French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-29

navy officer material will come from
he ranks, enlisted men showing ex-
eeptional ability being sent to training
schools maintained for that purpose at
which commissions for the grade Of
second lieutenant will be issued to
successful candidates.
European.
German newspapers received in
Denmark affirm that the situation be-
tween Spain and Germany is critical,
but they agree that Germany cannot
make any concessions with regard to
her submarine warfare.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Germans have brought up strong rein
forcemeRts on both wings of the battle
front, the British and French forces
everywhere have beaten OF the en-
envy and continue to make victorious
progress.
Many additional towns have been
captured by the British in the north.
The French have successfully owe
come obstacles placed in their way
and have reached territory north Of
scissors.
The successful operations Of the
French are adding further danger to
the Germans in the Noyon sector and
to their line running eastward from
scissors to Rheims.
The Germans are >gradually being
driven back to the old Hindenburg
line by the British.
Around Bapaume the Germans are
maintaining their strongest efforts to
hold back the tide that is surging
against them, but the British report
slight gains daily in the process of
surrounding the town.
LIE Barque, which has been captur-
ed by the British, is only two and q
half miles southwest of Bapaume.
Over the fifty-mile battle front to
the north of scissors, the German ar
mics r meeting with defeats which
apparently spell disaster.
Numerous towns have fallen and
enemy territory has been penetrated
to a depth Of several miles by the
British southeast of Arras.
Additional good gains have been
made by the French in the %.envelop-
nent of Noyon.
The entire Arras-Albert road has
been crossed by the British.
On all fronts on the west the strong
~ fortified positions where the Ger
mans saw disaster facing them if they
fell, were stormed and captured, and
The Germans retreated precipitately
without burning any bridges behind
them.
Interesting statistics issued from
London show that Great Britain leads
all the allies in the number of ships
in the naval service-on patrol duty
and in actual conflict. The figures
show 50 per cent for the British, IA
per CEN for the American and 6 per
cent for France. zElgSE&
At last the German press has given
up struggling against the truth. In
a short notice, which appears in vir-
tually all the papers, the identical ma
ture of which suggests official inspira-
ton, the reluctant admission is made,
says an Amsterdam dispatch, that Sec
rotary Bakers figures regarding the
strength of the American forces in
France are about correct.
The Berlin Taeglische Rundschau
says that not more than 10000 Amer
leans have up to the present been no
ticed on the western front.
The allied armies have taken more
than one hundred thousand prisoners
since July Is, says Marcel Hutin, in
the Echo de Paris.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant SEQ
rotary Of the navy, who says I'VE have
passed the summit of the mountain as
regards the war" told the French
press in Paris that there is absolute
necessity that all government minis
tiers and heads Of departments see
the war with their own eyes in order
to understand it's greatness. "As to
the submarines OH the coast the dam
ger points a. nov be said to have
been made safe,f he opined.
Anti-wealth demonstrations are de-
veloping in Japan. The property OF
the rich especially is being attacked.
Residences OF a number of million
aires have been burned to the ground
and immense damage done to property
Of muchants dealing with people and,
in particular, those suspected OF e3-
cessive profteering.
The violence of the Japanese food
riots and the rapidfty with which they
enveloped the country have astonished
the Japanese and have convinced them,
though far removed from the center
of the war, that they cannot escape it's
consequences, nor remain untouched
by the world movements which the
war has set in motion.
The allies have damaged six Ger
man armies since July Is, and the
British are now eating into the seventh
with the spread of the battle north
ward and over a front Of more tha1