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THE STANFORD WORLD • .• • HUN RESISTAVI SLOWS UP NIIVE NEVERTHELESS, ALLIES RECORD IMPORTANT GAINS IN NU- MEROUS PLACES NO SIGN OF LET-UP BY FOCh Allied Drive Has Been Pi ouressing Virtually Two Months. -Advance of More Than 30 Miles Is Made by French (War Review for September 10) The •Gertnans tinye markedly stiffen• ed their resistant... against the allied ii ruts from the region of Arras, to Rheims. but their efforts to ward off further encroachments into ille terri- tory they now hold litiVe failed. All along the front the Gertnim big guns are violently in stetion, while machine gulls in vast numbers are being used In front of strulegie points which the allies are tindettvoting to gain. Never- theless, the British hove dug more deeply into the sector southwest of rumbrai, eapturing important posi- tions on the fourmile front between tire Ba•rincourt wood illid Plezieres, regaining their old trench positions dominating Gouzecourt and capturing Gouzecourt wood. In the north, the French are only it short distance west of St. Quentin and are at the gates of 1rt F'ere. On this last named sector the French are daily enlarging their turning movement against the Si. GoImin forest, the con- quest of whirl' would re 1. the great barrier to an allied advance in force eastward toward Luau lit an outflank- ing movement against both the Aisne and Chemin des Dames positions of the etiemy. Whole Line in Danger. The Germans here and northwest of Soissons alsb are offering most deter- mined resistanee against t,he French, realizing that should 9eneral %night's strittegy prove ,succr!ssful, the entire German line eastward to Itheims I) Pr - eSKIIrily IV 1.0111111.11ell to Under- go marked readjustment. Thousands of nutchine guns and guns of larger raliber are ron ring away against the French. both from' the St. ((obeli] for- est and the plateau above the Ailette river, northensi of Soissone. Huns Rush Reinforcements. Along the Aisne the are still endeavoring to retard the ad- vance of the French in further twos - Ines of the stream, probably In order to give their main army a chance to make its way unimpeded northwanni in ditSe of a quick rush by the French toward 1.3101), ii maneuver which seems in the making by Mho:shad Fork's forces. Large numbers of reinforce- ments here been rushed up lay the Germans here end also along the Aisne front, where the Anterieuns are fight- ing alongside the French.• Break Spells Disaster. Particular attention •is being given by the Germans to the three hinges of their line -in Flanders. northeast of Soismons and around Rheims. A break through at either point by the allies would spell disaster to the enemy. Therefore the 44 -Mikan high command is but them for even- tualities. In Flanders. In Flanders the German strategy seems to be obliteration of points vul- nerable to sharp assaults. Particular- ly Is this noticeable Mong the Lys river south of Ypres., where the Ger- mans are 'eported to have moved all their ertillery to the east side of the 3 iver null it little to the north around Wytmehaete, where-Llte British ad- vanced their line nearly a mile and liPParently with slight 'opposition. Concentrate Artillery. The concentration of artillery of all calibers, including machines and large bodies of men . in the region of Sols- sons, where every nook and cranny of the rolling country contains hordes of defenders, proven: the impertance the enemy piece% on holding this ter- 3 itory, while nothing is being left undone in the region aronnel Rheims to strengthen in guns and manpower Clue German line against the assaults the Germans apparently realize are soon to come. After virtually two months of hard fighting in which from Arras to the Marne the Germans everywhere have been worsted, General Foch has giveti no outward indieittion that he is th permit the Gernien , a breathitig spell. The greater portion of the German de- feneive system in Noe battle zone al- ready bas been demolished or is in th e process of demolitien or of being made untenable. Less than 30 miles of the old Hindenburg line remain intact. This is from the , .slmfbwest of Cain- brai to' La Fere, end the British and French are virtually upon it at die - fences ram.:Ing from it half mile to six miles at the farthest, where the Brit- - - IMMENSE QUANTITY WOOL NEEDED BY GOVERNMENT Washington, Sept. 10 -For lite army, navy and marine corps the govertiment for the year ending June 30 next will require 266.000.000 pounds of scoured wool, all of which is available. Briga- dier General \%Wood acting quartermas- ter general, said yesterilay. For semi - government needs 17,50n.000 pounds tolditional will be required and to meet this extrinordinary demand some of the prodnet will he imported from Argon. tine and Auetruliti. LADY WILLINCIDON The beautiful Ludy NVillingdom, daughter of Lord Brassey. and i% if.