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Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
JESUS MARTINEZ HELD
 UNDER $5,ooo BOND
Mexican Vice Consul in New York
 Charged With Ostructine Draft.

New YoGlS, Oct. 17.-Jesus Martinez. Mexican vice sonsul in New York, who is charged with "defying and ob- obstructing the selective draft law" was held here under his former bond of $5, 5000 by United States Commission CT Hitchcock today to await the action of the federal grand jury. Martinez registered in compliance with the law but refused to present himself for ex- animation when notified to do so by, a local exemption board. He based his refusal on the ground that he was the representative of g. foreign govern ment.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
ARGENTINE TRAINMEN
 REFUSE TO WORK,
They Arc Causing Paralysis of Ocean
 and River Traffic.

Buenos Aires, Oct. 17-DeSpite the recent presidential decree announcing the end of the railroad strike and the agreement by the companies to in- crease wages 10 per cent, the majority of the strikers are refusing to resume work.
 The strike has lasted nearly a month and its effects have been aggravated by the simultaneous paralysis of ocean and river traffic and the destruction of telegraph lines, causing many points to be completely isolated
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
ENROLMENT AT sToRRS
 SHOWS AN INCREASE
Gain Ali in Freshnen-90 Per Cent.
 Decrease in Upper Glasses.

{ Storrs, Conn.,, Oct. 17.-The Con necticut Agricultural College formally opened today with an enrolment of 175 as against 15o last year. The in crease was due to the advent of 102 freshmen of whom there were but 54 in 1916. The upper classes this year show a large loss, 80 per cent. of which is due to the students being en- gagged in war service. It is expeSted that about thirty more students will enter the college before the final en- rollnent is made up.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
Liberty Bond Drive at Vale.

New Haven, Conn, Oct. 17-The first day of the Liberty bond drive at Yale resulted in subscriptions amount ing to $21.95O On the list of those buying the bonds were IT faculty mem bers, 38 students and 28 employees about the campus. The drive will con tinue for the remainder of the time allowed for subscriptions.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
U-Boat Torpedoed
 J. s. Destroyer
ONE MAN WAS KILLED AND FIVE
 WOUNDED
VESSEL MAKES PORT
ounnsr's Mate osmond keIIy Ingram of Pratt City, Ala, Was Blown Overboard-His Body Was Not Re- covered.

destroyer on patrol duty in the war zone was torpedced by an enemy sub marine yesterday and had one man killed and five wounded. She managed to make port in spite of severe dam aGe. l Few Details Glven. v1oe Admiral Sims cabled . brief re- pert of tho incident to the navy de- pArtment late today. He gave few de- ght and that the U-boat made good her escape after launching . torpedo with out showing herself.
 0unner's Mate Ingram Killed. Gunner's Mate Osmond Kelly Ingram was the man killed. He was blown overheard by the explosion and his body was not recovered. Ingram's mother, Mrs. Betty Ingram, lives at Pratt City, Ala.
 Name of Destroyer Withheld.
 In accordance with the policy of operations, the department did not divulge the name of the destroyer or the exact place of the encounter.
 None of Wounded Seriously Hurt.
 None of the wounded was seriously hurt. They are Herman H. PankratZ gunner's mate, St. Louis; William E. Merritt, seaman, New York city; Patrick Rutledge, oiler, New York city, and William Seimer, fireman. Dundas, Minn.
 First U. 8. Warship Hit.
 This is the first time an American warship has been hit by the enemy since the war began Destroyers con- voying troops and merchantmen have engaged submarines and are believed to have accounted for some of them, and the ships patro1ling the European shipping lanes undoubtedly have had many an encounter of which nothing has been heard, but until yesterday none had been touched by h hostile shot.
 Armed Merchantmen Not So Fortu-
 nate.
 Naval gun crews on armed Amer ican merchantmen have not bee so fortunate Many of them have had the boats, usually after an unwarned torpedo attack, and one officer and thirteen men have lost their lives, while four men now are in German prison camps.
 In all, the navy host lost one officer and si:<=en men-the only men of America. fighting forces actually killed in action.
 Lieutenant Clarence c. Thomas, comma nding the gun crew of the tank steamer Vacuum. and four of his men were the first on the navy's casualty list. Tn addition to the men lost on merchantmen and Gunner's Mate In- gram, two naval Hiers have lost their lives at the French front.
 Probably Taken Unawares.
 Naval officers do not doubt that the torpedoed destroyer was taken una wares by the submarine and had no chance to bring her guns into play. They thing it probable that the U. boat. cruising in search of merchant vic tims, stumbled upon the patrolling destroyer and was fortunate enough to get into position to launch a tor pedo and dive to safety without ever more than her periscope
 It is believed, too.. that the destroy CT must have been stearning slowly over her beat, for at top speed these craft present an almost unhittable tar get for the submarine.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Contracts for GAO engines and 9,o0I France.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
STATE POLICEMAN
 HURLEY HAS RESIGNED
fs to Become a County Detective-To
 Run Down Criminal Cases

