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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-14

vautages to he obtained by exploiting
Bagdad railway was the honey pot 10
attract the German comm ercial men.
Under the camoufiage OF this COM
n1ercial expansion the German mill
tary party saw their opportunity to
occupy that great district In the
AIeppo region and making 1t into
strategical base OF great strength for
the purpose of attacking Egypt and
the Suez canal. This could be done
without any large army II once the
eastern Mediterranean were made i'm
passable by large numbers of sub
marines working from the Aegean
sea and cutting off our reinforcements
from the Suez canal. Once they have
Egypt a prey. the cotton. sugar and
cereals but more especially the cot
toni Of that wonderful country be-
comes raw material for Germany and
Austria All this carries them another
step further TO the establishment of
great central African scheme to be
used as a vast reservoir for cheap
raw materials for the German indus
tries
To permit the establishment OF
Germans In force in tropical Africa
would he a crime against humanity.
If only the British and American pub
lie knew the disgusting and abomi-
nable cruelties by which they have
carried out their rule over the un-
fortunate natives the soul of both
countries. which are distinguished
throughout history for the successful
handling of native tribes, would re-
volt at the prospect OF any agreement
installing the Germans in control of
black races. II our own labor party
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-14
Chicago Grain.

Chicago, July ~ The vetoing Of
the wheat bin by President Wilson
caused NAM longs today TO sell out
their corn holdings THIS was the
case especially wits the trade known
as outsiders. some or whom are TO be
found in the corn belt
Price changes in corn TODAY were
CONTINUOUS and of onsj e b o
sadth There was a rush Ia sell u
the opening and values were forced
an SHARPLY before Sufficient buying
power was encountered to absorb IN"
..aeringN After earlt Liquidation
Nrrqer feeling was encountered and
much of the overnight loss was re-
covered cash sales were $4,000 bush
els for domestic use and prices were
8 to iSc lower.
The selling IN oats was quite gen
erai right at tire start, but the pres
sure was not as pronounced az that ih
corn Part Of the early losses We're
recovered but the undertoue AT no
time was strong The buying was
led by shorts with profits and by hold
ers of bids The volume of business
was small.
Moderate deliveries in hog products
were made on July contracts today
The provision list closed with frac-
tfonal price losses and there was less
talk Of the government taking big lots
Of meat and lard
Omen High Low Close
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-14

rooms, the whole of the south Allan
tic from Morocco across TO South
America, and thence to Capetown,
could be controlled. From OAR Es-
SaIam. in German East Africa. the
3, 000-mile arc would touch Madras
at one end and German Southwest
Africa at the other and command the
Indian ocean. From Rahuel, in Ger
man New Guinea, to the north of
Australia they can reach the trade
routes of the Pacific from the north
of Japan To we'll beyond the south
ernmost pont OF Australia.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-14
PRO GFRNNN MADE Ills
SPIEL" TO WRONG MAN

Los Angeles, July 13. -~ when
Kaiser Wilhelm captures America this
Country WIFI re a much better place
10 live in "
Bernard Capune. German. made
this remark 10 a man seated beside
him in a street car. The man turned
out TO he Deputy United states Mar
eha1 Cavanaugh Capune was arrest
ed and Will be informed for the re
uatnder OF the war
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-14
Af&rRIFH s4P0Ra4
RICHMOND nav MARKET
Wholesale Quotations 90 "thEnge.i
RICHMOND GRAIN ExCHANGE.
Z N hnIennIn AmnLntlnmn ON .Chan&e

tSNhoIe%air Quotations 'CharE~.b
Richmond. Va. July j3. 1918.
vHEAT-Car Lots:
No Red tWintcrl ....... Prices
No = q lsott winter as
Steamer .... ~
Virginia, tag lots. the
No Red .......-... regulated
Na hag lnta Tor NeeeL EoH ernme nj
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-14

use of equipment and in mileage The
Operating statistics section of the rail-
road administration compiled the re-
port from complete returns for ap-
proximately ninetyfour per cent OF
the mileage of roads whose annual
operating revenues are in excess OF a
million dollars.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-14
Rnilwnys Show Marked Incrcnsc.

