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ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS
IN SALIENT, THREATENED
BY.HnArRn BELIoc.

Cablegram 10 The SunAay Star and
ths New YORK World. ccDyrisht 1913.
I. LONDON. August 1o-The COM
munications Of the enemy within the
Montdidier salient depend upon three
roads. The most important is the
road running north, and south from
Albert to Montdidisr. which had =
light railway and was . great line
OF lateral communications for all his
movements in the sector in front Of
Amiens. :.
Before nightfall Thursday the Brit
ish already had, reached Frameryi1le.
railway are cut. The second main
road supplying the salient followed
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by = single line railway. is that run
ming from Perrone, with q branch
coming in at Roye from Ham and st.
Quettin to Montdidier Now, with
the advance secured in the first day,
even this further line is In peril.
The third road, from Noyon through
Lassigny. has long been under fire
tn its western end as 1t approaches
Montdidier.
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Put Under Arrest.
MORE PAY FOR sHopMEN.
Pullman Employer Raise E6ectiv'
August /, It Is Announced.

Shopmen employed by the Pullman
Company in the operating division.
now. controlled by the government. are
to receive the same wage advances ~
the railroad administration announced
,xesterdRY.
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FRENCH

August 1o.-On the Avre battle
front, our attacks continued all day
with increasing success. After the
mornings operations. Montdidier.
outflanked on the east and the north.
fell into our hands. Continuing our
victorious advance on the right OF
the British forces, we carried our
lines nearly seven miles to the east
of Montdidier on a front running from
Andechy to Laboisseure and Fes-
camps.
Still enlarging our action southeast.
we have attacked German positions
on the right and left of the road from
st. Just-en-Chausse to Roye on a
front of more than thirteen miles. We
sons-sur-Matz. Conchy.les-Pots. La
Neuville-sur- Reasons and Elincourt.
realizing at some points an advance
OF nearly seven miles.
In three days of battle French
troops have progressed nearly four
teen miles along the Amiens-Roye
road. The number of prisoners taken
during the same period exceeds 5000.
Among the enormous material aban-
doned by the enemy, we have counted
up to the present time zee guns. 4
In Albania there have been patrol
encounters that yielded US some pris-
oners. Our aviators have bombarded
enemy encampments in the region of
Pogradek ana British avtatorS have
dropped bombs on the railroads in the
region of Ceres.
BRITISH.
August 10. night. The attack
launched yesterday evening, in ac-
cordance with the allied plan of op-
erations. on our right by the French
first army south Of Montdidier was
developed by our allies this morning
with complete success. Enveloped
from the north and from the
southeast, Montdidier fell into the
hands Of the French before midday.
together with many prisoners and
great quantities of material.
During tho remainder of the day
the advance Of the French first army
continued. with tho cooperation Of
the French army on its right and the
right wing of the British fourth
army. Pressing hard upon the re-
Treating German troops south Of Lii
hons, the British troops have over
come the enemy's Resistance and made
substantial progress.
The general limo reached by the al
lied troops now runs virtually north
and south from Lhons to Fresnoy-
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PROMOTION IN navy
AND COAST GUARD
Advanced Rank Proposed by
Selection Board for
413 Officers.
NINE NEW REAR ADMIRAL S

