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CHILDREN CARED FOR WHILE FATHERS FIGHT
Photo by American Press Association
Some of the children of soldiers and sailors In Uncle Sam's service playing on the lawn of the Edgewater Creche
a. Englewood, N. J., which la now endeavoring to give them preference.
WOMEN ENTER PROTEST
AGAINST WEARING BREECHES.
(By United Press)
LONDON, Oct. 19—The British have
another revolt on their hands — the
breeches rebellion. A body o£ women
workers of Buckinghamshire drew up
resolutions against the use of the bi
furcated garments which are becoming
popular. Some of the younger girl
workers intimate there are other rea
sons than purely ones of modesty.
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Largest assortment of fancy Rib
bons at Mrs. Kate Rolfe’s.
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LATIN-AMERICAN
ORGANIZATIONS FIGHT H. C. L.
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 19. — Latln
American Federations of Labor met
recently at Santiago, Chile, to con
sider ways and means of meeting the
high cost of living.
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MESSAGE DIRECT
FROM FIRING
LINE
(By United Press)
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD, Oct. 4. — (By Mail) —
From the windows of the cottage
where this is written I can see the
actual stabs of fire from the muzzles
of guns along 62 miles of front. On
the left I can see from Armentieres
to Lens. Below Lens, Notre Dame de
Lorette and Vlmy Ridge shut out the
remainder of the British line.
From the left window, on clear days,
I can see the sand dunes along the sea
coast. Furnes is plainly visible and
beyond, with field glasses, the very
windows of the Casino and Grand Ho
tel at Ostend are as plain as day.
Shells bursting along the bathing
beach, where stretches of barbed wire
now run are distinctly seen, while
with the nakeyd eyes I have counted
not only 33 British observation bal
loons along the fringe of the fighting,
but eleven German balloons as well.
People say “flat as a flounder." A
better expression would be "flat as
Flanders." For a flounder occupies
very little territory. Flanders stretch
es away in all directions, while appal
ling flatness, the ouly relief being
three or four hillocks which rise like
pimples from an otherwise smooth
surface. My cottage sits on top of
one of the hillocks. Below me stretch
es more than half of the entire British
The spectacle at night beats any
Fourth of July celebration ever seen
in the United States. And if the wind
is right, the noise lays in the shade
the unsafest and insanest Fourth
young America ever perpetrated
Flares rise against the sky like so
many red arc lights shedding a glory
along the whole horiion. Here and
there, in this red glow, great fans
of flame and light, of brilliant yellow
leap Uke sheet lightning to the very
top of the heavens. These are th«
bursts of heavy howitzer shells. The
quicker, the brighter, the smaller
flashes are British guns hurling steel
at the foes to the east. Now and
then a alow burning stab of flame
leaps of and the whole world seems on
fire. My room, perhaps twelve miles
away, is then so brightly lighted that
book print is quite readable without
other lighting than that furnished by
Armageddon. These bright lights
come from the bursting of oil drums,
or boiling oil (in reality liquid fire),
which the British are using to pun
ish the originator of frightfulness.
The Germans, having originated and
tried every devil's device a cruelly
cunning brain could conceive, are now
getting paid back in their own coin.
Sky rockets go into the air like
a Paine's fireworks final, bursting into
many colors. Aeroplanes, who eter
nally are zooping, goes on in the night
as well as as day, add to the show by
dropping their "flaming onions,” as
their signal fires are called, and from
the ground balls of fire leap into the
air in answer.
Behind the German lines search
lights are playing. There are tons
ot them, their brilliant shafts inter
lacing and criss-crossing, reaching
what appears to be the dome o:
heavcrx there splashing out like £
stream of gold fluid projected from <
fireman's nozzle against a loftly cell
lng.
When there are clouds the effect 1;
perhaps enhanced. The cloud bank:
catch and reflect the score of conipet
i ing lights and colors, making the wai
, a beautiful thing — from a distance.
Properly stage managed, my litth
room in this little Flemish cottage
might bring a fortune. Man's greates
spectacle keeps on and on. in a con
tinuous performance — is- blazlii)
away for all it Is worth even as
write these lines on my little type
writer — yet no amount of gold coul<
buy a seat in this room.
Outside the window at my right
hear voicee. The two old folkB wh<
own the cottage and who let me usi
one of the rooms,"are talking. Over
head, Aeroplanes are buzzing. In thi
middle distance rockets are answerlnj
the "flaming onions" dropped by th
war planes.
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On the skyline ali the fireworks in
the world seem concentrated, the glow
now and then making the wrinkled
faces of the old mas and woman stand
out In the dark night.
"Its time we'r® gettln' in the pota
toes." the old man is saying. "This
rain ain’t any too good for them so
long as they ain’t in the ground.”
And the old lady responded sympa
thetically:
“Them potato bugs are getting
mighty bad, too."
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CIA ASSURES
ALLIES OF SOLID
SUPPORT
PEKING, Oct. 19. — Newspapers ot
North Chita, even those which were
strongly opposing the Feng Kuo
chang government before the declara
tion of war against Germany and Aus
tria, have undergone a decided change
since their country is actually at war.
Even the utmost radical opponents of
the governmer t r ow are urging the
republic to pre >i an undivided front
to the Euro? : enom:.
The let; - ;. c ;g . stations pre
sented t . resides" Feng Kuo-chang
i by Mr. Ite; h th > American minis
ter, and all the r Hied ministers, con
gratulating him on China's declara
tion ot war, contained this common
paragraph: “My government is
pleased to take this opportunity to
give to the Chinese government the
assurance of its solidarity and of its
; friendship and support. It will do all
that depends upon it, in order that
• China may have the benefit in her in
1 ternational relations of the position
and the regard due to a great nation.’'
[ This paragraph Is generally inter
i preted by the Chinese press to mean
j that China’s integrity is assured, and
- that an absolute guarantee la glvto
> that the open door policy will be maln
; tBined by the joint action of Great Br!
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