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The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11

Mr.. and Mrs. c v. Trill, who arriv'
ed yesterday from Everett, Washing
ton. are planning to be here for the
winter, Mr.. Trill having accepted i
position with the local Cold-storagt
plant as cbief-engineer, replacing MI
Ismay. Mr.. Ismay was taken i'll AMI
was obliged to go south for treatment
Mr. and Mrs. Trill are at the Revilla
for the time being. until a house can
be found.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
-
RAILROAD PROVIDES
QUARTERS FOR WOMEN

ANCHORAGE (By MaiD-War,
with its consequent effect of drawing
young men to the colors, is resulting
in the rapid increase in the number OF
women employees in the offices OF
the government railroad. And with
the constant addition of feminine
workers, the problem Of housing them
had to be given consideration by of.
ficials of the Alaska Engineering Com
mission.
Four large two-story buildings, par.
titioned into rooms for either one or
TWO tenants, have been in use for
bachelor quarters for men ever since
he Commission began the construct.
ion of the government railroad. I'm.
I'll ve~y recently, no housing provis.
on was necessary for women employ
IS because there were only a few of
hem and practically all of these
ived at home with relatives. OF late
however, SO many women, who have
oeen engaged as clerks or stenograph-
ers to take the places of men in the
Offices of the Commission, either have
come from the states or have expert
enced the breaking up Of their homes
here because their men folks joined
he army that the question of suitable
quarters for women workers demand
ed an answer.
Accordingly, the Commission has
Just turned over to women employees
the large dwelling house formerly
occupied by Colonel Frederick Mears,
who was the member of the Commits
sion for the Anchorage Division and
who is now in France in command of
the Thirty-first Regiment of Engineers
United States Army.
Soon after the dwelling was vacat-
ed by Colonel Mears last winter, it
was occupied as bachelor quarters by
a number of young men employed by
The commission. With one or two ex-
ceptions, all of these either have gone
Or are going to the war.
The young women who have now
taken the dwelling are chaperoned by
Mrs. G. G. Jones, who husband is a
captain with the ThIrty-first Engin-
GERS. Capt. Jones, before he joined
the army, was roadmaster on the gov.
eminent railway He was known
from one end of the line to the other
as Hurry Up" Jones.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
LEAVING FOR HOME

Mr.. and Mrs. II. E. Simonds are
planning to leave on the first steamer
southhound for +leir home in Blaine,
Wash, accompanied by Wilbur ST.
monds Mr.. Simonds who was sup
erinteadent of the Smiley cannery at
Charcoal Point for a season, was in
charge of the Metlakatla cannery this
year, operating under the name of
the Annette Island Packing Company.
They expect to return next March.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
BANGOR LIBEL
CASE DISMISSED
BY JENNINGS

Attorney Chas. Cosgrove received
word from Judge Robert w. Jennings
today in regard to the Admiralty case
of the Barge Bangor which libeled the
Tug Commodore for 100000. The suit
for libel has been dismissed, and is
quite legal victory for Attorney Co.'S
grove who represented the defendants
in the case here last fall.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
LIBERTY DAY TOMORROW
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
GET HOLIDAY

+ In accordance with the procla. =
+ nation issued by President Will 4
+ son declaring October II, to be I
= Liberty Day and urging that all =
+ towns and cities in the United I
+ States celebrate by responding I
+ further to the Fourth Liberty I
+ Loan, it has been decided by Ket- =
+ chikan Merchants to keep all I
+ places of business open as usual :
+ The Bank will also keep its usual 4
+ hours. Z
+ AL government employees have Z
+ been given holiday for the I
+ day. 4
+ October IL Is the 426th ami i
+ versary of the discovery of Am 4
+ erica by Columbus, and is also I
= the third anniversary of the =
r mu der of Edith Cavell by the 4
+ Germans. 4
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
$40 CASUALTIES