- of Lord Freman Thomas 11'illingdon. wlio has beeii gnuvenniut iii Itonibuy since 191a. arid is first lord ill witting to Ms majesty.. George V. Ish and French lire standing west of SI. Quentin. When the drive began, St. Quentin was distant from the allied front. During the first week of September Field Marshal lialg'• fortes took more than 19.0110 prisoners and large numbers of marhine guns and quan- tities of stores. That further big gains :ire on the program of the entente allies is Indi- cated by the feet that Newton D. Baker. the American secretary of war, again 1, lit France for a war confer- ence. BIG SPRING WHEAT CROP IS FORECAST IN REPORT Department of Agriculture Says Lack of Rain in August Cost Corn Crop $.900,000,000 Washington, Sept. lo. lietivy losses in the prospertiVY ertill, hut a ronsiderable increase in the forecast of spring wheat production. teetered the September erilti nt intl ISSIled yes- terday by the department of agricul- ture. Lark of rain during August in tho• principal wondering sections of the ::orn belt caused an reduction!' of 371.- (xX1.0tat bushels In Ike crop for the east, bringing the loss in prospective productioni seam. July 1 to 4147.000,000 Inisliels, representing more limn .$800,- 000,000. A corn crop of 2.672.000.000 bushels this year Inas forecast front Septem- ber 1 conditions. That would be al- most half in billion bundiels lees than last yenr's crop and slightly smaller than the in -111g.' erop 4of the five years from 1:012 to 1916. 'l'ine spring wheat crop report show- ed improvements. end there was an in- creinse of 21010.1000 bushels in the forecast et prodinetion. bringing the prospectivl. crop 10 34:000.1000 11111411- pls. With the a Inter wheat crop of 55(1,000,00(1 bushels previously announe- ed, this years total wheat erop will be 899.(Xen.000 bushels. This is Mimeo '250.000,000 bushels more than was hair - vested lest veer rind 90,000.000 bushels more than the 1912-16 average. Estimates of production of other crops cotnpared with those madesR month ago shonwed various changes. Gots had a 49,000.000 hit skid increase; tobacco a 20,00001() pound lose; hay in 13,000.000 ton loss and white pout - toes a 6.000.000 bushel logs. . tither changes were: Barley. 4.000.- 000 bushel increase: sweet laulatoes, 3,500,01:X1 bushel derrease; flux, 1,100,- 000 bushel mu -reuse, and rive 700,000 bushel deerease„ WHEAT POURING INTO TWIN CITY TERMINALS Nearly 2,000,000 Bushels Arrive in One Day and Railroad Yards Jammed Minenapolig. Seta. 10. -With nearly 6.000 ears of grain standing on tensin- al tracks in the Twin Cities end an ecate shortage of labor in mills and eieVators. the COngestion has become so great that railroad administration offiCIIIIIS lire considering placing an eta- hargo on the shipping of grain here. Grain literally innttreii into the Twin Cities from all )(arts of the northwest. and elevatoors and mills are hating phil- fi('Irl in obtaining enough men to handle it. \It will either come to tuui 1.110SirgO or the grain will have lii hi. delivered from here to other elites,\ said C. M. Boyee. treffic muleteer of tie. Unit- ed States; grain corporatlon. here last night. Oil Leasing Wrangle Continues. Wiishingtoon. Sept. 9. - Senate and house etli/ff.rewi on the uui I leasing hill after an all -day session yesterday, fail- ed to settle differences growing oto of amendments to the measure h e . cense of olIviweent opinions of iii' IntuIt. agers to the attitude of the :Mullets- tration officials toward the develop - anent of western mineral lande and the rinVIII oil resers'es In CillifOrillit and Wyoming and decided to ask the • attorney general and the secrettirions of the navy and interior to appear be- fore them mid outline their views. PIZIA IS FACED BY FAMINE AND REVOLT 1.60D,000 AMERICAN FIGHTERS IN EUROPE General March Summarizes Recent Impor tant Events on Western Battle Front AMERICAN REFUGEES FROM M•CY Washington, Sept. 7. - Announce - COW ARRIVE SAFELY IN yesterday by General 1arch, 'lief of staff. that !nom than 1,00,000 STOC K HOLM troops had been embarked rill Ironies up to August 31 fur- -bed a liens' measure of the forces ,tiarsinnl Foch has at his disposal with which to follow up