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EXPECT THE BUMPS" TO BEAT U-BOATS YET

These Are Small Scouting Planes and They Watch the Seas Day i/ and Sight.

(By United Press.)

TXWDON, Aug. 17.—(By Mh.fl.V~ "Blinp" is collouquial for the small airship known more authoritatively as tbe ii.S. or submarine Bcout.

It is non-rigid and a pigmy among airships. Comparisons are hazardous, but the S.S., roughly speaking, is to the torpedo boat destroyer as the Zeppelin to to the dreadnought.

Tt. si the U-boat destroyer. There are other ways of destroying U-boats, but ths S-S. crew, who ought to know, though they may be prejudiced, will assure you that the, S.S. is not one of the ways. It is the way.

The ras bag of the S.S. !s about 150 feet Ion* and 30 feet in diameter and its lower structure, which is virtually that of a scouting aeroplane of mecnum power, makes the whole a cross between aeroplane and balloon. The The speed/ is from* 30 to 40 miles per hour, the crow is usually one pilot and one observer, and the cargo is a load at bombs with fuel for a long distance flight. Wireless is fitted, with camera and observation instruments.

Is Inexepnsive.

The S.S. is inexpensive and «irists by hundred, keeping guard round the French and British coasts.

It can stand still in the air, and the seaplane which can do that has still to be-invented. If atl-boat lies on the bottom, the S.S. can sit over it until it decides to move or come to the surface. Meantime, wireless has been at work, and arrangements made to give the submarine a warm reception.

If the submarine rises before naval help arrives, the S.S. tackles it alone, with bombs and if the S.Si pilot tires of his cat-and-mouse game he may descend and try the effect of sinking a depth charge on the submarine.

If the submarine travels below water at a depth where it is fairly safe againts depth charges, the S.S. travels with it above water till it comes, as sooner or later itmust come, to a shoad part of the shallow North sea where its can be exterminated.

Subject to the duration power In the air of the S.S. there is little chance ot escape for a U-boat, once it has been spotted. The spotting is all, and the North sea is a large place, while the, range of the S.S. is small.

So a large type of airship with a wider range, the C.P., or coast patrol ship corries on farther at sea, detecting mine-fielders as* well as submarines.- .j _-Xeithe'r type is ubiquitous, and both are fair weather fliers—more dependent, at any rate, on fair weather than are heavier-than-air machines, but the cordon in and over the sea grows daily, tighter, and though the submarine Is still extant., it is becoming far more a question of luck than good management when It escapes one or other of the many different traps laid for it..

GIRL DIRECT THE DRAFT.

Mist Wellborn Has Had Charge of. Work Since the First Call. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—-One of tTte main reasons the great draft machine runs so smoothly is because a: little girl has the hundreds of

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changing rules at her finger tip, and" has Informed thousands just what they' must and must not do.

Although, of course, the gold leaf, does not appear on her shoulder, her associates have deservedly commis- i stoned her "Major Bill"—so "Major Bill" Wellborn is now her name. Whenever women come into their full rights, one of the first things the war department should do is to officially commission her, for she is one of the most valuable cogs in the great draft machine.

If there's anything yon want to Imow about the draft Just ask "Major Bill." Hundreds go to her daily, and she seems to have a direct answer for every one of them. She is one of the real "unsung heroes" of the great war machine.

Rules and regulations grew so fast that war department officers simply couldn't keep up, probably because they really didn't need to, for "Major Bill" could tell them instantly the specific ruling on every point. Every change or new rule she seemed to stick away in a corner of her mind, and "Major Bill" is today without a doubt the nation's best informed draft authority.

She signs her name "W. Wellborn" and it is rumored the "W" is for Wilhelmina, but "Major Bill" goes at Gen. Crowder's office.

UNDERWEAR FOR SOLDIERS.

ST. LOinR, Mo., Aug. 17—The United States government is placing with the textile mills enormous orders for balbriggan underwear, both bleached and unbleached. In fact, the entire output of the manufacturers Is to be taken over for the soldiers and sailors.

