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The Washington herald., 1918-08-23
FOCH BATTERS
ARMY OF ENEMY;
SHOWS NO MERCY
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army OF the 1920 class. comprising 5OO,-
go youths. along with other units, as
these fresh classes cannot be used
without plenty Of stiffening by sea-
soned troops.
Instead. however. the ceaseless
allied attacks do not even permit a
temporary withdrawal of experienced
German units for the absorption Of
the youngsters of the 1920 class.
1t is estimated that IS per cent
Of Germany's electives are con-
centrated between the North Sea
and the Champagne. with the only
relief from the allied shellfre be-
ing offered by four or five days
withdrawal from the line. but with
virtually all these forces exposed to
day and night bombing and long
range shelling.
Kalser's Serious Position.
The situation which the Kaiser
faces today is more serious even
than II was in the autumn of 1915
during the 1ull of the Somme battle,
which permitted the transfer of
shattered divisions from the Rus
sian front and the careful with
drawal to the Hindenburg line.
Foch has the strength, the will
and the power to persevere in his
attacks, despite losses-for the
allies are not gaining bloodless VIC
tories-but he realizes and capital
ICES the fact that Americans are
arriving at a rate of 10000 month
ly. which means a daily influx to
the allied forces of approximatel
the strength of one German divi-
sion, whereas the enemy is weaken
ing with every day.
Hindenburg has lost the initiative
forever, and Foch will not permit
any period of rest while the enemy
is reeling under the effect of the
hammer blows already inflicted on
him
The Washington herald., 1918-08-23
Labor Day Services
AT Historic Church

The historic Pohick Church near
Mt. Vernon will be the scene of
special Labor Day services. The
pew formerly occupied by George
Washington will be reserved for
President Wilson.
The service will be the occasion
OF a reunion OF parishoners of the
old church, of which Rev. z. w.
Mellichamp is rector. A special in
vitation is extended to the young
people who have been called to
Washington and its vicinity by the
war.
There will be a religious service.
selections by a military band. and
speakers from Camp Humphreys.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-23
WESTERN INVENTOR
IS SPEAKER HERE

Patriotism was the keynote OF the
weekly meeting of the American In
ventors' Association last night in the
Board of Trade rooms.
E. w. Dunn. Of Los Angeles. Cal.
who Is In Washington making tests of
an invention which he has submitted
to the government. was the principal
speaker. He briefly outlined to the
meeting his experiences in bringing
his invention before the authorities.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-23
AVIATION PROGRAM
REPORTED FAILURE
BY INVESTIGATORS
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IF aviation under the control and
supervision OF a secretary, and
ranking with those OF the army and
navy. We would thus place power
and responsibility in the hands of q
single man. organize a service not
alone for this war but for all time.
and establish for the forces OF the
air the same policy OF administra-
lion that has so long governed those
Of the land and OF the seas.
Need More Machines.
"A commission Of engineers and
pilots for observation at the front.
formed in relays and reporting in
person to the department at fire.
luent intervals. is also Imperative
ly demanded.
The prime need OF the hour is
machines in continuing quantity.
and the production OF them should
be accelerated by enlisting the con-
structive activities OF all RESPONSE
bic concerns engaged or which can
be engaged in the business to full
capacity.
America must give greater at
tention to the perfection and pro-
1uction Of aircraft. This should be
done not only as a war measure but
as a commercial and industrial
necessity.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-23
333 Yanks Sick and Wounded.

During the week ending August is
the number OF sick and wounded in
the United States from the American
Expeditionary Forces was 333. For
the preceding week the number was
63, report from the surgeon general
states.
These men were sent to the various
army hospitals where facilities for
vided.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-23
MOTOR CORPS
SENDS WOMEN
The YANKS
D. c. Group to Drive Am
balances; Sail Oc-
tober First.

