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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-26
NATIONAL LEAGUE
JEWS ROUNDED UP
Streets Barrlcaded and Jews Dragged
to Jail.

Amsterdam. Aug. 25.--Jews for
somo time have been rounded up by
orders of tho Government in various
parts OF Hungary. according to a
Budapest report to the Jewish Cor
respondeuce Bureau. Streets were
barrloaded and Jews we're dragged to
prison
These measures especially were d.
rected against the Jews in Galicia,
from whom large sums OF money
we're taken by the police as special
tax, after which they we're escorted
to tho frontier,
In recent debate In the Hun.
sarlan Parliament Premier Wekerie
attempted to Justify the measures by
declaring that he had given orders
for the imposition Of special tax
on Oalician Jews and their expulsion
from the country because they were
undesirable foreigners,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-26
CORN BoRER APPEARS
Has Been Found in Sections OF
Massachusetts,.

massachusetts.
St Adams, Aug. 24.--An insect dan.
gerons to the corn plant, known as
the European corn borer (pyrausta
nubilalis) has been found in some
sections of the state OF Massachusetts
and every precaution should be taken
% prevent its Introduction into the
state Of Vermont
Therefore, |, Ebert S. Brigham,
commissioner of agriculture OF the
state of Vermont, under authority con
'erred by section 4Sl of the general
laws Of Vermont. and with the ap'
Droval of the board OF control. do by
his notice of quarantine order that
10 stalks or ears Of the corn plant
fzea mays), either green or dried.
shall be moved or allowed to be
moved, from the state OF Massaohus.
9tts into the. state OF Vermont, until
further notice, unless written permis
sion is secured from the commission
ar of agriculture Of the state of Yer.
mont and such permission shall ac-
company the shipment This quaran.
inc. however, shall not apply to ordi'
nary commercial dried shelled corn
used for feeding purposes, or to any
,orn grown in other states passing
through Massachusetts in transit
This order shall become and bo OF
fective on and after Aug. 26, 1918.
u. S. Brigham,
Commissioner OF Agriculture
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-26
HUN PRISONERS
DECLARE WAR
|SL0ST To THEM
Captured Officers Say Peace. Is
Negotiable Now.
FEAR NATION CRUSHED
They Think Great Britain Should Stay
Her Hand Since Economic Rival
ry Is Past.

British Army Headquarters, Aug.
25.-The demeanor Of hundreds of
German officers taken prisoners re-
Gently is in striking contrast with the
attitude of officers captured during
the British retreat last Spring. Then
captured German officers were AFRO,
giant and said Germany meant to crush
the British to earth, but now they are
depressed and very anxious. They
appear very willing to talk, and the
tenor of their conversation may be
summed up as follows:--
They say Germany entered the war
with enthusiasm, but this has long
since disappeared and the struggle has
now become an economic one with
Great Britain.
They admit that Germany is in prac'
,ically a hopeless condition, both eco.
nomically and from the man-power
point OF view, and ask whether Great
Britain cannot now consider Germany
sufficiently reduced to be no longer a
dangerous trade rival or whether the
Allies intend to crush her altogether
In the latter case. they say, Germany
will be forced to tight to the last, but
they make no effort to conceal the
impression of what this means for the
fatherland.
They say they believe there is ev,
cry disposition to evacuate Belgium
and Northern France and even nego-
tate for the retention or evacuation
Of Alsace.Lorraine.
They are generally unanimous in
agreeing that annexations thus far
made under the Brest-Litvosk peace
treaty were great mistake, but they
think Germany cannot Withdraw from
Russia In the present condition of af
fairs there.
They are aware that the American
Army now has assumed very formld
able proportions. and there is gen.
eral admission OF the seriousness OF
his factor.
The submarine campaign they can.
not refer TO without gestures of impa.
tience.
Captured noncommissioned officers
attribute recent German defeats to the
'inefficiency of their air service and
more especially to the inexperience
md lack OF stamina of the latest re
fruits, who are most inadequatly drill
I'd and trained and who are physically
| Incapable OF sustaining the heavy
strain of defensive warfare The
mere presence of these new recruits
they say, produces in company 8
lemoraliging effect upon the elder
men because 1t indicates to what
itraits Germany must be reduced t
employ such poor material.
London, Aug. 24.-(via Montreal.
"A week OF continuous allied success
'lOsed gloriously Saturday, when nj
| cen important strongholds.
A significant part of the success Il
that the Americans west of Fisme
and south OF the Vesle, have beei
ately assigned to the task OF ham
] mering the north of Aisne district.
They have been steadily, reinforce,
| I'll the time, and II their present move
nent developed. 1t is likely to hav
Serious consequences for the Ger
mans, whom Generals Mangin an,
1umbert are outflanking.
While Ludendorfi deems ii pruden
o retire from this region, his decision
to withdraw to the 1917 line may b
FASTENED by the Americans.
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GOVERNMENT LOSING
ON THE RAILROADS
In June There Was Deficit Of $685.
900 in Operating Income Due to
Back Payment Of Wage Increases

