The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1918-08-15

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VOL. NO. 10
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, AUGUST 15,  1918.
No. 9.
EWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
RecentT-appenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.
Stillwater.—More than 19,500,000
pounds of binder twine have been
shipped this season from -the state
prison plant.
Fairmont. — Volunteer harvesters
have closed a week of service to Martin county farmers, having shocked
hundreds of acres of grain.
Pine^ City.—Farmers of the Pine
City region have organized a stock
shipping association "to handle shipments from this region direct to the
markets and at actual cost.
"Winona. — Approximately seventy
Winona manufacturers and jobbers
•will be obliged to furnish a comprehensive inventory of their business
through a questionnaire plan.
Moorhead.—The army worm, disastrous to grain crops, has been found
In a Clay county township. This is
the firstJ±ge tbe army worm has been
seen in fBs territory since 1910.
; St. Cloud.—Leo Schmidt^ an employe of a garage here, was cut about
the face and shoulders when the rim
of an automobile wheel he was blowing up burst. He was taken to a hospital.
Blue Earth.—F. W. Watkin of Al-
bia, Iowa, 30 years old, a freight brake-
man, was killed about. half a mile
south of here when he was run over
by a train. His body was brought to
Blue Earth.
St. Cloud.—The St. Cloud postoffice
■broke all records in July for any one
month in the history of the office.
The receipts total $21,512.67. Teh or
fifteen years ago this sum would have
been considered a big year's business.
Barnesville.—Business men of this
' town have adopted 4 o'clock closing of
stores daily to permit all city men
possible to go oh to the farms.    Be-
I tween 150 and 200 men will do daily
field work for five to eight hours each
afternoon and evening.
Winona^—Committees have been
named., for a consignment cattle sale
of  Guernpey and Holstein breeds  at
I the St. Charles fair grounds late in
September  or  early  in  October.    It
. will be a unique sale in Winona county
and  the  prime   object  is   to   induce
* breeders to breed up their stock.
Winona.—Equipped with all the
paraphernalia necessary for turning
worthless paper into money* W. L.
Latten, alias. Welly Royce, Richard
Harding and James Kelly, was arrested by Chief George Huck and Assistant Chief Al. Winkels within half
an hour after he had passed a check
for $26.75.
Mankato.—Ray Everts, 13-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Everts of
Bay City, Wis., had a narrow escape
when; one of the large leopards with
the Al. G. Barnes shows reached
through the cage and grabbed him.
He tore a big gash in the boy's arm
with one paw and reaching the other
around the lad pierced four holes in
his back.
Minneapolis.—Snuggled . among a
fringe of trees, Minnesota's first regular army flying field, located about one
' mile ' north of Minneapolis, is already alive with activity and aviators
are daily soaring over the broad
stretch of farm, land through which
the Mississippi winds. The field comprises 540 acres and was donated to
the government during the war by
Earl Brown, son of a former Minneapolis miller.
Mankato.—A big weed burner, sent
here from St. Paul has been operating
on the Milwaukee road between Mankato and Rapidan. The big machine
is run in front as an ordinary engine
and throws out four streams of fire,
fed by crude oil. After one of the
burners  passes  along the track,  the
. weeds inside the rails and for several
feet to either side are scorched and
killed and will not start growing again
this year.
Bemidji.—Bemidji set a record in
recruiting during July, leading every
station in the state including St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Duluth, in recruits
for the regular army in percentage per
quota of population. Bemidji made the
remarkable record of SO.5 while "the
next highest was Duluth, headquarters
for this portion of the state, with a
large recruiting" staff. During the.
month, Bemidji station, Sergeant Fou-
cault in charge, sent thirty-one men
to the colors and of these only two
were rejected.
Minneapolis.—A minimum wage of
$8 a week for women employed in
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth at
occupations not classified in previous
• schedules was fixed by the Minnesota
Minimum Wage commission in a blanket order adopted yesterday. The
new order will become effective September 6 and applies to all women
employes other than those working
in mercantile, manufacturing, mechanical, dyeing and dry cleaning establishments, offices, laundries, hotels
and restaurants.
