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tars mounted on ngn1, "-wnee
carts hauled by man power to reduce
these strong points with or without the
aid of artillery, tanks, or airplanes
The most advanced waves were en-
tirely safe from the machine gun pc
sitions once they passed them, as the
Boches usually could not work theil
guns toward their own rear, the en-
placement having been organized with
q view to firing ahead or on the tanks
only. Furthermore, II. the Germans
fred toward the rear, they would re
veal their presence to the succeeding
attacking waves which would put
them out Of action before they could
swing around again.
Why Casualties Are Light.
It is because the attacking waves
went forward deployed IN extended
formation and behind a curtain of fire
Of bursting shells, a creeping barrage
that casualties among attacking
troops we're so much lighter than any
one unfamiliar with these t: "tic:
might i:.aginc.
The dousi,oys passed Montfaucor
which was a hive of machine gui
nests in their advance toward Nan
tillois ard Cierges, and it was rot uls
til the day after the town had beer
practically surrounded that the las
enemy resistance was crushed there
After penetrating we'll beyond Mont
faucou on either side, American pa
trolls of twos and threes began t,
recoln"itre the town and the chatea,
which stands on a tent-like ridge com
manding the plain in all directions
Those patrols which entered from tn
north, from behind, worked their wa!
through the ruins Of shell-shattere,
houses vi',ht up to the front Of tn
town, where they sniped the German
machine gunners in the backs, as ne!
were firing on American patrols I'D
vancing from Cuisy. Prisoners wer
taken FROM the deep dugouts so ant
go feet below the ruined town tw'
days after the Americans had estab
lished themselves in the town.
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n AVIATOR
WILL TRY
CROSS SEA Sc J.

Clifford 81. Prodger, 9 young man
who for many years made his home,
in Mandan, but who is now IN aviator
in "Merry England" has entered ~
London Daily Mails contest 10 hy
across tht Atlantic. The trip via the
air route acros the great blue pond
has as yet never been accomplished.
The feat Of crossing, it in q plane T.
the longed for plum Of. many air men,
and to promote the enterprise The
London Daily Mail has put on q con-
test, Offering a large prize to the first
fellow who .succeedsrin Tapping his,
canvas pinions from one continent TO-
the other. 5t,, !
Mr.. Prodger recently broke g world
record by taking up forty people in his
plane in England, and 50 there is much
reason to believe that he may be the
great Christopher Columbus of the
air. .at, ,Ia. a
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UNITED STATES NAYALH E7I3727
CANN0NS IN EXCESS OF II
GERMAN BIGGEST GUNS

in the world and in Washington has
CONSTRUCTED two Office buildings for
war expansion, one for the navy de-
partment, which, considered as q
group, exceed in volume the floor
space Of any other office building in
the world regardless of type; indeed,
it is thought that no existing Office
building is larger than either of these
two" Time records were broken in
the construction of these buildings.
The total floor space of the two
buildings is approximately 100000
square feet, or more than Al acres.
The several wings if Joined end to
end would form a structure 1 "a
miles long, 60 feet wide and three stor-
les high. A complete circuit of all the
exterior walls would require a journey
of four miles.
That American inventive genius in
tends to take no chances with a for
eign foe is indicated by the fact, as
stated in the reoprt, that the Naval
consulting Board has considered more
than 10000 ideas, inventions and de-
vices submitted.
In his report the Secretary of the
Navy pays the following tribute to
the efficiency of the civil service sys-
tenn:
"Under the law all navy yard work.
men must be recruited through the
civil service, and tht department de-
sires to express its qualification and
appreciation of the manner in which
the Civil Service Commission met the
emergency and by the creation Of al
most a new organization and the fear
less cutting of all needless red tape
has done all that was humanely pos
sible to meet the Navy's demands in
the shortest practical time"
1t is not mentioned in the report,
but it is a fact that the forces of ar
tisans, laborers and other civilian en-
ployees at navy yards and naval sta
tons in the United States increased
from about 10000 to more than 1O0,-
900 during the nineteen months of
Americas participation in the war.
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allF W"I8-" "FEA!F! II .%-tf&fyN'@ y $" 4
NOTHING IS TOO HARD.
Yankees Make Impossible Possl-
bic, Says Petit Journal
High Tribute Paid % ingenuity, cls,vl
srness and Dispatch Of Amer
leans.

