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The Wingham Advance, 1918-07-11, Page 7GERMANS LOST TERRIBLY IN AUSTRALIAN DRIVE THURSDAY Whole British Front De- tins, anti on the skill and gallantrY with whieh it was executed. The Aus- tralians and Yankee$ to -day were holdiug their newly -won pasaeseiona etrongly, after having repulsed a ser- ies of three counter-attacks during the night—one on each flank rani a third in the centre. .All thee enemy as- saults were thrown back easily, and still more prisoners were added to- the lighted. With the Results. ppm. n•mprvommtp With the DrRish Army in France, cable says: (By the Assoeiated Preas)..—Along tee whole 13rItis1 front to -day the main topic of con - venation was the remarkable succese large number taken yesterday, while achieved in Thursday's attacks eolith many or the hostile infantry perished of the aomme by the combined Aus- in the attempts to regain that which trolley, and Amerlean trocps,eassisted they had lost. by a fleet of English -manned tanks. Additional reports confirM previous Even the German prisonera were one that the enemy casualties Thurs. adMitting ruefully that the drive bad day were exceedingly heavy, and that the German list of killed waa very tang. Not only did the attacking forces work havoc in the mealy ranks, but the supporting artillery maintained a most destructive fire over the Ger- man territory. been conducted with eleverness and invincible courage. To this praise 'svas added a telegram from Field Marehal Haig to tile farces involved, express- ing his warm congratMations on the vietory which attended the opera- mmeaMmommoommo tamp 4— SOVEREIGNS OF GREAT BRITAIN HAVE BEEN WEDDED 25 YEARS Celebration is Marked Main- ly by Great Work for Charity. A London cable: Today is the 25th annArsary of the marriage of King George and Queen Mary. The popu- lar rejoicing 'with which such an event would .ordinarily be celebrated, was refrained from in consequence of the war, and the only public ceremony commemorating the event in which the royal couple participated took the form of a special thanksgiging service in St. Paul's Cathedral, follbwed by a visit to the Guildhall, where a con- gratulatory address and a gift from tb.e city of London were received. Driving from Buckingham Palace in what is known as "semi -state," the King and the Queen paesed through the main streets in an open landau, drawn by six horses, attended by out- riders and escorted by a troop of Life Guardand Royal Horse Guards. Upon reaching the boundary of the city—the square mile of London, un- der the jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor —the time-honored ceremony of sur- rendering the city sword of state to the sovereign was observed. After the sword was returned to the city of- ficials, as is the eastern, the procession continued to the cathedral. The Lord Mayor of London, the Dean of St. Paul's and others of the ▪ cathedral clergy received the sover- eigns here, the procession filing along the nave until the allotted places were reached under the great dome, where the other members of the royal family had, already taken their seats. There was a large attendance of official rep- resentattves and the vast nave Was filled. with wounded soldiers aid sail- or; The special service, which last - ed forty-five minutes, included an ad- dress by the Archbishop of Canter, bury. From the cathedral the King and Queen were driven to the Guildhall whither the Lord Mayor. and the city officials had preceded them. Here the address was read, and the hand- some illuminated copy of it presented to King George. This eeremany was followed, by the presentation; of a cheque for a large sum, to be dietrib- uted among such charities as their Majesties should decide upon, and the gift of a piece of silver. These were tho only public silver wedding gifts the sovereigns consented to accept, they having decided that at the tires- ent time nothing should be diverted fram charitable purposes. The gift was subscribed for by the city guilds, the Stock Exchange, the leading banks. and insurance and commercial com- panies and others. After the double ceremony their Majesties drove again to the palace,. cheered along the entire route by en. thusiastic crowds. As is customary when the sovereign makes a visit of state to the city, the King created the Lord Mayor, Charles A. Hanson, a baranet, and conferred knighthood upon the two sheriffs, George Rowland Blads and Harry Franklin Hepburn. " The celebration of the silver wed- ding 'throughout the country Is taking the form of the collection of gold and silver articles and money for the Red Cross. Such gifts are being received by the mayors of the various towns to be sant to Buckingham Palace, from which they will be handed over to the Red Cross. Every article found saleable will be sold, and the remain - ler of the precious metals will be sent to the mint as bullion. R is expected thet the Red Cross will thus receive a very large sum. ONLY PEACE HUti CAN HAVE. IS Oft PRESIDENTS TERMS Till Then the Foe Mil Be Compelled to Fight; Says Lloyd George Bonar law Says Allies Are Ready—Three Months to Decide With the American Artny on the British Front cable says: (By the Associated Press-a—tentil Germany ac- ceptthe conditions laid down by Pre- -sident Wilson she cannot have peace, and she tau have peace to -morrow if she accepts them, eiavld Ieloyd George 