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Germans Checked West Of
ArmentiereH. .-.s.34s -

Germans Checked West Of
Armentierea.l .lsa.1' ~ as ~
as.F shttrE ipef Totally in hand to hand.
engagements, British troops have
checked the German drive IN the
region west of Armentieres and this
enemy effort like the, one in Picardy
seems definitely stopped. The Ger
mans have spent thousands Of lives
IN reckless attacks to break through
the British lines or to destroy the
British army but the effort has been
without result desired.
Against the American sector south
Of Verdun, German storminK troops
infantrymen beat the enemy in hot
fighting The enemy withdrew to his
trenches with the loss Of nearly 100.
Northwest of Toul the Germans have
not repeated the attacks which cost
them 400 casualties. - -
ENGLISH MAKE
DESPERATE STAND. ls..s.. 2sgsa
About Neuve Eglise and before
Bailieul Field Marshal Haig,s bat
tered divisions have been putting up
desperate resistance.
Although they have been but a
little more than mile from Bailleul,
la valuable position. for two days, the
Germans have not been able to ad
vance more than several hundred
yards. West of the town they have
been repulsed and south. around
Merris their efforts also have gone
for naught.
NO CHANGE ON
REMAINDER OF FRONT.
On the remainder Of the front In
Artois there has been no change.
Near the apex of their salient at
attack but were dispersed by artil-
lery fire. In Flanders and along the
Messines ridge there have been no
further actions and the British still
hold the heights on the south.
SEVEN GERMAN
ATTACKS REFUSED. J
London, April l5-Seven attacks
by the Germans in the Merville sec
tor Of the Northern battle front have
been repulsed by the British who in
f1icted heavy losses on the. enemy, 1t
is announced officially. @
Southwest .of Bailleul the Germans
Temporarily penetrated the British
positions but were driven out by 4
counter attack.
THE BRITISH HAVE
LOST NEUvE ENGLISE.
The statement follows:
Severe fighting continued all day
yesterday around Neuve Eglise.
After beating of numerous attacks,
our troops were in the end compelled
+, to withdraw a second time from the
/, village. - 81,
| Strong attacks were made by. the
enemy yesterday afternoon at a
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Drove Wedge Into Segment Held By Portuguese In Effort
To Break Through 70 Coast Says War Department
Review Will Continue Assaults In Effort To
Annihilate British By Enveloping Attacks


the weakest he him. B
rift the
that wedge
and British units they effect break through
Baaeee held by
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Ensign Lloyd Perry
Killed In France

Washington, April 15.-Ensign
Floyd A. Perry. U. 8. n. r., was kill
cd in. a seaplane accident in France
April IL, the navy department today
was advised. His wife lives at Oco-
nomowoc, Wis
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BRITISH CRINLY Y HOLD FRONT ALONG LYS;
TEUTONS RETAKE NEUVE ECLISE, BUT FAIL,
AFTER DESP ERA tie AT EldPI TO GET BAlLI.EUL
American Troops
Beat Off Str ong
Hun Drive
By Associated Prees.)

On either wing of the sharp salient
around st. Mihiel the American
troops in the last few days have been
beating off strong German attacks.
The enemy has not followed up his
efforts northwest of Toul and east of
st. Mihiel, where he was repulsed in
two days of hard fighting by the
Americans in Apremont forest The
artillery duel here is heavy.
SANiNIIEs TAKE
GERMAN PRISONERS.
Sundays attack on the American
sector came after violent lombard
ment and was made by picked enemy
! troops. Prisoners were captured by
the Americans and "a German dead
and ten wounded were found in the
F, American trenches, while just beyond
them were 80 more enemy dead. The
/ Americans with hand grenades and
| bayonets went out of their positions
!! to meet the oncoming Germans. Two
American aviators have brought down
/ two German fighting airplanes. the
enemy f1iers being captured.
i There has been no activity on the
Picardy battle front and on the re-
mainder Of the western front except
for artillery duels.
Count Czernin has resigned, as
| Austro- Hungarian foreign minister
/; and Emperor Charles has accepted his
i resignation. The steps leading to the
; counts act are not disclosed as yet
/ but the publication by the French
! government Of the emperorFs peace
/ offer: letter to France early in 1917
probably fastened his withdrawal
I Count Czernin remains in office unit
successor is announced.
! TERRIFIC RI III = FIGHT ;1s
/ NEAR NECvE EGIIsE.
f; with the British Army In France
tApril l5.-(By the Associated Press)
THE battle about Neuve Eglise neal
the Belgian border, which has beer
! Ire-taken by the Germans, continues te
rage this morning with the same in
i ftensity that has marked it for day:
and the. British are pounding the
Germans hard.
\ Another assault on Bailleul, foul
miles west of Neuve Eglise, is expected
momentarily. The latest reports thi:
\ forenoon showed that the British line
was being strongly held as whole
and in some instances had been con
siderably improved by counter strokes
J, The British last evening followed ur
!; their success of Saturday when they
pushed the Germans back from
| Robecu, on the Clarence river. Loca
British counter attacks, 5000 yards
east of this town. were completed,
successful and the enemy was forced
to fall back.
The British also pushed out severa
posts north of the canal between
the Lave and Clarence rivers.
These operations indicate that the
defense of the entente allied troop!
has stiffened.
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NO CHANGE ON
REMAINDER OF FRONT,

