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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-22
BLASTING FIRE
DEATH TO FOE
Prince Rupprecht's Men Meet With
Bloody Repulse Northeast of Ypres.
French and American Troops Win.
Successes---New Drive by Fooled Foe
Is Looked For Soon

London April 2-Davn ushered in mighty hurricane Of
shere in various vital sectors of the wedgeorn 45me bat
tie line between the northeast of pres and the be-
low the Disc ndenbrgs campaign is exactly month OLD
today and there indication late this evening that
the ul that followed the exhaustion of his legon both IN
Flanders aud Pcardy about to be broken by third despcr
ate effort TO break through.
Unofficial front dispatches indeed limited that the great
battle Jared up again AS the situation stood this
ing both sides alert for the reopenng of the titanic
struggle British and French shortened and renforc
ed lines the Germans virtually cooped up in the narrow CORR
doris their wedges but also reinforced by fresh
divisions and backed by powerful of heavy guns
Additional local by the British in Flanders and by
the French in Pcardv reported in the official day bull
etns The most notable scored in the north by
the British.
German attempt break into ags lines to the northeast
of Ypre where Crown Prince Rupprecht troops cautiously
moving forward in the wake of the British retirement from
Passchendaee intensely DESTROYS of swoopng down
7pres from the north But the German infantry had scarcely
left its trenches when murerous barrage caught the dense
packed in its vortex and the woudbe assalants
quickly effort the enemys realizing
formidable concentration guns needed pave the
path for any such attempts.
Along the southern of the German spear head threat
enng azebrouck the British infantry improved their position
still further taking prisoners and machine guns and nct
ing considerable casualties the enemy Robqo
Meantime, while the krupps Numbered away in threatens
ing along La Basse canal to which Rupprechs
troops have made desperate but futile efforts throughout the
past week.
Heavy dues also have been raging without pause
the Avrc southeast of Anens and along the southern
leg of the German Pcardy wedge between Mondider and
Noyon. +
North Of Rheims German raid was beaten off by tho
French
On the Franco American sector northwest of Tou where
1000 picked German shock troops tried unsuccesuly yeser
day to rip hole fierce handtohand fighting continued
throughout the night Paris reported the day communque
and the French and Americans emerged complete of
the situation BY dawn nearly all of the terrain overrn by the
foe in his initial bull rush had been reganed The French
fetal statement after reountng the taken by the French
said:
American troops fighting in this region also repulsed
determined German attack in the sector.''
The German assault the largest the Americans have
had and the result hailed France
brilliant augury for the part the Americans will take in
the future course of the western fighting.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-22

French to advance their line in tha
neighborhood OF castel
In the secondary theater OF the of
fensive. the new salient formed BY the
pressing back OF the British between
Merkeu, and the La Basse canal. des-
perate nghtinS continued Throughout
the week Here the enemy was ahiR
to win terrain OF distinct tactical
value and by occupying part of th@
MessiDe ridge. exer1ed such threat
upon the British forces In the old Ypres
salient, posted beyond Passchends eIs
and the Ypres-Menin road. as to scrce
their withdrawal along a line running
EAST or fpres, thus strengthening out
the trreguiarity of allied dispositions
in this area. s
With the combat situation still IL
nux. II can serve no purpose to discuss
In detail the tactical phases OF the
operations taking place.
~uivershem. Eeuve Eslise. Met.rer
and the area stretching to the I.vs va
the scene of some of the bloo<f,e.t IN.
counters of the war. Here the Rrffssk
have been pressed back only locally
ana the various tactical objecfives
have changed hands rapidly.
The nghting In the area centerinxE
around Mount KENNEL continues win
increasing intensity. This kew posi-
ton remains in British hands, though
the enemy gained a foothold along ~
southern slopes. The British. with
French support which has arrived. 80
consolidating their positions and ao3d.I
ing well. M
The Germans have been able ~
gain local advantage In FlandevM
yet surveying the combat situation N
a whole. II can be affirmatfvelv stated.
that thar enormous sacrifcee M
heaped MP caSuaities have hithsyte
been barren OF primary results. ss
THE enemy, while pushing ~
viEor towards the channel PORTS. 90
Increasing his pressure 10 5 raaxi.ssn1
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-22
Expect Fresh
Drive by Huns