Promotion of l13 line officers Of the
Navy and sixteen officers of the Coast
Guard was recommended to Secretary
Daniels yesterday by the naval board
of selection. of which Admiral Mayo
is president.
The promotions, which in some cases
are permanent and in others only
temporary, range all tho way from
commanders to rear admirals, and are
made necessary by the rapid .expan-
sion of the Navy planned for the nedt
year.
Approval of the recommendations
II by President Wilson is necessary be-
fore any promotions become effective
Only comparatively few officers are
needed at this time for the duties to
which it Is the intention to assign
them.
Nine Rear Admirals Proposed.
Nine captains now holding the tenn
porary rank Of rear admiral. were rec
commended for promotion to that rank
permanently as follows:
Capts. Albert P. Niblack. John A.
Hoogewarff. Marbury Johnston. Edwin
A. Anderson. Thomas w. Kinkaid. Will
liam s.. Smith. Charles w. Dyson.
Clarence s. Williams and John D. Nc
Donald.
mended for promotion to the tenn
porary rank of rear admiral:
George R. Clark. William A. Gill.
Harold P. Norton. Gustav Kaemmer-
ling. Alexander Halstead, Roger
Welles. Charles P. Plunkett, William
Andrews. Josiah Mexican. Benton C..
Decker, Mark L. Bristol. Newton A.
McCully. Henry F. Bryan. Andrew T.
Long. Thomas Washington, Guy H.
Burrage. Ashley H. Robertson. Carlo
B. Britain. Samuel S. Robinson.
Charles F. Hughes. Henry A Wiley.
To Be Permanent Captains.
Commanders were recommended for
promotion to permanent rank of cap
tain as follows:
Philip Williams, Douglas E. Dus-
mukes. Bion B. tBierer, Raymond de L
Hasbrouck. Joel r. P. Pringle. Frank
| H. Clark. Edward E. Campbell, Walter
| S. crosley. Martin E. Trench. orton
I Z JdChSOus 1CECy ~. oA6tCdus Idhh
B. Upham. David P. Sellers.
| In addition to these officers, SO
commanders were recommended for
! temporary captains. SO permanent
lieutenant commanders for promotion
| to the permanent rank of commander
and 236 lieutenant commanders for
| temporary commanders.
Coast Guard Recommendations.
Thirteen captains Of the coast guard
were recommended for temporary
promotion to the rank of senior cap
tain In the coast guard as follows:
James H. Brown. James NJ. Moore.
William v. E. Jacobs, Preston H.
Ubberoth. Andrew ]. Henderson,
Richard o. Crisp, Frederick G. Dodge,
George c. earning. Frederick ].
Haake, James g. Ballinger. Charles
E. Johnston, Aaron L. Gamble and
Harry g. Hamlet.
Three captains of engineers of the
coast guard were recommended for
| temporary promotion to the rank of
| senior captains as follows:
James H. Chalker. Charles F. Nash
and Dennis r. x Bowen,
Rear Admiral Niblack, who is rec
| commended for that permanent rank,
10 now on duty in European waters
being commander of the American
naval forces operating in the Mediter.
ranean sea.
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BANK bOOKKEEPER
ADMITS FORGERY
$4,000 Bogus Check Used
in Effort to Protect
Stock investments.

Leroy Decatur Wade. twenty-six
years old. employed as bookkeeper in
the Riggs National Bank, was ar
rested yesterday afternoon charged
with forging the name Of e. 8. Black
to a check for $4,000.
According to the story told to In
spector Grant. chief of detectives,
Wade deposited the check at the
Washington Loan and Trust Company,
''T. n. Smith," Mr.. Black, whose
name was forged to the check, was a
depositor in the Riggs National Bank.
The bank is fully protected against
loss through surety bonds carried on its
employees.
Playing Stock Market.
When arrested by Detective Harry
Warren and taken to headquarters
Wade. the. police report. said he had
been playing the stock market and
needed money to protect his holdings.
Believing the market would soon ad-
vance. he forged the check, according
to the ms
SoNCA AAAc hSA eAhos pAoAAA1A6 " Ai6AS
it good when he cashed in his stock
winnings.
wade reported sick to the bank yes
terday morning. During his absence
the forgery was discovered. Detec-
tive Warren went to a house on 18th
street, where Wade roomed, and
learned he was mot there. Suspect
ing he had left the city, Warren
hurried to the bank to obtain addi-
tiona1 Information. He found Wade
there. having reported for duty later
in the day.
Put Under Arrest.
Detective Warren placed him under
arrest and took him to the office Of
Inspector Grant. Wade told the de-
tectives his father, P. D. Wade. IL q
cotton miller in Greenwood, S. c.
The prisoner said he had played the
stock market for q number of years.
He obtained employment with the
Riggs Bank three months ago.
Wade IL held at the first precinct
police station.
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AUSTRIAN.

August 10.-Between Canove and
Asiago entente allied troops advancing
in dense waves were thrown back ev-
erywhere with heavy losses. Enemy at
tempts to extend the positions held on
Monte Asolone broke down.
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Effect of the Hot Wave.


