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New-York tribune., 1918-07-14
Is Your Sector
Quiet? Then
Don't Play
Paree

Yes, l got my pink ticket, l did, and
went up to Paree. But that's all the good
it done me. Take it from me, guy, if
they offer you a choice between a pink
ticket and white one, take the white
one, every time!
You know how it was; we had just
come out of that "quiet sector" up
Looneyville way, where the whole damn
regiment sat up on top Of the parapet
playing cards all afternoon, with the
Huns looking on and laying bets on the
heft of our colonel's hand. We was as
safe up there as we would have been in
mid Kansas; nothing to worry about, no
work to speak of-nothing.
Well, l come down to Paris on weeks
leave. The first thing | know when I'm
turning over, enjoying my first real
sleep between sheets in eight months
BANGO! Then-brrrrr-um BONN!
brrrrr-um! Boom! all right under my
window.
though at first was dreaming was
up to the front, and turned over again.
But, no; lot of whistles and horns and
things started footing, and pretty soon
somebody came rapping on my door and
said it was a alerte, whatever that is,
and had got to get up.
Down to the Rathskeller
Well. l got W, and got downstairs In
the hotel where l was staying at. "A Ia
corve!" the landlord shouts to me, and
pointed at the cellar.
"What's the good Of going down
there" l asst him. "Is it a rathskeller
or something you want me to try?'
But he couldn't compree for a sou.
They're dumb lot these foreigners.
even when you speak their own language
at them.
| finally went down there, and they
was a lot of people there in all sorts of
dress and undress, but nobody seemed tc
mind. Over in the corner they was
Australian officer what told me, all in
English, that an air raid was on. That
was the first time l knew they spoke
English in Australia.
"Air raid?" says I, looking at my
wrist watch. "This is hellova time to
OC Pu1A1HS tHdI PoSC VIII &C III
the morning!"
II know it," he says, "but there's moth
ing one can do about it, now can one?"
That was too deep for me, so l just
says, "Ye-ah" and let it go at that. After
about an hour and half they blew some
bugles out in the street to show the raid
was called off on account of wet grounds
or something, and went back to bed
And Then Those Drums
But / couldn't sleep. Along about S
o'clock they began drumming out in the
street, and all the church bells began to
ring Then, right in the middle of that
l heard another BANGO! So, as it
seemed to be the thing to do, got up and
dressed
Down in the dining room l ran into
this Australian officer again. SIS it an
other air raid they got?" l says. "If
they try that in the daytime, they otta
be in for a awful kidding, they'd be 50
easy to spot"
NO." says he, cts that beastly long
range gun of theirs, you know. 1t fires
regular, every twenty minutes all day
long. But they never hit anything, you
know, except few houses"
"Say," says l, II thought l left the
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14
ONE EXPLANATION

Private Blinkum Whadda thew mean
not allowln' us to wear no more leather
puts?
Private Blankum: Why, didn't YOU
read in the papers as how they were
goin' t increase the number O. marines9
They're probly tryln' to save leather for
their necks.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14
OF to See Some Pictures

But he didn't harbor no resentment
Ae asst me if | knew my way about, and
told me they was a lot of good pictures
in the Luxembourg galleries over across
the river That was new one on me;
| always thought Luxembourg was coun-
try, or something, but it appears it amt
Anyway, he showed me how to get there
and went. This Luxembourg place is on
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14
PRAYERS
A Mothers PRAYER

. God. look down upon my sen
In distant France, now serving The
And save him from the frightful Hun,
Whose gas and shell destroy the free
But if, 0 God, 'twould end the strife
When | should offer Thee my son,
Then plunge Thy sacrifcial knife;
shall not weep when Thou hast done
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14
OUGHT TO BE VIVACIOuS

Our artllerymen always have nick
names for the guns they serve. The
French go US one better. They have
names-formally painted on the gun bar
rels. One of the most highly descriptive
caught our eye on the road up to the
front the other day. 1t was christened
"Gaby"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14
A Soldiers PRAYER

y God, protect my mother dear,
Who tolls and suffers more than l.
Her love of country sent me here;
That she may live | will to die
I'm ready, Lord; take Thou my soul
A hostage; let the past be made.
Twas she who urged me to the goal,
A partner in this last Crusade.
THOMAS f. COAKLEY, It,, Chapla
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14

