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Perehini^lieadqaagters Where the Commander in Chief of the A. E. F. Was Located in France. Chaumont, France, Nov. 20 (Corre Spfcridence of The Associated Press) ?Thjs. little city of the Haute Marne is the koine of the general headquar ters-, of the American Expeditionary forces. Cntil now its mention has been taboo and the whereabous of one of the secrets of the war. Her.e lives the .commander-in-chief and in the buildings of the French garrison is housed the offices of the j general staff and all the auxiliary or ganizations that go with it?the nerve center of the army. A city of nor mally about fifteen -.thousand inhabi tants, Chaumont lies on the Eastern railway lines. 163 miles east of Paris. It was formerly the capital of Bas signy and is now the capital of the Department of the Haute Marne. Lake most of the older cities of France, Chaumont seems to have beem founded" on a site of strategic defen sive value. It crowns a high plateau between the Marne anid the Suize and from ?pe walls and towers of the old city is a wonderful view of the valley of the Marhe, here the river being hardly as wide as the Marne Canal that flows beside it between its poplar bordered' banks. Northward over the narrow vale of the Suize the view takes in a wide sweep of rolling for e? .crowned hills. General Headquarters were remov ed- from Paris here in September of last year, Chaumont being selected af ter/a careful search of avilable loca tions! It lies in the center of what was the American training area, ev ery camp as well as the. Toul sector in wnich the American forces first saw battle, and all the lines from Toul eastward, where we were located, be ing within reach by motor. The French post occupied as head quarters offices is typical of French garrisons. Three. long, four story, red tile roofed barracks form three sides "of a great quadrangle facing a Wide avenue. A group of lesser buildings and the customary iron fence and ornamental gates is the re maining boundary. On either gate , post flies the Tricolor and the Stars f at d'.Stripes. . gentries pace their posts on every , ljand, the .quadrangle is filled with Hurrying officers and orderlies and clerks, hands' flash, in. salute, bugles g^'jQieir almost hourly calls for the various military events and periods <j of "the day, staff cars and motorcycles roll in and out and now and then the sentry at the gate stiffens even more ngidly and brings his piece up with more snap when a great olive drab 1 ear," shining like a yacht, slides in, thst scarlet tab on the wind shield with i four wh^te stars signifying the com- ' njaj^r-in-chief. ^feequently the general's car ap- 1 p.rda^ches unheralded and so swiftly ] ' tnajt the sentry's cry of "Turn Out the ; gu^rS/'is too late and the com mander-in-chief is gone before the .<ian tumble from the guard house. ; . ' Until last spring General Pershing maffe his residence in a large villa i ^ear headquarters. He soon found however, that so near the workshop 1 of fne army he could not hive the s qp'fet and lack of intrusion necessary to his growing responsibilities and he removed in May last to a beautiful chateau about five miles from town. 9ei;e; in a great rambling castle sit- < ua?ed in the Marne valley among : grpyes and wide sunlit lawns, he liy- 1 ed witn his personal staff. Connect- .: ed~ by telephone with every divisional, 1 corps, and army headquarters, his own oifices .in Chaumont and with Paris ; he did his work there when not with i the. army. 1 phaumont itself has become almost Americanized by the presence of the 3 headquarters. Its little hotels are al- ! ways crowded with officers. It has : been very hospitable to the American : occupation. Nearly every home with a spare room is thrown open as a bil let for officers and many of the finest residences have been .taken over en tirely by the hundreds of messes. In many of them the officers have install ed electricity ?and bath rooms and in some case central heating plants and with'French servants live comfortably, almost luxuriously as measured in military terms. Hundreds less for tunate or lacking in rank take their chances on whatever billet may be found in the crowded town where a bed is always at a premium. Reducing Marketing Cost by Adver tising. There is hardly a farmer who cannot do advertising to advantage. One of the greatest of farm problems Is that of selling what is grown. A man may grow a big crop but un less he can dispose of it at a prolit, he would be better off to have grown no crop at all. Advertising may be used to advan tage in selling crops when they are so large that they will not be taken by local demands. This is true of almost any farm product?potatoes, apples, livestock, poultry, cane syrup and hundreds of other things. The kind of publication to adver tise in depends on conditions. If a farmer has only a small amount of a product to dispose of, he should con fine his advertising to local newspa pers. If he has very much to sell, however, he will have to enlarge his advertising campaign to other publi cations.?The Progressive Farmer. Paris, Dec. 21.?Zurich papers printed today a Vienna dispatch car rying the report that the Austrian government "in order to avoid fur ther disturbances" had asked the al lied authorities to occupy the Austro Hungarian capital. The sending of French, British and American