"At the beginning of this hot wave"
the administrator continues. the stor-
age warehouses were fairly wen sup
piled with surplus stock. and, althoush
the drain os this supply has been
great, there ore still in storage seven
or eight thousand tons.
All these supplies of ice have been
administered by committee con-
sisting of S. A Kimberly. w ID: Blick
and L P. Steuart, and the endeavor
has been to keep the dealers supplie'i
with ice and to maintain ice at the
plants and depots where 1t would
be available to the public
The members of the committee
have during the present hot wealth
er period given generously OF
their time and labor in endeavorings
ice as possible. and they have un-
,ioubtediy ameliorated a condition
which, without their help. would have
been one of the great hardships to
"Reouests of Washington have
been made for ice by Baltimore and
Norfolk.
st should be borne in mind. also.
that ice demands have been tremeno-
ously increased this year by the increased
activities of the government. which
has taken from the ice plants unusuli-
ly large quantities of ice not only lor
normal uses in the government depart
mentS. Dul lOf use diSo Aot ihuo -
purposes, as at the steel plant and Tor
many other war activities In some
instances there has been ansunwilline-
ness on the part of ice manufacturers
to let ice go out of their storage ware-
houses because of their government
contracts, which they were anxious to
protect with their storage ice. 1t is
thought, however. that such instances
of. mistaken economy will not occur
in the future
Factories and Dealers Cooperate.
with few exceptions the food ad
ministration in its endeavors to dis
tribute ice supplies throughout the
city has met with hearty and cordial
cooperation from manufacturers and
dealers, who are doing all in their
power. both in the way Of personal
service and in expenditure OF money, to
get the ice distributed"
To personally investigate q COM
plant made by q retail des'-- to the
effect that large manufact-.er would
not sell him ice for house delivery
because 1t might interfere with his
government contract, the food admin
istrator went to the plant at 4 o'clock
yesterday morning. After inspecting
the plant and seeing a large guam
tity of ice in storage. he ordered the
company to sell ice to this dealer. re-
gardless of any government contract.
He was Immediately obeyed. and the
dealer lost no opportunity during the
delivery of ice at the homes on his
route to inform his customers that
they owed their getting ice yesterday
to the food administrator.
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Would IRON Out Sector.

Further successes east Of Montdi-
der would iron out the whole sector
north to Lihons and result In the free
ing Of great territory from the Ger
mans and wrestling from them much
OF the gains that resulted from the
enemy's spring offensive. In addition,
q forward movement would take from
the invaders the bountiful crops that
they have been cultivating inside
their lines and which are now ready
TO harvest.
Many more prisoners have been
taken during the operations Of the
troops from at least four new divis-
ions that were hurled in north Of the
6omme. Apparently. the enemy has
rushed in new troops from wherever
they could be obtained, for among the
prisoners a1e some from reserve bait
talfona oH afv1siona focated far to the
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ITALIAN.

ITALIAN.
and at Asiago. the British and French
have carried out raids. On Thursday
in the Guidicaria region our parties
forded the Chiese river. In the Daone
valley we surprised a party of the
enemy in southern slopes of Dosso del
Morti and took twenty-one prisoners.
This morning French troops pene-
trated deeply into the enemy's strong
points on Monte Sisemol. destroying
part Of the garrison and forcing the
remainder to surrender. Two hundred
and fifty prisoners and eight machine
guns were taken. From our positions
on Monte di Nalella- Col del Rosso
and Col di chele. we succeeded at
various points in passing the enemy
lines and infiicting heavy losses. We
took ffty-nine prisoners. Our losses
were light.
S. GERMAN.
August 1o.-In the center of the
battle front the enemy has gained
ground beyond Rosieres and Hangest.
Our counter attacks brought him to
standstill west of Lihons and east
of the Rosieres-Arvillers line
During the night we withdrew our
troops fighting on the Avre and on
Dom brook to the rear lines east of
Montdidier. Southeast of Montdidier
we repulsed strong partial attacks of
the French. We shot down thiDty-
two airplanes over the battlefield.
There has been lively activity on the
part of the enemy between the User
and the Ancre. At many points on
this front the enemy launched thrusts
and partial attacks. which were re-
pulsed before our lines in hand-to-
hand fighting.
Yesterday the British and French,
bringing strong reserves into action.
continued their attacks on the whole
battlefront between the Ancre and the
Avre.
On both sides OF the Somme and
astride the Foucaucourt-Villers-
tonneux road we threw the enemy
back by counter attacks. He suf-
fered heavy losses here
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OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS.

les-Roye, Lgnieres and Conchy-les-
Pots. The number Of prisoners was
increased.
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their guns in prepared pits. The
Americans faced a hail of bullets here.
The Germans continued to fire until
the Americans and English put them
out of action.
: North of the Somrne and also south
Of 1t the Germans are showing every
sign of a rapid retreat. Most of the
Shells that came over from their bat
terfes today were of small ca1iber and
fred at extremely long range. show
1pg that the enemy probably was re-
moving his heavier pieces for q. fur
ther retirement The allied forces,
who everywhere today advanced their
lines. moved their artillery along
with them.
There was further cheer In the re-
Port that reached here late today. re-
vea1ing that the French had started
another movement that resulted in
the taking of Montdidier. In that re-
gfon. too, the Germans made prepara-
tlons for the withdrawal that military
observers confidently had expected.
The enemy continues to destroy his
stores of munitions in various locali-
ties along the battle front, as is the
practice Of a beaten army.
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AMERICANS, ON MARCH,
RUN TO ENTER BATTLE

tcontinued from First Page.)
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-08-16
STREAMLINE PLANES BEST.

