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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1918)
WORLD OF BriefResume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event oys'oted People, Government! and Pacific North weit and Other Thing! Worth Knowing. A Turkish force of 10,000 men has surrendered to the British In Pales tine, according to an official announce ment made In London Monday. A movement has heen organized to bring about closer relations between Chile and the United States. This movement Is meeting with notable support. The German official communication of Monday evening admits withdrawals In Flanders by the Germans east of Dlxmude and other places In Belgian Flanders, including the Wytschaete salient. General March announces that allied and American forces operating south of Archangel have been placed under command of General Poole, of the Brit ish army. The American units are commanded by Colonel Stewart. Fighting is going on in Cambral. The northeastern, western and south western suburbB have been captured and the town probably will be cleared up shortly. British troops have cross ed the Scheldt canal and captured Crevecoeur, south of Cambral. Emperor William visited Kiel on September 25, according to the Lokal Anzetger of Berlin and witnessed ma neuvers In which submarines attacked a supposed convoy. He arrived at the German base early In- the morning with his brother, Prince Henry and Admiral Scheer. Since the first "gasless" Sundays 10 cargo boats carrying 500,000 barrels of gasoline, which otherwise could not have been shipped, have been sent to France, declared Mark L. Requa, di rector of the oil division of the United States Fuel administration in an ad dress in New York Sunday night. Four thousand gallons of beer, wine, cider and whisky, seized since Utah went into the prohibition column 14 months ago, gurgled from barrels and bottles in front of the city hall at Salt Lake City Sunday and ran down the city's deep gutter like a fair-sized torrent. The liquor destroyed by the police waB valued at about J40.000. Vaccination with a recently discov ered serum, which from tests just com pleted at several army camps has been found to be an almost posLlve means to prevent contraction of pneumonia, will be used to combat the epidemic of Spanish influenza, which in the week ending Saturday had made Its appear ance in every state, and in all but a few army camps, causing many deaths. Use of the vaccine will be widely ex tended. The drawing of order numbers for the 13,000,000 draft registrants en rolled September 12 was started Mon dny by President Wilson. Blindfolded, the president groped Into the great glass lottery bowl and drew out one of the 17,000 capsules. It contalnod a slip numbering 322, thus giving to men holding that serial number first place In their respective classes after registrants already classified under previous registrations. A Btate of war exists between Brazil nnd AiiBtrla, though so far there has been no formal declaration. The first subscription In Baltimore to the fourth liberty loan came Thurs day. It was for 1,00,000 and was fol lowed by another one for $75,000. The village of Seleucy, Immediately west of St Quentln, has been taken by the British, aoooYdlng to Field Mar shal Haig's communication Issued on Wednesday night. Enlisted men of the navy at Bremer ton, WaBh., In an order issued Thurs day, were prohibited from riding In motor boats, automobiles or on motor cycles on Sunday. Announcement was made In New York Thursday night that $1,200,000 worth of raw furs. have been sold In the first two days on the fall auction. High prices prevailed. More than $2,000,000, the self Im posed quota of the Homestead workers of the Carnegie Steel company, Pitts burg, for the fourth liberty loan, was subscribed by the 12,200 employes of the plant In 41 hours, according to an announcement made by company offl dais. CURRENT WEEK BULGARIA ALLJNARMISTICE Surrender of Balkan Nation Is Most Complete. . ALLIES CONTROL ALL Chancellor Bonar Law Points Out End ing of Kaiser'i Mittel Europa Dream Big Event! Coming. London. The signing of a conven tion bringing hostilities between the entente allies and Bulgaria to a close at noon, September 30, was announced by Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of tlio exchequer at a meeting in the Guildhall. The meeting marked the opening of the autumn war savings campaign. The armistice concluded with Bul garia by the entente allies is a purely military convention and contains no provisions of a political character. Bulgaria agrees to evacuate all the territory she now occupies In Greece and Serbia, to demobilize her army Immediately and surrender all means of transport to the allies. Bulgaria will also surrender her boats and control of navigation on the Danube and concede to the allies free passage through Bulgaria for the de velopment of military operations. All Bulgarian arms and ammunition are to be stored under the control of the allies, to whom Is conceded the right to occupy all Important strategic points. The Associated Press learns that