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New-York tribune., 1918-09-27
Frantic Russians
Fight to Escape
From Red Terror

AN ATLANTIC PORT. Sept. 26.-The
reign of terror in Russia was described
to-day By Dr. Angus Campbell, an
American physician, on his arrival here
on Norwegian American liner. Dr..
Campbell left Moscow only three weeks
ago. after journey fraught with great
danger. from Pctrograd.
Dr. Campbell said that the BoIshcvik
regime had made the people so fear
full that 5000 stormcd the train he
was on. capable of carrying only few
hundred. broke all the windows, and
held up the cars for hours in their
frantic efforts to escape from the Rus
sian capital.
The Bolsheviks are qdvcnturers," :"
said DR.. Campbell. "Lenine. whom 7
met, is q fanatic, and there is no oues-
ton tina. they are all pro-German.
There IS no doubt the Bolshcviki arc
at the end Of their rope
"You may be able IL Judge Of the
horrible conditions when I tell YOU
that they are using 10000 Red Guard
and 1000 Cinnamon to guard criminals
alone. Prices are impossible. and the
method of doling out food is truly
Bolshevih. Bread is 19 rublcs a pound.
butter 81 rubIs. sugar 80 rubles and
potatoes 1 rubes. was informed that
the bourgeois received as little as
three herring day as their sole sub
sistc1cS.'
New-York tribune., 1918-09-27
Fershings Forces Overwhelm Huns as Great
Offensive Is Started in Heavy Fog, With
General Petain in Command
of Allied Troops
Desperate Resistance Offered
AS Attackers Press Onward
Bulgars Are Swept Back Ten Miles More in
Balkans and Veles and lshtib Bases Are
Seized-Allenby Increases Gains
and Prisoners in Palestine
September q, ESQ q. M.

September q. q. n
The Americans and the French dawn Yesterday launched
wha IS undoubtedly the greatest Allied effort the war on
forty-mile front between Rheims and Verdun
The Americans stormed forward an average denth Of
miles the right of the attack east of the Arponne For
New-York tribune., 1918-09-27
in this region.

IN this region '
Inc BRITISH have continued to drive the Turks back in
Paesthe oeras Semakh and Es Samra near the Sea Of
Galee have been occupied. Amman on the Hed;az ro;,
has been wresed from the enemy who is being moro t
gnped by enby pncer between the Jordan and the syrian
desert The toll of prisoners has reached 45 600
New-York tribune., 1918-09-27
French Take Positions Germans
Had Been Fortifying -Four Years
WITH THE FRENCH ,

Win lHh FRENCH ARMIES on THE CHANPACNr rpo~r
N 90 p "-'by lac Associated Press
army operating IN conjunction with Americans in new ba
New-York tribune., 1918-09-27
w E A T H E f

crate to fresh northwest winds,
becoming variable Saturday.
Full Report on Page )
New-York tribune., 1918-09-27
for s-MANl>E ELIioTT'> THEATRE

There IL nothing so absorbing a. the
love OF 4 married woman-ana few mar
RED men know anything about Il, --Advt.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-27

fContinued on pogc sjn)
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
BETTER THAN CALOMEL
Thousands Have Discovered DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets are
a Harmless Substitute.

DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets-the substi.
tute for calomel - are a mild but sure
laxative, and their effect on the liver is
almost instantaneous. They are the result
of DR.. Edwards determination not to treat
liver and bowel complaints with calomel.
His efforts to Danish it brought out these
little olive-colored tablets.
These pleasant little tablets do the good
that calomel does, but have no bad after
effects. They don't injure the teeth like
strong liquids or calomel. They take hold
of the trouble and quickly correct it. Why
cure the liver at the expense of the teeth?
Calomel sometimes plays havoc with the
gums. So do strong liquids. 1t is best not
to take calomel, but to let DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets take its place.
Most headaches, dizziness" and that
lazy feeling come from constipation and
a disordered liver. @Take DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets when you feel 'loggy' and
heavy" Note how they clear clouded
brain and how they ''perk Up" the spirits
10c and 25c box. All druggists.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
PERILoUS SERVICE.
Operating French Baby Tank" Is Very
Trying Business.

