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Dundee's Decision.

The National A. C. of Philadelphia did
not cover itself with glory during the
drive for the United War Work Cam
paign. Previous 10 Dundee being asked
to box yelling the National A. c. match
maker had signed the italian to appear
in their ring on November 16 in one of
a series OF bouts for the bentfit Of the
club and the fighters
Charley Harvey. who arranged the
Garden bouts, asked the officials OF the
National A. c. TO release Dundee from
his engagement there and permit him to
box at the Garden. Harvey pointed out
that ms the National A. c. bouts were
for private gain they should not be per-
mitted to stand in the way OF the war
fund contests. The officials OF the Ma
tional A. c. fatty refused to release the
boxer and threatened rsprisal II he did
not fulfil his contract with them. Dun
dees manager yielded to the Philadel-
phians, but Dundee was made of diff
ferent material. He defied the Philadel-
phians TO do their worst and boxed in his
home town for a worthy cause.
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BASKETBALL FOR FUND.
War Work Carnival I'm Brooklyn
Next Saturday Night.

Despite the generous contributions or
all branches OF sport to the United War
Work campaign in the last two weeks
the amount has not been oversubscribed.
as expected, and the need Of funds for
this worthy object is exemplihed more
now than ever before. To aid this drive
It has been decided to stage a basketball
carnival and military dance at the Four
teenth Regiment Armory. Brooklyn. next
Saturday night.
A committee composed OF Messrs. FL
mer /. Thompson, William Todd. David
II. f. Jones. ]. NJ. HeatheiNon. Edmund
w. Butler, Edward w. Ditmars, Daniel
A. Boyle and John J. O'Brien has laid
plans for the promotion OF this carnival
In the first game the Mine Sweepers.
in charge OF Rube Marquard and Bur-
leigh Grimes OF the Brooklyn Nationals,
will meet the Y. s. S. Granite State for
the naval championship OF the Eastern
division. These teams are tied for first
place in the naval tournament now being
conducted and the game on the 30th
will settle the issue and give the winner
an excellent claim to the national title
among the service teams. The second
exhibition will bring together the Cres-
cent A. C. OF Brooklyn and the Central
Y. NJ. G. A.
The third contest will be between the
pick OF the professional stars OF tho
game represented In the Standard Ship
yard team OF Shooters Island and the
Morse Dry Dock or Robins Dry Dock
Club OF Brooklyn.
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BETHLEHEMS GOING NORTH.
VIII Play Canadian Soccers Re-
turn Game in Toronto.

Tho bethlehem soccer team cham
pons OF the United states, will play a
return match against selected Cana
dian eleven at Toronto on Sunday De-
cemAcr /. for the benefit OF the depend
erts Of Cauadirn soldiers. 1t was an
nounced yesterday.
The Bethlehem club has accepted an
invitation from the California Football
Association TO play an intcrsectlonal
series of five Games on the Pacific Coast
Secretary T. W. Cahill OF the American
Football Association Will accompany the
Eastern players and the series will be
decided during the Christmas holidays or
early in January.
This will be the first appearance of
an Eastern soccer team West OF Kansas
City Arrangements are being made for
the Bethlehem team to play at FL Paso.
Dallas, st, Louis and Detroit, on the re-
turn trip.
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SERVICE TEAMS IN
BROOKLYN TO-DAY
Camp Dix and MineOla Avia-
tors Will Play Football
at Ebbets Field.

