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French Hold Dominating Posi
tion Endangering Entire
German Center
TERRIFIC ATTACK THIS
; MORNING IS REPULSED
Increasing Numbers of Ger
mans Surrendering Show
Morale is Weakening
By Henry Wood
(United Press staff correspondanl)
With the French Armies Afield
Aug. 11. Tho Germans are figuring on
the possibility of the British and
French offensive in Flanders forcing
them to retreat to their next defens
ive lines.
A desperate hope of retaking posi
tions that would permit an eventual
. retreat northward from the Aisne and
. Champagne regions is what inspired
tho tierman crown prince to this vio
lent assault against the French lines,
-. it appeared today.
Profiting by the temporary lull
the 'rlanders battle, tho crown prince
. resumed attacks along both tho Chem
in Des Dames and the Aloronvilliers
crests. -
Unless the crown prince can drive
the French from these two dominating
positions before results of tho Fland
era battle forces a shortening of the
lierman front, the French from both
the -"Ladies' Hoad" and Moronvil-
liers will be able to cut off and mas
sacre any attempt of the German cen
ter to retreat.
The German attack which has been
. growing stronger throughout tho week,.
culminated m. Friday morning s tern
fie, assault from Pantheon- to Chov-
Jigiiy. There the Alpine chasseurs, who
on July 13 advanced 800 moters on a
1500 meter front, repulsed tho Germans
with the heavies losses.
The German morale is weakening.
This was indicated throughout the
week by the constant surrender of their
attacking troops. The French took
prisoners in almost every attack. Cap
ture of assaulting troops has been ex
tremely rare in the past.
Germans Beaten Back
London, Aug. 11. Violent German
Ypres in an effort to retake' ground
captured by the British, Held Marshal
Haif reported today. All were beaten
off.
Six attacks were made by the ene
iu.y in the region of W'esthoek ridge,
taken early yesterday by the British.
In spite of these attacks, however, tho
British made further gains along the
Ypres-Menin road.
"In fierce fighting yesterday even
ing for ground captured earlier in the
day, six enemy attacks were beaten
back by rifle and artillery fire," the
11 nig report stated.
"All positions were held and furth
er gains were made in the Ypres-Menin
road neighborhood."
The German Version
Berlin, ' via London, Aug. 11. A
heavy attack of large British forces
between Freerenberg and xiollebeka iu
Flanders was reported by the war of
fice today. The attack failed, it was
stated. After breaking in the German
line n quick coun'er attack ejected the
British near Westhock.
fin rhe eastern front unusually heavy
anl sanguinary losses were suffered by
the Russians and Rumanians, the state
juent said. In the Slanic and oitone vai
leys Austro-German troops drove the
I
X ABE MARTIN
The' feller that marries a home never
pta thro' payin' fer it. Miss Cpal Pash
has retired from th' optical counter o'
th' 5 and 10 cent store t' accept th'.sia, the embassy announced today. This
t:iket window o' th' Fairy Grotto, th' step is an extension of the Russian
latter offerin' a finer vehicle for her government's restrictions on passports
talent9. .to Russians from the nited States and
closing the Russian frontiers.
EXAMINING YEAST CAKES
Baker, Or-, Aug. 11. County
authorities tod.iy aro analyz
ing yeast cakes which were
scattered throughout the city
by peddlers. It is feared that
the cakes might contain germs
of poison. Hundreds of house-
wives sent in eakeswhen- the
sheriff published a request for
a few samples of the cakes in
tho local papers.
g(
Grower-Dealers V
Control: S
Hop
ce More
Prices I
Portland, Or., Aug. ', 'hile there
is not the slightest dout a strength
of the hop trade of tH g fie coast,
as well as tho east at ti -. ,5 e, indica
tions point to manipulatL- or values by
somo of the grower dealers.
These aro said to be "long" on sup
plies, and they are forcing shorts to
cover with all possible speed. It is
stated that some of the leading buyers
who have sold "short" are very likely
to go broke this season as the result of
selling hops at 10c a pound which they
are not able to secure for. delivery un
der 25c, or even more per pound. .
At least 25c was offered and paid ir
several instances along the California
coast during the last 48 hours. In fact
as high as 2C27c was reported paid
mere.
