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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
RAID OVER PARIS,
German Plane Brought Down Before
Much Damage Resulted.

Paris, April PA German tri.
plane was brought down and the crew
of three taken prisoners in last nights
German air raid, II was officially an.
nounced this afternoon. The raid
was Illustrated. .aa, a4af
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
TWO AIR MEN KILLED.
Burned To Death When Their Ma
chine Ignited in the Air.

Wichita Falls, Texas, April pa
Second Lieutenant Steffon r. Warner
and Cadet Edward d. Cryer were
burned TO death today at Call Field
when their aeroplane burst into flames
fifty feet in the air and fell.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
STORIES OF AMERICAN vALoR IN
SATURDAYS FIGHT.
GUNNERS REFUSE TO RETREAT
lnflict Heavy Loss Upon Enemy. Hos
pitfalls Blown Up.-Doctors and
Nurses All kilIed.-Ameri-
can Girls Are Brave.
(By Henry Woods.)


Field, April 24.--How an American
lieutenant and six men held a seven
hundred yard front all day against
the Germans during a recent enemy
attack on Seicheprey was told in an
official report of French colonel to.
day, who commanded the regiment
which co.operated with the American
forces in the recapturing OF Seishe-
prey and Renters Woods.
After our joint encounter ] per-
sonally visited the battle 'front.' the
Colonel said.
"0ied in Their Tracks"
Everywhere evidence was visible
of the most terrific hand to hand fight.
ing demonstrated by the Americans
despite two enemy barrages during
which the Americans defended them
selves bravely. In Layon two Amer
lean machine gunners died in their
/ tracks after covering the surrounding
ground with German dead
AS result of the resistance which
the Americans put forth against the
enemy the enemy suffered the heay-
lest losses.
The American machine gunners
were separated from their company
On partly being surrounded they re-
fused to retreat standing fast to a
terrible bombardment and engaging
in hand to hand combats through the
day.
Hospitals Destroyed.
when the Germans reached the
American machine gun positions the
Americans blew up their guns and re-
treated. Towards evening the hospi
tails at Seicheprey were blown up JAll
of the doctors and nurses were either
killed or wounded. Thereupon the
head doctor of an American regiment
offered volunteers and selling all of
the French and American ambulances
that could be obtained he rushed
through a severe barrage into the VIII
lage where he attended the wounded
for many hours.
American Heroines.
| With the American Armies in Lor-
raine, April 24.--The story of how two
American girls wearing gas masks
served dainties to the American sol
diers who were less than a mile and
quarter behind the front lines dur.
ling Saturdays terrific bombardment
near Seiceprey was told for the first
! time tonight.
Under Heavy Gas Barraee.
I The girls were Misses Gladys and
Irene MacIntyre sisters of Mount
/ Vernon, New York, who were asleep
! in their canteen one and onefourth
miles behind the front lines.
| They were awakened at the begin.
ming Of the barrage and at once got
up and put on their gas masks as the
bombardment consisted of gas she'll
ing. Unable to see through her mask
Irene took hers off and was in search
for matches but Gladys retained hers
so as TO be ready to aid her sister in
case she was overcome. The maneuv-
er was successful.
Remained at Their Posts.
After the bombardment which last.
ed well into the day the girls bestir.
red themselves and made coffee and
chocolate and served to the soldiers.
| The officers in charge of that patrol
in the village insisted that the sis.
tiers go to safety but they begged the
privilege of staying.
They left however after they had
been under terrific bombardment for
more than eight hours.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
LESS HUN POWDER.
TWO Big Factories At Glazenbaeh
Reported Wrecked Today.

Zurich, April 24,-Two large Aus
trian Powder factories at Glazenbach
were blown up with attendant casual
ties. according to reports reaching
here today
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
MORE NEW SHIPS.
Contracts Let Today For Twenty-Nine
Aasregating 2t5,oo0 Tons.

Washington. April 24.-Contracts
for twenty-nine more vessels aggre-
eating more than 215.O00 tons were
let by the Emergency Fleet corpor.
alton today.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
ALLIED LINES ARE
AbLAzE WITH FIRE:
TERRIFIC COMMANDMENT OVER
SEVERAL SECTORS
HARD FIGHTING NEAR ALBERT
Early Reports Indicated That the Enc
my is Being Held, but Guns on.
Both Sides are BeIching
Whitening Fire.