'gave this message to the Ameritan troops training on. the British front after he had seen thein at review to- day. The arrival in France of one million ,American soidiers bad made the Ger- man Eirperor reallee that his defeat was c irtein. The Emperor, the Pee - pile': halt', had had many illusions re- garding the war. One of these wee that the ttew. American troops; would not be capahle of meeting those of Germany tra:naed to the minute. Premier Lloyd George reiterated fcreetully that the allies do not covet eingle yard of Garman soil, and do not desire to dispoesees Germany of her rightful inheritance, or the Ger- London. July 6. --The German artil- lery was active last night in the region between Villeis-Bretonneux and the Ancre, ncrateast of Amiens, where the Australiana have recza ty gained %piti- able amend, according to -day's War Office ieport. AMERICANS REPULSE HUNS. A Paris cable: O'erman troops last night attempted to raid the, American rector in Lorraine, at Xivray. The War Office announced to -day that the enemy was completely repulsed in this effort, as he was in raiding at- tempts at points on the French front. The te,xt of the statement reads: "French detachments penetrated the German lines and brought back pris- oners. "Several raiding Musts by the Ger- mans at Chaume wood, upon the American sector at Xlvray and in the Vosge,s were Completely repulsed, "The night was quiet on the remain der of the front." „04-lailiee**-4444-•-•-•-•-•-•-4-444-4,44-1-• Hun Chemist's Great Work German 'chemists, under pressure of war necessities, have discovered an al- loy of zinc which has taken the plase of copper, has the same conductivity •as copper, but is harder and costs two and a quarter cents a pound, whiee copper costs 26 cents. Under the same war necessities Ger- many has learned to quit wall:Ian cool —that is to say, she has qeit burning raw coal. Germany to -day is cok- ing her eoal and extracting some 1.0.- 000 different things from the coal tar by-products that 99 out of every *100 chimneys in America are still helot- ing out in smoke. 4 Germany boasts that she can pay for the war and get her supply oS meter fuel out of her coal tar preside's. These are some of tne points brought home from a two-year resi- dence in Germany by Oswald Schuette, war correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, and ho is doing his best to warn American 111anUfa.dUreog and businese men that all Germ:tee-es tre- mendous energy and Unserepttloas entitle, rescoureefuiness will be thrown against them in the induetrIrl and commercial field the moment ite guns have ceased to roar 5n terrine& His warning bluntly 15 that American businems men must faee feels and tee brains. "To metriufaettirers 1 -would say that -111241111111Cir you have two things to do," Mr. Schutte told the Illinois Manufaettir- ers' Costs Association a few days aga. "You have a war wage and a, business to prepare for, not the political end of peace, tut the practical part of peace, because there is such a thiug as preparing for peace. "I spent more than two years 'le a war correspondent with the German arniy. When I got out of Switeceland to come home, I went up to great headquarters and spent a day telliag our General Pershing's intelligcace die vision of things Which their armies have done and which we are trying to learn, things that we are spending a great deal of effort trying to discover. E have had an opportunity that few other Americans had had. Sinee I have come to the United States 1 do not see how I eats spend my time 'bet- ter than by telling nine of my man- afaeturing Mende of the indttetrial achieveznente that they have madc over there, under the pressure of war, which we will have to faee When the war is over. Not the Military things --We can safely leave those to Pere siting -1)a the industrial things. "b'or instance, they ran out of (top- per, what littIe they had, and they even melted church belts down to make torpedoes, but copper for any other use was impossble to obtain. Electricity ie one of the big things in this war,. both on the peace side and on the war side of the ledger, and they had to have upper, or face the end, and tinder pressure they discov- ered an alloy of sine whieh has taken the piece of copper, has the same con- ductivity as copper, but I harder and 1 posts two and a quarter centpound, while eopper coete 20. It the war ends to -morrow, or if it ends next year, or whenever it ends, and they are able to make their electrical Ma- chinery with two and a quarter cent aine alloy, and we try to get along with, 20 -cent copper, we will discover again that we are ready for peace. 