Hartford. Conn.,. Oct. 17-State Po- Hceman Robert Hurley today resigned as such to become county detective His new position calls for service in
 a! dof Prosecuting Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn, in running down evidence in
 criminal cases
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

cabled Paragraphs

Fleet of German Warships Sighted.
 Copenhagen, Oct. 1T-The National Ttdende's correspondent at Malmo, Sweden. in . despatch says: Between Monday and Tuesday a great number of German warships were seen, in cluding submarines and destroyers. It is believed hero that the Germans are reinforcing their Baltic fleet"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
Twenty-eiaht Germans Indicted.

ments against twenty eight Germans of Hutchinson county, South Dakota. who were arrested fast August. were returned today. The accused are al- legged to have attempted to hinder the operation of the selective draft law.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
NEW YORK GUARDSMEN
 IN RAILROAD ACCIDENT
Ore Is Known to Have Been Killed
 and a Dozen Others Injured.

Spartanburg, S. C., Oct. 1.-Two men. one a New York national guards and a dozen others injured in a rear end collision tonight on the Piedmont and Northern Electric line between this city nd Conp Wadsworth, where the New E-o-- "ational guard is train ing. Eigrf fir-1 soldiers were re- moved to t.:o camp hospital.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
The American Meat Packers

ation in convention at Chicago pleadg- ed that soldiers and sailors fighting for the flag shall have the best meat produced in this country or any other
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Frank N. James, 65, a retired bus mess man, is champion knitter Chicago.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. 17-Sam- ue1 w. Skinner, a Harvard graduate attached to the French aviation corps, has been killed on the western front according to a telegram received here today by his aunt, Mrs. B. F. Thomas. No details were given. Skinner's home was in Cincinnati.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

The Produce Merchants Association of Montreal petitioned the Dominion Government to prohibit exports to the United States of milk, cream and condensed milk.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
"Wetsv Leadinq in Iowa.

Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 17.-Com- plete unofficial returns from Mondays vote on an amendment to the Iowa constitution providing tate-wide prohibition tonight showed the "wets" leading by only 8 7Svotes.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Philadelphia bakers received 5000 barrels of flour at prices from 75 cents to 1,25 under present market prices.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
Mrs. Thomas F, Ryan Deaa

Suffern. N. y, Oct. 17-Mrs. Thom- es F. Ryan, wife of the financier, died et her home here tonight after a brief illness
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

The Troy (N. Y.) Gas Go. increas ed its capital from $3,O00,00O to 5000, 900.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

A service flag at the New York Po- lice Headquarters showed that 39 New York city policemen are serving their country.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Mile. Viruboya who was called the female Rasputin was sent back to Pertograd from Finland with other exiles.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

The French vessel Midie was sunk in the Mediterranean with a loss of 200 lives mostly of Algerian troops
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

