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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
Gen. Paul Pau, Joffre's Aid in
First Name Battle, Reaches US
French Veteran Arrives at Atlantic Port as Mi,,n.
Representative in Mission of Democracy" on
Way to Australia

AN ATLANTIC PORT. Aug. 3.-Like
his predecessor the beloved Joffre, Cen
eral Pau Pau of the French army We
eran of the Franco Prussian War ard
defender of the Marine. slipped into this
country unhera ded o-day. on his way
TO Australia. He is the military repre-
sentative of general mission that g
speeding on its way to the Antipodcs
and which will stop over at Washing
ton and other important cities of the
United States to tell of the great i'm
petus the Allies have received by the
entrance of America into the war
General Pau, for all his seventy
one years, is erect and robust. HIS
face is bronzed and ruddy, his step
quick and his smile winning. A stew
ard on the liner that brought him over
remarked that he was "a fine gentle
man, and that if ore spoke a bit of
French one would find HIM real dem
ocrat and good mixer"
General Pau wore the pale blue gray
uniform of the French service. and 20
all who greeted HIM ne responded with
a salute of the left hand his right
hand was lost in battle OCCASION
ally shook hands when some one of i'm
portance addressed him.
Never Saw T. s. Men Fight.
Although he he'd been active in
French mi itary affairs through out the
war. General Pau had never seen the
american troops in action. He re-
GREETED this, he said. Neverthe ess he
was we'll aware from the report of
his countrymen that the boys from
America made wonderful hghting
n achine
= " have seen some of your men in
Paris on furlough,' he said. "Thev
were splendid looking soldiers and |
can well understand that they have
made such n marvellous showing In
battle. 1t was q great day for France
and her allies when your legsons came
over the seas Some of us feared that
the undertaking of bringing them
safely 10 our shores m ght be impos-
sible, but we soon realized that Amer
lea was well aware Of what she was
doIng and knew how the great task was
to be done
America has shown tremendous
strength and has given IN amaz ug
dem onstration of resourcefulness. W..
The French people and our allies. owe
so much 20 America that is wor h can
not be reckoned. marvel at the
rapidity with which your troops
9rasped the art o. this modern war
fare and TIE wonderful way in VIII CD
hey were able 10 use this knowled %
in such effect We demonstration against
well trained enemy"
The mission. wh en- is made up OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

has so of,en been the case in the last
few months, there has been a con-
1iict between the purely military
civilian, or foreign Office, point CT
view. ct may be pointed out in pass
ing that those who know the coun-
try best are convinced that the En-
peror, who is not mere hGurehead
as in most monarchics, but is real
power, usually backs up the civilian
as against the purely military point
Of view. But that is by the way.)
In the present confusi0n-acc I'd n 2
to the explanation-the sequence is
supposed to have been somewhat as
follows:
First, the refusal to withdraw,
due to MISUNDERSTANDING g Of the
gravity of the Allies counter thrust
on July Is; then, a realization of the
danger and the order to retire, fol-
lowed n turn by political advice that
civilian opinion in Germany would
be grievously shaken by a retire
ment at this stage, which would be
confession Of a military break
down, lnasmuch as it would pro-
claim to everybody that the great
offensive had been broken and which
would mean the restoration of ven
kllhimann. who had fallen on ac-
count Of his pronouncement that no
military decision could be hoped for;
at last, when the pressure became
too great, the recognition that sheer
military necessity compelled the
abandonment of the southern end of
the salient, which had been so tena-
ciously chung to on the Marine
around nornans.
Such is the most general eXplanc
ton cf these astonishing orders anC,
counter orders which for more than
a week produced an equally aston
sshing military situation in which a
defeated force desperately hung on
to positions which could only be held
by the heavie : sacrifice and which
at first sight seemed of no particu-
lar valUe--for there can be no hope
of using them once again for often
sive action. But it is we'll to under
stand that there may be a perfectly
good explanation of these orders
and counter orders on military
basis alone, without considering the
question of domestic policy, the
effect on civilian opinion or the con-
flict between politicians and soldiers.
The first refusal to fall back NAV
we'll have been due to Simply a mis-
apprehension Of the situation last
ing more than a day. The subse-
quent determination to retire NAV
have been due to delay in bringing
up sufficient troops in time to hold
the line by counter attack. When
these appeared, and when the Allied
progress was correspond nsly
checked, and in scme places com
pletely halted, one may believe tina,
the local command advised the
Higher Command that it could
though with difticulty-maintain its
positions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
A Purely Military
View Of His Acts

