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.L|FEBOAT5 ARE
SHOT To PIECES
STEAMER TICONDEROGA
VICTIM OF. OUTRAGE
Defenseless Men and Women
Fall by Hundreds-Only
28 Survivors.

AN ATLANTIC PORT, Oct. 10
Scores Of American satlorc and soldiers
were killed or wounded by shrapnel AID
by = German submarine after It had
:orpeeoed tho Steamship T7eonderoga,
l,7oo miles on the Atlantic coast, nc-
eording to the stoSy told by 20 survivors
who arrived hero today aboard Brit
ish 1reiShter.
There were $50 mon aboard tho II
eonderoga. m American steamship o1
$3.50 tons, and all but the 2s who ar
rived hero today are believed TO have
periched. Tao survivors got away In
the only boat which WAS not demolished
by tho shetl 6re from tho submarine,
they said. Seventeen Of tho men who
reached port were members Of q de-
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GREAT AMERICAN AIR OFFENSIVE.
SENDS THRILL THROUGH C0UNTRf

German camps north OF verdun sent; .
thrill through war department oi1ciAs
today. although no official report haA,
been received to furnish details OF the
exploit. SO fas as could be learned, the
participation OF $50 machines IN this
one enterprise marks It As tho EreAfest
air offensive yet undertaken on thA wees-
ern. front IN point Of tho air forces ens-
ployed. No record could BE- discovered
bere tonight showing either. allied Or
German bombing raids on anything Ike,
a similar scale .-.r',.~.c- Ks
The language Of tho account az the:
raid permitted TO pass tho Ama1caf.
military censor is tAksn hsre to indteats.
that the operation was . 3oiAt sntek-
prise. with French and poEsibiY BFftish'
aces aiding In tho nrotsotion. OF tfs
Americans. Thn refereAoa 10 80: tn
pianos ~ included IN this Ereat. air
eet found no explanation. hare, ,!f
they were operated by American plotn
they are Fronch built machines ehd ~
details of tho equipment .oStain0e
Il
(ooati.ssA o. 1AGs 4wA-) - =. ~. 81.
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Now Believed Wheeling VIII
Go Over the Top for Its
Eight Million Liberty Loan
Total-Many Large Sub
scriptions Turned In.

The Fourth Liberty loan. while large
in figures. is small in fact and Is but a
petty Sractior OF ono years income or
this great people and is hut pettier
fraction OF this great peoples ~onlth.
II Is but one eighth of the annual IN
come OF the United States OF America
and but one-rortieth Of Its riches. Let
I, be oyersubscribed Our soldiers are
watching the Liberty Loan. our allies
arc watching It and our vulture foes are
drcading II.
That Wheeling and Ohio county In
tends TO put Il over the top md also put
the Hun" down for the count was oe'n-
onstra,ed beyond doubt yesterday whcn
the grand total figures climbed to So
os7.l5o or s. percent Of the quota.
record that every ma-a. woman and child
in the country should we'll feel proud ~
The forty-five subscriptions OF *sa'ooo
fcsrynfinued on Page Ten)
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WITt- THE AMERICAN FORCES
NORTHWEST or .VERDUS. Oct. ~.
1890 y. m--(By the Associated FrcsS)
An American bombing expedition con-
sistins Of moro than $50 machines yes
tnrday. dropped - tons of explosives
on German cantonncntS In the area DC
tween Wavrilia and Damvillcrs' about T.
miles north OF Vcrdun.
The American bombing exploit MARKS
one Of the high spots in thc air fleet op-
eratIons of the war. In the n1pedltion
ware more than 200 boTnfNnx airplanes.
I0n pursuit machines and On airplanes.
The bombing machinesi were given
splendid protection during the operation.
Twelve enemy machines wore destroyed.
Only one entente plano failed To return.
In addition American airplancs yes
terday destroyed or brought down hve
German machines and ono balloon.
They also took great number Of pho
tosrapla and dropped newspapers 10 tho
American troops.
WASHINGTON. Oct. lo.-Word Of the
first great American air raid against the
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the greatest good fortune that they were
fairly well supplied with water.
Nightly and daily. too, they sent haeh
volunteer scouting parties, but il these
reached the positions in the rear with
out being captured or killed they could
not tell. for none ever returned.
Daily American aviators searching
:ainly for them flew overhead. but no
uutcry the men could let brought any
thing but rnllcy Of shots and laugh
ter from1the Germans In front and he
hind and to the right and left OF them.
The bcleagucred men discovered that
there we~, German machine gun nests
all around them every fifteen feet or 80
and n,ar 10 show himself ever so
briefly was the signal for q sweeping
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WASHINGTON. O-,t. 10Th. smash
ing victory of thr Angi"-American
t"rrcs nnr,h of 81. Quentin may he pay
"nS he way for carly invasion Of Ter
n,an% ;tseI: Striking hints OF wholly
-"w enterprise. directed at the upper
T:hin- rall"!. have come from unoltlclai
quarters in France. and they follow TO-
p~atHd reports from .Su uitTccland that
;,r civil populations "t tn" kline VAL
:.y towns w"ra being removed by III"
German authorities.
Som" officers h".H give ih"&. reports
r,artiruiar wniEht b"c;tus" it now ap-
r."ars certain that TN. -n"my will u"
rorc"d far back all along the front IN
northern France ami Belgium witnIn
:kr r'xt few days. While the constant
hammsrirg is. k"pt MP in tho north IN
Dir the German artni"S there Il might
hs possible. II waS said. to deliver :, n"W
sTruk" on ihr AiSace Lorraine front
tha, might swiftly develop into an iava-
sion of Grrrnan% itself by way ot tho
Rhine valley.
Ths unexpected "xt"nl of the German
COLLAPSE aeswe"F S.. Quentin and Cain
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rrcw more and moro cmaciated and
more and more bearded. but they never
gave up hope.
Thre was nothing but grim deter
mination 10 hold out until the last man
was finished There was not q man in
the battalion. wounded OF otherwise
hungry or starved. but secuted the idea
Of surrender. Their ammunition was
depleted 20 point where the few mh-
chine guns In the outfit had but one belt
of cartridges apiece and tho rifle am
munition was running so short that
they had received orders not TO fire at
anyone attacking until within such
short range that his death or serious in
jury was almost inevitable.
Major Whittlesey. who is a well
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CAMBRIA SMASH MAY PAVE THE
WAY FOR INVASION Of GERMANY