The National Aeronautic Committee.
Of which Mrs. Charles A. Van Rensselaer,
Is chairman, Is sponsor for the patriotic
concert and football game at Ebbets
Field this afternoon. The gridiron con-
test will bring together the Camp Dix
eleven and the Mineola Aviators. who
were scheduled to meet last Sunday.
when the game was prevented by rain.
Charley Brickley. the former Harvard
drop kicking star. who has been showing
will referee the game and as a side
feature will do some drop kicking
Buck" Wharton. one OF PENIS great
est grldiron heroes, who Is now Capt
Wharton, Y S. A.. will umpire the game
Aviation stunts by the birdmen from
the Long Island camps will be another
side feature. Just before the opening
whistle is sounded the ball will be
dropped on the field by Sergeant Coombs.
Americas greatest speed flier, who won
the recent Statue OF Liberty race from
Belmont Park and return. He will try
to drop the ball TO the centre of the field
while flying about 1000 feet in the air.
Other aviators are, scheduled to do trick
stunts over the field and still others will
fly above the field in battle formation.
The Camp Dix eleven has been coached
by Sol Metzger, last year the gridiron
mentor at Washington and Jefferson and
one of the best football coaches in the
country. The soldier team has been
picked from all the elevens at the
wrightstown camp and Is made UP about
equally OF officers and men. Like the
aviator team, the doughboy combination
is composed of ex-collegians who learned
the rudiments OF the game years ago.
Play will be started at 2:30 O'Clock.
Bands from both camps will be on hand
to enliven the proceedings.
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NABLE IS DOUBLE
VICTOR WITH FISTS
Clark House Boxer Stars in
Local and Intercity Bouts
at N. Y. A. C.

Samuel Nable OF the Clark House
A. A. last night won two bouts in the
local and intercity amateur boxing tour
nament Of the New York Athletic Club.
After defeating Adam Hill of Yaeger's
Boxing School In the final of the IFS
pound class for local boxers in three
rounds Nable. substituted for j. Toma-
sulo, who failed to show up, in the ll5
pound class intercity bout. The Clark
House boxer proved a good substitute
and got the Judges decision over J.
Shine OF Cambridge. Mass. In three
rounds.
Frank Gillespie OF Chicago. the dis
lance runner who won his semiflnRl bout
last Thursday night, was outclassed
when he faced VI. Onoratl OF Columbia
University S. A. r. C. in the final of
the l40 novice class. Onorati won in
the first round. the referee stopping the
bout The summaries:
llS Pound Clas, ttinul bouts, Nable,
Clark House A. A Gymnasium. defeated
Adam Hin. Yaegers B. s, three rounds
l2s Pound Glass (final bouu-J. Haus-
ner, Clark House A. A., defeated c.
Manser. unattached. three rounds. Judges
decision.
ger, Rutgers Gymnasium. defeated Walter
Gilday. Union Settlement a. c.. four
rounds. Referees decision.
l25 Pound Especial bouO--Charles Jack
man, Twenty-siNth Ward Y. NJ {. A. de-
feated Arthur SChick, Past!me A. G., three
rounds Judges decision.
lSS Pound NnterClty bout)-Joseph Sui
Ivan. Boston, defeated Rudolph Hickman,
Psstime A. c., four rounds. Referee
decision
ll5 Pound Untercity bout)-Samuel
liable Clark House A. A, defeated j.
shine. Cambridge, Mass. three rounds
Judges decision.
l@O Pound Class tnovice)-M OnopntI
Columbia University 6. A. r C., defeated
FRANK Gillespie, Chicago. one round;
stopped by referee.
l+O Pound especial bout)--D Roscrberr
Glencoe A. c. defeated p. Ryan Morn
insside y. L, three rounds. Judges de-
cis!on.
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twenty seconds, each trying for an OPEN
Ing. Cans was the first to let 60 with
right. after feinting for the body with
the left. and reached the point OF the
Jaw. Erne was completely knocked out
and lost the lightweight championship
OF the world with a single punch.
The Fort Erie bout was the culmina-
ton OF long period OF i'll feeling be-
tween the champion and his challenger.
II grew out of the first meeting between
the men at the broadway A. G. in 1900.
Erne received the decision over the ne
gro at the close of the twelfth round
Cans quit on the ground that a cut over
his eye prevented him seeing we'll enough
TO box
Later developments indicated that the
Negroes action in stopping was due to a
betting coup in which the bulk of the
money was wagered on Erne. Cans had
his orders to quit and followed instruc-
tons Cans declared after the bout that
the cut over his eye was due to his head
coming into collision with Ernes skull,
and that the blood trickled down in a
way to partly blind him.
Welcome Excuse.
Those with inside information declared
that Cans found Erne so easy to out
point that he was in a quandary as to
how TO bring the bout to a close, and
that the headon collision came as a well
come excuse for quitting.
Erne naturally insisted that his
punches caused the negro to quit and
denounced him as n coward. This an
gered the negro and he sought another
bout with the champion. Erne there
upon suggested that Cans get a reputa-
ton and intimated he would not be A
good drawing card
Cans was persistent, however, and
finally proposed that they meet In n six
round bout in Philadelphia, which would
yield good purse, and that there would
be light boxing without any serious dam
age 10 either. This proposition was ac-
cepted by Erne and at once Cans went
into strict training. He was in superb
condition on the night set for the bout
and arrived early at the clubhouse, The
bout was promoted by Martin Julian and
large crowd gathered to witness the
combat.
Erne arrived In Philadelphia about :
o'clock and went to hotel. He was in
the act OF writing his name on the hotel
register when friend whispered in his
ear;
THE coon is going to double cross
you"
Erne dropped the pen without finish
Ing his name. left the hotel and took a
train back to New York
This action on the part OF Erne drew
severe criticism for the champion and he
finally consented TO a title match. select
ing Fort Erie as the site this city being
near his Buffalo home.
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LAYTON BEATS CoNCANN0N.
Wins Pocket billiards Match Mt
Days, 1900 to 1.O72.

