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SHOWN IN BRUGES
I5i90" Influenza patients
Are Gassed by Germans
ndreds of Persons Shot Enemy Floods Abandoned St. Amand, Where
Under Orders of Tyrant
Port Commander
Grip Sufferers Were Collected, With Mus
tard Gas Hospital Target for Shells
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INNOCENTS ARE SLAIN
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"r rihtnitAMO IISIa Mniiil n !
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Etr" ' . . ... '
S?' c H Uflicers and bonders who
fe v Have Made Fortui
tunes
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ny l'HILIP GIHBS
Special Cable to E'ttning Public Ledger Spanish Influoiua
ftvvrioht. If If, bj .Veio Vrfc Tlmrs Co.
Willi Hit Il'rltlth Armlaii In lrnic, Oct.
British troops are now In. tlir outlying
streets of VaUnclcnncf. divided from
the heart of the city by tlio Scheldt
Canal, which Is the uestern boundary
of I ho boulevard". They have outposts
. nv WALTER DURANTY
' SSpfrU Cabtr to-Evening Pubtlc Ledgirn ,hp '."h. ' Rt- Vm J""1, , Lf
V Mrt. nil. h .Yd Vorfc rn Co. Kctlnelle. M they are M. to look
'V tlruite, Oct :i
'down the ae,nuea of thut old town,
1 .. U ...... .... lij-.llit lirl.l nfll1ft nc
German tule In Hr.iBCs was marked ( """" """ """" 7 ""-' "
by a combination of cruelly and ror."1" f" 'Wnoo. KnovOne that
'ruptlon without parallel since the days tho HmclLh aro at their galea
. , . . .... j u... .... ' There was not much fighting here. :
ui cpaniPil lyrauny 111 r mimi-in. pu i imc
. ' , . ,. terday except for
pow er ,ic cu r ,. ',.,.. nre, but oulh of ValencleroiM,
,nrammW,,,u,,,., ,., th(j vn!ajcM Knd
wno proveu 11 voruiy sutewfur iu mc
. . , Catr.iu. on a
mromoua LiuKe 01 .v.va. v r-crocacr ; mllMi there a dr,V8 forwiirrt ny
oraers nunareas 01 neieoiii. uv- ;,.,. ,.,. t,, ,!
big buret of ma.
woods In-low I.e.
front of nearly twenty
Kr'
r.
ir
shot after the twenty of a trial on the
scantiest evidence
"For a caso of espionage pre&uiriptloit
its rufflolcnt'cvldenre and proof unnecra
nary'' was one of his payings, and an
other: "It la better 10 rlioot u pcorb'ol
Innocent people than (et one spy escape,"
On that ayitcm tho Ucrhians did "Jur
Uco" In Flandcr".
' The most notorloun oufc was' Hie mur
der of Captain lrymt. T talked today!
.with a .man named Kclialerifne, whoso
coualn sKared a cell with Fryatl during
tho trlat "Atier a brief hearing the cap
tain was removed from the ourt while
Ills judgo deliberated
"I fear there Ib little hope." salt) Kry-
It. "They call It a trial, but It looked
like a put-up Job to me Krr thing
wafl'cut and dried ror condemnation."
Hardly were tho words out of Ills
mouth than they came and led him
away, and five minutest later the Belgian
heard the fatal volley in the court yard.
Fryatt'B body lies in a nameless grave
In a corner of the cemetery, hut it Is
(aid that the eexton has a record of
the exact spot.
It Is worthy of tiote that before his
departure a few daya ago the Oennan
military judge Kepfel. who presided at
Frjyitt's , trial, declare:
"The British will want my head In
payment of Fryatt s life hut It la 1
Schroeder alone who in responsible. I
simply obeyed his orders, whleh insisted
absolutely on the death pcnalt."
Reopltra Are Torture
An even more horrible caso was that
of a Belgian uanied Do La Place and
his three companions, condemned to be
shot after a halt hour's trial. At dawn
the following morning they were led out
to thcr courtyard of Lanrrrx' barracks,
whore tho execution took place, and were
fastened to posts opposite which a tiring
squad was. ready.
Just as the last knot was being tied
an officer entered the courtyard crying,
"Admiral's ordern. Your appeal has been
' heard." .nd all four were taken back
i to prison.
