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MRS. DE SAULLES ON STAND TODAY By. H.B. RUSHMORE Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. Mineola, L. I., Nov. 26.--Mrs. Blanca Errazuriz De Saulles, the beautiful young Chilean on trial for slaying her husband, John L. De Saulles takes the stand as the first witness for the defence here today. It is an ordeal, for her direct examination is to consume the entire ay. Through that she will be led with the utmost possible gentleness by her attorney, Henry A. Uterhart. But her cross-examination, according to a statement made by District Attorney Charles R. Weeks, will be a very different matter. "I have sworn duty to perform," said he, "and I cannot reconcile my conscience to display any leniency toward the defendant because of her sex, or her youth or her frail physical condition as pictured by her counel in his opening address. "Mrs. DeSaulles will be cross-examined upon all points of the eas and neither fear nor favor will be shown." From the grim determination with which the district attorney seemed to regard his duty, a gruelling cross-examination of the defendant is inescapable, her attorneys believe. FEAR SHE WILL COLLAPSE. "We are worried, not by what the district attorney may be able to learn from Mrs. De Saulles by means of even the most severe cross examination," declared Mr. Uterhart this morning. "Our concern is wholly for Mrs. De Saulles herself, lest the strain prove too great and she breaks down on the stand." Mrs. De Saulles was too ill yesterday even to see her son Jack. "Mrs. De Saulles ahs [[has]] nothing to conceal. She will tell the truth, both under my questioning and that of the district attorney." Uterhart added. The story Mrs. De Saulles will tell will be the story of her life. Her life has covered but the brief span of twenty-three years. It held much of joy during her early years and for a short time after she married John Longer De Saulles at the age of sixteen. Then tragedy entered. IT was a tragedy against which she could battle only with her woman's wit and her young womanhood's winsomeness--and they proved futile weapons. UNFOLD HER WHOLE LIFE. From her earliest recollections after her birth on April 9, 1894, Mrs. De Saulles will reveal the story of hear life. She is expected to touch but lightly upon her family life, her journeying to England, her education in a convent and her subsequent return to Chile. That portion of her life is to be re- ----- Continued on Page 3, Column 2 ----- LUCY STONE HOME MENACED BY FIRE ----- West Brookfield Nov. 26.--The birthplace of Lucy Stone, world renowned suffragist, which is beautifully situated on the crest of Coy's Hill, three miles northwest of west Brookfield Centre, was threatened by fire, but heroic work by the farm hands saved the historic building. The homestead is owned by a grandnephew of Lucy Stone. RUTH LAW, FAMOUS FLIER, HERE TO STIR UP RECRUITING [[Picture]] Ruth Law, as she looked today when she stepped from a train in Boston on a visit here to stir up army recruiting. Dressed in her new military uniform, the world champion aviator was a picturesque figure. Pollus, her dog, a veteran of trench warfare, was with her. ----- Ruth Law, who holds the world's record for continuous flight in an aeroplane, arrived in this city at 7:45 A. M. today, accompanied by her dog Pollu, a veteran French dog. She will spend several weeks here aiding recruiting for the army. Miss Law made a picturesque figure as she stepped off the Federal express. She was dressed in a close fitting khaki tunic and skirt with leather puttees and a long leather coat which reached to the bottom of her short skirt. Pollu, who seemed as business-like as his mistress, was pulling at a leash and trying to get a good look at boston. The aviatrix, in a statement to the AMERICAN, said that she was here to do her part in stimulating interest in recruiting. While here she will also try to gain the interest of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in a bill to come before the next Congress to amend the U.S. Army regulations so that Miss Law may regularly go into the army and fly at the front. "I have just come from Washington," she said, "where I have been bothering the life out of the Presi- dent, Secretaries Baker and Daniels and Chief Ordnance Officer Squires, trying to get permission to join the regular army fliers. "At present there is a law which makes it impossible for a woman to join the army. "I said to the president, 'I hold the record for sustained flight, don't I?" He admitted it. "'And I have shown them something about looping the loop, haven't I?" He admitted that, too. "'Then why can't I go over and drive a plane at the front as well as a man>; "At that he had to admit that I could, but that there was the little matter of law to consider. "so we are going to have the law changed for Law if we can. And I guess we can." Miss Law has been startling Chicago for the past few weeks by her darling flights and stunts above the roofs of the Windy City. She has been of great help there in the recruiting campaign. While in Boston she will not make any flights, as she brought no machine with her. Pollu, the dog, is a veteran of the French front, has been wounded and knows the war game as well as his mistress hopes to know it. 40,000 German Deserters Flee to Hol TEUTONS TO GIVE UP CAMB --- British Hammer Ahead --- By International News Service London, Nov. 26.--British and French troops are today hammering the German lines with telling blows over a wide area of the western front. Where the allied infantry is not assaulting, the artillery is pounding the German positions. Following the beginning of the British drive against Cambrai last Tuesday the supplementary successes of the British have swept the Germans lines so close to the German stronghold that the ediction was made today that this week will see the evacuation of the city by the Germans. That the civilian population is already leaving is indicated by the heavy traffic from the city southeastward. For five days the Teutons have been putting up a determined resistance in the Cambrai sector, but at every point where an attempt was made to stem the British onrush the resistance was overcome by the whirlwind attacks of Field Marshal Haig's men. QUEANT SWITCH MENACED. There was a violent struggle west of Cambrai throughout Sunday, which left the British masters of strategic heights domination the city. North of Fontaine Notre Dame, in the sectors of the village of Bourlon and Bourlon forest, the British attempted to cut through the German lines in a northeasterly direction to get in between Cambrai and Queant. (Queant is the southern bastion