the military occupation of Bulgaria will be entrusted to British, French and Italian forces and the evacuated por tions of Greece and Serbia respective ly to Greek and Serbian troops. The armistice means a complete mil itary surrender and Bulgaria ceases to be a belligerent. All questions of territorial re-ar rangements In the Balkans were pur posely omitted from the convention. The allies made no stipulation con cerning King Ferdinand, his position being considered an Internal matter, one for the Bulgarians themselves to deal with. The armistice will remain in opera tion until a final general peace Is con cluded. In discussing the armistice conven tion Chancellor Bonar Law said that It meant "that the Germans' dream of a German middle-eastern empire has gone forever." By the terms of the agreement, he continued, Bulgaria gives up complete ly the control of railways, the chan cellor said. Control of the Bulgarian railways, he pointed out, gives control of Bulgaria. Lansing Answers Germany. Washington, D. C. The American government, In reply to Germany's threat to execute American prisoners of war found In possession of shotguns, Monday gave notice that If Germany carries out any Buch threat suitable reprisals will be taken. Secretary Lansing said: "In reply to the German protest the government of the United States has to say that the provision of The Hague conven tion, cited in the protest, does not, In Its opinion, forbid the use of this kind of weapon. "Moreover, In view of the history of the shotgun as a weapon of warfare, and In view of the well-known effects of Its present use, and in the light of a comparison of It with other weapons approved In warfare, the Bhotgun now in use by the American army cannot be the subject of legitimate or reason able protest. "The government of the United States notes the threat of the German government to execute every prisoner of war found to have in his possession shotguns or shotgun ammunition. "Notwithstanding this threat, inas much as the weapon is lawful and may be rightfully used, its use will not be abondoned by the American army. "Moreover, If the German govern ment should carry out its threat in a single instance It will be the right and duty of the government of the United States to make such reprisals as will best protect the American forces, and notice is hereby given of the Intention of the government of the United States to make such reprisals." Wilson Enter Suffrage Fight Washington, D. C Although Presi dent Wilson in a personal address on Monday to the Senate asked for pas sage of the woman suffrage federal amendment resolution as a vital war measure, the senate again failed to reach a vote. Under the weight of the president's influence, advocates of the resolution were hopeful of mustering the neces sary two-thirds majority, but leading opponents were insistent that there would be no defection from their ranks. MACHINE EMPEY, QUESTIONING A GERMAN PRISONER, FINDS HE IS FROM NEW YORK. 8ynopsls. Fired by the sinking of the Lusitanla, with the loss of American lives, Arthur Guy Empey, an American living In Jersey City, goes to England and enlists as a private In the British army. After a short experience as a recruiting officer In London, he is sent to train ing quarters In France, where he first hears the sound of big guns and makes the acquaintance of "cooties." After a brief period of training Empey's compuny is sent into the front-line trenches, where he takes his first turn on the fire step while the bullets whiz overhead. Empey learns, as comrade falls, that death lurks always In the trenches. Chaplain distinguishes himself by rescuing wounded men under hot Are. With pick and shovel Empey has experience as a trench digger In No Man's Land. Exciting experience on listening post detail. Ex citing work on observation post duty. Back la rest billet! Empey writes and stagci a successful play. CHAPTER XIX Continued. 16 At one point of the line where the trenches were very close, a stake was driven Into the ground midway be tween the hostile lines. At night when it was his turn, Tommy would crawl to this stake nnd attach some London papers to It, while at the foot he would place tins of bully beef, fags, sweets, and other delicacies that he had re ceived from Blighty In the ever looked for parcel. Later on Fritz would come out and get these luxuries. The next night Tommy would go out to see what Fritz put Into his stocking. The donation generally consisted of a paper from Berlin, telling who was winning the war, some tinned snusnges, cigars, and occasionally a little beer, but a funny thing, Tommy never re turned with the beer unless It was In side of him. His platoon got a whiff of his breath one night and the offending Tommy lost his job. One night a young English sergeant crawled to the stake and us he tried to detach the German paper a bomb ex ploded and mnngled him horribly. Fritz had set a trap and gained another vic tim which was only one more black mark against him In the book of this war. From that time on diplomatic re lations were severed. Returning to Tommy, I think his spirit