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VOL. XVI, NO. 28.
FALL
9$? 5? d?6
Oregon
liberty Loan Campaign Which
: Was to Have Closed Saturday
I Night Must Progress With Re
I newed and More Intense Vigor.
i
Outside State Does Better Than
J- Portland, Which Has $4,079,
i 550 to Go to Reaoh Its Quota;
22 Honor Counties Over Top.
OREGON'S patriotism Is under
going its most serious test
TJie fourth Liberty loan cam
palm scheduled to - close, suc-
pessfully. Saturday, must proceeJ
J with intensified vigor, M
Oregon is mQreiJQp
$hort of tts ; 13708,100 quotl.
Portland has subwibed. $14,
321,430 of tts 118,400.000 quota
and has 14.075 o0 ,,yet to go.
These, ar exact1' figures ; an
nounces the auditing division of
the city committee: no sub-
scriptlona large or small, are
' being 'withheld for future re
j . port to stimulate laggards,
'j The state outside Portland has su1
I (crlbed approximately $14,500,000 of Its
i tlB.00,100 quota and has approximately
1800.000 yet to go.
. The out-state's snowing ts substantlal-
ly better than that of Portland.
Thoitands Are KeaSlaeilsg
Oregon's continued campaign will bear
' more heavily than before on lnBividual
: responsibility. This will be especially
' true in Portland.
There are thousands of persons pre-
aiimahlv well able to subscribe who have
; not done so. Until they do subscribe or
1 gtvi evidence of their lnablity the execu
tive committee Intends to make them
feel that their patriotism is in question
(Conehtdad os Pis Tea. Catena Two)
Cossack-Japanese
Troops Take Town
Toklo. Sept. 25. (Delayed.) (U. P.)
' Russian Cossacks and Japanese troops
i have captured Blagovestchensk. accord -1
Ing to a dispatch to the newspaper
Hochl. ; (Blagbveatchensk Is on the
i Amur river. . X) miles northwest of
! Vladivostok.) ,
To the Ministers
of Portland:
PLEASE prepare for an
emergency aid to the
fourth Liberty loan cam
paign in Portland. We call upon
vou In the name of our. common
love for our country to be re
sponalble for Keing to It that
every person io whose conscious
ness the reliKious element ex
ists, sints "Onward, Christian
Soldiers" in Portland Tuesday
niKbt on downtown streets, be
ginning at 7 :30 o'clock. We ask
every .minister, without regard to
creed or denomination.' to lead
passed thousands as they sing
-this great battle hymn as an in
vocation for victory in this cam
paign and in this world war for
liberty.
Please announce to your con
gregations that everyone who
prays for success, works for suc
cess and invests for success, is
expected to participate in this
demonstration Tuesday night
The climax will be .great down
town mass meetings in coopera
tion with flying squadrons.
?T Further announcements will
be made direct and through the
newspapers. . There will be a
roll call and ' published list of
Njmlnisters participating.
7 ,. GEORGE L. BAKER
' Mayor .
' S EMERX. OLMSTEAD
- City Chairman
) - .GUY, W, TALBOT
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U I n I L U
LOYALTY
IS PUT TO
LAST TEST
i
NSMSHMMSaM
CITY EDITION
OF
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Lagging
Wilcox Country
Home Offered to
Government for
Use of Soldiers
Beautiful Tualatin Valley Place
Tendered by Mrs. Wilcox as
Convalescent Home.
The first definite offer of a site for a
home for convalescent soldiers in Oregon
comes from Mrs. Theodore B. Wilcox,
who has tendered her magnificent coun
try home, Glenwood Farm, for ths use
of ths federal government during the
period of the war.
The desire of Mrs Wilcox to render a
patriotic service is expressed in the fol
lowing letter to Mayor Baker:
"I am writing to ask you, if. through
you, I may offer my home, Glenwood
Farm, in the Tualatin valley, to the
government to be used for convalescing
soldiers during the period of the war?
"The house is large and has every
comfort and convenience. The grounds,
trees and glen suggest quiet and peace
for their tired bodies.