WASHINGTON Oct. 11-Three hun
dred and seventy-two seriously injur-
ed and three hundred and ninety-one
dead are the casualties reported by
General Pershing yesterday.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11

ABERDEEN, Oct. 11.-Soldiers from
adjacent spruce camps have been pro-
hihited from visiting the city, on
measure against the
spread of Spanish Influenza.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
LEAVING FOR BLAINE

Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Quirt and daugh
ter, who have spent the summer in
Ketchixan are leaving on one of the
first steamers southbound for their
home in Blai Washington. Mr.
Quirt was conr ED with the Smiley
Cannery here during the present sea
son.
Their only son, James Norris Quirt
was among the 1917 registrants who
was drafted here on October 1, and
is now in Haines, at TT. VIM. H. Sew
ard.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
LEAVING FOR SEATTLE

Mrs. Brennan and small son Jack,
who have been visiting all summer in
ketchikan with Mrs. Brennan's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. James Mooney,
leaves today for Seattle to join Mr..
Brennan. who has just returned from
the Boring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mooney expect to leave
,n the next boat southbound for Sc
attic where they also expect to To-
cate.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
LEAVING FOR CALIFORNIA

DR.. and Mrs. Thatcher Miller are
tanning on leaving on the southbound
rip of the Princess Sophia for Chino,
'aliforYia, where DR.. Miller has bought
practice and where they expect to
ocate permanently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Miller have made their
lone in Ketchikan for many years
md have many friends, who will
ieply regret to lose them but will wish
ZEN all success in their new home.
Chino is located just thirty miles
ut of Los Angeles, the capital city of
outtarn California.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
ANOTHER NORWEGIAN
STEAMER TORPEDOED

STOCKHOLM, Oct 11-German
submarines continue to take toll from
Norwegian shipping. The latest vic
tim is the steamship Gjertrud 5,093
tons sross. Eleven members of the
crew including four Swedes, are mis-
sing
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11

WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. H.
Octob IT &c has been set as registra.
ton day for~the 1915 draft in Hawaii
says an announcement made today by
the War Department.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
HAIG HAS GREAT
HONOR CONFERRED

LONDON, Oct. 11-"For conspicu-
Gus and notable service to humanity"
the great Gross of Honor" has been
awarded Field Marshal Douglas Haig
commander of the British Forces in
France. The medal was awarded
Marshal Joffre last year.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
kETCHikAN PASSENGERS

SEATTLE, Oct. 10.-Delayed)-
Following are the passengers enroute
to Ketchikan, Mrs. w. A. Bryant,
Henry Peterson, Mrs. M. Peterson,
Helen and Mabel Peterson, Mrs. John
Bertz and r. Thompson.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
NEARLY 100000
MEN IN FRANCE
SAYS GEN. MARCH

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.-General
March announced this morning that
more than one million nine hundred
thousand American soldiers had been
sent across into France.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
LEAVING FOR FRISCO

Mr.. kronquist, of the Kronquist and
Benclkin cannery, Newtown, left to-
day for Seattle, where he will meet
Mrs. Kronquist who went south sew
eral months ago. They plan to go on
to San Francisco for a month, when
Mr.. Kronquist- expects to return to
Ketchikan.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
THE KAISER IS
THINKING IT OVER

. AMSTERDAM, Oct. To-day I
. Emperor William summoned SOW. 4
: erigns from all the German states 4
to Perrin for consultation before 4
answering President Wilson's 4
; note. according to dispatch I
. from Berlin. I
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
LATOUCHE BRINGS COAL

The freighter Latouche of the AL
aska Steamship Company arrived from
the south today and discharged 300
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
BACK FROM SOUTH

Mr.. Chas. Durkee, of the Immigra-
ton Office here, who left few weeks
ago with Mrs. Durkee for the south,
returned last evening
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
PEACE NOW WOULD
BETRAY DEAD SAYS
LABOR LEADER