St. Paul.—Adjutant-General W. F.
Rhinow hus^^eived a^^legram from
Provost MarrPSal GeneWi E. H. Crowder instructing him to arrange for the
registration early next month of men
between 18 and 45 years of age. Preliminaries will be disposed of pending
congressional action on the draft bill.
Sturgeon Lake.—Three sons of William Cunningham have been accepted
y the St. Paul marine recruiting sta-
ion. William, Jr., and Monroe Cun-
ingham left for Paris Island a few
iays ago. George already is in the
srvice, stationed at Camp Donovan,
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Interesting
Correspondence
Sullivan News.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis of
Peavy lake gave a lawn party
last Tuesday evening' in honor
of their daughter, Miss Olive's
16th birthday. Games werephiy-
ed during the evening and a delicious lunch of ice cream and
cake was seryed at midnight.
Mrs. Bowen caught a"8t pound
pike Tuesday evening.
Matt Pint who lives nearPree-
dom is very sick with conjes-
tion of the lungs.
Joe Schneider and wife of Hastings, Neb., alid Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Holmes of Parish, Texas,
spent last week at Camp Line-
ban.
Mrs. R. L. Donnelly of Minneapolis arrived Thursday and
spent a few days visiting Mrs.
Bowen.
Jack Lewis  was  a  caller at
Peter Adkins' Friday evening.
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Mrs.  John  Britton is  on the
sick list.
Fliza A. Batzer and party of
seven from Royalton spent a
few days at the lake.
The C. E. Gravel family left
for their home in Pierz last
Saturday.
Miss Oliye ;Lewis spent the
weeks end with Beth Wolfenden1.
Oyer fifty people spent Sunday at the lake, among whom
were Dr. J. E. Doheney and
wife and Dr. Freeman and wife
and son of Foley.
Visitors at Robert Adkins'
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Will
Britton and children of Vine-
land, Mr. and Mrs. WillKing-
non, Mrs. Rieke and Mrs,Norton
of Lastrup.
M. and Mrs. Shillings of Hillman spent last Sunday at Wol-
fenden's.
Clarence Hoskins was a Sunday caller at H. C Smith's.
Ray Sims and wife and Mrs.
Lenard Pint motored to Freedom Sunday and visited with
the Matt Pint family.
Rodney Look left for Windom
Tuesday, where he will work in
the harvest fields.
County seat visitors Tuesday
were: P. S. and C. E. Look,
Ray Sims, Fred Lynn and C. F.
Bowen.
Mr. and Mrs. John Smith have
returned from their honey moon
and will visit at the Riley Hos-
kin home a few days.
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Platte News.
(Too late for last week.)
The surprise party at Mary
Wolff's home, was well attended
last Sunday evening. . Those
were: Mr. and Mrs. C: Reese
and son Christ, Mr. and Mrs.
Theo. Rychner and children,
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kainz and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Raatz
and family, Mr. and ' Mrs. W.
Debolt and son Leslie and the
Misses Frances Valentine, Mary
Skochinski, Christine Boser and
Clara Nelson, Elmer Noe, Alert
Larson, Joe Kainz and Henry
Nelson.
The Rychner family and Elmer
Noe were yisitors at the home
of Elmer's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Noe of Swan Riyer
last Sunday.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
You will never regret it if you
attend the Little Falls Business
College, because it is a school
equal to the best in the country.
We point with pride to the success of our students. Begin
your course on Sept. 2. Send
for catalog.
Ran Across Bill
Faust in France
Little Falls Transcript.
Sergeant Gordon Wallace, who
is in France*with the engineering corps, has written two interesting letters to his mother
iii this city, which throw much
light o.n conditions in France.
