The queen is just acknowledging the gift of a bouquet from one of her officers. Queen Marie spends most of her time in the service of the destitute and the wounded, and the Red Cross has been able to carry desperately needed aid to the little nation which is isolated from all the allied world except for the route through Russia. The American Red Cross maintains a military hospital at Roman and a civilian hospital at Jassy, and has distributed great quantities of medical supplies, serums, vaccines, and the like, hospital beds and mattresses, food stuffs, and clothing.

GERMANS REATEN OFF BY IRE FRENCH GAIN FOOTHOLD IN FRENCH TRENCHES BUT ARE DRIVEN AFTER HARD FIGHT
PARIS — Official — Heavy artillery fighting is in progress on the Verdun front and on the Belgian front there has been heavy fighting. There were several severe struggles before the Germans were expelled from French positions in which they had gained a footing.
French Penetrate Lines
French patrols penetrated the German lines for more than three-fifths of a mile in the vicinity of Rheims last night.

BUY W. S. S.- PARIS — Official CONFERENCE ON CHANGES FARMERS AND MILLERS
... THINK WILL BE DESIRABLE
SPOKANE—Farmers and millers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana conferred here yesterday with officials of the department of agriculture on federal grain grading standards.
Many growers requested that a minimum weight of 57 or 58 pounds per bushel be fixed for test weight for high-grade wheat, instead of 60 pounds.  pounds, the present stand. They also asked that a maximum of 12 to 13% per cent moisture be allowed in wheat, instead of the 15 per cent at present permitted. 