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THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

The fifth successive counter attack
against Cantigny was repulsed by the
Americans with losses for the enemy.
Two of Germany's newest and larg-
est submarines of the cruiser class
were sunk May IL and 18, near Gil
braltar
The British in the regions of Arras,
Lens and Bethune are keeping up their
trench-raiding operations against the
Germans.
The Germans in their Champagne
offensive in France have reached the
right bank of the River Marne on a
ten-mile front.
The Germans have seized and taken
into Swinemunde the Dutch steamship
Jantje and sailing vessels Maria, Ja-
coba and Gerzine.
The transport ship Leasowe Castle
has been sunk by an enemy submarine
the British admiralty announced. One
hundred and one persons were
drowned.
On the front between scissors and
Chateau Thierry the Germans occu-
pied Longpont Corey, Faverolles and
Troesnes, but later were driven out
of these places by energetic French
counter attacks.
After desperate resistance and fight
ing in the streets, lasting several
, hours, the French evacuated scissors,
which the Germans occupied, accord
ing to the official announcement from
the Paris war office.
The aerial activity over the terri
tory of the German advance is most
intense and French airmen have
dropped many tons of bombs on en-
emy targets in addition to bringing
down nineteen German machines.
The seventh day of the new battle
found the allied line from scissors to
Rheims, although it had been bent
back at various points, not so hard
pressed as on previous days and seem
ingly more capable of resisting the
enemy's onslaught.
Fighting their way along the River
Marne, the Germans have reached a
point to the west of Chateau-Thierry
French troops hold the western por-
ton of the city. On the eastern side
of the Champagne salient the Ger
mans have succeeded in crossing the
Rheims -Dormans road south of Olizy-
Violaine and Ville-en-T Tardenois.
The French troops in counter at
tack west of Neuilly-St. Front drove
back the Germans, and also in an at
tack recaptured Hill 1853 in this re-
gion, according to the French official
communication issued in Paris on the
End. The village of Champlat also was
recaptured, and near Ville-en-Tarde-
nois some ground was gained by the
French troops.
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FOREIGN.

Thirty-eight officers and men Of the
American expeditionary forces have
been cited by their divisional COM
manders in divisional orders for gal
lantry.
AS a result of the visit of Emperor
Charles to Constantinople, the sultan
has consented to give Austria rein
forcements of reserves, it was re-
ported at Zurich.
Emperor William has conferred
upon Crown Prince Frederick the star
of grand commander of the royal house
of Hohenzollern, with swords, Berlin
dispatch announces.
In the Memorial Day exercises in
the rear Of the American sector in
Picardy a small American flag and
flowers were placed on each grave OF
an American soldier
Destruction of two submarines with
in half an hour by an American de-
troyer off the coast of France was re-
ported by an American ship arriving
at an Atlantic port from the war zone.
The latest German barbarity con-
sists of man trap similar to bear
trap, discovered in No Mans land by
Corp. Leonardo Manser and Sergt. Vic
tor l.. Vaupel, United States engineers
The epidemic which is sweeping
over Spain, disease which somewhat
resembles grip, is increasing in sever
ity. There are more than 100000
cases in Madrid. The mortality, how.
ever, continues to be low.
A London military tribunal, after
three weeks deliberation, has decided
that members Of the House of Com
mons are doing work of national i'm
portance" and therefore entitled to ex-
emption from military service.
The Germans are paying a heavy
penalty in the fruitless attempts to re-
take Cantigny. Air observers report
that the American artillery is inflict-
ing terrible losses on the boches to
the eastward of the new American po.
sitions.
British Red Cross hospitals have
again come under the German bomb
ing scourage. This latest attack be-
gan at 10:30 o'clock May 81 and the
hostile airmen raided the same group
of hospitals which suffered May 19.
Several hospitals were hit and the
casualty lists among patients and
workers is considerable.
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IS LATEST FAD WITH GIRLS
Sweetheart Monument at Camp DeV-
ems Is Rising by Leaps and
Bounds.

Camp Devens, Mass.-The "sweet-
heart monument" at this cantonment
is rising by leaps and bounds. Every
girl who has a sweetheart among the
troops here is supposed to add Crock
Of Love" to the monument. AS the
girls pass the cantonment they select
a good-sized stone and carry it to the
monument site, where they heave it
onto the pile. It is expected that be-
fore the war ends tremendous monu-
ment of "LOve" will be raised here.
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FIND POTASH IN C0L0RARO
Richest Vein Ever Discovered In
United States Uncovered by
Trapper.

