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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-14

LONDON. March II,
The German retirement around Bapaume
under British pressure may presaRe aban-
Comment by the Teutons Of the entire line
from Bapaume 20 Beaurains. near Arras.
Viewing the fall OF Bapaume as certain
within the next few days military experts
today pointed out that with the British
accupying this important strategic point
the loop in the front 90 the north between
that city and the German lines opposite
Arras was likely IN he very untenabe for
the enemy. II would constitute constant
invitation for an encirclng hankng move
ment from British forces southward from
Arras and northward from Bapaume
England was vastly interested today in
the explanation of Major Moraht. printed
IN the Beriner Tagcblatt, according to
Holland dispatches,
II elaborately explained the well-known
strategca tactics Of Won Hindenburg as
exhibited in previous campaigns on the
eastern front "in order to gain ample space
for strategical movements" and was con-
strued here as designed to prepare the der
man public for withdrawal on the west
ern front on a huge scale Moraht de-
cares the ground evacuated by the Ger
mans In poor terrain for fighting
Meanwhile the British forces are pushing
steadily ahead. methodically strengthening
their positions on the newly won ground.
An interesting intimation In Major
Aorahts statement is that Won Hnden-
burg himself is conducting the retreat of
the Germans.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-14
FRENCH SKATER
GERMANS LINES
Win Ground Near st. Mihiel
and Between Meuse
and Apremont
BAPAUME'S FALL NEAR
Won Hindenburg Reported Di-
recting Teuton Retirement
on West Front
PARIS. March H.

PARIS. March IL.
Another sweeping French victory was
announced In today's Official statement The
statement said:
On Tuesday. south Of St Mihicl. the
French captured Romainville Farm
and penetrated at four different points
up to the second lines OF the enemy
between the Meuse and Apremont, inn
prisoning many.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-14
BERLIN March IA

In the Ancre sector, declared todays
official report, the British attacked In the
afternoon without artillery preparations
between Achet-le-Petit and Grevillers and
at night both sides of Bucquoy. They were
repulsed under heavy losses and left fifty
prisoners. A French attack near St Mihiel
also failed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-14
Noted Camden Merchant Dies

Charles Woodland who was proprietor
OF one OF the largest general stores in
Camden County died at his home at Atco
today from paralysis. He was sixty-seven
years old. He was postmaster Of Atco for
two terms and held several other govern
mental positions and was well known in
Democratic politics.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-14
Wilson'S Cold Continues 10 Imnro,

WASHINGTON, March Il. - Prs,,a...
Wilson remained indoors yesterday an. !.
the cold from which he has suffered 10, ~.
last week. but 1t was said at the wh..
House that his condition was steadily Nv
proving.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21
fH Falls?

The extension of the German lines
 to Petrograd, or the Bulgarian lines to Odessa, is by no means a mill tary impossibility. But how would such operations profit the central pow CTS? Neither Petrograd nor Odessa is vital to Russia. The retiring Rus sians would destroy existing stocks of food. with the result that the central powers would have greater territories to hold with no corresponding increase in available resources. Either opera tion would involve a lengthening of lines of defense requiring an addi- tional half million men. These might be found if a sufficiently favorable moral result might be anticipated. If new defeats were certain to increase the social disorders in Russia, or strengthen the separatist forces in Fin land and the Ukraine. Germany might be willing to pay the price entailed in infiicting them. But it is more probable that a serious German of- fensive in Russia would consolidate Russian resistance The Russian sit uation is a striking illustration of the impotence of military force to achieve results except as an aux Hilary to political and moral forces.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21
The NeW Party

That new party organized at Chi cago last week may not be a thing to dismiss with a sheer if it can bring to bear in support of such things as single tax and public ownership and the social democratic program. the fervor. the machinery. the respectable force and the financial resources of the prohibitiOhist organization. Here tofOre prohibitionism has been conser- vative in its one-ideaedness. The new arrangement of alliance will broaden it's scope, while prohibition will give the single taxers, social democrats. public ownership men, proportional representationists and others. new and sympathetic audiences. The strong point of the new cave of Aduilam is it's loyalty. it's repudiation of all for eign and hostile proposals of action. This new national party may not elect many congressman and will surely not elect a president, but it will make the framers of the platforms of the old parties bid for the support of its votes. -Reedy's Mirror.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21
Night Piece

Lady, the world is old, and We are
 young. The world is old tonight and full of
 tears And tumbled dreams and all its songs are sung, And echoes rise no more from the
 tombed years. Lady, the world is old, but we are
 young. Once only shines the mellow moon
 so fair. One speck of Time is loves Eternity. Once only can the stars so light your
 hair, And the night make your eyes my
 psaltery. Lady, the world is old. Let us be
 young. Let us take hand ere the swift mo
 ment end. My heart is but lamp to light your way. My song your counsellor, my love your
 friend. Your soul is the shrine whereat l kneel and pray. Lady, the world grows old. Love still is young.
 From Today 1ondon.)
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21
Belgidns Smile Gt Death

