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cal Combat Which Will Decide "How Long"

the novel and formidable instrument, on
March 81 of the present year, the odds
were very heavy in favor of his sue
cess. There was only one grave draw
back to his position.
Il ne failed. if the Allies managed to
maintain the struggle, unequal as it mad
now become, for even few months, the
growth of the American army which 1t
was now apparent his submarine cam
paign could not interrupt, would turn the
scale Again we know what happened
He failed
On April it was discovered that the
French and British forces, though almost
berctt of the power of manWuvre, had
pressed right back against the valley of
the Somme, and with Paris itself under
long range fire had kept the line intact
Then came the period which history will,
| think, regard as the most curious ex-
ample of bad strategy in the hands of
competent, even great, generals which
was ever known.
The Germans in the West having lost
very heavily in the delivery Of this great
blow which should have been decisive.
began to strike at random. There is no
other word for it. At that time each
blow was so heavy-for there was still a
great superiority in numbers and still a
superiority in the tactical instrument
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certain plan which from that day to this
has been consistently followed. The huge
battle at which we are now assisting is
but it's latest development.
Let US appreciate that battle. The
enemy stood in a great salient running
from the north to its apex at the Forest
of st. Gobain and the neghborhood of
Laon and then around past Rheims
through the Argonne Forest to Verdun.
He had massed his troops, as was wise,
for the purposes of attack within that
great salient. The counter attack caught
him now congested within the bulge and
therefore in q bad posture for defence.
The problem was how to keep the
enemy congested within the angle of
Arras, ST. Quentin and ST. Gobain,
Rheims and Argonne; how to prevent
him from reinforcing the now danger
ously thin line to the south and east of
Verdun and keep him in this bad posture
while the American forces were growing.
For six weeks, all through the latter part
Of July and the whole of August, the
problem was successfully solved by the
system of gradually extending attacks
which ran from Rheims northward and
westward to Arras.
ioch made no attempt at a rupture in
the enemy line. Far from it, His whole
object was carefully to pin the enemy
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understand the nature of the plan
thought perhaps that the enemy "had
been driven back to the Hindenburg
line, )" or some other nonsense of that kind.
What really happened was that he had
been forbidden to reinforce the weak sec
tors to the south and had lost in prison
ers alone all the results of his drive in
the spring, some 1000 guns, and in killed
and wounded, apart from prisoners, more
than he could replace in a fighting sea-
son from the new recruits and hospital
returns. But all this was only the pre-
liminary and the main shock was to
come. Its first chapter is no true part of
it, only a sort Of clearing ground. For
the first time the large American army.
with certain French contingents, took the
field alone and cleared the salient at st.
Mihiel. 1t was singular proof of the way
in which the enemy is forbidden by its
northern fighting to reinforce in the
south
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trains at the station. But somehow or
other they didn't seem suited for singing.
AS their strong, willing voices began roar
ing duct at the audience, the audience
began to feel badly and put on their hats,
and many Of them cancelled their sub
scriptons for Liberty bonds, and others
wrote letters to- the newspapers right on
the spot The letters all said that they'd
taken the papers for years, and that it
painful to the writer-and so on, and
so ON.
The Controller of the Treasury was APP
palled at the way things were going. The
handsome young Assistant Controller who
sat at his side, was of the opinion that
the Liberty bond issue lost The au-
dience by this time was moaning and
throwing chairs at the singers; and Nine
Papreek was begging a fireman to show
her an exit.
AT this terrible moment large, regal
automobile, with Especial Delivery' en-
graved ON its sides like a van, drew up at
the door, and beautiful creature sprang
out She knew nothing Of the failure Of
her sisters She just wanted to help the
Liberty Loan In an instant she had
SKINNED onto the stage, in rainbow like
dress, and was smiling at the audience
like fairy. They stopped throwing chairs
They stood in amazement and watched her.
And she sang them song.
There are all kinds of songs in the
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A Bird s-Eye View of the Wars
Great Turning
Point
Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune Inc

