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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25

appears To be in excellent health. The
two great iron gates by which entrance
is gained to the approach of the exec.
utive mansion and kept locked and
within reach is constantly n sturdy
cop. 1t Is at these gates that the
pickets have so often had their battle
with an indignant crowd. There are
few people about the house and only
the family and few friends enter.
When the president takes his drive
down Sixteenth street he is always ac-
COMMANDED hY seNnrnl sncrnt servicn
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25

ing how a language rom
the dramatically hakng
hen
there small
a and of
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25

girl who said she wanted to see Mrs.
Pell at once. She rose and bowed very
formally when Mrs. Pell entered the
room few minutes later.
my name, madam" she said, as
Bertha LivingsOn, nineteen years old,
unmarried, living in % East Ninety
ninth street. Do you recognize this,
madame"
She held out visiting card upon
which was engraved alfred Duane
Pell, d. D."
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25

voiced in what might literally
my soul an body, Ms Mac!
"Ahr little
shinnied -
Plush
pions aim to II a
"Wel soul an bod quit limp
The other
seon her was voiced contao that mh
20 her buslness-made big 10
AN nwa would be wNntn with every timer
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25

also the S6S5 he had cached in one
of them.
Joe came from Austria n few years
ago to the land of liberty. He soon
found he was ut liberty to work on
the railroads as construction la
borer and he has been juggling ties,
handling shOvels and driving spikes
with more or less freedom ever since.
1t was fond notion with Joe that
some time he would bring his wife to
America. Recently he revised his
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25

visiting cards said Mrs Pe She then scrunzed her caller closely
1T that" said tell
band and be married about hour thought might like
know about it."
The girl
Fftyrs When Parolman
PeI home Miss Mvngsn jumped to her feet and exclaimed
Oh look the pretty cop! Now police
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25

menIIOned MT. MItcheII mas Daeh
prospector in California, with a resi-
dence here. Then one day, all of
sudden like, he realized his love was
not dead, and forthwith he sent query
to Mrs. Katherine Gordon, 4016 North
Pauline street.
"Will you marry me?" lie asked.
At 4:30 o'clock yesterday after
noon the knot was tied by Elder X. f.
Mallott Of the haywood Church of
Christ. Mr.. Mitchell has n mysterious
manuscript which he calls "The Crater
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25

you nave ulSSeu neIs NuelS mas ShS
gone? She is here in Washington.
What brought her here? War
work.
Washington today has some 10000
more girls than it had at the outbreak
of the war. The answer is plenty Of
government work and good wages.
Government departments are crying
louder every day for stenographers.
The civil service commission is recruit
ing stenographers all over the country
and bringing them to Washington.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25
Surely Here Is Story of Prize BOne-Headed Thief

EVEANDOe EkO 5O7 South SangamOn
Of Austria his former lord and master of his SOUL would
cross on Ceveands prize bonehaded thief
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25
Life in Capital Not All One GIittering Joy

n might have been any
polished her
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25
Authorities Had to Disturb This Young Girls Plan

NEW YoRKA Pel of
~
Of the Pel home West Ffhrd
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25
All Are Brushing Up on the French Language

CTUDYING in washington n
divides with knitting
nobody really brushing up
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25
Serious Work All That Interests Washington

circle war preparation
life and daily takes his exercise In the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25
Asks why Waltz" When One Feels Loves Impulse

os ANGELEsAfer proposing sweetheart
of his youth Calvin Mitchell ffeght competent
advise basfu suo and that advice Is to speed Dun 20
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25
From the Viewpoint of the Eternal Feminine

You all know the zzedhaed powddnOsed Molly you
lunch in
trying to make both ends and forever failing
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25


music Tor ana strained Washington kind
me iew restaurants that do music
lock their
Theaters Washngtona population
houses playing legitimate
Nen real attraction the demand
once mas no protest when
lhe widest excitement that is offered Washington the
AFTERNOON promenade Up and
their
them tote mohers
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25

Occasionally couple marry and live
happily ever after-they are divorced.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25

