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New Ulm review., 1918-08-07
FIRE TRUCK PURCHASE y.
AGAIN is DELAYED

At special meeting of the city council
last week bids were opened for the
combination fire truck and chemical
apparatus which is to be purchased
Four bids were presented but they were
of such wide variation that the coucil
the council and a committee of the fire
department to 60 to the Cities and look
over the different makes so as to de-
termine which truck would be best
suited for the city's needs.
This committee went down to the
Cities Friday and looked over the
apparatus of the Northern Fire Apparatus
Co. of Minneapolis and |also looked over
various trucks and engines but as yet
has not decided upon any certain one.
The council has fifteen days after the
opening of the bids in which to accept
or reject them and nothing definite will
be done at the present time. The follow
ing were in the Cities looking over the
different trucks: Fred .Hamann, F. H.
Krook, Christ. Filzen, Emil Mueller,
Fred Behnke, Karl Aufderheide, Wd.
Eibner, VIM. Backer, Henry Engel and
Fred Pfaender.
Of the four bids presented F. H.
Retzlaf Of this city was lowest. His
bid was S5,219.5O. The other bids were
as follows: Robert Fesenmaier, New
Ulm, $5,491.33; The Seagrave Co.,
Columbus, O., $4,000; and W. S. Mott
I Co., Minneapolis, $8,250.
The truck wanted by the city must
be a combination chemical engine and
hose car with pump. The pump must
have a capacity of 800 gallons per min,
ute and must be rs horse power. 1t
must have a hose capacity of 1900 feet
of two and one-half inch hose. 1t must
have forty-gallon capacity chemical
cylinder with 200 feet of three-fourths
inch hose Besides this it must be fitted
out with the various fire extinguishing
necessities, such as two acid receptacles
and one acid receptacle holder; two
three-gallon Babcock extinguishers; one
twenty-feet extension ladder; one twelve
foot roof ladder with folding hooks;
two fire department standard lanterns;
one standard fire department axe; one
pike pole; one steel crow bar, held by
snaps; and one tool box and one battery
box
New Ulm review., 1918-08-07
1e18CLASS RECEIVE VEINSTRUCTION

Last week notices were sent out to the
1918 registrants to appear at the Armory
Friday at four o'clock to receive in
structions in military service. The exact
program that will be followed has not
yet been chosen, but it is certain that
the instructions are sure to be along the
military line SO as to prepare the SOL
diers for duty when called.
In St. Peter similar services have been
arranged and a list of eleven instructors
has been prepared who will give lectures
on present day topics to the registrants.
After that the boys at St. Peter drill
with Co. "B" Of the National Guard.
New Ulm review., 1918-08-07
GIBB0N Man MEETS
DREADFUL D R DEATH
--... +-~-Z.t
OF JOS. .SMASAL OF
= THIS CITY KILLED BY
..--..... BINDER KNIVES 4
WOUNDS SO SEVERE THAT HE
sUCCUMBs TO INJURIES IN
FEW HOURS ,.....<

George Smasal of Gibbon, cousin
Of Jos. Smasal Of this city met death
last. Wednesday afternoon in one of the
most horrible accidents. imaginable.
p Knocked Down by Horses
Mr.. Smasal was in the field cutting
grain and was about to water his horses,
his wife having brought the water out
to- the field, when they became frightened
and zbolted. Mr.. Smasa was standing
directly in front OF the horses and tried
to jump out of the way but was knocked
down in front of the binder which was
in motion as he had not thrown it out of
gear. He was caught in the sickle and
before he could extricate himself his left
hand was completely severed above the
wrist and his left leg slashed between
the knee and the hip. Besides this he
was severely bruised about the body and
his left leg was broken in two places
above the knee. He was dragged some
three or four rods before he was released.
The horses continued their flight until
they came to a bridge over small ditch
in the field where the binder was caught
and they were unable to 60 any further.
The animals escaped uninjured but
the binder was badly demolished.
=, Medical Aid Summoned
When it was ascertained that Mr..
Smasal was seriously injured medical
aid was Immediately summoned but
life was almost extinct before anything
could be done to prolong his existence.
Mr.. Smasal is survived by his widow and
two children. His mother and brother
and sister also mourn his DEATH.
New Ulm review., 1918-08-07
INFORMATION FOR THREsHERs.

