TCEDiNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1917
I rAGE TEN.
THE ASHEVILLE TIMES.
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BRITISH AND FRENCH
ADVANCED TO DEPTH OF
1200 YARDS YESTERDAY
Allies' Victory in Flanders Made AH the More Wonder
ful on Account of Natural Difficulties Germans
Lost Heavily in Casualties and Prisoners Taken
Teuton Resistance Weak
British Front in France and Bel
gium, Oct. 9. (Delayed) (Tiy Asso
ciated Press) The Mow struck by the
British and French forces today
against a wide section of the ilerman
defenses between the lioutholst forest,
lind Kroodseinde lias resulted in an
other great success. Over much of
thiB front the attacking troops swept
forward to a depth of I.Uim) yards or
more, over-running many important
strongholds of the shattered enemy.
This afternoon the allies were dmmng
lb. almost on the outskirts of liout
holst forest, the I-Sntish were bevnnd
Poelcapelle after sancuinary hand-to-hand
fighting and further south they
had grained the l'asschendaele ridge
within less than 1.000 "yards of . Pass -chendaele,
thereby ' wrenching away
almost all that remained to the !or
mans of their famous I'asschehdale-
Gheluvelt ridge system of fortifica
tions. Again the German losses have been
great, and reports from all along the
line indicate that their organisation
and moral" were hit hard.
It has been another wonderful per
formance on the part of the allies
and the victorv is been more remark
able because of the tremendous nat
ural difficulties to the advance. The
rain of the last two days had turned
much of the battle ground into' a
morass, through which the French
ami the men of the Untish empire
floundered knee deep. How they could
.make their way . forward over such
ground; much less tight over it, is the
amazing thing. This very fact Un
doubtedly contributed to the day's
triumph for German prisoners say no
body on their side ' had thought the
allies mould advance under such con
ditions. The appearance of the mud covered
allied troops com In k out of the marsh
es before the German lines apparent
ly unnerved the enemy. They sur
rendered m large numbers In many
places, or ran away as fast as they
could.
An entire .German division the
227th was brought up during the
night to relieve the division in the line
between I'oelcapelle and the Houtholst
forest. The men were transported in
motor lorries from Roulers and ar
rived at the advanced positions about
3 o'clock this morning. They were Ig
norant of the nature of the country
and when caught m the attack some
two hours later they were bewildered
and put tip little resistance.
The attack was .launched, as dawn
was breaking. The French on the left
flank of the Pritish were facing prob
ably the worst section along the line,
as the ground over which thev hnd to
advance was interlaced with little
streams and the rain had turned it
into a bog.
The French pushed forward rapidly,
however, reducing numerous German
pill boxes and redoubts and had ac
complished all they had set out to do
by 10 o'clock. This meant that they
were some f00 yards beyond Mange
laere. and almost at the edge of the
lioutholst forest.
Heavy casualties were inflicted on
the Germans by the preliminary bom
bardment and during the fighting. At
an early hour the French reported the
capture of several hundred prisoners
and also lhat their own .losses were
light-1 ,
. A .separate attack made by the Brit
ish south, of the ' main offensive line ?
on a narrow front embracing Reutel
and Polderhoek was reported to be
successful. No deep advance was at
tempted here, the operation bein
mainly to improve the positions
reached Thursday.
On the whole the Germans made a
weak resistance today. Their in
fantry appeared demoralized in many
sections and their artillery Are was
weak and erratic. No estimate of the
total German losses Is possible but
they are believed to have been exceed
ingly heavy.
The Pritish and French losses are
reported to have bee nhght. It is es
timated at a conservative calculation
that in the attack last Thursday the
German losses aggregated 20.000.
Little Serbia is Being 1
Depopulated By the War
Ttie Aonthera nrrm the ""
PuhllRhed u Information not iTiarantaaA
HOME CARD
UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP WIN THIS WAR
"WTN Tllfi WAR BY GIYIXG TOUR OWN DAILY SERVICE
Our problem is'to feed our Allies this winter by sending them as mueh food as Ave ran
of the most concentrated nutritive value in the least shipping space. These t'ooefs are wheat,
beef, pork, dairy products, and sugar.