Reference has been made to the new
"baby tank" that participated in the
Picardy battle, and that are said to be
quicker than man in running and turn
ing. Some description of these tanks
is contained in a private letter just re-
ceived from somewhere in France" The
writer says:
"The new French tanks are tiny little
things, each Just big enough for two men
To crawl into. They arrived here on fiat
cars, and it is the funniest thing to see
them get off. They look like clumsy
baby elephants. They hesitate and wig
gle neryously, and finally with great
dignity they walk off the car, and waddle
off to their stamping grounds, and the
next comes along until they are all lined
mp. This is the only branch of the service
more dangerous than aviation, 1.-THE baby
tanks, not the big onesl. In fact, II is
so dangerous that each man, has to be
volunteer and unmarried, the conse-
quenee being that as most Frenchmer
marry very young. the tank crews are
still younger. They wear short black
leather coats, tight blue trousers. black
leggins, chasseur officers berets, wide
brown belt worn shortwaisted, with q
ltNhiNtI ana a lOllp lHlil NdSRcI, ana JUST
as artillerymen are usually big and blond
these are very small. with black curly
hair and bright compilations.
"one of them told me that when they
were first sent in they were not armed
at all, so the gentle boches used I,
climb up on top of the tanks and sticl
their bayonets through the slit that tn,
gunner looks out Of. and as the gunne
has no more room to dodge than tor
tOise in his shell he was rather helpless
SO now they are armed with daggers
and they have made narrow Sits al
over the tanks so when brother boch
jumps ON the roof the occupant pushe
his knife through slit and brothc
boche slides off, | would rather do any
thing than go in one of those things
for YOU have to crawl on your hands an
knees, and the driver must crouch iron
then on. The gunner can stand provid
ed he keeps in the same spot 1t is al
pitch dark and the mechanism must b
worked by feet. You want to screar
the moment they shut the door on you.
--Argonaut.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
THE BRATTEBoRo DAILY REFoRMER: FRIDAY OCTOBER IL 1918

report of Major John Van Sehaick, dep
uty commissioner in Belgium of the
American Red Cross, of which the
Friends ambulance is a unit, who says:
"a worker whom we had placed with
the unit was sleeping in the room with
one of those who was killed He was not
injured. He described his experience as
follows:
Il was awake when the bomb fell. /
don't remember much noise, only the
motion. The whole room seemed to lurch
back toward where the bomb fell, and
then went down. We: fell fast and
seemed to be falling through all eternity,
My life~was saved by my bed shooting
acrdssl the rooln The cipola of the ad-
joining building fell where my bed stood
sThe adiutant. of the unit was buried
under the debris for three hours. A large
oak chest held beam off his neck. They
had to tunnel through the debris to get
him out. He was conscious part of the
thine, and directed the .rescuers in theii
work. He was bruised but not seriously
hurt y, }5e s -3ss
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
-5 BUY LIBERTY BONDS @
EXCHANGED ITALIAN PRISONERS.
Their Return Is One of the Pitiful Sights
/ of the War
tBy Clarence Burlington Kelland.

tBy Clarence Burlington Kelland.)
PARIS, Sept %, (by main-Ex-
changed prisoners of war come back to
Italy by way of Lake Como, and of all
the sights of this war, that of an arrival
Of exchanged Italian prisoners is the
most pitiful.
In Italy Austrian prisoners are well
cared for. well treated well fed They
90 home well and strong. In return for
them Austria sends back human wrecks.
horrible to see 1t sends back men mu-
tilated, men wasted by starvation and
disease, men who have suffered the most
horrible cruelties. As each arriving
train comes in half the returned prison
ers have to be carried off on litters. Not
because they are wounded. nor i'll. but
because they have been starved
Each train is met by the American
y. M. c. A. with cigarettes and such
things as the soldiers want Y. NJ. C.. A.
secretaries pass among the poor fellows
giving them what comfort they can and
what assistance is possible
The sight of the men is like the sight
of famine. Men are literally reduced
to skin and bones; they are walking hor-
rors
| From far and near friends and rela
tives of the prisoners come to meet them
| hoping that their loved ones will be
in the consignment. One poor old moth
er, living in a distant province of Italy
walked to Como no less than four times
vainly waiting for her only remaining
son, At last the government took notice
of her, and secured her transportation
on the railroad
AT last her son came All the return
ing prisoners were off the train and i
looked as if her sixth visit were in vain
but presently litter was carried off tn,
last car She had not been prepared
for this, for her son was still pictured
in her mind as the strong hearty DO,
who had gone away from her.
Supported by a Y. NJ. c. A. man sh
drew near hesitatingly, but turned AVA
her face She could not bear to look
Neither she nor her son had been forti
fed against such meeting. But tn
boy rose to the emergency. He stretche
out his emaciated hand and graspe
hers and drew it against his cheek
, Mother" he said in Italian, Il haven
, but one eye left and only one leg-bu
I'm your son yet. | love you as niue
as if were whole. Aren't you glad t
see me-"
: She burst into tears-tears of grie
and of joy and threw herself up on hi
body, mumbling his name, cuddling him
And so they come. Skeletons, horrors
r monsters, "mutiles" sent back by An.
. trias in exchange for we'll fed, health,
happy Austrians. The contrast is or
E that speaks an eloquence not to be fol
3 gotten, b, ~ rnx Fsfy3 8t Wff
=. =.ssE i 9 6 3 n 20
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
TOWN
SOLD TO SYNDICATE
Shaftesbury Bought at Auction for
1915, 0Oo-High Taxes tss
5tsN Caused Sale.

