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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
M'ADOO GRANTS RAIL MEN
$3O0,O0O,0OO WAGE RAISE
Director General Approves Increases
for Nearly 100000 EN-
ployees.

Washington, May 27.-General pay
increases for nearly 100000 railroad
employees were announced on Sunday
by Director General McAdOO, effective
next Saturday and retroactive to last
January 1, carrying out substantially
recommendations of the railroad wage
commission
The aggregate of the increases
probably will be more than $780, 0O,-
900 a year, half of which will be dis
tributed within a few weeks as back
pay in lump sums ranging from about
500 to nearly 5000 each.
The director general departed from
the wage commissions recommended
ton in the following particulars:
The principle of the basic eight
hour day is recognized, but owing to
eXigencieS of the war situation hours
of employment are not actually re-
duced and overtime is to be paid pro
rata; future adjustments Of pay are
to be made on the basis OF eight hours.
In addition to the ordinary scale Of
increase. day labOrerS, employed main
~ on track work, are TO get at least
21s cents an hour more than they re-
ceived last December 81.
A minimum of So cents an hour is
established for the shop trades, in
GLIDING machinists, boilermakers and
blacksmiths.
Women are to receive the same pay
as men for the same work and ne
grOeS are to get the same as white
men for similar employment.
All increases now ordered will be
determined according to a percentage
scale based in pay received in Deem
Der, 1915, and any increases which
have been allowed within that time
will be deducted.
In many cases raises in pay in the
last two and a half years are about
equal to the increase now approved,
and consequently those employees will
get little or no more. In no cases are
wages to be reduced.
Men working on the monthly, daily,
hourly, pieceWOrk and train-mile basis
will benefit by the new allowances, and
members of the four leading railroad
brotherhoods whose pay was raised
through operation of the Adamson act
are to receive from 10 to 40 per cent
additional, smaller increase than
they had asked of the railroads short
ly before the government took control.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
Push Button Batteries.

Something new in push-buttons has
been invented by an Eastern man that
bids fair to send the old dry batteries
now in use to ring your front door bell
to the ashcan 1t is quite a simple ar
rangement, and it is strange that no
one should have thought of such sim
pie dt,-fcc The button itself is con-
nected to . rod that is geared to a
small dynamo, and when the button is
pushed the dynamo arm2ture rotates
in the field of = permanent magnet,
thereby generating enough electricity
to ring the bell. The whole unit hard
IL takes up more space than the ordi-
nary push button, and does away with
tie constant eSpS1 sa pf feneYd1g bat
teries.- Fr6hd the E1seffNf ExparL
d1enter. x=-szsssEsksa: -l-ssaA-
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
Eucalyptus Valuable Tree,

Eucalyptus will grow under many
adverse conditions, so long as they are
protected from frost. The young trees
cannot stand frost, and this fact has
restricted the growth of the species
to certain favorable sections of Cali
fornia and the Southwest. On the
other hand, the trees will thrive on
very poor soil and they do not require
very much attention. Some of the
largest commercial plantations, main
tanned by railroad companies for tie
making purposes, are located along the
shores of the Pacific ocean near San
Diego, where their principal moisture
comes from the heavy fogs that roll in
from the sea, and which are absorbed
by the leaves
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
TWO FLYING CADETS KILLED
at Hampstead, L. I.-Minneapolis
Boy Loses Life.

New York, May 29.-Cadet Charles
B. Passwater of Noblesville, Ind, was
killed at the Hampstead o.. ~ army
aviation aeld on Tuesday when an air
plane in which he attempted to nego-
,tiate a ''tail spin" at an altitude of
1000 feet, crashed to the ground.
San Antonio, Tex, May 29.-Flying
Cadet Paul NJ Currie of Minneapolis
was killed in a fall from an airplane
on Tuesday near San Antonio. Will
liam a. Currie of Minneapolis is his
father.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
CANNOT MATCH THE BIBLE
Been Equaied, Yale Pro-
fessor Says.