Our solution js to eat less of these and more of other foods of which we have au abund
ance, and to waste less of all foods,
Bread (tnd cvrccds. Have at least one wheatless meal a day. Use eira, oat, rye,
barley, or mixed cereal rolls, muffins, and breads in place of white bread certainly for one
meal and, if possible, for two. Eat less cake and pastry.
As to the white bread, if you buy from a baker, order it a day in advance thjen he will not
bake beyond his needs. Cut the loaf on the table and only as required. Use 94ale bread for
toast and cooking.
3!e(tt. Use more poultry, rabbits, and especially (ish and sea food in place of beef, mut
ton, and pork. Do not use either beet', mutton, or pork more than once daily, mid then serve
smaller portions. Use all left-over meat cold or in made dishes. Use soups more freely. Use
beans; they have nearly the same food value as meat.
JIllIi Use all of the milk, wnstc no part of it. The children must have whole milk;
therefore, use less cream. There is a great waste of food by not using all skim and sour milk.
Sour i! ilk can be used in cooking end to make cottage cheese. Use buttermilk and cheese
freely. .;'''': V
fats- (butter, lard, ecJDairy butter has food values vital to children. Therefore,
use it on the table as usual, especially fur children. Use as little as possible in cooking.
Reduce the use of fried foods to reduce the consumption of lard and other fats. Use vegetable
oils, as olive and cottonseed oil. Save daily one third of an ounce of animal fat. Waste rc
soap; it contains fat and the glycerine necessary for explosives. Yon can make scrubbing
soap at home, and, in some localities, you can sell your saved fats to the soap maker, who will
thus secure our needed glycerine.
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k.War. Use less candy and sweet drinks. Use less sucar in tea and coffee. Use honey,
maple syrup, and dark syrups for hot cakes and waffles without butter or sugar. Do not
frost or ice cakes. Do not stint the use of sugar in putting up fruits and jams. They may
be used in place of butter.
ere((lbks (Hid 1 fruits. We have a superabundance of vegetables. Double the use
of vegetables. They take the place of part of the wheat and meat, and, at the same time,
are healthful. Use potatoes abundantly. Store potatoes and roots properly and they will
keep. Ust fruits generously.
?ie.Coal comes from a distance, and our railway facilities are needed for war pur
poses. Burn fewer fires, If you can get wood, use it.
Washington. Oct. 10. The T'nifd
Plates apparently has picked up some
thing in the way of a wholesale house
cleaning job as well as territory of
vast military value in buying the Vir
gin islands. Officials sent to look them
over recently asked congress for
$2iM,iiiin to correct these alleged con
ditions:1 N'o water works :j in any town.
Drinking water obtained from ois-,
terns or hauled in wagons from in
sanitary wells.. Fire departments con
sist, of hand-carts, tubs, tanks and
hand-piinips. No sewerage system.
Xo furniture for government offices
which contain old Danish safes made
of cast iron and locked with keys.
The cheerful word was brought
back that for many years past, the
islands budget has never met ex
penses. The biggest revenue obtain
ed was from customs against imports
troin the I'nited Stales which are
now cut off. Tn addition labor trou
bles are chronic became of importa
tions from the Barbadoes of low
class workmen.'
IF-
After seeing a business 'man! light a
cigar, and slip the match thoughtlessly
into ii corner of his oltiee near a waste
basket a man wrote tho following par
aiihiase of one of ; .Kipling's best
known poems. . ..V.
Tf yon can toss a match into a ciear
ing, :' . .
And never give thought to put it out.
Or drop your cigarette butt without
- fearing, ...
That flames may kindle in the leaves
about. .
If you can knock the ashes from your
brier, -
Without a glance to see where thev
. may fall, ;
And later find the forest all afire.
Where you have passed with no one
near to call.
If you drive your auto through the
working.
And cast your stogie stub into the
slash.