the victories al - [Neely won on the western front. '10,000 in Italy and Siberia. Included in the American shipments are Sent to Italy and Siberia, the orrival of Major General Graves, Annerlean com1111Inder at Vladivostok, I with «early 1,400 men of the forces •lispeleined direct from the United I elates having been announced yester- . .lay by General Merril. The total num- ber of men sent elsewhere than to ' however, is less than 10,000, . ring more than 1,500,0(X) American troupe available for the use of the Su- (-0111111iinder in the great battle. Entering Wedge for Success. Tine size of the American' force he - NUM's lincrenteIngly'• important as the seem: of the new British assault at the very center•of the German line on the Ibitial-Cambral front becomes appar- ent. In the opinion of army officers here, the brenkdown of the German de- fense lines on this front may prove the entering wedge for allied successes of it sweeping nature since the fact lout General Pershing's; army has not yet been largely employed is proof tient Infershul Foch has ample reserves with which to press his advantage. In his midweek conference with newepuper correspondents. General Merch wevIewed briefly the situation of the last three or four days, noting potrticularly that the British, in the most impressive phase of the battle, tenet of Arras, had smashed their way across the Hindenburg line on nn eight-mile front. with Cambral as theft- objeetive. The major enemy re- sistunce Meng the whole e0 -mile bat- tle front from the Scarpe too the Oise, he tail& had been encountered and overcome by the British and the swift advence of the French troops last week, when they gained five or six miles on a 25 -mile front ill in single day, was due largely to withdrawal forced upon the enemy lit the north. BOLSHEVIK! ARE LOSING GRIF Travelers Declare Soviet Russia Is Staggering on, Hungry and Mis- erable, Toward a Hope- less Winter ser e kh or ee, Sept. 9. --The America! refugees from Meseow liiive reticle -4 Stocklinim-12 days after their depai lure from the Ihilslieviki The were inet by Sheldon 1Viiiiithouse, Anterienn eloirge d'affairs,4ind a p ar t of Amerleans and Etiropeans wk.: were itnxiotts to the lot of friends moot relatives hi Russia. Immedietely after crossing into Fin- land the Americans were impressed by the orderly condition prevailing. The Finns near the border had suf- fieient food., except flour and sugar. Conditions improwed as the special railway train approniehed Tornen, op- posite the Swedish bonier, 111111 on the Swedish side they were almost unbe- lievable for refugees from Soviet Rus- sia', which is stagegring on. hungry and miserinble, toward n hopeless winter. When the American , : left Rusele they 3ny flour sold at $1.25 it pound and was seldom obteinable at any price. Sugar, ohm scarce, sold at $3 a pound. Moscow Starving. The refugees say that stonrvatlen had become so prevalent in Moscow Mit loge hi August the food commis- sion Was fOreell to remove all regu- lations on citizens and permit then] to enter the Mo. with 1 . 70 pounds of food Emelt. Tints step. it Wins asserted, was iiitohnission of the absolute failure of the food 1111111111. , Sitill, had no bread and nos forced through pres- , 111'1. of the rebelling (-Miens to let the pe,ple take the food supply into their on 1131114IS. Wheat /Ind other grilti, were not 11%101111dt% HS the Ileils;Olas h i the gra in sections still under Si let control re- fuse to fee(1 the cities. Pennines and other vegetubles were selling at rents a pound. They tire the chief fowl eupply of Sloi.44.1)Ny lind Petrogred. 'Fine workmen of Miiseow ii miii Petroo- grind factories eltilillit nil iii iii fond front Iii.' iiiii Iii s :advised them to shoulder rifles rind hike the grain away from the peasants. This advice has seldom been heeded, lie a majority of the workmen regard the peasants :IS brothers, Wholesale charges hy the Bolshevild newspapers Met llo. bourgeoise are wholly responsible for the food short. age no longer quiet the hungry labor. ers, whose faith in the Belsbeviki is waning: appreciably. Tht. promises of I.eon Trotzky. the Bolsiteviki foreign minister, too quell the Czecho-Slovak rising and tell the supply of wheat no longer are generally credited. Russia, the refugees airy, has a lentoper crop dl wheat and rye in sir. finally all the grain sections. Much of the gratin has airenoly been harvested. tout the Bolshevik( (nave neither the organization nor the transportation fa- cilities to °biotin bread for the settee lag cities, which Call