The bulk of the people-business
men, lawyers, doctors and others don't
read the Bible, but writer's universally
recognize it as the greatest book, Prof.
William Lyon Phelps Of Yale univer-
sfty said in a recent address.
Being a serious book it is weak in
lumor," Professor Phelps said But
think Job intended a grim joke when
he said: Would that mine adversary
had written book
mo narrative writer's can match the
style of the Bibles Old Testament
stories-Hume, GibbOn, R0se-they are
all Inferior This is the day Of the
short-story writer, Kipling, De Maupas-
SAINT, 0. Henry, but their best efforts
fall short of the stories Of the Bible.
SO it is with its poetry in the Psalms.
It's wisdom Of The Proverbs is just as
up-to-date as the morning paper, and
there is no political economy equal to
the Book of Gospels.
ut is impossible to Overestimate the
Bibles influence on English literi ture
Bunyan wrote a great book because
he was saturated with the Bible, and
il trickled out when he wrote.
''Lincoln knew only two bOoks-the
Bible and Shakespeare, and yet he was
4 splendidly educated man. 70 know
the Bible is to be educated. One of
the finest metaphors in Keats ode to
a Nightingale is taken directly from
the Bible; Nearer, My God, to Thee
is simply a paraphrase of the Bible"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
CONGRESS TO TAKE RECESS
Leaders Agree to Rest From June is
to August | While Committee
Works on Revenue Bill.

Washington. May 29.-Congression-
al leaders of both parties on Tuesday
agreed on a plan for a recess abolit
June 10 after appropriation bills are
out of the way until August 1, while
the house ways and means committee
works on the new revenue bin. Pass
age of the revenue measure by the
house between August I aud August
10 is contemplated, 70 BE followed BIZ
a 3O-day recess 6f The house to await
action by the Senate.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31

Among The prominent Irish leaders
arrested for completely in the pro-Ger-
man plots to foment an Irish revolt is
MS Maude Come Mcbride. She is
the widow of Major Mcbride, one of
the nIrn executed for taking part in
the 1916 Sim F'ein revolt. Mrs. Nc
Bride herself is prominent in Sim Fem
circles and after the revolt two years
ago was barred from Ireland by the
British authorities.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
Fight Way Through All Detectives
in PiCardy.
GERMANS ADVANCE II MILES
Berlin Claims Capture of 5000 Pris.
oners and Reports Teutons Crossed
VesIe River on Both Sides of
Fismes-AIIies Turn Ma
chine Guns on Huns
Crossing Aisne.

With the British Army in France,
May 29.-The American troops on the
French front near MOntdidier delivered
an attack against the German posi-
lions, fought their way through all OBJ
jectives, including the village Of Can
tigny, and captured 200 prisoners.
Americans Take 200 Huns.
Washington, May 29.-American
troops in Picardy attacked on Il front
of one and quarter miles, captured
the village Of Cartigny, took 200 pris-
Oners, and inflicted severe fOsses in
killed and wounded on the enemy.
says General Pershing's cOmmunique.
made public at the war department.
The American casualties were rela-
lively small
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-30
TODAY'S MARRIAGE LICENSES

