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The Washington times., 1918-06-11
CRUELEST BATTLE
OF WAR IS RAGING
BY HENRY WOOD,

Omitted Press Stan Correspondent
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN
EHE FIELD, June 1.-THE new Ger
man drive between Montdidier and
Noyon is rapidly becoming the
aercest and most cruel battle Of the
war. Into II the Germans apparently
are determined to throw their last
reserves, in a supreme effort to
separate the allied armies and reach
Paris before Americas full partici-
patton wrests from them the last
hopes OF eventual victory.
Already the steady flow of Ameri-
can, Italian, and British divisions into
France, coupled with the terrific
losses inflicted on the Germans since
March 81, practically has wiped out
the Numerical superiority with which
the Germans opened the offensive.
1t is certain that il the allies hold
out two months longer the Americans
at the present rate Of arrival will
give them an incOntestable and
crushing superiority.
French Stand Is Gallant.
As a consequence the French are
resisting in the present battle with
extreme energy, equaled only BY the
prOdigality with which the Germans
are rushing up their last resources.
No longer is II a secret that the
French expected the present attack.
and were so fully prepared as effee-
tives and material would permit. It
IS likewise known that the Germans
knew the French expected and were
prepared for the attack, yet facing
the heavy. losses which such a stu
alton necessarily must entail, the
enemy Unhesitatingly attacked. They
rushed up reserves to replace their
losses, until more than twenty di-
visions C24o,OOO mem have been fed
into the battle to date.
LIE PIemOnt Is EncIrcIed.
On both wings. where the French
are doggedly holding out. villages
like COurceIles have changed hands
every few hours. day and night.
1Eince the battle began. The last
carrier pigeons from lie Plemont.
which was completely encircled
brought word that the French there
were still holding out, although they
now possibly have been submerged.
The Germans still are making their
greatest effort in the Matz valley.
for the purpose OF reaching the Disc
above COmpiegne. thus forcing evac-
uation OF the entire Noyon salient
where, at the extreme northern point.
tCarlepont Wood, on the east side of
the Disc, and Mt Renaud, on the
west side, have to date barred the
German advance into the Disc val
ley.
Military experts consider It most
probable that the Germans will
launch q second converginE attack
from east Of Noyon, with Identical
objectiEes Of attaining the Disc from
rhe east and forcing evacuation OF
The Noyon salient.
BOche Electives Wane.
Prom prisoners and other sources,
u Is established that the beches are
suffering a severe crisis in electives.
Many companies go into action with
Only eighty or a hundred men. The
wounded are forced TO return to the
tight as soon as they are cured. The
Losses in infantry officers are so
great that cavalry officers are now
substituted.
Among 200 prisoners Intercepted
= fourth were in the 1919 class, while
many were in the 1920 class. The
prisoners also included miners and
G1psrt workmen who, heretofore had
BOT been sent to the front
The fifth division Of the Prussiar
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guard, which is one OF Germany's fin
est body Of troops, lost so per cent
Of its electives during the March
offensive on the Somme, and lost 30
per cent more in the Chateau Thierry
drive, it has been established.
French patrols, penetrating the
regions OF Vouty and Maercreux, re-
port heaps of German dead, often
lying in four or five successive wind
rows. South Of FaverolIes $40 I'M
buried German dead were counted
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ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF
GERMANY'S FINE HAND

Evidence Of the. extremes to which
German propaganda goes in an eff
fort to convince the TeuIon people
that the allies can hold out but IIttIs
longer continues to reach the State
Department An intercepted wire
less message, made public today, says
that America Is experiencing such
great difficulty In securing sailors to
man war ship6 that England has
taken 1000 Greek sailors to London,
en- route. to the United States to be
put aboard American battIeships.
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X. C. BIS TOWN GOSSIP


OF THE first I'VE miles.
1 BEGAN to realize.
WHY HIS father.
HADN'T CONE on the picnic.
HE WAS a literary man
AND NOT an athlete.
AND ALONG about noon
WE REACHED the place.
THAT WE'D started for.
AND THE boy cried
WHEN / gave him to his mother,
AND had to take him back
AND THE mother said
"NRVER BEFORE.
"HAS HE taken to a stranger.
TIKE HE'S taken to you"
AND JUST for that.
EXCEPT FOR an hour.
WHEN HE went to sleep.
THEY LET me have him
THE WHOLE afternoon
AND ALL the way back.
AND LATE that evening.
WHEN l gave him to his father:
TOLD him.
/ THOUGHT he was tired
AND HIS father said.
THANK GOD for that"
I THANK you.
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WOUNDED BY DESERTER,
SHERIFF Is RECOVERING