Longmont, Colo.-What biologists
say is the richest vein Of potash ever
uncovered in the United States has
just been found in the foothills few
miles from this city. The strata was
discovered by trapper. 1t crops out
of rocky fault in the hills, is four
feet thick at the surface and can be
traced for almost half a mile. The
depth of the vein has not ben deter
mined. An assay shows the substance
to run 95-1OO of one per cent potash.
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pound my husband wanted me to try It.
i took it for week and felt little bet
ter. kept itup for three months, and
/ feel fine and can eat anything now
without distress or nervousness. Mrs.
J. WoRTHLNE, 2842 North Taylor ST.,
Philadelphia Pa.
The majority Of mothers nowadays
overdo, there are SO many demands
upon their time and strength; the result
is invariably a weakened, rundown,
nervous condition with headaches, back
ache, irritability and depression - and
soon more serious ailments develop.
tits at such periods in life that Lydia =.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will
restore normal healthy condition, as
it did to Mrs. Worthlihe.
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Russian Sentiment Favors Allies.

London-The movement in Russia
in favor of the cause Of the allies is
increasing and has been strengthened
by President Wilson's recent declara-
tion of sympathy for Russia, says a
Petrograd dispatch to the Daily Ex-
press. The Russian democracy also
is enthusiastic over recent steps taken
by the British government to show it's
friendship Following the discovery
of a counter-revolutionary plot,
state of siege has been declared at
Moscow.
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Requested to Buy Only Things
Necessary to Health
and Efficiency.
THRIFT PLEDGE ALSO ASKED
All Citizens Must Be Economically
Adjusted to War Conditions If
Nation Is to Play Its
Part in Conflict.

Washington, D. C.-To save mate
rials and labor for necessary war pur-
poses, President Wilson appealed to
Americans ito buy only those things
which are essential to the individual
health and efficiency" and to volun-
teer on or before June %, National
Thrift day. to invest Systematically in
War Savings and Thrift Stamps, or
other government securities.
'"This war is one of nations-not Of
armies" said the president, "and all
of our 1OO,OO0OO0 people must be
economically and industrially adjusted
to war conditions if this nation is to
play it's full part in the conflict.
Pledge Is Sought.
"The problem before us is not pri-
marily financial problem, but rather
a problem of increased production Of
war essentials and the saving of the
materials and the labor necessary for
the support and equipment of our
army and navy. Thoughtless expendi-
ture of money for nonessentials uses
up the labor Of men, the products Of
the farm, mines, and factories, and
overburdens transportation, all OF
which must be used to the utmost and
at their best for war purposes.
''The great results which we seek
can be obtained only by the participa-
tion Of young and old in a national
%lor,sf
that our people everywhere pledge
themselves, as suggested by the secre-
tary Of the treasury, to the practice OF
thrift; to serve the government to
their utmost in increasing production
in all fields necessary TO the winning
of the war; to conserve food and fuel
and useful materials Of every kind; to
devote their labor only to the most
necessary tasks, and to buy only those
things which are essential to individ-
ual health and efficiency.
"Buy More U. S. Securities"
1.-THE securities issued by the treas
ury department are, so many Of them,
within the reach of every one that the
door of opportunity in this matter is
wide open to all Of us.
II appeal to all who now own either
Liberty bonds or War Savings stamps
to continue to practice economy and
thrift and to appeal to all who do not
own government securities to do like
wise and purchase them to the extent
of their means. The man who buys
government securities transfers the
purchasing power Of his money to the
United States government until after
this war, and to that same degree does
not buy in competition with the gov
ernment.
II earnestly appeal to every man,
woman and child to pledge themselves
on or before June % to save constant
ly and to buy as regularly as possible
the securities of the government.
"The 28th of June ends this special
period of enlistment in the great vol.
unteer army of production and saving
here at home. May there be none un
enlisted on that day."
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Although it cannot be said that the
Germans in their new offensive have
been definitely stopped, there is, nev-
ertheless, a marked iminution in the
speed with which they started out, and
their gains since Saturday have been
relatively small when compared with
those of previous days. So great have
been the casualties suffered that the
Prussian guards division, the pride
of the German crown prince-is de-
clared to have been withdrawn from
the battle.
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slckly most or the
time. / went to a.
doctor and he said
/ had nervous indi-
gestion, which adj
ded to my weak
condition kept me
worrying most Of
the time and he
said if I could not
stop that, I could
not get well: I
heard so muchabout
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Veretahlo Com.
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The Universal Excuse.

"How did you come to put anything
so compromising as that down in black
and white?"
II didn't. My mother-in-law wrote
it in my letter when I wasn't look
Ing"
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His Habit.

