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VOLUME XX.
VON BERKSTORFF GOT
PLOT FUHOS DIRECT
FROM BERUN OFFICE
Nearly' Two Million Dollars
Furnished by German Gov
ernment to Ambassador for
Ise of 8010 Pasha
NEW YORK. Oct. 4—Evidence In
dicating that German funds held by
New York banks for the Deutsche Bank
of Berlin. and which were employed ,o
pay Molo Pasha. German spy and peace
propagandist, were placed at the dis
posal of Count von Bernstorff by wire
less messages from the German foreign
office, was obtained today by state At
torney General Merton E Lewis.
This revelation came on the heels of
disclosures which showed how 8010
Pasha, now imprisoned in France as a
traitor, came to this country to carry
on his work of .nilucncing newspapers
in behalf of Germany.
Hugo Schmidt, resident agent of the
Deutsches bank of Berlin, ap; eared be
fore Attorney General Lew!*. of New-
York state, in response to a subpena
this afternoon and turned over to him
copies of wireless message* he had ex
changed with the bank in Berlin. •
The messages showed that the code
name for von Berns.orff was Charles
Gledhlll”
The code for the Guaranty Trust com
pany of New York, where some of the
German funds were deposited was "Fred
Hoomen.”
Another code designated the Berlin
foreign office. It was "William Foxley.”
The first message surrendered by
Schmidt was one sent via Sayville by
him to the bank in Berlin dated March
11. 1916. The message said:
"Communicate with William Foxley
and telegraph whether he has placed
money my disposal for Cffiarlee Gled
hill-”
The answer, dated March 13. said:
"Replying your cable Gledhlll. Fred
Hoomen received money our account.
You may dispose accordingly.”
On the same day Schmidt sent the fol
lowing wireleea to Berlin:
"Your wireless received. Paid te
Chas. Gledhlll through Fred Hoomen
$500,000. Gledhlll requires further 31,-
100.000 which shall pay gradually.*’
On March 17 the following reply came
to Schmidt from Berlin:
“You may dispose out of Fred Hoo
men on behalf of Gledhlll $1,7«0.P00."
This,cable was signed “Direction.” as
were other cables from the bank.
The following report was then sent by
Schmidt to Berlin March IS:
"Paid Chas. Gledhlll further $300,009.”
On March 30 Schmidt wired the
Deutsches bank in Berlin:
-Paid Chas. Gledhlll $300,000. ”*
Four days later Schmidt sent the Tol
lowinft:
"Paid Ctias Gledhlll further 3200.000.”
On April 1 this message was sent by
Schmidt to the Berlin bank:
Paid Charlee Gledhill 3483,500. Final
payment.”
This evidence conclusively proves, ac
cording to the attorney general, that
Count von Bernstorff had a direct hand
in directing the activities of 8010 Pash%
who Is now under arrest in Paris. It
was obtained, he said, from Hugo
Schmidt, agent here of the Deutsche
bank, whom he examined today.
Attorney General Lewis made the
records public. today, with sanc
tion of the «tate department and
the French department and the Fren.’h
ambassador. They show that 8010
lasha made a flying trip to the United
States last year to hold a secret con
ference with Bernstorff. that Bern
► torff advanced him approximately sl.-
000 which was cleverly transferred
via four great banks to 8010 Pasha,
and that 8010 Pasha, while thus acting
as Germany's secret agent in New York,
met a number of persons. Including
Wm. Randolph Hearst
Hearst, according to evidence made
public by Lewis, was a guest at din
ner at Sherry’s with 8010 Pasha.
. There were present at this dinner,
Mr.. Lewis told newspaper* men. Adolph
Pavemstedt. who figured as an Inter
mediary for the transfer of German
funds into New (York banks to be sent
to Paris for peace propaganda among
French newspapers; Captains Boy-Ed
and von Papen. naval and military at
taches of the German embassy, and
Jules Beis. a French lecturer, who. It
was revealed, received money from 8010
Pasha.
