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Among the American officers who
have returned to this country from
France as instructors in the various
military camps Is Capt Herbert c.
Earnshaw of 10 esth street northeast
He II now On furlough in Washing
ton prior to reporting at the Platts-
burg camp. where he w1n teach stu
dent officers how the fighting is done
~over there"
Capt Earnshaw has seem active
ssrvica, his frBt baptism Of drs BE-
ing In the battle Of Campigny, whore
he was In command of machine gun
company. His command was among
the first of the American troops to
participate in action overseas.
For a number of years he was con-
nected with the National Guard OF
the District. He was a captain In
the I'd Infantry. and later was with
the Sd Infantry. He was on the Mex
ican border with the Washington
boys and in April of last year he was
called out in preparation for the war
abroad. He went to Camp Greene, at
Charlotte, N. c.
IN November Of last year he went
to France and on his arrival there
was assigned to training school for
further instruction in modern war
fare. After finishing his course of
training he was assigned to q divi-
sion and served in 1t until he was or
dered back to the states on July Of
this year.
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ANOTHER WAR CHARITY ENDS

NEW YORK. August 3-After an
interview with the district attorney.
quita Mazzuchi. who has been solic-
iting in the United States funds for
the French Red Cross. announced she
would cease her activities in war re-
lief work.
According to the prosecutor, she has
used soldiers in uniform to assist her
in collecting funds at various sum-
mer hotel resorts. This phase of the
case, he said. would be called to the
War Departments attention.
The cashier of a hotel at Long
Beach. N. z. was notified to hold.
pending further orders from the dis
uict attorney. small funds declared
to have been collected by the count
ess and placed in his care.
Evening star., 1918-08-04

The war map with It's trench lines
struggling athwart international bound
aries shows American hghting men
holding their footing on strangely alien
soils. As It now stands. Army units Of
the United States are at their grim
work in six countries-France, Ger
many. Russia, Austria. Italy and Bel
gium.
The swelling volume Of their move
ment overseas has been so necessary a
response to the emergency Of the ma
tion's responsibility. SO thoroughly I'M
piled by the original war declaration.
and 30 entirely natural picture to a
people prepared by three years ooser-
walton Of world war, that it may take
historians perspective to visualize COM
pletely the departure from traditlons
and the smashing Of precedents that tne
movement involved.
Checking the six. American artillery
has been reported on the French line
opposite Mulhausen, several miles IN
side the border Of the German empire.
In Austria the olive-drab uniform sup
ports Italian sectors which swing rouno
the toe of Lake Garda, and American
1iers have Unanswered over the Vene-
tian lowlands, where the Austrian drive
was forced back this spring. In Bel
gium they have gone over the Top win
Australians and in France their FORCES
in action now can be counted by army
corps In Russia, at Vladivostok, and
now on the frozen reaches OF the MUIR,
man coast they are putting disciplined
force behind the manifold manifesto
tions of national purpose. Likewise, IN
England. Scotland and Ireland they MI
up the school camps and prepare them
selves for action
Agents in Far-Eung Journeyings.
These men. drafted nearly all. are the
agents in the far-fiung journeJings OF
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u. S. FIGHTERS HOLD FOOTING
ON STRANGELY ALIEN SOILS
War Map Shows Trench Lines Struggling
!. Athwart France, Germany. Russia.
Italy, Austria and Bel lgium.

|a nation whose military history has
shown more than one instance in which
volunteers, ordered to cross boundary,
have sat down, private and ofhcer alike,
to debate the constitutionality Of war
like expedition to foreign soil, and still
more instances where militia organiza-
tions have successfully opposed national
attempts to send them beyond their
own state lines.
Yet today, under the urge Of the war.
resolution which directed the admins
tration - exert all Of its power and
employ all of its resources to carry on
war against the imperial German gov
ernment and to bring the conflict to .
successful conclusion, drafted men and
volunteers have not raised a single pro-
test Of serious import
1t was not until January of the pres
ent year that the Supreme Court for
mally construed the Constitution to all
low any sort of war operation the ma
tion desired to carry on. The court
said of contentious opposing that view
| that they "were too frivolous for no
tice."
Yet long before the decision the first
drafted American had fallen in battle
| overseas and legions more had streamed
after him to every quarter. almost. Of
| the Eurasian continent.
Information for Historian.
Thus the historian has been given a
large and interesting milepost to build
| in the future, but for the average Amer
| lean the news of the day shows that
this interest is purely abstract. 1t hav-
ing been definitely decided upon due
| and formal consideration that a COM
plete defeat Of Germany was necessary
to democracy in the world, the nation
has not even remembered precedents Of
history or traditions of the past.
Apparently the men least inclined to
consider that have been the soldiers
who have gone gravely but with good
| cheer into the valley of the shadow
overseas and there are making good the
J purpose.
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SAYS AMERICAS POWER
IS BEGINNING TO TELL
London Views With Elation the Al
Lied Advance in Scissors
Rheims Salient.
By the Associated Pres