"That barber is surly old fellow.
Often he won't speak to me when I
meet him on the street."
That's only the force of habit.
He's so used to cutting old acQuaint-
anceS."
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HUNS CHECKED AT SOlSSONS.

French Rout Foe on Paris Road and
Recapture FaveroIIes.
Paris, June 4.-The battle in France
was resumed with great intensity
Monday, according to the war office
announcement. The Germans, with
fresh troops, attacked between the
Disc and the Ourcq with redoubled vio-
lence. "The Germans have been
checked west of Soissons," continues
the statement. 1--WE recaptured Fave
ROLES. In the region south of Ville-en-
Tardenois the Franco-British troops
maintained all their gains north of
Champlat."
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coast, and that two had been sighted
off the Virginia capes. Rear Admiral
Flet 'hor, commandant of the Norfolk
navy yard, said two U-boats had been
sighted off the Virginia capes.
Washington, June 4.--Germany at
last has brought her submarine war
fare to the shores of the United
States, apparently in forlorn hope
of striking telling blows on this side
of tue Atlanti~ and of drawing home
some of the American naval forces
from tie w9r zone where the U-boat
menace is being slowly but surely
strangled to death.
In the attacks upon cOasting ves-
sells almost in sight of the New Jer-
sey Shore navy officials see frantic
admission from Berlin that the sub
marine has failed. American armed
power is rolling overseas in ever-in-
creasing force, despite the utmost ex-
ertions Of the undersea pirates off the
coast of Europe.
Up to a late hour Monday night the
destruction of six sailing craft, the
tanker Herbert L. Pratt and three
coastwise steamers was the record of
losses officially reported to the Navy
Department. The steamers lost were
the Carolina, the Winneconnie and the
Texel. The crews of some of the craft
destroyed Rave been brought into
port with a story of eleven days i'm
prisonment aboarl an enemy sub.
marine.
Monday night Secretary of the Navy
Daniels summarized the information
reaching the department as follows:
Navy Department reports show that
the following vessels have been sunk:
Jacob M. Haskell, schooner, 1852 TONS
hailing from Boston, sailing for Nor
folk, II in crew, no passengers. Isabel
B. Wiley, in ballast; net tonnage GIL;
crew 8. Hattie Dunn of Rockland, Me-;
net tonnage 365; in ballast; sailing
from Charleston. Edward H. Cole of
Boston; tonnage, 1895; in ballast,
UOuuU AO1 4NOAlO1h, CICW VI CACNOA'
Herbert L. Pratt, steamship oil
tanker, sunk about five miles south of
Overfalls lightship, off the Delaware
coast, thirty-eight on board; thirty
eight on board; thirty-seven of the
crew rescued and landed at Lewes;
one lost.
All the crews of the above named
vessels, except the one man lost from
the Pratt were rescued.
"It appears that the schooner Edna,
which was found bottom up several
days ago and towed into Lewes, Del,
was also victim of the submarine.
The crew Of the Edna have been land
ed in New York. The master of the
Winneconne picked up the crew of the
Hattie Dunn"
Meanwhile departmental reports
from naval districts along the Allan
tic coast showed feverish activity
among the patrol fleets. From all
along the coast armed craft are con-
verging on the spot where the enemy
was last reported. Seaplanes are pa
trolling the air seeking any trace.
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The path that leads to happiness
often crosses a bridgeless stream OF
tears.
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THIS WEAK,
NERVOUS MOTHER
Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's'
Vegetable Compound
Restored Her Health.

Philadelphia, Pa.-'T was veryweak,
always tired, my back ached, and felt
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LOSSES CONFINED TO UNARMED
SHIPS IN RAID OFF NEW
YORK HARBOR.
AIRMEN JOIN IN SEARCH
HUN RAIDERS SENT TO ATTACK
U. S. TRANSPORTS KEPT FROM
GOAL BY GREAT CONVOYS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Norfolk, June 4-Naval officers
here said last night their reports in
dicated five German submarines had
been operating along the Atlantic
coast, and that two had been sighted
off the Virginia capes. Rear Admiral
Flet 'hor, commandant of the Norfolk
navy yard, said two U-boats had been
sighted off the Virginia capes.
The sun., 1918-08-17
Yankee Pitchers Punished
Unmercifully by Indians
Seventeen Noisy Bngles Roll Off Cleveland Bats in
Hot Succession and Swamp New Yorks by Score
of IL to 4-Coumbe Keeps Locals in Check.
BY FREDERICK G. LIEB.

