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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
IRELAND FAILS TO CROW
ITS OWN SUPPLY Of FOOD
Export and Import Figures Disclose
Fact That Much Is Obtained
From Other Nations.
LARGE INCREASES .h-,E SHOWN
Value OF Farm Products, Food and
Drinkstuffs Is Placed at Thirty
Nine Million Pounds by Official
Statistician.
LARGE INCREASES A-,E SHOWN

DUBLIN, October 19.-.Therc has just
been published the official return Of
Irish trade in exports and imports for
the year 1916. The delay in publica-
ton is explained by the reduction in
the staff OF the Department of AEri-
culture due to enlistment.
John Hooper. who is the official in
charge of the statistical department.
estimates the value Of Ireland's i'm
the exports at E107. 100000. These fig
ures both show big Increases over the
year 1915, f1S,o00,O0O in imports and
20.OOG.GOU In exports.
Hooper points out that these in
creases are not due to quantities. but
to the greatly increased values due
to tho war. In fact, IL the 1916 figures
were estimated at 1915 values imports
would have shown decrease and eX-
ports only per cent increase.
Glasses o, goods imported and export
ed. Hooper notes the curious fact that
Ireland. essentially an agricultural
dependent on other countries for farm
produce food and drink stuffs. In
1916 the value of imported goods un-
hgure showed All increase on 1914 OF
fl3.o00,000 No doubt the figures for
lsla and 1918. when they areNavaii-
turn the other way. for in these two
years there has been boom in home
production of foodstuffs and, owing to
of goods produced q home
In 1916 there is shown to he big
export of farm produce. amounting
TO SIS per cent of the total exports
This indicates the want of CO. ordina-
ton and the consequent use or tom
mage for unnecessary purposes. for
while exporting 5S per cent of the
whole farm produce Ireland imported
81 per cent Of the same kind of COM
modify. In this respect also the re-
turns of 1917 and 1918 will show bet
ter management.
For this class OF export Mr.. Hoopers
returns reveal the i'm eresting fact that
In the supply of farm produce TO Great
Britain Ireland is second only TO the
United States. Tile figures for the
latter are f133.Oo0,Ooo. while those
from Ireland ff2. 100000 Canada
coming next with 10000
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
DIVISIONAL HEADQUARTERS
OFTENTlMES IN MOTOR CARS
Varied Experiences Are Undergone by
Official STAFF of Amer
lean Army,

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY AT
THE MARINE, October 19.-Divisional
headquarters on n quiet sector of the
western battle front often means a
fine old chateau with beautiful grounds.
flower beds, perhaps a lake. a tennis
court. Louis XIV. bed oil paintings.
costly draperies and life of compare
tive ease But on front like this
RS different thing again.
One American general and his staff,
who once occupied chateau with
gardens that northumberland might
envy, is now perfectly content with
quarters in an old farmhouse we'll
ventilated by shells. Instead of flower
beds there are huge shellholes and
piles of debris. Officers OF intelligence
and operations do their work in
cramped quarters in an old barn and
catch cat maps in rough cots.
Another American divisional staff
that once lived in peace and quiet in
an old stone school-house directed or
erations from this front from a great
dugout quarried out of the side of a
hill. -
They set up a lighting plant, but
sometimes the lights went out. and
the staff worked day and night by
The Boche dropped 81 ellis occasionally
about the entrance and bombed the
place every night.
But the boast of one division tina.
went hurriedly into line is that it
carried on operations for two days in
string OF motor trucks.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
YANKEES COULD NOT FLY
OR SWIM, BUT COT THERE
Some German News OF Recent
Months Reads Rather Strange
at This Time.
HELD AS IMPRACTICAL MASS
Comment OF Frankfurtcr Zcitung
and Interview of Dismissed Chief
OF Austrian Army Decidedly at
Variance With Facts.
Held AS IMPRACTICAL MASS