Should socks be worn inside the pants
Or out? There seems some doubt
For though I find wear mine in.
always wear them out.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14

oned / was getting even for the one he
pulled on me in the early morning.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-11
Wilson Makes German Editors
Squirm With His Peace Views

AMSTERDAM, Jan. Il. - Com
mentins on Pres't wilson's address.
the Nord Deutsche AIlegemeine
Zeitung (Berlin) says:
THE fourteen points do not form
a program for world peace. but a
real symphony OF will 70 no peace.
Beginning with his joyful fan fare
or freedom of the seas and other
things. on which the whole world
IS agreed, even If diversity exists
REGARDING the method of realization.
Mr.. Wilson's Intervention is MT
wanted. Having the opportunity OF
serving peace, ne has not only fall
ed, but has clearly expressed a con-
trary contention.
Appealing 20 the lf-determina-
tiOn of nations, he presumes to in
terfere in the internal affairs OF
Austria-Hungary and proclaims the
policy OF doing violence to nations
with disregard for all historical
and racial facts.
with equal nOnchalance. ne finds
reason for the partition of Turkey,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-11
80 Million Spent
in Red Cross Work

WASHINGTON. Jan. 11.-Appro-
priatiOns aggregating approx
mately S75,00O,00O had been au-
thorized by the Red Cross war coun-
ell since it's creation on May 10
last, up 10 Dec %, the council re-
ported Thursday night in a state
ment giving the condition of it's
finances on the latter date. OF this
sum $30.0O0.OOO actually has been
expended while collections from the
hundred million dollar war fund
subscriptions have amounted to
about S97, 100000.
Officials estimate that at least an
other $6.000,000 will be collected
from war fund subscriptions and
some 100000 of this fund retain
ed by certain chapters on account
of the 20 per cent which each chap
ter was TO receive for local war re-
lief work will bring the total of the
fund to about 100000.
From this sum must be deducted
about $13,OOO,OOO for local chapters
war relief fund in addition TO the
100000 already retained and an
estimated sum of $1,30O,0O0 TO be
paid to chapters out of the fund yet
to be collected. This would leave
available for expenditures out of the
war fund about $SS,000,0OO.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-11
CLOTHING REPAIR
ARMY UNIT READY
Three Sections Are Recruited
From TdiI0rS and Shoe
makers Of Nation.
International News Service :


WASHINGTON, Jan. II. - Com
rleting their preliminary military
training and awaiting the order TO
so TO France, there are more than
5000 men at Camp Meigs, this city,
recruited from the tailors and shoe
makers Of the nation.
These men form what are desig-
mated as mechanical repair shop
units, and their work over there
will be to salvage the clothing equip
ment Of cur fighting forces There
Will be three of these units, num-
bered sol. 500 and 500. They are
commanded by Mai. William D.
Searle, qUdrtermaster reserve corps
and each unit numbers 81 officers
and 1,163 enlisted men. Units sol
and 302 have been fully recruited
and the remaining unit Will be fill
ed up in a few days
Since the United states entered
the war, the regulations in regard
TO the Gle hing allowance of the en-
listed men of the army have been
radically changed. Heretofore, each
man was given a clothing allow
ance of money 10 cover the duration
Of his enlistment. lie drew his
clothing from time 10 time as he
needed it against this allowance and
at the completion of his enlistment.
the sum remaining unexpended was
paid TO him on his final statements.
Repair Clothing.
Now the man upon enlistment is
fully equipped with everything that
he needs, and the mechanical repair
shop units have been organized TO
keep his clothing n dahseo
keep his clothing and shoes in re-
pair, thus doing away with the con-
tinual drawing of new clothing. The
clothing of all men is now regularly
inspected by the officers, and the re-
pairs are made as needed, wholly
at the expense of the government.
Formerly the soldier had to pay the
company tailor or shoemaker if he
needed a button sewed on or a shoe
half-soled.
The professional soldier Of the
regular army does not like the new
arrangement. Years of practice in
being his own housewife made him
an expert in the care of his own
clothes, and there were few who did
not realize a considerable amount
| Of money on each discharge from
the unexpended clothing allowance
The enlisted personnel of each
of the new units consists Of foremen,
who are sergeants; machine work
/ ers, who are first class privates, and
tUshelmen and cobblers. who are
| second class privates.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-11

