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CHAPTER Ill.
Captured by the Huns.

! shall not easily forget the 18th of
August, 1917. l killed two Huns in
the double-seated machine in the
morning, another in the evening, and
then l was captured myself. I may
have spent more eventful days in my
life, but I can't recall any just now.
That morning, in crossing the line
ON early morning patrol, I noticed
two German balloons. I decided that
as soon as my patrol was over 1
would go off on my own hook and see
what German balloon looked like
at close quarters.
These observation balloons are used
by both sides in conjunction with the
artillery. A man sits up in the bal
loon with a wireless apparatus and di-
rects the firing of the guns. From his
point Of vantage he can follow the
work of his own artillery with a re-
markable degree of accuracy and at
the same time he can observe the enc
my's movements and report them.
The Germans are very good at this
work, and they use great number of
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years. and I ought to know all aboU>

years. and I ought to know all aboU,
it."
After that this German officer and
I became rather chummy; that Is. as
far as I could be chummy with an
enemy, and we whifed away good
many long hours talking about the
days we had spent in San Francisco
and frequently in the conversation one
of us would mention some prominent
Californian, or some little incident oc'
curing there, with which we were
both familiar.
He told me when war was declared
he was, of course, intensely patriotic
and thought the only thing for him to
do was to go back and aid in the de-
fense Of bis country. He found that
he could not go directly from San
Francisco, because the water was too
well guarded by the English, so he
boarded a boat for South America.
There he obtained a forged passport
and in the guise Of a Montevidean took
passage for New York and from there
to England.
He passed through England without
any difficulty on his forged passport,
but concluded not to risk going to Hols
land for fear Of exciting too much sus'
picion, so went down through the
Strait Of Gibraltar to Italy, which was
neutral at that time, up to Austria,
and thence to Germany. He said when
they put in at Gibraltar, after leaving
England, there were two suspects
taken off the ship, men that he was
sure were neutral subjects, but much
to his relief his own passport and Gre
dentials were examined and passed
o. K.
The Hun spoke Of his voyage from
America to England as being excep'
tionally pleasant, and said he had a
fine time, because he associated with
the English passengers on board, his
fluent English readily admitting him
to several spirited arguments on the
subject Of the war, which he keenly
enjoyed. One little incident he related
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beat off those three Huns, but there
was nothing for me to do but fight, and
my hands were full.
In fighting, your machine is drop
ping, dropping all the time. I glanced
at my instruments, and my altitude
was between 5000 and 5000 feet.
While 1 was still looking at the In
struments, the whole blamed works
disappeared. A burst Of bullets went
into the instrument board. and blew
it to smithereens, another bullet went
through my upper lip, came out OF the
roof of my mouth and lodged in my
throat, and the next thing I knew was
when / came to in a German hospital
the following morning at five o'clock,
German time.
l was a prisoner of war.
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New Generator Finds Favor.

An acetylene generator supplying
fuel for propelling motorboats is the
device of a Norwegian captain and is
reported to be in great demand, al
though the average cost Is 21 cents
per horse power hour. The gas given
off as water is dropped upon calcium
carbide, is led to the carburetor, where
it is purified and fed to the motor.
Though this apparatus is adapted only
for the ordinary gasoline motor mod
ification is being worked out that Is
expected to serve for engines designed
to hurn kerosene.
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CHAPTER w.
CIipned Winds.


