Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-12


and 100000 enlisted men and that
on July 1 practically q million of them
were in France; that the death rate
for disease among all troops in the
United States was only 3.16 per thou
sand; that the number of combat
planes delivered to June 8 was 8
the production for the week ending on
that day being 80; that 5,315 training
planes had been delivered to- June 8,
more than 1900 Liberty engines, md
81, 800 machine guns for use on air.
planes. Between the declaration OF
war and June 1 more than 100000
rifles were produced and delivered and
enough are now being received to
equip a division every three days. Mr..
Baker told many other encouraging
facts, and enlarged on the wonderful
work of the American engineers who
enlarged port facilities and built rail-
roads in France for the landing and
movement of American troops.
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If the central powers @Ould know
the unwavering d~etermaa0sion of the
people of the allied nations, they have
but to read President Wilson's indie
pendence day address at the tomb Of
Washington, In which 1t was voiced
most eloquently. There can be but
one ISSUE" declared the president.
"The settlement must be final. There
can be no compromise. No halfway
decision would be tolerable. No half
way decision is conceivable" He thus
put our great objects in a single SEN
tence: what we seek is the reign OF
INV, Taseo- upon the consenriof tie gov
erned and sustained by the organized
opinion of mankind" In less formal
language, the Huns must be whipped
to a FRAGILE, for until they are their
rulers will not accept such a peace as
the allies will grant, and the people Of
Germany and Austria, with too few ex-
ceptions, are like sheep.
In the absence of any great military
operations on the French and italian
fronts last week attention was largely
directed toward Russia What shall
be done to aid that distracted country
Is a problem still unsolyed, and 1T is
made more difficult by the lack OF re-
liable information as to what is going
on there. The reports of the downfall
of the bolsheviki and the re-establish-
ment of the monarchy with Grand
Duke Nicholas as car, which came
through the always unreliable German
sources of news, were given little
credit, but it appears to be the truth
that Grand Duke Michael is ~co-operat-
ing with the Czecho-Slovak forces In
Siberia and that they are establishing
their rule in that country. The Ukrain-
ian telegraph bureau at Kiev says MI
chael has been proclaimed car and Is
marching toward Moscow.
ID
Washington received official reports
confirming the news that the Czechc-
Slovaks had whipped the ~bolsheviki
IN a bloody battle at Vladivostok and
taken yer the administration OF that
mort. 1t may be they will form the
nucleus for the gathering of the ele-
ments that have revolted against the
bolsheyiki and before long be recog-
nized by the allies as a stable govern
ment and given aid. 1t Ia now admit
ted in Germany that the German ano
Austro-Hungarian war prisoners IL
Russia are fighting on the side OF the
bolsheviki.
Up in the province of Archangel
which extends across northerly Russia
in Europe, there is new trouble brew
ing. At Kola and along the railroad
southwark from that port are grea'
stores of wal supplies now guarded Dl
American and allied marines and blue
Jackets, and moving toward that region
is a large force of Germans and Firms
Submarines already are reported to D.
in the White sea. 1t may be the allie
will find it necessary to send troops III
there. Delegates from the Murmal
n White sea coasts already hav'
asked them for protection.
The Swedish press says the kaise
has ordered the Finnish diet to intro
duce monarchial rule without delay
threatening that if it does not compl'
Germany will set up a military dc
tatorship.
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Having discovered extensive move
ments Of troops and materials behin'
the German lines In the Chateau Thier
nv region, indicating a coming attack
the Americans stationed there took tn
initiative and. in the most fmportan
operation they had thus far under
taken by themselves, they captured tn