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The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
BRITISH RECOVER

LONDON, April 1S.-Reports re-
ceived from the Flanders front this
afternoon state that a severe Ger
man attack southeast of KENNEL
hill pressed the British forces back
a short distance, but that the ground
was almost Immediately recovered
by a counter attack. Severe fight
ing also is reported from near Bail
leul, where the Germans are still
engaged in an attempt to force a
further retirement of the British
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18

LONDON, April 1s.-Official re-
ports received from the various
fronts today contain more encour-
aging news than any received dur
ing the past several days. The war
office is informed that the British
are now holding their own at nearly
all points and in some sectors have
forced the Germans back. The
most disturbing news of the day is
that the Germans have taken LANCE
marck, Poelcappelle and one other
town to the north of Ypres, where
they have followed up the retire
ment of the British lines in front
of Ypres.
From Messines ridge southwark,
the Germans have hurled them
selves against the British lines in
a series of assaults and have suffer
ed tremendous losses, without dis
turbing the defending lines. The
British artillery and machine guns
are cutting the attacking lines down
with an incessant fire.
The British have retaken the town
of Wytschaete, having forced re-
tirement of the Germans at that
point at an early hour this morning.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
WANTS SIX MONTHS

NEW YORK, April 1S.-Premier
Clemenceau, who is II years old,
does not want to die until victory IS
in sight for the Allies. While under
going an examination recently, he
said to the specialist: Tell me if
l can continue for six months. That
is all l want" He was informed by
the doctor that he was good for
more than six months.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
HUNS SUFFOCATED

LONDON, April 1S.-A report
from the Flanders front states that
two thousand Germans, who were
caught without gas masks. were
suffocated by a British gas attack,
during the heavy fighting west of
Armentieres this week. 1t is be-
lieved that the majority of the Huns
were put out of commission per-
manently.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
AMERICANS IN FRANCE

WASHINGTON, D. c., April IS.
There are reasons for believing
that there are fully three-quarters
of a million American troops in
France at the present time, to which
number forty thousand are being
added weekly. 1t is claimed that
the United States will have a million
men in France by June and another
million before the close of the pres
ent year.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
PLAN BIG BLOW

WASHINGTON, D. c., April IS.
Reports received in this city in
dictate that French and American
troops are preparing to deliver 4
mighty blow against the Germans.
War department officials refuse to
discuss the question, but it is under
stood that the Allies consider the
time almost ripe to launch large
counter offensive, in which the
Americans will take very prom
inent part, cooperating with the
French. Developments are being
awaited eagerly.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
ATTACKING HEAVILY

LONDON. April 1s.-Field Mar
shall Haig has advised the war office
that intense bombardments were
started by he enemy early this morn
ing along the Lys front, the attack
extending from end to end of the
battle line. Infantry attacks follow
ed the bombardment in several sec
tors, but the Germans have been
unable to advance their positions.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
DON'T LIKE WEST

WASHINGTON, D. c., April IS.
According to advices received in
this city, Austrian troops in Ukraine
have refused to do service on the
Western front or in Italy. The re-
ports state that several attempts
have been made to transfer the
troops, first to Flanders and later
to the Italian front, where an Of
fensive is imminent.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
WHAT, INDEED?

AMSTERDAM, April 1S.-The
kaiser is reported to have visited
the battlefield west of Cambria re-
Gently, where he viewed the devasta-
ton wrought by his armies. Only
once, while he gazed on the scene
of destruction, did he break the
silence and then he remarked:
What haven't l done to preserve
the world from these horrors?"
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
CHANGES MADE IN
BRITISH CABINET

LONDON, April 18-Announce-
ment was made today of the ap-
pointment of Lord Derby, as min
lister extraordinary to France. His
place as secretary of state for war
has been filled by the appointment
of Miner, and Austen Chamberlin
has been named as member of the
war cabinet.
The newspapers are calling for
the return of Robertson, former chief
of the imperial general staff.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
FRENCH POUNDING GERMAN LINE NORTH OF PARIS
NEARLY A MILLION YANKEE TROOPS NOW IN FRANCE
IRON HEEL WEIGHS
HEAVILY ON SLAVS

MOSCOW, April 1S.-The village
of Novoselki has been burned by
German troops and many of the in
habitants killed. as the result of
the refusal of some the peasants to
comply with the demand for money
When German officers entered the
town to requisition money, they
were attacked by mob of residents
and one of the officers was killed,
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
TAKE NEW SECTOR