The French conspirator is said to have
declared that- he hoped to "convert”
Hearst, and was a guest in Hearst’s
home.
So clever was the manipulation of
the funds given Pasha, that some of the
money went through J P. Mo.rgan and
company and some through the Cana
dian bank, but so distributed that its
source could not be traced.
8010 Pasha is now held in Paris as
a traitor. His work through interna
tional channels to currupt certain
French papers in the interests of Ger
many furnishes one of the most amaz
ing episodes of the war.
The investigation by Attorney General
began eleven days ago. The
amount of money which Bernstorff,
through his financial agent. Hugo
Schmidt, turned over to 8010 Pasha to
- ailed $1,583,500, the money coming
nto possession of 8010 Pasha after it
had passed through a carefully pre-ar
ranged system of transfers from one
bank to another to hide its origin and
to make it Impossible for one bank to
know what part the other institution
in the transfer. -
MANY BANKS IN CIRCLE.
The banking Institutions which form
ed what the attorney general terms "the
circle around which the monev traveled
on its way to 8010 Pasha." were the
Deutsches bank, the national Park bank,
the guaranty Trust company, J. P. Mor
gan * Co., and the Royal Bank of Can
ada. With the exception of Adolph Pa
venstedt none of the bankers had any
reason to believe. It is said, that there
was anything strange in the transaction.
Pavenstedt was examined yesterday by
Mr. Lewis.
A statement given out by Mr. Lewis
brings into the affair, besides Count von
Bernstorff. the ex-German ambassador
to the United States, Hugo Schmidt,
German banker, and agent in New York
up to the break with Germany of the
Deutsches Bank of Berlin; Adoplh Pa
venstedt, former head of the New York
hanking house of G. Amsinck and com
pany. and a numlter of other persons
whose names are for the present with
held from publication.
The evidence shows, according to Mr.
Lewis. that it was through Schmidt, as
the agent of the Deutsches bank of Ber
lin. that Bernstorff advanced the money
Full Associated Press Service
SEW WM TH SILL GOES
INTO EFFECT THURSDAY
Congress Considering Insur
ance and Deficiency Bills
Before Adjournment
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—The new war
taxes, designed to raise two and a half
billion dollars under the provisons of
the revenue bill signed yesterday t>y
President Wilson, went into effect
today.
It has been estimated by the treasury
department and the senate finance com
mittee that the law during the first
year of its operation will raise from
ind;v:dual and corporate Incomes $851.-
ov«> i*00: excess profits. $1,000,000,000;
distilled spirits $135,000,000; tobacco,
Cigars and cigarettes. $51,500,000; trans
portation $80.0ov.000; amusement ad
missions. $50.000.v00 and automobiles
and motorcycles ? t0.000.0v0.
Business and professional men and
salaried men as well, who have incomes
of more than $6,000 a year, face a war
profits tax of 8 per cent in addition to
the income surtaxes, under the pro
visions of a section which has been dis
covered in the war tax bill.
Within two month? the buying public
will be paying over the counter, through
ticket windows of various kinds —and
almost everywhere else the levies under
the $2,535,000,000 revenue bill, now’ a
law.
Througnout the land today the high
cost of drinking mounted higher with
additional taxes on hard, soft and
medium beverages effective immediately.
Everything from champagne to sarsapa
rilla. and soda fountain syrups is hit by
the new tax Drinking costs rose about
25 per cent here today.
Automobile owning, with a tax of 3
per cent of the sale price, becomes more
costly immediately. Also such beauti
flers as jewelry and cosmetics and re
liefs In the form of pills, patent med
icines and chewing gum are hit today.
Sporting* goods, motor boats, estates,
inheritances, Incomes, war profits and
other luxuries of the wealthy are taxa
ble immediately. Smoking may also be
more costly within thirty days when
added taxes on tobacco, cigars and
cigarettes are clamped down, ranging
from S.B to $7 a thousand on cigars and
ranging from 8o cents to $1.20 a thou
sand on cigarettes. Even snuff users
will suffer.
