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Evening star., 1918-08-18
TUNNEL WARFARE
TRAINING FEATURE
Powerful Explosives Used in
Engineers Instruction at
Camp Humphreys.
ARMY GAS SCHOOL MODEL
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CAMP HUMPHREYS. Va. August
17.-Tunnel warfare. with such pow
erful explosives as ammonal, gun
cotton. T. n. T. and dynamites. will
be a prominent feature of the train
ing which engineer troops from
Washington will take up here next
week under Capt. II. d. Trounce of
the school of military mining.
a vast underground city of tunnels.
listening posts. dugouts and mine
tions of the camp. has been COM
pleted. and within a few days the roar
of the mines, the detonation of which
will literally raise" up whole hill
sides, will shake the country for
miles around and rattle the barracks
windows as Humphreys speeds up
the training of its engineers for over
seas service.
Ammonal is the new explosive first
used by the British. 1t was this ex-
plosive which wreaked such terrible
havoc with the Germans in the bat
tie of Messines ridge. by almost en-
tirely eliminating the ridge, as well
retire toward positions they have
have had three years to fortify and
build concrete trench and dugout sys-
TENS, underground warfare, 1t is be-
lieved. will have to be resorted to
more intensively than ever before.
For this reason. terrible hand-to-
hand conflicts will be waged under
ground to give the men here training
in blasting the enemy out of their
most strongly fortified trench sys-
Ii
which will be blown under the direc-
tion of the student officers of the
camp have been stored.
Gas Instruction Elaborate.
The Army Gas School was built to
serve as a model for similar institu-
tions at the various cantonments
throughout the country. The build
ings, grounds and elaborate system
of trenches comprise ten acres on
the main plateau level of the camp
east of headquarters. The COM
mandant of the school is Lieut.. N. NJ.
McNei1l of Denver, Col, who is as
sisted in the training of the engi-
neer troops here by Maj. E. Saville-
Peck. formerly commandant of the
Eastern British Anti-Gas School in
England. About thirty gas officers to
be assigned to duty with the various
divisions at Army cantonments will
begin a course of instruction at the
school this week under the direction
of Capt. r. A. Baker of Camp Pike.
formerly professor of chemistry at the
University of Minnesota. The first of
the instructors to report at camp
for this course is Lieut.. H. X. Bear
of Philadelphia, who will be gas Of
ficer at Camp Upton.
Gas defense work was originally in
stituted~ on elementary lines and on
a small scale, but with the extraor-
dinary development in this form of
warfare through the use of gas
shelIs-it is estimated that fully 65
per cent of all the shells fired are
filled with poisonous gases-Army
experts are constantly at work i'm
proving methods both of offense and
defense.
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Worst Hun Defeat of War.

In sum. we have seen one of the
great victories of the western front,
even If there be no considerable fur
ther retreat of the Germans. They
have suffered their worst defeat of
the war. not defeat like the first or
the second Marne (both of these were
defeats in battles of arrest, by which
their own purpose was balked and
they were compelled to readjust their
lines). but a defeat and a paralyzing
defeat, following an allied offensive.
Their whole, campaign is now in the
discard; what remains tc. be estab-
lished Is the extent of their retreat.
Nor is 1t likely that even a temporary
halt at the Somme or even at the Hin
denburg line will mark the end, for
the campaign of their withdrawal.
Rather 1t is within reason now to hope
that they may be pushed to the French
frontier before snow flies. For Foch
is only beginning, and his American
reserves are accumulating. in great
numbers each week.
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'The only reason we didn't fly was
no wings"
This is the way W. ]. Tubbs. former
ly Y. VI. c. A. secretary at Waycross.
Ca. whose mother lives in Washing
ton. at 1901 Wyoming avenue. writes
of life lodging shells on the western
front to his friend, G. X. Roper. jr.
railroad secretary of the Y. NJ C. A.
here. Mr.. Tubbs, who has been in
France for the Y. NJ. C. A for some
months. writes that Maj. Theodore
Roosevelt. jr., is a, "crackerjack Army
officer
An excerpt from his letter follows:
MANY thanks for the Christmas
and New Year card of 1917 received
= Christmas box one of the men got
" IN on he front in March, labeled
DO not open until Christmas da=
H. ts-s.sa 20 set even a card, but
| Miss3 - ..llAe you would write me
a lettuc anu give me all the news.
Il nave been with the men OF the
LIST Division ever since l have been
in France, and just now am with the
men of the 18th Infantry Division.
under Mai. Theodore Roosevelt. He
Is d Hne renew anu d CEdChtTIrCN
Army officer. Talked with him a day
or so ago. when ~e turned over some
athletic goods for his men, He is
pleasant and approachable.
Describes His Experiences.
Have had some great experiences
over here and soon stand to have
even greater ones. If 1 do not get
bumped off l will have had a full
rounded soldiers experience when l
get home.
Have not been stationed at, one
place by any means, but except for
my first two months busy experience
have been almost constantly on the
go. Have had my turn at the front.
when the shells were bursting around
me constantly and have been over
roads at times when any moment
might be the last one for Bill Tubbs.
one night while riding in Ford to
another Y. NJ. c. A. located in a de-
serted wine cellar, one fell in the
road just behind us and the only
reason we did not fly was because
the durn little Ford amt got no
wings.
1T all becomes commonplace anG
tame, though, and you go serenely o.
your way and with your work, ex-
pecting one with the compliments of
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S|MoNDS' WAR REVIEW
Continued from Third Page,

