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PROTECT V i O S SOLDIERS

BULGARIANS FLEE ALLIES IN MACEDONIA

Bum Stores and Villages In Mad Might to Escape Fierce Onslaught.

ALLIED TROOPS MAKE GAIN OF TWELVE MILES

Serbian and Greek Forces, In Connection With French Take Number of Strong Points

Near Monastir.

BULLETIN,

LONDON, Sept. 19.—The Bulgarians have been completely defeated and the Serbian troops are pursuing them day and night.

The Serbian and French troops have taken th« towns of Topolets, Potshishta, Beshishta, Meiynisa, Vitolishta and Rasimbey. They have also taken the height of Kuchkov Kamem.

T.nVDOK. Sept. 1?.- The Bulgarians are in flight in Macedonia and are burning stores and villages, according to a Serbian official stateriH*nt received here.

The allied troops now have adAanced more than twelve miles and i.heir progress is so rapid that they have not been able to count the prisoners and war material taken. New regime.nts thrown in by the Bulgarians have been forced to retreat with the others.

Take Strortg Points.

French, Serbian and Greek forces Vi.-ive continued their advance on the Macedonian front and have taken a .number of strongly defended points in the mountainous region east of Monastir.

The front ia now nearly twenty miles in lenjrth and the advance naa reached a depth of over six miles.

It is said that the defense of the Teutonic allied troops was very strong at first but that, as the entente armies have smashed their way forward, the enemy has appeared to lose his taste for close fighting. The progress of the allies, however, would not appear to indicate any general giving way of the Bulgarian forces, which are being assisted by German units, according to a Berlin dispatch.

The fighting has been going on since Sunday and the progress is such that there is now a real threat toward the city of Prelep, which is said to be one of the principal bases of the Teutonic troops on this sector of the Macedonian front.

BEAT GERMANS BACK TO SECOND DEFENSES

WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN LORRAINE, Sept. 19.——(By the Associated Press.)—Entrenched in the second lines of the Hindenburg system, the Germans along the front southeast of Metz appear to have accepted the new situation. The tactics they are employing are wholly defensive Ones.

The Germans are dairying out a half-hearted and seemingjy perrunctory bombardment of the American lines. Even challanges by American and French patrols are refused by the enemy except where a conflict, is inevitable.

An assault delivered by the Australians at 11 o'clock last night In the center of the Villeret sector, forced the stubbornly resisting Germans to pull back from their advanced line to strongly fortified defenses in the rear.

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LiONDON, tiept. 19.—Reports from Moscow are to the effect that the Bolshe\ik forces are retreating on both the northern and southern fronts. On the north they are being forced back by the entente allied units, while Csecho-Slovaka have taken the city of Perm.

If thin is true, they smn to be on the Verge of uniting the forces which have been fighting in western Siberia with those which have been engaged *, in the valley of the Volga river, in sou the-astern Russia.

JYcjfn Perm to Kazan, where the Cfcecho-Slovaks are known to be, is •ess than 200 miles, a distance which seems great when Judged by the standard of the western theatre of the war, but which is a relatively short ,, distance in the east, where there is virtually no organized resistance to advancing troopa,

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LOCAU A I N

TEMPERATl/RE RECORD, SEPT. 19. 6 a. 46 Noon 47 9 a. 47 3 p. fft 47 Relative humidity. 2 p. m., 92 per cent.

LOCAL CONDITION? AT & Mm V. SETT. 19, IMS. Station pressure, -9^2 temperature, 47 hig-hest temperatujfc yesterday, 66 lowest temperature Tast night, 46 precipitation, .31 direction of wind, vast: velocity of wind, 4 miles per hour state of weather, cloudy relative humidity, 94 per rent.

Sunrise, 6:35 sunset, 1:52.

FORECAST.

TERRE HAI'TE —Cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably- rain slightly warmer.

INDIANA-

Cloudy tonight and to.

morrow, probably rain slightly warmer tonight south porti'on. lLJTNOIH—Fair north, ratn followed by clearing south portion tonight cooler probably tomorrow morning in west and north portions tomorrow fair and continued cool.

