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that the chief hope of the suffrage advocates lies in the elections held November 5, and tells us further:

"Eight Senators voted who are serving by appointment. Their terms will expire immediately after successors appear. It is barely possible the additional two votes may be obtained through the election of Senators to succeed the present appointees.

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"The eight appointive Senators were evenly divided. Guion, of Louisiana; Baird, of New Jersey; Drew, of New Hampshire, and Benet, of South Carolina, voted against the resolution. Wilfley, of Missouri; Martin, of Kentucky; Nugent, of Idaho, and Henderson, of Nevada, voted for the resolution. from the States indicated believe the alinement will remain unchanged, thus leaving the suffragists still two votes short after November 5.

"Some reliance is placed in the possible conversion of sufficient Senators to remedy the situation. It is believed by suffrage advocates that now the President will systematically take up the work of laboring with the obdurate ones."

In a Washington dispatch to the New York Tribune (Rep.) we read that the defeat of woman suffrage in the Senate is looked upon as somewhat of a disaster to the Democratic party and as a blow at President Wilson's power as a party leader, and we are told that

"The fact that so many Senators from Southern States sacrificed their loyalty to the President to their Bourbonism will, it is believed, convince independent voters of progressive ten

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dencies that there is no hope for their aspirations in the Democratic party, and that to-day's vote brands the party as too heavily loaded with reactionaries. Republican leaders count upon large gains from this element as well as from those who will determine their future political alinement solely upon the suffrage question. It is true that ten Republicans voted against suffrage, but, altho the minority party, it delivered more votes for suffrage than the Democrats. In the Western States the suffragists now purpose frankly to oppose Democratic nominees for the Senate, and it is considered possible that, as a direct consequence of their failure to-day to respond to their leader's call, the Democrats may lose control of the Senate and also of the House." In the New York Globe Mr. Judson C. Welliver writes from Washington that the question has now been made something of a sectional issue:

"The suffragists fear that while the President has been able to make his own position perfectly plain as their supporter, he may have done it in a way that is calculated to solidify the only opposition that can possibly postpone for long the victory of the Federal amendment. There will be no serious Democratic split over suffrage, because, after all, the mainstay of Democracy is Southern, and the South has said No. But there is concern about the danger of making suffrage more distinctly a sectional question than it has ever been before."

By voting down their own party leader for the first time in his Presidential career, writes Mr. David Lawrence in a Washington dispatch to the New York Evening Post, the Southern faction in the Democratic party not only weakened his prestige, but tied the hands of the Democratic campaigners in the North, and we read:

"Republicans are chuckling over the situation produced by the coalition of their own opposition to suffrage and the much larger opposition inside the Democratic party. The Southern Democrats are undismayed. The Northern and Western Democrats are worried. It is truly an extraordinary situation, and woman is at the bottom of it all."

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nearly all sections of the United States this so-called Spanish influenza is prevalent, we learn from Washington dispatches which relate that twenty-three States, from New England in the East to California in the West and from Florida in the Southeast to Washington in the Northwest, are experiencing the mysterious malady. It is especially severe along the Atlantic seaboard and in military and naval camps. More than fourteen thousand new cases in the camps were reported to the office of the SurgeonGeneral within one period of twenty-four hours, and deaths since the epidemic began have numbered thousands. Despite the alarming increase in influenza cases, we are told, the penumonia rate continues low, and reports show that pneumonia has developed in only one of every thirteen cases. The pneumonia is said to appear in a most treacherous way, when the patient is apparently recovering and ambitiously leaves his bed too early, thus giving the germ his deadly opportunity. The less ambition, therefore, the better the chances for longevity. Furthermore, the Boston Globe and other journals point out "fear is our first enemy," and." "whether he fights a German or a germ, the man who worries is already half beaten." There is no excuse for panic about this epidemic if we all do our share to help stop it, and we are. reminded that "from battle to disease the cool fighter wins." The way to handle this influenza situation, according to the Hartford Courant, is to "think of something else," and because you have a cold do not at once conclude that you are on the road to pneumonia, but "conclude the opposite and the chances are that you will win out." Similarly the New York Morning Telegraph warns us not to be excited because of the presence of Spanish influenza "in our midst or in our nostrils," and the Cleveland News reminds us that if we keep our system in good condition and avoid fear or apprehension of contagion, we shall be reasonably certain to escape it. Surgeon-General Gorgas, of the United States Army, has issued the following recommendations for the avoidance of contagion:

-Knott in the Dallas News.

