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VOL. XXVII
AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NI«»PAPER, DEVOTED TO LH ERATURE, LOCAL AND GENERAL INTELLIGEN^
NAZARETH, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, SEPFEMBER 19, 1918
NO. 42
IUK DIX—Ul\
Dl.Mll   AUNSTKKL8.
Caesar's famoua message concern¬ ing Ills cainpaign    in Uaul    told  tho Hoinan  Senate:     "1  cume,   I   Suw,   I Couiiuered"—In   three    short     Latin I voids.  "VenI,  vidi, vicil"
The Dixies came, we saw, and they _-Uid  the   rest.     Giving     notice     of thoir arrival  by  the procession with ' tho band, canvassing lor the sale ot ' ticl<old   assisted   by   tho   Boy   Scou-la, ami because of tho unusual and gun- i Ulll.)  interest  in  evorything  pertain- lug lo lhe boys, the "Show" attracted ' iboul 700 people.     Somo wont away who tailed  to  got  into  either ot  the two performances,  ouo  al  7:30   the [ otiier at 9 o'clock.     Tho cast is made Ull uf several professional actors und ali   the   rest   wore   Amateurs   porl'or- niers   and   entertainers.     Kverybody ; was pleased,  ontorlainod,  amused.
Tho   visitors   were   delighted   with | thoir success $311 which goes "over- ' seas"   to   provide  enieriainineut   for the boys, and    for    providing    such things as tho Ued  Cross cannot  fur- nibli.    They   were   eciually  delighted with the hospitality with which they | wore received into the homos of Naz- ¦ areth, such as they    "had    received nowhere else." i
How grandly tho response came to the proposed entertainment to be given tho sisters is attested h ythe i f;ni lhat in twenty miutes homes were opened for tho whole troop, ain! more were offered. Generous vkma'ions were mado by the butch¬ ers and grocers so that tho whole cost lo the Red Cross for dinner and supper served by tho Auxiliary Com- i mittee will not be more ihan $10.
For   the   success   of   tho   prompt I and generous  welcome given  to  the Dix   men   Secretary   Brazington   do-1 serves great credit. |
"Success comes in cans;   failure in' Carts."
Tlianks lo ovorybodv. i
PERSHING LEADS FIRST BIG DRIVE
U. S. Tanks, Cavalry and Air¬ planes Aid in Crushing Formid¬ able Concrete Strongholds.
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L  R. CLYNES.
Labor   Ler.der   Becomes British  Food Controller.
GKR.MANV OK MA. COU.N'Tltn-lS
TIIK MOST DTuSOLATK
OUR  CASUALTIES  VERY  LOW.
Teuton   Big  Guns   Make  Vigorous   Re¬ sponse,  but   Effort  Is  Weak—Ene¬ my Falling Back on Both Sides of  St.   Mihiel  Salient.
PERSHING   IN   COMMAND.
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I'nris.—The first big Anierb'an oflciislve, which began nt day¬ break hetween the Mouse nnd Moselle rivers, was conducted under General I'ershing's per¬ sonal supervision nnd was e.\e- cuteil under onlers of Anierii-an ollieers with Aniericnn sobllers. This wns tho Ilrst dlstiiK'tly American operation of a iiinjor chariicter launched on the west¬ ern front.
BI.IK TUIANta.K.-i
I\ THK THKVCHKS.
The Blue Triangle has ventured in- \ to the flrst line trenches, almpst into ' No .Man's Land. j
Two Y. W. C, A. secretaries were roiently invited as oflicial guests of tho French Ministry of the Inierior to visit the front line trenches, a special cuncession granted iu appreciation fur their work in a "foyer" or club- liouse at a munitions plant near the linos.
The trip lasted for si.\ days. Everywhere they were entertained by French olllclals and this is what they write about it: I
Alcace is tho most beautiful country, especially iu lha mountain , Motion, Wo went over tho moun- lius into the camps of defense whore uur boys are just getting under lire, i Wo saw the German linos from obser- vaiion posts in the mountains. ;
"While we were there shelling was going on just below us and two aero¬ planes were having a battio as we rode over tho mountain. One morn¬ ing early our anti-craft guns broirght down a German plane which fell nour where we were. Bolh Germans were taken prisoners. .