Unmindful of the danger therein lurk
"' ins,
Or home or happiness that you may
smash :
If you can leave your campfire while
'tis glowing,
No thought of industries that it may
blight. . .,.
Or of the billion saplings in the grow
ing. '
Turned into charcoal 'ore the coming,
night:
If von can start a fire beneath a
brush pile
When the wind is roaring like a distant-
gun.
You surely should he .shot without a
trial.
And, what is more, you'll be a fool,
my son.
Washington, Oct. 6. Red Cross ca
bles show that the people of Serbia
are being wiped off the map or scat
tered to the four corners of the earth
by the war monster. Set upon by the
enemy from three sides, their homes
have been sacked and burned, their
lands and storehouses pillaged and
their defenseless women and children
murdered or left to starve.
"Despair is written in the faces of
the Serbian prisoners of war in Aus
tria. Brutality is their daily lot; and
what they get of food is not enough to
keep body and soul together.
These black stories of Teuton cru
elty and butchery were brought to
Dr. Edward T. Ttyan. of the Red
Cross at Salonika by Serbian prison
ers returned.
If Italian prisoners in the Austrian
camps had not shared their scanty
packages from home with these 500
Serbian prisoners, all .he Serbs would
have died. Dr. Ryan reported. "Prac
tically no food," said Dr. Ryan's ca
ble, "was provided by their Austrian
jailors. AVhat was given amounted to
eight ounces of bread a day. - t noon
they had .vegetable soup with a small
piece of horse flesh, generally taint
ed. Morning and evening, a drink of
black liuid known as coffee, made of
chicory;.: was given with their brea'd.
This was their whole ration.
."From an army of nearly a half
million, at the begirning of the war,
over.'-150,000 men are estimated to
have been taken prisoners by the cen
tral powers. Nearly i.ll of these are
suffering from malnutrition in prison
camps. "r-,-r.r7 thousand Serbs per
jrr.ta tn the bloody repression of a
revolt at NJek. last February. The
Bulgarians have deported 30.000 in
habitants of Serbia to Asia Minor.
Fifty thousand fatherless families,
it is estimated, are facing destitution,
a problem comparable to that which
would face the Red Cross and other
charity organizations if the fathers
of all the families in Louisville, St.
Paul or Denver were mtflclenly de
ported. Fifty thou and families, a
population about the size of Indian
apolis br Providence, are Interned in
Austrian citmps. -
"The Serbian legation in Washing
ton has just issued the following
statement: In 1910 there were 1.
50S.04S inhabitants in Serbia; )n 1916
the reduction in the female popula
tion is 40,000. In ; rbia. as else
where in the southwestern part of
Europe, the male population is great
er than the female. The census rec
ords a proportion of 200 males to 141
females."
Reports received at' Red Cross
headquarters show that there is need
of doctors and nurses to care for the
civilian population, as all the doctors
have been pressed into the army tser
vce. Food, clothing, bandages, blan
kets, seeds and agricultural imple
ments are also needed. . In previous
invasions, the enemy had destroyed
the farming tools of this agricultural
.people. A system of soup kitchens in
the villages is ati absolute necessity,
if famine is not to take n neavy toll
this winter.
line and a railroad. Municipal coal
yards will be established on each of
these lines in Kvansville. The coal
will be sold at wholesale and retail at
slightly above cost.' The city will ar
range to haul It to the house of the
buyer. "
EFFFCTIYK JT1.T . 1I7 -Eautem Ttma.
Arrlre From
Trnlna
No.
No. 15
No. H
No. 2(1
No. !1
No. 27
No. !
No. 5
No. 41
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p.m.
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.Turks Mlvlll. Savannah.
Columbia and Charleston.. S:l 1
Rlrnmon1. Norfolk. Nw
York, Philadelphia. Baltl-
lnoro ..............
Phntrannna'a. Knnxv t t I . ..
MemrhK ClnrtnnatL
Louisville' and St. T,niil..
Jfnr Tork. Philadelphia."'