1 know that the electrical engineers who handle that ena ,of the electrical bus.. Ines of this country can get busy on this and beat thein at their two cent a pound zinc alloy, and when peace comes we 'will be ready for them, if It is known in thee Just what has been done over there. mralte another instance, A large manufacturer over there told me that when tlie war would, be over they would not burn a single pound of coal In it furnace in Germany. They build retorts, lie said, small" enough to take care of the, furnace In it small apart- ment house, and big enougit for use In the largest plant, in which coal is coked, and the coke and the gas and the coal thr, the by-products, put into the furnace and burned smokelessly. That is real coneenration. and it is conservation 1•17() Can met because we are aa able as tbey to meet these problems, only we have not had the pressure that tbey have had forced en them. They do not have coal to wartto in Germany, and they have had to find ways of getting Along without wasting it. "Out of that very coal proposition— now there is use made of cpal tar which every ordinary gas plant will Produee out of these little retorts— they are going to take the coal tar because they bave increased the num- ber of coal tar compounds to come - thing like 10,000. "During this war every time they have been up against borne trobule they have had to solve they utilized coal tar, I know that our coal tar chemists are es good as theirs, but so far they have not had the pressure. They have not had to find eubstitutes. That coal tar problem sometimes souztds like a fairy tale, and yet 1 have been told by the Germans over there that they could pay for Me war out of their coal tar monoply If, when the war is over; we are not ready for them, because they make out of coal tar to -day alt the gasoline they have been using until they got the,Rountan- Ian oil fields back again. "They make their dynamite and all their high explosives. They make their colors, and they say that they are going to put caffeine Into acorns and try to make coatee out of it. The next thing they will be trying ,to do Is to put nicotine in to cabbage and make cigars out of coal tar. They are making all their medicines out of coal tar during Gee war, because the medicines cannot get in. "They are making sulphur out of their mine refuse over there. Sulphur Is one of the big things in this war. They tan out of sulphur and there was a great problem as to whether they could keep up the war until they found ea way to make it out of mine refuse, and to -day they are manufac- turing sulphur cheaper than they could import it. They are making ni- trateout of the atmosphere. If it were not for that, the war would have ended in Septemeber, 1914. but under pressure of that they made not only nitrates for their explosives, but ni- trates for fertilizing purposes. They are making all their twine out of paper. They take slips of paper and they are combined into one strip. They nyake clothes out of paper, and when we speak of paper clothes, don't think of taking a newspaper and cut- ting them out. They make them out of this sloth. "In the trout they have had to use an enoronnos amount of sacks on .both sides of the trenches. One of. ihe most important things is to have seeks that can stand the wear and tear, the wet and the cold, filled with sand and used to Glop au opening ifl a trench.. They are using these pa- per sacks, and they are more im- pervious to water than notton sacks, "When peace comes they are get- ting ready to march into the world with a paper textile industry that they say has put them in a position where they will never import another pound of jute. • "Another thing they are doing over there—I would like to say right here that in saying thee things I am not saying them in atly attempt to im- press you with any seccesses that they have had—I am trying to warn you. Another thing they have done over there is to eliminate in this war every bit of competition, aud when the war is over they will have all their power centralized for outside competitiou between the firms that go out of Germany to try to sell things. "Don't let any one tell you they have not felt this war. They have felt it, and they have felt it hard. Sometime,s1 feet that we have thought over here that they felt it harder than they really have, or that they were oollapsing under it, and I have been trying to get away from the impres- sion that Germany was crumbling or collapsing. I have thought perhaps tve could have worked' harder this year, because I know the American people well enough to know that when they are up against a problem and know what the problem is, they can solve it. The troubleis that we have been led to believe that our enemy is weak, that In Why we have weakened, why we do not put in 100 per cent, energy. This war is 100 per cent. war; this war is a Seven - lay -a -week war, a 24 -hour -a -day war." _antericar Economist. BRITISH FLIERS DOMINATE WEST A London cable: Miring the last week the Entente allies 0I1 the West- ern front have taken more than 5,000 prisoners, A series or minor opera- tiona also remitted in their gaining possession of amoral important strategic pointe, Inflicting heavy los- es on the enemy and obtaining val- uable Information ,as to his pleas for the immediate future. Another satisfactory feature of the last week's oDerations was the work of the allies in the air. Great damage was doue by the aVlatoro to Gerillan communications and concentrations of men a.nd material behind the lines, The superiority of the Entente air fighters is shown by the fact that dure Ing the last week, on the British front alone, 173 German airplanes were downed while only 30 British machines are tuise:ng. "No man wants to be too hard on his thlidren'e follies," "Then, if I marry your daughter, tan 1 espect you to make propar alloWattg.s for herr-- Baltimore Aneeriean. GERMAN HAND thCde tail an anti-tiovernment purs mines, and it bee been reported that • purpose, and had been etirred up by DIE WHIN German agenta or Irreconcilable movEs. AmoNG Bertessage front Johannesburg yes - AN EXCURSION torday to Routes% said