troops was requested. Everett, Mass.. Dec. 20.?Six men In an auomobile held up Frank Brown, paymaster of the Steel Foun dry of the General Electric Company today and shot and seriously wound ed him, and escaped with the payroll, reported to amount to twelve thou sand dollars. Last Devilish Crime A German Paper Condemns War Lord Who Ordered Sacrifice of Navy. Amsterdam, Nov. 20 (Correspond ence of The Associated Press)?The attempt of officers of the German high seas fleet to make a suicidal sortie against the British grand fleet before the armistice was signed is charac terized by the Berlin Vorwaerts as ' the last devilish crime against the German people that sealed the doom jof the Pan-Germans." Refusal of the I sailors to go out and fight is regard I ed as the first step towards the Ger j man revolution. This mutiny is de j scribed by the Vorwaerts as "an act of self-defense by 80,000 men against the villainous Pan-German plan. "To understand the position," con tinues the newspaper, "it is necessary to go back to the feverish propagan da by the Pan-Germans at the end of October for a so-called national fight of despair. To save their necks they conceived the idea of baiting the peo ple into a forlorn hope which, could only end in complete extermination. The death of the doomed eighty thousand did not concern these ma niacs in whose reckonings human blood never counted. Their notion of military honor was that the whole people should suffer themselves to be butchered rather than undergo the shame of de'feat." , "With their minds steeped in the worship of might they had no inkling of the revolutionary currents among the men. They still imagined that iron discipline was paramount. Their fiendish plan was to send out the ships; o be sacrificed to the last ship. The j news spread like wildfire. <MAt the last stage of the war are i we all to be killed?' they asked. "The officers harangued, cajoled, in vain. Three times the order was giv en. It was a difficult position for men with no backing but their feeling of solidarity. A thousand were imprison ed at Wilhelmshaven. The choice be tween freedom and imprisonment was not difficult. It was revolution. It was" the irony of fate that the Pan Germans, with what was to be their last desperate blow, should them selves have started the conflagration. It was this last, devilish crime against the German people that sealed their doom." * A Soldier's Letter Sergt. CT. M. Rauton Tells of Last Days of War. Somewhere in France, Nov. 13. Dear Mother: By the time you get this letter we may be started home, though no one knows. You have known for some time, but just can't help saying that the war is over. No doubt all of the people were glad to hear through the papers that the war had finished, but it did not sound as good to you as it did to us to know that at eleven o'clock, on the eleventh day of the eleventh, month the fierce fighting and the roaring of the big guns would sud denly cease. We all knew a few hours before that time what would happen, so we stood at the set time in silence, though we. could hear very very clearly the bursting of big shells and the moan ing of the guns even the small ones, the time passed very slowly but it ?jd come. Sounded like the earth it self was one mass of dynamite and had been touched off. Then came a silence but that was soon broken by loud shouts, from. American boys and French; bells rang, whistles blew and auto horns made more noise than a. thousand wild mules would make in tin stables. Though they are a worn out . look ing lot of horses and men, the French soldiers are passing in great numbers, shouting "La Guerre Finish." About all we can answer is "Oui, bon." Well if the Germans come to the terms which they agreed to and to which they will have to, there won't be very much left of them. This has been a pretty day here, its a bit cool but the. sun has shone most all day, wliich it has not done for quite a while. We have been living in dugouts for sometime, though not just at present. Henry is about a quarter of a mile away, across some muddy hills in a dugout. He likes it fine. We all like it when we get a good one. Well, will close for now. You might hear before long that we are, on our way home. That is if Henry and I don't decide to stay over here here a couple of years. Love to all. Your loving son, Sergt. G. M. Rauton. Co. D., 206 Aram. Tr., A. E. F.. Franee. Dreaded Air Raids The Bavarians Feared Retali ation by the Allies. London, Nov. 25 (Correspondence) Fear of air raids by the allied forces is believed by the Royal Air Force to have induced Bavaria to condemn the German rulers who brought the em pire to disaster. It is pointed out that the Bavarians realized that the aerial invasion might begin any day or night The collapse of Austria, it is stated, sent a cold shiver of apprehension through the Bavarian cities whose in habitants dreaded the terror and tragedy of the warfare they had waged and vaunted. The people of Munich realized th;it their great war factories were doomed and that per haps hundreds of working people would be killed. Dog in The Manger Senator Lodge Follows Roose velt's Lead in Trying to Block Wilson's Policy. Washington. Dec. 20.?Senator Lodge, the Republican leader, ad dressing the senate today, advocated the postponement of the formation' of a League of Nations until after the peace conference. He said the ques