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BRITISH BATTLE
WITH THE ENEMY
' H OPEI GliNTRY
HAVE GONE FAR BEYOND THE
HINDENBURG LINE.
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German Positions About Cambrai,
Laon and Browe Are Now In A
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Precarious Condition—British
Nearing Lille.
AUSTRIANS ARE IN RETREAT.
(By The Associated Bress.)
Paris, Oct. 4.—The Germans are
> now throwing general reserves into
battle on the St. Quentin front.
(Associated Press Summary.)
Northeast of St. Quentin the Brit
ish today are reported to be fighting
in open country behind the Hinden
burg line, after having pushed ahead
five miles since Monday. From Lens
northward and from Rheims east
ward to Argonne the allies continue
to bend back the German flanks.
The breach driven through German
defenses south of Beaurevoir is on a
front of five miles. To the north the
British are plunging east and south
east from Lecatelet, while on the
south the French are attacking suc
cessfully between Sequehart and Les
dins.
With the British in open country
northeast of St. Quentin, German
positions about Cambrai, Laon and
Browe are most precarious. Between
Lens and Armentieres the British
have advanced an average of three
•miles over a twenty-mile front. At
• dtic point the British are six miles
from the outer walls of the fortress
of Lille.
In Albania the Austrians are re
ported to be retreating in disorder,
after the destruction of their base at
Durazzo by entente warships.
(By The Associate Press.)
London, Oct. 4.—The British forces
pursuing the retreating Germans in
^../ the Lens region have reached the
railway east of Lens, Field Marshal
Haig reports. To the southeast the
British have made progress between
Oppy and Maricourt. German coun
ter attacks on Gouy and Lecatelet,
midway between Cambrai and St.
Quentin, were beaten off. More
than 4,000 prisoners were taken yes
terday by the liritisn noun ui ou
4 Quentin. The point ot fhe British
^ wedge north of St. Quentin yester
day was pushed to the high ground
one mile northeast of Senuehait.
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, Oct. 4.—It is officially an
u nounced that French troops in the
St. Quentin region have advanced
east of Lesdins. American and
French forces in the ^Champagne
made further advances northwest of
Blanc Mont and Medieah farm. North
. and northwest of Rheims the French
Increased their gains somewhat and
improved their positions in the re
gion of Betheny.
John C. Small, deputy agricultural
' commissioner, was called to Okolona
yesterday by a telegram announcing
the death of his sister, Mrs. Matthew
Coulter.
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Dm “FLIT
And While You Have It You Are Re
quested by the Health Service
To Stay At Home.
Do you have sneezing- spells
And your bones ache?
And you are languid and no ac
count ?
And you don’t feel very well your
self ?
Well, you have the “floo.”
And that is only the popular way
of saying that you are afflicted with
the Spanish influenza.
You have lots of company, for it
is epidemic over the state, not only in
Arkansas, but all over the country.
Congress this vfeek appropriated
one million dollars to assist the Pub
lic Health Service in fighting the
disease, and on October draftXtrmh
000 men was canceled on account of
The Spanish influenza is only la
grippe in an acute phase, just as
la grippe is a bad cold emphasized.
There were 240 new cases reported
in Little Rock yesterday, making
about 500 known cases in the city.
There are about 2,500 cases at
Camp Pike, and there are many cases
at Eberts Field, which is quarantined
on account of it. I
The influenza itself'is not very se
rious, but it is liable to develop into
bronchial pneumonia, which is likely
to prove fatal, especially if the sys- (
tem is badly run down and debili
tated.
There is no reason for alarm if the ’
people will be careful.
The U. S. Public Health Service
does not wish to take any drastic
steps by closing moving picture
houses, or churches, or stopping
I public gatherings, and does not con
sider it will be necessary with the
proper co-operation.
| If you have the influenza, stay at
home.
Don’t mix with crowds.
Take care of yourself, and you
will probably recover in five or six
days. . . ^
E0VER10R HERE
FDR S ffl HOURS
Comes Down From Batesville And
Goes To Jonesboro To Deliver
Address At State Fair.
Governor Brough spent a few hours
in Newport alst gtnhic erofhtnhep(
in Newport last night, coming down
from Batesville and leaving at 9
o’clock for Jonesboro, where he will
deliver an address at the state fair
today.
The governor has been' making a
tour of the northern counties of the
state j. . the interest of the Fourth
Liberty Loan, and last night stated
to a representative of the Independ
ent that during his tour he has been
impressed with the great patriotism
that prevails among the people every
where.
PRICE ON SHOES FIXED.
According to a news item under a
Washington date line of the 3rd, the
government is going to fix prices on
articles of wearing apparel, and
control the distribution thereof. This
will be dohe through the war indus
tries board. Already it has fixed
the price of shoes.
HELD FOR INSTRUCTIONS.
The bodies of the following Ark
ansas hoys who have died in camp,
are being held in North Little Rock
by Owens & Co., undertakers, await
ing instructions from relatives as to
their disposition:
Ala Howard Rye, Benton.
