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,tEsrALIsano 1870
Entered 1:5: South Norwalk Put
Office as Second Class Mitten.
soviet: Hoawafir, com, SHERRI—AUG. 11, 1917 ~
Fair Tonight and Sunday
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MATE u STEAMSHIP
Edgar L. Raymond Placed
by the U. S. Shipping
Board on the “Everett”
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Edgar L. Raymond, of Rowaytott,
has been placed by tit-9 I'. S. Shipping
Iloard as mute on board the. steam-
ship “Everett," which is “sotttcwlterc
on the Atlantic."
lie is one of the men who has taken
advantage of tit-e free Government
school at the Massachusetts institute
of 'l‘eclinolot-y. and goes at once ittto
a position which will give him ex-
perience so that when the new uter-
chant marine goes into commission he
may become a deck oflicer on one of
these stezttttshills in trans-Atlantic
li'illlf‘.
The idea of preparedness by (’nlab‘
AllOWANCE “
f0lt lAMllllS .
, Itttttucn
I easures Which Are Ex-~
pected to Pass Congress
Call For Insurance For the
United States Soldiers
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and engineers originaicd with Ht
Howard, the ltead of tlte Merritt: -‘
lislting free schools for chief oilit x13 1
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Three Officials of Draft
Board, No. 99, New York
City, Ousted by Direction
of President Wilson
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INVESTIEATIUN BY «‘BEAT fiERMANS BUT
tillVEllNMENT MEN ‘WIEE IS HIS MATEH;
‘ lFails to Support Her andiWork of
RESPOND f0lt w
Mayor Reports 31 of the
Men Drafted in Norwalk
Have Failed to Report to
the Board
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Attorney Quinlan Describes
the Trip and Says the Nor-
walk Boys Are in Fine
Condition
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A party of Norwalk business men
EField Marshal Haig Clinches
His Hold on the Ground
Won in Friday’s Attack in
the Flanders Section‘
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French Troops Said to Have
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She Had Him Arrested—l lowing Exemption Claims
unto of Technology. He presenttd
,‘his plan to the l'. S. Shipping Board,
land was given the work of organizing
tsuch schools. Those, for the prepara-
ttion of deck officers were given over
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to make effective the Govern}
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Allotment of $15 a Month
For Dependents
WASHlNGTON, Aug.
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ment's program of insuring the arm-
ed forces of the nation was sougltt‘
of Congress in bills introduced itt both-“l
t ouses by Senator Simmons and Rep-t
scntalive Alexander. i
The proposed legislation was tram-t
led to follow plans already announcedi
in general outline and Would providc'
insurance. at minimum cost, for Amg
erican soldiers, sailors and marines,i
the insured men paying the pl‘ellll-I
,unts; family allowances to depend—
ents of men lit the nation's military
or naval service: indemnification for?
disabilities and tlte re-educaiion and
rehabilitation, at government
pence, of injured men.
A feature not previously announced 3 lions for the use of each ~bourd in»
would make is compulsory for officers , exemptions front mp draft.
and men to allot a minimum of $1.»; The members of the three board's
a month out of their pay to dependent ; “.0”, all present.
They wetx‘, F'i'rst Districtz——-
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HARTFORD, Aug. 11.~—»A meeting,
‘of the occupational exemption boardst
Ox‘,ot‘ the State was held at the Capitol;
'wstcrday to pro tare uniform tegislu--
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wives and children. The maximum
compulsory allotment is half pay.‘
~ Hartford. Windham. Tolland and:
Those allotments would he supple,- Litcltfteld cottnties~~Judgc Josephs
tumbled" by faintly allowances. to he 'l‘ttttle, Hartford, chairman: Robot-H
.e to “ , 5. ‘,.,.. .. .,
ash”: mimirssssss. it» little
figmentnces and numbet. of dependflnmimn' Simsbut'y. and “1.. «)gtét'elt
,;‘ W , , ',, ‘J. M. Kinglet, Hartford.