Later we visited tho plain districts iu .\lsace and we went through the trenches to tho last outposts and could have stopped into Xo Man's Land. Luckily tho shells the Ger¬ mans tired fell beyond where we Were. But it was exciting enough as it was.
"I visited tho graves of our boys, Allien at the front and put flowers ou them and visited the hospitals as well.
"On the last day of the trip we ' were invited lo a hlg celebration and s.it on the platform with the general wlion ho reviewed the troojis as being tho only American women present. Tiiere was a banet quet for us that tvening."
Ml .SIC .\T  TIIK  .\A/,.\ltKTII  F.VIU.
Music hath charms," not only to
Sii (the lhe savage breast but to mako
•¦'¦¦•'   great   concourse   of   people   feci
¦ ll they are alive   to all    the good
!i iigs of iife.     ^11 this proved true
;lie flne band music rendered a'. 1.0 Fair.
'l'l Tuesday the Juvenile Band, of '*'¦:¦ utown composed of players aver- 'S-'iig 10 years of age under the coin- ;"'aiit leadersliip of i'rofossor Smith loli^hted everybody.
Wi-dnesday tho Quakertown Band '¦^"as at its best under the direction f Its competent leader, Professor i'aif. With characteristic good will '.hi'v also serenaded the "Itoni." We Mal-.e our bow In grateful and appre- fl;it,ve acknowledgoment.
Thursday, tho East Bungor Band ''i"o:e.-sor May Leader kept up the re- I'utation woll earned of being "some Ijlowers",
When the winter gales begin to blow *'o exjiect them to bring back lo us ¦fi'm the mountains that hom in our ^alloy some of tho sweet and luno- fiil waves of sound they started at the fair.
Friday, Professor Smith brought "'s Ladies' Band from Ailentown. 'f the Ladles Band is an innovation " la altogether lu order for there is "0 instrument which a woman cinnot P'»y and play well. Tlien, too, they 'uok extremely well-yes, sweet, if >'ou will hav« It so, crowding tho mir- ''cal bars and flllllng tho homa for •»ir nl tho Fair.
On Saturday Andrews Easton Band «6pi up their reputation ad thoy fol- owed the beat of lho baton of ih.-ir JUatly famous director. Their pro- tj^m usually leavee nothing to be de- •irpd.
Tnueeday and Thursday evenings '''« Welsh singers of Bangor were ^e«r 1 In all of their cbolcest and "ost poptrlar selections.
Altogether tho musical program of tie Fair was hard to beat
I>ondon.—Amerlcnn troops nttacked the St. Mlhlel salient on both sides nnd have reduced it to a i-'ai) of six or seven miles. The enemy Is fulling back on bolh fronts, as he hus every reason to do If he Is to get out of the sack.
Late dispatches say 8,000 prisoners hnve been counted.
The American First Army, under command of General I'ershing, Is In nctlon agninst the Germans on a 20 mile front on the famous St. Mlhlel salient in Lorraine, which had stood a sTinrp wedge In the French line south¬ east of Verdun since the commence¬ ment of the wnr.
In tho prellinlnnry thrust ground was gained ou bolh sides of the trian¬ gle and also nt Its apex at St. Mlhlel, and at last accounts the Americans, with whom some French troops are brigaded, were fast sweeping across the salient In au effort to close the mouth of the big pocket before the Gorinuns cnn extricate themselves from the perilous position they are in as a result of the suddenness of the blow and the element of surprise It carried with it,
Allhotigh the advance of the Ameri¬ cans wus swift and sure and gains lu excess of four miles on the •outhem side of the battle area were made, the cnvalry fur outstripped the tanks and footmen and wns later reported oper¬ ating along the railroad near Vlg¬ neulles, almost 'n the center of the salient and some ten miles northeast of St. Mlhlel und also northwest of I'ont-a-Mousson, tlirough the forests nnd along the railway line running northwtird to Metz, the great Germnn fortress, the southern outer fortlflca- tlons of which arc less than ten miles distant,
Thlaucourt, BouIUouvlUe, Pannes and severnl other towns In the south were captured In the Initial dash, while on the west nt the northern edge of the pockel the village of Combres wns cnptured nnd th,- environs of Dom¬ martin la Montngne wore reached. To the south everywhere tlie Americans peiietrnted Into the heights of the Meuse, and the French fought Ihelr way Into the outskirts of St. Mllilel. Unotllclal reports are to the effect that the town lias be«i recaptured by the French.