LONDON, Oct ll.-Shaftesbury, a lit
tie old English country town, buried in
the heart of Dorset, with historical asso
Citations, cottage and manor house, shop
and farm, postoffice, bank and hotel, has
been put up for public auction and
knocked down to commercial syndi
cate for $4,000.
Chairman of the syndicate is James
White. popular host of the weekly boxing
entertainment for American soldiers at
the London National Sporting club, who,
with Solly Joel, famous owner of race
horses and Mr.. Ormerod, Manchester
financier, made the purchase, their agent
for this purpose being ex-Mayor Ball of
Nottingham and father of the late Capt.
Ball, the British airman.
The property consists of the town--of
some $500 inhabitants-w'lich is beauti-
fully situated on chalk spar which
rises out of the rich vale of Blackmore
of Lorna Doone" fame 1t is the center
of an important agricultural district, an
Old World place of narrow and irregular
streets. With the site of its ancient
castle, the graves of King Canute and of
Edward the Martyr, its associations with
King Alfred, dating far back to Saxons
and Danes, few towns even in old Eng
land, possess such record of history.
Also it is the market place of Lord Stall
| bridges estate and thus came under the
auctioneer's hammer.
The reason for the sale, Lord Stall
! bridge said, is the increased general tax
alton. Il have to sell in order to live,
he added. And so a large firm of Lon
don auctioneers has announced that the
greater part of the town of Shaftesbury
has been sold privately to James White
In all l22 lots were offered and only
four lots were unsold. The first DAYS
sale realized 81 100000. However, his
Lordship stipulated that the town wa,
first to be offered to the mayor and cor.
poration of Shaftesbury for week al
a reasonable price, to which proposition
Mr.. White readily agreed.
1--WE bought Shaftesbury itself fol
1878, 600" says the latter. And we are
in accordance with Lord Stalbridge's con
ditions, giving the mayor and corpora
tion a week in which to purchase tn,
town at favorable price.
! IF they do not take advantage of tn,
opportunity the individual tenants will
be able to purchase their own houses o
cottages at any time within a montl
on easy terms"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
-M sUY LIBER-f BONDS 81
HAVE FILED TICKET.
Vacancies on Prohibition Slate Have Been
Made Up.

MONTPELIER, Oct 1.-THE state
committee of the Prohibition party to-
night filed the vacancies of the state
ticket as result of Benjamin Gates
Walter f. Scott, Harry a. Black and
Mason S. Stone, having elected under
section of fs5 of the General Laws tc
appear only on the Republican ticket
The ticket will now read: Governor
DIR. W. B. Mayo of Northfield; lieuten.
ant governor. John NJ Perham of St
Johnsbury; treasurer. Scott N. Farmm
of Lyndonville; secretary of state
Chauncey f. Beaman of st. Adams; au-
ditor, Stedman c. Wheeler of Water
bury; congressman for the second dis.
trict, Porter Fl. Dale of Island Pond Nc
names were filed for the offices of at
torney general or congressman for tn,
first district.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ARE INTERESTING FIGURES.
Military Policemen Regulate Traffic Be-
hind Battle Lines.

WITH THE AMERICANS ON BRIT
ISH FRONT IN FRANCE, Sept. % (Cor-
respondence of the, Associated Press =
One of the, interesting characters seen
on the roads behind the line is the mill
tary policeman. He is stationed at every
crossroads, regulating traffic with all
the gestures of professional traffic po-
liceman in New York or Chicago. but in
a khaki uniform and with red brassard
on his arm as the badge of his authority.
Everything from gigantic motor
truck to a sputtering motorcycle comes
within his jurisdiction. The haughtiest
staff car, with its proud staff flags and
its red-capped passengers, is subject to
the law as laid down by that firm arm
in khaki
1t is motley pageant that he mar
shals. There are big closed cars contain
ing generals; there are great open cars
filled with young staff officers of lesser
rank, but alert, energetic, and keen
There are evenly moving ambuances
with the doctor sitting beside the driver
There are huge lorries, long columns OF
them
All day long the rush of traffic or
these great main roads continue To.
wards night the roads are sometimes
quieter. but there is still activity AL
through the night, the lorries plod OF
their way backward and forward, tn,
ears dash by, the dispatch riders come
and go. There is no rest. Layer aftel
layer of white dust settles on the house,
and the fences. Day after day the ma
chinery behind the war goes whirring on
growing constantly more complex anC
more powerful.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
GRuY LIRERTY BONDS 49,
HOMES FOR DUBLIN WORKERS.
Their Construction Recommended il
Government Report.