Washington, D. c., Aug. 24.-Owing
largely to large back payments of
wage increases, the railroads under
federal control in June reported an
aggregate deficit OF S5S,950,0O0 in
railway operating income as COM
pared with positive earnings of $685.
100000 in June 1917.
This reduced the total operating in
come for the six months of govern
ment operation ending with June to
s173, 900 as compared with s45S,-
100000 in the corresponding period of
last year
These figures, compiled by the i'm
terstate commerce commission and
announced today, show that the gov
ernment has lost about s29O,000,0 900
in operation OF railroads during the
first six months this year
The wage payments in June under
Director General McAdoos order. as
reported by 164, or about three
fourths of the first class roads,
amounted to $l33,OO0,OO0. Without
this added expense the railroads in
June weuld haye earned s74.Qs4,00
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-26
VERMONT CASUALTY LIST
Wars Toll As Reported During Past
Week.

Following il the casualty list for
Vermont men as reported during the
past week:
Killed in Action
Priv. Andrew Syegn, Winooski.
Sergt Otto Foster, Arlington.
Sergt. Clarence Kendall. Barnet
Sergt. Hubert Hyman, Bakersfield,
PRIV. Perley Breaves, Walden.
Priv Frederick p, King, Rutland.
Wounded Severely
Priv. James A. Brown, Barre.
Priv. John Ryan, Winooski.
Priv. Ernest w. Adams, Westmin-
ster Sta.
Priv. Arthur F. Thompson, Burling
tor
Missing In Action
Harlan w. Chamberlain. Brandon.
Eugene Hare Enosburg Falls
Ernest r. Ward. Morrlsville.
George f. Droniu. st. Johnsbury.
Died OF Wounds
George Il, Mylott, Rutland.
Died from Disease
James d. Demingware, Swanton
Jc;
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-26
PLEASED WITH ENGLAND
Corp Henry q. Walbridse Likes the
County and the People.

SSehhy NNS ef~ NNf'N'
His parents. Mr.. and Mrs j. Ed
Walbridge, have received the follow
Inc interesting letter from Corp.
Henry b. Walbridge OF the field ar
tillery who is at one Of the rest
camps in England:
August J, 1918.
Dear People:-
am resting quietly (if you know
what that means in the army In
rest camp. and | am enjoying England
immensely had a splendid oppor-
tunity to take peep at agricultural
England yesterday and it was q won
derful opportunity. The whole Eng
lish landscape for hundreds OF miles
Is one great garden or plan OF Land
scape Architecture with no waste
land Their fields are neither much
larger nor much smaller than those
on our farm, but they are producing
heavier crops, field after field OF
Timothy as thick as good grain
crop, and fine fat cattle in pastures
as good as the average Vermont
meadow ready to cut for hay. The
reason is that they don't bother with
any large pastures of poor quality
but use each OF their fields in turn for
pasture, a year of pasture being part
Of regular five year rotation. The
livestock Is wonderful and very plen.
tiful The meat animals largely pre-
dominate.
When you remember that the wo
men are helping out on the farms you
can understand why they are so sue
cessful. | even saw lady scarecrow
yesterday
The Yankee soldiers have made an
impression on the children here any.
way for there is a song which we
sing the chorus OF which is,
Hail, Hail. the gangs all here
What the hell do we care, what
the hell do We care"-etc..
hut we passed crowd OF little girls
who sang,
Hail, Hail the Yanks are here
What the ell do we care"
with great deal OF spirit The
people have splendid spirit and fine
feeling for us and the men are be-
ginning to appreciate It. No one with
eyes in his head could long fail to
appreciate IL. This is beautiful
,ountry altogether, both in natural
beauty. and in the spirit OF the
people
The women dress much more simp.
ly and inexpensively and often I
tear, with better taste than they do
With u.s. The boys wear their stock.
ings rolled down below their knees
which is sensible, and consi1 1rate
10th of knees and stockings.
Such new and strange things as
battleships and airships are rapidly
becoming commonplace. but the new
est inventions and most formidable
evidence of progress can not destroy
he beautiful stability Of conservative
england
Lovingly.
Henry
Corp Henry r. Walbridge,
Bat c, 302 r. a.
American Expeditionary Force.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-26
GERMANS THROWN BACK
Their Counter Attack Against French
- Utterly Failed.

