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VOLUME XX
PLAN ENTERTAINMENT
OF SECBEARY M'ADOO
ON LIBERTY LOIN DAY
Parade Will Be Held and
Stores Will Be Asked to!
Close—Dinner to Guest at
Club
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Arrangements for the observance of
Liberty day and the entertainment of
Secretary of the Treasury William O. .
McAdoo, who will be a visitor here next
Wednesday, have been completed by the
arrangements committee of the Liberty
Ix>an executive committee. Besides the
two speeches to be made by Mr. Mc-
Adoo. the committee plane to maxe the
day epochal of the Liberty Loan cam-,
paign in Atlanta by the staging of a
street parade and the decoration of the
downtown streets In the national col
ors.
After Mr McAdoo has been met at the
station at 9 o'clock by a committee head
ed by Robert F. Maddox. John K. Ott
ley and Henry W. Davis, he will be es
corted to Camp Gordon, where at 10
o'clock he will deliver a speech to the
soldiers.
He will be the guest of honor at a ,
luncheon to be given at 12:3* at the
Piedmont Driving club, arrangements for j
which are being made by M. B. Well- I
born and W. C. Wardlaw.
The street parade will be held at 2
o'clock and a part will be taken tn it !
by soidiers from Camp Gordon, the
city's school children, the Rotary club,
the Ad Men's club and other organisa
tions to be announced later.
Mayor Candler will be asked to issue
a proclamation asking all owners of
stores to close their places of business
between 1 and 4 o'clock and the school
board will be asked to declare a half
holiday at noon.
DINNER AT CLUB.
Dinner will be given for Mr. McAdoo
at the Capital City club at 6 o'clock by
thy Atlanta Clearing House association,
the committee on .arrangements for it to
be appointed by President T. C. Erwin.
Mr. McAdoo's Atlanta speech will be
delivered at the auditorium at 8 o'clock
and the speech of introduction will be
delivered by Governor Dorsey.
Two more large subscriptions by com- |
panles with branch offices in Atlanta
were announced at noon Thursday by I
<'hairman W. C. Wardlaw.
'The Pullman company has subscribed
for 850.000' of bonds and the Armour
company for 810.000 of bonds, both sub
scriptions being sent through the Lowry-
National bank.
OUT-OF-TOWN SUBSCRIPTIONS
Edwin Stearns, chairman of the Al
bany. Ga.. district, announced Tharada)
that his committee expects to raise one
mHllon dollars in its division. Knox
ville. Tenn., reported that it has al
ready raised one million dollars and ex
pect* to double it by* the 27th. Anniston. I
Ala., announces 8158.000 of subscriptions '
in the city, and that with those made|
at Camp McClellan more than a half
million dollars of bonds will be sold'
there.
G. F. Longine. Jr., chairman of the
Liberty loan committee at College Park,
reported on Thursday that subscriptions
there amounted to 82,200.
Attorney Frank Hooper will address
a meeting at Elberton. Ga . next Satur- *
day.
WOMEN ARE ACTIVE.
Atlanta women are daily making ad
dressee before various women's clubs in
the city and in the Atlanta zone, and
Mrs. Hayrtes McFadden Thursday pre
dicted that many subscriptions would
result from their efforts.
U. S. Destroyer Struck
By U-Boat’s Torpedo
WASHINGTON. Oct. 18—The first
American destroyer vlctim-of a German
U-boat lies crippled today in a Euro
pean harbor, while one of her crew is
dead and five others are slightly in
jured
The dead man. Osmond K. Ingram,
gunner's mate, of Pratt City. Ala., is
the seventeenth navy man whose life
has been taken by the Huns since war '
started.
Navy authorities here regarded today |
as remarkable the fact that the vessel
had merely been crippled when once it .
within line of the torpedo fire.
They explained the escape as probably
due to the fact that the submarine aim I
was impaired by the speed or quick'
maneuvering of the destroyer Ameri- >
can "luck" and gameness were com-,
mented upon.
While the navy withholds other than I
the mere fact that the vessel was tor- j
pedoed and made port, it is assumed
that she can be repaired and that she'
will be back on duty within a short I
i;me. .
The wounded men are Herman H.
Pankratz. St. Louie: William E Mer
ritt. New York; Frank W. Kreuse. To
ledo; Patrick Rutledge. New York; Wil-’
Ham Selmer. Dundas. Minn.
