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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-24
6 YEAR OLD EGGS DESTROYED.
l3 Tons In Liquid Form Taken From
Storage.

Harrisburg, Dec. 2d--,lamcs Foust
dairy and food commissioner, has an
nounccd he has just destroyed one of
the largest quantities of liquid eggs ever
placed in cold storage in Pennsylvania.
The liquid eggs were in $40 cans in a
Philadelphia storage house and had been
there since 1912. Analysed by Doctor
La Wall and Doctor Rosenbcrger, of the
chemical division of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture, they were found
TO bc unfit for food and so tagged.
The liquid eggs weighed between
twelve and thirteen tons Each can was
opened, being in frozen state, and then
dcnaturcd with kerosene oil by the
owners of the eggs, in accordance with
the State law requiring eggs which are
dccaycd and unwholesome To be dena-
turcd so they cannot be used for food or
in the preparation of food.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-24

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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-24
444 KILLED IN BATTLE
IN 3,063 CASUAL TIES
More Than 1900 Severely Wound
ed and 632 Missing IN Action
in Overseas List.

By Associated Press to Every Evening
Washington. Dec "a The following
casualties are reported by the command
ing general Of the American Expeditionarv
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-24
Only One "Bromo Quinine."

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Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets Look
for signature Of T. w Grove. Cures
Cold in One Day. 30c ADV
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-24
Routine Business Before Preachers.

occupied the time Of the weekly meeting
Of the Methodist Preachers Association
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-31

At the end of the week asked tlss
I NJ. o. IL l would get biishty and he
said he didn't think so---not directly.
He rather thought that they would
keep me in hospital far a month or
two and see how came out, The
officer was Canadian ana had sense
of humor and was most affable.
/ told him 10 this jamming want
going to get me bliEthy J. wanted to
go back to duty and get q real enc.
He laughed and tagged me for q
beach resort at Auit-Onival on the
northern coast of France. III
HAPPY AT FRENCH RESORT.
was there a week ana mad bully
time. The place had been fash
ionable watering place before the var.
and when / was there the transient
population was largely wealthy Bel
gians. They entertained good deal
and did all they could for the pieasure
of the 1000 boys who were at the
camp.
The Y. NJ. c. A. had a huge tent
and spread themselves ia taxing care
Of the soldiers There were enter
talnments almost every night--rsevinE
pictures and rausic The food was
awfullv good and the beds comfor-
table, and that pretty nearly spells
heaven 10 a man down from the
front.
Best of all. the bathing was fine
and it was possible to keep the cootiez
under eentrol--more less. / went in
bathing two and three times daily, as
the slopiug shore made 1t just as good
at low tide as at high
think that glorious week At the
beach almost made the hardships OF
ho net IzF Iahfnd al !,
while. MY chum, Sergeant weiis,
who had a quaint Cockney philosophy,
used to say that he liked to have the
stomach ache because II felt SO 9cod
when II stopped on the same thsory
became nearly convinced that a
month in the trenches was good fun
because It felt so good TO get cut.
RETURNS TO THE FRONT.
At the end of the geek | was bet :
ter but still shaky. / started poster
ing the NJ O. to tag me for blighty.
He wouldn't. SO I sprung the same
proposition on him that had ON the
doctor at the base--send me back to
duty II he couldn't send me to Eng
land. The brute took me at my word
and sent me back to the bait
I rejoined on the somme again Just
as they were going back for the Sec
ond time In that most awful part OF
the line Many of the old faces were
gone. Some had got the wooden cross
and some had gone To biighty.
I sure was glad when old wsiisie
hopped out and grabbed me.
Darby" ne said. "Hi sye, an me
thinkin' as 'ow you was back In
hlighty An ere We are, yer biinkfn'
old self Or ia it yer bloomin' Tiicst,
ars<s We. Strike me pink. Ysnk,
I'm glad"
And he was At that I did feel mere
or less ghos,ly. seemed to have Lost
seine Of my confidence, expected
to 80 west on the next time in. And
that's bad way to feel cut there.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-31

. the pocket of his Excellency's dress
suit and hauled out the big prize.
II was the card.
And his swiftly working mind I'M
atantly jumped to the correct concfu-
sion of It's significance.
In reality 1t was a map of the North
Atlantic. the North sea and the chan
mel 1t was divided OF into squares
and each square was numbered.
The secret service agent recalled
the sinking OF the steamer loaded With
steel the week before and the teie-
gram with the blind" numbers
3s6--368--24s-247-
-360-s5s-and SO forth the eele-
gram had read.
The next mail found the card in the
British naval intellnGace ONCE.
s59-was the number of the wire
less blind"
The steel steamer had been sunk in
square $50.
The inference was obvious. The
original telegram gave the routa from
square to square, The wireless mes-
sage told the submarine when ana
where to expect the steamer.
There's the story without the thrills
OF mysterious women and daring g.
capes. Norway watches her teiegrAphs
with the eyes of hawk nowadays.
So do the other neutrals.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-31