Paris; April 24.-A terrible German
bombardment between the Somme and
the Avre rivers. was reported by the
French war Office this afternoon.
Hard fighting in the Albert sectors
was also reported. Strong enemy as
saults in the Flanders regions we're
lrepulsed," the comminque concluded.
Some Prisoners Taken.
In the region Of Athletic and Aven-
court French patrols brought back
prisoners. Elsewhere on the front
there was interRittant cannonading.
/ Hais's Official Reports.
| London, April 24.-"Strong German
attacks were progressing early today
on nine mile front directly east OF
Amiens," Field Marshal Haig reported.
AT the same time another enemy
assault was underway in the Albert
sector north of the Somme. German
artillery was heavily bombarding the
whole British front from the north
of Albert TO the junction of the French
lines south of the Somme on front
of about fifteen miles.
Great Activity Everywhere.
Strong infantry attacks are report
, ed to be progressing in the Albert
sector and between The Somme and
the Ayre rivers" Haig also an
nounced
There was hostile Smelling early
today between Giyenehy and RobecQ,
the statement continued.
"On the whole British front from
north of Albert to the junction of the
French south of the SomIne a distance
of forty miles enemy artillery was ac-
tive Early this morning a heavy
bombardment continued.
Fight Started Last Night.
Hostile infantrymen left their
trenches northwest of Albert at dusk.
Their attacks were met with heavy
rifle and machine gun fighting and
they were driven back in the neigh
borhood of Dranoutre.
Strong hostile attacks developed
in the night The British repulsed.
them after shell firing. The British
and French artillery inflicted losses
on the enemy.
Other Fighting Yesterday.
"On the majority of the British
front particularly in the Somme and
Ancre sectors in the villages of the
ScFape and in the sectors north Of
\ Bethime and north and northeast OF
Bailleul there was hostile artillery
fighting yesterday afternoon and ev.
ening" the statement concluded.
British Make Advances.
With the British Armies in France.
April 2t-The fighting continued yes.
terday in the region of Aveluy wood
!, near Albert. The British advanced
their line south OF the wood some $50
yards along a front of 1000 yards.
Otherwise there. was little change
in the situation yesterday or last night.
t In touring virtually the whole line
{ from the north to south the cores
| pendent everywhere found a feeling
, of, optomism. Yesterday as the she'll
shaken tawn of villers Brittenneux
, was reached. British military band
! in a camp not far away struck up a
! smashing American march II was IN.
9 dicative of the spirit Of the men.
e II may be said that the morale OF
E the allied forces remains Of the high,
Fest pitch.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
INCREDIBLE FEAT
OF ENGLISH NAVY
BLOWS UP DOCK GATES INSIDE
zEE5RUeeE MOLE
SIX OLD CRUISERS SACRIFICED
Details OF Action Lacking Operations
Were Intricate. Accomplished
BY Small Force Specially
Volunteered for Act.

London, April 24.--Two destroyers
got inside the mole at Zeebrugge and
blew up the dock gate yesterday morn
ing. the correspondent at Dover of the
Daily Mail reports. The feat, he says,
seems incredible, but there appears TO
be no doubt about IT, Some OF the men
who took part in it say they saw the
waters of the Bruges canal running
out after the gate was destroyed and
their hawsers.
Several German batteries at Ostend
and Zeebrugge were silenced by the
bombardment from sea. There also
was much aerial fighting. The attack
began at midnight and until o'clock
in the morning the German batteries
fired continuously.
Six Cruisers involved
London, April 23.-Sir Eric Gaddes,
first lord of the admiralty is supple
menting the admiralty report of the
raid against Zeebrugge and Ostend,
said in giving the house of commons
such information as had come to hand
Of this extremely gallant and hazard
Gus raid:
81 ask the members to appreciate
that most of the officers and men from
whom we have got to get the infor-
nation have been fighting the greater
part of the night and that some of
them are not yet in.
THE raid was undertaken under
command of Vice Admiral Roger
Keys. commanding at Dover French
destroyers cooperate with the British
forces. Six obsolete cruisers, all from
20 TO 80 years old took part in the at.
tack.
"They were the Brilliant Sirius, Ip-
higenia, Intrepid, Thesis and Vindic-
tive.
Vindietive in Lead.
THE first FIVE of these were filled
with concrete and were to be sunk in
the channel and entranced to the two
ports, if this could possibly be man
aged.
"The Vindictive, working with two
ferry boats, carried to storming and
{ demolition parties to storm the head
of the mole, which runs out from Zee
brugge The Vindictive was specially
fitted for landing storming paroles and
was armed specially for the purpose
with fame throwers, stoke mortars
and that sort of thing.
"The men employed on the block
ships and in the storming and demoii-
ton parties on the Vindictive were
blue Jackets and marines picked from
n large number of volunteeres from
the grand fleet and navy and marine
depots. There was great competition
for the undertaking and We could only
use very small proportion, Of those
who volunteered.
Operations intricate.
: There were light covering forces
belonging to the Dover command and
Harwich forces under Admiral Tyr.
whit. covering the operation in the
north. A force of monitors, together
with large number of small motor
boats took part in the operation which
was particularly intricate and had to
be worked to a time table and in
yolved delicate navigation on hos
tile coast without lights.
HUGE BUSINESS INCREASE.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
BUT PLEDGE TO RETURN EXTRA
MUST BE SIGNED
PRESENT SCHEDULE TO STANE
Government Says 1t is Better to be
Saving Now Than to 90 Without
Later on. Plenty for All
If Conserved.
For consumers in the cities,