"1. Avoid needless crowding; influenza is a crowd disease. "2. Smother your coughs and sneezes; others do not want the germs which you would throw away.

"3. Your nose, not your mouth, was made to breathe through. Get the habit.

"4. Remember the three Cs a clean mouth, a clean skin, and clean clothes.

"5. Try to keep cool when you walk and warm when you ride and sleep.

"6. Open the windows always at home at night; at the office when practicable.

"7. Food will win the war if you give it a chance; help by choosing and chewing your food well.

"8. Your fate may be in your own hands; wash your hands before eating."

Dr. Royal S. Copeland, Commissioner of Health of New York City, points out in a statement to the press that influenza and pneumonia are infectious diseases caused by germs carried in the matter spit, sneezed, or coughed by sick persons or sometimes by persons who, while carrying the disease germs in their mouth and throat, show no signs of illness. He advises avoidance of "contact with matter which is spit, sneezed, or coughed up," of dirt of every kind, of fatigue, and of overeating.

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A writer in the New York Times recalls that the last pandemic of influenza occurred more than twenty-five years ago, and consequently physicians who began to practise medicine since 1892 have not had personal experience in handling such a disease. For their benefit, Surgeon-General Rupert Blue has issued a special bulletin setting forth the facts concerning influenza which physicians must keep in mind. It contains the following points:

"Infectious Agent-The bacillus influenza of Pfeiffer. "Sources of Infection-The secretions from the nose, throat, and respiratory passages of cases or of carriers.

"Incubation Period-One to four days, generally two.

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Mode of Transmission-By direct contact or indirect contact through the use of handkerchiefs, common towels, cups, mess gear, or other objects contaminated with fresh secretions. Droplet injection plays an important part.

"Period of Communicability-As long as the person harbors the causative organism in the respiratory tract.

"Methods. of Control-(a) The infected individual and the environment.

"Recognition of the Disease-By clinical manifestations and bacteriological findings.

"Isolation-Bed isolation of infected individuals during the course of the disease. Screens placed between beds are to be recommended.

"Immunization-Vaccines are used with only partial success. "Quarantine-None; impracticable.

"Concurrent Disinfection-The discharges of the mouth, throat, nose, and other respiratory passages.

"Terminal Disinfection Through cleanings, airing, and sunning. The causative is short-lived outside of the host.

"(b) General Measures-The attendant of the case should wear a gauze mask. During epidemics persons should avoid Education as crowded assemblages, street-cars, and the like.

regards the danger of promiscuous coughing and spitting. Patients, because of the tendency to development of bronchopneumonia, should be treated in well-ventilated, warm rooms."

Of immediate remedial purpose is the suggestion of the Rochester Post-Express that physicians and nurses should be grouped into central units and that the public be educated to look to those units for medical care. This journal adds:

"A districting of the nation under medical supervision after the plan adopted in Great Britain and France three years ago must be had if we are not to run into danger. This danger is equal to our people and to the Government's ability to depend on them for war-work. All parties to the controversies now current over the best use to be made of doctors and nurses should immediately lay aside personal opinion in effort to devise a plan under which a working medical machine shall be set up throughout the country."

TOPICS IN BRIEF

-Boston Herald.
WAR is also more to do and fewer to do it.-
THERE is a Russian born every minute.-Los Angeles Times.
THE Hun has been forced to drop the goose-step for the Foch's trot.-
London Opinion.

THE German peasant asks for bread and the Kaiser gives him a tombstone.-Kansas City Star.

THE belief grows that the Crown Prince has a face which only the Kaiser could love.-Pittsburg Post.

INSTEAD of boiling the city water, why not compress it into bricks and use it for fuel this winter?-St. Joseph Gazette.

THE Swiss hotel-keepers are in favor of opening peace negotiations at once in some neutral country.-New York Evening Post.

WHETHER President Wilson means there will be no peace without laws, or with outlaws, it means the same thing.-Newark News. If you haven't, buy IF you have money saved up, buy a Liberty bond. a Liberty bond and save some money.-Arkansas Gazette.

THE way war-taxes have hit the rich there's really more money in being poor.-Knorville Journal and Tribune.

THE Kaiser has just made a visit to Lorraine. He had better visit it while he can.-Arkansas Gazette.