Grear a. Riilpot, o01s y. sth St. and
James f. kimble. $50 S. 18th st, and
Jessie B. Waugh, $50 5. 18th st.
Harry. O. Kramme. $3.50 s 61st st. and
Jessie NJ. Dillon, 1856 s. 61st st.
Alvin W. Block, Decatur. H., and Mar
guerite a. Mitchell. Columbia Pa.
Charles Leonard, 1927 Ogden St. and Cecilia
J. Crosby 1880 Wallace st.
Peter J. Stamatis. Ar S. 9th st. and
Ageliky Bovantzi. AZ s. 9th st.
Charles J, Wachter, 1917 Poplar st. and
Helen NCGrEth, 1882 5. 5oth st.
James P. Logan. 3s Queen st, and Johanna
r. VI. Kurzenberger $3.50 n. 9Th st. and
Lillian F, Green 2s1a Lawrence st.
George F. Nolan. East Hampton, Mass. and
Elsie NJ. Isaacs. 245 5. Sth st.
Elmer Prince 271S Albert st, and Maude
Harnish 1921 f. Meyer st.
Edward VI. Wade. 1921 Warnock st. and
Marie Green, Pittsburgh. Pa.
Ralph W. Taylor. 447 SAMSON st. and
Emma NJ. Finley. 3442 Chestnut st.
James r. McGoueh. 264 s. 10th st. and
Mary A. Graham. 233+ $. Adams st.
Frederick H. Schleitenheimer U. S. A,
Reading Pa, and Mamie z Rodman,
Reading. Pa.
Llovd y. Richardson. 1907 Locust st. ant
,Flizaheth Farmer 1lN! Locust st.
Stackhouse. 2416 Columbia ave.
! Reniamtn Rarish. $500 s 9th st. and Mollit
Wagner. 213 Gaskill ST.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-30
FEATS CLOSE SEASON
FOR SWIMMING POOLS
Many Young Women Take
Honors in Difficult Aquatic
Sports

Contests, races and exhibitions of
work done during the summer marked
the closing today of the swimming CEN
ters maintained by the Board of Educa-
ton.
At the Eighth and Lombard streets
instructor. Gertrude Bender carried off
high honors. There were six contests,
won as follows: Twenty-yard race. any
stroke. Sarah Goldstein, first, and Ger
trude Bender, second breast-stroke race,
Gertrude Bender. first. and Sarah Gold
stein, second one length of the pool
Gertrude Bender made it in fifteen
strokes. Sarah Goldstein in seventeen
strokes breast stroke for form, Yetta
Cohen, first, Clara Diamond. second
speed race, Gertrude Bender. first; Sa-
rah Goldstein. second plunge and dis
lance swimming. Roas Ervain. first
Louise Ordilla. second.
The pools that closed today so far as
instruction is concerned, are Frankfort
Hedge and Orthodox streets Richmond
Memphis and Tucker streets Northern
Howard and Ontario streets Kensing'
ton. Meyer street and Montgomery ave.
nue. Front Street. Front and Thompson
streets; Central, Eleventh street and
Girard avenue Northwestern, Thirty.
second street and Ridge avenue Mana
yunk, Cotton and Station streets; Greer
Street, Eighth and Green streets
Southern, Twelfth and Reed streets
Southwark. Eighth and Mifflin streets
Southwestern, Sixty-third street anc
Woodland avenue West Philadelphia
Fif~ty-seventh and Summer streets
Tacony. State road and Levick street
Lombard Street, Eighth and Lombard
streets.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-30
20 QUESTION TO DE ANSWERED
BY NEW REGloTRANTS IN DRAFT
List Calls for Detailed Data as to Age, Race, Nationality ant
Occupation, but Exemption Reasons
Are Not Mentioned

Although it contains twenty questions
and is apparently more complicated, the
registration card which men coming I'M
der the new eighteen to forty-hve draft
law will be required to fill out, is more
simple Than the card used on June 5,
1917, the date of the original registra-
ton. according to draft officials who
have seen the new cards.
In anticipation of the new registration
date being set for early next month. the
cards have already been sent to the
draft headquarters of the various States.
for distribution among the local board.
None Of them have yet reached his city.
One of the features of the new card
will be that the question whether exemp-
ton is claimed will not be asked This
question is said to have embarrassed
many registrants at the time of the first
draft, some refusing to explain their
reasons for asking exemption. The ques.
~tionnaire which registrants will fill out
after being given their serial number
cares for the exemption claims.
The twenty questions which each
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-30
LLOYD GEORGE LAUDS GOMPERS
AS FIGHTER FOR DEMOCRACY

