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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-25
ADJUSTMENTS
THE STRAND

Henry Wathall in "His Robe Of Hon
orr, in Seven Reels; Mack Sennett
keystone Comedy; Making Nine Full
Reels at the Strand Today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-25

Lur Sale First class, home made
dairy butter, any amount over five
.bs. @c!ivo~- ywhere in the state.
J. & IT, p Water ST., Randolph.
Tele..D. ". jan22d4t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-25

Bertrand Wentworth leaves Friday
for Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-25

rc lst. offices occupied by
pr rhe back office has brick
,ault ID II. G Barker Co.
rly23dtr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-25

song service at the City Home Fri
day evening at 100.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-25

l.-"od I. Greene left Thursday for
f.ahOTp
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
EX-SENATOR GAUNT DEAD
Nationally Known as Farmer and
Grange Master

George W +. Gaunt former state
senator from gloucester county. die d
today at his home in Mullica Hin. y. J.
He had been a patient at the MediCo-
chi Hospital in this city for several
weeks to the closing of that institution.
His death resulted indirectly from an
accident several years ago when he
fell from hay loft while fighting a
fire nea rhiS home.
Mr. Gaunt was known politically
one of the hest known grange masters
in this country. He served three terms
in the New Jersey state senate and
acted as governor of the state on two
OCca siOns when Governor Fielder was
outside the Jurisdiction - New Jersey.
Mr.. Gaunt was author of the trolley
freight law now in force in New Jersey
and was author of the fifty-year fran
Chse act. lie was conceded to be
one of the most progressive lawmakers
that ever sat in the New Jersey senate.
As farmer he had "A national repu-
tatiOu. For fourteen years he was mas
ter of the State Grange, and during his
term Of Office the Grange membership
was increased from 5000 to 5000 mem
bers lie was for four years lecturer
for the National Grange and in 1903 was
unanimously elected high priest of the
organization
Mr. Gaunt was born in Mantua town
Federal Reserve Bank of this district
No arrangements have yet been made
for the funeral. He leaves widow
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
PASSAGE OF POWER
BILL TODAY EXPECTED
Chairman Sims, of Interstate
Committee, Pushing Emer-
Sency Control Measure
Washington. Sept "a CRy t. y ~

Washington. Sept "a CRy l. y. ~
The House is expected to pass the
Sims emergency power bill today despite
the declaration of some Republican
members that it gives the r,sdent
too much latitude"
Representative Parker, Of New Jersey.
is one Of the Republicans opposed to
the provision permitting Government
control of Il power plant for the dura-
ton of the war and five years there
after. H." would limit Government con-
troll to the period of the war and for a
shorter and more reasonable" time after
its termination.
Parker. however. has returned home
for todays primaries in New Jersey.
and Chairman Sims. of the House Inter-
state Commerce Committee. said he was
confident the measure would he passed
by the House either today or tomorrow.
Before the power bill was taken up
the House considered the NOlan bill,
fixing the minimum wage for Federal
employees throughout the United States
at SO a day. thirty-seVen and half
cents and hour and $50 month, or SlOSO
year. for those 50 'empiOyed. Speedy
dicted,
when the two bills are out of the
way the House will prepare for series
of three day reCesses to permit MEM
hers to return home for the campaign.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24

lam Billough. Clarence A. Baxter,
Romer johnson. Claude l.. Curtis,
Urban Lloyd. John +. Pole, Johnson d.
Carr william MCkerney, James c.
Campbell and Albert r. Croft.
Major Benjamin S. Berry. Fifth
Regiment. Marines: Sergeant Major
Patrick f. O'Farrell, Canadian En-
gineers: corporal Elwood Taylor. En-
Rineers: Leighton S Downey. Fifty
ninth Infantry; David l.. Middleton.
Sixty-first Infantry; Thomas Mean
drewe. Engineers; Richard y. Carroll.
Thomas Bernato. Francis l.. Murphy.
Peter Thomas and Sailors Frank G.
Paxson and John W. Shaw. L. s. S.
Orizaba.
PRISONERS.
Corporal John Killoran. Company
Owen Dougherty. Ninth Infantry; Rob-
ert A. Quann, Sixth Regiment, L. S
NJ. G.
GASSED
Dewey Bowman, Company G; George
F. Gallagher Thomas Hutton. George
NJ. Stewart and william r. Ruth. Com
pany b; First Lieutenant John r
Sproul, Thomas keenan,. Guilday and
Michael d. Guilday, 109th Infantry.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24