Eleven prominent women Of this city
have elected to 70 to France as am
bulance drivers. They are members
Of the Washington motor corps. an
organization that has aided mate
rally IN war work here for some time.
Mrs. ]. Borden Hartman, head OF
the organization and a wealthy society
leader, was one of the first TO vol
unteer.
The Red Cross recently issued a
call for 800 women motor drivers for
overseas service. Washington was
one Of the first cities to fill Its
quota.
The first contingent expects to sail
October /. The qualifications neces-
sary for overseas service Of this char
acter is first aid. expert mechanic
and perfect physical condition"
Mrs. Hartman, whose Washington
home Is 1909 II street northwest. has
been passed in all these qualifications.
The other women who have enlisted
are:
The Others.
Mrs. Emily Gill. Congressional
Mrs. W. W. chisweIl. 1850 Biltmors
Mrs. J.. R. Sears. 1918 Sixteenth
street northwest.
Miss Dorothy Heiberger. 3755 North
Hampton street, Chevy Chase.
Miss Dorothy Cameron, 1874 Ran
iolph street northwest.
Miss Ellen Scott, $3.50 Livingston
street northwest.
Miss Edith Stouffer, 1856 Shepherd
street northwest.
Miss Ruth Teg. 232 r street north
east.
Miss Jeanne Robertson, 3o15 Six
teenth street northwest.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-23
THE MISSES LANSING
WIN CROSS OF WAR
Sisters of Secretary Cared for
Wounded During Bombardment.

OlotciS Vi ScCIcldIy NdIcQ TOT
Wounded During Bombardment.
Paris, Aug. 22-The Misses Emma
and Kate lansing. sisters Of the
American Secretary Of State, are
the first American women to re-
ceive the Croix de Guerre. They
are cited in a special order, issued
to the French fifth army on Aug
ust IL. for displaying conspicuous
bravery. The Misses Lansing re-
mained in Epernay throughout the
German bombardment, volunteering
to care for the wounded, though
their regular duty was canteen
work
Secretary and Mrs. Lansing re-
ceived the first word of the dis
tinguished honor accorded to their
sisters last night from a reporter
Of The Washington Herald. They
expressed great pleasure over the
good news which arrived here by
cable today.
The Misses Lansing have been in
France since last September, and
are at present engaged in hospital
work at Neuilly. Just outside of
Paris.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-23
TEACH SONG LEADERS.

A class for the instruction of COM
munity song leaders was held last
night at the Thomson School. The
class was held under the auspices OF
the War Camp Community Service.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-23
Huns Shoots Bolsheviki Suspects.

Stockholm. Aug. 22.-Germans in
Russian occupied territory are re-
ported to be shooting anyone sus-
pected of Bolshevik tendencies or
wearing a Russian uniform. In Minsk
old men have been tied to horses
and dragged through the streets.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-23

chanical devices that are more than human
in the dexterity and accuracy with which
they produce high grade lumber in all
forms. These machines-' -'cut offs, saws,
edgers, trimmers, planers-are gagged Ito
a hair" and make no mistakes
AS the finished lumber is delivered auto
matically from the mill it passes under
the eyes of expert workmen, who divert
various products to their proper storage
places, afterward to be sorted and graded
in strict conformity with most rigid rules.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-23

GElIN NO OTHER INDUSTRY, probably,
/ / have improvements in manufacturing
n |methods been so marked as in the
0production of Southern Pine Lumber.
This is due to the adoption of perfected
machinery, the exercise of greater skill
and care in handling, and systematic ef-
fort to stabilize and standardize Southern
Pine grades.
The Southern Pine sawmills of today are
great machine shops, filled with an impos-
ing array of ponderous and intricate me-
The Washington herald., 1918-08-23

The rules in use by more than 22O giant sawmils
subscribing to the Southern Pine Association have
eliminated uncertainty. in the grades of their
products.
The Density Rule, devised by the U. S. Forest
Service and adopted as standard by the American
Society OF Testing Materials, the Southern Pine
Association, the United States Government, etc.,
The Washington herald., 1918-08-23

is simple and infallibe guide for determining
the strength of tmbers used in heavy construction.
These modern manufacturing and merchandising
features have made possible the certainty of satis
faction in the use of lumber produced by the
Southern Pine Association mills. Southern Pine
building material in all its forms is of better and
more uniform quality today than ever before!
The Washington herald., 1918-08-23
U. 5. Food Adninistr.tioa License No. c-olsss
Old Dutch Prices Fairer Than the Fair!

We call ATTENTION to the fair prices the official Fair
url list is
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Award of Scholar
ships and Free
Tuition.

