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from yesterday

April "a q
This has been a day long to he re-
membered-mv first time ait the real
front! This morning l went off with
a division sanitary inspector in his
car with helmets on and gas masks
"at alert" and drove as far as we
could go. Most of the towns are
nearly completely wrecked, with on
" few houses which can be partly
occupied In many of them few
inhabitants live, but in those closest
to the troublesome big town
saw only couple of old women
and they were about to leave. After
inspecting messes located in some
of the towns we walked up the road
and entered the trenches and went
on and on through the narrow mud
dy bitches, slipping and wading into
the second line, then into the first,
over hills and through valley and
out into lookout posts in No Mans
Land. Il was in post where we had
lost "a men a short time before
Some men were out in No Mans
Land intending wire entanglemenis;
and it being pretty safe in the mist
we had a look around there too! |
went in because ] wanted to see Just
how the men are fed and the condi-
lions under which they live there.
Tomorrow | devote to hospitals here;
then on to another point.
April 26.
Not a letter-not even note
lust a line to ask you to remind me
sometime to tell you about tonight.
I have come about so miles this af-
ternoon to this little cliff town near
which. another of our divisions is in
line This is only few miles from
the line and activity is all about us
On the way this afternoon we had
a puncture; and while it was beina
manded. two planes went over. We
learned later they were boche From
this place tonight I have watched the
| flashes of artillery fire across a valley
and flare lights at freuent intervals
A moderately heavy local attack by
] the enemy is evidently being staged
/ and there is apt to be some party be
Ifcre morning / am sitting on my
cot as I write-in a bare room-quite
bare, in an cd stone house, and my
/ two gas masks are at the head o.
1 my cot, so you see I am quite ready
! for anything. ! dined and am tx
4mess with the division surgeon anf
I other field" officers, j. e., majors
an1 above And the dinner RICH
4 ''cre almost on the line was one o
! the best ] have had in France. Blu
I learned they have French cook.
April 2S
! Well no news that | can write.
! am at the same place from which
/ wrote you last night-with an Amer
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ASIDE FROM FIVE
AILMENTS HE'S WELL

[NlARIETTlA, O., July m.IWihen
Fred Stout, of Weston, w. Va, was
Jailed charged with intoxication, it
developed that he was within the
draft age limits and had not regis
tered.
When taken before the draft board
Stout declared he was tubercular,
had bad heart, incipient symptoms
of locomotor ataxia, fiat feet and
varicose veins.
"Outside of that, you're all right, |
suppose" exclaimed a board member
Stout did not pass the examina-
ton.
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v. VA. DRAFT TEE SOUGHT
GERMANS At CAMP LEE

CAMP LEE, Va, July 11.-"Where
are the Germans" asked draftee
from the mountains of West Virginia.
81 have been in this camp week
and | haven't seen a German yet.
They told me 1 was coming here to
fight Germans.
When told that he was Still i'll the
U. S. A. he replied that he chad
Travelled so long a-getting here that
he thought he was already in Eu-
rope"
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usual, studying the food situation,
talking to men, watching them eat,
looking mo the places called kit
chens. hidden away in odd places
trying to find way to get the best
food and enough of it to men stand
ing and fighting there.
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MADE A MEMBER.

DR. Frank Butler Trotter, president
OF the West Virginia University, has
been notified of his election as
of the national council of the
national economic league, which has
its headquarters in Boston, to repre-
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MONTHLY RED CROSS MEETING.

The monthly meeting of the Mar
finsburg Chapter, American Red
Cross, will besheld ON Saturday even
ing at 7 o'clock at headquarters in the
Peoples Trust Company Building.
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

The State of West Virginia.
AT rules held in the clerks Office
OF the Circuit Court for the County
of Berkeley, on Monday the list day
OF July, 1918.
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WHAT AMERICAS
ANSWER" MEANS