RECENT events have demonstrated that it was quite unnecessary for the United States to declare war on Turkey and Bulgaria.-Des Moines Register.

FORD'S Michigan friends declare that they'll have him out of politics by Christmas." Intimating. I presume, that he has been in politics.-New York Morning Telegraph.

REGARDING the end of the war, an Iola boy writes home from France that "it will take one year to whip the Huns and thirty-nine more to wind up the barbed wire."-Kansas City Star.

PROBABLY the reason that the girl Lenine who attacked was less successful than Charlotte Corday is that she could never catch the Russian Bolshevik in a bath-tub.-Seattle PostIntelligencer.

THE DIGEST IN "THE MOVIES.".. While you are reading this copy of THE LITERARY DIGEST, you may be interested to know that millions of other men and women are reading with keen enjoyment "TOPICS IN BRIEF" and other selections from THE DIGEST on the screens in leading motion-picture theaters throughout the country from Maine to California.

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ONE ray of sunshine in the midst of Germania's troubles. are being melted down into ammunition.-New York Evening Post. "WE do not understand Foch's strategy," says a German military critic. If a Hun understood it, it wouldn't be strategy.-Pittsburg Post. She needs an RUSSIA needs neither another czar nor a president. alienist.-Long Island City Star.

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-Fitzpatrick in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

THE saloon business must be in a desperate plight when the brewers begin to go into the newspaper business. -New York Morning Telegraph.

IT is gravely announced that Marshal Foch smokes two-cent cigars, but this can not account entirely for the German retreat.-New York Sun.

AFTER this war is over, we predict

that Germany will be the peace-lovingest nation on the face of the earth for a hundred years to come.-Philadelphia Inquirer.

GERMAN Secretary of State for Colonies is hustling desperately to hold on to what's left of his job. If he fails, he's in danger of being appointed Chancellor. Anaconda Standard.

GENERAL VON SANDERS's brilliant escape from Palestine reminds us of the time the combination auditorium and fire-house at Bryan, Texas, was burned down. The fire-engine was saved. New York Evening Sun.

SECRETARY DANIELS doesn't want any conscientious objectors on his ships. Don't be stubborn, Mr. Secretary. Let the fellows take a ride on the boats until they reach the middle of the pond and then-you know.Knorville Journal and Tribune.

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SAVE PAPER AND SAVE SOLDIERS' LIVES

IN THESE MOMENTOUS DAYS when every ounce of our energy, when every cent of our money, when every life if need be, is dedicated to the defeat of the Teutonic Powers, there is no single act of a private individual so unimportant as not to have a bearing on the outcome of the great enterprise that we have undertaken.

This is a war not merely of fighting men; it is a war of whole peoples. We are mobilizing not armies only, we are mobilizing our capital and our industries, our churches and our schools, our entire and intricate social system. The second line of defense enters our very homes: it extends to our pantries and to our coal-bins; it crosses every avenue of our domestic life.

Civilization demands the utter destruction of the German idea, and with this purpose in mind we cheerfully accept any new sacrifice asked by our Government, whether it be the saving of coal or gasoline, or doing without sugar or wheat or any other commodity needed by our nation or by our armies. We make these sacrifices the more willingly because the requests are wisely made and because the departments making them are wisely administered. It must, indeed, have been an inspired moment in which our great leader, President Wilson, chose Herbert Hoover as Food Administrator. Mr. Hoover had already proved his great-heartedness and his executive genius by creating and administering that most merciful of organizations, the Belgian Relief Commission. He has carried this genius into his present high office and has made himself beloved by all peoples in all Allied lands. With the same sure wisdom the President chose Dr. Harry A. Garfield, that great son of a great father, for Fuel Administrator. The nation gladly follows such leadership as these men typify.

A NEW REQUEST TO SAVE-So closely are all peoples in all Allied lands bound together, so complete has the organization of our resources become, that we are scarcely surprized now to have our Government tell us that we must save paper, and that by saving paper we can help save the lives of our boys at the front.

The paper industry is enormous. This industry alone requires hundreds of millions in capital and needs the services of scores of thousands of laborers for its maintenance. There is a demand in this industry for nearly twenty-five million tons of freight, that must be moved annually in and out of the mills. Translated into other terms, this means a million car-loads yearly. Ten million tons of coal are used in the manufacture of this commodity. Again, the manufacture of paper means the use of chemicals precious in the making of munitions. Therefore by so much as we save paper, by just so much we release the chemicals, coal, capital, cars, and labor for more essential, more pressing war-necessities.

