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Chief Examiner Named.

Washington, Sept. 25.-Appo;n,. !,
ment of Henry Thurtell of Neyak
as chief examiner of the InterstaA
Commerce commission and II
George M. Grassland of South
Carolina as chief of the bureau 81,
tariffs was announced today by thei
commission.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-26
Prisoners Conference On !,

Berne, Tuesday, Sept. 24.-Tl|
Amerlcan-German war prisone}
conference began yesterday untps
the presidency of Paul Dinicbs
Swiss minister plenipotentiary. III
conference was opened by Pr. !, y
Calender of Switzerland. k&
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-26
Turkish Joke.

Consfantinople, Via London, Sept
25-The retreat of the Turks in
Palestine was still being carried out
Tuesday. according to the war Office
communication issued today, ''in
conformity with prepared plans"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

Tonss manipulated by one hand have
been Invented for helping in handling
clothes when washing at home.
A Portland. Me-. man has a room
papered with Louisiana lottery tick
cts. which cost him $4,000 and never
brought in cent.
4 method for rebuilding wornout au-
tomobile tires and making them pune
ture proof with a fabric woven from
thread and vegetable fiber has been
invented by a Californian.
More than 1000 motorists who
failed to stop. look and listen were
killed at grade crossings in 1916, and
many more were injured. The num-
Der of the killed and injured in these
accidents Is increasing 25 per cent a
year.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
ALLIED VICTORY
Is UNEQUALED
FOCH'S STRATEGY HAS WREST.
ED FROM GERMANS THE GAINS
OF SEVERAL MONTHS.

With the French Army in France
After the battle of the Avre, the sit
uatiOn of the belligerents presents a
change which for rapidity and extent
has rarely been approached in mill
tary history.
Marshal Foch's strategy and the
mastery tactics of the. generals con-
handing the armies and groups OF
armies under him have in three weeks
wrested from the Germans what re-
Quired months for them to obtain at a
cost variously estimated at from 7OO..
900 to 100000 men.
The immediate result of the coun.
ter-offensive which will have the
greatest bearing on subsequent ope
rations are the clearing of the Cha.
teau Thierry pocket, ending the men.
ace to Amiens; the freeing of the i'm.
portant eastern railroad line from
Paris to Chalons and the equally i'm
portant Lorthern line from Paris t.
Amiens, restoring to the allies means
of communication which give them
enormously greater ease in future
movements of troops.
These successes render impossible
any rupture of the line which separate
the French armies of the center from
those to the east, or a rupture Of the
junction between the French and
British. The most disastrous conse
quence to the Germans, aside froh
the heavy losses they sustained III
men and material, is the collapse Of
thex plan to drive wedges into the
allied lines and the subsequent widen
ing and joining which would have
threatened general dislocation.
Marshal Foch's strategy in reduc
ing the salient wedges wrested the
initiative operations from the Ger
mans, at once obliging them either to
order a general retreat to a strons
line, such as the Somme, or to en-
gage reserves. The enemy adopted
the second alternative which, having
failed. makes eventual retirement i'm
mensely more difficult.
The first phase of the battle of the
Avre finds the French with a footing
upon Thiescourt plateau, west OF
NoyOn, which has vital importance in
future operations. The Germans must
either capture at high cost, if he can,
or abandon Noyon, which means the
fall of Roye and Lasigny, which al.
ready are under imminent menace OF
capture.
The disaster which menaced Gen.
eral Won Hutier's army has been
averted for the moment. The few
narrow passages which now are ope,
for the withdrawal OF his stores are
SO harassed by the bombs of aviators
and the fire of heavy artillery that
prompt escape is impossible, render
ing probable a desperate effort by the
Germans to cling to their 1914 line.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
SUBMARINE SINKS
AMERICAN STEAMER
FREDERICK r. KELLOGG SENT
DOWN OFF AMBROSE CHAN.
MEL NEAR NEW YORK.