The speed of all airships is very
materially influenced by seemingly
trivial projections which offer resist
ance in its passage to the air. When
the object, whether this be a gaso-
line tank, bomb dropper or any
other accessory, is made on stream
lines the resistance it causes is three
OF four times less than when it is
not. One builder added two kilo-
meters an hour to the speed of his
plane simply by giving the stream
line form to the rubber shock receiv-
ers of his landing apparatus. And if
the pilot lets such an object as a ret
roscope, an altimeter or revolution
meter project from the car it will
reduce his speed by at least six kilo-
meters an hour. A machine gun
will have almost the same retarding
effect.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-08-16
BOYS WANT READING MATTER.

A woman who is familiar with
camp conditions and the wants of
the soldiers, writes to the. Woman's
Home Companion of the hunger Of
the boys for books, and says: "Some
of you think a book or a magazine
is hardly worth giving. Every single
piece of reading matter received in
camp is worth while. 1t helps some
soldier forget the discomforts inev-
liable to camp life. 1t urges another
man who never cared about read
ing to try it. 1t helps third to
think cleaner thoughts. 1t helps
your government to build up an
army of high ideals" She adds
eff you have neither library nor
Y. M. G. A. building in your
town, send your book to the public
library in the city nearest you, mark
ing it simply, For a Military Camp
Library The librarian will do the
rest"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-08-16
GETS GAS FROM WASTE WOOD
Chemist at University Of Oregon
Claims to Have Made Most I'm.
portant Discovery.

Prof. Grin F. Stafford, a Univer-
sity Of Kansas graduate, who is now
at the head of the department of
chemistry at the University of Ore
gon, has discovered a way in which
waste wood may be utilized and gas
made from it.
Because of the scarcity of coal
Professor Stafford believed if wood
could be substituted so as to produce
gas it should be made to do so. His
experiments show how it can be
done.
The test by Professor Stafford
shows that eight cubic feet of gas
of heating value equal to 48O Brit
ish thermal units a cubic foot may
be obtained from one cubic foot of
dry firewood. The cost of general
ing the gas is very low after the APP
paratus has been installed. 1t is
hoped his experiments may solve the
fuel problems of the whole North
west.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-08-16
Bird Guided by Magnetism

One of the many explanations that
have been offered to account for the
fact that migrating birds are able to.
find their way by night and in cloudy
or foggy weather is that they are SEN
sitive, in some way, to currents of ter
restrial magnetism, and therefore d.
rect their flight by the magnetic,
meridians. This suggestion was put
forth by NJ. A. Thauzies, a French
pigeon fancier, who declares that car
rier pigeons make poor flights during
the occurrence of magnetic storms. He
also asserts that the general use Of
wireless telegraphy has diminished the
reliability of these birds to a surpris-
ing extent.-Popular Science Monthly,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-08-16
~ -


On the speakers desk in the UniteR
States house of representatives is o.
little clock-like machine with diaB
graduated in minutes from one to six
and single hand that goes once round
the dial in six minutes. This Is started
and stopped by a tiny lever at the top
The speaker uses 1t in timing members
in q debate wherein the speeches are
limited.
The inventor, G. H. Graves of Phila-
delphia, designed 1t for keeping time
on long-distance telephone calls, which
are limited to three minutes. At the,
bottom Of the dial is scarlet mark
When you get your connection over
the wire you press the little lever,
which stands at o, and set the machine
going. When the pointer is approach
ing the red mark you know your time
is rapidly drawing to a close.
1t is astonishing how few persons
have any idea how long three minutes
are. Nine out of ten will hurry their
long distance calls so that they use
far less time than they pay for.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-08-16
FUT UP JOB ON PROFESSOR
Little Trick Goes to Show That School.
boys Are Much the Same All
the World Over.

