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berians support that Government? They
could not get decent sized army. and
80 German and Austrian prisoners have
peeh ordered to attack the Czecho-
Slovaks and to prevent them getting
to Vladivostok.
want to make that clear, because
there has been some criticism of the
action of the President of the United
states in the decision he has taken
In conjunction with japan to send forces
to Vladivostok in order to rescue the
Czecho-Slovaks from the plight that
they have been put into by the or
ganization of German and Austrian
prisoners of war.
Not Time to Discuss Peace
Il have only a few words to say
about what has been said about peace,
There are people who seem to consider
any effort to make peace as in itself
dishonorable and treason to their com
try That attitude must be steadfastly
discouraged. but is this a moment-I
put 1t to those who only want an
honorable peace-when such a peace
could be made? Why did we go into
the war? Because the instinct and
conscience Of the British people told
them that something which is funda-
mental to human happiness and to hu-
man progress was put in jeopardy by
the great military power of Germany
That will remain indelible as long as
the caste that made the war Is in
command in Germany
Has there been any change in that
Let us take recent events, such
as the treaty OF Brest-Ltovsk. when
some German statesmen went in. I be-
ieve. with intention of negotiating a
peace which. according to their minds,
would be fair. What happened? AS
soon as there was any indication that
here was to be anything but humli-
iting and drastic peace imposed upon
Russia the German high command swept
aside Count Won Hertling, Won Kuehl- !
mann and Czernin and imposed their
own terms. The next step was the hu-
and enslaving peace imposed
upon Rumania.
The third test Is what happened after |
3aron kuehlmann's speech in the |
2eichstag, in which he ventured to saw |
hings which I should have thought per- |
ectly obvious to any one who had wit
lessed the course of the war from the
oint of view of the Germans. In a few
lays he was swept away. What did that
mean? 1t meant that the people who
made the war were still prosecuting their
mister aims You cannot have peace as
ong as they are predominant in the
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tion take place than the constituent as
semoIy was dispersed by force.
The idea that we are behaving hos.
tilely toward a great Democratic poverp.
nent mas nothing in common with the
~ ol the case. There is no demo-
cratic government, In Russia now. What
ever its professions, II is government
.s force. and our only policy was TO
yea with the de facto government. and
si, is not easy We have not the
snEn'est desire to interfere with the Rus
SIah people, and we have certainly no
ntlon of imposing upon them any
particular government. That is a ma t
yer entirely for themselves, but when
w zee Germany imposing her authority
on large tracts and exploiting or at
p'ihs u,s 10 exploit them to the detri-
.neht or the Allies, against the will of
the people, we feel at any rate that ,be
russian people ought to be free to de-
e'ue Tor themselves.
recent events. violent as they are,
demonstrate that they regard the Ger
.iians as marauders, and the Russian
people is more and more seeking Allied
asslstance We shall not hesitate to
.nuer every help in our power to lib
craze them from this cruel oppression.
,,, Csecho-sFovak Movement
me Czecho-Slovak movement is n
very remarkable movement. The only
uesire or the Czecho- -Slovaks was to leave
I'ussia and to come to the west to fight
ior the Allies. They asked us for ships
ana we made arrangements to get ships
10 pring them away | say this be-
cause L wish to make it clear that we
are not exploiting the Czecho- Slovaks |
IN order to interfere with Russian in
terhal affairs. We took ships away |
from very important and essential work |
elsewhere in order to send them TO |
Vladivostok.
Acting undoubtedly under German |
duress the Bolshevist Government re-
FUSED to allow them to get to Archange,
ana Nladivostok If the Czecho- Slovaks
nave now become the center of actiyities
winch are hostile to the Bolshevist Gov
ernment In Russia the Bolshevist Gov
crnment have themselves to blame and
no one else. The first thing they asked
the -Slovaks to do was to dis
arm. They would have been lunatics ~
they had handed over their arms. You
cannot blame the Czecho- Sloyaks for
getting assistance whenever and from
they could in order to save
themselves.
I'VE are told that Siberia Is Bolshe-
list. If that is so, why don't the ST.
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since March 81. They are begging for
Austrian support. rather humiiating for
the great German army, which was to
destroy the Allied armies by May.
Some of Germany's allies are now
becoming burden to Germany, rather
than a support. They are now becom-
| ing dissilusioniZed as to German in
Ivincibility. Germany promised great
things to her allies this year. We can
see the effects. Suddenly there was a
withdrawal of all peace tenders. When
you probed you found they were not
there. What had happened? Germany
said to her people. Don't you worry
about peace we can dictate it in few
months. We mean to have a great
the Allied armies
Peace talk suddenly ceased. You
could not hear a whisper and the tinkles
CT the telephone bells stopped. Haugh-
ter and cheers.)
The great promise has failed. The
economic position of the Central Powers
and their allies is one Of despair and
their harvests are not too good and they
are short of many essentials. Militarily
they are past the height of their endeav-
ors. At sea they know they have failed.
Russia a Great disappointment
Russia has been great disappoint-
ment. Russia has become a tangle to
their feet Russia is broken into a num-
Der Of diffused and ill-defned entities
that make that part of diplomacy ex-
ceedingly difficult. In relation to that
vast country there is no de jure govern
ment there. They attempted to set up
one by election. No sooner did the elecS
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ABATING CAMP NUISANCE