north of Market street and south Of AL
leghcny avenue, with n population of
785, 900, or 90 per cent of the State pop
ulation.
Board No. will have jurisdiction OF
the territory south of Market street.
east Of Broad street. containing 81 per
cent OF the State population, or 100000
persons.
Board No. 3 will operate in the section
south of Market street and west of
Broad street. where 100000 persons. or
"a per cent of State population, Is GEN.
tered.
Board No will care for the section
north of Allegheny avenue and west of
Broad street. wherein 1000 persons,
or per cent of the State population,
resides.
Board No will preside over the
district north of Allegheny avenue and
east of Broad street, also containing
$4,000 people, or . per cent
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
ARMY TRAINING AT JEFF
Trustees Announce Students
Corps Will Start Within
30 DAYS

Jefferson Medical College will have
. Students Army Training Corps and
II is planned to start the course within
thirty days. The board of trustees
made this announcement at the close of
the ninety-fourth annual meeting of
the college last night.
Z The college enrolment was announced
as 476, with eighty-five new students. as
against seventy last year l65 the pre-
vious year. and l45 the year before
that.
Z Major W. w. Keen and DIR. Jay Frank
Schamberg, new member of the
faculty. spoke.
Colonel James Terrence Hugh, senior
consulting orthopediC surgeon OF all con-
centration camps and CantonmentS in
the United States, replaces on the fac
nlty of the college this year H. Augustus
Wilson, professor Of orthOpedic surgery
a chair Doctor Wilson held for twenty
six years. Doctor Schamberg takes the
place of DR.. Henry W StelwagOn, of
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
SAILOR "HELPS' POLICEMAN
Volunteer Thief-Catcher Makes
Mistake and Downs Cop

Two alleged automobile thieves. a de-
tective and husky" sailor played
ring around the rosy" for more than
half hour on Market street last night
The sailor thought he was aiding the
detective in running down his quarry.
but a slight mistake on the sailors part
put the detective in the place of the
one of the supposed thieves.
Result--sailor downed cop-one sus-
peCt made good his escape.
Incidentally. the cop-Detective Ner-
delman-.ost one leg Of his trousers and
suffered ''barked" knuckles. The sailor
stood on his hand during he scrim-
mage.
Neidelman became suspicious of the
two men driving touring car and
Jumped on the running board At
Broad Street Station he placed the men
under arrest when they could give no
reasonable explanation. The fight then
start ed.
After chase in which Neidelman
fired several shots from his revolver
one of the men was arrested in an alley
al sixteenth street He gave his name
as George Garfield 9lS West Elghth
street. Wilmington. He will have a
hearing today
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
SOLDIERS PRAY
AS THEY FIGHT
Lieutenant Writes Home
of Conduct of Our
Boys
kNEEL ON BATTLEFIELD
After Pious Supplication Men
Are p and After the
Enemy Again
kNEEL ON BATTLEFIELD

Praying little now and then when
they had a rba,co a,6 srt,i,- ,,,,,,,,
,bo bo,., ~ ,...-
''''''"H w. ''"'" '"'A''''E'
'''""fn un the Germans. This Is the
way First Lieutenant Frank l.. I,vnch,
who comma rded .he companv from
July 30 Urtil he was gassnd Angus, Is,
Describes their conduct in a letter home
The men went down on their lincss many
times on III" battlefield. and then got
un and went after tn" enemy again.
Lieutenant tNnCh lives at 1926 Nor
f0lk street. and In a letter to his wife
S"Iu n" - recovering IN Base Hospital
No -o- At orleans, He was the third
orncer OF the company to fall
Junior First Lieutenant Charles
SChrandt was missing after July Is :;
Captain James Tundel. of Latrobe. Pa.
was killed in action on July 30, and
Lieutenant Lynch. the senior first lieu
tenant, was Eassed in the middle of
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
Motorist Held for Coroner