man road, stepped out OF their lines
and began an offensive. This oper-
alton was made by Rawlinson, COM
manding the 4th British Army. as he
had commanded the same army in the
first battle of the Somme. To the
south French army under Gen.
:.Debeny attacked astride the Avre.
from the British flank to the vicinity
Of Mo1tdidier.
There was no preliminary lombard
ment, only a. creeping barrage, which
preceded the advancing British, Ca
nadians and Australians on their rush
for the German lines. complete sur
prise was the result. and in the next
few hours the German lines were
broken on front of a dozen miles
and huge number of British tanks
were pouring through the gap.
guns and points of support, while cav
airy made it's first GENERAL operation
on the British front of the whole
period since the trench war began.
Again 1t was demonstrated that the
element of surprise. restored to the
method. was the prime requisite of
success. Once more. as at Cambria,
surprise gave the. British an imme-
diate gain. but, unlike Cambria. the
new operation was one which had
been carefully prepared with clear
view to utilizing any gains. As a re-
suit the British advance. was for three
days unchecked. In that time more
than a dozen miles were C -vered, and
by Saturday. August 10. British and
French cavalry were ranging the ter
ritory behind the old front of the
first days of the Somme in 1916, and
the British troops had reached, and
even at points slightly passed, the
lines On which the Germans had stood
ON July l of that earlier year.
Chaulnes was at least temporarily oc-
cupied by the cavalry patrols.
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CAPABLE of Speed.

From Sharks Annual
Il want you to help me to spend
my fortune
Am 1 not doing so?''
NO. hmean for ever and ever"
'Oh, it won't take me as long a.
that"
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CITY ITEMS.

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or cooking purposes; very nutritious.
easily digested: an olive oil substitute.
Homeopathic Pharmacy. 1907 II st. NV.
Ask for our free book on Homeopathy.
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What Allies Accomplished.