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.-To face posture takes courage, but there are many people who have done that and gone under" To face them with a smile and a merry word argues the possession of immortal qualities. IL is the explanation of the unquenchable spirit of Belgium and France, accord, ing to Gaston de Leval of the Brus sells bar, the man who defended the English nurse, Edith Cavell. during the civil proceedings in her mock" trial For this he was compelled to leave Belgium with his family
 A price is on his head and if he were to return he would be shot. For the last year he has been living with his family at Richmond, near London and came to this country a few weeks ago to speak at the meeting of the American Bar association at Saratoga early next month.
 Tells of Belgium Courage.
 When asked to tell something about his people, M. de Leval said:
 Well, they are leading the Germans a dance. They cant understand the Belgians' love of a joke, which he often indulges in to his own regret when the strong arm of Schrecklich- keit descends on him.
 "The Germans also have never been able to make our people work. In Q town near Brussels the German com mander offered eight marks a day and plenty of good food to the starving, penniless men of the village. Not one was willing to take it except a husky fellow, who walked up and said he would take a job. That's the right spirit said the officer in charge. Now what's your trade, my man?' Grave digger was the reply, which earned him term in prison. The women are just as wonderful as the men, both in France and Belgium"
 M. de Leval believes that the won derful organization of the Germans will enable them to utilize their re- sources to the very last and he does not look for an early peace. 'I was particularly struck with one little in cident at Louvain which illustrates their methodical ways" he said. Within twelve hours after the cap ture of the town their postoffice was
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21

open in the ruins and they were send ing off their mail in the most ap- proved manner.
 "The' German method, which is so excellent in matters of routine and discipline is, however, what makes them so extraordinarily stupid in poll. tics" he went on. "A German is trained to think in sequence. If one man says "A the next one says B. and so on. Now, in politics, to be sue cessful. when one man says "A it is often necessary to answer K and do it quickly.
 Horrors of Invasion Were Many.
 He gave a graphic description of the horrors in Brussels during the Ger man advance. The'night Louvain was taken there were, according to his account, four hundred refugees in the American legation at Brussels. One old woman came in who had walked the whole way.
 After the German occupation Of Brussels l saw a cartload of Jesuit Fathers brought in bound to be tried and shot" he said. Later when l went to Antwerp after the inhabitants had left 1 roamed through deserted strets. where there were only hungry cats and furtive, half starved dogs. The silence in the residence district was terrible.
 Feared Own Relief Workers.
 "When I went with agents of the Belgian relief into the country dis trict to distribute food, the people would run from us. An automobile always meant Germans to them. The children would cover and hold up their little hands hands. in spite of all reports. l am told that deportation is still going on in Belgium and that the conditions among the Belgians in Germany beggars description"
 In spite of his many preoccupatiOns M De Lavel has had time to observe and admire American women
 'I find the the most delightful ere atures in the world" he said. keen, alert. intelligent, charming Their on ly defect is that they are bit too matter of fact and placid in their af- fections.
 An English woman is cold by tenn perament, an American woman by training"
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21
ERE AND GAS 10
 BE USED IN VAR
 BY UNITED STATES

The war department has issued gen eral orders creating a group of engi- neer regiments which will specialize in the distribution of gas and flame on those section of the trenches oc- cupied by American troops. One regi- ment of this type will be assigned 10 every field army-which consists of three corps.
 There will be a mining service regi- ice regiment of six special mining companes. water supply service reg ment of six companies, a general con struction service regiment, an engi- neer supply service detachment of three companies. three workshop com panies and one service battalion; a battalion of typographical engineers to provide surveying and printing serv- ice: a road service detachment. with three road engineer companies and six service battalions of four companies each; ten motor truck companies of thirty-one trucks each, and five wag- on companies with sixty-one wagons each.
 A standard gauge railway service is to be maintained by five regiments of special railway engineers lin the first army of the 11th, 18th, 18th. 17th and 18th national army engineres) with eight supplemental work bat talions.
 For line of communication work there will be a separate standard gauge railway contingent of six bat talions of railway engineer troops for operations with three service battal- ions and one regiment 19th national army engineers) and one for supple mental engineer battalion and one service battalion in the mechanical and supply department.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21

