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10 Twenty Millions Available for Arm ored Motor Cars Story of Tank ' Told by the Man Who Devised Them Result of Inventions by Two Americans Prove Success. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. The huge wur deficiency bill now in con gres scnrrics ft if 18,750,000 appropri ation for urniorcd motor ears, with five million dollars more authorized. The bill does not state it, but I think it will not take shrewd guessing to figure that part of this is to pro vide Uncle Sam's army in France with some of the famous British "tanks." 3y a happy chance tho man who dreamed of tanks and fought for tanks until they were on the firing line is in this country now. lie is UNCLE SAM BUILD TANKS TO FIGHT GERMANS Colonel K. D. Swinton, assistant sec retary of the war cabinet that runs the British end of the war. He is here with Lord Heading, chief justice of England, on a special mission. Colonel Swinton, who served in the Boer war, is one of the most famous English military men. In the first part of the war he was the celebrated "eye-witness" with England's first expeditionary force in France, and described its exploits i'or the Britsili public. He is also an author of note. Adopted From the Ancients. "Tho idea of tho tank is one adopted from old limes," said he. "Even in ancient days it was recog nized that the attacking party had Q the worst of it. In the first years of the war the Germans not only out numbered us with heavy artillery, but also with machine guns. These lut ter did the deadly work. Infantry was mowed down. "Now the machine gun is the in vention of nn American, Sir Hiram Maxim, and the invention of another American, Benjamin Holt, enabled lis to fight machine guns. "Holt had invented a caterpillar tractor which would go over all kinds of rough ground. That was precisely what lie wanted. "The principal points of the tank are simple. You have a powerful au tomobile engine encased in bullet proof armor and traveling forward by means of this caterpillar tractor. It carries quite n crew and a very re spectable amount of artillery. Tank Used byAccldcnt. "The word tank was used almost by accident. Wo naturally did ev erything possible to keep their man ufacture a secret. When the armor ed steel plates were rolled, it was suggested they looked very much like tlie sides for a tank, so tank it was. 1 "Even then various rumors went around. When the fleet of tanks was finally ready they were covered with tarpaulins and loaded on trains at night. "Just about a year ago I saw t!;o huge machiucs get their baptism of fire. All you havo read about their reception is true. Our Tommies ac tually stood and laughed ns they saw the clumsy monsters steadily going to the German lines and ignoring the storm of rifle and machine gun fire poured at them. "As for F.iU, he was really rat tled. Here was something that ig nored his efforts and crashed down upon him. Of course, since then the Germans have become more used to the tunks. ' Tnnki) n Success. "The tanks have more than justi fied their existence. They have come to sta.y It is estimated they have saved the lives of thousands of our infantrymen. Naturally we arc con stantly developing them. They arc now in use both along the British nnd French lines. "So far tho Germans have not turned any out. "Their chief use is this: When our artillery ceases firing and the infantry is ordered to take the Ger man trenches, they often receive a deadly hail of bullets from machine puns hidden in shell craters. Scntl the tanks in nnd they soon put the.-:e machine guns out of business." BAY SLATE PRIMARIES BOSTON', Sept. 25. Republican voters went to the polls In the state primaries today to decide whether Governor Samuel V. McCall should bo renominated for a third term. His oponent was Grafton D. Cashing, ot Boston. Frederick W. Mansfield whs the only candidate for the demo cratic nomination for governor, HARMONYRULES MEDICALSTAFFS T Stories Spread by Germans of Dis tentions , Between ; British and American Hospital Staffs in France Denied Utmost Cordiality j and Co-operation Exists. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS INi FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Sept. .14 (by mnil). German agents recently have been spreading broadcast on tho continent tho report that serious differences hnve arisen between the British army medical service and the American surgeons and physicians working with the Pritish forces in France. The story has been given special publicity by its sponsors in Belgium nnd France. For the pur pose of proving or disproving this statement, the correspondent of the Associated Press accredited to Brit ish general headquarters has mal6 a careful investigation of the facts, visiting not only base hospitals which have been taken by American medical units, but casualty clearing stations in which American sugrioul teanu are working. Here is the truth: Cordiality Exists. The utmost cordiality has and dues exist between the British niediunl service and the Americans who are working with them. The nssertion that there has been any quarrel be tween the two bodies is without foun dation. As ono emiilent American bus put it: "The story is a gross canard. Rea sons for circulating it are obvious. The Germans are, trying to create ON WAR FRON m.fiii wa Hi i iiimuIi a iiinm - i " ( o (o) ooptfit5s p:M 4 I ( FATI MA'S .wonderful ' ' "wJ &- taste is the result of our ( ' , , ' l : II combining rich Turkish lyt ?d Til tobaccos with just enough tsL ' ' I i of other rare tobaccos Jyj3 rSvV v famous for their "sparkle" " Cr iHT ' and "life." A? 71 7 v d rci. ; 'NVt . 2 x ' ' 1 ' ' : ::W tor " h ifw ' 1 I ' 1 J"" ,"M'lllMIIWMIVMMlUd JLft fclWw.l. Ill fill i l.l - 1 'r-" . 1-1 . a .WTiPFOIlT) MAIL TRTBTJNE,. MEDFOTJT). OT?EflONT, i TUESDAY. REPTF.MBE1? 2."). among Itcliiui and , French, civilians a contempt for America and Greet Britain, nnd consequently a hostility toward thee two nations." The six medical units which wore sent over from the Vnited Slates V take charge of six British base hos pitals have become p.at of the smoothly running orgunuaiiuu that tho British have devuloped. Excellent Work IHine. ' Tho excellent work being done v the American units has frequently been the subject of the most compli mentary remarks by all ranks 6f the British medichl organization. The service which the workers from the United States have performed is characteristic ns ono of the bright spots in a war which is causing' so much misery. 1 t Rilnghly speaking, tiid :ix hasp hosnitnls cOllilllcti-il hr the A iiii.r:iT. n'- have beds for about 1500 patients eaen, ami tiiero ore mar.v times when they nre filled 1o overflowing. OF PAPER MAKERS WASHINGTON. Sept. 23. The federal trade commlsslan decided to day It would turn over to newspa per publishers for such use as they desire to make of it, all records and correspondence In the agreement of last March made with newsprint manufacturers by which paper prices were to have been cut.. ' Some of the manufacturers de clined to carry out tho agreement when the government refused to halt grand Jury proceedings against them in iNw York, charging violation of the anti-trust laws. Publishers who signed tho agreement have made fre quent inquiries of the commission as to what are tholr rights In tho clr cumstansces. The commission giving no definite answer, will turn over the records and let the publishers them selves judge what they best can do. SOUTHERN SLAVS WRITHINGUNDER AUSTRIA HEEL Unrest and Dissatisfaction of Sup pressed Nationalities and Little I n i ... . ! Peoples Told in Speeches of Aus trian Parliament Austrians ; as Cruel as Germans. By MILTON WiOXXKR WASHINGTON, I). C, Sept. 25. Increasing unrest of her subject peo ples, passionate outcries concerning her ruthless cruelties and bolder ut terances In her parliament these me things inclining Austria towards peace. Every once in n while probably due to .pro-German activities the suggestion floats thru the press of this country that Austria is much gentler than Qermnny, and therefore more inclined to agree to u pence on huodcrnle conditions. Austria llrutnl. . The truth, ts and our officials here are tlioroly acquainted with it that Aus,triji.is no more gentle than l'russiajcvuv 'Over 200,000 of her subjects have been imprisoned since the wur be gan. , ' Over 24,000 have been executed, the hapless wives and children of tho condemned often being compelled to witness their "death. ' instead of suppressing the aspira tions of the .subject peoples, how ever, Austria has' merely serVed to aceentiiato them. In the little pro vincial papers iu the Slav languages, accounts of speeches of Slav leaders are printed; They show that the sHakers huvu ,tnkcn very-vserioulyj President Wilson's. words'in favor rol'i the little nationalities, and his saying that there should be no government save by the consent' of the governed. Croatian Socks Freedom. Not so very long ago, in. tho local Croation parliament at Agrnni, the peasant deputy Stiopnn Radieh defi antly said: "The Prussian generals define the entente as a mixture of Irreconcil able enemies of Germany's, hut 1 suy to you (but the entente is civilization itself." - . . .. . Again, almost anticipating Presi dent Wilson's words iu his note to tile pope, Itndieh said: "The1 best thing that' the Croats crin