Paris, Aug. 26,-The Germans. to-
day, attempted a counter offensive ON
a large scale against the right wing
If Gen. Mangin's army between Vailly
md Scissors. The attack utterly
failed. Mangn's army repulscd the
onsloughts everywhere and in some
instances gained ground The French
flung back the attacking troops even
beyond their starting points.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-26
BLACK CATS WIN
outpaycd WiIIIamstown in All Dc
partrnents.


partnents.
What was expected to be a close
game, Saturday. between the Black
Sat and Williamstown baseball teams
vas broken up in the first inning by
an unfortunate accident, and the re-
Iult was a victory for the locals by a
core Of Is TO 3. In the first ining
he visitors were retired on a double
)lay by Nahar and Morrissey and a
strike out On the first ball pitched
~ Remillard. Morrissey sent up a
.oul fly which the catcher ran for and
ripped over some youngsters sitting
lose TO the line The fall caused n
errible wrench 10 the catchers back
md side, and he was obliged to re-
ire from the game. For some time Il
vas feared that the injury was SER
ious, hut II was reported at the close
II the game that he was getting along
Ill right His substitute behind the
rat could not fill the bill and Remil-
ard could not do his best work on the
iring line. The accident seemed TO
nave taken the heart ont of the play
ng OF the visitors. The inield played
,airly well, but the out.held could not
ieem TO stop the grounders that came
heir way Among the features of the
game we're a double play by Moran,
!. Ellington and Morrissey, home run
lrive by Harte. and the batting and
81 AItt1fnntpt,
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TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY


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months old baby Apply 223 Union
street, tel 2T0-J. S2tf
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Terms TO suit buyer. Call evenings AZ
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ron SALE OR RENT--Good dairy
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Address, Elmer H. Rudd. Bennington,
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FOR sALE--A twin-cylindor Harley
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hnc running order. New tires, spccdom
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9f-M. i2I Branch street. S2t6'
FOR SALE--Sweet peas. pansies aud
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LOST-Bunch OF keys on Morgan
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-26
WAR INDUSTRIES STRIPPED
Germany Calling All Available Men
to coIors.

The Hague. Aug s4-(CoTespon.
dence OF the Associated Pressl The
German government has summoned
every available man TO the colors,
saws a letter received here from a
correspondent IN Germany or the
200 900 workmen at Hrupps, between
10000 and 10000 have been called
upon for service vt the front. ELSE.
where the correspondent adds, the
combing out has been even more Wig
orous. ...- ..-- 80.
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FRESH GERMAN
FORCES FAIL TO
&, CHECK british
Byna's Troops Hold Most of Al
> bert -Bspaume Road.
FOES ATTACKS WEAKEN
Germans show signs Of Weakening.
But still offer Desperate Re.
J. slstaucs,