Practically no activity is indicated in
the Oregon market, tho enormoua oriee
advances recently tending to force
growers to hold for still higher figures
Stop German Agents
Sailing For Russia
Washington, Aug. 10. The state de
partment todny started limiting pass
ports to Russia to block German agents
going there rom JNew York.
Learning from the Root mission
that many New; York Russians, well
supplied with German money, are
flocking into Russia, the passport
division will demand that anyone
wishing to go to Russia prove that his
trip is vital. There will be careful
investigation of. the applicants' past
history and his present purposes and
if he cannot show that his trip is bona
fide he will be flatly refused a permit
to go.
Russia herself is aiding in this work.
She has closed her frontiers to travel
ers, cutting off hundreds of in-coming
immigrants chiefly from the United
States. Scandinavian port authorities
are refused to let such immigrants pass
through their countries in any attempt
to run the closed frontier.
The first tiling a climber wants is a
family tree. Louisville Courier-Jour-
al.
LaFollette Would Make
Other Countries Pay
For German Atrocities
Washington. Aug. 11. Senator La
Follette, Wisconsin, today- began a
grit in the senate to force world wide
peace discussion.
He introduced a resolution which
called for a statement of the allied
peace terms "based on a disavowal
of advantages, either in the way of in
demnities, territorial acquisitions, com-
ereiai privileges or economic oerog-
ativcs, by which one nation shall
rengthen its power abroad at the ex
pense of another nation, as wholly in-
ompatible with the establishment of
durable peace in the world."
Unless administration leaders succeed
in burying the resolution in commit
tee which will probably be attempted
it promises to cause one of the most
spectiaculnr deiiatqsl on tke question
since the president asked for a war
declaration.
LaFollette 's resolution cited the Rus
sian statement of May 19 for a peace
without annexations or indemnities, the
German reichstag's similar declaration
on July 19, and the war aims statement
of Lord Cecil in' the British house of
commons on May 23.
Shows pro-Germanism
All the declarations bespeak a will
ingness to adopt the doctrine of a peace
without victory, as proclaimed by
President Wilson on January 22 "as
the onlv possible peace that ean be en
during," said the resolution.
"There has recently emanated from
official and unofficial sources, both
here and abroad, statements that we
are to continue the war until a peace is
obtained which gives to the entente al
lies or some of them punitive lamages
and territorial advantages as a result
of the war.
enemy further east. The statement re
ported "stubborn resistance" in this
section, but the enemv was pressed
back from dominating heights.
Stops Importations
Washington, Aug. 11. The Russian
embassy will issue tomorrow orders to
its consular agents restricting impor
tations from the Imted States to Rus-
TIMBER WORKERS
TO EXTEND EIGHT
TO OREGON MILLS
Declare This Following Action
of Employers In Rejecting
Proposals
WORKMEN OFFERED TO
ACCEPT NINE HOUR DAY
Federal Troops In Charge at
Mte-MayCall Out 6,
In Kansas City
Seattle, Wash., Aug. 11. Following
the action of the lumber employers in
rejecting the peace proposals made by
the state council of defense Friday af
ternoon, striking timber workers began
today to extend the fight for the eight
hour day to Oregon and to parts of
Washington which hitherto have not
been affected by the strike.
"We will fight this thing to a fin
ish," said J. G. Brown, president of
the shingle weaver's union today. "We
intend to spread the strike as fast as
we can."
The first answer to the action of the
employers- in Seattle came when forty
out of forty six men employed by the
Pacific Coast Pipe company walked out
this morning, refusing to work with
unfair lumber.
' In the following telegram, received
this morning at the headquarters of tho
timber workers' union, Samuel L. Gom
pers, chairman of the labor commission
of the National Defense Council, upheld
the strikers in their stand:
Gompera Backs Them. '
' ' Telegram received. In reply will say
the, eight hour day is .not only the nor
mal recognized daily working time, but
established by law. Hence to enforce
that practice is not a change of stand
ards. Where essential war work is to
be performed in an extraordinary emer
gency, more, than 8 hours may be work
ed but such overtime should be paid at
least. As for time and one half this
principle has been declared by President
Wilson in public proclamation and all,
should be willing to conform to it. I
will exert every effort to reach an ad
justment upon this honorable basis and
that thus the materials may be supplied
(Continued on Page Three.)