Americas Answer" the Unit d
States official war picture issued by
the division of films OF the committee
on public information. Is not the or
binary press~agent I'D film play. Ii is, a
chapter Of the great drama Of the war.
registered by United States signal corps
photogra pliers. by direction Of General
John j. Pershing 1t is purely GOV
ernment enterprise. No Individual has
any profit interest In the production,
The picture has been made and Il is
presented for public consideration. not
10 maize money-~aithough il must
necessarily produce a revenue in order
ia meet tire expenses involv ed-hut in
order to show the millions of contrihu-
tors TO the several liberty loans the
af thrift; and war starr rs,
;sSpassers. ana those WHO hgsye 50 gen :,
.s-trtie~t---1~ r~-frr
needs ~ the war just how the great
sums have been expended and what. in
a physical way. has been accomplished
in France during the first year OF
Americas participation In the struggle
fer democracy
II shows The wonderful three mile
dock "Semew here in France" built on
swamp land tbs American soldiers. and
row being used 10 expedite the landing
Of our troops and the handling OF the
stupen6ous volume OF supplies with
which the sea from the United states
to the coast Of France Is being hridg ed .
II shows one OF the mammoth refrigera-
tor plants established behind the lines.
La great plant with a capacity for iH,
600, Geo pounds Of meat. and capable OF
producing a million pounds of ice daily
it shows the assembling OF American
locomotives by our soldier mechanics;
the building of railways, the ieveling
|ot French forests 10 secure needed
mher the erection of hospitals and
the building Of great dam in order
To create a reservoir To supply one Of
the largest hospitals with water; 1t
shows how American soldiers live in
camp and on the fighting lines: what
they eat. how the daily tons upon tons
LOT bread is made, how the worn cloth
ing is renovated and repaired by French
women in the service of the American
army: the utilization Of old hats and
cid shoes in a wonderful salvage de-
partmentt the sanitation of the SOL
diers' uniforms by machinery: the endr
less stream of the trucks used to trans
port supplies to the front: camoufa ced
guns. the acres OF shells and other am
munition. the American aero squadron
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HERO LAND" NETS
S610,t66 FOR RELIEF

Especial to The Richmond Vireinian.)
New York, Oct l2-The final figures
by the auditors Of Hero Land the al
lied war relief spectacle. held at the
Grand Central Palace in this eity--juSt
nov taken over by the government for
a great army hospitsl-~were made pub
lie here today and show that this char
ity entertainment melted total of
SslN466.26 for actual relief work on
the part Of the committees, including
the American Fed Cross, the American
fund for French wounded. the Joint dis
tribution committee OF the American
funds for Jewish war sufferers, the
commission for relief in Belgium, the
French heroes Lafayette memorial fund,
the national allied relief committee and
The nearly one hundred other American
and foreign relief organizations which
took part The record is an unpar-
aileiled one in the history of similar un-
dertakings in the United states since
the beginning of the world war and
the gratitude of the various allied ma
tons whose soldiers and civilian popu-
lation benefited through the huge char
itv. is expressed in letters which also
are given out.
Especially notable is the fact that
through the balance over expenses in
general receipts the participating COM
mittees received not merely loo per
cent OF the actual receipts of their
various exhibits, but shared in the
profits. which brought the actual re-
ceipts for the participating committees
To lOS per cent of their gross collee-
tons.
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and, finally. the actual fighting, in
w hieh American soldiers have brought
their country.
America Answer" Is a picture that
every American and every near Ameri-
can should see. it Is ones duty, but also
ones privilege 10 see IT,, The govern
ment's division OF films has done no bet
ter work for the stimulation of loyalty
and the aceentuatIon of the spirit of
giving thae thes assembling and pre-
seBtation Of this most Illuminating war
film. Every motion iheater should snow
IL. Every man. woman and child IN
the city should see It, or IL 1t has not
been booked here they should insist
on being given an opportunity 10 see il.
-nuy Liberty ROnas-
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CpR. qnciny 1oaesinQ theou6k
eA1berta; Wkeot ReIdd