Burlington, Iowa, April 24.--Iowa
housewives will be able to get all the
sugar they actually need Tor canning
and preserving purposes. They will be
asked to sign a certificate as to the
amount they require and will solemly
pledge themselves to return whatever
part of the supply they do not use for
canning and preserving. Food admin
| istrator Deems has been authorized by
the Federal Food Administration at
Washington to issue blank certificates
to retail grocers who will require the
| signatures of purchasers.
Present Schedule to Stand
The administration will maintain
the present limit on sugar purchases
for general purposes, five pounds for
consumers in the cities, and ten
pounds for consumers in the country.
But the. certificates will enable those
desiring additional sugar for canning
and preserving to secure ii upon
agreement that they win return such
parts of purchases so made as are not
used for the purposes for which they
bought it.
Better a Little Than None.
Washington has advised Admins
traitor Deems that I'VE must have
strict economy and if necessary even
slight shortages now rather than have
any shortage whatsoever when the
capnino season Is al hand" Retail
dealers therefore are instructed to
maintain the prescribed limits of
sales OF sugar to the five and ten
pound limits except wnen the certifi-
Gates are signed for the use of sugar
for canning exclusively.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-08-30

money; money for you, sweetheart. 1t
will buy you food and medicine, it will
make you strong again. Rosa, dear, !
have looked for you SO long, so long"
His voice broke wretchedly and he
bowed his head. I'll was afraid"
II waited as long as had strength
to wait" she told him. ut IS too bad
you came so late"
Once again she lapsed into the leth-
argy of utter weakness, whereupon he
fell to stroking her hands, calling upon
her to come back to him. He was be-
side himself now; terrible feeling Of
impotence and despair overcame him.
Hearing someone speak, he raised
his eyes and discovered at his side that
figure Of want which he had seen Dig
ging ON the slope below. It was Evan
gelina. The negress was little more
than skin and bones, her eyes were
bleared and yellow and sunken, her
face had grown apelike, but he rec
ogniZed her and she him.
You are the American" she de-
clared. "You are Rosa's man."
Eyes. But what is wrong with her?
Look She is ILL"
"She is often like that. 1t is the
hunger. We have nothing to eat, Sc
nor. /, too, am ill-dying; and Assem-
sio-- Oh, you don't know how they
have made us suffer-
1--WE must get Rosa home. Where
do you liver"
Evangelina turned her deaths head
toward the city, Down yonder. But
what's the use? There is no food in
our house and Rosa is afraid of those
wagons. You knoW-the ones with the
corpses. She babe me bring her here
TO die"
The girl was not wholly unconscious it
seemed, for she stirred and murmured
family: 'Those wagons! Don't let
them put me in there with the other
dead. They pile the bodies high" A
weak shudder convulsed her.
O'Reilly bent lower, and in a strong,
determined voice cried: you are not
going to die. have money for food.
Rouse yourself, Rosa, rouse yourself"
She prayed for you every night"
the negress volunteered. "Such faith
Such trustl She never doubted that
you would come and find her. Some
tiu1es she cried, but that was because
Of her brother. Esteban, you know, is
dead. Yes, dead, like all the rest"
"Esteban is not Dead" O'Reilly as
serted. Gle is alive. Rosa, do you
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nevertheless it cried aloud of Rosa,
and the unhappy lover. could barely
control the emotions it awakened. IT
was indeed a morbid impulse which
had brought him thither, but now that
he was here he could not leave. I'm
consciously his feet turned toward the
ancient quarry which had formed the
sunken garden-his and Rosas tryst-
ing place.
O'Reilly desired above all things to
be alone at this moment, and so he was
annoyed to discover that another per-
son was before nina woman, evident
~ some miserable pacifico like himself.
She, too, appeared to be looking for
roots, and he almost stumbled over her
as he brushed through the guava
bushes fringing the depression.
His sudden appearance alarmed the
creature and she struggled, panic
stricken, out of his path. Her rags
could not conceal the fact that she was
deformed, that her back was crooked,
so he muttered a reassuring word to
her.
tt-there was the stone bench where
he had said good-by to Rosa; yonder
vas the we'll
"Senor!' Johnnie heard himself adj
dressed by the hunchbacked woman.
Her voice was thin, tremulous, eager.
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ed at the regular term of said court
appointed to be held at the court
house in said county, m the city of
Ladysmith on the 9TH day of January,
1919, at the opening Of court on that
day, or as soon thereafter as the mat
ter can be heard;
And it is Further Ordered That no
tice hereof be given to all persons in
terested, by publication hereof for
three consecutive weeks in the Lady
smith News-Budget, newspaper pub
lished in said county, the first publica-
ton to be made within fifteen days
from the date hereof.
Dated August 81, 1918.
BY the Court,
d. w. MALONEY, Judge
T. NJ. Thomas, Attorney.
(First Publication Aug. 80, 1913 20-22)
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was actual need Of him, proved per-
feet jewel; his optimism never failed,
his faith never faltered, and O'Reilly
began to feel dumb gratitude at hav-
ing the youngster by his side.
Jacket, too, became thin and gray
about the lips. But he complained not
at all and he laughed great deal. To
him the morrow was always another
day Of brilliant promise toward which
he looked with never-failing eagerness !;
and not for q single moment did he
question the ultimate success of their
endeavor. Such an example did much
for the older man. Together they
practiced the strictest, harshest econ
omy, living on few cents day, while
they methodically searched the city
from limit to limit.
At first O'Reilly concerned himself
more than little with the problem Of
escape, but as time wore on he
thought less and less about that. Nor
did he have occasion to waste further
concern regarding his disguise. That
it was perfect he proved when several
of his former acquaintance passed
him by and when, upon one occasion,
he came face to face with old Don Ma
rio. de Castano. Don Mario had
changed; he was older, his flesh had
softened, and it hung loosely upon his
form. He appeared worried, harassed.
and O'Reilly recalled rumors that the
war had ruined him. The mans air
Of detection seemed to bear out the
story.
They had been enemies, nevertheless
O'Reilly felt sudden impulse to make
himself known to the Spaniard and to
appeal directly for news of Rosa's fate.
But Don Mario, he remembered in time.
had reputation for vindictiveness, SO
he smothered the desire. One other
encounter O'Reilly had reason to re-
member.
1t so CHANGED that one day he and
Jacket found themselves in the miser-
able rabble which assembled at the
railroad station to implore aims from
the incoming passengers of the Habana
train. Few people We're travelling these
days, and they were, for the most part,
Spanish officers to whom the sight Of
starving country people was no nov
city. Now and then, however, there did
arrive visitors from whom the spec
tacle of SO much wretchedness wrung
contribution, hence there was al
ways an expectant throng at the depot.
On this occasion O'Reilly was sur
prised to hear the piteous whines for
charity in the name of God turn sud-
denly into subdued but vicious NUT
ter of rage. Kisses were intermingled
with yituperations, then the crowd fell
strangely silent, parting to allow the
passage of great, thick-set man in the
uniform Of a colonel of volunteers. The
fellow was unusually swarthy and he
wore black scowl upon his face, while
long puckering scar the full length of
one cheek lifted his mouth into q
crooked sheer and left exposed a
glimpse of wolfish teeth.
! O'Reilly was at loss to fathom this
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az Can't Stand That" He Confessed.

