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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28

 Bapaue having been surrounded has been entered by British patrols they fighting the streets The own therefore Land for the moment but complete capture only matter of hours
 exhibiting still greater anxiety to get away from the advancing British and the morale of the enemy machine gunners diminishing they not hold ing their posts with much determination early In the battle. s sections of the front fresh attacks launched to- day North of the Scarpe where the taken m con- junction the gradually releasing pressure Arras outskirts of Pouva reached and the line then angle slightly west and due north from this point with the British still going rapidly and the enemy resistance decreasing. South of the Scarpe the British reached Pelve the sua tion there Almost directly south of it. however the Bo Du Sa and surrounding ground have been captured and thus Pelves cannot possibly hold out for long
 CROISSILLES APPROACHED
 London troops approached close Croisses but hot chine fire from that town and other indications that held by garrison we'll protected in prepared positions caused them to for moment At the time other troops attacked the north against Fontane Les Croisses Having reached the outskirts of that place. they then southward to outflank Croles They meeting with stiff here the Germans rapidly being To the south of this place the British have pushed well of St. Leger and fighting northwest St Men between that town and Crossles Fighting likewise is in progress in the outskirts of Vaulx-V -Vrancourt
 East of Bapaume the line has been extended along rail- way Cambrai.
 Maricourt the ground are we'll in British hands Trones station and wood and the ground which valuable hgh captured as we'll as Moulin De Fargy, the Somme river bank which British front lines at the opening of the first battle Somme Vaux wood also was occupied and held firmly
 After all night fight Wancourt town south the were taken and the important Henine ridge well as Hennel village, also were captured
 SLIGHT RESISTANCE OFFERED
 Most of the operations south of the Somme have ried out by comparatively peaceful penetration for and the Australians simply pushing ahead rounding up
 tContinued On Pager Two)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
Frencfs aptureRoye m 2-i7e Aduance

With the French rnias in France, August 27(By the socated Press Ioy taken this morning by the French
 in the course of braa attack following unsuccessful counter attack by the eny The Germans seven-1nile front north and south of Rove
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conceived. Some one ought to get the
authors permission to lift from her book
the whole tale Of Bawne Saxham and re-
write it for the Youngsters. Perhaps par
ents or older people could peruse the novel
and then retell the Boy Scouts adventures
10 the boys.
The opening chapters viii be immensely
appreciated by older readers for their re-
markable picture of gay life IN Paris in
July, 1914 The authors absolutely pho
Geographic memory, or else her minute
study and pains, make possible picture
as beWilderingly overloaded with descrip-
tive wealth as a bit of Flaubert's So
ammb0. Nor is her knowledge confined
to Partisan fashions and the ways, more
or less, of the richest MASTERS. She knows
much about aviation, or enough about that
and naval and military things to write
paragraphs as technically easeful as Mr..
Kipling's. Unfortunately for American
readers she knows perfectly the slang of
the English aristocracy-or whatever class
it is that calls everything topping and
simply tophole and everybody good egg.
And your wife is Kittums. And Kittums's
husband is Frankly -wanky. Houses are
eonvee or exquie. And you mustn't be
funky. Nor, apparently, must you get
fed up On this pifing sort of speech
A queer book. 1t viii probably have a
good many readers. Most of them will
like something in it. The Boy Scout story
for some; the Dop Doctor for others;
Shorthand, aviator, and Pstrine Saxham
for still others. The religious element OF
the story viii give satisfaction TO various
readers. The stuff about twilight sleep
will engross a few. We suspect that the
completeness with which some repulsive
scenes and persons are painted may in
trigue the baser minded, which would be
a deplOrable defeat of the writer's pur-
pose. Perhaps one of the chapter head
ings will be sort of finger post. 1t is
Goodbye, Dear Lore, Goodbye!
THAT WHICH HATH WINGS. By Rich
ARD DEHAE. G. p. Putnam's Sons. 81 80.
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Trask the figure sire isl Her husband
forgives her and stands by her, being able
to distinguish, apparently, between the
woman and her deed. A difficult distinc-
ton for most of us TO make! And those
whose work brought this especially dan
gerous spy to justice come crawlng to
her to supplicate her pardon for what
they have done! The thing is nauseatins.
The best thing in the book is the por-
trait of Lord Kitchener, under another
name, of course. He is perfectly done,
wildly done, and he is almost the only
wholehearted and admirable figure in the
story. Lady Trask murdered him. Save
US from such heroines presented in a
"sympathetic" light! The fact that an
Irish officer In the British army is Lady
Trask's side partner in spying will not
make the book more acceptable TO readers
who have Irish blood in their veins
THE CLUTCH OF CIRCUMSTANCE. BY
MARJORIE BENTON COOKE. George Fl.
Doran Company s1.25.
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That Which Hath Wings
Richard Dehan's Novel