The flghting front at the commence¬ ment of the battle aggregated 20 miles, eight miles on the western side und 12 on the southern side, Tlie flghting was preceded by un ertreniely heavy urtlllery boiubardnient, and the troops und tanks udvnncid under barrage, which was curried out with muthemut- Ical precision. From the war mii[>B It would seem almost Impossible for the (iernians to evn -unle the salient, as they apparently are trying lo do, with¬ out huk'e losses In men and nmteriul. The flrst reporls show that the Anie.- icuns look 700 prisoners In the flrst singes i)f the battle und Imd sulTered reinnrkiibly small eusunltles.
The slrulegy of .Murshul Foch In the present inoneuver cannot be foreseen, except thnt ll Ims as the rtrst objective the leveling of the St. Mlhlel sector and the strengthening of the allied line from the region of Verdun eastward. The oblllerntlon of the salient would be neeewary before a direct thrust to¬ ward German territory from this re¬ gion would be possible. Whether Mar¬ shal Foch hns In view a campulgn up the Mouse valley or .Metz nnd the Mo¬ selle valley In mind remains to be seen.
.1. 11. C'lynes became food controller of Grent Britain nfter the death of Lord Ithonddn, whosi' assistant he hud been. lie is an eMrnest patriot ond also is prominent In union labor circles.
FOE IN PEACE DRIVE
Offer Seen as Trick to Save Ger¬ many From Havoc.
Feeling   In   Washington   That   "Force
Without Stint" Should  Ansv^er
Enemy Offer,
London.—Germnny is striking swift¬ ly in lier peace offensive. In addition to the Austrlnn note Inviting all the belligerents to a hazy peace confer¬ ence and u proposition tlmt all the powers should withdraw tlndr troops from the Murnian coast, on the Arctic, west of Archangel. Berlin htis made a definite peace offor to Belgium in which there Is no word of reparation or Indemnity, no confession or admis¬ sion that Geniian\ hns wronged Bel¬ gium by the destruction of her cities nnd the murder of her noiicombatant population.
It Is apparent thnt Germany realizes now that soon or late she must with¬ draw from Biiglum. and If she could obtain n treaty which would bur Bel¬ gian territory to the allies' troops and aircraft It would udd enormously to the dillicultles of Ul tucks by the allies Hgulnst Oeriimn territory nnd cities und would rob tlie allies of the ad¬ vantages accruing fiom the use of a Belgian Junijilng off place, while Qer- innny escapes uny sort of pnyiiient for the crimes she hus committed.
The trick In the Murmon coast pro¬ posal lies In the fact that while the al¬ lies are well established there Gor¬ man troops are fur distant and the Finns are showing more reluctance to n.salst the Gernmns and attack the al¬ lies.
In extending nn invitation to all the belligerent goveniinents to enter Into nonblnding discussions ut some neutral iiieetlng place the .Vustro-Hungurlun government stntes tlint the object of the conference would be to obtain an exchange of views which would show "whether those prere<iiUaltes exist whi'h woulil make the speedy Inau- gurutlon of peuce negotiations appear promising."
Washington.—The feeling In Wash¬ ington is tlmt "force wlthinit stint" un¬ til victory Is uchli'ved und u rejection of the overture will be the Americon govemraent's response to tho Austro- Iliingnrlan governnieut's Invitation to all the belligerent powers to send dele¬ gates to some neutral meeting place to enter Into nonblnding discussions with a view to peace.
Niitiire not  only ubliors :i viu uum, She l)(M's Not I'ciinil  ll To Kvist.
GENERAL PERSHING.
All American Offensive Starts on   His   "¦jfty-eighth   Birthday.
When Germany entered upon war, all design ot peace fled, until her hu¬ mor deiterniinod.