DUBLIN, Sept 2S.-Construction by
the government of model homes for the
families of $1,000. Dublin workingmen is
recommended in report just published
here by Chief Engineering Inspector
Cowan of the local government board
appointed by the government to solve
the serious housing problem.
The proposal involves an expenditure
of f9,000,000 pounds, and calls for the
erection of 10000 new buildings, and the
reconstruction Of nearly 1000 old tene
ments.
The problem of housing the working
classes long has been a serious one here
and there has been much discomfort be
cause of poor living conditions.
Some twenty thousand families, OF
nearly one third of the city's population
live in single rooms.
Mr.. Cowan's report recommends thu
erection by the government of l6,00C
elf-contained homes in the suburbs nea
car lines.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
BAD COLD? HEADACHY
AND NOSE STUFFED
'tPape's Cold Compound ends colds
&, m and grippe in. a few a
'a1-e-sa sstH. y hours s.H -.

Take Pape Is Cold Compound" every
two hours until you have taken three
doses, then all grippe misery goes and
your cold will be broken. IT promptly
opens your clogged-up nostrils and the
air passages of the head: stops nasty
discharge or nose running; relieves the
headache, dullncss, feverishness, sore
throat, sneezing, soreness and stiffness.
Don't stay stuffedup! Quit blowing
and snuffiing. Ease your throbbing
|head-nothing else in the world gives
such prompt relief as "Pape's Cold
Compound, which costs only a few
cents at any drug store. 1t acts with
out assistance, tastes nice, and causes
no inconvenience Accept no substi-
tute.-Ady.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11

A New Zealander cousin over here with
the forces vouches for the truth of the
following story:
Dick" Seldom was of Lancashire orr
gin and when he died the Lancastrian
society in New Zealand sent wreat!
with the following inscriptions: Il have
gone Whoam." The journalist who re.
ported the funeral evidently did not
come from Lancashire. and consequently
was somewhat puzzled by the wording
and, after thinking hard concluded that
some one had Numbered. His report
read:
"The Laneastrian society sent beau
tiful wreath bearing the inscription; .
have gone. Who am I?'"-Tit Bits.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
Wool to be Scarce For Years.

Even with peace it is doubtful if our
c,othes will return to normal, in price
or otherwise, until long after the war;"
writes Douglas Jaspersen in Every body's
for October, The necessity of rehabili-
tating the millions of men in khaki is
already problem. This vast army to
be reclothed will be heavy drain upon
the worlds already exhausted woel and
shoddy markets. Then. too. the need of
depleted Germany for wool and shoddy
should further tend To increase the short
age all over the world
Ever since the beginning of the war
shoddy has been disappearing from our
midst at an alarming rate. while the
production Of wool has been entirely in
adequate to the worlds needs
IN normal times the life of pound
Of wool in its various incarnations ex-
tends over period of years.
'3}ut war. the most wasteful of all
business, has changed the old order OF
things. Both the virgin wool and the
shoddy that went to make up that khaki
coat for some soldier are buried, with its
wearer, somewhere over there" and will
never return to do duty for us again
And so, in great many eases, the life
| of pound of wool has been suddenly
reduced from somewhere around sin
years to as many months. Wool alone
can never clothe the world. 1t has beer
shoddy that has kept the worlds cloth
ing bill down for many a year, and unit
the shoddy. supply is normal again W.
can all expect to have more or les:
trouble with our clothes"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
40 any ITsER sONps lS.,-
SURVEY OF INDUSTRIES.
Simonds to See What Reduction Can Be
Made in Nonessentials.

