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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05

Copyrt0ht, 1918. By NetD York Times Co.
Amsterdam, Aug. 3.
Lord Lansdowne has a very good press
in Germany. His latest letter attracts
much greater attention than did his ear
lier ones, though there are of course
obvious reasons for that. At a time
when the German armies are moving
backward any sign Of paciflsm in the
Entente countries can be made use of
in the Fltherland
The Cologne Gazette pretends to know
that Lord Transformers views are those
which Count Hertling has expressed in
the circle of his most intimate political
friends. The Cologne Volks Zeitung
makes the letter it's first news of the
day. 1t says that the document on ac-
count of its tone and contents, can be
sympathetically received, and it thinks
against the common German belief that
Lord Lansdowne and Lord Wimborne
are really more dangerous than Lloyd
George, Clemenceau, Balfour and the
others Rather Lord Lansdowne's utter
anCes are to be taken as a sign Of oppo-
sition TO the English war policy, and are
to be greeted in Germany with ap-
prevail,
Lord Lansdowne," it declares. would
not so speak and write If he did not re-
gard the Ententes war aims as repre-
hensibe and ours as discussable."
That being so, the Volks Zeitung hopes
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
GERMAN GUNS
ACROSS AISNE.
POUND ALLIES
Attack Regarded as Evidence
That Enemy Contemplates
Making Stand
By WALTER DURANTY
Special Gable to Euening Public Ledger


Copyright, 1918, bv Ne,o York Times co.
With the French Armies, Aug. 5.
Sundays events justify the sobriety
OF the French communiques through
out the battle in the now reduced
salient The Allies have won a great
double victory: first, on smashing the
most dangerous of Hindenburg's
drives, and, second, in compelling the
enemy to evacuate wide area of
french territory, but the Germans
have managed to prevent the retreat
from becoming a rout.
BY a carefully gauged alienation
or aggressive resistance and a. swift
"breakaway," Hindenburg has~ been
able to withdraw his guns and troops
from the salient without a loss too
great. Now, strategically speaking, he
Is In a more favorable position on a
straight line from scissors to Rheims,
strongly backed by artillery, than in
an unwieldy salient hampered by de-
ficient and vulnerable communica-
tions.
True, there is an all-important moral
factor in the switch in balance strong.
ly toward the Allies. We are flushed
with victory; the enemy is discouraged
by defeat. But discipline still makes
the kaiser's army formidable fight
ing force. and the disintegrating ef
fects of the disaster are likely to be
sooner apparent in Germany than at
the front
Saturday and on Friday the Allied
progress was very rapid. The Ger
man artillery, save for a few light
field guns, had already withdrawn out
of range, and the support given to
the defenders was limited to a sporadic
"harassing fire" of little Importance.
1t was possible Saturday afternoon
for the correspondent to motor along
the upper Crise valley-so recently
the backbone of German resistance
and enter Scissors unmolested, save
for a rare shell. The city suffered
less than one might have expected.
though the suburbs, where the fight.
ing was most violent, We're thoroughly
shattered. Street barricades at the
entrances to the town itself seemed
to indicate that the enemy had pur.
posed a sterner defense until COM
PEELED to take hasty fight by the
Allied gains on the plateau to the
southeastward. The cathedral and
other public buildings We're all Sc.
verely damaged and a ma iority of the
houses were more or less injured. but
the town as whole did not present
the image of utter destruction such
as observed at Dormans.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
MACLAY PRAISES U. S.
SHIPMENT OF TROOPS
80, 20 SO -" -,
British Shipping Controller
Calls Achievement Most
Titanic of War
By CHARLES H. CRASTY

