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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MATL TRTBTTNHR. MFDFORD. ORF.fJOV, TUESDAY; RFPTFMT.FTJ 10. 1918 PACiF vTTTREF ZE LACKING ARMS.MUNITIONS WIN BYSTRATEGY Russian Reds and Hun Prisoners Am bushed and Slaughtered by Czecho slovaks at Nikolsk Railway Gully Turned Into Shambles Allies Clos ing the Fan of Soviets. MUSTARD GAS IS NOT MADE FROM .MUSTARDM BORN L Expert Tells How Horrible Hun In vention I; Made Radium Best An tidote for Poisonous Gases of all Kinds Mustard Gas Contains No MUstard, Smells Like Garlic. (By Burton Kuiscly.) NIKOLSK, Siberia, Aiijt. -3. This is the best place to stand to wnU'li the allies try to close the fan of so vintisni. Tlio little remuiiiinc, Bolshevik con trol in Siberia spreads over the coun try in the shape of an open fan, with the east tip on the I'ssiiri, the center of the base at Manchuria station, the west tip at Lake Baikal the base lying along; the Trans-Siberian and the curved border pointing north. Thioo Ilnttlefronts There are three battlefronts nt each tip and at the center of the base. Allied strategy is to close this fan, and shut the Bolsbeviki up inside of it ns it closes, driving them from Ilnb nrovsk in tlie east and Chita in the west their greatest strongholds into a center of nothingness. And most of the troops and sup plies in this maneuver o through Nikolsk. It is a busy nlnee."- The last time I passed through Nik olsk before the Bolsbeviki were over thrown at Vladivostk there were no warlike sijins. The soviet governed the city, but there were no guards at the station and few soldiers in sisjbt. Czechs Start Westward But in Nikolsk, s in Vladivostk, the Soviets still hnd smooth sailing. Then came the blow-up. The minute the Czechs bad taken Vladivostok they sturtcd westward toward their comrades in the interior. The Bolsbeviki troops from Orode kovo, and some from no toward Hab arovsk, hurried to reinforce the Nik olsk garrison. But the Czechs moved too fast for them. Within a week af ter taking Vladivostok they captured Alkolsk. The real story of that battle pro!) ably has never reached the world. There was no corps of war corres pondents. Cable communication with Vladivostok is about as uood as none, i The fight was bloody, l'erhaps 200 Czechs and 1000 Bolsbeviki-prisoner troops were killed or wounded. Czeclis Win by Strategy The Czechs lacked both guns nnd ammunition. They won by strategy. They advanced, secreted what ma chine pans they had on hillsides over n gully along the railroad track in their rear, nnd then pretended to re treat down the track. When the pur suing Bolsbeviki .jammed the gully the hidden Czechs cut loose, like a whirl wind of death. Bolshevik bodies lay on tho-e hills almost n week. AVomen from Nikolsk nnd nearby towns, arrived dailv hi hunt their dead husbands, broilers, son. The capture of Nikolsk seemed t i spell the Bolsheviki's early end. Th.. city is an important railway junction. The direct Trans-Siberian nn. through Chinese land Manehutu. Here branches north the Amur lin , circling Manchuria, rejoining ia? Trans-Siberian west of Manchuria, so Ktissia in war would have a throujh line on her own soil. i On Mnm'liurlan Front But Bolshevik resistance in this sector stiffened. Through Nikolsk troops, guns and equipment now i north to the I s.-un front. At Nil.nl k supplies, Red Cross outfits and bos pitnl facilities pile constantly up. To Nikolsk are constantly returmnj; wounded Czech-allies from I'ssuri. At the other Mmii'hiiriun front, ill, cenier 01 uie iun, iiiipnnese-1 hinef reinforcements to Scmcnoff's troop lire causing the Bolsbeviki to disperse:. Only 3000 are said to be left. . At the west tip of the fan Lai Baikal the Czechs from the interior ndvnncp steadily toward Vladivostok, though thev need help. But nt the east tip of the fan, L' sun, the Czechs, though expecting to take llnharnvsk in n couple of weeks nave already been eight weeks at it vainly, and scveraj times have had to reireai. - lUxults of Intervention Now that crisis is past. Within the Inst two weeks trainloads of Jup- r.nese have gone north from Nikolsk. General Olani no whas n force henvv enough to start the drive toward the inevitable end. At Chita or Ilaharo vsk, or somewhere between, the Bol sheviki will make their last stand. Four unfavorable results from in tervention were thought possible. 