On November 1 also the tax on freight
and express packages—l cent for each
20 cents charged—becomes effective, to
gether with a 10-cent levy on the com
forts of bertha, seats or staterooms on
a PuUman.
Every telegram, telephone or wireless
message costing more than 15 cents
after November 1 will bear a 5-cent tax,
and taxes of 8 cents on each SIOO of
life insurance and 1 cent on each dollar
of fire Insurance also begin.
With a tax on “movie” and "legiti
mate" theaters after November I of 1
cent on each 10 cents admission
charged, the cost of "looking them
over*' either on the screen or in the
“pony” row promises to mount. The
usual New Year’s outbreak will be more
expensive with a new tax on table
reservations. It will cost a tax toll
equivalent to 10 per cent of the dues to
join a club after November 1.
Stamp taxes on bonds, promissory
notes, bills of sale and playing cards
become effective December 1, as does
the 1-cent tax on parcels post pack
ages costing 25 cents or more.
The additional 1 cent on letters is
effective November 1. but the addi
tional second-class postage is not effec
tive until July 1, 1918.
Money-raising bills being disposed of,
congress will adjourn Saturday.
With a program calling Tor adjourn
ment of congress’s war session not la
ter than Saturday, the leaders today
were prepared to carry out their plans
to that end. Initial action on the
question was to come inthe house on a
resolution by Represnetative Kitchin,
when arrangements for the final ad
journment at 5 p. m. Saturday. The res
olution was prepared by Mr. 'lKtchin
following a conference yesterday with
Senator Martin, when arrangements for
the final adjournment formalities were
completed.
The senate's action in agreeing . to
take final action on the administration
soldiers' and sailors* insurance bill and
adoption of the conference report on
the war deficiency appropriation bill
hastened the date of adjournment.
Only two Important measures, the
.military insurance and the deficiency
bills, remain for final disposition be
fore the session ends.
With the final vote on the adminis
tration soldiers' and sailors' insurance
bill set for late today, the senate this
morning resumed debate on the mea
sure Passage of the bill virtually Is
assured after which it will go to con
ference where a speedy agreement is
anticipated
The conference report on the last of
the big war appropriation bills for this
session of congress, the $7,758,124,000
deficiency measure, was adopted by the
house today after brief discussion and
the bill now is ready for the president's
signature.
As agreed upon In conference, the bill
carries the largest amount, it s said,
ever appropriated by any government at
any time. It provides for the dlsburse-
I ment of $5,355,976,016 in cash ird
i grants authorization of $2,401,458,393 in
! contracts. The funds will be devoted al
most entirely to the payment of war
expenses.
to 8010 Pasha. Pavenstedt appearing as
the go-between.
8010 Pasha arrived in New York on
February 22, 1916, and left on March 17
following. He saw Bernstorff secretly
: in Washington, it is said.
PASHA DREW CHECKS.
As soon as the money reached the
i Royal bank of Canada. New York
branch, ft was deposited to the credit of
8010 Pasha, the latter began to check
'it out. The first check for $170,000 was
deposited with J. P. Morgan * Co. to the
credit of Senator Charles Humbert, own
er of Le Journal, of Paris. The sum of
$524,000 was transferred to Mme. 8010.
in Paris, and $53,000 was placed to the
credit of Jules Bois. a French lecturer
then In the United States. About sl,-
000.000 which was transferred to Paris
who. he adds, was one of several men
used by Bernstorff and 8010 as a cloak
to hide the real nature of the work they
were engaged in.
The attorney geenral also emphasized
In his statement that the developments
In no way reflect on any of the banks
named, the Deutsches bank, of course,
excepted. Adolph Pavenstedt. he added,
was the onlj- member .of the banking
firm of G. Amsick A Co., as that bank
was then organized, who knew the
Bernstorff-8010-Schmidt secret. A few
employes who knew that hundreds of
thousands of dollars were coming to the
(Continued on Fags 3, Column •.)
