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Best Medium for Adver­ tising BEBMUDA COMMERCIAL AND ADVERTISER AND RECORDER (ESTABLISHED „28) VOL. XCI—No. 122 HAMILTON, BERMUDA, TUESDAY OCTOBER 8, 1918. SINGLE COPT 2d. (or 4 cents)—20s. PER ANNUK CAUSES OF ROFI MILK RELIEF FOR SUFFERERS The Postal Surtax Act, 1918, con­ TEUTONS READY TO ACCEPT solidating the Acts passed last Session During the past month several cases To the Editor, Royal Gazette. HOUSE VOTES providing for the leving of a War Tax of milk, purported to be bad and unfit Dear Sir, on letters posted in this Colony at the * PRESIDENT WILSON'S PEACE PLAN for use, have been brought to my no­ £1000FM SICK rate of Id. per oz., passed the second tice and in the opinion of the consum­ Would youVbe good enough to allow reading. A clause was inserted which er such condition was due to milk me space in your columns that I may provides that any letter liable to sur­ having been drawn from an unhealthy thank (in the name of the Committee) Need of Publk Aid for tax posted without said surtax having cow or diseased udders—and it is all those who contributed so generous­ Influenza Victims brings been paid in the manner provided, Austrian Note Says That Monarchy ly to the scheme promoted to relieve here that I would like to dispel this Prompt Action—Motor shall be marked by the Post Office to sufferers in this present epidemic. the extent of double the amount of the Desires to Ead the Terrible erroneous idea, and in a way exoner­ Since the inauguration ot relief the ate the producer—although at times Car Act Passes Third deficiency, in the same .manner as government has taken over the Soup Reading insuffitiently prepaid postal packets. Bloodshed the vendor cf milk may through care­ Kitchen and so I would ask that no lessness of someone be wholly to blame further donations be sent in, at least The Motor Car Act, 1918, passed for the condition, but in most cases The rapid spread of the Spanish far the present. Influenza and the need of immediate the third reading with a majority of upon the householder blame should six, Mr. E. F. Zuill remarked that ALLIES MAKE FIRMER GAINS be laid. Yours faithfully, refief for the sick and suffering was brought before the House of Assembly one member (Mr. G. S. Patton) who Upon investigation I found that W. J. F. GROVES, at yesterday's sitting by Mr. Alonzo had asserted that he should oppose the milk in question is what is known the Bill from start to finish "was un­ for the Committee. Peniston, and the several orders of French Cross Aisne Canal Breaking Through i Iun as Ropy or Stringy milk. None of the day were deferred until the matter fortunately out of the Islands, and Positions in Champagne on Wide Front— the faults of milk arouse the distrust had been considered. Mr. Hastings Outerbridge, the promo­ of the consumer more than the viscid -300 ter of the measure, replied that there Mr. Peniston said that he knew some were two members away from the We .Take over 1,000 Prisoners North of condition of milk and cream, known people were absolutely destitute and as Ropy or Stringy milk and cream. WARWICK RELIEF WORK. Colony who were heartily in favour of St. Quentin=Lille is Evacuated by suffering through the ravages of this the Bill:—Mr. J. H. P. Patterson, The wide-spread belief that the condi­ disease; yet although there were not tion is due to a diseased udder is The urgent need of relief work in and Mr. N. W. Hatchings. Foe==ltalians Repel Attack-^O ther Warwick was shown by ti*: fact that many cases in the parish of Smiths erroneous and the false inference is that needed finandal help, in the more Mr. J. N. Lambe said that when Cable News largely due to the fact that dairymen more than 70 pa-sons received aid the Bill was before the House on the in that Parish on Saturday from the thickly populated centres, tiris kind of sometimes refer to the milk of an assistance was required. The colony last day of meeting and the vote was inflamed udder as stringy or ropy. Thsrbum Hall stat*. >••>. M was the taken he had supported the measure AUSTRIANS FORCED BACK. ITALIAN OFFICIAL. first day this sta., > i opened. Oi should take steps to stay the disease The viscid condition appears as a rule and a sum of money he believed should but he could assure hon. members it about 8 to 12 hours after milking, Sunday 81 persons were given hdp was not- his intention to do this, for Paris, Oct. 6.—Official.—In the east­ Rome, Oct. 6.