Bvery jobber in underwear In St. Louis has been Instructed by the government to list their available stock, and give the figures to the buying parents for the government.

The war department furnishes every soldier with three new changes of underwear monthly. Retailers say the average purchase of underwear annually by civilians is two summer and two winter suits. Figuring that the soldiers will receive 36 suits every year, this means that the supply from the mills will have to be increased six times in order to fill the orders for the f&>vernment.

Country merchants have been notified that the wholesalers will not be able to fill any large orders for underwear or socks. One wholesale firm on Washington avenue admitted yesterday that their order book showed the requisitions for underwear from rural merchants are ten times as much as they can fill.

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W. R. D.—You need not give up your trade when you join the army. Skilled machinists are in great dej' mand for military service. Get in touch with your local board, if you are in the draft. They have been instructed to enlist the following types of men: Auto repair men, axmen, blacksmiths, boatmen, abridge carpenters, cabinet makers, calkers, concrete foremen, concrete porkers, construction foremen, cObks,-draftsmen, electricians, gas engine men, farriers, horse shoers, lithographers, machinists, buglers, photographers, plumbers, powder men. quarry men, riggers, saddlers, shoemakers, surveyors, tailors, teamsters, telephone operators, timber men and topographers.

C. T. O.—The duties of military police are to enforce the police regulations in or near military posts fr 'ftmong troops on the march, protect the inhabitants, military stores, telegraph, telei phone and railway lines from damage, and to arrest all soldiers absent from the organizations without proper authority. "Kitchen policev is a slang term of soldiers of their number assigned to duties in connection with the preparation which they use to designate those of food for mess.

C. IJ. W.-—Liocal boards, with their peculiar personal knowledge of registrants, have been considered the best arbiters of a man's status in the draft. Thousands of married men with healthy wives and no children have been taken out of Class IV-a and put in Class II-b. This has been done upon the theory that any able-bodied

Silver Star Awarded To Colonel Radford

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CYRUS RADFORD.

Colonel Cyrus Radford of the U. S. Marine Corps has .l ist been promoted to the rank of britradier general, according to official dispatches. He was one of the officers in charge of the marines who fought so brilliantly at Chateau Thierry recently. General Radford has long been prominent in the marines through his efficient work as active head of the depot supplies at Philadelphia. Under his direction the d* ot took care that the marines weri n«iver without equipment.

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AMERICAN SOLDIERS MAKING AN I) PACKING HAND GRENADES.

This American, official photograph shows American soldiers making and parking hand grenades for use in tTninlng their arms to fit them for trench hand warfare. The American type of hand grrenade is considered the best for distance and rapid throwing.

War Questions

ASKED AND ANSWERED.

Alien—Naturalization of foreigners in the naval or military service is provided for in an act of congress. A new procedure has been established by which the United States will be assured of an allAmerican army. Under the provisions of this law, any foreigner who is in the military service of the United States may become naturalized without the delays required in the general provisions of the nat-

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woman may easily find suitable employment during such times as these, and that, with the husband's allotment and the government's allowance to her, she could support herself without hardship. If •the peculiar conditions of your situation seem to preclude such possibility for her maintenance, you still have the right to appeal to the district board. You should set forth in affidavits such facts as you believe bear out your assertion that she is so placed that she cannot help to support herself and is entirely dependent upon you.

Y. M. C. A.—It is not true either way. lTurthermore, the men who have gone "over there" to work among the thousands of men who are gladly giving their all for the cause of liberty have seen a great light and have gotten far beyond the petty meanness and prejudice which seems yet to befog the minds of many religionists who have remained at home. The religion of the trenches and of the huts is a religion of doing rather than doctrine, an-d besides administering to the creature comfort of the men they serve Y. M. C. A. workers, and others, if they preach at all, preach the simple religion of Christ and him crucified, and do it without frills/

S. O. S.—There are no discriminations of any kind between soldiers who are not Citizens of the United States and the nativeborn or the naturalized citizens in the American army, excepting that the former cannot hold commissions. In all other respects—care, attention, privileges, etc.—they are on the same, footing.