The hospital in which 1 found my
self on the morning after my capture
was a private house made Of brick,
very low and dirty, and not at all
adapted for use as a hospital. 1t had
evidently been used but few days on
account of the big push that was TAX
ing place at that time Of the year, and
in all probability would be abandoned
as soon as they had found a better
place.
In all, the house contained four
rooms and a stable, which was by far
the largest of all. Although I never
looked into this wing of the hospital,
1 was told that it, too, was filed with
patients lying on beds Of straw around
on the ground. do not know whether
they, too, were officers or privates.
The room in which I found myself
contained eight beds, three of which
were occupied by wounded German Of
ficers. The other rooms, I imagined,
had about the same number Of beds as
mine. There were no Red Cross nurses
In attendance, just orderlies, for this
was only an emergency hospital and
too near the firing line for nurses. The
orderlies were not old men nor very
young boys, as I had expected to find,
but young men in the prime of life,
who evidently had been medical stu
dents. One or two of them, discov-
cred, were able to talk English, but
for some reason they would not talk.
Perhaps they were forbidden by the
officer in charge to do so.
In addition to the bullet wound in
my mouth I had a swelling from my
forehead to the back Of my head al
most as big as my shoe-and that is
saying considerable. I couldn't move
an inch without suffering intense pain,
and when the doctor told me that
had no bones broken wondered how
fellow would feel who had.
German officers visited me that
morning and told me that my machine
went down in a spinning nose dive
from a height of between 5000 and
5000 feet, and they had the surprise
Of their lives when they discovered
that had not been dashed to pieces.
They had to cut me out Of my machine,
which was riddled with shots and shat
tered to bits.
A German doctor removed the bullet
from my throat, and the first thing he
said to me when I came to was. "You
are an American"
There was no denying 1t, because
the metal Identification disk on my
wrist bore the inscription:
"P. OBJ. q,
q. s. A.
R. F. c."
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tracking Down Edges of Fight"

Things were stirring along the front.
Miles away we could hear the battery
heavies laundering and drumming and
once in a lull we detected the ham,
mering staccato of a machine gun
tacking down the loose edges Of a
fight that will never be recorded in
history, with the earnestness and
briskness of a man laying a carpet
In hurry--Irvin S. Cobb in the Sat
urday Evening Post.
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Much Lumber Wasted,

It is estimated that American lum.
bermen, accustomed to a wealth OF
material, waste two-thirds Of it; aQd
that by utilizing all parts Of the tree
the long-leaf pine industry would yield
daily 40 tons Of paper, 5000 tons OF
rosin; 100000 gallons of turpentine
and great quantities Of ethyl products
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Too Much Of a Good Thing.

81 didn't much care about the way
Joshs clothes looked down to camp"
commented Farmer Corntossel.
Hasn't he his regular uniform?'
"Not yet. If they're going to keep
him dressed that way in hopes of de-
ceiving the enemy into thinking he's
Just an obscure peasant or something,
what 1 say is that it's carrying this
new kermoof1ing too farl"
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Behind the Lines.

Last Sunday attended church serv-
ice. The padre, during his sermon,
told the boys that for every sin they
committed they owed certain amount
to God. When I was leaving I heard
Tommy remark:
'"That settles it. TIL have to give up
my pass to l.. I can't afford to go
for owe too darned much to God al.
ready."-Second-in- Command
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The Christian
Hope
By REV. L. w. GOSNELL
Assistant Dean. Moody Bible
Institute, Chicago

TEXT-Remembering without ceasing
your work of faith, and labor of love, and
patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ye turned to God from idols to serve
the living and true God; and to wait for
his Son from heaven, whom he raised
from the dead, even Jesus, which deliv-
cred us from the wrath to comet Thes-
salonians 1:3, 9, 10.
These verses set forth the three
principal graces of the Christian life
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Wives Evidently His Hobby,

Probably the modern worlds marry
ing, record for men was created by
George Witzoff, the bigamist, whose
marriages have variously been estimat-
ed at from 200 to 800. 1t was report
ed that in the space Of a single week
he went through marriage ceremonies
with ten women.
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faith, love and
hope. Moreover,
they indicate the
outcome Of these
graces.
The first verse
speaks Of the
T h e 8 s a | onians'
"work Of faith, and
labor Of love, and
patience of hope"
It is evident,
then, that faith
works. There La
no conflict be-
tween Paul's doc
trine Of faith and
James doctrine
of works. The
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Although I was suffering intense
agony, the doctor, who spoke perfect
English, insisted upon conversing with
me.
"You may be all right as sports.
man." he declared, "but you are q
id murderer just the same for be.
ing here. You Americans who got into
this thing before America came into
the war are no better than common
murderers and you ought to be treated
the same way"
The wound in my mouth made it i'm
possible for me to answer him, and
was suffering too much pain to be
hurt very much by anything he could
say.
He asked me if I would like an
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Worsen BolIs, Too.

