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The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-03-29
BRITISH CHECK.
GERMAN DRIVE
Huns Pay Fearful Price for
Gains-Haig Wins Back
Ground.
FOE TAKES 5000 CAPT|VES?
Berlin Claims Capture of Large Mum
ber of Prisoners-kaiser Using
100000 Men and Thousands of
Guns in Greatest Battle.

London, March 25.-Reuter's corr
spOndent at British headquartel
wires:
The whole thing is too big TO be
able even to sketch or visualize easily.
Thus far the enemy has paid colos-
sal price for such small gains as rep
resent the fruits of his mighty effort
The great battle on the western
front continues, the war office reports.
The British are holding the enemy.
Sixteen thousand prisoners and 200
guns have been captured by the Ger
mans, according to a German official
communication received by wireless.
In "A battle that has rivaled in ferOc-
ity any that has preceded il during
three and "A half years of warfare the
British, on a 5O-mile front, have with
stood great German offensive in its
initial stages.
AS the result of the struggle on
that part of the front just west of
Cambria, where the fighting was ap-
parently hottest, the British line has
nowhere been broken and Field Mar
shal Haigs men have inflicted fright
full casualties on the enemy.
There is no data upon which it is
possible to estimate the success at
tained by the Germans to the south,
but names of towns where the armies
the northern side of the salient the
Germans bent the British line back
about two and half miles.
1t was reported that st. Ledger was
the scene of hard struggle and that
Diognies had been retaken by the Brit
ish. These points are about four kilo-
meters, or 2.4S miles, back of the
British lines as they stood before the
attack began. Berlin claims that Brit
ish first line positions from Arras to
La Fere were captured
Forty divisions, or about 100000
Teutonic troops are in the fight. The
total number of cannon the Germans
are employing cannot be estimated
but unofficial reports say that there
were 1000 guns on one small sector
Austrian and Bulgarian troops have
made their appearance.
The attack was launched under the
eyes of Emperor William, Field Mar
shal Won Hindenburg and General
Ludendorff.
British Army Headquarters In
France, March 25.-The Germans con-
tinued their assault against the posi-
tiOns In the Cambria sector, notably
in the region Of Croisilles and Hargin-
court.
On the southern battlefield bitter
struggle was waged. One of the most
brilliant British cOunter-attacks Oc-
Cured at Doignies. The British ad-
vanced with infantry and tanks at Z
p. m., and after fierce fighting drove
out the enemy.
Vigorous counter-attacks restored
several of the positions which the Brit
ish had abandoned temporarily.
The Germans In many sections at
tackled In three waves of infantry, fol-
lowed up by shock troops. AS re-
suit they suffered very heavy casual
ties.
The heavily massed German artil-
lery has bene badly punished.
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MANLEY DEATH LIST GROWS
Crew Reported Injured Die
Of Wounds.

Washington, March 23.-The navy
department was informed of three or
four deaths among members Of the
crew of the destroyer Manley, who
were reported injured In the explosion
of a depth charge when the destroyer
collided March 10 with British war
ship. An officer and three men were
killed I'm the accident.
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HlNDENBURG DIRECTS DRIVE
Great German General and War Lord
Personally in Charge Of Ger
man Offensive.

Amsterdam, March 23.-Although
the army group engaged in the attack
against the British between the Scarpe
river and venheuil, on the western
front, is under command of Prince
Rupprecht. ii was reported from Ger
man source that the German opera
tions were really being directed by Won
Hindenburg and Won Ludendorff in
person.
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Moraht. War Critic. Is Dead.

London. March 25.-The death of
Major Moraht, long military corre-
spondent of the Tageblatt of Berlin. is
announced. For years Major Moraht
was perhaps the most widely quoted OF
the German military writer's.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-03-29
SIGNS DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL
President Approves Measure Which
Puts Clocks Forward One Hour
on March 81.

Washington, March 21.-The day
light saving bill was signed on Tues
day by President Wilson. 1t puts all
clocks forward an hour on the last
Saturday in March and turns them
back again the last Sunday In October.
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irish Concrete Vessel.

Belfast.-The keel of the first con-
crete vessel to be built in Ireland
has been laid in a new shipyard on
the north Irish coast. II will be an
ocean going vessel OF 1,000 tons and
the first of six ordered by the govern
ment
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Senate for Casualty List.