The crown prince of Japan is be-
ing educated in what is known as
the peers school at Tokyo. The
other day he broke pane of glass
in one of the classrooms.
Not wishing to pay for it out of
his modest allowance of pocket
money, the youthful scholar re-
paired the damage by FASTING a sheet
of stiff paper over the aperture.
When, however, the professor
whose room it was, next entered it
lie thrust his cane through the make
shift and, turning to the assembled
class, remarked sententiously, "He
that breaks pays"
The heir to the Japanese imperial
throne declined to take the hint, and
next morning another sheet of paper
appeared with the same fate, and so
on the next day, and so on the
fourth.
On the fifth day when the profess
sor came down there was the paper
as before. Fire flashed from his
eyes, and roaring, "He that breaks
pays" he drove his cane through the
paper-and through the pane of
glass behind it that had been put in
by the crown prince, with the help
of other students, and then artfully
pasted over with paper!
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-08-16
WEARING ON SAILORS NERVES
Effect Of Fog Bank While on Convoy
Duty Is Almost Beyond Lands.
mans Ina nation.

More comfortable than bowling
gales, the fogs that drop thick gray
blanket over the seas are far more
wearing on the nerves, writes Her
nan Whitaker in the New York In
dependent. Imagine half dozen de-
stroyers guarding a 3O-vessel con-
voy. At night a fog bank closes
around them before they can scat
ter, and from an exact science navi-
CATION degenerates into the blind
cropping of a blind navigator over
blind seas.
Not a commander in our fleet but
has collected an assortment of night
mares in such weather to last him
the rest of his life. Not a sailor
that cannot relate hair-raising expe.
riences as this:
"Out of the thick pea-soup fog 8
huge black freighter suddenly rose
on our bows. AS we swung on oul
heel with one screw reversed a de.
stroyer came shooting at us from the
opposite quarter. Avoiding her, We
almost ran down another steamer
l tell you for while gray hell was
loose there on black sea-"
They have not always escaped
either. Fogs have caused casualties
but so far, thank God no fatalities
Nevertheless their dangers, in sum,
ming up our fleets work, have to be
added to storm and tempest, mine
and submarine.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-08-16
School Children Are Underfed.

OF the 100000 school children i'm
New York city 10000 are ndernour-
ished and in need of attention, while
the condition Of $4,000 others is only
"passable," according to DR.. Henry
Dwight Chaplin, head of the children's
division of the Postgraduate hospital.
This medical man said much of the
malnutritlOn of children is caused by
war prices. He said that the dispar-
ity between wage increases and the
mounting cost of food has caused
mothers to give their children tea and
coffee instead of milk, which had in
creased from to Is cents quart i'm
the last year.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-08-16

For years past India, the great tea
producing and exporting country, has
received large imports of tea from 9TH
err countries. The imports have con-
tinued and even increased during the
war, in spite Of the Cutting of the
market with Indian tea, owing to the
shipping restrictions. The imports are
mainly lOw-grade teas, which are
transformed" into Indian teas by mix
ing with the genuine article. The bulk
Of the imports are from China, the
Shan States, Ceylon and Java but it is
curious 70 learn that last year 10000
pounds Of tea went to Indian from the
United Kingdom.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-08-16
Oyster Farms.

One Of the large saltwater farms of
Japan consists of so square miles COW
cred with 5 to Is fathoms of water.
Here the pearl farmer plants rocks
and stones which are soon covered
with oyster spat. The oysters are
then left in special beds until the
third year. When they grow large
enough, tiny speck ofIrritating sub
stance is introduced into the bodies
of these oysters and three or five years
more are necessary for the foreign
substance to become hidden in the
layers of nacre which make up the
pearls.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-08-16
MATTER OF EXCHANGE.

"Why were you quarreling with
that little German boy, Robbie?"
owe was exchanging marbles, and
he got the most of them, mother"
"Was that right to quarrel?"
"Why, yes, mother; isn't father
over there exchanging bullets with
the Germans?"
eyes, Robbie, he is; but you must
remember that your father is per-
fectly satisfied to let the Germans
have most of the bullets"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-08-16
UP-To-DATE MASK.

Mollie-Are you going to the mas
querade?
Chollie-Sure thing. I'm going
as a soldier. 81
"I'll bet I'll know you"
'I'll just bet you won't"
'Why, what are you going
TO wear?"
GA gas mask"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-08-16
ONE ADVANTAGE.

"What do you hear from the
boy?"
Nothing much. He says the gov
eminent has issued him one of those
steel shrapnel helmets, and for the
first time in his life he has new
hat he isn't afraid somebody is going
to sit on"