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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22

The Canadians have held strongly and the Germans have suffered very heavy casualties, as they must have expected from the nature of their counter thrusts in which no thought is given to the cost in life.
 TWO OFFENSIVES MEET The striking feature of the battle iies in the fact that the Germans also have massed troops for a counter attack at dawn against the newly acquired Can adian positions in the northwest environs of Lens and had actually started thelr advance, when they were surprised by ercountering the onrushcing Canadians in No Mans Land Both offensives had be- gun at the same hour, but heavy mist apparently made the Germans unaware of the Canadians preparations until the Canadians were upon them with the bay onet.
 BITTER FIGHTING
 Brief but bitter fighting occurred in No Mans Land. The German officers tried to rally their men, but the enemy infantry gfadually fell back to their trenches. The Canadians followed and
 
 of bombs down among great numbers of troops which had been collected for the attack. The Germans tried to flee through the communication trenches. but the Can- Eadians jumped among them with bayonets and bombs. killing many The Canadians took up new posts to depth of several hundred yards, which they are holding against bitter counter thrusts. | On the southwest the Canadians were equally successful after very heavy fight ing, in which the British artillery was brought into play, The most strenuous fighting late in the day was proceeding in the center of the line west of Lens and on little front near the left of the ! northwest positions, but the whore line was a seething caldron.
 OBJECTIVE IS GAINED The Canadians have achieved their im- mediate object by drawing their lines still closer about the heart of the city and their goal unless the German counter at tacks succeed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22
Two Onrushing Forces Meet h No-Man s Land;
 Canadians Victorious
Terrific Struggle for Possession of Lens Contin- ues Throughout Day-Wave After Wave of Germans Are Broken as They Are
 Sent Forward in Desperate Eff
 fort to Regain Lost Lines

British Front in France and Belgium August 2The fierce battle which began at dawn today the outskirts of the city o continued throughout the day at close quarters and late this afternoon there dmuniton in the intensity of the struggle between the attacking Canadians and the Germans with
 
 then the Germans been sending fnsn1 in desnera rate ecoune
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22
BIG REDUCTION,

BIG REDUCTION
 The prices fixed range from 20 to s5 per cent under the maximum of s fixed by government officials and operators at a conference here more than a month ago, Prices recently have ranged far above the $S limit. The fixing of prices was the Presl-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22

 | All official Washington tonight was hopeful that Secretary Wilson's eff | forts will be productive of good results. ] At no time since war was declared has I coal been so important in the nations
 war making calculations. This was full t ly demonstrated today by the fact that | President Wilson called off the regu- l lar Tuesday meeting of the cabinet in order to give his entire time to the the appointment of coal dictator The fact that President Wilson seldom calls off a cabinet meeting gave added inn portance to the coal crisis
 WILSON ARRIVES TODAY
 Secretary Wilson will arrive in Bir- mingham Wednesday afternoon via the. Southern He intends to plunge imme- diately into the strike question and will confer informally with representatives of both sides Thursday morning al 10 o'clock he will have formal confer ence with representatives of the miners and at o'clock Thursday afternoon he will meet a committee representing the operators Future conferences will De determined after the meeting with the operators.
 i LENGTH OF STAY UNCERTAIN Just how long he will remain in Br- mingham was uncertain tonight, al- though he hopes he will be able to tbrins the factions together in the shortest possible time so that he can return to Washington to resume his duties. Secretary Wilson has many im- Iportant questions pending and he can lil afford to be away from Washing ton any longer than is absolutely nee essary Friends of the secretary were hopeful that he will meet the same success in Birmingham that he had in Pennsylvania last May. strike by 80, 900 miners in the cen traI Pennsylvania bituminous fields ap- peared inevitable until Secretary Will son personally interviewed and ar ranged a satisfactory compromise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22
DIRECTIVE IS GAINED

The Canadians have aehieved their im- mediate object by drawing their lines still closer about the heart of the city and their goal unless the German counter at tacks succeed.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
Diet, Exercise or Death i!

