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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
FIRST TRENCH FIGHT
OF THE AMERICANS
Dramatic Sidelights Thrown on the
Events, Told Through the Y. M.
c. A. War Work Council.

/ How the first Americans were killed
or captured by the Germans is story
that has not been fully told. Two ac-
counts of the fight received at the head
quarters of the national war work coun-
ell OF the Y. NJ {. y. throw considerable
light ON it.
A French boy who fought in an add
Joining section with the Americans, and
who helped to bury James T. Gresham,
Of Eyansdale. Ind; Merle Hay of Gid
den. Ia. and Thomas +. Enright Of
pittsburg, sent brief description of
the fight to his godmother who gave it to
a y. NJ c. 4. worker in France, Alfred
NJ. Brace. professor of journalism at the
University of North Dakota. At the same
time. Chauncev p. Hubert sent a descrip-
tion of the return of the survivors of the
fight to their quarters in Y. NJ. c. A..
hut back of the firing line.
The French boy says in part:
we are now right in the midst of the
Americans. but ] assure you we were in
n ouiet section tin the moment the
Baehes began 10 get across and started
to attack the Americans TO make them
prisoners. and at the same time attack
ed "a also.
They killed some and We have had
the honor If burying the fret Americans
who have fallen IN France. You viii
see this doubtless IN the papers Il iii
the - division and they have taken
photograph Of us.
i tell You they are very good soldiers. /
They do no; surrender easily. They de-
Tended themselves to the death We
found them with their threats cut be
ause thcv would not he taken prisoners
md the Boches killed them
In telling 81 the return Of the surtiv-
~ mad drawing q word picture Of the
riliace in which they are stationed. Mr..
Hubert. who was q visitor. say.
The men from this village had just
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
AUSTRIA CLOSING
ALL FRONTIERS
Germany's Ally Making Desperate Eff
forts to End Food
: Strikes.

Geneva, Jan 2l-Austria Saturday de-
creed the closing of all her frontiers.
Through the strict censorship there I'LL
tered reports of the governments desper-
ate efforts to put down widespread
strikes, peace demonstrations and food
riots in a score or more of cities, The
public is apparently fearful that the
Brest- Litovsk peace negotiations will fail
through the insistence OF the German
militarists on the full Pan-German pro-
gram and that Austria will be called
upon for fresh sacrifices.
Berne, Jan. 2l.--Count Czernin, Aus
tro- Hungarian foreign minister, is soon
to make a formal reply to President
Wilson's outline of the allies war aims,
it was reported here Saturday.
Czernin was quoted in an interview
reaching here as asserting:
1T vii not be the annexationists' views
which will end the Brest-Litovsk meet
ings. For our part, we wish to maintain
friendly relations. We do not want ter
ritory nor indemnities."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
Red Cross Needs Nurses.

The most vital necessity of the Amer
lean Red Cross at the present time Is
nurses.
Trained nurses are needed Tor the
home cantonments and the hospitals in
France. And it is also important that
a reserve organization should be effected
at once.
New England Is expected to furnish
> 500 trained nurses for Red Cross work.
Nearly all the New England hospitals
have enlarged their schools for the train
ing Of nurses for war emergencies.
The duty Of the nurse j. a. important
To the hoy at the front a. that Of the
physician and IL l. one of the highest
forms of patriotic service To which the
voung women Of New England can dedi-
rate themselves az this time.
Miss Elizabeth Ross. IN charge al the
bureau Of nursing service. New England
division. American Red Gross. 755 Bowls
tom street. Boston. viii give all inforna
Iion to those Who desire TO register.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
Bromine Production in 1917.