WHY YOU SHOULD SAVE PAPER-Let us get down to direct cases.

Do you know that every time you use a sheet of paper unnecessarily you are depriving the Government of caustic soda, sulfur, and potash-chemicals sorely needed in the manufacture of "T.N.T.," the most powerful explosive used in the war?

Do you know that every time you waste white paper you are wasting the chlorin needed for the poison-gas that protects our boys-the poison-gas that is beating Germany at her own fiendish game?

Do you know that when you destroy a pile of paper you are destroying the equivalent of several pounds of coal-for it takes from one to three pounds of coal to produce a pound of paper? No, you probably do not know these things-none of us did until the Government told us. Now, however, the War Industries Board has placed the facts before the people and has requested the nation to save paper. It requests the people of America to save not merely in a casual and superficial way, but to save systematically, intensively, religiously, with the sure knowledge that every scrap of paper so saved is a direct act of service to our Army.

HOW TO SAVE PAPER IN THE HOME-Innumerable ways will suggest themselves to you. Of course the simplest rule is "use as little of it as you possibly can." Write on both sides

of a sheet instead of on only one. Save the blank sheets of letters and circulars and use them in place of pads. Instead of throwing away or burning up your empty oatmeal-box or your sugar-, coffee-, or cornstarch-boxes, save them together with your old newspapers and worn-out paper bags and dispose of them to the Salvation Army or to the junkman or to any one else who will send them back to the paper-mills to be remade into paper or paper products.

Above and beyond all, don't burn your waste paper. It is little less than treason to do this when paper is so scarce. And do not light a bonfire in which there are wood, old rags, or paper in any form. Waste paper and rags are two of the most important elements in the manufacture of new paper.

Housewives can further help by using baskets when marketing and not having their purchases wrapt except when necessary for the protecting of the goods. A paper bag saved is a paper bag made. Use your bags again and again. If every shopper saved a bag a day it would be equivalent to an output of twenty million bags a day. Twenty million bags produced and not a tree cut down, not a pound of coal mined or consumed, not an ounce of chemical used or a hand turned over to produce them.

The Government needs this cooperation on the part of the housewives. It needs all paper-every scrap-for remanufacture into shell wrappings, for packing for soldiers' food and clothing, for questionnaires, for correspondence, for soldiers' letters.

THE SCHOOLS CAN HELP-The Government has acknowledged in many ways the indebtedness it owes to the schools-teachers and pupils alike for the aid and practical cooperation they have given to the Government in every warenterprise.

Now again this vast school army can help the Government in its new and pressing problem. The children can assist in placing the facts concerning paper before their parents. They can organize "paper-saving squads," and they can carry out the saving in their own homes. They can watch the wastebaskets; they can save wrapping-paper and strings; they can see to it that both at home and at school the old scribbling habit is stopt and that the slate is substituted for the pad. Those who bring their lunches to school should be sure that they are never done up in paper.

We wish to make this appeal especially to the hundreds of thousands of boys and girls who will study THE LITERARY DIGEST this year and to the ten thousand high schools where this magazine is used as a text in the classroom.

HOW TO SAVE PAPER IN THE OFFICE-Placards urging economy on the part of employees can be prepared, or can be obtained on request from the War Industries Board, and then can be put in conspicuous places around the offices or the plant.

Blank sheets, and even envelops, can be methodically saved from the daily mail. Yellow paper can be substituted for white paper for all ordinary uses. The War Industries Board is asking

for more chlorin than can be manufactured. Chlorin is the "white" in white paper. As we have war-bread, so must we have war-paper. Use your paper in its natural state, unbleached by chlorin and untinted by coloring materials which are made from a basis of intermediates necessary in the manufacture of munitions and war-chemicals.

These are but a few random hints. The initiative of each employer will suggest scores of other ways in which saving can be accomplished.

THE NATION WILL RESPOND - When the Fuel Administration requested that automobiles should not be driven on Sunday the compliance of the entire nation was as complete as tho this single simple request had been backed by the armed force of a Prussian Military Autocracy. We can conceive of no greater tribute than this to the patriotism of the American people, no more convincing proof than this of the efficiency and the irresistible might of democracy. We know, we are confident, that this new request by the Administration will secure the same unanimous and instantaneous response.