army over tho wafer canno. swim and md
cannot fly; - will not Gomez
sian Minister of Finance. dealt with
the American army in his budget
speech the first Of the year. Now the
silence. contains references to the
American Army in France.
The Frankfurter zeitung recently
maintained that France has been sue
gradually oxhaustinE the reserves of
the allies. and concludes as follows:
'HndcnburE's blows are destroying
the best fighting forces of the Anglo
French reserves. President Wilson is
sending an unorganizGd and in,,,",ract!-
to go on bearing the main burden, for
il is she that provides the best SOL
diers for, the western front. 1t took
start with considerably less favorabie
conditions, while the German armies
have added immensely 10 their knowl-
edge and experience OF war in the
meantime"
General Won ARR. dismissed chief OF
the Austrian general stan. in the Neue
Freie fresse. also tried TO dispose OF
the American Army In this fashion:
You ask me whether American help
could provide any sort of substitute
for the loss of the masses of Russians.
even II IT reached the French battle
field in tho fullest measure of the
wishes and hopes of the allies-which
must he doubted if only because the
activity of the German submarines is
bound to produce disturbance and con-
fusion in the transport dispositions of
the American Army. No; ] regard it
as impossible. One must not forget
that at the beginning of the war we
hal against our fronts from 1000, 900
TO 100000 Of Russian soldiers, for the
most part men with years OF training;
in. any case capable fighters. and sim
ply perfect in the modesty of their
requirements. In comparison with
that what are 100000 or 1900, 900
Americans, unaccustomed to war. with
short training and no experience, and
with their elevated ide;ls of living and
total want of appreciation of the hard :
ships of war? Not words and not
promises, or conceited elf-cstimation.
but deeds of strength. organization and
intellectual foresight Will determine
the final SucccSS'
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
War Not All Made Up Of Fighting,
But There's Fun in Minstrel Show

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE. Octo-
Der 10.-"Geutlemcn, he seated
Good evening, MIR. IMtcriocutor.o
''GO"d crcMlnE. Mr.. BOne+.-
"EcNcuxe me for laughing. Mr.. In
tcrIocut0r. but 1 done hcnrd u good
one ON RnStus Brown, that Georgia
cu1Icd friend of mine, Inst night"
..Pcrhups I'll excuse your impo-
likeness. MIR. Bones, IL you will he
=" kind ns to cnl -shtcn us regard
Ing the Joke"
''Of course. you know, NIr. Inter
1ocutor. TINT Rnstus is In the mn
chinc-Sun saund, hut there hnInt no
rules preventing him from going
nrmcd ns he did when shooting dice
there plugging away ut them fiuns,
when NIL of sudden up jumps n
Hefnie from shell hole and begins
tn sHucnl 'Knmcrad. kamcrnd.'
"NOw. H1Stus hnd heard ut how
them ieinicH don't like to tnISe
prisoners. 40 he sOrt-n levels down
On TINT big iicinic ind IL ready to
pull the trigger when the biE Hun
ho,yls;
"Picnsc don't shoot. black mnn.
pIcnac don't. j never did want 10
get into this wnr and. besides,
have n wife and seven children at
..But Rnstus Just keep on grim
ming, and ns he clamps his finger
down ON the trigger he h0,yIs:
"'lOu might II Ind n wife md
Hun. WIT now you'se got III widow
ana scbcn Orphnns.'"
"IptrodurinE Private Frederick
Rnth in his own beautiful bnlInd en-
titled when the Moon Is Shining
Somewhere In France"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
ORDERS ISSUED TO HUNS
TO SHOOT AT LOWER LIMBS
"Srray Them Between Knees mud Hips''
Was word Passed To Mn-
chine Gunncrs.
PARIS, October l9--A wounded liel

PARIS. October IA wounded lieu
tenant arriving AT n Paris hospital to-
day declared that orders were recently
found on dead German machine gun
under officers bidding them to fire at
tho legs of the Americans opposite
them.
Fire low" the order read. You
hardy They will advance directly up
on your positions without The cautious
ness of the French. They do not
crouch. so when they advance erectly
your task wiz he an easy one.
spray thert between knees and hips
dead enemy is left by his army on
the field until there is time 10 bury
him. but every wounded enemy re-
1Itrcs many persons to take care OF
him.
Two litter bearers and two light
railway handcar pushers get him back
&c the ambulance. For every six
wounded men the enemy needs an am
bulance. driver and a helper.
"Ambulances consume gasoline and
cucumber the roads Moreover, each
wounded man requires the attention
OF doctor or doctor and surgeon.
two operation assistants and later the
constant care or doctors and nurses.
"Hc requires bandages and medi-
cines, which AXE up tonnage in the
ships which the enemy badly needs
The personnel who make bandRges and
medicines are unable to do other posi-
tive war york.
Leg and foot wounds. especially
those breaking bones. render combat
cases for further marching. And n
man who can't march is as useless to
an army as dead man. Therefore,
fire low!
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20

