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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-11-21
ADVANCE FIVE MILES

LONDON, Nov. 21.-The British
forces in Palestine have now advanced
five miles northwest of Jerusalem, the
war office announces.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-11-21
THE WEATHER

For Indiana by United States
Weather Bureau-Generally fair to-
night and Thursday. Warmer to-
night
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-11-21

Today's Temperature
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tory was launched by the Germans
and, although the French on the left
and the British on the right fell back
the Canadians stayed where they were
put.
Right here ] can mention something
which will give you an idea why de-
scriptions Of this war don't describe il.
During the first gas attack the Cana.
dians, choking to death and falling
over each other in fight against
new and unheard Of terror in warfare
found way-the Lord only knows
who first discovered 1t and how he
happened to do ito stay through a
gas cloud and come out alive. 1t isn't
pretty to think Of, and it's like many
other things in this war which you
can't even tell Of In print, because the
simple description would violate the
nice ethics about reading matter foy
the public eye which have grown up in
long years Of peace and traditional de-
cency. But this thing which you can't
describe meant Just the difference be.
tween life and death to many of the
Canadians that first day of the gas.
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AZ Dawn Broke We Made Out a Big
Painted Sign Above the German
Front Trench.
Otticial orders now tell every soldier
what he is to do with his handker-
chief or a piece of his shirt If he is
caught in a gas attack without his
mask.
The nearest can come in print to
telling you what the soldier is ordered
10 do In this emergency Is to remind
you that ammonia fumes oppose chic
rine gas as a neutralizing agent and
that certain emanations of the body
throw off ammonia fumes.
Now that I've told you how we got
from the Knickerbocker bar and other
places to situation which was Just
100 yards from the intrenched front
Of the German army In Belgium
might as well add couple Of details
about things which straightway put
fear Of God in our hearts. At day.
break one of our Fourteenth platoon
men, standing on the firing step, push
ed back his trench helmet and remark
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We learned moro the first week of our
actual training in England than we
did from November to April in Cana
da. make this statement without
fear that any officer or man Of the
Canadian forces alive today will dis
agree with me, and I submit It for the
thoughtful consideration of the gen.
tlemen who believe that our own
armies can be prepared for service
here at home.
In this war every man has got to be
a specialist. He's got to know one
thing better than anybody else except
those who have had intensive instruc-
ton in the same branch. And, besides
that, he's got to have effective general
knowledge of all the specialties in
which his fellow soldiers have been
particularly trained. I can illustrate
this. Immediately upon our return
from first leave in England we were
divided into sections for training In
eight specialties. They were: Bombing,
sniping, scouting, machine gun fight.
ing, signaling, trench mortar operation,
bayOnet fighting and stretcher bearing
I was selected for special training In
bombing, probably because was sup
posed, as an American and a baseball
player, to be expert In throwing. With
the other men picked for training In
the same speciality, / was sent to AL
dershot, and there for three weeks,
twelve hours a day, threw bombs,
studied bombs, read about bombs, took
bombs to pieces to see what made
them tick and put them together again
and did practically everything else
that you could do with bomb, except
eat 1t.
Then was ordered back along with
the other men who had gained this
intimate acquaintance with the entire
bomb family, and we were put to work
teaching the entire battalion all that
we had learned. When we were not
teaching we were under instruction
ourselves by the men who had taken
special training In other branches.
Also mt certain periods Of tho day we
had physical training and rifle prac-
tice. Up TO the time Of our arrival In
England intensive training had been
merely "A fine phrase with u.s. During
our stay there II was definite and
overpOwering fact. Day and night we
trained, and day and night 1t rained.
At o o'clock we would fall into our
hunks I'm huts which held from a half
to u whole platoon from thirty to six
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all battles and tells OF the hell Of Il. ''The
front In Belgium was really q rest sector
IN comparison with It," he says The ex-
tensive preparations Of the allies for open
warfare afterward abandoned because Of
the failure Of expected developments.
NO. 6.--Wounded In Action. This article
describes the terrible fight, the dead and
dying. the loss OF a pal and the final fall
ing OF McClintock In No Mans Land. Sim
ply told. It Is one Of the most remarkable
descriptions Of q battle by q participant
ever put together.
NO. 6..-Decorated Por Bravery; Home
and Uncle Sam. This concluding article Of
the series relates In detail how England
cares for the wounded. How the king and
queen came to the bed OF an American
boy and decorated him in q London hos
pital for gallantry. Interesting. intimate
and amusing incidents told by and Of the
wounded Tommies. Trying to fight for
Uncle Sem.
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NO. LIN Training. How the men are
finally brought to the firing line. A de-
scription OF conditions that our own boys
and their parents will read eagerly.
NO. 1.-The Bomb Raid. The great prep
arations and rehearsing for this attack
Volunteers for the Job taken behind tho
line where the German trenches are exact
ly reproduced. The days Of preparation.
Heretofore unwritten detail Of modern
trench raids. This article concludes with
the men going out to their Job.
NO. 5.-"0ver the Top and Give 'Em
He'll" The English Tommys battle cry
as he breaks from his trench. The bomb
raid and what happened. OF sixty that
started forty-six failed to return because
the Germans had prepared and mined the
trench. Graphic description OF Sergeant
McClintock's terrible experience
NO. 4.-Shlfted to the Somme., Sergeant
McClintock takes part in the greatest OF
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II DON'T lay claim to being much Of
a writer. and up till now have
never felt the call to write any
thing about my experiences with the
Canadian troops I'm Belgium and
France. because I have realized that
q great many other men saw quite as
much as did and could beat me tell
ing about IL. OF course I believed that
my experience was worth relating. and
I thought that the matter published In
the newspapers by professional writ
ers sort OF missed the essentials and
lacked the spirit Of tho bitches" In a
good many ways I'm spite Of its excel
lent literary style. but didn't see any
reason why IL was up to me to make
an effort as war historian until now.
Now there Is a reason. as look at II.
1 believe 1 can show the two or three
millions Of my fellow countrymen who
VIII be "out there before this war Is
over what they are going to be mp
against and. what they ought to pre-.
pare for personally and individually.
That is as far as am going to 60 In
the way OF excuse, explanation or COM
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10
WELCOME,
EiGHTY-SEvENTN CANADIANS

