THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA. YANKS BLOCKED DRIVE ON PARIS Advancing Foe Had Surprise of Life When He Found Ameri cans in Line. GRAPHIC STORY IN LETTER Telia of Our Troops' Heroic Resist- nee In June Held by Many Offi cers to Have Saved Paris From Huns. Washington. A graphic eyewitness account of the fighting near Chateau Thierry, in which American divisions, Including the marine brigade, took part, early In June, was made public recently by the navy department It la in the form of a long letter from an officer of the marines to Major Gen eral Harnett, commandant of the corps, and the story told is of peculiar significance, as In the opinion of many officers here It wns the stand of the Americans along this Hue which saved Paris. The name of the writer is not dis closed. The Americans were rushed to the line in motortrucks to support the bard-pressed French. On June 1 the marine brigade deployed In a support position, the battalion commanded by MaJ. Thomas Ilnlcomb hurrying Into the line as the men climbed out of the trucks. The Germans were coming on, and June 2 the French dropped buck, passing through the American lines. "We had Installed ourselves in a house in La Vole Chntel, a little vil lage between Champillon and Lucy-le-Bocage," the letter snys. "From one aide we had observation of the north and northeast. They came out on a wonderfully clear duy In two columns across a wheat field. We could see the two twin brown columns advancing in perfect order until two-thirds of the columns, we judged, were in sight. Foe Slowed Up by Shrapnel. "The rllie and machine gun fire was Incessant and, overhead, shrapnel was bursting. Then the shrapnel came on the target at each shot. The white patches would roll awny, and we could ee that some of the columns were still there, slowed up, and It seemed perfect ulclde for them to try. "Then, under thnt deadly fire and a barrage of rifle and machine-gun fire, the Iioehe stopped. It was too much for any men. "That men should fire deliberately, and use their sights and adjust their range," he says, "wns beyond their ex perience. It must have hud a telling effect on the morale of the Boche, for It was something they had not counted on. As a matter of fact, after pushing back the weakened French and then PLANE MAY FLY This Is the American-built Ilandley-l'age airplane Lungley, constructed for the proposed flight across the Atlantic. The picture wus made as the machine was being prepared for its christening. "Old Glory" at Front .... .'.-". . I kJJ ,-i-,?J London. When the Illinois troops and Australians attacked together at Valre wood und Hnmel, a sergennt of the American contingent took Into ac tion a smnll Amerlcnn flag, the gift of his mother. The men under him sur rounded and destroyed a machine-gun post hidden among tree trunks Just inside the wood. As they went on nf ter bombing the German crew, the ser gennt brandished the little flag over Ms head and shouted, "Como on, fel lows; there's another one." Just ahead some Australians were fighting around a shallow pit in which were five Prus Rlnns and a machine gun. Two or three Chicago boys dashed up with their bayonets poised. One of them lit erally fell on n big Rhlnelnnder who wns about to throw n bomb and SPnt him sprawling with a cracked skull, and, with the Australians, put the re mainder of the crew out of nction and cleared a dugout behind of 11 submis sive fugitives. HUNS NOT BRAVE FIGHTERS Like WouldBe Sports Who Will Bet If Given Sure Thing on Horse Race. Pittsburgh, Pa. Private Jnmes Foley of nn engineer regiment says the Germans are not brave fighters unless they have "odds of five to one." In a letter to his brother he says : "I am free to state that I have changed my mind regarding the alleged bravery and the stlcktoitlveness of the Huns. They will fight If you give them odds of five to one. They are like the would-be sports who will bet If they are given "a sure thing ou a horse race. "I have not gathered this Informa tion In going 'over the top' on n raid, but I have performed work In No Mun's Land, nnd that Is slmilur to some extent, and gives a fellow a chance to form a opinion. But I have formed my estimate of the Boches' lock of courage from fellows who have been 'over the top' Mi fierce combat with the barbarians from Central Eu rope. I hove been told Interesting running up ngulnst n