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aflraiir fftf THE UNION COUNTY PAPEREVERYBODY NEEDS IT ; - ; o; THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT" IDE J OURNA3L " ft.- - PUBLISHED TWICE EACrf WEEK -TUESDAY AND FRIDAY VOL.24. No. 77. MONROE, N;G, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1918. $1.50 PER YEAR CASH. 1H1 V 1 3 A V I I W. . 1 iJ II ENTENTE TROOPS GIVING NO HEED TO PEACE MOVES Allien Meeting With Marked Sows . on All Front Enemy Battle Line In France Slowly Disintegrating; Giving Way Elsewhere. (By The Associated Press.) While both Germany and Austria are seeking to secure a cessation of hostilities and Turkey also Is report ed to be favorably disposed toward peace, the Entente Allied troops on all the battle fronts are giving no heed to peace proposals, but are con tinuing without mercy to drive their foes before, them. . And in all the battle zones the Allies are meeting with marked suc cess. In France, the German battle line is slowly disintegrating under the violence of the Allied offensive; in Northern Italy the Austro-Hungarlans are being forced bark by the Brit ish, French and Italians with heavy losses in men killed, wounded or made prisoner; near the shores of the Mediterranean In Albania the Italian are driving the Austrian toward the Montenegro frontier, while in Asiatic Turkey, both in Syria and Mesopo tamia the British are fast clearing the Turks from their former strongholds. KESISTANCE STRENUOUS. Although the Germans in France and Flanders still are strenuously re sisting the Allied attempts to break their line, they are giving way5 stead ily under the force of the attacks. In the other theaters, there apparent ly is hot the sarnedlsposltion to of fer stubborn, denial of the right of way, except possibly In the mountain region of Italy, where an attempt is being made by the Allied forces to open the backdoor Into Austria. South of Valenciennes in France, Field Marshal Haig's forces, notwith standing stiff opposition, have ad vanced their line in the general op oration which has in view the cap ture of Valenciennes and pressing on toward Mons and Maubeuge In the general converging movement that is going on betweenBelglum and the re gion north of Verdun. ' ' Farther south, from the Olse riv er to the region of Kethel, the French have gained a signal victory by forc ing a retreat of the enemy in th big salient north pf Laon and ara threatening to cause the collapse of the entire German line eastward through a fast trunlng - movement. American troops have been thrown into the line near Rethel and have advanced nearly a mile and taken numerous prisoners. The-Oermaa ornce admits tne success or me mrusi of the French between the Olse and Serre rivers, saying that the German llL-es were- withdrawn Sunday night to a front west or Guise and east of Crecy. AMERICANS IN NEW OPERATION. In connection with this general movement, the Americans northwest or Verdun hvc berun an operation which possibly n ay have Imoprtant results. For the first time since tite American!" entered the war they have opened firo against the back lires of the enemy with their now long range puns and are heavily bo-.r.bamln Longnyon, Home fifteen miles distant from the American first line positions. It Is over the territory through which the American gun3 are throv'in; their shells that the Germans rtive been reinforcing ndr lines eastwf .-.!, mid slioulii the. hlas'ng process prnvn ef r . tlve in blazing a trail aloag the Yeuse for a quick advance by thf .-iei leans, t h i"-'t lmprohi'.la tla'. a German retreat ifrom tho region east of St. Quentin northeastward to ward Luxemburg wil be necessitated. On the northern Italian front hard fighting is In progress between tho Brenta and Plave rivers. Along the Piave, the Allied troops have been suecessrul In crossing the river, In flicting heavy casualties on the ene my and taking more than nine thou sand prisoners. ADHERES TO THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY,VILSOX Official Text of German Note In Re ceived at Washington -No Re HMiiNe at Present Question to be iH-alt With In Connection With IVace; Not an Armistice. Washington. D. C, October 28. While Germany's latest note to Pres ident Wilson was being delivered to the State Department to-day through the Swiss legation, cable dispatches from Europe brought information that the Austro-Hungarlan govern ment had sent another communica tion to the President asking that im mediate negotlalons for peace and an armislce be entered Into without awaiting the results of the exchanges with Germany. The Vienna government asserted that It adhered to the same point of view expressed by the President In his last communication upon the rights of the Austro-Hungarlan peo ples, especially those of the Czecho slovaks and Jugo-Slavs, and request ed that he begin overtures with the Allied Governments, with a view to ending Immediately hostilities on all Austro-Hungarlan (fronts. The official text of tho