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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX horrible under the sinister glow, Tbt earth shook as if torn by a great seismic disturbance. It was uot a single LEAVING THE TORPEDOED SONTAY AS SHE SANK shock. Ihe force of the explosion actually set the earth rocking to and Details of Important Allied Vic- fro, and under the Influence of the glunt guns, which Immediately began tory Before Ypres. to roar from far and near, the trembling continued Indefinitely. It was 3.10 oclock when thisflual terrific ' OLD SCORE IS WIPED OUT bombardment began. It has seemed that the battle of the Somme attained the ultimate In the Capture of Meuinea Ridges Peculiarly close assembly of war weapons, but this sudden outpouring on Messines Gratifying, aa It Waa the Scene ridge was beyond all cumulation. The of Former Brltlah Defeat field guns far forward set up a lighter Defenaea Shattered. perfect curtain fire, under which the assaulting troops trudged confidently With the British Armies In France, to their allotted goals. Farther back June 7. In one of the most elaborately i he heavies began to planned and daringly executed ma- pour out torrents of high explosive neuvers of the war Sir Douglas Haigs shells on the German trenches and forces have dealt a mighty blow communications, while still otherguns against the German line In Belgium, enough to win auy ordinary battle and been rewarded with notuble gains confined thcmseU es solely la tlieta-'In terra ! n and the fanfare nf'mm-than 5,000 prisoners and numerous In baths of gas fired In shells" of evguns of various caliber. In addition ery conceivable caliber. The effect of this counter battery they inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans. work was not appm luted until later The Germans, though apparently In the day, when the Infantry scut aware that the blow was coming and back word that their progress had seemingly prepared to meet It, were not been hampered bv the enemy ardriven from their nearly three years tillery hud that their casualties hold on Massines ridge, opposite "poor amounted to virtually nothing. old Ypres. Ypres In n sense was Enemy Signals for Help. avenged today, for Messines ridge has Great black observation balloons been the vantage point from which the had stolen skyward during the din of Germans have poured torrents of shells the newly begun battle. In the wood Into the Rtricken city. The British also back of the windmill spring birds, wiped off an old score against the Ger- awakened by the deafening clamor, mans, for they hold the ridge In Octo- had begun to sing joyously. Like so ber, 1914, and with very thin forces, many children w ho have come Into the and virtually no artillery, fought blood- consciousness of being In the midst of ily but vainly, to hold It when the Prus- the war, these birds regarded the apsian troops massed their modern and palling noise of the battle as a normal overpowering weapons of war against condition of life. It The smoke of the giant, mines exPrisoners taken declared that the ploded along the battle front meanbombardment of Vimy ridge was time rose In great curling plumes tochild's play compared with the gunfire ward the sky and was punctuated by turned upon Messines ridge. red signals for help from the stricken Germans In the front and aupport Triumph for Artillery. This fire reached Its climax just lines. Never was the air filled with as dawn was graying the eastern skies more frantic notices of danger. The and while the full moon was still sus- entire horizon glowed with red balls of fire sent up by the nervous 'Gerpended high In the heavens. The attack was accompanied by all mans, More and more British airplanes bethe arts and deviltries of latter-dawar. The enemy guns and gun crews gan to make their appearance. One had been bathed for days In gas shells flew over the lines, the flashes of the e British guns being reflected brilliantly on Its sent over by the guns. highly glazed wings. Under tills appalling fire trudged forThe night was filled with red Ine front General cendiary flames. Shells that spurted ward on the lead In streams crashed In appalling Plumers army. At mnnfr places the numbers about the heads of the de- men found German troops utterly e and dared, by the mine explosion and the fending soldiers. was out with such ordeal of the artillery fire. fire carried shrapnel First Taste of New Warfare, rapidity that the earth writhed under the force of the attack. Many of these troops had but recentMines that had taken two years to ly come from Russia, where they had dig and fill with an overwhelming ex spent 18 months and knew nothing of plosive broke Into an avalanche of what actual warfare was like on the flaming destruction In the half light of western front. They had bolted at the dawn. This was Indeed an Ypres day first mine explosion and had only been of retaliation and victory for the gathered together In groups by their vicious sufferings of two years and noncommissioned officers when the eight months. Brjtlsh appeared out of the smoke and shells and made them prisoner. Gunners Strip to Waist It was a day of Intense heat, and the They said they had been given to gunners worked stripped to the waist understand by their officers that the The httack went forward with clock British always killed their prisoners. 