Washington. April 31--New and
even more determined onsiaughts oil
the Germans, paying the toll with
thousands upon thousands of lives, are
anticipated in tho weekly review OF
the military operations made public by
the war department today
There are indications" the war ex-
ports say, that should the offensive
here fail to lead 10 some definite re-
suit. the enemy may undertake a fur.
ther and even more powerful thrust
Confidence is expressed that the
Germans have neither forced a strate-
gicai retirement upon the allies. nor in
any way disorganixed their order OF
battle.
I'm what has hitherto been held tn.
principal scene OF operations" says
the review, the salient stretching
from north OF Arrss to south of the
Disc scanal, with its apex In front ia
Amiens, there has been no importan,
change during the week in the posi-
tions OF the contending forces.
An apparent slackening of hostile
pressure north and south of the Somms
IL recorded. though Ii would be pre-
mature to assert that the Amiens OBJ
jective has been abandoned
Along the front from the Avrs tc
Noyon. French counter thrusts melted
local advantages
Northwest of Moreuil, the French
launched q strong assault with result
In the capture of soc prisoners. Sec
ond attack In this vicinstS gained
some $50 prisoners and enabled tn,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-22
DANIELS THANKS GOD
FOR LESSONS OF WAR
Secretary OF Navy Speaks I'm Proyi-
derce In Interest OF LIB
erty Loan.
TELLS OF WORK DONE
Men Must Live Straight 10 Shoot
Straight, He Says, and Relates Ac-
compiishnents Of Navy Against T.
Boats.

Providence, f. l.. April el.--In an
address az a liberty loan meeting here
today Secretary of the Navy Daniels
sad, in part:
Il feel that we all should thank
God and take courage that America
at heart is safe and sound and united
Let US thank God because we have
learned in this war that if man
would shoot straight he must live
straight
We have learned that when we
shut our eyes to evil 1t does not dissi
pate evil We must open. our eyes
and telF young men the truth. that
If they would be good soldiers they
must keep their bodies clean Our
duty 10 them is TO take away every
possible temptation and surround
Them with every good influence.
TO that end the Protestant
churches have united in the Y. Nd.
C. A and the y W c. A, and our
Catholic citizens have organized
through the knights of Columbus,
and our Hebrew feliow-citiEere
through the committee on Jewish wei
fare work. and all are working to-
gether.
Let us thank God and take cour-
age that men know each other bet
ter and the lines OF division in church
work have broken down and We all
stand together on common platform
with a common purpose to help our
boys win the great victory.
How often in the last ten years
have you heard from press and pull
pit that the American youth lacked
seriousness, thinking about play,
thinking about making money and not
concerned with the vital things OF
life. and il this war had not come
and tested them they would have gone
to their graves and we would have
dishonored them. But suddenly the
call came and we found that the only
difference between the Paul Reveres
of 1875 and the Paul Reveres of 1917
was that Paul Revere in rs could
only go as fast as a horse could trot
while our Paul Reveres go on the
lightning.
MIR. Daniels then told of the hero
ism and devotion to duty of men on
board the destroyers and other war
craft in European waters. One de-
! tachment. he said. had attacked
eighty-one submarines in a period OF
six months continuous service at sea
in addition to escorting hundreds OF
vessels to port. The fiotilla covered q
mutton miles, and yet not a man had
uttered word OF complaint
rs il not something to thank God
for" he asked, that the, boys of our
.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-22

Big Drive Starts
| For Liberty Loan
Third Week Finds Treasury
Department Officials Conf
dent Of Success.