Trenton. Aug. 8.-Governor Edge has
been advised by the State Department
OF Health that, the War Department is
the New Jersey department as to the
nuisance occasioned by the discharge OF
sewage from Camp Dix into Crowswicks
Creek in such manner that 1t Is GER
will soon be abated
The State health authorities have mo-
titled the War Department that the prac-
tice has created a condition which has
dangerous to the homes bordering on ths
creek N',o
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Sivelle an Experiment

"Our first experiment in this direction
was last year when General Nivelle was
Commander-in-chiefo of the French army
He was in command Of the greater army
and was chosen to command the whole.
and apart from that we were fighting on
French territory.
General NiVelle was an exceedingly
able and experienced officer. He was
the man who commanded in the struggle
around Nerdur which resulted in a
dsa strOus defeat for the German army
and he had a great strategic plan for
a combined attack on the German army
in April of last year and he was the
first general in this war who devised
plan of attack on a wide front. which
the Germans have followed with such
success since then. And when the at
tack took place unity of command was
established during the battle. which was
to come to an end after the battle was
over
There has been a good deal of con-
troversy about the French parl in that
battle, and that | shall not enter into.
Taking the battle as a whole. so. 900
prisoners were captured and 400 to 500
guns. large tracks of territory. some of
it of first strategic Importance. were
and so far as the British part
in the battle is concerned. il was an
attack on the left of the Allied armies
on the heights of Vimy. The British
part of the battle was the biggest sue
cess won by the British armies since
1915
Members will recolleCt that it ended
in sweeping the German troops away
from the heights Of Vimy. from which
the prolonged attacks by the French
army in 1915 had failed to dislodge
them. 1t has been like a great bastion,
which the Germans could neither capture
nor turn, and every effort they have
made has ended in a most sanguinary
repulse. and as long as it was in British
hands it made 1t difficult and imprac-
-icable to carry out their great opera
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last four months, what IL the position
On March 81 the enemy has been re-
neved or all apprehension on his east.
ern front by the peace Of Brest-Litovsk
he had brought all his best division.
from the east. He was combing out the
pest men from the remaining divisions
and bringing them to the west Most OF
these men had enjoyed long rest on the
eastern front and had devoted their time
10 training and preparing specially for
the great blow which was to be directed
against the Allied armies.
"On March 21 we had in front of us
the flower of the German army, rested,
trained specially and equipped for the
campaign. Our troops were tired by a
prolonged offensive under the most ex-
hausting conditions any troops ever
| fought under. Virtually the whole Brit
ish front was new ground which had
ben won from the enemy. There had
bn noe time to set up defenses, and these
tired troops. instead OF resting, had to
dig defenses.
considerable American forces had
been expected by spring. As a matter
of fact. on March 81 ,nere was only one
American division in the line There
were three or four divisions behind the
line, who were brought up after the at
tack began.
The weather conditions were the
most favorable for the enemy that they
could have chosen. United command
was ont an established fact, in spite of
all endeavors to achieve It, and each
general was mainly concerned with the
defense of his own front, so when the
blow came the reserves of the Allied
army as whole were not available to
meet II where il fell.
Germans MiscaIcuIated
What was the object? The object
was to attain military decision this
year before the American army could
come up. How was that to be achieved? |
tirSt of all, by driving wedge between
The two armies: then. having separated !
the British and French forces, over |
~helming the British army and after
ward dealing with the French army.
Ihat was the plan. If the first of !
hes" objects had been attained. and the .
British army had been overwhelmed. the |
American forces could not have arrived |
IN time to save the French army That
was the German calculation. and let US
not forget, In the light of what hap
Dened afterward, that ii was not such an
estimate.
But how did the German plan pros
Der? There have been four hard months
If such fighting as has never been seen
IN the face of this globe. not merely in
he magnitude of the armies. the losses
inflicted and sustained. the Va lor dis
played but in the issues which hung in
he balance
What has happened? At first the
f"rman army achieved considerable sue
Ass. We had anxious moments. very
nxious moments. and those who knew
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JEORGES SFEECHEACE