Joseph McNeigh. eighteen years old,
51O2 Race street. was held without bail
today by Magistrate Harris. in the
Thirty-second street and Woodland ave-
nue. police station, to await the action
Of the coroner in connection with the
death Of Louis Levin. forty-three years
old. l16 North Forty-SeCond street. Levin
died in University Hospital Of frac-
tured skull received September II. when
he was run down at Thirtv-fourth and
walnut streets by an automobile driven
by McNeigh.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
HAMMOND HONORED AGAIN
Soldier at Post Four
Davs Without Sleep

Mechanic Arthur r Hammond. who
won the CroiX de Guerre for bravery at
Chateau-Thierry. has written his wife,
vino is a SeCond-CiasS yeoman in the Of
flee Of the Fourth Naval District that
he has been cited for his action in an
other engagement.
Hammond tells Of receiving the Cro,x
de iiuerre in a letter to his mother, Mrs.
Sallie Hammond. 11li North Thirteenth
street. He was awarded the honor af-
ter he had been on continuous duty fc""
days and four nights without sleep. He
Is tW"niN-seven years Oiu anu mas a
son. Paul eight years old.
Hammond enlisted shortly after war
was declared and was ra'ned at Al
lentown. Afterward he was sent to
Tobyhanna. and went to France on
Christmas 1917. He was with Ambu-
lance Unit No. 40 until he crossed to
France. when the organization was
broken up and he was assigned to work
with the French army corps.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
WOMEN IN ~" SCHOOL
First Meeting Of Business English
Course Tomorrow Night

The school of Commerce and Ac-
counts of the Central Y. NJ. g. A. will
hold an Introductory meeting of its
business English course tomorrow night
at 1890. Women are being admitted this
year to all the courses hitherto open to
men only at the Central Y. NJ. &. A.,
where the aim is to At women to take
up positions for trained workers which
have been left vacant by men.
The principal address tomorrow night
will be given by George Burton HotCh-
kiss, of New York University, director
of the course. He is serving in the War
Department at Washington and his talk
will be on business correspondence in
wartime. A limited number OF tickets
Of admission may be secured at li2l
Arch street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
TO TEACH MANAGEMENT
Miss Ann Bazanson 10 Be Instructor at
Bryn Mawr

Miss Ann BazanSon. a graduate of
Radcliffe College, will be the instructor
In a new course in employment manage
ment which has been added TO the social
economies course given at Bryn Mawr
College under the auspices of the Y,
W. c. A.
This will fit women to enter industry
as managers or as service and welfare
superintendents. 1t will train them to act
as factory Inspectors and as investi-
gators of industrial problems pertaining
to women.
N DIR. Susan b. kingsburv, head of the
1economy department. will have charge
OF the economic course. Registration will
open Monday and Tuesday of next week.
and only college graduates will be
eligible. The courses start October |.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
CHESTER SHOWS
Big HONOR ROLL
Casualties Reported From
France Have Reached
Total of $50
20 KILLED. 858 WOUNDED
Three Others Captured and
Eight Named as Victims
of German Gas
20 KILLED. 858 WOUNDED