New York.-A German submarine.
approaching the very gates of New
York harbor, sunk the oil tanker
Frederick r. Kellogg off the Ambrose
channel. Thirty-five members of the
crew brought here reported that five
others are missing. These survivors
were picked up by an American
steamer.
TOrpedOed without warning, the
Kellogg sank in three minutes, said
member of her crew on coming
ashore here. The force of the ex-
and the five missing men, who were
in the engine room, are believed to
have been killed. No submarine was
seen, according to Capt. White.
The survivors, in small boats, row.
ed for three hours towards shore
when a freighter took them aboard.
One of the crew reported his narrow
escape when he was caught below
decks by the rapidly sinking ship. He
was carried down by the suction, he
| asserted, but swan to the surface and
reached one of the boats. Navy OFF,
Gals enjoined silence upon the sur
vivors before they could complete
their accounts of the disaster.
Permitted later to detail their ex-
periences, members of the Kellogg
Company declared that while making
for shore they saw a submarine ope-
rating under attempted concealment.
A dory suddenly rose out of the wa
ter, they said, and from one of the
many holes in its keel periscope pro-
| truded.
The dory foated for some time. the
sailors asserted. as though designed
to attract passing steamship toward
it, then disappeared.
Five members of the crew OF the
sunken oil tanker Frederick r. KEEL
logg were officially reported dead, as
follows:
Samuel L. johnson, AZ, second as
sistant engineer, American, New
York City; J. Kramer, AZ. third assist
ant engineer, native of Norway; Fran
cisco de Louga, Portuguese mess
boy; William Stillman, 20, United
States cadet, Shelton. Conn; Chester
c. Cubberly, 81. United States cadet,
Long Branch, N. ].
An oiler and fireman, still miss
ing, have not yet been identified.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

IN designating the banks of n river.
the terms right and left are used with
reference TO the position of one who is
facing in the direction of the rivers
flow.
A Norwegian electrician has invent
ed a push button which indicates that
its signals are heard where intended.
Neckties. linen collars and Numbered
shirts are taboo ut the ,McComb grange
in Findlay. o.. during the war. The
grange has passed resolution provid-
ing that any member coming to a
meeting in his best clothes will be SUBJ
ject to heavy fine.
Operated by electricity rotary
brush and suction fan have been COM
bined by an Chic inventor into a de-
vice for cleaning billiard tables more
satisfactorily th.a vacuum cleaners do
the work.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Old Story DisproXed.

Most persons know the story told
OF Cleopatra. to illustrate her luxurious
habits Of living. that she dissolved In
her wine precious pearl. No one
seems yet to have questioned what
must have been the effect upon the
drink. but scientists scott at the pos.
sibility of such solution. The fact is
pearls are not soluble in wine. The
most powerful vinegar affects them
slowly and never entirely dissoIves
them, for the organic matter remains
behind in the shape Of a spongy maa
that Is larger than the original pearl
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
FOOD CONDITION IN
JAPAN CAUSE RIOTS
TROOPS CALLED OUT IN EVERY
IMPORTANT clTY-SOClAL
UNREST GROWS.
WORKMAN JOINS POPULkCE
Serious Rioting in Tokyo and Other
Large Cities Directed Against Gag
italistic and Weaithy-War Has
Increased LuXuries of Rich.