And 80 Ii contlnucs-twoh hours of
solid fun md observation-disclosures
ever the reEimrntaI stock company
OF players of the Three Hundred
and sixth Infantry, American En-
Evolutionary forces give one OF
their sizzlinE entertainments.
1t Is the first rcEimcntai stock
liz sure worth tho while. The boys
put the entertainment ON fer the
men coming out of the trcnchcn,
their first production being staged
under the name OF Let's Coz,
Private ltnth wrote practically
every line for the show, as well ms
composing the music. Originality
lust ms nenr to broadway nv il Is
possible to get over here.
Thcrc nre fourteen men fn the
cnst. Including atnEe manager.
st"Ee carpenter md so on, md
every man in the east L. n profess
sionnt. They cnrry their own
scenery. props, ctc., md, regard
less OF where the troopn are sent.
inc "show' Eoes with them.
They also put on vaudeville shows.
and about the best "proof in the
eating" In the fact that Colonel
GeorSe tidmcr has scen the proauc-
tion four times md is very proud
OF IL.
Private Rnth 4. the proud posse.-
sor OF II wound stripe and was I'm n
hospital for II few days. but he did
20 interfere with the succcHs of
incidentally. every man In the
company WAS "a Thcspiun profcn-
Sionul before he donned the khaki
for Uncle Sam.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
GROW WHEAT IN ALASKA
PInn to Ship 1t to Fairbanks to lie
Ground Up Into Flour, Snys
Governor BfEEs, .Jr.

FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, October 10
Siberian wheat ,gr own in Alaska may
soon be milled In Fairbanks. Thomas
RIGGS, Jr., Governor of Alaska. re-
Gently conferred with the officials Of
the United States Agricultural Expert
ment Station here regarding the es-
.ablishment of mill to grind the
crops of Siberian wheat interior Alaska
is expected to yield during the seasons
10 come.
Two hundred and fifty bushels of
Siberian wheat from the Fairbanks re-
gion were sent to the States a short
time ago for test run in flour mill.
A definite conclusion regarding the
mill will be based on the outcoTne of
the tests. If the wheat meets the ex-
pectation held regarding 1t, the mill
will be built and Alaska farmers will
plant Siberian wheat extensively next
year.
Siberian wheat natures in the COM
paratively brief period of about four
months from the time the seed is put
into the ground. This quick growth
makes the wheat adaptable to tn !.
Alaska short summers. According to
reports from Siberia, the home OF the
Siberian wheat, it mills into good hour
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
tiGH'lhG PADRE WORKS HARD
ALONG ONE OF GASSED ROADS
makes Record DRIVING. Ambulance No..
hours Over SheiI-Swcpt
Highway.

PARIS, October 19.-Ten hours, ,r
Duiance driving over road swent H..
Eas mel fire was the record maGc ~ ~
EeS. rather T. j. O'Conncll, Of ST. mss
cnhpinin serving with one OF the Ma
tional Army divisions over here.
II happened recently on q, quiet sec-
tor or the front, when the Roche snc-
ceeGeu IN putting over surprise mns
thrd gas attack on division which
was In the limo for the first time. Manw
OF the fanks were affected by the nov,
,lous FUMES. and because of tho absence
oil previous Teutonic activity in that
sector few ambulances were there IN
handle the casualties.
Chapiain o'connell had a small cam
ion in which he made the rounds re
that sector, accompanied by two
knights Of Columbus men. who wore
working with the troops Tin the fold
lie volunteered the car and his ser.
vices as driver when he heard OF tho
gas attack. and. with gas mask and
helmet on all the time, he worked with
the regular army ambulance men, talk
Ing tho victims to tho hospitals some
miles at the rear Of the lines Tie
two Knights Of Columbus secret rios
assisted as stretcher- bearers
The fighting padre insisted on work :
ing until all the wounded had been
taken from tho fold. and then he went
into tho hospitals, where he gave tho
spiritual needs OF the boys OF his own
faith his attention. $50 ~
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
VALUE OF DEADLY TANKS
TOLD BY ARTILLERYMAN
Large Force In Required to Supply the
Shells Necessary 10 OPP
One.