Pl‘:‘?(‘1‘(i’l:‘couf:f;ll:lflliiilifillfilnd (1.2333112? Second llislricthew London and
"“13“,, the “yam!“ f m, Vlitddlcsex counties and part of howl
3‘ H“ h ” ( I o‘ul’liltw‘ll county-Leonard M. Dam-telly!
lNcw London, chairman: Dnrragh dc‘
‘, Lain-ey, \‘l‘atctrbury. second: Dr. Dudv
‘lcy B. Denying}. Waterbury; P. F
Otuea'rn. New Haven, and F. W. Dow
ncr, Hamden.
? Third l)istrict~Fairtield county and
part of New Haven cottn‘tywdndge
John J. Walsh, Norwalk, chairtttan;
Seth L. l‘icrt'cpout, ltidgefield. secre
titty; Edward W. Harrul, Bt‘itlgepori,.
Hugh 1‘. Shulvoy, llanbttt'y, and Dr.
George ll. l‘owell, Bridgeport.
.Gov-ernor Holcomb attended
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Ellllll SUPPLY
Miss Holloway, State Indus-
trial Iuspector, Explains‘
. Situation
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Miss Charlotte Holloway, industrial EflNTRflL PLANNED
inspector of the state department of .
(labor and factory inspection, said »
yesterday'thoro is considerable mis' " -
derstanding among the manufactur. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-—Machin-
crs of the state, as to the exact mean- 1 cry for controlling the nation’s food
ingot the new child labor law. 8113' supply’ was set in motion today fol-
Iltaa just visited various of the {ac-Elowtttg formal announcementfby Pics-
5 ’otlesnttnd finds many of them have! ldent Wilson of Herbert G; ‘Hoover's
~ hottopimon that all boys under “appointment. as Food Administrator.
years of age must be discharged. Various agencies for putting into ef-
' They thought the law went into of feet the food survey and regulatory
act August 1 and on‘that day, sev‘jbills, made law by the President's
bra! of them discharged front theirlsignaiure. today began the exercise
emplOy all the boys under that age. l of corrective posters in order to place
Miss Holloway has explained that the. i the food supply on a war time basis.
new law does not go intoeffect until: The Food Administration, under the
September 1, and that it does not Jdirection of Mr. Hoover, will have
:tttean all minor boys shall not be em! general supervision of supply reguia-.
played, but that they shall work only ; tion. The, Department of Agriculture‘
forty—right hours [a Week. '
{will assist in food conservation by an
Some of the manufacturers wholcducaiiort campaign and will admin-
iister the food pmduction measure.
jThe Federal Trade Commission will
l compile food scales. Production costs
recently have been investigated shy",
the c0mmis'5ion and price fixing prob-
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iENGINE DERAILED,
1 TWO MEN HURT
Hurlcd with great force to the road: —
when a wagon he‘was driving. wastq DAM“ R3! Aug. 11.—Lewis C.
struck by the automobile of an East‘cpencer, engineer, and Glorge Bears,
‘Norwaik grocer en Flax Hill road lastlflremaix' were injured in the railroad
jnight, James Fuller“. of Taylor avenueilynrds tn tins ctty yesterday afternoon
.5“ painfully injured, his horse ran when a. smirk engine on which they
1'” and the wagon was wrecked. Mr. were ruling was derailed as the re-
€:Fuller is janitor of the South Norwalk § suit 01' Sllrefldlng rails. The cats
20h“). . that were following the engine crash~
investigation is being conducted by ed into it and a bursting injector pipe
like police today to determine the name filled the cab with steam. to ”all“!
{of the man wtto drove the automobile. which the enginemeu lumped to the
.39 failed to stop. contrary to law, on ground. Bears received a fracture of
0R9!“ no assistance to the injure :the.kneccap and Spencer is believed
, , , . ‘ ‘10 have sustained internal lnlurles.
rccomm endaiions.