BIRMINGHAM. Ala, June IL
Sheriff John Lewis IOf Marshall Coun-
ty, recovered consciousness during
Monday night at a local inhrmary
here. He appeared to be more ra-
tional Tuesday morning. il was said
at the hospital, and probably will re-
cover from head wounds received in a
battle with reserters Saturday after
noon
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) DIVISIONS
WIPEDOUT IN
DRIVE SINCE
SUNDAYNIGHT
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tContinued from First Page.)
Night, but met with sturdy resistance
everywhere. The chief German pres
sure was levelled against the French
center, where heavy forces were
thrown into the fighting.
The French were pressed back TO
the Aronde river, at one point, but
rallied and by strong counter-at-
tacks threw back the Germans. On
the right the Germans gained some
ground, the French lines now lying
10 the west and south Of Ribecourt
Further west the French positions
extend along the line south Of Bel
10y, st. Maur and Marqueglise
CThe Aronde river flows into the
Disc about a mile and a half north
Of Compiegne The statement did not
say at what point the Germans
reached the stream)
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ARTILLERY BUSY
UPON TOUL FRONT
BY FRANK J. TAYLOR,
Tinted Press staff COrrespondeI

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES
IN LORRAINE, June 11.-Both artil-
1eries were increasingly active on the
TouI front yesterday and last night.
German guns attempted to seek out
n number OF American positions, but
were unsuccessful.
A heavy rain has caused cessation
of aerial operations.
The Americans here are eager to
participate in the big fighting, and
feel qualified TO duplicate their COM
rades' feats in the Marine district
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explosion clearly from the bridge.
You can be sure she's gone Now
you see how we must watch. I'm
doubtedIy the sub saw Us, before we
could be sure what she was. Had
we not seen her for one minute more
it is pretty sure you would have had
to SWIM and he smiled grImly.
"Of course we are all proud and
glad we got her, but don't forget II
there IS credit for anyone, most OF
Il should go to my mates and lookout,
whose quick eyes gave US the time
to maneuver for victory"
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OF Much Inportanee.
BIG FOUR LOSES SUIT.

The St Louis Electric Railway
Company today won its fight against
the Big -Four, the Interstate Com
merce Commission handing down .
tentative report establishing joint
rates on Illinois traction systems to
all points on the New York Central
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AN ATLANTIC PORT. June IL
More than nifty large passenger and
freight vessels and numerous sailing
vessels have arrived at this port in
the last few days, despite the activi-
ties Of German submarines in Atlantic
waters. IL became known today.
During the last forty-eight hours
thirty-Onc steam vessels aggregating
lOO. 900 tons have been reported safe
in home waters. This includes 10000
tons OF shipping which arrived today.
Two big transatlantic liners were
among the arrivals.
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"AND BESIDES
SHE SAID to my wife.
'TT WILL be a wonderful day.
"FOR YOUR husband.
'FOR WE all know;
THAT HE loves children.
"AND THE children are going. +"
AND WE went
AND 1 sat in front;
WITH THE driver.
AND JUST incidentally.
HE WAS a good driver.
AND COULD come closer.
TO OTHER automobiles.
e
AND MISS them.
THAN ANY driver.
1 EVER saw.
AND ANYWAY.
WE MISSED them all.
AND WERE on our way.
AND The lady said.
Il KNOW you're just dying.
ITO HOLD this boy"
AND l said I was.
AND REACHED around.
AND GOT him
AND II a little while.
IMADE the discovery.
THAT THE boy.
WAS LOOSE at the joints.
AND 1T made no difference
HOW 1 held him.
1T COULD be a toe hold.
OR A strange hold.
Or A half-Nelson.
OR ANYTHING.
ALL HE had to do.
WAS WIGGLE a little.
AND THEN stiffen himself.
AND I'd lose my hold.
AND FOR twenty miles.
IN 4 hot sun.
| WRRSTLED with him
OUT OF one clinch.
AND INTO another.
AND l can remember.
THAT AT the end.
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PRESIDENT LAUDS
LABOR FOR PART
H PLAYS IN WAR