Washington. March PA r'solu-
ton asking the war department to ad.
wise the senate as to its reasons for
not making public the addresses of
American soldiers killed and wounded
abroad. was adopted by the senate.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-03-29
League Avows Its LOYALTY

st. Paul, Minn., March 25.-Resolu-
tions pledging loyalty to the govern.
ment and commencing President vii.
sons statement of war aims were
adopted by the National Nonpartisan
league M q meeting here.
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4. w. w. Under Arrest.

st. Maries. Id.-Warrants charging
criminal syndicalism have been sworn
out by the prosecuting attorney In
the cases OF 45 /. w. WIS held here by
state guardmen. Sheriff E. B. holland
announced.
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Won't Quit Aland Islands.

committee of the German reichstag
has voted. II to 10. against a motion
to evacuate the Aland islands and not
interfere with the internal affairs Of
Finland by the dispatch of troops.
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PEACE IS CONTINUED
German Forces That Seized kherson
Are Moving in the Direction
Of Perekop.

Copenhagen. March 23.-German
forces that seized the Ukrainian port
city Of Kherson, are moving In the d.
rection Of Perekop, according to an
unconfirmed report received here.
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Reindeer Meat is comlno.

Nome, March 25.-About 500 dress
ed reindeer will be shipped to the food
markets of "the States" on the first
boat leaving here after the breakup Of
the ice on Bering sea. All winter
marketing firm has been slaughtering.
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viii Exchange Prisoners.

Paris, March pa definite agree
ment has been reached between the
French and German governments. TAX
Ing Immediate effect, regarding the ex-
change of prisoners past the age Of
forty-eight.
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Col. Harris Appointed.

Rockford, disappointment of Col.
Frank f. Harris, u. 8. A.. to be COM
mandant at Fort Winfield Scott. San
Srancisco, was announced here. Col.
Harris has been acting adjutant vt the
entral department.
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To Clean Out Bureaus.

Washington, March IA general
wedding out Of swivel-chair officers,
with which the various bureaus of the
war department is cluttered up, has
been ordered by Maj. Gen. Peyson C.
March, acting chief of staff.
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Professor MearIno Ia Indicated

New York. March 23.-Prof. Scott
Nearing, formerly of the University
Of Pennsylvania and Toledo university
was indicted by the federal grand jury
on the charge of violating the espioa
age act
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-03-29
Appointments Confirmed.

The senate confirmed the following
appointments made by the governor
c. S. Powers, board of charities
and corrections, vice w. H. King, re-
signed.
Guy G. Frary, reappointed food COM
missioner.
John Hirning, reappointed bank ex-
aminer.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-03-29
Railway Enqine Explodes

Wichita Fails, Tex.-Three train
men were killed when an engine OF
the Fort Worth and Denver railroad
drawing freight train exploded at
Electra, eighteen miles west of here.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-03-29
Spanish Liner Turned Back.

Cadiz. Spain.-The Spanish trans
portation liner Montevideo. which
sailed for New York, was held up by
a German submarine and forced to
return here
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-03-29
Panama Canal Army Commander.

Washington, ID. C.-Maj. Gen. Rich
ard NJ. Blatchford has been detailed
to command the Panama canal depart
ment. 1t was announced that he al
ready has left for his new post.
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To Comb Out Miners.

London.-It is understood that the
miners federation has accepted the
governments proposal regarding the
,ombing out OF men for military serv'
ice.
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Sheepmen Lose in v. S. Court.
Washington.-The Idaho law prohi-
biting the driving Of sheep upon cat.
tie range wSs declared constitutional
by the supreme court
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11