Special Gable to Epening Public Ledger
Copyright. 1918. by NeD York Times Co.
London, Aug. 5.
this war has been the transport Of the
American army across the Atlantic.
asked Sir Joseph Mac;ay, Controller of
Shipping, for a detailed and authorita
he has prepared the following statement:
Probably no one who Is not familiar
with the shipping problem can appre-
ciate the character Of this transport
movement. 1t is the biggest thing of
the kind which has ever been attempted"
Sir Joseph Maclay added: I'VE were
not little proud Of the manner in
which we transported and maintained
our army in South Africa, but in the
light of the American movement it must
be confessed that the achievement was
a comparatively modest one. If l re-
member rightly, we moved only about
100000 men from first to last. and we
had the whole of the British mercantile
marine to draw from, and there were
no submarines.
More than 1,O0O, 900 troops have been
moved across the Atlantic during the
last year or SO, in face of an offensive
by sea, waged by the enemy with as
great determination and persistency
as-ha mas Fought with on the western
'front.' and simultaneously we nave been
moving British and Colonial soldiers to
all theatres or the war, and keeping
them supplied. Only those VINO nave
access 10 otnciai records can appreciate
the character or the enemys eHort 10
arrest these varied transport movements,
and particularly OF the American forces'
destined for Europe.
He has been able to combine his
original purpose ana his original plans
Tor attempting to sharve out england
with his new plans FOR attacking the
transports, Every submarine at int
command or the Germans has been sent
TO sea- manned. by the most experienced
ofhcers and men.
p,,.. n, A.. Av.u
I'VE make a mistake If we regard
the enemy's sea offensive as less i'm
portant than the military movement on
land. The whole German people were
led to believe that piracy, practiced with
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stand the new call is doubtful. Well
trained and disciplined as the Germans
are there Is a limit to human endurance.
Letters found recently on prisoners
demonstrate this To quote two out
Of many:
An offlcer's wife wrote her husband
last month:
Surely youIl be relieved soon. Your
account of the losses Is terrible. It 10
dreadful that you and the handful OF
men left should be forced to form q
company which Is a mere skeleton COM
pared with the strength II should
have"
A man wrote:
1--WE had dreadful time at the
Marne crossing-terrible French fre
everywhere. and CHASTITY losses in the
river crossing. How 1t will end don't
dare think"
The correspondent visited General
Mangin's army. which was engaged in
very heavy fighting from the region
around Buzancy to Fere-en-Tardenois
Two definite conclusions can now be
drawn from the operations OF the last
forty-eight hours
First, the enemy is fighting a rear
guard action to protect his undisguised
retreat: second he is retreating because
but he is contestIng every step with
the utmost desperation.
1t Is a feature OF the struggle that
the defenses, both natural and man.
made, grow stronger as the line ap-
proaches Scissors from the south. From
Septmonis to the east OF Hartennes the
narrow. precipitous valley Of the River
Crise gives admirable cover for the con-
centrations of troops. and from the
woods that border It an attack can be
launched in unexpected strength.
The Germans have utilized this ad-
vantage. Their system of defense Is
simple. The woods of Tartennes and Of
Flessier and innumerable tree-covered
ravines have been packed with machine
guns, manned by first-class troops--in-
Guiding Prussian Guard units-with ord
ers to resist to the death.
Germans Use Few Cannon
The artillery support is inconsiderable,
as the guns have been withdrawn-not
single gun was captured up to noon
today between Buzancy and Fere. The
work of the Allied artillery was ham.
pered by the nature Of the ground, which
is marked by dense thickets ana hidden
ravines, and today by torrential down.
pour that hung like smoke over the
woods and valleys. It was. therefore,
an infantry battle, in which the Franco
British forces set themselves the task
of gradually breaking holes in the deadly
chainwork of crossfire and Of advancing
through the gaps to turn the positions
which still resisted.
The enemy counter-attacks were made
only to attempt to retake strong points
that covered other parts Of their line.
as, for instance, Tigny, which passed
from hand to hand several times and
was finally held by Scottish troops, who
fought superbly." said an officer on
General Mangin's staff. land filled us
all with the highest admiration"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
VIENNA STREETS FILTHY
nitary Situation Brings EN-
kstic Protests From Physicians
fsl Cable to Euening Public Ledeer

0x(sht. 1918. bv Neto York Times Co.
163ch, Aug. 5.-The Vienna Zeit pub
- ofylcial declarations on the state
4 {1Hgienic cleanliness of the Austrian
~ cleaning of the streets has been
- suspended because of the lack Of
<1n1 and men. Instead of the $500
y employed in street cleaning in
~ times there are today 1000. The
l,or OF carriage horsesis fewer than a
|V4. as horses have been requlsitioned
food transport. Only the First Dis
e. with the imperial castle, Is regu-
N cleaned. The rest of the town is
kndoned to filth. with terrible sanitary
&aoQuenees.
~ doctors are protesting energeti-
Hy and declare that never has Vienna
= 10 predisposed to epidemics. espe-
HI Of respiratory organs. as today,
they cau upon the Government not
oeye the population to grow weak
XanGer and perish through the flthi-
n the <~>reetE, There Is great anx-
~ t>H[&eme Of winters enows, be-
n + Ar ~ no hope Of tke nitua-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
HOLLAND SEEKS FATS IN U. s.
Overseas Trust Negotiating With
Federal Government for Cargo
By the Associated Press