Washington. July l3--The test Of
cold figures was applied today to fed
eral control and operation of the rail-
ways and shows marked increase
In freight traffic and economy in the
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-14
GERMANS OUT TO MAKE
WAR PAYING BUSINESS
Object IL to Retain Material Re-
sources Everywhere for BENEFIT
of Their Industries.

by LORD DENBIGH,
\ Conservative member OF the House
of Peers and aide de camp 10 the
King, with n record OF bril-
liant military career In
Egypt and India.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-14
SUGGESTED FooD PRICES.

The prices below are considered by
lie local food administration to be fair
and reasonable They are issued by.
rr l. Eaton local director Of markets
and transportation, and apply TO the
Richmond market only.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-14

No exorbitant fee demanded
before you can begin treatments.
But you can pay as you are
able TO earn the amount of the
fee.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-22
WORKERS ARE DUNG WELL
Both Men and Women Are Enthuslas-
ticaTly UphoIdIng the War Saw
inas Campaign.

Working men and women through
out the country are solidly behind the
war savings campaign, G. L. Baine Of
Boston, labOr's representative on the
national war savings committee in
Washington, declared in. statement
issued at New York. "We know as
well as anybody knows" he said, chat
of the members of our unions, as well
as wage earners generally, those who
have shown some thrift and those who
have some money in the bank not only
make better members Of the unions,
but they make better citizens of the
country. We know from our own ex-
perience that the men and women upon
whom we have to depend for conserva-
tive action at times when there is Ii
able to be radical action are persons
of that character. / am q firm believ-
er in the idea that the country can
boast of having the largest population
holding its securities is the country
that has the least to fear from revolu-
ton, upheaval, or anything that will
disturb the best interests Of that cOun-
try
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
PLAIN | ruth About Some Of the Fatal German Poison Ga

"Next the men must pass through the
deadly gas chambers, to be ready to NEE.
the attack of the enemy fully prepared
More fatal than the prussic acid which thu
Prussian has occasionally employed is the
deadly mixture of chlorine and phosgene,
which has been most commonly used. In a
gentle favoring wind it is put over invisi-
Bile in the darkness, and if it catches the
Zoe unprepared can kill from ten to fifteen
miles behind the lines. The mixture IS
squirted as a liquid from metal generators.
1t quickly forms dense grccnish yellow
cloud of poison vapor, which floats awav in
tho darkness. It's success must depend ON
the cement of surprise, taking the enemy
unprepared and choking him, awake or
asleep, in the first few moments before th.
horns, gongs and whistles send the alarm
for miles behind the trenches.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
tsNTustard Gas Invisible
1vl and Odorless :,

Recently new so-called mustard gas
has been used by the enemy with deadly
effect, owing to the fact that it is both in
visible and odorless. 1t is sent over in cx
ploding shells, and sinks in heavy invisi
Bile vapor about the sleeping men, creeping
into their dugouts and trenches or envelop
ing them around the guns or in the shell
holes. The effects do not manifest them
selves for several hours With singing
pain the mans eyes begin to close, and for
time ne may go almost blind. He is then
taken violently sick. The surface of the
lungs and the entire body, especially where
1t is moist with perspiration, is burned.
The skin may blister and come Off. MANY
cases have proved fatal and many more
suffer cruelty for weeks in hospital. With
the men we attended lecture on the nat
ure OF the yarous gases used by tho cncmv
ana the proper methods Of meeting them.
The lecture throughout was lnconacjouslv
couchcd almost in theological lanpuape
The instructor first disposed Of what he
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
On With the Steel Helmet
~ Then Into Action

Before going through the death cham
ber, helmets are inspected, to see that thcv
are sound and unpunctured and the men
are drilled in the open to practise putting
them on quickly. Suddenly the warning
whistle of an imaginary gas attack sounds.
One backward fling of the head and the
steel helmet falls off, for there is no time
70 ''ft 1t OFT. A dive into the bag carried
on the chest, and the rcspirator is grasped
and with one skiful swoop it is drawn over
the face. Your nose is pinchcd shut by a
clamp, your teeth grip the rubber mouth
piece, and, like a diver, you must now got
your one safe stream of pure air through
ire rcsp'rator. You draw in the air from,
u tube which rises from tin Of chemical
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