The Higher Command. gambling,
perhaps, upon the hope that these
operations would prove even more
expensive to the Allies than they did
to the Germans, thought they could
not be continued for many days and
that the Allied advance, VIII CHI was
already checked, might be stopped
dead, may well have accepted this
suggestion on the part of the local
command and determined from Julv
Il onward TO hold all the positions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
! Conflict Between
/ Politics and Military

Here we are reduced to conjecture.
The commonest answer is the polti
cal one. We are told that here, as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

fensive would continue. In other
words, the enemy's High Command
did net appreciate at first the sig
nificance of General Mangin's ad-
vance to the heighborhood Of Sois-
sons. They could not believe that
this last tremendous offensive of
theirs, mounted on scale rivalling
TIE one of last March and directed
against a front Of fifty miles, with
force to begin with Of some sixty
divisicns-two-th thirds of their whole
available striking forehead really
fai ed. Hence, there was this Gu
rious hesitation 10 retire or even
modify their position beyond tie
Marine during all of Thursday and
Friday.
The second order must have been
Gated some time on Friday, July 10,
full th,rty-sx hours after the Al
lied counter stroke had been deiiv-
cred. 1t was pla My an order for
general retirement, for the enemy
not only went back across the Marine
but left Chateau Thierry and it's
neighbc rhood. The weakening of
his artillery fire showed that he was
pushing back his guns, and the &c
tons he was fighting were the Sc of
rear guards rather than true cUun-
ter attacks.
After about another equal inter
val, probably cary on Sunday
comes the third order. The German
troops in the unfortunate salient
were hidden to cease Their retire
nlent, to hold on at all costs and to
keep as much Of the ground they
were occupying as poss.ble They
were particularly hidden to hang on
teNacious)y to the southernmost and
most difficult portion of the ground
along the Marine itself, in the neigh
borhood of Dormans. A new and
vigorous policy Of expensive counter
attacks was inaugurated, many
fresh divisions appeared on the we t.
ern side of the salient and the art;l-
lery actions grew heavier as the
week advanced, which showed that
some guns had been brought back.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
Lieutenant Merritt Decorated

YONKFTS. N. y, Aug. 3-The pa
rents Of Lieutenant Horny c. Merritt,
ir.. of Tuckahoe, hove been notified
that he ms hoen decorated for con-
spicuous GallaNtry in leading a platoon
across the Marine durine an ENGAGE
cent Liou4orant Merritt is an Of
f;cer of the 3Sth Infantry. The order
!" which We s ci+Nd is gned by Major
General J, r. Dckman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

possible around the ring OF the So
lient. Finally, on the evening Of
Friday, July 26, it must have ap-
peared impossible to the enemy to
hold longer He then reverted to
his original policy of retirement,
abandoning the line Of the Marine
with the control over its railway
and frankly flattening the salient, so
that upon the succeeding day the
French and Americans were able to
occupy quite a considerable new belt
of country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
Lost the Main
Line to Paris

There is one subsidiary, but i'm
portant, point to be considered in
this abortive German attempt TO
hold en- for whole week without
retirement. have touched on it in
the sentence above, in connection
with holding the extreme southern
most piece of territory on the Marine
itself around Dormans. The main
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
A New Policy Of
Counter Attacks

The policy through all the days
became one of high expense in men
with the object of retaining ground.
1t was not fully successful, even at
such a price. Fringe by fringe, the
German position was torn away.
Vile Montoire was retal1en, the ex-
tremely important position of Oulchy
was seized, the Nanteuil brook was
crossed, and by the evening of Fri
day, July &c, French guns were fir
ing into the road junction of Fare-
en- ardenois, at a range Of just
over 5000 yards, which meant that
the use Of that point by the enemy
had become impossible.
Continuing the line to the south
the Americans had also kept on tax.
ing ground until the Allied line OF,
the same night was ten miles north.
east of Chateau Therry.
But on July Is there suddenly re-
appeared the policy Of a general re-
tirement. Now, why have these fou,
successive policies, each contra,
diction of the last, followed each 9th
er in such fashion? What success
sivc motives have been at work?
! Conflict Between
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
Enemy's Bewildering Moves
Indicate He Didn't Know
Which Way to Turn
Between Allied Guns
And Devil" at Home
First Stand Credited to
Politics and Final Retreat
to Actual Defeat
By Fiilaire Belloc
Autleor of "Eiements of the Great
War" and Br.itain's Most Dis
tinguished Military Critic
By Hilaire BeIloc