An eminent medical authority writes
that most of our city folks die of thick
ening Of the arteries or of kidney dis
ease. The kidneys become clogged and
do not filter the poisons from the blood,
and one trouble follows another, high
blood pressure damages the heart, arteries
and kidneys. Usually its danger signals
are backache, pain here or there, swollen
feet or ankles, rheumatic twinges or
spots appearing before the eyes.
"The very best remedy is this: Eat
meat but once a day, or not at all. Plenty
of outdoor exercise, and drink pure
water. frequently. Before meals take a
little Anqric, the great uric acid neu-
drug store. When you have. dizziness,
chills or sweating, worry, or dragging
pains in back, try this wonderful enemy
to uric acid, which DR.. Pierce of Buffalo,
N. Y, discovered and named Anuric
Anuric, more potent than ithia, .dissolves
uric acid as hot water does sugar."
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
German Plot Against United States
Bens Order to Its Mexico City Minister to Form GermanMex
caapanese Alliance Against the United States the Break
Came Between the Kaser's Government and Washington

MISUNDERSTANDING is the text of the Instructions sent
oy German Foreign Minister Zimmerman Berlin to Minister
Eckard in Mexico City, ordering the latter to propose to Caranza
the projected alliance between Germany Japan and Mexico
"Ben JAM 49, 1917-On the 1s of February intend to
begin submarine warfare unrestricted In spite of this it is our in
tenon to endeavo to keep neutral the United States of America
M this attempt not successful propose alliance on the
following basis with Mexico That shall make together and
together make peace We shall give general financial support and
understood that Mexico to econqer the lost territory in New
Mexico Texas and Arizona The details are left to for settle
men
"You instructed to inform the president of Mexico of the
above the greatest confidence soon as is certain that there
will be outbreak of with the United States and suggest that
the president of Mexico his initiative should communicate
with Japan suggesting adherence at this pa at the same
tme offer to mediate between Germany and Japan.
Pease call to the attention of the president of Mexico that
the employment of ruthless submarine warfare promises to
compel England to make peace in few months
"ZIMMERMANN"
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

The document supplies the missing
link to many separate chains Of cir
cumStanceS, which until now have
seemed to lead to no definite point.
1t sheds new light upon the frequent
ly reported but indefnable movements
of the Mexican government to couple
it's situation with the friction between
the United States and Japan.
It adds another chapter to the cele-
brated report of Jules Cambon, French
ambassador in Berlin before the war,
of Germany's worldwide plans for STIR
ring strife on every continent where
they might aid her in the struggle for
world domination which she dreamed
was close at hand.
1t adds climax to the operations Of
Count Won BernstOrff and the German
embassy in this country, which have
been colored with passport frauds,
charges Of dynamite plots and intrigue,
the full extent of which never has been
published,
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
The Hand of Mexico.

1t is apparent that the proposal had
taken definite form when Zubaran re-
turned to Mexico City from Berlin re-
Gently. His return from his foreign
post was covered by the fact that Car
rama had called in many of his diplo-
mats for conferences"
1t was declared by a high japanese
authority on Wednesday night that if
the German proposal of an alliance
ever reached Tokyo it was regarded as
merely a new ebullition of German
'kultur" and that it was thrown in the
wastebasket where it belonged.
He' asserted no such proposal had
been made to the embassy here and
that if it had been no attention would
have been paid to it.
He said: '"The whole idea was abso-
lutely preposterOus."
In order to make an alliance with
Germany, he added, it would be neces-
sary for Japan to break from the allies
and negotiate a separate peace with
the Teutonic powers. But above all
that, he said, the Japanese sincerely
desired friendly relations with the
United States.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

IN regulating and assisting all her
natural functions, and in putting in
perfect order every part of the female
system. It lessons The pains and bur-
dens, supports and Strengthens weak,
nursing mothers.
It's an invigorating, restorative tonic,
a soothing and bracing nervine.
Castor oil is good for children or adults,
and especially good for aged people. A
pleasant form of vegetable laxative that
is to be had at any drug store, was in
vented by DR.. Pierce, who put together
May apple (podophyllin), aloes, jalap.
Ask at any drug store for Pleasant Pei
letS," and they can be had for little money.
They contain no calomel and are of veget.
able constituents. therefore harmless.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
Pictures World Dominion.