Wilson Sends Message
To Mme. Breshkovskaya
PETROGRAD, net. IS.—David R (
Francis, the American ambassador, to
day presented to Mme. Breshkovskaya. I
■ grandmother of the Russlap revolution" ,
a message from President Wilson ac- i
knowledgtng the rece’pt of her "eloquent
message of September 25." and declar
ing that it was heartening to witness the i
courage with which the new- Russia ■
fa< e?k the problems of the future.
The President's messags concluded by
hoping that Russia and America would
advance side by side with mutual af
fection and confident trust.
SUGAR SELLING AT 4c A LB.
At a time when food prices are soar
ing «xyward. Journal readers will wel
come the announcement of the Money
worth Wholesale grocers. 1404 Ashland
avenue. Chicago. 111., that they have de
cided to sell "direct to consumer.”
Their new "Get-Acquainted -- catalog of
fers some very attractive bargain as
sortments. including sugar at 4c a lb..
Gold Medal flour at 88.50 a bbl.. Flake
VX hile soap 2c a bar and many other
equally- great bargains Send them
your name on a postal.—t Advt.)
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STATUS OF ILF MLS
DEFINED OF MILLETT
No Authority for Reboaring
Where Question Is One
of Facts
Major Joel B. Mallett, of the adju
tant general's department, in a states
ment given to The Journal Thursday, is
I believed to have definitely made clear
. the status of most of the appeal cases
jin Georgia under the selective service
law. He sums up the whole situation in
the following paragraph:
"After a man has been inducted into
the military service and sent to a mobil
ization camp, there is no authority un
| der the law for obtaining rehearings by
i the local and district boards in cases
' where the only question Is one of the
determination of facts by the boards.
Only where through error in law or
through the nonculpable Ignorance of
the registrant a man has been held to
service who should have been discharged
or exempted, is authority granted to re
quest rehearings by the board."
The statement then continues:
ORDER QUOTED.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
• says:
"It has been brought to the attention
of this office that the governors and ad
jutants general have been besieged with
applications to request rehearings in
cases where the only question was one
of the determination of fact by the
boards. To inject into the established
system at this time the governor and
his adjutant general as a new board of
review is an error which finds no justifi
cation in any rulings or direction issued
from this office."
"Provost Marshal General Crowder
I further states, in compiled rulings No.
12. there are relatively very few cases
■ of hardship where either through error
' in law or nonculpable ig
norance of the registrant a man has
i been held to service who should have
been discharged or exempted. and
i neither the military authorities at the
mobilization camp nor the adjutants
general of the states are constituted as
i boards of review of the action of local
| and district boards.
"There is no authority for reopening a
I case x»n the ground of physical disquali
flcation. for his physical qualification for
military service* is finally determined
I by the surgeon at the mobilization camp
and there Is no necessity nor is there
any authority for reopening a case where
! the only suggestion Is one of the phys
lical qualification of the registrant.
"If any person has been sent to camp
through error In or through the
nonculpable ignorance of himself. In
these rare cases he may apply to his
local board to have the case reopened,
and the local board will request of the
adjutant general permission to reopen
the case if such person was certified for
service through an error in law- or
! through the nonculpable ignorance of
i such registrant. However, there are
very few of such cases.
Horse Seized in Blind
Tiger Raid Costs County
Too Much; He Must Go
Seeking to eliminate an item of ex
pense amounting to 815 per month. So
licitor General John A. Boykin has filed
a petition in the Fulton superior court
asking permission to sell a horse ani
wagon confiscated several weeks ago
when J. L. Freeman was arrested
charged with violating the prohibition
law.
About eight gallons of liquor were
found in the wagon, and under the terms
of the new law the vehicle and horse
were confiscated by the authorities.
Sheriff J. I. Lowry declares that the
horse devours about 815 worth of pro
i vender per month and is a useless ex
pense to Fulton county, wherefore he is
desirous of selling the animal at the
earliest possible moment.
Full Associated Press Service
GEORGIA BOY
HOG BREEDER'S
WINNING FAME
New Eia in State’s Progress
1 Is Marked When little Fel
lows See Their Entries
Awarded Many Ribbons
Boy hog breeders of Georgia marked
a new era in the state’s progress at
the Southeastern fair Wednesday, when
they entered their hogs in open compe
tition against the best in the country
and walked off with a nunifier of rib
bons.