Copyright, 1918-The Tribune Asso-
citation (The Nc,0 York Tribune)
TNHE problem which has been
puzzling all observers of the
war ever since General Foch
launched his counter offensive on
July Is has now been largely re
solved. The problem was to inter
pref the mind of the German High
Command, as shown in its action be-
tween Rheims and Scissors, after
Foch had broken it's offensive and
turned the strategic situation inside
out, fully recovering the initiative
for the Allies by his great counter
blow.
The enemy acted after this move
ment for fully ten days in fashion
which it was impcss to interpret
upon any one plan. First, he simply
stood in his positions in the south as
though awaiting orders, or uncertain
of his intention. Second, full
thirty-six hours after the great
French success toward Scissors,
which threatened his communica-
tions, his eight foremost divisions
which had been thrown across the
Marine were withdrawn across the
river, and it looked as though the
enemy had decided upon the wisest
course open to him--to fall back and
flatten out the salient; to make him
self militarily secure at the expense
of a little ground and the mere
moral loss Of prestige. The opin on
that he was boldly going to cut his
losses and fall beck was con frmod
by his leaving Chateau Th;erry vol
unfairly, and it looked, during three
days, that is, up 20 about July %
as though we were in the presence
of the simple and obvious man ruvre
on the part of force SURPRISED and
threatened in its communications.
to wit, retirement and flattening
out of the salient.
Beaten Out of
Every Position
But at that moment another policy
appeared. Congested as the enemy
already was with some four hun
dred thousand men in a district less
than thirty miles broad and about
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-13
STOMACH UPSET?
Get at the Real Cause-Take DIR.
Edwards Olive Tablets

That's what thousands of stomach
sufferers are doing now. Instead of
taking. tonics, or trying to patch up a
poor digestion, they are attacking the
real cause of the ailment - clogged liver
and disordered bowels.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets arouse the
liver in soothing, healing way. When
the liver and bowels are performing their
natural functions, away goes indigestion
and stomach troubles.
If you have bad taste in your
mouth, tongue coated, appetite poor,
lazy, don't-care feeling, no ambition or
energy, troubled with undigested foods,
you should take Olive Tablets, the SUBJ
stitute fer calonel.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are a
purely vegetable compound mixed with
olive oil. You will know them by their
olive color. They do the work without
gripping, cramps or pain.
Take one or two at bedtime for quick
relief, so you can eat what you like.
At lOc and 25c per box. All druggists
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-13
Old Mother Hubbard.

Old Mother Hubbard did not 90 to he,
cupboard,
"sEs knew she would find nothing
there
Though her poor little doggie was eve.
% hungry
There was no moat on to-day - bill
of-fare
WIZ old mother Hubbard did not 20 ia
her cupboard,
Tier dog could not quite understand.
He stood up 50 proudly and barkcd. oh
- loudly;
His supper he meant to demand
Then old mother Hubbard did 90 10
her cupboard,
But 1t gave the poor dog a surprise.
Nhea the door opened widely the poor
hungry doggic
Could scarcely believe his own eyes.
He knew his dear mistress had never
mis1sed him,
She had fed him the best to h,, had.
lie turned to her quickly and hung III,
head meekIy,
For old mother Hubbard looked sad
Then She told him a story of the dag
of "Old Glory
And The brave boys who had gone over
there:
And about Mr.. Hoover and his won.
drouS maneuyer
Who had asked us with others to share
That some days must be meatless while
others We're whoatless:
mat we should not sigh OF complain,
But work with endeavor and think Of
them ever.
That the victory we might help them
give.
Then old mother Hubbard shut the door
OF her cupboard;
lhe . Star Spangled Banner she sung.
While her kitchen sac righted and her
fire she lighted.
And the little old kettle she hung.
Soon old mother Hubbard and her faitn
full companion
To steaming hot lunch sat them down.
II theIf supper was wheatless and the
coffee was sweetless,
On their face was no sion Of a frown
Now 70 those. who are frettinig and ever
complaining.
And not willing this conflict to share.
Just get the right spirit, like this ia
nous old woman,
For the Sa Ike Of the ''boys over there
/. J. l.,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-13