brai. however. may upset any plans for
a driv" to The Rhine. AS the enemy
stands today. with a great gap rorn IN
IN" center Of the lines. there is the pos
sibili,y of Il crushing and immediate
military victory for the allies.
Should the French tn the sonth or the
British TO the north also succeed In
breaking through bcfor" tho Germans
can complete an extensive retirement,
the capture or destruction or q whole
.,nerny annIy group might be rcalizsd.
. Fnr This reason il does not appear
likely THAI pn&sihl" Rhine drive plans
will develop until IN" situation clears IN
tllr north. Should tn" German armies
rScal". tho triple trap between f"rdun
and ,hr North sea and establish n line
on the McuSc front. many officers are
confident tina; tho center Of attack Will
swing suddenly to 4 drive into Germany
itself by IN. shortest route. the Rhine
valley.
Attention is concentrated on the star
Ting forward rush Of the AnElU-Amcri-
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WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
northwest OF VET,pUN. Wedues-
Gay. Oct. .. (By IN" Associated Iressl-
The brightest spot in tn. heroic and
amazing story Of the now famous lost
battalion which belonged :" the ?7th
Division. as yet untold was thr climax
Of the fourth day Of the troops be-
leaguerment In the Argonnc forest.
A composite stor% cleaned from a
dozen recitals reveals tina, tho battalion
when ordered to advance last Friday.
pushed it's way rapidly ahead through
the forest and. in IFS eaGrrness to catch
up with the retreatinS Germans. grad
uAliy spread out and widenetl its ranks.
This allowed the Germans TO inifiltrate
unsecn behind she Americans and they
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front Of them. Then they discovered
that the Germans on both sides had
flanked them and had closed III on their
rrar.
Sheltered only in shallow and hastily
constructed trenches the rn"n were sub
jected to Il ErillinG SnIpnG machine gun
fire AS we'll rs n trench mortar hom-
bardment every time they showed them
selves. "only with thr greatest diff
Guilty md with cXtrrmc cputi"n they
move from place I" plac. and keep guard
against surprise attacks
Tho battalion had started with n1ca-
ger rationS. expecting mnT" to roach
'hem later. These uf courS. could M
longer be transported ln chem. 1t w,ls
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rain Of bullets. II man made an un-
usual noise trench mortars pounded the
vicinity viciously.
Just for diversion, the enemy made n
practice OF sweeping tine whole terrain
tn" hillside whore the Impoverished
trenches were located and the valley in
which the men crawled to get leaves and
wnter-- regularly and then irrcgularly
with machine guns.
Snipers were constantly on watch.
German IT'S pounded the locality and
hand Srenades also were hourly In evi-
dcnce. The Americans had no rockets
or other signals and they wcrc power
less to attract the attention Of anyone
but the Germans.
as the days passed the Americans
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HUNDREDS LOST
ON JAP: VESSEL
u. S. DESTROYER PICKS
UP FEW SURVIVORS
400 Lives Snuffed Out in the
Torpedong Of Dublin
Boat Leinster.

