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Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-25
FASTENING THE GERMAN RE.
 TREAT.

At the present time the apparent purpose of General Foch in directing the attacks against the western front in the vicinity of Valenciennes Is to make it impossible for the Germans to make . stand upon the Scheldt river. By going through their de- fense positions at that point and crossing the Scheldt as they have at one or two points means that they are going to be able to outfank any preparations for holding onto the de- lenses along that stream.
 There is in fact no real good evi- dence that it is the idea of the Teu- tonic high command to make final stand on such a line. Frcm all indi- cations it is its purpose to hold up the allied advance there or elsewhere until the back areas can be cleared. or un- til defenses which can be depended upon can be put in shape along the line of the Mouse. The movement of the Germans eastward is going on apace. The enemy is using the strategy which has been frequently employed of giving up territory in stead of sacrificing men needlessly. t IS necessary to offer greater resist dnce at some points than at others, especially north of Verdun, since there would he serious danger involved in lailing hack there before the region 10 the north had been cleared of it's equipment, supplies and men to suc h 2 decree that adequate protection could be secured.
 The purpose therefore of the allies
 is to break up whatever plan of re- treat the Teutons are working un- der and every drive that is made into their lines is helping 10 that end The advantage which the allies hold is being well employed in striking se- iious blows at tine enemy and much more extensive advance is to be an ucipated before snow flies.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-25

 pound?' So l did, and through it, found relief from my suffering and l really believe it saved my life. It does not seem as though I caa say enough in praise of this wonderful medicine for the health 1t has brought me. Miss CORA LEE. HALL, West Plains, Mo. Perhaps it may seem an extravs- gant statement to say that this great remedy saved life; but women like Mrs. Hall, to whom it has brought health, appreciate the danger and suffering they have escaped too well to doubt it!' All who suffer should try it. Why risk life and health without it?
 For special advice write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.,, Lynn, Mass.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-25

HDie cramps every month so 1 was un- able to do anything. l had tried every doctor in W est Plains, also every remedyI think of, without relief. One day when l was suffering greatly a friend was at my hous e an d 8 aid,
 Why don't you try Lydia E. Pinkham's Ho~nAohln Com
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-25

After reading the graphic account of the first battle of the Marne in the issue of The Stars and Stripes of Sept. 6th, it seems to me that the situation was about this:
 Marshal Joffre was playing 0harter- back, directing the French tean. It was Germanys ball on Frances five yard line. The crown prince, or some body, fumbled, and it was Frances ball again.
 Then Marshal Joffre gave his famous Hold 'em!" order and the line stiff ened He shouted a string of num- bers and Generals ManOury and Cas- telnau, left and right ends, respective ly. darted out toward the side lines, drawing the German ends and tackles out with them, and forcing the Ger man guards to play out from the cen ter so as to try to cover the French tackles, too. Look out for a kick" hollered the German quarter, running back bit And then Marshal Joffre sent General Foch. his great piunging fullback, right through the German center for B yard gain. Result:
 Frances ball on her own 40 yard line, on the Aisne.
 As far as I can figure out. the ball has been since then in Frances terri
 tory. but Germany didn't get within kicking distance of the goal-whieh was and is Paris-until this last spring and then only because she had a long range drop kicker in the person of Krupp. a new man from the Essen prer 1 school Even Krupp's tries at it, am told, all bounced off the side posts o1 | the crossbar.
 With the new men in the French l team-the left side Of the line being 1 British and the hslfs and full being ] Tanks, with Foch, captain, at quarter 1 it looks good to ne for our side tc ] carry the ball well into Germany's 1 territory before the end of this, tht l third quarter. If we could inlict pen
 alties on Germany for unnecessary roughness and ofside play we'd have
 the ba| back there now. And I look 1 for ?. touchdown and goal early in tht 1 fourth.
 know you haven't got a sport page any more, but perhaps my explanation may be of some help to such lowbrow!
 as myself who have to get things il l terms of football. Respectfully yours,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-25
EX-TAN.
Dear Friend Lt