Word coming back from the fighting
rctween the chateau-Thierry and the
Nesle has added eighty-eight more
names to Chesters honor roll. Com
panies r and g, Of the ll1th Infantry.
are hard hit by the loss of sixty-eight
men
Chestcr's casualties now total $50.
twenty killed $50 wounded. three cap
tured and eight gassed.
Forty-three members of Companies 3
and e have been seriously wounded
Fifteen Chester boys in other branches
of the service have been injured. Com
panY B has suffered the most. Thirteen
of it's representatives from Chester have
been killed in action. Captain Edmund
w. Lynch, commander of the company,
was among them.
1t is believed the toll Of Chester's
losses in the American offensive on the
Nesle is not yet fully known. Congress
man Thomas s. Butler. who saw the
nth Infantry in action. has said that
only seventeen of Company BIS soldiers
came out Of the battle una ssisted.
Harry Duncan. of Company B, who Is
from I.inwood, writing 70 his mother.
said: THANK God. | came out of the
battle unsCratched for only forty-seven
OF us are left companies Is ana Z ate
made up of Chester and Pittsburgh men.
Private Duncan PAID high trlnute 10
captain Lynch. He said: captain
Lynch died a great hero. Trying to save
his men, he was moved down by
boChe machine gun. Twenty bullets
passed through his body"
Have Not Fallen In Vain
rboueb ,wsr,v or Ches,er.s sons have
sacriscod themselves on the field OF
hott.e their efforts have not been in
vain Some have been awarded war
crosses and others cited for bravery.
Raymond q Carroll. in a cable dispatch
which appeared in the PUBLIC LEDGER,
September 4, described the heroic work
of Captain Lynch. and mentioned the
heroic deeds or several other 'hes'er
boys. Virtually every man ne hafneu
mas beeh klHeu III ac''oh slilce' "'eo'
ing 10 notice reath'ns hete,
Inc lateS' aadl'ionS TO nheS's, cas-
us'ty IIsl are oIpUraI ',,,a t,n, "m..un, |9 and
pi 'o'''panE ,r nl,.eu
~, 60 S.o,'o,, dienia,.aS on
~, 80 ,a.,os 1,uIaS IL 10 tho
Son % NJ ava Mrs Janes TavIor
CarroIr gavs high nraise n Tavlor.
Colored Soldiers Face Enemy
AI'houen no o,l'e'a, . eon','',.a,,u' nua snl7 .9
diors ,aye heon in ac,iou , letter re-
ce;yed hv r., woodward Trainer secre-
tarv of the chamber of Commerce from
Seryean, Albert Readinp intimates that
tho coIored ,rooners bav. faced the
enemy THAT Reading has made good
as soldier il shown bv his promotion
IN sergeant on the field of battle. He
is in ComDanv n. 36Sth Infantry. His
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
PhiiGdeiphid Men
Killed at Front


I'' MS 'E' an" ''ahas'hE 10 cnnN,uca
'le recruiting "Iil'er ihdt II" was S'X-
Teen. tie had h''h iefi without rela-
I'VE anu nh,InS IN" ld'a or being placed
IN an ''Su'u''oH' concluded t" try life
AT sea
He served two onl,stmenis in the navy
and saw service at various points in
Guiding the capture of Vera Cruz where
he was wounded. Discharged from the
navy IaSt ran. ne went to work In Cam
"eh' "u' S'"'N a. ms pos'tloh only two
weeks orIore ehI'SI'hE IN the army. Be
'"E '"'e" a. r"'N' ne had no business
even near IN" "r'"R Ilh'' out somehow
n'd ''"h'Eeu ~ Se' 'hto number of
SN.r'llS"'S S.I't ms HrriNaI IN France
w ''h '''e h'h""""I tt'S "mnhnN OF the
f.. o,nnrdoJ IN lIa,, c .,'' vas E''EIt-
,yas eonr b,rl, an d,,,,' .e,.,f, pul
l.iII.d tho Iot,ar ,or, &c ,,,,u anu WIS
,-,
'''n u'S Nv '''a,Ne I'N'ns' but was
r.r'2, s,,,a, Co,,aa, .sIS' % no
l., ,,e,,,,,od - btn ,i,,,, vas o''c'alH
e., g. ,,,,,,,,,.,,, LEV uaHS ago.
a. ''e '""i LtfinaSter
H'"TeS' hi"au street ana washington
avenue TINS chE.
C,,po, yo,.,o u.,,,
r,t., ,,oaL,,,,a,. '"""
,rba di,,, 80 I ""'er = n"sa"'
II. according to an oricial ,o,ifr.,ior
from the War Deuar,nent tn a fria,,d
Hugh McCann. 2sI3 Ellsworth street
he's n wife and two ohiIdrer Ii,.in, t.,
this CITY but their address 10 nor iro,,,r ~
either to the army oririaIs or Ncro"n
The latter was surprised to find that
Dugan had named him as next of kin
aud viii try TO locate Mrs. Dusan.
Dupan vas sl,iIIaa ,,,,i, ,,
aIsO yoS , ooo, ,.,.,iai,
:, ryed for snn,a ,.e,,s m,;,h ,,' I,,n
no,u ua ,.,s ~ 49,, ,,i t'.,
ruriry tho ,,r,rai,r ,ha.o 80, '',
rarieT ro,o,aI parsi,i,,.s i,,u ~.
doeb ir.o ,I,i - y" '''e
Er,,oa co,. ,,",',. @ | ""o 'ee' I'll
" Se"''
Private George Benijno. killed in ac-
tloh. Is ot1ciaIIy listed as living at ll55
rarreii street. 1here Is no such address
does not apDear in tho CITY directory
Cor,or,I wiI;,, Ioh, u., ,,iI,ad
in action. lived with his ,notber Nrs
Anna Meinzer, AT 1919 West second
street. Chester. Pa. He enlisted in the
Sixth Regiment. y. G. p, shortly after
the United States entered the war. and
was later attached to Company e. lllth
infantry MS command went 10 france
last May.
Private John }. Dinnien, officially re-
ported as missing since the fighting Of
July IS and 49, is actually in a spe
claI framing battalion according TO
letters received by his wife. Mrs. Maud
l)innlen, lbo2 North BouNier street.
In one letter. dated July -, he stated
that he was in hospital suffering
from rheumatism. while in another let
ter, dated August ., he adds that he
has been discharged from the hospital
and assigned to duty in the special
battalion.
frlNa'e ''"n'eH was i"rfherIN har-
ttnuer' lh"uSh ne II 'hiriS-nNe years
olu' anu ;" aooNe '"T loriner urai' age
ne ehI'S'ed IN december OF Ias' year IN
the marine CORPS Ai'et course "l
framing AT fdr4s lSIanu = -. ana qua u
tlco' ne was sent 10 France IN Apfh oi
TINS yea.
yo,,. priv.te Nissi,v
n-, or,,a
''"''
,I'SS."E' - 'iI u'u' "',U
Isted IN lhe SIN" i>es''''e"'' ~ w. ="
over year ago ana was eNehluallE at
,I I,,,ar -, l,f. ,,,,a,,,, ~,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
MUST CONSERVE TIN
Spaghetti and Macaroni Ordered in Less
Valuable Containers

