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ETHERBOTTLE
PARIS, May 1—Fumes of a bottle
of ether used to revive a fainting
woman, mistaken for asphyxiating
gas from a bomb dropped by a Ger
man air raider, caused the panic at
the Metropolitan Subway station in
-which sixty or more women were
crushed to death or smothered dur
ing the Hun raid on the night of
March 11.
The crowd had remained outside
the subway station waiting to hear
the German bomb explode before
taking to cover. A woman in the
crowd feeling ill, her husband held a
flask of ether to her nose.
“What a smell!” said someone.
The remark overheard back in the
crowd, w-as taken to suggest gas.
From that step to “asphyxiating gas”
was easy. In less time than it re
quires to tell it the report went
through the crowd that the last
bomb that exploded nearby was a gas
bomb. That caused a mad rush of
the crowd down stairs into the sub
way station against doors opening
outward. In the press the doors
couldn’t be opened until a score of
women and two scofe children were
crushed to death.
False lists of places whore bombs
fell were circulated, these presumably
by agents of the enemy to work upon
the morale of each different quarter.
Fantastic stories were spread about
the German aviators flying low
enough at certain points to fire with
their machine guns upon the fleeing
people. The fact is that not a single
German machine could be seen clear
ly enough to identify it, yet the storj
worked upon the minds of impression
able persons
The conduct of the audiences in
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the different places of amusement'
may be taken as indicative of the
attitude of Paris toward the raiders.
Few spectators left their seats when
the last raid was announced toward
the middle of the performance.
Sylvain, playing the role of the old
wine-grower in the “Noces Corinthi
1 ennes” at the Comedie Francaise, in
terrupted himself long enough to say
simply, “I am told they are sounding
the alarm”, then went on with the
monologue. Between the acts the
spectators went to the cellar but re
turned immediately after inspecting
the fine collection of busts that had
been taken there for safety.
At the Vaudeville, Galipaux, the
“Merle” of Chanteclar, contnued his
monologue after announcing the raid,
then passed the hat for the benefit
of the victims.
Throughout the raid there were
people in the streets in every quarter
in Paris. There were more than a
hundred on the Place del’Opega just
outside the entrance to one of the
| subway shelters. At every corner
people caught away from their
homes, disdaining offered shelters
and groping their way homeward as
well as they could, exchanged infor
mation as to where they were, unable
to perceive anything in the darkness.
All persons abroad had a right to
enter the frst building they came to
and doors were opened at the first
summons, but the wayfarer in most
cases simply wanted to know where
he was.
Hundreds felt their way through
heaps of broken glass and climbed
over debris at points where bombs
had fallen giving them the sensation
of scrambling over a battlefield.
Paris had become a part of “the
front.”
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HIVE
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WASHINGTON, May 1—All rec
ords for the number of subscriptions
to Liberty loans have been broken in
the present drive for the third loan.
Approximately twelve million persons
have bought bonds of the third issue,
with a total of more than $2,500,000,
000.
Officials are urging everyone to buy
another bond.
Twelfth District Report
SEATTLE, May 1.—The following is
the daily report from Liberty loan
headquarters for the Twelfth district,
at San Francisco, under date of
April 30:
“Total Liberty loan subscriptions
now total $229,400,000. The total
number of subscribers is 819,583. The
total number of honor flags awarded is
855. “VAN SMITH.”
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AN APPRECIATION
“Billie” MacConnell desires by this
means to thank each and every per
son taking part in the show last even
ing, and for assisting her In cairying
the program to a successful conclu
sion. Especially she wishes to thank
her soloists, Mrs. Kerr, Mrs. T. N.
Hubbert, Mrs. Nina Nichols, Miss Bar
rett, Miss Sheppard and Miss Fral
sure. The services rendered by Miss
Madeline Anderson and Mrs. Jack
Sapiro as accompanists were invalu
able, and most thoroughly appreci
ated, while to W. A. Nourse, who took
Dr. Council’s place as an end man at
the last moment, Is also due much
credit.
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Tour eyes fitted. Compound and
astigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
IT HISTORIC
WASHINGTON, May 1—Versailles, |
chosen as the meeting place for the I
Allied War Conference, which is to
weld the armies and navies of the
nations arrayed against the Central
Powers into compact fighting bodies,
is a spot rich in historic events.
Through its lights and shadowes and
the vast halls of the stately palace
of Louis XIV, have walked men and
women whose names will live as long
as history itself. There have been
held solemn conferences at which
great wars have been ended and the
very fate of nations and states deter
mined.
There in 1789 Marie Antoinette
faced the wild mobs of the French
Revolution, there in 1871 the father
of Emperor William was crowned
German emperor and there France
was forced to sign the capitulation of
Paris.
Significant too is the recollection
I .
that the site where American repre
sentatives now are co-operating with
England and France, there was sign
ed in 1782 the preliminary treaty
endng the American revolution.
In the magnificent palace erected
at an estimated cost of $20,000,000
there were born Louis XV, Louis
XVII, as well as several of France’s
ablest military leaders.
LOYAL LlilfilEIS
SUBSCRIBE GENEROUSLY
EUGENE, Ore., May 1—Members
of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and
Lumbermen in Oregon have been
heavy subscribers to Liberty Bonds
of the third issue, according to re
ports received from various camps
and mills where meetings have been
held.
Colonel John Leader, of the Brit
ish army, who is in charge of the
military training at the University
of Oregon, addressed one meeting
held in an improvised hall in the new
planing mill of a lumber company.
More than 700 persons attended.
There are 350 or 400 employes of the
company in the mill and camp near
Wendling and it is believed not less
than $30,000 will be raised there.
Henry Schademan, a Russian log
ger, listened to Colonel Leader’s
stories of the war and when solicitors
began to take subscriptions they found
that Schademan had subscribed for
$1,300 worth of the bonds.
CURRIER PIGEIS 00
MANY HEROIC DEEDS
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LONDON, May 1—An exhibition of
carrier pigeons here shows inary de
vises used to protect the birds in
their flights at the front. Several
pigeons are shown painted in camou
flage coloring, while gas masks for
use during gas attacks are also exhi
tited at the exhibition.
Many stories of the heroic deeds of
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those birds of war are told by the
men in charge of the exhibition.
Several cases are related in which
pigeons delivered their message?
after being hit with sharpnel. It is
said that the percentage of casualties
among the birds is very low, a? they
very quickly get to know something
of shell fire and how to avoid it.
The older birds, it is asserted, become
very "wise to danger”.
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HUNGER
For three years America has
(ought Starvation in Belgium
Will you Eat less - wheat
meat— fats and sugar
that we may still send
food in ship loads ?
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