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8 BOSTOiN FOST, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1918 Scotland Yard Was Feazed by the Vanish Cracksman I know, dash continued Smathers. sent me out after him, hotfoot; and, after a bit, I picked him up in the Shand, toddling along with that French hussy, as cool as you please. But he must have eyes all around his head; for he saw me just as- soon as I saw him, and he and Frenchy separated ljke a shot. She hopped into taxi, and flew off in one direction; he dived into the crowd, and bolted in another; and, before you could say Jack Robinson, he was doubling and twisting, jumping into cabs and jumping out to gain 'time, of course, for the woman to do what put her up to leading me the own chase through the own tangles, till he was ready to bunk for the Embankment. And YOU let him Long after Smathers and the other plair, clothes man had left him, and the wondrj 'wd had dispersed, and point duty at was just point His the accomplice, pretty maid, had completely hoodwinked the patrolman; and cap he would get those wonderful jewels in spite of all Scotland he did.

Find out how he did it. A Great Detective Serial Story The Biggest in of adventure and mystery Gowdy Playing the Big Game Over There Continued From First Page of that land, torn almost to pieces by German ambition, you will find someone from your home town, whether it be California or Florida. One month ago, during my last trip to France. I spent the finest afternoon and evening in -----------it has been my good fortune to have since I have enlisted in the service of Uncle Sam, This experience I believe will be as fully interesting to the baseball fans of America as it was to me, hence this story. One bright morning about one month ago, and after completing my duties aboard ship, I blew into town for diversion and a little refreshment.

1 entered the lobby of the best hotel in town, which a lot like the Copley- Plaza, because it is called a hotel, and attempted to converse with the lady clerk. My smattering of French, and her knowledge of English, when run together sounded like a Verdun bombardment, and consequently neither of us made much headway in finding out what each other wanted. I was about ready to give up in disgust, when I felt a touch on my shoulder. I turned around and saw a smiling American looking at me with a twinkle in his eye. He asked me whether he could assist me in any way, telling me he spoke French.

I replied in the affirmative, and explained that I was seeking refreshment after a tough voyage from the United States and he quickly grabbed me by the arm and led me to a little cafe, attached to the hotel. And It Was Hank Gowdy He was a real American type, humor in his eyes, pep in his step, and American health bulging from all over him. He was very familiar to me, and during our conversation I tried to dope him out, but couldn't get to it. He finally asked me my name, and where I came from, and I told him who I was, and that I came from Boston. I asked- him his name, and he said his name was Gowdy.

I looked at him again, and saw In front of me that boy who broke the heart of many a pill flinger in the National league, the baby that clouted two or three million In the "world series of 1914 against Connie machine. Hank Gowdy, the first big league ball player to throw away his glove, and don the uniform of Uncie Sam, the first lad to exchange a bat for a gas mask. Hank Gowdy, the man that tossed thousands of dollars into the discard for $30 per month, that exchanged the best hotels in the United States for billets in France. Being a Boston man I felt a personal pride in the fact, that there I was, alongside real American in this little town in shell-torn France. Only Hat Hank was quite a curiosity in this little French town where 1 met him.

He was the only soldier in town with a steel trench helmet on. Soldiers on leave from the front line as a rule leave the tin kelleys behind, but this was the only skypiece that Hank owned. The natives stared at him wide-eved, and children followed him for blocks. Of course this was nothing new to Hank, who had been the cynosure of American eyes for years. helmet was shrapnel-scarred, which made him ail the more wonderful to the natives, arid in fact to me also.

the 1 queried, and in breezy fashion he replied: we are holding down the home plate waiting for the biggest triple play that ever came off. in from the front line with a only one that came out whole out of a big bunch that tried to steal second. a prisoner and I brought him down I here to work in the laundry. got a 10-day pass and after I see this I quaint old towm going to He threw in a merry breeze about tha it had done for him and the other players in the big game and how it had escorted his transport safely through the happy hunting ground without as much as seeing the wake of a U-boat. the I said to Hank, lead me to the Well Water for Gowdy never touch anything stronger than O.