Old Job had his troubles, but nobody
raised the price Of ice on him when he
was laying in his winters coal.-At-
Iauta Constitution.
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O'BRIEN FINDS HIMSELF A PRISONER OF WAR AFTER A
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM DEATH.

synopsis-Pa Momence Ill, after seeing
in Mexican border in 1916
Canada and after brief train
He assigned squadron in active
with German
flyers, fromw he victorious.
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ADVANCE so RAPID
GUNS fall BEHIND

mule-drawn machine guns and
ammunition wagons were held
ready to rush up and throw their
weight in the. path of the boches.
Here ] met, standing in the mid
die of a road and surrounded by
his taft, famous French gen
eral.
His troops, who we're then fight
ing on the plateau, had withstood
without a single break in their
front the German advance clear
from the Chemhn des Danes.
No Haste.
The general, who had just re-
turned from the firing line, de-
clared that altho the Germans
were numerically superior-to the
extent of at least four 20 one-his
troops were falling back without
haste, with supreme readiness, the
moment the order might be given,
to put up a determined stand.
Ascending the hills, leading to
the plateau from the south, l
found sunny orchards, vineyards
and fields dotted with artillery
men who were coolly and me-
chemically installing their deadly
"75's S" glancing up occasionally
to see IL the moment had arrived
when they should open fire on
the Germans, in support of the in
fantrymen below.
But sunset found the greatly
outnumbere poilus on the north
ern plateau still keeping back the
foe.
Make a Stand.
During the first day of the Ger
man drive, | learned, several bat
talions of French troops, sur
rounded in the forest of Pinon
Chen on the extreme allied LETT
decided to fight to the finish.
They Immediately sent a car
rier pigeon, announcing their de-
cision to the French commander.
He sent back a nairplane which
dropped an encouraging message
in the forest.
Turnout Monday and Tuesday
the encircled troops held out, re-
porting regularly by pigeons to
their commander, who replied as
regularly by airplane, until 2:30
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon when
the last pigeon to arrive carried a
message announcing that the
three battalions remaining had no
more ammunition and had been
Obliged to surrender.
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TO NURSES

Miss Mae LOOMS, who has been
chosen by the Washington State
Nurses association to recruit
nurses for Red Cross and canteen
work overseas, made stirring ap-
peal for nurses to come to the
front at the conference Friday aft
ernoon. Miss LOOMS said that in
the week of June 2, 1000 nurses
must volunteer and that before
January next year there will be a
need for $4,000.
Capt. Jean Champion OF the
French army, who is acting as an
instructor in trench warfare at
Camp Lewis, told of the work of
the nurses at the outbreak of the
war and of some of his expert
ences in France at the front.
Miss Valeska Sadler, who was a
nurse at the Belgian front during
the first invasion of Germany in
1914, described her work there,
telling of the terrible ordeals thru
which the six nurses who were
left at Charleroi, on the border,
had to pass while they were there
alone to care for thousands Of
dying and wounded Belgian,
French and German soldiers.
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destroyers would go out and they
wouldn't have any life lines rugged
or anything, and maybe not all
the crew on board. The men on
liberty would have to be picked
NJ later.
When we went ashore in Eng
land the first thing we would do
would be to go and get something
to eat. We would buy chicken
and some Brussels sprouts and
take them to a restaurant to be
cooked. There's nothing like a
change. We would get tired OF
Canned Bill" (corned beef
Goldfish" Canned salmon) and
the other regular Chow" AT the
American club we could get real
American French Fried Potatoes.
We brought back aboard with US
some English war bread. It's fine.
But guess you can get too
much of It. Anyway the british
naval officers used to come
aboard the American ships to
get some of our white bread.
.
Next article: ''6ea Tricks"
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TRYING TO AROUSE
EUROPE AGAINST US