"The people of this country do not
know the terms of the secret treaties
existing among the entente defining
the advantages which each is expected
to receive.
"There is a naturally expressed de
mand from the people of our country
for some declaration of the purpose for
which the United States is expending
in tho first year of the war trom thir
teen to seventeen billions of money
raising by draft and other means an
army of two million ostensibly for ser
vice in foreign countries.
Would Help Germany
"The people have a right to know
with certainty for what end their
blood is to be shed and their treasure
expended.
"Congress, in whom the war making
power resides under the constitution,
is charged with the responsibility of
deciding upon the obpects of the war.
"Now, therefore, congress hereby de
clares that this government will not
contribute to the efforts of any bellig
erent for the purpose of prolonging the
war to annex new" territory, either in
Europe or outside of Europe, nor to
enforee the payment of indemnities to
recover the expenses of the war, but
the congress does hcrby declare in fav
or of the creation of a common fund
to be provided by all the belligerent
nations to assist in the restoration of
portions of the countries most seri
ously devastated oy the war, and for
the establishment of an international
commission to decide the allotment of
the common fund."
He then called for the general state
ment of terms.
LaFollette said he will call up his
resolution early next week. He is pre
paring a speech in advocacy of the
measure.
A second resolution on war aims and
terms of peace was introduced by Sen
ator King, Utah. King's resolution
would bind the use to the declaration
that "it will not make peace nntil its
purposes and principles as declared by
the president to congress on April
are .acknowledged and accomplished- It
will make war until the German govern
ment shall acknowledge and expiate
its crime and seek the term, upon
which it may be admitted to the com
munity of civilized and enlightened
states. "
TAKES OVER. VESSELS
Washington, Aug. II Requi-
sitioning of American merchant
vessels has begun.
Seven privately owned pas-
songer and cargo liners have
been taken ovor by the gov-
eminent shipping board, it was
officially learned today.
The board turned the ships
over to the war department,
which will use them to trans-
port materials for great engin-
eering works behind the Sam-
mies in Europe.
As moro cargo carriers are
needed, either for the war or
navy departments, or for com-
mcrcial purposes, the shipping
board will take them over, it
was stated. . '
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Another Instance of
German Barbarity
An Atlantic Port, Aug. 11. Another
instance of German submarine barbarity
such as resulted in the death of 38 mem
bers of the crew of the Belgian Prince,
was reported today by Captain John
A. Jornson and twenty members of tho
crew of the American Motorship Car
mela, arriving here. The Carmela was
sunk by a submarine on July zi.
After being stopped by the submar
ine. Captain Jornson and the crew were
ordered to row to the U-boat from their
ship. They were ordered to board the
submarine. The Carmela was looted and
bombs exploded aboard her.
Smoke was then seen and as a British
destroyer .appearing the U-boat .hastily
submerged, leaving the Carmela 's crew
floundering in the water. The destroy
er picked them up.
WOMAN BEATEN UP BY
Is Found Gagged and Bruised
in Hotel Claims bhe
,.. Was Robbed ;
Philadelphia, Aug: ll,r Found bound
and ea"?ed and beaten jn tno or,.
James hotel here early today, a woman
giving her name as Grace Welsh, ago
35, of JNew York, told the ponce sne
had been robbed of jewelry worth $10,
000. A man who says he is Harry C,
Kellev, also of New York, arrested in
the hotel, is held on suspicion.
Tho woman is in a hospital suffering
from gashes about the head, saicl by
tho police to have been inflicted with
tho butt of a revolver. Police also de
clare she was drugged.
Kclley, the poliee say, was leaving
the room with a revolver in his hand
just as' an officers reached the door.
Two other men are said to have been
seen leaving the room while tho police
man was overpowering Kclley.
Kclley was held in $3000 bail this
morning for further hearing next Sat
urday. The injured woman was unable
to leave the hospital to icstuy uma.
After tfivintr the New York address,
tho victim of the assault later said she
was from Decatur, 111., according to the
police
She was dressed in an evening gown
when found. As soon as revived, say
ice. she accused Kellev of the
crime, called hysterically for her chil
called hysterically f or 1 cr eh 1-
and asked that her chauffeur in .
ity be notified. J
dren an
this citl
According to the woman, she met
Kelley at Atlantic City and came hero
with him yesterday.. They registered as
man and wife at the St. James.