The following information, which will
be OF value to many threshers Of the
district, has been received from County
Agent Webb, who is member of the.
County Threshers Organization. The
other two members of the organization
are c. A. Stolz, Food Administrator and
John Torgrimson, County Threshers
Representative. The State Threshine
Organization consists of A. D. Wilson.
State Food Administrator and L. B..
Bassett, representing the Grain Thresh--
ing Division
The object of these organizations is.
to save grain and for this reason it has.
been arranged by the government that the
threshers coal is to be rushed through.
by the railroads. Threshers should
order their supply Immediately.
z Other useful hints to the threshers
are:
The State Labor Agency, at 319-2nd
Ave. So, Minneapolis, can furnish
threshers with men.
Using canvass under machines is re-
commended by the state.
Route machines to save labor. time.
fuel and expense.
Threshers do not need to insure their
men under the Workmen's liability act.
Threshers should not overcrowd their
machines as that is likely to cause
trouble. Bad order machines should be
reported to the committee. Govern
ment men will be available for men
having trouble with their rigs.
It is lawful to thresh either by weight
or measure
Reports must be sent in each month
on time.
There are no county inspectors, the,
county committee will make occasional,
visits.
A license is not needed to operate
threshing machine.
All requests for assistance Of any kind
by threshermen should be made to the.
county committee.
The Price to be paid help BY
threshermen HAS NOT BEEN SET.
The price to Be charged for thre.h--
ing HAS NOT BEEN SET.
These items are left with the thresher:
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New Ulm review., 1918-08-07
DRAFT OFFICIALS
FILL NEW ORDERS
: 8
FIFTEEN MEN TO LEAVE HERE
BY FIFTEENTH OF eAUGUsT
FOR ARMY SERVICE Is
BOARD RECEIVES ORDERS TO
s REeEXAMINE MEN BEFORE
SENDING AWAY

Most of the calls for men to enter, the
federal service under the selective draft
call for but small number at time and
in consequence the draft boards are
steadily employed in filling the small
calls. So far the men to be drawn from
this county up to August Is number
about Is, but new orders may be re-
ceived daily which call larger quotas.
Two To Syracuse, N. y.
A call was received recently for the
immediate calling of two men for special
and limited military service who are to
be sent to Syracuse, N. Y. Mike A.
3Devans Of New Ulm was. the first to
leave for this place, bidding goodbye
to Brown County soil Monday after
noon. The other man picked for this
service was found unfit and Albert Jany
Of Minneapolis will be sent in his place.
He will leave this afternoon 3,
Eight To Go Friday @,
Friday afternoon eight Of the drafted
boys will leave for Jefferson Barracks,
Mo. They are: Edward E. Winse-
mann, Holstein, Ia; Robert F. Schno-
brich, New Uln; Arthur J. Janka,
New Ulm; Charles Z. Robertson, Sleepy
Eye; Anton Benson, Springfield; Otto
Grabner, Sleepy Eye; Aonzo R. Bird,
Spring I'D; Bernhard ]. Engelen, Spring
field -,
5sg Six To The University
g On the fifteenth of this month fifteen
men viii 60 to the University of Min
Enesota where they will receive instruction
Alors mechanical lines, etc. These men
will replace those who were sent tosthe
'sU'' on the fifteenth of June and who will
be distributed before the arrival of the
new draftees. Those who are togo to
the University have not yet been picked
but will be during the. next three or four
days. ,%-s.s.. -.,-.. ,, ~....>-. ~-.-.. ~
In all probability one man will be sent
to Indianapolis about the fifteenth of
this month to become a chauffeur.
This man has not yet been definitely
selected but it is very likely that Armin
Tauer will be the choice of the board.
All Draftees To Be Re-Examined
The board received a telegram from
headquarters ordering them to re-ex-
anime all drafted men sent out, as the
new examining rules are more strenuous
than the old ones, under which the
draftees were examined. This is given
as the cause for the large rejection of
men sent to Camp Grant during July.
Send-Of Likely
Although no arrangements have as
yet been made for a send-of of the
eight boys who leave on Friday it is
most likely that the usual program will
be followed out. ,E. @s. ">. -
New Ulm review., 1918-08-07