Some OF the asphyxiating gases that
are used so extensively in the European
war contain bromine. a heavy brown
liquid which gives off vapor that at
taeks the nose and throat and has very
harmful effect on the eyes This same
liquid is made into salts that are widely
used in peaceful pursuits, as bromide of
silver, used in photography, and bromide
of potassium used in medicine for treat
ing nervous diseases. Bromine was ex-
tracted from bittern at II plants in
Michigan. Ohio. and West Virginia in
1917 According To r. W. Stone, of
the United States geological survey. de
partment of the interior. about 903 sea
pounds of bromine was produced and sold
at these plants in 1917. an increase of
2l5.6O0 pounds from the production in
1915 During 1917 there has been a
large decrease in price of bulk bromine.
which was quoted in the New York
wholesale market at Sl.4O to Sl.5O a
pound i'm January, 1917. but i now
quoted around go cents. The present
price, however. Is 100 per cent higher
than The price which prevailed in 1918.
when bromine sold for p to IS cents a
pound.
The stocks OF hromine on land at the
producing plants December l5.l9l7, were
very low. amounting only To about 1000
pounds. The productive capacity Of the
plants. however. i - great that much
more bromiue could easily b. made. for
he II plants that were in operation in
Ial7 and one plant that was idle could
produce more than $4,000 pounds Il
Iromine in a year. and could probably
make a million pounds by working fun
line. Some u the piants that were in
'Peratiou in 1917 were idle more than
ali the year.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
BRITISH CROWDS
DEMAND FOOD
Thousands of Munition Men
March in Protest of
Conditions
DEMAND A BETTER
DISTRIBUTION
Great Numbers All Over
the Country Fail to OBJ
tain Sunday Dinner

London, Jan. demonstrations 70
demand better distribution of food
were held az Brighton, at Firth, in Kent
and at other places in England Saturday,
while men, women and children stood in
queues, in many eases in vain, for sun
day roast, margarine, butter or tea
AT Firth 5000 workers from one of the
big war factories formed a procession
and marched to the local food commit
tees offices to protest against their wives
and children having to wait long hours
outside the shops of the grocers and
butchers and then being obliged To come
away empty handed.
The men say that owing to the scar
city of food they are unable to work, and
the percentage of sickness has been high
Meanwhile the butchers shops were
closed and the grocery stores were viz
tually sold out Saturday morning, and
the men were waiting in the streets for
the food committee to take some actions
Food demonstrations and queues IN
London and in many other parts of the
country were bigger and more numerous
than ever Saturday. Everywhere in Lon
don crowds gathered at the butchers
SHops az an tdiif h"uli Nheio pVH'r ~
least 1000 persons at o o'clock waiting
to be served in the retail section of the
Smithfeld market.
Most of these got limited portions and
were luckier than the people in the sub
urbs many of whom were unable to get
any meat, the retailers having received
only a fraction of their supply
This was due not so much to the short
age of cattle and sheep as to the wealth I,
n, which made it impossible in many |
districts to bring livestock to the market,
md faulty distribution of the meat avail |
lble. T
The supplies of margarine arc also in
but here again distribution is
complained of, some sections being well /
Implied, while Others had only the sean
lest allowances.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
MOTOR MECHANICS
WANTED nv FRANCE
General Pershing Calls for About 1000
Men Immediate

Washington, Jan 2l--Gen Pershng
Saturday sent word that the motor me-
chanics regiment" being recruited by the
United States public service reserve, is
wanted in France immediately As re-
suit, the reserve Saturday issued call
for all skilled artisans, between the ages
of Is and 20 and between 81 and 40, to
apply at once to any army recruiting sta
tion fl they wish to aid their country to
defeat Germany in the air.
A total of 1000 trained men is needed
for the aviation corps, to assemble planes
and put them in trim after air duels.
Gen. Pershing has asked for $500 auto
mobile and gas engine men, 400 ma
800 cabinet workers, 450 sheet
metal workers and lesser numbers of.
blacksmiths, forgers, canvas workers,
chauffeurs, cooks, painters,
and acetylene welders.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
ON A TREADMILL::

BY ALAN HINSDAlE.