that all the . THE AFRicAss nolaitlyNseanwehsLyhallateir•etuisleacl (As:morel:1 A. correspondent of the Times, tele- graphing from Cape Town on Mon- day, paid: "The movement was originated by international Socialists working on the educated natives, and was help- ed by the effect of the increased cost Of living." WEJ.PON'S FOUND, ARRESTS :11A,DE Tilt? Times, commenting edltori- ally on the situation,. referred eo the unrest of the native3 aS "assisted Us' disloyalists." A despatch from Johanneehurg, July 2, to Reuter's Limited, said that 3,500 natives went out at the Fer- reira Deeplines, whereupon the police entered the compound and took away a qaantity of secreted weapons. The authorities also ar- rested 75 leaders of the natives with- out encountering resistance, One thousand native employees or the town Engineers Department refused to work, but returned to their stations before. a disPlaY of armed force. Further Details of the Un- rest in the Union of South. Africa. BOTHA'S APPEL Quick Action lirevented What Might Have Been Grave Trouble. Pretoria cable: Premier Botha, of the Union of South Africa, has issued it statetnent showing that serious un- reet oxiets in South Africa, Strong Police and military measures are being taken to cope with the situation. Premier 13otlut said that had not proxupt and effective, nulltary measarea been taken tee situation would have culminated in a grave disturbance, and probably serioue :ass of life. The Boer leader added that tne Govern- ment had information pointing to the, existence of a movement having for ita object the submersion of the con. stitution by violent methods. Coatinuinga Premier -Botha, in his stateinent, says: "There is good reiason for suspeet. ing that enemy agencies are at work in this country, and that they are intriguing to stir up strife, not only among Europeans, but also among the =thee, and no means or matters are deemed too despicable, so long as they can attain their object." ' FEW SERIOUS TROUBLES. There have been few serious troubles in South Africa since the outbreak of the war, although early in the conflict a rebellion broke out in which the establishment oLa republic yea plan- ned. Premier Botha, who, although Ile fought against the British In the Boer war, has been one of the strong - QS( supporters of the empire in the Present conflict, personally took-) the' field against the rebels and crushed the rebellion, late in 1914. Little newa has been coming out of South Africa recently regarding the situation there, although a despatch on June 17 indicated that there had been political complication% The Fin- ance Minister at that time was quoted as declaring that the political situation had become, "far better." At various timee there have been outcroppings of the, idea of independence, and a year ago, in a speech in Cape Colony, Pre- mier Botha found occasion to condemn the republican propaganda, declaring that it was to South Africa'a interests to maintain the,constitutional connec- tion with Great Britain. TEXT OF STATEMENT. The text of Premier Botha's state- ment follows: "As Prime Minister of the Union feel it to be any duty to place before the people a statement of affairs in our Union. of Which everyone should know. The people must be aware of the state of tension now prevailing— a tenSion neceesarily following on the political activities .of the various poli- tical organizations. But othe,r agencies have for some time been at work to bring about trouble. "In view of the disturbed political and industrial situation, I therefore desire to inform the people there is good reason for suspecting that enendY agencies are at work in this country, and that they are stirring up strife, not only among. Europeans but also among the natives, and no means or methods are deemed too despicable so long as they can attain their object. "While it Is not desirable in the public interest to publish the events which in the last fewt daYs have neces- sitated prompt and effeetive military and pollee measures, and which had such measures nbt been taken, would have culminated in.grave disturbances and probably a serious loss of life. I may state that the Government had information pointing to the existence of a movement having for itp object the subversion of the constitution by methods of violence. "I am convinced that South Africa is no more likely to be imtnune front insidious attentions of enemy agents than are other torninions of ootntries of the allied or neutral powers. The results of the activities of such in- struments of the enemy have from time to time become clearly appar- ent, and the circumstances attending the disturbances in Ireland in 1916 presented several features which were to be observed in the movement on Loot in South Africa. APPEALS TO PEOPLE. e The people of South Africa tut no s• strangers to trouble and difficulties, which they have often overcome by resolution and self-control, and the Government makes this statement in order that all orderly, peace -loving citizens may be Warned that mis- chievous elements are at work amongst them and that it is their duty neither to Ountenance nor to en- courage, evon indirectly, such attempts at mischief "I have been gratified to see that appeals have been made by the lead- ers of political and industrial organi- zations to their supporters to abstain from violeace These should assist the -country and the