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't* .y .i.. j v _» * * ?.i* *• •* * Iftemy's Lines In Belgium Pierced Along Ten-Mile Front. STUNNING BLOW TO GERMANS / iiftiftseW Troops Demoralised by fix- ^ ' fslosion of Mines and Unprece- t dented Artillery Fire--British «"»i • Une< Reported Light. ^ Jtme T.--In a tremendous attack which began at three o'clock tills morning the British have captured •the Messines-Wytschaete ridge, which commands the whole of the German line in Belgium, and have smashed the German salient of which Wytschaete la the apex. The Germans, though apparently •Ware that the blow was coming and seemingly prepared to meet it, were driven from their nearly three years' hold on Sfessines ridge, opposite "poor old" Ypres. Tpres In a sense was avenged today, for Messlnes ridge has been the vantage point from which the Germans have poured torrents of shells Into the stricken city. The British also wiped off an old score against the Ger­ mans, for they held the ridge in Octo­ ber, 1914, and with very thin forces, and virtually no artillery, fought blood­ ily but vainly to hold it wften the Prus- „ slan troops massed their modern and overpowering weapons of war against tt. Prisoners taken declared that the bombardment of Vlmy ridge was child's play compared with the gnnflre . turned upon Messlnes ridge. Record Work of Artillery. fire reached Its climax Just as* dawn was graying the eastern skies and while the full moon was still sus­ pended high in the heavens. The attack was accompanied by all Hie arts-and deviltries of latter-day war. The enemy guns and gun crews had been bathed for days in gas shells sent over by the long-range British gratis. The night was filled with red In­ cendiary flames. Shells that spurted lead in streams crashed In appalling numbers about the heads of the de­ fending soldiers. High-explosive and shrapnel fire was carried out with such rapidity that the earth writhed under the force of the attack. Mines that had taken two years to dig and fill with an overwhelming ex­ plosive broke Into an avalanche of flaming destruction in the half light of dawn. This was Indeed an Ypres day of. retaliation and victory for the vicious sufferings of two years and «ISht months. Gunners Work Half Naked. :<B-- It was a day of Intense heat, and the gunners worked, stripped to the waist. The attack went forward with clock- llke regularity. The British casualties were slight. Three out of four of the casualties were reported to be walking cases, who Would return to duty in a few days. The attack began at dawn, and the setting was as picturesque as can well be imaginable. The day before had been hot and sultry. Toward evening tliere was a series of thunder storms which extended well Into the night, the lightning mingling with the flashes of . the guns, but the thunder being virtu­ ally unnoticed amid the din of the cnn- ndn. A full moon strug gled continu­ ously to break through the heavy clouds which scudded across the vel- ^pety night sky. Sing on Way to Fight, On the way to the front were all the Itemiliar pictures of the war--endless trains of motor trucks; all varieties of horse transport, the British sol­ diers marching to battle light of heart 4l>d singing songs familiar in every ' 4$jpaerlcan community. " From the German line the same lazy, looping rpcket signals were as- tending to illuminate the treacherous bit of ground between the trenches Ithown as No Man's Land. This night­ ly "straffing" had been going on so long that the enemy considered it en- 'tjyrely normal and took no alarm. Oc- • ciusionally, blue and yellow rockets .•tv would be flung into the air by Germans llbldlng the front line. Like Volcanoes in Eruption! Day was scarcely breaking when ; from the dimly visible ridge a score Of fiery volcanoes seemed suddenly to 'ispring from the earth, 'the night had . 'been filled with strange noises and still ' Stranger sights, but these masses of Jlnmc, leaping from the ground, had a meaning all their own. They were the 'ifpectacdlar outward and visible evi­ dences of more than a million pounds ^ M high explosives which had been Imried deep in mines below the ene- ; Bay's positions for months. J. All the world appeared lurid and , horrible under the sinister glow. The vfcarth shook as if torn by a great seis- ..y^ifaic disturbance. It was not a single / Shock. The force of the explosion ^actually set the earth rocking to and ii'jfro, and under the influence of the ^ giant guns, which immediately began : 'to roar from far and near, the trem­ bling continued indefinitely. It has seemed that the battle of ths Somme attained