Nothing Whatever v
Doing In Stock "Market
New York, Aug. 11. Tho New York
Evening Sun financial review today
sa;. s
Today's short session of the stock
market was an extremely dull and at-
tenuated affair in the first half of
which only narrow, irregular price !
changes took place, quite devoid of
either interest or significance. At the
j f twi hnnr. however, the tren-
oral list began to move forward under .
the urge it would appear, of the loose '
ends of 'short covering to be attended
to against the- week end recess. There
is undoubtedly less nervousness as a re-
suit of the improved position and it
may well be that in the course of the
next few weeks those who advocate a i
moderate bull movement may see their
hopes realized.
With one or two exceptions prices to
day were but slightly changed from
steadr to firm, although the motor !
the Jr ndav Closing icvei. m u
stocks were inclined to be heavy under
inlina in General Motors,
That issue sold down to a new low ree-
nrH. below 106. with partial recovery
later. Rails were quite neglected and
narrow.
GERVAIS BOY8 HOME OK VISIT
Company I, who have been located at
If edford for several months, are now at
Clackamas.
The following Gervais boys came
home Saturday for a short visit with
their parents and friends: Julian and
Joe DeJardin, Chester Hannegan, Mike
Mahonhy, Jr., and Frank Woelke. me
boys are ail looking fine and were in
good spirits. They enjoyed every min
ute of their star and returned on a
snecial train which passed through here
about 2 o'clock Monday morning. Ger-
vais Star. .
HAN SHE TOOK IIP WITH
188 WOODEN SHIPS
AND SIXTY STEEL
CONTRACTED FOR
Five Members of Goethals
Deuman Legal Staff Quit
Positions
BIG PLANTS PREPARED
TO BEGIN WORK AT ONCE
This Is Only First Step As
Other Big Contracts Are
Being Arranged
Washington, Aug. 11. America's
great shipping work is taking on vast
proportions. Two steps were taken by
the shipping board today to assure im
mcdiataly more vessels for military
purposes and greater tonnage with
which to supply the allies' demands
for supplies.
Requisition of ships flying the Am
erican flag has begun. The seven ves
sels takon over will be used to ship
building materials and other neces
saries for American camps in Europe.
The shipping board approved con
tracts for constructing many now wood
en and steel ships.
Simultaneously it was learned a plan
of cooperation with allied ship con
cerns has been completed, whereby
cheaper freight rates and supplies to
tho allies will bo possible. Soon it will
be unnecessary to depend on neutral
ships for any of this work.
The shipping board already feels the
need 6f more money for its vast plans.
Admiral Cappt is preparing estimates
to present to congress at this session.
Ho will ask upwards of 500,000,000 ad
ditional, u ; -
' Contracts Approved. ,
Washington, Aug. 11. Huge' ship
ping contracts aggregating 775,000
tons and an outlay of $100,000,000
wore approved by the shipping board
today. The tonnago will include eighty
eight wooden vessels and sixty steel
ships, it is stated.
With Chairman Hurloy's signature
on these contracts today and Admiral
Capps' acceptance of resignations of
five members of the emergency fleet
corporation legal staff, the final diffi
culty left over from tho Goethals-Don-
(Oen tinned on Pge 8.)
American Coal
Will Be
(By William Philip Slmms)
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
j Mail)Sooner or
hJ o rruncc,, .,Black
trv" or coal belt, will fall hefo,
With the British Armies in tho Field,
later
coun
try" or coal belt, will full before tho
ever tightening pressure put upon it
by Sir Douglas Haig. When this day
comes America can render France and
her allies no greater service than to
send immediately to this region tho ex
perts necessary to put the coal mines
in order in the shortest possible time.
For three years France has been de
prived of the richest coal deposits she
possesses. In the Loire, Burgundy,
Nivernais, Gard, Blanzy, d 'Aubin, Do-
cazeville and Carmaux, it is true there
are coal mines but these are not to bo
compared with those in the northern
rart of the country, around Lens,
This deposit runs from cast to west,
from Belgium to Flcchinelle, in France
and since the German occupation it is
only the cxtremo -western end of it
which the French have been able to
work. And this is the hardest to work,
being deep below the surface. Whereas
in Belgium the coal is practically on
top of tho ground, at Anzin it is 120
feet "down and deeper the further west
it runs. At Douai it is 480 feet deep;
at Flechinclle about 1,800 feet.