1 Incredible as it may seem, this hideous
farce was repeated a week later, with a
'.Similar respite at the last moment. Then.
after another fortnight's imprisonment.
during
Fourth armies
toward tho great forest of Mormal. eov.
there has been hard fighting .In . the
fdrest of Vlcotrio nearby.
All this district was crowded with
elvlllani. whrl now hnve htm liberated.
luid tho First Army, which does not In-
Jlildn In Its boundaries any nig manu
facturing towns llli Mllo or Itoubatx,
hai rescued 70,000 people from Ocrmoit
rule.
Tho enemy's rcslitaneo Is Increasing
along this line, and th're has been heavy
fighting In tho village of Thlant, whero
tho rjermans counter-attacked under
violent bombardment and forced the
British troops back to the western
side of It
Prisoners still crowd back behind the
British lines and the enemy's Mrength
In man. power has been much weakened
since October 1, apart from 111 neero
losses In dead and wounded.
The Fourth Army on tho southern part
of the front, southeast of Camhrnl, had
taken is.ooo prisoners between October
I and 20. The Third Army in the sam
time had taken 10,000 men and 2&0 1
He turned one niiltd.
Ing Into a hospital for them and crowded
it.
Influent Victims CJed
Then when lie left the village to
rrcapu the cavalry which had closed
round it, ho shelled It with mustard
gas. Most of his shells fell around the
hospital, though his runners ought toloirteers. and the First Army had taken
8500, while the Second and Firth Armies
also, piled up this rcoro by many
thousands.
Mnro cities are slipping Into Brit
ish haadn and the enemy Is being
hustled faster than he wants to go. and
he cannot slop the weight of things
bearing down on him with relentless
and dreadful pressure.
have known, and had ptty, and these
poor stricken souls, who went hiding In
tlhelr cellars; so 111 already that many
could not Btnnd. ami though dying (and
vome aro now dead), wefc aware of the
polsonoui 'vapor stealing Into their
lungs and burning them.
The problem of tho civilian populations
liberated, by the advancing British arm
ies Is serious and Is adding to the bur
den of the flghtlnc organisation. Onn
corps east of Doual has 41,000 people
on Its hands, all destitute, utterly with
out means of getting food, In grae Jierll
of starvation unless the army sends sup
plies without delay.
It Is not easy to send up supplies for
people numbering many divisions of
troops The transport difficulties oer
the old battlefields are already liard
..it ! .,Hlailnn i . AMlrtH Ui
ering many hundreds of acres of " JiV" he may no g. hungry in' the-
woodlunds, where the follago Is now
turned to scarlet and gold, like the lcavet
of all the trees tn this now battleground
beyond the belt forty mlle-.i deep for
hundreds of miles, white autumn makes
no. difference to the landscapo because
all Is dead there
Beyond the liberated towns of Cam
brul, Douai and Lille there arc many
Woods and many htreums and many btnall
ridges and fields cut ud by dltchrs and
hedges, so that I' Is pot an easy coun
try through which to fight The enemy
has plenty of cover for his men and
guns, tn the woods, especially. Ocr
man machine-gunners can lie in urn
hub and fire until the British are ilce
to them before stealing away n me
glades and hiding behind other trees,
so tha British have to go warily, anil,
rather than penetrate thoso dense woods,
thick In undergrowth, work around them,
dodging machine-gun fire and surround
in if the German rcur-guardr.
TsnWs Orereiime Dlffleulllf
On the Fourth Army front furl her
south below l.e r.iuteau the troops hart
tho help of a small number of tanks
which bad difficult countr.v to cross.
owing to the number of small rtream
front line. Add to that these thousands
of fctarvlng souls, and It may be Im
nglnen that tho "Q" branch la In u
desperate dilemma.
City of Deuel Is Dead
In Doual Itself there Is tragedy, but
of another kind without II16 humiyi
touch ror Doual Is dead. In. this home
of old scholars and of many centuries
of splendid history and good crafts
manshlp there Is no life except that of
a slrny cat or two, like one I saw af
frighted by my footstep In the lonely
halls or the Hotel de Vllle, where up
stairs anil downstairs there Was an
utter loneliness and great silence I'ln'd
the litter of Its archives flung about by.
i.,muii h.iniU in search for loot.
Where ore the people of DouulV N'o
single face looked out from the windows
of Its old houses. Its cathedral was a I
house of silence. In the dwellings cup
boards were open and baro and all
furniture ovetturned and crockery and
glassware smashed by deliberate Industry-
, j
! With the Hrlll'h Armies tn trance, UCI.