is best shown In the questions he asks. It Is never "who Is going to win" but always "how long will It take?" CHAPTER XX. "Chats With Fritz." We were swimming In money, from the receipts of our theatrical venture, and had forgotten all about the war, when an order came through that our brigade would again take over their sector of the line. The day that these orders were Is sued, our captain assembled the com pany and asked for volunteers to go to the Machine Gun school at St. Omar. I volunteered and was accepted. Sixteen men from our brigade left for the course in machine gunnery. This course lasted two weeks and we rejoined our unit and were assigned to the brigade machine gun company. It almost broke my heart to leave my company mates. The gun we used was the Vlckers, Light .303, water cooled. I was still a member of the Suicide club, having Jumped from the frying pan Into the fire. I was assigned to section 1, gun No. 2, and the first time "In" took position In the front-line trench. During the day our gun would be dismounted on the fire step ready for Instant use. We shared a dugout with the Lewis gunners. At "stand to" we would mount our gun on the parapet and go on watch beside It until "stand down" In the morning. Then the gun would be dismounted and again placed In readiness on the fire step. We did eight days In the front-line trench without anything unusual hnp pening outside of the ordinary trench routine. On the night that we were to "carry out," a bombing raid against the German lines was pulled off. This raid ing party consisted of sixty company men, sixteen bombers, and four Lewis machine guns with their crews. The raid took the Boches by surprise and was a complete success, the party bringing back twenty-one prisoners. The Germans must have been awful ly sore, because they turned loose a barrage of shrapnel, with a few "Min nies" and "whizz bangs" Intermixed. The shells were dropping into our front line like hailstones. To get even, we could have left the prisoner! in the fire trench, In charge of the men on guard and let them click Fritz's strafelng but Tommy does not treat prisoners that way. Five of thera were brought Into my dugout and turned over to me so that they would be safe from the German fire. In the candlelight, they looked very much shaken, nerves gone aud chalky faces, with the exception of one, a great big fellow. He looked very much at mm, I liked him from the start 'Will If 6r) tT l J A WHO WENT T'f SUYfflPLY GUNNER, JEMG IN FRANCE 17 BY AftfHuft wt upty I got out the rum Jar and gave each a nip and passed nround some fags, the old reliable Woodbines. The other prisoners looked their gratitude, but the big fellow said in English, "Thank you, sir, the rum Is excellent and I ap preciate It, also your kindness. He told me his name was Carl Schmidt, of the Sixty-sixth Bavarian Light Infantry; that he had lived six years In New York (knew the city bet ter than I did), had been to Coney Island and many of our ball games. He was a regular fan. I couldn't make him believe that Hans Wagner wasn't the best ball player In the world. From New York he had gone to Lon don, where he worked aa a waiter In the Hotel Russell. Just before the war he went home to Germany to see his parents, the war came and he was con scripted. He told me he was very sorry to hear that London was In ruins from the Zeppelin raids. I could not con vince him otherwise, for hadn't he seen moving pictures In one of the German cities of St. Paul's cathedral In ruins. I changed the subject because he was so stubborn In his belief. It was my Intention to try and pump him for Information ns to the methods of the German snipers, who had been caus ing us trouble In the last few days. I broached the subject and he shut up like a clam. After a few minutes he very Innocently said : "German snipers got paid rewards for killing the English." I eagerly asked, "What are they?" He answered : "For killing or wounding an English private, the sniper gets one mark. For Dead Bodies Everywhere. killing or wounding an English officer he gets five marks, but If he kills a Red Cap or English general, the sniper gets twenty-one days tied to the wheel of a limber as punishment for his careless ness." Then he paused, waiting for me to bite, I suppose. I bit all right and asked him why the sniper was punished for killing an English general. With a smile he re plied: "Well, you see, if all the English gen' erals were killed, there would be no one left to make costly mistakes." I shut him up, he was getting too fresh for a prisoner. After a while he winked at me and I winked back, then the escort came to take the prisoners to the rear. I shook hands and wished him "The best of luck and a safe Jour ney to Blighty." I liked that prisoner, he was a fine fellow, had an Iron Cross, too. I ad vised htm to keep It out of sight, or some Tommy would be sending it home to his girl In Blighty as a souvenir. One dark and rainy night while on guard we were looking over the top from the fire step of our front-line trench, when we heard a noise Imme diately In front of our barbed