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Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
THRILLING ACCOUNT OF AID
 GIVEN BY U. s. TROOPS DURING GERMAN AIR RAID

Washington, July s0-Writing of a German air raid on Paris, one of the American Red Cross inspectors gives a thrilling account of how American troops and Red Cross workers gives aid to the city in such desperate mo- ments. He describes an air raid in this fashion:
 "Nowhera is there any sound but the echoes of footsteps Not street light is 70 be seen, not a single ray of light-nothing but the inkiest and most impenetrable darkness. Then all of the noise of the world seems to break loose. Clang- -clang -claag booms the tocsin-like a gigantic pneumatic riveter working on a collosaI bell. Whooo-o shrieks the siren, running up and down the slale in an awful vail.
 "The streets come to life. Doors open and slam shut The sidewalks are full of ghostly figures hurrying towards the caves, where the inhabit- ants have fitted up cots and hunks They get up now to make sitting place for the new corners. The place fills up. Everyone looks apathetic. sleepy and bored. The children go to sleep with their heads on their mothers shoulders, and a girl in the uniform of a street car conductor swaps war yarns with poilu in dingy blue In the last air raid, the front trucks of her car were thrown from the rails by the displacement of air caused by an exploding torpedo. Thl car and it's inmates were unhurt. The poilu looks a mite incredulous and murmurs. T can well believe you Mademoiselle.'
 Outside the noise continues fo1 about three or four minutes and ther subsidies as a new noise starts-the Archies, or anti-aricraft guns, which commence to bark furiously from hal1 a dozen different points. Search. lights rake the sky. The Archies con- tinue their clamor, but they are not firing at anything, merely keeping uI barrage fire to prevent the Boche from flying over the city.
 Suddenly there is earthrocking whoom. No more doubt as to where the Boches are, whoom, whoom whoom. One involuntarily ducks and tries turtlewise to cover his head with his shoulders. A hideous noise resounds up and down the deserted street-falling walls, and the tinklinE
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
INTERNATIONAL
 EGG CONTEST

In the thirty eighth week of the contest at Storrs, the 1000 birds laid 3,5S2 eggs. Pens 3, owned by Rich ard Allen, Pittsfield, Mass, II, own ed by Miss N. H. Bell, Ightham, Kent, England, 73, owned by A. P. Robin son, Calverton, N. Y, won the high honors for the week with a produc- ton of 54 eggs each. Pen 53 from Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis. Gre, pens '59, Exmoor Farm Lebanon. Pa, were second with 53 eggs. Three pens of Leghorns, 665 owned by Greendale Farms, Greendale, N. Y, IS owned by E. A. Ballard Chestnut Hill, Pa., 6s owned by Will Barron, Preston, England, were tied for third place with 52 eggs. A pen of Rhode Island Reds, owned by the Pequot Poultry Farm, Southport, Conn.,, and pen of Leghorns, owned by Tom Barron, Preston, England, were tied for fourth place with 50 eggs.
 During the thirty eighth week the weather conditions were extremely un- favorable for egg production. Four days out of the seven the mercury continued to hang around go degrees Fahrenheit However, few birds were lost because of the intense heat. The egg production for the week did not drop off but very little, being only 100 eggs less than for the preceding. week. It is obvious that, during such exrranaSt,' s8ns. .e .eeather. the bIros should be supplied with plenty Of fresh water on order that thes nlay- quench their thirst and thus help Tn supplying some of the water neces- sary for the production of eggs.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
EMIGRATION HURT
 CENTRAL POWERS

