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I One W At the first ons captured cities and vi True to all the impressive number of It has taken the the rate of about 1,00( If it were not f ^ more than the French tives. Trained Red C 1 starving or have some 8 It is just like tl I germs. We hifve a h< (convalescent hospital even then the strain u We, through on just started, and our < Union Coca-Col 1-2 page; Union Groc< page; Union Clothing Jeter, Jr., Merchant, " page; J. F. McClure D I Grocers, 1-3 page; Br; Tfro: ?? ? Tv!) ENGLISH WOMEN DO HEROIC WORK BELGIAN FRONT London, April 14.? (Correspondence of the Associated Press)?The Baroness T'Serclaes and Mias Mairi Chisholm, two English women who have lived in a duprout on the Belgian front for three and a half years, carina for the Belgian troops, and who are known throughout the Belgian army as the "Good women of Pervysc" have arrived in London, suffering from the effects of a gas at tack on the Belgian front in the recent lighting there. Both have been seriously ill, but are now sufficiently recovered to be admitted to a convalescent hospital here. "We were accustomed to bombardment," said the Baroness in an interview," and our dugout has been hit a hundred times since we lived there. But in this last attack the shelling was more dreadful than we have ever known. "It was early one morning after a night-long bombardment that we decided to venture out, knowing that there would be many needing our care. While we were dressing, I heard a shell burst outside our dug-, out, and a moment later I found our! orderly lying on the floor of the cor-1 ridor. I rushed up to see what I could, do for him when suddenly I felt as if a rope had been fastened around my neck. "I could not breathe and was absolutely helpless. Mis Chisholm too was in agonies. My little dog Shot, who had been with us for three years, came up and looked at me with wondering eyes, licked my hand and died. 1 don't think 1 had ever before felt that 1 actually hated my enemy, but ever since my dog was gassed 1 have Jonged above all else to kill a German! it was only about half an hour hefore we were taken away in an ambuance. The ambulance was smashed by a shell after a quarter of a mile and we were picked up again! and taken in a big truck to a base hospital. We were there several days before we were able to be moved to IiOndon." The two "Women of Pervyse" have been the only women who have been permitted to live and work at the Begian front. Hundreds of volunteers, American and British, have asked to be allowed to help them, but' the Belgian command would not even allow a third woman at Pervyse. In the early days they worked single-handed, but a doctor, two N ay the Red Ci \ 1,000 Ragged, Sic laught of the Huns, before tl llages he acquired many thoi rules of Teutonic efficiency, them "caught" tuberculosis < Kaiser from two to three ye; ) a day. The Kaiser never ai or the American Red Cross 1 government could handle. Toss workers are at the rece other disease. le tender care of our Red Cr Dspital of 30 beds for childre outside the town and vet an pon our workers is so great ir American Red Cross, are < luty demands that we work i a Bottling Company, Evans ( *ry Co., L. L. Wagnon, Manaj Co., D. W. Mullinax, Manag( L-4 page; Union Plumbing & ry Goods Co., 1-4 page; Flynnadley-Estes Co., Furniture D< stretcher-bearers, and a chauffeur < came to help them later in their little casualty station. The nearest 1 hospital is ten miles from Pervyse. 1 Their station was always open day I and night and for trivial ailments as i well as for serious wounds. Their * dugout was made of concrete, and had i an operating room, a kitchen and a s small sleeping room. The husband of the Baroness is a 1 oeigian army oincer. 1 ? - ( FORI) PLANT TO BUILI) ] MAMMOTH STATES NAVY "EAGLE" i ] (By Associated Press) Detroit. May 1(5.?Quantity produc- ' tion is to be the watchword of the great Ford shipbuilding yard which is being erected here for the construction of the United States navy "Eagles," the little vessels which it is hoped, will help rid the seas of Ger- ( man U-boats. ' The assembling plan has been ? greatly elaborated and will be applied ^ to the building of the "Eagles." The ' raw material will enter one end of the 1 plant to emerge at the other end a 1 completed lighting craft. Each of the J little vessels will be passed along by i powerful machinery from one group * of workment to another and, as it,1 passes each group will add something j to the boat. When the last rivet has been driven in the steel hull, the boat will be picked up bodily by a powerful hy-j. draulic life and deposited further I down the ways where skilled work- ^ men will install the motor equipment. L Three ways have been constructed,^ each to hold seven of the submarine^ chasers. It is generally understood j that the plant will be able to put in-;| to the water one completed "Eagle"! a day and some estimates have placed the number as high as three for each j twenty-four hours. There will be no champagne chris-' tening nor elaborate launching cere- ( monies. No efforts are being made to give the boats any touch of artificia beauty, the sole effort being to turn out with as great speed