A BRITISH POET, Monday, Oct. T.
BY the Associated Presa>-The Japa-
nese steamship Hirano Maru, Of 1885
tons gross, has been torpedoed and
sunk. It Is feared that 800 Ntes were
lot.
The Htrano Maru was outward bound
for Japan and carried about 200 passer-
gers. The vessel WAS torpedoed and
sunk By o German submarine early on
Friday morning when about 300 miles
south Of Ireland.
The few survivors who wero picked
up by tho American torpedo boat de-
Stroyer Sterret have been brought here.
They declare that the torpedo struck the
steamer In the forward engine room.
Nothing remained for those on board,
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WASHINGTON. Oct. 10.-President
Wilson today issued this statement Oh
the fourth Liberty loan campaign:
Recent eyents have enhanced. NOT
lessencd. the Importance oil this ioA'''
and l hope that my fellow couhtlSneh
viii lot m. SAY this to them very frank
". Tho best thing that could happen
would re that tho loan should not only
be fully subscribed but very greatly
o,, r,,ubscribcd We are in the midst
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PRESIDENT WILSON CALLS FOR LARGE
OVERSUBSCRIPTlON OF LIBERTY LOAN

c. the greatest exercise of the ps1aI
Of this country that has ever been VI
n sssri or forecast and a sinEta day
relaxation In that effort Wauld De-
trasicaI damage aiikA to ourselves
t. tho rosL Of tho world, Nethin1
happened wh.rh makes Il safe % ps
s:nlo to do anything but. puAh nus .
fnr. 10 rho utmost, Tho tifnh is efftici
and tho rc,pnnsc mus, be complete,
WOODROW. W1LsoH:"
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Amazing Successes Scored By the Allies
(By the Associated PreSs)


OF
Il
recapure1
anlSt
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the Land omore
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SIS, 1000 Clubs S1,13O,8OO
Sends Total to $5,O87,150
We ARE GOING OVER the TOP

Ohio county will make success of the biggest
financial job undertaken by county of it's size
and population.
Our people have the enthusiasm, the courage
and the devotion to do it.
Here is how they are going to win victory.
Forty five citizens of Ohio county added one mil
lion, hundred and thirty thousand, eight hundred,
dollars to the total of bond purchases an honor list
which is credit to the community and to every in
dividual on it
Yesterday, as result Of the work done by a spe
cial committee composed of Messrs. W. E. Stone,
Isaac M. Scott Samuel W. Harper, S. P Norton Geo.,
E. House and A. B. Paxton forty-fve separate bond
purchase pledges Of $4,000 each turned in at the
Liberty Loan headquarters Some of these pledges
represent additions to previous subscriptions already
made Many of them, however, are from subscribers
whose purchases of the Fourth Liberty Loan had not
yet been reported The list makes a splendid add
tion to Ohio countys total
Any patriotic citizen who wants to Join will be
welcome.
Here is the list of members to date; the subscrib-
ers who, by their example and personal effort are
helping to make sure Ohio county is going over the
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Amazing of the Rescued Heroic LoN Battalion the United States Army

known New Yorker, had hia entire bat
TALON behind him to L man. cA1tata
Leo Stromee, Of San Rernafdfno, cal4s
told the Associated Press hia rnon jSet.5
cd ut the idea Of surrender. and the MAa!
who came out Of tho four ds1s'S sisea
arc n uni, in declaring that they never.
would have given up. -..E:5
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REPLY
TOW|LSQNN0T
NOW IS DRAF TED
NATURE OF RESPONSE
AS YET NOT KNOWN
Macmillan Shown Up as Alb
soluist-Peace De-
bate in Senate.