Lauding the noble part the Amer
lean workman is playing in the
crucial months OF the struggle" and
declaring that Industrial disputes
may now jeopardize the very life
OF the nation" President Wilson to-
day wired congratulations to the
thirty-eighth annual convention OF
the A T. Of l. and the American
Alliance for Labor and Democracy.
The messages follow:
PreSldent's Wire.
please convey to the thirty-eighth
annual convention OF the American
Federation OF Labor my congratula-
lions upon the patriotic support
which the members Of your organiza-
ton have given to the war program
Of the nation in the past year, not
only in the trenches and on the bat
tlefields where so many OF our
younger men are now in uniform. but
equally in the factories and ship
yards and workshops of the country,
where the army is supported and sup
piled by the loyal industry Of your
skilled craftsmen. We are facing
the ldTQbnlpS OF lnG CRUCIAL MONTHS
OF the struggle. The nation can face
them confidently, assured now that
no intrigUes Of the enemy can ever
divide our unity by means of those
industrial quarrels and class dissen-
siOns which he mas tried so diligently
TO fOment. In these days of trial and
self-sacrihce. the American working
man is bearing his share Of the ma
uOnal burden nObly. In the new
world OF peace and freedom which
America is fighting to establish his
place will be as honored and his
service as gratefully esteemed.
WOODROW WILSON,
Telegram to MaIseL
The telegram to Robert Maisel. of
the American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy. reads:
1.-THE American Alliance for Labor
and Democracy has my earnest hope
for a successful convention that will
give added strength to bigger activ-
tiles. Called into being TO combat ig-
norance and misunderstanding, skill
fully played upon by dislOyal influ-
ences, your organization has done a
great and necessary work. 1t has aid
ed materially in promoting the unity
that proceeds from exact understand
ing, and is today q valid and import
ant part OF the great machinery that
cO-ordinates the energies OF America
in the prosecution OF = just and right
eOus war.
1.-The war can be lost IN America
as well as on the fields OF France,
and Il-considered or unjustified in
terruptions OF the essential labor Of
the country may make il impossible
to win it No controversy between
capital and labor should be suffered
to interrupt IL until every instru-
mentality set up by the Government
for its amicable settlement has been
employed and its INTERPRETATION heed
ed to the utmost: and the Govern
ment has set up instrumentalities
wholly fair and adequate, and this
duty to avoid interruptions Of in
dustry wherever they can be avoided
without the actual sacrifice OF es-
seutial rights rests up6n the en-
plOyer as imperatively as upon the
workman. No man can afford to do
injustice al any time. but at this
time justice Is Of the essence Of
national defense, and contests for any
sort OF advantage that at other times
would be justified may now leopard
the very life Of the nation.
WOODROW WILSON"
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2sses Suffered By Germans While British Gain and French Hold
AUGMENTATION
OF MILLIONS NU. S.
IS BROUGHT NEARER

Amerieanizatien OF the s5.ooo,o00
people in the United States who are
foreign born or Of foreign parentagS
was a step nearer today after rep
resentatives OF two important Ameri-
canization committees appeared b.
fore Senator Hcke Smith OF Georgia,
chairman OF the Senate Committee on
Education, and Congressman william
J. Sears. chairman OF the House
Committee on Education
Levy Mayer, OF Chicago, addressed
the Senate and House Committee
chairnen on behalf OF the permanent
committee Of nine names by Secre-
tary OF the Interior Lane, and 2. +.
Bach, Of Philadelphia chief Of the
Amerieanization bureau Of Pennsyi-
vania. spoke on behalf Of the leEis-
lative committee OF one hundred 1p-
pointed two years ago BY Commits
sioner OF Education P. P. ClaAtSn-
what IL Provides.
Mr. Mayer submitted the draft %
a bill which the committees urge for
adoption. The preamble sets forth
that :Le bill is to provide:
For the promotion Of immigrant
education: to provide for co-operation
with the States and Territories in the
promotion Of the education Of immE
grants in the EnEi 5 Language and the
fundamental principles OF the Gov
eminent and citizepship Of the United
States, etc.
Both chairrlcn expressed great
sympathy with en- approval OF the pro-
posed legislation and advised that
on account or the difficulty Of get
ting legislation through Congress AZ
this session the subject should be-
taken up with the Administration 20
as to have Il introduced as An Admin
istration measure.
Representatives Of both the special per.
nanent committee Of nine and the legis-
Iative committee approved OF and agreed
to this move.
To Go To President.
with the return Of Secretary Lane 70
Washington the matter viii be taken
directly to President Wilson and mem
bers OF his Cabinet. carrying with Il the
Endorsement Of the chairmen Of both the
Senate and House Committees on Bdu-
cation
TIE committee Of nine. which has been
working on the measure, Is composed OF
the following:
Gov. samuel V. Stewart. Of Mon
Lanas GON. tNlCndEu l. MAuulubs o
South Carolina: Gov. Carl e Millikens
OF Maine; Levy Mayer, OF Chicago,
chairman OF the Illinois Council OF
Defense: Harold T. Clark. OF Cleve-
land. chairman OF the Americaniza-
ton committee o fthe mayors war
board; Arthur T. Somers. president
OF the board of education OF New
York city: Hale Holden. OF Chicago
president Of the Chicago, Burlington,
and Quincy railroad; Robert Newton
Lynch. OF san Francisco. president Of
the San Francisco chamber OF com
merce.
OF Much Importance.
I'VE regard the proposed legisla-
ton as a war measure Of controlling
Importance" Mr.. Mayor told the
House and Senate chairman at =
Just as vitality necessary to Am2ri-
canize all our people as II Is to pro-
vide munitions for the army and navy.
In fact, the munitions We are endelv-
oring to furnish are OF wider and
much more far-reaching importance.
When we speak OF AmericanizatiOn,
we refer not merely to the foreigner,
- - Il -
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CHARITY OF SPEECH.