Germany pictured to Mexico by
broad intimatiOn England and the en-
tente allies defeated; Germany and
her allies triumphant and in world
domination by the instrument of un-
restricted warfare
A copy of Secretary Zimmermann's
instructions to Won Eckhardt, sent
through Won BernstOrff, is in posses
sion of the United States government.
The document has been in the hands
of the government since President Will
son broke off diplomatic relations with
Germany. 1t has been kept secret
while the president has been asking
congress for full authority to deal with
Germany, and while congress has been
hesitating. 1t was in the presidents
hands while Chancellor Won Bethmann-
HolIweg was declaring that the United
States had placed an Interpretation on
the submarine declaration "never in
tended by Germany" and that Ger
many had promoted and honored
friendly relations with the United
States "as an heirloom from Frederick
the Great"
Of itself, if there were no other, it
is considered sufficient answer to the
German chancellOr's plant that the
United States "brusQuely" broke off re-
lations without giving "authentic" rea-
sons for it's action.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
A Delicate Situation.

"Well, how do you like your new
cook?"
"We are highly pleased with her,
but a temporary quietus has been put
on our family arguments"
"How is that?"
"You see, we haven't found out yet
whether she sympathiZes with the en-
tente or the central powers and we
don't dare to express an opinion that
might cause her to leave"
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
EIoquence Appreciated.

"Are you in favor of prohibition?".
SWELL" replied Broncho Bob, 'I've
got only one objection to it. Old Grim
son Gulch is goin' to be kind O. dull
with all the inducements to the tenn
perance orators shut off. ."-Washing-
ton Star.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

Washington, March 3. - Senator
Swanson of Virginia announced in the
senate today that he had been au-
thorized by the president to state the
Zimmerman note of January 10, 1917,
inviting Mexico to join Germany in
war against the United States as pub
lished this morning was textually cor
rect.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
More Power,

"How would you like to be an egg
king?'
'"The egg business is too uncertain.
When the hens get busy the egg kings
oil king He can regulate the demand
by cutting off the supply"
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
GERMANY URGED
MEXICO AND JAPS
TO FIGHT AMERICA
Teutonic Intrigue Against U. S.
Shown in Official Document
Held by Wilson.
PLAN TO RECONQUER STATES

Kaser's Foreign Minister Offered Car
rama Financial Support in Attempt
to Regain Texas, New Mexico
and Arizona-President Has
Copy of Instructions Out
lining Details of Gi-
gantic Plot.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
Two of the Exalted.

WO OF the Exalted.
"My face is my fortune" said the
stage beauty.
Permit me-" replied the soap king,
"to extend the compliments of a self
made man to a self-made woman !''-
London Answers.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
.COLT&DISTEMPER
Customers Always Satisfied With Results

DR.. Klmer's Swamp-Root is one of the
best proprietary remedies on our shelves
and during the eighteen years that we
have handled and sold it, it has been the
means of accomplishing great deal of
received from our patrons who have tested
it and proved it's Value in the conditions
for which it is recommended.
Very truly yours,
GRAY DRUG CO., Inc.
By G. E. Gray, Manager,
June 80, 1915. Steamboat Springs, Colo.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

A dealer in British East Africa is
in the market for Gotten and silk hos
iery.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

Everything happens for the best,
with the possible exception of a tooth
ache.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

One must fight as an archangel for
freedom, but in freedom one must live
as a Saint-Serbian PrOverb.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

The springbok Of South America
will clear from 80 to 40 feet in a single
bound.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

Silence is golden, but an honest man
in trouble never tries to conceal any
thing from his creditors.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

If you wish beautiful, clear white
clothes, use Red Cross Bag Blue. At all
good grocers. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

A salmon often jumps Is. feet out of
the water in going up the falls of
river.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
Seen in a Better Liuht.