Washington, April s1.-w1th the
third Joan now In IT'S third week,
treasury department officials were
confident today of future improve
ment in subscriptions that would
bring the total in excess of the min
mum amount of 100000, 900
sought by Secretary McAdoo.
warming was sounded. however,
against overcons3dence All liberty
loan com m lttees are aaked To inaugu-
rate the most intensive selling efforts
of the campaign tomorrow, II Is
hoped the third week will be the hig
selling week. Great results are ex-
pected from the general observance
Of IAsaerty day next Friday. Hundred :
OF cities report they are ptRnning
monster parades and celebrations.
Now that the half way mark in the
cam paign has been passed. the most
noteworthy feature of the drive, IT
is said. hiae been the response from
the rural districts. The farmers OF
the nation have nuaaie MP completely
for any lack of corporation they
might have shown in the two pre-
ceotnE campaign. The big cities
have Ragged thus far The depart
ment is disappointed in the showtngS
made by them.
While no official report on the
aggregate OF the loan was forth
partment, the Minneapolis ltgartct
wired that 4 had exceeded its quota.
This was teeued some" feat, as the
sailing campaign there has been IN
progress only etx DAYS. Montana and
North Dakota sre over their quotas.
and South Dakota vase oerpe n 10. W y
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-22
Nebraska Leads
In War Stamps

" Washington. APRIL sl--kehFasks
loads all xtzte~ in war savin Is stamps
contributions, both in amount and IN
per capita sales That state, the
treasury department reports tonight
has turned W on~-tenth as Of April
Ia total of s1<.7s1,s72 New York
rs seennd to &cSya&lSas s1zs43,asi
with si7.+72ST3. The District of Co
fumhia. however. exceeds New York s
record. with per capita contribution
of sara. second only TO Nebraska.
which shows q per capita response
OF s11 os New York state h twenty
ninth TN per capita showing. with
S1-fa
Since the beginning OF April. on
which gae foregoing position of the
states sR based- tire treasury reports
show an average OF wear savings re
csipts of $500. 900 a day. which is
a rate of $500, ooe. 600 year. and the
rate In rissng. OF snA twenty leading
states all but FIVE are west of the
Mis=fsSs pra- The totals for stxEns tnsf
have subscribed more than dollar
per capita fcFSoww.
Totals Per
April /, Capita
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-22
What the Banks Are Doing

Percentage OF aproraonnent tn
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-22
5000 Recruits
For Marines Are
Needed at Once
Major General George Bar
nett, Commander of Corps,
Wires Virginian Division of
10000 Will Go to France.

Aajor-Gereral George Barnett,
commando of abe marine corps. has
addressed communication to The
Flrglnian in which he says.
The wa department has suthor-
rec an additional brigade of marines
for duty in France
With its rec ess4rv replace ment
units 10000 enlistments are urgently
needed. 5000 Of whom are desired
during the month of MAY.
Continued on Second PapeA
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-22
FLOOD WARNING.

The local office of the weather
bureau tS@ued preliminary Iood
warning yesterday Sunday noon
fhe water In the James river Mt
Richmond will reach stage he
tween 10 and 1915 feet about noon
today.
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Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-17
The Canteen System