MB SALES FORCE
WILL REACH EVERY
OFFICE IND HOME
Committees Will Appoint Sub
committees Which Will Se
lect Members From Every
Business and Occupation
Momentum in Atlanta's and the Sixth
federal reserve district's drive, which
"has as its object the selling of 1135,000.-
000 worth of Liberty bonds of the second
loan, is increasing hourly with the en
ergy being generated in the offices of
Chairman W. C. Wardlaw, who, with his
assistants. Thursday morning appointed
committees to organize a sales force
which will canvass every business place
and home in the city.
The committees appointed will appoint
subcommittees, which will in turn select
members from every kind of business
and occupation represented In Atlanta
to solicit subscriptions for the bonds,
and within a short time it is believed
. that these committee members will
have raked over Atlanta as effectively as
if a fine-toothed comb had been used.
The same methods will be used in the
organization of a sales force for the
district as a whole. By the middle of
( October the organization for the sale of
i the bonds is expected to have been car
ried into practically every militia dis
; trlct in the Sixth federal reserve dis
trict.
COMMUNITY COMMITTEES.
Every community will have a com
i mittee of its own. Already between 500
| and 600 of these committees have been
: appointed, and they are now being
named at the rate of more than a hun
! dred a day. buring the last two weeks
of October, toward the close of the cam
paign, it is expected to have approx 1-
1 mately 2,000 of these working through
out the district. The organization has
been pitched upon this (extensive basis
j for the purpose of reaching every pos
sible purchaser of a Liberty bond.
Practically the whole campaign will
be directed. Chairman Wardlaw pointed
out, to the selling of bonds of small de
nomination on the installment plan.
Farmers, merchants, clerks, salaried
men and wagfe earners of every class
who may not be able to invest largely
in this issue will be urgently and per
sonally solicited to take a bond of any
where from sso to SSOO, according to
their means, making a small cash pay
i ment and the remainder in weekly or
■ monthly installments, according to ar
j rangements with the bank where the
purchase is negotiated.
(Governor Dorsey Urges
Public to Subscribe
Every dollar subscribed to the loan
now means, ioo, that the war will come
to an end just so much earlier. This
was emphasized by Governor Hugh M.
Dorsey in a statement he issued Thurs
day, urging the public to buy bonds. The
statement was as follows:
To the Bankers of Georgia: The
United States is today engaged in
war. on the outcome of which de
pends the future of democracy. As
' loyal Americans we must support
' the United States with our last man
and last dollar if necessary. Geor
gia has contributed its full quota
of men for the army and Georgians
are now called to subscribe to the
second Liberty Loan bond issue in
order that our men may be properly
equipped and maintained in their
fight for our country. It is, there
fore. the privilege as well as the
duty, of each of us to subscribe
to the extent of his ability to the
Liberty bonds now being offered.
The first duty of a citizen is to
the country that affords him liberty
and protects his life and property.
Every dollar Invested in a Liberty
Loan bond will not only strengthen
the faith and confidence of the pur
chaser in his government, but will
| tend to increase the respect and
admiration that other nations have
for us. Every dollar subscribed now
will also tend to the war to
an early termination and may,
therefore, be the means of saving
the lives of a great many of our
men.
Our people with money are not
asked to donate one cent to this
cause, but are. asked to put up their
money and receive in return 100
: cents on the dollar. In the safest
security in the world today. Cnited
States government bonds. On the
bankers of the state will depend
largely the success or failure of the
campaign and I urge your full co
operation.
Yours very truly.
. HUGH M. DORSEY.
Governor.
j Atlanta. Ga., Oct. 3. 1917.
Safe Conduct to Berlin
For La Follette and His
Supporters Is Suggested
COLUMBUS. Ohio, Oct. 4.—Deporta
tion of United States Senator Robert
jM. La Follette and his supporters
• through the allies' lines to Berlin be
cause of their “treasonable utterances.”
was urged in a resolution received to
-1 day by Governor Cox from the execu
tives club of Toledo, representing twen
. ty-four clubs and asociations in that
city.