We were a new battalion. We had
peen less than seventy-twO hours on
the continent Of Europe, and the Ger
mans were not supposed to know any
thing that was going on behind our
lines!
We learned afterward that concealed
telephones in the houses of the Bel
glan burgomasters Of the villages Of /
Dinkiebusch and Renninghelst, near
our position, gave communication with
the German headquarters opposite us.
One or the duties Of detail Of our
men soon after that was to stand these
two burgomasters up against a wall
and shoot them.
In concluding this first article want
to say frankly that any man who
claims he Is not afraid when for the
hrst time he goes into that hell of fire
on the western front Is liar, and IN
tell him so to his face. Later we be-
came impervious, but that flrst day
l prayed, and I would have bent down
and prayed only my knees shook 80.
The five remaining articles in this
remarkable series will appear one each
week. They are as follows:
No. 2-The Bomb Raid.
The great preparations and rehearsine
TOT tfis attack. Volunteers for the fob
taken behind the line where the German
trencnes are exactly reproduced. The
days OF preparation. Heretofore unwrit-
ten detail Of modern trench raids. This
article concludes with the men going out
to their job
No. a-"over the Top and Give EN-
He'll"
The English Tommy's battle cry a. he
breaks from his trench. The bomb raid
and what happened OF sixty that start
ed forty-six failed to return because the
Germans had prepared and mined the
trench Graphic description of Sergeant
McClirtocks terrible experience.
No. 4.-Shifted to the Somrne.
Sergeant McClintock takes part in the
greatest OF all battles and tells of the
nell or It. The front in Belgium was
really rest sector in comparison with
It," he says. The extensive preparations
u tho allies AOr open warfare afterwaro
abandoned because Of the failure Of ex.
pected developments.
No. 5.-Wounded In Action.
This article describes the terrible fight.
the dead and dying. the loss Of a pal and
the final falling of McClintock In No
Mans Land. Simply told, 1t is one Of the
most remarkable descriptions Of q battle
py a participant ever put together.
No. 6.--Deeorated For Bravery; Homo
and Uncle Sam.
This concluding article Of the series re.
lates In detail how England cares for the
wounded. How the king and queen came
70 the bed Of an American boy and dec
GRATED aim In a London hospital for gal
lantry. Interesting, intimate and anus.
ing incidents told by and Of the wounded
Tommies Trying to fight for Uncle Sam.
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''0VER THERE
The Thrill and the He'll of
the Trenches, Described
by an American Boy.