With the American Army, April
1s.-The American forces operating
on the Lorraine front, have taken
over full control in No Mans Land.
Patrolling parties are now making
nightly visits to the German wire
entanglements, in front of the
American trenches, and thus far
have encountered no resistance.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18

commander of the British Fifty
army, in which that officer declares
that it was largely due to the assist
ance of the American engineers
that the British were able to check
the German advance in Picardy. He
commends the Americans highly for
their bravery and intelligence. He
says they behaved like veterans and
carried on their work with marvellous
dispatch.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
PROTESTS
DISGUST CAPITAL

SEATTLE, April 18.-Arrivals
from the national capital bring the
report that officials of the various
departments are becoming tired of
receiving protests from Alaska. They
say that charges of all sorts are be-
ing wired daily from Juneau by
the various factions, involving both
the governor and the delegate, with
the result that Washington is as
Stunning an attitude of indifference
to questions affecting the North
Ruv That ;herv Rond Todav
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
ATTACK REPULSED

PARIS, April 1S.-The war office
announces that strong German de-
tachments made an unsuccessful at
tack on the French positions near
Corbeny, on the Aisne front, last
night. The enemy was forced to
make quick retirement and suffer
ed heavy losses. ~ :...:== IT, .-.~ .:
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
POOR UKRAINE

WASHINGTON, D. c.. April Is.
The state department is in re-
ceipt of advices which state that it
is the intention of the Teutons to
dissolve the Ukrainian rada and to
install an Austro- German govern
ment over that unfortunate country,
and making of Ukraine a Teuton
colony.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
STILL WANT AMIENS

OTTAWA, April 1s.-Dispatches
received in this city this afternoon
from the French headquarters state
that the Germans are concentrating
north of the Somme river, which is
regarded as an Indication that they
have not abandoned the hope of
reaching Amiens.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18

Walter Goyne arrived in town
yesterday, with four passengers for
the lower river Two are going to
Ruby, one to Tanana and the fourth
to Hot Springs. The journey was
resumed this morning.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
OFFENSIVE EXPECTED

GENEVA, April 1s-Both Ger
man and Austro-Hungarian news
papers continue to talk of offensive
operations against the Italians and
it is believed that the Teuton COM
manders are planning an early at
tack in that quarter.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
ARTILLERY BUSY

+. PARIS, April 1s.-The war office
has been advised that heavy artillery
duelling is in progress to the north
of Montdidier, but there have been
no infantry attacks there today.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
AMERICANS SAVED DAY

With the American Army, April
1S.-General Pershing is in receipt
of a letter from General Rawlinson,
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18

whereupon orders were issued to set
fire to the town and machine guns,
which had been stationed about the
town, were turned loose on the
residents, many of whom were shot
down as they tried to escape from
the flames. Many women and child
rem, who had taken no part in re-
sisting the requisition, were among
the victims.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18

Mrs. Sunni is a recent arrival IN
town, having made the trip from
Fairbanks to receive treatment at
the Government hospital.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
BRITISH SURROGATE
TWO THOUSAND HUNS

forces. The British lines at that
point are holding firmly however.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18

Buy That Libery Bond Today.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-06-04
SHOULD BE STOPPED

Editor Star: Several days ago, and
again yesterday, l visited a friend of
mine on the other side of town, and
both times some of her neighbors who
have airguns, kept shooting at birds
the whole time l was there. My friend
said one afternoon one of the shots
hit her in the back, and that her hus-
band who happened to be sitting in
the swing with her at the time, called
to them to be careful where they
shot. If the birds are killed off this
way we won't be able to raise any
vegetables on account of the worms.
Reader.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-06-04

speaking of money" said my sea-
faring friend of the Maine coast, 1--WE
used to have an old man here named
Goodtie1d When he was young he
used TO sing in the church choir-that
didn't cost nothin'-and married one
of the Endorses, but didn't have only
one child. and it died, and time he got
to be about sixty-eight years old he'd
saved up and was hirin' out his mon
ey at about as high a p cent. as any
body. Made it all just tradin' and
befn careful what he spent. Care
full? lie wouldn't buy hisself pair
of brijches but once in eight years,
and WHEN his old sister that lived with
EN- says one day she was bound to
see what the inside the pitcher show
theater looked like just once before
she died, why, old Goodfeld and his
wife says that was the last straw, and
they fixed up and had her hauled off
to live on the county. His wife was
Just the same as him, too.
"Wen, along about the middle o
the hard winter, three years ago,
Goodfield took sick, and his wife told
the neighbors they both thought it
was a pretty good thing, comm on
him in the cold weather that way, be-
cause fuel was so high and person
in bed don't need to use any. They
wouldn't hear of calm in the doctor,
and for two or three weeks the neigh
bors and old friends, most of 'em, was
sure he was goin' to die, but then
he begun to look so well there didn't
hardly seem to be much hope,
Old GoodfieId Walks In.
He got to goin' out and shamblin'
around again, and for awhile there
wasn't nobody noticed anything much
different l reckon l was the first,
and it come about mighty queer. 1t
was like this: I was workin' in my
shack one night pretty late, tryin' to
spell out what was the matter with a
carburetor I'd brought up from my
boat, when there come a tap on the
door, and old Goodfield walks in.
was kind o. surprised TO see him, but l
didn't say nothin' 'cept Good evenfn','
and all of sudden he says Do you
know how much money FL WORTH
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-06-04
GLAD TO TESTIFY
Says Watoga Lady, Gas To What
Cardui Has Done For Me. So
As To Help others"

