The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-08-23

More than 100000 letters from
American soldiers in France AVE
been received at Atlantic ports since
July 20.
Forty-nve thousand employees Of the
Western Union Telegraph company
have been granted q ten per cent In
crease In wages.
It is estimated that twenty-five mil
lion bushels OF corn valued at $4O.-
100000 have been lost in Iowa during
the recent hot wave.
Nine fishing schooners were sunk
OF Georges Bank Sunday by a Ger.
man submarine, a naval scout boat,
which put in to Nantucket, Mass, re-
ported.
The First American field army has
been organized in France. 1t Is un-
der the direct command Of Gen. John
J. Pershing, commander In chief Of
the American forces.
Six persons were overcome by gas
at the naval station on Smiths
Island, North Carolina, when a Ger
man U-boat discharged oil on the wa.
ter adjoining the station.
Thirfv mnro nryvnrc;%fa. ecd al.
leges were added to the institutions
qualifying for special army training
camp units, emitting them to uniforms
and rifles and army instructors.
Allied armies in their Marine, Pic
ardy and Flanders campaign in three
weeks wrested from the Germans
what required four months for them
| to obtain.
The British government has recog-
nized the Czecko-Slovaks as an allied
nation and the Czecho- Slovak armies
az an allied force regularly waging
warfare against the central powers.
Americas mission to the British
trades union congress which meets in
London September II to 10, will be
headed by Samuel Gompers, president
Of the American Federation Of Labor.
Much damage was done at Frank
fort and Karlsruhe by recent British
/ AnNSo1 hnVnhA pAranr<c nnnonIir~ - -
ports in Switzerland. In Karlsruhe
eleven persons were killed and TWEEN.
ty-six injured.
The Current History Magazine OF
New York estimates that during the
four years of the war nearly 100000
men have been killed. and the wound
ed, captured and missing have
amounted to nearly 100000.
In the three days OF engagements
that eliminated In the taking of
Montdidier, at the tip Of the German
salient in Picardy. the French took
5000 prisoners. 200 guns and an enor-
nous amount of war material.
The rapidity with which the allied
armies under General Foch over.
whelmed the Germans in the recent
Picardy drive Is regarded by military
men as the most brilliant piece Of
strategy accomplished in history.
Sinking Of the British steamer Pen.
istone Of 4.139 gross tons. and the
Swedish steamer Sydland. OF 1901
gross tons. in New England waters
neal where ten fishing smacks were
destroyed August IL, has been report
ed to, the Navy department.
Coal miners and operators were
called upon In proclamation by
President Wilson to give their maxi
mum effort to the production OF coal
to the end that the threatened short
age next winter may be averted.
Although the youngest member Of
the presidents cabinet. Secretary Of
War Baker. sponsor for the new man
power bill. viii not Ill out q question
naire next September. Secretary Ba-
ker Just escaped the draft, 40 he II
~ years old.
Quit calling American soldiers Sam
mics. "Nobody In France wants
to be called by that name and nobody
IN this country ought to be-" General
March told Newspaper men at Wash.
ington. American troops abroad pre-
fer to b called "Yanks," no said.
Bolo Pasha. recently executed In
France az q traitor, and German Am
bassador Won Bernstorf called at the
home Of W. r. Hearst. newspaper
man. on several occasions. according
to afidavits by employees at the
apartments. Just made public by At
torney General N, e. Lewis OF New