Dear Friend It. -:
 Well. old friend, thought maybe you would like to know how I am coming so 'will drop you 8 few lines. l am feeling fine, just got my leg dressed, had fine breakfast, also some good cigarettes. Now you will have to ex- cuse this writing as I am on my back. I don't think I will have much chance Of going to the front again as they had to amputate said leg. In fact, think I am bound for Blighty; sounds good, doesn't it?
 I was lucky getting off the field so soon: they picked me up in about Is or 20 minutes after l was hurt and
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-25

preparing for flight. The American machines swooped . down within q hundred feet of the ground and circled about the field, sweeping it with the fire of their machine guns until all of the German machines were blazing and the men attending them either shot or driven into a nearby wood
 Meantime bombs had been dropped on all the hanGars and on the chateau itself, which burned like a torch and lighted the attackers on their return journey.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-25
WOMAN SAVED
 MUCH SUFFERING
Bytaking Friends Adviceand Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
 etable Compound.

West Plains, Mo. -"I was all run down in health, had indigestion and ter
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-02

Beautifully green before. now bars and stripped. The wood is now to be evacuated. Stormy night; heavy she'll ing on our left.
 July 20.-"A wretched orump did in two huts and my batman I sweated
 like bull. At 5.30 Tommy 'nops up
 the trench of the 1SGth and the new advanced line is lost
 July 21-''About a. m. the assaut t detachment of the 111th storming company were to clean up this trench The leading files fell at once. They could roll it up no further, The same l way with an assault detachment and 1 the Tth Co. sent in lower down Went 1 home at midday. When 1 got back l learned that the trench sector as far as Z.. I. was to be taken and 9th Co
 is to put one light machine gun at the point of intersection. This point i; overlooked from all sides and is swept
 by heavy machinegun fire. .. Ate
 some heavy work we crept down tht trench to our station like a raidins party. The point is under fire from i three sides: and there wes have tt Iltave the men to their fate.
 This is how they function in deel dug outs aft< the fourth camptetet
 year of war! Orders are given and ar carried out, and when a mess is mad lof the thing, then the howl begins Further back everything is planned s'
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-02

of comic opera plot in Germany's recent protest sent via Switzerland against the use of shotguns by Amer jean soldiers as being calculated to cause unnecessary suffering" That the nation responsible for the inven- ton of the sawteoth bayonet, the fiamethroWer and the poison gas should find the shotgun cruel weap- on is a new instance of Teutonie req soning. Secretary I.ansing's reply. all so sent through Switzerland, was brief and to the point. The shotgun is a legitimate weapon and wilt not be giv- en mp. Moreover the German threat to execute any American prisoner caught with a shotgun will be met by such reprisals as well protect the Anleri- can soldiers. AS 3 matter of fact the shotgun has by TO means supplanted the rifle. Comparatively few of them are in use. but for hand-t hand fight ing General Pershing has found them peculiarly valuable. The German pro- test is sufficient proof of tine effieien cY of the homely weapon in the hands of the American soldier.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The man on the corner says. If you are looking for a happy man these days seek out the fellow with a cellar full of coal.
 Now that the Maine deer hunting season has opened 1t can be expected that there will be an increase in the casualty list
 Among other things it is pretty clearly forecasted that it will not be long before the Germans will be driven out of the Belgian ports.
 With kings and queens mingling with labor leaders some progress is being shown toward the making of | the world safe for democracy. The kaiser is upbraidins the. Ger man people for feeling gloomy and yet if they knew what he knows they ! would feel gloomier than they do.
 Nothing gives eneourasement to the rolling up of a big Liberty bond sub- 1 scription like the success that is being l attained by the armies in the field If Germany is actually withdrawing it's occupational troops from Rumania 1 it thoroughly understands the condi- tions which are prevailing in Bulgaria
 The fourth Liberty loan is the big gest ever asked. and from every indi- cation it is the intention of the peo- pie to make the response correspond
 That New York man who went into bankruptcy owing SLIGO, 900 and hay ing no assets can appreciate to some extent the feeling of the central pow CTS.
 There is one thing about it, no one will experience the trouble in getting his Liberty bond wants filled that ht has undergone in filling up his coa bin.
 Calling though it may be. there car be no question but what the capitn lation by Bulgaria will bring it thu greatest relief it has experienced il
 many a day.
 Even if they are producing nev vaccine for use in treating influenza
 patients at such a rate as to care fe 50,900 cases a day New England vii need the entire output for numhe of days.
 Even if Germany sent adequate re serves to bolster up Bulgaria and kee it in the war it is quite evident tha they were started too late, and if the reached Bulgarian soil they will nav Ste flee faster than they went.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-02