Save all wood about the place for
tHeWood this winter. Recent coal or
ders will probably make wood more
common fuel. It is well to be sup
Piled with plenty. q
New Ulm review., 1918-08-07
Program Of 8th Park Concert

/. "Sar Spangled Banner
2. March, Battle Royal Jewell
8. Overture Military Grunenelder
A. Fantasia: "'The Witch Goez
5. Paaphrase: "Upidee' . 81. G. T. Tracy
6. Characteristic Holmes
=s inter ion 81
. descriptive American and The Battle Of Little
Big Horn Of Custer .. Lee johnson
8. Spanish Dance "Sequidla' . Ed. Golt
g. Ovetue Morning, .F. Won Suppe
Y descriptive Rocked in the Cradle Of the Lovenberg
|. japanese War March IIdps
= March: The SoutheEner
New Ulm review., 1918-08-07
.1The Battle of Little

Lee Johnson
Ed. Golst
2F. Won Suppe
Oh. Lovenberg
g. Luders
r. Alexander
New Ulm review., 1918-08-07
S. S. CONVENTION HERE.

The 18th annual Convention of the
Brown County Sunday School Associa-
ton will be held in New Ulm Monday
and Tuesday August 19 and 20 at the
Congregational church. The Conven-
tion will open Monday evening with a
prayer and song service followed by an
address by a state worker. Tuesday
forenoon there will be several addresses
by various workers followed by the Di-
visional Conferences Tuesday after
noon the business session will be held and
there will be several papera by various
teachers and officers Of the County Sun
day Schools. Tuesday evening there will
be another service to close the session.
County officers are: President, H. Ben
dixen, Secretary, Mrs. A. Frederickson,
and Treasurer Henry zBerkner. The
program in full will be given in next
weeks issue of the Review.
M w. j. julius and Alfred w. Mueller
were in ST. Paul Monday where they
looked after business matters connected
with their respective Offices.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

a Franco-American army, as it turned
out; he had left his flank open. as Moltke
had exposed Kluck's flank toward Paris
IN September, 1914, and he had received
another lightning blow, a blow which
had to be met and to meet which he had
to drop his own plans. But if he had
Numbered he had not been mad. and he
had kept in hand sufficient reserves to
throw at any imperilled point These re-
serves at once took root east and south
Of scissors and insured the freedom of
the German forces within the salient to
retire.
The first stages of the German re-
tlrement were necessarily hurried, not
because of the Allied success north of
the Ourcq toward Scissors, but by rea-
son of American achievement south and
above Chateau Thierry. Accordingly,
Ludendorff drew his forces out of the
country south Of the Marine on Saturday
and was also clear of Chateau Thierry
by the same Sunday, July 81. But after
this forced retirement, accomplished in
good order, none the less, he was free to
conduct an orderly rear guard action COW
ering the withdrawal of all his NUM-
tons and material out of the salient.
He could not hold all of the salient, be-
cause Chateau Thierry was lost There
was no object in holding much of what
was still in his hands, because the whole
pocket had been so narrowed by the Al
,nI oIx q
1t could not again be used as starting
place for a further drive toward Paris
To hold much of it would still be possible,
but it would mean holding at high cost
a long line without real future value
Its Importance was solely in its relation
to his larger plan; it had nothing of i'm
portance in itself, neither railways.
cities nor mines. And his larger plans
had gone awry.
Between Sunday, July 81, and Mon
day, July 20, therefore, we witnessed the
very deliberate and orderly retirement
of the German army. The Allied line
moved slowly and regularly northward;
there was little or no change on either
the east or west sides of the salient. The
Germans chung successfully to Oulchy-
le-Chateau on the west and the high
ground on the Marine north of Dormans
until all their heavy artillery and sup
plies had been carried out and far north
Of Fere- -Tardenois The fighting
which took place was between the ad-
vance guards of the Americans and
French and the rear guards of the Ger
mans. When he found his foes coming
on TOO fast the German deliberately
stopped turned around and counter at
tackled, retaking villages momentarily
and holding up the pursuers until he
was ready to resume his withdrawal.
AS late as last Saturday, July 81, the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

