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John J. Crowley, Wakefield, February 14, from wounds. NEW BRPTAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1918 Deaths from disease among the 1 ASK PRESIDENT TO | troops were reported as follows: | 8 Privates Thomas J. Quirk, Lowell, & embolism; Alfred | Mass., pneumonia; man, Beach, N. D. H. Clapp, West Union, Towa, tuber- culosis; Artie O. Ledbetter, Elizabeth- | town, TIl., sarcoma; Walter N. Heinz, Ore., empyema. SPECIAL BULLETS 10 WING AIRCRAFT { American Invention May Excell Those Now in Use know. T existed A picce poral » believed that One burst where I hit a fellow on the other of me who came from Texas. Corporal picked him up in started with him for a station the shower of airt being kicked never raany near W d he his arms first-aid of perfect and mud which was up. 1 don’'t know whether he zot there not. That time I into a 1w aun emplacement with another corporal, whose home is in Missouri, leaving my rifle outside. Things got hot we decided to try to get to a steel shelter at the end of a trencn. “The Corporal went first, but a few feet away a shell exploded almost on him and Killed him. I stopped out and saw that my rifle had beea hlown picc This left me d less, so I started in another direction, hop- -Boston Store ASSAULT ON OUR TROOPS REHEARSED and in midst ARE YOU INTERESTED IN ever or ot @ 1chine Crane, Germans Had Complete Map ol | Resolations Urging Aid of Ameri-| i Sector They Attacked ‘ ! ! ca Sent fo Washnigton | s0 With 1ce, tho March + n of attack, American in six hundred Lithuanians and guests | I'ress) including a of the positions, indicating S i M h. ; a c lnes | every dus which was removed \ | from the body of the Prussian Cap- IF SO LET US SHOW YQU | tain who led the recent assault upon | ing to find a. rifle or a pistol, beca THE CI-IAI‘I‘ENGE the scctor northwe of Toul, show I knew the Germans would be around I ssembled last evening in Lithuanian Buplan, of e 1k street and adopted reso- Wilson of o T | questing J'resident to declare for the independence Lithuania. which has already an- from Rus- its Gerr \ouncec dependeney ! how co nounced indeg A th time a le same ir e ruld imple r ob, sian and in ide S aid s having :tention during the eve- A i Speeches were mad mate ar de day deligh ning Georze by Mayor W. . Delaney Georze W. Klett sympathy with the movement for an independent nd endorscd the project 10 the pre Anthony Mik John J. Gerd who acted chs ing. A collection Quigley, Was ment Mar by ch the War depart-| the Ordnance de- | ington, 4—Announce- was| last night that h of bullets for use in airplane work in and that tess Postma tor and Sena- expre tail empl every de- within the bottom there labeled: line each the her-1 ling bent the flying made who ssed ment partment developed special types | forwardir olutions SUgs these 3 the irain. Th belts! jdent. Other Wauska kers were Salaveicik, John Skritulsky, of the meet- imounting to more | than $200 was taken up and this will be devoted to the of freedom | “Ouar five murked: IFrance, s of these missiles | are indicate that they are fully equal to or | abroad. These | special types of bullets are intended to | sh | “Ne Four surpass those in use irman the it ack, sure to those | ierce the armor of military airplan on thet cause nearl | CHURCH NEW Center Church. 30 p. m., Armenian Class; 4:00 p. 1 School; 4:00 p. m.,, League; 6:3)0 p. the last Church Supper of the sc After the supper, the tables will cleared and used for Red Cro worlk 15 at the January supper. All aro nvited; 30 to 9 Mid-week Ser- sday Women's Bible m., La- fayette Sewing is in It war, Junior Service m., U on be | :30, o slc riday—All-day sewing meetings the Red Cross will be held until urther notice at the Center Cong tional Church; 5:00 p. m. Girl ; 7:15 p. m., Troop 4, Boy Scouts; $:00 p. m. the Baroness Huard will give her illustrated Jec- ture, “The Field of Mercy”, in this hurch. She comes under the au pices of the McAll Society and the proceeds will go to war relief work in France. Doors open at 7:30. Tickets on sale at Dickinson’s and at II's drug stores and at the Red Cross rooms on Court street. Saturday—7:00 p. m., Choir hearsal. Next Sunday service will be held in the church. Dr. George Cady, one of the best speakers in the Congrega~ tional church, will preach. South Church. 