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NEW YORK, Au, 11.-~A1l of the
men who were cxnmpted from ntili~
tat-y service by the local exemption
board in District. 99, will be reexam-
ined by a new board, the members
of which Governor Whitman will
name at. once.
District 99, which is one of the m0st
congested sections of the east side,
was expected to fill a quota of 213.
Out of a total of 728 men examined
317 were listed as physfclilfy quali-
fied, 303 were rejected and 108 Word
held for reexamination. There were
about six hundred aliens on the list
yet to be cx'a‘tnitteu when the mem-
b-ers of the board were removed last
night by order of President Wilson
“because of irregularities” utter an
investigation for the last few days on
the part of the Department of .lus-
ticc. The order of trentovztl, which
came from the State Adjutant-General
at Albany, concluded as follows:
Governor Whitman urges that the
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llllAEl ARMY lEAVES
September Third to be Nam-
ed as Holiday When Se-
lected ‘Men .Entrain
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WASHINGTON, Au’g. ll—A national
holiday may be declared on September
3rd in celebration of the entrainment
of the draft levies fortltelt'aining can.
totttttents. No step to this end has
been taken as yet. but officials at the
provost general‘s office regard it as
a probable result of the simultaneous
tttovemcnt of the selected men from
all over the country.
Conferences were in progress today
with railroad officials on details of the
mobilization. Transportation lines
face the problem of collecting the first
230,000 men from .750 districts, pray
vidittg them with sleeping accommo-
dations where necessary and provid-
ing for stops at points where the sol~
diet-s can be fed well and quickly.
Provost‘Ma't-shal General Crowder
laid additional stress today on his
statement to local boards that it
might become necessary to norrdw the
exemptions of married men or others
with dependent relatives. The draft
law did not exclude any such from
military service. but ttterely authorized
the president to grant such discharges
where circumstances made it appear
advisable. , .
The effect of General Crowder's
caution to the local boards is to
make possible a reopening of every
case where a registered man has al-
ready been held discharged by reason
of those dependent on him.
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MEXICO CITY, Aug. 11.—The rebel
leader, Entiliano Zapata, has sent an-
other emissary to Colonel Reyes, for.
merly of the Federal army, to treat
with President Carranza. The former
emissary. Enrique Bonilla, who failed
in‘his mission. was executed by, Gen-
eral Zapata on his return. it is report-
ed. Colonel Reyes-has not yet seen
the president. ,
Ciprlano Castro, former dictator of
Venezuela. who has landed at Van
Cruz, is reported to have engaged pu-
uge back‘to New York. but it in aa-
nggmtéled “‘1: government will have no
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Charges Are Absurd and? Given Week to Make Goodi Started Today
, him that he gave large sums of mon-
Icy to his wit-e. Were indignafliy de~
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Blown up twice by German subma-
rines and nearly dying from fatigue
and exposure in life-boats after being
fitscued from the wreck-strewn Wat-
era of the Atlantic Ocean, Jameé‘l“.
Wicks, colored. of 8 Day street, camel
back to South Norwalk two Weeksl
ago only to be arrested at the innit-l
gallon of his wife, who claimed he:
failed to properly provide for her sup»
port.
the city court this morning. , _
As Wicks himself expressed it. he;
is a “sea-faring man," his particulari
duties while client being sicker ol'l
fitetttau. Eix months ago, he said in‘
court this morning. he got a job
aboard ll. vessel leaving Boston for
Liverpool, England. and Glasgow
Scotland. On the way over a Ger-
man torpedo blew up his ship. Flour
teen members of tile crew lost their
lives, but Wicks managed to hang“
"onto parts ot‘Wreckago until picked
up lit‘ a life-bout. On his way back
to America his boat was a torpedo.
target for the second time," but he'
again escaped with his life.