stone wall of de fense, they were literally 'up In the air' and more than stopped. We found that out later from prisoners, for the Germans never knew we were In the frout line when they made that at tack. They were absolutely mystified at the manner In which the defense stiffened up, until they found that our troops were In line." The letter tells In detail of the days of fighting that followed. It describes a daylight charge against a machine gun host and of scouting raids up to June B, when the whole brigade swung forward to straighten out the line. This action resulted In the capture of Bel lea u wood. Hit Three Times, Still Fought on. Major Sibley's battalion of the Sixth marine regiment led the way here, with Holeomb In support. The woods were alive with enemy machine gunB. That night word came bnck that Kobertson, with 20 men of the Ninety-sixth com pany, had taken Bouresches, breaking through a heavy machine gun barrage to enter the town. Ilobertson, fighting with an automatic In either hand, was bit three times before he would allow himself to be taken to the rear. Speaking of Individual nets of brav ery the writer says Duncan, a com- Spy Rounded Up By Trap Shooter rarls. There Is a certnln United Stntes signal service sergeant up In the Toul sector at the front who hns been able of late to combine a little pleasure with his business. The cen sor won't let one tell the sergeant's name, but without revealing nny mili tary Information it may be said that before the war the sergeant was rated as one of the top guns at a well-known trnp-shootlng club In the Stotes. There Is not much trap-shooting Just now In France. They are not crack ing away nt live birds, either. But the sergeont got his pigeon shooting Just the inme. The particular front In which the sergennt operates Is Infested with Ger man spies. All sorts of things were happening. A "tramp" battery, one of those par ticular guns that whisks up, slams a few at the Fritzies, then slides out on the Jump, found Itself being shelled the Instant It lined up for a shot Agnln, every time there wns a troop movement, the movement wns antici pated by the Boche. Beside thut, ev ery time a body of our men got to gether for any purpose whntever, the ACROSS ATLANTIC Still following the tiny Stars and Stripes, n little bigger than n pocket handkerchief, but, ns one of the men snld afterwards, "looking like a regu lar flag," the Americans, shoulder to shoulder with the Australians, pnssed through the eastern end of the wood and out Into the open fields again. "The first time I have ever fought un der the American flag, Yank," snld a tall, raw-boned Queonslander with a first-aid bandage round his head. They arrived at their final objective, a group of strong, well-sheathed trenches linked with the rear defenses of Ham el village, nnd here the Chicago ser geant planted his emblem on a bit of wood nnd set It on the parapet. Bul lets whistled all round It, cutting the silk Into ragged strips and eventually It was wholly shot away save one un recognizable fragment, which wns pre served ns n precious souvenir of an historic day. things by thp Canadians, Australians, Britons, Italians nnd the best of all fighters the Yanks. Should nny of our Germans from the Mount want to know how you got my estimate of the Huns you enn tell them thnt the In formation wns sent you from France nnd thut it Is the truth." Claims Patriotic Record. Spencervllle, O. This little city claims a record equaled by no other Ohio city nnd possibly by no other town In the United States In that one out of every four of her population of 1,200 Is enlisted In' tho nation's serv ice. There nre 305 stars In the mu nicipal service flag, nnd practically ev ery man In the town who cun get Into the army has done so. Attacked by Rooster. Central in, Wash. F; O. Webster, eighty years old, is recovering from an attack by a savage rooster. The bird sank his spur into a vein on the bnck of Webster's hand. The wound bled profusely and Webster was unnble to stand when neighbors came to his nid. :.km I I aJ f pnny commander, "before he wns mow ed down had his pipe In his mouth and wns carrying a stick." Later ho ndda, "Dental Surgeon Osborne picked up Duncan and with a hospital corps mnn hud Just gained some shelter when a shell wiped nil three out" Private Dunluvy, killed later, cap tured an enemy machine gun In Bour esches, which