1. Russian consolidation behind the attacked Soviets. 2. More complete submission of the Soviets to German influence. 3. Suspicion in Russia and China of Japan's motives. , (By Clark Williams Wil 'on, American gas expert.) The German "mustard gas," to which our boys arc being subjected on the western front, is not made infro muslard and has no collection with mustard. It was so unmed by the British soldiers because it soaks through their clothing nnd burns the skin worse than a mustard plaster. It has an odor more suggestive of garlic than mustard. Thousands of tons of it are now being loosed at the allied armies by the Huns. Mustard gas is developed by vapor izing ilielorelhyl sulphide, which vola tizes slowly and the fumes of which become trr'ti'v n'.tacbed to ob jects of the landscape. Chloride of lime is most effective in neutralizing its virulence. l'hosgene gas, another populal weapon of the Huns, which is deadly nnd rapid, is formed by the action of light on u mixture of carbonic ncid and chlorine. Like carbonic gas it is suffocating, but has more odor. Fluorine gas, a combination of io dine, sulphur and phosphorous, is a fatal gas which might be used bv the allies in fighting German gas warfare. It has been litiil'icd under pressure and might be used in this form by shell makers for charging explosive shells. Its vapor is more pungent than chlorine or any of the iritating gases. Of all substances it is most destruc tive of animal matter. Applied to the skin, idealises excruciating pain. My experiments in chemistry and medicine have proved that a perfect antidote for the caustic effect of acid gas bums is radium when used ill the form of a bromide of radium, but considerably ateenuated. A very few small doses, taken internally, have always been wonderfully effec tive in providing relief. The awful gas gangrene infection, which often develops in neglected i . 3.: ... wi v' Pm i s' .1 enemy retiring with one wounded man. Colored troops have occupied one Vosges village in which trench eivililiahs were held prisoner. The Frenchmen on co'uiing through to the American lines declared that the Germans were considerably excited at finding themselves opposed by ne eroes. of whom thev are said to he afraid because of reort that the American colored troops cut off the cars of their prisoners. The negro soldiers in this sector re cently had an example of German treachery when a German patrol at tacked after shouting "Kamernd." They are now thoroughly determined to have their revenue. wounds of our soldiers, inmht be con quered by the use of preparations of Lachesis, the lctal venom of the lance-headed serpent of South Amer ica. That poison has cyanide of soda for ils active principle. Hell could not concoct more fiend ish pnishmetit than that which the detestable Huns have dealt out bv the use of these acrid gases in modern warfare. Chronic pacifists and pro- Germans should be forced to scrutin ize some of flic heart-breaking and hideous exhibits of gassed and dis abled entente allied soldiers returned from the buttle fronts. Then they might realize whul America is fight ing for and fighting to prevent 4. Friction between Siberian fac tions trying to grab the Bolsheviki's reins. All have hapoened. The soviet troops temporarily have gained, or coerced, recruits from some liiissians previously indifferent, or inactive. Proof of intervention s hon est aims to help Russia will remedy this. Soviet Hun Allies The soviet troops are now openly hand in hand with armed German prisoners. But so were they then, though coinoullagiiig it. . Japan's demand to control the Chi- nest Kastern railway lrom t hang- Chun, the only part she did not al ready control, while the Japanese Chinese troops flowed through Muk den into Harbin caused feeling in Russia and Peking. But the demon- tration of allied unity, through joint war councils, will cut! all sueli misuii- derstandinus. The liberal autonomous Siberian government ami the reactionary llor- vii th group have been at odds. Ilo varth, who was forced to recede after proclaiming himself provisional ruler of Siberia to beat the liberals to the Soviet's seat, is again bobbing lip. But the military, financial and econ omic aid fro mwithout which interven tion is just beginning to disburse will automatically