German note did not differ materlcly from the un official version as received by cable. No official document was forthcoming, but it Is known that no response will be made at present to the communi cation, which is believed to have been dispatched with tho primary purpose of satisfying the German people that their government Is not omitting any opportunity to forward the negotia tion! for an armistice and peace. ARMISTICE NOW; NbT. PEACE. Regarding tho renewed assurance in the German note that the consti tutional structure of the German gov ernment has been ant Is bow being changed to democratic -lines, it is pointed out . that the : truth of this statement and the scope of the changes r.l ready nic.de or projected after all sre matters. to be dealt with In connection with peace and not ! arranging an armistice. , . A strong Indisposition la evidenced officially to yield to the apparent In tent of both German and Austrian negotiations to combine these two es sentially different fuctlons In one phase of the negotiations. NO GUARANTEE APPARENT. In the case of the Austrian com munication, now supposed to be on its way to Washington. It also was noted that the effo t was made to show that Austria hs compiled with the President's demand for the rec ognition of the rights of the Czecho slovaks and Jugo- SlavB and other oppressed nationalities in Austria. It does not appear that the complete In dependence of these people has been guaranteed, and probably sufficient assurance must be had on that point before the Austrian proposals will be transmitted to, the Entente Powers for submission to the military experts. Because of the wide extent of the disotfection in the dual empire, de velopments in that quarter are be lieved to be fraught with greater pos sibilities in the way of peace than In Germany, and in some official cir cles the opinion freely is expressed that Emperor Charles fully realizes that he must submit to any terms which the Entente Powers and Amer ica choose to Impose r.nd that at pres ent he Is seeking simply to secure the least onerous and humiliating. The fact that Austria has antici pated Germany all through In the va rious peace moves without visibly ex citing any resentment at Berlin, is taken to mean that the two are work ing in perfect harmony. AMERICAN TROOPS FACE STRONG FORCES Natural Position field by Huns Near , Verdun Among the Best (Germans ! Have Thrown in Strong Forces of Men In Effort to Stop Americans. (By The Associated Press.) f With the American Army North west otLVerdun? October 17th Nat ural positions for defense held by the Germans north of the American line are probably as strong as any along the entire battle front from Switzer land to the sea. These positions, which the Americans are now facing, are especially strong owing to the thickly wooded districts and series of hills and ridges. Taking advantage of those natural military positions, the Germans have thrown in strong forces of men and brought up im mense quantities of artillery of vari ous caliber determined to hold what has been called the eastern pivot of their defense line In France at any cost. FIERCE FIGHTING. From Grand Pre pass, where there has been fierce fighting for nearly two weeks, the Americans face the Hois de Bourgogne and Bols de Bos which really are a continuation of the Argonne Forest. Back of these great woods Is the Forest de Boult, all of which forms a splendid protection for troop concentration and concealing ammunition and heavy artillery. Here the Americans are preparing for the battle of Argonne all over again. German prisoners report that th? Bols de Bourgogne Is literally filled with machine guns, many of them in the hills and ridges within the for est, and even Installed in trees. Fur ther east the German have taken ad vantage of the more wooded tracts of the Bois de Barrlcourt and the Bols de Tallly, to the south of which is the Freya Stellung which has been reach ed by the Americans east of Aincre ville. East of the Meuse the Ameri cans have more wooded districts In view of the observers, the principal one of which Is the Forest de Woevre, along the southern edge of which passes the Freya Stellung. To the south of the Freya Stellung are three series of smaller lines directly facing the Americans, some of which were penetrated in Thursday's fighting. ZIG-ZAG LINE. From what is known about the Freya Stellung, it follows the hills, ridges and woods, zlg-zagglng Just north of our present line and extend ing eastward from the ridge north of Bois Des Hazoffs, end runs along tho northern edge of Bols de Bantheville, bending southeasterly and following the hills near Alncrevllle to Clery le Petit, crossing the Meuse and passing along a series of wooded ridges Just beyond Fontaines. From Fontanles it passes through the Bols de Taillea and Bols de Dugny and the Bols de Bresheville, thence In a northeaster ly direction. Recent reports said that the Germans were working vigorous ly at various points along the Freya