the ultimate In the close assembly of war weapons, but this sudden outpouring on Messlnes ridge was beyond all calculation. The lighter flehl guns far forward set up a perfect curtain fire, under which the assaulting troops trudged confidently to their allotted goals. Farther back the deep-throated heavies -began to pour out torrents of high explosive shells on the German trenches and communications, while still other guns --enough to win any ordinary battle-- confined themselves solely to the task of deluging German gunS and gunners in baths of gas fired In shells of ev­ ery conceivable caliber. The effect of this counter battery work was not appreciated until later in the day, when the infantry sent back word that their progress had not been hampered by the^nemy ar­ tillery ant^ that their casualties amounted to virtually nothing. Enemy Signals for Help. Great black observation ballootA had stolen skyward during the din of the newly begun battle. Inl the wood back of the windmill spring birds, awakened by the deafening clamor, had begun to sing joyously. I<ike so many children who have come info the consciousness of being in the midst of the war, these birds regarded the ap­ palling noise of the battle as a normal condition of life. The smoke of the giant mines ex­ ploded along the battle front mean­ time rose In great, curling plumes to­ ward the sky and was punctuated by red signals for help from the stricken Germans in the front and support lines. Never was the air filled with more frantic notices of danger. The entire horizon glowed with red balls of fire sent up by the nervous Ger­ mans. More and more British airplanes be­ gan to make their appearance. Qhe fl£w over the lines, the flashes of the guns being reflected brilliantly on its highly glazed wings. Under this appalling flre.trudged for­ ward on the ten-mile , front General Plumer's army. At many places the men found German troops utterly dazed by the mine explosion and the ordeal of the artillery fire. Break Before Vicious Fire. Many of these troops had but recent­ ly come from Russia, where they had spent 18 months and knew nothing of whajL. actual warfare was like on the wesfern front. They had bolted at the first mine explosion and had only been gathered together In groups by their noncommissioned officers when the British appeared out of the smoke and shells and made them prisoner. They said they had been given to understand by their officers that the British always killed their prisoners. It was really pitiful in some instances to see the manner in which these pris­ oners cringed to their captors. As a matter of fact, the British sol­ dier, when the fighting is done, Is In­ clined almost too strongly to treat the German prisoners as pals. Some of the prisoners taken today had only gone into the German lines last night and had made their way forward un­ der a galling fire and had lost heavily. But the troops already in the line were calling for relief in such a manner that their appeals could not be denied. Enemy Bewildered by Attack. In view of the fact that the attack had been expected the German com­ manders were endeavoring to get their best units actually into the fighting front, but bad underestimated when the British would strike The troops In a strange line were utterly bewil­ dered when the attack began and fell easy prey to the advancing British. The battle was far m.»re visible dur­ ing the first uncertain moments than later when the sun gradually burned its way through the eastern banks of clouds. By that time the smoke of ex­ ploding shells and the vapors from the blinding barrage, which had been part of the artillery duty, obscured the more distant landscape to such an extent that the roaring guns could not be seen at all, although the firing was almost at one's feet. The brilliantly leaping shrapnel shells, breaking ft*r above ground, appeared through a thick mist only as brief and brilliant electric sparks. British Supreme in thi Air. For a month past, but especially since June 1, the airplanes on thil front have been indefatigably at work during every possible flying hour. They had brought down nearly 50 ma­ chines in six days as a means of blind­ ing the enemy. Lately the Germans have endeavored valiantly to obtain airplane observations for their artil­ lery, but their observing machines have seldom been able to direct more than one or two shots before the Brit­ ish fighting scouts had pounced upon them and either sent them crashing to the earth or had driven them tt> cover at breakneck speed. Today the British planes flew far and long over the enemy's retreating lines and were only challenged by some very bad-shooting anti-aircraft batteries. All through the day British planes ruled the air. They co-operated actively with the British artillery and infantry in maintaining the success of this brilliant episode in modern war­ fare. :..v ' '>• • • THE STeHENRY WAR AIMS OF II i J**, GERMANY MUST UNDO WRONGS IT INFLICTED, A8SERTS PRESI- ,^|>ENT IN NOTE TO RU8&IA. | KAISER PLOTS FOR PEACE Demands Change In Quo to Conform Right*--Opposes Pre-War Status With Human indemnities Except 4a Reparation. Washington, June 12.