PARIS, October 19.-"The Germa n
cannon OF accompan!ment is Il failure
declared an American artillery officer
whose duty it is to compare and COM
pile reports on the everchanEing ar
tiilery tactics of the entente and her
enemies.
The German press made a big hui
labaloo about the. supposed success or
the army's light trench mortars
mounted on wheels and carried for
one morse or four infantrymen in har-
ness.
But the German press did not men
mounted trench mortar weighed near
~ 300 pounds. and that the heavy steel
n ,,;, on which It. required mounting
zoo pounds. making the total weight
or mortar and base 800 pounds
In addition. each projectilc weighed
der could carry forward in the ranks
but five at a time. If the mortar Ned
c cwenty shots minute. the best it
S for a., 40: ana the fire were continued
would be required to feed it ammuni-
ton
IT. II saw an order recently of the
iery which said: Experience shows
mat the light trench mortars are not
mays ea able to follow. the infantry.
than the artillery, because thew are
carried farther forward in the advance,
) ~ very difiirult to get them in place
ana to feed them. Fighting in n war
OF movement is always carried out
Win rapidity. and one cannot always
to fire. e'' ''"oS
There you are" continued the on.
Ger. That admission hears out the
contention of allied. artillery experts
mat the tank Is the true cannon Of
accompa niment. The tank in its crud-
est form mas been success from the
guns. French ais or perh: rs American
liEht field pieces of a certain tyne
mounted In them they answer perfectly
every requirement..
They carry forward within the pro.
lectlon OF their steel walls enough am
munition for continued fire. Tncy carry
onelr guns forward faster than a horse
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
ODD SYSTEM OF SCORING
PREVENTS PROPER CREDIT
How American Ace Has Accounted
for Many Boche, Although
Card Gives Him Ten.
OBSERVER MUST BE WITNESS
Part Of German Line Hidden by
Mountains Makes 1t Impossible
for Officials to See What Actually
Happens Back OF Them.
MUST BE WITNESS

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
TRANCE. October 19.-H3w an aviator
may have twenty-five victories and
only be accredited with ten of them
may still he mystery to some people.
so here's the explanation from the man
who Is in just that Observation-Disclosures
ter hundred Boche. although his score
card. as Americas Ace of Aces" shows
only ten.
Incidentally. Lieutenant - holds
though only one of these was official.
He is modest Yankee, this young
lieutenant. and. while he wouldn't talk
scoring system that has deprived him
Of a number OF victories. To count rs
an official destruction the fall Of the
German must be witnessed by some
air at ,le time. The machine must
be seen to crash into the earth unless
II obviously bursts into flames and
burns before reaching ground.
II so happens that in the sector
where Lieutenant - was staying
during his record breaking day there
the German lincs-Mont Sec. The
American observers on our side of the
line have no means of seeing what
goes. on behind Mont Sec except from
captive balloons. These are not always
floating about when the airmen are
settling their little differences. In
lactr one OF the nrSt lessons cap
tive bailoonist learns is TO have him
self hauled down as rapidly as pos
sible when hostile craft come into view.
The American came into contact
with an enemy flight squadron. and,
following his own peculiar maneuver-
ing tactics, had put a machine gun
burst into one Heinit before the bat
tie had fairly begun. But the plane
did not fall in flames. Smoke arose
from 1t. anc II spun rapidly down be-
hind the mountain. The reasonable
tfHy, fe
to descend However. the government
takes nothing for granted in this war.
and Lieutenant - was deprived OF
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
Daring Belgian Gives
Birthday Greetings

LONDON, October 1O-A Belgian
aviator, Hnys the London Daily TX
prcas, under Amsterdam dute, re-
Gently flew over brussels, waving n
lnrEc belgian HnE, by way of ceie-
bratInE the birthday OF his mother,
who lives In BrusseIs.
He arrived at dawn over the Bel
gfnn capital, located his fnther's
house, md flew so low he was al
mort within spcnktnE distance. The
Noise of the motor brought many
people out OF bed. Having stopped
the motor, he shouted, "Pnpn, pupu.,
The father came out. md, looking
up, recognized his son, whom he
hud not seen for four yeifrs. lie
brought his wife out OF the house.
when she snw her non she tainted
The young nfrmnn nSnIn waved his
hand, dropped note which read.
"aIunJ hnppy returns. Don't lose
courage. We nre not forgetting you.
Keep well. A bus les Boches."
Flying high nSnin, he managed to
return to the belgian lines, despite
furious German nntinircrnft fire.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
REFUSE REGISTRATION
Argentine Government Turns Down At.
tempt to Register German
TrnHC Nark.