She deliberately abandoned thi^ humane. '
She drove ouif with blood lashes all the gentler emotions. For Itonor - she substituted Uei eit. h'or Sympa¬ thy—sho substituted Brutality and Rapacity. For Construction—sho substituted Destruction, unless it re- luted to war; then the devils gol to work to devise Invention—the hand maid of Art—in tho inlerest of all stable and enlightened civilizalion, and seized her great olllces, except as preserved for tho development of War.
Poetry, the most elevating of all tho arts, left behind as its most ex¬ plicit and fatally to be remembered expression, "The H>mn of Hajte." Tho universal iirofanity oT Germany became, "Gott sitrafe England."
The Kultur of Gerniany is repres¬ ented by spitting in lho food of its prisoners, and generally donning them .as "schwein."
Germany has, hy her crimes and lirirtal social conduct .separated her¬ self from the civilizek world. Slie has lost her conceiHien of internati¬ onal honor.
When sho drove out theso sane, necessary forces from her national Thta is the lati^t picture of <Jen. life, they wore replaced by other nox- lotin J. Pershliifr, showing the vlctorl- ious elements not easy to destroy or ans coinniandi'r of lhe First Atnerlcan banish. They had gotten too firmly l.Teld Army wearing his steel helmet, fixed In the texture of her e.xistence. The noble spaces of civilization hav¬ ing been forcibly cleared of the Beau¬ tiful, and the Useful, and the Good, the vacuum    was instantly    filled by
Inhumanity and Grorf^d as woll as Ha- 	
trod  and  calculated  Cruelty.    Cotfr    Natlon'S   ReSponSC   tO   the   Draft age, it is true,    remained,    but    not
Character. a Complete Success.
Who will    trust    Germany?     Will	
Belgium or Serbia    or    the    L'nited
States?     Will  Russia,,     will    France   General Crowder Gets Reports Indicat.
or England? ing Estimates Will Be Greatly
What guarantees can she offer of Honor to sustain any de^clarations she may make? j
It takes long to make pure a mind \ Wasliington. — Ainerlca.ns to the that has become foul, or give healtli number of nenrly ';t,00'J.iK)() answered to a body that Is originally diseased,   t^e cull of the nntlon to aid In the cre-
Germanv  has  replacod,   in  her  in- .,           ..    .i.                            >,       ^      „
, „ „,, 1 '                '     .    ,                  . ntion    of    the    uncoiKiuernble    tori'e,
sane madness, pure air bv poisoning ,                                    .... gases,     and     she     still     would     lav "^^"•('e without limit,' to u.se the Pros- waste and kill the whole world if she ''l«^n''8   words,   wliich   wltliUn   the   en- could possess its property.     Does any suing 12 nionilis will send Prusslanlsm one  doubt   this?     This  is  a   difllcult to its last nccount.
AMERICANS REACH GERMAN^RONTIER
Dash of U. S. Troops Executed So
Rapidly Enemy Is Left Power-
tess to Offer Resistance.
SPKCIAL TOW.V
cor NTIL .MEETI.VG.
THIRTY    TOWNS    CAPTURED.
Verdun-Commercy    Railway    Rertored
After    Four    Years—Belief    That
Line  Will   Be  Advanced   Until
Meti Is in Ar' llery Range.
LENINE AND TROTZKY TRAITORS.
"Ol 'all to read sur Oar Ont a Ward
*<*•¦     Vou  raa almara Bad ¦•¦ '"u  waot.
rthinc
Allian«« Between Russian Mob Leader ¦ nd Berlin. Washington — Tlml Oermany ad¬ vanced n,0(X1.000 rubles to the Bolshe¬ vlkl to s<'l/e the war supplies shlpp.'d by the allies 'o Vladivostok la only one of the sensntlonol rexelutlons In tho documents found In Uussia and made public by the l'nited Hlnles fovera- ment The complete subservlencjr of the Soviet to Berlin Is exposiKl. Twen- ty-flvo million dollars was sent from the Kaiser to equ'y fhe Red Ouand.
13,800,000   REGISTER
Exceeded.
People and Government to deal or to associate with.
But tho Duty to Defeat or Punish remains—^tho sacred, protective obli¬ gation upon all races—or we become slaves.