Amsterdam, Aug. 5.-The Netherlands
overseas trust is endeavoring to get per.
mission from the United States Govern
sment for the steamship Nieuw Amster.
to help make good the shortage in fats
which now are being strictly rationed in
this country.
The TELEGRAPH, which published the
information from a reliable source, adds
that there is a good chance Of reaching
an agreement.
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is little artillery fire on the Americans
now. In fact, the Vesle line. is already
imperiled, and the next twenty-four
hours may see it broken. The Allied eff
fort is nowhere near an end
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05

the morning Of July IS Is nov in Allied
hands. And the end IL not yet.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29

SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
a writ of Lev. Fac to me directed,
will be exposed to Public Sale at the
Court House, Southeast Corner of
Eleventh and King Streets, City of
Wilmington, New Castle County.
Delaware.
ON SATURDAY
THE 9TH DAY OF JULY. 1918,
At 10 O'Clock, A. NJ,
The folio wing described Real Estate
All that certain three stored Brick
Messuage and lot of land situate, lying
and being in the City of Wilmington
aforesaid and bounded and described as
follows. to-wit: BEGINNING and
bounded southwardly by Eighth form
erly KENT Street, eastwardly by Mar
ket street, westwardly by Shipley
Street and extending up Market and
Shipley Street about eighty-seven feet
to line of (ate of Joshua Wallaston's)
land be the contents thereof more or
less.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Ashton R. Tatnall, Thomas
Tatnall and Richard r. Tatnall, Exc
cutors of Joseph Tatnall. deceased late
of the City of Wilmington, Delaware,
Surviving Trustee. Mortgagor Walter
D. Bush, eldest male heir of George
w. Bush, deceased, Surviving Trustee,
t. t. and The Wilmington Institute, a
CORPORATION of the State of Delaware,
t. t. and to be sold by
THEODORE w. FRANCIS, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington. DEL,
June 25th. 1918,
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
JR. RED CROSS IN DELAWARE

Since February, there have been fifty
schools enrolled as auxiliaries OF the
American Red Cross, and the reports
that have been sent in show what a
wonderful work they are doing in every
wav. The ideals and work Of the Red
Cross appeal strongly to children, and
stimulates them to the services they
render.
Their reports show that they are in
terested IN conservation of all kinds.
protection of birds. animals. cleaning
M their towns, assisting the local Red
Cross. manual training and domestic
science.
These schools raised for Liberty Bonds
and War Savings Stamps, $22. rs.
The number Of articles made and
knitted. 4192.
The number Of children enrolled,
1922.
The schools one hundred per cent.
Red Cross (Which means that every
child has paid rs cents) are: Dover
Frederick, Rice's, Oak Shade, Green
spring, colored: Laurel High, Hockes'
sin, Cannon, Middletown. Cedar Grove
Milford, Rehoboth Beach. Mt. Airy
New Castle High, Smyrna. Cedar Grove
Lewes, Hartly, Lewes Union. Milford
Yorklyn. Cheswold, Sharpley, Moore's.
Meals, Oak Grove. Columbia, DUPONT
Lebanon, Kenton, Clayton. Little Creek
Willow Grove. Townsend.
The Junior Red Cross gives the cnl!'
dren real part in the national respon'
sibilities of citizenship, adding ne"
dignity to school work by giving II
national purpose.
MRS, R. L. HOLIDAY,
Chairman Junior Membership.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29

SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
writ of Lev. Fec. to me directed,
will be exposed to Public sale at the
Court House, Southeast Corner of
Eleventh and King Streets, City of
Wilmington, New Castle County,
Delaware.
ON SATURDAY.
THE 9TH DAY OF JULY, 1918,
At 10 o'clock. A. NJ.
The following described Real Estate,
viz:
ALL that certain lot or piece Of
Marsh or Meadow land with the build
ings and the improvements thereon
situate in the City of Wilmington afore-
said, bounded and described as follows,
to-wit:
BEGINNING at a point on the East
erly side of the public road leading from
the City of Wilmington to the City of
New Castle on a line passing through
the centre of drain or dirch. dividing
this land from land OF Robert S. Smith
on the North; thence by said road
Southerly about two hundred and twen-
ty-four feet to the centre of drain or
ditch dividing this land from land now
or formerly of Robert Grimes (deceased)
on the South: thence Easterly by the
middle of said last mentioned drain,
and following the courses thereof to
the centre Of another and larger drain;
thence by the middle thereof Northerly
and nearly parallel with the public road
aforesaid, to the centre Of another
dram, which also divides this land from
the land of Robert S. Smith on the
North: thence Westerly along the mid
die Of the last mentioned drain along
the fence standing in a line with the
middle of SAID drain and along the mid
die of the first mentioned drain to the
place of beginning. Containing within
said bounds about four acres of land.
Seized and taken in execution as the
prop 4rty Of John C. McCabe and Martha
A. McCabe, his wife, surviving mort
gagors and Washington N. Ralsten,
Administrator de borls non Of Richard
Darrah, deceased mortgagor.
THEODORE ~. FRANCIS, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office. Wilmington. DEL,
June 18th, 1918.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
win Raise Calves

R. o. Bausman. County Agricultural
AGENT of New Castle County. left Sat
urday for Livingston County. Michigan
to buy q carload of pure-bred HoIstein
calves for the Boys and Girls DAIRY
Calf Club, Of New Castle County.
Thirty-seven out of club Of forty
members will raise Holstein caves
three will raise Guernseys.
Only registered calves that have pass
ed the Tuberculin test and have come
from sires and dams with good records
will be purchased.
The calves will be distributed among
the club members at actual cost, Tor
cash or bankable note.
The car is expected to arrive at New
ark during the latter part Of the first
week of July. The calves will be d's-
tributed from the barn ut the Washing
ton House on East Main Street. The
general public will have an opportunity
to see the calves before they are dis.
tributed among the boys and girls OF
the club.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
BOSCHEE'S GERMAN SYRUP

Why use ordinary cough remedies,
when BOSCHEE'S GERMAN SYRUP
has been used so successfully for City
two years in all parts of the county for
coughs, bronchitis, colds settled IN the
throat, especially lung troubles. 1t
gives the patient good nights rest,
free from coughing, with easy exr"cto-
ration in the morning, gives nature a
chance to soothe the inf1amed parts.
throw off the disease. helping the pa
tent to regain his health. Sold by
MIDDLETOWN DRUG Co. Inc
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
USE LESS WHEAT.

The allied nations have made
further increased demands on
US for breadstuffs - demands
that Americans are obligated to
meet.
In the meantime Americas
meat supply has been greatly
increased for some months to
come by the unprecedented
shipping to market of hogs that
averaged 232 pounds each in
stead of 2O3 pounds-the nor
NAL.
The United States Food Ad-
ministration. endeavoring to ad-
Just the international food bal
ance, promptly removed certain
restrictions in this country on
the use of meat and at the same
time asked for a smaller con-
sumption of breadstuffs.
We are asked to observe only
one meatless day each week
Tuesday. We will have larger
meat stocks for awhile. But
our bread ration must be held
to q minimum.
In altering its food conserva-
ton program the Food Admin
istration emphasizes that the
food situation is of necessity,
subject to radical changes,
caused by crop conditions at
home and abroad and by the
precarious transportation prob
lem, both in overseas shipping
and in Americas overburdened
transportation system.
The Food Administration will
keep the American people fully
and frankly advised Of each
change in the developing sitqP-
ton that they may know def
nitely the part their food sac
rifices play in the world war.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
/ help IN $3.50
WHEAT PROGRAM
Thousands Of Retail Grocers Sup
port Food Administration
Rules.
SIGN PLEDGE VOLUNTARILY.
New Wheat Saving Program Demand.
ed = Allied Food Shortage IN.
ereases-America Must
Feed Fighters.
SIGN PLEDGE VOLUNTARILY