Johnny Layton triumphed last night
over Joe Concannon in their weeks
match at pocket billiards at Maurice
Days room. winning by 1900 to 1.072.
The players had dispute in the after
noon as to a scratch and Concannon lost
his stroke. The scores:
AFTERNOON GAME.
Layton--14. 1s, IS, 0, 0, 22. ls. 20, 0. 0,
l1--l2i, Scratches. I; high run. 20.
Concannon-O. 0, Q. Z, II, 0, 6, 0, 0, 4.
o, 0-S7. Scratches. 2; high run. IL.
NIGHT GAME
800. Scratches. I; high run, %.
concRnnon--i2. 0, o, o. o. 6. o, o, o,
e-sS. Scratches. 2; high run, IL.
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NAVY BASKETBALL AT "1aTH."

Ensign Mooney. the big centre and
captain OF the Pelham Bay Naval
Training Station basketball team will
lead his men against the five repre-
senting the U. 8. S. Granite State, at
the Thirteenth Regiment A.mory,
Brooklyn. tomorrow night. A game
between the Mine Sweepers and the
Armed Guard will precede the Pelham
Granite State match.
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BASIS ETBALL GUIDE OUT,

The Spa!dlng Official Basketball Guide
for the current season has made its ap-
pearance, 1t is edited under the Joint
direction OF editorial committees ap-
pointed by the Young Mems Christian
Association, the Amateur Athletic Union
and the National Collegiate Athletic
Association. and contains the Official
ruleA
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When Cans beat Ernie.

The shortest lightweight championship
bout on record was that between Frank
Erne and Joe Cans at Fort Erie, May
~, 1902. The CONTEXT lasted less than
thirty seconds, Gano scoring a clean
knockout with the first blow he landed
on the champion. Roth Erne and Cans
felnted and used their feet for at least
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ADAIR BEATS DoNLEY.

Barney Adair added to his list OF VIC
tories last night when he outponted
Mickey Donley in an eight round bout at
the Broad Street Club, Newark. The
contest was close one throughout, but
the New Yorker defeated the Jerseyman
through his aggressiveness and leading.
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MISTAKE In COURSE
COSTS TRACY RACE
Flushing Cross-Country Star
Runs Three-Quarters Of o
Mile Too Far.
RICK OF ERASMUS WINS

