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THE CADUCEUS
V.
THE WEEK IN TABLOID
LOAN PROGRESSES.
The subscriptions to the fourth Lib
erty Loan are coming in from all
points with encouraging results al
though the country as a whole is some
what behind schedule time. The Mid
dle AVest is gaining prominence by
the manner in which the townships
and counties are one by one “going
over the top.’’ Perhaps the greatest
of all is the State of Iowa which has
already oversubscribed her quota of
$147,000,000 by three million dollars
and is still going strong. Wisconsin
claims 70 per cent raised and Indiana
almost out. In the Cleveland district
seventy-one honor flags have already
been awarded.
ADMITS DEFEAT.
In a recent official statement from
Berlin the German government admits
the evacuation of the towns of Lille
and Armentieres, this is an important
military gain for the allies as it opens
the fast breaking Hindenburg line to
further attack with prospects of far-
reaching and telling results.
FIX PRICES.
Among the activities of the war in
dustries board for the week is their
decision in the price of shoes as they
have definitely agreed to fix the re
tail prices in proportion to the style
and grade of the shoe.
GET MATERIAL.
General Pershing announces that
the war material captured by the ad
vancing Americans between the Meuse
and Argonne for the past week com
prises in part: 120 guns of all cali
bers; SOOmachine guns; 100 heavy
tank guns and hundreds of thousands
of rounds of small arm ammunition.
REMOVE POPULATION.
Reports from Switzerland indicate
that the German military authorities
are in fear of a general uprising in
the states of Alsace and Lorraine
^^en the allies cross into those prov
inces. The inhabitants of twenty vill
ages have been removed and distri
buted about the interior provinces.
CONSTRUCTION IMPROVES.
The condition in the ship-yards at
the present time are so favorable that
the building progarm has been enlarg
ed to make the net output come up to
8,000,000 tons yearly the largest pro
duction of any country in the world
today, .
GERMAN PROTEST. 
One of the interesting develop
ments of the week is the protest reg
istered by the Imperial German gov
ernment to the neutral state of Hol
land against the use of shot-guns by
the American troops. She further
states that fi the use of them continue
she will begin reprisals, by murdering
every soldier caputred with such a
weapon or with ammunition for such
a weapon upon his person.
NONE TO CAMP NOW.
The spread of the Spanish Influenza
has stopped the flow o fnew men to
the army cantonment and it is be
lieved that it will not be resumed as
long as the epidemic continues.
TELLING BLOWS
DRAFT LOTTERY.
The big draft lottery for the new
registrants was held in the capi'tol city
on Monday and was concluded in re
cord time the final capsule being
drawn from the noctainer hours be
fore the estimated time. The results
will be announced as soon as practi
cable to do so. '
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AMERICANS TAKE VILLAGES.
The American troops in Northern
Russia, in the vicinity of Archangle
have been successful m capturing sev
eral additional villages klong th'e river
Divina.
BULGARIA QUITS
The most important development in
the fighting for the week has been the
utter collapse of Bulgaria, the connect
ing link between the Teutonic allies
in the west and Turkey in the east.
Bulgaria has put her railroads am}
general transportation facilities at the
■disposal of the allied armies which
should indicate a speedy finish for
the “Sick man of Europe.’’ All Bul
garian troops have been withdrawn
from Serbian soil and a rapid demo
bilization is expected.
DAMASCUS CAPTURED.
The success of the allied arms in the
Holy Lands continues with the fall of
Damascus and the capture of 7,000
turks by the British forces under Gen
eral Allenby. The Turkish army with
it’s thousands of German officers is
rapidly working itself into a danger
ous position that may result in the
surrender of thousands of their men.
GERMANY WORRIES.
With the resignation of Imperial
chancellor Von Hertling and the ap
pointment of Prince Maximillian of
Baden to succeed him, the interior
situation in Germany appears > to be
growing worse. Conditions at the front
and the crumbling of the Hindenburg
line is a topic of open discussion in all
papers of the empire today and the
possibility of Austria following the
example of Bulgaria is one that seems
to worrk even the most optomistic
of the German press.
SUFFRAGE LOSES OUT.
The constitutional amendment in
favor of women suffrage which suc
cessfully passed the members of the
House was defeated In the senate, due
largely to the resistance and deter,
mined opposition started by the sena
tor from South Carolina.
WILSON EXPLAINS.
The recent speech of President Wil
son at the Metropolitian opera house
in New York City at the opening of
the Liberty Loan . campaign went far
towards explaining America’s official
attitude towards'the war today. The
decided peace terms set forward by
him are undisputeable and every Am
erican should now be able to state
clearly just what we are fighting for.
CLEGG
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