--President Wilson in a communication to the new government of Russia has* made plain the war aims of the United States and its position on "no annexations, no indemnities.** The principal terms pa which the United States insist are: "No territory must change hands ex­ cept for the purpose of securing those who inhabit It a fair chance of life^nd liberty. "No Indemnities must be insisted on except those that constitute payment for manifest wrong done. "No readjustments of power must be made except such as' will tend to secure the further peace of the world and the future welfare and happiness of its people." The president's communication was delivered to the Russian government at Petrograd. It is in part as follows: "The ruling classes in Germany have begun of late to profess a liberal­ ity and justice of purpose, but only to preserve the poWer they have set up in Germany and the selfish advantages which they have wrongly gained for themselves and their private projects of power all the way from Berlin to Bagdad and beyond. "Government after government hai, by their influence, without open con­ quest of its territory, been linked to­ gether in a net of intrigue directed against nothing less than the peace and liberty of the world. The meshes' of that intrigue must be broken. "The day has come to conquer or submit. If the forces of autocracy can divide us they will overcome us; if we stand together victory is certain, and the liberty which victory will se­ cure. We can afford then to be gen­ erous, but we cannot afford then or now to be weak or omit any single guarantee of Justice and security." $3,000,000 BABY IS KILLED Kidnaped Infant Found Dead jn used Well in Suburbs of Springfield. Un- TLL. v ' • * j"; FAt AMD THE LEAP CHICAOO AMtHICAM. YANKEES SINK U-BOATI GEN. PERSHING SAFE GUNNERS ON AMERICAN SHIP IN ARTILLERY DUEL WITH DIVER. Springfield, Mo., June 12.--The body of "Buddie" Keet, fourteen-months-old heir to a $3,000,000 fortune, was found in an unused well behind the deserted Crenshaw mansion on the edge of the city. A mob ^quickly formed to avenge the /baby's, death, but the authorities were too quick for it. Those under arrest were spirited away to another Jail. The prisoners now In the hands of Sheriff Webb are Claude J. Plersol, Taylor B. Adams, Cletus Adams, Maxine Adams, Mrs. Allle Adams, and Sam McGlnnls. MEXICANS BLOW UP A TRAIN Eight Persons Killed; Americans Among the Injured, Ac­ cording to Report. Laredo, Tex., June 11.--Eight per­ sons were killed and many Injured on May 28 when a party of unidentified Mexicans dynamited a passen'ger train near Urqapan. state of Michoacan, Mexico, according to parties that have arrived here. Among the Americans reported Injured were a man named Scarborough, said to be a magazine writer, and H. L. Martin, both of Kan­ sas City. * ' BERLIN TOLD OF INTERNMENT SR1TISH PREMIER HEARS GUNS WHEN BATTLE OPENS ^Terrific Detonations Carried Through the Air for a Distance of More than 140 MIJ«i " 49 _ London, June 7.--The tremendous Explosions that opened the British at­ tack on Wytschaete bend were heard .•4>y David Lloyd George, the British ' premier, who was staying for the night flit his residence, Walton Heath, 140 . rfnlles away. „f iW/glvVw DRIVE RESULTS IN CAPTURE OF FIVE IMPORTANT TOWNS. Subsidized Paper in Germany Prints Tale of Action by United States Senate. Copenhagen, June 11.--Th'e Conti­ nental Times, a subsidized paper ap­ pearing in English in Berlin, prints hs a New York report a statement that the American senate has made arrange­ ments to intern all Germans who have arrived in the United States from Ger­ many in the last three years. The statement is being reprinted by the provincial press. CYbLONES KILL THIRTY-NINE Tornadoes Hit Kansas, Missouri, Ken­ tucky and Michigan---Million* .of, Pollers in Damage. Chicago, June 8.