At this moment the allies had def
nitely abolished the menace to Paris
constituted by the Montdidier salient;
the Disc avenue, like the Marine route,
was not only barred, but doubly bar
red. They had cleared the Germans
away from Amiens. insuripg the union
between the British and French
armies. reopening all the vital rail-
road lines which meet at this city
and. above all. the main Paris
Amiens-Calais line, which had been
cut by indirect fire ever since the
March offensive This was a gain
comparable with the clearing of the
ris-Chalons-Nancy railroad as a re-
suit of the Marne counter offensive
Together these triumphs restored the
two vital lines of railroad which had
been cut by the German offensives.
The gain was incalculable. both with
respect to the future security of the
Anglo French communications and the
greater efficiency of allied transport.
On the larger side the only serious
consequences of the German gains of
the spring and early summer were
now abolished: what remained was
to measure the extent of the injury
the Germans were still to suffer.
BY the second blow Foch had def
nitely wrested the offensive from Lu-
dendorff; he was now calling the tune
dancing. The whole character of the
campaign had changed. 1t was no
longer question of whether the Ger
man advance could be checked, but
how far the allied offensive would
sweep and what dislocations of the
German front between Rheims and
Arras were inevitable
As I close this article on Monday,
August IL. the problem set for Lu-
dendorff is clear. Temporarily the
German resistance has stiffened the
German defense of the high ground
between Lassigny and Noyon. and
north of the Somme about Bapaume
has enabled the enemy to rally on the
old front of July 1. 1916. but there are
unmistakable signs that this rally is
but temporary. comparable with the
stand above the Ourcq in the Marne
retreat.
The real question is now whether
Ludendorf can stand on the line of
the upper Somme or must go back to
the old Hindenburg line. from which
he started in March. This is entire
| ly like the other problem of the Aisne
or the Vesle line in the Marne op-
Grafton. If Ludendorff has to go back
to the Hindenburg line then there will
| to Arras: the Germans will have tc
/! quit the Vesle for the Aisne, evacuate
imuch ground between the Aisne and
| the Disc and surrender the old bat.
+! tlefield of the Somme They have al
| ready been thrust back into the desert
created by them in their retreat oil
1917. and have lost all real profit
gained by their spring and summer
campaign.
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ONCE PENSION SECTION CHIEF.
WILL TEACH ARMY RECRUITS

preparing for active service how to
strafe the boche.
omcially he will be known as an
instructor in modern warfare. For
this particular duty he has received
special instruction at the regular A.
E. F. School. He saw two months
service in the trenches. and before
sailing overseas had been connected
for twenty-four years with military
organizations. His trench experience.
together with his training in the
school overseas and his long service
in military organizations caused his
selection for the task of aiding in in
structing recruits at training camps.
Born and Educated Here.
Lieut. Hazard is primarily a Wash
ington boy. having been born and
educated here. He was graduated
from the Business High School and
lived here all his life prior to his
embarking at an Atlantic port for
France.
When a young chap. he became in
terested in the Army and military
life in general. In August. 1894, he
Joined the Corcoran Corps Cadets.
which dltcTWdTu HleFSeu rlnlO aHOtncT
company. and then to Company Z, Sd
Regiment of the District of Column
bia National Guard. When trouble
broke out between this country and
Mexico, he went with his command to
the border, where he remained part
of 1916 and 1917.
On returning from the border, his
regiment was ordered into federal
service and became known as the Sd
Battalion of the District of Columbia
National Guard.
Went Overseas Last Year.
The battalion was consolidated with
the Montana National Guard and be-
came part of the 163d United States
Infantry, attached to the 41st Division,
which was a displacement organiza-
ton and went overseas last year.
Later he was transferred to the 32d
Division, which was combat di
vision and he was assigned to the
12Sth Infantry of the United States
A. E. F. He Is still a member of the
12Sth Division.
Lieut.. Hazard expects to return to
France with the troops he will have
a part in training. He has brother,
Frederic S. Hazard of the Smithson-
ian Institution.
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ough and comprehensive. but also in
that many new and novel methods
are being tried out
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French at Montdidier.