eral Ludendorff's plan Of campaign
would succeed in its objective and en-.
able Germany to obtain a militar,
decision
II do not wish to go beyond that. but
I should like to say one or two things
about the elements OF success, because
they have their bearing on the future
The first was the rapidty with which
the losses were made up and second. the
rapidty with which the American troops
were brought over, and these two are
essential parts of the German miscal-
| culation.
The Germans calculated that we
could not make up our losses and that
the Americans could not be brought up
over.
| Second German Miscalculation
| Look what has been done. In Feb
ruary the Americans brought over 49,
600 men, | think. In January II was
still fewer and the German general staff
which seems fairly well informed. came
to the conclusion that If what was said
in the British press OF our having no
men was true and they knew what was
being brought over in American ships
was true, and II what a certain section
of the press said about our having no
-, 80 rue '"er 'le obstruction Oh
the Allied army was certainty. That
was ono of ,ho ,,so, -, , 60, ,,rass
U.aupbter, +, /. n,is,oi,S
tradict them rbat uas thai s.cond
INSTRUMENTATION
"Now what han,.,.do cco, ,f,or ,,,o
blow on March ., tho pritish t:oIarr-
ment made a sneci,1 ,n,aoi ., prasidan,
Wilson to send mon nrer e,er 10 thov
were not formed into diyisjone On th,t
they could he brigaded into British and
French formations President Wilson re-
,,l', W '''u! ''"'', ~ neeTSl 1t
stimulated that We sh,uId do our mar,
of the carving II was true that ~,
had no ships TO snare bu, ue innressad
upon the shipping controller tho neccs-
sity of getting every American soldier
over, and he pulled ships ont of trades
where they were quite essential-in order
10 carry over the American troops. Do /
not Iet any one imagine we have ships
10 spare. because there mas been loss |
vi -''''V" IONS per month IN essential
carsoeS' Whlch means 2,5OO.OcO per .
ahNu'h-"lth the result we nave Just ,
seen
Praise for Americans
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Military situation Reviewed

With regard to the present military
oafuation. its essential facts are well
known, but perhaps ! may be permitted
~ nlnmmsrise them a. they appear to
iGn1 xhQs has heen working inside. In
NJ ro T. ~ G@0et epd&avor which
~ ~ = 2 sssf'', during M
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-08-01
RED CROSS soLARIuM
OPENED AT CAMP DIX.

A Red Cross Solarium, or GONZALES
cent home, at Camp Dix, Wrightstown,
N. j., was opened recently I'm the pres
ence OF officials OF the army and the
Red Cross and an unusually large gath
ering of Chapter workers from the
nearby counties and towns. The
solarium is similar in design to the
thirty-eight other model solariums
soon to be put into service by the Red
Cross.
At the conclusion of a short speech
Albert w. Staub, Assistant Manager OF
the Atlantic Division, said:'.
"This building represents the spirit
of the American people and their In
terest In the health and comfort of
the American soldiers II is now ready
for use, and the Red Cross is prepared
TO conduct its activities under the SUI
pervislon and subject TO the wishes OF
the commanding officer"
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-08-01