OTHER I.OCAI. BKPORTS. Temperature by Buntin's thermometer, 7 a. m.. 48 2 p. m., 49. 1

River stage, 3.2 feet.

ORDERS MAYOR TO CEASE ALL PAVING PLANS

State Council of Defense Gives City Executive Emphatic Order to Suspend Such Work.

CITY OFFICIALS CLAIM TO SEE HAND OF TRACTION CO.

•Rich Men's Road," "Poor Men's Road," Nor Any Other Old Kind of a Road Is Going to

Paved, It Seem*.

For gome time. Citizens generally have watched with amused interest the fight for and against the paving of three streets here. The politicians and contractors and a lot of citizens were divided, it seems, on which way the contracts should go, Vnd the bitterness of the campaign Brought out such interesting elements 9B "the rich men's" road, the "jioormen's" road, and this and that road 'til the fight threatened to overshadow the war, and as an actual fact, the combat was carried to the very door of the Vational government, Tiiafs all over now.

Bang! Goes Business.

The State Council of Defense, acting upon a statement made Wednesday hv Mayor Charles R. Hunter in regard to the paving of North Seventh street, I^afayette ayenue and North Thirteenth street, in which it was announced by the mayor that the paving work would be done regardless of any orders given by the County or State Council of Defense, announced Wednesday night that the paving work was to be stopped until after the war, and there was to be no controversy over the matter between themselves and the city administration officials.

The announcement was made by Michael E. Foley, chairman of the state council, upon the adjournment of a meeting called Wednesday night to act upon the statement made by Mayor Hunter, and to vote upon other minor construction work in various parts of the state.

Any contractor who attempts to do the work, according to the announcement made by Foley, will have his license revoked, and any firm selling

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TERRE HAUTE

THIRD READER IS PATRIOTIC AFTER TODAY

State Board of Education Moves to Obliterate German Propoganda Discovered Here.

OUT ONCE AND SLIPPED BACK IN SOME MYSTERIOUS WAY

State Officials Act Before the Local School Trustees Meet on the Question—State-Wide

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Patriotic .citizens, and school children will not®have to wait on the Terre Haute school board to eradicate German propaganda from our school books. This will be done immediately by the state board of education.

A dispatch from Indianapolis Thuraday morning said: Dr. Horace Ellis, state superintendent of public instruction, will send out notices today to school superintendents in Indiana urging close inspection of all copies of "The Third Reader" of the "Child Classic" series to make sure that in none is the poem entitled "The Kaiserblumen."

Dr. JOllis was surprised last night when told that books were being sold to school children of the 3A grade in which the objectionable verses appear. The poem was eliminated last winter by agreement between the state board and the Bobbs-Merrill company, the publishers, on the initiative of John R. Carr, who Is at the head of the educational^ department of the companv,

There was no dissent as to its un« desirability. In the rhymed story, Celia Thaxter, who is credited as its author, tells of two peasant children who picked lovely flowers and trudged to the palace gate where they sought the emperor. As they were about to be repulsed, according to Miss Tha^ter"s story, the kaiser saw them, invited them"to a banquet and sent theiti home in a state coach.

All of which does not harmonize with German treatment of little children in Belgium and France. Hark to what the emperor did: V And the children cried: "O kaiser,

We have brought your flowera so far! And we are so tired and hungry!

See emperer, here they areT* They held up their withered posies. While into the emperor's face A beautiful light came stealing.

And he stooped with stately gTac* Taking the rained blossoms. j,With gentle words anfl mild, He comforted with kindness

The heart of each trembling child. After which they had a wonderful time, according to the poem. Frederick R. Bonifield, attorney, in the Fletcher Trust and Savings building, discovered "The Kaiserblumen'' in a book bought for his 8-year-old daughter. He tore out the six pages it occupied and notified Col. Russell B: Harrison, secretary of the Marlon County Council of Defense. Col. Harrison immediately sent word to the Bobbs-Merrilli Company and t# the

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STANDS BY WILSON

CHICAGO, 111., Sept. 19.—The Union League Club, one of the foremost republican organizations In the country, today sent a message to President Wilsoi* congratulating him on his prompt and decisive repiy to the Austrian peace note.'