MONTPELIER, Oct. ll.-R. w. 81
monds, federal director of the United
States employment service, has received
ton an order to make survey of the
state relative to the nonessential in
dustries, the purpose being to see what
reductions can be made in different kinds
of business and get the biggest results
in man-power. From this time on, a
monthly survey will be made and each
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
- BUY LIBtRTY BONDS @s
UNIT ALMOST WIPED OUT.
Headquarters of Friends Ambulance Hit
by Shells

HAVRE, Oct. Correspondence of the
Associated ressl.-The headquarters of
the Friends Ambulance unit. an organi-
zation of $50 workers from all sections
of America sent to the western front by
the American Society of Friends, has
been almost completely wiped out by
bombs dropped from German airplanes.
Two Of the staff We're killed and fouT
injured. The others were safe.
The story of the disaster is told in a
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11

II" anyhow, sooner OF later; might
as well use IL sooner Then you are
absolutely sure that the corn will
loosen from your toe so that you
can peel the whole thing or pain
lessly with your fingers, in one COM
plete piece-just like peeling a ba-
mana. 1t takes n second or two to
apply "Gets-It." There's no fussing
or puttering. Corn-pains will van
ish-thatH keep you sweet while
the "Gcts-I" docs tho rest. Nothing
new for corns has been discovered
since "Gets-It" was born. Follow
the judgment of the millions; use
"Gets-It" and be sure to be corn
and pain free! You'll say rs magic.
"Gets-It," the guaranteed, money
back corn-remover, the only sure
way, costs but trifie ut any drug store.
Mfd BIZ n. Lawrence IL Co. Chicago. III.
Sold in Brattleboro and recommend
cd az the world s best corn remedy by
Brattleboro Drug Co, G. f. Thomas.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11

concern listed will be ordered to have
its report to Mr. Simonds' office not lat
er than the end of the first week in the
month. The first report will be due not
later than November 8, while the work
survey at present is confined to those
firms listed, it will be widened to other
efforts.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
sSBUY User BoNDs H.

The country will be able to recover
from war, but a Stacker will never. be
able to recover from the. effects of his
stacking.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
Only One Corn
PeeIer, ''Gefs-lP'
Stop Corn Pains; See Corn Peel OFF.

1t il just when corn hurts that
you want to feel surest about
getting rid OF It, Why take chances
OF Keeping the corn and having the
pain grow worse? You'll use Gets
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
"Gone Whoam. /"

IL BUY liberty BONDS =
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11

-4ksBJY LTBERTY BoN0sM
The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1918-02-08
Highland.

-Chas. Harper spent Sunday in
Forbes.
II. S. Hanna went to Maysyille,
Tuesday, on business.
Miss Alice Hanna spent Sunday
with Miss Olenda Weiman.
Jesse Cordrey was In st. Joseph
Q couple Of days, last week.
Roy Grimes and family and Earl
Benton and wife motored TO St 10.
seph, Tuesday.
Mrs. John Meek and Mrs. Boone
Fancher. Jr., spent Sunday with Mrs
Chss. Weimsn.
Miss Mary Fitzmaurice spent the
weekend with her cousins, Earl Ben.
ton and family.
Roy Grimes and family and broth.
er, Asher, spent Sunday with Earl
Benton and family.
Mrs: James Cordrey, who wss
very sick for several days, the past
week, 10 much better.
Clifford Rounds, Misses Elsie And
Bertha Kunkel and Hugh Brohan Ind
family spent Sunday with Ed Sipel
Lyman Dreibblsbis left last Sun.
DAY for Ames, Iowa, where he viii
take IN the four days lecture courss
In horticulture.
Miss Fseda OFT went to Oregon,
The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1918-02-08
From Charles Anselment.

Dear Sentinel:-Well, we are still
here and likely to be until you are
through with your bleaky weather.
something unknown to Los Angeles.
We are all well and greatly enjoying
ourselves. We have seen the greater
part Of the attractions Of the city,
among which was HOLLYWOOD, In my
mind the prettiest and most attrac-
tive part Of the city, and here we
visited the grounds Of the beautiful
Burnheim home, which IL located
about $50 feet above the city level.
II Is noted for It's beautiful driveways.
its trees, shrubs and flowers. The
home IL on the east, and the grounds
slope gracefully to each Of the points
Of the compass. The architecture Ia
Of Japanese. This is only one Of the
many palatial homes we have been
privileged to see. The change from
your climate TO that Of Los Angeles
ID 20 wonderful that one feels like
being suddenly transferred from icy
conditions TO the lands Of flowers and
fruits-to the Garden Of Allah; to en-
Joy the fresh vegetables and all those
things that tempt the appetite-things
you are longing for arc - plentiful
q weeds In IN unattended corn field
We greatly enjoyed . trip 70 Long
Beach . few days ago. and D. p. Kyle