can only see one way to arrive at
compromise between two bel
ligerents. 1t is when both, to
avoid greater dangers, make peace
so they may be able to turn
against third party.
"The whole of the cOnti.. :.
mental powers, for example,
might unite in q common
stand against England and
America - course which
they would certainly adopt
were their statesmen gifted
with sufficient acimen to UNI
derstand the situation" -
Every little skirmish with the
American army at the front u
turned by the German press into
"a bloody American defeat"
Max Osborn, correspondent OF
the Voss:sche Zeitung, in a char
acteristic dispatch says the box
ing methods" OF the sport
steeled" American soldiers can do
nothing against the war-tried in
comparables" from the Rhine.
lone by one we NOW them
down." shr'eks Karl Rosner, the
kaiser's personal press agent, in
the Lokal-Anzeiger. First we
put the Anglo-French auviliaries,
the Portuguese, out of action, and
now the Yankees"
Takes Us Seriously.
But some other critics do not
consider the Americans quite so
insignificant as adversaries. The
Vossische Zeitung says editorial
ly:
I'VE shall have OF act, and act
with much more enterprise and
determination than we have
hitherto shown, IL we would real
lie our best hopes before the
American forces, whatever be
THAR nature, can have time to take
any serious part against u.s."
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Rotary Club
Wants Autos

The Rotary club needs 10 or
liz automobiles to be used in
taking the soldiers of the 362nd
machine gun company for a trip
to Mount Tacoma.
The trip is planned for Sunday
and will take all day. The men,
accompanied by the Rotary club,
will leave camp early in the morn
ling. All those who are willing
to give their cars for this one day
are asked to notify the Rotary
club Saturday.
The company will have with
them representatives of the
Pathe Film company who will
take pictures of the trip.
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CASUALTIES

Omitted Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June l
Gen. Pershing reported 81
names on today's casualty list
divided as follows:
Three killed in action; six
dead from wounds; 10 dead from
disease; one dead from airplane
accident; II wounded severely;
II slightly wounded; nine miss.
ing in action.
Westerners listed were:
Died of disease-Patrick Nc.
CURE, Brandenberg, Mont; Err.
est Sanders, Devils Lake, N. d.
Died from airplane accident =
Sgt. Thurston r. Chamberlain,
Guerneville, Cal.
Wounded severely-Pvts. Dar
Arratebel, Carson, New; Julius
A. Ceresola, Wadsworth, New. ;
Mike Cogura, Bear Creek, Mont.
Robert Geddis Miles City, Mont.
John e. Hoey, Pony, Mont.
Wounded slightly-Earl Good.
win, Cohagen, Mont.
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Bv Henry Wood
trn,ted Fre.s staff Correspondent,

United Press STAFF Correspondent.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES
ON THE AISNE FRONT, May 81.
May 31.-(Night) THE Ger
man advance on this front has
been SO rapid that at present artil-
iery is playing a comparatively
minor role in the battle.
Rifles, machine guns and trench
mOrtars constitute their main Of
fensiye arms.
A few small detachments of the
enemy are reported to have reach
ed the Marine near Charteves, but
his main forces are still on the
plateau above Chateau Thierry
which descends abruptly by sharp
sloped hills to the rivers edge.
Following the capture of Fere-
En-Tardenois, the Germans were
able to advance with great rapid
ity under cover Of the heavy for
ests south OF that place.
AlthO the battle was raging
desperately on the plateau today,
its presence could hardly be de-
tected, save for occasional shots
from the French "75's" or the
German IT'S" and trench NOR
tars.
Few Shell Wounds.
The Germans having advanced
rapidly, they were unable to bring
up any except their lightest ar
tillery. Thus, the wounded which
passed me were suffering almost
invariably from the bullet instead
of shell wounds.
Returning from the vantage
point where ! had seen the fight
ing on the wooded slopes of the
plateau, | encountered French in
fantrymen who stOlidly took up
their positions in houses and shell
tered hooks. eating and resting
while the occasion still offered
Long lines of infan trymen
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Especial to The Times.)