A copy of the resolutions were sent
te President Wilson and to Ohio senators
, and congressmen with the request that
! they be entered in the congressional
1 record.
Senate Committee to Decide
Whether or Not to Probe
; WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—The senate
, privileges and elections committee will
l decide tomorrow whether it will inves-
I tigate Senator La Follette's public ut
! terances, and. if so. whether the inves
i tigation will be carried on after con
gress adjourns.
Senator La Follette today indicated
he will speak .tomorrow, answering his
' critics.
j “It will make them sit up and take
noitce.” La Follette today told one of
; his friends.
Tobacco Habit Banished
In t 8 to 72 hours. No craving for tobacco
in any form after completing treatment. Con
tains no habit-forming drugs. Satisfactory re
sults guaranteed in every case. Write Newell
fbarmacal Co., Dept. 5, St. Louis, Mo., for
FIIEF. Booklet. “TOBACCO REDEEMER” and
positive proof.—(Advt.)
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1917
“The Frost Is on the Pumpkin, an the Fodder’s in the Shock.”
TO’ ; ||»l I R W ill nwg
I OEM, SCOfIE INJURED,
IS MR TURNS TURTLE
*
Three Are Seriously Hurt in
Accident on Stone Moun
tain Line
One negro was killed, a dozen or more
white persons injured, several of them
seriously, when Stone Mountain car No
303, due in Atlanta at 6:27 a. m. turned
over at the corner of Ansley and South
Candler streets in Decatur about 6
o’clock Thursday morning.
The dead: .
-ARCHIE MOSS, negro, of Clarkston.
The Injured:
A. Cricthon, Stone Mountain, right
hand crushed.
J. F. Beaton, Stone Mountain, head
cut and both hands bruised.
William Dasch, Stone Mountain, right
knee and hip wrenched.
T. H. McGehee, Clarkston, left hand
and leg wrenched and bruised.
Mozella Thomas, negress, Clarkston,
left arm broken, right hand crushed.
Harry Martin, Stone Modntain, cut
and bruised.
Joe Collins, Stone Mountain, *cut and
bruised.
A young man by the name of Ewing,
of Stone Mountain, hands cut.
Mrs. Morton, of Stone Mountain, in
jured about the head.
Mrs Hambrick, of Stone Mountain,
limtm bruised.
The car, one of the big double-truck
affairs, formerly used on the Marietta
line, was inbound for Atlanta with
about fifty passengers. It was in charge
of Motorman C. C. Maddox and Conduc
tor P. A. Caldwell, of Atlanta. The
motorman escaped without injury while
the conductor sustained a number of
painful bruises and had one of his legs
badly skinned.
Street car officials were inclined to
believe that the accident was due to the
bursting of the air pipe on the car. At
any rate, the motorman declares that
the failure of the air brake was respon
sible. The acident happened while the
car was rounding a curve. Had the car
been traveling even at a normal rate of
speed, more serious developments prob
ably would have resulted.
The passengers on the car were most
ly residents of the Stone Mountain sec
tion and people living along the Stone
Mountain car line, bound for their work
In Atlanta. They Included two white
women, both of whom were more or less
seriously hurt.
Immediately after the accident a call
was sent to Atlanta for ambulances. As
sistance was sent out by Greenberg &
Bond, Awtry & Lowndes and D. T. How
ard & Son, but Instead of bringing the
injured to this city many were returned
to their homes when it was found that
their injuries were but slight.
The dead negro's body was taken to
the undertaking establishment of H. 11.
and P. E. Williams.
The car turned completely over on
its side, blocking traffic in the road
way running alongside the tracks. The
trucks left the track, but remained up
right. the body of the car being torn
loose from them. Glass was scattered
helter skelter over the road for some
distance around-
Goethals Assumes New Duty
NEW YORK. Oct. 4. —Major General
George W. Goethals today began active
work as president of the Wright-Martin
Aircraft corporation. Following his
election to the office. Goethals accepted
with the statement that he did so “with
the view of doing some work that will
be useful and assist In the prosecution
of the war.”