Failure of the officials to see that the
course was properly marked pobably
cost Albert Tracy OF Flushing High
School the city high schools cross-coun-
try championship contested over the
regular 2h mile 7. s. A. l.. course in
Jamaica yesterday afternoon.
Tracy, who last week won the Queens
borough title and who was touted as a
sure winner In yesterdays contest, was
the only lad OF the ninety-one contest
ants to cover the scheduled 2h miles
Owing TO mistake in laying out the
course about three-quarters of a mile
from the starting point. the runners, in
stead OF following Tracy, the leader at
that time, followed the course which was
improperly marked and as result
shortened the distance about three-quar-
terS OF mile.
Marked by schooIboys.
The course was marked by small
Ameican flags by schoolboys instead
OF the officials At the three-quarter
mile point the lads who had the handling
of marking the trail indicated turn
instead of making the turn at a point
Tracy, who had been over the course
more than dozen times and who at this
time was leading the big pack of har-
riers by about fifteen yards, followed the
regular course and as a result finished
in sixty-fourth place.
Tracy was clicked in u minutes A
seconds. while Marvin Rick of Erasmus
Hall, the Brooklyn cross-country cham
pion and the winner Of the race. covered
the distance, less three-quarters of a
mile, In 10 minutes IS seconds. The rec
ord for the course. set by Walter Hig-
gins Of Morris High School last year, is
Is minutes IA seconds.
Owing to the miXup A. H. Killen,
chairman of the games committee of
Flushing High School, will protest the
race at the next meeting of the high
schools games committee.
Rick won the event over E. Buck of
Evander Childs by about a yard. w
Allen OF Stuyvesant finished third. Ave
yards behind Buck. A. Jensen Of ia
maca was fourth and I. Ruth OF Stuy-
vesant finished NTH.
c. Todaro, who was placed seventh,
was the first High School OF Commerce
lad to finish. c. Kiviat OF Curtis, q
brother OF the noted Abe Kiviat. who in
1916 finished second to Robert Crawford
the Flushing star, had to be content with
forty-ninth place.
Team Title to Richmond Hill.
The team title went to the Richmond
Hill runners with the low score of 20
points. Erasmus Hall was second with
81 and Flushing was third with SO.
Stuyvesant was next. followed by Evan
der Childs. Morris was seventh. while
Commerce was deadlocked with Manual
Training for eighth place. The order of
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PATERSON HIGH BEATEN.

Paterson High Schools eleven bowed
to St BenediCts Prep team from
Newark at Paterson yesterday, TO 0,
In the first period Cahill went over for
touchdown and Murray kicked goal.
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TWO DOUBLE HEADERS TO-DAY.
Soccer Leagues Trying TO End
Schedules Here and in Newark.

POSTPONED on account Of weather last
Sunday, cup games for the United War
Work will be played under auspices Of
the southern New York Football Asso-
citation, with a double header at Lenox
Oval to-day, There will be another
double header az ClRrk's Athletic Field
in Newark, where the National League
will meet the Shipbuilders League and
the American Amateur League will be
pitted against the New Jersey Soccer
League. To-dRy's soccer schedule:
NEW YORK STATE CUP TIE.
Longfellows VS. Prospect T. C, at Lenox
Oval ! P. NJ
New York F. G. We. Morse DryIock at
Lenox Oval. p. NJ,
White Rose VS.. Standard shipbulidng at
Astoria, s T., NJ
EMERGENCY FLEET LEAGUE.
Robins Drydock vs.. Newburgh Shpyards
at Todd Yield, Columbia and Lorraine
streets. BROOKLYN, $3.50 T.. NJ
INTERLEAGUE WAR FUND MATCHES
American Amateur League VS.. New Jer-
sey Soccer League at clark's Field, East
Newark. p. N.
National League VS.. shipbuiiders League
at Clark's Field, East Nswark, 8 p. N.
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WOOD WINS WAR DRIVE MEDAL

Sidney NJ. Wood was the winner of
the Rockefeller medal in the war drive
competition on the Upper Montclair
Country Club links yesterday His card
read IFS. 60.
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HACKLEY OUTPLAYs TARRY-
TOWN.