The vein of coal from the Belgium
frontier to Flechinclle is about 65 miles
long by 10 miles wide. Prior to the war
of the 39 millions of tons extracted
from French soil, three fifths came here
or about 25,000.000 tons. Even with this,
France has alwsys been compelled Wing through dense forests near Salma,
huv from the outside almost as mucn
eoal as she produced, half of which
came from Belgium trom me couniry
' . . 1 Unn. rharlAvni a i ,1 T i 11 (! O n 1 7
BIUUUU -11 II II", wii.iikiui -I'll " I
ed by Germany as her very first act
of war. It is this country around Lens
and behind Lens to the east, which the
Prussian warlords are defending regard
less of the cost in German lives. And
here it is that British pressure is grow
ever stronger. Kvery blow struck this
summer has yielded a net gain in the
direction of these coal fields and a re
tirement anywhere from Arras to the
oea would be more injurious to Germany
from an economical point of view than
at any other part of the western front
Fighting in
this eountry is extremely ,
difficult. On the sea where British (
Tommies have recently made their
pcarance, there are sand dunes which J
Camp Fremont, Menlo Park,
Cal., Aug. 11. Camp Fremont
was ready today to receive six
hundred national guardsmen
from Oregon, Major Eugene
Mossberger commanding, who
will reach camp before night.
Their mess rooms have been fin
ished aud camp sites prepared.
Within a few days the regular
troops leave the camp and the
Oregonians will take over the
guard duty.
Work on a remount station
whore 20.000 horses will be train
ed for war service started today.
HOOVER ANNOUNCES
OUTLINEOF POLICY
Will Not Dictate Retail Food
Prices, But Will Stop
Speculating
Washington, Aug. 11. Herbert Hoo
ver, official food administrator, today
began to drive out of business whole
sale food gamblers who gouge the Amer
ican public.
At the outset, however, Hoover made
it clear that:
He will not attempt to dictate retail
food prices.
He cannot promise to reduce tho high
cost of living to America's commoners,
though he will try.
While anticipating that tho majority
of business men will deal fairly and in
telligently, Hoover announced his in
tent to apply to the full the drastic, co
ercive powers grated by congress should
anyone "exploit this hour of sacri
fice." Hoover's plans for feeding America
and her allies and at the same time low
ering American costs, are constructive
He proposes to eliminate waste in
United States kitchens, to oust gamblers
and to teach this nation to substitute
some foods for the staples.
Will uara lixpora.
He will not dictate retail prices, but'
he does intend to so adjust economic
conditions as to bring down the high
cost of living.
He cannot promiso this, however.
He would have each American reduce
his wheat consumption one pound a
week, his meat and sugar seven ounces,
thus releasing a vast store for use
abroad.
Reduction of prices will come about,
Hoover said, by eliminating the gam
blers and by stabilizing conditions.
"We believe we can make exorbi
tant retail prices come tumbling by
(Continued on page eight.)
Miners
Need of France
make trenches almost impossible. Fight
ing there is like fighting in the heart
of tho Sahara Desert. Further Bouth
along the lino is water, water every
where, spread out over the flat coun
try. Everybody knows what the coun
try about Ypres i like, and around Mes
sines Ridge while below that comes La
Bassee and Lens, with their mountains
of slag and cinders, called "Crassiers"
rising nearly 200 feet over the level
country around about; and the 'fosses",
or mines, with mining buildings clut
tered abou them, all affording the best
possbie obstacles from the defender's
viowpoint, hiding fieldguns, howitzers
and especially machincguns.
Such is the country over which the
British are now fighting. If the Ger
mans aro beaten back out of the coal
country they will do as they have done
already at Lens; destroy the mines by
blowing them up or flooding them, or
both. But American miners are said to
be the best to be had and certainly
tho United States can do no better
than to send hundreds of them over
here to reclaim the ruins for even if
the Prussians do their work so com
pletely as to render the mines useless
for the remainder of the war, recon
struction of France and Belgium will
depend largely on fuel supply.
LOOKING FOR MURDERER.