D. said Hank, a cabaret over and he pointed to a room off the lobby that was carpeted with mellow rugs and filled with little tables and purified by little white table cloths. is it, a midnight frolic where the chorus works around your I asked, and Hank explained in a fatherly sort of way that cabarets in France did not necessarily mean that there was a chorus of damsels working there. We went in and Hank took off his headdress and spun it around on the floor. I had a little fizz water and Hank took his straight from the well.

Have to hand it to him. when champagne costs as much as a bottle of beer at home. Hank could have had (f'- Sit Up and Read It Every Week in the Sunday Post Magazine BEGINNING TOMORROW AT LAST The Complete and Authorized Story of Our Splendid Achievements THE FIGHTING FLEETS By Ralph D. Paine A Book of Inspiration for All America Prom Secretary Daniels five months with the Allied Naval Forces in European waters, cruising in destroyers, submarines, trawlers, seaplanes and battleships, has given you a unique experience that should enable you to tell, in a vivid way, without disclosing any information that would be of value to the enemy, what our naval forces are doing in European From Rear Admiral Sims Paine has, with the permission of the United States Navy Department and with my full approval, visited the bases of our U. S.

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Painefs illustrated lecture, Tremont Temple, June 25, 8 P. M. War Situation Today whatever he wanted, for he had a roll of bills on his person that a greyhound Jump over. An Old Home Taikfest He plied with millions of questions regarding How were the Braves doing? Were Childs still selling wheat cakes? Was George Stallings still wearing out trousers by the dozens? Did they still have same umpires in the National league? The atmosphere finally cleared up, and I asked him about himself, jvhether he would rathei be catching Dick offerings or those of Hindenburg. And then Hank opened up.

He told of his arrival in France last October, his period of training, and believe me, it was far different than training with a ball club in the South. He arrived in France last October with the being an enlisted man in the 168th U. S. Infantry, from the Ohio National Guard. After a three period of intensive training behind the lines, he was assigned to a none to quiet sector on the --------front, and started throwing them out at second.

Instead of cutting off Bennie Kauff at third, Hank was vusily engaged in dishing up bombs at the Boches across No Dand. He told of being in trenches under severe fire for weeks, i then as he was relieved, going back to for rest, resuming the big game. Allied Team Play He said that the first time he was under fire he had the most peculiar feeling he ever had in his life. Rather unlike playing a crucial game on Field. But, he explained, you get used to it, and take it all as a matter of course.

The best feature about it all, he said, was the team work. Barry to Collins to Mclnnls, was a smooth, quick thinking trio, but they have nothing on the double plays that are enacted by the American, French and British club. American artillery, machine guns and infantry', be said, are a wonderful aggregation. To see them cut off Huns trying to steal second, third or home, is a beautiful sight. Sliding Berlin Hank says glad there.

He also said its nothing to his credit, as that is where he should be. He said to tell the Boston that the Kaiser and his cohorts will never get him, and that he will be back again shortly, with a surer arm, a keener batting eye and more enthusiasm than he ever had. He said to tell them that Boston is where he wants to perform. Braves Field is his home, and after he has slid safely into Berlin with the winning tally, that he will be back with his trusty bludgeon, busting the curves of the National league pitchers all over the circuit. He asked me to convey this message to his mother, through these columns.