the North Sea. He struck first upon the
Marine pocket into which the enemy had
thrown all the available men in the
neighborhood to avoid disaster; then on
August 8 in front Of Amiens with SINH
lar effect; then on August 81, in the Sec
tor Immediately to the north Of that;
then on August 26 in the sector from
Arras to the north again.
Meanwhile he exercised continuous,
uninterrupted pressure against the apex
at st. Gobain, pressure which began in
August and is continued to this day, so
that the enemy is not able to withdraw
from that position, so vital to our plans,
and he has put into it, first and last, the
equivalent Of, say twenty-four divisions
In the last of these operations the Brit
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- HE battle which opened Septem-
Der 2G S on such a large scale
chat no one can grasp it unless
he will combine return to the
first principles with {. recollection of the
Immediate past When ne has done that
he will have the framework within which
this enormous issue is being decided
Then only car ne descend to detail.
| propose to consider those first prin-
ciples at the outset, to recapitulate in
the largest lines the steps by which the
great story Of the war has been reversed
rus machine worked MISUNDERSTANDING
the last few months, and then to look
:. ito the details
Just as on July Is the French and
American counter attack between Cha
teau Thierry and scissors turned the
tide of the war, so the enormous action
launched September 26, just ten weeks
later. is opening its great critical phase
On July Is, for the first time since Prus-
STA forced her dependents into this at
tack upon civilization, four years before
civilization recovered it's full stature and
began pressing down on its opponent
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appalled, when the Chemn DIES Danes
gave way far off to the north and the
enemy came right into the heart of
France at Chateau Thicrry At last, on
July Is. came the end. with series of
tremendous converging attacks east and
west of Rheims, upon front of fifty
miles, the last effort of the German
armies. 1t failed and was countcred
Three days later on July Is, just at a
moment when the tide in numbers was
turning, when the French and American
forces launched an unexpected counter
offensive between Scissors and Chateau
Thcrry, the enemy still had the advap-
tage in numbers But it was like tide
which, having raced up at flood, is brim-
ming to slack water, and in very few
weeks the ebb must begin. That was the
supreme Importance Of the date and was
the meaning of July 1S.
The American power Of organization
and the astonishing elasticity of the
American military system in sending
quite unexpected numbers to Europe, and
doing so ever since, caused the disaster
in March. Meanwhile another element
entered the feld-the new tanks, which
owed their origin to the mechanical
genius Of the British. Finally came the
united command, the fruit Of Clcmcn-
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A Liberty Loan Cinderella

world; but they had heard none like this
1t was so light and gay, and so tender:
so full Of swift changes 1t hoatcd in the
air like a dancer. 1t rose and it fell 1t
seemed to pirouettc in its music, then gem
ty take breath then suddenly .'f4cp up
and carry the audience with it, in sweet
swelling chorus that went straight to every
ones heart
1t stopped. There was a second of 81
lence. Then a great crash of clapping
Then, as Jane Grey made d pretty little
curtsey, and danced off the stage, there
were roars Of applause, and a most ire
mcndous stamping of feet, and loud calls
insisting that she should come back and
sing more.
But, meantime the regal automobile had
been blowing its horn, and honkng most
harshly for Jane Grey to stop and come
out Only she couldn't hear it. because
OF the ceaseless applause. Then a clock
began striking, and she gave a quick look
at her watch. and oh, it was midnight!
Then oh, how she fled from the stage! The
automobile was just leaving. She caught
hold, behind. And off it raced, whz
through the streets to the Polish costu-
mer's, who was locking his door, very angry,
because Of his rule. And he shook both
fists at Jane Grey. and he swore (but in
Polsh), and he said that he had promised
his mother always to close UP at twelve
and that Jane Grey had nearly prevented
HIM. And he sat down and cried. SO Jane
patted his head, and put the Persian dress
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The Decision May Be Soon, or
Deferred Until
Spring
BY HILAIRE BELLOC
Author of Elements of the Great War;
Military Critic