DIR. Pierce's Pellets are best for liver,
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet
for laxative, three for a cathartic. Ad.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25
Chose Festive Season to Give Up Life's Struggle

said
Of forbddng
thn nlnnr dintni
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25

police recovered the body.
A letter addressed to the "City
Authorities was found in the mans
clothing. 1t is believed financial diff
ficulties had prompted Kesl to take
his life. The letter read in part:
my house is gone-so is the
money. About the latter 1 wouldn't
care, because could make 1t again.
and make it honest, too. But what's
the use of suffering?
Il knew couldn't last very long,
so I've been giving my money away, 8
"Hurrah for Uncle Sam; free Boht
Cevna, Nora and the whole worlds del
ITO h with the kaiser"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25

IHe.E IIItIe dinners, their little dances
and their little suppers, and the
pleasure-seekers have gone TO New
York or Philadelphia for their pleas
ures. Washington slept on.
Now the national capital finds IT.
self In the midst of great boom.
There Hre hundreds Of newcomers
here who love pleasure and need it
after the strenuous days. Washington
has nothing to offer them.
Other cities offer cafes and restau-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25

IV"H IHIU lHe sUHCIUIH OF j. E. Clark,
marriage license deputy of the clerks
office, and made request for license
to ltinrry her.
Under the questioning Of Mr.. Clark
the young man admitted himself but
twenty years of age. and was told he
must be twenty-one or have the con-
sent Of parent or guardian.
Il am sorry" said the license
clerk, a note Of genuine regret in his
kindly voice.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25


jumped the
nent and delding faces at him.
the little archer in all his pranks
the mlschevous
into mpudent avoid being
caught and suspected by the couple being ushed
The next day egan and his
"But only twenty
mo am twentyOne" seriously birthday"
- license
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25
Youngsters Birthday Came at Opportune Time

LAKE CTYFacing matony Regan Buey Idaho
older The comfy
clerks Office Two days since Ren led Miss Stocking home
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-01-25
OnaI Capital Really City That Is "SIOw'

w WASHlNGTON-Amercas capital place for the wom
Ves pressure Pleasure simply Isn't here For Washing
WIN ITSELF ana social life.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28
Won EICHHORN'S SLAYER HANGED
PUBLICLY; MET DEATH BRAVELY
Forty Thousand Ukrainan Peasants Fighting Near Skvra
Ralway-Want to Gust Germans and to Be Reunited
With Russia, Declares Ransome

