New York Dec. flames W. Ger
ard former American ambassador to
Germany, agrees with that part of the
Marquis of Lansdowne's letter urging
that Germany be not annihilated. He
so declared in a statement published
here today He did assert, however,
that I'VE must teach Germany that
the war for conquest is forever ended
and that Wanton wrongs, like the in
vasion of Belgium and the murders of
the Lusitania, must not occur again.
The kaiser told me he would stand
no nonsense from America after this
war;" Gerard declared. I'VE want to
be sure tat after this war we shall
not haze to stand any nonsense from
the kaiser.
Germany cannot be wiped out as
a nation except at the cost of blood
and treasure that will beggar the
world in money and men for two CEN
turtles.
Theirs Not War of Defense.
when the Germans themselves I'M
derstand they are not to be compelled
to fight a desperate war of defense,
they will themselves. being. after all
practical, stop a war where German
conquest is not to be thought of or
permitted Even tho all the men of
the allies perish in the trench, the
ton.
I'VE cannot let the end of the war
leave Germany with increased terri
tory and therefore increased man
power and in possession of a govern
ment which has threatened Gus with
invasion after proving evil intention
by numbering our citizens"
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STOCK MARKET FEEBLE
General Laxity in Market Due to I'm
certainty of r. r. Situation.

New York, Dec. stocks were in
fluenced almost wholly during the
weeks operations by additional poor
railroad earnings, increasing uncer-
tainties in the projected pooling of
eastern lines and the more complex
conditions arising from foreign politi-
cal and military developments. New
low records for such erstwhiIe invest
ment shares as Pennsylvania and Bal
timore &, Ohio indicated the utter
lack of investment inquiry, coupled
with disappointment at delay on the
part of the interstate commerce COM
mission in arriving at a decision of the
railroads plea for higher freight
rates.
Exchange rates on Petrograd and
Rome were nominally firmer. Deal
ings were almost the smallest of any
week of the year, the daily turnover
averaging little more than 100000
shares.
Interest and dividend payments due
this month caused a slight furry in
call loans.