Ernest Vanpel, Wattensaw.
Roy C. Jordan, Greenwood.
The Liberty Loa(n war exhibit
train arrived at Conway last night
at 8:30 and remained until 11 o’clock
this morning.
SEED PRICE IS
LDWEBEO If II
Pending Analysis Of Official Seed
Samples Cotton Seed Price I
Reduced In Each Zone.
The following telegram from Harnp'
Williams, federal food administrator,
has been received by G. B. Irby, local
administrator, who has forwarded
sample seed for analysis:
“Pending the analysis of official
seed samples furnished by you, and
on the advice of the state chemist, I
have authorized $2 lower price for
cotton seed in each zone, effective
immediately. In order to provide a
free market for seed notify ginners
and seed buyers that the price based
on official samples will be promul
gated next week. If any holder of
seed feels that the $2 reduction is not
justified and that official yields will
bring a higher price, he should exer
cise -h isownjdadrps, dl uo;sshrdlut
cise his own judgment and postpone
sale.”
TAKES $100,000 BONDS.
David H. Raynes, a negro living
at Vivian, a small town about twen
ty-five miles north of Shreveport,
has subscribed $100,000 to the Fourth
Liberty Loan. It is thought that
this will be the largest individual
loan received in Caddo Parish, La.,
Raynes ownes land upon which oil
has been discovered and receives
large royalties therefrom.
DISCHARGED FROM CAMP PIKE.
The following are the names of
Arkansas men discharged from Camp
Pike yesterday for physical unfitness.
Bernard J. Hill, Ozark; Willie
Gulley, Prescott; Oscar Rhone, Ash
down; Sam Finasco, Pine Bluff
Lee Hill, Pine Bluff; Frank Sims
Hot Springs; Clarence A. Green
Pine Bluff; John Henry, Blytheville
Clemmie Collins, Rison; John D
Simpkins, Lonoke; Martin Benja
min, Little Rock; McKinley Ellis
Ashdown; Jetho H. Dunnz, El Dora
do; William Lacy, Hope; Ernest
White, El Dorado; James Turner,
El Dorado.
IN GERMAN PRISON.
The war department at Washing
ton has announced the names of twc
Americans held in German prisons
One of the names announced was
that of Robert L. Hollingsworth oi
Ocean City, Miss. ,
A man who first gave his name
as Taylor, but later said his name
was C. K. Jackson, 111 East Nine
teenth street, Little Rock, was ar
rested Tuesday morning at Star Citj
as he was driving an auto loaded
with whiskey through the town.
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SWIFTON TOTAL
IS NOW MO
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; The Volunteer Liberty Loan Coinmit
! tee Of This Neighboring Town
Has Been Busy.
■ The town of Swifton, and the pa
; triotic people surrounding it, have
! proved themselves one hundred per
! cent American by coming forward
today wth volutary subscriptions to
the Fourth Liberty Loan totaling
$26,400. Not only has that commun
ity subscribed this amount voluntar
ily, but they have put the finishing
touch to the matter by either paying
in full, or the ten per cent required
to meet the treasury department’s
requirement. This comes pretty
close to reaching that community’s
quota, and the Independent congrat
ulates those having the matter in
charge, since the above figures prove
there have been no slackers on the
job.
j On acount of the quarantine order
' at Camp Pike now in force, many
| entertainments in Little Rock gotten
up for the benefit of the soldiers of
the camp have been cancelled.
Mrs. M. E. Heffington of near
Enola was fined $10 and costs in the
court of justice G. M. Easterwood at
Conway Tuesday afternoon on a
charge of failing to dip her cattle.
Members of the local Red Cross
chapter of Prairie View picked cot
| ton Monday on the farm of E. E.
Cummins. About 28 members par
| ticipated, their earnings amounting
to $25, which was given to the chap
ter.
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W. A. Hamer, a' manganese land
owner and operator of Pfieffer, has
contracted to mine and deliver 1,000
tons of manganese ore to the ship
ping point at Pfieffer by the first of
December.
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■ Information was received yester
day that Col. Lawrence B. Simonds
had been promoted to brigadier-gen
eral. He is the officer who made the
inspection of the Fourth Arkansas
last summer. It was while he was
engaged in this work that he was
promoted from lieutenant-colonel to
colonel.
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Information was received in Little
Rock yesterday that P. D. Scott of
Van Buren, one of the Crawford
county delegates to the constitution
al convention, had been seriously
stricken and was in a critical condi
tion. Mr. Scott is prominent in po
litical and banking circles, and is
well known throughout the state.
Thirty per cent of the $1(30,000,000
quota of the Eighth Federal Reserve
District in the Fourth Liberty Loan
drive had been subscribed at noon
Thursday.
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AI1SHIP FALLS
AT JONESBOR1
And Machine Is Returned to Lonoke
On Train, Visit To Newport
Being Called Off.