--Thirty-nine per­ sons were killed and millions of dol­ lars' worth of property damaged by tornadoes which swept through Kan­ sas, Missouri, Kentucky and Michigan. In central and lower Michigan tnree were killed, fifteen Injured and the property loss was over $1,000,000. The storm twisted through Jackson, Battle Creek, Lansing and other cities. Mrs. Mary Ranzler and her baby were killed near Ann Arbor, and Mrs. Florence Brown was crushed to death at Spriex­ port by falling walls. In Missouri seven persons were killed in Wright county and much damage done in the apple belt. Eleven lives were lost in Boone county, three at Richmond, and one at Whltam. Kansas reports eight fatalities in the country west and southwest of To- peka, and one was killed at Savon- burg, In the far southeastern section of the state. Reports from Central City, Ky., were that five persons were killed and 20 hurt in the cyclone which ravaged the surrounding county. Bevler, a mining town near Central City, was reported wiped out. FRENCH CABINET IS UPHELD Deputies, by Ballot of 310 to 178, De­ feat Critics of Submarine Defenses. Paris, June 11.--After a two days' session, during which Admiral Lacaze, minister of marine, and the conduct of the navy were under fire, especially on on account of merchant marine losses, the chamber of deputies voted confi­ dence In the government by 810 to 178. i VIetory of British One of the Most lm» .portant Since the War Opened-*- •VV"./. Many Prisoners Taken. tendon, June 7.--The British really jmade two victorious drives. Begin- ^fSiing their attack on a Ulne-mlle front fjetween Messlnes and Wytschaete, at 5»n early hour, they captured all their ^Idrat objectives, taking a large num- $>er of prisoners, and" then continued The plans for the attack had been long maturing and when the prepar­ ations were perfected the premier was acquainted with the exact hour it was intended to open It. Accordingly, on retiring last night Mr. Lloyd George gave orders to be called at three.v The premier and other members of his household clearly heard the tre­ mendous detonations,, as also did per­ sons at the premler'c official residence in London, who supposed they were the sounds of heavy guns until later they learned whence they came. to press the advantage thus gained. Messlnes, Lenfre, Zeebrea and Wyt- schaete were reported taken. The official report sa^s that the sec* ond drive carried the village of Oosttaverne and the German posi­ tions east of the village over an ex­ tent of five miles. The German cas­ ualties were very heavy, and the Brit­ ish took more than &,000 prisoners, many guns and machine guns. Naval airplanes dropped bombs on the airdrome at Nieumunster, near the coast between Zeebrngge and Ostead. Serbia Gets $3,000,000. Washington, J^jne 12.--A three-mil ilon-dollar loan was granted to Serbia. The loan is to be paid in three monthly installments of $1,000,000 each, and is to be used for the building of military railways and Red Cross work. Three Americans Saved. London, June 12.--Three American survivors from the British steamer Manchester Miller, torpedoed on June 5, have been landed. They are John Hayes, Boston; John Morris, Brooklyn, and Farrell of Philadelphia. Austrians In Big Movement. Udine, Italy, June 11.--A semiofficial announcement says that Austria has. made a formidable concentration of forces on the Italian front. The Ital­ ians are now confronted by an esti­ mated two-thirds of the entire armyv Eight Die on British Ship. New York, June -11.--Cable advices to the International Mercantile com­ pany declare that eight persons aboard the 1,200-ton British torpe^ doed liner Southland were killed gut« jrlght and that 40 are State Department Report Says Battle L^ated Over an Hour--Six-Inch Shell Did Job. Washington, June 8.--A German sub­ marine is believed to have been sunk by an American oil tanker Silver Shell Tuesday in a running fight lasting an hour and a half. Thirty-five shots were fired by the submarine and 25 by the steamer. An official announcement by the state de­ partment today says the steamer's final shot "apparently struck the sub­ marine which raised clear out of the water an,d stood stern end up for a few seconds. It then disappeared." The American liner easily could have escaped without giving battle, but did not do so. When the submarine was first sighted it was some 7,b00 yards distant. The American craft waited for the submarine, hoisting the Ameri­ can flag to the foremast and rear flag­ staff. The fight began at a range of 2,300 yards. Before it ended the sub­ marine had fired 35 shots and the steamer 25. The American liner, nft- er destroying the enemy, proceeded to its port of destination. HUGE TASK AHEAD FOR U. S. Colonel Fabry of French Army Says America Will Send Great Force to France. Paris, June 9.