Wicks only casually mentioned his
exciting cxper'icnces while on the
stand in court. but be supplemented
his statements to newspaper men M-
lowing his release. He excused hint~
srlf for spending money on his friends
upon his return to America, by ex-
plaining he had been f‘blown up"
twice and thought he was entitled‘
to a good time. Allegations made by
nied. Mrs: Wicks said she earned.
from $3 to $5 a week, and for some
time, was supporting both herself and
Wicks on that insignificant sum:
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Wicks was given V a week inl
which to find employment and help vast M . . . .
his wife when he was arraigned be-i accordiggshdl General Ctow
fore Judge George H. Vosburgh int
lboard th’A morning.
icidettt about 8:30 o'clock last even.
rctutned la.‘<t evening from an auto" -
mobile trip to Port Terry, where they; Regalned Nearly A“ the
enjoyed a short visit with the, Sixti‘ -
Company boys. The party consisted? (hound LOSt E‘urSday
Mayor Carl A. Hatstrotn declared
tllllb‘ morning that thirtyone drafted:
men, instructed to appear before theI
local exemption board for their pity~
atcal examinations,
lievtEd to be with the Sixth Company"
or other military sections. l
Providing those men who were sum-I
matted and failed to appear are not
now enlisted, the board will consider“
them as certified for the draft army}
der, 1
to instructions front Pro-l
Work was started by the exemption|
concerning the1
of exemption claims. Hun-f
fliduvlls must be, gone over.’
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allowance
dreds of a
Most of the men asking release do so‘
on the grounds of dependencies. I
Slitlllllll SPRlNfiS
stun—tuna
Auto. Plunges Through
Brtdge Near Palmer,
Mass.
STAFFORD SPRINGS, Aug. 11.—'
Four Stafford Springs young men
Wen? badly mangled and one perhaps
fatally injured itt an automobile ac,
ing when an automobile driven byl
Howard Needham of this place, on
its way to Forest Lake. Palmer,
whilo rounding a sharp curve lead-
ing on to the Thames bridge, which
spans the stream ’between Monson
and Palmer, dashed through the side
of the bridge into the river. The
party included Howard Ncedltttnt. 18;
younger son of Mrs. Adelbct-t Need
hum of the Stafford Sprlngs‘ House,
owner of the machine; Thomas Mul-
lins, son of Edward Mullins; Ar-
, of Attorney Edward J. Quinlan, Tltont~‘
lJake Aylor. ‘
have failed to re-t
spend. Many of that number are be-!
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[small-pox vaccination. We were for-f
as A. Skelly, C.
Michael J. Howard
“Tint: Field Marshal llait.r clinched his
”’01)" D- ““1““- ‘mdltold last night on the ground won
Attorney Ed 'ttrd J. Quinlan wltoi'.J1 Fridfl'v.“ 4”?“ on the Flanders
Was a nletnber of the Party that, Vignllt'ont cast of S pres. ‘ ' _
cd Fort Terry yesterday. had this to! The Germans made tltctr inevi-
NW of the ll‘illi 'tablc heavy counter attacks—no
“ 1””? ml" ”gm “'9” E12); D<zjimilcss than six of tltetttmduring the
': s p easan . or start 0 turs zty: - .- . ,,,,, t”
night permitted us to reach New Lon nigh" but “11 \llthout mu" M' h t
don so as to get the 50.28,, orclgckionlytlitl the British ntztitttaitttltcir
boat to Forty Terry, Fri-day morning,tpttsitiotts, but gained some tttldt-
"Upon our arrival there. we metltiottal ground on their right wing,
Captain Mossmun and Lieutenant Elltiill' lllt‘ Ypfcs.)[enin )‘(gad‘
llunbar. the latter on his wav to the' Ti .- , . .
