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RUSHING SHELLS 10 BATTLE
FRONI NO SLACKER’S JOB
When Word Comes Men Behind
Lines Work With Desperate
Speed.
DELAY MAY MEAN DEFEAT
I
Road Builders Who Follow Fighting
Ranks Taxed to the Utmost—Mo
tor Lorries Play an Important
Part in the Work.
By F. W. WARD.
(In the New York Tribune.)
London. —To render nn advance pos
sible and to Insure that everything
shall be kept up to date behind the line
is no sinull order. There is no time for
sitting down and thinking things over.
If anything has to l)e done it has to be
done at once. A few hours’ delay
might be very convenient to the organ
izer, but such delay would probably
vitiate any plans he might make. That
Is why, when anything has to be done
In die matter of repairs and rearrange
ments behind the line it has to be done
at top speed. There are no “hours” in
the army. If a job has to be rushed,
then everybody buckles to the task and
keeps on slogging until the Job is fin
ished. Tommy may grouse—he wouldn’t
be much good if he didn’t —but he
gets away with the job when he knows
it is important.
Once u Job had to lie done at a spot
where the Huns had been shelling for
three solid days. It was just the re
moval of stores, and all the spare It. A.
M. C. and A. S. C. men had been
pressed into the service on this par
ticular occasion. It was carried through
at night, naturally, and there were no
lights to be shown. The party would
have been blown out of the earth if
there had been any indication of their
presence.
It wasn't nn easy Job. In fact, it
was real hard work, the loading up of
lorries, wagons, anything that could
be got in -tiie way of wheeled transport. \
“Now, then, you chaps,” said the ofli- |
cer in charge, “I don’t know who you
are or where you come from. But j
we’ve got to get this Job done in about
three hours. If we don’t we shall be ;
shelled to h—— at daylight.” There j
was some cheerful growling, but the
Job was done well under the time, and
.1 dixie of tea at the finish put every
one In a thoroughly w OO - 1 numor.
Motor Lorries Used.
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This was only a small job, some
where In France,” but it was typical
of nn infinite number. As things are
now, there are plenty of stores and
material to do practically any job, but
of necessity they are not as a rule on
the spot, where they are actually re
quired. Bail heads and engineer
dumps cannot be carried forward on
the very heels of the advance. That
can be easily understood. But when
something has to be done in a hurry,
these materials enn be brought up by
means of motor lorries, with an A. S.
C. driver at the wheel and an engineer
officer In charge.
AimnuTdtloiT”lumps, wl 1 irTlielr iiiil
lions of shells, have to be built so as
to lie within easy reach of the trans
port. But other roads have to be
made, lending through the dump from
the main route. This Is necessary in
order that a lorry may be brought in
and loaded or unloaded from either
side. These roads are of the corduroy
variety, a floor of pit props being laid
and made secure, for the time being.
But when it does rain In France —well,
you know all about It. It Isn’t long
before the logs begin to sag. ns the
water gels into the ground beneath,
and the first thing you know is that a
LEAVES MILLIONS FOR
RELIEF WORK ABROAD
New York. —Mrs. Warren C.
Van Slyke, millionairess in her
own light and wife of n leading
attorney of this city, has sailed
for France to take up once more
relief activities she dropped a
year ago.
She will join the hospital unit
to which she belongs and which
is now stationed along the west
ern front. Her husband Joined
the Naval Reserves the day af
ter war was declared, although
he Is beyond the military age.
COLLEGE HEAD “DOING BIT”
Former President of Geneva College
Working as Stevedore Some
where in France.
Beaver Falls, Pa. —From college
president to stevedore Is n long step,
but that is what has happened in the
lorry dips down at an awkward angle,
one of the wheels disappears up to the
axle, and the logs splay out in all
directions.
That's where the rush begins. A
strong pull and n long pull gets the
lorry out of the way, up come the
loose logs, the ground beneath is made
up with brushwood or short lengths of
timber, well pegged down, the surface
is relaid, and a couple of hours later
things are going on well again.
Perhaps, though, there are not
enough pit props available. Bound
rushes an officer, gets a chit from the
office of the chief engineer of the army
corps operating there, hops on a lorry,
and away he pells to the nearest rail
head or dump. The cldt is handed in
to the officer in charge there, the nec
essary material Is issued and loaded,
back goes the lorry again, and the job
is done.