OTTAWA, Canada, Oct. ia
statement has been issued to organic.
ed labor in Canada by Tom Moore, the
new President Of the Trades and La.
Dor Congress of Canada in which he
says: "Our desires to establish peace
for the living. must not allow us to &C
cept a peace that would betray the
dead or leave the possibility of unborn
generations being again engulfed in
such world cataclysm. Such a
peace it would be If entered into with
the Junkers and military caste of Ger
many with their love of war and praise
of militafism still on her lips"
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
= = = z = + = = F.,
THE WORLD WAR A
WEAR AGO TO-DAY

+ Oct. 12-British gained half
s mile on six mile front in Fland-
r ers.
Germans captured part of ISL .
; and Of 0esel in Gulf OF Riga. .
. = 4 I. 4 4 4 4 l. 4 .
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11
: + = = = = = = = =
WEATHER REPORT

: For "A hours ending 6 p. n. =
{ yesterday maximum temperature 4
) So; minimum 49,; precipitation 4
SO inches. 4
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11

AMSTERDAM, Oct. flowing to
poor health, Capt. Won Mueller, who
gained much notoriety while in COM
mand of the German cruiser Emden
early in the war, has been released
from Internment in Holland.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11

Bar Barbarism by Buying Bonds.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-10-11

n > = = 800 = : = =
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-05-09

few ears. On account Of the lack
81 vessels now, the most Of our
wheat has 10 60 10 the Atlantic
ports for shipment, q journey re-
quiring from 80 20 80 days for the
round trip before the ear Is back
for reioadine. ON this account il
viii take from four 10 six times
as long 10 ship our surplus wheat
this year as before the war II
these ears are required 70 haul
coal NJ the time they should be
used 10 haul wheat to our boys in
France, the blame can be laid at
the door Of those who do not buy
and store their winter coal now
It's your patriotic duty 10 buy and
store what coal You can at this
time. DO not delay. Do II now.
NJ. Il. Lewis,
Fuel Administrators, 3rd District.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-05-09
TO MEASURE The MOON.
Here IL = Simple Msshss. and a ls As.
eurats ard Instructive

Here IL Simple Msthed. and Il ls Ae.
surats ard Instructive.
Any boy or girl can measure the
size 81 the moon hy carrying out 3
simple experiment and using the
fact found in any geography book
that the mean distance Of the moon
from the earth is s3s, $40 miles.
We DO not need 10 know a great
deal nor 10 be very observant 10
realize that the farther away any
object is from rs the smaller il
seems. If Nc stand, say, 100 feet
FROM a wall, 1t appears to he GER
tain height. but II ve 90 eco feet
away the apparent height dvindles
to half, and az 400 feet this j. .
quarter, and 50 on. The apparent
size Of an object therefore varies ia
regular proportion. according 70
the distance. and il i this knovl-
edge, properly used, that enables ne
20 measure the size 81 the moan.
Let US cut out 4 cardboard disk
the size Of a silver dollar and stick
this with . dab Of gum or paste 20
the window pane when the moon i
Al the full. We then stand in such
position that the disk Is beiween
~ and the moon, end we step back
until the little round card exactly
covers the outline II the wnoon. 40
more and no less Nos measure the
distance from where w are standing
10 the vindow. and il viii Is found
that this i los Is inches.
Our geography book tells Is that
the moon i s3s $40 miles from the
earth and 81 that distance i appears
exactly The same size a. the dlsk at
les Is inches from our eye. By Fe-
dncing the distance o. the moon 80
inches and dividing the result b.
les - We find that the noon i -.
100000 times bigger than The disk
To get the diameter n the moon
therefore Ne measure the diameter
81 the disk anil multiply that b. So
500 600 The result q e.i60ik
miles. which i within = mile 81 ghe
lctual diameter II the neon. -
measured elsiorstely namely.
.,isai@ miles
Having found che diametsr. -
an get the circumfcfsnce ~ aniti-
living the diameter 81 3ftls. A.
he moon i an almost perfect
pliers. Ne get the ana - IL sur-
ace ~ multiplying TIE eirtasnfer-
.ncc by the Diameter. snd 10 ges the
ubic contents ~ malsipis the ares
{ the surface IS onr third 50 the
adins--ihat i. sixfh - he di4m-
icr.--St. Louis Clsbe- nemeerat
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-05-09