Stellung building aditional dugouts and improving positions generally as fast as possible for a probable win ter cmpalgn. If peace comes quickly the food de mands upon America will be unpre cedented. In addition to our Allies we will have the opportunity to save the lives of millions of women and children and men In Roumanla. Ser via and Russia, who are destined to die by starvation this winter unless we do save them. NORTH CAROLINIAJT VICTIM j ? . ... OF HC HELISHXE88 Eye Witness Relate How CapUtta 4 ; German Sub Shot Edward L. Davis ' of Wamnton, X. 0, In the Hen. While He pleaded for Life of Has Comrades, '. . , fj Edward Leonard, first' class a4 man. and one of the three surviving the American ship Tlcondegora, sunk September SO. relates a tale of Huh Hellishness, how Edward L. Daviuf Warrentou, N. C, was shot in the head by the captain of the sub DavU had swan alongside the sub and was Lp leading for the life of his comrades on the sinking Ticonderoga, wnicn was being shelled by the sub, when shot by the German. ,' Leonard's story, as printed In the Warrenton Record, follows: .t "It was shortly after 5 o'clock on the morning or September SOthat ai explosion on deck brought me out of a sound nap. I ran to the bridgs and shrapnel was flying in every di rection. I saw the bridge was on Art and Captain James Madison wound ed. I had hardly gotten my bearing when I heard the order to get ready the life-boats. "Everything was topsy-turvy, but I heard still another order to send the gun crews to the six-inch piece aft, It was then that I discovered the thre, inch gun for'ard had been shot away by the Hun. That was Bobby's gun. (Bobby Burns, famous light-weight champion and friend of Leonard. Ed.) "Going aft I saw our men dropping with the shrapnel still sweeping the deck. There lay little Bobby with a wound in his head. He had been hi on his way to his new post of duty. I ran to him. He was till conscious. ' I took his head in my arms and he opened his eyes. Looking straight In to mine, he said: " 'Leonard, you've been a friend to me and I'm going to ock you one more favor. If you get away safely, which I dont believe possible, plase go to my home and tell them how I died.' "A minute later Bobby was dead and I ran to help with the life boats. As the sub was on our starboard side, we lowered on the port side, think ing they would hit us, but as fast as we dropped a boat Into the water the Germans fired upon It. We had four teen boats and most of them were crushed to pieces before our eyes. We could not fight any longer because the? had shot away our other gun We didn't hit them one at least J saw Ho marks on the sub later. Yet. I have seen our gun crews split a barrel, at practice, many a time. We were helpless then and they kept fir ing. GIVES HIS LIFE FOR MATES "One of our crow, a lad named Ed ward Davis, from Warrenton, N. C, as (tame a boy as ever lived, swam to the side of the U-boat, which was hardly a thousand yards away, and pleaded for the lives of the men aboard the sinking ship. VW'ien he told the Huns they were killing ev eryone a German officer stepped for ward and shot him through the head "When the ship quickened her downward pace, stern first, we low ered our boat No. 7, on the starboard side, for by that time the sub, confi dent she had completed the Job, sub merged. We were rowing as hard as we could and our ensign was encour aging us, but the sub came to the sur face again. With her reappearance we concluded she would let drive at our boat. "The ensign was a man. There on the bottom of the boat lay our cap tain and there were others wounded too badly to help, but the ensign in structed us how to net. " 'They'll order us alongside.' he said, 'and we must go, but I want each man to be a true American. Do not answer their questions. Let them sink us if they desire. Be a real American and die for your country.' "We promised, and when we drew alongside, as ordered later, an inter preter, who was brought upon the deck by the German commander, en deavored to pump us. "None of the fellows answered. "It was then that they ordered the captain to stand forward, but it was explained that he was very badly wounded and we requested some sur gical dressings. "Tht reply to our request came from one of the Huns, who said the only thing he would give us was an 8-lnch shell. Finally they took our executive officer and demanded the engineer, but our chief was killed in his room, so they took the assistant and submerged again. TRIED TO DRAG THEM DOWN "All during the conversation we were tied to the sub, our dowline hav ing been made fast to their stern. When the hatches were closed the U boat started below with our lifeboat attached, but somehow the rope broke or was cut, for we were free at last. After four days of drifting we were picked up and brought home." Harrigan was out walking with his new bull pup when he met a friend. Everybody's Magainz reports the con versation. "That's a fine looking brute," said the friend, who was admirer of blood ed dogs. "Where do you keep him?" "Oh, up in my room," salr Harri gan. "Don't you know that is isnt healthy to keep a dog In your room?" asked the friend. "Oh, he's used to It now," Harri gan answered. His All the Soldier Offers You ! Must Unlock Your Coffers. SUCCESSES SCORED IN THE ITALIAN THEATER Renglnation of Ludendorff, "Brmintt" of Germany Army, Arrete! by the ' Kaliter, (By The Associated Press.) 