Sergeant Alexander 1IcClintock Of Lex.
ington, KY, and the Canadian Army Has
Gripping Tale That Every American Will
Read, For He Tells the Facts-Unadorn-
ed. Wounded, Distinguished Conduct
Medal Man, He Was Invalided Home,
but Il 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 the
Trenches.
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ment. call IL what you will. The rest
OF my story Is a simple relation of
facts and occurrences In the order in
which they came to my notice and hap
pened TO me. IL may start Off little
slowly and jerkily. Just as we did. not
knowing what was coming to us. ia
like 20 add that II got quite hot enough
60 suit me later several times. There
fore. as my effort is going to DO to
carry YOU right along with me I'm this
account OF my experiences, don't be
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ID that he thought 1t was about time
for coffee. He didn't get any. A Ger
man sharpshooter, firing the first time
that day, got him under the rim OF his
helmet, and his career with the Cana
dian forces was over right there. And
then, as the dawn broke, we made out
big painted sign raised above the
German front trench. 1t read:
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make q Break"

Through my training in the v. NJ.
l., was able to read semaphore sig-
nails, and I caught the message from
the destroyer which escorted us. 1t
read:
Each ship for herself now. Make
a breakr'
We beat the other steamers Of our
convoy eight hours In getting to the
dock in Liverpool, and, according to
what seemed to be the regular system
OF our operations at that time, We
were the last to disembark.
The majority of our fellows had nev-
or been In England before, and they
looked on our travels at that time as
d fine lark. Everybody cheered and
laughed when they busted off one OF
those little toy trains and brought 1t
up to take us away In It, After we
were aboard Of 1t we proceeded at the
dizzy rate Of about four miles an hour,
and our regular company humorist-
no company complete without one
suggested that they were afraid, If
they went any faster, they might run
Off the island before they could stop.
We were taken to Bramshott camp, in
Hampshire, twelve miles from the
Aldershot school of command. The
next day we were given kings leave"
Eight days, with free transportation
anywhere in the British Isles. 1t is
the invariable custom to give this sort
Of leave to all colonial troops immedi-
ately upon their arrival In England.
However, in our case Ireland was bar
red. Just at that time Ireland was no
place for newly arrived Canadian
looking for sport.
After that they really began to make
soldiers Of us. We thought our train
Ing In Canada had amounted to some
thing. We found out that we might
as well have been playing croquet.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10

Feb. IA, 1917
Sergeant Alexander McCntock served in the
Battalion Canadian Grenadier guards September 1915
November 1915 the last four months Of that time
in France where he gained the Distinguished Conduct by
his devotion to duty and bravery urder FIRE.
As his former commanding officer testify to his good
qualities and consider he would make valuable officer
(Signed) F. 8. MEIGHEN,
Brigader General Commanding Canadian Training Division
Bramshott
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Metagama. "A British cruiser escorted
us until we were 400 miles off the coast
Of Ireland. Then each ship picked up
a destroyer which had come out to
meet her. At that time a notice was
posted in the purser's Office informing
us that we were in the war zone and
that the ship would not stop for any
thing, even for man overheard. That
day soldier fell off the Metagama
with $700 In his pocket, and the ship
never even hesitated. They left him
where he had no chance In the world
to spend his money.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-10
NO.l. In Training
BY Sergeant Alexander McCIlntock,
d. {. NJ, 87th Overseas Bait.
Canadian Gren. Guards.
Copyright 1917. by the Rsli Syn
dicate. Inc.
FOREWORD.