Family la the Service
"As my family is or will be In the
service, Theodore B. Wilcox Jr. at Camp
Taylor, officers' training camp ; Captain
Squires, son-in-law, in the spruce pro
duction division, while Raymond B. Wil
cox will be at his country's service as
soon as his business obligations are dla-
(Concluded oa Psge Twelve. Coin ma Two)
Turkish Minister
Hurries Back Home
Rome. Sept Zs.-tT. P.Talaat Pa
ha, Turkish minister of , war. hap left
Germany for Constantinople, where seri
ous events are reported to be imminent,
according to a wireless dispatch received
here from Zurich today, t ' -
News Index
SECTION ONE 28 PAGES
Pise.
Fill of Ctaibnl Reported
Oregon last io Lo&n Drive SUte Pat
to CrueUl Tett
WUcox Boae Offered for Cm of Sol
dier Allies Tell Bulgaria to Barresder
Germany Talk of Peace to Disarm Foe
Ruler of Belcians Leads Men to Victory
Fighting Is Greatest in History.
Be4 Cross Cares tor Erery Want of
Boys
Belgian King Leads Army
Three Drives Are On in West
Bulgarians Smoked Out by Americas
Army -Bed
Cross Knows No Nationality
S.
4.
Eclipse of 8un Produces New Scientific
Data
Five Bridges Burned and Train Held Up j
in Cascades
Roll of Honor
Food Begulations Are Changed
Conrad Olson Appointed to Supreme
Bench
Editorial
Brief Information
Tear Ago Today
Coming Events
Town Topics
Two Oregon Men to Supply Marble for
300,000 Temperance Palace in
Washington
Prohibition Prove Blessing to Black
. People
Wilson's 8peech Flattens Kaiser
Camp Lewis Letter
Personnel of Draft Quotas
Brush Fires Under Control
Betail Stores to Close at IP. H,
Loan Drite Under Way
Training for All Draft Eligible
Mar Contracts for Ships - Hinge en
Move House
U. of p. Campus Has Military Aspect
s.
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10.
11.
12.
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14.
15.
is.
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Loyal CiUstns Bally to Call 6f Harvest
American Ac Describes Battle in Sky
What Is InfluenssJ
Wavertey October Dates Set
8moker at lee False Friday
Tennis for Beginners
Football in High Favor
19.
Ball Gam Proceeds for Liberty Bonds
Bird Shooting Season On Tuesday
Real Estate and -Building
Want Ads
Marin
30.
31-24.
28.
SECTION TWO 18 PAGES
Pag
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a.
10.
ii.
Seeds for 214 Gas Mask Collected
The Realm of Music
Soldiers' Letters.
Ia Stageiand
Ia Vsuderille.
Motion Picranw
Tii Week ia 8ocletj
Fraternal
Werner's Chtb Affairs
Is the Public Schools '
Fashion Chat
For the Needlewoman
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14-1 T.
18.
A Visit to the German Trenches By
Brand WhiUock
Motor Track ia tbe Army By William
A, Dn Pay
Automobiles. Tracks, Tractors. Boads
America's Pesos Program .
SECTION THREE I PAGES
i -.: (Coaie) .
President WilsonVfentimeta
tion of the , points in America's
peace platform as outlined in his
New York speech and in earlier
addresses on Page 18 of Section
Two. . -r v . -
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Befyind Liberty Loan
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SAY auies
Entire Submission of Forces Both
Outside and Within Bulgaria,
Giving Up of Ail Supplies
and Munitions Demanded.
Must Break Off Relations With
Germany and .Permit Allies to
Operate Against Turkey and
Austria From Her Territory.
LONDON. Sept. 28. (U. P.)
Entire 'submission is the
only ground upon which the al
lies will graqt the Bulgarian
armistice, according to best in
formation . available- here tonight.