Germany has createtl a vacuum ot N'irtue and filled it with tenaclotfs \'ices that will resist expulsion.
You cannot reform a debased peo-
In every city, town nnd village. In every tuliilng nnd lumber camp, fish¬ ery, cattio range nnd farm, from one end of the lund lo the oilii^r, .\merl- cans ranging in nge from the bennJ- less youngsters of eigliteen to the near granddaddles of forty-five solemnly registered their nnnies on the roll of availubles for the Unul smashing blow
pie in the twinkling of an eye.
We have but one Pentecost in his-   against the Kaiser, tory. At the olliees of the provost marshal
Seven devils havo entered into general, whore all the vast plan of Germany—-they are of the House of registering the millions of citizens had HohenzoUern. ,. „ ,      , ,        .   ,        .,
Germanv, in a moral sense, faces ' ^**" forin.Kl, where the whole scheme dreadful conditions in the future—j *>ad been shaped nnd Into which run an Inevitable and long period of dis- the wires of munlpulutlon by means of aster. which   tbe   vast   enterprise,   the   most
It will he a century before she will gigantic census of nmnliood ever gath- boast of her    KULTUR    again—the
Kultur of barbarian power.
It will be long before a new race of poets or philosophers or lofty thinkers can spring up to inspire and enlighten the nation. Her sympa¬ thies are dead, and twenty-one years
ered In a single day, there wus no more excitement than if the whole llliilt of the progrnKi was the conduct of a iirl- mary election for siierlff lu America's smallest county.
Excitement,   there   was   none.     The
is the briefest period in any coimtry   mechanism did not rattle ; the bearings you can really make a M.VN.
Can Gernian\-too, easily eradicate in the world the terrible heartrend¬ ing memories she has created, which for long years will remain the night¬ mare and hideous dream of the chil¬ dren and women and brave men of whole  races?
Yes, Germany even allowing for the covetous or courteous dispositi¬ ons of Commerce, or cmrihiisant Countries will, of necessity, remain in an international sense, an out¬ cast.
Desolate, Desolate, As The Coun¬ tries Sho Has Wasted, and Violated —these speaking monuments, not 'of hor conquests, but of hor eternal shame.
.V^VZAUKTH I .Vlli A SUCCK.Ssj.
WAR    NEWS    ;
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Destructive tires are seen to break forth in Meti as allied airmen drop tons of bombs on the city.
British capture Maissemy, northwestj of St. Qucntinc, together with the trench system to the southeast and east of the place.
French toil will be freed of invader, says Amtaassadoi Sh.irp, who cilia American victory "most inapiring."
The American victory at St. Mihiel has caused terror among the population ot towna In Baden. The evacuation I of Muihause and even of all Alsace Is talked about In southern German newspapers.
After smaahlng two enemy aaaaults on the dotnlnating Franco-American heights positions on Mount Laffaux, on the western end of the Chemin des Dames,, the French launched a counter stroke on the left.
Washington believes that the succeaa of the Americans around St. Mihiel may lead to a great encircling move¬ ment against Meti for lhe purpoae of Isolating that fortress.
Allied   aviators   successfully   dropped tona of bomba on   Meti atatlon  and rallroada  around   Courcellea  aa  the American army drova forward In tha | et Mlhlel aalient. I
Tho N'aeareih Fair was a liuauci.i: success this yoar, according to slate- meuis uiudo by oflicials of the Norlh- auipLon County Agricultural Socioly but tho profits will not show a big ligure when all the bills have been paid. It was estimated that about I'o.OUO people allonded llio exhibl- tiou, Tho receipts would havo been about $:;,000 moro if rjiiii had not marred lhe Big Thursday.
Over $S,000 wus taken in iroiu ad¬ missions, und total receipts from all sources totalled about $1;;,00U. Somo of tho reports on receiptb from various sources are yet lo be mado, and il will of course be some time be¬ fore all tho bills are paid. Expenses were higher this year than ever be¬ fore, due 10 the war.
It is understood lhat ilhe lack of a licenso to sell beer cut a hole iu the gross receipts, as the near-beer and oilier Iiroducts were not sold In such quantity as the former beverage.