7 like regularity. It was really pitiful in some instances . The British casualties were slight to see the manner In which these prisThree out of four of the casualties oners cringed, to their captors. As a matter of fact, the British solwere reported to be walking cases, who would return to duty In a few days. dier, when the fighting is done. Is' InThe attack begfinat dawn, and the clined almost too strongly to treat the setting was as picturesque as can well German prisoners as pals. Some oi be imaginable. The day before had the prisoners taken today had' only been hot and sultry. Toward evening gone into the German lines last night there was a series of thunder stems and had made their way forward unwhich extended well Into the night, the der a galling fire and had lost heavily. lightning mingling with the flashes of But the troops already In the line were the guns, but the thunder being virtu calling for relief In such a manner that ally unnoticed amid the din of the can their appeals coaid not be denied. non. A, full moon struggled contlnu-ously4- o Failed to Time Attack. - break through the heavy In view of the fact that the attack clouds which scudded across the vel had been expected Ihe German comvety night sky. manders were endeavoring to get theli best units actually into the fighting 6ing on Way to Fight On the way to the front were all the front, but had underestimated when familiar pictures of the war endless the British would strike. .The troop trains of motor trucks; all varieties In a strange line were utterly bewil of horse transport, the British soldered when the attack began and fell diers marching to battle light of heart easy prey to the advancing British, and singlng songs familiar In every New Zealanders and Aushad been rehearsed In who American community. tralians, In the shadow of an old windmill every detail of the show knew Just which has withstood the storms of a what to do from the moment the word century and been undaunted by nearly to advance was given. three years of war, the correspondent The battle was far more visible durwitnessed the last phases of the seven ing the first uncertain moments than day preliminary bombardment and the later when the sun gradually burned final outburst of the guns which sent its way through the eastern hanks ol the British Infantry confidently on clouds. By that time tlie smoke of ex their way to new successes In fighting plodlng shells and the vapors from th the greatest military nation the world blinding barrage, which had been part has ever known. of the artillery duty, obscured the more Prom the German line-- the same distant landscape to .such ad extent that the roaring guns could not be seen lazy, looping rocket signals were ascending to illuminate the treacherous at all. although the firing was almost hit of ground between the trenches at ones feet The brilliantly leaping known as No Mans Land. This night- shrapnel shells, breaking far above ly straffing had been going on so ground, appeared through a thick mist long that the enemy considered It en only as brief and brilliant electric tlrely normal and took no alarm. Oc- sparks. British Planes Rule Air, casionally blue and yellow rockets For a month past, htft especially would be flung Into the air by Germans since June L the airplanes on this holding the front line. One by one the guns became silent. front have been tndefatlgably at work There was the old grandmother1 during every "possible flying hour. howitzer of enormous caliber, which They had brought down nearly 50 ma chines In six days as a means of blindKept breaking the peace at hte intervals, the shock of each suc- ing the enemy. Lately the Germans to obtain ceeding explosion and the shriek of hareT endeavored valiantly artll for their observations the heavy shells being emphasized by airplane " machines their observing but the s$Jtenee which lay over all the sur- iery, have seldom been able to direct more rounding country. before the . Irit-.-i- h tikeVfffcanoesTnt'Efbption. bad scouts pounced upon fighting Day was scarcely breaking when them sent crashing tc either and from the dimly visible ridge a score them of fiery volcanoes seemed snddcnly to the earth or had driven them to covet rpring from the eartb. The night had at breakneck speed. been filled with strange noies and still Today the British plapes flew far stranger sights, but these masses of and long over the enemy retreating Same, leaping from the ground, had a lines and were only challenged by leaning all their own. They were the some very All through the day British Pectacular outward and visible evi- batteries. dences of, more than a million pounds planes ruled the air. They and high explosives which had been actively with the British artillery of success the burled deep In mines below the Infantry in maintaining this brilliant episode lh modern warfor months. AH the world fare. appeared lurid and deep-throate- KAYSVILLE UTAH Miladis Toilet for ftmr 4rwinr kit or automobile toor. traTthng Tuilot SttrS iii rt, tmblt. pWo or rempletrly m.nn-tt-r and rolla. Wo bata tho hand? Ilttlo this ?oa nrrd. Oar aiodoot ru maito barla ro-r- o ay. BOYD PARK rp'4nre iftA MAKERS OF JEWELRY IflftMUNSUm SAETlAKtCrnr SHORE BIRDS ARE MYSTERY d Less I Known About Their Breeding Haunt and Habit Than ef Any Other Feathered Tribe. t Swift sftd of tVchf. late liv the hordes of migrant shore birds nre gone ns suddenly as they them go; probnppenred No one ably the stnrt Is Irt the