Gall yonf attention % The fact
That now u 4 good time 20 antlol
pate yeuf wants IA The dry aoeda
line Every day we are getting
nolleea q heavy advances n every
llhp and you VIII be- using Aood
judgement % buy any and avefy,
Thine yen may need IA cotton and
weoleh material before further "a
tahens
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-05-09

mile drive over the Spokane. Lew.
iston and Nexperee and Camas
prairie countries he made 49,
miles 10 the gallon Of gasoline.
This is just ane of the strong
points of this strong ear. This
ear comes in 3 styles something
10 suit every demand and every
purse. The standard touring ear
90 Is 1910. delivered.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-05-09

tllAahama chat We are selling 10.
day INg 70 eeAla The yard have "a
NaAeed % a1l oenls and are sllll
ReiNa NJ meaning that IA a short
llme yeu wSll he paying around
% epAls a NSfd
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-05-09

RNeA eAlleA lAat yeN Nsea 10
hwy a Q cents che yald d quoted
AZ aa eeAls the yafN leAsterA mar
METAL and viii advance 10 NFoNNa
- cents a yAyN eelegV gAh
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-05-09
Outings

oAttNs liaANeh tAAt We are q
sAN selling Al 50 eeA,s lAa VAgA
AfV WNltA SaA e4Nls iNf tAe hsAl
tAsass AMI ~ eeAls tAe NAsA fNr
ne dAlk eNlesA And tANy As~ vNgy
wNsve aAN AAsN u ava even Al
&Aete Nsteea
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-05-09

E~k MAEMf
The Germans now want peace
~ does the horse thief when be-
has yOur horse. The only way
yOn would make peace with tn
horse thief would b. 10 make him
give up your horse and then put
HIM where be would not be- able
20 steal your horse again. SO
must the Germans be- made 20 give
~ their stolen possessions and
Then be- placed Ia a position that
they cannot agnln plunge the
world into another war Of German
conquest aud savagcry. For ns 10
give up now would be to aeknow.
ledge u complete German victory
The only way we will be able 10
yet The peace we want and must
have will be through the cannon :
mouth, aud by the sacrifice OF
many OF America \ hravest sons.
40 be not deceived by the German
peace propaganda and do not lei
40 on Your support Of an govern.
menl war measures, nor cease 10
buy Thrift Stamps and War Say
ing Certificates. for only hy keep.
my The money pouring into the
national treasury can We keep ,lp
our preparations by which we win
torcc the Hun to peace terms that
Will mcan peace 10 the world
These Thrift stamps and War
saving Certificates are small uov.
Comment bonds with an the secnr.
~ ut our country behind them
aud are perfectly safe and sound
They will be redeemed in five
ycats By the government with an.
plVNimately five per cent interest
Certainly 4 splendid investment H.
say nothing Of lhc patriotic duty
performed Ia h,tNmg them. You
can cash Ia War Saving Ccrtifi.
GATES at any time aud receive an
NoU paid for them with interest
% the linlO IT Nlrrcndcrinr them.
81 Il YOU need the money later Il /
can b. had without sacrificing /
anything Then Your country asks /
yOu g. buy them Our country 4
nccVl> The money. Il must have
The money. Il must be gotten from
NNe Your eeuntrN offers you an
Investment instead ~ taxing You.
NJ b. true te NoOr country. bc true
90 The hON~ oVcf there. he true 10
\ oQr~clf Rt,N ThrlN Sfan,n< an,
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-05-09
PercAles

