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VOLUME XVIII. NO. 136. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS
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ALLIES ARE POUNDING LINES
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The Fall Of Armentieres And Lens
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(Associate! Press Summary.)
The Germans continue to retire
from the salient west of the fortress
of Lille along a twenty-mile front
r'" -Haetjveen Armentieres and Lens, while
the British again are storming Ger
man 'defense lines north of St. Quen
tin a|id the French pressing north
ward in the Champaigne threaten
German communications. The fall
of Armentieres and Lens is con
sidered only a matter of hours. The
evacuation of the Lille salient is a
direct result of the allied advance in
Flanders and about Cambrai. The
1/ ’British are closely pursuing the en
emy who has already retired for an
average of two miles. There is no
indication of where the Germans will
stop. Grat coal fields are located in
the Lens district, which the Germans
have defended tenaciously for four
years.
The number of prisoners captured
by the allied forces in France and
)t Belgium from July 15 to September
s' 30 is placed at 254,000, and 3,200
guns and 3,000 machine guns were
taken durng the same period.
(By The ssociated Press.)
British Headquarters in 1 ranee,
Oct. 3._Haig’s forces are reported to
$ have captured Ramicourt Gouv, Le
catelet and Sequehart.
(By The Associated Press.)
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mascus, Syria, Wednesday charged
and captured a Turkish column. Fif
teen hundred prisoners were taken.
(By The Associated Pxess.)
Berlin, Oct. 3.—The war office
announces Lens was evacuated by j
the Germans Tuesday, and Armen- i
tieres the same evening.
(By The Associated Press.) • i
London, Oct. 3.—Belgian forces ,
Wednesday improved their positions j
at various points, says the official J
statement issued from the Belgian1
headquarters last night. General
Plumer’s army captured Gheluwe,
near Menin, and Lebizet, north of
Armentieres.
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(By The Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 3.—Haig reports
British troops this morning resumed
their attacks north of St. Quentin.
The Germans are continuing their
rearward movement on the front from
the line to Armentiers, and are
evacuating highly organized posi
tions in that ai’ea along a twenty
mile line. Pursuing the retreating!
enemy, the British have reached the j
general line of St. Auguste Dourvin, i
east of LaBasse, east of Aubers and
west of the Grenier road. The ad
vance is continuing. A German at
tack last night north of Cambrai
was repulsed.
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, Oct. 3.—The war office re
ports heavy fighting is continuing in
the region north of Rheims. The
French are continuing their advance,
and have captured the Loivre rail
road. The junction of Challerange
in the Champagne was captured by
General Gouraud. Determined Ger
man efforts to drive the French
from the woods southeast of Orfeuil
and west of Challerange were driv
en back with heavy losses. The
French attack in the Champagne was
continued today.
(By The Associated Press.)
Archangel, Tuesday,—The Ameri
cans now hold the * furthest point
south reached by the allied forces in
their advance southward from Arch
angel. This point is a small village
five miles south of Shenkurst, 300
miles southeast of Archangel on the
river Vaga, forty miles from Velsk,
a Bolshevik stronghold.
COUNTRY IS
. FIB BEHIND
Liberty Bond Sales Total Half Bil
lion For the First Four Days
Of Campaigning.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, October 3— Liberty
Bond sales have passed the half-bil
lion mark, but the country is still
nearly that amount behind the sched
ule for the first four days of the
campaign. In addition to the half
billion officially tabulated, however,
treasury reports show many millions
have been sold but have not yet been
reported to the banks.
UNITED SMS
SKIP SENT DOWN
10 Officers and 102 Enlisted Men
Lost On Ship Destroyed While
Acting As Convoy.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Oct. 3.— The United
States steamship, Tampa, a former
coast guard cutter, was lost off the
English coast September 26 with
all on board while on convoy duty.
Ten officers and 102 enlisted men,
one British officer and five civilian
employes lost their lives. The navy
department says the ship was sunk at
night in the Bristol channel. Re
ports indicate the ship was struck by
a torpedo while escortng a convoy.
An unknown negro at Paragould a
day or two ago stole a handcar, and in
attempting to escape with it collided
with a passenger train.
AIRPLANE MIT
UII8 FRIDAY
Landing,Field Was Located Here To
day In Anticipation Of Coming 1
Of Aviators.
Attorney John W. Stayton is in
receipt of information to the effect
that pfobably an airplane from- Eb
berts Field at Lonoke will arrive in
Newport tomorrow (Friday.) How-1
ever, the visit is not an assured fact.
A committee this morning secured
ground through the courtesy of H.
Clay Sanders for a landing place.
The landing field to be used in the
event the plane arrives is located at
the end of Walnut street, where the
last circus staged its performances,
and of course everybody knows where
that is.
The fire alarm will be sounded to
morrow if the plane comes in sight,
which will notify everybody that the
above designated place will be the
point to make for.
LATE WIRE BRIEFS
(By The Associated Press.)
C\ev|e)land, ,CL Oct. 3.—Twenty
six persons were killed and two prob
ably fatally injured this morning
when a Pennsylvania railroad pas
senger train crashed into a crowd of
workmen alighting from a local train
at Bedford, which is in the suburbs
of this city.
The agricultural school at Russel
ville now wants 150 war students in
stead of the 100 asked for at first.