On the Remainder Of the front IN
Artois there has been no change.
Near the apex of their salient at
Merville the Germans attempted an
attack but were dispersed by artil-
lery fire. In Flanders and along the
Messines ridge there have been no
further actions and the British still
hold the heights on the south.
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Y. S. Collier Cyclops Long
OUerdue; Impossible TO
Locate Her or Learn Fate
Absolute Silence OF Radio
Makes 1t Real Sea Mystery
Sugge.ted That Ger
mans Boarded Her At
Point And Then Captured
Vessel.

Washington, April. 15.-orders for
greater efforts to> find the missing
naval collier Cyclops. overdue from
South American waters for more than
a month, went out today to American
ships. In addition allied naval craft
on patrol duty in the south are aiding
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10 get to the cemetery, we had to
pass through the little shell-destroyed
village, where troops were hurrying
to and fro.
Az the funeral procession passed
these troops came to the attention"
and smartly saluted the dead.
Poor Pete was receiving the only sa-
lutte private is entitled to "some-
where in France
Now and again shell from the Ger
man lines would go whistling over the
village to burst in our artillery lines
in the rear.
When we reached the cemetery we
halted in front Of an open grave, and
laid the Stretcher beside it. Forming
hollow square around the opening Of
the grave, the chaplain read the burial
service.
German machine-gun bullets were
cracking" In the air above us. but
Pete didn't mind, and neither did we.
When the body was lowered into the
grave the flag having been removed,
we clicked our heels together and
| came to the salute.
l left before the grave was filled in.
| l could not bear to see the dirt thrown
| on the blanket-covered' face Of my COM
rade. On the western front there are
no collins, and you are lucky to get
blanket to protect you from the wet
and the worms. Several Of the Sec
ton stayed and decorated the grave
with white stones.
F! That night, in the light Of lonely
candle In the machine gunner's dugout
Of the front-line trench I wrote two
letters. One to Pete's mother, the
other to his sweetheart. While doing
this I cursed the Prussian war god
with all my heart, and I think that st.
Peter noted same.
The machine gunners in the dugout
were laughing and joking. To them
Pete was unknown. Pretty soon, in the
warmth Of their merrimcnt. my blues
disappeared. One soon forgets on the
| western front
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governor" because he was laid up
with n cod, contracted by getting his
feet wet on his way to work In Wool
wich arsenal. If man should manage
to doze off, likely as not he would wake
with start as the clammy. cold feet
Of rat passed over his face, or the
next relief stepped on his stomach
while stumbling on their way to relieve
the sentries In the trench.
Just try to sleep with belt full Of
ammunition around you, your rifle bolt
biting into your ribs, intrenching tool
handle sticking into the small Of your
back, with tin hat for n pillow and
feeling very damp aud cold, with
"cooties" boring for oil in your arm
pits, the air foul from the stencil of
grimy human bodies and smoke from O
juicy pipe being whitfield into your nos.
trils, then you will not wonder why
Tommy occasionally takes turn il
the trench for rest.
While in front-line trench orders
forbid Tommy from removing his
boots, puttees, clothing or equipment.
The "cootles" take advantage Of this
order and mobilize their forces, and
Tommy swears vengeance on them and
mutters to himself, "Just wait until
hit rest billets and am able to get my
own back"
Just before daylight the men "turn
to" and tumble out OF the dugouts man
the fire step until 1t gets light, or tho
welcome order "stand down" Is given.
Sometimes before "stand down" is or
dered, the command "five rounds rap.
id" Is passed along the trench. This
means that each man must rest his
rifle on the top and fire as rapidly as
possible five shots aimed toward the
German trenches, anN then duck with
the emphasis on the 'duck"). There Is
a great rivalry between the opposing
forces to get their iapid fire nll off
first, because the early bird, in this In.
stance, catches the worm-sort of gets
the jump on the other fellow, catching
him unawares.
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CHAPTER TX.
Suicide Annex.