At Jonesboro this morning the
airplane in which Lieuts. H. H. Wal
ter and Pennington were flying
crashed to earth from a height
of 150 feet, greatly damaging the
machine, but not injuring the occu
pants, according to a telephone mes
sage from Jonesboro to the Chamber
of Commerce here this afternoon.
The accident made it impossible
for the flyers to pay Newport a visit
this afternoon as was intended. The
machine was so badly damaged that
it had to be returned to Lonoke on
a train.
All arrangements had been made
here to receive the flyers this after
noon. A white chalked cross had
been marked in the Sanders field at
the end of Walnut street, which
would have directed thg aviators to
this landing place.
TWELVE SONS IN
ICMSEIW
Rayville, La., Negro Preacher Con
tributes Above Number Of Sons
To Uncle Sam’s Service.
Rayville, La., October 3.—Twelve
sons in active service is the record of
R. H. Windslow, a negro preacher,
of this parish. Eight sons enlisted
before the enactment of the selective
service law and the other four are in
the National army. Two of the sol
diers are twins, the last three trip
lets.
Because of the remarkable record
plans are under way fpr a public
demonstration for Rev. Windslow.
He already has received a congratu
latory letter from President Wilson.
Rev. Windslow conducts a Red Cross
auxiliary.
The Independent works for you.
Use it as your salesman. It carries
I news of the store into hundreds ol
! homes.
LATE WIRE BRIEFS
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Oct. 4.—Today a call
was issued for 29,999 grammar
school graduates to entrain October
fifteenth for technical schools.
(By the Associated rress.j
Washington, Oct. 4.—A slight
earthquake lasting 4Va minutes
was recorded by the seismographs at
Georgetown University this morning.
It centered apparently about six hun
dred miles from Washington.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Oct. 4.—The navy de
partment announces the American
steamer, Herman Frasch, was sunk
i in a collision with the American
I steamer, George G. Henry, several
! hundred miles off the American
coast. Forty-one survivors were ac
j counted for. The Henry picked up
| the survivors and resumed its voy
age.
Probably fifty of the crew of the
Frasch were lost.
(By The Associated Press.)
Amsterdam, Oct. 4.—The Turkish
minister of the interior has resigned,
| according to a Constantinople dis
i patch,
(By The Associated Press.*
! Asterdam, Oct. 4.—Prince Maxmil
j ian of Baden has been appointed
' German chancellor, says an official
announcement received from Berlin,
•eputies Groeber, a Centrist, and
Scheidemann, majority socialist dem
ocrat, have been appointed secreta
ries of state without portfolios. An
nouncement of Germany’s entire
program will be made at a meeting
ox the Reichstag October 5. y
II. 5. TROOPS
IN BIS FISH!
Have Made A Considerable Advance
In the Champagne Sector Since
Yesterday Morning.
(By The Associated Press.)
With the American Army ip France
—Thursday—American troops ^osyent
into action this morning on
Champagne front. A report from
the French army states they had ad
vanced considerably by noon, captur
ing Blanc Mont and the Medear
farm.
(By The Associated Press.)
With the American Forces North
west of Verdun, Oct. 4.—American
aviators today dropped thirty-seven
tons of bombs on Conflans and thir
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teen other towns.
(By The Associated Press.)
Rome, Oct. 4.—It is officially an
nounced that American submarinei
chasers destroyed two enemy subma
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razzo yesterday.
AddtoRome.
After the capture of Berat the
Italian cavalry joined in the pursuit
of the retreating Austrians and
made a considerable advance, saya
the official note.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 3.—Austro-Hungarian
forces in Albania are retiring in con
siderable disorder before the ad
vancing Italians. The Austrians are
blowing up their depots.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 4.—In levelling forti
fications and depots at Durasezo
Wednesday an entente squadron de
stroyed much material that was in ; in
tended for the Austrian army in Al
bania, according to a Central news
dispatch from Rome.
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I By the Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 4.—French forces in
the Champagne have captured Or
femil and Bemont Chateau, north
west of the Somme.
UPS FROM
0. S. GROWING.
War Department Announces That
Number Of Americans Now
Abroad Is 1,800,000.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Oct. 4.—Members of
the house military committee at a
weekly conference with the war de
partment today were informed that
American troops abroad now number
1,800,000.
Casualty List
The total list of casualties report- /■.
ed by the commanding general of the
American expeditionary forces r*6w
operating in France recapitulated, is
as follows:
Killed in action-48
Missing in action-287
Died of disease-1®
Died of accidents or other causes 3
Died of wounds- 2
•Vounded slightly-- 2
Wounded, degree unknown- 6
Total- 489
Among this large list there is the
name of but one Arkansas boy, that
of Arthur Alden Allen 1520 West
20th street, Little Rock, Ark.
D. T. Cotton, who had been nomi
nated by petition as an independent
candidate for prosecutjfng attorney
of the 14th circuit, has filed a state
ment with the secretary of state, in
which he declines the nomination.
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