Perhaps a road Is under wafer.
Well, iron pipes are necessary to take
the surplus from one side of the high
way to a ditch on the other, and iron
pipes have to be found. They do not
grow on the bushes by the side of the
road. They are stacked perhaps miles
nway on a dump, and they have to be
brought up. Then, and not till then,
the work can be done, and the route
released for traffic again.
Even steam rollers have to be con
sidered, for a steam roller has a soul,
and has to be humored. The first
steam roller I saw in France came
from a London suburb, and she was
resting in a ditch. The next I saw was
one from the county council of a south
ern county. She was in a ditch, too.
Both were got out, of course, but the
edge of a road in France has nn un
canny habit of breaking away, and
then tiie trouble begins.
One roller I knew was the roost per
verse creature I ever met. She made
a start by blowing out the plug of her
boiler and had to be assisted from a
small river twice by means of a couple
of “caterpillar” tractors. Then, sud
denly, she appeared to change her
mind, and when I heard of her last
was working as though she were at
home. She had to be kept at work,
too, and her repairs had also to be
rushed. When the plug blew out, for
instance, an officer who happened to
come along took a couple of men round
to a French blacksmith's shop, found
some lead. nuui< the repairs there and
then, paid half a franc out of his own
pocket and wasted only a few hours
over the task instead of a couple of
days. Economy of time means every
thing, and nn hour saved means an
hour gained.
Real Rush Repair.
“Somewhere in France" there is a
little river about the width of a cannl
and with the water confined - between
banks some feet higher than the sur
rounding country. The Hun naturally
shelled these banks, with the inten
tion of letting all the stream Into the
fields. Now and again he got home
on his objective. But in n few
minutes, with sheets of corrugated
iron, posts, wire bindings, rolls of
brushwood —in fact, anything that was
at hand —the gap was filled in and
the damage repaired. This was a
real rush repair, and it went on at in
tervals, day and night, for a week or
ten days. Then Tommy shoved the
Hun back, and he had something else
to occupy his attention.
Getting up material for these re
pairs by means of motor lorries is,
too, not a task for children. When
you walk across a field or through a
wood there isn’t usually much danger
in it. But the Huns know where the
roads are, and he also knows there is
transport coming up or down practi
cally all the time. So, suddenly, he
life of Rev. Hr. William Henry George,
former president of Geneva college
here, who Is doing his bit “somewhere
in France." Mr. George enlisted ns an
ambulance driver in the American Red
Cross unit of Harvard university, of
which he is an alumnus. Arriving In
France, he found that there were more
ambulance drivers than ambulances, so
he volunteered for work in the supply
division. He is now doing the work of
stevedore and ordinary laborer, ac
cording to a letter received by his sis
ter here.
FINDS HIS PAPERS VOID
Innocent St. Louisan Is Unknowingly
an Alien for 17 Years—Files
for New Papers.
St. Louis. —William J. Mackle, su- ]
perintendent of the American Oar com- j
puny, who has believed for 17 years
that ho was an American citizen, has i
learned that his naturalization papers
were fraudulent and that he must file l
new papers.
Ten days ago Mackle appeared in the
naturalization office as a witness for
THE NORTH GEORGIAN, GUMMING, GEORGIA.
$156.30 IS EQUIPMENT
COST OF EVERY SOLDIER
Washington. lt costs the
United States just $156.30 to
equip an Infantryman for serv
ice in France. Figures made
public show that of this total
clothing represents $101.21,
fighting equipment $47.30 and
eating utensils $7.73.
The soldier’s gas mask costs
sl2, his steel helmet $3 and his
rifle $10.50.
The first 000,000 to 800,000 of
America’s fighting men will be
equipped with the present
Springfield army rifle, those to
follow will carry the Enfield
used by English troops.
starts shelling, and then you have to
get a real move on. You are also, I
may add, just as likely to run into
anything as to run away from it.
Once a lorry was going down to
fetch some stuff from a dump about
twelve miles back. Then tiie shells
began to pop over. That meant put
ting on speed, and for five or six miles
it was a race between the shells, tiie
lorry and a motor car. The trio trav
eled “some,” but the car couldn’t gain
a yard on the lorry, and eventually
both ran out of range.