scarcely be ex. pected to drag through a tweediest winter without turning against a gov- ernment whose policy knits lost the wheat districts. ALL YANK TROOPS ARE PUT IN ONE BIG ARMY Washington. Sept. 9. -Concentration of American troops in the American sectors in France Is proceeding rap- idly and General Pershing !now hat under his direct commend more than 90 per cent of the troops who have renehed the other side. This was re vented by General March, chief 01 staff. General Mandl made no comment at to the purpose of this concentratlor and added nothing that t»ight Indi- o:ante his own opinion ns to the prob- ability that an all-American drive at the German lines might lie impending He did say, however, that the custom of brigading ileW diVISIODS with the French or Britheln forces to hasten their preparations for frond line .duts had not Omen abandoned. \But as our men goo over there nosi pretty well Instructe(1.\ be prided, \thi time they stay In the train:f i g ra mp, over there Is very much less.\ General Morch announced iilsn that the twenty-seventh divindon, pro•viouels behind the Britisliltaines, is now oP the line in Flanders. 'Finis was inter preteil to mean that the division' soon would be withdrawn to joint Per-iiing't army. CONGRESS STARTS WORK ON BIG REVENUE BILL Washington, Sept. 'I. -Without eel. &nee of political division. emigres! yesterday tiepin work on the ero•atest revenue Inteneure in all history, provId ing for the raising of $24,000,000.000- $8,000,000,000 in taxes atoll twice AI much in hoitole-to pay America's slian o f th e eget of the war next non, and forloans te its eo-belligermits. Chairman Simill0111S of the spent( 1,500 Inducted into Army. New York, Sept. 9. -More than 1,- 500 men were inducted into military service and 15,000 others were ad- judged seriously delinquent as it result of the slacker roundup In New York and northern New Jersey last week. Charles F'. DeWoody, chief agent of the department of justice. announced A total of 60,187 men were examined. LATEST MARKET REPORTS, Chicago Livestock. Chicago. Sept. 10. -Hogs: Receipts 21.- 000. Market closed fairly active; mostly 25c above yesterday's average; some mix- ed lots advancing more; good clearant•es. Butchers, $19.404,20.20; light. ',$19.5003s 20.30; packing, $18.65q19.30; rough. $17.75 BI8.50; pigs, good and choice, $18.50e 19. Cattle: Receipts 8,000. Good to prime, native steers strong; others slow, mostly steady; top natives. $19.20, a new record; butcher stock, steady to 15c lower, calve weak; stockers and feeders, steady to lower; beef cattle, good, choice and prime, Il71?19.20; common and medium. 810.25C17; canners and cutters._ $6.25U 6.75; stockers and feeders, good, choice and fancy, $1141114; inferior, common and medium. VIVO; veal calves, good and choice. $18616.15. Sheep: Receipts 40,000. Market steady to 25c lower. Feeding lambs weakened most. Beat range lambs, top natives, $17; lamba, choice and prime. $17V18; medium and good. $15.75(r17; culls. $1041r 13.50; ewes, choice and prime. $11.50@12; medium and good. $10.254111.50; cults, $4 08. Omaha Livestock, Omaha, Sept. 10. -Hogs: Recelpta 3.- 8 , 0. Market higher. Heavy. 619.10H 19.50; mixed. $19.256919.40; light, 619.40U 19.65; pigs, $16.60a18. Cattle: Receipts 16,000. Market lower. Native steers, 612018; cows and heifer,. $12.254B17,58; western steers, $ ati 12.25: range cows and heifers. 370'1l: canners, $6497: stockers and feeders, $6.504/13.50; calves. $9ft13.50. Sheep: Receipts 35,500. Market steady. Wethers. stiA5e12.45: ewes( i5V11,; lambs. $16.25017.25; yearlings. $12.250 $12.25a13.25. Minneapolis Grain, Minneapolis, Sept. 10.\ -Wheat: Re- celpta 1.255 cars, compared with 582 care a year ago. Wheat: Cash, No. 1 northern, old, $2.22. Corn: No. 8 yellow. $1.60411.64. Oats: No. 3 white. 67 1 / 2 0681 , ,c, St. Paul Livestock. St. Paul, Sept. 10. -Hogs: Receipts 1.- 890. Market 10c higher. Range $19Q 19.35: bulk. $19.254y19.35. Cattle: Reeetpts 11,900, Milers, 15* 25c lower. Steers. $6.25H17.50; cows and heifers, 67011; veal calves, steady, $5.750 17; stockers and feeders, atrong, $6.50V 12. Sheep: Receipts 1,000. Market ateady. Lambs, $106115.75; wethers. 870/113; ewes, $6611. 'A 'A Chicago Grain. Chicago, Sept. 10. -Corn: No. 2 yel- low. nominal; No. 3 yellow, $1.62(O1.65; No. 4 yellow. $1.58e1.56. Oate• No. 3 white. 