oy INC ABs0ciAteQ fre1-
LONDON. August s.-The advance
Of the entire allied line in tho Sois-
sons-Rheims salient is commented on
here with elation, although not with
out reminders that the allies yet have
| long way to go. Official and other
dispatches are regarded as reveal
ing transformed situation, coin
Gliding with the arrival of American
detachments so strong as to give the
allies q numericaf-advantage in re-
serve and 3ustifying high hope for
| the future.
Tho altered situation is attributed
to two main facts. namely. that the
American strength is beginning to
tell with great effect and that the
allies are reaping an increasing ad-
vantage from unity of command.
!, Tributes to Gen Foch.
Gen. Foch's skill received many
tributes. but none warmer that that
given in a speech at Belfast by Wis
| count French. former British com
mander d in France. ,ne sIa who ..Ss described PED
war had produced. adding: He has
given an exhibition of military genius
which probably will cause his name to
rank in history among those Of the
greatest cOm1nauQeTS.
| The newspapers devote much space
to the anniversary of Great Britain's
entry into the war, and the prepara-
tfcns for the services of commemora-
tion and intercession on Sunday, for
which the immediate outlook on the
front has furnished a setting Of hope
tful confidence that a little while ago
would have seemed much too san
guine.
Comment by the Times
Commenting on the anniversary. the
Times says:
I'VE are passing through . period
Of upheaval which may be more preg-
nant with good or evil than the
French revolution, the rise of Islam
or the downfall Of the Roman en-
pire
THE new leaven is working IN all
allied democracies and toward SINH
lar results
Tn America the results have been
the clearest and most immediate. Her
people have risen to the height Of her
destintes, and in SO rising have real
ized for themselves that Germany has
made them a nation as she has made
lus an empire"
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ADMITS sLAYNa HUSBAND.

LAFAYETTE, Ga, August 3.-Fol-
lowing the discovery Of the mutilat-
ed body Of VIII Cornish. farmer In
an old well near Estelfe mines, six
teen miles west Of Lafayette. this
morning. the wife Of the dead man
was placed under arrest and confess
ed to the coroner's inquest that, she
killed her husband in q ht Of Jealous
.raga Tho body Of Cornish had head
and both legs cut OF, and with the
dismembered portions was tied in the
sack and dropped in the well.
Mrs. Cornish asserted that she was
jealous Of her husbands attentions
to another woman and that she had
murdered him in an attack Of mad
ness.
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Asks Germans to "Act Iaks Mem. y
Goldfogle Fusion Choice.

NEW YORK, August 3.-Tammany
Hall has designated Henry NJ. Gold
fogle rs its candidate for Congress in
the twelfth district This is one OF
the four districts in which the demo-
Gratis and republicans agreed upon
fusion in order to defeat the social
lists, Mr.. Goldfogle served several
terms in Congress. but retired four
years ago. He WIN receive the fn-
dopsement Of the republicans. The
;txs1fthifis Aeyer London sociaaist.
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Refused to Retreat.