he turned on the foe with great effect, while at another point "Young Tlmmermnn charged a machine gun at the point of the bayo net nnd sent In 17 prisoners at a clip." When the enemy made a stand at one point in the woods Sibley's bat talion was withdrawn and for an hour nnd fifty minutes American and French batteries hammered the wood. Hughes, with the Tenth company, then went In, and his first message was thnt the wood had been cut to mince meat. Overton, lending the Seventy sixth company, finally charged the rock plateau, killing or capturing every gunner and capturing all the guns, with few casualties. The Eighty-second company lost all its officers, and Major Sibley and his adjutant, Lieutenant Ballnmy, reorgan ized it under fire nnd charged a ma chine gun nest at the most critical time In all the fighting. "I wonder if ever an outfit, the let ter snld, "went up against a more des perate job, stuck to It gnmely, with out sleep, at times on short rations, with men and officers going off like flies, and I wonder if in all our long list of gallant deeds there ever were two better stunts than the work of Sib ley nnd Holeomb." , Germans shelled them with everything they hud, big guns Included. Tipping Off the Hun. Now, the Hun doesn't use bis big guns unless he knows what he's shoot ing nt. How he learned, however, was pretty evident. Some one back of our lines was tipping him off. The signal service sergeant was the first to detect how It was done. His squad was repairing signal wires bnck of the trenches. The sergennt halted In his work nnd gazed skywards. A pigeon was going over his head. The sergeant watched it Idly, calculating as ho stood there how far he'd lead It with a 12-gnuge. Then with a sigh he went to laying a wire agnln. A few minutes Inter the sergeant stopped ngnln. Another pigeon had risen from the wood. But a few min utes Inter, when a third pigeon rose from the wood, the former trap-shooter tarried no longer. A hnlf hour later he bolted Into the quartermaster's depart ment, clicked a salute and spoke hur riedly. "Gimme a shotgun," he demnnded. Shotguns ore a regular part of cer tain quartermaster's supplies. Soon the sergeant might have been seen standing behind a hedgerow gazing to ward the nearby wood. Presently he wns seen to stiffen, nt the same time murmuring "pull." The 12-gnuge swung briefly In nn arc; a crack and a crumpled bnll of feothers came tum bling toward earth. To make sure, the sergeant gave It a second barrel Just before It hit the enrth. Clever Shooting. It was pretty clever shooting. The bird was high, going over fast nnd quartering. "Kill," murmured the ser gennt methodically, as he retrieved the fallen gnme. J Thnt nfternoon the sergeant got four : other birds. Attrched to a leg of each i pigeon wns a code message-In German handwriting. A short time. Inter n dctochment of mllltnry police got the owner of the pigeons. In his blouse and sabots he looked like nny of the peasants tilling the fields behind the lines. On being stripped, however, he proved to be a Germnn under officer. MINISTERS GO TO WAR, ALL CHURCHES CLOSED J T Albany, N. Y. With the en- llstment of Rev. William Wnl- lace Eaton, pastor of the Meth- odlst church. Schohnrle church it es are without ministers. Every church In the village X hns been rlncsd up, temporarily nt least, for the call of Uncle Snm. f Rev. Mr. Enton will soon he t on his way to France for work T with the Y. M. C. A. ti.i.i-ti.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.4..t.i.i.tttti,t "Girl in Every Port" Boston, Mnss. Writing to members of Fraternity Lodge of Rebeknhs In Milford, Lieut. Elbert M. Crockett, now on war duty In France, says: "Censoring tho letters of the boys to their sweethearts back home Is one of tho Jobs I'm up against most every night. Some of them hnve but one sweetheart, and some of them hnve two, three and four." Child Falls Unhurt. Denver, Colo. While playing on the roof of a building nt No. 1210 Fifteenth street recently, Sylvln Williams, six years old. fell 20 feet through the sky light to the floor, and aside from a few bruises and scratches escaped un hurt A call for assistance wns sent to the police, and fully 15 minutes elapsed before keys to the door of the store could be secured to reach the girl. As soon as the store was unlocked tho little girl was cnrrled to her home, No. 14.1 Larimer street, where