I .'; loeiayeui
MAY BEJFINNS' PRESIDENT
General Manncrhcim Thought to
Hi Acceptable to Entente
Special Cable In T-irning Public Ledger
Copirlotit, istf. by .Vri, York Times Co.
slorklinlinn, Oct. !l.
NoK reeeived here trgardlng the crlsH
Itf Finland suggests thst the return to
power, of rjeneral Manprhelm Is of
po'lltlcul Importance . Brlnce Frederick
Carl of llefse will nol acct the Finnish
throne ut present, and iwlnhurfvud, tho
Premier, Is regarded as 11 n Impossible
i president, on uotount of his pro-German
HAIGTHROWSNEW
LIGIfrON DEFEAT
Talc of Disaster Conflicts
With Ministers', Maurice
Points Ont
ARMY WAS DEPLETED
Field Marshal Tells of Itc
duccd Ranks "When Enemy
Opened Spring Offensive
By
MAJOR GENERAL SIR TRED-
ERICK R. MAURICE
Special Cable to Kvening Public Ledger
Copirluht, i)lg, bv h'lu) York Tdnm Ce.
l.on.liMi. Oct. 21.
Kir Douglas Halg's dispatch dealing
with the htory of the dark days of last
spring hi dated July 30, and Is now
published, Just thrco months later. Tho
date of publleallem has been skillfully
chosen : for no one would desire at the
present time to call the Government
to account fcr past sins of omission or
commlsslen. They need to devote the
whole of their energies to the vital
problem nt ohtnlnlng a satlrfactory
peac ut the carllckt possible moment,
11 ml with tho least expenditure of life
und treasilie, Nevertheless, the story
which llnlg tells Is that of the steal-
ever ovcrtUKcn
e,l dlriiHter which has
views. liritioh urni. ..i liiktrnitloii comnaratlve'
Finland's need at tils time ts for a ! i. greater than thee of tho Dardanelles
strong man at me neau or uiraim, nnu or of Kut, which have been Ihvesilgaten
the. general opinion is that this leader
will be found 'In Genrral Manncrhelm,
who Is thought to bo acceptable to the
Kntente and to the Scandinavian coun
tries It has been announced officially by
tho French consul at Itelslngfors that
Franco docs not Tcfusc to recognize Fin
land as n uoverelgn Stato, but cannot
Xwlmowlcdgn tho regime forced Upon
Finland against the law of tho land.
POPE HOPES FOR FREE POLAND
Atwiotn to See People Choose
Form of Government
Rnme, Oct ;4 In an apostolic letter
to Alexander Kakowslil, archbishop of
Warsaw. th Pope expresses hope thut
the. people or mum may enjoy me priv
.:. .1. n,. eiffhtini. tn foul weather I liege or choosing tneir own form or gov-
and over boggy ground lire along the , Th(j commni(.Btloti cids by saying
lino of the Scheldt canal in front of I ,,ilt the iorlt iff. desiring to show hts
Tournai and Valenclrnnca and further I Kood will toward Poland, nroposej to
north Tliev also hold the west hank i make Pr Kakowskl a cardlmil nt the
of the Scheldt canal for some uisiance huai . "''
1 ....r...,l 'rr flirt U llffil SirCHm
iirvn ic"" " - - . - 1 ...t,,,
bush.
Tho
white fog. so wet and dense that when j .. w know we have reached
I went through Doual there was Ho I (a " when th ocnuans will undouht
visibility whatever, for the airplanes j ed, mako a Mana order to delay pur
however low they flew, and they were j ' h . ... wlI, maUc hard fighting for
' 'ops. t)ie jirin,., before we can hope to liber-
BRUGES TO BE CAPITAL
and tree trunk barricades, nut seem 10 1 Tournai and Courtral.