M Spaghetti and macaroni manufacturers
must discontinue canning their product
after October s. the food administra-
1fion announced.
All available tin Is wanted by the
Covernment for use in constructing in
ntruments OF war. The foods must be
packed in containers that have no value
Ii war industry.
Manufactures of syrup and molasses
are also cooperating with the Govern
1nent IN the conservation of tin, Only
three standard sized cans viii he used
Dr syrups while the tin shortage lasts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
GOING TO WIN,"
WRITES SOLDIER
Rainbow Division Bugler
Says Men Are Confident
of Victory
HOME IS IN EASTON. PA.
Pottsville Boy Describes Ex-
perience of Passing Through
German Barrage
HOME IS IN EASTON. PA.

W Zee ihe nlor"le IL great ~
w
one OF the rehnsVlNanIa nacu'ne gun
ners OF 'he NaInpoW p'N'H!or' a,I,o',s
the hrst OF the members OF me State
euard 70 reach france .'aN'A '"'H
aeciaratioh III Ie''er ,h M''i'u ne SUITS SUITS
= tne men are Hiieu win me t"'" uHl'H',
OF veterans III tneF confluence VI I'''"
victory
The writer is Rugler James f. Sex
ton, Jr. Of Eas'on. who. while fighting
with Company \. of the l49th Machine
Gun Battalion, make the hOche pay
for wounding him.
.swa have baen hue,. dav and night
dph,inp the bocbe and thank goodness
we iicked tham and ala .he i0b ripht
too ba writes .,rb. hocbo 4. = fighter
eo ,ong a, ba +, ,,,,,,.a,,ad j., a ,,,L
Mace ond ,o, sboo, o,,.,, a, - ,,oor
reliow who docs no, o,o,, ba'yo b,Ir n
cha,oo
All the Germans nave any more, l
DeheVe' are machine guns and ar'lI-
,erE put that doesn worry us any.
VIII try to give you sample of
.ooche soldier. He viii hide himse T.
ne is hit or killed he won't he dis
covered by falling out of the tree.
,,., , -, ,,,
"" ""'' "'''
30 Sometfhes ne mas nachIhe gun
ano rine' well ne VIII sho"t az 'he
Ithows' mos, always SihH'e le'o"'
MaSpe ne "'' Pop away ,'"'" s"i'e
ttne anu we uo" NioW now many
r m "a' nun
"a s.5s. " ,.iii w. s'h, a. ,,.i,, ,',. h,.n
,s w VI '',u IT,, w. '"' ~, ~.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
STATE TO FRAME
MAN-POWER PLAN
Women to Replace Males in
NOnessential In.
dustries
FIVE CITY DISTRICTS
Boards in Penn
sylvania Needed-Will
Affect War Plants
FIVE CITY DISTRICTS