FeNAle$ that we are to-day sell
lAs AZ % eents the yard Nfe worth
% eehta a yafNl and nirthef price
advances aie predicted
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-05-09
cAANeE FoR rRouaAa

~Who wross the lihsstto - thss
musical comedyg
care you locking fer him. ts@s-
Judee.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-05-09

To make room Tor our new Stock
% wall paper We are closing est
several patterns at rs cpnts PR
roll Hurry Nexper~e Hard
ware.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03
Bert Lane, A Lakeland
Row Went Down With
His Ship, "The Tampa,
Sunk In Foreign Waters

All Lakeland will be saddened Win
Tho news that Bert Lane has given MS
life for his country, the news ccinihs
over the wires today that ne was
missing with the United States snip
Tamna which was sunk in foreign
waters by torpedo last Thursday.
Bert was the son of Mr.. and MIS-
A H. Lane, who have made tne'r
home in Lakeland for years, until re-
Gently, when they moved to Jackson
Vile. where Mr.. Lane is engageo III
tho shin building industry. The young
man was one of the first to volunteer
when the United States entered the
war and is the first Lakeland ooy
to lose his life on a torpedoed snip
He was 10 years of age, hhc
splendid, honorable young man. =
model son and widely admired py hl>
associates, and the sympathy OIL
host of friends go out to the sorrow
ing family, who, however cannot d, uu
ho nroud that their son gave his Ill
for his country. !,
Of the sinking of the Tampa Tn
Associated Press today SENDS out Tn
following story:
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

Washington, Oct. 3.-A cablegram
from General Pershing, commander
of the American Expeditlonary
Forces abroad, to the Adjutant Gen
eral at Washington, expresses COLI
fdence of the American soldier IN
France that the people at home Will
subscribe to the Fourth Liberty Loan
and thus supply the power oehlnu
the armies.
The complete text of General Fer
shing's cablegram follows:
THE men of the A. E. F. expec'
that the Fourth Liberty Loan Will DIT
subscribed.
In the camps and villages O
France we have been training an
preparing these many months 10
the supreme test. In the ports an
along the road that reaches from th
sea to the battle front we have pee
organizing, constructing. achieVihs'
I'VE have toiled cheerfully again'
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

railways, and as fast as the rails are
laid, they begin to carry their bur-
den of supplies and ammunition.
Many miles of track can now be laid
by a single section Of engineers In
day, and by the evening after o sue
cessful attack, the late field of battle
is criss-crossed with line after line
of steel rails, all hard at work con-
solidating and preparing for FUR
ther step forward.
AS speed of attack develops on the
allied side, so the helter-skelter char
acter Of the German movement In the
opposite direction must increase.
The effect of sudden push-back on
the German lines is like the impact OF
a. locomotive on a train or freight
cars-the shock drives the farthest
car farthest back. The effect of the
allied blow is immeasurably enhanced
by the speed with which it is deliv-
cred.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03
BRITISH, IN HEAVY fighting,
CONTINUE TO PUSH THE
ENEMY BACK TO THEIR
HOME TERRITORY
BLOCK HOUSE WAR
DEPT.'S LATEST PROJECT

Mexico City, Oct. Block houses,
constructed of reinforced concrete
and large enough to hold 60 men, are
the war departments latest project
for putting an end to bandit attacks
on trains. The plan now under con-
sideration is to build these miniature
forts at points along the railways
commanding exposed portions OF the
track and tunnels. The recent re-
crudesence of bandit attacks. es-
pecially on the roads from the capltal
to Vera Cruz and Tampico, mas
spurred the government to action.
Dne Of the most recent feats o. the
bandits was to cut the water, ligh'
and power supply of the capital fol
nearly ten hours.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03
WAR MOVING MORE
SWIFTLY UNDER NEW
BRITISH TACTICS
(By Associated Press.)