Here "a a literary product schich "a at
osce on admirable example Of the force
Of simple reaksm ia the description of
things schtch are ,li1lcuh of ordinary
comprehension, and handbook and
0nide for eperv prospecttpe soldiv of
osr armies.
Sergeant McClintock has not toritten
stories about the scar. He has tcritten
the 1or tfsel5, reducing IL, one might
almost say. TO tcords. of ono syllable,
yef bringing to the readers vie,c, clear
w and ctcidlv. the vartoxs aspects of
the ersaf struggle, hidden to all except
the man scho 10 actually a port of II.
He contributions to the history Of the
scar mast Dc cldssed as one schtch
shines Uith neso light.
H 10 fascinating IN Its simplicity, yet
thrilling IN dts convincin0 detail. It
leads one, tCifh euer0rotcing and COM
pellin0 Interest, from q casual CONFER
satios fn a hotel In Neto York through
scenes of styife and blood and thrilling
conflict to the moment tchen the king
and queen of Enoldnd came to the bed
eide Of q Kentucky youth In a London
hospital to thank him IN the name of
their nation for his services IN the
couse tohich zoe have noto come to rec
ognise as that Of toorld humanity.
Sergeant McCHntock received the DIS
fin1uished Conduct medal before leav-
ING Es0iand for homo on lcave. He ts
returning TO accept a commissions In the
Canadian overseas forces. The story u
told IN hcCHstocks oicn Gnadorned
Uav.
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In the Front Trenches.

We got into POperinghe at 7 q. M,
and the scouts had led us into the
front trenches at the next morning.
Our position was to the left Of st. Eloi
and was known as 1.-The island" be-
cause It had no support on either flank.
On the left were the User canal and
the bluff which forms it's bank. On
the right were 300 yards of battered
down trenches, which had been rebuilt
twice and blown In again each time
by the German guns. For some rea-
son, which I never quite understood,
the Germans were able to drop what
seemed q tolerably large proportion of
the output Of the Krupp works on this
particular spot whenever they wanted
to. Our high command had concluded
that 1t was untenable, and so we, on
one side Of 1t, and the British, on the
other, had to just keep it secuted and
protect our separate flanks. Another
name they had for that position was
the "bird cage" That was because
the first fellows who moved into II
made themselves nice and comfy and
put up wire nettings to prevent any
one from tossing bombs In on them
Thus, when the Germans stirred up
the spot with an accurate shower Of
"whiz bangs" and "cOal boxes" the
same being thirteen Founders and six
inch shells, that wire netting presented
spectacle Of utter inadequacy which
hasn't been equaled IN this war.
They called the position which we
were assigned to defend "the grave
yard of Canada" That was because
OF the fearful losses Of the Canadians
here In the second battle of Yprcs.
from April 81 to June I, 1915, when
the first gas attack In the worlds his.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-09
236 GERMAN DIVISIONS
IN ACTION ON 2 FRONTS

fANlS, aug, y,
Far from having exhausted its man power
on the eastern front Germany IL using
cighty-eight divisions, or approximately
i.ti50O0 seasoned first-line troops. against
The Russians and Rumanlans
These figures were obtained today from
members of the Russian mission now in
Paris. They confirm the belief recently
expressed that Germany purposey falsifed
the statements as to her population before
the outbreak Of the war. II Is pointed
out that. had Germany's population been
only So. 900. 900 as the prc-war census
showed, she could not have produced the
man power already shown in the course
~ the war.
II il estimated by competent war OK
perts that. In addition to the eighty eight
divisions Germany is maintaining on the
eastern front, she Is using i4S divisions
against the British and French In the west
II is evident, say military experts. that
Germany Is using young and vigorous
troops on the eastern front, otherwise they
could not have made such rapid progress
in their pursuit OF the Russians through
Galca and Bukowina.
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DENSE SMOKE CLOUDS
MASK GERMAN GUNS
BY HENRY WOOD
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES AFIELl
Aug. g.

