UST how conservatively the Moline-Universal Tractor is rated at 9-18 h.p. is shown by the astonishing official tests made at the National Tractor Demonstration which showed it to have an excess of over 11 h.p. on the draw bar and 8 h.p. at the belt.

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in with stone and earth huge shell-holes in the roadway and rapidly throwing bridges over the places where a series of trenches had stretched across the highways.

Two long lines of convoys choked the roads, ammunition and supplies were going forward, and empty trucks were returning, while along the green carpet

of grass on either side trudged doughboys two abreast, some singing, others chatting, details going into the forward positions to relieve their tired comrades, altogether an unforgetable picture.

Near Essey-et-Maizerais I saw an altogether different picture of the war, the of about pathetic passage southward two hundred refugees.

"We came from the villages of Boulonville, Lemarche, and Nonsard,' said a venerable priest who headed the column. "These poor people have been prisoners almost since the war began. They are hungry for a sight of the relatives from whom they have been cut off."

His black clerical coat was worn shiny and his wide-brimmed hat was battered, yet he carried himself with dignity. He was wearing a pair of German boots that he had picked from a pile of refuse behind the enemy barracks. An aged woman was driving a tiny donkey hauling a cart containing bed-clothes, alongside of which trotted a cute donkey colt, so small that the American soldiers crowded around to look at it.

"Can I get to Paris?" asked the old woman. "The Germans told me that the city had been destroyed. I have been living in a cave with this animal and my sixteen-year-old grandson, whom the beast oppressors have sent to Germany."

A French soldier was pushing a wheelbarrow in which were a large ormolu clock, two mirrors, and a bundle of clothing. An elderly woman followed leading his horse, for the soldier was a cavalryman. He had come upon the woman near headquarters, where as orderly he was attached to the French liaison officer. She was his aunt, whom he had not seen for six years. An American general who witnessed the reunion gave the soldier ten days' leave to enable him to take his relative to her sister. A little boy was carrying a box containing two rabbits. He told us he had walked sixteen miles without breakfast, whereupon an American soldier near by produced a large cake of chocolate from his pocket.

I noticed but one baby in the entire line. All the children were four years old or more. One farmer said the Germans had told him the submarines had sunk all the ships that had started with American troops. A woman with tear-paths worn under her watery eyes said the Germans had said the French were doomed, the people were starved and diseased.

One actually wearied of saying so many times "Bonjour." I have never seen a people so happy as these were when they met our troops upon the roadside. Their actions made us feel what in a personal sense our entry into the war meant.

Tales of the American tanks, credited by many German prisoners with a large part in the proceedings, are told in this dispatch to the New York Tribune:

The advance of the tanks brought out many examples of daring on the part of their crews. One major whose machine was equipped with a thirty-seven-millimeter gun instead of a machine gun violated his orders and went far ahead until he was within range of Nonsard. With one well

placed shot he knocked two Germans out of a church-steeple from which they were firing a machine gun.

A lieutenant, shot through the palm of the left hand by an explosive bullet, was sent to a hospital, but escaped and walked six miles back to the field. He appeared at his tank with the statement that he could "carry on" with his right hand. Several others were wounded, but remained on duty. No one was killed, however, even tho a German six-inch shell plowed clear through a small tank, destroying it, but injuring only one of the crew. Another tank captured a battery of 77s. but was so far ahead of the infantry it could not turn over the guns to them.

The story is told of another tank which went into a town with a sergeant armed with a rifle perched on the turret. This machine captured two batteries of 77s, five machine guns, and many men.

Tanks were occasionally as much as two miles ahead of the infantry, throwing consternation into the Germans. Part of the success which attended their share in the battle was undoubtedly due to the intensive training given the drivers who had been taught to operate the machines blindfolded, guided only by signals from the gunners. This sometimes is necessary when the drivers are blinded temporarily. by splashes of mud.

One of the latest, tho far from the least important, reports states that the hospitals near St. Mihiel, established and prepared with a view to handling thousands of American wounded, have found themselves with almost nothing to do.

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A air of "intellectual detachment"

characterizes the attitude of the average Dutchman toward the war, comments the English correspondent, Henry Suydam, writing in the London Sunday Pictorial-an air that has been much misunderstood abroad. Some English and American critics have gone so far as to accuse Holland of being pro-German largely on the basis of this attitude.

But Holland is not pro-German; Holland is merely preserving the "intellectual detachment" likely to be noticed in the air of a small man forced to stay in the immediate vicinity of several large men intent on eating each other up. By and large, the Dutch people are pro-Entente, says Mr. Suydam, and cites some of his own experiences to prove it:

When I left Holland a few days ago, just after the Dutch merchant fleet in American and English harbors had been commandeered, Dutch nationalism was in a state of tense coherence, but the Dutchman was not pro-German.

The Dutch people have never been able to see themselves in perspective. They are unreasonably intolerant toward even the mildest cross-currents that have intercepted the placid stream of their existence.

But there remains enough evidence that the Dutch, when once their sluggish emotions are aroused, are pro-Entente and not pro-German. The hospitality shown to several hundred thousand Belgian refugees, long after the first glamour of exile had worn off, must be remembered. Lately, hundreds of British prisoners of war, who had been in German prison-camps for three years and more, arrived in Holland for internment. Simultaneously, a similar group of Germans arrived from England. The official reception by the Dutch Government was equally cordial in each case, but there is a very evident preference for the British soldier.

The Dutch public do not like Germans, especially when in uniform. I have seen Germans walk into a restaurant, and the entire company of diners at once froze. Every one stopt talking and stared, and there was an indefinable bristling of backs. There are, of course, large numbers of German spies and agents in Holland The visible Germans-those we should call, in America, the "dress-suit men"-are part of a sinister cosmopolitan crowd that have trailed across Europe, during the last three years, as various small nations lost their neutrality. During my winter in Holland, I have recognized more than one German agent whom I have seen as a notorious figure in the international intrigues, carried