al Can't Stand That" He Confessed.
frugality, they began their search.
Later they stretched themselves out to
sleep on the stones beneath the pOrtales
OF the railroad station.
They spent horrid, narrowing night,
for now the general distress was
brought home to them more poignant
ly than ever. At dawn they learned
that these people were actually dying
of neglect. The faint light betrayed
the presence of new corpseS lying
upon the station flagstones. From
those still living, groans, signs, sick
mutterings rose until O'Reilly finally
dragged his youthful companion out Of
the place.
81 can't stand that" he confessed
Il can't sleep when people are starving
to death alongside of me. This money
burns my pocket. II"
Jacket read his purpose and laid a
OBTAINING hand upon his arm.
'It will save our lives, too" he said
simply.
"Bah! We are men. There are
women and children yonder-"
But Jackets sensibilities were cal
loused, it seemed. "Of what use would
your few pesetas be among so many?"
he inquired. "God has willed this, and
he knows what he is doing. Besides,
your pretty one is probably as hun
CRY as these people. No doubt we shall
find that she, too, is starving"
OReilly slowly withdrew his hand
from his pocket. Eyes! It's Rosa's
money. But-come; / can't endure
this"
He led the way back to the Plaza of
Liberty and there on an iron bench
they waited for the full day. They
were very tired, but further sleep was
impossible, for the death wagons
rumbled by on their way to collect the
bodies of those who had died during
the night.
Neither the man nor the boy ever
wholly lost the nightmare memory Of
the next few days, for their search
took them into every part of the recon
centrado districts. What they beheld
aged them. Day after day, from dawn
till dark, they wandered, peering into
huts, staring into faces, asking ques-
lions until they were faint from fatigue
and sick from disappointment.
AS time passed and they failed to
find Rosa Varona q terrible apprehen-
sion began to weigh O'Reilly down; his
sagged, his limbs began to drag. II
was all that Jacket could do to keep
him going. The boy, now that there