The College maintains 169 four
year scholarships in the Agricultural
and Textile Courses, and 81 in the
One-Year Agricultural Course (Oc-
tober 3rd to June 1st). Each schol-
arship is worth 500 and free
tuition.
Scholarship and entrance exami-
nations are held at the county court
houses at 9 A. NJ, July 18th. Write
for full information in regard TO the
scholarships open to your county
next session, and the laws govern
ing their award.
Credit will be given for any ex-
aminations passed at the county
seat.
The State Board of Charities and
Corrections is charged with investi-
eating the financial standing of all
applicants for four-year scholarships
and free tuition, and reporting their
findings to the Board of Trustees Of
the College. This Board passes up
on the matter, accepting as correct
the information gathered by the
State Board. Appeal from the de-
cision of the Trustees may be made
to the State Board of Education.
The College will furnish blanks to
all applicants for scholarships and
free tuition.
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Newcastle-on-Tyne. The "Huntsend'
was a steamer of the Hamburg-Amer-
ican line that had been captured by
the British and was now being put to
British uses. 1t gave the Italian SOL
diers peculiar satisfaction to know
that in this way their barbarous enc
mics were, so to speak, compelled to
minister to their wants in the last
stage of their adventures.
In due course the "Huntsend,
which was making it's first voyage
after the breakup of the ice, arrived
at Newcastle, where they were cloth
ed and nourished back to life and
fitness. Their stay in Newcastle was
short, money and Italian uniforms be-
ing given to them at the consulate
there. On their reaching London the
Italian ambassador had everything
done to minister to their comforts.
They spent a week in the metropolis
enjoying "a very good time among
Italian friends and English sympa-
thizers."
Tf we are killed when we begin
fighting again" said Stefano DAMN,
st will be a glorious thing to die in
the cause of liberty; so very much
better than to have died in a prison
camp under the lash of the unspeak-
.,bIa IIrnS''
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thirty-one men, commanded by Lieut..
J. F. Legare, sailed from Cuba for
Key West in 1924. She is supposed
to have gone ashore on Carysford
reef, as an armchest and other
wreckage from the vessel later were
found there.
Armed with eighteen guns and
carrying crew of 40 men, the
Hornet, with Commander Otho Nor
ris as skipper, foundered in a gale
off Tampico on September 10, 1929,
with loss of all hands.
The Sylph, small naval schooner,
also believed to have foundered
few years later, as she never was
heard after her departure from port.
The Sea Gull, which left Orange
Harbor for Valparaiso in company
with the Flying Fish on April %,
is believed to have sunk in a severe
gale, from which the Flying Fish
took refuge under false Cape Horn.
Sailed from Charleston.
The Grampus, schooner of twelve
guns, sailed from Charleston, S. c.,
about March IA, 1S43, and was due
at Norfolk, Va, between the Sth and
18th of April. In June the Navy
Department abandoned all hope for
her safety.
The Jefferson, a steamer engaged
in the coast survey was lost near the
Straits of Magellan in 1850.
The Albany, sloop-of-war with
21O men under command of Com
mander J. T. Gerry, sailed from
Aspinwall on September 29, 1854,
for New York. After long wait the
steamers Princeton and Fulton were
sent in search of her, but no trace
ever was discovered.
The Levant, also a sloop-of-war
with 210 men, under Capt. William
Hunt, departed from Hilo in the
Sandwich Islands on September 18,
1860. Vessels of the Pacific squad
ron searched for her many months,
but the only traces ever found were
an oar and broken spar, believed to
have belonged to her.
The only case in recent years OF a
naval vessel, other than the Cyclops,
disappearing from the face of the
sea, is the tug Nina, which officially
was declared lost by the department
on March Is, 1910. She is believed
to have foundered with all hands in
a gale off the Atlantic coast.
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down in the snow and the German
soldiers passed them by on the left
without detecting their whereabouts.
"That was very narrow escape -
said DAMN, " and we thought We were
all dead men. But here we are in
London enjoying a first rate dinner
under the shadow of St. Paul's Ca
thedral.'
Sixteen hundred miles lay before
the soldiers and the Arctic ocean,