Amsterdam, July 30.-The military and political interests of the Central Powers in the war have been enor- mously damaged by the emigration of 100000 Hungarian men to the Unit ed States from 1900 to 1914, says Elm erich Ferenzi, a Professor of the Uni versity of Budapest in the Mofd- deutsche Algemeine Zeiturg. The professor demanded that the emigra- tion of Hungarian farm hands should be diverted from the United States to Germany.
 If nothing is done to counteract the attraction of America, asserts the pro- lessor. Hungary, which has already lost about 2,0OO,O0O sons in war. will be further drained of masses of ca pablo workers, women and children will be drafted for manual work, mar riages and births decline, mortality and disease increase and military strength be impaired.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02

and crash of showers of broken glass and roofing tiles.
 Through the glass and litter of the street an American Red Cross cam oinette came ploughing it's way. One of the city firemen stands on the run ming board. They stop and the fire man flashes an electric lamp into the ruins, makes a nasty inspection, and then runs up the street and dives into the redlight cave
 Anybody here from numbers 49 to 51?' he calls. A half dozen voices yell out that there is.
 "'Is everybody here from those numbers? Was there anyone left in either of those buildings?'
 There is an anxious calling back and forth and a rapid counting of mo- ses. All here is the answer.
 Good! Not much left of those two buildings Don't enter the ruins un- til they have been inspected by the engineering department. Go to the Sisters of the Poor if you want food or place to sleep"
 "A vail and several curses compete, but the fireman is gone.
 The Archies have stopped and there are no more whooms, but peo- pie stay in their cellars. It is only nine o'clock, and experience has shown that the industrious and methodical Boches will keep coming back again and again until after midnight.
 "A half a mile away a bright red glow gets larger and larger and lights the sky. A fire has broken out in the railroad yards and is making great headway Several cars of oil are burning fiercely and spreading to cars of merchandise. Half a dozen Amer ican soldiers are working feverishly trying to get the untouched cars away from the fire.
 Two of them have got hold of a switch engine and are shunting out whole strings of cars.
 DO you know anything about these French engines. sir?' asks the impromptu engineer, I can't find the damn brake
 The fire is eating it's way, towards pier on which stands a line of drums of gasoline.
 Come on, boys, roll them kegs ot gas outa here yells the corporal, and the line of drums starts trundline down the pier. It is internally hot and the average man does not know just how hot gasoline can get before
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02

it begins to misbehave; but the line never wavers.
 Roll 'em along, boys! Keep lem going. Everybody has got to die some time.
 Little by little things become quieter. The fires die down. The Archies stop. Here and there a working party still continues it's la bors in the ruins. Someone is miss ing, and they want tosget him out of celler. Now the tocsin sounds again. this time with slow, stately, measured beats. This is the AIS clear sig nal. No more enemy planes are fly ing between here and the fighting lines. People come out of their eel lars and go home. A few cautious souls are busily putting sheets of pa per and pieces Of bedding across their broken windows to keep out the dreaded 'courant dair.' Now Sand then there is a small group in door way, recounting experiences.
 ''The Boche has dropped more than
 one hundred bombs tonight, many Of them of the 60 pound size. The net damage is not very great. A few houses destroyed, many windows bro- ken, few victims-very few but all too many; a few homes blown in the streets, some trees uprooted in the parks and some pansy beds obliterat- l ed
 'I imagine that back in his quarters, the Boche escadrille commander, af- | ter sadly cataloguing his own wounds, | is writing up an account of his glo- Hous nights work for the edification of the reader of the 'Kolnischezei- tung' His ductile pen is reeling off
 The earth reeled and rocked and
 whole rows of buildings went down
 like card houses; the light of the flames showed panic-stricken crowds surging through the streets toward the open country; the railroad depots
 were levelled to the ground and many
 munition dumps were blown up, and
 several fires were seen to break out in the barracks and military warehouses; "The escadrille commander would
 be grieved beyond measure could he but walk through the streets tonight
 and inventory the net results and see
 the effect produced on the population.
 He who is now houseless shrugs his
 shoulders and says 'C'est le Guerre,'
 and once more the peaceful stars
 shine down tranquilly on the silent streets"
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
FOR PEACE TERMS ON BASIS DEFINED
 BY THE PRESIDENT
French Socialist Party Of fers Resolution Declaring
 Against Imperialism.