called superstitious 'heresies' concerning
the gas, in order to prevent the men from
having panic and getting the wind up
There is a foolish rumor which SAYS, 'One
breath and you ruptured for life, or you
ta!l dead the next morning. ETC., etc., but
he warns the men of its deadly nature and
tells them they are to be saved from its
fatal effects by knowing the truth
"Thc instructor explains that if they take
four deep breaths it will prove fatal: 'One
breath and you catch the first spasm, two
and you are mad, three and you are uncon-
scious, four and you are dead. If you keep
your presence Of mind and hold your
breath you will have six seconds to get or
your gas helmet respirator.' The attack,
remember, is surprise in the dark; BRAIN
splitting gas shells are dropping on all
sides, and it is hard to keep cool and hold
ones breath in the moment of sudden sur
prise and panic. We are told that there
are fifteen mistakes which are casily pos
slble in getting on this complicated he'll
met, or if there is one big blunder in the
sudden surprise the man is done for.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

on your chest. Then you can breathe in
the dense, deadly grcenish chlorine vapor.
for as it passes through the respirator filled
with chemicals, it is absorbed, ncutralized,
oxidized, and purified into a stream of pure
air. All about you may be choking fumes
of death which would kill you in four sec
onds, yet you will be completely immune,
breathing purified atmosphere.
The soldiers now marched up to this
chamber Of horrors to walk through the
poison gas Many have the wind up'
q. c., they are afraid inside, but are
ashamed to show it). Reliance on the
guide, the expert who has been through It
all, and the sense of companionship, the
stronger ones unconsciously strengthening
the weak, have steadying effect upon all
the men. The soldiers have had four
hours drill to prepare them, but the padre
and |, who are now permitted to 20
through, have had but four minutes. am
trying to remembers, number of things all
at once. Above all | must keep cool and
assure myself that there is no danger if
only trust and obey what the expert has
said.
Il fling on the helmet and we start into
the death chamber, but suddenly string is
loose-will the respirator work? There
seems to be something the matter with NV
nosepecc which should be clamped shut. I
would like to ask the instructor lust ono
question to make sure, but can no more
talk than a diver beneath the sea. It is
too late; we are moving; can only hope
and trust the helmet will hold.
We have left the sunlight and are in a
long, dark covered chamber, like n trench.
cropping forward and looking Mt distant
point of light through the dim goggles. We
are alone in these deadly fumes; the in
structor is not here; there is tense silence.
and all about us is the poison of death.
on, what was that fourth point that was
to remember? Why has the guide turned
back? thought we were to 70 out at the
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

further end, where last week the poor fell
low fell who lifted his helmet a momon+ too
soon after he got out and caught one whif
which sent him to the hospital. but instead
we seem to be turning around and going
back.
But there is no time for explanations or
questions now we just plod on through the
darkness and soon we are out in the sum
light again-safe! Gods pure air. o..
why did man ever want to pollute it and
poison his brother with these deadly fumc,
of hell!
CAS- special favor the instructor allows
us, without mask, to take one swift loot,
into the fumes we hold our breath. That
yellow green chlorine will corrodc the
lungs and fill them with pus and blood.
The phosgene is much more deadly and will,
strike the man down with sudden failure Of
the heart
"We were also sent through a chamber
of the invisible tear gas without a mas,;
The object of this is to take awav the fesr
OF the gas from the men. This particular
gas has no effect upon the lungs, but sends
stlngng pain through the eyes. so that
one weeps biindly for some minutes and
could not possibly see to shoot or to de-
fend himself.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