7:30, Boy Scouts, for was con- the Germans prepa soon. Ahout the AT $18.50. The map goes into such de to “I was just approachin ¥ nply a line drawn, down on top of the tion, exploded, A Ten Year Guarantee I've got to hand it that the Americans were in front of every way. | {c:nnh.mr-d 40 infantrymen, one Lieu- { group on the extreme left carried out 23 = 3 D14 Book of Fashion 25c. fense changed all the plans. When followed the other groups around the followed carried large quantities of of the prisoners taken by the Amer- cans, like the Germans, did not want were volunteers. about the Americans except that congestion in Ger- wanted the war to end. He was cer- any of the German tanks, they said. in fact, this s but | of sheli hit me on not its ulti- | down I went. \ 3 ‘\ P‘ive Yefll' (;uarantee ect the r of a por- |order for me to g0 to a first Goes With It e, ! show eve machin cun tion in the rear of two st ment, every trench, and ing teams, who were proces THE RELIANCE pression in the ground over to \pe if possible | front line.” Along this and wiped it out. A piece of rock hit With This One ded portions, me in the head. When I wohke up = some stretcher bearers had me, haul- rehearsels were held for These are made by one of | aivick, and the troops who made th(‘ beSt makel‘s in fl\isrwl'r@ specially picked from new men with the Red Cross ‘ s | them. Will do the work | Acier the artille had lev- . eled our positions the Ge start- as well as a $40.00 machine. McCall Goods Are Here. | tenant, and three pioneers to precode > = P | the s and five to follow it. The Patterns 10c, 15¢ and 20¢. | two groups on our extremo risht | a similar movement there. The two | sroups in the center had planned to they were met by the heavy machino gun fire from our lines they saw it would be impossible to gain a footing flank. The duty of the pionecrs pre- ceding the infantry was to clean up any wire that had not been broken by explosives for the purpose of cleaning up the dugouts. Germans Don’t Want to Fight. icans show that all of them did not believe Germany would win the war. One of the men told the intelligence to fight, but had to. The officers quickly changed the German’s point of view by informing him that all of One prisoner, whose home German Lorraine, id he th the Fatherland would lose the they were in the war, the German apers not printing much on the subject, he said, and bein to This prisoner said he vinced that the recent strik many were caused by a desire for tain that an offensive was comir but did not believe it would be launched before April 1. All of them added that ‘they w-ie #lad to have been taken prisoner, especially by the Americans, because | tion of the salient. tion. AT can lines. At the pieces of shell, when a shell piunipe ing me over the shell holes. .~ | rivals in the sector. They were told country and are reliable in| ed out from their nests each of which agazine 10c. went around this flank, ond the attack directly, but the American de- there, changed their direct'on and the artillery, while the pioneers who Offic reports of the interrogation officers he presumed that the Ameri- the troops in the attacked positions but he hoped not. He kn nothi reach the front Iines because of mail | peace, 1ding that all Germany None of the prisoners had secn believed they would be well Crow Res accounts showed that the sector opposite the American position was commanded by General Stalzmann. The correspondent talked with a dozen of the American wounded lylag on their hospital cots. Every one of them was anxious to tell of somo deed of heroism performed by his fellows, but displayed great modesty regardinz his own exploits. One vouth, whose home is near Savannah, and who seemed to be not more old, told this story: Shower of Shells. in the front lint when it seemed like every shell in the world started coming our way. Where the Germans got them is more than Monday 8. Tuesday—4:00, Junior Roys’ 7:30, Women’s Association; 7:30 Scouts, Troop 2 Wednesday Thursday——5:00, Devotions, Red Dressings Work. Friday--9:30, Troop Club; Boy Board of ladies. Girl Scouts: 7:30, Cross and Surgical 100, All-az “I was Work for Baptist Church, Monday—The Annual 1siness Meeting of the Church will be held in the Chapel at 8. This meeting is for the clection of officers and com- | mittees of the Church and Bible | School for the ensuing vear, tae pres- | entation of reports, and the tra tion of any other business. Tuesday—There will be meeting at 8 o’clock at the Mr. James Faust, SonEn street. Wednesday—The women church will meet for at the home of Mrs. 259 Fairview street Thursday—Red Cross the Chapel from 5:30 to Jar Church-night service theme will be taken from J the class in Bibiical will meet at the close of tk night service; the annual meetin the Ladies’ Aid Society will be held at the cl of the women's meeting. | d All-day Red meeting at the Center Congr the regular meeting of the Wom- ion Circle will be held in the parlor at 3:30 o’clock. The subject | for the meeting will be “Thi of | Darkness,” and will be in charge of | Mrs. E Cro: prayer home of Burritt prayer at N speci Cross Soothe Itching with Cuticura : Bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot Training will meet at | throu | manded by rms. They all worked like dogs in that hell out