--A great army Is to be sent from the United States, which will occupy an ever increasing section of the fighting front, according to a statement from Colonel Fnbry. printed In the Petit Pari si en. Colonel Fabry said that General Pershing, the Amer­ ican commander, will have an arduous task, but that he will have a big army, which will be strengthened from time to time with fresh contingents from the United States. It will be no mere expeditionary corpse Colonel Fabry accompanied Marahal Joffre to the United States. Kaiser Has New Headsman. Copenhagen, June 12,--Prussia, which for a year has had no public ex­ ecutioner, has appointed a new heads­ man named P^ul Spaete. Spaete was formerly assistant to Executioner Schwietz, who jretired. Utes Ready for Uprising. Durango, Colo., June 12.--Uncon­ firmed reports received here from the Ute reservation Indicate that two Ute chiefs named Polk and Posey, with several followers, have begun threat enlng demonstrations. Drop Bombs on Airdrome. London, June 9.--Another aerial raid on Belgium is reported by the ad­ miralty. Naval airplanes dropped bombs on the airdrome at Nieuw- munster, near the coast between Zee- brugge and Ostend. Death in Petrograd Blast. London, June 9.--An expioRlon In Petrograd harbor as a result of ah ac­ cident caused a fire in which a great quantity of explosives from England waa destroyed. A. J^fwms wore killed. U. S. MAJOR GENERAL ARRIVES AT BRITISH PORT. Big Army Soon to Follow the Com> mander, but Naturally Plans Are Secret. Washington, June 9.--"Black Jack" Pershing, soldier par excellence and major general of the United States regular army, is in England. Cable advice announcing his arrival at a British port reached here. With the sense of gratification which was ex­ pressed by officialdom generally over his safe arrival came a realisation that at last the entire, united service Is In the war. From now on units of every branch of the service will proceed to France by selected routes. Pershing's Initial command will be maderup of regulars and marines. Other divisions, com­ prising such additional regulars as can be spared and selected Units of the Na­ tional Guard which saw service on the Mexican border will take their places on the line from time to time. ' Later on these forces will be fol­ lowed by the new army to be made up of the selective conscripted troops, who will be taken from the more than ten million men who registered * Naturally all plans for sending the troops to France will be shrouded in absolute secrecy. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker has pointed out the danger of speculation as to who Is to go, or the way they are to go. There will he no announcement at any time of units that are going, although after certain troops arrive It Is expected that the war department will from time to time authorize announcement of their safe arrival. U. S. WARSHIPS OFF FBANCE Food Ship for Pershing's Army Con­ voyed Across Atlantic by Fighting Craft. Paris, June 9.--The ministry of ma­ rine announced on Thursday that American warships have anchored off the French coast. A large American transport contain­ ing wheat for American troops which are to come later has crossed the At­ lantic under the protection of an American warship, the Matin an­ nounces. The transport is now being unloaded at a French port, the news­ paper says. Preparations are being made for the reception of American troops, the newspaper says further. A number of bases similar to those of the British/army have been organized. Camps have been laid out "for in­ fantry and artillery and aviation parks have been established for American aviators. Washington, June 9.--The naval col­ lier Jupiter has arrived in France, Sec­ retary Daniels announced, laden with 10.500 tons of wheat and other sup­ plies. GERMAN CAPTAIN GIVEN YEAR Kaiser's Subject, Who Sank 8team« ship Liebenfels in Charleston Har> bor, Sent to Atlanta Prison. Charleston, S. C., June 8.--Capt. J. R. Klatenhoff, former master of the German steamship Liebenfels. which he pleaded guilty to sinking in Charles­ ton harbor when the break with Ger­ many was imminent, was sentenced to a year in Atlanta penitentiary. Safe After U-Boat Battle. , An Atlantic Port. June 12.--A run­ ning fight with a German submarine in which 42 shots were fired, was re­ ported by the armed American steam­ ship Virginian upon its arrival IfOitt § French port. t, >k«.v pfrtpmrtm St. Louis Educator Shot by Thug. St. Louis, June 12.--Prof. Martin W. Schmidt of the faculty of St. Louis university wns shot three times in the head by a highwayman. His condition is critical. The profeeor^ assailant escaped. Suits Agsinst Carnival Company. Clinton. Ind.. June 11.