"We had a tine trip across the
Atlantic, the weather was fine
and I did not get sea sick, as..'l
expected I would. This is a
wonderful country, where we
are now located. Most of t;l.e
people here have fine homes.
The poor French soldiers are
the ones to be pitied, as most of
them are not as well equipped
with clothing as we are and they
know what war really is.
We are going to have a fine;
band and ball ground and expects to spend the evenings at
the camp as there, are 1500 of usj
in the 31st and they are a fine,
bunch..
The trains here are way be-j
hind the trains we are used to
riding in; they have little places, where 10 persons sit, just like
boxes, and a kind of bench;
can't lean back in the soft cushions as there isn't any. But we
sure did enjoy the1 trip on the
train as eyerythtng is new and
it was all quite a curiosity to
us. .-^ !
There  is a boy  from  Pierz I
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know, his name is Bill Faust, he
is in my company and knows
lots of people that I do. We often get together and talk and go
oyer old times in Little Falls.
If we stay here long enough I
will be able to talk French as
we are all studying so we can
talk it.
It never gets dark until 11
o'clock here: and gets  daylight
Hail Storm
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about 3,   the nights  are  surely .
wonderful.
The German prisoners are
working all around" us and they
are well satisfied to be prisoners.    Well do  not  worry about
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During the storm Monday
evening, which wasaccompanied
by hail, a number of windows
were shattered in Lastrup and
Pierz. The heaviest .hail was
around Pierz and the country
towards Lastrui-. Agram had
only a little shower. The largest hailstones are said to have
b-en as large as hens eggs. °\^
,.So   iar no   crop damage   has
been reported.
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Plat-d   Mom- Ivnli-
ndiiB jww-.
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Frank Wolff and wife and Mr.
and Mrs. Emil Raatz and family
attended church service' at-Lit-
tie. Falls Sunday.
A-bunch of young folks called
at the Matt Valentine home-last
Thursdav evening.
Mr. Morris is here looking
after his property.; We are well
pleased to see him back again.
Miss Mary   Shokinski  who is
-,
employed at the Rychner.place,,
visited with her homefolks last
bunclay.
Mr. and, Mrs.. John.Noe  and
family and one of their visitors
of Swan River called at theChr.
Reese home Friday evening.
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Wm. Nelswi is busy threshing
on his place this week. His new
rig works just fine.
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On Three Counts
	
Mr. and Mrs. M. Iveibler and
daughter returned to their home
in Winnipeg, Canada, after a
three weeks'" visit with Mrs.
Kunza at Little Falls.
J ohnBorak was arrested Mon-
dav night   for being  drunk and
me,  as I am fine and   feel good 'ldisQrderly.    He   was   arraigned
and am  just as well  off here as befor_ .Jndge Lyon last Tuesday
morning and fined  So and costs
any place, in fact better."
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Heavy Yield of-Oats.
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amounting to  $13.25.
the fine.
paid
.
J'olm T. Lepinski  and George
Kaininsiu were  lined.by Justice
Judging from   load.threshing,  Gerritz   last   week   lor   illegal
heavy j fishing   with   nets.     The . fines
amounted to  $50  and  costs for
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each.
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•niI_-ttlfe-'Falls" r^After « session
which lasted all of Monday aft-
nil
ernoon the grand  jury returned
indictments againts John Wozniak ou. three counts oi' murder
i.i the first' degree, one lor each
child murdered, a., .13 y.3
The deferi'dr-nt'is charged with
having cut the throats ol three
of his cfiildren, while they slept
on the mornt-r^o£''i:Jmyl2.1.. %t
their /home.1 in the town of.Swan
t_iver.. .     .u ni
The jury is'^working on 'other
matters today and will probably
be busy part of tomorrow.
	
On the morning of July 12th,
at about 7 o'clock lie murdered
his three children while they lay
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asleep in their beds. The children ranged from 6, to,8 years
of'age. IUs/understood that
Wozniak labored under the delusion that his children would
starve, because: of : poor crops.