by the Brest peace. On the other hand.
the Germans have been unable to supply
the Ukraine with the manufactures
most needed. and the Ukraine has agreed
to supply Russia with sugar. An ar
rangement is being made whereby the
Ukraine is to give Russia 5000 to
5000 pounds of flour in exchange for
textiles.
with regard to Austria, the same
bourgeoise reports the situation as crit
ical, the internal chaos and the condl-
ton of the army reminding him very
much of the state of Russia Immediately
before the revolution. Desertion from
all fronts is turning into a mass move
ment to the rear. which nothing can
stop. This Is confirmed from the more
intimate knowledge of Russian prisoners
who are making their way out of Aus
tria. They say soldiers are pouring
back from the Italian front, starving,
selling their equipment and even the
bayonets to peasants In exchange for
something to eat.
1.-THE sympathy of the peasants is
with tbesoldiers. They themselves are
exaspeTated by the desperate possibility
of requistions. They hide what they
have and resist the police in their efforts
to unearth supplies.
'1n White Russia conditions are like
those in the Ukraine The police land
guards approached are the old well -hated
officials under the regime of the Cars.
The feeling of the people is so bitter
that many of the police bolted, fearing
an immediate rising and not trusting the
Germans to keep sufficient force to de-
fend them. all young soldiers having
been taken for the western front In
Livonia the German chief local author
ity, Won Zeibush. was wounded by sew
eral shots at Reneburg near Wenden. He
has since died. The murderer escaped
and the Germans fined the district SO, 900
marks.
These conditions are reflected in re-
current disorders among the German SOL
diers in the occupied provinces. Thus
recently division of Kherzon refused
to obey orders, and regiment at Boi-
sivo killed two of its officers and
wounded others before the mutiny was
suppressed by fresh troops"
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into this pocket on the north and
Mangin on the south. Mangin may
expect to meet serious difficulties to
his further progress when he comes
against the enormously strong enemy
positions in the forest of Saint Gobain
In front of Laon. but nothing OF this
sort can prevent the British under
Byng and Rawlinson from continuing
to push Boehm's armies back toward
Cambrai and Saint Quentin.
Hard Country for Retreat
On the other hand, the country over
which the enemy must retreat In fall.
ing back from Chaulnes, Roye and
Noyons Is exceptionally unfavorable
for an army to which ease and rapid
ity of movement is Imperative If 1t
would escape from the victorious pur.
suing adversary. Won Boehm's armies
have to face the awful ordeal of cross.
ing broad belt Of water.logged
ground on each side of the Somme
where every bridge will be under the
fire of our guns and airplanes.
The situation of the enemy's forces
who will have to retreat from the
Noyon region is probably even worse,
as a glance at the map will show
The only way out for them is this:
The armies have to face in direction
which will be through a narrow strip
of country not more than ten miles
wide, which lies between the Ofse and
the Somme. Mangin even now holds
the line of the Disc and is already
across the river at two or three
points. In any case, the German col
umns and long trains of conveys with
ammunition and supplies will be un.
der an enfilading fire of Mangin's
al tho ntcn fhov nlll hack
toward Saint Quentin.
Won Boehm Skilled in Retreat
These obviously abundant reasons
explain why Ludendorf is hesitating
to give an order for a general re-
treat The Germans on the Somme-
Disc front are now, to put 1t in
nutshell, between the devil and the
deep sea, which is exactly where Foch
has been maneuvering to get them.
Whether they will decide to fight or
the present positions or continue to
fall back behind the Somme, the re.
suit will be the sames so far as can
be seen from present indications.
1t must not be overlooked. how.
ever, that Won Boehm is by far the
greatest German specialist in con-
Quoting retreats from apparently hope
less situations, as he has more than
Gnce proved. The situation at this
moment Is magnif1cently favorable for
the Allies, but the enemy's strength
of resistance is as yet by no means
exhausted, and it is fully realized here
that there is still much hard fighting
to be done.
The feeling is steadily growing here,
however, that the Allies must be salts
fled with nothing short of decisive
defeat of and unconditional capitula-
ton of Germany All probability of
peace by negotiation is fading steadily
away That kind of peace, as Paris
secs it, would mean a German peace.
The only peace acceptable here would
be the peace of the Allies. At present,
to every German suggestion to make
1t up and be friends. France has only
one reply: q.
Thanks. but we prefer that as
the rate of 100000 per
battle"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28

private soldier is the son of a New
York shipbuilder. He could have stayed
at home TO help in the shipyard, but
preferred coming to France as a private.
He and others Of his unit take rations
and ammunition to the front trenches
under cover of night. the lieutenant COM
manding being on horseback. 1t is a
very important job, and the men have
to be very careful to avoid the shells OF
the alert boche gunners. who keep a
thorough watch on the transport service.
The enemy artillery in this sector has
the advantage of temporarily better air
service. Boches in planes are flying
about all the time, observing and taking
photographs. This condition will be
remedied shortly by augmentation of the
American supply of planes.
our men are quicker and more en-
thusiastic about taclling French than
other English-speaking soldiers. / heard
many of them making a stagger at con-
Versation with natives, and some of them
gave French pronunciation to Vese.
Fismes and Nesle Qike Vale. Feem and
Nale). The British would never accom-
modate themselves to the Frendh pro-
nunciation. Ipres is still ''Wypers," and
will so remain while the British hold
that sector.
Food is abundant and good At Of
GERS mess we had excellent roast beef
and vegetables and the ever-present
molasses to pour over bread or cake.
The impression prevailed that the Ger
mans kept up an incessant gunfire either
to cover their retreat or demoralize the
Americans in the back area. If the lat
ter was the purpose, it failed completely,
as the Americans soon became accus-
toned to it and paid little attention.
Though men and horses We're OCCASION
ally hit. it seemed to me. on the whole,
that the soldiers rather enjoyed the ex-
citement. Certainly the expenditure of
was not justified by the
damage done. With all their shelling,
we give them back three or four to one.
A party Of sixteen German prisoners
brought in while l was at battalion
headquarters looked well fed and seem-
ed to be good soldiers. Several were
They were a sullen lot, refus-
ing TO reply to questions and shaking
their heads when asked II any of them
spoke English. They had white bread
and well-known brand of American
which they had taken from the
bodies of dead Americans. 1t is sell
dom, lately, that they have had chance
10 do this. but last week they got lit
tie American territory, which was
recovered by counter-stroke.
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TACTICS WON'T
LET GERMANS RETREAT
Compelling Ludendorf to Fight Every Inch of Way
Back-Unable to Prepare New
Lines
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
Copuf0ht, 1918, JU Neto York Times Co.

Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
Copr1oht. 1918, 5v Neto York Times Co.
Paris, Aug. 2S.
Ludendorf is undoubtedly anxious to
effect retreat on a large scale to safer
positions well In the rear, and all indi.
cations tend to show he would have
done so as long as week or two ago,
mad the circumstances been different.
The reasons why he has not done so
are believed here to be twofold.
In the first place, Foch has dealt
him four heavy blows since the eighth
OF the present month. Following Man
gins staggering flank attack between
Soissons and the Marne on July IS,
which smashed all the enemy's care
fully laid plans to smithereens and
wrenched the initiative from him,
Rawlinson and Debeny struck between
the Ancre and Avre on August and
between Matz and Disc on August 10.
Mangin again struck between the
Aisne and Disc on August 1S, and
Byng between the Scarpe and Ancre
on August 81.
To meet these repeated blows and
stave off disastrous defeat In place
after place, the German high COM
mand have thrown in all available re-
serves to such an extent that the
enemy had neither time nor men avail
able to prepare new line positions in
the rear on which to fall back.
FOch Makes Germans Fight
This supplies the second good reason
why Ludendorff has been unable to
repeat the great coup Of the famous
retreat to the Hndenburg line of the
spring of last ,ear. The tactics of
Foch not only rendered impossible a
repetition of such a retreat, which was
effected without the loss of a man or
gun, but compelled the Germans to
fight desperately on every yard of
the battlefront under the sheer neces-
sity of avoiding being 'annihilated
where they stand.
The unceasing series of defeats we
are now witnessing is thus doubly
disastrous for the enemy. Lndendorff
desires above everythin gto retreat,
but Foch won't let him. He is so
short Of men that he can't spare any
to prepare new positions in the rear,
and Foch has them in such a grip
that even such few fresh troops as he
can obtain. such as the Austrians,
can't be used to re.enforce his line,
but only to fill the gaps caused by
his enormous losses in killed, wounded
and prisoners under the relentless
pressure of the Allies.
As Paris sees it, the Germans today
are in by far worse situation than
at any time since the war began.
They are. in fact, in a very similar
position TO that from which Hinden-
burg escaped by his mastery retreat
last year, with the vital difference
that, If they are now forced to retreat
the consequences. at least to the
armies of Won Boehm, must be disas-
trouS.
These armies occupy huge pocket
enormously deeper than that of Mont.
didier or the Marine. Byng is eating
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28
Special Cable TO EUening Public Ledger
Copyright. 1918, by Neto York Times Co.

Special Cable TO Evening Public Ledger
London. Aug. 2s.
Arthur Ransome. who records events
in Russia from the Bolshevist point OF
view. telegraphs to the London Daily
News from Stockholm under date of
Sunday:
"On August 10 Boris Donskoi as
sassin Of the German Field Marshal
Won Eichhorn, was sentenced and
hanged. The execution was carried out
or a public gallows erected in Lukian-
oyskaya Square, which was guarded
by German infantry and artillery
Donskoi, who was brought under strong
convoy. behaved with firmness. He re-
fused to be bound or blindfolded. The
Germans took photographs OF the exc
cution. / have seen picture-posteards
issued by the Germans illustrating the
hanging of Hungarian and Austrian
prisoners captured by them after Tight
ing in the Soviet, army.
.The methods are not available to
check the revolutionary movement in
the Ukraine 1t is reported in the
petrograd Pravda that a peasant army
of nearly 10000 Is fighting combined
German and Ukrainian national troops
near the Skvira railway. The strike
continues.
"A Russian bourgeois. returned from
Kiev, reports that Bolshevism Is grow
ing The moment the German troops
Leave any district the workmen leave
the factories, and railways are damaged
by the peasants, who organize resist.
ance He laments the unfair fate of
the Iykrainian bourgeoisie. who, he says.
are between the frying-pan and the
Are since they resent the assumption
~ ALI authority by the Germans. and
know II the Germans go they will i'm
mediately be replaced by the soviets.
He saws both the ,bourgeoisie and the
population generally favor a reunion
with Russia, of course, under different
conditions. Separatism has virtually
anneared, except among the Galicians
visiting Kiev.
oorhe Germans only succeeded In get
ting one-eighth of the corn promised
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NEW GERMAN TROOPS
RUSHED INTO ACTION