Paris, July BOA resolution de manding that the French government revise it's war aims, denounce i'm perialistic tendencies and set forth clearly it's peace terms on a basis de- fined by President Wilson has been adopted by the French Socialist party. It was presented before the national council of the party by minority section headed by Jean Longuet, Socialist member of the chamber of deputies.
 The resolution demands further that the preliminary negotiations for a league of nations be commenced at once in accordance with the terms and the spirit indicated by President Will son. It also adheres unreservedly to the reunion of the international Socialist congress and declares the party ready to accept the invitation of Camille Huysmans, secretary of the international Socialists and Belgian Socialist leader; Hjalmar Granting, Swedish Socialist; and Pieter J.. Troel- stra, the Dutch Socialist leader, for a meeting of Socialists in Berne. In COnJuncLlOn Wlln OIneT AlIleu SOCldlISl bodies, the resolution declares, every means, even to a refusal to vote war appropriations, should be taken to force the governments to issue the necessary passports for Socialist dele gates who want to attend this confer ence.
 Protests against Allied intervention in Russia except that it be carried out with unanimous. consent of Rus sian Socialism, are voiced by the reso- lution, which concludes with a sec tion regrettins the action of certain members of the parliamentary group of Socialists toward the American Federation of Labor, which it says is in open opposition to the decision of all bodies of Allied Socialists.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
CHEVRONS ON
 RIGHT SLEEVE

Paris, July 30-American mon coms" are no longer to wear their cor poral and sergeant chevrons on both arms as heretofore, but will sport them on the right sleeve only. There is some discussion as to the precise reason for the new order-whether a saving of chevrons is intended, or whether it is to prevent the mon coms" from being gradually covered with stripe altogether. Service stripes such as are unfortunately apt to come and kindred marks of honor will even tually leave little room for double chevrons
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
75.OOO PEASANTS
 MARCH ON KIEFF

Washington. July 30.--Seventy-fve thousand armed peasants are march ing on Kieff, capital of Ukraine, ac- cording to information received at the state department today from Stock holm. Very serious unrest in the Ukraine and surrounding country was reported.
 It was said that the Russian and Ukraine peace delegates have been unable to agree on details of the set clement between the two nations.
 The soviet government in Moscow was reported in the advices to have expelled from the capital all rela- tives of the persons implicated in the murder of Count von Mirbach, Ger man ambasSa dor to Moscow.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
WORK OR FIGHT

LOYD GEORGE has served notice that all munon work A absent from their employment Monday, will be taken for military duty These strikers against the orders of their leaders, and to be utterly without just reasons for their action.
 Many of the workers well able to fight who been excused because their valuable they longer to work at munitions, they longer titled to release from military tasks. They fight work
 When nation engaged in life and death struggle it must do all things necessary for it's preservation Its must fight and work according the duty assigned to there injustice workers fighters must seek Through the channels of government adjudication
 striking munitions Great Britain the same moral status muinous soldier.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
DISORDER MARKS END OF STRIKE
 OF ELECTRIC co,

Lynn, July 29 - Several thousand employees of the General Electric Go. who had been on strike here for two weeks went to work today on invita- ton of the comany. Crowds gathered at the plant and after strike pickets had tried to persuade the men not to return, several encounters resulted. The police were obliged to sue clubs in several instances and one man was so severly einjured that he was taken to a hosital.
 The strike has seriously crippled important war work and because of the failure of mediators to adjust the differences a committee of the strik- CTS was in Washington today to ask the war labor board to intercede. In opening the gates the company noti- fled employees that they would be taken back without prejudice.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
MOVE TO FORM
 FEDERAL STATE
 OF SOUTH RUSSIA
Don and Astrakhar District Government Also In Pact
 Against Bolshevism.