During the fighting that resulted in
the capture of Veuilly wood a COM
pany Of Americans held a position on
the edge of the wood. They were
shelled heavily and began to lose.
Headquarters thought they might as
well get out OF there for the time be-
ing. for progress was being made on
either flank. But the men Of the COM
pany would not Their officers were
down, but no matter. They would go
forward by themselves.
ITO hell with that retreat stuff," is
the reply that some unidentified pri-
vate sent back to the h. Q. suggestion
that they go back. They held on un-
der a fre that grew worse and worse
until at last they saw their way clear
to get on. They advanced by little
rushes-a man at q time in some cases
against . German at a time-until al
last they had gained their objectfves
Back at b. Q. 1t was Melt that a spirit
like that was too fine to be repressed
The losses were paid for by the
knowledge gained Of the mems quail
ity.
Lieut.. W. C. F7annery Of Pittsburgh
showed tho same spirit when he swan
the Marne under fro to rescue a
wounded French officer.
'It ia nothing" said F1annery to a
French general next day.
1T is for such nothings as that, cher
monsieur" said the French general
that We pin the croix re guerre on
the breasts Of brave men,"
And he did.
Evening star., 1918-08-04
Lead Pencil Stubs Wanted
by Soldiers ON Transports

Cola lead b needed hy eur
soldiers to fight on that sneak
Ing enemy, Sscafardn-the &blaek
beetlesS or blues-wAile ON board
transports en- ro1te to France.
Lead q needed tA the shape Of
short pencils with which the
boys can wrfte short letters
home. An appeal II made to ste
nographers who aeeumulate q
lot Of stubs two or three inches
long, too short for shorthand use.
but Just right for n soldiers
pOcket-to give them to the
nghters. Don't throw away or
hoard the pensil stubs. Not
every soldier has q fountain pen,
but most of them ON board
transports prefer to sit apart ON
deck when writing intimate let
terS.
The Y. M. @. A, which provides
free stationery for sildief,-
millions of sheets weekly-will
distribute to Men ON transports
all pencils sent to the Y. M. G. A
warehouse, 136 West a3d street,
New York.
Evening star., 1918-08-04
sPACIF1sT, NOT TRAITOR"
Prosecution Withdraws Disloyalty
Charge Against n. Malvy.

PARIS, August (HavaS Agency.
Attorney General Merillon summed
up, in the high court Of justice today,
tho governments case in the trial Of
Louis .Malvy. former minister of in
terror in several French cabinetA
The attorney general said that n.
Malvy was not q traitor as Leon
Daudet. leader Of the Royalist Asso-
ciation and editor Of L'Action Fran
caise, had declared He oontended that
the former interior minister had real
" not betrayed his country.
The attorney general said ho did not
wish to compare n Malvy either with
Bolo Pasha or M Duval, director of
the Bonnet Rouge both of whom were
shot as traitors, and that he would
withdraw the charge Of treason in
Malvys casa
The attorney general maintained.
however, that NJ. Malvy was partly re-
sponsible for certain mutinies In, the
French Army, which he attributed to
pacifst propaganda He stated that the
former minister should be punished in
this connection.
Evening star., 1918-08-04
FOE MERCHANT MARINE.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. August s.
Cleveland has been selected by the
United States Shipping Board for the
establishment Of q training station for
of,cers and seamen In the American
merchant marine and as the head
quarters and recruiting center In the
middle west, It is announced. Sub
stations to be directed from here are
to be established at other great lake
ports.
Mayor Harry Davis has granted the
government free use OF one side OF
city pier ~ . dock for two training
ships and for headquarters for the
grsas iSSSs tzssEs1I 90 d..
Evening star., 1918-08-04
By the Associated Pres.

By the Associated Pres.
WITH THE AMERICANlARMY ON
THE AsNE-MARNE FRONT, Friday.
August q I'll p.m.).-Much fmpor-
tance is attached to the advance Of
the allied forces on the easterly side
Of the soissons-Rheims front to the
line Of Geux and Thillois. It Is point
ed to as serving the double object Of
protecting. Rheims and placing the
allies in . position to. cripple still
further, the al,eady badly crowded
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Rheims Further Protected;
Allies Can Cripple Enemy

Germans IN their retreat toward the
vesle.
The northward movement of the
Germans has now reached such a
point that the reopening of the
Chalons- Rheims railroad Is assured
The news received tonight that Sois-
sons had been entered was greeted
with rejoicing by the French and
Americans ON the line to the south
east, who felt confident that their
own line would be pushed forward
snd strengthened out speedily on the
front to. the north Of CoulonEes and
Arcy- st. Resttttn. I = =
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Italian Editors in America.