II Joe Finneran, Yankee pitcher. is a
thinker, he can get a good moral out of
what happened on the Polo Grounds yes
terday. Something to the effect that pitch
ers who lose their heads invariably loso
Dali games would be most appropriate.
Joe permitted Ray Chapman to get
him all het up and fiabbergasted In the
third inning. while Ray was trying 10
catch Fin" of second base. The feud
continued into the fourth, when Ray
mad further opportunities for chidins
Joseph, "Chappie" opened the inning by
beating out a bunt, also beating Fin
neran to the bag. Soon after that Joe
took sightseeing trip through the
clouds. and the Indians gathered in a
bunch OF seven runs. They made It a
fuil dozen By reaping Ave more in the
eighth. and cleaned up the YanRs in
their last game of the season in Harlem
by score OF IL to 4.
The game gave Cleveland the series.
two games out Of three. and enabled the
Indians TO keep within two games OF
the Red Sox, as the league leaders also
won two out Of three from Chicago. To-
day these contenders will fight II out in
Boston.
The Indians had a grand batting re-
hearsal to brush them up for their big
Boston series. as they tanned three al
legged Yankee pitchers for seventeen
hits. Joe Wood again was-e,eading the
rampage with double and three singles
In Ave attempts. He also tied the score
Tor Cleveland in the fourth with clean
steal Of home. That was at the start of
Finnerans eight.
After Finneran left one Roy Sanders
tormented the fans Aleck Ferguson
finished the game. No one knew Aleck
was In the yard until he was announced.
He Is Jersey boy. who made a train
ing trip with the Yanks two years ago,
and since then has sprouted out some
thirty pounds.
Fred Coumbe. tho Cleveland left
handler. was in the box for the Indians.
and Silent John Hummel knocked back
his benders for a triple and two singles.
Hummel might have had an easy homer
in the second had 1t not been for stupid
coaching by Paddy o'Connor.
A moment after he had been held at
third. John thought he scored on a long
fly by Peck, but Hildebrand agreed with
the Indians that Hummel was in such
great haste to score that he did not wait
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DE PALMA FAVORED
IN SPEEDWAY RACE
Five Other Stars Will Drive in
Auto Contest on Sheepshead
Bay Track To-day.

Six OF the mort famous auto race
drivers will meet this afternoon at the
Sheepshead Bay Speedway in the In
ternational Sweepstakes of $4,000.
For tho first time in the history OF
racing In New York the public will see
champion drivers competing for their
own money, as each Of the six entrants
has posted $4,000, to which the pro-
motors have added $4,000.
The race promises TO be the keeneet
yet held In the metropolitan district
All of the drivers are Keyed up to the
highest pitch and all OF the cars have
more than attained the speed OF 10
miles an hour which was necessary for
qualification. While the contest Is con
sidered an open one. close followers of
tho game have Installed Ralph De Palma
favorite. This Ia due to the remarkable
time OF 11S miles an hour which the
Italian made in practice spin on
Wednesday.
The others who will clash IN this great
contest of speed besides De Palma are
Arthur Duray, the Belgian, who holds
tho worlds speed record Louis Chsvro-
let, the Frenchman land three other
stars, Dario Resta, Ira Vail and Ralph
Milford.
The winner is TO receive $4,000 and
the race will be decided on the point
score system. The total distance Is 112
miles, with five heats. each at a flying
start. These heats will be at two. ten,
twenty, thirty and fifty miles. Tho
present records for these distances are
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CLAIRE C4LLIGAN
CLIPS SWIM RECORD
CoUers 22O Yards Event for
Women at BeInor in 1902 3-5