1 A crash has come In the personnel cf the German high commsnd. Gen eral Ludendorff. reputed to be the "brains" of the Ge:man trmy the man who promised the Germans he would crush Great Britain and France before the Vnited States could get under way in a military sense has resigned bis position as first quartermaster general and Em peror William has accepted his resig nation. Simultaneously, while the German line continues to crumble under the Allied attacks and the German bor der Is slowly but gradually being ap proached by Germany's foes, comes a report that the Reichstag by a Urge majority has passed a bill placing the military command under the control of the civil government. On the western battle front the British, French and Americans have continued to mr.ke further slight gaius against the Germans; in the Italian theater both the British and Italians have scored successes, while in Asiatic Turkey the British have captured Aleppo in Syria and are driving ahead on both banks of the Tigris In Mesopotamia, with Turks unable to check them. The fal of Aleppo and the continued advance up the Tigris, are moves of such strate gic value that it is not unlikely Turk ish opposition shortly will be entire ly overcome both in the Holy Land and Mesopotamia. In the region southeast of Valen ciennes, around Le Quesnoy, the Germans have delivered violent coun ter attacks against the British. Their efforts to throw back Field Marshal Haig's men from the position they hold were unsuccessful, and heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy by machine gun and rifle Are. The Americans have begun the sec ond month of their operations In the region of Verdun by keeping up their attacks against the Germans from the Meuse to the wooded Country north of Grand Pre. Some further progress has been made notwlthstand. tng continued opposition by German machine gunners from behind the natural fortifications which abound throughout this district. American airmen also are continuing their bombing operations behind the Ger- uua Jlnes, tnelr. latest., effort In.-this respect having been made against the territory around Briquenay, north of Grand Pre, in which one hundred and forty airplanes took part, sixty of them being bombed machines. Since the Americans began their operations northwest of Verdun more than forty-five villages have been lib erated, and advance to an average depth of ten miles has been made and more than twenty thousand Germans have been made prisoner. AMERICANS HAVE LIBERATED MORE THAN 45 VILLAGES Advanced to nn Average Depth of 1(1 Miles on 20-Mile Front and dipt ured 20,(100 Prisoners Genium StiiMxtinly Resisting on Every Part of 20-Mile Prone, Have Used More Than &l Divisions With tht American Army North west of Verdun, Oct 27. (By the As soclatd Press.) In Its first major operation against the Germans, con sidering the clearing out of the St. Mihlel salient as a local affair, the American army in a few days less than a month, has liberated moret han 45 villages and advanced to an aver age depth of 10 mile?, freeing 16S miles of territory. In the offensive the Americans have caplurtd more than 20,000 prisoners. The Americans attacked on n front of 20 miles from the Argonne to the Meuse and the advance has been made In the face of almost Insur mountable difficulty, due particularly to the nature of the ground, which Is covered with hills, deep ravines and woods. In addition, the Americans had fronting them four organized systems of trenches the Hindenburg line, tht Hagen position, the Volker position and the Kriemhllde position. They have forced their way through all these lines. Ahead of them lies the Freya position, which has been reached at one point In the region of the Bantheville wood. The advance has been particularly difficult because the Germans have stubbornly resisted every foot of the way and have used more than 33 divisions on the 20-mile front. The enemy continues to make a formida ble eflort to hold this front In order to protect his great lateral line of communication running through Hir son, Mezleres, Sedan, Montmedy und Longuyon. This line Is already threat ened and should the Germans lose it. they will lose their main line of com munication from Germany into occu pied France. In addition to the prisoners, Gen eral Pershing's men have take more than 137 guns, of large caliper, nu merous machine guns and anti-tank guns, a great store of ammunition and much war materials, including locomotives and railway cars. MILLIONS OF SHELLS. Since September 26th the Ameri cans have fired more than