on the dining cars have the oppertu- nity of presenting false returns. and in this instance 1t appears that they not only turned in wrong checks but that they were able to do it in such a manner as to beat out the checking method which was supposed to account for all the material sup- rlied to the dining cars and all that was served as orders. Not enk did the company Iese as the result Of this plan which was participated in by many of the employees but tke patrons of the cars were geuged at the same tune by the short rations which were served to them
 Such operations resulted from the desire to set rich quick and studied efforts in dishonesty. It wasn't by accident that this money was gath cred in by the employees but through carefully laid plans which included the laying in or an extra supply Of cheeks for that very purpose. Whether it has gone on for years or for a month ii is certainly time it was stopped and stopped for good.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-02
HIS OWN PoIaT OF VIEW

The young lieutenant swung the prettiest girl through the slow meas ure of 8 one-step.
 Look here. young lady," he said, T shouldn't mind at all if you cried on my shoulder under the proper circum- stances, but 1t is forbidden m this ballroom. Follow mel"
 Seated in a yeranda swing, she sighed as she locked up at him with troubled eyes. ''I wasn't going to cry, but, im-i'm going to drown my seif-y,'
 'aTkat ses Now. who'd have thought it! In that case you had better con- fess, hadn't you? It Is the correct thing, I understand''
 T suppose you think you are funny, but if you had gone and completely dlsgraeea yenrseif-Do you know Louise Cameron ?"
 T can't seem to remember any girl but you" he puzzled. A
 Well. have positively insulted her for months" explained the prettiest girl. "She doesn't knit, and, as fer as 1 could see, she did nothing but hold her hands, while I take my knitting everywhere, even to church. . II I,auise happened to be near me I'd simply Haunt it in her face
 "0Re day she picked up a sock that was holding osteHtatieusiy in front Of her. You do beautiful work. Ruth, she said. I told her I was glad she thought so. and it wouldn't be the least trouble for me to teach her to Knit But she said she was so awkward that she was sure she could never learn. ] told the girls and they thought it was perfectly fleartIess of her. Sc we decided to cut her and at the same time endeaver to find out whether she is really pre-GeFman. Of course, we knew she wore a Red Cross pin and g liberty bond buttpn, but then I've heard that the very worst spies dc that.
 ''The first time I saw her after oul decision was when the war savin: stamp campaign was on. didn't in. tend to speak to her, but the though came to me that here vas 2 chance to test her loyalty. 50 I asked her fol a pledge. She said she had already made one and when I asked her where her tag was she replied she must hav, lost it.
 "Likely story!' I blurted out, bu
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-02