Behind British Lines in France
Oct 3.-Increasing speed OF fire and
ever swifter assaults and manoeuvre
have been the principal developments
ot the art of war this year year
aoo an attack was numbering pom
derous thing, moving along heavily
and deliberately behind great weight
Of artillery preparation. Today speed
Is the thing. The rate of advance
in the British army has been in-
creased four-fold in the past year,
Behind the screen of swift-moving
tanks. armored motor cars and cava.'
rv. the assault divisions rush into tne
German positions, occupying trenches
stamping out isolated nests OF resist
ance and collecting the masses o.
nrisoners. The infantry necessarily
moves more slowly than the mobile
assault forces, but when one takes In
to account the width of the usua
thrust operation nowadays and 1t
depth, the movement is wonderful'
fast. and a days operations. II sue
cessful, mean the occupation OF man
/ square miles of territory.
| In particular, speed has been al
-. nlied to the movement OF artiller'
which is the vital thing in holding tt
nositlons won. Mechanical improve
ments have been applied to gun tra'
tors so that now guns can be brougl
up in quarter of the time that WI
necessary a few months ago. In Il
same way the tank has become m
bile gun battery, able to fire as it a
vances.
E AS fast as the line moves, the e
pineers are busy extending the Ill
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03
LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN PRO-
CROSSING WITH ENTHUSIASM
THROUGHOUT THIS DISTRICT

Atlanta, Ca, Oct. 3.-A flood OF
kilograms and scores OF long distance
telephone messages to w. G. Wariaw'
district executive chairman OF the
Fourth Liberty Loan, gives him every
reason to believe that the Southern
States are going over the top and go
ing big, he said today.
The rural districts and the smaller
towns are especially liberal in the
number and amounts of their invest
merits. The farmer has not had 20
he educated up to buying bonds, as IN
past campaigns. Most of them have
salted away two or three OF former
issues and found their interest cou-
pons were good as gold at any bank
and they have been buying still more
of the Fourth issue.
Many counties have raised their
quotas. AS yet. no city of importance
has reported being over the top, but
several have telegraphed that they
are assured of going over. These in
clude Nashville, Birmingham, Chat
tanooga and Savannah. Atlanta dld
not begin her campaign until Monaay
night, when big neighborhood can
vas was made, and began working UP,
i town on Tuesday.
Reports from the two Libd'ty Loan
e trains show that enormous croWdS
+ are meeting the trains at most stops
! In several instances five times thf
p population of the town was represent.
i. Ell at the train.
The bond sales at the train stop'
have been heavier than expected
Train No. /, in Georgia, sold $5Oo,Og!
Ii two days, including a sunday
though there were driving rainstornh
II Birmingham this week distribute
thousands of circulars headed
Message from the Sky" dropped D
IN army aeroplanes over the city the
ly bore the names Of thirty-eight Jeitel
4 son county men who died for thel
u country, with Liberty bond appeal
03 An Atlanta department store VII
lal dow contains a figure Of Kaiser Bi
De- IN a glass case, in water up to n
In knees. The placard announces TN
ar the water will rise, inch by inch
IS the citys subscription grows, al
Of when Atlanta Is over the top u
kaiser will be "head under" ."
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03
Positions On
20 Mile Front
Are Being
Evacuated
FRENCH NORTH OF RHEIMS TAKE
RAILWAY JUNCTION AND MAKE
FURTHER EFFECTIVE PROG.
RESS
(By Associated Press.)

London, Oct. 3.--The British this
morning resumed attacks north OIL
st. Quentin, it is officially announced
Germans are continuing their rear
ward movement on the front from
Lens to Armentieres, and have evacu-
ated highly organized positions that
are along a twenty-mile front. In
cushing after the retreating enemy,
the British have reached the general
line of the ciee Of st. Auguste ana
Douyrin, east of Labasse, east G! Au-
hers and west of the Grenier road
The advance is continuing.