Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-07-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The town of Merris, in Flanders.
eight miles east of Hazelbrouck and
three and half miles southwest OF
Bailleul, was captured by Australians
yesterday, Field Marshal Haig's re-
port announces. The Anzacs took 1853
prisoners and number of trench
mortars and machine guns. Merria
was the westernmost point of Ger
man penetration toward the import
ant British base of Hazelbrouch in
Gen. Won Arnim's Flanders drive last
April. 1t lies about two miles slight
ly southwest. of Meteren, which was
recently captured by the British.
Miss Alice Wilson, of Baltimore, a
niece of President Wilson, will be
married to the Rev. Isaac Stuart Nc
Elroy, Jr., of White Sulphur Springs,
W. Va, at, the White House on We'd
nesday evening, Augusts7. Miss Will
son is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph R. Wilson. The ceremony
will be performed by the Rev. |. 5.
McElroy, D. D., pastor of the Presby-
terian Church of Columbus, Ga,
father of the groom Only members of
the immediate families will be pres
ent. No cards will be issued. The
groom is pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at White Sulphur Springs,
where he expects to remain for about
twelve months. He will then go to ia
pan as a missionary.
The maximum age limit for origi-
nal enlistment in the Marine Corps
has been raised to 40 years, Secretary
Daniels announced yesterday. Marine
Corps recruiting stations throughout
the country were notified by tele-
graph that. applicants up to that age
are now eligible. Heretofore SO years
has been the maximum limit. The
rigid physical requirements remain
unchanged.
After offering a glass of poison t o
his father, who was lying in be-! help
less from rheumatism, and after the
elderly man had refused, Rcinhold
Harder, of WATERFOWL, Wis, walked
into the next room, drank the poison
and died. Fear Of being drafted was
the cause for his act. The helpless
father lay within a few feet of his
sons body for six hours before neigh
bors discovered the suicide.
More than $50,OO0.00O of Germany's
money was spent in the United States
for propaganda, largely for the pur-
pose of keeping America out of the
war, and Germany "did not get any
thing for it," according to testimony
given before Deputy Attorney General
Becker by George Sylvester Viereck
and made public in New York yes
tcrday.
Austrians on the Albanian front, in
efforts to react against the Franco
italian offensive, have shown con-
siderable activity during the last
few days, but without results, ac
coriing to an official dispatch yes
terday from Rome. The Italians have
captured additional prisoners and
material.
Eighteen carloads of powder and
light bombs exploded at Shimonoseki,
Japan, while they were being loaded
on ship yesterday. Thirty, mostly
stevcdorcs, are known to have been
killed and so injured. The ship was
practically wrecked and houses for
some distance were flattened. A near
by passenger train was badly dam
aged. Five passengers were killed.
A new strike has broken out at
Kalk, in Prussia, near Cologne, ac-
cording to the Echo Beige, of Am
steriam. Machine guns were used to
suppress the movement and the lead
ers were arrested, the newspaper de-
c!ares. The police, it is added, were
still busy when the report was sent
dispensing the crowds which continued
to gather in the streets.
United States marines, landing al
Vicontillo province, Santo Domingo,
were attacked by bandits, Secretary
Daniels announced Yesterday Three
of the marines we're wounded. Ten
of the bandits were killed outright
and several wounded. Another group
of bandits attacked a small colony
near Santa Fe and wrecked stores.