Watoga, w. Va.-hirs. S. w. Caldwell,
of this town, says: "'When about Is years
of age, suffered greatly Sometimes
would 60 month or two, and had
terrible headache, backache, and bearing.
down pains, and would just drag and
had no appetite. Then :. it would lass
-. two weeks, and was so weakening,
and my health was awful.
My mother bought me a bottle OF
Cardui, and began TO improve after
taking the first bottle, so kept it up till 7
took three. - gained, and was well
and strong, and owe it al TO Cardt1i.
/ am married now and have 3 c.ildrcf.
Have never had to have a doct1r so1
female trouble, and just resort 10 CaTGui
il | need toric. am glad to testify 10
what it has done for me, SO as TO help
Others"
IT you are nervous or weak, have head
aches, backaches, or any of the other
ailments so common to women, why not
give Cardui a trial? Recommended by
many physicians. In use over 40 years.
Begin taking Cardui today. 1t may
be the very medicine you need.
NC-130
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-06-04
SPEAKING OF MONEY
Just How the Goodfields-
The Stingiest Couple in Town
Helped the Red Cross
Bv BOOTH HARRINGTON
OF the vlaiIantes.

HE said It just like that-nothln'
before it-and said, For the Lords
sake, Mr.. GoodfieId, what's the mat
teri" He looked kind of funny to me.
I'm worth a hundred and twenty
four thousand three hundred and six
ty-three dollars and fifty-one cents,
he says.
"'Well, by Orry / says.
"Well, sir, he begun to pant like
he'd been runnin' up a hill; he got to
heavin' like a winded horse; then he
begun to cry and sob like a woman
that's all excited when some ones Just
died. We'll, by Orryr l says. You
better set down and quiet yourself 1
says What's the matterY
81 got to die he says. Is been
SICK he says. I been sick and l got
to die!
"'Well,' l says, we all got to die
HE KEEP straight on cryin' and
pantin' and sobbin'
YES he says, but never knowed
l had toI l never knowed 1t before 1
was sick. l kind O. thought / WOULDN'T
RELY hat to, when it come right down
to it.
"'We're all fixed that way l says.
We all got to have some sickness we
won't get over
well, sir, he let ont yell that just
about rose my hair. The rest of you
amt got a hundred and twenty-four
Thousand three hundred and sixty
three dollars and fifty-one centsr he
hollers. And / got to dien he says I;
and he KEEP on kind of shoutin' it. I
got to die! / got to diet / got to
der And then he pitches over before
I could catch him and fell down on a
couple o. busted lobster traps.
sole Cap Whitcomb, he woke up in
his shack next door and put on some
clo'es and come in, lookin' scared to
death. Him and me picked Good
field up off the traps and got him
home. half carryin' him. and him kind
of whimpsrin' and slobberin' right on
to when we left him doubled up on a
rickety chair at his own house.
Next day he was around, just
about the same as ever. and never
said no+hin' about nOthin', and the
week after that be took Fred Owens
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-06-04

boat In for a debt, and you couldn't
told there was anythin' the matter
with him. What l mean, you couldn't
told nothin' on him in daytime, but
after dark he'd go shambIin' all
around the village, and then when it
got late, if he see a light somewheres,
he'd go in there and have a spell Just
the same he had with me. Scared
people with them spells, he did.
The Last of Goodfield's Money.
Long about September his wife I'D
and surprised everybody, because she
went to all the expense of havfn' the
old man declared insane and hauled
off to the asylum. He cut his throat
with a piece of broken bottle up there,
and the funniest thing happened-they
found the old woman dead the same
afternoon in their house here. The
court gave the estate to trust COM
pany, and | guess that was the end of
old GoOdheld's hundred and twenty
four thousand three hundred and six.
ty-three dollars and fifty-one cents.
"Well. sir, you know all that about
old Mr. and Mrs Goodfield made a
AAAA-N "a q SNAoeAAADA3J eAS SOu Cali
ii, and there was quite a good deal of
thinkin' and talkin' about It here I'm
the village. There was some that
claimed they f1ggered out how it all
was meant to mean sOmethin'.
Anyway. when the call come from
Halifax last December we sent off
mighty near half a carload of first
rate clOthin' right in q few hours, and
there was two hundred and seventy
odd dollars subscribed just in the VII
lage, and you know there wasn't hard
Iy any Of US real sure we could see
the winter through ourselves.
'Yes, I'll put my name down for the
Red Cross, and I'll shell out. / guess
you won't nave much trouble gittfn'
subscriptions from the rest, either.
'. g got a good many boys from here
over there now. and we wouldn't like
to think of 'em shot and Iayin' out in
the fields twistin' around and nobody
to tend 'em because Us at home hadn't
found out yet that its a mistake to
think we're still goin' to have our saw
ms right nice and with US when~we'rS
deadF"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-06-04
METHODIST BIBLE
CLASS FOR MEN