--Eight suits have been filed here against the Clif­ ton-Kelly carnival, which Is the first to suffer under the new state law, which provides that $5 a day fftjf ^nch concession be collected. , , a 4 ^ Man, Wife and Daughter Kilted. Flemington, N. J., June 11.--William H. Queen, his wife auu daughter, Miss Eleanor Queen, a schoolteacher, were murdered near Mount Pleasant, Hunt­ erdon county, TJ^e ftMm w e r e b u r n e d . . • { . . . J ; , r . a - •AN SALVADOR, CAPITAL OF RE­ PUBLIC, IN RUINS, SAYS DIS- PATCH FROM NICARAGUA* ri;-!• •" - , • s**-.' i j, VOLCANO IS III ERUPTION LARGER WHEAT CROP FOR U. S. Prospective Wheat Yield of Country as Forecast Shows Total of 696,000,000 Bushels. Washington, June 11.--Slightly Im­ proved conditions in the wheat crop throughout the United States is shown in the June report of the department of agriculture. Better weather con­ ditions during May li^reased the gov­ ernment's estimate for the winter wheat yield about 7,000,000 bushels over the estimate put forth May 1. The prospective wheat crop of the country as forecast shows a total of 656,000,000 bushels, against 640,000,000 harvested last year. T)f this amount 373,000,000 bushel|. are of the winter cereal and 283,000,000 bushels spring. First announcement of 'the areas planted: to spring wheat, oats and bar­ ley Is contained in this report, which shows 19,039,000 acres for spring wheat, 43,161,000 acres for oats and 8,- 379,000 acres of barley. With the 27,- 653,000 acres planted in winter wheat, as reported in the May forecast, the total acreage planted In wheat amounts to 46,692,000. GERMAN PEACE IS SPURNED Russians Denounce Fees' Attempt to Bait the 8lav Soldiers--Want Czar Punished. Petrograd, June 12.--The Council of soldiers and workmen has made pub­ lic the fact that the German com­ mander In chief of the eastern front sent a wireless message inviting the Russian armies to a separate armistice and "proposing that they enter into se­ cret pourparlers with the German lead­ ers. The council denounces thi pro­ posals. Th.e demand of the revolutionaries for the trial and condign punishment of Nicholas Romanoff, the former em­ peror, and in the meantime, his sub­ jection to restraint in Kronstadt prison, which at first was made only by a handful of irresponsible extrem­ ists, is growing daily, BECOMES MILITARY CENSOR Brig. Gen. Frank Mclntyre Assumes Duties and Department Head, Re­ lieving Major McArthur. Washington, June 9.--Brigadier Gen­ eral Mclntyre, chief of the Insular bu­ reau of the war department, formally assumed additional duties as chief military censor, relieving MaJ. Doug­ las McArthur of the general staff, an engineer officer who will devote him­ self hereafter to the .regular staff du­ ties to which he was asigned. Gen­ eral Mclntyre has been In charge of censorship regulations on the Mexican border, including the scrutiny of tele­ phone and telegraph messages. Germany Breaks With Haytl. Amsterdam, June 11.--The Haytlen charge d'affaires at Berlin has been handed his passports, according to a dispatch from the German capital. The diplomat had protested against unre­ stricted submarine warfare. I. W. W.'s Sign Draft Cfcrtfi. RoCkford, 111., Junell.--Thirty-eight of the 139 Industral Workers of the world who "broke Into Jail," soliciting punishment for not registering, sub­ scribed their names to draft c^rds, but they were not released. Tin Cans to Be Made Augviat 1. Washington, June 9.--An announce­ ment by the commerce department on Thursday afternoon said that by Au­ gust 1 tin plate manufacturers will be In a position to furnish can manufac­ turers with all the tin they needT *' City of Mons Fined $100,00ft ' Amsterdam, June 9.--The city of Mons has been fined £20,000 ($100,000) because a Belgian paper announced that Crown Prince Rupprecht of Ba- { varla was In Mons when the city . Bombarded by allied airmea, ' Towns yvithin Radius of Thirty Miles, • fin Central American State, AHi&;% ? Wrecked--Many Persons Re» r ' ) , , ported Killed. ' San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, June 11.