Tokyo. - There is serious riotin.
in Tokyo. Mobs are attacking and
damaging property in the business
and theater districts.
The rioters also entered and pillag-
ed houses in Asakusa, the great re-
creation resort OF the middle and low
er classes. y number of the disturb
ers were wounded by the police.
Troops have been called out in
nearly every important city in
Japan. Even the naval station at
Naizura is affected by the unrest.
Two thousand workmen are rioting
in conjunction with the populace.
At Nagoya, noted for its manufac-
ture of pOrcelains, mob estimated at
10000 persons rioted. AT several
places the soldiers fired at the dis
turbers.
AT Kobe the soldiers and police
also were obliged to use sabers and
bayOnets against the rioters.
The newspaper comment here
seems to indicate that the food riots
throughout the country are an eX-
preston of growing social unres;
among The people and to reflect the
belief that the empire is advancing
toward a social crisis. The riots are
spreading, involving alike the poor
and the middle classes, who feel i'm
PEELED to protest against economic
conditions.
1t is remarked that the ubrisings
are often anti-capitalistic in nature,
the mobs attacking and destroying
the property OF the wealthy and voic-
ing anger at evidence of luxury.
Geisha girls have been stoned as
they have driven through the streets
in automobiles, and the houses of the
rich have been assailed. While the
war has created millionaires AMI in-
creased the luXuries of the rich, it
has also increased the misery of the
poor because of insufficient wages be-
ing paid. Factory hands, especially.
are fOmented by the ring leaders OF
the riots, which are the first of the
kind 10 occur since Japan was OPEL
ed to western civilization.
Disorders broke out in Tokyo Tues
day night. A crowd of 5000, which
was prevented from congregating in
the park, marched to the Gina, the
great retail thoroughfare Of the city,
where they stoned and damaged 200
stores and restaurants. raided rice
depOts and unsuccessfully attacked
the ministry of the interior. Ninety
arrests were made and 20 policemen
were injured. Tokyo is now occupied
by heavy detachments of police and
infantry. The newspapers are for
hidden to publish news Of any kind
relative to the rice riots.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
AMERICAN TROOPS
TREATED CRUELTY
GERMANY TELLS NEUTRAL COUN-
TRIES GERMAN PRISONERS
ARE BEING KILLED.
FOOD FOR YANKEES POOR
Declares America Will Be Startled
When 1t Learns of Inhumane Man.
ner in Which Our Wounded
Are Being Treated.

With the American Army in France.
While Germany is conducting a
widespread propaganda among neutral
nations to the effect that the Ameri-
can military officials order the killing
and manning of wounded prisoners.
German officials are treating the
American wounded in an inhumape
manner and making them the special
objects of their hatred. Many evil
dences of these facts have been
brought to light recently.
A narrowing story of the treat
ment Of soldiers captured by the Ger
mans is told by two British prisoners
who escaped from the Germans and
entered the American lines. Both are
men of more than average intelli-
gence. They say that 1000 British
prisoners with 1000 Russians were
forced by the Germans to build the
German railroad south of the Vesle
river. They say that in Germany the
signs which formerly read, "Gott
strafe England" ("May God punish
LuSlduu J uOW HdNC OCth dlttiCu W
substituting America for England.
They declare that German soldiers
make a practice of sending home the
food and comfort articles which they
steal from packages sent to allied
prisoners.
Il would like to be in charge of a
camp of German prisoners" said one
of the men. "All the German SOL
diers that | saw are of the same type.
They insult, abuse and kill their pris-
oners at the least provocation."
He said that it would De impossible
for human being to survive long Oh
the food given him while he was a
prisoner. He said that the usual ra-
ton consisted of a pint of coffee made
of hawthorne berries, for breakfast.
At 2 in the afternoon he was given
a watery soup containing a few dried
vegetable. At 6 o'clock he received
a pint of hawthorne coffee and three
quarters of pound of black bread.
He declared that no man could sur
vive six months on such a diet.
1.-The Russian prisoners are treated
like brothers by the boche now" he
said. The French have the next best
treatment and the British next Your
country will be startled when IL
learns of the inhumane manner in
which your wounded are being treat-
ed.
81 believe that the Germans have
suffered a disastrous blow. l saw
hundreds of trains filled with wound
ed from the Marine front. The Ger
mans now are talking of the posi-
bility of propaganda 20 compel the
neutrals to break with the allies and
make a situation out of which Ger
man peace could be secured. In Fiy
opinion, there is no degree of devil
ishness of which the Germans will
not be capable when they find that
they are whipped.
1.-The comment that l heard among
the German soldiers convinced me
that the Americans have them wor-
ried. They had been made to believe
that they could wade through the
Yankees as though. they were lot of
children. They haven't recovered
from their surprise YETI
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

The call of their country's service
has been heard by practically all OF
Great Britain's' beautiful and talented
peeresseS. In the front rank of these
Industrious workers In war activities
is the countess of Wilton, who ha.
been devOting herself to war wOrl
since the outbreak of the conflict She
has served as nurse iG one of the
hospitals where wounded soldiers are
being treated and has won the hearts
of the soldiers by her tender and sym
pathetic care. Before she enlisted In
the nursing corps she was active ir
the many bazaars which marked the
early part of the war.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Ii PAYS to Be Courteous.