1 tThfcs. rtapsL : not: oalysurren
. def . oC -the ; arrhler ' outside :.th
country, but 'demobilization with-,..
xi : tje giving up . of ell arms,'f
munitions aiuT military, supplies,
and' utilization! of Bulgarian, ter
ritory by. the! allies for further ;
military operations, pending fi
nal peace. . j
It is not believed that settlement of
the question will be long delayed, as
there is apparently an unanimity of
sentiment among all the allied peoples
for acceptance of the proposal provid
ing there are no concessions that would
Impede the present victorious progress
on all fronts. 1
Before the allies will consent to an
armistice, Bulgaria must do the follow
ing: Terms of Armistice
Break off completely her relations
with Germany, Austria and Turkey.
Demobilize tier army.
Evacuate all foreign territory occu
pied by her armies.
These are the terms reported to have
been dispatched to Bulgaria today.
Meanwhile, the allies have definitely re
fused to suspend military operations
whUe conferring with the Bulgarian
peace delegates at Saloniki.
German reports intimating that Pre
mier Malinoff acted practically on his own
initiative in proposing an armistice, are
denied in allied official dispatches and
advices from, official sources.
Psrllament Approves Actios
A dispatch from The Hague states
that the Bulgarian parliament has offi
ciaUy approved the .premier's action.
General D'Esperey, commander of the
allied armies in Macedonia, telegraphed
the French government as follows:
"Tonight (Thursday) a Bulgarian offi
cer presented himself, asking on behalf
of General ' Tomodow, who says he Is
commander of the Bulgarian armies, for
an armistice of 48 hours to allow the
arrival of two accredited delegates of the
Bulgarian government Finance Minister
liaptcheff V and General Lcukof f, com
ynanding the second army coming with
AMriiiftn ft Vine? 17.itnAn4 .n u., . K
llsh conditions of an armistice, and
eventually,' peacd."
He fuses to Stop Operatiost
General D'Esperey, considering it pos
sibly might be a ruse to permit rein
forcements to arrive, replied that he was
unable to grant a suspension of opera
tions, but would receive the delegates
courteously if they came into- the line
accompanied by a parliamentary officer.
(Ooncloded os Pag Two.: OohuBB fllva)
Oregon Banks Bulge
With Coin; Deposits
leach $196,926,416
Salem, Sept. 28. If Oregon falls
short of reaching its fourth Liberty
loan Quota, promptly, it will be in
spite of the fact that her banks are
bulging with money.
Notwithstanding the heavy Liberty
loan subscriptions which have been
made ?in the last year., deposits in Ore
gon banks in that time have increased
815,875,852, according to a statement
issued today by Superintendent of Banks
Will H. Bennett. This statement is
based on reports of the condition of
banks on August XI. .
Since June 29 of this year deposits
in Oregon banks have Increased 85,831,-
siri. inw aeposius, wmcn means money
belonging to patrons of banks, were
8198.926.418 on. August 8L ; . Total
sources 1 of banks show an increase In
the past year of 82a.5.011, whUe the
increass.'sirjce June 29 tias been 84,973,-498-whito
reflects a. satisfactory growl
and prtsperous condition. - Total re
sources or us oanas are .i68.63i.
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TO BDE6AI!
PORTLAND OREGON, SUNDAY
ALLIED FORCES HOLD OFFENSIVE ON TWO CONTINENTS
FAR flung battleline that reaches from North sea to the Holy Land, along which the enemy is being hammered relentlessly in
a series of offensives. Arrow No. 1 indicates the new British-Belgian attack in the vicinity of Ypres; arrow No. 2, the British
- drive towards Cambrai; arrow No. 3, the Franco-American push in the Verdun country; arrow No. 4, the allied drive in the
Balkans against the Bulgars, and arrows No. 5, location of the British forces that have routed the Turks in Palestine and Mesopo
tamia. The importance of the Berlin to Bagdad railroad to the pan German scheme and which is menaced near Nish is apparent.
The photograph shows a street in the German stronghold of Metz. " '
I I II
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SeSK BERLIN- - ftrXtte f Udlli
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eace Offensive by Hun Powers an Insidious Attempt to Regain
Moral Initiative and is Maneuver Worked Before
With Great Success.