evening. But by the time we mhs them they may be a thousand miles further to the north, that is, when they have renlly docid-ed to be on the moe, previously they may Imve fed leisurely along from, bench to beach, and marsh to marsh,, recuperating from their long flight; across southern pens. But now the ver-nnl Influence sounds tho clarion call und they forthwith strike the real Uml- ' coline pace. Where do they go? Less Is knowif about the breeding haunts add habits of this mysterious tribe than of any other In the system of ornithology. While a very few of the species Unger' on our southern coasts, the great mans of them to push on for the far horth Nor do the bulk of them Btop till they are where the curiosity of man can1 Seldom disturb their privacy. The eggs; and nesting habits of a number ofj these species are hardly known to sci-ence. Their summer home is the barren ground around the Arctic sea. In the damp moss near some pool upon the cold ground still frozen underneath, in the early part of June they scratch a alight hollow, build a rude, frail nest of grass and Jayfour eggs, drab colored pyriform or blotched-witblack or h nd heavily :rown. All (Outdoors. tirt-lt--- May, n si-e- . Remarkable photograph showing the passengers and crew of the French Uper Sontay taking to the lifelouts after the vessel had been torpedoed by a German aubnmrlue In the Mediterranean, The captain and 44 others perished. ' AmIr I CAN KING GEORGE VISITS WAR SHIP pear-shape- long-rang- Growing In the Mind. It is said that Coleridge once exI could claimed to Charles Lamb: tep-mil- e, write plays Just as well as I Yes. If I had a mind to said Lamb, that la Just what you , lack. It Is a blessing, however, that even though we may not be able to do the work of a great genius, we nay count upon growth In strength1 Shake--ttpear- Illgh-etploslv- kind breadth of mind. You can do (with your mind today what you could hot do five years ago. If you will opportunity to' faithful, severe, work, you wltl be able to do much pore five years from now than you pre able to do today. If your mind becomes poisoned with low ideals, with poor literature, with wrong conceptions of UfeTyou may as well ex-- r pect It to grow, as to expect a jdnt to grow In your garden when yonj allowed every sort of plant en-- j Etave to burrow about the roots and1 on the stalks and leaves, give your .mind an g iw by hard, honest, King George of Great Britain greeted the United States destroyers on their arrival in British waters' and went , aboard several of the vessels. The photograph shows him inspecting one of the big guns. -- PRESIDENT HENOCAL INAUGURATED IN HAVANA flat Gives Up Ratable. Early strollers on the beaches as far north as Belmar recently recovered from the surf enough food to stock a country grocery, says a Sea Girt. N. Y, dispatch to the New York Times. The flotsam Included canned goods of many sorts, but .mostly, tomatoes pud asparagus ; one man carried home three tuba of good butter and many elotbesbaskets full of lemons,-all-owhich were fresh and hard. Submarine activity was scouted as a cause for the pickings, hut one guess as to their origin was that some vessel, a warship or possibly a big yacht, returning from a long cruise had passed up the coast and her crew had emptied the larder overboard so as to be certain of abso--, lately fresh provisions when next they ' put to sea. m -- He Was Chested. A Weehawken contributor claims bq, r medU( got stung by a cine man tbe other night, lie bought a bottle of medicine for two shillin' end be got with It a rubber comb, si six lead pencils, a foun-- t pocket-kniftain pen, two quires of writing paper,1 a corkscrew, one package of chewing, gum. three decks of playing cards, a) handsaw and a copy of Websters Un-- h abridged Dictionary, The feller promised to throw In a bunch of quill toothThe con-- j picks. too, but didnt do never can trust trfb. says you these, travelln fakers.-Mai-L -- New York Evening street-corne- e, as president of Cuba with considerable ceremony. The illustration Gen. Mario Menocal was shows the inaugural parade on the famous Mulecon in Havana, and, at the right. President Menocal sud mem' bers of his cabinet reviewing the procession. ' DOM. VAN DE CARR It GERMAN WAR PRISONERS PUT TO WORK ' Saving Home, Garden Surplus. Often In the home garden there are enough vegetables wasted to keep the table supplied all winter If they werei put up. In glass jars. It is possible toj put up vegetables In such a luauverl that they will lose' little of their at-tractive color and flavor, and through1 canning the surplus from the home, garden will do much to reduce the cost; five-mln--. tj -- ujuuy (i if i k, 4 tfA 4 a J-- f U ) ZJ j dr: More Pressing Matters. My friend, said the moralist, I I? ru-- - V X Among the promising young officers If the American navy Is Commander 3. C. Van do Carr, la command of fcub-pajru- diTiicn G. ie are preparing yourself for a mansion Jn the skies? I havent got around to that yet, refilled jhe Impecunious toiler. I have all I can do to ct the monthly on a bungalow ia the suburbs. 5you anti-aircra- ene-positio- . f The-Iris- -- , 4' y bad-hooti- s ;oy-nien- ts Devotion. is ery devoted; tv husband My anticipates my every w So does my husband mine; vUtn-evhe thinks 1 ant going io ask for something, he lights out. er German prisoners of war at the Toulouse arsenal carrytr; the luakiug: of ammuiiitioa CuuA materUU frrr |