such as could only be voiced by a
man whose policy aims at playing
off. against another, OF peoples and
parts of peoples who belong togeth-
er and are conscious OF their homo
geneity.
The Kolnische Volks Zeitung
says:
"Pres't wilson's program sub
stantially squares with Lloyd
Georges. 1t is as unacceptable for
us as is the British and is more
Brutal still than that Of 10y
George. He demands the severance
from the German empire of Alsace-
Lorraine which is nine-tenths in
habited by Germans and he undis-
guisedly demands the severance of
the empire of parts of Prussia in
habited by the Poles
The Berliner LOkal Anzeiger, in
an article under the heading:
'Entente's wire puller." speaks OF
the unbranded impudence with
which the leading statesmen Of the
multiple alliance deceive the whole
world"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-11
"FITZ" HOME MORTGAGED

international News Service:
NEW YORK. Jan. 1.-THE famous
Brooklyn home Of the late Robert
Fitzsimmons may soon be taken
over by a Brooklyn bank TO satisfy
a mortgage Of $4,000 1t is the
home where "Fitz" trained for fights
with Sharkey, Jeffries and Rubin.
The home was made famous and
decidedly unpopular about y years
ago, when a yarn was printed that
"Fitz' was harboring an unframed
lion. Some Of the neighbors believ-
ed the story until it was denied by
Fitzsimmons.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-11
VIRGINIA SENATE O. KS
DRY AMENDMENT

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. II. - The
national prohibition amendment was
ratified Thursday night by the
Virginia senate by a vote of 80 to
IS. A resolution to submit the
amendment to a referendum was
defeated % TO TO- 1t is expected
that the house of delegates will
vote tomorrow.
Try NEWS-TIMES Want Ads
New-York tribune., 1918-09-30
FiUe French Systems
oken by Gouraud
II, Sor,ar,e-py Advance

FRENCH HEADQUARTERS IN
CHAMPAGNE. Sept. 2S.-A desperate
struggle WAS made by the Germans to
retain possession of Sommepy. They
counter attacked repeatedly in the
teeth o. French machine guns on the
hill south Of the town.
french tanks which assisted in the
attack displayed extraordinary gallant
~ IN the capture Of Il tunnel the Ger
mans were employing TO feed reserves
to the front and which had bcen orran-
1led INTO 3 regular fortress. The tanks
mad 10 traverse labyrinth of trenches
under the attack Of heavy artillery,
I, Gas =, ,.a,., succeeded IN their difficult and
try to surround the tunnel and turn
,he whole Sommcpy position from the
Further cast the height of GratreuiI
New-York tribune., 1918-09-30
Used for
Police Work Only,
Says Washington

WASHINGTON. Sept 2o.-Thc Ger
man protest against the use Of shot
guns by American troops has been
received at the State Department and
an answer soon will be dispatched.
Shotguns arc used by American
troops, it was said to-day. anly as au-
thorzed by the accepted rules of war.
They arc employed in general police
work and in guarding prisoners. being
more desirable for such work than the
nigh powered army rife, because the
firing of the latter might result in the
death or injury of persons it was not
intended to hit.
Gcrmanys threat OF rcprisals is not
causing any anxiety among American
officials. The Americans hold 100 Ger
man prisoners to every ten Americans
IN enemy prison camps.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-30
Marshall

hss proved that the Hindenburg line
is no stronger than the German in
fantry which has been unsuccess-
fully attempting to hold it. And if
ositions prepared with all the Ia
boz, ingenuity and elaborated detail
which have been lavished on the
Hindenburg line cannot stop the AL
led attack, what other positions
natural or artihcially strengthened,
this side of the Rhine, or the other
side, can stop it?
Foch's strategy is delicately timed.
His powerful attacks all along the
German front in France have pre-
venSed Germany from responding to
Bulga. :a's appeal for aid, and have
thus provoked Bulgaria to try to
save what she can out of the Mace
donian wreck by going, hat in hand,
to obe Allies. Foch's aggressive
campaign will keep every available
German division now in line or in
reserve on the West front glued to
that front for weeks to come. Ger
many must fight for her own life
there while her minor allies crumbIe
end her Russian conquests go by the
board. Thus each front is directly
linked up with all the other fronts,
and glorious justification is given
o. unity of command, which for
nearay four years the Allied nations
stubbornly refused to recognize as a
primary military necessity.
While the Mritish were driving
yesterday in on Cambrai and cut
ting the lines between Cambria and
st. Quentin General Mangin's army
vas pushing up close to the Chemin
des Danes, gaining two miles. and
General Gouraud's army was max
ing further gains toward Vouziers
Som1ne-Py has been taken and
passed and the French have now
cut the first series Of German lat
eral railroads between Laon and the
Meuse.
The American First Army ad-
vanced two miles more yesterday in
the district between the Meuse and
the Argonne, taking Brieulles-sur-
Meuse and Romagne. The first town
lies about three miles south of Dun
sur-Meuse. Romagne lies on the
eastern edge of the forest Of the
SINE name. At this point the
Ane, can forces are north of the
Are River and on an east-and-we
line with Grand Pre-. They have
therefore outf1anked all the German
ositions in the Argonne south of
Grand Pre- and all the lateral roads
behind the Hindenburg line. They
ere, in tact, approaching new Ger
nan line, known as the Kremhilde.
They also outfank the German posi-
tons east Of the Meuse, which help
to protect the invaluable Briey IRON
district. Every mile of gain in this
lcgion will prove of enormous
Strategical value in the future.
In Serbia the Bulgarian rout con-
tirues without any sign of recovery
il. morale or capacity for serious re-
sistance.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-30
That Makes Man Patriot His Willingness Cve"- vi