take before a purely civilian population
could be organized into great army.
The enemy in the winter of 1917 had
all the cards in his hands and everything
IN his favor. 1t would admittedly be the
best part of the year before a consd-
cradle American force could appear in
the European field, and it was doubtful
whether the force could be transported
at all in face of the submarine factor-a
doubt which was publicly and loudly ex-
pressed by the most competent authori-
ties of Germany and accepted by all the
German public.
The enemy not only had Il superiority
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and prevent amy general retirement; to
keep up the congestion into which the
enemy had fallen, with full half Of his
armies in the hundred miles between
Arras and Rheims and With three-quar-
ters of them between the Argonne and
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ish, on September 2, in most brilliant
action, forced the last permanent artif-
cial line north of Queant and compelled
the enemy to adopt new water line
against the tanks. covering Douai. Then
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ceau's persistent efforts, in the hands of
French masters of strategy.
The initiative being recovered, the
numbers being about to turn, with new
and invaluable tactical instrument being
now in Allied hands, there appeared d
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in numbers, but also q superiority in
tactical instrument. He had used the
opportunity the Russian collapse afforded
to Withdraw great numbers Of men and
give them special training for new
form of shock army When he launched
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it affected the opinion Of the military as
well as the civil.
The British commander in chief talked
of the army as having been pushed ''bacl;
to the WALL during the blow up to the
north in Flanders on April 9. Paris was
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SAFE, GENTLE REMEDY
CLEANSES YOUR KIDNEYS

For centuries GOLD MEDAL HARLEM
Oil has been standard household remedy
for kidney, liver, bladder and stomach
trouble, and all diseases connected with
the urinary organs. The kidneys and blad-
der are the most important organs of the
body. They are the filters, the purifiers of
your blood. If the poisons which enter
your system through the blood and stoin'
ach are not entirely thrown out by the
kidneys and bladder, you are doomed.
Weariness, sleeplessness, nervousness,
dependency, backache, stomach trouble,
headache, pain in loins and lower abdo-
men, gall stones, gravel, difficulty when
urinating, cloudy and bloody urine, rheu-
matism, sciatica and lumbago, all warn you
to look after your kidneys and bladder.
All these indicate some weakness of the
kidneys or other organs or that the enemy
microbes which are always present in your
system have attacked your weak spots.
GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules are
what you need.
They are not patent medicine" nor
new discovery" For 200 years they
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have been standard household remedy.
They are the pure, original imported Haar-
lem Oil your great-grandmother used, and
are perfectly harmless. The healing, sooth-
ing oil soaks into the cells and lining of
the kidneys and through the bladder, driv-
ing out the poisonous germs. New life.
fresh strength and health will come as you
continue the treatment. When complete
ly restored to your usual vigor. continue
taking a capsule or two each day; they will
keep you in condition and prevent re-
turn of the disease.
Do not delay a minute. Delays are es-
pecally dangerous in kidney and bladder
trouble. All druggists sell GOLD MEDAL
HARLEM Oil Capsules. They will refund
the money If not as represented. GOLD
MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules arc i'm
ported direct from the laboratories in Hol-
land. They are prepared in correct guam
tity and convenient form, are easy TO take
and are positively guaranteed to give
prompt relief. In three sizes, scaled pack
ages. Ask for the original imported
GOLD MEDAL. Accept no substitutes
Adv.
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this ncid.stomach is allowed to tear down
and use up day after day your strength
and vitality faster than you can get lt
out OF food you eat. Life is indeed DARK
and dreary for person with Acid'sI"n-
ach.
You crave health, strength. the power
and will to think and nct-don't yolf
You want TO feel fun OF pep and enersY.
nne and ht. always eager for work VI
pleasure.
Then you must rid your stomach OF
its excess acid. You can start doing II
right now. wonderful modern mcdi-
cine has made It possible to literally wipe
out the excess acid. This remedy Is called
EAToSiC. II Is made In pleasant thst-
Ing tablets and you take them just like
a bit OF candy.
Aud, my, how good EATONiC makes
you feeil 1t banishes hcid.stomach mis-
cries like magic! Makes the stomach cool.
sweet and strong. Helps you to get full
strength out Of your food so that, In
turn. your body and brain are vigorous.
alert and keen.
EATOSiC Is absolutely guaranteed. So
get big Soc boI from your druggist II
Il does not help you your money will lie
refunded. II your druggist does not keep
EATONIC. send your name and address to
the Estonic Remedy Company, 1913 :.
Wabash Ave. Chicago, I'LL. and they viii
at once mail you q boc box and you can
send them the money for II after you 70
ceive it
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Acid Stomach Makes
vi||i0ns Weak and
Miserable