recent success in the Battle of the Aisne,
with the far slghter and infinitely
slower advance of the Allies. But in
both cases the Germans attacked with
overwhelming numbers, while Foch at no
time used equal numbers, and the Ger
man attacks annihilated the opposing
forces, preventing the arrival of any re-
serves, a thing impossible in the present
case because Foch did not and perhaps
could not risk sufficient numbers to make
his thrust irresistible
The time had not come for such an
attack and Foch did not undertake. such
an effort. His problem was to parry a
deadly blow, using smaller forces and
outstanding his resources to the utter
most He struck his blow and, having
struck it, made no effort to expand the
victory by the reckless consumption of
reserves. His battle with LudendorF
was battle of strategists and the
greater strategist won, but the limit Of
possibility at the moment was the COM
plete destruction of German purpose.
German numbers and resources were and
remain far too great to permit Foch to
achieve what the Germans themselves,
even when fighting the Russians, have
not been able to achieve, namely, the
capture OF an army or Of any enormous
organized force not defending a fixed
fortress but operating in the open coun-
try.
If any one had told US in April, after
the German successes at the Somme and
in Flanders, in May, after their amaz-
ing victory at the Aisne, that two months
later we should see a German offensive,
even more colossal, transformed into a
German retreat on the widest front and
over the largest area since the linden
burg retirement of the spring Of 1917 it
would have seemed, if not too good to be
true, the maximum of possible blessings.
And such, after all, the Second Battle of
the Marine is We are still very far
from the moment when German disor-
ganization or local German failure can
threaten the Kaiser with consequences
like those of jena
1t is essential, too, to recognize that
the German army after obvious defeat
gave evidence Of steadiness and of SOL
dierly qualities which should serve to
silence those who have been prophesying
immediate degeneration of the German
machine. German High Command made
one Of the great blunders of the war in
risEing a battle on the Marine with an
insuficiently defended flank exposed to
the enemy, but German officers, staff and
field alike, revealed familiar competency
in dealing with an awkward situation,
full Of grave dangers, once the initial
blunder had led to the Allied counter of
fensive. The test Of an army is in de-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
Road to Paris Has
Now Been Shut
and Barred Fast
for the 1918
Campaign
Rv FRANK II. SIMONDS
Aufhor of THE World War" "They
Shall Not Pass"

IN my Sunday article published on
Iuly q I carried the progress of the
fifth German offensive up to the close Of
The fighting on the afternoon Of Friday,
rulv 10. At that time the situation was
!, many respects exceedingly obscure;
the Franco-American counter offensive
had teen delivered; Mangin's thrusting
force had reached the heights west and
south of scissors, and the fall of the city
was rumored. There was, therefore, a
Main possibility Of a great German
disaster, entailing the capture of hun
dreds Of thousands of men caught in the
falling Marine salient and the practical
elimination of the army of Boehm, which
three days before seemed to have Rheims
within its grasp.
A similar situation existed four years
earlier, in the first stages Of Maunoury's
eastward thrust from Paris toward the
open flank OF Kluck, just west of the
Ourcq River. 1t was in the hope Of
succeeding in bringing off exactly such a
triumph that Joffre and Gallieni had
planned the Maunoury thrust. But both
Galheni and JoTre were we'll aware Of
the extreme improbability Of realizing
such grandiose hopes What they ex-
pected to do and what they did do was
to dislocate the whole German strategic
conception, and by compelling Kluck to
abandon his plans for an attack upon
Franchet d'Esperey and Sir John French
and to protect his own rear, brought
about an ultimate withdrawal of
the Germans along the whole, front from
Paris to Verdun, q retirement which they
might believe and did believe would go
to the frontier, but in fact, and because
Of the w@riness of the French after
their long trial stepped at the Aisne.
As result the First Marine was pri-
marily strategic victory; that is,
its achievement in the breaking of the
plans and purposes of the enemy far
exceeded its results in destroying the
hostile army or in capturing any con-
siderable portion of the German force.
CT any large number of guns. 1t was
II no sense a Sedan or jena the Ger
man forces quilted the field in the main
IN extremely good order, and the Maui
noury thrust was transformed from an
attack into desperate defensive by the
third day, but not until it had achieved
its strategic purpose
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
German Armies Not
In Danger of Capture