British newspapers which published a statement that Lloyd George Lad left London when an air rs., = was 1vs ing made, were forced to apologize.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
governor Whitman pardoned An

OoVeTnor WhIman paTuoHou 11II- tony Coles a New York negro, con victed of manslaughter. The life sen tence of Joseph Lamarco of Buffalo was commuted to end in 1919.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Chancellor Bonar Law declared tha Great Britain will bomb bard German towns as far as the military needs re. lease the necessities of the machines.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Marshal Hindenburg and General Ludendorff received leaders of the German trades unions who complained of the regulations issued by the army heads, limiting freedom of action.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Flour mills at Minneapolis are run ming on a 60 per cent. basis under orders of the milling division of the Federal Food Administration. Eastern millers are faced with a shortage.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

The War Department announcet that Sheffield Ala. was chosen as site for one of the nitrate plants.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
Condensed TeEegrams

kaiser Wilhelm will visit Constanti- nople.
 Haiwaii has taken $1,5f5,oCo in Ldb- erty Bonds.
 Mexico has placed an embargo on the export of sugar.
 Japan will fix the price of rice grains, cotton, cloth and other articles.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

An explosion on board patrol boa off the eastern coast were reported One sailor was brought ashore dead.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Charles Gordon of Philadelphia, was the lone survivor of recently tOrpedoed steamer sunk without warning.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Gerald Walsh, motorman on the Boston elevated train that plunged through an open draw in November 1916, killing 45 people, was exonerated from blame.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
GERMANS POSSESS
 ISLAND OF DIESEL
The Russian Forces Still There Are Cut of From Com
 municaton With Pehograd


Perna, Gulf Port North of Riga, Has Been
 Bombed by German Naval Airships-On the Mainland Suuf of Rs.sthe Russian Artillery Halted Attempt by the Enemy Bridge the Dvina Rver-Germans EArs RepazAng for Big Naval Demonstration Against hhe Russfms In the Baltic Sea-Only Bombardments And Recumnoitering Encounters in Belgium.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Premier kerensky, of Russia has so far recovered from his recent illness that he is able to travel.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Frank Amiss, of Saratoga, member of the Naval Reserve, died at Daytor of injuries received when he fell l. 50( feet in an aeroplane at the aviation field.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

England will reduce her wheat con sumption during the coming year to less than half the normal figures before the war.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
First Train Over Quebec Bridge.

Quebec, Oct. 1.-The first train to- day crossed the recently completed Quebec bridge. It wasa special con- teining guests of the builders. e.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Edward p. Charity of BeIoit, Wis.,, a member of the Washington Ameri- can Baseball club and Miss Margaret Donahue of New London were mar ried at St Joseph's church, New Lon don, yesterday morning. The couple received gifts from Clark Griffith and Walter Johnson.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

The Bureau of Engraving and Print ing is turning out 25,00O, 900 of the nev three-cent stamps daily.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Wages of employees of the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Go. were increas- @ five per cent. effective at once. In addition s150,000 in Liberty Bonds will be distributed to employees as premi- urns.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

The Central Leather Go. has taken an order of more than $5,000,000 for soles for the Russian government. ' Taoney will be paid in American dollars.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

The London taxicab drivers decided upon a strike next Monday owing to the refusal of the Home Secretary to sanction an increase of 50 per cent in fares.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

American, German language paper published in St. Louis, printed first page news in English.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Surgeon General Braisted reported to Secretary Daniels that typhoid fever and other contagious diseases have been practically eliminated from the navy.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Jeremiah A. O'Leary's newspaper, called Bull has suspended publication, in view of the fact that Postmaster General Burleson has excluded it from the mails.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

Charles J. Vopicka, American Min ister to Rumania, has made several several visits to the Bumanian front urging the 10000 Russians to continue fighting. .
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

The Standard Oil company of New York announced an advance of 10 points in refined petroleum in barrels for export, making the price 10.46 csnts per gallon.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18

