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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 <
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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
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*ry Co., L. L. Wagnon, Manaj
Co., D. W. Mullinax, Manag(
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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
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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.
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: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
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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
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luthern Cotton Oil Co., B. F. Alston, Jr., 1-3 a
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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
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Pants! I
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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
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me price wholesale. j |
it $2.00; Boys' Overalls I
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