Escapes With His Life

I gether for big try at throwing tn,
weight off my cksaAst | was absolutely
helpless. Then again | slid out o
consciousness.
II was dark when / struggled vi
through the imaginary water again
was stlll breathing in gasps and
could feel my heart going in grea
thumps that hurt and seems to shake
the ground My tongue was curlsC
up and dry and fever was simply
burning me up.
Ny mind was clear. I found
could raise my head a little apd cock
ed it up, squirting over my check
bones---I was on my back-and coulC
catch the far-off flicker OF the silver
green fare lights. There was a rat
the OF musketry off In the direction
where the Loche lines ought to be
From behind came the constant boom
OF big guns. l lay back and watched
1he stars, which were bright and un-
commonly low.
Then shell burst uearby--net
near enough 10 hurt, but buried as
was the whole earth seemed to shake
My heart stopped beating and | went
out again
When 7 came 90 the next time II
was still dark and somebody was iii
ing me onto a Stretcher. My FIRST
impression was OF getting a long
breath. / gulped it down. and with
every grateful inhalation I felt my
ribs painfully swapping back into
place. oh lady. Didn't I just eat
that air UP.
And then having got filed up with
the long denied oxygen / asked;
Where's the others 20
E..gz 4
reply
And there weren't, Later 7 recon
structed the occurrences of the night
from what I was told by the rescuing
marty
TAKING ACCOUNT or STOCK. Il
4 big shell had slammed down on
US. killed Bonsie. the man IN the
middle The shell was a "dud" that
is, it didn't explode II it had there
wouldn't have been anything what
ever left oH any of us. As 1t was
or oyerhane caVed In. letting sand.
bags and earth down on the remaining
maH and myself The other man was
buried clean under, He had life IN
him stil when he was dug out, lsIt
went west IN about ten minutes
The fourth man was found dead
from sbrapuel. found. too that the
TWO tI-"t'NfHFg men WHO Nat gone
hack with Mr.. Nav had both been
Killed ON the way IN. So out Of the
twelve men who started on thu ''sui
eide club stunt + was the only one
left. E}inklv was Stijl inside my tunlo,
and I laid the luck ail To him.
Back in the hospital I was found 10
he suffering from shell shock Also
my heart was pushed out or place
There We're no houes broken, though
was sore all over and several ribs
were pulled around so that II was
like n Knife thrust Mt every breFh h.
Resides thar my nerves were shat
tered I Jumped foot at the slight
est noise and twitched q good deal
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-31

NC discovered that we were al nearls
starved Killing is hungry worn
We had only ourselves To blame
We had been told repeatedly never e
go anywhere without iron rations,
nut Tommy is a good deal OF a chile
and unless you show him the immedi
he turned tail and skedaddled fol
home.
IN FEARFUL SHELL FIRE.
Bonsie began to philosophize on the
cold -hloodedness OF air fighting, ant
really worked himself up into an al
most optimistic frame of mind. II,
was right in the midst Of flewery
Grafton on our comparative safety
nesting on the bosom of Mother
Earth. when. without any warning
whatever. there came a perfect ava
lanche of shells all around US
/ knew perfectly we'll that we Were
caught. The shells. as near as we
could see, were coming from our side
Doubtless our people thought that the
trench was still manned by Germans
and they were Smelling for the bis
noon attack Such an attack was
made as I learned afterwards hut
never saw it,
At ! O'Clock looked at my watch
Somehow I didn't fear death, although
/ knew 1t was near. I turned 10 Bon
sic and said
What about that safety stuff. old
top"
We may pull through yet" said
he
Don't think So" insisted TITS
US for pushing IN the daisies. Good
luck II We don't meet again"
put my hand in and patted BNnky
on the hack ard sert up another little
prayer fer luck Then there was #
terrific shock ana everything went
black.
When I came out of it had the
sensation of struggling up out Of
water. I thought for an instant that
! was drowning And in effect that
was almost what was happening Z
me, I was buried, all but one sids 9
my face. A tremendous weight
pressed down on me and could only
breathe In little gasps.
l tried to move my legs and arms
fingers and toes To see II any bones
My right nostrN and eye were fun of
dirt Also my mouth. ! spit out the
dirt and moved my head until my
nose and eye were clear. / achsI all
over
ii was along toward shutdown, Up
aloft a single airplane was winging to-
ward our lines, 7 remember that
wondered vaguely il he was the same
fellow who had been fighting just be-
fore the world fell in on me.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-31
Brilliant Detective Work Reveals Simple Nautical Chart
by Which U-Boats Located Ships With Such Accuracy