there. They seemed to have but one idea—to do their duty and apparently cared nothing for their own lives while doing ey were game right to the core Red Cross Men In this that there are men who wear names re on the list, An artilleryman from Now e described what happened in the pit Injurcd. connection it may he sald number of “ross whose wher n was asleep in the dugout the fun began,” he said. Ve out to the gun. The shells were ing down all around. Then came tii order for ¢ rrage, and we let themn have it. One hit near the and loosened the 1 overncid ter that every time the cussion brought down one or two logs, Mud, stones, and pic hell in at the front. Five knocked from one wheel tiic riage, and the gun muzzle was nich- ed. Two or three men wers slightly hit laid away the 1 ihe pit, the rest fir ing. pit Al- we con- es of s came spol wer of car- and whi at of of on 1ddenly a the gun 1d hit me time tat this gets piece I behind About th to the dressin I don’t mind to the Lord in W e but 1 soon, wonnd, N well it o with out! asked of thei was ntrymen the fate distress men of the the Captain them said fine officer, of his 0. Any one of the company would have zon through hell at his order. We will pasy ritz for that if haven read done so.” A Kans the s com- pinyved all the comnany « who was kill- ed. One of “He he took carc and, e was me, we s man who was in thc ht last he of the C: kneeling alon - n the n the said Saw he w machine 1 and mans with his own autonati oy G o him fall flat, private. The Captz Ger v wdded was Killed wound in the chest the American dead buried in a little aravey hundred yards from the spot they fell. The German bodies have been collected and [ them. n Dy & gun shot All heen few where now rd & also ied near >h 4.—TFive lieutenant, Amer- were and Ger- shington, Mar including a < five severely wounded four slightly wounded in the man raid against the American trenches to the north of Toul on March 1, the war department n- nounced today. The list follow Ead Harold , lieutenant, T H Amodel more Parsons N. e W icans, led Anthony, sergeant, private, Obi y private, Logan Ind Mathew, private, Fayette in four action in ments were by the department Deaths of men an- fol- Joseph P., sergeant, Der- bruary 24. corporal, Ch on, Me., F Eph, March Weatherman, High Ind., March homas &, February 28 wounded by, Boggs, Red Jacket, private. Bea severely ou March Vortner., BHiott, corporal. Herrin i1 Howard E Cy Ness, Roy E., Minn Kinkle, Reuben wood, Mon. Work, Glenn Those slightly were: Lit Fvarts, Ky Duluth, private, private, private, Obert, Ne! on March H., cook, wounded B, Abbot, John corporal, ac Rae, John, Jr., private, Ch Arthur B, Cam- son, private, bridse, 111 Turner, Edward J., Lake Mills The following were wounded s on other dates: Sproule, William J., sergeant, New- port, Me. February Thames. Sam W., corpor Ta. 1y water and follow with a gentle ap- plication of Cuticura Ointment. The mission of Cuticura is not only to soothe and heal but to prevent skin troubles by keeping the pores free from impurities by dailv use in the toilet. Sample Each Free by Mail. Address po: st- card: “Cuticura, Dept. 8T, Boston.” Sold evervwhere. Soap2c. Ointment 25 and 50c. e lor. Tr The Queen E this evening with 232 Maple street. Thursday evening the woek P and work which all urged to ity Church. her Circle will meet Miss Edith Sparks, er attend tunna, Miss., February 26. Nightingale, M Rumford, Me., T Leslie ton, N Linton, CF T., private, ney, Idaho, February 26 The department announced that Private Robert R Dedham Mass., died February and private, private, Arling- 23. Dow- Bavard, 9 | ple |in believe || mude | Til- | cook, il | High- | i medicine and wrote this letter in order | that other suffering women may find Some of them are of the tracer typo, and others are incendiary bullets, in- tended to explode the gasoline tanks of enemy airplanes. Concerning the development of the | ne bullet the War department | authorized the announcement: | “The present war brought forth a | kind of ammunition for airplane, | | new use in the form of special car- s containing bullets or armor- piercing, tracing and incendiary puc- With the progress of the war, | more vital parts of the airplane | protected with light armor, | it became necessary to introduce armor-piercing bullet. \s the gasoline tanks were particu- larly susceptible to incendiary explo- | sion, it was necessary to procure a | bullet containing an inflammable sub- | ance, ignited upon discharge, which | weuld carry the s or flame into | the tank upon piercing it. i “As the target, the‘enemy airplane, | S fighting range for only | at a time and as there | of defermining the | on land, a tracer bullct | bright-burning composi- vhich would indicate the path of in davlight well in poses. the %0 tha the | | within moments