she wns attended by Police Surgeon Menser. A thorough examination fulled to show any serious Injury and she was left at her home. Bandit Movies Banned. Lnredo, Tex. According to nn offi cial communication received here from the stnte department nt Washington nnd communicated to the Mexican olfi. clnK all motion pictures showing Mex ican bandit rnlds, or of nny chnrncter derogatory to Mexlcons, which hnve served to create bad feeling on the part of Mexicans by the misrepresentations, nre to hereafter b forbidden by the censor of motion picture. FRENCH DRIVE ON IN Fall of Noyon Forecast by New Gains of French. AMERICANS FOIL COUNTERS British Continue Drive In Plcardy Croiselles Falls, While Halo's Men Gain Four Miles In Flanders. Paris. The Germans facing the Al lied forces from Arras to Solssons ev erywhere are In dire peril. On almost every sector of the battle front the enemy line continues to crumble be to r the Allied attack, notwithstanding the violence, born of desperation, ol the counter-offensive tactics. Near Arras the old Hlndenburg line now is well outflanked; from the Scarpe to the Somme the hostile line gradually Is falling back, while from the south of the Somme to Solssons the enemy front has literally been smashed and the. German hosts ap parently are caught in two distinct traps, escape from which without heavy lossos in men made prisoner and guns and material captured seems almost Impossible of achievement. Scores of additional towns have1 been captured by the British, French and American troops, the Americans hav ing enterod Hie fray with the French northwest of Soissons, while all of the old German salients In the Allied lines now hnve been flattened out and the Allies themselves have dug deeply Into the enemy's terrain. The first trap in which the enemy finds himself is the triangle formed by the sharp curve of the Somme River, with Peronne Its apex nnd with Curlu on the Somme and Fresnes, respective ly, its northern and southern bases. This triangle is a 'little more than three miles deep and six miles wide, ind In It the Germans are fighting with their backs toward the Somme'on both the north and the east. Desperate resistance is being offered by the enemy in order that his men may have time to reach a haven of safety across the stream, but the British are hard after their quarry, and with the French a little to the south almost up lo the river to aid them by an out flanking movement It would seem that the odds are heavily against the Ger mans. It was the French troops who sprang the other trap. With the fall of Chanl nes the French forces routed the enemy over a front of about 19 miles and penetrated the region to a depth at some points of nearly seven miles. From the north of Chaulnes to Nesle the penetration of the French readied the heights on the left bank of the Somme; southward the advance left the French along the Canal du Nord at various points between Nesle and the outskirts of Noyon; south and southeast of Noyon gains also were made, und Noyon and the entire region between Nesle and Solssons now nre in a great pocket, with the French pincers working hard to close upon it. The Americans are fighting with the Flinch northwest of Soissons in the operation which has In view the blot ting out of the Noyon sector and the outflanking of the Alsne and the old Cheir.ln des Dames positions. Official reports have the Americans and French fighting violently with ho enemy around Juvigny, where they have gained some1 ground. The Amer icans have successfully sustained sev eral heavy enemy counter-attacks In this region. The Americans and Ger mans also are engaged in bitter bat tles around Bazoches and Flsmette, on the Vesle. The Germans endeavored to ford the Vesle south of Bazochcs, but were hold by the Americans, Like wise an enemy assault against Fis mette was stopped. The German offi cial communication asserts that the Americans have suffered severe losses nnd lost more than 250 prisoners in the battle along the Vesle. PRESIDENT SAVES DESERTER. Medical Corps Private Left Command, Sentenced To Death. Washington. Executive clemency for Private Franklin W. Cznrneckl, Medical Corps, who was sentenced to death by military court-martial be cause he left his command at the port of embarkation on the eve of depar ture overseas, was announced by the War Department. President Wilson commuted the sentence