Meantime. the French to the south
met with sharper resistance at the
outset, but by Saturday had pushed
east and north of Montdidier and
turned the Germans out of this ex-
treme eastern point in their line. At
this moment still another French
army, under Gen. Humbert, took up
the offensive from Montdidier to the
Disc, and began to push north and
east over the ground which had seen
the desperate fighting of the German
advance toward Compiegne in June
of the present year.
BY Sunday the Germans between
the Ancre and the Disc were practi-
cally on the old Somme front; their
line ran fairly straight from Albert
to Ribecourt, with Chaulnes changing
hands at frequent intervals, and Roye
and Lassigny becoming hourly more
in peril. By this time $4,000 prison
ers and 500 captured cannon were
proofs of the extent of the German
Generalization. Eleven divisions had
been smashed. and there had been a
general advance on forty-mile front
for some ten miles, with an extreme
advance of upward of fifteen miles to-
ward the north. The Montdidier sa-
lient was gone; the question was still
unanswered as to where the Germans
could stand. but it was becoming clear
that they must eventually retire be-
hind the upper Somme on line from
Arras, through Bapaume, PeronRe
and Ham to the high ground above
the Oise and between Noyon and
Chauny
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umns of The Star.
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Beautiful Summer Flowers.
Choice homegrown specimens suit
able for all occasions. GUIDE, 1214 F st.
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CAMP MEADE MEN
OF VARIED CAREERS
One Has Cousins in German
and French Armies-Arme-
nian Is Versatile.
special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
CAMP MEADE. Md, August IL
With cousins in the German and
French armies. Otto H. Grothe, who
was born in Alsace-Lorraine, in a
town now once more in the hands
of the French, is serving as an as
Brigade until he has been naturalized
as an American. AS boy his desire
was to go to England, and he went
there as soon as he had his own way
There he was at the funeral of the
late Edward VII and the coronation
of George v. Grothe was a cook and
waiter on big British ships, some of
them now at the bottom of the ocean.
Olympic Game Prize Winner.
An Armenian is here who won first
prize in Olympic games in Egypt in
1910. He is Paul Antrainig, who was
working in Baltimore when drafted.
mother was French. his
father an Armenian and he was born
in Constantinople. He is a graduate
of Roberts College, Constantinople. a
Christian institution. and has had
three years of study in medicine.
AS for languages. he can talk a
different one every day in the week.
His knowledge of languages brought
him employment in a Turkish court
of justice and later with a British
railway.
He was in Egypt when the Olympic
games were held there. He won the
shot-put and was second in the discus
throw, 120 feet. Antrainig hopes to
march through Germany with the
army of liberty and to see a new
era in Turkey, and especially in Ar
menia..
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York Boy Is Skilled Chemist.

Private Robert NJ Bair of York,
who is on duty at the Red Cross office
building. is a chemist who has made
important discoveries. His speciality
has been the treatment of trees suf-
fering with a blight. He has cured
whole orchards and restored many to
full vigor that were bearing only
small part of regular crop.
He has made "a number of discov-
cries with regard to obtaining val
able commercial chemicals from tree
barks and from sawmfll waste. One
of his discoveries brings him in a
regular royalty in proportion to the
amount of pulp and bark that is han
died.
He has made experiments with ex-
plosives and hopes to have a chance
to continue that line of research un-
der the government A broken arch
has made it impossible for him to
give full service as an infantryman
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Had Bayonet Duel With Turk.

A Washington draftee sent home
was Nick Sampson who fought in
the war between Greece and Turkey.
He is sad. indeed, because the United
States Army will not overlook few
flaws in his anatomy caused by that
war.
Sampson knows how it feels. to
meet an enemy and to fight for
twenty minutes for his life and win
out. He had a bayonet duel with a
big Turk that was SO bloody that
at the end of twenty minutes both
were more dead than alive.
Both went down unconscious after
many slashes. Finally the Turk. from
a sitting position, gave Sampson a
bayonet jab. Summoning all his
around with the barrel in his hand
and crushed in the skull CO the foe.
Sampson turned over to die tri-
umphantly. To his own surprise
hours later he awakened in a hos
pital. There was little blood left in
him and he never had another chance
in that war.
He came to the United States and
became a citizen. determined to serve
the flag IL war ever broke out. Over
and over again he has tried to enlist.
He has passed overN his wounds
Offices three times passed him.
Under the strain Of drilling. how
ever, bayonet thrust he received
in the thigh near vital organs has
given, him much pain. Three times
he was rejected from training camps.
Then he was drafted in Washington
where he registered.
When he learned he was on the
doubtful list he begged Capt. George
Licke of the 18th Company. to retain
him in the Army. The verdict of med
ical officers is final. The captain and
men all were sorry to see him go.
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Education.

Colvin. S. S. An Introduction to High School
Teaching. IP-C13si.
Cook II. C. The Play Way. IK-c171p.
H-rt, J. X. Democracy in Education. Ik1l
H257
Kelly. II. W.. and bradshaw. NJ c. Hand
book for School Nurses. IRP-ke96ls.
ssbin. r. T.. and Woodruff. L. r. The Re-
lntion of Latin to Practical Life. 1916. IkC-
Sa12r.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-06-13