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GERMANS SCENTING DEFEAT

HEN THE RATS LEAVE, the ship is sinking, and nowhere is this realized more than in Germany. Bulgaria's desertion to the Entente has been a hard blow, and the German papers see the handwriting on the wall. "Germany's most serious hour has struck," says the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, and it warns the Government that there is great risk in hiding the gravity of the situation from the people. "On the contrary," it remarks, "we must confront the situation with a clear vision. Germans must accustom themselves to the greatness of the danger; with a consciousness of the great seriousness of these terrible times they must steel themselves for the task with which the Fatherland is confronted." So, too, the Frankfurter Zeitung recognizes that the Fatherland is in a position of no little peril, "more from within than from without." Writing before Bulgaria's armistice was granted, it said:

"It is useless to gloss over this news, and we are not quite sure whether it would not be useful to attach considerable importance to the semiofficial attempts to veil the threatening secession of Bulgaria or raise any hopes. . .

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"If Bulgaria deserts, then our position will become still more serious, but there is no ground for anxiety than there has been for the last fourteen months. The seriousness of the situation, however, demands that our people unite more than ever for national defense, and to draw - up their political demands. If this succeeds, and we do not doubt it, then we shall have mastered this danger, as we have mastered so many others."

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A soldier, said to come from the industrial region of Rhenish Westphalia, declared in the train that in his home district men going on leave were taking weapons with them for the aforesaid object, and that it was easy to take home German or captured revolvers, as well as stick and hand-grenades separated into two parts. I desire that arrangements be made for the kit and clothing of men going on leave to be searched as test cases, when occasion offers, before their departure. It will be possible to carry out this in baths and delousing stations. Offenses detected are to be severely punished. Above all, I wish to impress upon superior officers who happen to overhear such objectionable talk, or hear it through others, that they

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There can be little doubt that the political situation in Germany is fraught with much anxiety to those in power, an anxiety that must be considerably increased by the news from Bulgaria. Georg Bernhard, the editor of the staid and moderate Berlin Vossische Zeitung, warns the Government that political safety can only be attained by quick reform.

He says:

"The point is that the necessities of the time force us without delay to undertake a change in our whole system of government, and this change must come quickly. Of course the German Empire could possibly endure six months of further struggling on in the old way, but what will happen after that no one can tell to-day."

While no one can tell what will happen, many signs show that the Junkers fear something in the nature of a revolution. The Westminster Gazette publishes this significant army order from General Ludendorff which was found upon a captured German officer. It runs:

"It has come to my knowledge, through a letter addrest to the Royal Prussian Ministry of War, that men on leave have spoken publicly of a revolution which is to break out after the

-Passing Show (London).

must deal with it at once, without hesitation. The home authorities and Director of Military Railways have been requested to take corresponding measures."

Meanwhile the defection of Bulgaria shows the German people that their dreams of Empire are vanishing. As the London Times puts it, "the Berlin to Bagdad route is blocked." The Paris Journal sums up all that Germany loses thus:

"It will mean the reconstitution of Servia, and therefore will compel the Central Powers to form another Danube front and return the territory taken from the Roumanians, which country is beginning to think of revenge on Ge many. Turkey, cut off from the Central Powers, will be obliged to throw down her arms. The collapse of the whole brilliant but fragile structure raised by the German in the Orient is beginning. Twenty years of German effort there faces ruin."

It is the consideration of these facts that has made the Socialist Berlin Vorwärts come out with an urgent but despondent plea for peace, which incidentally reveals much of interest in the condition of the Fatherland to-day: "We must to-day, with all necessary courage, consider the following situations as possible if Bulgaria deserts us. Austria and Turkey will associate themselves with that step. That will mean that in the southwest our aim will no longer reach past our own border, and that we will lose all influence over that part of Poland and the Ukraine now occupied by Austria.

"Then we German people will stand alone against the French, British, Italians, Americans, and their numerous allies. We are fighting with our backs to the wall and ruin before our eyes, but we must still further extend the picture of discouragement. If our soldiers on the West Front break, and the enemy streams across our borders, German towns will go up in flames. Our troops, fugitives, will roll eastward, and the penetrating armies will fill our towns and houses.