have overcome these obstacles anei nao , medrlseh. on tho
.,... t. ,t,., itrltluh line bends back
making their way to the woods w Here I "-'' ' ' , ., ,.... , . .,
,he German machine gunners He In am- j Ty "whlch 'thr "Pn" 'fV V r
..-..., .,,u - 'cnem5 has defended strongly with .arueu '-
iiioriniiK o' - 1 ..,- nrt 1. ho d ng in strengtn wun nin-
flying lust above the tree I
It was. f think, better for the British
troops, for it blinded the German ma
chine gunners, searching for any move
ment of men apart from the fog and
pitch darkness, when the British started,
as' their attack began at 2:30 In some
places and earlier in others. It hud
been a bad night. The enemy, antici
pating further action, fired large num
bers of ga.s shells and tried to break up
the assembling of tho troops by a heavy
which tho Belgians continued
K- -X protesting their Innocence of all charges barrage from field guns
against mem. tney raced a firing ; quad
, lor me iniro iima ana me ueam j-entepce
j J was carried out. , . , , j , ,
" One of them named Gloover's. hail be-
come a raving maniac slnos the second
application of torture, but the Germans
knw no mercy. Soldiers bore;hlm out
and fastened him to the execution post
with the others.
The court made no attempt to dlscrlm-
Inato In espionage cases. An ex-mer-
ate Tournai and Valenciennes anu urne
further east
The inemy has his guns behind the
Scheldt, and In this way has for the
limn belntr some advantage over the
British, as the bringing up of the Brit
Will Move
rom Foe
llMtrr. Oct 24. Tho whole of the
province of wi-sicrn Flanders and part
of euHtem Flanders and Halnaut having
been recovered from the Germans, the
Belgian Government has decided to es
tablish Its administrative departments in
Bruges.
German; Sentence Guilty Pilot
Heme, Snllierlaml, Oct. M The Ger
mans, onc- more expressing ngret oven
tho attack by one of their airmen on a
Swiss balloon at Hie frontier iicioiier 5.
to servo three
OrmnnH I'lee From Tillage
X village named Boussles was. tlwV!r(nii JA2 most irdllant and stubborn
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way have closed In upon ine .cnciui
lsh heavies Is very difficult over the old causing the death of a HwIm lieutenant
battlefields, now in filthiest condition of named Bulry, have announced that the
Minrt firirt Hwnmns. I nuuiy puoi. a nonecomiiiieBiuueu uiuwi,
The Germans alin have organized the , has been condemned
trench mortar defense of the Scheldt and months In prison.
are, tlrlnir heavy barrages ulon the op- 1 ,
poslte hanks to prevent tho British gain- 1
Ing brldgeneans. in spnp 01 una, iu
bv rosal commissions, und It is neces
sary to place on record In regard to It
certain mattHis which rcqulro Investi
gation at, the proper time.
There Is a direct conflict between err-
tain statements made by mlnlbters re-
gardlnit the same operations. Ilalg
l-avti definitely that he was obliged to
extend Ills fremt and that this was tho
prime e-aui.e of the disaster, which '
lengthened the front with fewer men
to hold it - j
The evtcnt of th'e from made it Im
possible with Hi- forces under my com-1
tnand to have ndeiiUte reserves at all
polnls threatened." he stated.
It is Inconceivable that llnlg bhould
now malic that statement ir lie liau
not pointed cut his weakness before tho
German blow fell updn him.
Yet, oa April ft. Lord Curzon aia
hi the llnuc ut' lords: -
"Thcro seems to have hem :i tend
ency In some eiunrtcm to suppose Ilia'
cither from reluctance to tamper with
the available siUrces "f maneuver in
this country or from tho failure to up
precia'.o military advice, the British
army in France had been allowed to
decline numerically to a point that vnt
fraught with peril. There Is 11.0 fouii
(Union for such a suspicion, .nor were
any apprehensions of such a character
cither entertained cr received " Again,
later In the nunc speech, he said'
"The western Irout was all equipped
to look after Itself. If It has In any
respect failed to do so the explanation
must be sought elsewhere.
Some Contradictions
llaig says-, 'Since the month 0' S.' n
teiiibiT, 1917. pursuant to the d'eclcloh
taken by tho British Government to
ward the end of that inonth, 'negotiations
had been proceeding with the l'eneh
authorities legaidlng an extension of
tho front held by tho British armies'."
Bonar Law, on April t7. sanl ''The
arrantementJt In the. matter of the ex
tension of tho British -front were made1
entirely by" the British and French m(l
Itnry authorities.
Douglas llslg says: "Under Instruc
tions from th army council tho reor
ganization of divisions from tho thir
teen battalion to tho ten battalion busts
was completeel during the month of Fetb
tuary." That Is about one month be
fore the German attack.
