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fRROkSdPWAR LIFT AS ENEMY MAKES QUICK RETREAT; MANY TOWNS ANB VILLAGES SAFEt
from Van line
JMMted -to -keen un nlt't tlieir
rcfci over shclt craters nml rut'
4a, sometlmea axle deep In mud,
column of turbulent trnfllc
out the cum unil transports
ka nnllnna fnllnUllIC U!l im
It. brlnclns un food nn J nm
Ion and men nml moio w
.oursiilt Is not n ilililnq cliarse
in ...irli nthcr in mrec
miuwv . ..
ki,... 1fr Ihn n. U1KI wav
iftiiwelvcB b furious shouts nm
fmH of Inugliter, because It i
i g aiow.
vut It Is too f.iBt for tlic enemy.
Baton) be Is lea.'.y to le.ne our men
'i-2 nn hl heels. Our horse urtlllcr
"fcr Brine nlons his trnrl. bsforc he
I 'Si- .. miu. ultli 111 luuM loailf H"
"T". . .... .i t.nrii. the
rear guarui i vr-.
Win body Is out of tlniiRer.
:5 lLls very slow, this pursuit, when
een from our sldo of thins,-, but as
lAck as hurrjlns le ith to trusses ot
German soldiers.
1 Iml Oooil llond
-i ... i .... --.. .1. oil rlern tiPlt
.v II qu'CKcna ncivin ....v --.-
of strife, for liejonti in.it mire ""
roads except where the Gcrnun nno
blown Brent craters, and 1 went fr
many miles throughout country when.
there are unshellcd fields where there
are cabbage patches nml neat farmsteads
end cottajre gardens and UlIiRH h
rtd-tiled roofs and houses with Kl.is
jvindows unbroken glass, l all the
Tods so that the seem like precious
jewels to ccs tired of rubbish heap that
nre fair towns, HUe Ypre
In one small Klunlsh tonti to when
I went, IscBhem, betweui Couitrul and
Tlilclt, there wai noi a House that
khowed any slun of war. thoURh then
had been tierce machlnc-iru" flithiliur
outside Its streets, and there were little
Flemish shops with f'Uicj tliliiR In Ihe
windows and n bis marlcit square, and
Conents nml coIIcris with solid w!1k.
and not n single shell hole an win re
Lainc columns of Ililglan cumin
droo tlirouBh the streets, and the were
receled as conquering- lieroes ! rui'fl
of their country people, who lined the
PAAements and stood out of tne- ul.iili
of the upper storks and stood In n ur
thresholds.
Almost ecry house ile .JelRla'i imps
that had betn bidden In ilu . I'm 'mr
four ears, until this da should tome
and women and children rin inlo the
roadway and Rale flici t tho U"lRlnn
Runners. ho hunc them on their Umber
lo protect It. Hut the French forced
their way around on two sides, and on
the ihlrd side a Trench battnllon wait
d to Ret tho signal that they should
attnclt fronfally.
Ilsrrh Stiles In llntlle
Some of these men were machine
gunners who had marched twenty-one
miles heforo rcnchlni; thilr line of at
tnek, ami' then they hid to wait umUr
lery flcrco Runflie. Hut at Inst Ihey
fprang up nndWent forward Into ltou
lers There was a dreadful fweep of hut-
i lets In the streets from (Itrmnn inn-
ilnorwn' from sheer ! chine Runs and one party of them, with
I-ri.nrl.rHn 1'rlsr Humes
I think I must hat In en the first
malt In l.lmkl lo be sien by those ''
Khn peoplo sine thilr rescue h tho
rrench and HtlRlans, for I sharid an
oi.it on with n French olllcer, who s
with me "Vile le Funic""' and "Vlie
I'AiiRlttcrri-'" Were cr'ed out b old
men and woimn and oung Rlrls wil
chlldrtti Ker. man and hoy w id his
cap A Fmnclsiiin frlnr 'n his brown
Inhlt and Mindntul fei t. wllh big heads
liiinslmr from Ills lirlt. was actually
dancing 'from his
Joy, and other monks wand Hull- hands
and beads
I spoke wllh some oung prlcts who
ale profirsors nt a nillige tlnl- i.ml
nfknl them some iiiir;'iins "How had
the ilermans belniMd? What 41
think of things"1
"Sir." jnlil imp nf tin ce nrlesfs In
, . . i-r. PMIil-IKIll
good KiikI sli, I inunnt tell ou w lint , ., ,,rr,lr.r
As Fnon as the French entered Houlers
I the IhlRlan people t merged from tneir
lheVOU
n ounr olllcer I met tills morning
came face to fate with an old battery
In the Mreet The Herman gunners tired
six rounds Then one of them shoutid
Don't shoot I lon't shoot I
am nn Alsttlan." nml he made the oth
ers MirremUr mid ti.ok his own lieu
ne Imp turfirid I iHre not tell u
hst 1 Hhoiltd break down and weep. I
wmc.i wouk. i,e i" "it '' Jrellms and with cries of joy ran toward
uir iftiiimu Hue u.iii mi ... "-
had no llberlj of any kind and were
undir Iron opprin-don V wen not