London, AUG. 25.--The British
armies today continued to advance on
the battlefront north OF the Somme,
in the face OF ,a,stiFes resistance due
to the arrival OK German reinforce
ments.
The whole length OF the high road
nom Albert to Bapaume. except for
a short distance to the south OF the
latter city, Is now In the hands of
Field Marshal Haigs troops. who
have crossed to the east of it at
some points-notably Mametz. Con-
talmaison. and Martinpuich.
Australian troops have carried
heights held by the enemy east OF
Bray.
North Of Bapaume the capture of
the villages of Sapignies and Be
hagnies, constituting part OF the de
fenses of the town Is officially an
nouneed, and it is unofflcially report
ed that other defenses are either taken
or in process Of capture. and that
British troops are in the outskirts
OF Bullecourt (about nine miles north
east Of Bapaume.)
Haig reports severe fighting in sew
eral towns on the line running north
from Bapaume.
About a dozen villages have been
taken by the British In the advance
of the last twenty-four hours, which
has carried the new front almost to
the old Hindenburg line.
There have been large captures OF
prisoners and material, the Germans
having abandoned the latter in such
haste that they were unable to de-
stroy it.
Up to the latest count, more than
1900 Germans, taken since Aug. 81,
have passed through the collecting
stations OF the British Third and
Fourth Armies
With the British Army in France,
Aug. rs. (Associated Press. THE
British continue smashing the Ger.
mans toward the old Hindenburg line.
which has almost been reached in the
northern battle zone.
The defense OF Bapaume have al.
ready been captured or are in proc.
ess OF being captured Bapaume
Itself must fall soon.
The Germans exhibit signs Of
cracking at some places, hut are Of.
fering desperate resistance. Many
more guns. some of large calibre.
have been taken. One British corps
alone has counted eighty guns.
There is evidence OF confusion in
the enemy rear. Units of the same
divisions hurled into the battle have
been taken at points separated by
many miles. Quantities OF material
are falling into British hands be
cause the Germans have not had
time to apply the torch OF explosives
London, Aug. 26.-The British this
morning attacked in the Scarpe sec
tor. east OF Arras and good progress
is being made, according TO today
war Office statement. British posi-
tions southeast OF Mory and west O
Croisilles have been improved despite
heavy rain. Strong German attacks
north and south OF Bapaume have
been repulsed. Favreuil, a mile ant
one half northeast Of Bapaume ha
been captured and the British hsv'
advanced beyond the village.
Paris, Aug. e6.--Heavy lombard
ments In the Roys region and he
tween the Disc and Ailette rivers ar
reported in today's offlcial statement
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-26

2-base hit. Pellerln; home run. Harte /;
own / bases on balls Remillard 3 I:
hit by pitched ball Remillard | struck
ut. Remlllard s, Bevis o: passed balls;
Iosley 4; wild pitches: Remlliard 3;
umpire, Kervan; time of game hr. 10
min. -
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-26
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont, local rain this afternoon or
tonight. Cooler In north portion,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-26
BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL
National League
Saturdays Results.

National League
Saturdays Results.
Pittsburgh 4, Philadelphia first
camel.
Philadelphia Z, Pittsburgh (sec-
md game).
Cincinnati 7, Boston 6.
Chicago S; Brooklyn 3 first game)
Chicago 3, Brooklyn ! (second
yame).
ST. Louis.New York, rain.
Yesterdays Results.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 6; Chicago O.
(F'irst game)
Washington, S; Chicago, 3.
(Second game.)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York at ST. Louis, (Rain)
Chicago, s; Brooklyn, 8.
(First game)
Brooklyn, 2; Chicago, +
'(Second game.)
Boston, 8; Cincinnati, 7.
(First game, ten innings
Cincinnati, 2; Boston, O.
(Second game)
Standing Of tho Clubs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-26
GERMANS WOULD DESERT
Prisoners Declare Enemy Has No
More Enthusiasm.

With the Americans on vesle, Aug.
Fisherman soldiers believe that
Germany is not planning any more of
fcnsives because OF man shortage, ac.
cording to prisoners captured by the
Americans Sunday. They said the
soldiers no longer had any enthus-
iasm for war and believed ii would
end soon. Plenty Of Germans wou
desert and surrender II given the
opportunity, they declared.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-26

LOSf--On The Pownal road an auto
mobile license number plate, tall light
aud bracket, Finder will please return
10 willard Rose. S2tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-26
Lovingly,

Henry.
Corp. Henry h. Walbridge,
Bat. G.. 302 r. a.
American Expeditonary Force.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-03-29
ALMOST A BAD BLUNDER.

The apartment house owner called
up the apartment house dweller and
asked him to come and see him. And
the apartment house dweller obeyed
the with fear and trembling.
When he arrived in the office, the own
err said:
81 am sorry, sir, but we shall have
to ask you to vacate your apartment
at once. 1 was not aware when I
leased the fiat to you that you had
children"
"But we have no children" protested
the renter, in amazement. "What put
that into your head?"
"Other residents of the building
have complained that they were kept
awake by a baby crying in your apart
ment."
"Nonsensel That was n of our
dogs bowling. He sounds just like a.
kid sometimes"
"In that case, I must apologize. A
natural mistake-and you know one
can't be too careful. Sorry to have
disturbed you-good morning."-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-03-29
PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S WIDOW
r. P.