as possible an efficient, weapon against German ruthlessness on the seas. Gov- ' ernment secrecy shrouds the major , details of construction. "If these boats will hasten the end 1 of the frightful carnage and bring a lasting peace, there will be no occasion to worry over the cost," said Henry Ford in discussing the project. "This is your war and my war, and < | although we did not make it, we must^ 'see it through to a successful con- < "A great net of mercy an ocean of unspet ross Has Takt :k and Homeless P h.e French were able to withsta usands of Frenchmen. the noble German worked and ind finally sent these poor wre< ars to suck the healthy blood fi in ounces these shipments. He the task of caring for these st; But our American Red Cross i: iving station at Evian. They f oss to give particular attention n in Evian. These are reserve< other in a nearby village. It a that for eight long months one loing great things toward def ind without ceasing. ?RED CROSS BOOSTE joodwin, Manager, 1 page; Clt ger, 1-2 page; E. F. Kelly & Br ir, 1-3 page; Union Hardware Electric Co., 1-4 page; Bailey Vincent Shoe Co., 1-4 page; Gc balers, 1-3 page. ? . :usion. * - M Sixty Mays ago the land on which ;he plant is being erected was a deso;ate marsh, a vast acreage of mud through which wandered aimlessly a sluggish river. Now it is a net-work >f railroad tracks with locomotives running between great buildings of steel, tile and glass. What engineers here say is one of :he largest buildings in the world will ae used to house at one time a score < )f the little vessels. It is 1,700 feet ong, 1100 feet wide. The * building, vhere the boats are to be assembled s fully half a mile from the Rouge iver. The launching basin adjoins ;his building and thence a channel is jeing excavated to the river. IfET HOPE FOR AID FROM RUSSIA | Darby, Pa., May 4.? (Correspond- R rnce of the Associated Press)?First B Lieutenant J. A. Youngblood and R ind Second Lieutenant Richard D. R Eteese, of this town, who went to R liussia almost a year afro as part of R he Russian railway service detach- R nent of the United States Engineers, H ; ind who have just returned to their lomes by way of Japan, both declared ;hey believe Russia will become afrain 5 in efficient aid to the Allies. Ellfi CHINESE TELEGRAPH LOAN I \ Tokio, April 20.?(Correspondence I if the Associated Press)?Advices j rrom Peking report the conclusion of i Chinese telegraph loan totalling he equivalent of about $10,000,000 'or which negotiations hail been gong on between the Chinese governnent and the Japan-China Industrial ilank. A part of the loan is said to lave been handed over to the Chinese rovernment. The loan is said to be at 8 per cent 1 IL. 1 " * ' iwtwv anil I 111- III nri \r-.\g(' lor 11/ IS -he revenue of telegraph business conlucted by the Chinese government, sti mated at about $2,500,000 a year, j NEW CANDIDATE'S CARD I hereby announce myself a candilate for election to the office of rownship Commisioner for Union Township, Union County, and pledge nyself to abide the result of the Democratic primary. J. W. NANCE. With half a million American soliiers in France that official "somewhere" comes pretty near being averywhere. t 'i Mi r drawn through ikable pain *' mi Ia HaIaaI #1 Oil IV VClCdl 11 eople Are Dally Dui :nd their invasion, the Kaiser se starved these French close to t ?ks back to burden France. om the veins of these sturdy ru simply dumps them in Evian, or irved, ragged, sick, homeless, t( 3 making heroic efforts to defeat irst separate those showing sigi i to the babies and children to 1 :1 for the children who are too i lso keeps six ambulances busy American nurse has had to loo] eating the Kaiser in his efforts It ADVERTISERS? izens National Bank, R. P. Mo o., "The Land Men," 1 page; So Co., F. H. Garner, Manager, 1Builders Supply Co., 1-4 page; 1 lult Mfg. Co., J. H. Gault, Presi Pants SPECIAL PRI^ M You could not possib at the sa Men's Overalls i at 75c, \ While you ar< look at the J. F. MCLii THE I ??? . ? ?-? ______ v, H lie Kaiser's Game I mpea at fcvian | icured a goodly section of France. With the B ;he point of death, then saw to to it that an iral French, but now is sending them back at | i the French-Swiss border. | irrorized men, women and children would be B ; the Kaiser's aim to fill France with consump- fl is of tuberculosis from those who are only 1 whom the kindly Kaiser has fed consumptive | 11 to take farther. Then our Red Cross has a 8 transporting sick women and children. Yet | k after 120 beds. | 5 to turn France into a graveyard, but we have 1 rgan, President, 1 page; J. Cohen, Clothier, fl luthern Cotton Oil Co., B. F. Alston, Jr., 1-3 a O : . T T - - r* ^ ? o page; umon-i5unaio Mills Co., 1 page; J. M. [ | The Rasor Qo., 1-4 page; McClure 10c Co., 1-4 1 dent, 1-3 page; W. D. Anthur Co., Wholesale I ? ?->! Pants! I 'I FOR QUICK SALE ittonade . . . $1.00 irrinn Bone Weave. ?!" 1.20 w J bllVUI " " ' Iffl is Blue, Pin Check 1.50 I iaki, Light Weight 1.25 I laki, Medium Weight . 1.50 I laki, Heavy Weight. 1.75 I >ly get any of the above list now 11 me price wholesale. j | it $2.00; Boys' Overalls I 89c and $1.25. I 0 III the store take a II other good things. ire Din Goods Co. JNDERSELLERS