For years dentists have been telling
us that It's acid mouth that ruins tho
teeth. yet this acid that Is powerful
enough to eat through the harder than
bone enamel OF the teeth and decay
them, is tasteiess. Its presence can be
detected only by chemical tests.
No chemical test is needed to tell you
that you have acid stomach.
Indigestion. belchine. heartburn, sour
stomach. food,repesting. that miserable
pufred up feeling after eating. Intestinal
pains. headaches. etc. These are all
Natures warning to you. They are
sure signs OF superncidity.
Acid-stomach prevents proper diges.
tion and assimilation. thus causing the
blood to become thin and Impoverished
as a result Of which people becom" sal.
low skinned. emaciated. sick and bad
looking.
Acid. stomach causes stomach and In
testinal fermentation. producing poisons
and toxins which. absorbed into the blood
and carried throughout the system. cause
auto o-intoricatien. insomnia. nervousness.
frritabiiity, mental depression. melnn-
choiis, dizziness. vertigo and oftcntimes.
valvular heart trouble and heart failure:
Acid stomach causes Irritation all
along the intestinal tract-irritation 20
severe and sggrayating AS to frequently
result In catarrh and even cancer OF the
stomach.
What chance. then. has anyone for
robust health. happiness % success II
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HOW TO USE VICK'S VAP0RUB IN
TREATING SPANISH INFLUENZA
The Influenza Germs Attack the Lining of the Air Pas
sages. When VapoRub Is Applied Over Throat and
Chest the Medcated Vapors Loosen the Phlegm,
Open the Air Passages and Stimulate the Mucous
Membrane to Throw Off the Germs.

specific for infiusnza-the disease must
run its course. Nature herself VIII
throw off the attack II only you keep
up your strength. The chief danger
lies in the complications which may
arise. Influenza so weakens the bodily
resistance that there Is danger of pneu-
monia or. bronchitis developing and
sometimes Inflammation of the middle
ear. or heart affections, For these
reasons. 1T is very important that the
patient remain in bed until his
strength returns-stay in bed at least
two days or more after the fever has
left you. or II you are over SO or not
strong. stay in bed four days or more.
according to the severity of the attack
EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS.
In order to stimulate the lining OF
the air passages to throw on the
grippe germs. to aid in loosening the
phlegm and keeping the air passages
open. thus making the breathing ems
ier. Vicks VapoRub will be found ef-
fective. Hot. wet towels should be ap-
piled over the throat, chest and back
between the shoulder blades to open
the pores. Then Vick's should bo
rubbed In over the parts until the SKIN
is red. spread on thickly and cover
with two thicknesses OF hot flannel
cloths. Leave the clothing loose
around the neck. as the heat of the
body liberates the ingredients In the
form of vaporS. These VaporS. IN
hailed with each breath. carry the med
ication directly to the parts Affected
At the same time. VapoRub Is alb
sorbed through and stimulates tho
skin attracting the blood to the sur
face and thus aids in relieving the con-
gestion within.
HOW TO AVOID THE DISEASE.
Evidence seems to prove that tins
is germ disease spread principally
by human contact. chiefly through
coughing. sneezing or splitting So
avoid persons having colds - Which
means avoiding crowds - common
drinking cups. roller towels, etc. Keep
up your bodily strength by plenty of
exercise In the open air and good food
Above all keep free from colds. as
colds irritate the lining OF the air pan
'sages and render them much better
breeding places for the germs
Use Vick's VapoRub at the very hrst
sign OF cold. For a head cold, melt
"A little in a spoon and lnhale the VA
pors or better still. use VapoRub In n
benzoin steam kettle. II this Is not
available. use an ordinary tea-kettle-
FIJI half-full of boiling water. put in
half n teaspoon of VapoRub from time
to timc-keep the kettle Just slowly
boiling-inhalu the steam arising
vick's VapoRub can be had In threc
sizes-30c. COO. SI20-at all druggists
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In Addition, VapoRub is Alb
sorbed Through and Stimu-
lates the Skin, Attracting
the Blood to the Surface and
Thus Aids in Reducing the
Congestion Within.
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Not Selected.

what wns the selection the or
chestra just plnyedf'
"That wasn't any selection" replied
Mr.. Cumrox. THAT was something the
boss forced on the audience because
e happened to have 1t In stock"
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Alaska,. Varied ownershlps.