ID ICHARD DEHAN'S new novel, That
N Which Hath Wings, links itself to
One Brauer Thing THE Dop Doctor by
several characters common to both books,
the Dop Doctor particularly. 1t would
have been an amiable concession of the
author to readers to whom the new novel
is a first Dehan book to have explained
why the Dop Doctor was called that. And
this group Of readers who have never read
Dehan novels will be interested to know
before starting That Which Hath Wings
that Richard Dehan is a woman and a
Catholic. Catholicism is much of the
story and the authors devotionalisrn is
inseparable from her tale.
So too is sustained mood of hysteria
which greatly reduces the effectiveness
of her narration. The tension through
novel of 625 pages and seventy-twe chap
tiers may be found by some readers to be
iEsupportable.
The story itself is in many respects su-
perlatively good if also, in many details,
superlatively incredible. II concerns the
theft of plans of device which can make
war almost impossible by making It in
coneeivably horrible and destructive.
1t is the function of book reporter
simply to introduce q new book to its
proper public; but in the case of That
Which Hath Wings the precise public is
not clear to US. The novel contains scenes
and incidents of such a nature and so
treated by the author as to make it I'M
suitable reading for the young; yet the
main story, if it could be stripped of
these chapters and passages, would make
the most wonderful Boy Scout yarn that
ever was written or could indeed well be
The sun., 1918-11-03
"The Clutch of
Circumstance"
By GRANT M. ovERToN.

THE reader who picks mp Marjorie
L Benton Cookies new and very
short novel, The Clutch Of Circumstance,
will be unable to lay it down until he has
finished. Miss Cooke knows all there is
TO know about so telling a story as to
"hold" the reader. And her expertness in
writing clever and amusing dialogue,
which was half or more than half the fas-
cination of Bansbi, is pretty continuously
in evidence in this new book But she is
not only writer of clever and amusing
dialogue, but a writer of dialogue that
discloses the speakers character in a way
that no amount of mere description could
do. Her dialogue carries conviction"
We wish her new book did. 1t is in
four parts, four chapters in each part.
The first three parts are so exciting that
they do not need to be carefully convin-
cling. The last part is the ruination of
the whole. 1t is not only unpalatable, but
in the highest degree sentimental and
overstrained. The note of hysteria lies
beneath it. The dialogue is the vehicle of
ideas SO repellent that the reader can
only pray Miss Cooke does not entertain
them. But it is unfortunate, if she does
not, that she should put in an admirable
and even heroic light the utterances of an
American born woman of American par
ents who became a German spy.
We can accept the possibility that Lady
Trask, the wife of British public man,
brought up by German grandfather and
nurtured in German ideals, should feel a
deep, unreasoning allegiance to Germany.
We can even believe that, under pressure,
she should become a German tool. But
1t is altogether too much TO ask US to ad-
mire her courage, her philosophical fair
ness and her calm after she has been
trapped and exposed. Ii is altogether
too much to expect us to listen to her con-
tention that her treachery was not differ
emf in kind from the betrayal of her by,
her friends. She does not seem to realize
that they merely betrayed her for the sake
Of their country, while she betrayed Eng
land, her husband and all her friends for
the sake of an appealing memory.
patriotism" said Edith Cavell before
her murder, "is not enough" It is some
thing to remember, but Miss Cavell by
her very words implied that patriotism is
indispensable. Lady Trask found an I'M
divided allegiance impossible, as many
have found it beforsker; but when she
comes to face the Consequences Of her
choice she assures US that any allegiance
is wrong!
For this sort of reasoning Miss Cooke
seems to have respect if not certain ad
miratiG,; else why should she make Lady
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maggie of Virginsburg"