ed. Our sirnaen show little activity and
 l do not know in what our superiority consists. At night the airnlen worry
 us great deal. Two officers of the Srd
 NJ. c. Go. were wounded and the 11th Co. too, had casualties from bombs One man with six children Ytae was employed as kitchen orderly fell a vic-
 tim to this treacherous arm.
 We have got lot of work with the training of the men. They can't shoot, and in other ways they lack the most elementary notions of a soldier. I have long ceased to lose my temper.
 'On the evening of the 9th some of l the officers of the 3rd Bait. had a lit l tie drinking bout. Finally l sought my l sorrowful couch as drunk as an owl" | July 19-"On the 11th We went into 1 the line. It had been raining; the 1 ground was waterlcgged, and the go- | ing was bad. Tommy was smelling in 1 front of and behind us, and we were lucky to get through. Moving up is 1 the most trying experience for the in- fantryman. You may have bad luck in | the line. too. but at least there he does
 not drum the trenches to pieces every day.
 Great liveliness prevails in the air
 above us. not from our side, but from fthe enemy's. During our last day in rest Tommy crashed three contact pa trols of ours. The enemy has got faster and more flexible machines than
 ours and one can only pity our clurn sy things together with their occu
 pants when. attacked by three or feu1
 flying men. they are under such hot l4re they have no alternative except t. l crash. All three crashed in flames. IT . the night of the 1Sth-14rh Tomm! l" thered my platoon sector severely : sent both latrines west. and got mos : unpieasantly close to my funkhole
 "On the 18th at midday Tommy at : tackled our fanking battalion and go } into the front lines. The handful 0 men in the advanced line could no Of course do the business. though , is easy enough to conduct operation l ir' theory and i'll deep dugouts. Sine
 l then our sector has been under pret n ty heavy shell fire. On the 18th r ,, opened two very heavy huIsts of fir 2 and the amount of stuff he blaze away then was mad. At night th I usual harassfng fire On, the 1Tth h 7. shelled our trench intersection a var . away from my shelter. I pulled ol n two wounded. one severely, the othe
 slightly.
 q Same Scarcely have settle IS in than I'm obliged to shift agafl e Early morning In the little woe IS Quite smashed up by shel!ing of 26t = and could hardly find my way abou
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-02

beautifully-how elastic the advanced line should be and how it should re- pulse smaller raiding parties. So it lean, if the enemy makes ! frontal at- tack. But a handful of nannikins- l cannot hold off stout enemy whn has already overcome two company sectors, while half are dead and | wounded of the third We have got
 to stick it-came an order yesterday 1 evening. The company officer will
 recommend me for a decoration; but
 I don't attach any value to it.
 From 3.30 to 4.3A he shelled us
 again with heavv stuff piumlt on tha
 parapet of o. c. Company. During
 the night I was ru@hing about again l and saw to everything.
 l Undated (?Juiy z2f.-"Thas contact patrol paid US a visit yesterday, and Ieyerything went of. spiendidly and to- day we are commended Besides this, 1.2o0 Iitres of beer were awarded to the battalion. I am in good spirits iagain today. had the hump yes- terday "-London. Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-02
A CLEAR COMPLEXION
Buddy Cheeks Sparkling Eyes
 Most Women Can Have
Says Dr. Edwards, a N-Known
 0hio Phvsician

Dr. F. M. Edwards for r years treated scores of women for liver and bowel ailments. During these years he gave to his patients prescription made of a few welI-known vegetable ingredients mixed with olive oil, naming them Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets. You will know them by their olive color.
 These tablets are wondef.workers on the liver and bowels, which cause a normal action, carrying off the waste and poison. ous matter In Une's system.
 If you have pale face, sallow look, dull eyes, piuples, coated tongue, headaches. a listIess, no-good feeling, all out of scrts, inactive bowels, you take one of Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets nightly for time and note the pleasing results.
 Thousands of women as wei as men take Dr. Edwardsi Olive Tahlets-tte sue. cessfui substitute for calonei-now and then just to keep in the pink of condition. 1oc and 25c per box. All druggists,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-02
STORIES OF THE WAR
A German Officers Diary.