THE Victorian age is the theme of
Il Thomas Plowman's In the Days Of
Tictdrid.
These "reminiscences in general have
their background in Oxford, where the
author was bred and born and where he
lived until well past the meridian of
youth.
"a university city, under dual control,
has certain social and other features
which cannot be said to be common to all
other municipalities. As I held Office
under the university and city in turn l
had the opportunity of seeing something
of the inner life of both"
Plowman's father. bookseller and
publisher, had sufficient influence to pro-
cure him an appointment as n ''handv
lad in the Bodlean Library. While in
the Bodleian the youth came into personal
contact with Pussy, Liddon, Stanley, Jow-
EFT, Guizot, the historian; Charles Reade.
the novelist, and others who have made
theological, polemi-al and literary history.
At the age of - he was elected librarian
of the Oxford City Free Pubic Library.
1t was at this time that Thackeray stood
for Parliament.
Thackeray defined himself as a radical.
He said:
with no feeling but that of good will
toward the leading aristoeratic families
who are administering the chief Offices of
state, | believe it (the State) could be
benefited by the skill and talents OF per
sons less aristocratic and that the coun-
fry thinks likewise
What effect this speech had upon the
result Of the election is not made PLAIN.
Mr.. Powman tells US that the novelist's
defeat was brought about by "a genial
soul, but unrelenting in political warfare
who had succeeded in listening TO a pre-
liminary confab of Thackeray with his
party managers and had overheard
Thackeray unhcaitatingly and unrr-
servedlv favor opening tie museums and
picture galleries on Sunday. The next
day the city WAS placar,!ed with appeals
10 the electors tOvot+ against the dcsecra
ton of the Sabbath and as "A result, FOR
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Gin the Days of Victoria''

tunately for literature, Thaekeray was
beaten.
Both Thomas Plowman and his father
were active in politics and the author
gives intimate portrayals of Gladstone,
Disraeli and the Brobdingnagian Har-
court, whom the author knew as "a thin,
wiIlowy young man Of somewhat retiring
and diffident manners" and whom in later
life he characterized rs a "trucu!ent Fal-
staff"
At an early aye Mr. Plowman had been
attracted to the drama, and he tells many
interesting anecdotes of Irving, Charles
Matthews, the Bancrofts and other stars
of that day.
Mr.. Plowman was exceptionally forth
nate with his maiden effort Sir Arthur
Sullivan and Alfred Collier contributed to
the score, and Sullivan conducted his OWN
composition.
Great success, Henry" said Miss Ire
maine to Henry Irving.
The latter with calm impassiveness and
IN his best tragedy tone responded: YES,
tremaindousr'
The most interesting part of these rem
inlscences are those in which we get
glimpses Of Ruskin, Dickens, Thackeray,
Tennyson, Morris, Burne- Jones, Milais.
Hunt, Rossetti, Wilde, Pater and Wins
tier. That Plowman might have made his
mark IN literature, at least as a teller of
stories, is evidenced by the anecdotes he
tells. One story in particular, the story
OF the "aslantorum," is worthy of W. W.
Jacobs
IN THE DAYS OF VICTORIA. By
THOMAS F. PLOwMAN. John Lane Com
pany. 81.
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A Canadian Surgeons War Book

might have time 10 get against the side
of the trench before the fragments flew
and "when it's a whizzbang or bullet,
if ye're able to duck We know ye're not
hitw
KELLY: God knows the Englishman
has left heelmark or two on the Irish
mans neck, but the cursed Hun wears
nails in his boots. I've hated the English
all me life
THE Doctor: What the devil did you
come out here for, anyway, kellyf
KELLY: Ye're the first person that's
ever limited t me that there's anything
private about this fight! l was goin' to
say that. though I've hated the English
man all me life, I'd be afeared to live IN
his country, for Id ct to love I'm. hes
got such dape sinse Of hurnor. he
praises We Canadians till he actually
makes We behave we're winnin' the war,
wild yer two or three hundred thousand,
while he's got IA couple of million In the
field.
THE DOCTOR: Who took Vimy Ridge,
Kelly7
KELLY: We did. sor, we Canadians,
wild fifty to sixty per cint. of British born
like meself.
Says Kelly: "The only thing | can call
me own since | joined the army are me
thoughts And who'd support me chill
der if | was kilt7' Your ehildren?' ex-
claims the doctor: Il didn't know You
were married" "Who said | wasF
"Ohw-
And Kelly, having used his own rum
ration, tapped the doctors supplies. 81
may drink slightly greater amount than
We, sor, but | notice we drink the same
brand" "Yes, I've noticed that, too"
SAYS the doctor Kelly again 'As me
frind Lord Norfolk says, there remain
these three, faith, hope and charity, and
the greatest of these is a since of humor."
Kelly is hit Where" asks the sur
geon. ADO you name, sor, anatomically
or geographically And so, with a
joke on his lips and hidden hurt in his
heart, for he wanted to see ii through,
Kelly died-and left us a chapter for
which we are grateful.
A SURGEON IN ARMS. By ROBERT J.
MANIoN. d. Appleton & Co. sl.50.
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1.-The White Road
of Mystery"