When the lorry came back, loaded,
a couple of hours later, it was found
that four shell craters had been blown
in the road, but that the engineers had
already been on the spot and repaired
ail the damage done.
THE “LEGION OF DEATH”
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One of the courageous girls in the
“Legion pf Death” on parade. When
the soldiers at the front refused to
fight and became laggard of discipline,
a number of heroic Russian women or
ganized themselves into the “Legion
of Death” and took tlie places of the
men at the front. They fought furi
ously and the Germans were put to
flight at the sector, where they were
engaged.
The wonderful story of their deeds
has thrilled the world and made his
tory. Every girl in the battalion car
ries a dose of cyanide of potassium to
use in event of her capture. They do
not fear death, but they dread capture.
an alien. His stntus was asked and
he said that he had been naturalized
in 1900. The naturalization records
show that around that time about 7,500
fraudulent papers were issued in an
effort to pad the election registration.
Mackle was told to produce his papers.
These showed that he apparently had
been naturalized October 15, 1900.
The records of the St. Louis court of
appeals show that no papers were is
sued to Mackle. Mackle, an innocent
party In the matter, surrendered his
fraudulent papers to M. B. Bevington,
chief naturalization examiner, and will
file for new papers.
Cat Hunts Rabbits.
Alexandria, Ind.—J. F. Merker, fire
chief of Alexandria, Is the owner of a
rabbit-hunting cat. In two nights
Tommie brought to the rear door of
the Merker home two big rabbits.
Friends of the Merker family have
asked for the use of the hunting cat
when the hunting season opens.
Coast guard stations will bp
equipped with airplanes for rescue and
observation work.
GERMAN PEACE
TERMS JHITLINED
Restoration Of Belgium And Northern
France To Be Paid For By Sale Of
German Colonies To Britain
NO INDEMNITIES ARE NAMED
Balkan Question And Status Of Tur
key To 5 Settled By
Negotiation
London. —Germany Will shortly be
able to publish her peace terms, ac
cording 10 Dr. George Michaelis, the
German chancellor, a dispatch from
Copenhagen states.
The reighstag main committee, said
Doctor Michaelis in the interview,
“had tried to make final arrangements
regarding peace conditions and the
question of Alsace-Lorraine, but no de
cision has yet 1 been taken. The ques
tion, however, was eagerly discussed
and Germany will soon be able to
publish her peace terms.
Purported Outline Of Peace Terms
Washington.—What purported to be
an outline of Germany’s peace terms
has been circulated among diplomats
here within the last two weeks, but
has been regarded by the entente em
bassies and most of the neutrals as a
“feeler.” The origin of the so-called
terms was not disclosed, but they are
said to have been written by Foreign
Secretary von Kuehlmann before his
visit to Vienna, which since has been
pointed to as strengthening the prob
ability that they bear evidences of
authenticity.
Briefly the so-called terms are as
follows:
Restoration of Belgium and north
ern Fiance to be paid for out of the
sale of Germany’s colonies to Great
Britain.
Alsace and Lorraine to be independ
ent states. High rFench officials re
cently have stated anew the determi
nation of France to be satisfied with
notiiing less than the recovery of her
lost provinces.)
Triest to be a free port.
Serbia and Roumania to be restored
and Serbia to have a port on the Adri
atic.
The Balkan question and the sta
tus of Turkey to be subjects for ne
gotiation.
Disarmament and international po
lice.
Freedom of the seas, with Great
Britain in control of the English chan
nel until the projected tunnel is built
between Dover and Calais.
This outline of terms, circulated
without definite stamp of any official
authority, it will be noted, bears in
many respects a resemblance to the
general tenor of the peace proposals
of Pope Benedict.
By some diplomats such an outline is
regarded as presenting something sus
ceptible of discussion. It is discussed
merely as a possibility, without having
yet advanced fully into the range of
probability.