Mrs. Lucretia Rudolph Garfield,
s'first lady ofthe land' for six months
of 1881, widow of the second President
of the United States to die from an
assassin's hand, mother of James R.
Garfield, former Secretary of the In
terror, aud of Harry A. Garfield, now
Fuel Administrator of the United
States; this woman, dying at S5, may
stand almost as a type of the home
making wife and mother of the Nine
tenth Century, when women general
ly were not yearning FOR the ballot or
any other form Of sex.emancipation.
Mrs. Garfield, long a school teacher
before she became the wife of the man
who was to make a fighting record in
the Civil War and then distinguish
himself in craftsmanship, was never
too fond of social Washington, Her
husband, magnetic, mercurial, elo-
qnent, good churchman, practical poll
tician, never relied on social connec-
tions, had DO use for kitchen cabinets
while he was a power in Congress.
His wife made his home life what he
wanted. She vas dignifed, s%elf-con-
tanned, often a wise counselor, always
a sympathetic stimulus 10 bring out
the best that was In him.
In the long, long weeks while James
A. Garfield was lying at the point Of
death in Elberon. Mrs. Garfield waited
patiently for the end to come. In no
word and in no act was she hysterical
or even impulsive. Her heart was
stricken, but that was not a matter to
be exposed to a watching world. She
has lived a quietly useful life for thirty
seven years since then. What her SOM
owe to her influence they themselves
can hardly estimate. They are o n
scientious and patriotic Americans
whose pride in their father and in their
mother is a guarantee that they will
never grow weary in well-doing.-
Brooklyn. Eagle.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-03-29
Donate sponees to Red Cross.

The Greek-American sponge fisher
men at Tarpon Springs, Fla, have
made n of the most unique gifts
that the American Red Cross has vet
received. Each fishing captain, as his
boat unloaded, contributed a bunch of
sponges to the lot being gathered for
the Red Cross. The sponges were sold
for $8OS at public auction on the
Sponge exchange, the only public
square sponge market in the United
States. The money was sen to the
Red Cross.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-03-29
PALMS ~sInnlhcance.

The palm so connected with the trfl
umphal entry of our Lord into Jeru4
salem is the staff st. Christopher used
when as OIfero he unawares bore
Christ Himself on his shoulder In his
work Of carrying the weak and small
across a raging river. st. Clara.
founder of the Poor Clares, when she
made her vows. received from st. Fran
els a palm, which in those days was
especially a mark of holiness with the
Crusaders.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-03-29

er eve in merrymaking and carous-
ing-watching the pot boil, the con-
tents of which were to break the long
Lenten fast, yet must not be touched
before the growing of the cock-for
the whole company of jewellers to go
out just at daybreak to see the rising
take his three Easter leaps. Sir
Thomas Browne, writing of popular
errors, mentions thus quantity the ex-
istence of this belief in England: "We
shall not, I hope, disparage the resur-
rection of our Redeemer, if we say that
the sun doth not dance on Easter day ;
and though I would willingly assent
unto any sympathetic e%xultation, yet
we cannot conceive therein more than
tropical (fgurative) expression"
Perhaps there is no more striking illus
tration than this of the power of an
inherited belief to live on in spite of
the testimony of all experience against
1t. In some places, apparently as an
alternative for giving up the belief
wholly, it was held that in order to
witness these three leaps one must
look, not at the sun itself, but at the
reflection of it in a pool of clear water.
AS a last resort, to save the belief, the
sun might be made to dance. Brand
could recall that when he was a boy
he had seen ga vessel full of water set
in the open air, in which the reflected
sun seemed to dance, from the tremu-
lous motion of the water" If the
mountain will not come to Mahomet,
then Mahomet must go to the noun
tain.
Among the customs handed down
through long ages and accepted by the
Church were those of Easter eggs and
the Easter tale which the preacher told
from the pulpit, in lieu of a sermon,
connecting it with Christian reminis-
cences. Later still there were in Ger
many dramatic shows, named Oster-
spiele. executed by twelve performers,
n of whom, apparently, was the
leader, and represented Summer beat
ing Winter out of the land. The dances
and sports prevalent at this season in
Germany among the youths and maid
ems appear sometimes to have been
marked with something of the loose
ness characteristic of the floral games
in Italy.