efficient of these machines will cut 216
layers of heavy fabric In one opera
ton.
When the garments are cut they go
to the assembling room, where t:ey
are sorted into bundles. One girl col
lects all the small pieces that go to
make the sleeves, collars, cuffs and
pockets of pajamas These are then
passed on to another girl, who adds
the front and back pieces. A third
girl adds the other part and completes
the garment, which is then wrapped In
a bundle with two others. A similar
procedure is followed in assembling
other garments.
No Material Wasted.
Each bolt of goods is measured be-
fore cutting and an estimate made OF
just exactly how many garments II
contains. For example, 216 layers OF
jean contain LA dozen hospital shirts.
II the material lays 296 high, 1877 dozen
may be secured from one cutting.
From a ninety-foot strip OF material
eight hospital bed shirts may be cut.
To find piece OF waste material larg-
er than n three-quarter inch triangle
is unusual. Even these scraps are not
wasted, for they are sold to rag deal
ers.
An electric marker for making pat
terms accomplishes in fifteen minutes
the work of one man working for four
hours. After the pattern is marked
on the top the circular knife revolves
through the cloth at the rate OF 5000
times a minute.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-08-01
STRINGENT STEPS.
TO PREVENT GAS.
WASTkGE ABROAD.
American Red Cross Gets Every
Ounce of Driving Power Out
of Every Gallon Used.

Gas consumption in France, at least
on American Red Cross Ambulances in
Europe, is measured by blocks to the
liter rather than miles to the gallon.
Gas or essence" is a precious article
In the war zone and not at all easy TO
get-in fact, almost impossible to buy
: for cash.
Fortunately, the gas stations main
tanned by the French and American
armies cooperate with the American
Red Cross Motor Service and allow
ambulances and trucks to obtain lin
tied quantities of gas on Garnet" or
triplicate orders supplied to Red Gross
drivers.
Any gas obtained from French Sta
ton, however, is merely borrowed, and
the Red Cross must return 1t liter for
rious ports. The official orders filed
from American Army stores are re-
deemed in cash. The French, how
ever, will not part with their gasoline
for money.
y With gasoline, as well as motor
equipment, so precious, the Red Gross
has instituted unusual gas saving meas
ures governing its entire fleet of 634
ambulances, trucks and other gas We
hicles. Carburetor adjustments re-
ceive unremitting attention. No car is
allowed to continue to run with leak
ing valves or any other defect which
will lower its "blockage" per quart or
waste OIL No chauffeur who is not an
expert in getting maximum "blockage"
remains long at the wheel. Every
chance of "joy riding" is eliminated by
a system which well might be adopted
by owners of pleasure cars and trucks
of the United States.
No car leaves the garage even for a
trip of four blocks until the odometer
reading is taken carefully and gas in
the tank or in reserve cans measured
accurately. The driver starts out with
a trip card registering all these facts,
and new readings are taken on his re-
turn to the garage or on his arrival at
the next Red Cross Motor Transports
ton station.
II his odometer shows that he has
deviated from the shortest path be-
tween the garage and his objective. or
if his time indicates that he has been
delayed, he is called upon for an eX-
PLANTATION. A doubtful excuse brings
a sharp warning. A second offense
puts him on the "wash rack" washing
dirty cars for several days. AS all
Red Cross drivers are militarized, hC
has to take his medicine. A third of
Tense may send him to the Provost
Marshal of the American Army in
Paris as military offender. Vari-
Gus punishments are melted out, but
the most feared of all. they say. is an
order What the man he separated from
the Red Cross and sent back to Amer
lea in disgracel
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-08-01
What They Asked Him.

There is one man In town who is
tired of hearing the name of a small
car of popular make. His name is L.
G.. (Baron) ROthschild. 1t all hap
pened like this: On Monday morning
the baron, in his haste to get to the
Jewett inauguration, as some say, slip
ped on the sidewalk and broke a bone
In his wrist and tore loose two liga-
ments in his right hand. He has since
been carrying the hand around in a
plaster cast. Since then, whether in
the club or on the street. nine ac-
Quaintances out - ten - ID him the
question. Were %.;u ryi.s,-..,< "-''
(nalnt a. ictcd t. ;H>:d giving .teg ad
1ertsing).-hdianapolisN News ,.la.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-08-01
ITALIAN SOLDIERS PLAYING
BASEBALL WITH AMERICANS.