to dishonor able discharge, forfeiture of all pay and confinement at hard labor for two years. NO NEW SCHOOL HOUSES. War Industries Board Announces Ruling. Washington. No new school houses may be built during the war, the War Industries Board announced, except for replacement. The board made this ruling when approval was asked of a plan to expend $9,000,000 for schools In New York. The board held that schools already built will care for the educational needs of the country with out detriment until the war Is over. HEAVY GUN CAMP. More Buildings To Be Erected At Lee Hall, Va. Washington. Orders have been Is sued by the War Department for ad ditional construction at Camp Abra ham Eustls, Lee Hall, Va., to ex pedite the training of men for the heavy artillery. Additions to cost $1, 940,800 have been approved, including motor transportation, schools, garages, ranges, barracks and quarters for a trench mortar battalion and an anti aircraft battalion. TANKS FRAY I iflcwScHjfi - 1 1 In I i m HiRy B wuUJ; i cant &f 'a MEXICANS KILL HAIG AT FORMER U. S. SOLDIERS Hi LINE 10 to 20 Americans Fall in Border Battle. 100 MEXICANS DEAD OR HURT Several Hundred American Troops Engaged In The Conflict With Mexicans 15 American Privates Among The Wounded. Nogales, Arli. One American offi cer fell fighting In the streets of No- gales, one civilian was killed, another olticer seriously wounded and between 10 and 20 American soldiers killed during the skirmish which took place along International avenue between American troops and Mexicans in No gales, Sonora. Approximately 15 Americans wert wounded, including Lieut.-Col. Fred erick L. Herman, who wus shot through the right leg while command ing the Amerlcnn trooijs, but continued in command on crutches. The dead include Capt. J. D. Hun gerford, who was ' killed in action. The civilian was Gaston Reddork, who was killed during the first hour of the fighting. Lieut. Luke V. Loftus was seriously wounded. While the casualties on the Mexic an side of the border are not known, it was estimated that 100 had been killed by fire from the American side, while at least twice that number included a number of civilians, were wounded. It was reported-that the Mayor of Nogales, Sonora, was killed, but till was not confirmed. The fighting followed the alleged ef forts of a Mexican customs official to HiiiURKle a fellow-countryman across the boundary Into the United States. An American sentry attempted to stop him. Two Mexicans fired at the sentry across the street, striking him in the right arm, The fire' was re turned by American patrols and after Mexicans had rushed from nearby buildings und started shooting across the line from behind buildings and walls, the firing became general. Reinforcements from an infantry regiment and a nesro cavalry regl ineiv were rushed to the border and took up cumbat positions. It was esti mated that more than 300 American soldiers nnd nt least GO civilians par ticipated In the shooting. The fight ing which started at 4.05 P. M., con tinued without abatement until 5.30, when It died down except for an oc casional snipping shot along the long International street. At 5.50 a white flag was displayed by the Mexicans, a parley followed, but the sniping continued until after 7 o'clock. Bullets fell in Nogalea nnd civilians were ordered to remain In doors nnd without the lone of fire. Reports that Juan O. Cabral, leader of a rebel band which has been op erating south of the border, had ap peared within 14 miles of Nogales, was camped nt the Majtorena ranch and thnt the shooting In Nogales was preliminary to an attack on the town by his band could not be confirmed. HENRY FORD WINS. Gets Democratic Senatorial Nomina tion In Michigan. Detroit, Mich. The result of the senatorial fight Is definitely deter mined in the nomination of Command er Truman H. Newberry, as Republi can, and Henry Ford, as Democratic candidates. CROSS TO KERMIT ROOSEVELT. Son Of Ex-President Decorated For Service In Mesopotamia. London. The award to "temporary and honorary Captain Kermit Roose velt," sop. of Colonel Roosevelt, of the Military Cross for services In Meso potamia was announced in the Official Gazette. Until he Joined the Ameil can forces in Fiance Captain Roose velt was attached to the British Army in Mesopotamia on special duty. 260,000 ENEMY ALIENS IN U. 8. Less Than 200,000 German Women Have