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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1918
Page
7
The article recounts British and American destroyers fending off U-boat attacks on convoys. It describes periscope sightings ram attacks and depth charges with oil slicks and wreckage. A chase ends with submarines sunk or damaged while rescuers battle fires on an oil-fired merchant oiler and its passengers.
Seven swift actions saw rafts lifeboats and life buoys pitched overboard three times. All destroyer boats plus loose life-saving gear were used yet nine men remained aboard the oiler. The captain then moved alongside the damaged ship at eight knots to hoist the final crew members aboard before the steamer burned to the water line.
The article honors the regimental surgeon for his relentless work under fire, tending wounded, supervising camp sanitation, ensuring clean water, preventing epidemics, and managing records. He serves over 1,000 men, supports villagers when French doctors are away, and balances firmness with compassion in a harsh front-line environment.
Two British women known as the Women of Parvyse were injured by gas near Parvis Gut 560 yards from German lines. They wore gas masks but could not don them in time as a shell burst in their dugout before they were evacuated to a London hospital.
A coffin seized at Eluron South Dakota supposedly held a corpse but was opened to reveal 20 gallons of whisky. Bootleggers had ordered eight graves dug at a cemetery. The coffin was shipped from the East to Wuros.
A vivid account recalls the Belgian coast near Yser where calm June life gave way to war. Four thousand simple folk vanished. houses and church reduced to ruin as shells ripped through the town. A new race supposedly inhabits the area, living underground and surfacing only to kill.
The article describes Italian innovations in battlefield protection, noting trench helmets and steel chest armor. It details a sandbag body shield in one and two man forms, with eyeholes and firing slots. The two man shield carries a back rider and top loop hole for a rifle, and a bottom wire cutter.
Tyler Dennett argues in Asia that improving educational facilities is the top priority for Asia’s peoples. He notes St. John’s in Shanghai as a high cost example and observes mission schools shifting from charity to self sufficiency amid rising Western education demand.
The French government passes a law to standardize shoe manufacture for cost reduction. The ministry of war coordinates with designated manufacturers to produce "national shoes" at fixed prices, using leather supplied by the state. Shoes are stamped with the maximum price and the manufacturer’s name.
A northern France report notes peasants, hindered by war, cannot buy new Sunday salts and face high railway fares to shops in Amiens and Paris. With harvests pressed, scarecrows show gaps as farmers substitute with saline and straw cloth, leaving scarecrows scantily clothed and vulnerable.
The fisheries service bulletin reports wartime use of low value catches like pole flounder carp sharks and rays to boost food supply. Demand for flounders rose to 2 million pounds sold from New England waters while carp sales topped 1.3 million pounds in Minnesota and Milwaukee consumption climbed. Sharks rays and whales see rising Pacific demand with meat salted or smoked by canneries.
Hardy Bingham of Meridan Idaho recounted a chase across a pasture by a mother bear attempting to reach her cub six miles northwest of town. The cub under a month old attracted the bear as Bingham and a companion rode in, prompting a frantic ride to escape with the baby cub in hand.
Chief Jacob Aurerort Dover led a roundup of unlicensed dogs and captured a yellow mongrel with a glass eye. He reportedly approached from the blind side and secured the animal amid the effort.
The government plans to mobilize the entire medical profession to provide doctors for the army and distribute the remainder to civilian needs. It may enroll all physicians in a volunteer service corps or draft them if the voluntary plan fails. Government doctors expect compulsory conscription will be unnecessary.
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