on the other side of the train, and then began the most charming friend ! Illness between the soldiers and ci- viii ans.
 Leaving Their Cards.
 It was not at all in order, of course, but people darted on to the railway line for the remembered joy of shak- ing hands with an American soldier and the men themselves clambereu down and, like school boys, held out their hands, and distributed visiting cards. They read quaintly to English eyes-"Corporal George R. Barnaske, Company D. U. s. A., with EXpedi- tionary Forces in care of Adjutant General" This is the inscription on one card, and there was little flag in the corner.
 How everyone shouted for one of these cards. Small boys were dis patched on to the line and told to bring some back, and there was tran tic cheering when the men themselves clambered down and cried: Write to us, won't you-and we'll answer sure"
 So hundreds of these military visit ing cards were pocketed, and some of the friendships begun so cheerfully on a railway line will perhaps de velop as the days pass by.
 Before any one of the trains steam ed away the massed bands played the National Anthem. Not a train moved from the station. All was very, very quiet. Then the Americans them selves raised three tremendous cheers for England, and the crowds in the
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21

The recent wedding day of Sergt. Maj Charles P. Taft and Miss Eleanor Kellogg Chase was a happy one for the ex-president While the picture was primarily taken because of the two background figures. it's presenta- ton on this page is due to the smiling face of the erstwhile chief executive.
 We'll Loved
 The best-loved man in America has been one of the busiest men in America ever since leaving the White House. Entering immediately into the satisfactory but unremunerative pro fession of an educator. he gave him self wholeheartedly to the task of bringing out the best in the young men under him at Yale. The dangers
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station responded, and so the first train went out, and so the men went
 Thank you, America. Your men, sU on to their business of making war fine, so friendly, so soldierly - they have given us the encouragement we all of us needed, and in the detach- ments you have sent over you have given us not only allies in the mlli- tary sense, but friends as dear to us as our own brothers. Together we shall see it through
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21

You could not discover an Ameri. can type" Most of the men were
 clean shaven, finely built and straight
 of limb. But all the races which make
 up the nation, such a delightful and
 in some ways such a complex race,
 were there. There were men of Irish
 ancestry and there were men whose
 fathers, in the long ago, came from
 Germany Today, of course, they are
 Americans, and Americans of the
 most undoubted loyalty. But the faces of the men in the great proces- sion were very different, and did not approximate to any given type, and it was deeply interesting to see the varying characteristics that have built up today's America.
 With precise determined step the troops swung along Piccadilly to Hyde Park corner and curled round Gros- venor Gardens. And still the men shouted hoarsely, and still little chil- Gren waved their small flags and still women cried, "God bless you" and Good lucki"
 At the United States Embassy.
 Outside the American embassy in Grosvenor Gardens the crowd was enormous. But no halt was made and there were no speeches. The Amer ican ambassador, MT. Page, took the salute as his countrymen passed, and standing by him were Mrs. Page, Ad- miral Sims and members of the em- club close by Canadians showed what a Canadian cheer can be.
 Then the Americans went onward to Buckingham Palace to march by the king of a people as free as those 1 of the great republic and to hear the ! greatest cheer ever raised in London. !
 In field marshaPs uniform the king saluted each section as it passed, and those who were near him saw the pride in his eyes and the smiles as he talked, a little later, to MT. Lloyd . George.
 Present with the king were Viscount French, Sir Francis Lloyd, Colonel Lassiter, the An erican military at tache, and his aid-de-camp, Captain 
 In the Green park the troops were allowed a brief rest, and after they had joined in the general cheers for his majesty they had some refresh ment, and made their way to Water loo.
 And here they came to the final stage in the journey so far as the public was concerned, and perhaps that is why there was an emotion shown such as is rare in England. For 1 to so many of us, is a liv- ing place of mystery and pain, and of the most joyful home comings. But we have had to hide our emotions, and there have been no bands and no great cheers to help our soldiers. From all the stations whence men nave set off to the wars it has been n silence and in darkness.
 But now it was splendidly different. The bands were there, making great music, with American national airs. { The station was crammed with peo- )le Before the soldiers entrained Y women from the station canteen ihowered cigarettes on them, and lurried along with trays of fruit.
 Although no one was allowed on he departure platform, hundreds of leonla hought nenny tickets which I rave them admission to the platform l
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21