Lover of Republic—You should be able to get information about openings in the medical corps by addressing surgeon general of the army, Washington, IX C. There also may be many opening for men with your qualifications in the civilian employ of the government. As to the latter, address the district secretary. Civil Service commission. In your letter to. the surgeon general be sure to give full particulars about your qualifications, your, status, with reference to the drift, etc.

C. L. W.—There has been no rulD. O. F.—If you have only taken the Red Cross elementary Course in nursing, you can get into active service abroad as a nurse's aid. Get in touch with local office of the Red Cross.

ing yet to the effect that all married men without children, no matter what the circumstances of the dependency of their wives may be, are to be put in Class II-B, according to an officer of the district draft board. Draft boards have been instructed to scrutinize the questionnaires of their draft registrants and to •"comb out" from the deferred classes those men with wives or other reasons for deferred classification, who may justly be put in Class II. Where wives are strong and able to work, and can obtain work bv which they may support themselves without hardship. the husbands may be put in Class II. You may take an appeal if you have grounds for appeal. Consult the government agent attached to your local board.

PIGEONS DOING WOj&DERS.

WASHINGTON/'Aug. 17.—The United States army is giving all possible attention to the development of an efficient cajrrier pigeon organization for services abroad. Pigeon fanciers throughout the country have responded patriotically to the call for experts and pedigreed birds.

Among those who have offered their services is George P. Skeel, a Cleveland boy, who has had wide experience with racing homers, having one of the finest lofts of birds that could be gotten together. Mr. SKeel resigned an important position, with the Standard Parts company to enlistin this Service, and is now in charge of the training station and lofts connected with the United States signal corps, under Col. J. B. Allison, at Fort Leavenworth, Kas.

TEBEE HAUTE TBIBUME.

UNION LABORERS PUT

Kaiser's War Lords Pot An End To Labor meetings and Other Gatherings.

By Ernest Liebling.

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 17.—THe union labor movement in Germany has been crushed out by the war. As far as the right of assembly of the unions is concerned, the latter eduId in the first three years of the -war count on cooperation especially under Minister of War WandeK, General von Wriesberfc was very accommodating In regard to their complaints. This understanding suddenly underwent a change which coincided with the resignation of Imperial Chancellor von BethmannHollweg. That is certainly not an accident, The fact is that BethmannHollweg had some influence on thes military power and was animated by the djesir^ to investigate the justified compla-ints made by the unions. That can unfortunately not be said of the present head of the government. The district of the Sixth army corps is in this regard again the worst. Restrictions of the right of combination and assembly were only rescinded after complaint had been registered with the ministry of war at the instigation of General Wriesberg, but immediately after the furious strike of the miners in Upper Silesia, which aH the unions tried to settle, were again introduced not only in the district in which the strike had taken place, but in the entire district under the jurisdiction of the Sixth army corps, and also in Breslau, where a strike had never taken place. The only purpose which can be determined is the suspension of the activity of -the unions. Through t^ie order forbidding the holding of meetings, which are just what clears the atmosphere when any discord arises suddenly, strikes of the wildest sort are actually furthered. In Silesia the authorities act entirely according to the wishes of the Privy Councillor of Mines Berger, who regards every union laborer as a criminal and a traitor.

It was the great strike wave which swept over Germany in February of this year which brought about the first strike in Breslau, which was only a protest against the general command. Why then have hardly any strikes taken place in South Germany and, above all, industrial and socialistic Saxony? The rigorous measures of the general command are the hot-be*! of dissatisfaction and revolt. In Silesia there reigns the spirit of the real Prussian, above all of Von Jagow, the memory of whose Berlin activities is still green. We attempt to exercise a .soothing influence. But If the autocratic despotism does not come to an end, we will no longer be able to prevent affairs from rapidly approaching a catastrophe.

DEAH BELOVED AMERICA.

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. 17—French peasants, fleeing before the Huh invasion in Pi•cardy, Flanders and the Aisne region, have been succored by the American Red Cross.

Food, clothing, medical attention, beds, linen and smypathy, are to be had at any of the numerous Red Cross warehouse stations behind the front.