"These are the finest crops I've
seen in the country"
The speaker was one of group
on the observation platform Of q
Canadian Pacific train that had just
passed through the little town OF
Brooks in Alberta. His words were
noted with interest by his compan-
ions; his opinion was worth while for
his work entails much travelling and
he has his finger on the pulse of
trade. Good crops mean full purses
for the farmers, big business for the
small town merchants, big orders for
wholesalers, full time for factories
and, eventually, national prosperity.
ITO what do you attribute this ex-
cellence 2" asked q business man
bound for a-month's recuperation at
Banff in the Canadian Rockies.
ITO irrigation!" was the prompt,
emphatic response.
What about the dry farming
theory that has had so much ex-
ploitation ?" queried Dutch planter
from Sumatra.
"Dry farming is all right in nor
NAL times" came the answer. 1--WE
are, however, living in abnormal
times. The farm lands of America
are called upon to produce their
limit yields in order that the spectre
Of starvation shall not materialize
into reality. To insure big crops
there must be plenty of moisture. If
rainfall is insufficient, water must be
produced otherwise. It's another
case Of 'Mahomet and the Mountain.
The land cannot 60 to the water;
water must be brought to the land.
Result, irrigation.
"Does the result justify the ex-
pense." asked the business man.
at certainly does" replied the
Irrigation Enthusiast. why, look
here, take this section through
which we are passing, it Is sparsely
settled, yet it is estimated that q
quarter million bushels Of wheat will
be harvested from this irrigated dis
trict this fall. Many Of the fields
viii yield from 80 to 40 bushels per
are This is not an unusual yield
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Ifrioatiou Ditch i. cAIbeptA~
Horse ~ kkaatfie1d r1etesr. oaxAda/

for ordinary years, but this is not an
ordinary year; it has been an excep-
tionally hot and dry year. Crops on
non-irrigated lands hereabouts are in
many cases total failures. Here, I'll
give you concrete instance. Powell,
a chap / know, came out here last
fall, bought land, broke 200 acres
and put in wheat. Some Of this
acreage was irrigated in the fall and
twice in the spring and summer, re-
suit will be about 40 bushels per
acre: the land that got no fall irriga-
ton but got water twice this spring
and summer will yield about 80
bushels; some of the land was water
ed but once this year and will bear a
scantier crop. bnt the average is 60
ing to run close 10 IS bushels per
acre. Pretty good for the first year,
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AMERICANS WITH THE SERBS
Macedonia