. ‘ 2 . tcsc new ”filth. probablt tire
hostital for t' botd inoculatton and. " '
I ill ttttportant to the success of the.
tunate in picking our dal’. for the inculfil'i‘lfll generatl's plans. fit" it was
had been inoculated and vaccin’ated,iitt just this sector that the Brtttsh
a “Shot" “5 “my 9““ if. ”‘9 day b“'lltad failed to make all the progress
fore, and were ordered to keep quiet 0X , , t' l "’
A. . , pLQtHlO item.
for twenty-four hours. 0 1‘ . . 1‘ f ti t
”The boys were very much pleased _- n l “ letttanu U 0 to wo-
to see us. and listened attentively mtlc front running north to the
to the smallest details, concerning Ypres-Roulers ratlway, all the ob. .
' jective‘s were achieved in yester-
tltelr home city.
The condition“ 0" "‘9 ”land were (luvs assault, and have since been
perfect, and the party were above all, held
impressed With the cleaniness which
Byington,
prevailed hr every detail, and which
its essential of a sanitary camp.
“We ‘ntassod’ witlt the boys at noon
yesterday, and as that was an ttnex‘
peeled feature of our trip as far its
they were concerned, no special pre-
paration could possibly have been
been made, and as hungry men, we
indulged to the utmost. anti everyone
expressed ‘sailsfactlon with the meal.
We even completed the job by lining
up and washing our tttess~kit.
“Officers and men scented in per-
Tlte German resistance was es-
pecially stubborn on the British
right, but the result of the. night’s
fighting, as reflected iii the Lon-
don oiiicittl account, shows that de-
sp'tie tltis.thc British forces were'
able to forge ahead. _
.Wltile the British and French
ltttvc’ltectt making another for-
,ward thrust in the progress 05
‘sdriving a wedge into the German
fect condition, and their relatives may :lincs itt Belgium the French forces
l‘PSl OBEY that “my are well lakf’nihave been heavily engaged on}
“m" 0" and that they are 3 happyitheir own soil to tltc,sottth—tt_ear
"3351‘“ teats. at noon. the arrival ot,St‘ Quentin, on the Atsttc front,
the, mail scented its ntuclt importanttand “”119 Ummpagllc. '
118 ll. main duty of the day, for they; In the St. Quentin urea Gen. Pe—
flocked about the sergeant} tent until ltain's troops regained nearly all
”‘9 '3'“ “9m 0‘ man was distributed. ithc section of line which the Ger-
tltur Whitaker, son of Mrs. Thomas
“One. and all joined in sending r: 5
tttans had penetrated itt their suds
done. with; m tut
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"A Club of Good Citizens." a club
of boys who meet at the Norwalk
Library Monday eVenings. with the
Librarian for Counselor, made a trip
to New York yesterday 'fdt' which
they hays been saving for several
months. They went first to the Bot-
anical Gardens in ' which they took
special interest as several of the club,
have been in the garden contest for[
a number of years. They then did they 90ml LPROY Was the only one able,
Zoologlcal Park thoroughly and finish-
ed with a half hour in the Broadway
section ’before taking the six o’clock
train ltottt‘e‘.“-. M
The officers of the club are Ken-
neth Fagan, president; Thos. McNam-
ara, secretary; Harold Mather, treas- ’
over, and other members are Arutht-
Nather. John McNamara. Patti Mag
ner, Leo Ryan, Wilbur McElroy and
William Abbott. ‘
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His legs eaten away by fishes, a
new-born baby boy was found float-
ing in the harbor yesterday-neat- the
railroad freight depot by Floyd Ben~
nig. a railroad employc. Medical Ex-
aminer Samuel H. Huntington boo
lieves the child dkd of natural
causes.
There was no clothing on M body
to enable the police to identify that
patent: of‘- the child. Belief in ct:-
preued by the authorities that the
taunt died shortly after it was born.
and the mother chose to meadow!-
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Whitaker. 19; George Burrell, 18; ‘son
of Charles Burr-ell, all of Stafford,
and Corporal LeRoy of Company K
of the First Connecticut infantry of
Hartford.