wire. Ths sentry next to me challenged. "Halt, who coma there r and brought A V hii rifle to the aim. His challenge wa answered In CiermtiD. A cuptaln In the next traverse climbed upon the sand bagged parupct to Investigate a brave but foolhardy deed "Crack" weut a bullet and he tumbled back Into the trench with a hole through his stomach and died a few minutes later. A lance corporal In the next platoon was so en raged at the captain'! death that ne chucked a Mills bomb in the direction of the noise with the shouted warning toui: "Duck your nappers, my lucky lads." A sharp dynamite report, a flare In front of as, and then silence. We Immediately sent up two star shells, and In their light could see two dark forms lying on the ground close to our wire. A sergeant and four stretcher-bearers went odt In front and soon returned, carrying two limp bodies. Down In the dugout, In the flickering light of three candles, we saw that they were two German offi cers, one a captain and the other an "unterofflzler," a rank one grade higher than a sergeant general, but below the grade of lieutenant. The captaln'i face had been almost completely torn away by the bomb'i explosion. The unterofflzler was alive, breathing with difficulty. In a few min utes he opened his eyes and blinked in the glare of the candles. The pair had evidently been drink ing heavily, for the alcohol fumes were sickening and completely pervaded the dugout. I turned away In disgust. hating to see a man cross the Great Di vide full of booze. One of our officers could speak Ger man and he questioned the dying man. In a faint voice, Interrupted by fre quent hiccoughs, the unterofflzler told his story. There had been a drinking bout among the officers In one of the Ger man dugouts, the main beverage being champagne. With a drunken leer he Informed us that champagne was plen tiful on their side nnd that It did not cost them anything either. About seven that night the conversation had turned to the "contemptible" English, and the captain had made a wager that he would hang his cap on the English barbed wire to show his contempt for the English sentries. The wager was accepted. At eight o'clock the captain and he had crept out into No Man's Land to carry out this wager. They had gotten about halfway across when the drink took effect and the captain fell asleep. After about two hours of rain attempts the unter offlzler had at last succeeded In wak ing the captain, reminded him of his bet, and warned him that he would be the laughing stock of the officers' mess If he did not accomplish his object, but the captain was trembilng all over and insisted on returning to the German lines. In the darkness they lost their bearings and crawled toward the Eng lish trenches. They reached the barbed wire and were suddenly challenged by our sentry. Being too drunk to realize that the challenge was In English, the captain refused to crawl back. Finally the unterofflzler convinced his superior that they were In front of the English wire. Realising this too late, the cap tain drew his revolver and with a mut tered curse fired blindly toward our trench. His bullet no doubt killed our captain. Then the bomb came over and there he was, dying and a good Job too, we thought. The captain dead? Well, his men wouldn't weep at the news. Without giving us any further Infor mation the unterofflzler died. We searched the bodies for Identlfl' cation disks but they had left every thing behind before starting on their foolhardy errand. Next afternoon we burled them In our little cemetery apart from the graves of the Tommies. If you ever go Into that cemetery you will see two little wooden crosses In the corner of the cemetery set away from the rest They read : Captain German Army Died 1916 Unknown R. I. P. Unterofflzler German Army Died 1916 Unknown s R.IP. Empey and his machine-gun company go "over the top" In a successful but costly attack on the German trenches. The story of this thrilling charge is told In the next installment (TO BE CONTINUED.) Be Above Gossip. Gossiping is about the most useless kind ot work one could possibly en gage In. How much better and mors charitable It Is to turn a deaf ear to cruel truths, to honorably keep silent about what we have heard, and at ths same time give the unfortunate person In the case the benefit of our doubt "Small wits talk mnch," Is an old say Ing and a true one. The girl or woman who would be truly happy, and wbo Incidentally would make others happy, should wisely think twice before she speaks, and then should put Into words only thoughts that are cheering and charitable. New York Evening Mall. His Duty Done. The family Is rather demonstrative when the various members of the household come and go. The grand children are expected to embrace every one at the beginning and at the end of a visit Fred and Albert were get ting Into their clothing and making their hasty adleux preparatory to catching their train home after Christ-; mas. "Hurry op, Fred," Albert shout ed; "you're too slow for anything,: rr fat mine all kissed." 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