Paris.-"The Americans doubt moth.
ing. That is the reason they realize
everything in the way Of. making the
impossible possible and overcoming all
obstacles"
So says the Petit-Journal, In speak
ing Of the enormous docks and ware.
houses which the American army has
erected on the coasts Of France.
'"The Americana" the newspapers
continues, "do big things and. they Do
them quickly: The question OF time
and other rules which ordinarily, de.
termine the possible do not exist for
the Americans. With them the i'm.
possible becomes the rule and IL ID
because Of that reason that the Amer
leans are always advancing. /,
'aThey have constructed. somewhere
In France q depot Of enormous pro
portions-already the, largest Of al
such depots in France and, second larg-
est in the world. A year ago there
was nothing but bare land. Today the
site Is actually, a city.
ITO house the thousands Of work.
ers French, Americans, Algerians,
CHR .se, Moroccans, German prisoners
1T was necessary to build hundreds
Of barracks. Then the magazines,
warehouses, were put up. To get some
idea Of the place it is only necessary
to say that these docks cover % square
kilometers. ID. ,~,3
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war WORK WINS
PLACEF0RWoMEN
Great Britain Recognizes Part
They Played in. Saving ..
Nation.
NAY SIT N LORDS" SOON
will Have Big Role In Reconstruction
Work-War Brings Right 70 Vote
and SIT Ii Houss Of
connnnona &E ~

>" London.-The women of Great Brit.
ain are going to play a big role In re
construction.
They have won the right to be heard
by saving the nation-and the nation
recognizes it.
The war has brought British women
the vote and the right to sit in the
house Of commons-sacred to the
stronger sex" throughout the history
Of the British empire. ,, -,
It Is probable women's right to sit
In the house Of lords will be establish.
ed shortly, as well as the admittance
Of women to the professions on an
equal footing with men.
The question of equal pay for equal
work" has been met in instances. but
largely 1t remains to be fought out af,
ter the industrial change-over. '''
Want Age Limit Lowered.
Only women over thirty may vote,
but there is already a demand that this
age limit be reduced. u.
"OAAicA nave dASO InVuScu tut
strangers gallery Of the commons
as the public gallery is called. The
first woman to take advantage of this
newly won privilege was Mrs. Walker
Kerr of k%ensington, who formerly liv.
ed in New Zealand, where she had
the vote for rs years. ,
English papers predict that women
will add dignity to the commons, dig
nified as it is, and prevent "anti" mem
bers from hiding behind pillars and
doors when a count" is demanded.
Already a number of women have an.
nounced they will be candidates in the
coming elections-many Of them or
planks dealing with reconstructed,
tasks.
Mrs. Dacre Fox, one of the leaders o.
the 'intern 'em all" agitation, made tn,
following statement in connection will
her intention to oppose Sir George
Cave, the home secretary:
II will oppose him because his de
partment placed every obstacle in tn.
way of the internment of all enem,
aliens"
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BIG AMERICAN ARTILLERY IS
MOBILE AND SHOOTS LARGER
SHELLS.

Washington, Jan. 6.-"The Ameri-
can navy has designed, built, and is
now manning with bluejackets special
~ trained for land service, the larg-
est and most high-powered mobile
land artillery in the world" it is stat
ed in the annual report of the secre-
tary Of the navy, recently issued. The
type of gun referred to is of IA inch
caliber, hurls its projectile 80 miles,
and a be moved from one end of
France to the other on especially de-
signed railway cars on which the
guns are permanently mounted, as
easily as can field artillery.
In comparing this long range gun
with the German long range "freak"
guns which fired on Paris, the report
says: "They (the German guns) were
built ON permanent steel and concrete
foundations which were eventually
sought out by Allied airplanes and
the guns subsequently silenced. The
shells were small and specially built
for long range flight. This fact re-
duced their military efficiency. The
German long range guns, while they
had a certain moral effect, were with
out great practical military value. The
American naval guns fire projectiles
approximately seven times heavier
than the shells the Germans used
against Paris"
Other recent achievements Of the
navy Department. as shown by the re-
port, include a special mine loading
plant with a capacity of more than
1000 mines a day. This plant has
been established near Yorktown, Va.
About 1900 acres of land were need
ed for the enterprise.
In Brooklyn the navy department
has built what is said to be the largest
concrete storehouse in existence. The
navy has also installed in Annapolis
the greatest high power radio station
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-01-08
,v VI; the YANkS
STRUCK ON MEUSE
American Doushboys Faced
Three Fortified Defense
l.! Systems.
NOTHING COULD STOP them
Interesting Description Of One Of the
Last Big Fights In Which
Pershing's Troops Were
j. Engaged. ...