his letters we're all delivered he
walked two or three Mocks cut Of his
way TO leave an unstamped letter In
the office or German Wholesale paint
dealer, Another days watch con-
tirmed the deduction that he was given
this letter at the watched house.
Colors of the paints specified neutral
ships, black for Norwegian. blue for
Swedish, red for Danish and 50 forth
II Il ship were conveyed q series mum :
Der indicates the class of the battle
ship. Other ordinary trade terms in
dictate her tonnange and speed
In due course copies of these tele-
grams were forwarded to the British
naval intelligence office It was t.
matter of comparison only to discover
extent OF the wireless messages.
But where the wireless message
contained only one baaf-ing number
the messages filed In Bergen carried
several battling numbers- The Brit
ish secret service men in Bergen haa
concluded that they were blinds"
added 10 the telegram merely to con-
fuse any attennt at their DECIDING.
If It had not been for the presidency
OF the British secret service agents If
Bergen there Is no telling when the
teit-taIe card OF TINS story would have
been found 1t was this persistency
that brought one of the agents in the
guise Of an escaped prisoner from
British internmeut camp to the Ger
man consul There was not a flaw I'm
his story.
They're good 10 their countrymen
in the way of finding them work. and
this chap soon found employment rs
caretaker in a house OF one of the
principals OF the spy system, He had
hoped to land in the house where the
naval intelligence was gathered. bur
as events proved he served his pur-
pose as well in the house In which he
was employed
On he was an admirable valet. was
this chap. lie began by shining shoes
80 well that they gave him their
clothes to press, Fla was "a marvel
lous presser He hated his Job, you
may be sure.
But the repuision Of handling their
clothes was smothered IN the joy of
reading the correspondence that they
earelessly left In their pockets One
morning early last Nav the British ee-
cret service man dipped his hand in
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-31

ate reason for thing he is likely 4
disregard instructions. / rather blam-
ca myself In this case fer not seeing
that the men had 1aelr emergency
food, In fact it was my duty to SEES
that they had. But / had overlooked
it. And l hadn't brought any myself
The iron ratIons" consists OF pound
of bully beef" a small tin contain
ing tea and sugar, enough for two
doses, some Oxo cubes and a
few biscuits made OF reinforced
concrete. They are issued for just
such an emergency as We We're in as
we lay In our isolated duEout The
soldier is apt to get into that sort OF
situation almost any time. and it Is
folly to ever be without the ration.
EXCITING AIR FIGHT OVERHEAD
There was a considerable lombard
n,ent going on all the forenoon, but
few shells came anywhere near us
some shrapnel burst over us a httls
way OF to the right. and some of the
fragments fell In the trench. but on
he whole the morning was uncom
Portable but not dangerous.
Around I0:ae we saw an airplane
fight that was almost worth tho fore
moons discomfort. A lot of them had
been circling around ever since day
break. When the fight started two OF
our planes were nearly over It's. Sud
denly NE saw three Boche planes vol
planning down from away Up above.
They grew bigger and bigger and
opened with their guns when they
were nearly on top of our fellows. No
hits. Then all flve started circilng
tor top position. One OF the Boches
started to fall and came down spin
ming. but righted himself not more
than a 1000 feet up. Our ntt-guns
opened on him and we could see the
sh ellis bursting with little eottony puFfs
all around. Some of the shrapnel
struck near Us,
They missed him and w he went
again. Presently al, Ave came cireling
lower and lower, jockeying for posi-
ton and splitting away with their guns
As they all got to the lower levels
the anti-guns stopped firing, fearing
to get our men.
Suddenly one of the huns burst in
to flames and came toppling down be-
hind his lines his gas tank ablaze
Almost immediately one of ours
dropped. also burning. and behind the
Boehe lines.
After that II was two to one. and
the fight lasted more than ten min
utes. Then down went a Hun, NOT
affre, but tumbling end over end he
hind our lines, learned afterwards
that this fellow was uuhurt and was
taken prisoner. That left It an ever
thing. We could see half a dozen
planes rushing to the assistance of tho
lone Roche. He saw them too. For
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-31