I was in my first dugout and looked
around curiously. Over the door of
same was little sign reading "Sui-
eide Annex" One Of the boys told
me that this particular front trench
was called "Suicide Ditch" Later on
l learned that machine gunners and
bombers are known as the "Suicide
Club"
That dugout was muddy. The men
slept In mud, washed in mud, ate mud,
and dreamed mud. had never before
realized that SO much discomfort and
misery could be contained in those
three little letters. M u D. The floor
Of the dugOut was an inch deep in
water Outside it was raining cats and
dogs, and thin rivulcts were trclsling
down the steps. From the air shaft
Immediately above me came a drip,
drip, drip. Suicide Annex was a hole
eight feet wide. ten feet long and six
feet high. 1t was about twenty feet
below the fire trench; at least there
were twenty steps leading down to it.
These steps We're cut into the earth
but ut that time were muddy and slim
perry. A man had to be very careful
or else he would "shoot the chutes."
The air was foul, and you could cut
the smoke from Tommys fags with o
knife. 1t was cold. The walls and
roof were supported with heavy square
cut timbers, while the entrance was
strengthened with snndbags Nails had
been driven into these tImbers, On
each nall hung miscellaneous assort-
ment OF equipment. The lighting ar
rangements were superb--one candle
In reflector made from an ammuni-
tion tin. My teeth were chattering
from the cold, and the drip from the
airshaft did not help matters much.
While l was sitting bemoaning nv
fate and wishing for the fireside Mt
home, the fellow next to me, who was
writing n letter, looked up and inno-
Gently asked, "Say, Yank, how do you
spell 'connagration'?"
l looked at him in contempt and an
swered that did not know.
From the darkness in one of the cor
ners came thin, piping voice singing
one Of the popular trench ditties en-
titled:
Pack up your Troubles In your Old Kit
BAG, ana Smile, Smile, Smile"
Every now and then the singer
would stop to cough. cough, cough, but
1t was good illustration of Tommy's
>. . 4. "a b d
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CHAPTER X.
"The Days Work."


/ was fast learning that there Is a
regular routine about the work of the
trenches, although it Is badly upset at
times by the Germans.
The real work In the fire trench
commences at sundown. Tommy Is
like burglar, he works at night.
Just as 1T begins to get dark the
word stand to" Is passed from trav-
erse to traverse, and the men get busy.
The first relief, consisting of two men
to traverse, mount the fire step, one
man looking over the top, while the
other sits at his feet, ready to carry
messages or to inform the platoon Off.
Ger Of any report made by the sentry
us to his observations in No Mans
Land. The sentry Is not allowed to
relax his watch for a second. If he Is
questioned from the trench or asked
his orders, he replies without turning
around or taking his eyes from the ex-
panse Of dirt in front of him. The re
mainder Of the occupants of his trav-
erse either sit on the fire step, with
bayOnets fixed, ready for any emer-
gency, or if lucky, and dugout hap
pens to he In the near vicinity Of the
traverse, and If the night is quiet, they
are permitted to go to same and try
and snatch few winks of sleep. Little
sleeping is done; generally the men sit
around, smoking fngs and seeing who
can tell the biggest lie. Some of them,
perhaps with their feet in water, would
write home sympathizing with the
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A mac,,inegun ofhccr entered tho
dugout and guve me hard look.
sneaked past him, sliding and slipping,
and reached my section Of the front
line trench, where / was greeted by
the sergeant, who asked me, "Where
In -- ave you been2"
1 made no answer, but snt on the
muddy fire step, shivering with the
cold and with the rain beating in my
face. About half an hour later I
teamed up with another fellow and
went on guard with my head sticking
over the top. At ten o'clock I was
relieved and resumed my sitting posi-
tion on the fire step. The rain sud
denly stopped and rye all breathed
sigh Of relief. We prayed for the morn
ing and the rum issue.
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EMPEY LEARNS, AS C0MRADE FALLS THAT DEATH LURKs
ALWAYS IN THE TRENCHES

Sysopss.-Fcd sinking the Of
England
makes the of "cootes
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O. : 1G uoNYpya&p.,
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Proving Their Patriotism.

"Of course we have family skele
ton"
We'll let's trot it out. 1t will be
Il credit To us now. Shows we are
not g."-KunsaS City Journal
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Empey goes "over the top" for
the first time and has a hand
to-hand fight with giant Prus.
sian. In the next instaIIment he
tells the story Of this thrilling
charge.
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The Last of Its Race.

llorrb-"With me The wish was cn'
ther to the thought" Anthony-"Your
wish has Il very small family"
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XIII the Flies Now and Prevent
disease. A DAISY FLY KILLER will do It,.
Kills thousands. Lasts all season. All dealers
or six sent express pnid for 81. II. SOMERS,
$50 De Knlb Ave-, Brooklyn, N. Y. ADV.
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sheets, has been invented in Europe for
insulation against heat and cold.
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COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF

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geography and United States and Euro
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in the War Department regulations, in
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EDUCATIONAL

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entire. course for this examination, IS
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TERRA COTTA-2,5 500 square
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BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE DIS
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December 20. 1918, for the purpose Of ss-
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Auctloneer.
GOVERNMENT SALE OF UNSERVICE-
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HOOD COVER-For n brass Ford radiator;
push-o-lite tank, cost s25; will sell ,or
IS: sets new side curtains for runabout
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'FFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS. D. C..

OFFICE or THE COMMISSIONERS. ID. c..
Washington, December II. l9lS.-Sealed
proposals will be received at the office of
the Secretary to the Board Of Commission
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o'clock y. m. on January I. 1919. for con-
structing bridge in Concord ayenUe, b.
tween 3rd and ith streets n. w. Fdtms Of
proposals, specifications and necessary IN
formation may be obtained from the Chief
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