HE first half of Maggie Of Virgins
L burg is admirable realism; the lat
Ter half is weak attempt at propaganda.
Helen r. Martin has written some de-
lightful and veraeious studies of the Penn
sylvania Dutch, with their sturdy strength.
their quaint dialect and their amusing
narrowness- Her work in that field is
excellent and sincerely realistic She
knows her locale, she makes her characters
live, and she recTeates the life for US
sympathetically and eniertainingly. But
the present volume is cobbled piece Of
work, joining Of dissimilar types
Mrs Martins account of the childhood
and early youth of the girl and boy whom
she makes the central figures in her story
is worth while because Il is simply a
faithful picture of life in a certain crude
environment. The characters seem actual,
though to a slight degree oyerdrawn, and
the atmosphere is effective
We see the shy, sensitive little boy,
who is so lonely that be tells the teacher
he "brang" mice to school with him for
company, and his strange mother who
never is glimpsed by any one outside her
own family. We see Maggie, the abused
but spirited child, her tyrannieal aunt,
her lazy father and her eowed mother.
She says of her family, "Pop. he likes to
stay settin' while nom does all the work.
Oh, yes, he's awful hearty. But he never
feels for putin himself out any" Henry,
the boy, asks her, "Why does your Aunt
Susan have cross all the timer
81 guess because she can't help being
so ugly dispositioned that way. She don't
like me and MON. She has awful fond
for pop, though. She brang him up since
he was baby Already, and she likes him
to have most everything he feels for bav-
ing. So me and nom has to do without"
The early part of the book is good, but
the latter half-or more than halls dis
tinetiy weak. 1t is as if the author had
stopped IN the middle of story and
begun a soapbox TRADE. The volume at
tacks capital, the Episcopal Church, and
all colleges or universities that impose
any restraint whatever on professional
utterances. The Bishop and the clergy
men appearing in the book are repre-
sented as self-seeking, indolent and greedy
of power. the institutions of learning
are pictured as ruled by tyrannical
trustees that throttle every impulse of
free speech. Capital is altogether bad,
according to Mrs. Martin.
Propaganda usually spoils work as
piece of literature, and in tins ease the
The sun., 1918-11-03
When You've Read These See That They the Men Camp

author has sacrificed what might have
been a good novel to hysterieal preach
ment. 1t is a pity.
The plot of tins story leans too much
TO the cheaply melodramatie. The author
might well have represented the young
girl as strongly differing from her family
as is frequently the ease in real life
without introducing the improbable ae-
count of cradle snatching. She diStortS
her facts inartistieally and unnaturally to
provide an explanation, which, after all,
does not suffice. Simple realism is Mrs.
Martins line, not melodrama and not
sermonizing.
The sun., 1918-11-03
D utn a m
! Indications
Just Out
A Nation Trained in
Arms, or a Militia!

Lieutenant General Raron you
Freyfag-LsFfngh0FeH. Author q
-Dedacttsns from the World
War
II. sI-1j
Lessons IN Wor from the past and the
present, By the Dcpsay Chlef of The I'm
PerIat German General Staff. Though
many tc1A not agree -rith the orrhoT's
s1p1misg up, his historIcaI aEgasSons
and deductions tLerdrom are Of in
tense t,steTesf.
The sun., 1918-11-03
SKYRIDER
By B. M. Bower.

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narrative Of ranch life that win thrill and amIe every lover Of
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n. Bower books
$40 net
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Nrm 8unkH fur Vnur 4nlihag Gtat
TALES OF WAR
By Lord Dunsany,

As Captain of the 9Th Royal nnsking Fusers active
service first in Gao and France Lord Dunsany has
all its phases: and TALES OF WAR he presents
tain of these phases they him. Wonderful sharply
vgnettes these taeabout thirty in numbe-and all
bear the stamp Of Lord Dunsanys artistry
na
The sun., 1918-11-03

In The Black Watch Scout Joe CasseIIs
tells how a eomrade, a German prisoner,
fooled his jailers. He had been reported
killed, and was anxious to let MS family
know he was alive, but was only able to
send word BY a struggled letter. A nurse
agreed TO send it if he would describe his
situation fatteringly. He wrote: This is
most beautiful place. / think IFS the
Prrttiest hospital in the great German
Empire 1t is even more elaborate than
the wonderful Peterhead Sanatorium at
home. :" And how could the nurse
be expected to know that the "Peterhead
Sanatorlum was one of the worst prisons
IN Seotlandf
The sun., 1918-11-03
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The Story Of Thrift-taught by one
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and tells al about them in his new
book. Also he tells Of the adventures
that befell Happy Jack when his en-
envy, the Weasel, and his friends,
Tommy Tit the Chickadee, Sammy
Jay, and Farmer Browns boy all had
q hand in Happy Jacks affairs.
Sf.25 net.
The sun., 1918-11-03

Rights In Alfred Ollivant's The Brorn
Mare have been acquired by Doubleday,
Page & Co. from Alfred A. Knopf.
The sun., 1918-11-03

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~. 600.
As vel as a brilliant history Of English
Jsctson, a fresh rieu Is sieen Of its paria-
tton IN atmosphere, MODERATION, dss-
togue ard Characterization. By Tie
Professor Of E"gtish LiterGtprc, Toledo
CRirersify.
The sun., 1918-11-03

MAGGIE OF vTRGINSBCRG. By HELEN
r MART1N. The Century Company, $40. .
The sun., 1918-11-03
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By Lillian Whiting

A handsomely illustrated holiday
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one Of Americas best known women
If letters, neither travel, biography,
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these, ranging over many lands and
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If men and women who have left their
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$500 NET.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-03
COL. GRIFFITHS
KILLED At FRONT.
Struck by German Shell as He
Slips From the
Dugout.