Was captured by surprise attack de-
livcred with such speed that tho gar
r,son was surrounded before it realized
1t was being attacked. The village had
to be cleared by street fighting, how
ever, TOR the Germans apparently did
not realize they were surrounded
The cnemy's resistance has been in
tensiiicd along the whole front, as the
infantry and machine gunncrs fall back
upon their reserves in new lines which,
although neither so strong naturally
nor SO we'll intrenched as the aban-
doned positions, aro far more strongly
held. and the problem of piercing them
is one Of the utmost difficulty.
Probably no troops ever made such
an advance as General Gourrauds in
fantry in the last two days over such
axe Of fortifications. Five distinct
trench systems. were counted in the
space Of Thousand yards After the
first few hours German reserves began
TO appear, among them at least one
division of Prussian Guards. and they
counter attacked furiously.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-30
asSrCGSScS
lYgfs Disaster or
nfusion to Huns

Los DON, Sept 29.-The last week
has tesa ths most amazing Of the war.
The sil1es are advancing VIGOROUSLY
on w. uall9 egcry front. During the
week sheg have takcn prisoners far in
excess o! ouc hundred thousand, of
whom nearly forty thousand were capt
ured in the last three days on the West
from. aud fifty thousand in Palestine.
They also have taken moro than nine
hundred guns
Sir Douglas Haig reports further sue
eessses- The city OF Cambrai is now
under British guns. Here the main
Hindenburg line has been pierced and
the Allied troops arc sheltered in com
rodious German dugouts. The lie
IS continuing in favor Of the Allies and
he Germans arc in the midst Of CON
fused retirement. Goulcaucourt and
C.reoing arc u Allied hands
new offensive Was commenced
Saturday in Flanders. where Belgians.
N conjunction with the Second British
Army, attacked Oh the front between
lpves and Dixmudc Poel- Capellc has
lean captured. as well as the forest Of
IFouthulst. Sunday morning British
nd American troops launched a new
etsack northwest OF ST. Quentin. and
the battle is proceeding fercoly on the
whole front from st. Quentin to the
Scarpc- Further progress is reported
on ooints included in the previous at
tacks. and the number OF prisoners
taken by the British since Friday morn
ing exceeds sixteen thousand
North Of the Aienc the French pur-
sult continues. On the Champagne
front the French have taken possession
e the heights Of bellevue.
In Serbia the vout Of the Bulgarians
- complete The Serbians arc racing
for usklh to cut off the enemys com
Nunlcation while on the tanks British,
French. Greek and Italian troops are
advancing as fast as possible The
number of prisoners taken and war
booty arc eDormoue.
IN Siberia tho Japanese have made
great progress, capturing points OF
vantage on the railway system north OF
Slago Vieshtchensk
In Palestine the Turkish armies have
ceased TO exist as nighttime forces
New-York tribune., 1918-09-30
complete defensive success.