tion should be considered separately later. Saw Real War Sergt. Dan Allen One of Four Left Out of Thirty-Eight Who Went Into Battle. Nov. 24, 1918. Dearest Daddy: We have just finished six months service overseas yesterday and in that six months we have done our part to wards putting "Jerry" out of this war. It's all over now and as this is the day set aside for all the boys to write to their Dads, I'll try to tell you briefly what your son has been doing since I saw you last. I can't begin to tell you all of it for it would take r:e all night and it is getting late now. Wei to begin with, we had a pretty rough ime coming over. We ran into an awful storm that lasted four days and all those that were not sea sick were worn out taking care of those that were at the end of the voyage. We did not see but one submarine, and the little destroyers that darted about like rabbits quickly put it to flight. We landed at Liverpool and went from there to Folkstone by way of London on the train. After a three days rest at Folkstone, we cross ed the channel to Calais and there our real soldiering started. We were greeted the very first night by a< German aeroplane bombing. Every-' body was scared to death, but now the boys just laugh when somebody yells ?"lights out, Jerry's up." They have gotten used to it now. We went from Calais to Tourneheim and that wasj just about the only real comfort I've i had since I've been in France. I told mother about staying with the fine old French lady there. From there we went to Ypres in Eelgium and that is just about the worst place on the whole line. We held the line there for three months and then moved south to Albert and went into the push that broke the Hindenburg line between Cambrai and St. Quentin. That was some fight too. Wre lost over half of our men in being wound ed and killed in twenty-seven days, but we advanced fifty-seven kilo metres (36 miles) and captured and killed more "Jerrys" than were ever counted accurately. When we went into that attack we had 38 men in the platoon. After 2 days there were 4 of us left. They sent over a terrible gas attack and it got all of us but four. Of course they were not all killed but they were put out of action. Most of them are in England in the hospital now. I went through it all and didn't get a scratch and Dad, I've seen them fall, my best friends too, at my very feet and I couldn't stop to help them. That's war, you know. It was hard, but it's all over now and though I'm not yet twenty years old, I'm glad I can say I've done my part along with the rest of the men that Uncle Sam sent out and I know you are too. I won my sergeancy back while fighting, so I will come back just a little higher up than I left home, even if I did put in ten months as a Kitchen Police. Saw Bertie Phelps today. He was gassed pretty bad, but is all right now. Capt. Hudgens is not with us now. I'll tell you about that when I get home which I hope won't be very long. How is Wade? Hope he is well by now. I guess I'd beter stop, it's late now and I have to get up at 5.30 in the morning. Love to Mother and all, Your Son, DAN. Sergt. Dan P. Allen, Headquarters, 118th Infantry, A. E. F. Water Treatment How Desperately Wounded Men are Treated in Bath Tubs. London, Nov.' 23 (Correspondence Of the Associated Press)?A moving picture audience in bath tubs through which warm water flows is the enter tainment oddity provided in film shows by the American Y. M. C. A. at the hospital under the shadows of King's College, Cambridge, where wounded men from France are treat ed. In one ward certain of the pa tients who have had very serious, septic wounds are having the water treatment. To look at these men you might think they were lying comfortably in bed, propped up with pillows. They are really sitting in bath tubs in water to their waists. A constant stream of water with a temperature of 98 is kept running through the tub, purifying and cleansing the wounds, which have no other dress ing. A kind of magnified lap-board covers the top of the tub, and is in turn covered by a long, bright patch quilt. And there the men sit on air cushions, leaning against air pillows, : day and night, sometimes for week? [at a time. Only the most serious j cases are put into these baths, men who otherwise have little chance of recovery and none without the ampu ation of a limb. But never yet has a case so treated been lost. "It's beastly uncomfortable the first week," said the record case of the ward, a British Tommy who was for eleven weeks in the bath. "Your legs ache, und you have the water rash. But in a week, at most, you get over that, and then it is more comfortable than being in bed. In fact, after they put you back in bed you can't sleep for a while, It's so I hard." The American Y. M. C. A. has been sending these men "movies" twice a. week. A screen has been arranged iit one end of the hut and there all the screen favorites play their parts while the men sit comfortably in their warm tubs. And when the show is over all they have to do is to turn out the lights and go to sleep. Air Service Director Commander of Rainbow Division Appointed to Succeed Ryan. Washington. Dec. 21.?The appoint-j ment of Major General Mencher, who j commanded the Fori v-second (Rain-j bow Division) in France, as director! of the air service, succeeding Jno. D. I P.yan, was announced today. May Attend Conference The