Tho satisfaction of a "Clean" fair which helped to make or to fill no drunkards Is worth all it cost. This deserves tho thanks of the communi¬ ty.
did uot squeak. It wus US though un¬ der the guiding hand of Major Gen¬ eral Crowder the whole system, lubri¬ cated to a nicety, had been running on for months.
Even before the amendment to the selective draft law under which men betweer. the ages of eighteen nnd twenty-one ind between ihlrty-one and forty-flve wero ordered to regis¬ ter the provost marshal general's of¬ flce had been prepared for tbe duy's stirring event. The organlzutlon u.sed In the grent first draft ot June 5, 1!>17, was employed llirougl. jUt the nation, the election niuciiiiiiTy and the edmn- tionul system furnisli.ng the clerlcul force nnd the locution ¦ for the thou¬ sands of draft olllces.
A noteworthy feuture of the day waa the ubseiice of any report of dlsturtn ance or a breakdown of the registra¬ tion muchliurv in auy purt ef the coun¬ try.
The ,'i,000 local boards are uiiib r la- glructlon to nport directly to the ad¬ jutant generals of their stales, who will report to their respective ,goy- ariiora. The returns to WashUigtoD Will be made by llie governors.
Paris.—The great Sl. Mihiel salient, which for four years ihreutened the life of France like a dagger pointed at Paris, has disappeared and the place where It was two days ugo now Is marked only by a shallow, depression in the Geriiian line In a liltle more thun 24 hours nfter tlie Ameriian In¬ fantry left their tn nches at a pre¬ arranged time this grout task wns ac¬ complished, and the line runs past Norroy, on the east, lb rough ,TauUiy, XuiniiK'S, St. Btniolt, Hattonville, Ilan- nonvllle nnd IlerbeuvUle to Fresnes, a little sotithensl of Verdun. The total penelrnllon since the beginning of liie drive Is now 12 miles.
Already more than 12,WJ prisoners hnve been countwl and they ure still coming in tn droves. There Is little dotibt thnt the total for this stage In the drive will exceed 15,<KXJ or 10,00<t. This huge bog wns due largely to the feeble re.slstanco made by the Ger¬ nmns except by one <.ir two famous divisions who were In the line. Of these  prisoners  about  SiVj  were   Aus-
: trluns, who uiiparently had been em¬ ployed as rear guards to enable the bulk of the Gernmn forces to get away.
.Mihough the Gorman official re¬ ports  pretend,  ns  usual,   tlmt   tbe  re-
' trettt was voluntary und hud been pre¬ viously arranged, there Is no doubt that the German troops were taken by
i surprise, which accounts largely for the unprecedented feat of clearing a salient of this size In practically one day.
French military experts are saying today that In nil probability the Ger¬ nmn reiiistanee will Increase from now on; In this view the American ofllcers fully agree. The latter hud In fuct evriected a des; orate resistance from the start, and lley are very agreeably surprL-ieMl by the extremely low casu¬ alties in the .Amerii'an force.
That the CerinanB were EKirprlsed completely Isiiroved by the cuiidltion of the vlUagi's recaptured, numbering more tlmn  '.:>>, all  "f  which.  Including
I the famous  Sl.  .Mihiel,  were  found  to
j be pructicnliy undamaged. This Is not the halli; of the Germans when con¬ ducting an ordered retreat.
One of the most Important results of the .Vmerlcan victory Is the release of the Verdun-Commercy railroad, oae of the trunk lines ucross France which hns been out of use In this section, compelling a long detour to the soutli.
i News of the Ann'rlcun suc<'«'ss bus caused the gr*-atest enthusiasm In Paris and i.n London also, and. Indeed, has tlirilled ull France.
Metz, of Course. Is In no Initnediute danger from the .¦Vmerican advance, and It still Is too far away to come tuider nny but the Heaviest guns, but It Is altogether likely tlmt the line will be pushed forward, at least ut some point sultuble for gua euiplaceraents. on a large scale to repch Metz by di¬ rect nrtlllery tire. In the meantime the enonnous and almost unprecedent¬ ed concentnitlon of aerial strength will not be wasted, and Metz is in for some troublous days, .\lready the American and Frencli airmen ure vigorously at work bonibing the towns along the Rhine and the Moseile, Including Metz. ¦ It took tile American about 30 hours to smash the great salient and half a dozen more for "n; d'l'I'iR up." France marvels anew at '.lie lightning speed the doughboys disi.layed In ihls, their own bnttle. as they did when they fought breust to bieast wilh the Ptdlus on llie Marne.