Hackley Schools football team de-
feated the Horace Mann School eleven at
Tarrytown yesterday, So to 10.
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Manual Training High School and the
Bushwick High School OF Brooklyn
clashed in a soccer game at Prospect
Park Parade Grounds yesterday. After
two full periods and extra periods of 1--WE
minutes each. during which neither side
was able to score, the contest ended In
a to 0 tie. The lineup:
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I'TI7T 10 a ItTI MT PIT III IIII u UIdIU III VIIb
=. 5. A. l.. soccer competition by de-
feating Commercial OF Brooklyn by .
goals to / at Crotona Park yesterday.
Friedman, fifteen minutes from the start,
made good with long shot for Nor
ris. In the second half Nelson negoti-
lated a penalty kick. JacklowitE. inside
left for Commercial, scored from a
miXup late in the second half. The
Imam
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COMMERCE KEEPS UP
ITS SOCCER STREAK
Defeats Townsend Harris 40
and Evander Childs Swamps
Stuyvesant.
NORRIS HIGH IS THIRD

The soccer eleven OF the High School
of Commerce yesterday, with a 4 to 0
defeat of Townsend Harris Hall at Cro-
tona Park, scored its eighth successive
victory and strengthened its hold on
first place in the p. 8. A. L. competition.
At half time the leaders were 1 to 0,
Konarski having scored after corner
kick by Kulick. After the change OF
ends Bunora scored from a mixup, after
which konarslii landed another telling
shot. Colagero, from the left wing,
found Townsend Harris's net for tho
fourth and last goal The lineup:
Commerce 60. Townsend Harris to.
Strom. ........... Goal ............. Bayer
schlesslnger,.. Right back ...... Lazarus
Goldstein, -. Right half ....... Hayter
Klempner Centre half ....... .Cagney
RlS'afi OUTSIDE hsfi h Fight
sehaeffer. .." inside right Goldberg tCapt)
kuiick ....... Centre ..... klrsehsteln
Colagero. Outside left ........: Fass
Referee-Mr. Krantz, =. $. A. L. Lines
Konarski t2). Bunora, CoIssero. High
School OF Commerce. SubgtituteB-Breeker
for Strom, Tow for schlessinger. streleylts
sehlessinser for Kulick Time-Haives Of
80 minutes.
Evander Childs defeated stuyvesant at
soccer. goals to /, at Crotona Park
yesterday. Six Of the goals were
notched in the first period. Chaffee off
a pass by Hale started the fun. and
Secular followed off pass from Quinn.
Wolf and Chaifee. unassisted, added a
goal apiece, and then Quinn contributed
the fifth goal. A penalty converted by
Toorock yielded the sixth point.
In the second half Chaffee obtained his
third goal off DaSa nv Hale Martin
scored for Stuyvesant. Tho lineup:
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-09


One Of the hoR1ueA Of waG y dseNR
Ing In DIN aeniUry where los null
are Qna43exed- tia Mrftm kmUws. H4
bias done 4. And Il diseords be th4
basia Of 3 symphony the stran9e
sounds tAat we're Resolved al the mug
chorus ross to fhs roof mast hsv0
been a symphony. But this NOcturlp
in Mule Music did not strike the wrfe
er as anything at all admirable EveA
now, softened as the memory is BY
the passing Of time, he has no desire
10 hear the mule chorus again even ~
played By the finest aggregation OF
musicians Of the country as an accom-
paniment to the internment march
Of one Karl Muck.
The mules. faithful animals tnax
they are, and beloved by every Soldiek
who has depended upo0 them fog
food transport, have been altogeth@
too noisy.
They have played a major part in
the army transport but while doing u
have insisted upon telling in q minor
key of the work they have done.
In a word they have attracted the
attention Of the Germans. Some.
thing has had to be done. The army
has needed the faithful mule even up
ct the very front. The army mule y
indispensable. But the Quarter
master Department has not yet redchs
ed the efficiency of the Chicago Stock
yards which use even the pigs squeal
and the Army has decided upon sur
gical operations to eliminate the
braying.
Veterinarians have been instructed
to operate upon the mules that are
destined for overseas service and to
do 1t with the efficiency Of the Maxim
silencer
with the memory Of those nights
in the armory the writer beseeches
the veterinarians to operate similar
ly upon domestic mules)
The Anti-N0ise Societies would re-
joice at some Of the steps that are be-
ing taken by the Army abroad. OF
course there must be the roar Of the
big guns. They can't be Maxim 81.
lenced-and anyway we are concern
ed only In silencing the enemies guns
and give NO thought to our own.
Even the little tin helmets have
been banned in the front lines. As
men strike the barbed wire ontangle.
ments the helmets ring. So woOlen
caps have been substituted for front
line wear.
On light railways near the front Q
locomotive with q silent motor is In
use.
p. T. Il.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-09