Everybody seems to realize just
now that cooperation is the order of
the day, whether it be in building
ships, operating railroads or selling
cucumbers, but we didn't know until
Sunday morning that it had its place
even In running a Sunday school
class. We can well remember the
time in the long, long ago when as a
good little boy we went to Sunday
school, both morning and afternoon,
on each Sabbath day, and that the
teacher was the whole push, he doing
all the talking and all the reading,
while the boys were debating the
merits of the game played the after
noon before.
But all this is changed today and
the teacher Or leader who can get an
expression of opinion in regard to
the lesson being studied from the
greatest number of individuals in a
class, is the most successful along
that line of work, because he keeps
the closest attention of the students
Today the teacher of a Bible class
is the Pershing or Foch or Haig. He
studies the work from every angle
and lays out his plans, but it is the
boys and men on the benches who
do the work. They are the men on
the firing line or in the trenches and
it is up to them to carry out those
plans to a successful conclusion, and
nowhere can better illustration of
this be found than in the mems Bible
class of the Methodist church of
Ocala under the leadership of Mr.. M.
n. Little.
Sunday morning by the unavoid-
able absence, thru sickness, of Mr..
Little, the class was in charge of Mr..
A. C. Blowers. He evidently had made
a thorough study of the lesson and
one can imagine how interesting it
was made by tn epart taken by such
men as DR.. A. l.. Izlar, Mr.. H. M.
Hampton, Mr.. ]. P. Phillips, Mr..
Crago and Messrs. Baxter, Lattimer,
Bryant, Taylor, Colbert, McAteer,
STRIPPING, Clyatt and Tompkins, to-
gether with others whose names are
not known to US. We can't help think
ing that there are many men in this
city-if they did but know it-who
would be both interested and benefit
ed by dropping in there on Sunday
morning.
Try it ONCE. H. C. P.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-06-04
WHAT THE VICTORY or
DEFEAT OF GERMANY
MEANS To EVERY AMERICAN

Contributed by ALBERT PAYSON,
TERHUNE, author and gIobe-uotter.
to the National Security Leagues
campaign of Patriotism Through Edu-
cation)
Germany's victory would mean all
that the alarmists have said-the set
back of humanity, democracy, civiliZa-
ton, rights of man, etc. But, to Amer
lea, it would mean infinitely more.
1t would mean our first national de-
feat; and, thus, would smash our per
feet record for victories-a record al
old as our nation-a record that means
more than the right to brag. Even a.
beaten army never wholly regains its
old form-even as a beaten ring cham
pion sinks at once into desuetude-so
our nation tits traditions of victory
gomez would suffer far worse deteriora-
ton than the mere fact of defeat could
inf1ict
1t would mean that the man who has
risked all in his country's struggle for
Right could never again feel his former
calm certainty that Right must tri-
umph. Thus, the moral tone Of the in
dividual, as well as of the nation,
would inevitably be lowered.
This country has never embarked In
a war of conquest. From 1775 to the
present we have fought for Liberty or,
for Union or for the Oppressed-ever
for some sterling principle of right.
From childhood we have been taught
to believe that the high unselfishness
Of our war aims has given us the vic
tory. We have seen the decay or de-
struction Of men and nations that have
battled for dominion-as Germany is
now battling. Should we fail in this,
our mightiest war for the Right, the
average man must lose forever the
simple Faith which has led our dear
country from pothingness to its pres
ent estate. For that Faith, more than
for anything else, our sacrifice is a
hundredfold justified.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-06-04

Miss Merris Carroll, who has been
visiting Miss Rose Wolff for the past
two weeks, returned to st. Petersburg
yesterday afternoon, accompanied by
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-06-04

Misses Rhoda Thomas, Eloise Bou-
vier and Ralph Simmons went to
Jacksonville yesterday to attend the
Epworth League conference which is
in session there. Miss Annie Laurie
Boyd accompanied them as a Junior
League representative.