AN ATLANTIC PORT. August a.
Five italian editors. representing
leading italian publications.. arrived
here last night on French steamer.
They will make o tour Of the United
States to study Americas war work,
paying especial attention to the
AmericAn system ef food conserva-
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SPEED Of AMERICA
AMAzEsGERMANy
- =. = ; 2 =
High Command Startled by
Rapidity With Which SOL
diers Reach France.
BY RENE FEIBELNAN

CableEram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.
AMSTERDAM. Holland. August q
Emperor William Of Germany inter-
rogated several American, officers who
had been taken prisoners by his
troops while he was at the front dur
ing tho last of the battles around
Chateau Thierry. He spoke in Eng
lish, asked questions about conditions
in America and complained Of the
shameful way in which the Germans
had been treated there. The two men,
who were 1ieutenants, returned no
answer but this. which they repeated
several times: Il am afraid your
majesty has been mIsinformed."
Persons who were in Belgium
within the last few days tell me that
there were many officers in Brussels
straight from the western front who
said that amazement was expressed
by the German high command at the
rapidity displayed by America in
equipping and training its men and
sending: them into battle. 1t was con-
fidently expected-by the German stan
that there would be no Americans in
the field before the end of September.
BY that time they hoped to have
given both France and England the
final Knockout blow.
Comment on Marine Retreat.
All the available German newspa-
pers comment on the retreat from the
Marne. but they publish merely the
stereotyped statement sent from
headquarters justifying the decision
taken by Field Marshal Won Hinden-
burg to strengthen the front line by
shortening It They explain that Gen.
Won Roehm's advance on Chateau
Thierry created situation which
gave the German front a sacklike
form, which might have proved dan
gerous. The line has been straight
ened and the sack eliminated by Hin
denburgs foresight. Thereby Ger
many has abandoned some territory,
say the newspapers, but has saved
men and material and gained strength
for future battles. sr's
Only in advanced socialist circles in
Berlin is skepticism expressed at the
genius exhibited once more by Hin
denburg, especially in view Of the
to enforce peace on the allies by the
capture of Paris. q plan that has
again had to be postponed by the
present retreat. All the newspapers
make earnest appeals to the German
public MOTTO lose faith in Hindenburs
and victory. nor to hang their heads
as II Germany had really lost . great
decisive battle.
Asks Germans to "Act Ike Mem. -
Herr Traube, q member Of the
reichstag, appeals to the. Germans
through the conservative newspapers
to "act like men," So that Frederick
the Great and Bismarck would NOT he
ashamed Of their German people II
they suddenly returned to earth. The
twentieth anniversary of Bismarck's
death was observed Tuesday.
With the exception Of two or three
Independent writer's German military
experts unt1 now have either kept
silent about the American soldiers OF
said they did not exist. But the les
son Of Cantigny was not lost on the
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F. D. Roosevelt to visit Trenches.

=. y. 1SuUSeFclG 70 VlHls 1IeuEueS.
PARIS, August s.-Franklin D.
Roosevelt, assistant secretary Of the
American Navy. Will leave Paris to-
morrow to visit the American ma
rines in the trenches. He VIII then
go to Italy to confer with Italian
naval officials, returning to France
three weeks later to inspect the
American bases on tho Atlantic coast
Evening star., 1918-08-04
france Could Not Aid.