BY FRANK
( Copyright. 1818. by the Tribana
PRESIDENT WILSON'S prompt tnd crushinj rejection, of the Austriin
peace proposal has stopped the second German peace offensive in the
enemy's places of assembly. The assaultinf columns never left the hostile
trenches. In every circumstance this action of the president was admirable,
and the inspiring fact was promptly disclosed that Mr. Wilson had spoken
the will of the country and that his decision was that of the whole Amer
ican people.
But does the first repulse and the
German offensive; has the initial defeat
ended the danger? I do not think any
one who recalls the history of ths first
German peace offensive, that of Decem
ber. 1918, can believe this. In point of the
fact the allied statesmen of all the nations
at war declined the first German pro
posal as promptly and as uncompromis
ingly as has the president,- now. out
what was the result? For more than a
year .the German maneuvre continued :
it procured revolution in Kussisv disor
ganization in the allied countries, a de
cline in the morale and the solidarity of
the British and French peoples ; it
brought the whole Allied cause to the
edge of utter disaster.
It is essential, therefore, to Keep ones
mind fisted upon the new German ma
neuver as dangerous and certain to grow
more dangerous In the next few months,
during which military operations will
necessarily pause and the world, resting
from battle, but not for the agonies of
war. will nave time and reason to tmna
ones m6re of peace.
3r Peaee by ICegotlatloa
Tndav we are all of us In America of
one mlrrd on the subject of peace. We
are Bgreeu --
nosrotlation and no peace of any sort
until the German army baa been beaten.
the military power or the uerman na
tion broken by defeat: until we have
demonstrated -to the German people that
It is not possible for them by arms to
dominate the world, or, having Invoked
ruthlessness and terror, to escape the
consequences of these crimes and atroc
ities which nave ior more uisin lour
years been the steady concomitant of
German advance or retreat. r
We are, in America, agreea uiai u
time to talk -with ths enemy is when he
Is beaten, not before, and that the way, to
taiic with him then is by the imposition
upon him of our peace terms, not by se
cret debate in private conference, which
.Han rmve the character jot a; bargain
counter operation. In this spirit ths
nation, not only through the president.
vnt with the president, answered Austria.
We have been a long time arriving at
a sound view of ths world situation, but
we have arrived,, and our voles la unan
imous. -'-'-'V '
Facts Ars Jflsssderstood ,
,- But it Is necessary at once to recog
nise the character or xn new aanger.
There has been to much willingness yn
iha &Uled side to accept German condl-
tions as painUd by optimism, father, than
MORNING, SEPTEMBER
5j9 99
H. SIMONDS
Association, tks Nev Xork Tribune)
by accurate report Failure to under
stand the facts at ths time of the first
German peace offensive almost involved
ruin; a failure now will be less costlv.
perhaps, but it will be terribly costly; no
man can doubt this.
And there are certain truths which are
axiomatic. In the first place we must
put aside the notion that ths German is
beaten, or, what is more important, be
lieves he is beaten. At the close of
rather more than foUr years of wai; he
has conquered the Industrial regions of
France, occupied Belgium, demolished
the Russian empire and all cohesion in
the Russian people; he "dominates
Vienna, Sofia. Constantinople ; he holds
Serbia, controls Roumania; his allied
armies are in Venetla. Hs has lost some
battles this year, his confidence has been
In a measure shaken, but this confidence
(Concluded oa Pag XI Ten. Column One)
Skip Stop Flan Is
Put in Effect Today
The skip stop plan for street cars will
be put in force in Portland this morning
by the P. R L. & P. company on all
its city lines, in accordance with the
order of the fuel administration.
Street cars in Portland will now stop
only. every other block. Cars will stop
at streets where whits signs have been
painted on the corner posts, and will
not stop at corners where the blue signs
have been placed.
This plan is being inaugurated all over
the patlon In an effort to save power.
Ths streetcar company distributed thou
sands of notices among tts patrons Sat
urday, telling . them of tbe change.
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Three Lives Lost
In Florida Storm
.