Policemen should learn it pays to b.
courteous. \ Pittsburgh bluecoai
found such To be Il fact. He saw mar
and two women getting off a Joplin
'sr. "arh carrying aravy suitcase
= ~ 'fncer, seeing thu. one of the
wco.en was having trouble In carrying
her baggage, sallantly stepped up and
asked that he be permitted to assist
her. When he picked ii up something
inside ratified suspiciously. At police
station. says the Sun, ~ quarts OF
liquor were removed from the suit.
cases.-kansas City Star.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Generals Are Dismissed.

London.-Three German generals,
recently commanding near Montdld-
ier. have been dismissed for neglect
of duty, according to Belgian reports
received in Amsterdam and trans
mitted by the Exhange Telegraph
Company. A large number of sold
iers were court-martialed at st. Quen-
tin for high treason.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
To Use Dutch Vessels.

Washington. - Forty Dutch ships.
totalling approximately 100000 tons,
now idle in Dutch East Indian ports,
are expected to be released to bring
sugar, tin. quinine and other commod-
tiles to the United States, as the re-
suit of an informal modus vivendi ef-
fected by the War Trade Board
through Charge d'Affaires De Beau
fort of the Dutch legation.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Would Expel Dictator,

London - A dispatch to Reuters
from Vladivostok, under date of All
gust 8, says that the district Zemst-
vo has handed an ultimatum to the
consular corps, demanding the ini-
mediate expulsion of General Hor-
vath, self-proclaimed dictator of Sibe-
ria. The Zemstvo threatens to sus-
pend its functions If this demand Is
not acceeded to.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Won Hutier Frenchman.

Paris. The discontinue of Gen.
eral Won Hutier's army arouses a
great deal of interest here. There
is a feeling in France that Won Hutier
is a renegade Frenchman. His faith
er emigrated from France to Ger
many and served in the war against
France in 1870.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Not in That Service.

Washington. Investigation by
Commissioner Hugh M. Smith of the
Bureau of Fisheries has failed to de-
velop evidence to support reports tina:
the commander of the German sub
marine which has been sinking fishing
craft off the New England coast for
merly was in the United States fish,
cries service.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Denies $50 U-Boats Lost.

Amsterdam. With reference to
the recent statement by Premier Lloyd
George that $50 German submarines
had been sunk. the Dusseldorf Mach
richten's Berlin correspondent says:
I'VE are able to state definitely that
the enemy's anti-U-boat war cannot
show any such success"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
For More Co-operation.

London. - Lord Reading. the Brit
ish ambassador TO the United States
is here to discuss with the govern
ment proposals for closer Anglo
American cooperation involving a de-
fensive and offensive alliance, accord.
ing to the Evening News.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
U-Boat Chief 4 Traitor

Gloucester, Mass. Fishermen
claim to have identified the command
er of a German submarine which had
been sinking fishing boats of the At
lantic coast as a skilled navigator
formerly in the United States Fish.
cries service.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
German Hopes Blasted.