mucn about words" admitted Mrs.
Buffalo.
Zone more thing" said Mr.. Buffalo,
1--WE all go for our own kind when a
stranger comes along. And what's better
if We are put to still greater test. all
the male buffaloes will stick to the
males, and all the females will stick by
the females
II don't consider that so fine" said
Mrs. Buffalo. you'd protect one of
your own kind rather than me! Ora
cious! call that very ungentlemanly.
Very!'
It's fine, for the same reason as !
SAID fine before. It's sensible, and to
be sensible is fnel"
But just at that moment a strange
animal came along and all the buffaloes
went together for defense and safety.
Wen play in a storm or lie in the
sun, Mr.. Buffalo went on after the
danger was past, land we're a strong
powerful lot when we all get together .
And Mrs. Buffalo agreed to this for
she had seen how a big herd of huf.
faloes could brighten other creatures
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-13
DADDY EV[N[N(
AINY TALL CT
~ NARY GRAHAM BONNER
THE BUFFALOES,

L think we're pretty fine" said Mr.
Buffalo.
why 500" asked Mrs. Buffalo.
Because" Mr.. Buffalo said, "we
don't mind rain or snow. We never
grumble about the weather We take
1t as it comes, and that is always the
best way to take the weather.
1T certainly Is the best way" agreed
| Mrs. Buffalo. "But that doesn't exact.
! ly make us fine. does it,
ITO be sure" said Mr.. Buffalo. VII
! shows we are sensible, and it's fine ia
be sensible. SO there You are!"
Yes, here l am" said Mrs. Buffalo
| "And I'd say you were making things
| mean what you wanted them to mean
Perhaps" said Mr. Buffalo. .sbut
that is also an excellent plan. les such
| a nuisance to always be fighting about
/ what things mean. Have them mean
what one wants to. I say
| so l see" said Mrs Buffalo.
| You may see now, but YOU don't al
ways! Just think" Mr.. Buffalo con-
tinued, "of the trouble people have
when we are in stampede. We pay
! no attention to anyone. We go right
on as though we We're blind. That's
the way we act. Just as though we
could not see single thing"
Neither can we then" said Mrs.
Buffalo.
That's what I meant when / said
you could see now hut you couldn't al
ways" said Mr.. Buffalo. "And for
! once I didn't have TO change the mean
Ing TO suit myself. l was absolutely
right with no troubler'
lie seemed TO be very happy and
much pleased with himself as ne
stamped about little.
I'VE are fine" he went on. especial
ly we daddy buffaloes."
Dear me-" said Mrs. Buffalo. that's
It, talk about yourselves before yo,l
talk about u.s.
Glad you urge me to-" said Mr.. Buff
falo, paying no attention to the tone in
which Mrs. Buffalo had spoken. at
saves me all the trouble of having 10
talk about myself without being urged
to-
60 on. go on, and say what Won
nave TO say" remarked Mrs. Buffalo
impatiently
AS was saying q few minutes ago"
continued Nh. Buffalo, I'VE daddies are
very nice because we are very good TO
the children. We are as nice TO them
as can be-
And why shouldn't Won he nica 70
the precious oneS?" asked Mrs. Buffalo
Indignantly.
Many animal daddies aren't" said
hr. Buffalo. "and so it shows our fine
natures that we are nice to the young !"
Il only call that decent" said Mrs.
Buffalo. Have YOU anything else TO
say about yourself that is really fine,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-13
War Chest Plan.
Burlington News