do is to break nil ties with those who wish to lead us under tho Prus, sian helmet." , Move Denied Power. . The Austriau purliumcut (Hun gary has its own) was called into session last May for the first time since tho war started. Altho dis tricts have been so juggled that il takes 05,479 Slav votes to get a deputy, whereas it only takes 42,889 German votes, tho Germans hud a hard timo procuring n majority. The Czechs at once demanded re construction of the stuto on u federal basis and tho inclusion of tho Slov aks of Hungary in the Czech state group. The southern Slavs demand ed the union of all Slovenes, Croats and Serbs of Austria and Hungary in one independent slate. The Poles de muniled union of all the German, Russian and Austrian lands inhabit ed by their nation. , The Germans resisted nil these de mands, which they eluimed wero in spired by the entente. Tho tone of the speeches made by tho Slavs givo an important key to Austria's desire for pence. If the big war wero over sho could devote more timo to suppressing her subject peoples. Slovene Aspirations, Br.t Ravnihar, a Slovene deputy, said: "Tho trend of tho premier's speech betrays tb.e wish to perpetu ate all the old misery in Austria. The 1017 Jdnuaiif arq to: go on dominating.! These Germans have expelled fam ilies, torn children from their moth ers, husbands from their wives, sent thousands into exile, nnd exposed them to ruin." Dr. llutko r.nginja, a Croat dop uty from Istriu, said: "The primo minister declared his intention of upholding Austria. What kind of Austria f lie wants a 'single state.' It never cxisteiy. Austria is only possible ns a second Gennun state. This would meun slavery i'or the Czechs, Poles and southern Slavs.".' ... ' Dr. Diankiiii, p. Cront deputy .from Daliuatia, made a passionate reply to the utterances of a German Aus trian who had said "tho southern Slavs are so insolent and aggressive because loo few of them were hanged." ' IiitUo Nations Complain, Dr. Krek, leader of the Slovene Catholic, party, spoke of the deplor able state of the southern Slav prov- luces, whero the population had nothing to eat, nnd added: "The Slovenes, Croats and Svilis form one nation and should be united in one independent state. This will come to pass in spito of everything." Dr. Otoknr Ribnr, a Slovcno dep uty from Trieste, fearlessly painted a picture of what the Austrian Ger mans nro perpetrating: "The horrors of this .wnr havo hit nobody harder than the southern Sluvs. Go to tho Balkans, to Hos nia, Herzegovina, Dnlmiitia and vnu will seo for yourselves that the nourishing villages have been liter ally laid in ruins. The authorities raged against everything that bore tho Slav name." CARD OP. THANKS. We wish to express our thanks to neighbors and friends for their kind- ness and sympathy shown us during our recent bereavement, also for tho floral offerings. MRS M 13 RICA CHITTENDEN, MRS ETHEL 551 Ed AN, -MRS. LILY ALFOHD, ROLAND FLAHERTY, JESS STARKEY. . PXOE THREE i CUT THIS OUT OLD KXftLfHH RKMKDY, FO p.tS TA It It If, CATAKRH.lXi DEAF- f SBSS AXI IIEA1 NOIHFJ). J If you know of some one who la K troubled wllth catarrhal deafness, nut thin fnrnmln nnrl finnil tt in ihamr I- - - .V - . . uuu you inuy nave ueeu me means . of saving some poor sufferer from total deafness. In England scientists for a long time past have recognized that catarrh is a constitutional dls- $ ease and necessarily requires consti tutional -treatmont. ,.,. ofjrujn, uiiiiMera uuu .uwse uuucueaiu; ra iinnin in irriram inn na trniA .im . r tne nuuuio ear, wnicn frequently means total deafness, or else the dis ease may be driven down the) atr nnaOQivaa Inward fhn fiitiira utlilih .la equally as dangerous. The. follow-- ing formula "which Is used extensively In the damp English climate Is a eon- stltutional . treatment and should prove especially efficacious to suf ferers here who lvle under more fa vorable climate conditions. Securehfrom your Druggist, 1 ounce of Parmlnt (Double Strength). Take this home and add to It pint of hot water and 4 ounces of granulated suar; stir until dissolved. Take one tablespoonful four times a day. This wll often bring quick relief from distressing head noises. Clogged nos trils should, open, breathing become easy and hearing improve as the In flammation In the eustachian tubes la reduced. Parmlnt used In this way " acts directly upon the blood and mu cous surfaces ot the system and has a slight tonic action that facilitates ob taining 'tho desired results. This preparation' Is easy to wdke, costa little and is pleasant to take. Every person who has catarrh should give this treatment a trial. 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