r.,ra "a tho war. Some think his ap-
pearance at the trades union congress at
Derby next week may prove a rock OF
discard Others believe that. on the
contrary he will do much toward the
3ttainment of the object of his visit TO
unite the workers of the world to win
the war
pitfalls In His Path
The American labor leader Will neeo
TO walk warily if he is to escape the
~nitfalls which lie in the pain OF any
visitors from another country. VINO seen
20 in.ervene in the somewhat tangled
skein of British labor politics. journal
lets who have spoken with him since
his arrival in London, believe that MS
annreciation Of the situation Is Keen
enough to enable him to steer a clear
course between Scylla and
what may be called the otfclai vie"
of lahor's attitude has been presented
TO him by Mr.. Barnes ana o'her laoot
members of the Government who met
hi,, on his arrival. but he is keen tc
ha,r all views. for he Is convinced that
British labor in the mass being soHd
az II is. for the prosecution of the wal
n a disarmament peace. such ditterences
as exist on less essential points are ca
pa BILE Of reconciliation.
Contrast In Missions
Contrast already is being drawn be
tween the mission Of Gompers and the
mission Of hughes. the Australian Pre-
roier. The Westminster Gazette says:
From America comes a powerful apps
,e of union. From Australia. certainly
not as representing its people, comes
AZ the interested invitation of a British
fnancial clique, a theoretical apostle O
disunion. The Australian Prime Minis
ter, who conspicuously failed to unit
the Commonwealth in the cause OF con
scription, is invited to use his eloquenc'
in Britain to set factions by the ear
over a problem which he has not tn
political capacity to understand. tu
| unon which he is held to be capable o
stirring up by his defamation excite
ment enough to sway to the side o
his hackers the general election the
seek to engineer
Win-the-w War Slogans
Mr.. Hughes at Glasgow Wednesda,
delivered a vehement speech in faVo
of protection as an after-the-war meas
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-30
RUSSIANS CAPTURE
BLACK SEA PORT

Amsterdam, Aug. 30.-A Russian vol
unteer army has captured the Black Sea
port of Novorossysk, according to a dis
patch from Kiev.
When the Germans captured Sebas-
topol the base of the Russian Black Sea
fleet, a part of the Russian fleet escaped
to Novorossysk, on the eastern coast OF
the Black Sea. In May the Germans
threatened the port with submarines
and airplanes, but it apparently re-
manned under control Of the trans-Cau-
casian Government.
Revised Peace Treaty :.
The principle laid down by Germany
in the supplementary agreements to the
Brest-Litovsk treaty signed in Berlin
tuesday, will not cause or support the
forcible disunion of the former Russian
territory, explains the semi-official North
German Gazette.
The independence of the Baltic prov
inces is assured, it says, and Russia has
consented to recognition Of the indie.
pendence of Georgia Gin the C~aucasus)
The newspaper adds that Russia has
agreed to pay Germany 5000, 100000
marks for German losses. due to Rus.
sian revolutionary confiscatory legisla.
ton. of this sun the Ukraine and Fin.
land jointly will pay 1'ooo'ooo'ooo marks
Foe Gets OIL Concession"
Germany has obtained concessions ir
the oil fields around Baku. Forces OPP
posed to the Central Powers. including
British troops, are in control of Baku
Nizhni-Nogorod has been chosen as &
temporary headquarters by the military
revolutionary committee. the town being
cleared of counter-revolutionary ele
ments, according to a Moscow telegram
to the North German Gazette. EleveI
Of the counter-revclutionisls have beer
executed.
The japanese Consul General and tn,
embassy staff. the last Entente repre-
sentatives at Moscow, have lief; for HON,
under a special safe conduct provided
by the Bolshevik government, accordin.
to a Moscow dispatch to- the Lokal An
zeiger, of Berlin.
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they failed to accomplish by pacific
means we are endeavoring to achieve
by military means their emancipation
from bondage. If the war had not
come for a few years, there would have
been an uprising in Germany.
Fortunately, there are few in the
Allied countries who do not believe this
to be a righteous war. On behalf of
the British Empire and the Allies, I de-
sire to say that no mar has done more
than Mr.. Gonlpers to convince the civil
lied world that 1t is vital to the inter-
ests of all that the war should be prose-
cuted to a triumphant conclusion"
Right Most Important
George r. Roberts. Minister Of Labor,
in ~seconding the toast, said:
The great American people is Joined
to the Allies to demonstrate to the
world that the maintenance of right is
of even greater importance than the
maintenance of eace."
Mr.. Gompers, in replying to the Pre-
mier's address, said: The war has
ceased to be a war. 1t is a crusade for
right, justice and liberty. America is
with the Allies to the end--the victor.
ious end. l am convinced we dare not
lose. We cannot lose. We will win
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-30
Roma, 80 agosto