Thus Far Registered. Washington. About 200,000 unnat uralized male Germans live In the United States and have registered with police and postniaBters under enemy alien regulations, the Depart ment of Justice reported. The reg istration for males was held In Janu ary, and a few additional Germans are being recorded from Unu to time. Back Into the Harness J British Start Drive Along Scarpe. FRENCH ARE NEAR R0YE General Mangin's Army Smashes Prutoian Guards Thrown In To Reduce Menace To German Positions. London. While the Germans were busily engaged in defending them selves against the attacks of the Brit ish and French armies from the Ancre River to the region of Salt-sons, FhM Marshal llalg struck another surprise blow over a new front north of the old battle zone. The new offensive was launched from the eunt of Arras on the Scarpe River and southward to the Cojeul. All along the front the Biftish pressed forward at some places to a depth of more than two miles and captured a half dozen or more villages, among them Monchy-la-Preux, (iuemppo and Wancourt. Across the Cojeul the new British attacks on the old battlefront brought them to the village of Mory and St. Leger, and farther south the small town of Favicull, one and a half miles northeast of Bapaume, from which the British pressed on eastward about a mile. Farther south the British are reported unofficially to have reached the western outskirts of Tlillloy in the nipper movement they are carrying out against Bapaume. With Halg's men now standing well within gun n:nge of the town it seems likely that the Germans will be forced to evacuate Ilapaumo In short order. Additional gains also have been made by the British east of Albert nnd on both sides of the Somme River. In fact, notwithstanding the efforts of the Germans, through the use of large reinforcements, the British and French all along the line from Albert to ?o!s sons h.ie materially bettered their positions' and carried further forward their plan of making the Plcardy bat tleground untenable for the enemy. . The French again are hammering away at the environs of Roye, one of the itning points of the Soninie-Oise Iront. the capture or which doubtless would cause the giving up by the enemy of the entire callcnt from the Somme, in the north, to Noyon. Fres noy les Rove, to the north, nnd St. Maid, to the south of Roye, both have been captured by the French, despite Ihe desperate resistance of the Ger mans, and Roye, like Bapaume In the north, apparently is In danper of be ing pinched out of the line In an envelopes movement. More than 600 prisoners were taken by the French in the operation. The Germans have thrown further heavy counter-attacks against the French In the region north of Sols rons. where the French continue their pressure northward In maneuvers which seriously threaten to outflank the Chemln-d( s-Dames and Laon sec tors and to put the entire German line from Ypres to Rhelms In Jeopardy. All the attacks have been sustained by General Mangin's forces and the French even have pushed back the Germans beyond the points from which they started. The operations of the British on the northern part of the front, from the east of Arras to the region of Bullo court, 7Tave brought them virtually upon or very near the old Hlndenburg line. ANOTHER HUN TRIUMPH. Shell Hits Red Cross Bath House, Killing 23 And Injuring 60. Washington. Details of the recent shelling of an American Red Cross bath house for Belgian soldiers near the Belgian front, In which 23 Bel gian employes were killed and 60 oth ers injured, ware received at Amer ican Red Cross headquarters. The three large buildings, Including a laundry and fumigating plant, gave employment to about 200 persons. INDOOR WAR TRAINING. Special Buildings To Be Erected At Cantonments. Washington. So that bad weather may not Interfere with training, the War Department announced that spe cial buildings will be erected at once at Camps Devens, Mass.; Iwls, Wash.; Funston, Kans., nnd Meade, Md for the Instruction of non-com-missioned officers in weather that In terferes with field work. Similar buildings will be provided later at other camps. r THE DRAFT BILL PASSED Bf SENATE Minimum Age is 18 Years; Maximum is 45. WORK OR FIGHT CUT OUT All Efforts To Change The Age Limit Or To Direct Separate Classifica tion Of Youths Under Twenty. One Fall. Washington. The Manpower Dill