two mil lion and five hundred thousand shells, the number at times reaching as high as one hundred and fifty thousand daily. The guns used Included a number of heavy ones, and also some captured from the enemy. American aviators and anti-aircraft guns in the period aince September 27th have brought down two hundred and thirty enemy machines and twen ty-three enemy balloons, despite ad verse flying conditions and bad wea ther at times. Bombing airplanes dropped more than forty thousand kilograms of explosives on railroad centers, troop concentrations and oth er points behind the enemy lines. t rom the view of the engineer, the most difficult task faced has beeu the repairing of roads and the move ment of supplies, men. ammunition and food to the front. Mote than forty thousand engineer troops are employed day and night in rebuild ing shell-shattered roads, using where possible, crushed rock from villages destroyed by the German shells. In the Argonne, hundred of yards of German barbed wire entanglements fastened from tree to tree at various heights had to be bridged as it was impossible to cut them. In addition, many roads in the Argonne were of black loam which became a morass in rainy weather. The engineers were compelled to virtually build bridges over many miles of the-se roads. The crossing of Forges brook was accomplished in the first day of the advance under a heavy fire. Ti brook runs through marshy lands and in order to bridjre it the engin eers nad to lay bundles of faggots on both sides of the stream. The crossing was made in record time and then be;an the battle of the Argon ne which lasted for more than two weeks. OLD HOME OK MONROE SYR IANS CAITl RED FROM TURKS Syrians, Captured by (ien. AllenbyV Forces Other British Successes in Haininanu, Native Home of Monroe Palestine. There was considerable rejoicing In the local colony of Syrian merchants here when they learned several days ago that Hammana, their native home, had been taken from the Turks by the British forces under Gen. Allenby. The Monroe Syrians are very much at tached to their native home as some of them have parents residing there and all have relatives. The many bru talities that their nation has suffered at the hands of the Turk leaves no love in them for the Sultan's subjects. The British forces in Palestine near Hammana continue to advance and the offlchtf British ctatAiient43Sued for October 27 says: Our advanced cavalry and armored cars ocupied Alleppe on the morn ing of October 26th, after overcoming slight opposition. The fall of Aleopro to the British is the crowning event of the victor ious campaign of General Allenby, In which he captured Jerusalem and Damascus on his way northward through Palestine and Syria. Alleop- po Is 185 miles north of Damascus and seventy miles east of the Med Iterranean Sea, At Alleppo the raidway line from Constantinople branches, one line going southward to Palestine and the other east and south to Bagdad. WithAlleppo in th hands of the British the Tur-kish forces facing the British army In Mes opotamia are in a more or less pre carious position. The railroad from Alleppo has been their main scource of supply and the cutting of the line at Alleppo renders it useless to the Turks. An advance northward from Allep po would cut off the Turkish forces in Armenia and northern Mesopota mia andwould open a road over which to send help to the Czecho-Slovks and other anto-Bolshevlkl forces in Rus sia. Alleppo has a population of about 125,000 PARTS OF NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA SUFFER FROM FLOOD liss of $.'00,000 Around Greensville, South Carol Inn Thousands- of Dol lars of Damage Done to Corn. Greenville, S. C, Oct. 26. With streams, in this cection at almost nor mal levels to-day, sufferers from tne flood that followed an unplecedented rainfall Wednesday and Thursday were endeavoring this afternoon to form an estimate of their loss, which it is believed will exceed three hun dred thousand dollars. There were no lives lost, according to best avail able information, although unconfirm ed reports are that severel negroes were drowned when their houses were swept away. Traffic over the Piedmont & North ern railway, which was suspended Friday when a great section of the road bed was swept away was re sumed this afternoon, although trains from the north cannot enter the city and passengers are discharged two miles from the station. The loss In equipment of this company Is particu larly heavy but officials declined to give an estimate until a more thorough inspection of trestles can be made. A dispatch from Asheville under date of October 26th says: The heaviest rainfall In the his tory of the local weather bureau caus ed comparatively little damage in this section of the State. The total rain fall for the twenty-four-hour period ending last night amount to 8.24 Inches. While the streams were swol len to an excessive degree, French Broad River being seven and" a half Jftet abov normal, they