people to withstand the attempt to create disorder, "As the Prime Minister of the Union, 1 wish in the most earliest and emphatic manner to add my ap. Peal to each and everyone, frorn the highest to the lowest, of whatever industrial organization he Mal' be- long, to regard this matter as of the utmost importance to himself and to the country, and to be continually on his guard against the demon of in- trigue and to use his utmost endea- vors to curb the paseions of time Who think something is to be gained by sowing discord and eaciting, strife. "While the administration of the country is committed to my Govern- ment it is determined to take all ne- cessary measures to countereet these intrigues, and I feel confident that In this task it will have the aseist- ance Rad support of all good citi- zens." STRIP:ES IN PRocatEss. London eable nye: South African troubles have bean the subject of ru- mors In London for ;some dare it late been known that serioue strikes have been In progrees in the Trenseesial WAR PLANT WRECKED. Munitions Blast in New 'Ter. sey Kills Several. Nee: York deepatch: Several men 'were killed and others were injured in an explesion at the Hercules Pow- der Company's plant at Kenvil, N. J., to -day. The explosion took place ID a building in which trinitrotoluol was stored. Fifteen men were known to have been in the structure at the timeh. T0 Ira spread rapidly, destroying four or five of the company's 'build- ings. While the firemen were fighting the flames there was a setond heavy explosion. The detonations shook the surrounding country. Many panes of glass he Kenvil were shattered and the front of one small building collapsed, , Officials of the company said at least three men were killed, and that only a roll -call of theemployees could determine the exact number killed and injured. *4. * NEW HUN SCHEME - To Finance Revolts Among Ally Peoples. ;Geneva ' cable: The Swiss Feder- al Council is making serious enquiriee concerning reports that enormous amounts of meney have been placed in Swiss banks by Boleheviki. Several billion francs have been transferred ta Swiss institutions through German banks, accordiag to the Gazette de Thurgovie. The funds are destined to aid revo- lutionary propaganda along the Bol- shevik' lines in allied countries, with Switzerland as a centre of the in- trigue, according to the Geneva Tri- bune. It is stated that the movement is eacouraged by the Germans. 4.• • ,., , . BUT NO TRUPS Six Lives Lost 'Mon U. S. Vessel Torpedoed • Was a Great German Liner Before. - A Washington despatch: The Ameri- can transport Covington, homeward bound after landing several thousand soldiers in France; was torpedoed and sunk in the war zone last Mon. day night. Six members of thq crew are missing, but all the other inene, with the snip's officer% have been landed at a French port. No army personnel or passengers were aboard. The Covington is the, second of the great Gernutn liners seized at the out- break of the war to be sent down by Germany's sea wolveg, and is the third American troopship to be destroyed. All were homeward bound. The former Iidneburg-AmerIcan liner President Lincoln was eunk last May 31, and the Antilles, formerly a Morgan liner, was sent down last Oct. 17. The Covington forinerly was the Hamburg -American liner Cincinnati, which was laid up at Boston and taken over when the United States entered the war, She was 603 feet long, of 16,339 gross tone, and had a speed of 15Y2 knots on hour. glee NaVy Department's announce- ment to -night of the torpedoing of the Covington said nolle of the officers and men landsd was "sasiously hs- jured." Apparently eorue of them were hurt, but the nunther .probably was net given in Vice -Admiral Sims' des- patch. The C,ovington was etrUelc at 9.17 o'clock Monday night while, proceeding with a fleet of other transports con- voyed by destroyers. The submarine was not sighted. The transport re- mained afloat until Tuesday, when' efforts were made by =other vessel and two sage to tow her to port, but elle was too badly damaged to keen ati SCL ONII TRANSIIORT ON VIRE, A Washington despatch; The 'United States army transport Henderson haa been afire at sea, but elle made an Atlantis- pori In safety, There was no 1°81%8vtie 01 lfeialls would be had at the Navy 'Department to -night, but it Was mid that the wheel was not badly area:. aged, /t was tint made known whether the Henderson waa out -bound Or lioinewardbound, nor was tbere any information as to how the fire time - HUN PLANE, AND CREW LOST, Washington re,nort: A German alt; plant: was lost oft the western coast of Sutland last night, with its Cm, according to an official despatch to- day from Copenhagen. The plane Was one of a squadron of four flying at hill speed toward the south, and was seen from the gore to fall. A Danish lifeboet went to aid the avia- tor, but Mad reeene Dane, BOAT IS SUNK Panic On Dance Floor Scores, While nthers Drown, WENT DOWN AT ONCE Pekin, 711, Pleasure Ride Ends in Great Disaster, .