KARL   BUENZ   IS   DEAD.
Kaiser's Spy Dies in Federal Prison at Atlanta.
Atlanta, tia. -Kurl Bueiiz, former managing director of the Haiiiburg- Aiuerlcan Steunisliip line In Neu Vork and at one time Gernmn niinlsler to Mexio>, died ut the Federal peniten¬ tiary, where he was serving a sentence for coii.-nilnicy against the United States governnii'Ut.
Karl Bueiiz wus lu his seveiity- (iftli year aiul died of stoniucli trou¬ ble.
TO OIK SIIWCUIIIKIW. .V letter \«lll b<« iiuiilMl nt an early d.iy (<> our subxribers ex- pluinuing the situation »o liavoto fin-e Imhiiuso of or<ters issu«Hl by tlio War liiduntrttx Iltuird, Washington, !>. C. We re- i|U«>>t tliul cuivful, personal at- t«'iition l>e jfi\en the contont.s of tlii> letter, as alno to tho HIlinK out and mailing of ttie encloaed card, KTOutly obllt^iiff,
Tlie Nazaroth Item Puhlishlni; Coniitany.
WORK   OR   FIGHT,   8AY8   WILSON.
Smith A, Wesson Plant Taken Over by the Qovernment. WushUigtoii.—The I'residetil uuihor- laed the war department to tuke over and op«'rale llie Smith & Wesson Com¬ pany's pliint for reftisnl lo accept tha War l.ul'or Board's award aiid ai the aame tliue wurind the 4,lKi0 striking mnchlnlsts at Briilgeport, i'«imi.. that unless ihey Iniiuediulely returned to work they would be burred from * ui- ployiiienl aiHl ibat claims to ex.inp- Uon from the army would be rejected.
CONDENSED FORM   \
LONDON. — The British steamship Gulwuy Castle has been sunk by u U boat, «itli u loss of ll'd lives, iii.-ludiiig 00 " oLieii and .lilldren.
WASHINGTON.—William J. Flynn, one time heud of lao Unitt^d Slates se cret Service uud d»'puty police conimis¬ sioner, is made chief ruilroud detec¬ tive by Mr. Mc.-Vdoo.
CLEVELAND. — Eugene V. Deba, senieiiced U> len years In prison on charge of violation of the espionage act, ts nllowed ball pending appeal pro¬ vided he observes IttW.
NEW VORK,—Ralda on poolrooms resulted in tbe arr. si of 11 slackers.
TORONTO.—Tw-- thouaand Amerl¬ cnns registered lure In compliance with the new selective serslce uet.
LONDON.—Germany as well aa So¬ viet Kussla Seems.to be much dlssatis- fled with the utius of the iimitnerclal agreeuiejit. Thla feeling on the part ot llie enemy is due to the dliHculiy of obtaining the great stores of fubrlcs so badly needed h\  the central powera.
WASHINGTON.—Scattered returna from ten stale.-, ludieate the draft reg¬ istration was 8.5 pi-r cenl. larger than hud been estimated. This will make the regisi ration between 14,<XK),(XX>and lo,00«.>,000.
A special meeting of Town Coun¬ cil wus held this Sth day of Septem¬ ber, 1918, at 8;00 o'clock P. M., in the Council Hoo'm, for the purpose of leaking aciion on the acceptance of the new motor Hre truck and to tran¬ sact such other business as may coma before said meeting. There were present Lindenmoyer, Starner, Leo- polr, Yeisley. Hartzell, Welty, Klep- i pinger and Gano. ;Mr. Werkheiser was absent.     The President presided.
Mr. Leopold stated the engine had been thorougliiy tested and had ac¬ tually done more under test thun It was guaranteed to do under the con¬ tract and that a sufficient numlier of Jests had been made lo convince the Members that the apparatus should . lie acce; ¦    '
Mr. -ported   that   every¬
thing ro. • V.,, , becked up with the specifications with the exception of a wroncli and a jack and that these parts had already been ordered for¬ ward by -Mr.  Stewart.