Amsterdam, July PA treaty has been signed in Rostov on the Don, by which the governments of the Don and the Astrakhan districts mutually recognize their complete autonomy and promise mutual assistance in the annexation of other districts pos session of which is considered abso- lutely necessary, from the economic and strategical standpoints, accord ing to the Kiev newspapers.
 The treaty, it is said, declares fur ther for q common fight against Bo!- shevism within their territories and IT. the northern Caucasus. The aim of these governments. it is asserted. is the formation of the federal state of South Russia.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
RETURN TO WORK
 IN BIRMINGHAM

Birmingham, July 9O.--.Actng on q resolution passed by their colleagues yesterday the strikers in munition works here returned to their places of employment yesterday morning. AL though their hostility to embargo on skilled labor is unabated, the promise of an inquiry into the situation has reconciled the strikers to the inevita- ble. Some of them had a hostile re- ception from the men and women who had remained at work.
 It is expected that the action taken by the workers in Coventry and Bir- mingham will have a soothing effect in other districts where the men have been threatening to lay down their tools
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
SWINDLING SOLDIERS

c ECRETARY BAKER, upon investigation, charges certain o dealers with selling the goods at higher prices to soldiers than civilians required to pay The such dealers will be posted all the newspapers will be furnished with list of them and the president of the est chamber of commerce, also.
 The merchant who is willing to cheat soldier must be very Mr. Baker finds that there who counts to the soldiers not given to civilians The other kind ought to be punished by drastic than the boycott
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
DISCOVER SECOND
 SUPER-GUN BASE

Paris, July 29-French and Ameri- can troops have discovered a second emplace for a German super cannon at Nanteuil Notre Dame, ac- cording to the Herald. The em- placement was five metres deep and 14 metres square. The first super cannon emplacement discovered by the Allies was at Brecy, a little more than three miles to the south of Nan teuil Notre Dame.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
ADD TO AMERICAN
 ARMY QUARTERS

London, July 20.---A very rapid ex- pansion of American army headquar- ters in London is in progress. Three new buildings were taken over last week, including a large warehouse for the quartermaster department. Two hospitals were recently opened by the medical department of the army, and these will be running at full ca pacity within a few days.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
WESTERN UNION SAYS NOT GUILTY
 IN LETTERS CASE

New York, July 2s-The Western Union Telegraph Go. pleaded not guilty in the federal court there to- day to indictments brought last week, charging it with violation of the crim- inal statutes that forbid the estab- 1ishment of private express service and the transmission of mail in com petition with the government The company was given one week in which to demur or otherwise alter it's plea.
 The indictments have to do with the Western Unions alleged practice of transmitting by messenger many night letters intended to be sent by wire
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
Receiver Named
 For Nat Goodwin

New York, July 30.---A receiver for the property and effects of Nat c. Goodwin, actor, was appointed in the city court here today. Goodwin was described in the papers filed as stock promoter, theatrical manager, moving picture star, actor in legit;- mate drama, etc"
 The receivership is the outcome of a judgment for $1,696 recently recov- cred against Goodwin in suits based on notes given in payment for land near Hemet, Gal, where the actor has z ranch
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
NEW SERVICE HAT
 FOR MEN ABROAD

London July 29.---The death knell of the sombrero type of hat which has been a great favorite with American soldiers in England is sounded in general order issued by the Ameri- can headquarters. The order says that all officers and enlisted men on duty in England will cease to wear the service hat on August 1 and will turn in such hats to the quartermas- ter.
 The regulation headgear in future will be the overseas cap" similar to that worn by British aviators.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
PAPER co. MILLS
 IN MAINE REOPEN

Livermore Falls, Me, July 3O.---The mills of the International Paper Co. were reopened yesterday in accord ance with the unanimous vote of the 75O employees to resume work. The vote was taken on receipt of word from New York that differences over the interpretation of an award of the war labor board had been adjusted
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
BUT 1 ALLIED SHIP
 FROM 200 IS SUNK

London, July 29.-As an evidence of the efficiency of the convoy system since it was established by the admi- rality about a yeS' aso it is pa.ntea out that the proE--l1c~. of ships --5s.- to those conveyed during that period has been .5s per cent. In other words. only one ship out of nearly 200 has been lost.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
8 VESSELS FROM
 SHEPARD IN WEEK