defending the Queant-Drocourt switch, the chief support of the northern end of the Hindenberg line. Queant lies just west of the scene of Sunday's struggle. Furious hand to hand fighting took place among the ruins of the village of Bourlon and the caves and dugouts that lie beneath the debris The Germans had built cunningly contrived fortifications to look like the ruins of houses, and the British were take nunawares. The streets were swept by machine gun fire from these improvised blockhouses and it was largely due to them that the Germans were able to retain part of the vallage. FRENCH BLOW AT VERDUN The French, who had been direction strong pressure against Laon, the chief bastion on the southern end of the Hindenburg line, suddenly switched their attacks and drove forward on the Verdun front for an important gain. The gust of fighting on the right bank of the Meuse followed a big artillery duel which had been raging there for many days. The French made their main assault in the direction of Samogno Aux (near which point the German Crown Prince launched his big Verdun drive in February, 1916), and quickly overran two lines of trenches, capturing nearly 1,000 prisoners. Tetanus Germs in Vaccine for American Army --- By International News Service Washington, Nov. 26.--A suspected nation-wide plot by German agents to create a epidemic of tetanus in the National Army has been uncovered here. Vaccine points coated with matter containing tetanus germs were the instruments of the plot. As a result, the National Vaccine Company of this city, which had first warning of the situation, attempted to recall 5,000,000 points which it had shipped broadcast over the country, and at least 200,000 of which had gone to the War Department for use in the National Army. Thousands of these points had already been used in the National Army. Thousands of these points had already been used on soldiers, but so far no tetanus cases have been reported. Of the others, ten tetanus cases came to the attention of the company, which immediately recalled the points and notified the Federal authorities. An investigation has been begun by the Department of Justice. ----- AMERICAN MISSION HONORS LAFAYETTE ----- Paris, Nov. 26.--Colonel Edward M. House, General Tasker H. Bliss, Admiral Benson and the other members of the American Mission visited the Picpus cemetery and placed a floral wreath on the tomb of Lafayette. The wreath bore the inscription, "From the American War Mission, in Grateful Remembrance." There were no speeches. Colonel House had another long conference with M. Clemenceau, the French Premier Other members of the mission mt [[met]] together and compared notes on the work so far accomplished ----- SPANISH RADICALS WOULD FREE REVELS ----- Madrid, Nov. 26.--Twenty thousand persons took part in a great radical manifestation in favor of granting amnesty to the persons imprisoned following the revolutionary movement of last August. There was no disorder. ----- TEUTONS FLEE OVER BORDER ----- By International News Service. Amsterdam, Nov. 26.--Alarmed by the great number of German soldiers that are crossing the Dutch frontier, the German government is taking drastic measures to stop the desertions, said a dispatch from the border today. These deserters come from both Germany and Belgium and it is estimated that more than 40,000 of them have come into the country since the first of August A large colony of German deserters has been established in this city and "deserts' quarter" looks like a section removed from a German city and set down in Amsterdam. The Socialists among the deserters have established a newspaper here called Der Kamp (The Struggle), which appears weekly. Some of the deserters will still wear the field gray of the German army, but most of the mare dressed in nondescript articles of apparel, half civilian and half military. The chief cafe in the heart of the German colony bears the jovial title of "Wine, Women, and song." ----- SENTENCE GERMANY SPIES IN NORWAY ----- Christiania, Norway, Nov. 26.--Two German marines, named Orth and Stachel, members of Aron Rautenfel's band of bomb plotters, has been sentenced to seven months' imprisonment for espionage. The State attorney, finding hte sentence too lenient, has appealed to the Supreme Court. Rumor Mongers to Be Put in 'Ananias Clubs' --- Washington, Nov. 26. FORMATION of "War Ananias Clubs" of men and women who circulate false rumors ot hamper successful prosecution of the war, is suggested to the American public in a statement issued by the National Commission of Patriotic Societies. The society proposed that the names of persons found responsible for such stories be posted publicly. Carnegie Plans to Live to 100 --- New York, Nov. 26.--When Andrew Carnegie was celebrating his eight-second birthday at his home on Fifth avenue and Ninety-first street he sent out word through a secretary that he was well and intended to live to be a hundred. The message was to this effect: "A man's birthday when he is eighty-two doesn't count. it's when he is eighty or eighty-five that matters. I shall be a hundred. That is my goal. I never felt so well in all my life." Those who saw Mr. Carnegie said his Summer in Lenox, Mass., had made a new man of him. An attack pf pneumonia last spring left him in a weakened condition, but a Summer among the hills braced him wonderfully. He is in exceptionally good health now. ----- U.S. AVIATOR FLEES GERMAN PRISON ----- Hammond, Ind., Nov. 26.--Lieutenant Alva O. O'Brien, an "ace" in the Royal English Flying Squadron, whose home is near here, has escaped from a German prison. he is safe behind the English lines, according to a cablegram received by his mother, Mrs. Maggie O'Brien. O'Brien was captured on the Verdun front last August, when he and a companion were attacked by five German planes. O'Brien's companion escaped. ----- INCR CAVA AR ----- By International Washington, Department esti a large increase tage of cavalry hurriedly compl tation to Congre Calculations are basis of an army the war continues eighteen months' be expanded to 7,000,000 One of the arm the idea of formin serves became insi the news was rec accomplished by B advance on Cam predicted a radic trench fighting w old style infantry by cavalry ARMY OF 3,000,000 The following tained in an offici "The existing draft regulations we will have an three million with short time. The with which the must deal are ho "England and great many horse first year and a h since that time natural replenish this country. "As to guns, known the field a using in France France, but this change. More th War Department, possible demands ranged for a la guns. 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