Russia owned Alaska by the right
of discovery in 1741 and subsequent
occupation of 1t. In 1749 she granted
It to an American fur company and in
1867, the fur company's charter hnv-
ing expired. she sold 1t to the United
States for S7.200.000.
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M Many-Sided

81 didn't know the Hun was so
u.nny-sided."
"Ee isn't. He's a blockhead and a
brute
81 agree with you, but the dispatches
say that he is being attacked on four
fronts"
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Ruinous.

AlIce-You were foolish to get an
cry with Edith just because she kept
you waiting.
Tom-Rut, Great Scott, / vas whit
ing for her with taxi
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The tortoise shell. when heated, be-
comes very pliable and can be twisted
in any shape required.
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Always aim a little higher than the
mnrk-if the mark is dimple in her
chin.
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Groves Tasteiess chill Tonic
richng the blood. You can soon feel It's Strength.
ening, lnvigoratlng Hnect- Price tOc.
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Nobody Wants Them.

81 see they are now renting shoes In
Germany" "Ah, indeed. i suppose
the kaiser would rent his cheap"
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Philadelphia will employ married
women as school teachers.
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THE SYMPTOMS.
THE TREATMENT.

Go to bed at the first symptoms. not
only for your own sake. but to avoid
spreading the disease to others-take e
a purgative. eat plenty of nourishing
food. remain perfectly quiet and don t
worry. Quinine. aspirin or Dover's
Powder. etc. may be administered by
the physiclan's directions to relieve
the aching. But there is no cure or
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California reports small new gold
find near Oroville.
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Domestic.

BY mining 6.63s tons of coal in the
Isl possible working days from Janu-
airy / to October 90, inclusive. or more
than twenty-five tons day. H. L.
Witt of Hatfield. w Va, has estab-
lished record which the Fuel Ad-
ministration believes will stand for
the West Virginia coal fields. If not
for the entire country.
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CALL A PHYSICIAN - co
TO BED STAY QUIET
DON'T WORRY

There II No Occasion for Pnnic-Inhu-
enza Itself Has n Very Low Percent-
age of Fatalities. Not Over One
Death Out of Every Four Hundred
Cases According to the N. c. Board
of Health. The Chief Danger Lies
In Complications Arising. Attacking
Principally Patients In Run-Down
Condltlon-ThOse who Don't Go to
bed Soon Enough, or Those who Get
Up Too Early.
Spanish Influenza. which appeared in
Spain in May. has all the appearance
over the world in numerous epidemics
as far back as history runs. Hippocra-
tes refers to an epidemic in 4l2 b, C.
which is regarded by many to have
been influenza. Every century has had
Its attacks. Beginning with 1881. this
country has had five epidemics. the
last In 1Ss9-1S90.
THE SYMPTOMS.
Grippe. or influenza. as 1t is now
called. usually begins with a chill, fol-
lowed by aching, feverishness and
sometimes nausea and dizziness. and
a general feeling of weakness and de
preston. The temperature is from 100
from three to five days. The germs
attack the mucous membrane. or lining
of the air pnssages-nose. throat and
bronchial tubes; there is usually
hard cough. especially bad at night,
and frequently all the appearances of
severe head cold.
THE TREATMENT.
90 to bed at the first symptoms. not
only for your own sake, but to avoid
spreading the disease to others-take
A purgative, eat plenty of nourishing
N
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More than 100 men and women were
killed and probably double that mum.
ber injured in a collision recently be-
tween two Brooklyn Rapid Transit
trains in the tunnel near the Prospect
Park station on the Brighton Beach
line.
II, + r
President Wilson cleared up his
task as intermediary for armistice and
peace pleas OF the Central Powers just
as press dispatches were bringing the
news of Turkeys surrender and Of
events foreshadowing an early col
lapse of Austro-Hungarian arms.
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The truth about the failures and de-
lays of the War Department in pro-
ducing American airplanes is unspar-
ingly revealed in former Supreme
Court Justice Hughes report. just
made public. 1t is story of ineffi-
cheney and confusion of purposes in
high places and of violation of Grim
inal statutes by q few officers.
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Mexican federal troops were de
feated by a superior force of viii;
followers forty miles south of this
border recently according to repor
brought to Ojinaga by a runner sen
out by the federal commander. Th'
federal force numbered 500 and thu
Villa band S00