- Tampa, FJa.. Sept. 28 U. P.) Three
lives were lost and property damage
estimated at 8500.000 was ths toll of a
storm which Struck ths Florida -coast to
day. .,':? -V-, V.;-'i i, ' .W .'
On. Hos; Island three children wers
swept 'away by-th wsres. Ths mother
of the children was probably fatally In
jured '-- V',' f ;
' y)2qpTR ieste jr jrC&j-i
29,' 1918.
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FIGHTING HAS BECOME
GREATEST
rARIS, Sept. 28. Dispatches
that with the entry of Belgian troops into the allied of fen-'
sive in Flanders today the fighting has become the great
est in history.
The entire, battle line is; now flaming from the north to the
Red Sea. Late reports from the Champagne show that the!
French, are taking full advantage
man, defenses.
The total of prisoners taken
British in today's operations is
There is no sign of a let up
Foch.
Red Cross
Every Want of Boys
DO YOU want to know about the Red Cross, what it 1$ dolnf and how it
does it? Jack Edwards can tell. He knows because he has been in it
and of it; because for months he was in charte of the bie district Just back
of that most important sector of the allied battlelines. where the American
bovs are now fronting the guns of Metz. He knows the Red Cross builn
from the transport to the trenches,
to the mothersthe fathers and the
over tnere. neaaea lowiru me imiiuc, mu ocrun
Jack Edwards is a well known Ore
gon man, a stockman by vocation ; an
Englishman by birth and an American
by adoption. He is firmer in his citi
zenship than lots of us. he says, "be
causs I am a citizen of America from
choice and not from the necessity of
birth." He is home now after a long
time spent in France, and he brings a
cheering message.
Mr. Edwards cams into The Journal
office ths othsr day by persuasion to tell
something of what he had seen of the
Red Cross work in Francs; things of
which he had first band knowledge.
He, o.ma to tell facts, for as a native
of that British Isles be has a tendency
to deal with facts and not with fancy.
Amsrieaa Figkters Uneasalsd
-I havn't any 'story tel," he said,
"but X know something about actual con
ditions, and I thought the people who
have boys In France might be interested,
and relieved, to know how ths Red
Cross Is caring for them. I don't want
anything sensational but Just ths facts."
But before Mr. Edwards had finished
his relation of facts hs had talked of
ths American soldier, as a soldier, as a
fighting man ; of tbe -German prisoner
as a study, and a problem ; of ths fight
ing spirit of ths allies and of their foe
men: of the stupendous work going on
behind the battle lines as well as In ths
trenches, and of ths Red Cross and ths
Immense, axid all, embracing -work of
with skewers
wet - yarttoat
tomUerly. '
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by S5rOO0ffm),
IN HISTORY
from the front tonight show
of the break in the fixed Ger
by the French, Americans and
put at 30,000.
in the offensive plans of General
Cares For
and his story is a most reassurtas- on
relatives of Oregon boys who are now
merciful relief It Is undertaking, and
accomplishing. v
a.T ,ioldieV aOW.tt
il.rj" fl?Un"
Zl "P"riors tn
me wwra. Aney xignt as they play.
fiJIfr They go into It as
they so into a srama of faatKaJt n..
don thave to touch elbow. toT
mnran ,,n ' -
courage up.
,J
amuBusuMM rave oeen i attack on tns approacnes oi urn ijacsist, r-,.-tbe
hardest fighters in ths Una. Whm .v. ..i.m .trsuuis' have takbn 10. DOS .'
they started any place they alwavs rot
there, or they never cams back, and Marshal Halg reported officially today, f
they had the Bochs scared yellow wr, ltJM r..ts ; -
UmofSUisy beaded at htm. It Cersiass Csytar .. -
. ' . ms hack I was
taiaing w an Australian omoer who had
been over ths too with his men mmv
times. A few days before X saw him b.
nciu una wi up o U1S xront Waiting
with his command to go Into ths Gsr
man trenches ones mors. Ths A us-
traJUns were waiting at a cross road for
orders to advance when aa American
regiment cams swinging np and ths
colonel, a lank and dusty Individual,
cams up to the Australian. ,
-tSay hs said, pointing forward to
where ths big guns, and ths IHtle ones,
ths machine guns and the rifles were
mine-led in on tltanio chorus, -he fu
w . . . . . . . .