SWEDE MINISTER DENIES
HE ACTED FOR GERMANY
Baron Lowen Says That He Has Sent
' No Telegram From Argentina
For The German Legation
Buenos Aires. —The Swedish minis
-1 ter to Argentina, Baron Lowen, denied
j that dispatches in cipher had been
sent to Berlin by the German charge
through the Swedish legation at Bue
nos Aires. He declared:
“I have not sent or caused to be
j sent by the legation under my charge
I any telegram from the German lega
: lion. The news is a great and dis
agreeable surprise. I have cabled to
I my government to clear up matters,
j “In the United States they are very
i excitable.”
The official announcement issued by
the state department at Washington
that communications from Count Lux
burg, German charge at Buenos Aires,
had been sent to the Berlin foreign of
fice through the Swedish legation hero
in cipher, caused a sensation and was
the principal topic of discussion
throughout the city. That the situation
is regarded as serious was evidenced
by the fact that the populace, usually
gay on Sunday, were remarkably quiet
and sober-faced.
Effect Of Embargo On Cotton Exports
Washington.—License restrictions
recently placed on the shipment of cot
ton from the United States will not
materially diminish the volume of ex
ports and should have no appreciable
effect on prices to the grower, the de
partment of agriculture announces.
Reports that reduction in shipments
to the European neutrals will cut off
markets for four million bales are
branded as absurd by the department,
which presents figures to show r that
the neutral last year took only seven
hundred thousand bales.
CRISIS OF
WOMAN’S LIFE
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Change Safely Passed by
Taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound.
Wagoner, Okla.—“l never get tired
of praising Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege-
1 table Compound
dunnf|
years and had two
operations, but all
tne doctors and op
erations did me no
good, and I would
have been in jny
for Lydia
which brought me out of it all right, so
I am now well and do all my housework,
besides working in my garden. Several
of my neighbors have got well by tak
ing Lydia E. Pinkham’sVegetableCom
pound.”- Mrs. Viola Finical, Wagon
er, Okla.
Such warning symptoms a3 sense of
suffocation, hot flashes, headaches, back
aches, dread of impending evil, timidity,
sounds in the ears, palpitation of the
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu
larities, constipation, variable appetite,
weakness and dizziness should be heeded
by middle-aged women. Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound has carried
many women safely through the crisis.
GREEN MOUNTAIN
ASTHMA
TREATMENT
This treatment is the resnlt of many years of study
and experienced tbespecial treat-
Z, . -V) ment of diseases of the lungs and
NLV I J 1/ throat by tbe late I)r. J. H. build,
graduateof New York MedlcalOol
j£~'i.. V \ -i- lege and New York Chemical Lab
oratory, a practitioner in Bellevue
wwC-AaV and New f ork charity Hospitals,
Aar*,,, TnjATKfets „ m | :in pmineDt physician. 2acand
4 ’a—j:.r7Alr ci.oo at druggists. Fro s*mpu and
practical treatise on Asthma, ita
causes, treatment, etc. Sent on
request. J.U. Guild Cos. Rupert,Vt.
W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. 37-1917.
Perhaps a woman tells secrets be
cause she Is afraid of forgetting them.
SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will burn out the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo
ing with “La Creole” Hair Dressing,
and darken, in the natural way, those
ugly, grizzly hairs. Price, SI.OO. —Adv.
Very Useful.
“What a peculiar choice for u wed
ding gift !” remarked a lady, trying not
to laugh, as she inspected a huge flat
iron which her charwoman had just
bought.
“Ain't it, ma'am?" said the charwom
an, rather proudly than otherwise.
“It’s my sister that's gettin' married,
and I’m repaying her for the gift she
sent on my weddin' day.”
“Did she send you something very
ugly, then?”
“ ’Deed, no, mum. Hers was a beau
tiful present. But you see, ma’am, a
little bird whispered to me that her
future husband’s a man of violent tem
per, and I thought I’d send her some
thing that would be useful in case of
family disputes. She lms the straight
est aim with a flatiron ever I seed I”
Pearson’s Weekly.
Right in Line.
“Have your millions enabled your
children to marry well?"
“Rather. My daughter married a
cabaret dancer and my son Is engaged
to a prominent chorus girl. We’re
headed for the best society now.”—
Kansas City Journal.
Work of Agricultural Department.
Tiie dapartment of agriculture lias
a staff of more thnn 16,000 people who
are devoting their whole time to the
improvement of agriculture, the inves
tigation of marketing problems and
the enforcement of federal laws.
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