Nopyriknt. isiI, western Newspaper Unioh'j
l am one of the Americans of the
first expeditionary force that went to
France TO fight the central powers to
be captured. 1t was night reconnoi-
tering force of Germans who killed
several young fellows and took few
rs prisoners. We were marched away
TO the rear and put under temporary
guard.
Being Americans. the officer in COM
mand did not know what to do with
us. Whether we would be treated more
vigorously than troops of other nation
allties / didn't know. but / believed
we would. So / made up my mind TO
escape before we were taken to Ger
many, or to get shot trying to do so.
Having been recently captured, we
were not as strictly watched as doubt
less would be later on. But what
helped me was the bursting of shell
from the American lines very near
us and our guards. Several of the
guards were killed and two of our
fellows were wounded. took advan-
tage Of the confusion to walk away to
the rear.
I had not gone so yards before I
came to the dead body of a German.
dropped beside him, and under cover
of the darkness-there were only such
lights as appear at night In war--I
appropriated his helmet and by dint
Of bard labor managed to get off his
coat AS soon as | had put on both,
| got up and walked slowly rearward.
Hundreds of shells were falling all
about me, and for other reasons per-
haps / was not noticed My trousers
were very dirty and might have be-
loKrad to a soldier of any nationality.
The German coat and helmet / wore
were all the Disguise / needed. pick
ed up rifle lying on the ground and |
now and again turned and fired a |
shot in the direction of the American !
lines. l vas once stopped by an Off |
Ger, but before he could question me, |
he saw something or somsone else that |
drew his attention from me, and I /
gave him the slip.
made my way rearwards where
the troops were not so thick as at the
front, and though / worked my way
without knowing where the reserve
lay, / had the good luck to get into
region where there were no troops. I
came presently to little strearn on
which was a mill. | heard the tramp
of men coming. I would have gone
into the min to hide, but it was lock-
ed. So instead / got onto the mill
wheel and my weight let me down to
the bottom of walled space wherein
the wheel revolved.
In few minutes heard a column
Of men marching by and the word OF
command by the officers. / was where
hey would not see me; nevertheless l {
MD under the wheel. After they had
passed and the thud of their shoes e
was dying away in the distance con- a
,luded to move on, seeking for some II
French family which had not been S
.urned out of house and home, who i
would hide me until 1 could get back a
o my command. Naturally I took hold !,
If the wheel and was about to step on
me Of the buckets, when 1t occurred T
o me that it would turn and let me n
Town as far as / assembled. A glance 5,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

irregularities a n q
pain. / had one
physician after an
other but they did
me no good. read
a bout Lydia Z.
Pinkham's V ege-
table Compoundand
gave its trial and in
a short time | felt
benefited and a m
now feeling fine,
and without weak
ness orpain. Many
% my friends have
also taken Lydia Z.
Pinkham's We e-
table Compound
and been helped by
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

Il. "-Mrs. MARGARET NESS, $50 Z.
Hazard St. Philadelphia, Pa
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liberation. backache, sideache. head
aches or "the blues" should not rest
until they have given this famous root
and herb remedy, Lydia f Pinkham' 5
Vegetable Compound. a trial If
complications exi<, write Lydia E
Pinkhan Medicine Co. Lynn. Mass. for
special suggestions. The result Of its
i0rz cyperence IS at your service
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-03
REAL ESTATE

F. j. Huller and wife to w H.
Hawkins, 81 and other considerations !;
portions of lot s, block 8, East King
Tract, east of Tarragona street
Pensacola Land & Improvement Co.
to Isaac Brown, 800 and other con-
siderations; north so feet lot and
north so feet of west half of lot 5, in
block 81, East King Tract, east OF
Tarragona street.
Florida Farm Mortgage Co. and
Rosa Mary Adams, 81 and other con-
siderations; north 40 feet lot and
north 40 feet of west half lot 3, in
block so, East King Tract, east Of Tar
ragona street.
Albert Rusk, unmarried, to Charles
B. and Ellen Reynolds, 81; lots II to
Is, inclusive. block 4, Highland Park
John r. Hendrix and wife to Thos.
j. Untreiner and wife, s100 and other
considerations; east So feet lots 7 and
IA and west 20 feet lots to IS, block
1o1, of the New City Tract.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-03
STATE DEFENSE IN
MOVE FOR hUTOLEss
FLORIDA SUNDAY s