70@70%c; standard, 70 1 / 2 071e. Rye: No. 2, $1.6555. Liarley: 9302$1.04, WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS BY BOLSHEVIKI ARE CONDEMNED Amsterdam, Sept. O. -The Berlin rages Zeitung's Moscow eorreepon- dent Frays the neutral diplomats have Jointly protested to M. Telolteherin. the Bolsheviki foreign minister, against the wholesale execution of civilians and ofleers. They informed Tchitch- erin that their governtnents would ex- pel ell !tussle!' Boish he eviki if t soviet finance committee. expressed the horn government did not abendon its atti- that the bill could be it law by thf tude of terrorism tower& its politcial middle or last of October. onnonents. REV. I. S. M'ELROY, JR, Rev, Isaac Stuart McElroy. Jr.. pes- ter of the Presbyterian elitirch at White Sulphur Springs. W. Va., who married Miss Alice Wilson in the IVInite House. Ile is planning to go, within it year, to Japan to do mission- ary work. WORLD NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM President Wilson. In annotincing that he had abonndoned definitely plans for it trine:continental tour for the fourth Libetty loan, said he %Vint con- vinced that it Was nOt right for hint to be absent from Washington for more than it day or two at it time while the war continues. sr tr • Fuel Administrator Garfield has an- nounced that he expects soon to fix a price for gasoline for domestic con- sumers as well es the Koren - emend and allies at a figure lower than tile pres- ent market price. He Is awaiting fur- ther reports on the situation before tonking indefinite action. Consumers will pay at least one rent a pound more for sugar after the present stocks Inn the country are exhausted, under the new price of mine smear at the seaboard, announced by tine singer equalizintion board with the approval of President Wilson. A treaty of alliance has been con- cluded between Germeny anti Finland under whieln the entire mounienwer of Finland Iii PlIt at Germany's disposal, according to a dispontch to a Paris newspaper from Copenhagen. Contractors 'Ind sub -contractors who built the Hog Island, P11., shipyard are charged with extravagance during the early days of the work, in a report now In the hands of Attorney Gen- eral Gregory, to be transmitted soon to President Wilson. It was said, how- ever, Butt investigation of the proj- ect, conducted at the direction of Pres- ident Wilson, failed to show grounds for critninal prosecution. • * It has officially been estimated that the potato crop for :Manitoba tills year will exceed the bunoper yield of 1916 by 1,000,000 bushels. The estimate, an- nounced by the dominion department of agriculture, puts the prospective total at 10,000,000 bushels. Cupid and line stork have opened a new offensive against Camp Lewis of- ficers, according to officers in the camp adjutant's office, who say that' In the hist month 100 officers have been given leave to marry or because of becoming fathers. The number of officers who were mnrried in August Is said to set a camp record. gr. * The resIgnetion of John D. Ryan as president of the Anaconda Copper corn - many so that he may devote his entire time to tile government as director of the air service, was announced after a meeting of the company's directors; in New York. C. F. Kelley, a vice presi- dent, formerly of Butte, was elected president. tr Reports on the activitiee of the American Red Cross in France In July received at headquarters in Washing- ton, show that aid was extended to 372,835 civilians and that 26,141 per- sons received treatment at , the eight hospitals and 70 dispensaries opened lit France by the Red Cross. • tr Delays in the payments of allot- ments to dependents of soldiers have been found to he due In most cases to the dependents chauging their ad- dresses. according to a bulletin issued at Camp Lewis, which asks that all saddlers promptly notify the war de- partment when their dependents move to new addresses. • A rigorous federal mew governing the production and exhibition of mov- ing pictures to protect legitimate eX- 111bItors and producers against semen - 'tonal and morbid . pictures was advo- citted by members of the American ExhibitOrs' association at their second annual meeting in Chicago. er .Ninety-three Industrial Workers of the World. reeently convicted et Chi - rage of violation of the espionage net, have been delivered to the federal pen- itentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. - HIGHWAYBOMMILL HESTIIICINEWHOUS ALL WORK NEXT YEAR MUSI BE' CONFINED TO ESSEN- TIAL NEEDS NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY' Men Who Secure Exemptions on Indus- trial Grounds Must Continue to Work Regularly or Be In- ducted Into Army Heletia.