bringing within the army draft an men from 18 to 45 years old, waa passed by the Senate, A final amendment by Senator Poindexter to make the minimum ag 19 was defeated, u2 to 21, alter many minor amendments proposed had bun bowled over by a chorus of "noes," t0 evident amusement to senators and spectators. All efforts to change the age limits or to direct separate classification of youths under 21 fail J. ' The Senate was recorded unnni. mously for the bill. Senator Goif, of Oklahoma, who cast the only neira live vote on the roll-call, withdrew It and was excused from voting. The final vote in the Senate was recorded amid unchecked applaud from the galleries filled with spectu.' tors, who attended the session to vr iiosh final congressional action on the measure that will add approximate!) 13,0u0,000 men to the potential mlli. tary strength of the nation nnd pro vide, In the opinion of War Depart ment chiefs, the ormy that will enaliU the Allies to defeat Germany nxt year. YANKS TURNED TIDE OF BATTLE. Pays Tribute To First And Third Corps For Part In Glorious Victory. American Army In France.-Gvm ral John J. Pershing, commander-ln clii,' of tiie American Army In France, h;:s Issued the following order: "It fills me with pride to record in general orders a tribute to the set vic achievements of the First and Tliirl Corps, comprising the 1st, 2d, 3d, ti'i, 2fith, 28th, 32d and 42d divisions of the American Expeditionary Force.;. "You came to the battlefield at a crucial hour for the Allied cause. Tor almost four years the most formid able army the world has yet seen had pressed Its Invasion of France ar.t stood threatening its capital. At r.o time has thnt army been more rnv--erful and menacing than when, en July 15. it struck again to destro in one great battle the brave men re posed to It and to enforce its bii-.t ! will upon the world nnd civillzatinn "Three days later, In conjunctiia with our Allies, you counter-attaeki-.l. The Allied armies gained a brillli'r' victory that marks the turning point of the war. You did more than to give the Allies the rupport to whicli ns a nation, our faith was pledu'i .!. You proved thnt our altruism, e:r pacific spirit and our sense of ju:tk' have not blunted our virility or our courage,. "You have shown that American initiative and energy are as fit fm t'.ie tasks of war as for tho pursuits of peace. You have justly won un stint'.ul praise from' our Allies and I'm' eternal gratitude of our countrymen "We have paid for our success with the lives of mnny of our brave rnai rades. We shall cherish their nieni ory always and claim for our hlstni) nnd literature their bravery, achieve ment and sacrifice. "This ordf r will be read td; all or ganizations nt the first assembly for mations following Its receipt. "PERSHING." IMMIGRATION FALLS OFF. Smaller Than In Any Year'Sinee Th( Civil War. Washington. Immigration to th United Statem during the year md in? June 30, placed at 110,618 by n btihV tin of the Immigration Service, w:! less than In any year since the Clvl War, the number of Immigrants resell Ing the United States in 1S2 beinj 72,183. Statistics liven in the bulletit show that Immigration in every yc:tr back to 1844. with the exception ol 1862, hns shown a greater total thas 1918. It Is also recorded that 94, 585 aliens departed from the Unltti1 States during the year ending June 30 Mexico furnished the largest nuni ber of the 191S Immigrants, the total admitted from thnt country belr.g 1". 602, while England, which furni?hei' 12.980, was second, and Japan, will' 10,168, was third. FOR RELIEF FROM DROUTH. Texas Defense Council Asks For 150, 000,000. Austin, Tex. The State Council ol Defense adopted a resolution calling the attention of President Wilson and Congress to drouth conditions in West Texas and urging Congress to appropriate 150,000,000 for relier. I1 Is desired to use the money as soon as rains come, which will make crop? possible. M'ADOO INVITES COMPLAINT. New Railroad Bureau Also Asks Sug gestions From Public. Washington, Establishment of o railroad administration "bureau for suggestions and complaint" to be lo cated at the Director General's head quarters here, and to which the public Is Invited to write, was announced by Director General McAdoo. Notices will be posted soon In railway stations and passenger coaches.
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