On April 9 the I'rlme Minister saldt
"What was the situation st tho be
ginning of tho battle? Notwlthttandlng
the heavy casualties In 1517 thi army
In France was considerably stronger on
January 1, 1911, than on January 1,
1917."
On May 9 tho Brlmo Minister, (n a dra
matic passage. Implied that that' state
ment was correct because he was Jus
tided In Including noncombatahts In
Ilalg's fighting strength. He said:
"Who aro combatants? Are those
men who stopped the ndvance of tie
German army to Amiens the other day
combatants' (Honorable member
"Yes.") "They are not If you begin
to make a distinction between combat
anta and noncombatants. I am speak
ing of General Carey's force. They
would not bo treated ns combatants."
Carey's Men Combatants
llalg gives the composltlon'of Carey's
forco and shows -that It was made up
almost entirely of men who were com
batants und aro always treated as com
batants v
On April 9 the Prlmo Mlnltter said
that ho had been Informed by ,Slr Henry
Wilson In the month of January or the
beginning of February that the Ger
mans would attnek the British front at
approximately the place and tn the
strength and tn the manner In which
they did actually attack. On August.?
tho l'rlmn Minister Informed tho House
of Commons that the enemy attacked he
cause ho believed that we had no re
serves In men. whereas tn fact D6B.000
men wero cent across the channel In that,
month after the German attack had
taken place. Later the Brlme Minister
iniido 11 similar statement at Man
chester. Why, then, was It necessary to reduce
Ilalg's force by 120 battalions befofo tlvj
batttle?
HalgV dispatch brings out clearly the
fact that If effective Unity of command
had been established before the battle
Instead of In tho midst of the greatest
military crisis which wo have experi
enced In this war the danger to which
we wero exposed would have been very
appreciably diminished. A political ex
ecutive committee was not nnd could
VWCCOMM6RCWL70y
MANN'S
not be'an e(Wk,etfiref efnuniwrf.
ss nipety-nln rrhtlriietrl Ountlrtt
predicted when It wa constituted.
Kore-fd to freteet Tarts
Th words "too late" ate written Urge
on nearly evety page of this dispatch,
Sir Douglas Ilalg's Story w,lll, It Is to p
Imped, remove forever th undeserved
stigma which has rested upon (he Fifth
Army, II makes It abundantly clear
that, feeling It to he of vital Importance
to defend the channel ports, he had to
keep reserves In the hofth and tn leave
General Oough.wlth Inadequate support,
Kach division of tho Fifth Army was
holding on an average 87B0 yards' of
Tront. Kach division of the Third Army
was holding on nn Average of jrOO yards
of front. Yet, by fnr the heaviest blow
rll won tha Wfth Atmrt wWh ifM
flghtlfit
.turfdV
tiuawlitr li4 ' rnl4tl
lontry'or tri "Old 'Cdnrtfbpflbl "
Vrt iMomA-u ..attrltntud lev General
Doh, who.ls reftrrit WpA dispatch
as an able ahd'experierfcMioommantUr.
Th slory makes It clear that If the
Fifth Army was at first pressed back
under the weight of overwhelming num.
bfcfa, It Was the withdrawal of the right
of tho Third Army on .March 28, owing
to some1 misunderstanding, w,i!eh torn-,
promised the 1'lfth Army south of the
Somme. '
Plr Hubert Gough has been for six
months on half pay wlthbut any Inquiry
or Investigation Into his responsibility1
for what occurred. That ts not justice.
Hi
ferno of sharp ngnuns, ami wnoit itiio-
nrltlsh closed nrouna it numDers or
r.ermans were feen running out the
other side toward tha deep shelter of
the great forest of Mormal.
At the same time iresii re-enrorce-
ments of German troops debouched from
tlie forest anu met me runaways, nnu
there was wild confusion, as some went
chant skpper. who was arrested with " ' way an some another. It Is prob
four others, made full confession of his -Sir. that there will be strong counter-
. I. . "U1't01 raving me lives -ttacks In this district.