EYE FOR AN EYE, TOOTH
FORATOOTHJNAIRRAIDSI
General Smuts Says Allies'Are
Forced to Return Bombs
to Enemy
LONDON, Oct. 4.—ln an address to
day at a luncheon to presidents of the
chamber of commerce of the United
Kingdom, Lieutenant General Smuts,,
former comander of the expedition
against Germany East Africa, said that
Germany “defeated on the battle fields
and balked in the submarine campaign,
is now in impotent rage more and more
striking at us through our non-combat
ants, through our women and children.”
Aerial warfare against the defenseless
was the new weapon, he said, and pre
dicted It would not only fall, but would
prove to be a terrible boomerang.
“Applying the principle of “an eye
for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth,”
General Smuts said, “we are most reluc
tantly forced to apply to the enemy the I
bombing policy which he has applied to
us.’*
Continuing. General Smuts said:
“Last month our naval and military |
airplanes dropped 207 tons of bombs be
hind the lines of the enemy. In the;
same period he dropped 4 1-2 tons
of bombs on London. In that month we
bombed him on twenty-three days and
on nineteen nights, chiefly’ attacking his
airdromes and, as the figures show, dam
aging his machines and pitting his air- !
dromes with shell holes. We also
bombed his billets, trains, transports,
and railway stations, causing him the
heaviest losses.”
“The submarine has ceased to be a 1
decisive factor in the war,” General
Smuts declared.
"Long before the allies reach the
Rhine Germany will sue for peace.”
“Allow me to emphasize two points
which I hope will be borne in mind when
it is ultimately found that my words
are not bluff, but serious and far-reach- |
ing in their import,” General Smuts
went on.
“Firstly, we did not begin this busi-? ;
ness of bombing industrial and popu
lous districts. The enemy began this
practice.”
"And we have been most reluctantly ;
forced to follow suit after a long delay j
which severely tried the patience of the |
British public.
“Secondly. I look upon these develop- •
ments of the arts of war as utterly bad
and Immoral, and while 1 do not fear
them if, as in the present case, they are :
forced on us, yet I should infinitely pre- i
fer that both sides should desert such !
cruel practices. We shall do our best to 1
avoid German abominations, and in our
air offensive against military and Indus- i
trial centers of the enemy we shall use ;
every endeavor to spare, as far as is
humanly possible, the innocent and de- 1
fensefless who in the past enjoyed the
protection of International law.”
NOTICE!
To Our Alabama
Subscribers
We wish to warn our Ala
bama patrons not to give
your subscriptions to W. L.
Lee. This man was once
our agent, but we have dis
charged him and will not
be responsible for any more
subscriptions given to him
He has collected for a good
many subscriptions this
summer, but has never sent
them to us.
The Semi-Weekly Journal
Atlanta, Ga.
■ .
SEECTMEN NOW DRIVING
IN CONTINUOUS STREAM
[First Seventeen Per Cent Con
tingent of Negroes Reach
es Camp Gordon
———
ATLANTA JOURNAL BUREAU.
CAMP GORDON, Ga., Oct. 4. — Business
began to pick up around the national
j army receiving station Wednesday night
and an almost steady stream of new
I selectmen continued through Thursday.
: Most of tnem were white men, although
i the first squad of negroes ordered to
j camp as The 17 per cent contingent ar
rived Wednesday night.
The arrivals Wednesday night in-
I eluded approximately 1,200 men, with
about fifty negroes. Thursday morning
added about 500 white men to the list,
the latter being from Tennessee. A vast
majority were farmers and brought
with them small “O. D.” bags given
them by Red Cross workers of their
home towns, in which they carried their
i belongings.