Governors Consider Asking South Carolina Senator to Look Out for Cotton Interests. Washington, Dec. ^ 19.?Senator E, |D. Smith of South Carolina may be come one of the important person ages at the world's peace conference soon to be held in France to settle the multitudinous questions arising out of the war. Today it became known here thai the South Carolina senator had beer seriously considered at the conference of governors, just held at Annapolis Md., for the purpose of attending the conference and looking out for the cotton interests of the United States, "When the matter of having the cot ton situation brought to the attention of the peace delegates was brought up there was entire unanimity on the part of the Southern governors, it is understood, here, for the great staple to be represented. The millions of dollars which this industry means to I the people of the South is fully under ! stood by the chief executives who have been in conferences during the present week and there is said to have b^en a strong tendency towards push ing this matter to the front. If some one is chosen for this pur oose it will undoubtedly be Senator Smith, inasmuch as he is probably the best posted man in the United States, If not in the world, on this subject. Senator Smith would not discuss the matter today,- but it is understood that it will be presented to him with in the next few days and that if he can leave his official duties he will at tend the conference for the purpose named. A Sailor's Letter Jesse Wood Served With Grand Fleet in North Sea. U. S. S. Wyoming, Rosyth, Scotland, November 22, 1918. Dear Sister. 1 will try to write you a few lines and tell you a few things that we are doiing over here, now that we have abolished the censoring of mail. We have been over here for a year trying to get a rap at the Hun fleet, but had no luck with the exception of a few submarines and cuisers, un til yesterday when we proceeded to sea. and met them and brought them in here without a shot being fired. Isn't that enough to take all the joy cm of life? Now we have got to go home without a real battle. Maybe you think all hands aren't sore over it. Of course, it was a little excited when, we first came in sight of them, for we didn't know for sure if they were really going to surrender, so all hands were at their battle stations and all guns manned and loaded. But it was useless, for there wasn't any fight in them at all, so you see we can't expect much credit for a blood less victory. . It was too much like taking candy from a baby. We came over here last December. One battle squadron, composed of the New York, Texas, Arkansas, Wyom ing and Florida and were attached to the British grand fleet to make up for a squadron that was lost in the battle of Jutland until they could put one of their own in commission. Then we were to proceed to France to work with the French fleet But our work was done so well that when our time was up Admiral Beatty, com mander-in-chief of the British grand Meet, put in a request to have us stay with him, that he couldn't possibly dispense with us. So we are still here and considered the crack squadron of the British grand fleet (some honor). We are now awaiting orders to go home or make a tour of all European countries. But I hope its go home, for I am sick for the good old U. S. A. I never want to come on this side again. I don't like the people and I don't the country, as a whole. No wonder we have so many foreigners in the United States. Well Sis, I will close, hoping to be home by Xmas. Kiss the kids for me and give Pete my regards. With lots of love, your old broth er, JESSE. Couiuy Health Survey. Mr. D. It. McCallum has turned over to the Chamber of Commerce a check for the McCallum Realty Company of $25.00 for the county health survey and rural visiting nur.se funds. Mr. McCallum expressed his opinion that the health survey and ru ral nurse are excellent propositions, and his firm, he says, believes heartily in the city and the country working well together for mutual protection and economic promotion. McCallum Realty Company are among Sumter's most public spirited and hustling business concerns, and are ever ready to work or to "loos en up" liberally for the common good of the city and county. During the Christmas festivities is a very good time to think of others, and you couldn't put your extra casn to a better purpose than helping to furnish scientific education and treat ment for thousands of boys and girls and many men and women too through the health survey and rural (nurse methods of conserving health and saving human lives. Share your prosperity with others in a practical manner that will re lieve suffering, avoid disease, and ward off premature deaths. A twelve months* educational cam paign and rural visiting nurse would he a fine Christmas present for thousands of the boys and giris of the rural districts, and for hundreds of men and women also. This Christmas present can be se cured and delivered if every one will but contribute to the extent of his or her means. London. Dec. 20.?A correspondent of the Manchester Guardian suggests that President Wilson's sudden de termination to come to England is due to his desire to consult the Brit ish government regarding the Rus sian situation before the preliminary metings to the peace conference are i Four Negroes LyMched ; Murderers Taken From Jail by