He was   arrested-the   same day
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and lodged, in the local jeiU
awaiting his trial. Through the
efforts ot" County Attorney C.
Rosenmeier to prosecute the
case at the earliest possible date
Judge John Rocser of St. Cloud
had called a special grand jury.
fit uoi-Cte
.
John Wozniak entered a plea
of not: guilty in district: court
yesterday. Defendent is held
forrthe murder of three of his
children on J illy 12.
His attorney gave notice that
he would file information as to.
his . client's sanity and the
case will i come up; tomorrow at
which time a: Commission will
prpbably be. appointed to exa-'
iinine the man.
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The German State Bank Of
Pierz Changes it's Name
the oat crop will be a
one. Nearly all those who had.
load threshing" done so far, underestimated the .yield. A few'
who, ..expected, to put the yield
from an ayerage, sized load into
15 sacks, were from 5 to 7 sacks
short. .Barley, too, will be a
fair crop.
—MAXE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
H. A. Landsberger of Mt.
Morris will sell Ms stock, machinery at auction and move
to South Dakota. Mr, Landsberger likes this country, but
is leaving because his father
cannot gist.a ...renter for his
large farm and wants him
(H. A.) t<o take charge of it.
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Grain And Produce
Market Report
Choice No,   1 Northern____$2.04
Wheat, No.. .1,  $2.00
Wheat, No--   2___. __!    1.97
Wheat, No.. :3—_      1.94
Wheat, No„ 4 _     1.90
Flax, __.-.__        3.. 0
Barley __________ .90
Rye_____„_________.______   1.55
Oats      65
Ear Com.  .1.40
Hay    10.00
Butte;r, Creamery ..      45
Dairy ____________      37
Eggs_,____       37
Flour,        .5.65
Bran ___2,1.0
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 2.75
Shorts 2.25
Ground Feed     2.40
Beans  '___
The itame; hereafter . will,-;be
the Farmer's & Merchant's State
Bank of Pierz.
All Banks.in the state of Minnesota having the word German
in their .title have been, requested by the State Banking department to drop the: "word from
their name. It is the wish of
the department to, eliminate all
foreign titles from corporations
doing business in Minnesota. ;
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-;bJhhe, last payment on, your
liberty bond is due.
Mmhte; Educh is visiting
relatives'™-St. Paul.        rvKi
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";':Lucas Eackes of St; GlOud
wag m vthe. village,.last Monday.
John.iaieer and family, of
D-ixvillt.. visited at Listber-
ger's:StindayV
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A young son arrived at. the
Jos. Schmidtbauer homeMon-
day morning.    ,
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There .will- be ,;a.. dance in
Faust's Hair Friday evening,
Aug. 16th.
Economizing;inay possibly
hurt, but what of the hurts
of the men-who fight and die
for vou2
A bunch of Agram farmers bought' the E. L. Poster
threshing outfit last Saturday.
. Eev. Victor Eassier, better
known here as John Eassier,
has.been appointed director
of the ;Mt. Angel Oolfege.
The. St. Caecilia's; Music
Class will open next Monday,
August.l-Ot.i.
EehediCt__ie~S-sters'.
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. To achieve victory we must
have two armies:   One that
fights; one that saves. Every
patriot wiil  be a member  of
one, of these armies.
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Capture Imp&ptarttRailway Point
of. Somme Battle   '
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KEY TO FOE SfflT
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BtJlOjf-t
Onions 	
7.00
2.50
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That Uncle Sam is ready and
willing to help them that they
help him can be seen in a particular local case. John Poetsch,-
who died last spring in the hospital at Camp Dodge, la.,, was
the main support of. his mother,
Mrs. MaryPoetsch, of this city.