BELMAR, y. j., Aug. l6.--At the Red
Cross swimming carnival here to-day
Miss Claire Galligan covered 220 yards
In minutes S-5 seconds and was
credited with a new American record for
women. Miss Dorothy Burns OF Los
Angeles, who held the old record.
finished third Miss Elizabeth Ryan OF
Philadelphia was second.
Duke Kahanamoku, the Hawaiian
swimmer, continued his winning strean
by capturing the 100 yard handicap
race from scratch. The Duke WAS
cloclIed in the fine time of So AS sec.
onds. This was only four-fifths OF
second behind the American record held
by himself
Leo Giebel of the New York A. c.,
the metropolitan $40 yard champion,
won tho ii0 yard scratch swim, defeat
ing Harry Kruger OF Hawaii by a touch.
Lieut.. Ludy LANCER Of Camp Gordon
was nosed out for second honors. The
New York A. c. lad was timed in 6:4l
Tho summaries:
+4o Yard swim-won by Leo Giebel,
New York a. C, Harry Kruger, Hawaii,
second: Lieut.. Ludy LANCER, Camp Cor
don, third. Time--5:4l.
22o Yard swim, WomenWon by Miss
Clatrc Galligan. New Rochelle: Elizabeth
Ryan. Philadelphia, second; Dorothy
Burns. Los Angeles. third. T!me-S:OO 2-5.
kahanamoku. Hawaii scratch; Clarence
Lane Hawaii q seconds. second; j Fer
Wis: Pelham Bay naval station IS sec
onds). third. Times As seconds.
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GIANTS ROUTED IN
LAST INNING RALLY
Reds Pound Steele and Perritt
Sharply After Toney Is
Withdrawn.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 16.--The wabbly
Giants, who had a fve run lead In
Thursdays game with tine Reds and
could not hold 1t, had the advantage in
this afternoons contest by 4 to 3 in
the last session and again the game
slipped away from them. Cincinnati win
ming by 10 Z.
Tonsy had only one bad inning up to
the ninth, when he WAS withdrawn TO
permit Compton to pinch hit. Steele
pitched one third OF the last inning. and
after he was touched for two hits was
retired. Perritt finishing the battle.
Ed Roush, who was the first man UP
in the last half OF the ninth, singled to
centre, and Sherwood Magee followed
with a single to the same territory
McGraw made a hurried shift, bench
ing Steele and sending Perritt to the
mound. The change was made too late,
for Cueto smashed q single to centre and
Roueh and Magee galloped home Win
the tying and winning runs.
The Reds got an early lead on the
Giants scoring three runs In the third
inning when Wingo singled and Groh
was hit by a pitched ball. Roush then
sent the ball crashing against the fence
in right centre for a home run, driving
Wingo and Groh in ahead OF him.
The Reds held this lead till the nth.
when the Giants did little hitting. With
McCarty and Toney out. Burns got n
pass and Young singled to right. Burns
going to third on the hit. Benny Kauff
then smashed a double to left. sending
Burns and Young home. That was all
the damage the Giants managed to do
in that frame. and they were still in a
minority.
After dragging along without special
incident till the ninth the Giants started
an offensive that gave them the lead.
Zimmerman, first man up. sent long
fy to Neale. without was rent In to
bat for Sticking and drew pass. Nc
Carly raped a single to left. but Comp
ton. batting for Toney. was out at first.
Burns walked and the sacks were full.
Young contributed a single to left. which
scored Without and Rodriguez. the latter
running for McCarty.
On an attempted double steal Burns
was nipped at the plate. Then came
the painful Incidents OF the last half OF
the ninth inning and the Giants had
dropped another notch in the race. The
score:
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MAYER LOSES HIS
CUNNING AS PIRATE
Dodgers Pound Georgian Hard,
While Cheney Keeps His Few
Hits Well Scattered.
Speeia! Despatch to Tue suS.

PrTTsBURG, aug. l6.-Following a re-
markable career here. in which he had
won eight straight games since coming
to the Pirates In a trade for Elmer
Jacobs. Erskine Mayer. the former
Philadelphia pitcher. met his FIRST re-
verse here to-day since DOMINIC a Pitts
burg uniform. The Brooklyn Dodgers
were too much for The swarthy Geor-
gian, and beat him in the second game
Of the series by score Of to /.
Larry Cheney had the satisfaction
of breaking Mayors winning streak.
The veteran spltballer was in fine form.
and the six hits made by the Pirates
were widely scattered.
The Dodgers made only eight hits
themselves off Mayer and Sanders, but
these hits were nicely punched The
Dodgers got on to a three run lead in
the first Johnston and Olson opened
with singles. and Daubert advanced
them with q sacrifice. Both scored on
wheats single. O'Mara then knocked
out a double. scoring lack.
In the sixth the Dodgers shelled
Mayer from the box. scoring two more
runs Tho score:
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BRETON WOODS GOLF vICToRs
Sptcia. Despatch 10 The Sun.

BRETON WOODS, n. H.. Aug l6.--Ths
annual Red Cross golf tournament al
the Breton Woods Golf Club entered
the semi-hnals to-day when l.. A. Ham
ilton. Garden City. heat G. K Fraley Jr.,
Buffalo, up in nineteen holes e. J.
Johnston beat i. ]. Moran, Mattapoisett
2 and in the second sixteen. G. X.
Fraley, Buffalo. beat Woolsey, New
Haven. s and !, Francis l.. Wellmaning
beat ]. s. Farrand. Detroit, and 6.
In the beaten eight OF tho first six
teen G. A. Gardiner, Minneapolis, hea [
W. W. Smith, Allegheny Country Club,
up. f. r. Byron. New York. beat ]. #,
Landy. Scarsdale. l up.