How Russians Bolsheviki Betrayed the World

Trotsky, and their associates are German agents, and proof of this is in the hands of the United States government. The Bolsheviki revolution was arranged for by the German imperial government.

It was financed by the German imperial bank and other German financial institutions. The treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a betrayal of the Rnssian people by Inenine and Trotsky.

A German-picked Russian commander was selected to defend Petrograd from tfcf Germans. German ofTy ers were afforded eve ry opportunity in Petrograd to spy on the entente embassies and legations.

Germany ordered all industrial establishments to get ready for their Mobilization on June 9, 1914, prior to the Sarajevo assassinations. Germany ordered a campaign of arson and terrorism against the war industries of the United States November 28. 1914.

Germany named' the members of the present Bolshevik executive committee, including Trotsky and Lenine. Germany paid 55,000,000 roubles in gold to cover the cost of the red guard and anti-entente agitators in Russia.

The Bolsheviki agreed to surrender all Russia's industries to German capital for a period of five years after the war. Bolshevik leaders notified Germany where supplies from England, France and the United States were stored.

Bolshevik leaders sent German officers, equipped with fraudulent passports, to spy in England, France and the United States. Bolshevik leaders agreed to transport three German submarines, in P*rts, to the Pacific on the trans-Siberian railway.

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Kruger said that Brown, who was formerly oonnected with the Petersdorf store, had made several remarks about himself and Mr. Petersdorf and the Jewish race in general, and that he had gone to the barber shop to ask him to apologize. He said that after discussing the matter with Brown for several minutes he was ceased from the barber shop by Brown, who had a knife in his hand. Krugfer. while on the witness stand said that Rabbi I. E. Marcusson, of the Temple Israel, had also heard the remarks and had called upon Brown asking for an apology, but had met with no success,

Brown, taking the witness stand in his own behalf, said that he had made several remarks about the Jews and Petersdorf at his boarding house recently, and that Rabbi "Marcusson called upon him. and the remarks were repeated. He claimed that when Kruger came into his place Wednesday afternoon he was engaged in scraping some paper from the back of a frame with a knife and that as the argu ment grew hotter he ordered Kruger from the place. He said, however, that he dropped the knife when he arose from his seat and started to put Kruger out.

Mrs. Brown, called to the stand by Attorney S. K. Duvall, for the defense, told the same story as told by her husband. Rabbi Marcusson, who was in the court room at the time, was not called to the stand.

Rabbi Marcusson said that Brown had gone out of his way to be offensive to the people of the Jewish race, and he said he visited the man with the best of intentions for Brown himself.

Kruger said he remonstrated with Brown about the language he applied to himself and to Mr. Petersdorf, and that Brown came at him with a knife.

Judge Shafer said he could not find him guilty on the evidence, and dismissed him.

PAYS THE PENALTY.

Drives Aut* on Sunday—Denied Draft Preference. COLUMBUS, Ind„ Seipt. 19*«-Fol-lowing protests concerning the classification of the 'draft given George Webber Dougherty, a wealthy land owner of Bartholomew county, he has been transferred from class 4 to class 1, it became known here to^ay. The transfer was made on order o£ the district appeal board.

The protests against Dougherty being allowed to remain in class 4 followed his driving his automobile on Sunday since the fuel administration requested that frasolis* be conserved,

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Called on By Committee—Alleged to Have Pursued One With a Knife.

Remarks pertaining t® the Jewish people alteged to have been uttered by Walter P. Brown, owner of a barber shop at 703 Ohio street, resulted in a near fight in the barber shop Wednesday afternoon, and terminated with Brown being placed under arrest on a qjiarge of drawing deadly .weapons upon Harry Kruger, assistant manager of the Petersdorf store on Wabash avenue. When arraigned in City Court Thursday morning before City Court Judge Paul R. Shafer, Brown entered a plea of not guilty, and Kruger took the witness stand against him.

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THIS IS METZ. yHE CITY PROPER LIES 1ST THE DISTANCE ACROSS THE CANAL, THE HUNS HAVE BERN FORTIFYING THIS DUMP FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS, AND WE ARE GOING TO FIND OUT HOW EFFECTIVE VERY SOON.