According to Tokio authorities tn number of enemy subjects residing il Japan is 719.
The Big Sandy news., 1917-08-03

other though the machine gun bullets
began to drop men almost Immediate
ly. Once we were started we were
neither fearful nor ratified. We had
been drilled so long and SO carefully
that each man knew Just what he was
to do, and he kept right ON doing 1t
unless he got hit. To me it seemed
the ground was moving back under
me. The first ten yards were the
toughest The thing was perfectly or
ganized. Our first party OF ten was
composed of signalers. They were pay
ing out wires and carrying telephones
to be used during the fifteen minutes
OF our stay in the German trenches
In communicating with our battalion
Headquarters. A telephone code had
besn arranged, using the names Of our
commanding vficers as symbols. REX
ford 4" meant First prisoners being
sent back" "Rexford 2" meant "Our
first wounded being sent over" Rex
ford 3" meant I'VE have entered Ger
man trench The code was very com
plete, and the signalers had been drill
sd La It for a week. In case the tele-
phone wires were Gut the signalers
were to send messages back by the
uses Of rifle -grenades, These are rifle
projectiles which carry little metal
cylinders to contain written messages
and which burst into flame when they
strike the earth, so that they can be
easily found at night. The officer in
charge OF the signalers was to remain
at the point of entrance, with his eyes
ON his watch. 1t was his duty to sound
a warning signal five minutes before
the end OF our time in the German
trenches.
The leader OF every party of ten also
had whistle with which to repeat
Lne warning blast aud then the final
blast, when each man was to drop
everything and get back of our artil-
lery fire. We were not to leave any
dead or wounded In the German trench
on account of the information which
the Germans might thus obtain. Be
fore starting on the raid we had re
moved all marks from our persons, In.
Guiding even our Identification disks
Except for the signalers, each party OF
ten was similarly organized. First,
there we're two bayonet men, each
with an electric fashlieht attached to
his rife, SO as to give light for the di
The Big Sandy news., 1917-08-03
3OVER THERE
The Thrill and the He'll of
the Trenches, Described
by an American Boy.

Sergeant Alexander McCtntock Of Lex-
ington, KY, and the Canadian Army Has
Gripping Tale That Every American VIII
Read, For He Tells the Facts-Unadorn-
ed. Wounded, Distinguished Conduct
Medal Man, He Was Invalided Home,
but Is Going "0ut There" Again to Fight
For Uncle Sam and His Allies An In
spring, Interesting, Personal Narrative,
Full of the Spirit and Atmosphere Of ths
Trenches.
The Big Sandy news., 1917-08-03

hlg up Is not Just suitable term
We were crawling about on all fours
Just far enough out in No Mans Land
70 be under the edge OF the German
shell fire and taking what shelter we
could in shell holes while our leaders
picked the way to start across The
extra heavy bombardment had warned
the Germans that something was about
to happen. They sent up star shells
and IS o S" signals until there was
a glare over the torn enrtlI like that
which you see at the grand finish of a
Pains fireworks display, and mean
while they sprayed No Mans Land
with streams OF machine gun Dire. In
the face OF that we started.
1t would be absurd 10 say that we
were not frightened. Thinking men
could not help but be afraid. II we
were pallid, which undoubtedly we
were, the black upon our faces hid 1t,
but our fear struck voices were not
disguised. They trembled and our
teeth chattered
w SASaANA OhN NAhAfV
our way from shell hole 20 shell hole,
nearly all the time on all fours. crawl
ing quickly over the tiat places between
this small shelter The Germans had
not sighted us, but they were squirting
machine gun bullets all over the place
promiscuously. like man watering a
lawn with garden hose. and they
were bound to get some OF us Behind
me | heard cries OF pain and groans.
but II made little impression ON my
benunbed Intelligence from the mere
fact that whatever had happened had
happened 70 one Of the other sections
OF ten and not TO my own, II seemed.
some way or other, no affair to con-
cern me. Then man In front OF me
doubled up suddenly and rolled into
shell hole That simply made me re-
member very clearly that | was not
to stop on account OF IT. 1t was some
The Big Sandy news., 1917-08-03