Now, in the case of the Second Battle
Of the Marine, still unfinished when l
write these lines, on Monday, July 20,
although there are many signs Of an
approaching Sterilization of the lines on
new front north of the Ourcq but
south Of the Nesle and Ardre, we have
50 far to deal with exactly the same sort
Of action. foch's counter offensive, like
that OF Joffres, had neither the force
nor the sustained strength to produce
supreme German disaster, and it was
probably not in Foch's mind that at the
present stage in the campaign of 1918
SUCH disaster could be achieved.
What the Allied commander in chief
aimed at he accomplished His purpose
was to transform a very dangerous Ger
man advance into an enforced retreat,
retreat made under circumstances
pound to cause great material losses, as
We'll as considerable losses in men, and
VIII relatively inconsiderable forces put
strain upon much larger German
masses. He sought to break the fifth
GERMAN offensive and in breaking it
!" retake much valuable ground which
Haa served and might again serve as the
point Of departure for renewed Ger
man advance upon Paris.
40 understand Foch's strategy it is
necessary to dismiss the idea, much cir
(uia'ed during recent days, that the
oefhan army was, after the first TWEEN
Y-lonr hours Of the Allied counter
S'ioHe IN any serious danger of capture
VI destruction. This was not the case
- was in an uncomfortable and practi-
<@''y unteAaole position. 1t had to re-
~ea' and It's retreat was made exceed
'.As'y difficult by the fact that it's best
..'eS Of communication were cut and all
-. - fearWard roads were taken under AL
"ed artillery fire.
me retreat could not be rapid because
,.s Germans had concentrated in the
"c sahent an enormous amount of
f'ipnent and material. This conccn-
"''oh mad to be the larger because the
S"S OF communication in the salient
ere at best Inadequate. Much Of the
's pause following the Compiegne at
80 mad been occupied in the patient
s"Ring up Of material and munitions
the next attack, and all this material,
ns''shed 70 be used in thrust toward
a~ AFTER the Rheims salient had been
DNsh down, could only be withdrawn
s"'y and over roads swept by indirect
French heavy artillery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
The New
Enemy Line

BY masslng his reserves and his heavy
artillery along the tanks of the doomed
salient. about scissors and north of
Rheims, Ludendorff promptly abolished
all danger of a great battlefield disaster,
and by Sunday, July q, was free to de-
vote his whole attention to the slow
evacuation of the Marine salient, into
which he had thrown a vast amount of
military material. This evacuation pro-
ceeded at a deliberate pace, following a
quick retirement from Chateau Thierry
and the positions south of the Marine
during all the next week, slowly increas-
ing in speed as the rearward roads were
cleared Of congestion by the passing
north of the bulk of the war material
The German was aided in this rear
guard fighting by the nature of the coun-
try, the tangled woodlands and the many
hills and valleys. He defended the viii
lagos with small forces, and the fighting
about these supplied the daily grist of
battle reports. BY the second Sunday
following the American thrust he was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
One Of the Greatest
Victories of the Wa

Yet in all this period runors from
London and Paris gave the American
people reason to believe that win The
war victory was on the point Of ar
rival, a victory which would mean the
capture not merely of Boehm's army, but
of the armies Of the Crown Prince, as
the reports had it. Even the German
bulletins, Enthusiastically and unveracOus
as they were, did not reach the pitch Of
absurdity Of these unofficial reports. The
official reports. be it said, were sober
and conservative throughout, and had
they been accepted as complete would
have saved all disappointment in the end.
Now, when the German army had
safely retired ESCAPED is not the word,
since the peril was never immnent), TAX
ing with it its guns and the larger part
of its munitions and material and de-
stroying the rest, it is difficult to explain
the real greatness of the Allied victory in
the Second Battle of the Marine, because
the victory is something SO different from
what had been hoped for. Yet in many
ways the victory is one of the greatest
of the war A gigantic and dangerous
German offensive has been broken and
more than half of the remaining reserves
of the Germans have been temporarily
used in defensive contest after having
set out for Paris in the much celebrated
peace storm"
The First Battle of the Marine, whose
enduring consequences have been felt for
nearly four years, was no more than an
other battle of arrest. It did not result
in the capture of quarter as many
guns or half as many prisoners as the
present one. The battlefield results were
at few points as unmistakable, and four
days after the retreat had begun Kluck's
army was inexpugnably seated on the
heights above the Aisne, which remained
in German hands for nearly three years
thereafter and are again held by the
enemy.
Again, the public is deceived by man
comparisons between the German gains
in the Battle of Picardy and the more