METZ DOOMED NOW, CI EXP1TS BELIEVE

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WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE. Sept. 19.—Gun experts with our army believe that we will soon crack the nut of Metz. This stronghold in our path is not worrying the wise boys who work the big boomers.

In 1674 Vauban, most famous of military engineers, made it the best fortified citj in Europe. Vauban's walls and forts were strengthened from time to time, and in 1830 were thoroughly restored and modernized. At the beginning of the Franco-Ger-man war the town was the principal bulwark of the northeastern frontier of France.

The Ring of Steef and Stone. The strength of the town consists in its exterior defenses, a cordon of forts of massive construction, heavily armed and so disposed as to sweep with their projectiles every yard of the territory within range. Since the German occupation in 1871 these defenses have beeh still further strengthened and given important additions.

Metz in its ring of masonry had withstood the attacks of dukes and archbishops and kings and adventurers—and at least one emperor—out it fell before the modern artillery of the German invaders in 1870-71. At the beginning of the* war the city was the rendezvous of

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army corps under Marshal Bazatne. After the disastrous fight at Gravelotte, August 18, Bazaine withdrew his army into Metz and was besieged there by Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia and his Germans. The siege lasted until October 27, when Bazaine surrendered. The prisoners taken included 6,000 officers and 170,000 men. By the treaty of Frankfort the city became a German possession.

In what is called the Northern cemetery of Metz is a memorial column which rises above the 6,000 Frenchmen who fell in defense ^f the city—giving their lives in the vain attempt to stay the German invading horde.

The Lesson of Its Fall.

The fall of Metz, whose defenses had been the work of the- builders of 20 centuries, was & staggering blow to the France of nearly a half century ago. It clearly proved that no defenses, however strengthened, could withstand the pounding of modern siege artillery. The same lesson was shown in the German assault on the fortifications of I*iege—which proved merely a temporary obstacle in the invader's pathway.

The Metz

today is a city in Lor

raine of about 80,000 souls—not including the German garrison. It is on the blue Moselle. 33 miles north of Nancy. The town has one gre^t building which towers above all others. This is the cathedral of St. Stephen, a Gothic structure of the fourteenth century, whose open-work spire riaes 363 feet above the street level.

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8,000 HUNS

AMERICA'S GREATEST FLIES DIES IN BATTLE

Lieut. David E. Putnam, Ace of Aces4 Shot Down In Combat With Four Hun Planes.

Lieut. Putnam was flying with Lient. Wendell A. Robertson, of Fort Smith, Ark., when they were attacked by seven German machines.

Four of these made for Putnam's airplane, and three attacked Robertson's. The attack was sudden and unexpected, and the enemy was able to fire from above.

Lieut. Putnam was shot twice through the heart His machinp glided to the earth at Limey, within the American lines, where he was found by his comrades. Lieut. Robertson returned safely.

Lieut. David 15. Putnam, a descendant of Gen. Israel Putnam, was credited with twelve aerial victories. He enlisted as an aviator with the Laffiyette flying squadron, and brought down his first enemy machine Jan. 19, 1918.

He was awarded the French war cross March 23, after having won five victories in the air. He was later decoratetj with the military medal by the French government.

Lieut. Putnam was transferred to the American aerial corps as first lieutenant early in June. His achievement June 10 of bringing down five German airplanes in one day has been eclipsed only once during the war Aviator "Rene Fonck, of the French army, having destroyed six machines in one day. Lieut Putnam's last aerial victory Was reported Sept. 2.

EVANSVII1E SHOWS BIG LABOR SURPLUS

EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept 1».~-A labor surplus in this city h^s been discovered through the establishment of a card classification system to further the "work or fight" plan, according to information made public today by the local labor employment office. Although all of the Evansville factories are in operation, it is stated that many calls for work are made at the employment office which it is unable to fill.

The class affected consists principally of men who own their homes and are unwilling to leave the city. Comparatively little war work is being done here at this time, and a great demand is being made by employes for war work.