Roma, so agosto
Dale notizie giunte DIAL fronte dl
hattaglia 81 rileva che gil abstract
hanno tentato di attaccare lie posizionf
oc.upate dale truppe ~italiane in varii
scttoi: ma che sono staff respinti con
gray. pe-due
l! Ministero della Guerra ha pubbli-
cato, mel pomeriggio di ieri, il s%eguente
communicate:
"Nella Vale Concei Il nemico. dopo
una violenta p~raparaZione d'artiglieria
ed intense fuoco d%istruttivo. 81 lancio'
all'attacco ma fu prontamente arrestato
dal fuoco del nostri post avanzati. l
quail poscia contrattaccarono e respinse-
no indietro gil assalitori, infliggendo loro
gravi perdite e catturando del prigioni-
erj.
"Sulle pendici settentrionali di Monte
Altissimo ed a nord di Col del Rosso,
ostili riparti in ricognizione furono at
taccati e dispersi dale nostre pattuglie.
di fuoco di artiglieria intensamente
bersa gliarono lie linee del fronte nemico
e ouelle di Communications"
Tn d~ispaccio da Londra %annunzia che
il Commando austriaco, relativamente lie
operazioni in Albania. ha Teri pubbli-
cato il seguente communicate:
IN Albania, ira il Janica ed il Vo-
jutza. ed anche nella parte meridionale
della montagna di Tomor il nemico ha
di nuovo atturato dele posizioni."
II C%apitano Landini Romeo. del Corpo
Dirigibili, e. state decorate con la me-
daglia d'argento al valor militare per
atti eroici con1piuti durante Important
servizi al fronte itallano ed in Mace
donia.
Antonio Bobbizo e Alberto Moriondo
sono staff anch'essi decorate della me-
daglia d'argento al ~valore, il primo per
aver rischiato la vita mel salvataggio
Ill un compagno caduto nellAdriatico e
l'altro per essere riuscito, con una ardita
manovra. ad %affondare un sottomarino
austriaco ii giorno 4 luglio Il. S.
In seguito a gravi .%rivelazioni ri.
guardanti la distributions del sussidl
allie famiglie del soldati in Firenze, i
Sindaco Serragli ha nominate una
commissions d~'inchiesta.
Tn dispaccio da Milano a%nnunzia CHI
il corpo administrative per Ia costru'
zione del nuovo porto che dovra' sorger'
in Milano, ha initiate le sue sedute ne
pomeriggio di Teri. Franc present.
Ministri Dari c Media. II Sindaco Caldar
spiego' i proposti lavori / quail dovrann'
rendere navigabile il canale di Milant
con ii fiume. Piu' tardi sara reso navi
gsbile da Torino a Venezia. OUT dovra
sorgere un grandioso porto industriale
| lavori d~ovranno essere lima pc
il prossimo aprile, quando Milano cele
brera' l'anniversario della nascita d
Leonardo da Ninci, che flu Il primo
lanciare lidea di ~congiungere Milano a
mare.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-30
PATRIOTISM Theft EXCUSE
Boys Robbed House Because 1t
Had Kaiser's Picture