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WRITE TIMER
The Writers Of These Two Letters j
Are Now Where The Bullets
Are Flying.
The following two letters have been
received by Mrs. J. M. Gravette, who
lives a short ways from town on R.!
F. D. No. 3, from her two sons who
are now on the firing line in France.
The names of the boys are Pat and
0. J. Gravette and are no doubt
known to many of the Independent’s
subscribers, who will read their let
ters with interest:
Sept. 10th, 1918.
Ilello Dear Mother, how are you
by this time? I hope well. Mother,
it has been some time since I wrote
you, so I will try and write you a few
lines to let you know that I am well,,
and I hope this letter will find you
all the same. Well, mother, I have
been in the hospital over a month,
but I am feeling all right again, but
my leg gives me some trouble yet i
when I walk very much. Well, I |
guess everybody is having a nice }
time. I hope so ‘anyway. I am car- [
rying messages now, but don’t know
how long I will carry them, but will
as Tong as I can.
I have received no mail since I
came to France, and I don’t see why
I don’t get any, but I hope you all
will send me mail later. I sure
would like to have pictures and pa
pers from home. Tell all hello for
me, and give my love to all and tel'l
them to write me a few lines. Well
I hope that Bob is not in the army,
but I guess he is by now. Well, let
him run the risk is all that I can say.
It is raining hard today and has
been raining for some time.
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Well, mother, I don’t know much
to write, but if I ever get settled
down will try to write more. I move
so much that I cannot get any mail,
but maybe I can get my mail now for
awhile. Mother, I have never
seen anybody over here that I know,
but I saw a colored boy the other day
that knew father in Jackson, and he
said for me to tell father that I saw
him. His name is James. It certain
ly made me feel glad to see him for
he is the only one 1 have seen that
• new any of us. If he was a Negro
I was glad to see him. Well 1 will
say good-bye. Write often.
From your 'son,
Pat.
Aug. 31, 1918.
Mrs. J. M. Gravette, Newport, Ark.
Hear Mother: Just a few lines to
let you know that I am getting along
fine and that the Kaiser has not got
me yet. Did you receive my Liberty
Bond for $100, which 1 paid for and
had sent to you? I also sent my
trunk to you before I sailed for
France. Let me know if you re
ceived it. What is Pat’s address?
I am learning to speak some French,
and I think France is a very pictur
esque country, although not near as
modern as I expected t» find it.
Well, on account of the censor I
cannot write all l would like to, but I
hope soon to be back in the United
States again.
Your Son,
Obediah.
It is predicted that the employes
of the Missouri Pacific shops at Lit
tle Rock will take fully $110,000,
worth of the Fourth Liberty Loan,
$105,000 of this amount having al
ready been raised, according to re
ports. To this amount can be added
$15,000 that the round house boys
will* take.
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Lower Rich woods Farmers By Their
Liberality Show They Are 100
Per Cent Patriotic.
Subscriptions to the Fourth Lib
city Loan continue to come forward.
Lower Richwood township has sent in
through J. C. Balch a hunch of sub
scriptions amounting to $750. This
added to the $229,750 already' vol
untarily subscribed, brings the total
amount of the county subscriptions
up to $230,500, leaving only $165,500
yet to he raised in the county, its
quota being $306,000.
The farmers of Jackson county
have certainly shown that they are
10() per cent patriotic by the liberal
manner in which .they start the vol
unteer movement.
Prince From Baden Has Taken Over
the Destinies Of the Hun and
Will Follow the Kaiser.
(By The Associated Press.)
Amsterdam, October 3.— Prince
Maxmilian of Baden has been named
imperial chancellor, according to the
Zeitung Ammittag of Berlin.
HUNS EXPECT
NEW ATTACK v
Are Moving Population From Alsace
In Anticipation Of Franco-Amer
ican Drive.
(By The Associated Press.)
Geneva, October 3.—German mili
tary authorities have begun to re
move inhabitants from Alsace in the
expectation of a Franco-American
attack, according to the newspaper,
Democratical.
ARKANSAS CASUALTIES.
The casualty list for today teleased
by the committee on public informa
tion at Washington, contains a total
of 247 names. There were 95 killed
in action, 35 missing in action, 102
severely wounded, 2 died of accident
rind other causes, and 18 died from
.rounds. From this total the follow
ing names from Arkansas appear:
Sam H. Wallingford, Blythesville,
Ark., reported severely wounded;
Theron W. Agee, Ozark, Ark., severe
ly wounded; Henry E. Trusler, se
verely wounded and previously re
ported missing, the two latter names
being from the marine casualty list;
Floyd U. Benbrook, Wideman, Ark.,
killed in action.
The casualty lists appearing of /
late contain very few names fron^
this state, for which we are ciTly
thankful, the probable reason for this
being that very few Arkansas troops
are in the front line trenches just
now.
SAVE NUT SHELLS
AND PEACH PITS.
The war department wants the
shells of all kind of nuts, and the
pits of peaches, dates etc. The car
bon from these nuts make the best
gas mask lining in the world, is
the reason the department is so
anxious for them. Huguley-Jones Co.
of Newport are gathering up these
pits for the government here.
The Boy Scouts throughout the
United States have undertaken the
gathering of these shells and nuts,
which undertaking the president
highly appreciates. Your member
ship is 442,000. Go to it boys!
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