BUENOS AIRES. October 19.--The
Argentine government has refused TO
permit local firm to register a trade
mark which would have perpetuated
Luxburg's words, "spurlos Yersenkt."
in the now famous telegram to Berlin
In which he urged the German govern
ment TO sink ARGENTINE vessals with
out leaving trace.
The case has been widely comment
ed upon in the local newsna pers, which
have applauded the action or the gov
crnmcnt In refusing to let the words
OF the former German> minister here to
be porpctuateu In Argentine commerce.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
Germans Steal Candies

PNRIS, OCTOBER 1y.-Germany's des-
shown when, after desecrating st. Gre.
pins Church in Chateau-Thierry. the
vandals cpnfscated 400 pounds of
candles. Even the scant supply which
nuns at a hospital nearby was taken
by the Germans, before they were
driven out of the'city by the America
Horton, of Atlanta, Ga, Knights of
Columbus chaplain. 80 -
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
siamese Student, ComInr,

= WASHINGTON, October Is.--Eight
Siamese State Railways are on their
way to the United States to take up
tho study of American railway meth
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
Many Real Estate Dco,.

LONDON October I9.--Business In
real estate is booming as II has not
cone Tor many years. Auctioneers saw
they know no parallel to tho present
demand for farms and portions OF big
estates which arc gradually being sniff
up all over the country. 49,
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
New M exico.

The Oaks Company have opened up
new ore in the Pacific mine at Mo-
gollon.
The Mogollon Mines Company ton
mage record for 1917 was one Of the
largest in it's history.
Shipments have been resumed from
the iron deposits in the Gallina noun
tains in Torrance and Lincoln coun-
ties. A car shipped by the Elida Min
ing Company from Corona netted $16O.
After Feb. carload is to be shipped
each day. The ore carries 65.9 per
cent iron, 4 per cent silica and less
than .03 per cent Of phosphorus.
After spending two years in devel-
oping the famous ola Carlisle mine in
the Steeplerock district, New York
capitalists are reported to have turned
the property back to George H. Utter,
the former owner. The mine was sold
by Utter for a price reported to have
been 100000, on which upwards Of
100000 of the purchase price is said
to have been paid. In the eighties the
mine was a heavy gold and silver pro-
ducer, it's output totalling several mil
lions Of dollars while operated by an
English syndicate.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
SPORT.

Cheyenne, Wyo., boxing fans have
offered Jess Willard a purse of $780,
900 to meet either Moran, Dempsey
or Fulton in boxing bout in that
city on July 4, next.
Manager c.. H. Winginder of the
University of Denver football squad
has completed negotiations, and def
mite date has been set for a football
game with the Nebraska Cornhuskers
at Lincoln, Nov. e.
Ernest Barry, the worlds champion
sculler, has been wounded in action
on the western front, the result of a
bursting German shell. Barry's career
at the front was a short one, for al
though he Joined many months ago,
he was only recently sent to the
front.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
WASHINGTON.

The denomination of Postmaster
General Burleson was confirmed by
the Senate.
Further severe earthquake shocks
in Guatemala City, Cape of Guate-
mala, were reported Jan. 26 to the
State Department by the American
embassy there
Congressman Eugene Black of
Clarksville, Tex, broke all precedents
and set officials gasping when he re-
turned to the treasury $15O16 left
over from his appropriation for clerk
hire.
The American people started on a
war bread diet Monday as a part of
a war rationing system prescribed by
President Wilson and the Food Ad-
ministration. 'Victory bread" the
Food Administration calls it. The re-
duced rations are asked for the pur-
pose of creating a larger export sur
plus of food for the allies.
Experiments in the tanning of fish
skins in the hope that they may be
used to augment the leather supply
will be undertaken by a Newark, N. J..
leather company at the request of the
United States government
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
WESTERN.

Charles w. Fulton, former United
States senator from Oregon, died at
Portland
Four were killed and four injured
near Wyola, Mont, when a freight
train on the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad crashed into passen-
ger train No. Al, en- route to Denver
from Billings, Mont.
Officials of the Chicago branch OF
the National Security League pro-
tested to Food Administrator Hoover
against advertisements appearing in
Chicago newspapers calling upon peo-
pie to come to California, where the
over supply of fresh meats has elimi-
mated meatless day."
The old wrangle between Colorado
and New Mexico over a strip of land
between the two states, involving the
present boundary, is to be carried into
the courts again, this time by the New
Mexico officials. For this purpose
$4,000 has been appropriated by the
New Mexico Legislature, according to
Harry L. Patton, attorney general of
that state, while in Denver