complete defensive success.
The French, who attacked on the
whole front between the Snippe and
tho Aisne, at some places as many
as six times. and were led by strong
squadrons of armored cars, were
thrown back in desperate fighting.
Their only success consists in the
capture of Sommepy and in small
insignificant indentations Of our de-
fence front.
IN the Argonne during the night
before last. in consequence of the
enemy advance into the Aire Valley.
ne withdrew our lines as far rs the
region southeast of Binarvllc, south
vest of .Apremont
Against the eastern edge Of the
Argonne Forest and against the line
Aprcmont Cicrgcs Brieulles the Amer
leans launched many attacks, partly
with new divisions. They were able
TO gain local successes near Apre-
mont and east of Ciergcs. They
pressed back our lines carly in the
morning as far as the Cuncl and
Fays Woods, but here. as we'll as on
the remainder OF the front. enemy at
tacks failed with very sanguinary
losses as the result Of our defence
fire in stubborn hand to hand fight
ing aud As the result Of our success
full counter attacks.
Our battle cchelons attacked with
great success tho enemy storming
cast of the Are. and in Yesterdays
fighting $50 enemy tanks were de-
stroyed
Yesterday we shot down thirty
two enemy airplancs and three cap
tive balloons.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-30
Vital Section of
Chen7in-des-DQrnes
Seized by Maneiir1

FRENCH HEADQUARTERS ON
The AISNE, Sept. 2S.-The Germans
have begun retirement from the i'm
portant LatFaux- Malmaison plateau,
from which the Chemin-dc Danes
runs eastward to Craonne at the
source Of the Ailette.
AS the result OF General Mangin's
advance to-day the entire Malmaison
plateau and the western end of the
Chemin-d -desD DANES for about 1900
yards are in possession of the French.
After fighting desperately for weeks
to retain the approaches to the massif
of 81. Gobian and to Laon, the enemy
is abandoning them. This group Of
heights for four years has formed the
central pillar Of the German lines in
France. The strategy Of Marshal Foch
compelled the enemy, as it did on the
Marne, to withdraw his centre before
the Allied attacks to the north and the
east forced him TO move back on the
wings. The retreat is one Of the first
and direct results OF the French.
American and British ofiensives Of the
last three days
New-York tribune., 1918-09-30
French Auiators Wreck
Railroads and Hangers

PARIS. Sept. 2S.-Concerning aerial
activities Of September 81 the official
statement from the War Office tonight
says:
"Our bombing airplanes made ex-
pedfions during the day and night, in
ccssantly harassing enemy transports
and troops and attacking conveys.
Twenty five tons Of bombs weve
dropped behind the battlefront, cspe-
ciallV on tho railroad from Sommepy
TO Challcrangc and on the important
centres of the Medeah Farm and Ar
deujI. and on the crossings Of the river
Aim. At night the railroad stations at
Longuyon and Audun-lc- Roman and the
aviation field at Stenav we're bonn
hardcd heavily.
"Frcnch airplanes destroyed nine
German machines ard set on fire one
captive balloon"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-30
ankee Airrnen
Down 33 Foes
In 81 Fights
Germans Appear to Lose
Daring After Combat
With Americans

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
NORTHWEST OF VERDUN. Sept. -
{By The Associated Pressl American
aviators again demonstrated Saturday
that they were the masters Of the ait
on this sector. They engaged in fifty
two combats and brought down thirty
three enemy machines without the loss
of one American pilot.
The German airmcn appear to have
lost the daring which had characterized
their work Of the previous days and
did not venture across the American
line with reconnaissance airplancs
after they had been attacked once by
the American machines. The German
balloons were hastily, lowered in the
face Of an American attack and did
rot appear again during tho day.
One of the American pursuit groups
engaged jn twenty three com bats at low
attitudes and brought down three en-
omy machines. Another pursuit wing
had seventeen battles in two sortics
along the line. A third group dropped
bombs on Ronagnc and Cuncl and en-
gagged in several battles with German
machines. bringing down six Of them.
SIX German airplanes wcye downcd
FRIDAY N n battle between seven Amer
ican and seven German machines. The
battlo took place in the air over Sep
toarges Woods.
One German machine was sent crash
ing 30 the earth at the first cncountcr
After mannuYring for position the six
remaining enemy planes returned to
the combat. When the battle was fin
lshed five more German machines had
been brought to the ground.
I throughout the day the American
airmen were intensely active. In addi-
tion to making observation of enemy
movements, pursuit planes did excel
lent work IN attacking troops in forma-
ton. in choking roads and in shooting
Gown observation balloons Before noon
/ ulnc enemy planes were reported
downcd- southwest Of Bayonville One
aviator attacked retreating column Of
machine gun carriages. dispensing the
entire outfit.