Tallahassee, Oct. 2-The advisory
committee Of the State Council of Ma
tional Defense held its regular month
iy meeting in the executive offices Of
the state capitol Monday. At this
meeting there were present Governor
Sidney j. Cats, chairman, presiding;
vice chairman, Judge j. B. Whitfield,
Major A. B. Small, of Lake City;
Prof. w. B. Cate, Of Madison; Hon.
John w. Henderson, Hon. j. C. Lun-
ming. Tallahassee; Judge c. L. will
SON. Of Mariana; Hon. j. C. Adkins,
OF Gainesville, field secretary; Mrs.
Frank e. Jennings, chairman of the
woman's committee, of the state coun-
Gil, who represented the woman's work
in Florida, and the executive secre-
tary. Hon. H. S. Howard.
Among important matters taken up
and discussed by the committee was
the work Of supervising non-war con-
structions within the state.
The plans OF the state council of
defense looking to the merging of the
woman's committee with the state
council Of defense was taken up upon
advice from Washington and a COM
mittee was appointed to confer with
the newly organized field defense of
the council OF nation defense, in re-
gard to the matter.
A recent order OF the fuel admins
traitor calling on the people of the
state to forego the pleasure of 10y
riding" on Sundays was discussed It
appeared from reports of the county
chairmen that in some counties the
request had not been obeyed. The
state council supporting the request
OF the fuel administrator, passed the
following resolution:
Request AutoIess Sundays.
Whereas, The national fuel adn2in-
istration has requested the people Of
the country to refrain from the use Of
automobiles of the county for pleasure
riding on Sunday and the state council
of defense being desirious Of aiding
and assisting the national state fuel
administration in the execution of this
request; therefore. be it
Resolved, By the executive commit
tee OF the state council of defense that
the county councils OF defense and the
community councils in the several
counties of this state. actively, SO far
as it lies within their power, support
the request OF the fuel administrator
IN discouraging and preventing, as far
as possible, the Use of automobiles for
pleasure purposes on Sunday, and
that the members of the county coun-
ellis and community councils be, and
they are hereby requested to report
to the local fuel administrator in their
respective counties, any violation of
this request on the part OF any of the
people in their respective commune
ties, so that the names OF those COM
hitting such violations, if there are
any, may be published in the news
papers by the local fuel administra-
ton
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-03
THE PRUSSIAN HOPE.

A great many times, in print and in talk, we
have run across this idea: even though he beats
the French Army and the Italian Army, the
Kaiser cannot bring England and the United
States to terms unless he skaters their sea
power How, then, can h ehope to win ulti-
mately?" asks the Saturday Evening Post
1t is an easy conundrum. He expects England
and the United States to lie down. He hopes
there is enough laziness and selfshness and cow
ardice in them to give the game into his hands
He thinks they will get tired of fighting. He
calculates they cannot stand the gait. He banks
on the chap who resents having his profits in
terfered with his pleasures interfered with, his
easy ways of living interfered with, his diet regu
lated; on the big capitalist who forestalls
much as the law will let him; on the same cap
italist who will not buy Liberty bond when he
can get eight per cent on mortgage; on the labor
leader and wage-earner who will strike-even
against the government; on the farmer who
would rather let his production fall off than pay
high wages for help He expects timidity and
the Stacker and the CRATER and the sponge, in all
their manifold varieties and manifestations, to
get the upper hand and surrender.
The Kaiser will be disappointed but don't let
anyone encourage him.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-03
CONCLUSIVE PROOF

i The efficacy of incubation against typhoid few
5r is conyincingly demonstrated in letter writ
ten to his father by Pensacolian (not doctor)
serving as an officer in France. He says:
Il wish you could have seen the efficiency of
the treatment demonstrated as completely as
lid recently.
i This is my own, first hand, eye witness in
Formation.
1T was recently discovered at a certain camp,
ia account of an unavoidable circumstance (una-
Foidable until 1T was discovered) that 5000 men
we're drinking water bad enough to kill rattle
make and had been doing so for some time, with
10 cases Of typhoid because they were all vacci-
hated against it but along comes civilian en-
loye who hadn't been vaccinated within five
ears for typhoid and although he was probably
he physical equal of any man in camp he took
so badly that he didn't last ten days after TAX
ng sick The bugs were in the water alright in
aillions; they all drank it in 5000 men one got
aught and he wasn't protected by vaccination
retty clear case, p"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-03
THE HOME FRONT.

The battle front in Europe is not the only
.merican front. There is home front, and our
eople at home should be as patriotic as our men
uniform in foreign lands.
Every American soldier who has fallen in
rance, every American sailor who has died for
is country's cause has given his life for his
eople. Surely we, their people, can lend our
loney to our nation, their country
The Fourth Liberty Loan is the fighting loan.
ks great success will bring comfort and pride to
lr Army and our Navy, and to our allies: it
i'll bring encouragement to our enemies It's
lccess means American victory, Prussan de-
at.
The fourth loan is the fighting loan, the SOL
ers loan.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-03
THE PEACE OUR SOLDIERS WANT-THE
PEACE OUR WAR MOTHERS WANT.