Quick to meet the piteous conditions following a general evacuation by tlie peasantry, Red Cross aid is rushed to highway and railroad terminals leading from the abandoned territory. There the refugees are met with hot drinks arid warm beds. "Our suffering people will never forget the noble And generous thoughtfulnes of our American friends whose efforts bring such whole-hearted support and encouragement to the unhappy travellers on their long journeys," writes the prefect of the department of -Pas de Calais, referring to the work.

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other bombs burst across the wharves, leaving huge clouds of white smoke where they have wrought destruction.

Inferno Opens—Too Late! Simultaneosuly with the bursting of the first bomb, hundreds of green balls come streaming in swaying curves from the ground, and pour upwards past the wings on both sides. Like a handful of ribbons the searchlights have been thrown up, and fill the sky with wands of light which weave a strange pattern all around the machine, Gun-fire flashes round the town, and close to the machine now bursts the clamorous barrage.

It is an awe-inspiring din, but through It, the observer has heard the thud of the bursting bombs below. He scrambles back to the pilot, and laughs. Searchlighs sweep to and firo, over them, under them and on either side ceaselessly the fantastic strings of green balls bubble upwards, and the flash of the shells seem to fill the whole sky.

The machine roars on homewards through a maelstrom of flame and fire. The attack lia^ been pressed home, and In the docks of Bruges the ammunition sheds are shattered and in flames, and water is pouring into the battered sides of the submarines. The airmen fly

Here Are the Six-Pounders Which Are Used to Pot U-Boats When Those Devils of the Deep Threaten Yankee Convoys

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GUW CREW ON tr. §. WARSHIP Olf HIGH SEAS.

Thl# American offlrtal photo shows a six-pound prim :iml the loliiB convoy duty somewhere on the hiirh »ons. These tuns a boar' for troops and supplies isalnit submarine attacks.

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Queen of Belgium Constant Visitor To Brave Subjects Defending Line

ftrieen of Brfsrftam. at rig*I fit fnm* General Anthoine. Other woman is Mrs. Borden Turner.

The qii^en of Belgium, though weighted down with Brief over the traste fate of her people, is giving most of her time to war relief work. The picture HIIOWM her on a recent visit to ChirunBical hospital, where she talked cheerfully to all the patients, telling them that the alii** would win. With her In the above picture is General Anthoine and Mrs. Borden Turner, who has given a large amount of equipment to Belgian hospitals.

home, well content with their consciousness of duty well done, and leave far behind the searchlights still vamly scouring every quarter of the heavens —too late!

COW GIRLS WILL RIDE RANGfE ERE WAR IS ENDED

WAURIKA, Okla., Aug. 17.—"T"st as certain as shooting," says William Davis, mayor of Fort Worth and ranch owner of Jefferson -county, Oklahoma, "Well have cow punchers in skirts before next summer, if the war doesn't end before that tim#. The government is no respector of persons in the draft these days. It can't afford to be in this emergency. The ranches of Oklahoma and Texas have got to give up their cow punchers, and they must be replaced by women, just as women are replacing men on railroad trains, street cars, in barber shops, offices and stores." "So long as we have men at home over the age of forty-five years, the ranches need not seriously suffer through the substitution of women for many duties," Mr. Davis says. "Naturally, we would expect men to do the heavy work of branding, cattle and loading and unloading feed. But the woman should do excellently In the saddle, on the roundup, and the long drive. She could easily attend to the dipping that is required, for it is a matter only of driving the cattle one at a time Into the vat of oil. Wild west shows have proved that the average horsewoman oould easily cut cattle oni the range. She could do feeding and assist Jn loading cattle for market."

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LIKED BY GERMANS

lieutenant Yon Berg Mentions Theb Manly Behavior and Their Quality as Soldiers.

By Harold Leo Norman.

LONDON, July 17.—Two things are conspicuous in the official report made by Lieutenant Von Berg. German intelligence officer, who examined American prisoners of war, and whose conclusions have fallen into the bonds of our army. They are the admirable conduct of our men undergoing questioning, and the respect which their la- N terrogator shows for them as ladlviduals and as soldiers.