The message that he is well and happy, and so is George. He sends his best love to all at home, and hopes that i everything is well, and not to worry, that he will be home shortly. When I met Hank he was engaged in bringing prisoners from the front line, i to a detention camp in southern France, i He had been extended a 10-day furlough, and after he had turned over the Hun prisoners to the authorities in charge, was going to Paris for 10 days, before returning to shoot, bombs at the enemy Batting Above Average want you to do me a said Hank leaning over to slip me some confidential stuff. write you a harmless little note on your memo book, and when you get back to the States send It All of which I did and I never liked a job better. It Was jtist a personal note, but the cheerful kind; the kir.d you can expect from a full-throated, red-bldoded American who knows no terror.

time you come into port try and have another for Hank said, is, if everything goes all right. Just now batting above the average; but you know know what a three-bagger or a home run means in the seventh inning; and we've all pledged ourselves never to tie the to put that one big clout over. what these German prisoners tell me been up against our batteries. They say the British never know when licked and that they go stubbornly ahead in the face of great odds. Yanks Never Quit "But the Americans never stop fighting.

They shoot over when they seem all in. always at the finish that the Yanks get in their best licks The French will tell you so, so will the British. something about the American smile in the worst part of it that Fritz stand. only one message he said in parting. for Stallings and the Braves, fell 'em be back soon at the old stand, for 1 think the going to end here soon.

Tell Ru- Yesterday was a remarkably good day tor the allies and a correspondingly disappointing one for the Germans and Austrians. The Italian forces in a series of brilliant counter attacks cut deeply into the Austrian advanced lines in several sectors, while all the Austrian attacks broke down under heavy fire. The decisive check administered to the Austrian armies must be a severe blow to them, since it is clear that they looked for a rather easy victory. Many allied commentators felt that the Italians could not hold the Piave line, so certainly the Austrians never expected so sharp a rebuff as they have encountered. GERMANS ON THE DEFENSIVE The Germans remained strictly on the defensive' all day, and plainly was the fact evident that they refrained from any word painting in their bulletins.

The Americans, British and French were busy all day in artillery action and local attacks, all of which must have bothered the Germans, though none of them was on a large scale. The main object of the allies just now is to endeavor to ferret out the scope and point impact for the next German blow. At all points along the line the allies are seeking to strengthen their position and to keep vantage points out of the German hands ifi possible. Their actions just now are in the nature of preparation against German attacks in extensive force. GREAT GERMAN DRIVE IN MAKING A new German blow of tremendous proportions is in the making.

It may take a week before any final signs of it appear, but it may be launched earlier. As soon as the German command realized that a further advance along the Oise would cost too many men they immediately began to reform their divisions for the new blow. All this takes time. Divisions badly cut up must be removed from the battle line and reformed from depot brigades at a point some distance behind the lines. Both the crown army and von army need considerable bracing up.

When all is in readiness the armies at the Marne and the Oise will be left with merely covering forces and all surplus men merged with a new army for the great attack to come. It may be, of course, that Ludendorff may decide either on a further drive along the IVlarne or another attempt at the valley of the Oise, but all indications point elsewhere. NEXT MOVE IS DO OR DIE We can only surmise that the attack will be on the Amiens front, but wherever it is to be launched the present calm is only the lull before the storm. The great attack of the year is yet to come, and it will not be so quickly given up when the first sharp comes as were the Marne and the Oise drives. When Ludendorf decides on the place where he expects to win the war, German divisions will be poured in to the limit.

It will be do or die then and that is why many persons still hold to the theory that the drive at the Aisne and the Montdidier-Noyon advance were only feints to mask the real German blow. When it does come we will see the most stupendous battle in all history in a field where the Teuton empires have staked all their military resources and the allies must summon every bit of their resolution to meet it. No doubt the Germans feel confident of victory. They would not dare risk the awful losses even a victory would bring unless they felt the battle would be decisive. FATE INVOLVED When this battle starts we will do well to remember that the fate of America is being fought out in Flanders and France.

AH the allies can hope to do is to halt the German blow, to pin them down to scant gains, to sap their strength in endless counter blows and impeding artillery conflicts, and to finally them in a position where, they will he glad to dig in and call it a draw. Then will come the turn of America, for no Frenchman or no Briton is blind to the fact that victory depends wholly on the American legions. i To halt the Germans until the Americans are ready to supply the overwhelming superiority over the troops is all the allies expect to do. While we in America are confident the allies can do this we must remember that this will be a triumph for the allies, for which they must be given full credit. The idea that the allies have an equal number of men to put against the Germans still persists, but it is far from the truth.