That daring young American soldier, Corporal Holmes
continues in The Sunday Vnan today the thrilling account
OF his personal experiences while fighting with the British army
in France
He tells today of his astonishing experiences when for
ward with special squad bomb the enemy trenches
bursting shell buried him with dirt leaving only his face
posed and he forced remain buried in the ruined trench
for fifteen hours.
Corporal Holmes wounded twice while the western
front and finally hons recuperte He meet
ing with great lectng in this country before clubs
and other organizations.
Holmes
Wounded old BliGhty."
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-31

AGAIN BECOMES UNCONSCIOUS
1 tried t. sing out to the rest of
the men. but the best / could do was
a kind of q loud gurgle. There was
no answer My head was humming
and the blood seemed TO be bursting
my ears. ! was terribly sorry for my
self and tried TO pull my strength to-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-31
CANCER CURED AT THE
KEILAAM HOSPITAL

The record of the KeliAm
Hospital is without parallel h
history. having cured without
the use of the Knife, Acids. T.
Ray or Radium. over 90 pag
cent of the many hundreds a
sufferers from Cancer which h
has treated during the page
eighteen years. We want svegY
man and woman In the UnfteA
States to know what we are de-
ing. KELIAAM HOSPITAL, 1e1v
w, Main st.. RichmenA. Va
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-31

BY CORPORAL II. DERBY HOLMES,
or Boston, Formerly of Twenty Sec
ond London Battalion OF the Queens
Royal West Surrey Regiment, II. VI.
Imperial Army.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-31

Corporal
nd 10 BiIahty."
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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-25
ISLAND OF HELoOLANO- -
AN IMPORTANT PAWN IN =
SERMANT'S PLAY FOR SUPREMACY
AT SEA

IN August, 1914. a War Raw-Ma-
teriaIs Section was organized under
The auspices OF the Prussian War Of
fee. Administrative corporations Of
various agencies providing the raw
materials were attached 10 this body,
end a war Office CommisSary was as
signed to each as managing director
and supervisor. Closely associated with
these agencies were distribution off,
GERS. whose orders for allotments of
materials were carried out by COM
panies made up of representatives of
the raw materials section and the con-
sumers. In addition, war committees
we're formed to maintain an eQui-
Ilhrium between demand for and sup
ply OF raw materials. These commit
tees Increased production by opening
new mines md reopening old ones
They supervised more intensive cult
walton Of the soil. They encouraged
the invention of substitutes, such as
paper yarns, nettle-nbre cloth, syn
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-25

partment Of Economic Affairs. a fea-
ture of the Commissionary's investiga-
ton was the conclusion that combi-
nation OF State Socialism and individ-
ual enterprise would be necessary TO
insure proper distribution of raw ma
terial during the transition period. Ii
was insisted on the part of small man
ufacturers that raw materials should
be distributed fairly, q reflection OF the
suspicion that the Ia rger manufactur-
ers. who have been especially favored
throughout the war. might insist on
having supply Of raFs materials after
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-25

! well as supervision Of the exports
which were to be exchanged for them.
The character of the raw materials
needed has been set forth In 'Welt
handle" a Bremen Journal. az com
prising material for spinning, hide,
and skins, high grade ores, rubber
timber for ships and furniture. oil pr"
ducing plants, animal fats, fodder, fer
tilizerS, coffee, cocoa. tea, tobacco and
precious metals, and it was pointed
out that the staple supplies ordinarily
come from countries now hostile. as
cotton and tobacco from the United
States, coffee and tobacco from Brazil
wool from Australia and British South
Africa. oil kernels from British and
French West African colonies.
The present Imperial Department of
Economics continues TO discuss ways
of obtaining raw materials. OF the nine
separate sections into which this de-
partment is divided six are concerned
with the study Of them, each section
being assisted by committees OF ex-
perts, for the various groups of ma
terials.
Data have been collected for nearly
all commodities In order to determine
exactly the amount of raw materials
required for their production. Rec
ords are being kept as TO cargo space
and freight agreements made by the
shipping companies. The various sec
lions know now the character and
amount of raw materials held for Ger
man account or contracted for in for
eign countries and to what extent they
will be Immediately available after
pence Is proclaimed.
These plans for obtaining raw mate
rails through an exhaustive inventory
of her needs. governmental control Of
cargo space, and autocratic superyi-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-25

thetic rubber, cotton and wool made
from old rags, and nitrate extracted
from the air. They commanded the
cultivation Of hemp and flax They
increased the production Of aluminium
Finally they requisitioned household
utensils containing necessary metals
and reduced the demand for raw ma
terials by forbidding their use by the
civilian population and their export 70
adjacent neutral countries. 1t was as
a part of this program that the system
attic footing of conquered territory was
carried out.
Much consideration was also given
To the question of raw materials ny the
Imperial Commssary for Transition
Economy before its functions we're
merged with the present Imperial De