where lay their only chance of es-
Gaping to England. The first stage
of their route lay through Bessara-
bia, across the Province of Podolia,
through Volhynia and on to Minsk, a
distance of $50 miles, every yard Of
which they must traverse did
traverse-on foot with the result that
upon reaching Minsk their boots were
reduced to tatters hardly resembling
footgear at all. The frost and snow
had bitten their feet until every
movement was an agony and nothins
but the passion for freedom enabled
them to bear Np and struggle on.
Of food they had practically none
and were obliged to subsist mainly
upon radishes and other roots which
they found at the bottom of the snow.
The Russian pesants extended every
hospitality within their power, but
their resources in this direction we're
decidedly limited. A great stroke OF
luck befell them when particularly
genial old peasant produced some of
the forbidden vodka which he had
secreted in some corner of his hut,
He gave them small quantity and
their gratitude was expressed to me
by Danni, who said:
1--WE have built monument to
that peasant in our hearts,
Trains were running frequently
from Minsk to Petrograd, a distance
of 400 or 500 miles, but these trains
only proved tantalizing to the 1tal-
ians, who had no money with which
to pay their fares. Here again the
necessities of the position drove them
to desperate measures. The trains
moved in a very leisurely manner,
and were mostly full of soldiers, who
were likely to be friendly. The Ital-
ians secreted themselves little way
outside Minsk station, and as one of
these trains left in the dark they
jumped on behind and as they ex-
pected were we'll received by the SOL
diers to whom they conveyed as best
they could an idea of their position.
Two of the Italians jumped on the
couplings between the last carriage
and the brake van, and in that posi-
ton they travelled without food or
drink for two days.
Fifty Days to Petrograd.
Eventually Petrograd was reached
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after the fugitives had been fifty days
on their journey. The spectacle they
presented on calling at the Italian
consulate was that of famishing, ur-
washed, half-demented men attired in
rags and looking as if their reason
had left them. The consul Immediate
ly procured food and clothing, and
for three days they remained in Pet
rograd, when they felt sufficiently re-
freshed to resume their journey; for
the object upon which they had set
their minds was to reach England,
and thereafter to return to their own
country and fight the foe they had
learned so heartily to detest.
1t might we'll be asked how did the
Italian soldiers protect themselves
against the cold, which grew more
intense every day? How and where
did they sleep at night? Were they
not in constant danger of starving to
death? Did any of them become faint
hearted and threaten to put an end
to the business by the last means left
to men in overwhelming difficulties?
Life in Snow Huts.
The answers to these questions
we're given by Stefano DAMN after a
consultation with his fellow "esca-
padoes.' They constructed huts of
snow and discovered, as travellers fire.
quently do in the Artic, that warmth
was actually obtainable in such cir
cumstances. Their "bed-clothes'
were snow; their drink was derived
by sucking ice, and they managed to
keep together by holding each others
hands and moving in single file,
leaning on each others shoulders-a
string of weary men weak and bent
from exhaustion, trudging through
the pitiless Arctic region, buoyed up
by the remote hope of yet reaching
their homeland alive. None Of them
gave up, though all of them had
threatening fits Of faintheartedness.
Was there ever a picture in the
world of ice and snow, like this pic
ture of eight Italian soldiers tramp
ing through binding snow-storms,
and singing, as they did for hours
together, the stirring strains of the
Garibaldi Hymn, to keep up their
dropping spirits?
On the seventy-ffth day of their
pilgrimage from Czernowitz far
away behind them in Austria, Muir
man on the shores of the Artic ocean
was reached by tortuous routes and
unspeakably painful degrees. Here,
where everybody was kind and SYM
pathetic, they stayed nearly a week,
waiting for ship to take them to
England, where they knew all would
be well. By strange irony of fate
a steamer called the ''Huntsend' was
placed at their disposal, bound for
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THE CYCLOPS MYSTERY.
CONTINUED from page 2, column 6.