—Livery artillery duels and on Monday more than 100 de­ be voted to provide special cases. took place in the Pasubio, Posina and furthermore it is more readily observ­ he had been against the Bill from the ern theatre on the 4th, the Allied serving cases recdved aid. In the year 1864 when the Colony first and had seen no reason to change forces by a vigorous offensive forced Montello sector.; and on the lower ed in milk tbat has stood 24 hours or was last visited by the Yellow Fewer, more. These conditions < give the There is need of cooked food, bar­ his mind. the Austrians to withdraw along the Piave river today. Our batteries dis­ ky, rice, flax seed, eggs, milk, con­ a grant was made for the refief of the road from Elbassam beyond the con­ persed moving troops and transports false impression that the.trouble is only sufferers and in the first instance one The House adjourned until Monday associated with the raising of cream, densed milk, malted milk, etc., and next. fluence of the rivers Skumb and Lan- and caused several explosions in wiH be most gratefully received either thousand pounds was set aside. After­ while in fact skim milk is just as sus­ OOO baitsa. Further north we have ener­ enemy emplacements. Enemy patrols at the Thorburn Hall between 12 .and wards other sums were voted. This getically driven the enemy back from approaching our front lines an the ceptible to the trouble. The direct information was given by the Attorney cause of the trouble is due and 1 o'clock. LOCAL NEWS. Dibra. In the region of Stranje, Col de Rosso \vere driven back by OOO General from Journal records. Cer­ Serbian and French troops after spir­ our intense hand bombing. Our sm- brought about by the presence of the tain amounts were (distributed to the ited engagement's captured the position men were "very active. The aviation "Bacillus lactis viscocus." This or­ several parishes at that time for local The boatmen on the Ferry report held by the Austro-German forces camp at Egna in the upper Adige ganism has been isolated from water "TttE. HEEL OF MAHOMET" needs. the presence of an enormous "skate" who were driven northward after los­ was bombed with incendiary shells which by all authorities is considered in the harbour. "Damascus, The City of Divine The Medical Officer of Health, Dr. ing 100 prisoners. and several huts and hangars as well its natural habitat. High temperature Harvey, went into the situation fully, On Thursday last it was computed as three machines were destroyed. say 75 degrees F. tends very essen­ Jupiter." shewing that the epidemic first made to weigh 50lbs., but not being on war The enemy's lines of communication tially to favour its growth, while diet, it has now reached the modest di­ FRENCH CROSS AISNE CANAL. its appearance among the military on the Asiago plateau have been ef­ 45 degrees F. will -only partially On the "1st inst. a contingent of forces and then in the navy; it spread mensions of 2001bs. fectively bombed. In Albania al­ inhibit its increase. The fact that Australian troops entered Damascus. If it escapes the "flu" and the fish­ Paris, Oct. 6.—Offidal.—Kindly sub­ very rapidly and in Pembroke Parish though bad weather is increasing the this bacillus grows with great difficulty This is of course, the immediate there were five or six hundred cases. ermen, it should soon be a shark. stitute the following for the original already difficult condition of the roads at blood heat effectually disposes of aftermath of the recent operations on statement of the 6th. The pursuit of The disease did not originate from our advanced guards have progressed any suspicion that ropy milk is the tiie shores of Lake Tiberias. The unsanitary conditions but was spread Passengers travelling to and from the enemy continued all night on the Salt Kettle Ferry yesterday were not over the El Bebsan road and reached result of disease in the cow. Water railway line running northward was from personal contact. It had little Suippe river front. On our left we Lindas. must be regarded as the original laid open and the short distance was at all pleased with the substituted crossed the Aisne canal in the region cf respect for social stations and had up boat. * source to a greater or lesser extent, speedily covered. There .appears to to the present principally attacked Sepigneul and readied the outskirts but it may by no means be the im­ have been no resistance. The temperature is still too sultry of Aguilcourt. Further east we are FOE'S STUBBORN RESISTANCE. males. The complaint was a Pan­ mediate one. Bagdad, Jerusalem, Damascus! demic and by that he meant that it for a journey in the open, with no approaching Aumenancourt le Petit.

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