When entering the army he had
an allottment made for her and
also his insurance of $10,000,
made to her. Since his death
Mrs. Poetsch has been receiving
$57.50 a month which is due her
each month on the policy. Saturday Mrs. Poetsch was notified
tbat as a dependent mother.of
John Poetsch, she was awarded
compensation in the amount of
$20 per months fromthe 18th of
April 1918, in addition to the
$57.50 which she. has been receiving already as the benefi-
ciarv.
The Wm. Cota, M. E.   Lonnie
and A. Curtis families   have  returned to the citv  fi'om   a  two |
weeks' onting from Pierz,   Fish
lake.
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A short session of the council
was1 held Monday ev. n ng to
consider an amendment to the
ordinance covering licences other than liquor licences.;' 1* &%
Two sections of the old ordinance were changed and here"-
after peddlers doing business
in the city.will pay.$10 per day
for privilege. Those having carload lots of fruit or other com-,
modifies on track for. peddli
purposes will be assessed $40
for each car.
List of Unclaimed Letters
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Letters   addressed to the folj
lowing named parties are at the.
postoffice in Pierz and have not
. -scene*
been called for.
Mr. John .Hairr,-.,
j      Herman.Clauson,   ■
E. C. Miller,   ':
Hermann Miller,
John Kruse.
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Game Wardens
Collects
Little Falls—H. E. -Eldridge*
of St. Cloud,and A. P. Cardie
of Brainerd were in. the city
Thursday to secure their fourth
conviction for illegal fishing in
the past two weeks. During that
period these men have arrested
aud convicted four men for fishing with nets in Platte and Sullivan' lakes. The men caught
are M- Deering, John T. Lepins-
■ki:and George Cominski, They
were all brought before Justice
Geritz and each fined $50 and
costs.
Is et- fishing in the lakes of
Morrisorr lias'-'been gbing on for
some time and the two game
wardeBS are determined to put
a stop to   the   illegal   practice.
J. K. Martin of LittksFalls
was here Saturday/evening
ahd'bought lumber for the
erection,of  buildings on one
of his farms,
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If you: will think more;of
'saying than of spending you
will be surprised to learn
that there are many-things
which you do not need.after
all    '
lt]guying War SayingStamps
and Liberty;> Eonds is not only the safest Investmentthat
can be made but the easiest
and most direct way to aid
your Grovernment:
Mrs. Mary Wiley of Eil-
lings, Mont., left for her western home Monday morning,
after a week's visit with her
parents. Mr.  and  Mrs.   List-
hfipr-«T
uo-.tjCi. ^T br
W. &. Morris, tiie erstwhile
Pierz cattle .buyer, passed
through the village going
north last Saturday forenoon.
He is now  living  near Mon-
te-rey, Minn. .
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Jos. E.Faust and wife of
Cross Plains, Wis., and Geo.-
Esser and wife and children
of Janesville, Wis., arrived in
Pierz .yesterday for a week's
visit with the numerousFaust
and Eares families.
11 you want a position in a
bank, take the Banking orShort^
hand course at the St. Cloud
Business CoMege. Write at once
for catalogue. We oan save you
money: . Fall term Sept. ii.
Vath & Ahles. -
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Eussen
and daughter. Sera, of Eicli-
mond, Mrs. Dr. Leonard Bus-
Number   of   PriDone'rs   T_ken"So   Far
Estimated 'a-  35,000, ' li.ciu_ing
.1,000 Officers and Over 500
Guns Are;-Captured. .
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Paris, Aug. 12.—Th'e numti'er of
prisohers ta'k-n  so  far  in- the  Al-     i
■    lied   offensive  in-Picardy  is now rj
'estimated at 36,000, includrngmore    j
than 1,000 officers.    More than 500    I
- guns  have befen captured,.according to .'the.latest-advices..- j
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London, Aug. 12.—Chauines,. the . j
important    railway   town;   in    the
i  heart .of  the  Somme   battle  front     i
.,, and the .Key to the southern   line    i
, ■ of  the   German, salient,   has   been
.    capjtured by, the Allies.    The. cap- .
ture   was   effected   by. Australian     i
and Canadian, troops.