Main Line boys who admitted they
rad removed $1,000 worth Of clothing and
jewelry from the Cynwyd home of l.. ".
Wilbur. told Judges Swartz and Miller
in Norristown today they had been In
duced to enter the residence because
there was a picture of the Kaiser on
the wall and other German things"
In describing their visit. however, the
boys did not tell of seeing anything Ger
la Mr.. Wilbur said the picture In
question was either of himself or of his
father.
@ The boys are Basil Walsh, Harold,
Johnson. William Gosser, Eric THESE,
william Tissot. Frank Doland. Frank
Moore, Aloysius Mcguire. Van Jorgsen-
son John Kleckner. Robert Faust and
Douglass Trend.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-30
ARRESTED IN FATAL FIGHT
One Man Stabbed to Death. An.
other Cut on Abdomen

Seven men are held by the police today
as the result of a fight last night at
Edgemont and Auburn streets. which
resulted in John Oleynitzka, twenty-five
years old, 25o3 Auburn street. being
stabbed to death. and John Polaski,
twenty-one years old. Edgemont and
Auburn streets. being cut on the abdo-
men.
The fifht started while the men were
drinking. according to the police.
James kunski. 27l4 Auburn street.
whose automobile was Communicated by
the police TO take Polaski to a hospital.
was severely cut when the auto collided
witt a trolley car.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-30
5000 WAR WORKERS STRIKE
Z. S. Wage Award Displeases Men
at Bridgeport, Conn.
Rv The Associated Press

Bridgeport, Conn, Aug. 30.-Machin-
lists and toolmakers in all the munition
plants in this city, dissatisfied with some
feature of the wage award of the ma
tional war labor board, this afternoon
refused to return to- work. In addition,
the blacksmiths in the Union Metallic
Cartridge Company and the sheet metal
workers in the Locomobile Company's
plant went on strike. The number of
men out is more than 5000.
AS a mass-meeting of machinists has
been called for the afternoon, the opin-
ion was held among the strikers that the
trouble would not last long. Seven fed
eral examiners are. taking up the matter
of signed agreements on the minimum
wa ge question.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-30

registrant must answer under the new
card follow:
1. Name. tGive first name. middle name
and last name.) .,u
.. Permanent home address in fun'
3. Age in years.
4. Date Of birth-month. day year.
3. White7
q. Negro?
I. oriental
s. Citizen Indian?
q. Noncitizeh Indian? -.,,
10. Native-born United States Euia'
IL. Naturalized United states cltiIen' IA.
IL. Citizen by fathers NATURALIZATION "
fore resistrant's majority?
10. Alien? tdecla rant.)
Il. Alien7 nondeclarant.D ~ s.,,.s
Is. II not a citizen of the United S.ant
of what nation are YOU n citizen OF suoJe''
1e. Present occupation.
II. Employers name.
Is. Place Of employment or business w
10 Name Of nearest relative q, wife; :.
nearest blood relation; 3. closest triehu II
no blood relativesl
90. Full address of nearest relative. 1.
The thing which the government u
stressing a little stronger this time is
the nationality Of the registrant' i, MAJ
been determined upon by Washlnston
that deferred classification. when VIII
prove the biggest item in the ne"
QUESTIONABLE. will be decided by lhe
local draft board and not by the regis
trant. through special claim.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-30
PROPAGANDA DATA HERE
Daniel Receives Further Proof o.
Pro.Cerman Activity

A box full OF important evidence re-
lating to German propaganda raids made
by Federal agents was received today
by Todd Daniel. acting superintendent
of the Philadelphia division of the De-
partment of Justice.
Hundreds of letters, many said to be
discriminating. were sent from Chicago
where they were seized in raids. made
simultaneously with those of the loca,
agents at Reading. Lancaster and New
York.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-30
UKRAINIANS BATTLE
WITH GERMAN TROOPS
By the United Press

London, Aug. Alderman troops en-
gagged in an indecisive battle with 1900
Ukrainian peasants in the Dvmera dis
trict, according to a wireless dispatch re-
ceived from Petrosrad today.
The Germans declared the district in
q state of siege and asked for re-en-
forcements. When these arrived from
Kieff in two steamers, the Germans at
tackled the peasants. The latter. who
were armed with ten machine guns, beat
of the attack. There were heavy losses
IN both~sides.