A S we climbed out OF the shelter
IA of our trenches for my first-and,
perhaps, my last. | thought ad-
venture in No Mans Land the word
was passed:
Over the top and give 'em hell~
That is the British Tommies' battle
cry as they charge the enemy. and 1t
has often sounded up and down those
long lines in western France as the
British. Canadian and Australian sol
diers go out to the fight and the death.
We were divided into six parties OF
ten men. each party having separate
duties to perform. We crouched for
ward, moving slowly in single file,
stumbling into shell holes and over
dead men-some very long dead-and
managing TO keep in touch with each
The Big Sandy news., 1917-08-03
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The Big Sandy news., 1917-08-03

one else's business to pick that man
up. Next, according to the queer psy-
chology OF battle. I began to lose my
sensation OF fear and nervousness.
After | saw second man 60 down |
gave nay attention principally TO con-
sideration Of the irregularities Of the
German parapet ahead OF US. picking
out the spot where we were 10 enter
the trench. II seems silly to say IL
but seemed to get some sort OF salts
faction out OF the realization that we
had lost the percentage which we
might be expected to lose going over.
Now, 1t seemed, the rest Of US were
safe until we should reach the next
phase Of our undertaking heard d.
rectiOns given, and ! gave some my
self. My voice was drm. 1t surprised
me, and | felt almost calm Our ar
tillery had so torn up the German barb
wire that II gave us no trouble at all
We walked through It with only a few
scratches. When We reached the low,
sandbag parapet OF the enemy trench
we tossed in few bombs and follow
ed them right over as soon as they had
exploded. There wasn't German In
sight They were all In their dugouts
But we knew pretty well where every
dugout was located, and we rushed for
the entrances with our bombs. Every
thing seemed to be going Just as we
had expected It to 20. Two Germans
ran plump into me as was rounding
ditch angle with bomb Ia my hand.
They had their hands up, and each Of
them yelled:
Mercy, kameradr'
passed them back, to be sent to the
rear. and the man who received them
from me chuekled and told them TO
move lively The German trenches
were practically just as we had ex-
pected to find them. according to our
sample They were so nearly similar
to the duplicate section In which we
had prncticed that we had no trouble
finding our way in them. was Just
that really the only tough
part of the Job remaining would be
-ellluk DdIh h'TuSS NJ Nlul
when it seemed that the whole earth
behind me rose in the air. For mo-
ment was stunned and half blinded
by dirt blown into my face, When
was able to see discovered that all
which lay behind me was mass of
lpturned earth aud rock. with here
and there man shaking himself or
out of It or lying still.
Just two minutes after we went into
their trench the Germans bad explod-
I'd mine under their pararet have
always believed that In some way or
another they had learned what spot
we were to raid aud had prepared for
rs Whether that's true or not, one
hing IS certain--that mine blew our
as we would say In Ken
lucky. ''plumb to hi" And II killed
Or disabled more than half OF our
party.
Great Confusion.
The Big Sandy news., 1917-08-03
No. 3. cover the Top
andGiye'EmHell!'
By Sergeant Alexander MccIintock.
D. c. NJ, S7th Overseas Bait,
Canadian Gren. Guards.
Copyright. 1917 by the Bell Syn
dicate. Inc.

Sergeant AeClintoek, rho has seen
serDice In France. I1ds decorated for
brGuery. ieouHded, t,rdIided home and
y HoD eldeaDorino to get a commits
IN our army. A commission IN the Ca
nGdi1n army dedits him u he returns
TO Join his Old command. In the first
Gnd second articles he graphically de-
scribes his training his trip TO France
spd the elaborate preparations made
Tor a bomb raid on the German trenches.