The Stars and Stripes the official newspaper
published by the soldiers of the American EN-
Evolutionary Forces in France, says editorially
about the enemy peace offensive:
Let the weak hearted who are dreaming OF a
compromise let the pacifsts who are talking a
peace ay agreement; let the sideliners who have
had enough of war; let the secretly inclined pro-
Germans who think this should end without
a decision-let them one and all know once and
for all that for the American Expeditlonary
Force there is no such word Peace with the
Huns unbeaten. The man who talks of peace
today, except through victory, is a traitor"
The enemy peace offensive is lkened to the
action of German n1achne-gun crews in the Vesle
lighting, when they fought and killed Americans
until they were surrounded, then shouted KAN
,erad.'
The. mothers of the American soldiers in
France want the same peace their sons denan /.
All the courage of the ancient Spartan mother is
IN the hearts of the women of America
Il The object of the Fourth Liberty Loan is to
bring that peace just peace, righteous peace.
an American peace.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-03
THE 5000 METRES RUN.

The feature of the recent athletic
meet held in Paris was the 5000
metres run in which were % con-
testants, Vermeulen, French title hold
er, starting from scratch and winning
the race in the new record time of 8 ~
10, breaking the mark held by Jean
bouln, which was made two years ago.
Albeit hiviat, the American champion.
was TO have been a starter but his
unit was sent to the front two days
PRIOR TO the meet The American star
would have had to have been at his
very best to have competed with the
French title holder.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-03
WORLDS RECORD

WOhLD > REOOnD
The shipyards of America established a new
record for ship production for the twelve months
just ended. From September q, 1917, to Sept
ember 26, 1913 the United States placed in SER
vice 1,956,455 gross tons of shipping. The pre-
vious worlds record was held by British shin
yards, which in 1913, the greatest year in British
shipbuilding, turned out 1882, 153 gross tons.
Expressed in lightweight tonnage, the figure
used by the Shipping Board American produc-
ton was nearly 100000 tons. The twelve
months just ended are first in which American
productio. for year has exceeded the record of
British yards. Before 1913 all shipbuding re-
cords were held by the British.
The figures made public are those of the
Bureau of Navigation of the Department of Com
merce and not those of the Shipping Board
For this reason they include all tonnage of 100
gross or more, placing them parity with the
British figures, which are always expressed in
gross tonnage.
sent this message to Chairman Hurley of the
Shipping Board.
We have gone over the top in shipbuilding.
In the twelve months just ended.
American shipyards have built and the Com
merce Department Bureau of Navigation, has
officially numbered 1956, Ass gross tons, passing
the previous high record of the United Kingdom
for 1913 calendar year, 1,932,153 gross tons
launched, of which 1,793,287 gross tons COM
pleted.
British construction for the present year is
behind that of the American yards. The latest
British figures available are up to August 81.
They show for the eleven months ended on that
date construction of 1,512,64O gross tons. Pro-
suction for September will hardly be sufficient to
bring the years total near that of the United
States.
The British tonnage for the seven months and
the American for twelve aggregate 3,469,095
gross tons completed, exceeding the worlds rec
ord production for all nations of 1882, 1872 made
in 1918.
The figures for the twelve months make it
clear that the United States will greatly exceed
carly estimates of production by experts, who de-
clared that this country would not turn out 81
100000 lightweight tons in 1918. With an entire
quarter yet remaining the production is likely to
equal 100000 lightweight tons of ships deliver
ed and in service.
There is at present gap of more than 1,00O,-
900 lightweight tons between launchings and de-
veries, due to delay in getting engines and
boilers.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-03
CITY CLERK KEPT
BUSY WITH FEES

The office of the city clerk has been
busy place for the past two days
since there have been several hundred
licenses taken out by Pensacola BUSH
ness men in the past few days Octo-
Der is the beginning of the new city
fiscal year when operators of business
houses which are required#to have a
license under the city laws make their
renewals. The clerk also acts as
treasurer, receiving the license fees
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-03
MINISTER'S TO TALK
ON CLEANUP TOPIC

Following meeting of a Vigilance
committee which has Ueen organized
among the ministers of the city, pas
tors Of many Pensacola churches have
agreed to preach sermons on condi-
tons in the city at next Sundays SER
vices. Some of the divines intimate
that they have some interesting in
formation cleaned by Investigation and
that the sermons may give some facts
which will startle.