General Misch and his Serbs have
crossed the Vardar. In one OF those
main combinations OF tactics.
marc hing and mountain fighting
which, in 1915. overwhelmed Austria
In northern Serbia, a handful of divi-
sions have now been carrying all be-
fore them in the south. And everyone
in America has just one wish. that
we were with them.
Well, we are America Is repre-
scented in Macedonia, too 1T has its
brigade. 5000 fighters from Cleveland
and Pittsburg, st. Louis, Chicago
Seattle and San Diego. Their names
may not precisely be American
names. as we still insist on using the
term. And the 5000 may not. to tell
the truth be naturalized Americans
But what is that between friends?
They are there and fighting. Just now
that Is the main thing.
Legally. most of them are citizens
of Austria But they aren't citizens
who love their mother. or stepmother.
country. They are "JugoslaVs. CroatS
and Slovenes and Austrian Serbs, in
America there are virtually no Serbs
from Serbia proper, And they began
to sail for Europe long before we en-
tered the war. You may remember that
Ambassador Dumba complained con-
stantIy that we were permitting re-
u
try There was no recruiting. The
first members of Austria Hungary s
subject races were merely returning
as individuals to make war on her
alone.
How They Got to Macedonia.
Few Inducements were offered them
II they were captured they knew that
they would assurediv be hanged By
Nor own confession Austria has just
made wholesale execution of cap
tured Jugosiavs on the Italian front
Whether they fought in the armies of
France Italy or Serbia, their pay would
lie exactly one cent a day, %4th the
initial privilege. II they had the
money OF paving their own way To
Europe, MANY Of them who sailed
from New York direct. did this. Fer
The ma iority. though, their first step
was to journey quietly across the hor-
der into Canada.
IL the United states wasn't at war
with Austria, Canada was, once ne
mad reAched Canada. ans Croat or
vievene or Austrian serb could reason
ably trust that there would DC &pme-
one there To understand and do the
rest And there was Very coon Ser
hisn and Jugoslaq officers we're being
brought over from Eurnpe. Two train
Ing camps were established, at Lewis,
in Quebec, ana at Sussex, New Eruns-
wick They were adjacent both - the
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especially when you consider pre-
vailing prices.
"Other grains respond to the
stimulus of water accordingly and
the way in which alfalfa and other
fodder crops increase, make the pos
sibilities Of live stock raising I'M
limited.
II didn't mean to give you fellows
q lecture, but / sure am enthusiastic
over this country that gobbles up
automobiles faster than my firm can
ship them. Here's Calgary. l get off
here. So long, hope to meet you
again!"
Guess I'll get off with you" said
the business man, "this waterfed
land looks like good proposition
for the investment of some of my
dollars"
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border and the transports. Within a
few months 1000 American Canadian
Jugoslavs were in uniforms And by
the time they had had their prellm-
mary training others were waiting to
take their place. More than 1000 are
at Lewis now. Meanwhile the nucleus
of this new army had been taking
it's second step. IL was being moved
across to Africa. to the great French
assembly camp at Bizerta.
Serbin's JugOxlav Division.
At Bizerta 100000 1Serbians, all who
were left of Serbias old army. were
resting and training anew. And the
volunteers from America trained with
them. They were given their course in
intensive tactics An officers school
gave the best of them the chance to
win Serbian commissions. And pres
entity division, or what remained of
~, the division Of the Vardar. was
FLIED out to full strength and re-
named the "Ju goslaY.n OF its 5000
men about $4,000 had formerly been
prisoners in Russia, and had worked
their way to the English ships at
AHehHngel. The other 5000 were
americans In due course they had
chance TO take the third step In their
journey TO Saionild. And they have
been winning glory ever since.
we English speaking Americans have
not heard much about them. But there
are 750of0 JugoJavs in the United
States who have. Where we have had
our Lufbery's and Putnams and Quen-
tin Roosevelts, they have had their
Manee's and koyae's and frost 'g--tlse
bravest of the brave on the Cerna front.
Captain frost was a New York hank
clerk, Louis Adamich. another hero.
was a clerk in Cleveland Lieutenant
Frank koyaA was making money in
Pitt sburg-tili he saw his opportunity
to do something better. All America
viii know OF these men some time.
The jugos'av division was assigned
the place of honor and difficulty in
the last advance, the position before
kosiak mountain. And in few hours
they Carried II by storm. Il don't know
how they did It." says an English at
tacne Just back from the Saloriki
front. but they did So there you
are.
What is more, the members Of that
Jngasiov division have apparently had
their wish in another way They
didn't go 70 Europc 70 fight bulgaria.
They went to hghi Austria And, once
they had made the frst break through.
they found themselves a part of that
army which was swung westward
against Pritsp, which is whore the
Austrians are and the Germans. And
for oar Americans" under General
Msjch. they arg all the same.
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but that It covered ms thoughts at
.the time. any way
Not all the men in bis command are
New Workers Some titae ago the
seven tyseventh division had 10 take
on requirements. Many new recruits
came from oreson and other parts Of
the northwest One Ia the frs, bunch
oat of the forest, however was It lit
tie chan who used 10 sell newspapers
around Times square
He was covered with mud. His
eyes were heavy with battle sleep. bat
he was grinning broadly.
The com munder ol the beleaEucred
force was a captain when he led his
men into battle He has since been
recommended for lieutenant colonel
He had six companies with him-thyee
from the first and three from the
second - tlaiions OF his regiment. One
battalion was commanded by Captain
George G. McMurtry, a former New
York hrnker
As hour after hour and day by day
went by there WAS no sign of re-
lieying column The officers IN COM
mand commenced to believe their case
was hopeless ON the fourth day a
soldier told McIurtry that Captain
WhitfIesg Vas talking 20 some Of
fIeers OF another regiment of the d.
vision over in the woods.
McMurtry doubted the story. but
investigated He found Whtttlesy
coRyersine with officers of rehev-
ing force which had just get up Whit
tlesy was eating a sandwich as he
talked.
GIVE Mr..a Rite"
] 81 Nwr.sy waited ever So him. HIS
-1tTsr auIt uTty wdrJfs were.
For Gods sake, give me a bite OF
that" The men greeted the members
OF the relieving column with requests
for food and water They had gone
into the fight with the usuat two-tiay-si
rations For two days they had abso-
lutely no food There was a little
.sprins near where they took up their
position. bat the Germans suiped them
whenever they tried 10 get water.
First they went only Al night. Final
~ they get SO desperate from thirst
that they took chances in broad day.
light The officers posted guard
near the spring TO keep the men from
exposing themselves,
Whittlesy had been ordered To ad-
vance 10 certain position. He ad-
vanced there The Germans slipped
in behind him through an old trench.
Presently Whittlesy realized he was
cut off and surrounded A torrent OF
shell and machine-gun fire and gren-
AIDES came over.
The Americans were on sloping
ground. whittlesy ordered his men 10
dig in They quickly burrowed into
the ground like moles. They had
machine guns and returned the Ger
man fire with these and with their
rifles Fortunately thew had plenty
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CLEAR HOSPITAL STAFF OF
MuSMANAGENfENT CHARGE