Grants Pass, Or., Aug. 11. Sheriff
Lewis and a posse of 18 men are search-
Josophine county, a sawmill town, to
day for Ralph Turpin, age 21, alleged
slayer of William McAllister. Sawmill
employes say Turpin, after a quarrel
with McAllister, fired three shots at
the later. McAllister died last night.
The cause of the shooting is not known.
DRY LAW HITS CHURCHES.
Bpokane, Wash., Aug. 11. A commit
tee of Spokane clergymen is arranging
today to meet with local authorities to
arrange for the importation of wine for
sacramental purposes.
The new bone dry prohibition law
nermitM the use of wine at communion,
Viut the policj are reluctant to allow
(.hinment of wine. Since the law went
p-!into effect, the shortage of wine ia the
churches is said to have become acute.
0.1100,000 MEN
NOW WORK Oil
THECAIITOiii'IENTS
Sixteen Cities Being Built to
House Soldiers While
in Training '
WILL HAVE POPULATION
OF ABOUT 50,000 EACH
This Great Task Being Car
ried Out Almost Without
Notice by Public
New York, Aug. 11 More than 100,
000 men are working with all haste
today in sixteen cantonment camps
scattered throughout the country in an
effort to have them as near completion
as possible by Septomber first, when
the first of America's new national
army will probably be mobilized.
With the settlement of differences
which threatened strike troubles in all
tho camps, reports to the United Press
from the sixteen cantonments indicates)
that most of them will be ready by
the in id c I to of September at the latest.
Reports show 114,646 men employed
in construction worn, at the camps.
Sixteen "new cities " with -thousands
of buildings, streets carefully laid
out, sewerage and water systems, hos
pitals, garages, hangars and stables are
rising into being.
lens of thousands of feet of lumber
are pouring into these camps daily. '
Every man capable of driving a nail or
guiding a saw is being given a job.
ah Army ox workmen
From five thousand to 11,000 men
are at work today in each of the vari
ous camps. Thousands of motor trucks,
teaman and wagons are engngod in the
work of hawlintf lumber and supplies.
Long lines "of freight trains are car
rying the lumber trom mills to the
cantonments.
Thus one of the biggest tasks Amer
ica ever undertook is being carried out
almost beyond tho notice of tho coun
try at large.
To these camps will go the flower of
American youth, untrained but willing;
to fight. From them will come trained,
equipped citizon soldiers for service on
tho battlefields of France.
From Yaphank, L. L. just outside
New York, to Atlanta, Ga-, in . tho
south, Rockford, 111., in the middle
west, Fort Sam Houston, in the far
southwest and American Lake, Wash
ington, in the northwest, the clang of
hammers, the drone of saws and creak
ing of heavily laden wagons are the
most significant war sounds in Amorica
todav.
Within another six weeks the first
of America's 687,000 national army
men will be in camp. Before snow fliea
all will be in the cantonments. Here
are tho reports from the various can
tonments as received by tne umiea
Press:
Stages of Completion
Atlanta, Ga. Cantonment sixty per
cent complete. Will be about 110"
buildings in all. Six thousand men now
at work. Will bo ready about Septem
ber 10.
Wrightstown, N. J Fifty per cent
of work complete. Five thousand men
employed in the construction of tho
cantonment. Be ready the middle of
October.
. (hillicothe. Ohio Forty per cent
complete; 325 buildings, including 250
barracks now ready. Infantry division
be ready September 1. camp be fully
completed November 1 5500 men em
ployed in construction work.
Battle Creek, Mich. Forty barracks
now ready, bo completed latter part
of November; six thousand men em
ployed; delay in shipment materials
holdiung up work.
Louisville, Kv. (Camp Taylor)
Now more than half ready; S000 men
at work; be completed September 1.
Petersburg, Va- Sixty five per cent
completed; be ready September first;
11,000 men employed; .-J teams; 37
motor trucks; 1000 houses already op.
Avers, Mass. Be ready SoptemDer
1; 5S7 buildings now up; 8100 men at
work.
Vnrt Snm Houston Be ready by cep
tember 1; 70 per cent of work now fin
ished; 8726 men at work,
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Annanolis Junction. Md. Be ready
about October 1 ; handicapped by scarc
ity of labor; 4500 men now at worn;
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