On motion of .Mr Leopold, second¬ ed by Mr.  Lindenmoyer, is was
RESOLN'ED, that the proper cor¬ porate officers be and they hereby are authorized to sign the Form of Ac¬ ceptance presented to the Borough by the .Vmerican LaFrance Fire En¬ gine Co. covering one Triple Combi¬ nation  Fire   .Motor, Truck.
-Mr. Frank iiahu President of the Vigilance Hose Co., addressed Coun¬ cil in reference to the manner In which the new equipment should be taken care of by the Borough and that Couucil should not expect them to take care of $18,000 worth of equipment. He suggested that pro¬ vision be made by Council for inspec¬ tion of thtf apparatus at least three times a day to see lhat same was la working order.
On motion of Mr. Leopold, second¬ ed by Mr. Hartzell, it was moved that authority be given the Chief of the Fire Department to operate the ma¬ chine or whoever Council appoints to do so, between now and the next meeting ot Council.
On motion of .Mr. Yeisley, seconded by .Mr. Starner, it was moved that the proper officers of the Borough be and hereby are authorized to place iasu- rance on the apparatus at once.
Ou motion of .Mr. Leopold, secon- dedw by .Mr. Lindenmover, it was moved that the Fire Committee take care of the apparatus and select meu to operate the same.
On motion of .Mr. Harizell, second¬ ed by .Mr. W6lty, it was moved that authority b.; given the Fire Commit¬ tee to make arrangements with Mr Snyder to lake charge of the appara¬ tus until all of the men selected to operate the .same havetb.-ea instruc¬ ted and agree iu remuneration for the services reudered by h.m prior to and after acceptance of same
On motion of .Mr. Hartzell, second¬ ed by Mr. Kleppinger, the meeting adjourned  at  9:30  P.  .M
CLARE.VCE F. FEH.VEL,  Secretary.
PE.VCE «.l KKU FUOM CH.VHLE.S
NOT K VISEi; (.EIOLV.N SAY.
Th.^ Austria-Hungarv proposal evidently inspired by Germany, for a secret peace conference "binding on none of the powers participating" to see if some basis of peace could l>e negotiated, received from President Wilson a swift and well merited re¬ buff.
¦The government of the United States feels that there is only one re¬ ply which it can make to the sugges¬ tion of lhe Imperial .-Vusiro-Hunga- rian government. It has repeatedly and with entire candor slated the lerms upon which the United States would consider peace, and can and will entertain no proposal tor n con¬ ference upon a ma:er concerning which it has made its position and purpose so plain."
.¦V-loud chorus of approval has come from the Press of the whole country, (inlv the .\'ew Vork Timea has a kind word to speak for the pro- pi.s.d conference. Ir was a piece of •¦oir...^sal impudence to propose a "secret" conference when the Allies have been insisting on "open" de- plomacy; and an insult to throw at the allied government the unprinci¬ pled treachery of the central Empires who notoriously hold and proclaim themselves "bound by no treaty" lhat interferes with their designs-, pa.
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accurate and of a size to make impor¬ tant names and places readllv loca¬ ted.
Just now interest centers about Metz in the neighborhood of which General Pershing's "Lightning traini'd" men, sniffed at by the Kai¬ ser, are putting the lightning Into their work and into the heels of the retreating Iluns, thousands of whom
¦ have not been able to get away ia time.
"Metz the strongest fortress «f German Lorain before 1871 the prin¬ cipal bulwark of the N'orth Eastern frontier of France, and capital of the nap.Trtment of Moselle, stands f n th» river Moselle, at the Influx of th« Leille, 216 miles East of Paris.'
This war has brought many sur¬ prises, among them the faet that for tlfications cannot withstand the mod¬ ern cannon, and Metz may possibly turn the scale as Sedan did In 1870, though   the conditions     differ    very
'Widely Birt Metz and the American Army are bound together now In his¬ tory   In   the   making      Don't   fail   to
[ look at the map aa you pass.
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