Zurich, Switzerland. - The German
hope of ending the war by a military
decision before the arrival of the
Americans was blasted by the recent
allied offensive, the Socialist newspa-
per Arbiter Zeitung of Vienna says
in a recent article.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
U-Boat Survivors,

An Atlantic Port.-Two steamers
with survivors off vessels sunk by
German submarines OF the Massachu-
sets coast reported that they were
proceeding to port but the number
aboard or the names Of the ships vera
not stated.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

Washington. - Court martial or.
ders published show that President
Wilson has committed to forfeiture Of
$50 pay a month for three months
and confinement to camp for a like
period a sentence of dismissal impos-
ed upon Capt. Roy A. Jameson, 143rd
Infantry, for assaulting Private Ray
mond F. Bufkin. The incident &C.
CURED at Camp Bowie, Tex.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
humbert lauds Yankees.

With the French Army in France
Deepest admiration for the American
the British and French in the Picardy
offensive was expressed by General
Humbert, commander of the Third
French army, during a talk to war
correspondents. 1.-The Americans
fight" he said. with an ardor that
is unsurpassed
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Huge Loss in Corn.

Des Moines. Iowa.-Twenty-five
million bushels OF corn, valued at sto,-
10000. have been lost in Iowa
drouth in the southern part of the
state, the federal weather and crop
bureau here estimated.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
More Wooden Ships.

Washington. - Contracts for IS
wooden cargo vessels and Is wooden
barges were let last week, the Ship
ping Board announced. Eight vessels
of $500 tons each and 10 barges will
be built by the Midland Bridge Com
pany, Houston, Tex.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
10000 Troops Needed.

Vladivostok. - Gen. Horvath, self.
styled head of the new all-Russian
government, declares that no less
than 100000 allied troops will be re-
quired to prevent Germany from OBJ.
tanning control Of the food resources
of Siberia and Mongolia.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
In Behalf of Women,

London. - The Labor party has IS
sued a call for convention of women
of Great Britain to be held October
16. The convention is expected to de-
mand the right OF membership in the
House of Commons for women.
fixed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
MESSAGE From Pershjno,

Washington. = A special personal
message from Gen. Pershing was de-
livered to President Wilson by Col.
John F. Tinney Of the army medical
corps, recently returned from France
after a years service.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Sent To Porto Rico,

San Juan, Porto Rico.-Brig. Gen.
Edward r. Chrisman, formerly sta
toned at Panama, has arrived here to
take command of a brigade Of draft
troops, now in training.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

Wichita, Kan. A hundred oil
derricks were wrecked and damaged
to the extent of 100000 done by a
windstorm that struck the oil field in
Butler county. No lives were lost
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

Paris. - Since the beginning Of
the allied counter offensive on July
IS the allies have taken more than
70, 900 prisoners and more than 1000
guns, the Echo de Paris states.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

Geneva, Switzerland. - The Aus
trians are reported moving an i'm
mense amount Of material and great
numbers Of troops in the direction Of
Italy.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
New German INTRIGUE.

Picking. - The Chinese government
has declined to receive Monsignor
Petrelli. recently appointed papaI
nuncia to China, on the ground that
he is personal friend of Admiral Won
Hin:1e.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Canada Will Send Aid.

Ottawa Ont. - Canada will be rep
resented by military unit of approx
imately 1000 men in the expedition.
airy force which the allied govern
ments will send to Siberia.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
w. S. S. Sales $500. DOC. 600.

Washington. - The American peo-
pie have bought s5S0.0O0.0OO of War
Savings and Thrift stamps. treasury
reports showed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Many Towns Attacked.

London. - A record number Of air
raids were made into German terri
tory during July. The total is said
authoritatively 10 be SO. The bombs
dropped amounted to 81 tons.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Assassin 10 Executed.

Amsterdam.-Boris Danskio, the as.
sassin Of Field Marshal Herman Won
Eichhorn, was executed. according to
advices from Kiev.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Certificates Oversubscribed.

Washington. - The $500. 100000 is
sue Of certificates of Indebtedness was
Oversubscribed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
First Army Oruanjzed.

With the American Army in France.
The Fist American Field Army has
been organized. 1t is under the d..
rect command Of Gen. John ]. Perish.
ing.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
To Make Long Flight

DAYTON, O.-Ten American air
planes left Wright Field for 5000
mile flight around the central western
states.