unite Siberia under whutever leadership the' allies deem most efficient tohnndlc that aid. World's llicliest Jjilld Soon Siberia, richest land in the world, with immense iron, coal, gold and other valuable mineral deposits, with limitless fertile farm land, with broad rivers teeming with fish, and witli forcsls so virgin and huge Unit one may ride three days on n fast train through one of them without getting beyond, its holders, will be definitely saved from German in trigue. And, as Siberia more and more realizes it to be to her interest, she will move toward European Russia with an allied army which, if the So viets have not already been wiped out in I'etrograd and Moscow, will wipe them out. Russia may not win the war for the allies. But the day when it seemed she might help Germany win it has passed. Coughed Fifteen Years Coughs that hang on and (trow worse in the night and weaken the sufferer are relieved by Foley's Honey and Tar oftencr than by any other remedy. II. F. Hall, Mabo, Va., writes: "For 15 years I was afflicted with a troublesome oronMilal cough and Irritation of the throat. Foley's Honey and Tar relieved me; after taking one bottle the cough ceased and has not returned." No msdlcine stands higher as a family remedy for colds for children and - grown-ups. For sale by the Medford Pharmacy. Adv. FISH FAMINE WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. - Ameri ca's foreign bom population- immi grants within tlje last generation, and Germans particularly poured out their savings for liberty bonds of the third loan more uenoroiisly, in con sideration of their limited l'iuam'iul ability, than native citzeus. This in indicated by a treasury rc port estimating subscriptions of citi zens ot .iK toreigu nationaiitu's at 7!l,t:i7.(!00 or nearly IS per cent of the 3' 1,170,0110,01111 total of the thil'd loan. flic lolul iinuiht'i of bond buyers was estimated at 7.001,000, or 11 per cent of the 17.000,0111) on the roll of subscribers, and the average sub si ription among the foreign speaking imputation, was calculated at .flO.'i. Germans made the bigyest record of all nationalities. Subscriptions aelnallv reported and tabulated bv nationalities amounted to $107,700,000, but it was estimated this sum represented only about !)." per cent of the total, much of which was included in the big stream of gen eral subscriptions without designa tion of the subscriber's nationality. By nationalities, subscript ions in cluded the followim:: German. S7,'J0.1.000: Italian. $.V2, 217.000; Polish, $:i7..'.S:i.0n0; Bohe mian, .T:il,7.")0.000; Jewish. $10.7:17, .ViO; Hungarian, ifSJ Ili.OOO ; Greek, .fli,t:i8.IMMI; Swedish, $0,011,000; Norwegian, $"i.0H7.OO0: Lithuanian, tl.XU.OOO; Jllgo-Sluv. $1,'JOO,000; Russians, $-J,"10!l,000; Danish, $'r.:i.-i:t,000; French, $-',1 07,000; Por tugese, $1.711.000: Slovenian, $1, "';0.000: Syrian. $010,000; Belgian. $K7.",000; Armenian, $:ili:i,000; F.ng- lisb, $:i:i7,000; Chinese. .f-'K.'i.OOO : Rumania, $27'J.OOO; Albanian. $2:1(1,- 000; Swiss, $2,'0,000; Finnish. $ I'M ,000: Croatinnl $1.":),000; Ser- nian, 14-!,00''; ';' rrnian, $T20,000: Assyrian, $00,000; 1 lollalldisll, $80, 000; Scundim'.'-;..,,, -". Lettish. $10,000: Japimcsn, ioonoo. Ruihcn ian. $i:t 000; J ""l: Bulga rian, $'2,000. LIKELY AS RESULT By Gilsnn GimlntT.) WASHINGTON', So-. ' The uir craft program lias cut'down tin1 sup ply of fili in t lie Tiiitcd States bv three million pounds. Sijuml slranc? I(s n Tact! It happens this way: Salt water Lih havn very little sense. Krcsh water i'ish are smart. A salt water fish will viill into a net made of cotton string and net his ia landed; not so a fresh water fish. It takes a linen nt to eati-h him. Hat the government has rnnimand eerod the supply of linen fin aireraft purposes, so there is a hick of linen for freMi water nets. Thai's whats the matter with tiie fresh fish situa- timi. Altogether the f:.-.U prupusltion is a )ne- ;. Je loot, eommis.