•••••••••••••••,,....0•••••••• Porta, Ill., despatch: Approximate- ly 150 people were arowned or tramp- led to death, at midniglat last night, when the excursion steamer Columbia, carrying more than 500 people, struck an obstruction in the Illinois River and sank. . The excursion party started froze') Pekin, fifteen miles distant from here, early in the evening, spent several hours at an aniusemeat park near this city, and when the return trip to Pelciu wae about half completed, the steanter ran into an obstruction on the Peorie shore, in the fag, smashin,g a big hole in her bow, The pilot sig- nalled full speed astern, and as steon as the vessel pulled clear of the log or rock she began to settle, and with- in a few minutes sank, carrying many Persons down. 0 Soon- after the steamer struck a panie occurred among the passengers, and many men, women and children jumped into the weter without seeur-. ing life preservers. Those who could ewlm reached .sliore. which was only a few feet assay. The second deck of 'the boat, where the dance hall was lo- cated, was crowded when the crash came, and it was there that many were cruithed to death in the pante. Ray Jones. fireman on the steamer, estimated that between 150 and 200 persons were on the dance floor when the boat struck, and he believed Many of those perished. Wben the hoat settled on the bottom the water reached the staterooms immediately below the pilot house, on the listed side. The pilot, when he found the .boat was sinking, sent distress sig- nals, and within a short time boats from various directions came to the resceu and began to pick up those struggling in the water, but on ac- count of the darkness, their efforts were badly hampered. Search for the bodies was abandoned at 4 o'clock this -morning until dal" - light came. Approximately twenty had been recovered, only a portion of whom had begaaidentified. e This morning only the, hurricane deck of the steamer is visible above theAuegvautsetr.mehi, brother of Capt. H. P. Mehl„ the purser of the boat, who loat his life, made the following statement regarding the disaster: "The whole thing was over in an instant. I was in the cafe of the boat when the shock came. I knew that we had struck a submerged log, and heard my brother cry out, 'Every- body upstairs!' The crowd ruahed for the upper decks. 1 rushed to the en- gine room to notify the engineers. On my retura I saw my wife running .ahead of me up the companionway. 1 . followed, and Just as I got to the second deck the boat liated to the lee side and sank quickly, I saw my wife thrown overboard into the water. 1 grabbed at her sktrt, but it slipped through my fingers. Then the boat sva$ plunged in total darkness. I ran for a life -preserver, and got to thS Upper deek in time to help the women and children escape in the lifeboats," At that time, the water wag up to the stateroom -immediately below the pilot house on one side, and up to the base of the pilot house on the listed side. Dcl Sivley, the pilot off watch at tho time of theAccident, was aeleep in his, stateroom. His wife, in charge of tha lunch counter, rushed to her hus- band's room .and awakened him. They reached the deck, grabbed life -preserv- e" jumped eeerhaard and were saved. Mrs. Herman Mehl, wife of the cap- tain, was bleeding from a wound on the side of the head when she told her story of the accident. "I was on the dance floor at the time," she said. "It was all ovqr before you could say scat. When the ,boat listed, something must have struck me On tho head. I came to in the water and grabbed a handrail on the boat. I had jest enough sense to pull myself in and get a life -preserver. -gelding on with one hand to the boat and the other to the preserver, I kept afloat until some men pulled me in." Dr. L. Clarey, coroner of Tazewell county, sent the fallowing cablegram to the chief of police at Chicago: "Please send at once professional diver With cemplete outfit to recover trona sunken steamer large number of =recovered bodies. Answer at 'Pekin." "There are at least 100 bodies doges belotv," Captain Mehl, of the steamer Columbia, told Coroner Clarey when he returned row an inspection of the sunken boat. Shortly afterward Coroner ClareY retuned to Pekin to begin making arrangements for the inquest. Bodies of the *victims were taken to Pekin. The pollee of Pekin early today esti. mated the ntrinber of dead at 150. With the break of day divers went down into the sunken steamer to bring op bodies of the 100 or more victims of the disaster believed to be between the crushed decks of the boat. Almost It the eame hour hear - • began arriving from Pekin from the sant of the disaster, bringing in the first bodies. Soldiers detailed from Cattips 13radley and Herring were in Pekin early to preserve ord- er. All known victims were residents of Pekin or tieig441thocring !Blum MURDER IN letENTVILLE. lientville, N. S.. despateli: Alillidge Refuse, aged 50, last night sliot and iznesritoatnIstlyi:lilllyieetli:Ers. Ross 'itchier, seri- ously wounded Mrs, IL Selig, and then turned the gun on himself, inflicting which physicians say will probably prove fatal. Domestic trouble is said by neighbors to be the probable cause of the tragedy. "A real, natural -hone orator," answer- ed Senator Sorghum, -'is man who can put up euels a good MenOlogne that is your ideal of an orator?" y on forget to notiee whether hie arguments are any kaad." ton Star THE NIEETOEY, Kere io an ,Excellent Way to De- velop It. it was said. of Macaulay that If every :cluct).K.letg011yiltrsTro.y.led'araidtei"col'ul7t;epNitetcree it front his memory down to each corn- iis trained hie wonderful memory in the following way: When he was reading a boot:, he would atop at the end of each page and endeavor to recol- lect what the page was