Pickering to go under.
The Wasp with 140 men under
command of Commander Johnston
Blakely, engaged and captured on
September 1, 1914, the British brig
Atlanta. A Swedish brig reported
having spoken to her three
weeks after that date, but no further
news ever was had about her. She
is supposed to have foundered in a
gale.
The Hamilton, one of Commodore
Chauncey's squadron on Lake On
tario, capsized on the night of Au-
gust 10, 1913, while trying to wealth
er the enemys squadron.
"All hands," says the official
chronicle, "are supposed to have
been at quarters
The Epervier, ship of eighteen
guns and a complement of 1913, cap
tured from the British by the. U. S.
S. Peacock, sailed from Gibraltar for
this country on July 4, 1915. She
last was seen by merchant vessel
on August Ia in mid-Atlantic.
The Lynx, a schooner of three guns
with fifty men on board, commanded
by Lieut.. J. R. Madison, sailed from
St. Mary's Fla, for Jamaica, on New
Years Day, 1921. She last was sight
ed on January % that year.
The Wildcat, with three guns and
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ITALIANS DASH FOR LIBERTY.
Conditions So Insufferably Bad Be-
gan Planning Upon Arrival.

London, May 16.-It has always
been considered fair game in war for
prisoners to escape from confinement
wherever opportunity presents itself,
and to make what opportunities they
can for themselves, on the clear un-
derstanding that they take their
lives in their own hands, it being no
offense against the rules of the game
for their pursuers to shoot them dead
on coming within range of them.
The record for this war in the way
of prison-breaking unquestionably
has been made by party of eight
Italian soldiers, who escaped from an
internment camp in Czernowitz,
where they had been incarcerated for
eighteen months.
These Italian tsescapadoes, arrived
in London a few weeks ago and I
met them Immediately after their ar
rival in a little Italian restaurant
where they were the guests of the
proprietor. Private DAMN, who was
selected as their spokesman for the
reason that he spoke French, told
me that they had reached London
after ninety days of travelling, partly
on foot, partly by rail, and partly by
sea-. Their camp life at Czernowitz
was so insufferably bad from the first
that they began by signs and other
devices to prepare plot of escape.
Eve would all have rather been
dead than alive in that inferno" said
DAMN, land sooner than fall into the
hands of the Austrians again, every
one of us would commit suicide, or
die of a broken heart if the means to
commit suicide were not within our
reach. When our great countryman,
Dante, wrote his Inferno he did not
know anything about life in an Aus
trian internment camp. If he had he
would have included 1t among the
ttortures of the damned
Treated Like Beasts.
They we're accommodated like
beasts, given damp beds of straw to
sleep on with rats for their COM
panions in the night. Their hours
of labor averaged sixteen for seven
days of the week, and their food con-
sisted of unpalatable black bread
washed down with draughts of a
nauseating beverage called coffee,
but no more like coffee than
treacle is like honey. Only the
pangs Of hunger and thirst COM
PEELED them to swallow the re-
pulsive rations. Each man had his
appointed dole of hard work to do,
while over him stood soldier arm
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Short Courses.

ed with a whip which he used
freely on the slightest provocation
and, when no provocation was forth
coming, applied as devilish diver
sion.
1t was discovered that the only
feasible means of escape lay in dig
ging an Aperture in the soft ground
under the walls of the prison, and
little by little, as opportunity afford
ed, especially during the night, the
subsoil was silently and stealthily
dug away by the primitive spade
work of fingers and nails. The ex-
ecution of their plan occupied their
minds and relieved the tedium of
confinement. When eventually the
light of day was seen through the
hole in the wall the men experienced
their first thrill of JOY since they had
fallen into the hands of the Aus
trians.
At length time was fixed for the
dash for liberty. Watching the sentry
as he paced along from end to end
of the dimly lighted corridor in the
night they calculated how long it
would take him to reach the extTemi-
ty of his beat and return again. 1t
was only matter of few moments,
but so skillfully had they perfected
their arrangements that they had all
disappeared through the hole before
he was aware of their escape.
The Escape.
They stepped out into snow that
lay in the open country several feet
deep, so that progress was exceeding
ly difficult at the most critical period
of their enterprise. Several of the
men were actually weltering waist
deep, and it seemed as if they must
be left behind; but by grasping each
others hands they somehow man
aged to get we'll away before any
thing was heard by them of the Aus
trians in pursuit. Half mile from
the camp was a convenient hollow,
into which they scrambled out of
sight of the prison, and here it was
decided that the mahogany-colored
uniform which they wore showed up
conspicuously against the white snow.
To overcome this difficulty they dis
robed in the cold and, taking off their
white undergarments wore these on
top of the uniforms, which they put
on next to their skins.
1T was very irritating at first, "
said DAMN, "but that did not distress
us very much when we could see
plainly that the ruse would be very
useful to US if we were chased"
Scarcely had they thus reversed
their clothing when a company OF
German soldiers came into view ap-
parently marching in their direc-
tion. The Italians instantly Lay