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
u FRANCE. May Lieut.. Col
Richard r. Griniths commanding
battalion Of infantry. has been
killed by shell fire i'm Picardy. lie
emerged from "a dugout just as "a
German shell arrived and exploded
directly IN front Of him.
Lieut.. Col Grimiths was with the
fourth Tennessee volunteers in the
Spanish war and later
with the s7th volunteers. He served
also as major ir the Philippine con-
siabulary lie was appointed a ma
ior i'm the national army after re-
signing from the British army. His
widow is Red Cross nurse.
Bring Down Planes.
An American aviator has brought
down the fourth German airplane
along the American front northwest
or foul. Lieut.. James A. Leissner,
whose home is Brooklyn, after a
thrilling aerial battle about $4,000
feet high, shot down an Albatross
scout which fell i'm flames
Lieut.. Leissner is 4 years old
and a graduate OF Cornell. He came
90 France "A few months ago and
qualified as a pilot here.
While he was protecting a pho
tographing plane a German ma
chine came i'm view. The day was
brilliant with Sunshine a French
plano started for the German but
Miissncr who was flying high near
10y in "a speedy Newport chaser.
1dade dive for the Germans tail
When within range he opened fire
with his machine gun and the Ger
man started a spiral nose dive but
after a few seconds Strengthened out
and started back for Germany.
Meissner followed so closely when
the German Strengthened out that
latter's wing tore both Of the under
wings OF Meissner's machine, but
at the same time the young Ameri-
can poured a deadly stream of bull
lets into the enemy plane. which
started smoking. Meissner kept up
the fire until the German machine
burst into flames and then crashed
to the earth.
The American pilot landed safely
on his side OF the lines but the Ger
man fell about a mile inside the
German lines TO the south of ThiaU-
court The American infantrymen
i'm the front lines watched the en-
gagement from start to finish and
cheered loudly for another Ameri-
can air victory.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-03
SPRING TONES

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a French pack which bleaches and
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-03
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ic the man who buys one OF our
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-03
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-03
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-03
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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-02-15

ashore on another island with gang
to get water, took Ashton with him.
The young man helped fill the water
casks, but at the first opportunity
slipped into the bush. The pirates
searched for him in vain.
For five days the young American
sat at the edge of the woods and
watched the island of the pirates. On
the fifth day their ship sailed away
and he felt safe, even though alone on
a desert island.
Clad only in "an Osnaburg frock
and trousers, milled cap, but neither
shirt, shoes, stockings nor anything
else" the youth lived alone nine
months on this island. He found it to
be "well-watered, with high hills and
deep Valleys" in which were many
fruit trees. He lived on figs, coco
nuts and IAN orange, Oval-shaped, of a
brownish color without, and red with
in.'
There were wild pigs on the island
and turtles on the beach, but he had
no knife or weapon, and no means of
making fire for cooking meat.
One day the young Crusoe saw a
small canoe approaching the island.
AS it grounded on the beach, a man
stepped out of it. He proved to be a
native Of North Britain, well advanced
in years, of grave and venerable as
pect," who had 'lived for years with
the Spanards,s but had fled from them
when prosecuted.
For three days the Scot lived on
the island with the lad. Then he
started for another island, to ''kill wild
hogs" Ashton was too weak to go
with him. A storm came up, and Ash
ton never saw him again.
But the youth now had knife and
a flint, and life to him became endur-
able. He roasted the delicate flesh of
the tortoise, and regained strength on
the diet it afforded.
Three months passed. Then the
young sailor, wandering on the beach,
found the old mans canoe stranded.
IN this he left the island, and reached
another; but being chased away by
buccaneers he kept on, finally reach
ing the island of ROatan.
Here he lived alone seven months
more, being finally joined by party
Of Englishmen, refugees from the
main. The party was attacked by pi-
rates, but Ashton and a companion
escaped in small boat, and succeed
ing in finding an English vessel among
the islands of Honduras gulf.
Transferred finally to a Yankee
ship, Ashton reached home in 1925,
having been absent two years, ten
months and fifteen days.
He soon went to sea again.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-02-15

bad cold, serious infection, which
the extremely changeable weather had
made very prevalent. The sick 1ndi-
vidual was ignorant of sanitary laws,
as well as police laws, for he was spit
ting the poisonous contents of the
cough on the floor of the car. Directly
the two we'll dressed individuals. left
the train at waystation and the
woman, being somewhat crowded with
baby and basket in the seat divided
with another passenger, moved to the
place made vacant by the two men.
She carelessly placed her basket on
the floor in such a manner that it took
ND a portion of the poisonous sputum.
The rest of the story is easily told.
The basket was carried home and
placed on the kitchen table, where the
food to be eaten raw would be pre-
pared for the family. The sickness OF
the baby in arms, and maybe other
members of the family, can be left to
the imagination.
To keep well, our foodstuffs must be
kept clean.