about, lie did this se carefully that gradually he truth* ett himself to suett a pltoh that by mer. oly reading a passage, a page, or a poem, or even an article, 150 CPula repeat It word for word. If you will follow this practice yOu will find that Your mamorY will, De wonderfully strengthened. More tnan alio, you will lay up In your mind it vast sinteoerte jotafelidtehrlaiy.ywitrresapseugh (hat and toluenes your thought in the most lesirable manner. Start training your memory with poetry, and loam it by reading it aloud. If you read It merely, you have only the eys to help you recall it. If you speak, the sound of the wort% nelps you to remember them. Do not try to do too mueli at the start. Give ten minutes a ilny nI that. Master a small itoem, even if it takes you several days. In that way you wit/ not get tired at your exercises. And as you go on you will learn more In the time you allow yourseit.--Dxchange. Worth Knowing. Black walnut furnItare or furniture made of any dark rich wood Should be cleaned occasionally with a soft rag dipped in paraffine oil, then polished with another soft rag. White enamel ware can - be cleaned of stains by making a strong solution baking soda and rainwater. Put the utensils in it and boll them hard; they will be as wite as snow. A weak solution of turpentine pour- ed down the water pipes once a week will drive the water bugs away. To test silk, fray out the threads and break them. If they snap easily, It is not good. The warp thread run- ning lengthwise should be of equal strength with the woof thread run- ning crosswise. • Half a lemon dipped in salt Is ex- cellent for cleaning copper articles Black and cotton goods should be first soaked in a weak sotution of salt water to prevent the black and white from running. PRISONERS OI EXCEED 1,500 Captures in British Smash On Somme Increase. Artillery Duels Chief Item in West. A London cable: "The number of prisonera captured in yesterday's oper- ation on the Somme and in the sub. eequent German counter-attacks now e.xcee,ds 1,500, including forty officers,' according to an official statement mated by the War Office to -night, "Except for some hostile artillery activity in the region of Scherpenberg, southwest of Ypres," the statesne,at says, topo "therereirst.,nothing of special In- cAMERICAN REPORT. Washington despatch: Friday's report from Gen. Pershing read: "In tho course of succesaful patrol- eetivity in Picardy and in the flitle:catetta Thierry region, we captured priscners. In Picardy a machine gun was *.:k t taken. Hostile planes which epprouched our lines near Vaux and in the Voeges were driven back by our "Our -troops co-operated with the (13.1frtiliselini,rntast:reir attack made to -day," FRENCH REPORT. A Paris cable: The official state- ment issued Friday night by the War "There wee some activity by the oppcsing artilleries during the day, the firing being quite heavy south of ths Aisnq River, in the regions of Cutry and Mont Gobert. West of Bus- salres, northwest of Chateau Thierry, we carried out a sarprise attack and captured rtisc.1,,ars." 1.1.:M4.N REPORT. A Berlin cable: The official coin- municatibn from general headquarters issued Friday follows: "East of Ypres strong attacks latotelitel by the enemy were re- pulsed. On both sides of the, Somme yesterday morning the enemy infantry attacker' after a strong artillery pre- paration by the British. On the north bank v.'. the river the, attacks broke' iloots. esTbefore our lines with sanguinary "South cf the Somme the enemy penetrateitto the village and the wood of Hamel. gin the 'height east of Da mel his ettack was frustrated by our counter-attack. East of Villers. Bretonneux we threw the enemy back into list poehion or departure. "in the cm Ing the fighting activity revived on nearly the whole front of the army of Crown Prince Rupprecht aria kept up with increased intensity during the eight, especially in yester- .f davt'iste A bnit:Il., eee'ector. There hag been increased agl.ting aetivity on the, west bank of the Avre and on both sides o 4 Reminder Book. .—Wirellwr al • .•••• "What I used to to when put any- thing. away," said Mr. Blinkinton, "was to bestow it with great care in some Place where I would know just where to find it, and then I would forget it completely. More than once when I have wanted something that I had' thus care- fully put away I have had to tear the house apart to find it. "So It was urttn t tvetvete tny "Things Put Away' book, which has proven to be it great help and comtort. "Now win n I put anxthing away I first enter it In that book, which is, of COMP, indexed, so that 1 woit't have to look through a long list of things WIWI! t want to find anything. "Once soon after / started the book put that away somewhere very cam. fully and then forget where 1 hall put It and had a terrible time looking it uti: but ainee that T have kept It hi n spot where It can't fail to come under my eye daily: and it works like a charm. should say that tor anybOdy who, like myself is apt to forget thing a 'Thing rut Away' hook Would be In- d!spensable. WHY HE RAN. reVaellinaton Stare "Thatei the first fight that ever made me run." :old iironeho "/ didn't know running was in root '14'1' teal. tut this time If 1 hadn't it it:mt.:et enough to eatch up with Pluto Pete there wouldn't have leen any AUSTRALIANS DRIVE ENEMY FURTHER BACK Advance of 400 Yards On a, Front of Over a Mile Again, PPIPP01.1 TANKS' GMT WORK Obliterated Whole Nests of Machine Guns in Their Progress, WIth the British Army In France, July 7.