An extraordinary canteen service is being car- ried on with the French, with the Belgians, with the Italians and with the British, by the Red Gross abroad. There are rolling canteens which are operating right up in the trenches where the soldiers get hot drinks as they go in and when they come out. These canteens are frequently operated under shell fire and gas, the Red Cross workers often working in gas masks.
 Before the days of Red Cross help, 8 French Soldier would come back from the trenches on his seven days leave covered with vermin - officers and all - and go to junction point for ears to take them home. Those junction points gre equipped for 75 people, yet at times there were 4yeoo people waiting, sometimes twenty four, sometimes forty-eight hours They slept on the ground and they got what food they could.
 They brought home vermin which spread dis ease among the civil population behind the lines, and a disccuraging atmosphere born of the con- ditens through which they passed on their way
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home They went back to the lines through the same channels.
 The Red Cross has changed this In conjunc- tion with the French Government, it is now feed- ing = not giving drinks and sandwiches - but giving hot meals to million French soldiers every month. There are great recreation halls where they sit and dine and make merry. There are big barracks with hunks along the walls there are shower baths and disnfecting machinery, so that the mems clothes, while they are bathing. are run through and the vernin killed.
 At first these French soldiers were so glad that they did not the hunks but sat and talked and sang and wondered at what America was doing for them. A prominent French general officer recently wrote to Major Murphy:
 "The only thing that matters in this war is to beat the Boche, and to accomplish this the all important factor is the morale of the men. This you have done much to uphold, and the atmos- phere you create is more valuable than even you can realize.
 "Your work is that of maintaining the morale of the Americans and the French and the Allies, and wish to thank you in our name and that of General Petain. Your canteens have been well run and kept up to a high standard. Let the men know that they are being cared for not as men only, but as friends; that makes them prefer your canteens to the wine shops. The morale has never been better than now. need not tell you I feel strongly on this subject, and ana talking to you as man to man. am speaking not only for myself but for General Petain. He feels as do toward you and your work, and he en- dorses every word have said"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-17

The plainest dictates of humanity as well as obligations of honor to brave allies, demanded that the American Red Cross, financed by the Gberality and spirit of the American people, should do all in its power to alleviate the suffer- ings and support the morale of the soldiers and people who had been suffering so long in a strug- gle for that liberty which is the foundation stone of our American Republic.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-17
Our Red Cross and Our Allies

lea had done nothing but lend money to Italy and take back an obligation with interest. attached. There was then no official organization that could speak, but the American Red Cross spoke, and she spoke so that the work resulted in the display of the American flag from one end of Italy to the other.
 Four days after war was declared By n8 United States against Austria, the American Red Cross Ambulance Service swung into the Piave Line and took it's place beside the bravo Italians.
 The Red Cross record in Roumania Is one which will never be forgotten by that unhappy people It was only when forced frem the coun- try by, the capacity of Germany to compel . humiliatng peace on Roumania that the Amer ican Red Cross left that people to its woes. fj The turn of affairs in Russia seriously affected the Red Cross program in that country, but the permanent portion of the Red Cross Comnnis- sion to Russia is still on hand ready to express Americas sympathy and friendliness in terms of fact when that distracted land is ready to receive them. sz < = ~e.1'@s..-. s@>
  F In Great Britain the American Red Cross is carrying on 8 large work, and one which is hav-3 ing an excellent effect. The Red Cross is oper-l ahng number of hospitals supporting num- Der of good works in Great Britain, in co-opera-j ton with the British Red Cross and the British Government. %4e.>
 . During the Fall of 1917 the American 2ed Cross made gift to the British Red Cross ol N million dollars. At the time of the great German attack against the, British in March, 191s gift of an additional million dollars was made to the British Red Cross to purchase hospital supplies. as evidence of Americas sympathy in the great trial which Great Britain was enduring.
 As so it is in Greece, in Serbia, in Palestine, wherever the ravages of war have gone, the American Red Cross has gone helping armies and peoples.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-17
Checking Tuberculosis

The Red Cross is conducting work against tuberculosis in France which is unparalleled in the history of the world. France has suffered ter ribly from tuberculosis, brought on by 80 many of her people living in dngouts and other un- wholesome conditions. Tuberculosis has devel- oped in the trenches, too and the troops are sent back carrying the germs of this dread disease. tion, the Red Cross is conducting campaign of education on the care and prevention of this disease Facilities have been provided to care for bad cases in sanatoriums, and plan set up which will lead to the establishment of great system of 800 dispensaries throughout France, with visiting nurses attached. e-a
 Four hospitals for tubercular French soldiers are maintained entirely by the Red Cross At Malabray there is 135-aere farm in tempo rary custody of the American Red Cross, where model village with accommodations for 400 families is being constructed. -
 The Red Cross is assisting the French medical authorities in rebuilding and recognizing other hospitals, and is aiding 96 French hospitals de-
  Ambroise Rendii, Vice-President of the Paris Municipal Council, says of this work:
 "The Americans have fought the good fight against tuberculosis because they have pursued astrategic campaign against an enemy they know and rightly fear. They have taken the neces- sary measures. You know them well for prac- tcal people; they will not reproach us if we say this of them in the temple of their charity. !
 T have seen the program of the social ac- tivities the Americans would undertake in our country in the name of the Red Cross. They have drawn up a marvellous program that takes the child from his birth and even before his birth, since the mother also is cared for, and continues the effort all along the line of years. Such is the plan and nothing finer has ever been conceived"
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Other Forms of Relief