of his comrades, who were In nowise I ... . .1
'implicated and, who were innocent The . pwfr!,l.,h..UllP1,
AH were pltllcsfly
ners must have
been takrn in these operations, and by
I rtrtflno ii t i"iln
--" - . c P'"'csny,-r,- c,08e , th(. fore,t of Mr)rnlaj
Th i,i.... , ,., , , the British are drawing the loop tighter
KPJ i.1 5, , la8t"nd ''H around Valenciennes, so that the enemy
nnrlJl mLK ,',1 h,a m V" eyM wl?I have to withdraw quickly unless he
, bandaged, btandlng with folded arms, V, ., ,inneer or couture of lis car.
he looked the firing squad In the faceri8,;s the dang'r or eal,ture "' ear
and cried. "You have killed Innocent rlson' ......
mn. I alone am" A volley cut short 1 "m atr!ii,i that lhcre mUst be ,nan'
his words. 'poor peasants trapped along this line of
, The. Inhabitants stain that thevalwavf' battle, wood cutters crouching In the
knew when executions took p'lace be-' undergrowth through which machlno
causa It was the invariable custom to ' bullrts aro slashing, arid wives of French
have a band playing In tho souare nut-(charcoal burners hiding with their
ksfde tho harracks to drnw.. n. nn,p . babies In the cellars or little home
. , the shots.
As throughout the Invaded territory,
tffi
.minor punishments were literally rained
on tho people. One English woman. Mrs.
"Grant Daiton, was actually fined 300
4 mirks, or a week'r Imprisonment, for
"Wearing an anti-German expression In
the ofrtclal bureau," the very words of
. the condemnation notice, which her hus
1 band showed me, although sho had not
uttered a single word or made tho slight
est gesture.
Germans ftteal Fortune!
The corruption of the Germans sur
passed their cruelty, especially during
the last six months.
"We all know there'll be no Job in
Germany after the war. so we will make
hay while the sun shines,' said one
strgeant in impudent explanation of his
share In a big smuggling operation.
Nearly all the frontier guards, of
ficers and privates alike, made fortunes
among which 100,000 marks was the
lowest figure.
"This ts the business firm of Wllhelm
& Co., t'nter den Linden." raid an of
ficer of the supply department, who Un
blushlngly sold anything the Belgians
cared to pay. for from the stores under
his charge.
At Ghent a great scandal was revealed
about six months ago. A man of the
Ghent supply department staff bought ;
an estate for 1.000. 000 marks In Luxem-1
burg. In the course of the legal formali
ties of sale, the document In relation
thereto fell by error Into the hands of
. f in cniei 01 anoiner ueparimeni. wno
L ." i.lntltuted an Inquiry. A gigantic eye-
-f:-?tem of robbery waB brought to light In
it 'Which almost the whole supply depart
.3,1" merit was Implicated. Tho illicit
t transactions, chiefly concerning the sale
;.K ffsof foodstuffs .and animals requisitioned
5 for the army, arc said to have totaled
Jfc. S0.000.000 marks. The principal culprits
were shot, but the corruption continued
j to flourlbn as perore. - iney wouia nave
l' SOia you a Buomarinc 11 ;uu uuu iiitg
I, aBM an ItihoMtant "Vnlhlnir waa
too big or too small for their crooked
l Mint. -
l , -It waB a common thing for soldiers to
neglect duty In return for onnes. tine
Bfasant, fearing that nls house would
lJh lnlnri! bv the dvnamttlnir of a
i .a Vrkige at Oostkerkc, gave the squad In-
;.-tWed with the Job two kilos of butter
v Tt of the explosives In the canal. The
,Vv. ilt was that the bridge was hardly
Murta at an.
aawporta and 'permits of 'all sorts
IWHwed a, Hants ror trarnq at a regular
of prices, according to tho distance
journey ana the toclal position
IMsrohaser.
y the Germans seemed to to
mm a Belgian. "There
TUn'l M. aitef as
flaLftti tivev. au It
S5Pt1Jf""r irr 1
Ttlver and canal, except where, on tne
second army front en.st of Courtral, they
have been checked by the Bussuyt canal.
Yesterdav north of Courtral troopf of
one corps of tho second army captured
twenty guns, with their Umbers and am
munition, and one long-range naval gun
They also captured two railway trains
of one-meter gauge.
Courtral Still Delnr Mii-llfd
Courtral is still under fire from high
velocity gijiis. but they arc not doing
much damage, and civilians are happier
than wlien ! aw them yesterday. There
was considerable shelling against tne
British eatt of the city and In the vll
lages near it on the Fifth British Army
north and south of Tournai.