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LONDON, Sept 19.—The war aims ommittee of the inter-allled labor

CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 19,—-The conference today made a report recoracity council last night changed the mending that the conference subscribe names of Germania Court and Bismarck avenue to Wilson street and Baker avenue. The resolution was introduced hv Fritz Schnaedler, a native at .Gmwrnjik

to the fourteen points formulated by President Wilson, thus adopting a policy of clearness and moderation, as opposed to a policy dictated exclusively

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WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE LORRAINE FRONT, Sept. 1». (Bjr the Associated Press.)—First Lieut David E. Putnam, of Newton, Mass., American ace of aces, was killed late Wednesday afternoon while on patrol along the American Mnes.

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ALLIED TROOPS DRIVING AHEAD ON ST. QUENTTN

Marshal Haig^s Forces On Wednesday Beach Main Positions of German*.

AMERICANS CONSOLIDATE NEAR ST. MQHEL LINES

Objective Points Gained* the Stornfc Center In France Is Expected to Be Suddenly Shifted to

New Scene,

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WlYH THE BRITISH FJO^CEi IN FRANCE, Sept. 19.— (By the Assq« ciated Press.)—Field Marshal Haig's forces up to midnight last night had! captured a total of more than 8,000 Germans as the result of th^ir drive of yesterday on the Cambrai front.

Several thousand yards of the Hin* denburg outpost line was in British hands this morning in the Villeret sec* tor, southwest of LeCatelet.

BULLETIN.

PARI#, Sept. 19.—Along the Vssle, where American and French troops ar# stationed, a German attack northeast of Courlandon was broken up by th# French artillery fire. French troopa continued their progress on the region of St. Quentin and penetrated the Ger» man positions at Contescourt, thre* miles southwest of St. Quentin. '•»,

By the Associated Press. British troops in desperate fighting are plunging further into the Hindenburg line north of St. Quentin* while west of Cambrai they have withstood vicious German tacks.

The enemy is making every effort to retain his positions on the thirtymile front and to check the new allied move which threatens both St. Ouen* tin and Cambrai. *4

How serious was the mer.ace to the security of the Hindenburg line by the British thrust north of St. Quentin is shown by the strong counterattacks the Germans have thrown against the British lines from Gouzeaucourt to the Arras-Cambrai road, thus extending the battle line nearly twelve miles to the northward.

British Pushing AheScf.

On the front attacked Wednesday/ the British are pushing ahead against bitter resistance toward the St. Quen-tin-Cambna high road, railway undl canal—three important enemy defense lines.

Prom Lempire to Pontruet, which the British now hold, the Germans have been hurled from ih« lorward lines of the Hindenbuig positions. The British at Lempire are four miles from** .• LeCatelet, an important town, while .s on a front of nearly six mites tney •. are within one mile of/the high road and the canal. On i: fiort front went, of St. Quentin the French are working steadily toward the town and ar» on the outskirts of Dallon, two miles from St. Quentin.

Counter-Attacks Repulsed, German counter-attacks at Trescault I and Moeuvres, southwest and west of

Cambrai, were preceded by an intense artillery bombardment, which severed the British communication lines. At both points the Germans were hurled back with heavy losses. The enemy entered the British trenches at some point"), but was Immediately overwhelmed. .J"

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Gen.. Mangin's Army Attacks Along North Soissons Front. WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN T*RANOE, Wednesday, Sept. IS.—(By the Associated Press.)—•General Mangin's army attacked along the front northeast of Soissons today and cap-

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tured the Colombes farm, on the plateau just east of Sancy and Just south of the point where the Chemin des Dames branches ofl from the nuLd leading from Soissons to Laon.

A strong Counter-attack, led by

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GERMAN BOYS MUTINY

AMSTERDAM, Wednesday, Sept. 18.—A large number of German recruits, mostly boys 18 years old, refused to entratn for the front at Alx La Chapolle, according to Les'Nouvelles, which says that the soldiers w^re ordered to fire upon the mutineers, of whom »l«ht were killed'and many wounded.

It is stated by the newspaper that the remainder of the revolting recruits were then driven into their train like cattle, but they were firing from the windows of the cars as the train moved ont of the station.

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