Baltimore. Waehlnirton. . ,111:85
Murrhr. Wavne"Me...... :Sfl
Murphy. Waynesvltle
f)oMboro. Raleigh. Oreena-
horo . . , ,
Charleston. Columbia and
Spartanbnrir
Cincinnati. Chlraao. Mem- .
phis. New Orleans. Blrra-
Intrham ..1(1:40
Salisbury nnfl the East..;. ':
Pnnrtsnhurir, Atlanta. Va
eon. Montgomery and New
Orleans .11 :45
PHsto;. tCnoTvllla ind
Chattanooga 10 55
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a.m.
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Trains
No. 10
No 1?
No. 1
No. 17
No. 19
No. 2!
No. 27
No. S
No. 42
No. 101
Evansville, Ind., Oct. 10. Coal deal
ers here say coal will be more scarce
this winter if local consumers .depend
upon them. :':.'.
Hut Kvansville . consumers don't,
care a hang. ..Mayor Hosse has prom
ised to furnish coal from his new
municipal, mine at a little above cost.
Uorings for the mine, the first city
owned in the country, lire about com
pleted. The mine is located just above
Chandler, Ind., 12 miles northwest of
the city. ...
Local coal dealers have their out
put tied up in iron-bound contracts
with concerns in other cities. They
claim ' local consumers have always
boycotted them, ami used cheap non
union coal from otlur cities. There
fore, they do not intend to break out
side contracts to keep Evansville from
freezing.
Mayor Rosse wants to make sure
the citizens get .coal and at a fail
price. So he started his municipal
mine, which will cost at least $lot,
000; The mayor is going to build it
with his own money, then sell it to
lit' city to be operated by the water
works department..
The mine w ill, be sold to the city at
cost plus six per cent interest oti the
original ni. esLmciiL. a usi. now uie 111.V4
Hooray!
l S. Cfiinn has a dry goods store
at Crawfordsville, tia, '
PBCPflPrTC enp
L!U I U
wouldn't take over the
mine, oul lis 1
charter and the Indiana laws do not
.permit a city to operate its own coal t
mine. Hut Posse declares he will '
light for a new law to permit munici
pal operation of the mine. In the
meantime he is going ahead to get the
new mine running. Law or no law,
the people must have coal, is his!
stand. .
The mine will produce 1,000 tons of ;
f "in, a day It will have the mo'
modern equipment. Coal will be i
shipped to the city on 0 traction.
icpnp
UlipJiJUii
HEADACHE, COLDS,
ainEyoiLS
Enjoy Life! Don't Stay Bil
ious, Sick, Headachy
and Constipated
Get Rid of Bad Breath,
Sour Stomach, Coated
Tongue, Indigestion
: Oct a 1 0-cent box now.
. They're tine! . Oasearets liven your
liver, clean your thirty feet of bowels
and sweeten your stomach. You eat
one or two, like candy, before going
to bed Sind in the. morning your head
is clear, tongue is clean, stomach
sweet, breath right and cold gone.
Oct a box from your druggist and en
joy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel
cleansing you ever experienced. Cas
carets stop sick headache, biliousness,
indigestion, bad breath and constipa
tion. Mothers should give a vhole Cas
:aret to cross, bilious, sick, feverish
children any time. Thev are harm
less and never gripe or sicken.
Tepart For
Columhla. savannah, Jak
aonvllle Atlanta. Charlea-
ton and Wilmington.
Knoxvllle, :' Chattanooga,
Memphis. Clnetnnntl.
Louisville ahd St. Louis. .
Richmond. Nortoik. Local
east
New York. Philadelphia,
Washington and east.;..
Waynesvtlle, Murphy v.
Waynesvltle. Murphy .....
Rnpelprh and OoMsboro...
Knoxvllle, . Chattanooga,
Birmingham, New Or
leans, Memphis, Cincinnati
and Chicago
Charleston, columoia ana
Spartanburg
Salisbury and east .......
Spartanburg. New Orleans
Bristol, Knoavllla and
Chattanooga
4:10 p.m.