COPENHAGEN, Oct. l0.-Thc
German reply to President Viii;
sons note was drafted after a
conference Of Prince Maxalnilian,
the imperial German chancellor
Vice-Chancellor Won Payer, the
ministers and military representa-
tives of the government.
This information is contained III
a. dispatch received here from
Berlin.
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wASnN0ToH, Oct. 1o--HoessA11S *
western rn1syIvAn.s ssA oAja-;
rarity cloudy Friday aad AaAG11avJ ~
much change In t@ponASa1A
west vtrEtzia--EA.r 1r.AAy. s1d 1ssAl
ably Saturday. -'fs.srt !.
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WASH N(;TON. Oct. 1D.-Documen.3
which have Just reached Washington. i'll
cludc the text OF Il speech delivered iast
December by Prince MaximiliaE. ne"
German chancellor. and letter written
last January To his cousin. Prince Ho'
henlohe, md disclose the tru" character
of the writer as something l"ss thha n
pacitis, The speech attempted ~ recon
cile Christian doctrines and Gernany's
brutal militarlsm. and drew Criticism.
The letter was written in Justification
Of the speech, and In II the prince sa:d:
AS / am opposed to western par'iac
mentnrism for Germany und Badcn. l
was Obliged to say to III" people ~
Baden. or rather Of Germany. that
understood its merit, bur that such m
sti;utions were not real remedies Tor
them"
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Hundreds of Americans Murdered When Hun
Submarine Torpedoes Ship and Shells SurUigors


sSn@NH mmIpaHaLn a@npIsdh e@wSd
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WASHINGTON Oct. to.-Thc nom
appearance of the Turkish peace note.
reported To have been sent simultnn-
eously with that Of Germany and Aus
tria, and the report from London and
Paris Of impending and far-rehchinG
events in Constantinople. has strength
encd the view here that the situation in
Turkey Is desperate
II is believed by officials in tonch
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fccntirued on Page Ten.)
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Read Dr. Lsns Advice the Epidemic Io E@nce

~"G3GnN
D~ ~ :"
>"fTU SI11O
oHE1,WFAY
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CONTINUED on Page Twelve.)
Evening star., 1918-05-19
The False Lover.

naAJ. FREDERICK PALMER. the
Wl war correspondent, said the
other day:
Some of our war correspondents
are as ignorant of war as the orientai
lover was ignorant of love-"
Mai. Palmer lit a cigarette. and
went on:
"A man in an oriental city FOL.
lowed a lady about the bazaars ana
shops a long time. Finally she turned
to him and said:
"'Why do you follow meT
Because he answered. you are
very beautiful. and my soul goes out
to you in love-
"The lady smiled and said:
".But I am not half so beautifui
as my sister there She pointed TO
the fountain in the square. Look at
her, filling her water jar. She Is a
vision of loveliness. Go, then, and
make love to her.
The man took the lady at ner
word. He hastened to the fountain.
But the maiden filling her jar was
very, very ugly. and he returned to
the lady and said angrily:
Your sister beautiful! Why did
YOU tell me such a falsehood?'
".Ah. but why said the lady. did
YOU tell me a falsehood first"
".When did 1 tell you q falsehood.
when you told me you loved me-
said the lady. For il 1t had been
true that you loved me. you would
never have gone off to make love to
another woman.
Evening star., 1918-05-19

others without that notable char
acteristic.
When you come to Trammelrs you
land in a region of canoes and fish
stories. Uncle "Tant" Trammell sits
under the wide-spreading sycamores
and native elms and recounts mem
ories that he has garnered during his
eighty-nine years of life on the upper
river and the country beside it. John
Trammell is also there. but John be-
longs to the generation of motor
boats. telephones. electric lights.
trolley cars and such modern con-
traptions. Nearby. powered in foliage.
is the camp of L. H. Harris of the
Treasury. When he is not dealing in
money by the million he is catching
small-mouth bass Harris is on such
good terms with all the bass of the
Potomac that they come from miles
around to take his bait. Up a shady
at you with sleepy and good
natured expression. and where flock
of dominica chickens will greet you
with a cackling chorus. is the home
of Miss Minnie Jennings. 1t was a
trail that led close to the cows and
chickens which the Rambler fol-
lowed. and a short walk through the
bright woods brought him to the cot
tage Of Arthur NJ. Ross, who lives
alone, and the cottage. though not
remote, is in a little frequented by
way Of the woods. He told the Ram
bier that he was an old newspaper
man and that he was living among
the trees and rocks and wild flowers
for his health
A few yards beyond where one
Evening star., 1918-05-19