WITH THE FltENIt AttM les aflfsbD,
Aug. Q.
Great masses of smoke clouds hang over
the German lines today as the French and
the enemy exchange blows along various
sections of the front.
Unable to wrest from the French the
mastery of the air, and thus prevent French
aviators from flying over the German lines,
the enemy is now taking recourse on a
larger scale than ever before to smoke
clouds which conceal the location Of their
guns.
The moment "A French aviator appears
over the German lines. huge clouds of
smoke Immediately rise and are continued
until the aviator disappears. The Germans
first began using smoke cloud- to mask
their batteries on the Flanders front. They
soon brought II into general use.
A smoke generator has now been devel-
oped by the Germans and is part of the
equipment of every battery. The smoke gem
orators are known as "nebeltocpfe" among
the Germans orders found on recently
captured Germans SHOW that they are
placed at least ESQ meters from a battery in
the direction from which the wind is blow.
Ing and at intervals of eight meters apart
Emplacemcnts are prepared around each
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-09
TEUTONS FIGHT FIERCELY
TO PUSH FOE OVER SERETH

GENEVA, Aug 2.
Field Marshal Won Mackensen's Austro-
German forces in the Rumanian province
OF Moldavia are fighting desperately TO
drive the Russo Rumanians back to the
River Sereth. said a Vienna dispatch today
This fighting centers in the zone where Won
Mackensen launched his recent counter-of-
fensive. between FoCsani and Marasheshti.
The Teutons have managed to cut the rail-
way between those two towns and are now
trying to advance on Tekutchiu. First, how
ever, they must drive the Russians and
Rumanans across the Sereth and then win
crossing for themselves
tTekutchiu lies upon the raiiway running
northward from Ga!atz to Jassy, the tenn
porary Rumanan seat of Government
Gaatz, great shipping point, is on the
Danube and still remains in possession of
the Rumanians. If the Germans succeed in
their enterprise the Rumanians will have
to give up Galatz, with its stores of grain)
In some sectors Of the eastern front, nota-
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French Thrust Wins
NelU Line at BirschOOte
Continued from Page One

carried out daring raids behind the Ger
man front. bombarding railways. supply
tonment
Extensive movements behind the German
lines, reported by aerial observers today.
were believed to indicate growing nervous
ness On the part Of the enemy, as the
days pass without a general resumption
Of the Flanders offensive.
Quick thrusis are being made at the
German lines along the entire front by
both British and French forces. Field
Marshal IIaig having established a rcpu-
taton for mixing his blows there is the
greatest speculation regarding where the
big uuurh will come.
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SUFFRAGE PICKETERS
FLAUNT NEW BANNER
Philadelphia Woman at Senate
Hearing Assails Presidents
Academic Habit of Mind"
WASHINGTON. Aug. Q.

WASttlNbION, HuB ~
Suffrage pickets at the White House this
afternoon Haunted the first Of a new series
of banners. press-agerted as very hot
Today's banner was as follows:
Mr.. President, do your best for de-
mocracy at home before forcing millions
Of men to fight for II abroad.
A hevy of suffragists today appeared be-
fore subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary
Committee to protest against a proposed
amendment to the espionage bill which
would prohibit picketing. The amendment
gives the War Department power to guard
establishments.
President Wilson seemed to he the oh
jective of the debate. most Of the women
taking occasion to criticize the chief Execu-
tive. OF seven witnesses five of them had
done time" for picketing
Maud Younger, of California. protested
that the only way the suffragists could
reach the President was by pcketing
president Wilson has an academic habit
of mind" Miss Mary Winsor. of Philadel-
phia declared. HE has been lecturing
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Cautious
on Price of Gas


Continued from Page One
ALI along the line before the winter Is over
10 adding impetus to the demand Of tax
payers that the consumers get the diree'
beneft of the gas reduction.
There was Indignation and protest in
many quarters today over the stand of John
NJ walton, city Controller, in. hatly OPP
noslng the giving of the five cents to con.
sun,ers. He declared yesterday that the
city needed every cent of revenue It could
.pcf and that It was necessary that the five
cents go into the City Treasury.
"If we give Philadelphia nlnety-ive-cent
gas at this time" he said, 1--WE shall have
to place a tax of a few additional cents