-All Monana counties, cities and towns eontetuplating any street. highway, culvert or bridge construc- tion le 1919, not only mitst (engine such work to the most essential needs. but If they expect to secure the needs - entry material 'mist compile the von- struction programs at once for sub- mission to the NIontana mate highway cemninission, which has been directed by the United States highways coun- cil to prepare the program of con- struction contemplated in Montana in 1919. The highways council speeifi- catty states that It will give consider- ation only le those projects approved by the state highway commission. By the simple expedient of having manu- facturers refuse to take orders, the United States highways council will make impossible of construction those projects it seems are unesesntial. Writing to the state highway com- mission. the highwitys council dIreets: \All proposeti highway, street, culvert and bridge construction, reconstruc- tion, and maintenance involving the. issuance of bonds; the use of rail or water transportation; the use of coal or oil sks fuel; the use of cement. brick, asphalt, oil, tar, crushed stone or steel (also sand and gravel where shortage exists), Its highway material, should first be submitted for approval to the United Statee highways council through the'appropriate stinte highway department. Fortes have been lire - pared for this purpose and a supply placed with each state highway de -- pertinent. No menufocturer will fur- nish 'thy road-bullding material until the project has been approved by the United States highway council.\ First consideration, the order con- tinues. will be given to maintenance. with a view to conserving all the higInweys already completed. * * * Work or Fight Order Will Stick. The federal employment bureau at Washington has telegraphed Secre- tary Charles D. Greenfield of the state council of defense Gent \the work or ...fight order will stick.\ and then quot- ed Secretary of Mir Baker as fol- lows: \A man who gets an industrial ex- emption by reason of his being an in- dispensable imperative In an indispen- sable industry Ceases to have that ex- emption as soon as Inc ceases to be an operative in that industry. \The boards huve never applied that in the case of bona fide disputes between lalnor ins an aggregate and em- ployers as an aggregate, but they have always prevented a man taking refuge behind industnal exemption and then discontinuing Ns work for which be re- ceived exemption, so that the apparent purpose of the senate amendment is already In operation. • * * * Few Soldiee Votes Expected. The recent ruling of the state attor- ney general that soldiers. sailors, Red Cross workers and others engaged in military and nuxiliary work outside the state (linnet vote in the November election unless they make personal eplicatiorm to county clerks and re- corders for ballots. Is regarded as tank- ing it practically certnin that few of the 45,000 votes affected wilt be cast. It was supposed when the absent voter's law was passed that the war department would furnish county clerks with addresses of nbeenteee In military service and that the clerks would forward the ballots. It is fear- ed that soldiers; who make applica- tion for ballots may not get them in time to vote, because of the•slowness of mail transportation to the front. * * * Coal Dealers Warned, Some Montana concerns that !ewe been placed on the preference led for (obtaining coal have been piecing or- ders for coal under the preferred (lewd- fication, when they wanted the enill for other purposes, necorolIng to) cotne plaints received by M. H. Gerry. Jr., of Helena. United States fuel adminis- trator for Montana. Tile administrn- tor is sending letters to all tine retail and wholesale coal dealers of the state, calling littetition ,to the alleged misrepresentations to get coal ntni pointing out the pyinitiesr attuned to violations of feel regulations. When coal is needed for threshing or other preferred purposes, this fact must he noted on the order, says Administra- tor Gerry. * * Russian Inspecting Roads. Because Mot - Anna resembles Missile!. In runny ways. B. II. Falk, chief of the highway depnrinneet of the 'tussle's mission of ways and communications 'Ali shortly arrive in Helene to con- fer with members of the state high- way commission relative to the - work being done in title state with a view of obtaining - data thnt can be used in the improvement of Rwandan roads. Mr. Fele will probably be taken on' a tour of inspection to obtain first hand knowledge of hOW the problem is tackled In this state. • • \0.