great-grandchildren and great-great-
grandchildren of men and women
who talked with George Washington.
the foremost American, on the best
way to produce more corn to the acre.
on how to raise sheep that would
yield the maximum of wool. and on
what were the most efficacfous reme-
dies for sore throat, cold in the head
or chilblains.
One should not get an impression
from the foregoing lines that George
Washington's neighbors in Fairfax
county did not know the bigness of
his character or the nobility of his
nature. and that they did not early
acknowledge his eminence and then
his pre-eminence among them. They
did. but 1t seems to be a fact that
many Americans find it hard to get
away from the thought that George
Washington was a superman. usually
astride brass horse or forever maxi
ing speeches to the house of bur-
gesses. the congress of the Conti-
mental army about taxation, repre-
sentation, independence and patriot
ism.
They cannot think of George Wash
inKton as a citizen of Fairfax county
who might climb a rail fence. walk
across a field to where an old black
man was p1owing and say in a per-
fect1y natural and unoratorical voice,
Uncle Mace, you amt runnin' that
furrow straight; or who would stop
at simple farmhouse and make a
speech like this: "Jim GenneIl, 1 hear
your wife has the quinsy. Now. when
Evening star., 1918-05-19
n A
WQOTAM AFremch War Story by Maurice Level
wv 94N

clock in the church tower struck 10.
A sound Of footsteps and of laughter
came from the frozen road outside
Then a man advanced alone. A figure
appeared behind the iron grating ana
the garden gate creaked on its hinges.
1t was the lieutenant returning. some
what Intoxicated. He whistled. Moth
ing happened. But as he arrived at
the doorway Of the house, without a
sound, with a spring so sudden tnat
the snow flew from under his paws.
the dog jumped at the ohcer's neck
and stretched him on the ground.
1t was freezing cold that night. The
next morning a peasant who was
passing saw the gate open and went
into the garden. The Prussian lieu
tenant lay there. stiff and stark, IN
the blood-stained snow. Crouching
over him, his jaws still ready to bite
Wotan barked and wagged his tail
Then the peasant ran away ana.
reaching home breathless, said to his
wife:
thought was lost-Trim, the dog OF ";
Langlois-weIl, he has come back !
have just, seen him. He has killed
the German officer who ordered the
house opened. All! he had reason, "a.
Langlois, to love his deg. He 10
true watch dog, don't you Think"
Evening star., 1918-05-19

Mrs. Washington had the quinsy she
wrapped her throat in a hot haxseed
meal poultice, drank hot tamarind
tea and was up and around the next
day. Try 1t on your wife and you will
find that it'll do her just as much good
and be a good deal cheaper than send
ing to Alexandria for DIR. Craik or
all the way to Port Tobacco for old
DR.. Brown"
From the memorial table on the
lichen-covered rock a path leads
north. There are several paths that
invite the traveller in the same direc-
tion, but they all converge upon the
broad and tortuous-not torturous-
way which, If followed. will conduct
one to the rustic camps and boat
sheds that snuggle among the trees
between the green and gray bluff and
the glistening river above the dam.
OFF from the riverside path lead sew
eral dim woodland roads that have
searched out relatively easy ways of
ascent to the upland country west
and south of the river. and there are
several foot trails that boldly climb
the steep hillsides. The broad trail is
fringed with greenery and this is
embroidered with those beautiful vio-
lets which without disrespect to them
are called common vfolets." There
are also patches of white violets and
of birdsfoot violets, some with the
single black-purple petal among the
other four petals Of light blue. and
Evening star., 1918-05-19

Davis Trammell. who lives with John
Trammell, son of George. and Thomas
Trammell, who lives in Forrestville.
Va. George married Miss Ann Car
Isle of Fauquier county, Va; Martha
married William r. Rollins of Lou
doun county. William married Miss
Plata Dickey of Fairfax. James mar
ried Miss Betty Stallings of Fairfax.
John married Miss Catharine Grimes
of Fairfax and Fielden married Miss
Elizabeth Welles of Fairfax.
The children of George Tramme!l
and Anne Carlisle were Charles. who
is living in Fairfax; John, who lives
on the river and whom all the fisher
men and canoeists of Washington
know. and Miss Ollie-probably she
was christened Olive-who is Mrs.
Maddox and lives in the Great Falls
neighborhood.
Martha Trammell. who married Will
liam r. Rollins of Loudoun. had
these children, all of whom are the
Rambler's friends: Lewis F. Rollins.
James Rollins. John. George. Marga-
ret. Mary and Charles. William
Trammell, who married Miss Dickey.
had as children. Virginia. Mittie