Necdham’s skull was fractured and
he is not expected to. live. Mullins
was pinned under some timbers of
the. bridge for more than two hours
before he was extricated. There was
no water in the river bed, which
saved Mullins from drowning. Both
of hir- legs were broken and he was
otherwisn seriously injured. . Cor-
io talk and give an account of the
(accident. .All were taken to the
Wing Memorial Hospital in Palmer,
where they received medical aid.
They are all, except LcRoy, in seri-
‘ous conditions.
Mrs. Needham was notified'ot the.
critical condition of her son. and was
taken to Palmer. Both Mullins and
‘Needham had recently enlisted in the
First Connecticut Infantry, and were
Soon to be called into training. ”
LABOR" NOT TO SUFFER
UNDER NEW r001) BILL
NEW 303K, Aug. ll.-President
Samuel Goii’t'fiera of the Amer can Fed-
eration of Labor assured ‘li Owns)
Federated Union of Greater New York
in a telegram meta-s 1:131 mat
the new food control law would not 0])
crate to the detriménf‘df labor.
The assurance was given by a "high
authority" that section four of the food
bill would not be interpreted as apply-
lng to the normal activities of labor
unions.
HOPKINS SUCOEEDS SWEENEY.
“Our party were unanimous in pine
ing the Sixth Company boys in the
first rank of all the. companies we ob-
served." ‘"
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Mind Prevents Disaster
That Might Have Rivalled
. Milford'Wreck ,
‘Only the presence of mind of :t
brakeman on the 5:40 train out of New
Haven last night in flagging the
Springfield express just before it
crashed into the local which was stall-
ed a short distance out of Milford pre
vented a wreck that might have been
as disastrous as the famous Milford
wreck- of year and a half ago which.
occurred‘under similar circumstances.
The express stopped, with the nose of
the locomotive almost touching the
rear coach of the 10ch.
The 5:40 train was late in leaving
New Haven. Trouble with the locomo-
tive developed shortly after leaving.
and it was finally necessary to stop the
train to repair the damage.
After waiting several minutes Just
theotltet- side of Milford n brakemnu
(killed the atten'ft'éitofihe crew to the
fact that me Springfield express was
due. He ran back the truck and staged
the express which was just rounding
the curve. ‘ ‘
‘ WASHINGTON, Aux. 10.—Selden
0. Hopkins. of Cheyenne. Wyo.. was
nominated ted” by President Wilson
,to be Wt.
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the laying.
at. we
Passengers in the lust ears heard
‘the doors“ any of them lumped
Secretary of the la- from tho platforms to the mend but
oghctorathe can,
were emptied they:-
had been Slapped. ‘ '
gards to their friends at. home. .
Brakeman’s Presence of '
One of the water pipes sprung a-leak,;
thfi coming train and made a rush for
den thrusts of Thursday night.
North of the Aisne they carried
out a brilliant attack and recap-
tured and held the wltole of an,
important trench wlticlt the Ger—
mans had recently taken south of
Ales.
The fighting in the Champagne
was of German initiative. An at-
tack launched Over a front of near—'
ly two miles whs broken up by the
French, except at one poittt'to thc'
ttortlt of Cttrttillet, and even here
tltc'Gcrntansfivcre afterward eject-
ied front the elements they had.
lpettctrated with the exception of a.
lstretch of some fifty yards.
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LONDON, 'Aug. 11.~——German
assaults were made on the British
positions cast of Ypres during the
night. according to the British of—
ficial statement issued today. .They‘
all broke down after fierce fight-
'lllg. . '
i Field Marshal Httig reported.
that the Bitish maintained their
positions to‘tlte east of Ypres and.
iguincd ground near the Ypres~
.Mcttin road.
, PARIS, Aug. ll.—-Nortlt of St.
thtcntitt French troops lust night
made important progress in the re.
gion of Fayet, says the official
statement given out today by the
French War Department. The-
F‘rcttch ejected the Germans froln';
a large part ‘of the terrain which
they had captured on the night of
August 9-10.
BERLIN. Aug. 11—41:: Bandits.
g. ,. mum firm i.
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