The document reveals 1b what It i contains as well as in what is not in it the discretion of American oncers and men, whose responses to inquiries in turn reflect the highest credit on the policies of their General officers. It is ^4 plain that none of the prisoners knew more than it was necessary for him to know of the disposal of our troops, their strength, the positions they hold and the plans of their superiors. This Ignorance protected their comrades. What the prisoners knew they obviously concealed effectively. Their answers caused the examiner to record their lack of knowledge and lack of knowledge is a highly desicj^jJe attribute to a. military prisoner.

HGood Soldiers/*

"6ftfie men as individuals Von Berg says: "The prisoners in general make an alert and pleasing appearance and of them as soldiers he writes, "the second American division may be classified as a very good division, perhaps even as assault troops," and they "at present lack only necessary training to make them redoubtable opponents." A British or a French officer could scarcely have said more.

The genesis of this document, its confidential nature, and the necessity its author was under of learning and reporting only the truth, give it a peculiar authority. It Is unfortunate that any of our men were captured, but as this had to be, it Is gratifying to know that their demeanor in misfortune was all that the most patriotic American, In khaki or out of it, jcould hope.

NAVAL MAN WHIPS FAKER IN SUBWAY

Youth Was Collecting Money From Passengers For ''Wounded Sailors."

NKW YORK, Aug. 17.—iPa*seng*rs on a northbound subway express enjoyed a thrill when they saw a man In the uniform of a petty officer ot the United States navy give a sound thrashing to another man in a nondescript naval uniform who came through the train rattling a tin box and soliciting subscription* tor tha "wounded sailors'fund."

The incident occurred during the evening rush hour just before the train pulled into the One-Hundred and-Slz-teenth street station. A youth in a naval uniform and wearing the insignia of a first-cla-ss gunner's mate cams through the train accepting anything and everything tHat was offered for th* wounded sailors. He wore on his cap a ribbon "U. S. Granite State," and on his sleeves stripes indicating at least twenty years' service. He was not more than twenty-two years old. The youth unfortunately encountered Chief Gunner's Mate Edward Smith, U. & whose home port is Minneapolis. "He's a faker,** exclaimed State Smith. A scuffle ensued, in which the mate did not come out second best. Then the youth with the twenty-year service stripes gathered himself up from the station platform. "I'd like to give a bird Iffcs fftat a TTttle more attention, but Tm In a hurry tonight because I want to get married,** Smith, of the IT. S. N„ explained to hia fellow-passengers.

Enough For a Day

Private C. V. Combe, in Leslie's.

Now has arrived the critical, ths psychological, moment of the action. Every man is drunk with the battlelust, but even men in such a sta te hav« a sub-Consciousness fed of their Hf habits and impulses. The Germans, quite without it, have been taking mental .note of their comrades fallen a4 they charged. Many of them, wounded, are still advancing, cursing and in« finitely more ravage than those unscathed. But the whole line is exhaust ed. Their breatr. comes labored an-1 heavy as they sweep over the mnddv ground. If we can but apply our fire steadily and truly we may break their hearts and cause them to retire. If even one machine-gun goes out o( action they may take new heart of hope and be among us with cold ste*i. A hair's breadth would determine the fortunes of the day.

Of a sudden a hnge-behelmcted German, apparently an officer leading

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vanguard of the attack, throws,up hia arms and his rifte. He falls heavilv backward to death realization in h«i eyes and his helmet flying wide from his bald head. His immediate company ions note that death-realization and, irf' an instant, the love of life reassertits natural sway. Quickly as it rosa the battle-passion vanishes, leaving them appalled and defenseless In th« presence of their enemies. They stand irresolute a' moment, ther magnifl courage gone. Then panic, fln.nl, iitfi', irretrievable panic, reizes them. They turn and flee in wildest confusion. Those following turn also and the rout becomes general. The position is saved if and the German attacking pn-.ver.%as +. the major rignthy thinks, has been broken for this night.