seen IN Better Light.
"You don't hear much nowadays
about malefactors of great wealth."
"And for a very good reason"
"Yes?"
ut would be in poor taste to call a
millionaire a malefactor of great
wealth after he had offered his serv-
ices free of charge to the government"
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

For three years I have been selling DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root and have never re-
ceived a single complaint. Every one that
has ever used Swamp-Root seems to be
perfectly satisfied with the results. My
wife and brother-in-law have both used
it and the results obtained were very fa-
vorable. Swamp-Root is very reliable
preparation and worthy of praise.
Very truly yours,
CHAS. MEYERS, Druggist,
June 80, 1916. Vernon, Colo.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
HEALTHY CHILDREN cone from bea'

ne. 1rOH QcalGQy
mothers. And
m o tn erS will
cor t a inly be
h cal thy If
they'll take,D
Pierce'S Favor.
ite tePrescription..
N o ing can
equal itin build
ing up a wom-
ans strength,
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
Catarrh for Years
J - ,sI,;:7 Three No Relief

medicine for it, but they did me no
good. In reading one of DR.. Hart
mans books entitled Winter Catarrh,'
discovered that Peruna was good
for catarrh. After I had taken only
three bottles of Peruna I was cured
Of the catarrh. now advise every
body troubled with catarrh to take DR..
Hartman's Peruna, as it is sure
cure for catarrh.
"F'rfends to whom recommend Pee
runa tell me that it is also good for
headache, dizziness, and pain in the
stomach"
Those who object to liquid medi.
cines can now procure Peruna Tab.
let's.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
Prove What Swamp Root Will Do For You

Send N
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
YOU MAY TRY CUTiCURA FREE
That's the RuIe-Free Samples to Any.
one Anywhere.

We have so much confidence in the
wonderful soothing and healing proper
troubles supplemented by hot baths
with Cuticura Soap that we. are ready
to send samples on request. They are
ideal for the toilet.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

Washington, March 3.-The West
ern Newspaper Union was enabled to
reveal last Friday morning that Ger
many, in planning unrestricted subma-
rine warfare and counting it's conse-
quences, proposed an alliance with
Mexico and Japan to make war on the
United States if this country should
not remain neutral.
Japan, through Mexican mediation,
was to be urged to abandon her allies
and join in the attack on the United
States.
Mexico, for her reward, was to re-
ceive general financial support from
Germany, reconquer Texas, New Mex
leo and Arizona-lost provinces-and
share in the victorious peace terms
fnI
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
What Will Congress Do?

What congress will do, and how
members of congress who openly have
sympathized with Germany in their
opposition to clothing the president
with full authority to protect Ameri-
can rights will regard the revelation
of Germany's Vaccinations to attack
the United States is the subject of the
keenest interest.
Such a proposal as Germany in
structed her minister to make to MeXi-
co borders on an act of war, if, actu-
ally, it is not one.
No doubt exists here now that the
persistent reports during the last two
years of the operations of German
agents not alone in Mexico but all
through Central America and the West
Indies are based on fact.
There is now no doubt whatever
that the proposed alliance with Mex
leo was known to high Mexican Offi-
cials who are distinguished for their
anti-Americanism. Among them are
Rafael Zubaran, CarranZa's minister
to Germany, and Luis Cabrera, Car
ranZas minister of finance.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
Details of the Plot.

Details were left to German Min
lister Won Eckhardt in Mexico City,
who by instructions signed by Ger
man Foreign Minister Zimmermann
at Berlin January 10, 1917 was direct
ed to propose the alliance with Mex
leo to General Carranza and suggest
that Mexico seek to bring Japan into
the plot.
These instructions were transmitted
to Won Eckhardt through Count Won
Bernstorff, former German ambas-
sador here, now on his way home to
Germany under a safe conduct OBJ
tanned from his enemies by the cOun-
try against which he was plotting
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

Learn to do with diligence what you
would do with ease.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

Love is probably the only thing that
has more lives than. cat.
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10

Mr.. Ell Lefevre, Jr., s54 Brush
ST., Detroit, Mich, writes: II had
been troubled with catarrh for num-
Der Of years, and had been taking
The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
Emphasizes Our PerilS.