symbols the first nations aud
ALL Each nation has within its bounds countless tribes
divisions of its people and each of
special banner symbol And this ALL The
for emblem felt by schools colleges societies. clubs all and sundy
united bodies children show the world
that afortheir particular ideals principles purposes
And has brought individuals emblem their very
"a service flag.
could that number variety symbols
serving number and kind of there
that should have for all people the Significance This
ne because that thing has reality this
pshes other thing for human good and of
the conflict which
Symbol epnbodes. tho will have been great.
the people of this world need know Mercy. Is
likely that this would have visited the spirit the
Red Gross had the worlds living No authority
could show such habed cuated
So that the outstanding feature of the its charities and
mercies which the ahest reaching the Red Cross
There this earth that influence
and this received conception life and their place. sig
ni6cnee and worth init No sufferer wherever he be- in the
deepest Jungle isolated herest south
north but has heard the this Symbol
Such will endr less
its reach and effort The quality that gives life will add its
growth
We forget the Red Cross We is with in
place and walk of life. Must until
ciples for which the Red Cross Symbol Principles Mercy and
this Symbol all others and hold always the
place has gained in the hearts and affairs Of
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-06-13
The. Mission of Lean John.

Glespes supplies cut off, the situation growing desper
Then John Brown the lean Yankee who could ride with the
best OF hem had mission There several
of this famous ride the popular of which follows
At clock the night Of the Oath provided with package
of cigarettes each which Believe the Bear
with Gespe SEAL Juan Flaco the feetest
be had and slipping through the GORDON
for Monterey But he discovered and holly by
fifteen Conans who unable follow him the darkness fired
shot after the fleeing figure and the chase The bullet
struck the horse and seemed velocity the flying
animal He cleared thirteen feet wde but the end of
miles dropped dead from his wound
Sprnging from his saddle, Faco walked twenyeven
miles Vgnes RANCH where he secured another and
joined by another American With the magic of the cigarettes
other needed resident
leans along the
The way led wild with ridges and deep
along the sands the beach, through forests plains
and uneed Onward Santa Barbara they Sped then
Luis Obpo where they into IL o'clock
His had given and Juan Flaco
went on alone.
He arrived Monterey dead than alive from his 400
miles ride find that Stockton San Francisco 14O miles
Coffee good meal and three hours of sleep revived
him. provided with other horses needed
Monterey horse reaching Yerba Buena o'clock
D. m. the 28th.
Another version says Juan acos horse eaped
broke his Leg Whereupon the rider walked
ranch his saddle There also conflicting
accounts of required available
four The would be considerably
heightened devaons the rahere roads
themand the detous avoid possibly hos
besides his walk having hunt fresh horses
the way nothing Johns dscredt that Sckton aid
beeged in time its capu
ton spread the revolutionary infection which ultimately
resulted in the retaking of California.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-06-13
DARING RIDES
How History Has Been Made by Men on Horse
back, in the Service Of Their Country
By N. G.. Frsdsricks.

Young nation stories has it of heroes
horseback in the service Of their that
them there seemsto be neither beginning end.
OF special interest Los Angeenos is the ride of John
Brown better Juan Faco-Lean john Without shot
being fred California had taken Stockton and Fremont The
Cafonians evidently the change Besides
Gen. Vallejo said had they wished they had nothing but
sticks ance) and old finocks that wouldn't half
which
long rifles.
Their they towards No
lees authority than u S. with knowledge
Mexican War; said the poorly clothed
seldom paid" With all this by
of these have made by soldiers"
Some suggested placing themselves under the
Engh but of their wise councillors related the the old
market from whom had stolen ham, She another
dog and when asked what she the
transaction. replied that would at least satisfaction know
the first dog could keep He thought in the California
would be merely change of While might prefer
the British bulldog he favored the greyhound
been fetes the chase captured quarry thought
should be allowed to keep it,
Ofcourse not for the Calornians Stockton
Fremont decide The question satisfactorily settled between
Uncle and the Mexican purchasing
undeveloped and much of seemingly almost worthless region
When Los Angeles taken Gillespie command
of military government here interpreted proved offensive
people used much of kind Stockton
hardly sight before popular indignation
thory itself the always revolutionary spirit
The garrison Fort Hill attacked by a few
o'clock September o. 1886 They epused with three
killed and wounded and in the driven Within
twenyfou hours 600 mounted horsemen armed with
and fine of artillery
placed it in of siege.