-ion lias (Im ped into it. A special commissioner from this city is now on his way to Canada to interview the premier in the hope that he will ask t'nnada to eat less fish, Sixty per cent of our fish food conies from Canada. The Atlantic ocean is fall of blue fish, but there is some kind of a .jniev vegetable skum-like food all over the surface am the blue ti-li are fed ap on this, so they have no appetite for bait. The only answer to this is a tremendous storm which will hreat. up the skiim food and make the fish ImnuTV. IN NEUTRAL LANDS BOCHE SCARED OF EEELS ALLIED GAINS NON-COM SCHOOLS BUILT AT CAMP LONDON, Sept. 10. Tbo "money barometer" is perhaps the most con servative, of all indexes ub to how the war situation is -dinning. It's one ot tho'last BiRiis to fthow, but when It does show, yon can generally bank on it. And the movement of the "money barometer" has bqun. Neutral countries now havo bej;un to appreciate tbo possibilities of the. military situation their exchange?; are respondiiiK to tho Buceesses ol tho allied armies, and the indisput able piling up of the odds against the One r.r i..u inquest banking author ities in Britain recently explained why Koch's brilliant blow on tho Marno had uu noticeable immeill.it effect on the fcraigii exchange mar ket. K.vchange buyer and sellers, he said, did not feel that a nlnglo re verse would havo uny effect on cx- hango in the. ,mniedinto future. I'Mtiet milieus in foreign exchange were comparatively slight, experience had shown, when the allied armies had mi Mured reverses. Hut now that the allies have be gun to strike blows, whidi. the neu trals reeopnize, will bring the end of the war definitely in slghl, Ihe deli cto wheels of tho foreign exchange machinery have begun to tarn, and a marked improvement , from the allied standpoint, has taken place. More tlma that, bankers expect the Improvement to continue. WITH TIIK AMKICAN A II MY IN I'UANCK, Monday, Sept. !-.-( Bv the Associated Press, ) The enemy heavily shelled towns in the Woe v re sector behind our lines this inornint:. One of his patrols attacked the American outposts, buL was easily driven off. There was considerable patrol ac tivity in the Vosges district last niuht. One encounter took place, the ! Lemon Juice For Freckles (Jills I Make, Itcniity homo for n few cents. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.--To pre vent loss of time in the instruction of recruits for overseas duty, buildings are to he provided in the training camps for the instruction of non commissioned ofticers dn rin i: in clement weather whuii they cannot be o tithe field. They vv ill later pa what they have learned on to the pri GERMANS HAVE NEW ANTI-TANK RIFLE ENGLISH OBJECT TO HUNS GETTING JAM LONDON. Sept. I0.-1C Knvbuid has ativ f.ivorite food, it's jam. That why people evM-ywhetc are ohje -tim: hc-nu-e Ci-nn.in pri-imers are allow ed one oiiie-e of jam daily, while one pound a ui( l, for eaeh family is all Knirli.-h -whin-Is can oblnin. I'AIJIS, Sept. lo. Iii the recent ,f. fensives in which the tanks have played so .splendid a part, the Ger mans have been using a new type of anti-tank ritle to nip avail. It con tains a cartridge about tour inches Ioiil' which has a poiuied bullet. The weapon weighs j,ho-it -'t(! pounds and is more than five feet loir., sights up to "oil vanU and f-res Mti-le f-'ioU. With Medford traoe la Medford made. Rich granules of sweet, nui like flavor GrapfrHuts Delicious Economical Jul Inn nt Try it! S (pie ozo tho juleo of two lomons into a bottlo containing three ounces of orchard white, shako well, and yon have a quarter pint of tho best freckle, and tan lotion, and complex Ion beaatlfior, at very, very small cost. Your grocer has tho lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three- ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massago tills sweet ly fragrant lotion into tho face, neck, arms and hands each day and see how freckles and ble.mlHhc-B disappear and how clear. Roft and white tho skin becomes. Yes! It Is harmless. Adv Gents' Service and Outing WATCHES You can still get Real Gravely Chewing Plug for 10c a pouch. It gives you more solid tobacco comfort than ordinary plug. Tastes better lasts longer. 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Pens, Rulers, Pencils, Erasers, Fountain Pens, Tablets, Etc., Etc. -.V .1 1' you ran not come personally, just send the kiddies down with n list nnd they will he I'ivcn as careful and courteous attention as if you came yourself. A few of the old thick pencil tablets left at ;"c. First come, first served.,,, WEST SIDE PHARMACY TJtc SwaSJL Store medford. ore. yiiM-MSE- m s wm if EOT. wmTh i PASTEURIZED JACKSON COUNTY CREAMERY PI10NL51 MhDFORD.0KEG0N.