Criticism of the management Of the
John Marshall emergency hospital
having reached the state department
of health. DR.. Beverly r. Tucker, act
ing president of the state board OF
health. and his assistant, DR.. r. W.
Garnet Yesterday made an inspection
of the building.
The investigators gave the hospital
STAG a clean bill of health"
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.FLJ" HITS G. 4 o. SHOPS,
MASTER MECHANIC AND AIDES

The Seventeenth street shops of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway company
have felt the heavy hand of the infu-
enxa epidemic In addition to a num-
her OF mechanics and. la borers who are
absent from their duties on account OF
the grippe Master Mechanic M. Flan-
aaanI Charles N pa;p ELI pert ehief efeFk
To the master mechanic, and Frank 3.
Moss general foreman OF the plant.
are down with influenza.
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INFLUENZA SHOWS
HIGH MORTALITY
Greatest Among Soldiers, Hut Heavy
= In Many civil Communities.

| Washington, Oct. ia reliable and
I informative index of the extent and
deadliness of influenza. now epidemic
4 from coast to coast and raging with
varying degrees of virulency In every
part OF the world Is furnished by ori-
tcial statistics made public tonight by
the office of the surgeon-general OF
the army.
! Nearly a quarter of a million OF
American soldiers in American train
7 ing camps and military stations on this
side OF the Atlantic have been infected
by the disease since its outbreak in
/ this country about the middle of Sep
TENDER. About 1e,o00 OF the troops in
! the United states have died from dis
ease of all kinds during the period
practically AL the deaths being d-
trectly trsceable to influenza or pneu-
nenfa or ~ethaF-HtteHtaa cornpttCH-
lions Of the malady. The strikingiy
high mortality is realized when it is
/ considered that approximately one out
of every twenty-six soldiers infected
/ by the disease has succumbed.
The exact figures are 234,Sss cases
of influenza alone and 3o6s7 cases OF
pneumonia since September Is up to
/ noon today. The total deaths from dis
ease In our army camps for the same
period has been 9.f99.
These figures are made public so
that the civilian population may fully
| realize the ravages and death toll oil
/ the plague, thus far III the limited and
| restricted areas of the army camps
/ and may heed the daily warnings and
/ health recommendations being Issued
/ by the government experts and the
| health authorities Of their own com
munities.
The public Is expressly advised tc
avoid panic. but Is cnjoined to calmly
hn fly, u ~. ,,.li.
! " bile there is less danger of infection
| in civilian communities generally the
death rate in Boston and other large
! centers of population at ! per cent
| greatly exceed the rate in the army
| camps computed on a similar basis.
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Flu" Closes Envelope Plant

The plant of the Duplex Envelope
company. of which Archer g. Jones
is president, was closed yesterday on
account or the grippe epidemic,
Until the disease Is checked. the
plant will begin work one hour later
and cease operations an hour earlier.
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MUST PUNISH THOSE
WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE,

Paris. Oct. Limited States Am
hassador SHARP. speaking a a Column
bus day luncheon here tonight said :
After seeing the devastated towns.
/ am unable to see peace until We
enter Germany, and punish these re-
S{tS.o
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SPANIARDS ARE TO TAKE
ALL GERMAN VESSELS

Paris, Oct. 12.-One OF the first acts
OF the new Spanish cabinet, accord
inc to Madrid dispatches Fate today,
was TO decide to seize all German ves-
sells in Spanish ports.
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ONLY NEAR RELATIVES MAY
SEE INFLUENZA PATIENTS

only near-relatives will be allowed
to see patients being treated for in
fluenza and pneumonia at the John
Marshall emergency hospital. it was
announced at the institution last
night, Where a patient has no rel
atives, only close friends will be ad-
paltted