Is It to that shooting gallery? Ws
to rit im thsm avBd ta.k m. eraelt.a It.' t
to vet op there and taks a
."A little later ths Australians
and the
lOonetaded-SB fags- gear, Ootasaa Otse) -
Matkwcst MrtUai eolr
gsaUs wls, - accvmlar
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Famous Passchendaele Ridge Is
Overrun by Belgians and Brit-;
ish in Advance of Twelve
Miles on Twenty-Mile Front
Yankees Progress Satisfactorily
Near Verdun; French "Smash
Forward in New Drive, South,
west Bulgaria Being Overrun.:
RULER OF
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WITH the British Ar- : '-:
mies in France, Sept. f
28. Cambrai is un-' 0
officially reported to have V
fallen, - ... . ;
(Cambf ai !6ne of the'most
strongly fortified French v; -cities
held by the Germans:
and has been the object cr?
' Bnttsn attacks for the last
four years. In an earlier
dispatch it, was stated that
the capture of Cambrai was .
delayed in the belief that the
city had been mined by thef
Germans.)
.London, Sept. 28.The J.
whole of the famous Pas-," ,
schendaele ridge was overf1
run by the British and Bel-
gians in their powerful as
sault on the Flanders front V
this morning, which carried '
them 12 miles forward on a
20-mile front. Capture of
the range along its whole
length, from the south of i-t.
Passchendaele toward RouK 'f'
ers and Ypres and to .Mes
sines, has just been authori
tatively announced here. ; , '"
King AlWrt of the Bel-
gians personally led the
drive, which is under his m a
CtmiilUnsnns s.v(th 4Ha tt1SlH ..: ' y
4I..W In SfiA iltpAiiltAfl A P. m -I.1
brai a strong forc of Amerfww
occupying the Qritlsh front uriesf f A
struck the enemy Friday fnJdwty. 'V.
between Cambrai and SU QaeiHv: '!
tm. :
The Yanliee took all their obr s '
Jectives -"-before sunset BItterjJ:tv
flrhtlng marked then advancsv tvf
The' main purpose of the Amer
lean attack was the clearing
tne irencnes sdq lonuiea iinni c - -
forming tn otner aerenses or ; .
the Hindecburg line southwest of 3
Le Catelet " ' "-t,:'i?
Ths British are now east of MssSlnss. ,.
mtoUseOerman lines.
A seml-oirculrr bulge has been driven .
All 9 TlantVnlal f..,t la In AHttaH '
hnds. Ths villages of .Wournsn And v ' "
Passchsnasels havs en occupied. - -
TnTBrttlsh and Bsbjians havsaksn t ,
thoussnds of prisoner, according to the
I durDatehsa from ths northsrn -, '
I v - :
poelcapeHe has been oocnpfsd, The
' - . . , -
5sn ars -
IXicnnsD Dawn v w- .-.
w"- the,r dlrf) on Camorml. httvm ..
day In conjunction with ths Amsrieaa
I mnra than sso mnt matt
I "L? TVTT:
I "r . V.tw t.nri rht
It ts officially, announced that, this ,,
I morning ths wfa'T" .
i i . hi vaMrnawi ijmiiieL a, 11 mw du uia
ara-w . - - - -,
bnk of Cas deilEseAjrt.-.
Fontaine, Epinoy end Olsy wrs alsd
taken. - ' -
Field Marshal Halg announced In his ,r
ftlsht report ths capture of SalUy, two ...
miles to ths west of Cambrai, and Rail
len court, a half mils westward, v - : :
JtZTS ":
organised . !T7 o. v! '. ZTZ
HJ tS 7Z
entered RalUenoonrt had crashed rou
stf-OsnM
1 Eight tnUss to the northwest Of Cam-
I .vrhere . the British advance Is . ;
4CtUmi m rut Twaa Colan Om) .
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