With the First American Army
Three fortified defensive systems
guarded the German positions be.
tween the Argonne and the Meuse
Whep the Americans burst through
them.
The advanced line, the enemy's old
line, called the Hagen stellung; his
intermediate line ran q kilometer or
two behind it. according to the conig.
uration Of the terrain, hills, streams
and woods, and was called the Volker
stellung. Behind that a his main
reserve line of defense, the Kremhilde
stellung, a continuation of the Brun.
hide stellung. which runs through
Champagne.
At their first bound the attacking
waves of doughboys swept over the
first two fortified zones with their
barbed-wire entanglements cut to
pieces by the preliminary lombard.
ment, and in several points they PEN
etrated the Kremhilde stellung, which
pivoted in the Aire-Meuse sector on
Montfaucon.
The three-hour artillery preparation
between $50 and $50 o'clock in the
morning had driven the enemy to his
deepest dugouts and the advanced as
sault troops were in the trenches
throwing gas bombs and grenades
down the stairways into the under.
ground bombproof shelters before the
Boches could get upstairs.
Reducing strongholds.
Between the three different lines of
intrenched positions the Boches had
Installed series of strong points, ma
chine gun nests, sometimes emplaceG
in concrete and steel pillboxes, or else
merely set in strong, natural, com
manding positions. The system for re
ducing these strongholds was identical
with that already practiced by thu
enemy in his various offensive opera
lions,
The advanced waves of stormip,
troops going forward in open order
worked their way between the stronf
points, often by worming along for con
siderable distances on their stomachs
or BY crawling on hands and knee
through woods or along ravines. Ar
irving In the real Of these positions
they established contact with one an
other and proceeded forward. leavtn,
snipers to work their way back in tn
rear Of the strong points and pick of
the B0che machine gunners in man.
cases.
It was the job Of the succeeding
waves Of assault. with their light ma
shine gums and their little trench MOI
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INDIANS TO R Rec Il' I. DEAD
Elaborate Burial Rites win MARI
Transfer Of Bones Of
Chippewas.]

Superior, Wis.-Chippewa Indians
ire preparing for elaborate burial rites
70 be held at a c~eraetery here where
he bones Of nearly 200 Of their tribes
taen have been Uttered again after be
'ng removed from their former resting
place near the harhor. The. old India;
burial ground is being converted int,
the site for an industrial concern an,
the company engaged in the work l.
placing the skeletons of the red mel
IN the new cemetery. .,:,,
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-01-08
SEIZE LIQUOR VESSELS
officers in Washington Take Drasti,
Steps to Stop Traffic In
Booze.

Hoquiam, Wash.-Vessels that brin.
liquor into this port will be seized u:
I'll those responsible are punished, q;
''ording to a decision of Police autha
tiles here. Automobiles and other CO
veyances that carry intoxicants will J.
-oniiscated. AS fines and imprisonnle.
have failed to check the traffic, Officer
lave decided to take this drastic a,
lion. which is made legal by provision
nj the prohibition act.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-01-08

There are some pretty new boudoir
caps for the holidays, made of the
usual light-colored silks and various
laces. Crepe %georgette and net and
crepe de chine furnish a variety OF
materials for them. The cap shown
here is of light blue crepe de chine
and has a graceful cape across the
back. 1t is edged with lace and has q
band Of ribbon about it with q little
cluster Of pink ribbon flowers at, each
side near the temples. One could not
ask for a daintier Christmas gift. H#'
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Finds dummy Man" in House.