--Many lives were lost In the de­ struction by earthquake of the city of San Salvador and several other towns In Salvador, according to meager ad­ vices received here. San Salvador, the capital of the Re­ public of Salvador, has a population of more than 60.000. A dispatch from Tegucigalpa, Hon­ duras, says that In addition to the wip­ ing out of San Salvador, the towns of Quezaltipeque, NeJapa, Suchichoto, Paisnal, Armeaios and Kejlcanos also were destroyed. Kejlcanos waa a sub­ urb of San Salvador. An operator who reached the edge of the destroyed .zone reported that San Salvador was in ruins, and that everything within a radius of 30 miles had been destroyed by the earthquake. The town of Santa Tecla also has been destroyed, according to this re­ port. Residents of San Salvador are camping in the streets and parks. The disaster is supposed to have been caused by an eruption of the vol­ cano of San Salvador, at the foot of which the city Is situated. The telegraph operator at Tegucigal­ pa, Honduras, reported that the opera­ tor at San Salvador had Informed him that earthquakes had been felt there. The shocks also were felt at Teguci­ galpa, where the operator at 7:45 p. m. lost communication with San Sal­ vador on all wires. From Sensuntenpeque, In north cen­ tral Salvador, flames were seen rising apparently from a volcano»In the neighborhood of San. Salvador. Restored to Health hy Lydk > - , ELPinkham's Veget̂ l.̂ ̂ Compound. Enhaut, Pa.--^"I was all run down and ^Jl weak inwardly. I had female troubles * and nervous feelings *- and my head both- ' ered me. I would -$}£% offen have crying 1 spells and feel as if 1 was not safe If I heard anyone com- ing I would run and lock the door so they would not see me. 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You may receive a sample size bottle Of this reliable medicine by Parcel Post, al­ so pamphlet telling about it. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Blnghamton, N. Y., and enclose ten cents, also men­ tion this paper. Woman's Opportunity. The complexion of Wall street's big organization that works from nine to five is slowly changing as jnan after man drops out to take up military service. The Inroads which have al­ ready been made in staffs of the big banking Institutions are not serious, but the prospect of losing many more employees in the next few weeks or months is being discussed by employ­ ers, and It Is the general view that most of the vacancies must be filled by women, says a New York news let­ ter. One of the largest national banks has lost 50 men to Plattsburg and Madison, has 75 more who are in mili­ tia organizations, and who will soon leave, and has 460 who are liable to conscription. A prominent trust com­ pany has lost upward of 100 men, In­ cluding the senior vice president, and expects the total to be more than 300 before the end of the year. Plans are being made to fill many departments with girls, who have been found more satisfactory than men In work tha| is much the same day- after day. • PAIN? NOT A BIT I LIFT YOUR CORNS OR CALLUSES OFF No humbug! Apply few drope then just lift them away with fingers. This new drug is an ether compound discovered by a Cincinnati chemist. It Is called freezone, and can now be obtained in tiny bottles as here shown at very little cost from any drug store. Just ask for freezone. Apply a drop or two directly upon a tender corn or callus and Instant­ ly the soreness disappears. Shortly you will find the corn or callus so loose that you can lift it off, root and all, with the fingers. Not a twinge of pain, soreness or irritation; not even the slightest smart­ ing, either when applying freezone or afterwards, This drug doesn't eat up the corn or callus, but. shrivels them so they loos­ en and come right out. • It is no humbug! It works like a charm. For a few cents you can get rid of ev­ ery hard corn, soft corn or emu between the toes, as well as pain­ ful calluses on bottom of your. feet. It never disappoints and never burns, bites or inflames. If your druggist hasn't any freezone yet, tell him to get a little bottle for you from his wholesale house.--adv. Exactly. "I see the British won't wear any more boiled shirts, as they want to save starch." "I suppose they need It to stiffen their defenses." American beef costs $1 a pound in Paris, but just think how much a pound of Paris hat costs in America. SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES Allen's Foot--Ease, the antiseptic powder to be shaken Into the shoes and sprinkled in the foot­ bath. It relieves painful, swollen, smarting fMt and takes the sting out of corns and bunions. Used by the British and Freach troops at the front. Allen's Foot--Ease is a certain relief lor tired, yshiug; feet. Sold everywhere--Adv. : Doubly Efficient. "He l£ 4 man of deeds, I unde^» stand." , "Yep; also words. Be is a probata lawyer." Incunblt "Daughter's voice has been a great expense to me." "And can't anything be done for JtT" What la eccentricity In others is • mark- of genius In yourself. Forget the sorrows of yesterday and go aftvr the joys of today. - When Your Eyes Need Cars Try Murine Eye Remedy