An. unusually interesting document has fallen into our hands in the form of a diary kept by an officer Of the T3rd Fusilier Regiment of the 111th Ger man Division covering the period from early In April to nearly the end of July this year, during which time he was in what may he roughly called the araume-Albert area. The subjects on which the writer. who was evidently a. brave man and good soldier is most illuminating are the moral of the pres ent Germany infantry and the eficien cy Of British aereplanes and guns.
 In mid-April, after the first two Ger man offensives of the year, he is SC convinced that the war is won that the only explanation I can find for the obstinacy of our enemies Gin go- ing on fghtilg) is that they believe all is lost"
 Then on April 30--'We have beer drilling for a week or other fatigues Men came out with the last draft some of whom had hardly had any training at all. In this respect the people a home are taking things terribly easily These old chaps even have to be in strunted in the light maehine-gur drill"
 May 1S-"At seven o'clock VIC mnves | on. I marched my little crowd across country to our destination. There ar 1 1T enemy machines overhead. There i | an Enslish ammunition dump admira 1 bly, laid out. which we use for sirnilai 1 purpose. There these fellows drol 1 about 100 bombs 8 day, sometime
 with, very often without. results. Con seious of our might, not single Ger
 man machine shows up! Although tn
 newspapers cannot brag and bluste
 enough when they publish anythin
 about the flying service, our airmer
 themselves admit we are inferior t 1 the enemy in numbers and eduipmen
 In any case they are not as innpuden
 as Tommy. Day and night he Is oyer
 head dropping bombs past all count | Ing"
 July 1b-"We were working ever
 day on the ammunition, dump in tn
 wood. had to he there although ha
 nothing to do. We had visits from air
 men every day. With clockworlk cer
 tainty the flights arrived, dropped the
 eggs and disappeared. As a rule GU
 Archies could not touch them. as the flew at height the shell never reach
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-02
UNPARALLELED OFFENSIVE.

From all indication General Foch nov appears to be engaged in a great rolling up process. which is in- tended not only 10 capture several of the important defense positions of the tnemy and wipe out what the Teutons had considered to be inpregnable lines, but to force them out of the Belgian coast region, where they have maintained submarine bases, and to start them on a general backward movement which will not only get them out of Frnnee but out of a good sized portion of Belgium before 1t will he possible for them to stop And in the meantime the losses which will he inflicted through casualties, pris- cners taken and guns and war ma terial abandoned or destroyed will serve 10 further lower the morale ol the troops, increase the discourage ment Of the people at horne and weak en greatly the power of resistance.
 This is all indicated by the prog ress which has been made in taking Roulers. Menin, the Passchendaeie re- zion, Messines ridge in the north, the oncroachment on Douai and the en- try into the outskirts of Cambrai where the large fires indicates that the town must soon fall, the encircle- nent Of St. Quentin and the taking ot the greater portion of Chemin de' Danes. while the advance which ii being made along the Mouse indicates that General Foch is striking at tha important line before the enemy get back 10 that point,
 With this activity along the who'll line even the strong German machin cannot stand it indefinitely and tn strain which it is undergoing witt the daily losses displays this in n unmistakable manner. The situation is such that it is not surprising Una there are peace demonstrations il Berlin as well as in The other centra powers. It is an offensive unparal l5led in the whole war.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-02
TURKEYS SURRENDER COMING

It is only natural that the fact that Bulgaria has dropped out of the war should inspire the belief that Turkey will be soon to follow. This is not be- cause the Turks and Bulgars are thor ouEhly in sympathy with each others actions that one will follow where the other leads but because of the loca- ton Of the countries. The very fact that Bulgaria surrenders uncondition- ally to the allies. giving up its rail; roads to their use and stopping ai means of communication between Germany and Turkey, shuts Turkey of from the source of it's supplies.
 Without Germany and Austria, Tur- key is in no position to carry on the war. It was experiencing difficulties enough while Bulgaria was in the war but with railroad communication gone Turkey is high and dry. wkich taken into consideration with the fact that it is being so hard pressed by the al- lied armies makes it evident that it cannot attempt to carry on the war.
 But in addition to this Turkey is in fact not only menaced by the al- AlFS Nnb uDN nave SEtdlET duVan = tage but there is an added menace from Bulgaria, for there is at the present time no love lost between those two nations. They have been threatening to spring at each others throats over the division of the Ru. manian spoils and now Bulgaria is anxious to join with the allies ir fighting Turkey.
 It is thus quite in keeping with the faots that Turkey should want to ge out of the war. The quicker 1t car do it the better the' position it vii be in. and it will not be surprising i 1t makes the same surrender tha Bulgaria has most any day