London, Aug. J.1.—On tho Picardy j
battle. front the Germans have ma-'
..terially stiffened their defense aia.j)£-
the American, British and French
troops, but they have been unable to
stem the . tide of ad\ arice against
them.
Althougli the, forward push of the
Allies has been stowed down somewhat, nevertheless they have made
farther important progress' from the
north of the Soihme, where the Americans and British "are fighting together,
to the northern bank of the Oisc river,
where the French troops are engaging
the enemy.
The Americaiis and the British at
last accounts were pressing closely
upon Bray-Sur-Somme, aided by tanks
and armored ' cars, - which inflicted
heavy casualties on the enemy as he
endeavored'to retard their progress.
French   Making  Progress.
Across the riveivthe Germans-heavily: engaged the'British at:'Lihons aii'd
its vicinity, and at. one point pierced
the British line ^and i ;gained the .'out-
-ski-ts^ of :Lihons: n_W counter attack,
.however, entirely restored to British
line and the■• enemy retired to positions east and north of the village.
Unoflicial reports froni London have
-credited cavalry with a penetration of
the,enemy_3 territory alrnost, to Nesles.
By. rfai-;; the,greatest progress has
been made by the French from tho
region immediately - southwest and
snuthiof Roye to the Oise river. Here
.they7have driven their line well across
the...Roye-Compiegene road,, and at
Cambronne have reached, the road
leading from, Gompiegenfi] to..Noyon.
Since the capture of ilontdidier the
French have penetrated..eastward to
Tilloloy, a distance of ao'aux seven
miles and to Cauny-S.ur-.Matz, more
than eight and a half iiiiies,' and
throug'h the hilly region southward to
the Oise have1 averaged gains exceeding six miles over a front of 1_ miles.
The stiffening' of the German defense does not, in tiie''i_iin_'s of observers on the battle front, indicate
that the retreat'of the enemy has ended.. Rather it is'assumed that.these
maneuvers are' similar tb those carried out over the Marne front,' when
strong rear guards covered the retirement of the crown prince's army
northward.
Tho smoke of largo fires continues
:o be seeii far behind the enemy's lines
_hd the movement of long transport
-O-timns eastward is .considered evidence that it is. the intention of the
-tiem'y ultimately to retreat- to new-
line's of defense.
Aviators : hare destroyed all the
bridges across the Somme from the
region of Peronne southward, and with
the enemy's communication lines either in the hands of the Allies or dominated by their guns, the retrograde
movement ne.cessarily. must be slow.
; Therefore, strong rear guard actions
are required to save large numbers of |
men and guns and enormous quanti- j
ties of stores from capture. 1
The Allied troops gradually are'en-j
. circling Roye and its capture,  which j
seems imminent, will greatly heighten !
the difficulties of the Germans in fall-1
ing back.
AVIATORS   FLY   2,0p0   MILES;
Four Britishers Make Trip From  Eng- |
land to Egypt.
London, Aug. 12.—Two Royal Air 1
Force officers, with two mechanics, |
liave completed, a flight from England j
to-Egypt, a distance of 2,000 miles, in !
a. type pf airplane that has seen con- !
siderable service on the front. Thej
official report, in announcing this feat, j
says:
"One or-two halls were made for
petrol, but the flight was merely a bit
of routine work."
They  left  this    afternoon   ior s in and ,sou Leonard of Eakei;,
.
8ft
destroy el.
two More Ships Launched.
New York', Aug: :l '
Hickman,   huilt   1'or    tip-
Fleet corporation at-'tlh..-  (
Standard  Shipbuilding com:7.
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"u'.'i   SVf^cHl -.   pre. i<it-it.   of   the
i.lissouri    W. -.an's   club,    christened
the Hicktnan
ord'Was> receive.
official g: here
tons i
ter ship to the-Liherty, launched Jung
A3, had been floated. _. ....   i
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