Some of the British patrols crossed
the Scheldt yesterday at Oblgnies. above
that city, and at Achln. south of It. bu
after their reconnaissance came back to
tho west side. The enemy has. been
fighting hard at the village of Freyenncfl
north of Tournai. which still remains
in Ills hands, and at St. Maur. on the
t,outh side, which the British have now
captured.
Among the bases which have fallen
Into the British hands during their ad
vance Ik the German headquarters, for-1
me'rly used by General Slxt-von Armen,
th'e antagonist of the British in the bat
tles of the Kommc, whose report, with
women and children, though they are its frank criticism of German methods
ravenously hungry after cold nights and and necessities, revealed for the first
exhausting days, and they break oft time the growing weakness of the
hunks of bread and thrust them Into the enemy's fighting machine,
hands of boys and girls, whose plncheo. The German general and his staff
faces tell their tale, though they do not Eceni to have found the war thirsty
beg. 'business, for they ordered und received
Lamentable things aie happening In 'consignments of wine to the amount
some oMhese places, as at St. Amand. of 10.000 bottles, now. lying empty
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advance beyond big towns, and it is a
tragedy which stirs the hearts of the
British troops, who go stepping day nfter
day far from the main lines of com
munications into this great unknown
country which they call "the blue." They
give somo or tneir nuiiy Beer to tnese
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A partlnl list of our tegu
lar stock Formal
Account 1'a.viible tlerord
Balance Hlieets
1(111- I'nyuhle and lleeelvuhle
Combined Cnoh and Journal
e'ctmiitinr Stieels
Credit Information Btsnks
Unity Huslneis Slntement
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luplleate Matemenl
Binployea' Iterord
Kvcpense Ileport System
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Inventory Forms
Order Blanks
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Trial Balance T,eaves
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Have Arranged for Tomorrow (Friday)
Aii Especially Prepared Sale of
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Women's Taitleur Suits
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Friday Only
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.-J collection of about ninety
five tailored suits, the season's
best models, in three distinctive
styles. Developed in Treco
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Belted Models, with plain and
high collar effects, obtainable
in the season's wanted shadings.
These suits emphasize
the finesse and precision
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near Valenciennes, which was cantured , around these buildings.
by British cavalry. In this village the North of Valenciennes, where the
enemy had collected nearly 1500 pnple Fcarpe runs Into the Scheldt, the British,
who were suffering from what is called i captured the town of SUmand, and
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Support the patient's weakened vitality by a eusUlninif,
easily digested food.
Borden. Malted Milk it a standby (or the conraleiccnt. It
builds up strength speedily and surely. Pure full-cream milk
and nutritious srains partially prcdijeited by a special
process.
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GOAL FOR THE SICK
THE enormous task of distributing coal to Philadelphia's
373,000 homes is so well along that almost every family now'
has coal, and can readily hav.e .heat .the ..instant it ia,acc'de,d. ,,
But here and there in the city arc families who have not
yet brdered coaljand other families who (. have ordered, but,
have not yet received their coal, -for jthef'reason.'iin irnost) -'f'A
cases, that the dealer has been unable to deliver the exact
size specified.. ' e
For the protection of these homel witholit coal,1 we wjsh
to publish the best means of getting coal quickly, in, the eve,nt
of sickness. ' ' j . j ,. j. -' i . t'
In the case of the consumer who has not ordered his
coal, the Fuel .Administration has issued a .new ruling which ,
makes it possible for .him to get one ton of cqal wjfhout vv' '
waiting the usual three days after placing his order. '
In the case of the consumer who has placed .an order
for stove or nut coal and has not received it yet,- if.stekhess
requires that he have coal immediately, he can almost "cer- '
tainly secure prompt delivery from his dealer of one or two'
joris of egg or pea coal for his present needs, together with
detailed directions prepared by the Fuel Administration for .'
the use of- egg and pea coal in heaters. .
Fortunately, the 'Citjv'.'of Philadelph'ia 'is, so nilicn 'better', .,
supplied with coal" than it has ever, been .before, in its hiitory,- ,
at this time of year that there are only a few consumers to--
whom the above paragraphs may apply, but we have writtdn '
them with the feeling that it would be lamentable, if even a
single consumer with sickness in his home should be unable
to get coal, and with the sincere wish to be of help to the
puDiic in every way mat we can. . ,.,
GEO, B. NEWTON COAL CO.
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