Washington, July 3O.---Eight steel ships with total dead weight ton mage of 35,S9O, were delivered by American shipyards last week, the shipping board announced today. Launchings for the week included 10 steel vessels with a total tonnage of 53.250 and five wooden ships with total tonnage of 19,200.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
GOdsOl Out Under
 Bonds, of S5O,OOO

Washington, July 29.---Frank J. Godsol, a French citizen, held here on charges of the French government that he profted several million dol lars on motor truck contracts, was discharged from custody today by Justice Goulud of the district su- preme court on writ of habeas cor pus.
 The French government noted an appeal and Godso1 was released in $oO,000 bond, which he furnished in Liberty bonds.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
BRITISH DOWNED
 HUN AIRPLANES

London, July So---Eeportting 7rliii- tary operations on the British sector of the Austro-Italian front, war of flee statement issued today says
 In the last week the situation on the British front was quiet. Six hos tile aeroplanes were brought down. ! Two of ours failed to return,
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
GOOD FINANCE

i" BRITAIN SECTIONS devoted to farming and cattle ras- O ing have been afflicted by drought that the banks and trust companies carrying farmers paper find themselves worried Secretary McAdoo has announced the willingness
 the to make such advances may be to tide the situaton The afflicted sections Montana parts of North Dakota Kansas and Texas The aid required will be given by the War Finance Corporation organized for the protection of enterprises necessary to the
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
EGLIs FOR MIDDLEsEX

Midlletown, July 3o.---Ernest A. Ing lis was appointed state attorney for Middiesex county today. A month ago Rollin U. Tyler of Haddam was named Sor this office but declined it. MT. lnglis succeeds Frank D. Haines, who will become a judge of the Superior court on August s0-
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
JAPANESE LOAN
 THE SIbERIANS
 5O,OOO POUNDS

Stockholm, July so.---Tha official organ of the Siberian government, published in Omsk, said on July 12 that Japan had granted to the Siber- ian government a loan of 5O,0O0,O00 pounds sterling for the formation of a strong army. In return Siberia undertakes to supply Japanese troops which arrived there with provisions.
 It also is announced that the Siber- ian government is carrying on nego- tiations with America.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
SALVATION ARMY SEIZURE

T HE CONFISCATION of the estate of the Salvation army
 1 in Germany probably is conducted upon the same theory that guides the the seizure of German owned property The confiscaton is at least compliment the Salvation Army That organization has heart that sympathy with the Allied cause and thus attracted the attention and the hatred of the German authorities.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
ASKS FOR PASSPORT.

William Preston ;Mulville, an at .torney-at-law of Stamford, has ap- piled to Naturalization Clerk Frank P. Munich, for passport. Attorney Mulville is to go to France to do war work under the direction of the Knights of Columbus
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
SUITCASE DTSCLOSES
 IDENTITY OF RURGL AR

Danbury, July 3O-In the city court yesterday John Foley. 45, who says his home is in New York, was held in s2,oOO bail for trial on a charge of burglary. He is accused of entering and sacking the dental of- flee of Dr. G. E. Boiles, on Main street. Property taken from the dentists office was discovered in a suitcase carried by Foley when ha was arrested for minor theft in a local hotel.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
DRAFT TREATIES IN EFFECT

Washington, July 8O.-Ratifcations of the draft treaties between the United States and Great Britain and Canada were exchanged today in Lon don, it was officially stated at the State Department, making them effectiEa from today.
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02
REGULATING BUTTER

r~ HE FOOD administration adds butter to lis list reg
 ulated commodities which must be sold for able price The profits that may be received middle other than manufacturers and retailers carefully spula
 cousve sales forbidden The persons who
Republican farmer., 1918-08-02

transactions in classified manufacturers whole salers obber retailers hotels restaurants and nsu
 ons The regulations necessarily include liberal margins but calculated to prevent further advances in butter prices to the