j Mob. Mobile, Ala., Dec. 20.?Pour ne ! groes, among them two women, ac I cused of the murder of Dr. E. L j Johnston here last week, were taken j from the jail at Shubuta, Miss., to j night and lynched according to infor mation received in Mobile. All four were hanged on the girders of a bfidge spanning the Chickasawha Riv er. Information from Shubuta reach ing here by distance was to the ef fect that the jailer was called into the streets and 'handcuffed by a member of the mob. He was then made to unlock the prisoners and with them was taken in an automobile and rushed out of town. The jailer was put out of the machine before the party reached the bridge where the negroes were lynched.. Dr. Johnston was shot and killed from ambush while in a barn. Major Clark, one of the negroes lynched, was arrested and, according to the county authorities, confessed, impli cating the others and stating that he had shot Dr. Johnston at the request of one of the women with whom the dentist had trouble. The negroes lynched were two brothers and two sisters, Major and Andrew Clark, and Maggie and Alma House. Hearst and Bolo Investigation of German Prop aganda Reveals Suspicious Association. Washington, Dec. 20.?Most of to day's session of the senate commit tee investigating German propaganda was taken up with tilts between Al fred L. Becker, assistant attorney general of New York, and Senator Reed of Missouri, who is not a mem ber of the committee. : Senator Reed, in cross examining the New York official, who has been on the stand two days, charged that Morton E. Lewis, attorney general of New York, and Becker, misused their official positions in making public in formation contained in affidavits se cured by them under special war leg islation. These affidavits referred to alleged meetings of William Randolph Hearst with Bolo Pasha, executed in France as traitor, and former Ger nan Ambassador von Bernstorff. Mr. Becker denied the charge, say ing that the affidavits made public were not secured under the special legislation. He said that certain dis closures purporting to show associa tion of Hearst and Bolo were made public "for what I frankly admit were political purposes." He justified this course on the srround that their publication was in the public interest. The information under discussion was given to New York newspapers in August, September and October, 1917, when Becker was a candidate for the Republican nomination for at torney general of New York State, and Attorney General Lewis was a candidate for the Republican nomi nation for governor against Charles S. Whitman. It appeared from the cross examination that Hearst was considered a supporter of Whitman and Senator Reed sought to show that Lewis and Becker intended to dam age Whitman by attacking Hearst. Senator Reed then read from a Xew York newspaper of July 31, 1917, a story telling of Bolo Pasha's atten tion to a metropolitan opera singer, a Spanish woman, whose relations with Bolo were declared by Becker to be entirely blameless. In this story was a letter from Bolo to the singer mentioning "My friend, Mrs. Millicent Hearst." Mr. Becker admitted having ?iven to the papers the statement containing this letter. "What was the purpose of giving1 it out at this particular time," in-' quired Senator Reed. | "It was an interesting item of news! vhich I thought the public would be j glad to read," Mr. Becker replied, smiling. "Was there no purpose to connect Hearst with Bolo?" "I had regarded the purpose to show the connection of Hearst with German propagandists as more interesting to the public than the disclosure of ,Bolo's,attentions to the opera Singer," Becker added, shouting to drown Sen ator Reed's voice: "I think it should have been done a long time before." Senator King of Utah then asked: "Did you attempt to prejudice the public against Whitman by showing his connection with Hearst?" Mr. Becker replied: "It was Lewis* campaign which did this." When the cross questioning was in terrupted by adjournment, to be re sumed tomorrow morning, Senator Reed asked Becker to produce vouch ers showing expenditures incurred by State secret service agents in obtain ing depositions in the investigations of Bolo's activities in the United States. The witness stated with heat that he would "do no such thing," as they were confidential. Throughout most of the cross ex amination by Senator Reed, members of the subcommitete in charge of the investigation sat silent. XJse German Ships Hoover Perfects Arrangements for Feeding Victims of Huns. Paris, Dec. 21.?Herbert Hoover. American food administrator, will soon come into possession of a million tons of German shipping which will lie employed in revictualing devastat ed portions of France. Serbia, Bel gium and Rumania. These ships are wrung from the Germans without pledging that Germany will be sup plies are to be sent to Germany. Tokio. Nov 20 (Correspondence) ? A Japanese fireworks factory recently received an order from the French government for a million of what are caPed "pyrotechnic flags" which, it is I supposed here, are to be displayed in Icelebration of the restoration of peace, i The French flag is to measure 66 i [by 88 inches, and will be sent up by I a tuba 6 inches In diameter. Calomel Purified of All Objections I Chemists Rid Doctors' Favorite i Medicine of Nauseating and I Dangerous Qualities ? New I Variety Called "Calbtabs." ??? A triumph of modern pharmacy that is destined to bless the whole world?that is the opinion - of phy sicians and drug-gists who are famil iar with the new calomel that is wholly free from the objectionable effects of the old-style calomel. ^n occasional purifying of the system and thorough cleansing of the liver are absolutely essential to health and, as all doctors know, calomel is the only drug that accomplishes this result. Xow that the unpleasant and dangerous effects are entirely remov ed, *he popularity of the new calo mel. CalotabS; will be vastly increas ed. Its effect is delightful. One tab let at bedtime, a swallow of water? that's all. You wake up next morn ing feeing fine, your liver cleansed, your system purified and with a hoary appetite for breakfast. Eat what you please?no danger. No re suictions of habit or diet . Calotabs are sold only in original sealed packages, price thirty-five cents. Your druggist recommends and guarantees them.?Advt. Immigration. Because of the likelihood of a tre mendous rush to America of immi grants from Germany and other European countries, organized -labor throughout this counry is urging congress to place a ban on all immi gration for a period of at least two or three years. It is also reported that this proposal is approved by the United States Department of Labor and many other official and private agencies. In support of this plan it is pointed out that, while during the war period immigration has been at a standstill, as soon as transportation facilities are avilable there will be a strohig disposition to flock to this country* not only on the part of thosei who would have come but for the war during the past four years, but also by millions of Europeans who. desire to escape the heavy burdens of. recon struction work and taxation which will follow the war and which will be particularly burdensome in those countries which are called upon to pay heavy indemnities. Then too, in addition to the apprehension of a flood of foreign immigration which might seriously disturb labor condi tions in this country, the question is being asked, and asked persistently, as to whether immigrants coming from Germany and the other enenly countries are to be allowed admission into the United States and citizenship on the same basis as immigrants coming from neutral countries., oi from those countries which have been associated with America during the war. The view is also being empha sized that some special measures should be taken with reference to. the admission of people from Russia and other countries that have been so .dis astrously affected by the Bolshevik movement and other similar eree<Js which are proving so disastrous . to all forms of organized government It is obvious that, in view of the difficulties above pointed out, and many others which might be readily enumerated, the immigration pr^bV Jem is going to be a very difficult one for congress to deal with. How ever, its proper solution is a matter of tremendous importance for the I welfare of the country and demands [prompt attention. Slmonds on the Downfall of Prussian ! Militarism. It was Waterloo which shattered the French dream of world power. In the Hundred Days of Fooh from .the Marne to the Sambre, Prussian mili tarism has been broken as completely as the Napoleonic. The nation col lapsed behind the army, but- the arnty was already beaten and the German fleet which was to dispute the mastery of the sea with Britain, mutinied rath er than engage in battle with the foe. The armistice of Senlis is, then, one of ? the great landmarks in all human his tory. It marks the failure of one more effort to dominate the world by the sword. It testifies to another militaristic failure, the greatest per-" haps, in all human history. It reveals the "downfall" which Bernhardi told us was the alternative to German world-power. And there is one circumstance in the present campaign lacking in the Napoleonic history. Europe con quered Napoleon, but he left his last battlefield with the assured reputa tion of unrivalled greatness as a sol dier. Waterloo could not extinguish the glory of his Italian victories, l6t Marengo, of Austerlitz, of Friedland and of Wagram, Beaten he still con quered as a soldier. But no such for tune remains for the German military leadership. It has not merely been beaten; it has yielded to a greater commander than it was able to pro duce. If Ludendorff was the ablest German general of the war, his defeat at the hands of Foch is as complete as that of any beaten general in any war. Nor is this all. If Foch's victory over Ludendorff was absolute, the suc cess of Petain over Falkenhayn at Verdun, and of Joffre over the younger Moltke at the Marne, were only less decisive. In all three of the great tests, German generalship has suc cumbed to French. The legend of Sedan and Sadowa has been extin guished at the Marne and the Meuse. ?Frank Simons in the American Re view of Reviews. "In the midst of frightfulness and unspeakable horrors of the battlefield the Red Cross goes as a ministering Angel, to carry the message that man kind is still capable of the highest nobility of action. There could be no stronger appeal at this time to the American public than that which is made in the name of humanity to re lieve the suffering of those who ar? willing to offer their lives for us."? James D. Phelan, U. S. Senator* ?