—No further attempt by the Germans to retake the ground wrested from them Thursday by the combined Auetrallan-American attack has been reported to -day. Not satisfied with the positions acquired from the enemy In the initial attack, the Australians Fri- day night again drove forward, Jest south of Valre 'Wood, and Jammed the Bache back some 400 yards more along a front of 2.000 yards. The operation was entirely success- ful an.d has made the new line Much stronger. Details are now available concern- ing the work of the large fleet of tanks which participated in Thurs- day's battle. The tanks rendered in- valuable assistance to the attacking infantry. Officers SAY that this was one of the most economical assaults even undertaken on the British front owing to the fact that the tanks saved casualties among the Infantry by mop- ping up machine-gun positions and strong points in advance, In numer- ous instances whole machine-gun crews with their rapid -fires were liter- ally grdund into earth by the tanks, which swept over the enemy Posts like steamrollers. One group -of tanks alone destroyed or captured more than thirty machine guns and brought about the surrender of at. least 200 Germans. .In addition many Germans were slain by these steam engines. Other tanks were do- ing similar work. Taken as a whole, the Bache infantry surrendered or bolted on the approach of these mon- sters, the appearance of which in it- self is terrifying. The German ma- chine gunners, however, fought to the last in many instances. DESTROYED WHOLE NEST. Numerous times the Australian and American infautrymen communicated with the tank crews and gave them the direction from which hostile ma- chine-gun fire was coming. In every case the tank was able to deal with the roil firers, and thus allow the infantry to advance. One tank, which was 200 yards in front of thee 'Allied infantry, destroyed •a nest of six ria - chine guns- by running over it after the gun crews refused to surrender. Another tank crew finished three rapid firers, but a fourth machine gun continued. firang 'at a distance of five or six yards. This gun, in turn, was run over and destroyed, together with its crew. At one.point a tank moved against a mound which seemed a likely place for a machine gun. No sign of the enemy was to be seen at first, but af- ter the tank had circled the mound _once about fatty Germans came 'anted a camouflaged trench and ran toward the Allied infantry to surrender. . A TANK pATROL. During the consolidation of the new lines, the tanks patrolled the front for nearly half an hour for protection. On one sector, when snipers in a corn- field were making things .uncomfort. able for the men at work onthe der fences, a .tank advanced across No Man's Land. and fired several shells Into the corn. With the explosions many of the enemy Jumped up in verb, ous parts of the field and all were killed by the fire from the tank. Several offices% have said since the battle that the prospects for victory never seemed as bright as now. The latest work of the tanks had really opened their eyes to the possibilities of causing the Germans heavy defeats, with slight casualties to the attack- ing infantry. BRITISH REPORT. yards. July 7.—Sunday morning's War Office report said: their line north-east or Villers -Bre. tonneux last night on a front of 2,000 "The Australian troops. advanced "A successful raid was carried out by Lancashiretroops near Hinges, in which several prisoners were cap - tared. "We captured a few prisoners and a machine gun in a raid east of Hamel yesterday afternoon. "The hostile artillery has been 'ac- tive in the neighborhood' of Pontine- villers and in the Hinges sector. "Prisoners were captured in a raid east of Ypres." Sunday night's report said: ."Early this morning the enemy at- tempted a raid near Locre but was repulsed. Except for hostile artillery and trench 'teeter activity in Mb Bethune sector there is nothing of special in terest to report." FRENCH REPORT. Paris, July 7.—Sunday morning's War Office statement said: "There were artillery actions south of the Aisne, in the region of Long - pont and Corey. "American troops carried out it raid in the Vosges, bringing back pri- soners. "West of Chateau Thierry we made some progress in the region of Hill 204 and took about 30 prisoners." Saturday night's report said: "No events of importance oceurred along the front during the course of the day," . MISSING FARMER FOUND DEAD, Simcoe, Ont., Silly 7.-1oranit Ititchen, aged ftbout 40, a farmer of Townsend Township, who disappeared about five weeks ago, was found dead in an out- of-the-way feta ee corner on his property yesterday morning. The Coronet, ham been notified, and an investigation will be hold. Deceased was married, and leaven his wife end etre. child. BELGIAN RULERS VISIT LONDON. Lendon„ July 7, --Xing Albert anti Queen Elizabeth of Ilelglurn, with their youngest t.ott and a large suite, crossed the Channel and Motored to Duaking. ham Palate yesterday to attend the POI» ver wedding festivities itt.honor Of Xing (loorge and QUet,11 Mary. They rurived at two o'clock in time for luncheen. A great crowd gathered outside the palace to facet the Belgian *rulers. lelag Albeit *were the taniferm of * Colt/net of the Dragoon Guards.