allowed lo ri i-n to the fur-itl" of
our friends or fmm one 'I1iki to all
ot In r We had mi mws of the outside
world eurpt what whs hi ilu Herman
painrs, and but fur tno spuiijii aim
the soldiers and embraced them Onn
olllier I met, u commandant and a most
Kiillntit looking soldier was a priest be
fore the war and was canon with th
eal'.f dral of Htsancon and a professor
at that colh Re
'ft was the first time 1 had eer been
nulih rtllif lonniiltte.. our p.oplr would I embraced bv n girl slme I Incline n
lime dtd from hung, r Prin. m "" "- - -
s.ild
(...oil l.rrinuiis Xniniig Unci ..ju0i ,,n Httto one tills will neier
"There were cord (Iirmms timoiirr I , ,,, i prelembd to bo her eats
tlioi in tills town. I.t us nil the iruth (,f, ,, telllnr her 1 luul no right to her
nhout that 1 hen- were Men who battel I (a jjul .ifm- nil, it was a kiss of
the war and all Its crui It-, but It ls,acCl and I was not rcall aiiRry about
their education and th-'lr mlilt.ir -.-' jt
tern which makes them brutal and un-1 , nnd ,,,,
-ensitlie to humm suffering I 7l lrtutor r.mV .xU-'. This
"Tim ollkers win- worse no i In spite ,,, H nillied"
of the Iron discipline which made their! Ul, ,rllv rnouR, th,.r. were blR
men 'salute tlum with tlgld faces these ..p, nf d.n.imlte and trench mortar
Oirninn soldi, rs hate tlielr olllcirs with , hom," tw(nt liolnlis lo cnh frightful
n chad v nml Dene hntrnl nml one di ,.,lnrSl, (I) the hnlfr and under tho
will wrtak their ungeance" .,... f r.ili..e .luireh.s nml at iross-
These prlesis told me that during re- rnnds Imt In some freak nl careless- '
cent dns the Uernnns hae undo no ,., iicrhnps beinuse liny had nn other
illfirulsi. tint Hies on- lost 'mxn. ill.. 1i rinan inmmnniler of Houlers
'It Is fln'sliiil with us," tliev mid -, ,,j , ri hl mining to be done bj sol- j
Theie Is no ml but In our defeat" ',i,.rH w ho did not enrr out their orders I
l.irn the olllcus niiniltteil that tue , ( N( r)l nt cross-to.uN and under nm
tide hud tumid and that their old hope ohureh towtr The glorious old belfr
was peace t j-oulirs still stands
At Itouhrs I met some I'linch olflci rs I . . .
and men who had fon-ht tin Ir v a Into1 Houlers unit n -men
this town a line old Flemish town, wllh nd all the town stands, so tli.it It
toll belfr- nm! spicmus mirket Is still fair to no from the outside with
sriuaro nnd man oil iliuri'iis i 'ill Its luaiiuful I ieinlsh houses Hut each
ni hie tow eis The 'Nnn ins did not house wis gmiiil lit fori ihe (Sermans
tni'i lo It no tins pl.n- Tliei fought 1 f I Tin p s'rl'Mi tl off the pant ling
W ii lurrl girding n villi maeliine tool. ,i,n doors uul window panes, and
iuns and hi- lug mni II -til ha ten s Mr tilt of furnlturt so that Houlers
Is nothing but a shell, and there
nothing left to the Inhabitants.
The nermann wished to sehd cer
body away and threatened to turn them
out at the baonet's point, but many
hid Ono man I met hid for ten days
wltfi four comrades In the chimney of a
factory nnd others refused to go and
showed such passionate motion that
the (Icrnim rnrrlson was afraid to
enforce the order
There wns nn astounding sltuitlon at
(."ourlral Our Irlshtmn had bun f""
their way ilose to It with n sharp fight,
Ing at lleule and other places north,
the cneni"H rear guards falling back
before Hum when their pressure became
too haul, and Inst night thev galmd
possesion of that quarter of tho town
whk h Is dMded b the cinal from the
mnln slrpets nnd the mirket plate, and
the famous old btlfr which has rung!
out the hlstor of fourlral ror many
hundreds of ears In triumph anu;
tragedy
Koine engineers tried to gain bridge
heads across the tnnal b building pon
toons while they were swept b mathlne-
gun fire from the opposite omits, .
succeedid In doing thl" so that some I
of our men trussed by ninth daring
and In most deadly rl'-k
lllonn l'rnm Onr llotim t Olhfr
t)nc olllcir; of ours forted ills wa Into
n housv whert there were some Hermans
Willi trench mortars mid when he wast
blown out of one room he wtnt into
another, nnd wis blown out of thit I
nnd then Into a trcrteli near the house.
It wns far' too tjtadW a placi for our
men to stai In small numbers and thev ,
were drawn liu( to the vest side of
the canal, where tht- -cmalned tsler-.