Men, | am going to tell you the truth
about this deadly gas and you must believe
it, for your lie will depend upon it. It can
Kill and no doubt about it, But for every
poison OF the enemy there's an antidote
and we have found it. Your helmet is per-
feet and you simply must believe in it, YOU
must trust to it, We have made full pro.
vision for your safety. If you go under it
Will be your own fault from one of four
causes-unbelcf, disobedience, careless
ness or fear If you carelessly 60 without
your helmet it means death. During an at
tack, after putting on the respirator. iust
stand and wait There is nothing YOU can
90 Tor yourself except to keep your helmet
on. Your skill, your strength are nothing
NOW II you are caught in an attack un-
awares remember if you're still alive at all
there's hope. Don't lose courage If your
confidence goes, you lose 90 per cent IF
your defence, for the sole hope of the
enemy in gas is surprise and panic. If yoa
are gassed, don't move. Keep still, keep
warm, don't worry, and wait. To move or
try to save yourself will be fatal.
THE enemy will put over three or four
waves with break between. The gas may
come for some hours. To remove YOUR
helmet before the attack is over will oe
fatai. Within quarter of an hour after
the gas has ceased the charge Of the enemy
Will come and you must never let him get
past your barbed wired entanglements.
After exposure to gas, all food water and
wells arc poisonous. The heavy gas must
be expelled from the trenches by fans be-
fore the charge comes. Only remember,
you must believe what say keep your he'll
met on in time of danger and you are per
fcctly snfc,'
There is a vast difference between the
warning and the preparatory exposure to
the gas by your guide and the deadly sur-
prlsc of the enemy. The former is a tria,
to prepare you, the latter is an effort to
destroy you. The whole experience was so
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
The Real Truth About
l. This Deadly Gas

1--WE are now ready to return to another
lecture with more understanding. No won
der these tired boys under the heavy, hot
steel helmets which absorb the heat of the
scorchng sun, are listening with all their
ears, yet one or two fall asleep for very
WEAKNESS and may again be caught mapping
by the enemy's poison gas up tho line. The
Instructor is in dead earnest for the life
of every man during the coming conflict
may depend upon his message. His word,
are still in my ears, for they we're strangely
like u sermon:
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
( ictims of the Terrible
V German Poison

"The writer has just come from wafa
in the hospital filled with patients suffer
ing from the new gas which the enemy mas
lately put over. 1t is, as we have said, in-
visible and odorless, so the men receive No
warning, and consequently do not put on
their masks. They do not know that tne'
are being gassed until hours afterwars
when they find they are burned from hea0
to foot
Here are twenty men lying in this tsns
suffering from this new torture. This nis'
boy, with wan smile that goes rigat
your heart can only whisper from als
burnt-out lungs and cannot tell US hs
story. The next man was taken with son'
iting five hours after the gas shells ef
ploded. Seven of his fourteen compsni0''
sleeping in the dugout were killed outslghs
the others were gassed. He does not khoss
where they are. He lay unconscious l0'
several days, and now his eyes and skin ar
burned as though he had passed thTous's
a fire.
The next boy is badly burned N NJ
eyes and chest. Half the men of his Ds''
terry were killed by gas while asleep =
night. On the next cot is boy who me-
been suffering for seventeen days; sas
burns on his body have been improv'ps'
his lungs also are better, but he Is ss's
blind and fears he may lose his sighs. =
asks me to write letter for him 70 "s
mother. Only he says, don't tell ns'
about my eyes Together we make np
cheerful letter. and the boy rests back o
his cot to pray for his returning eyeKisnh
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
CHERWOoD EDDY, in his book
- with Our Soldiers in France
The Rapper!

~ with Our Soldiers in France
just published by The Associated
Press, has very interesting chapter
called GA Day in the Bull Ring" The
Dull Ring, in this instance, however,
isn't the traditional arena where Spain's
great national sport is enacted. Mr..
Eddy's Bull Ring is kind Of last word
in military training schools, where Brit
ish, French and now American troops
take a final course for few weeks be-
fore going to the actual front. Much
valuable information is acquired by those
who Will so soon be under the direct fire
OF the enemy. Mr.. Eddy declares:
1T is thrilling spectacle to see many
thousands of men across a vast plain coino
through the various mannuvres of actual
warfare as it is practsed to-day at the
front Perhaps brief description of such
driil ground may be of interest to those
VINO are following the fortunes of our SOL
diers
AT the bugle sounds and the whole
camp is astir. Outside there is the clatter
OF feet as the men fall in after a hastv
breakfast. The shrapnel-proof steel he,-
NETS are donned, the heavy seventy pound
KITS and rifles are swung to the broad
backs, the band strikes up Pack Up Your
troubles and our battalion is on the march
for the Bull Ring
First comes the ceremonial parade.
whole brigade swings into line and mus.
prove that it can move as one man. as g.
perfect machine, without flaw or friction.
One master mind directs every motion, and
at the word Of command thousands of feet
are moving in exact time, wheeling, march
Ing, man9uyring with precision that
proves the long months Of patient practice
This finish Of discipline and perfection of
unity have their part to play in the win
ming Of the battle raging ut this moment
mp the line.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