No amount of maneuvring by General Foch will enable him to- put into the field as many mep as the Germans are able to in the position the allied forces are today. Frequent allusions to a coming great offensive by the allies are equally erroneous. The plans were made months ago, and no thought of an offensive in the near future entered into, them. The allies will remain strictly on the defensive until the peat German blow has been warded off and a million more. Americans are ready to move against the Germans.

One would be safe in saying that any allied offensive will not be considered until at least the spring of 1919. Considering all phases of the situation, it seems as though there was no other position left open to the allies. They had not men enough start a great offensive against the Germans, and the British reverse at Cambr.ai showed how costly these abortive attempts are. When the aUies strike it will be to end the war. MUST WIN NOW OR NEVER Today the Germans think they can do the same thing and are proceeding to try it, since if they should wait until next spring they have no chance at all.

Time now helps the allies and punishes the Germans, but just now the Germans are at the very top of their fighting efficiency. The Kaiser must win now or not at all, and he is going to make the most desperate fight the world has seen. Austrians Forced to Retreat by Italians Continued From First Page sea remains impregnable to the Austrians. The operations by which the enemy had hoped to press his way from the mountain peaks in the Alps and across the Piave River to the plains of Venetia thus far have met with almost signal failure. Where the enemy was able in the mountains to press back slightly the allied defenders of the front in the first day of his offensive, the ground has been regained; where he crossed the Piave River and apparently was threatening the plains with invasion, he now is being sorely harassed at every point by the Italians.

ALLIES STEADILY GAINING In the mountains the Italians, British and French troops seemingly have the upper hand; along the Piave from the Montello plateau to the mouth of the river, east of Venice, the Italians, notwithstanding vicious thrusts by the enemy here and there, apparently gaining the upper hand. Little fighting of moment is In progress in the mountain region, but all along the Piave battles of great violence are in progress with the invaders meeting resistance upon which they had not. counted and being steadily pressed back toward the western bank of the now turbulent river, which has swept away many of their pontoon bridges in the centre of the line, leaving them in a rather precarious predicament. Fresh rains have forced the river well out of its banks and the question of sending Austrian reinforcements to the western side or conveying food and military supplies to the men already on the border of the plains has become a critical one. Hoping to alleviate the situation, the Austrians again have delivered attacks on the Montello plateau, the keystone to the plains, but, like previous thrusts, they met their repulse.

Between the Treviso railroad bridge and the Zenson loop the Italians have pressed back the enemy closer toward the Piave, while at Losson. near the Fossetta Canal, enemy attacks were repulsed. Farther down the stream, a short distance from where it empties Into the Adriatic Sea, the Italians in a daring assault north of Covtellazzo pierced the enemy front, took 200 men prisoner and firmly held their ground against a counter attack. U. S.

Airmen Aiding Italians In the violent air fighting that is in progress all along the front, American aviators have joined the allied airmen and are performing daring feats. Among tile enterprises carried out "by them has been the bombing of pontoon bridges thrown by the enemy across the Piave. Empty stomachs continue to play an important role both with the Austro- Hungarian armies and the people inside the dual monarchy. Prisoners taken i by the Italians are noticeably ill-fed; troublous times prevail in cities and towns in the empire and kingdom be- cause of lack of food. The declared to be at their end in endeavors to alleviate the situation.

The Hungarian ppemler is i said to have told Parliament that the kingdom had only one-fourth the food necessary to maintain the people in health and that it would be hard to hold out until the new harvest is garnered. Except for the Italian theatre, little I fighting is in progress. Southwest of Soissons, near Faveroljes and, a little farther south near Hautvesnes, the 1 French in more of their daily attacks have bettered "their positions and taken prisoners from the Germans. In the regions of Arras and Albert, the British likewise ha ve made gains and also repulsed German attacks near Merris, on the Flanders front. The German official communicationre- cords the repulse of an American attack northwest of Chateau Thierry, in the Marne region, and asserts that the Americans suffered losses.