THE ambulance driver has in many
L ways a greater opportunity for
observation dian those engaged in more
aggressive branches of the service, and
beng at the front in the "warmest
place" it is by no means an arm chair
philosophy of war that the ambulaneier
acquires
Philip Dana circuit, who was one Of the
young American volunteers for the
Ambulance Field Service in France, has
given brief but lucid account of his ex
perience as an ambulancier in the valley
of death at Verdun and at other .places
on the fighting front. His book, The
Waite Road Of Mystery, presents con-
trasta. long days of almost wearisome
peace and idlenes followed by longer
days and nights of feverish activity in
gathering the wounded. Mr.. Circuit tells
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ROBERT = hANlON
author Of =" SURGEON IN AIMS >,

Lieutenant Colonel was left to take care
of himself. There cannot be many of
fieers of that stripe at the front; for
those who are there such non com as
this knows the best cure.
Here is an interesting code devised for
use in telephoning orders through the bri-
gade when an advance was ojected-
code being necessary because the Germans
have 4 clear system of intereepting the
messages: If the raid was to be indef-
initely ostponed the word would be
"Asquith." For put it off till to-mor-
row" the signal was the name ''Haldane."
When the raid was to be ordered finally
the word would be Lloyd George
DR.. Manions batman, Kelly, has well
deserved chapter to himself. Kelly was
brave, but he was also wise. He had
learned TO restrain his curiosity, for
them that are here the longest are them
that peep the least" Did Kelly dodge
when he heard shell eomingf Kelly
ducked; for if it were big shell, he
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EAH of the innumerable war books
II has some effect upon the publie's
mental picture of life Over There, or
upon the slowly settling common under
standing of what is going on The per-
sonal narrative, by soldier or doctor, air
man or ambulance driver, war CORE
spondent or Y. M. c. A. worker; The
studies of strategy and of campaigns; The
various forms of propaganda and of con-
temporaneous record-an the books VI all
the phases of this world CONFUSION are
strokes in the picture being painted on
the broad canvas of mankind's imagina-
ton. Even a stroke that might later
have to be erased would leave more or
less permanent smudge. So it Is true
that every single one of these countless
books is important.
DIR. Robert J. Manion's book, 4 Sur
geoH IN arms, is a contribution TO the
popular, not the technical, literature of
the war. He tells about life In the
trenches and in the field hospitals; about
soldiers as the surgeon sees them, some
times malingering, sometimes trying to
hide their hurts, to escape being left out
when the line goes over the top; about the
value of cheerfulness, about courage and
cowardice, about the food and the slang
of the boys who do the fighting. The
book has no structure; it seems like
diary with the date lines crossed out.
Books made in that way have, so far,
been far from the foot of the line In
point of popularity; and popularity is
a very fair and proper test and measure
of their usefulness. While the war lasts
we shall continue aecumulating vast
amounts of material for the use of later
coming writers, who will sift and syn
thetize.
Dr. Manion tells some good stories.
There was a French Canadian sergeant
who was taking care of two wounded
men, a Lieutenant Colonel and private.
The officers wound was slight; the
Tommy's severe An ambulance came
for them. The sergeant had the Tommy
put in first and then the officer. The Of
ticer protested against riding in the same
ambulance with the private. Said the
sergeant to his stretcher squad: Ike
move the oilicerw 1t was done, and the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11