Charity of speech is as divine a
thing as charity of action. To Judge
mans motives, believe things as they
seem to be until they are proved
otherwise, to temper judgment with
mercy-surely this is quite as good as
to build up churches, establish asy.
lums and found colleges.
Unkind words do as much harm as
unkind deeds. Many heart has been
wounded beyond cure, many reputa.
ton has been stabbed to death by a
few little words. There is charity
which consists in withholding words,
in keeping back harsh Judgment, in
abstaining from speech if to speak is
to condemn. Such charity hears the
tale of SANDER, but does not repeat
it; listens in silence, but forbears
comment; then locks the unpleasant
secret up in the very depths of the
heart. Silence can still rumor; it is
speech that keeps story alive and
lends it vigor,
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coNsEcRATE YOUR FAMILY.

It is the ardent desire of Our
Eucharistic Lord to draw all hearts
to Him, writer reminds us. In the
silence of the Tabernacle, His Sacred
Heart is pulsating with love for men.
During the years of His public life,
His tender compassion drew to Him
the hearts of the sorrowful and
afflicted. His many cures, His tender
solicitude for the weeping widow of
Main, His generous response to the
plea of Martha and Mary, His evident
love for little children, show His low
ing interest in the affairs of home
life
Since Nazareth was the ideal ,nur-
sery of true piety and devotion, since
the members of the Holy Family were
actuated by an intense love of God,
the home of Nazareth should be the
model for the Christian home. Why
not consecrate the family to the Heart
of Jesus in the Tabernacle, and thus
bring into the home the blessing of
the Eucharistic King? Appended is
an "Act of Conservation" printed with
ecclesiastical : appreciation, which
reads as follows:
Divine Heart of Jesus, behold us
PROSTATE before Thee, in deepest
gratitude for all Thy blessings and
with fervent love for Thy unspeak-
able goodness. In the name of God
our Father in Heaven, sweet Heart
of Jesus, have pity on us.
20 Jesus, to make answer to Thy
call, and to hasten the rule of Thy
adorable Heart over society inp our
country, we consecrate to Thee, under
the protection Of the immaculate heart
of Mary and the patronage OF ST.
Joseph, our entire family May our
home, like that of Nazareth, be the
lasting abiding-place of honor, faith,
charity, labor and prayer, and of
household order and peace. Be thou
the sovereign rule of all our actions
and the watchful protector of our in
terests.
1--WE consecrate to Thee, o loving
5eslgy the trials and the joys, and all
the happenings of our family life; and
we beseeeh Thee to pour out Thy best
blessings On all its members, absent
and presenb living and dead. We en-
trust them forever to the watchfulness
OF Thy divine Heart; and, if one
among them should ever have the .un-
happiness to grfeaas Thy holy love. we
noR make atonement for the sin, For
thehener Of Thy seged Heart. O
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OUR LADY AMONG THE INDIANS