This probably refers to the fighting of Thursday in the Belleau wood, where the Americans advanced their lines more than half a mile after the enemy had 1 refused to accept the gage of battle. In fact, the German official report is devoted almost wholly to describing the of attacks by British, French I and Americans. BERLINERS ESCAPE BY AIRPLANES Fired On by Guard- ships But Safely Get to Denmark COPENHAGEN, June residents of Berlin escaped from Germany Thursday in two airplanes and succeeded in landing safely in Denmark. Tfie occupants of the airplanes declared that they fled from Berlin because of conditions there. GUARDSHIPS OPEN FIRE The two machines, which are of the albatross type, left Berlin early Thursday morning.

Their flight was observed and guardships along the coast were warned. When the machines reached the Baltic the guardships opened fire, and it was at first erroneously reported that one of the airplanes had been brought down. One of the two occupants of the first albatross was Dr. G. F.

Nicolai, formerly a professor of physiology at the Berlin University. He is the author of a book that de- I nounced Prussian militarism and bad been pushed with imprisonment be: cause of its publication. The second albatross landed In the neighborhood of Rudkoebing with its two German deserters. This machine had been delayed by making a landing on an island to repair a slight defect in the engine. The Rudkoebing correspondent of the National Tidendo quotes the crew of the second albatross as saying that they had been at the battlefront and were expected to return there.

They declared that they preferred death than to go back. The two men wore infantry uniforms and one of them had the iron cross. AUSTRIAN REPORT Forces S'emingly Are Wholly on the Defensive and Hard Pressed by Italian and Allied Attacks VIENNA, via London, June Austrian official communication issued today says: the enemy continued his attacks with undiminished violence, to wrest from us the successes we won west of the Piave. His efforts again were vain. All his assaults were broken down before the unflinching resistance of our heroic troops.

struggle on the Carso plateau and on the Montello increased to especial violence. Field Marshal divisions in their hastily constructed trenches destroyed waves of enemy storming troops. Everywhere our soldiers stood their ground in the hand- to-hand fighting. a front of 12 kilometres the enemy concentrated, thrusting troops amounting to eight regiments in ordei to shake the wall formed by our brave men. The tremendous consumption of their power forced the Italians to throw reserves after reserves- into the battle.

Apart from their sanguinary losses, the number of prisoners also increases daily. Thirty-two hundred prisoners were captured on the last fighting. day but one on the Montello alone. Of these, 2000 were taken by a single Hungarian infantry regiment. Hungarian regiments, Austrian reserves and Hungarian Honveds have added a new and honorable page to their glorious history as attackers as well as defenders in hot engagements which have continued day and night.

the mountain front artillery duels prevailed yesterday." dolph. too, that still on And forget to remember me to George Stallings, but just plain I never did find out who George was. but I think it was the old jinx that Hank carried around and which he never used himself but always passed to the opposing team. I bade him "Au at the train: and as the train pulled away, I watched it as it faded from view. I stood there a moment in thought.

My thoughts wore of America and Americans. How could we Jose with men like this. He is just a characteristic type of a million or more men who have given up luxurious existences to go out across 3(00 miles of water to defend the country which gave them birth. Men unafraid, without fear in their hearts. Men who know they are doing right.

Men with bold hearts who know they cannot be whipped, no matter what the odds. Boston, you should rightly be proud of your Hank Gowdy. NEWSIES TO AID FUND The aggregation of newsboys who conducted the Liberty Loan drive so successfully a few weeks ago on Newspaper row will hold a. rally today at noon in aid of the fund for the soldiers and lodge which the Volunteers of America are to erect at 39 and 41 Howard street. BOXFORD MADE WITH THE OVAL BUTTONHOLE A SMART STYLE IN (ollars OLDEST BRAND IN AMERICA IWHT A OO.

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