Among the theatres that are illustrated
and described in The Open Air Theatre,
by Seldom Cheney (Mitchell kennerly,
publisher), are the Arena Goldoni, the
Bradfeld Greek Theatre, the Warsaw
Park Theatre, the Greek theatres at Berk-
eley, Point Iona, Pomona and Bakers
field, California; the Peterborough Pa
geant Theatre, the bohemian Grove
Theatre, the Banksidc Theatre, the Brook
side Theatre and the Rosemary Theatre.
There are also photographs and descrip-
tons of many of the pla! houses Of Greek
and Roman times, and of numerous less
known nature and garden theatres in this
country and Europe.
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us that the hazards of an ambulance
driver are insignificant when compared
with those of the heroic braneardier, or
stretcher bearer.
"a callous, hardened, dulled class Of
men, absolutely lacking in sentiment, yet
doing a noble and heroic work. We
curse them often when they put a man
IN a ear upside down or drop him, but
we forget that when the infantry goes
in repose the brancardiers stay at their
posts, going out into No Mans Land
every hour to bring in a countryman or
enemy. We forget that with their abrl
hut filed with chlorine gas the same
men have toied faithfully in suffocating
gas masks. bringing In wounded, caring
for them. We forget that these men
have probably not had an hours con-
seeutive sleep for weeks, and it may be
weeks before they have it again. 1t is
something To remember, and it is to Won
der rather bow they do these things at all
than why they seem at times little care
less and bit tired
In order to escape from ii lombard
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J. E. Harold Terry's three act comedy,
General Post, which has just been pub
llshed by f. F. Dutton 4 Co, was given
at the Gaiety Theatre IN New York last
winter. Its three acts re supposed TO
take place the first in Is he second in
1915 and the third in 4, etcrminate
time after the war The actrr5 are
a haronct, lis wife. son and daughter and
the village tailor and his brother. The
theme is the social revolution the war is
bringing about
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ment which was scattering fragments OF
shells all around Mr. circuit once crept
with some poilus into an underground
ABR. One of the Frenehmen went out
shortly after to see if the shower was
over, but as he failed TO return 1t was
evident that it was not After it had let
mp "the poilus gathered our inqulsltlve
friend from the surrounding shrubbery
and put him into several empty sand
bags, which they laid on stretcher. An
other man carried carefully made pine
coffin. In high spirits the assembled sol
diers marched into the graveyard, sing
ing alternately funeral dirge and the
Madelon, the French Tipperary. Arrived
at the grave the polius rolled the frag-
ments of our late friend and covered
them with dirt Then they came back
roaring with laughter and tossing the
coffin in the air. The hero had expected
the coffin and they had fooled him. Now
they could use it again
THE WHITE ROAD OF MYSTERY. BY
PHILIP DANA OKCUTT. John Lane Com
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THE WHITE ROAD OF MYSTERY. BY
PHILIP DANA ORCUTT. John Lane Com
pany. $1.25.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-27
HOMEMADE CORN
MEAL is BEST

Any family in town or country can
have the best of corn meal by grim
ing it at home in a hand gristmill.
The city man can buy corn by the
bushel at grain store. He can
grind it coarse or fine, to suit the
taste of the family and in quantities
to last a day or a week OF. longer.
Most people will agree that this
meal containing the germ is very pal
atable and compares well in this re-
spect with that ordinarily purchased
ready ground. Price of hand mills of
substantial make run from $3.50 to
IS. A small mill can be had for as
little as $50, though this probably
would prove too tedious to use, ex-
cept for small quantities. :
Whether obtained" at the retail
store, brought from a mill, or ground
at home, corn meal can be used in
several ways to give inexpensive va
riety to the diet.
A dish of mush and milk has made
the greater part of many a supper on
the farm, and children thrive on it,
though they may rebel at cleaning
kettle and the pudding spoon" after
wards, if the old-time methods of
cooking it are followed. 1t is a sim
pie dish to make-just IL cups of
water and a teaspoon of salt to every
cup of meal. The water can be put
in cold and the vessel heated grad
ually. A double boiler is very con-
venient in cooking corn meal mush,
as well as all other cereals, and is
easier to clean. The great secret of
good mush is long, slow cooking-the
longer the better. A fireless cooker
in which the. cooking can go on all
day or all night, is very useful for
this purpose.
Corn meal mush can be used in
many other ways besides as a break
fast or supper dish. Fried mush,
with fruit, and mush with cheese are
in the list of recipes. Fish cakes with
corn meal and meat of different
kinds may be cooked together,
'scrapple," being a favorite in some
parts of the country