Brattleboro and Fair Haven are
towns which have taken up the war
chest plan for financing drives for war
relief. We reprint in another column
ON this page an editorial from the Bos
ton Herald showing how this plan
worked out in Syracuse where it origin
ated and suggest that the local commit
tee interested should consider whether
the plan can not be put into effect in
Burlington.
This city and state have done their
share and more in all the war efforts
called for thus far. But as time goes
on the advantages of avoiding dupi-
cation of effort and energy viii become
more and more pronounced
The advantage of. well planned
1cheme OF financing war demands is H.
lustrated by that of the local Red Gross
work. Small but regular contributions
assure the sums needed to carry on the
work effectively and frequent appeals
for funds for supplies are not neces
Sarv.
Duplication Of effort and energy
which will be needed fer other purposes
as the war goes ON can be prevented
and the proper financing of every ap-
proved war activity assured by proper
eolrmGnltE action at this time.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-13

When Judge Harland Is. Howe of St.
Johnsbury, presiding over the session of
the United States court in New York
city, sentenced Rintelen. the German
plotter who directed plans Of other con
spirators to destroy ships and munitions
plants, he won approval by expressing
regret the law as it stands only permit
ted him to infict sentence of IS
months in the penitentiary and a fine
of $4,000. There is need of radical
change in our laws when men who aim
to destroy property and life can es-
cape with such light sentence. Rinte-
len and others Of his class ought to be
subjected to drum head trial with
bullets from a firing squad as their
penalty.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-13

any direction. They want nothing that
has to be won at the expense>of another
nation. They want no control of any
social or racial group outside their pres
ent borders. They feel the precarious-
ness of their own situation very keenly,
put they will risk all they have to pro-
teet their national independence. They
want no warlike adventures, but thew
VIII not suffer injury or insult beyond
certain point. They want peace above
all else, but they want it for the whole
world, and the only kind of peace that
Will quite satisfy them is one that
makes the world safe for democracy. =
From Sweden 5 Position in the War.
BY Edwin Bjorkman, IN the February
Scribner
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-13
SWeetcnino the Year.

There are some people whose very
nearness brings pleasure. They NAV
not be particularly witty nor very wise.
They may never dazzle you with their
brilliancy along any line. But just as
the summer breeZes sometimes bring
you q Whit of hidden rose grades and
mignonette beds, so you cannot come
near certain people without detecting
the sweetness of their natures, their
unselfishness, their untiring kindness
Roses fall and their sweetness passes
but the poisoning gardens of the
heart diffuse their fragrance through
every day Of the year.-Girrs Com
Danion.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-13
sweden's Attitude in the war.

lie SWedes, however, are a slow and
patleht people, very orderly in all then
Instincts The radical leaders knew that
no'hlng could be more da ,gerous II
iilal success than a prematur, resort "a
eN1fa-parllamentarv means. The wiser
heads prevailed, and their wisdom Wa
proved when the regular elections Of
last september reduced the STRENGTH of
the Conservatives in the lover bonsn
from So to % and gave the combined
radical groups a ma joritv of more than
oo IN both houses. On October 10 a
Liberal-Socialist coalition cabinet t,ot
charge of the nation S affairs. thE bainp
the hrst time IN history that Swedish
ministry included representatives Of the
Socialist party.
inns change Of government implied a
total change Of national policv-not
from neutrality to belIigerencv, but
from pretended 70 genuine neatralitv.
1T implied final and complete cessation
OF practices found detrimental t. the in
tefeSts OF our own country ard our al
lies. 1t implied "a thorough cleaning up
OF permanent ot1ciaIdom, fir.t in the
Foreign Office and then elsewhere. 1t
implied national attitude rendering a
satisfactory agreement with the West
ern Powers not only possible but inevi-
table. It implied finally completion of
that process of characterization which.
IN Sweden as elsewhere, constitutes the
one enduring barrier again. Pan-Ger-
The mass Of the Swrd sh people stand
ing back Of the new government have
no desire for territorial enlargement in
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-13

Evidently the state fuel administra
tor of Vermont was not hasty in ask
ing for the suspension Of entertain
ments and dances during February and
March, if we may Judge by the follow.
Jag news item from the Springfield
Republican: Tho Washington S birth
day reception, an annual event at the
state-house for 80 years, probably will
be omitted this year, Gov. Mccall said
Yesterday. The governor pointed out
that Washington officials were doino
away with public social functions dur
ing the war, and he believed that Mas
sachusetts might as well follow their
example"