. Westward from Nazareth and Beth
lehem, through Europe, to the shore
of America, westward athwart that
continent, advanced the devotion Of
Mary, on it's consecrating march to
the Pacific. We have seen the
broad St. Lawrence entered by her
servants; a vast manor given up to
her in the territory of Quebec; a
city built as monument of devotion
to her, and solemnity called by her
name; and the bearers of her stand
ard pushed westward painfully, but
with courage, unflinching, and planting
fort or chapel, a station or a mis-
sion house of st. Mary, to mark their
toilsome but triumphant way.
Let us follow as it leads through
the limits of the present British pos
sessions; then through the French
claim, down the valley of the Mis-
sissippi, and so to it's progress under
the Spanish flag, and to the settle
ment of the United States. This
much will bring us to the year 1916,
and thus to the present day.
The Huron learned quickly to love
the name of Mary. Above all, the
women looked up from their. labor,
ious debasement to this glorified
model of womanhood, and when they
heard from the Jesuit or the Sulpician
that, by initiating her virtues, they
might share in her glory; when they
saw the Ursuline, the Hospitaliere
and the daughter of Notre Dame
treading this sanctified path, they
gave up their very hearts to the I'm
maculate Queen, and besought hel
| followers on earth to teach them the
way to her protection. Nor less die
| the tall warrior swear himself to hel
banner; the wisest spake her praise:
by the council fires of his tribe; the
bravest crowned his dusky forehead
with the grains of her rosary.
Mary of the Incarnation could coun
two hundred redskins in her schools
Marguerite of the Blessed Sacramen
saw them devoted Sisters of her Oh
der. In their country the missionar
placed his headquarters, st. Mary
on the Matchedash or. Wye. There
at the humble house dedicated to tn
Virgin, in one year 5000 guests fro1
the cabins of the red man receive
a frugal welcome" And thence tn
early Jesuits went forth to discover.
to spiritual conquest, or to marty
dom. In the cabin of the Huron the
sat as fathers of the tribe; side
! side with the Huron they receive
the deadly arrow, or felt the kee
, scalping knife of the Iroquois.
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CORPUS CHRISTI IN MESoPo.
TAMlA,

The following account OF unique
Corpus Christi procession in Mesopo.
tamia-at Basra or Bagdad-written
by an eyewitness, will be read with
interest, states the Ceylon Catholic
Messenger of recent date:
Yesterday tJune y the festival of
Corpus Christi took place here. Here
the Catholics are known by the names
of different rites-viz., Latin, Syrian,
Chaldaic, and Armenian. All have the
services in their own languages, and
they never have united service, al
though all are under his Holiness the
Pope. Yesterday Sunday was the
first day that all these rites had
united service, although the cere-
monies were in Latin, and this will be
a day of record in the history of the
Catholic world. | have no words to
describe the beauty of the ceremony.
Since the time of the Turks this is the
first public festival and procession
that has taken place here, and it was
a very rare opportunity to see that
people from all parts of the world
were represented at it-British,
French, Irish, Scotch, Americans, Aus
tralians, Greeks, Indians, Ceylonese.
Arm eniana, Chaldeans, Syrians, Rus
SLAMS" Jews, Arabs, etc. The process
sion started ate p. M, and the Blessed
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PECCAVl.

Down the valley of death l strayed
In misery and gloom,
With burdened soul, and heart dis
mayed
A gilded liza fool outcast,
My sin had borne it's fruit at last,
The Nemesis of doom
Hung like pail that banned the light
And darker round me pressed the
night
The shadow of the tomb.
Behind, the door of hope was
slammed;
Down, down the vale | sped
My thoughts a cauldron of the
damned,
The virtues cherished in my youth,
The fear of God, the love of truth
Reproached me as I fed.
Until l crushed what light they gave
| flung them in a towards grave
And trampIed on the dead.
| stunned the grace contrition brings
Unto myself | lied,
And honor fed with bruised wings;
For I had made the wilful choice,
Nor needed the appealing voice
Of Him | crucified.
But still His pleadings followed me,
Upbraiding, yet entreatingly,
That l might turn aside.
| knew not/peace--I knew not rest,
His trust had betrayed!
And Satshas the bond possessed
That bound my soul with chains of
fire
That bowed my will to His desire
Thatmocked me as l prayed;
In vain | fought the evil sway
That lured me down the Stygian way
TO deaths eternal shade.
Despair stalked grimly by my side,
A curse pursued my name,
The gates of He'll were opened wide
| stumbled down the stepping road
While conscience piled it's leaden load,
And fiercer glowed the flame
That fed the furnace of remorse,
Fear logged me on that dismal course
And triumphed DER my shame.
i
When 10! a Christian crossed my
path
He heard my wretched plea,
Nor answered me with scorn or WIZ tn,
But took my hand in his, dear God,
From that abyss that | had trod
He led me back to Thee;
Thou who dost know my guilt, my
loss,
Who died for me upon the Cross,
/ ask Thy clemency.
% happy days! o peaceful nights!
And joys for ever flown!
/ know no share of pure delights,