Al the weeks went by It became
moro and more evident that before
We could maintain any largo Army in
France, or even transport it to France,
we would have to take matters into
our own hands and not only develop
ports and railway terminal facilities.
but provide every particle of the ma
chinery, equipment, tools and ma
terials ourselves-everythin from
nails and screwdrivers to bread.
shoes, timber. steel rails and sheet
iron With the best will in the
world. France, after more than three
years of desperate effort, was power
less to aid us.
Little by little our STATS perceived
that we must simply set about ac-
eomp1ishing literally everything en-
tfre1y by ourselves. 1t was January
before we really got to work. Until
then we had been occupied in finding
out the real situation and making
plans, but once started we made things
. hum Handicapped inconceivably by
tthe initial shortage in tonnage. by
lack of labor, by Inevitable delays in
shipments of materials, by the time
and diplomacy needful in reaching
complete agreements with the vari-
Gus French municipalities and cor
porations and engineers, our Army
and Navy organizers nevertheless
went steadily ahead The astonished
French Inhabitants saw their water
fronts literally transformed over
night Ships began to pour in, sup
plies began to accumulate, construc-
tion schemes flourished and railroad
yards sprang from nothing.
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were unavailable because Of the total
lack Of drinking water. The Army
did not hesitate. We needed the ports.
Water would have to be found, and
it was found. At one port we built
huge reservoirs into which we pump
stream and springs six miles distant.
At another port we are pumping
water twelve miles through our own
pipe lines. At still another place we
have been successful in obtaining
water by sinking wells.
disposal by the French were too
small Our own piledrfvers were
brought from America, therefore. and
we are now busily driving American
piles and constructing docks which
will double tho capacity of some Of
way we are developing terminal
yards and warehouses. Hundreds Of
miles of American railway track
have been laid In these yards alone.
Freight cars and locomotives are ar
riving constantly and there's are al
ready hundreds of big American cars
in France. Thirty-two American loco
motives were assembled in one port
in single week.
Tho question of warehouses to re-
cetve the vast stores necessary for
our Army was perplexing. The
CHCAfCu SccfncQ UudD1o TO put cuOuS n
houses at our disposal and no lum-
Der seemed available to build our
own We therefore improvised ware
houses from boards obtained from
knocking old packing cases to pieces
and Immediately took measures to
construct real warehouses with ma
ter1als from America.
Huge Warehouses Building.
The warehouses now under way win
afford millions of square feet of
storage space. A large number are
already complete and are full to
overfowing with hospital equipment,
beds. mattresses. -four, pharmaceuti-
cal supplies. tobacco, timed rations,
shoes and canned food of every kind.
Aviation supplies, aeroplanes. large
quantities Of explosives and even
cannon Of all calibers are also now
being received Much of the credit for
this accomplishment belongs to tho
Navy, which handles the ships so
skilfully. In ports where the big. yes
sells are unable to dock troops and
supplies are unloaded on lighters in
an incredibly short time Ships hard
ly drop their anchors before the first
lighters come alongside ready to take
the men ashore
Our naval bases In Europe arc as
thoroughly equipped with every i'm
aginab1e kind OF supplies as are the
Army bases and the naval authorities
are able to say that that there never
has been the slightest delay In the
sailfngs owing to their inability to
provide the vessels with the neces-
sary equipment-anything from a
hand hle to q big gun
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TO END THE WAR
FLOOD u. S. PATENT OFFICE
Much Wasted Labor Represented in Inn
practical Devices; Research for Bu-
reaus More Important.
fact that It does not advertise its ap
proach-
Magnets for U-BoatA

fact that II does not advertise its ap-
proach.
Magnets for U-BoatA
One ingenious patriot suggested a
line Of magnetized poles along the coast
which would draw submarines inshore.
Torpedoes fitted in some way with mag
nets are popular idea But the field
OF magnet is smaller than the dis
tance transport captain tries to keep
from the enemy
through the hands Of a patent office
advisory committee. They send direct
ly to the War and Navy departments
any inventions which they think of mill
tary value. Then. il the publication of
descriptions of any invention would aid
the enemy, the patent is deferred until
after the war.
But only small percentage of the
war inventions go to the patent Of
flee. They are sent to the War De-
partment directly and there are re-
general stan. This section. of which
Col. Hilton is the head, considers
some 5000 inventions a week. But
only a few of them are selected for
study at the Friday afternoon sit
tings Of the advisory board. This
OOdIu, SOaSlSlluS VI ARMY OIliCGTS,
with two civilian members, passes on
to the departments inventions which
would be of use to them.
Often man will spend time and
labor on a machine similar to one al
ready in use. Duplications of effort
and wasted energy are tragedies of
inventors. Because Of this duplica-
tion and tho impractical or even abb
surd nature of few inventions the
satisfactory ones are in distressing
minority. According to a member of
the advisory board the average of
usable war devices handled by the
general staff Is only one or two in
1000.