means brief were effect, ¢ Vining firc tion Trkness the machine gun introd The fire upon discharg through the nly to overator. ATl ta be corrected, was composition set nd the bullet | ht spar hine-g ced. is visible theso of 20 three-tenths of length of 1 in it for or for composition binations of er, and armor-pier bullc irtridges are —calibre small rifle calibres thereabout. The 1 diameter and short left little »r-piercing incendiary con na fir ncendiary Lullet space arn element armor- | ercing and have been | 1k of the pormptly this At the inforn outbre: tion war, further thered subject was ble for thi difliculties of t the Al bulle country is entirely | what might be termed ! bullets developed ates Ordnance department tested on land and to sed if there is any dif-| in their performance when | fired from a quickly moving airplanc | n the upper atmosphere and when | firca on land. These tests indicate | that the United States has developed a | class of special cartridges with a per formance fully equal to or surpassing that attained abroad.” 'BEST MEDIGINE FOR WOMEN’ was Allies, and he Trnited States ount of Honc LN satisfactory perfoct on the preblem of spec possessed or by from airplanes ference | What Lydia E. Pinkham’s | Vegetable Compound Did | For Ohio Woman. . Portsmouth, Ohio.—*‘I suffered from | irregularities, pains in my side and was | so weak at times 1 could hardly get around to do my work, and as T had four in my family and three boarders itmade it very hard | for me. Lydia, E. | Pinkham’s Vege- | table Compound | was recommended to me. I took ijt and it has restored my health. Tt is ; certainly the best e for woman’s ailments I ever | saw.”’—Mrs. Sara SHAW, R. No. 1, Portsmouth, Ohio. Mrs. Shaw proved the merit of this relief as she did. { ‘Women who are suffering as she was should not drag along from day to day without giving this famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound, a trial. For special advice in regard to such ailments write ydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, The result of its forty years experience is at your service. for Lithuania The resolution Wher we conside of univers; t rizht adopted follow: whom itest exponent the determination 1l small, £ our president, the wre democracy and the self dence of 1d president in his addre congres: the aims of the democrac has cham- there Lo omitted to it 1t nation of Lithu those that should independence after nations: S aen memorahle s T to re: enumerati ¥ world pioned the righ but ancic some in nations, clude the tnia he the as one of sranted war, and Whereas the bering Lithuanians num- about eight million persons having a d t history and a lang ent from all other lang inhabiting the uthea sastern shores of the have for suffered in- persecu- southern nd centurics Lithue (8) 12 Baltic past sen long centuries oppressions from their and tern hors for its the nia utained independence world ar ect of as a nation the time Lithuania freedom equality as during id independence proper lig L Loundaries, Whereas reat of e of re- hefore the within protection on to and all peoples and Lithuania to its rendered humanity by Tar- ervice z Lt of checki invasion of the tars and Russia 1 ble devastation famine in the and is the has Tery wd present Wher the war, s it Lithuanian permitted o national will people that unmolested to themselves the government, afliliati ind to ition for v be determine form heir 1 eir Ttur worl own the Therefore this meeting dent of the tercede for their futun Be requ the Lithu rights for self-determination independence his future administration of internatio nd at fhe peace come, and furt Be Tt Resolved this resolution 1 the President fairs to cor er that a forwarded the 1Uni of cou state, and of to d copy of members from i the local is city and o JOHN SKRITULSKY, Chairman KAZLAUSKUIT Secretar VA TO BUILD PARSONAGE. rinl Meeting G. E. \nnourc Night. Pt A\t the regular Sundaey service in the Sw 1 church, Rev. Gust Pill in astor, announced that I had en perfected pa ranklin for the erection of a North acquirved W son on the site on ne 1" Square by church corporation Frie U. C will the 1 permit from [ Rutherford Ison. the builder, who ercet new ured rildir urday 1 cost weather conditic the work time structure, se (3 ectar new j rsonage w al md with favori will short STOMACH UPSET? Get at the Real Cause—Take Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets That's what thousands sufferers are doing now. Instead of taking tonics, or trying to patch up a poor digestion, they are attacking the real cause of the ailment— clogged liver and disordered bowels. Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets arouse the liver in a soothing, healing way. When the liver and bowels are performing their natural functions, away goes indigestion and stomach troubles. I8 If you have a bad taste in your mouth, tongue coated, appetite poor, lazy, don’t-care feeling, no ambition or energy, troubled with undigested foods, you should take Olive Tablets, the sub- stitute for calomel. Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. You will know them by their i olive color. They do the work without griping, cramps or pain. Take one or two at bedtime for quick | #'nos! | relief, so you can eat what you like. At 10c and 25¢ per box. All druggists. that the local Ukrainians are opposed | ! Unitea clothes of stomach | | Tose | treatment by | | | | Do Not | the | meeting o We They include, Coral Chartreuse, Crown, Californta, Commodore, Orange, SAVE WHEAT FLOUR Why experiment with substitues for Let us bake for you. Aunt Delia’s Bread Bread, baked in New Britain and made according Experimenting means waste. 1o get the best results. wheat Buy Only As Much As You Need. | | Bread } MRS. HOUSEWIFE in your baking? ‘We know how good wholcsome regulations. Buy a loaf today; Your grocer sells it. HOFFNMANNS BAKERY 95 Arch St. 62 West Main St. WASTE NO BREAD UKRAINFAN Approve of the Action Their Countrymen. HOLD MEETING. of considerable agitation, Ukrainians held a large mass| in Ukrainian hall on Erwin last evening to discuss matters interest to themselves. The meet- ing was at first called off because the | iuthorities thought that it was to be/ a4 pro-Central Power assemblage in- asmuch as Ukrainia is naw a ally of rmany. When it was explained Following , this alliance and are loyal to the! ates the may issued orders to meeting under proper super-; There was nothing to mar the | and the presence of plain men was not needed. Niroslew Ciezynski, a noted Ukrain- ian, was thep rincipal speaker. His fame arises fram the fact that about o he shot and killed a nobieman in Galicla and later fled to this country where international com- nlic arose as to the advisability | crmitting him to remain here. The | of 1 meeting was that | Ukrainians do not believe in af their home land and that it has taken a step in the direction in alignin with Ger-| ither than with the permit vision evening ions of ensc the local the foel wron many Entente | power WAGON." | | RICO “ON | March 4.— ! Juan, Porto Rico, co went dry at midnight This followed an act which the election of last failed to repeal. This act pro- | the importation, manufacture, | zift of intoxicating liquors or A local law permits the man- and sale of beer containing ding 2 1-2 per cent of al- Many cafes closed ecarlier night, after dis- usual Saturday the last of their diminished PORTO Sat- of July 1ibits ctur not exee cohol than posir liquor of stocks. LOSES VOICE THROUGH N. Y. March 4 result of a shock from seeing a an in an adjoining apartment in New | York dash herself to death from a | sixth story window, Josephine Dun- | fee, soprano, has lost her voice, it be- | came known here from friends of | the well known singer. The shock to | her nervous system was so great that for a time it was feared she would her mind. She is undergoing which she hopes to Te- voice. SHOCK. As the wom- Syracuse, a gain her BRAZIL WAR PARTY WINS. March 4.—Although the election returns have not Dbeen received from all the states, it has been determined that Rodriguez Alves ana Delfin Moreira have been clected president and vice president unanimously. All poMtical par- et Fsupport i tolthem ton i pledze for a continuance of the wsent administration’s war policies. Rio Janeiro, I Two Stores to ALL DEVENS MI! BU TO Candidates for Officers’ to Boston. Camp 4.—Plans in the soldiers bering 66 colleges Devens, are Ayer, announced rade in Boston, April officers’ 19 government YOU A Y PARADE. Stripes Go Ma Ma for a of the training school. attending the school, n were chosen largely fu and technical parade will /come of Weeks. Orders fc Camp and Wedn rescinded weather. or their training a Devens on D gen of Vessels Valued Du W hington, M continues to suffer man war losses ing 16, about February lives while cablegram tion today SEEK DI submarine op Twelve 000,000 and 20 t New York, campaign to ™ s to we 19 mer the at tr eriod reral Monda; this arch heavi ve ns re seamen 1 are Norw announced ARDED JEWLLRY] Tar ho 4 induce render dicarded jewelry the benefit of the army and nounced cial Since been throu t aia sed ! jewe GERMAN Amsterda national navy privately he u bt here today nd Trinket fund of the natio societ Septembe perso; aviator; by out for DIBT Marel $31,0 and sunl people schools, 1e conclus of fourt cleanup Tues week w the 1y valued dur lost tH > missing, egian | A natip| to s sale needs wus Tre for nal the n com: §40,000 th 00,000,000 erman nedl \pproximal 10rme wdowsH § POSTUM | can be made any strength desired —in th e Cup. No boiling-A sugar saver.

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