st. Louis, Mo.-Peter Fefes Of this
of peace by the elbow Of his three
year-old daughter, who jabbed him
in the ribs. The child lisped:
Papa, who's dat funny mans in
here?"
Fefes jumped from his bed to in
vestigate and the funny MANS" who
proved to be q burglar, fed out the
back way. He had taken 1921 from
Tefe's pocket.
Portland, Ore.-During the Spanish
influenza epidemic here soldiers from
Vancouver Barracks who were visiting
the city had to report back at retreat
for spraying" unless they got
sprayed" in Portland. And as there
wasn't any spare throat-spray Of the
required variety in Portland most ID
the soldiers went home. =
One Of them, however, proved re
s%ourceful. He went to q friendly doc
tor, got the Office girl to spray him
with disinfectant from an atomizer
write on one Of the doctors prescrip
ton blanks: "This is to certify that
Private Blank has been sprayed II
this Office" A rubber stamp sigma
ture affixed made it "look good" and
members Of the military police. hunt
Ing unsprayed troopers, accepted 4
and let the soldier 60 his Wy.
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' n TX >ll4sE.' 3GAEkl -Its3G lt.}lEts #GG-rASi4l,
,sss ueNs ~ssnsa ~ pesoL
nent womea Of Angiand, upon the new
order:
lrA Pankhurst: "T7n decision ol
the house IN granting women the right
to at as members was the logical out.
come Of getting the vote. but I think
the vete. Is much the more important
thing. I shall vote to get the right
type of men into parliament rather
than to get women into parliament.
am very anxious that the. strength of
the woman voters-8OOO,O0O. strong
shall be given to help combat the very
real danger, Of International bolshe.
vism." t4t5.Jaftf 43a ff
"ssx Makes NosDlfferenee." :
Lady Frances Balfour: "The soone,
the nation ,forgets the sex Of its enfrans
chised citizens, or. its members in pub
lie work, the better for all concerned
Sex must make no difference in til:
binding obligations of those who for.
that great assemblage, the faithful
commons, in the mother Of parlla.
menta." eH4@H:t ,@ajat:fs2 q 's&
Baroness Rhondda (who as a peer.
ess in her own right is expected t.
claim, as a test case, the right Of won.
en- to sit in the house Of lords) +: "i
think 1t is just as desirable that won.
en- should be In the house Of lords as
1t is that they should sit in the com
mons. The way for women in the lord.
will be made easier by the admission
of women to the commons" 's'
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-01-08

One might as well expect Christ
mas to be observed without dinner as
without the pretty tea aprons and serv-
ing aprons that help to make it joyous
each year. They are useful and mex
pensive-the sort Of gifts to expect
this year. The serving apron shown
IN the picture is Of white muslin with
ah edge Of rick-rack braid and the lit
tie tea apron is Of batiste' with pink
dots embroidered on it. It is edged
with lace and has pink ribbon rosettes
sand:ties Fun=thFough eyeaets worked: IN
tbo apron.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-01-08

Delta, O.-Lucfus p. Taylor, one
hundred and n years old, celebrated
his last birthday by chopping wood,
"just to show that he could still do q
mans work" Taylor was born In
Franklin county, Mass, in 1917. In
lS43 he settled in Delta on q little
farm, which has for the last 70 years
been his home. He has q son, four
daughters, eight grandchildren and u
Observation-Disclosures liviuax.
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The chances are that grandma has
gone into service by Joining the ranks
Of those who knit sox for the soldiers.
II SO here is a knitting bag that she
will like. It is made to hang over
the arm and Is Of bright cretonne lined
with plain sateen. A pretty pair Of
twin Chinese tassels Of silk and gold
dnsel set off this practical bag. It is
Just the right size and shape to carry
yarn, needles and sox.
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He SURE IS A BIG
IS !" MAN AT THE FRONT

Topeka, Kan.-Is 4 mule
driver essential to the winning
OF the war7 This h the prob
lem before the industrial ad-
visory board of the First dis
trict It was the first case to
come before the board. The mule
driver claims his work is essen
tial to the operation Of q Kan
sas mine. .
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
The Happy End
BY Jos. Hergesheimer
Seven Short Stories
THE HAPPY END BY Joseph Herges-
h"imer Published b. A. a. knopf