American baseball is supplying n
new bond of fellowship between men
Of the italian army and American Red
Cross workers along the Italian front.
1t made an instant hit with the Ital-
ians. One OF the ambulance men wrote
recently: "Most of them as yet catch
the ball with their stomachs, but they
are making rapid progress. They bor-
row our ball whenever Ii is not In rsc,"
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-08-01
MODERN DEVICES
PLAY BIG PART IN
RED CROSS WORK
Electrical Machines Enable At
Iantic Division to Turn Out
100000 Hospital Gar
mentS Each Week.

One hundred thousand garments are
being turned out each week by the At
lantic Division of the Red Cross as its
share In the nationwide allotment Of
the hospital and refugee garments ask
ed for by the Government. This state
ment, authorized by Ethan Allen, Man.
ager of the Division, was based upon
figures compiled at the Division Cut
ting Department which supplies cut
garments to seventy per cent of the
Chapters in the States of New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut
Using the most up-to-date electrical
equipment, the Cutting Department is
able to cut the materials for hospital
shirts, pajamas, mems underwear,
boys and girls clothing, gowns and
children's pinafores at the rate of TO-
600 yards every five and half days.
This means not only the cutting, but
the assembling of the parts, the pack
ing and the shipping of the garments
to the Chapters, where they are sewed
and made ready for wear 1t Is esti-
mated that Chapters save from three
to seven cents on each of the garments
supplied through the Cutting Depart
ment
The garments are cut on requIsItion
from Chapters. Orders are often filed
in one day and rarely later than two
days. Bath robes, bed jackets. paja-
mas, bandaged-foot sock-these and
all other garments on the Red Cross
list are cut according to official pat
terms.
Machine Marks Patterns.
Ninety-foot tables and sixty-foot ia
bles are used in the operation of cut
ting the garments. The material is
spread cut by "laying-up" machines,
which unrOlI it from the bolt in layers
extending the whole lengths of the Ia
bleS. The design is marked on the top
layer, either by hand or by the stencil
ling process of spreading black powder
over dots in a perforated pattern.
Sometimes an electrical machine is
used. which marks out the pattern on
the goods by burning tiny holes In It.
After the marking process cutting
machines with ten-incn blades are OPP
Grated around the pattern. The most
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-02
3RD LOAN QUOTAS
FOR COUNTIES SET
UMATILI.A COUNTY QUOTA Is
SECOND ONLY To MUTT
NOMAH.
Quotas Based on Total Resources;
This County to Raise $1,O4O,OOO.

PORTLAND. April 2.-Quotas for
each county of the state in the forth
coming liberty loan drive were made
known yesterday, coming to head
quarters in letter from the regional
reserve bank at San Francisco. The
city and state quota is $18,495,0O0. of
which Portland's quota is $10.050,-
600.
This is, of course, much below the
original quota for Oregon of 10000
500, but it is pointed out by those in
charge of the drive that efforts must
by no means be relaxed on that ac-
count, as the quotas just fixed are
minimum in each case and these am
cunts. according to the secretary of
treasury, are expected to be oversub-
scribed.
County Quotas Announced.
The county quotas are based upon
the resources of each county and the
town quotas will be announced later.
County resources and quotas are list
ed as follows:
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-02

a quick trigger finger gets into bad
company either one or the other dies.
In the Latest William Fox photoplay,
six Shooter Andy" which will be
shown at the Alta Theatre today.
the situation is shown where an hon
est man gets into very bad company.
It is the mining town of Bannack,
Nevada, during the gold rush days of
sixty years ago. Andy Crawford (Tom
Mix9 hopes, like others, to gain wealth
by digging for gold. Tragedy meets
him at the threshold of the town. He
finds a prairie schooner containing
eight small children all in tears. On
On the ground is the father killed by
a bullet of one of the towns gang,
Bending over him is an elder daughter.
In the town Andy finds the head Of
the gang is no less a person that
the sheriff who is robbing miners of
their hard earned gold. Women are
being trifled with.
When Andy gets through with the