Brigadier General James B. Erwin was
directed Thursday morning to take
l charge of the Liberty loan campaign at
■ this camp. He also was directed to call
on the various staff departments for
I assistance in the campaign. The order
| turning over this work to General Erwin
was issued in accordance with general
I order No. 128, which directs the gen
erals of the natjonal army to take steps
i to induce voluntary subscriptions from
; the selectmen for the Liberty loan
Captain Frederick T. Robson, it has
just been announced, w’ill make daily
trips to Atlanta in connection with the
recruiting for the engineers’ corps.
Atlanta's Negro Selectmen
Away to War, Cheering
The “chocolate soldiers” of Atlanta—
all honor to them!—marched away to
war Thursday morning with flags flying,
I their friends cheering and cryang, a
. brass band playing “Georgia Camp Meet
| in’,” and every man Jack of them
wreathed in smiles as if he were going
to a land flowing with pork chops and
i ham gravy.
If there be any man or woman in the
| city who thinks that Georgia negroes
I are not going to “do their bit” In this
! war, that they are not going to stand
I by the colors as did their elder brothers
;at San Juan Hill and El Caney, they
' should have been on the curbstone of
i Whitehall street to see the "chocolate
soldiers” pass.
They came up Edgewood avenue
i shortly before noon—ls 4 of them, chos
!en from among their brothers as the
Attest to serve their country—and they
w’ere accompanied by a swarm of friends
i and relatives that seemed like a dark
; river running over both sides of the
stream and dribbling off in little streams
i and tributaries into every side alley
along the route.
And all along the way. along Edge
wood avenue and along Decatur street,
along Peachtree street and along White
hall street, clear to the Terminal sta
tion, were more negroes waiting for
them—fat old mammies with clothes
baskets on their arms, old uncles with ,
wooly gray hair, leaning on canes and
peering through spectacles as big as
window glasses, rich negroes in silk hats
and fine silk dresses, young negroes
fresh from college and high school, little ’
■ negro bootblacks scuffling along In the
dust, piccaninnies borne in the strong
arms of their mothers and fathers.
All of these ,as the head of the parade
came into sight, opened their mouths
and yelled. Their white teeth shown,
their black faces glistened, they cheered
and cheered the flag and the boys be
hind it. they hollered to them, they shook
them by the hands, they ran out Into
the street and marched along with them,
clapping them on the back and laughing
and shouting as if it were circus day
in the morning.
"Gawd be wid j’ou t’well we meet
ergin. screamed a fat old mam
my waddling along the sidewalk with a
NUMBER 3.
BRITISH ADVANCE ON
IG.BOO-YARD FRONT
2.500 YARDS DEEP
Important Objectives in
ders Are Taken in Drive,
Greatest of the Wsr ( Includ
ing Several Villages
' LONDON, Oct. 4.—ln their offensive
lin the Ypres sector today the Britiei
gained all their objectives on a fronl
tof 16,000 yards and to a depth of 2,501
i yards, General Frederick B. Mauriae
I chief director of miltary operatons a !
■ the war office, announced today. g
General Maurice announced that .
British forces to the east of Ypres hac
■ captured the village of Broodseinde. J
Both the first and second objectiyes o:
the ridge have been captured by th<
British, General Maurice said.
General Maurice’s statement Indicate
today’s drive is perhaps the greatest O
all the offensive 1 blows yet aimed at thi
German lines. -J
Sixteen thousand yards would meal
a battle front of more than nine miles
A penetration of 2.500 yards would meal
more than a mile gain into the German
held territory by the British forces.
Broodseinde is about half a mile be
yond Sonnebeke. almost in the center o
the great Ypres sector. It lies slight!;
below the Roulers railroad, aloai
which General Haig has. by his thre
[last offensive blows, been steadily ad
j vancing toward the main line of cornffiu
nications on the Belgian coast.
Presumably the nine-mlle front run
almost along the line of where Haig las
struck, approximately from Langemare
to the Comines canal around Hollebeki
"In the nine months ending SeptembS
30.” General Maurice said, “the BrMsl
on the west front captured 51,435 mei
and 332 field heavy guns and lost 15i
i 065 me nand no guns.