Is iday, Still, I Understand they are hold-1 for the moment when the Hermans leave man'gunners are also sparing the place.
lng at least a third of Courtral on thatnm, 011r troop, cnlcr u, rcue ,1)cm.
,, , ,.,.u.,f1 .i,wt iiutv in urn lUlYII
tho Queens and Middlesex
What tnnkea nn nstonlshlng drama
here Is tint Courtrnl Is filled with be
tween 35,000 nnd 40,000 Chilians. There,
again, the enemy tried to foice them to
lenie, and sent nwny nny able-bodied
bins and men between fourteen and
slt,, but "could not Induce Inrgc nuin-
birs of others to go, now that they
knewthe Kngllsh were so close up.
Many men hid themselxes. Others
adopted nn attitude of passlxe rests
tnnte, nnd the Herman soldiers were
afraid to lists force. All the women
except a few well-to-do people who went
WW ay to Hrusscls, remained to take the
risk of bombardment with liberty as
the great prize of courage, so that n
vast population Is still there, for the
most part on the other side of the city
be) and the cinal. waiting and wntchlnz
'
.Man) I'etinli. ('nnie Through l.lne
Hut from tho west nidi of the canal
many peoplo nrc coming through our
lines, Hnd our innthlne-gumirrs lying In
dltchi a and behind walls and In newly
dug trenches, see women with perambu
lators coming toward them and old
women hobbling un with children nt
tlielr skltts nml men trudging slowlyJ
nniong the patter of ninthltii-gun bul
lets Some nf these cl Minns bale been
killed, but tho enemy Is letting them
escnpe, nnd they only hae lo run me
risk of chance shots
They tell the tale of tlielr sufferings
111 e those others 1 hae seen, but the
l.n.A l.r.i.n tli.it tl.nli lm III I flit xtllll ,!tV
IHl.,- i.",,. .....v ...v.. ..... . --- -..v .
will not be destro)ed, because the Her
man soldiers themsehes .say they will
not blow ljt up. In spite of otders Rer-
nnd nre only shelling tho outskirts and
Bppruacnes.
It was a wondirful day III this war,
nnd II will be followed by otlieri, when
our Allied troops will enter ninny his.
lorli- towns nnd glie back to France nnd
Uclgluin mirUi of the couniry that has
been so long dliorced from them. The
enemy's retreat will now go fast and
from hundreds of thousands of htnrls,
carred If not broken by this war's long
agony, there Is going up n cr) of Joy
because the enemy Is departing nnd lib.
erty Is theirs Again, and tidlnra of
those they lne on our side of the lints,
and pence for them, howcer long th
war will last.
BERLIN UNENDURABLE
Argentine Legation in Germany
Worried by Situation
tlnrnns- Aires, Oct. 18 The Foreign
Office has received n dispatch from
the Argentine legation In Ilerlln sav
ing thnt the present situation In Ger
many Is unendurable.
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Pennsylvania should save 5,000,000
gallons of gasoline during the months
of October and November, for the im
mediate use of the Army and Navy.
Your Share of This
There are approximately 30,000 commercial
cars in operation in the state. If you drivers
will stop your motors during idle periods and
when your trucks are standing at the curb,
you will contribute nearly half the total
or 2,250,000 gallons
Think what that means! What a simple, easy thing
it is for you to do ! But what vast and far reach
ing results it has ! Surely Pennsylvania can count
on her truck drivers to do their share !
Passenger car owners by conservative driving
saving a gallon a week will add to the saving
3,500,000 gallons.
Regular tourists by giving up their trips this fall
will swell the total by another 500,000 gallons.
And Pennsylvania will once more come through
with a record at home fully in keeping with the
untarnished record of her sons in France.
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This movement means much to truck
owners. The conservation of 5,000,000
gallons of gasoline will make a total saving
of $1,400,000, thus making more money
available for Liberty Bonds.
The Atlantic Refining Co.
Philadelphia Franklin Pittsburgh
Wanted Immediately
for Overseas
THE United States Government requires
the. assistance and support of eivery owner
and driver of an automobile in the United
States.
The demand for gasoline for aeroplanes
and for transporting food, clothing and
ammunition to our boys at the front is
enormous.
All transportation authorities agree that
we must use gasoline in the United States,
but there are many ways to save waste in
its use.
Here is your opportunity to do a real
patriotic service
, "Don't Waste Gasoline"
Keep it in mind when planning to -use
your car, N
Keep it in mind when routing mo-tor-truck
runs,
Keep it in mind for fear you will
let the motor run unnecessarily
during stops. '
Our close relationship with owners and drivers .of
AUTOCAR motor trucks enables us to feel assured that
they will unhesitatingly do their duty.
We also feel confident that the example that will be set by
AUTOCAR truck owners and drivers in the conservation of
gasoline will be followed by every patriotic automobile owner ,
and driver, whether of a passenger car or truck.
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The result will be such a reduction in the amount of gaso-
line consumed that official regulations regarding this essential
fuel should not be necessary.
THE AUTOCAR COMPANY
Ardmore, Pa.
October 16, 1918
Established 1897
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