Explaining the United States Food
Administration new $3.50 wheat reg
ulations is war time task the Ameri-
can grocer has gladly shOuldered.
Many stores are already displaying
their Food Administration wheat saw
ing pledge cards, that they have sign
ed, agreeing to carry out the new
wheat program.
Each -four customer Is now requir-
ed to buy one pound Of cereal substi-
tute for every pound Of wheat flour.
The substitute may be of one kind or
assorted. This $3.50 sale is made by
weight and not by value of the COM
modities. There is, of course. no reg
ulation demanding the consumer to
buy wheat flour at all.
A wide variety of substitutes has
been provided: Cornmeal. corn flour.
edible cornstarch. hominy, corn grits,
barley flour. potato flour, sweet potato
-four, soya bean flour, Feterita flour
and meals. rice. rice flour. oatmeal.
rolled oats and buckwheat flour.
Graham and whole wheat flour con-
stitute an exception to the national
regulation. Either of these commodi-
ties may be sold at the ratio Of three
pounds to five pounds of wheat flour
that is, five pounds of graham or
wheat flour counts the same as three
pounds of the usual wheat flour.
Mixed flours form another excep-
ton. Where any flour contains so
per cent. or less of wheat it may be
sold without any substitutes. Where
the -four is mixed at the rate of 60
per cent. wheat and 40 per cent of
other ingredients an additional 20 per
cent. of substitutes must be purchased
by the consume
Where necesS. y is shown specially
prepared infants and invalid's food
containing flour may be sold.
That the approved substitutes may
be assorted is fact many grocers
and housewives overlooked for q time.
For instance. if customer wishes to
buy - pound sack Of flour the nee
essary substitutes might be assorted
as follows: Cornmeal, pounds; corn
grits. pounds; rice, 4 pounds; buck
wheat, 9 pounds; cornstarch, ! pound !;
hominy. 9 pounds; rolled oats. 3
pounds.
None of the substitutes should be
considered as a waste purchase.
There are many household uses for
each. The eight pounds of cornmeal
can be made into cornbread, corn muf-
fms or used in the baking of wheat
bread.
Cornstarch Is useful in making Gus
tard, thickening gravy or may be used
in cake baking. Corn grits fried like
mush forms delicious dish, or It may
be used in baking corn bread. Rolled
oats are used largely as breakfast por-
ridge or in oatmeal cookies or in
making mullins.
Buckwheat flour may be used in
breed making, forming an excellent
substitute for one-quarter of the
wheat flour. but is especially choice in
the form of buckwheat cakes for
breakfast.
With IL wheatless meals needed
each week in America. to provide
enough wheat for the allies, the Food
Administration believes the substitutes
will all be used to advantage.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
STATE AnD.PulNSuLA !.

Smallpox has broken out in eCrisfield.
Md.
Veterans IF the Civil War are now
dying at the rate of one hundred day.
The Diocese, of Easton, has selected
Elkton, as the place for holding its
fifty.frst annual convention next year.
The drive for the sale of War Savings
Stamps IN Kent county, Nd, has re-
,lted in the sale Of $17O, 1926 worth so
far.
William H. Finley. native of Will
mington, has been elected president of
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Company.
Emergency reserves of -four, totaling
500, 900 barrels, are piled in more than
20 cities throughout the United States
for use in case Of bread famine.
Charles w. Banks, of Mass achusetts,
has been appointed to an assistant pro-
fessorship in engineering at Delaware
College, to succeed Professor z. H.
Srager, resigned.
The semi-annual State convention of
the Delaware Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution was held at Dover at
the Hotel Richardson with Miss Marion
R. McKim, of Milford State regent,
presiding.
A proposal for complete prohibition
during the war was presented in the
Senate Monday, by Senator Jones, of
Washington, as an amendment to the
Sill, 900 emergency agricultural ap-
preparation bill.
The people Of Milford and vicinity are
grieved because the trustees Of the
Emergency Hospital have decided to
close its doors, at least until after the
war, as many of its contributors, have
invested heavily in Liberty Bonds
Stores and banks in Pocomoke City,
Md, have agreed to close every day at
5o'clock and at least 40 employers and
employees and professional men have
agreed to give two hours a day to help
harvest the crops in that vicinity.
Philadelphia during the next II months
will have "a fewer saloons, that number
having failed to meet the required
license fee. There will also be re-
duction in breweries, wholesale liquor
dealers and bottIers, thirty, all told,
going out of business.
The state fish hatchery in Chesapeake
Bav near the mouth of the Susque-
hanna, during the season just closed
Matched about 500, 100000 yellow and
white perch eggs and $4,000 shad
eggs. They were placed in the differ
ent waters throughout the state.
All motorboats in American waters
will be required to have Federal license
numbers under the terms of law just
signed by President Wilson: Secretary
Redfield has promulgated regulations,
for the assurance Of licenses. No fee
will be charged, the law being intended
prin ari1y as police measure and re-
curing the number to be placed con-
spicously SO that officers enforcing the
navigation laws may easily see it.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29

German newspapers say that the
American army will be kept from go
,ro TO France by an Indian uprising
IN this country. And yet some people
CIV there is no humor in Germany.