SEEK CHILDREN ~ FACTORIES
All factories. shops and stores in
this city employing children Of public
school age will be visited by repre-
sentatives Of the Bureau Of Com
pulsory Education this week to round
up at least 1000 children who should
be In school.
Certificates viii he dema nded for
every working child under the age OF
sixteen years.
The bureau announced that all en-
pioyers found violating the child labor
laws will he prosecuted. Heret ofore
the parents Of the children have been
made to answer for delinquent pupils.
Definite plans to place all the man.
power in this city and the State in es-
sential work will be adopted today at
meeting Ct Vie State Federal advisory
committee of the United States EN-
ployment Service in the Finance Build
ing.
Philadelphia will be divided into
five sections. under jurisdiction Of a
community beard, according to Johr
Frazee, director of public service reserve
of the employment service. The person.
mel of the boards will probably be an
nounced today.
These five boards will care for more
than 20 per cent Of the entire population
of Pennsylvania" said Director Frazee.
Board No. l will supervise the distric
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
/. NJ. JACKSON ADVANCES
PhiladeIphian, Camp Lewis Instructor
Lieutenant

Word was received today that Iadd
NJ Jackson. a former student al the
Northeast Manual Training School, had
been commissioned "A second lieutenant
Of infantry in the regular army at Camp
Lewis. Seattle.
Jackson enlisted in July. 1914 and is
now an instructor at Camp Lewis. When
in this city he lived with his grand
mother. Mrs Mary NJ. Potter, 1905 North
Broad street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
saryived shell6re; Killed by Auto

chicago, Sept 24.--After spending
|&roe years In the trenches with the
a1linn sxpedltionary forces, Sergeant
nh n stokes. on leave from the
1ian army. was killed by an auto
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
Official War Reports

London. :,

IOnuOH, sept e
Last night the enemy attacked our
new positions southeast of Gavrelle.
supporting their assault by heavy
harrage This attack was completely
repulsed and our lines remained in
tact
We improved our positions slightly
north of MoeuVres by a successful
minor operation last night.
We regained a portion of the old
British line southeast Of Noormezeele
Gin Flanders). Hostile raIding parties
were driven off last night in fighting
wost Of Bellenglise and east of Neuve
Chapelle.
Fighting resulting to our advantage
occurred in the sector east of Yer
mand. where some progress was re-
ported
4 local attack by the enemy yester-
day. north of Little Priel farm, was
successfully repulsed, leaving prisoners
in our hands.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24

IdFlS, Sept, -
During the night there was marked
artillery activity in the region on ST.
Quentin and between the Ailette and
the Aisne
In the champagne, in two raids on
the German trenches in the region of
Berthes and toward Butte du Mesnil,
we took forty prisoners.
There was nothing to report else
where
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
Edith CaVell

The Baron grew irritated.
"What!' he said, is it because
they say that YOU come and
disturb me at such an hour, me
and these gentlemen? No, no,
gentlemen, orders are never exc
cuted with such precipitation,
especially when woman is con-
cerned."
Someone suggested that he tele-
phone the prison. He came back
embarrassed, even a little ashamed !;
he said: "i'ou are right, gentle
men. Miss Cavell has been con!
demned and will be shot tonight"
From Brand Vhitlock's tragic
story of the execution of Edith
Cavell in the October
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
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