If this little world tonight Suddenly should fall through space In a missing, headlong flight Shrivelling from off its face, As it falls into the sun In an instant every trace Of the little crawling things Ants, philosophers, and lice, Cattle, cockroaches and kings. Beggars. millionaires. and mice,
 Men and maggots-all as one As it falls into the sun Who can say but at the same Instant from some planet far A child may watch us and exclaim: See the pretty shooting star."
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21

of a college training are a false idea of manliness. a false conception of good fellowship. and a false interpre- tation of true sportsmanship. It is. hen, fortunate for Yale and her stu dents that they have on their faculty man who has all his life kept his mind and soul and body clean-a man whose word is the word of his alma mater: Lux ct Veritas'; Light and Truth.
 Since the entry fo the United States in the war. Taft has been made q major general in command of the American Red Cross No better man. no sincerer worker. and no finer gen tleman could have been selected for the position.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21
HOW NEWS OF THE GREAT WAR COMES
 DAILY ID AFRICA

| The war has from the first, been
 brought right home to Africa. The four German colonies, over which the
 war extended, have an area more than four times as great as Gremany. and
 there has been long and hard fighting
 in all of them except in Togo. Outside
 and within these areas of actual war
 fare live thousands of whites who arc
 intensely interested in the European
 struggle. It may surprise many to
 know that not few of these whites.
 even in the depths of Africa, are re- ceiving the essence of the news every day and are well informed as to the most vital facts of the days war his tory.
 When Livingstone died on the south coast of Lake Bangweolo. A years ago, England did not hear the news for 10 months. The place of his death is only 135 miles from Elizabethville, in the southeast part of the Belgian Congo. where two newspapers now print war dispatches from Europe every day This town stands in the great copper region of Katanga, with a large white population and 90,000 black men in its mines. Nearly 500 miles to the west is the large native kingdom of Lunda. Some 300 Bel gians. who direct it's industries, are eager for war news,a and so the dis patches printed at Elizabethville are sent on by wireless. which is now spreading the news to many parts of Africa.
 The cable lines that skirt all the coasts of Africa are the basis of the present prompt war news service. England first connected Africa with Europe by ocean cables. In the famous battle of Isandhiwana, South Africa, fought in 1879 between British and Zulus, the native warriors killed in day, with their javelins, 800 of the British regulars. It was important % inform the British government of the great calamity as soon as possible, but there was no cable, and it was five weeks before the news reached Europe. The English then encircled Africa with cable lines; and these have been supplemented by cables o' other nations far into the interior, ana wireless extensions of the telegraph ic service.
 Even the Sahara desert is now part ly belted by telegraphic line. a French enterprise, with wireless ex- tension to Timbuktu Thus this once mysterious city of the Sudan is now in touch with the great events of the day. The Belgian Congo is efficient ly served by the French cable to Li- breville and the land line to Stanley Pool, where navigation of the Upper Congo begins The news is then wired up the Congo to the mouth of the Kasal river, 37O miles above the mouth of the Congo, and then by wire less to Stanley Falls, S70 miles above the Kasal.
 These are only the more conspicu ous examples of the great progress that has been made in bringing the former Dark continent into close | touch with the rest of the world. It seems possible that a condensation of the leading war news of yesterday . may be read by many persons in Africa before it is distributed to the American public. for the sun is blaz ing in the African sky while dark ness still covers the western world.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21
An Optinist

I'm surprised to find you working over a gun" commented the gentle stranger at Crimson Gulch.
 Well" replied Broncho Bob, Three finger Sam is on a rampage and he has dropped some hints that he is particu- larly irritated against me
 But you ought to be an optimist." 1"
 What's an optimist?'
 An optimist is a man who smiles and believes everything will turn out for the best"
 Well. ain't an optimist this min ute. But I will be as soon as l get this automatic oiled an some car tridges into her. er."-Washington Star. Gan your wife see two sides of a question:"
 Yes: her gown and her mothers.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21
M GenerOsitys

An old fellow on his deathbed. in making his will. murmured to his law yer: And to each of my employees who has been with me twenty years or more l bequeath 20O0 pounds. ' Holy smoke What generosity" the lawyer exclaimed. "No. not at all" said the sick man. You see. none of them has been with me over a year. but it will look good in the papers. won't t?"-Liverpool Post.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21
Rosary

l know not how. but as I count
 The beads of former years. Old laughter catches at my throat With the very feel of tears.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21
" d rLust


 The dark grows long and its crisp air cold; Winter comes with her challenge bold:
 The Call of the Open Road. Fortune veteran, pawn to die In distant land alone; Deep Tn quiet grave to lie Unmarked, unsung, unknown
 This is the price that must be paid To go that Road heart unafraid Faith within, and simple prayer To the God of Men for strength to bear; Master of soul, damn the dare
 And out on the Open Road. What of the end that surely comes, And what of the deathmound heap? What of the cost that finally sums? Pay it 'Tis poor and cheap.
 Hope and Cheer in my caravan, walk the Open Road a Man.
 -Dempster O. Mu
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21

Mir. Charles Hanson. member of parliament for Bodmin, will be the new lord mayor of London MT. Hanson is chairman of the Gresham Insurance company.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-21

Rumor is a great liar.