with the British Army In France.
aug 2s.-Driven from the high ground
pS,o.eStihg SorceS hsvo Jerome ,i on the west and
the region of Arras, the Germans are
nghting desperately. but apparently with
much confusion, to stay the British at
lacks In the region of Bapaume
Early this morning an enemy move
ment OF considerable proportions was
discovered southeast of Mory The fire
oI the British guns was concentrated on
mat region, doing tremendous damage
The shells burst amid the transports and
the concentrations of men.
HeaVy re-enforcements have been put
Into the enemy line in the Bapaume re-
zion and his resistance there has
stnened. Bandsmen and transport sery-
ice men have been flung into the battle.
Apparently the use of these re-enforce-
ments Is Tor the purpose of giving the
enemy time TO dig in on line parallel
ing the Canal Du Nord on the west. He
is already reported to be digging in
Wnether he VIII be able to hold this line
east would be behind the Canal Du
Nord. about six miles east of Bapaume
The Canal du Nord runs in a north
easterly direction from Peronne to the
west OF Cambria. The Germans have
ance on the east bank of this canal.
On the center of the front the battle
Is raging with increased violence
On the north the British withdrew
TO the west of Trones Wood. The Brit
tsh also gave up their fCothold on Maltz-
horn Farm, near Guillemont, east of AL.
bert. South of the Scarpe the British
at last reports had gained possession
of Fontaine-les-C -Croiselles.
Along the Somme, in spite of stubborn
resistance, the British have pushed the
Germans of the high ground between
Maricourt and the river. South of the
river they have reached Dompierre, six
miles west of Peronne. North of Mari
court the Germans made vicious counter
attacks last evening. and the British
mad TO give up some of the ground they
had gained during the day.
The greatest British advance of YES
terday was made south of the Scarpe,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-28
By the United Press
BY the Associated Press

tssl London, Aug. 2S.
British forces fighting east of Arras
have reached the outskirts of Hau.
court. Remy and Boiry Notre Dame.
north of the Arras-Cambrai road, ac.
cording to the official statement issued
by the War Office today.
Houcourt is eight miles southeast of
Arras.)
The British line in the Flanders bat
tie area has been advanced on a front
Of four miles astride the Neuf Berquin.
Estaires road.
South of the Somme the British have
taken Foucaucourt, while north of the
Somme they have attacked and taken
the greater part of Trones Wood.
A dispatch from the front says Ca
madam troops in their advance yester-
day southeast of Arras We're supported
by tanks, and it was a most dashing
performance. The town of Cherisy,
east of Heninel. was entered in the
face of fierce fighting.
Latest advices give the following line
along the front from the region Of
Arras to below the Somme: ArleuX,
Gavrelles, Roeux, Bois du Sart, Boiry
Notre Dame, RAINY, Haucourt, Croi-
selles, Beugnatre, west of Bapaume.
Thilloy, Flers, west of Delcille wood,
Troneswood, east of Maricourt, west
of Dompierre. Fay, Soyecourt, Ablain-
court and MarChelpot.
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Official War Reports
FIR Won

hTiS, aug. 20.
During the night our troops. main
tanning contact with the German rear
guards. continued to advance north
and south of the Avre
We occupied Chaulnes, Omiecourt
1.-TWO miles east of Chaulnes), Balatre
Ithree miles east of Royce, Roiglise
two miles southeast of Roye) and
Verpelliers Ga mile south of Roiglise).
Further south We penetrated Crapeau-
mesnil Wood three miles north of
Lassignyl and took Dives (two miles
east of Lassigny).
This morning we progressed toward
the Somme. North of the Avre we
reached the general line of Licourt
(four miles east of Chaulnes), Potte
IA mile south of Licourt), Mesniel-le-
Petit Ia mile north and slightly east
of Nesle), and Nese.
Since yesterday about thirty villages
have been retaken. We also advanced
twelve kilometres (seven and one-half
miles) at certain points.