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l.'BS
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a.m.
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10:4(1 a.m.
6 :00 am.
7:00 a.m.
STREET CAR SCHEDU 'Lri
IN EWECT TNE 1, 1!17.
Zl..lcf nnrl Return 6:00. 6:15, 6:30 . m.
Rivei-slil Pnrk 6:J5 and every lE mln
utv until 11 :0 p. m.
Depot Via Snnthlrlf Avemit 5:30 a. m.. - ,
and everv 15 minutes until 1 .15 p. m., thn .
every 7 mlnuton until 3:45 p. m ther,
vrv 1f mlnufeji until 11:00 p, m.
: Depot Via Frenrh ltmncl AveniM? -tf:00 n.
m.. and ever; 15 minute until 11:00 p. m.
Manor 6:00 ft. m., and every 15 minute
until 1 1 :00 p. m.
Crmrlotte Street Terminus 8:00 a. m..
flnd every 16 minutes until 11:00 p. nv.
11:30 car run tfcrmisfc: return leave end
of enr line at 18:00.
Ftton Avenne 8:00 a. m.. ana every 1
minutes until 11:00 p. m.
Kant Street 6: 00 a. m.. and every II
minute until 11:00 p. m.
(.race Vi Merrlmnn Avenn? 8:00 a. m.,
thn every 15 minutes until 11:00 p. ra.
lit more 6:00 a. m.. and hen every II
minutes until 11:00 p. m.. last car.
Depot and Went Ashevllle Via -Sonthnlde
Avenue 5:30 a. m.. and every 16 minutes
until li :00 p. m.
On evenings when entertainments are In ,j
proRresa at the Auditorium the last trip on
all llnea will be from entertainment, leaving
Square at regular time and holding over at
Auditorium.
Oar leaven Square to meet No. 85, night-,
train. SO minutes before achedula or an
nounoed arrival.
Sunday Schedule PHTera aa Fpllownt
Oar leaves Square for Manor 6:00 and
6:15 a. m.. return arrive Square :15 and
t:S0. thrjti every 30 minutes until 8:30.
Cars ieve Square for Depot via Southnld
avenue 6:30. (:46. 6:00. 6:15, 6:30. 7:00, 7:30.
8:00 and R:30 a. m.
Cars leave Square for Hepot via French
Broad avenue 6:16. 6:30, 6:45. 7:15. 7:46 and
8 15 p. m.
Car for Depot leaves Square fl:4S a. nu "
both Snuthslde, and French Broad.
F'rst car leaves the Pquare for Charlotie
street at 6:00 a. m., and every 30 minutes
until S:30: next 8:45.
First car leaves Square for BUtmore 6:80
a. m.. and every 30 minutes until t:00
o'clock.
First Car leaves the Square for Klverslde
1:30; next 8:45.
First car leaves the Rouare for West Ashe
vllle 6:16. 7:00; next 8:30.
With the ahove exceptions, the Bundsv
schedule! rnmnienrec at 0:00 a. m.. and
continue sama as week dava
fpJS
GENERAL
Buy less; cook no more than neces
sary; serve smaller portions.
Use local and seasonable supplies. .
Patronie your local producers and
lessen the need of transportation.
'reach and practice the "gospel of
the clean plate." .
We do not ask the American people
to starve themselves. Eat plenty,
. but wisely, and without waste.
UNITED STATES FOOD
SUGGESTIONS
Do not limit the plain food of grow
ing children. ,
Do not eat between meals.
Watch out for the waste in the com
munity. You can yourself devise other meth
ods of saving to the ends we wish
to accomplish, finder various cir
cumstances and with varying con
ditions yon can vary the methods
of economizing.
DM 1 N1STK ATION
!
These stalwart red men whose fathers fouKht against Uncle Sam In the wars of the border now make up a company in an American infantry
regiment, and each one of them is anxious to go to the front to fight for him. Nearly every nationality in the world is now represented on the
French front, but when the white and red Americans get there two more races will be represented.
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