1t gives new credence to persistent
reports of submarine bases on Mexi-
can territory in the Gulf of Mexico !;
it takes cognizance of fact long rec
ognized by American army chiefs,
that if Japan ever undertook to in
wade the United States it probably
would be through Mexico, over the
border and into the Mississippi valley
to split the country in two.
It recalls that Count Won BernstOrff
when handed his passports was very
reluctant to return to Germany, but
expressed a preference for asylum in
Cuba.
1t gives a new explanation to the
repeated arrests on the border Of men
charged by American military authori-
ties with being German intelligence
agents.
Last of all, it seems to show con-
nection with General Carranza's re-
cent proposal to neutrals that exports
of food and munitions to the entente
allies be cut off, and an intimation
that he might stop the supply of Oil,
so vital to the British navy, which is
eXDOrted from the TamDicO fields.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-21
PHILADELPHIA TROOPS
STILL NEED MORE MEN
Third Regiment Is 400 Short and
Sixth Is 140 Under War
Strength

Philadelphia organizations of the Twenty
| eighth Division of the United States army
the new name for the former Guard units
are nearing the end of their big drive foi
recruits Recruiting officers predict that
all local regiments will be enlisted up to
war strength before they are ordered to re-
port at Camp Hancock. Augusta, Ga.
Regular army recruits yesterday num-
bered 1919, making the total since April 1
ls4.S79 II was announced this afternoon
Pennsylvania led with 176, New York was
second with 157, and Illinois third with 1922.
The Third Pennsylvania Infantry Regi-
ment needs 400 men to bring 1t up to
a war strength of 2002. The Sixth Penn
sylvania Infantry needs 140 men, and the
First Pennsylvania Infantry sixteen to re-
place the soldiers who will go to the second
officers training camp. Ten men who want
to handle heavy field ordnance are urged
to enlist in the Second Pennsylvania Field
Artillery.
Major z. II. sitter. NJ. r. c., Is recruiting
for the Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps. 12l
South Fifth street in the absence of Lieu
tenant Douglas Macfarlane. Lieutenant
Macfarlane has been ordered to the camp
at Monmouth Park. N. J. Major Sitter is
recruiting for battalons of the signal corps
throughout the State who have not their re-
quired quota of men. Telegraph operators,
radio men and electricians are particularly
needed. The radio men will be sent to n
school in New York for special training
1t Is expected that all the units Of the Sig
nal Enlisted Reserve Corps will mobilize
at their camp at Monmouth Park, n, ].
In few weeks.
The remaining companies and greater
part of the National Guard regiments I'm
and near Philadelphia are anxious to fol-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-21
TT OUGHT TO BE COOLER
TONIGHT SAYS BLISS
Weather Man Offers Crumb of
Comfort on Hottest of 10 Days
as Humidity Scars

This was the hottest morning in nineteen
days.
Limp collars and perspiration-dott fore
heads blossomed again today, when Old
Man Temperature and Old Missus Humid
ity linked hands and started on trip
around the city, just to make people re-
member that August was still with them.
After the cool breezes of the last few days,
folks took the discomfort as an unpleasant
ly personal surprise.
1t was cool enough to begin with. at 8
o'clock this morning, when the tempera-
ture was only 49, But by mid-mornng, the
thermometer began exercising on the flying
trapeze and working itself up higher and
higher until by 1 o'clock In the afternoon
1t had hit SO and was getting perilously
near the 90's. The humidity. which was
81 at s o'clock. did its Bit People hugged
the shade In consequence
But "she stuck at SO, remaining there
until o'clock. and then, out of the East
the thunder rumbled and a few dark clouds
built themselves up. The thermometer
dropped degrees as II It had been hit
with blackjack. A drop or two Of rain
fell At g. the temperature was at SO,
at it was 50. and at 1t touched 81.
GaP3 Of relief were audible all over the
uty The weather man. who had been
hedging" up till them confidently pre-
dcted a cool night Earlier In the after
noon he had said that it might rain to-
morrow
On August the maximum temperature
was 90.