AMSTERDAM, June Ger
many has now turned the walls Of
its hate from England upon Amer
lea.
Since the German people have
come to realize that the army Of
Gen. Pershing is not the con
temptible" force they were led to
believe it was, their prayer has
been changed from Colt Strafe
England" to "Gott strafe Amerd-
ka."
The Yankees are no longer call
ed a phantom army; they are
now "a menace to the whole
world" in the comments of the
German press.
The Cologne Volksze.tung goes
SO far as to predict general
European war against America
after the present conflict.
"MammOnism."
1t says:
THE worlds greatest enemy is
American mammonism, to which,
so long as it secures its monstrous
profits, the hatchery of entire ma
lions is nothing but a practical
means to an end.
ut is high time that, to
combat this murSlerOus and
unspeakably devilish financial
might, which would gladly
see mankind swimming i'm
blood until 1921, all belliger-
ents as well as neutral peo-
pies were called on to unite
in an anti-American CAM
paign.
"Only speedy peace can
save England and France
from the fate with which
America would like to over
whelm the whole of Europe.
"A general European war
Of defense against America
must form the final chapter
Of the world war, il Europe
does not wish to abandon for
ever her role i'm the universal
development of the worlds
civilization. Up, then, We
nations Of kultur, against the
common enemy who tsantls
gTinniBg with Satanic mien
on the other side of tho At
lantic."
Gen. Won Stein, the kaiser s
minister of war, has given official
sanction to this propaganda of
hate by expressing similar views
in an interview in Der Tag" in
which he says:
Europe VS.. Anglo-Saxon.
THE talk about peace by re-
Cancellation is still going on.
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on at midday 10 uSnt trdlnS
across Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Utah, Wyoming and Colorado
That's one of the freakish
things the total sun eclipse will
bring about OH next Saturday.
But trains racing eastward with
the gigantic shadow of the moon
will be quickly outstripped.
A total solar eclipse, given
clear sky, is one of Natures most
wonderful phenomena, worthy of
a long journey to see.
The brilliant sphere which we
see in the heavens every clear
day is the chief part of the sun,
but not the whole of 1t. When
the moon comes exactly between
us and the sun, finally covering
completely the round body of the
sun, the sky darkens, the beauti-
full solar corona bursts into view,
and the brighter stars become Wis
ible.
We cannot hope to understand,
the sun until we shall have studied'
thoroly all parts of it, including
those parts observable only during
|eelipses.
Easy TO Figure
Astronomers know, very accu-
rately, the orbit of the earth
around the sun, the orbit of the
moon around the earth, and the
positions Of the moon and the
earth to those orbits. It is for
them an easy task to calculate
just when the sun, moon and
earth will be in a straight line,
and where the moons shadow will
fall on the earth.
In the eclipse OF next Saturday
the moons shadow will touch the
earth, at sunrise, at point about
midway between Tokyo and Ma
Mia, sweep northeasterly, pass
two hundred miles to the south
of the Aleutian islands and. grad
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course, enter the state of Wash
ington at South Bend. The central
line of the shadow path will pass
thru Baker City in northeastern
Oregon, Pocatello in Idaho, and
thence east and south to Florida.
The width of the shadow path
in Washington and Oregon will
be about seventy miles, and in
eastern Florida forty-five miles.
The interesting eclipse phenom-
ena begins to be in evidence about
a minute before totality is COM
plete, when the brilliant flames
shooting up from the solar sur
face, known as the prominences,
first appear.
Not Dark as Night
The solar corona becomes faint
ly visible a few seconds before the
last trace of the solar crescent dis
appears, and flashes into full view
the instant totality arrives. The
accompanying illustration gives
some idea as to the form and
structure of the corona. The
corona streamers extend out In all
directions from the sun, the long
est sometimes to a distance five
fold the suns diameter.
The corona supplies the chief
eclipse problem; astronomers
want to know its chemical compo-
sition, the conditions existing
within it, its relation to the rest
of the sun, and the reasons for its
existence. The corona appears to
be a mixture Of gases and finely
divided solid PARTICLES. A great
many other problems relating to
the outer structure of the sun and
to the suns surroundings also re-
ceive attention.
Observers of the total eclipse
must not expect the sky to be as
dark as the night sky--far from
II. Good eyes should have no diff
ficulty In reading ordinary news
paper print out Of doors.