"Our authorities will then be confronted with an insurmountable task and everywhere the spirit of depression will spread. If our food-supply, now low, entirely fails, and there is no more coal, and in consequence no more light and no more trains, our industries will come to a standstill and hundreds of thousands of our people will die.

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"If madness breaks out and takes possession of the survivors, and if their attempts at revolt are resisted with bloody force, instead of war outside our borders, we will have war at home, with trenches in the streets, machine guns in the houses, corpses of men, women, and children on the pavements, and with death reigning everywhere.

"The Government must do everything possible to come to the conference table, together with its allies, as speedily as possible.

"It must be a government of German democracy which goes to the conference. Guaranties are necessary that it not only be summoned in order to relieve those now in power, but that it be put there in accordance with the people's will, to watch over the permanent preservation of peace."

The news from Bulgaria seems to have stunned the German statesmen, and Chancellor von Hertling, Vice-Chancellor von Payer, together with Foreign Secretary von Hintze, have placed their resignations in the hands of the Emperor. The press seem as bewildered by the disaster as the politicians, and show a strongly hysterical note. The Berliner Zeitung am Mittag, for almost the first time in its history, entirely approves of the views of the Socialist Vorwärts, and remarks:

"Our Government throughout this terrible war has sedulously avoided hinting at this and the other possibility, namely, that the war may be lost if everybody and everything are not united in the utmost effort. The Government has thus itself contributed to veiling the real gravity of our position during these four years of war. It has preferred to lead the nation in blinkers past the abyss of danger to our national life."

The Frankfurter Zeitung begs the Government to do everything in its

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power "unequivocally and sincerely" to secure peace, while the Düsseldorfer Nachrichten bewails the fact that troops have been sent to Bulgaria from the West Front, "where they are so bitterly needed." Meanwhile, the Kaiser evidently is disturbed at the trend of events and hastens to make protests of democracy. According to the Berliner Tageblatt, in accepting von Hertling's resignation, he writes:

"I desire that the German people shall cooperate more effectively than hitherto in deciding the fate of the Fatherland. It is, therefore, my will that the men who have been upheld by the people's trust shall to a wide extent cooperate in the rights and duties of government."

GERMANY'S WAR-EFFORT-The Paris Homme Libre, the organ of Mr. Clemenceau, Premier of France, draws up a balancesheet of the military efforts that the Kaiser has imposed on his people. The Paris organ writes:

"With the exception of 3,000,000 Germans, who are medically unfit for service, resident abroad, or exempted for work in factories, Germany has enrolled 10,900,000 men, which is fifteen per cent. of the total population and seventy per cent. of the male population between eighteen and fifty years of age.

"It may be estimated that her definite losses amount to 4,760,000; that there are 500,000 wounded undergoing medical treatment in hospitals, 200,000 of the 1920 Class in training, and about 100,000 composed of wounded who have recovered and soldiers in transit between the Eastern and Western fronts or belonging to units which have been disbanded and which are at present at various depots.

"Germany has therefore left at present 5,340,000 men in all."

from a "well-informed" Greek source is given in a Reuter dispatch of the Belfast Northern Whig, in which we read further that all important points of the Greek coast-line have been strongly armed and "a large number of skilled workmen, of shipwrights, and even seamen, are serving on board Allied ships." Also the light units of the Greek Fleet are guarding the whole Greek coast-line, thus relieving the Allied fleets in the eastern Mediterranean. The coal-problem, which concerns England as intimately as it does the United States, is eased to a degree by Greece, which formerly imported all her coal from England, but is now developing to the fullest her lignite mines. During May their production reached 18,000 tons, and the estimated production per month during the summer is 28,000 tons. As to the Greek Army, it appears that

"On the Macedonian front the numbers of each division of the Army of National Defense were raised from 12,000 to 17,000 men by new formations and by strengthening the artillery and the auxiliary services. In spite of the good-will of the Allies, who were prepared to furnish Greece with all the war-material necessary to bring it up to the level of the other armies which had previously entered the war, the reorganization of the Greek Army was faced in the first instance with great obstacles arising from the reduction of tonnage, the general situation in Allied countries, and the difficulties of communication in Greece itself. For all these reasons Greek mobilization could proceed but slowly. Yet by June, 1918, altho only a third part of the classes subject to conscription has been called to the colors, 200,000 men were under arms. The Greek forces in Macedonia already occupied two large sectors, and their successes at Skra-di-Legan, for which they were highly commended by the Macedonian

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