It is difficult to give any adequate picture of the whole Red sCross program in France. E There is the whole vast program of relief for the refugees and repatries, for those driven be- fore the invader, uprooted from their homes, and for those returned to France and Belgium broken and bent after being subject to the sway of the German for the last few years.
 There is the medical and surgical supply ser- vice which the Red Cross is giving to over three thousand French military hospitals, the supplies for the most part produced by American women. ! There is the Red Cross >children's program of caring for needy and destitute children, the reduction of infant mortality. There is the Red Cross factory for the manufacture of artificial limbs. There is the big program of re-education for the mutilated soldier to teach him means of self-support with its accompanying benefit to France.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-17
Work in other Countries

What the Red Cross is doing for France she is doing, too, for the pert of Belgium not held by the Germans, and to very large degree for Italy. The story of how the American Red Cross rushed to the relief of Italy has already been told At the time of the Italian disaster last fall propa- ganda was under way in Italy to the effect that America was not really in the war, as we had not yet then declared war on Austria; that we were not well disposed toward Italy; that Amer
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-17
Constructive Work

No other organization since the world began has ever done such great constructive work with the efficiency, the dispatch, understanding, often under adverse. circumstances, that has been done in France by American Red Cross in the last six months. GENERAL PERSHTNG. What does General Pershing mean by construct tive work? He means the share the Red Cross has had in reuniting scattered families, he means homeless children domiciled bewildered refugees collected and protected old men and women and babies received from behind the German lines and sent to homes and hospitals, the terrible tubercular scourge and other illnesses grappled with He means medical and surgical supplies, nurses, hospitals, ambulanceS and dispensaries, artificial limbs and convalescent homes for the sick French soldiers, He means food, baths, rest, recreation, comfort and cheer for the poilu on leave. ------ He means that the American Red Cross has helped to sustain the courage, the hope and the patience of our fighting allies, of the soldiers themselves and the soldiers families. Througb the Red Cross the armies and peoples of France and Belgium and the other Allied countries have come to realize that they have friends, and under this touch their spirits have famed into g. new resolution to fight on and bear all
 4
 This is the fourth of series of five announces ments covering the work of the Red Cross.
 Red Cross Chapters have statements showing in detail how the War Fund is being expended. Ask your Chapter for these statements,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-17

On recent trip to America, Major Murphy, formerly Red Cross Commissioners for Europe, said: ''This is war of nations, not of armies. There Is not man. woman or child in Great Britain in Belgium, in France or in Italy that is not factor in this
 tell you that if you should go, as have gone about those ruined districts in France and had little children four and five years old driving in the herds at night had seen little boys coming down the road little bits of tots-wth their arms full of fagots that they were accomplishing against the winter; had seen old men and old women working in the fields until it was so dark that as you looked you could just make out those vague forms gathering the France you would realize what this war s what this means
 is not the armies of France that are the essential thing to France in this war; the armies of England nor of the other countries Those armies will do their part and do 1t to finish, if they are supported by the people behind them.
 The great crying need in Europe to-day is to build up the spirit and keep up the spirit of the people behind the lnes and 1t is that great work which the Red Cross has performed and which has been, up to the recent entrance of our Army on large scale the greatest single factor of our help in France since our entry into the war; "
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