obviously parallel to the deadly moral dan
gers which surround the soldier in war
time that it needs no comment The one
and only safety in the time of temptation is
to put on the whole armor of God, espe-
cially the helmet of salvation,' then 70
trust and obey and stand fast.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-09-06
BELIEVE BOMB
PLANTER HAS
BEEN ARRESTED
Officials Say John w. Will
son Has Been Identified
as Being Implicated.

Chicago, Sept 6.-In q statement
given out today, Michael F. Sullivan,
assistant states attorney, declared
that John w. Wilson, arrested last
night had been positively identified
as having been implicated IN the
planting of the bomb in the federal
building. Explosion Of the bomb
killed four persons and resulted in
serious injury to a score Of others.
Wilson Is g. member Of the I. w. w,
and Is believed at one time to have
been private secretary to William D.
Haywood, general secretary-treas-
urer.
In his announcement, Mr.. Sullivan
said Wilson had been identified by
four persons as the man seen run
ming away from the Adams street
entrance to the federal building
shortly before the bomb exploded.
He was described as ''the man with
a black fedora hat, who ran out Of
the building, leaped into a black au-
tomobile and was, whirled away"
Detectives who questioned Wilson,
said he admitted that he was en-
ployed as bookkeper by the I. W.
W., and that he spent the greater
part Of Wednesday in the federal
building, whittier he went, he said,
to arrange for the transfer Of Hay
wood to the office of the federal pros
ecutor in order that Haywood might
attend to some private business af-
fairs.
He denied any connection with the
explosion
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-09-06
TELEGRAPHIC
BRIEFS

Washington. - President Wilson
probably will not make a tour of the
country in behalf & the fourth Lib
erty Loan becaHse of the pending
revenue leg6dation and other import
ant matters.
Washington. - The administration
waterpower leasing bill passed the
house without the amendment.
Laredo, Texan embargo was
placed. on all news print paper exports
to Mexico.
/ Dawson, 7. T.-Explorer stefansson
left Dawson for Vancouver. B. c., to
make his report to the Canadian gov
ernment.
Washington Of the stand
ard contract between the government
and railroads show that most of the
contentious Of the Association OF
Railway Security Holders were denied
New York.-The Stacker raid was
called of suddenly by the officials OF
the department of Justice
Cleveland. Max Miller, aviator
carrying United States mail from New
York to Chicago. landed In field
near here after having been blown
$50 miles out OF his course. He spent
the night here. fs
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-09-06
(Bv the Associated Press.)

Continuing their along the front from Rheims to
Ypres the Allied forces pushing back the Germans virtually
this entire $50 mile line.
Telling progress made particular the French and
along southern end of the 'front.' The French be-
fore the old Hndnburg positions along considerable stretch
this where they closing the baston OF St Gobain
the keystone of the German defensive system in the west
north the enemy still in retreat before the
British who capturing after they
rapid strides the line from which the Germans attack
their offensive of last March. Ham almost within the
Allied grasp and Chauny is seriously threatened.
have moved up along the Asne line reaching
ground Immediately the The north of
the stream appear inclined halt temporarily but there
be question they will speedily be forced their
earward march and halt until their old line at Chen
des Danes is reached
Through continued French the German right
of the Asne however, the Chen des Danes line
virtually outanked and the retirement not stop short
of the Ailette.
campaign Cambria has halted far the push the
direct line for the city concerned but the advances which the
Angorench forces making southwark along the line cal
culated work notably toward the of the main The
Canal Du Nord barriers have been passed
this and the German stand back the canal in the north
rendered futile the left flank the canal line
menaced by the drive further south On the F1and
British pressure likely to drive the Germans
further than they apparently intended going in their retirement
Field Marshal Haig troops both
from the north and south and their thrust seems likely soon to be
considered threatening Lille the manufacturing center OF
northern France, southwest of Armentieres
In this the British east from Nerve Chape1e
pushed several points beyond the old German ne