have now re- GERMAN DISARMAMENT MAT TER OK TIME SAYS CRITIC The Peace Note Only a Maneuver to Save Di'trewcd A miles lighting May InrreaNe on lormiiie Front at Any Thne. General P. M. G. Malleterre, fam ous military critic in a special cable dispatch to the New orld says: Germany's reply to President Wil son was only a continuation, in hypo critical tone, of the manoeuvre to save her armies in distress. I don't see how one can keep talking about it. There are only two solutions. Either Germany owns herself vanquished and she is willing to capitulate and trust to the discretion of the Allies, or she is able to continue the struggle. In the latter case it is a matter of letting the cannon complete its work. We can come out of all this only by the complete disarmament of Ger many, which is a matter of a very short lime, 1 believe. In order to see the situation clearly, it will be well to compare the past with the present. Premier Clemenceau's declarations following the liberation of Lille and of Flanders have been posted in France. Why should not the condi tions of peace which the Germans would have imopsed on the vanquish ed, had conditions been reversed, be posted in all the Allied Countries MUST REMEMBER FOE'S PLANS We can not have any doubt of the fate which a victorious Germany would have meted out to France and her Allies had Germany been able to subjugate the world. I recall a ver sion of the piogramme which Ger many had arranged. There was to be annexation of Blgium. and occu pation of our northern and eastern French provinces was to have been completed by the exile "en masse" of all the French-speaking inhabi tants. They were to replaced by Ger man soldiery and by "good" German families. That was to be the most expeditious way of Germanizing occu pied territory. In thia programme German was to be served by the repetition of the Alsace-Lorraine experience. Hence, in order to determine the conditions of an armistice which Germany requests, and to assure a peace which may carry guarantees for the future, we must not forget the terms under which we French would have suffered in the event of German conquest in 1914. Now, more is want ed. We must guard against all senti mentality. . - 3usth? 'Wu1'Ve'1iirVlacaW " Let us think of the dead; let us think of the ruins; let us think of the nec essary expiation; let us think of the avoidance of the return of such mur der of humanity, and guard our chil dren and grandchildren against It. Without being able to forsee If to morrow will be the day of capitula tion, we may still say, that the bat tle of liberation is going on untir ingly. Notwithstanding the rainy autumn weather, the Allied Armies are advancing In Belgium and North ern France, Belgian Flanders has been liberated. As we fersaw. von Arim'8 left wing, which had de fended the coast, has been pushed across the Dutch frontier and has al lowed itself to he interned. "WILL BE HARD IN LORRAINE." We con only regret that Holland has considered it advisable to main tain the neutrality of the ni )Uth of the Scheldt. England could have op posed this In 1514, for the treaties did not authorize Holland thus to favor the siege or Antwerp, to the detriment of Belgium and of the Allies. It is 1o hope! that a recti fication of the frontier wll shortly oc cur. German armies In Belgium appear to be preparing for the evacuation of that Country. They still resist along the Scheldt, but the Allied pressue becomes heavier steadily ,and Lun dendorff Is obliged to send troops to the dangerous eastern sector. The battle around the Meuse Is still a hard one . It will be equally hard In Lorraine. Strong opposition must be fared by the valiant American troops. But there Is a big margin yet, and we may hope something will change very soon along the Lorraine front. The Germans are expecting a blow. Reverting to the subject with which I began this article, if It were for the German people to decide. I believe a complte downfall would be near. If the military chiefs hold the upper hand, one may expect that the war will continue for the sake of German honor, until the complete exhaustion of strength and ammunitions. Mr. W. B. Rawls has the contract for the plumbing at the Bearskin cot ton mills. ceded with very little damage to prop erty along the streams. With the exception of the Toxaway division of the Southern Railroad where three trestles were destroyed, there has been but slight damage to contend with, but slight delays. Serious freshets on the Catawba. South Foik, and other Rivers and streams near Hickory, North Carolina, caused thousands of dollars damage to corn, It was estimated here this arternoon, hut late to-day all streams were receding rapidly and the loss may not be as great as expected. . Damage was particularly great in the South Fork bottoms, where the riv er overflowed and covered corn coni pletedly. It was said not more than half the crop would be saved. Keep your War Savlar- ?Ldge.
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