"In all theaters of the- war. the Brit
. ish captured 72,513 men and 470 gmu
and lost 15,065 men and no guns.” J
Haig’s Blow a Climax
To Artillery Whirlwini
BY WIX.I.XAM PHILLIF SIMMS '
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES -1
FIELD, Oct. 4. —British forces have a<
vanced mote than a mile deep into t)
German lines in what looked today t
be one of the war’s greatest battles. ”
Prisoners already taken reach int
' four figures.
Several villages have already be
'taken.
The drive was still on this afternoo?
Haig struck his blow early this mow
j ing. the climax to whirlwind of firti
lery that for days has beat relentlaii
; lyt unceasingly on the German positlem
• zln all respects* jhe bjow Impresses ot
as among the biggest, if not the biggel
iof all the battles of the greatest
! wars.
Fighting Is on an unprecedented seal
iof magniture in men, munitions, gUE]
! and territory.
At Sonnebeke alone, three enemy d
visions (German division ordinarily cot
tains 15,000 men-) were ordered to- al
tack and retake ground they lost in th
j first staggering Impact of the Britis
blow.
The Germans —The whole three divk
i ions—were caught in the British bsn
| rage. The terrific fire literally chun
ed the poor devils into a bloody 10l
'lolly.
Germans Surrender to
English by Hundred
BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE ANi
BELGIUM, Oct. 4.—(By the Associate
i Press, i—Field Marshal Haig’s forces i
the offensive begun to the east of Ypre
this morning in some places have pern
; rated the German lines to a depth c
one mile and have overrun the creat C
the Passchendaele-Ghely velt ridge.'
At an early hour the Germans wet
surrendering by hundredr.
The British already have penetrat,;
well beyond the Hamlet of Broadseindk
in which lie the crossroads formed b
the highways between Zonnebeke an
Moorsled, and and B<
claire.
Further to the south, Cameron Cover
where there had been much hard fighl
ing. was left well in the rear.
Today's battle was along stronghold
which comprised the crucially importat
system of German defenses along, QI
Passchendaele-Gheluvelt ridge.
The northern wing of the onrushln
British troops was battling forward th:
morning within a short distance <
Poelcappele. It had a footing on the fl
m.ous Gravenstafel ridge, which juts on
from the Passchendaele ridge to tl
west, and had crushed through the
nebcke-Broodseinde ridge, which
.n:,’s*rr’ part of the
uvelt chain.
Between the village of
on the north, and Noordenhoek,
than a mile to the south, the
holding the creat of the ridge In
of heavy counter attacks.
Prisoners are coming In much
rapidly and in greater numbers
the last push.
Everywhere the British have
splendidly in one of the most
tious offensives attempted on this
The attack was launched under
clouds and with a mist
night drizzle. • g
An unusual feature of the battle w
that near ZonnebaWe three German d
visions which had been ordered to r
take positions captured by the BritU
last week were caught in the Brltii
barrage as they were preparing to a
vance.
At 10 o’clock the battel was stilt raq
ing furiously. It was apparent that ti
Germans would use every means to r
take this Invaluable territory and d
termined counter-attacks were expect*
The British casualties today have bei
exceedingly light.
Italian Losses for Week
From U-Boats Are Sma
ROME, Oct. 3. —Italian shipping las
es by mines or submarines for the wet
ending September 30 in all seas, wei
two sailing vessels of more than li
tons and three sailing vessels of le:
than 100 tons. One small sailing ve
sei escaped when attacked by a subtu
rlne.
roll of clothes on her head. The crotl
took up the call.
“Gawd be wid you. boy! Take ke<
yo’se’f, John Henry! I’ll be seein* yo
boy. I’se gwine out dar fo’ long!”
And then the band began to play— J
“Oh, dan’s gwiner be a meetin’ of <
colored race
Away down in Dixie!” 3*.