In the last four the nasal vowels,
the breath comes out through nose
and mouth at the same time.
The French have but one conso-
nant sound that is rather rare in
English, the buzzing sound Of 81 in
the word vision. The sound will be
represented by zh. 1t occurs three
times in the name of the great French
general, Joseph jacques Joffre, pro-
nounced zhohzef zhak zhofr.
Pronounce with o distinct trill by
making the tip Of the tongue vibrate
just behind sthe upper teeth. Tele-
phone operators pronounce the word
three much like this.
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Civilian Use of Khaki
Branded as Extravaganee

Use Of 50 much khaki-colored cloth
for Uniforms for women and men not
connected In any way with the mill
taFy establishment of the country ID
deplored by the Army and Navy JouTe
nal The practice IL regarded % par
ticularly out of keeping with the
times because Of the recent shortage
Of khaki-colOFed cloth for uniforms
for soldiers, and the efforts OF the
War Department to conserve the sup
ply.
Under the caption Of The Civilian
Craze for Uniforms" the Army and
Navy Journal said in q recent issue:
zone of the economic extYavagan.
ce0 and wastes ever before the eyes
Of the dwoalers in our large cities at
the present time rs the civilian craze
for uniforms.
we have scarcely recovered from
the turbulent agitation aroused over
the shortages in army uniforms when
we see more and more men and wom-
en in khah-c0lored uniforms that
range from close limitations of those
Of the British army to very bad copies
of our own army patterns.
ut Is to be noted In this connec-
ton that the hardest workers among
the civilians attached to our canton
ments and camps in the capacity AZ
entertainers or social workers" usu-
ally wear a costume of so simnle a
pattern and so unobstrusive a color AZ
scarcely to be worth calling a militarv
uniform and which certainly makes
no pretensions to anything of that
kind. But in the ordered and nro-
tected social world of our larger cities
one sees young women in uniforms
that (making allowances for the brief
skfrts) are practically those of the
British, French and Belgian army
patterns.
Moreover. the street railway COM
panies have elected to dress their
women conductors in uniforms OF
khaki color with. puttees and a
wretehed imitation of the ARMY gar
rison cap, the whole presenting a sar-
torial horror, feminine travesty. and
shocking waStage Of cloth that In
the near future may be vitality needed
for the men we will have to send to
France"
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LOANS TO OUR ALLIES

Up to April IL the United States
Government had made loans aggre-
eating $4,835.32S,760 to her allies in
the war. The amounts the various
countries have received are as fol-
lows: Great Britain, $2,5sO, O0O, geo;
France, $1,4SO.oo0,e 600: Italy. $780,
900, Gee; Russia. $1S7,73S,7s0; Bel
gium. $8S,400. zoo; Cuba, SIS, OO0,-
OO0; Serbia, $4.2O0. zee. A loan of
at least c$44, 100000 win be made to
the Greek Government, and one for
e,6ee, 6e6 has been arranged for the
RoumAniAn Government.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-09
SOLDERING

A troop Of Regular Cavalry under
command Of Capt. H. H. Anderson.
on duty at Marta, Texas. recently
made hard ride oEer 2o0 miles Of
the rowghest cO1ntry On the Mexican
border I'm pursuit Of Mexican bandits
and then rode back to camp and
passed Q fne inspection.