hemer rublished ID bi " a. 'osepR a. hnopfr mGrse''
The seven short stories bv Josepn
Hergcsheimer contained in "The Happy
End" are humorously prefaced by a
dedication in which he admits respon-
sibility for them to no one but his
grocer, at whose lnsistence they were
ible force that keep MIR. Hergesheimer
on his mettle-at the proddings of his
demands these stories came into
being. This IS an admission of cor
science that reflects great credit or
Mr. He~gesheimar as a craftsman.
since it is not likely that o man who
takcs his litigation to his grocer so
scrupuously will more comfortably
slur his obligation to his readers.
Mr. Hergeshei does maintain his
rectitude with both his grocer and his
readers through these stories. In none
of them does he compromise his effort
to see life romanticallv and not sentl
mentally. The harmcnies of some of
the stories are unresoved, but that is
no. because Mr.. Herges' elmer is not
listening eagerly. Sometimes it seems
as if the care with which he listens
stands between him and what he hears
But he catches notes of rare beauty in
such stories as "The Egyptian Chariot"
Lonely Valleys" and "To abe Dav d."
Herges sheimcr uses freely enough
the dissonances (which modern thinking
admits into life and which has found
its way into modern writing. All of
these stories touch and border on
tragedy. He strikes bo dly the chords
Of crude passion and fru 7tration and
suffering. But some irreso uton of con-
viction, not of workmanship keeps
him from commanding his orchestra.
He has not the ordered sense of the
place of Il ings in their scheme with
which to give an even drive TO his
conception.
Herge heimer's gift of d tempcra-
mont that is sensitively alive tp color
line and texture enables him to tran
scribe with extra ordinary vividness the
stir and sight ard fee ING of 'ife But
it also makes him pecu iarly liable to
be distracted from the essential work
of the story-teller to overi1dulge his
keen sense for eXternals ~ over of
SPAIN is d story Of exotic impressions
not only of spectacular details but of
emotional tones. Beautiful and vivid
as the surface Of the story is, it re
mains untouched to life because none
Of the Characters are realized as vvidly
as their settings.
In "Tol'able David" "Thc Fcvptian
Chariot" and "Lonelv Valleys" Heroes
hcimcr shows how fine and shapely is
his best work. There is bath austerity
and vividness in these stories, a bal
anc" of Clements. of form and essence
in them that gives thcm n pnrmanence
which triumps over the ephemeral use
Toy which they were intended.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Go S sip S
Ole Hanson, Author

When Seattle's dynamic Mayor started
to write a book on Americanism VS..
Bolshevism he tried pounding out his
own copy on the typewriter, gave up
in despair and called in three stenog-
'aphers. He dictates his story and
manages to keep all three busy. Doub e.
day, Page is to publish the book
soon after the Christmas holidays, and
representative Of the firm, who called
on the Mayor recently, gave the fol-
lowing picture of the man at work:
The Mayor has turned his room into
a literary headquarters. The bed was
strewn with papers, manuscripts, yell
low copy sheets. On the Gideon Bib G
in the corner la. the collar which the
Mayor had worn the day before A
reading lamp thrust out over the head
Of the bed. The Mayor explained the
r~rshed pillows by saying that when
tired Of tramping the floor he lay down
and the dictat on went on. On q small
ta''e in another corner rested q As
caliber Colts automatic which looked
g ready fer business as its owner
On the dresser lay q half dozen large
'oiNNes Concerning economic and labor
problems. On top of the books. and
covering the remainder Of the sur
ace, was an indiscr.minate mixture OF
caps. gloves, the hats of The secretaries
their handbags. wells, and odds and
ends of manuscript"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Desert Romance
A New Novel bv
Ethel NJ. Dell

TIE LAMP IN THE DESERT. Bv Dths,
Sons. ouHah
The author who wrote "Greatbeart,'
and The Way of an Eagle" can be de-
pended upon to provide a stirring and
brisk plot, with dramatic crises and a
love-triumphant end.
All these are elements which mako
up Inc Lamp in the Desert" 1t has
a hlsh!y coiored and romantic setting
the Indian desert. Its peop are
m nembe1s cf a Dri,ish outpost. naive
chlet and faithful Sikh servant. The
glri IN the story is warmly colorcd and
aAurng, the man fascinating. and the
cad quite despicaole enough. The plot
moves rapidly and its shifts are eNcit-
ing.
The Lamp in the Desert" is the sort
Of book in which the reader wonders
what happens next. It's characters
are lovely costumed puppets, fascinat-
ing to watch; but they are not living
beings whom one would be at all in
tercsted IN knowing.
Easy to read and entertaining. n
book that viii stir the emotional and
leave the intellectual cold, it has all
the assets which make best seller.