Little fellows twelve and fifteen years
of age who have been fattening their
entries for months "way down on the
farm” in south Georgia, central Geor
gia and north Georgia, drove their
hogs into the show ring and with’ their
own sticks and their own hurdles,
"jockeyed” them back and forth before
the eyes of the judges.
"The Georgia Roys' Pig clubs have
them all beat.” declared I>. C. Stone,
secretary of the Hampshire association,
as he watched the judging. Mr. Stone
has been to practically every fair in the
United States, and he ought to know.
YOUNG OTfLEY'S ENTRIBS.
Several boys ifi the Georgia Pig club
won prlxes. notably John K. Ottley, Jr.,
of Atlanta. John. Jr., is the son ot
John K. Ottley, the well-known Atlanta
banker. In several classes in the open
competition he wqn ribbons with his
entries raised on Mr. Ottley's big Peach
tree road farm. "Joyeuse.”
Judging in the "red class” in the
swine barn was finished Wednesday aft
ernoon. The Durocs were also finished
Wednesday, and they had begun the
judging of the Hampshires Thursday
morning. Entered In the Hampshire con
test vfere the finest hogs of this breed
in the world, direct from the national
hog show at Omaha. Neb., but they
i w-ere fighting just as hard for prizes at
the Southeastern fair as they did in the
“big ring" at Omaha.
Willie Essig. of Tipton. Ind., one of.
the biggest Hampshire breeders, will
have a sale of Hampshires at the fair
Thursday afternoon and a carload of
registered Hampshires is coming in for
ia sale Friday morning.
Awards in the Duroc class of the hog
show announced up to noon Thursdav
follow:
OPEN COMPETITION.
Boars Two Years Old and Over.
1. Coldstream Farms. Lexington. Ky.
2. Whiter L. Wight. Cairo, Ga.
3. Jones Yow. Avalon, Ga.
Boars 18 Months Old and Under 24.
1. Peacock & Hodge. Cochran, Ga.
2. Mayfield Farms. Lexington, Ky.
3. John K. Ottlex, Jr.. Atlanta.
Boars 12 Months and Under 18.
1. Pinecrest Farms, Swan Lake. Miss.
2. Coldstream Farms. Lexington, Ky.
3. Walter L. Wight, Cairo. Ga.
4. Pinecrest Farms.
5. Peacock & Hodge. Cochran. Ga.
6. Peacock & Hodge.
7. Mayfield Farms. Lexington, Ky.
Boars Six Months and Under 12.
1. Mayfield Farms.
2. Walter L. Wight.
3. Henry Wight. Cairo. Ga.
4. Pinehurst Farms.
5. Peacock & Hodge.
8. Peacock & Hodge.
7. Mayfield Farms.
Boars Under 6 Months.
1. Coldstream Farms.
2. Mayfield Farms.
2. J. N. Campbell. Honkinsville. Ky.
4. W. J. Fitch. Gallitin, Tenn.
5. Mayfield Farms.
6. Coldstream Farms.
7. J. U. Campbell.
Sows 2 Years and Over.
1. Pinecrest Farms.
2. Mayfield Farms.
3. Mayfield Farms.
4. Pinecrest Farms.
5. Pinecrest Farms.
8. Pinecrest Farms.
7. Peacock & Hodge.
Sows 18 Months Old and Under 24.
(Continued on Page 3, Column 5.)
ATLANTA, GA.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1917.
U.S. PLANS TO SEIZE
EXCESS COAL STORES
HELD IN W STATES
applies Hoarded in Ohio and
Pennsylvania Will Be Taken
at Government Prices and
Returned Later
*
WASHINGTON. Oct. 18.—The fuel ad
ministration plans to seize temporarily
excess coal hoarded at several Ohio and
Pennsylvania points. Later it will re
place it. For the present, however, it
feels that excess stores should be treat
ed exactly as though the coal were
stored at the mines. The government
will pay government prices and redis
tribute the excesses to places where it
is needed. It is estimated that 1,000,000
tons are cached in Ohio.
The striking coal miners must return
to work before Fuel Administrator Gar
field will decide on their wage demands.
The government will not be placed in
the position of surrendering to the strik
ers in principle on a matter vitally af
fecting conduct of the war.
This ultimatum Is understood to have
been delivered by Garfield to leaders of
the United Mine Workers here today.
President John P. White expects to leave
within twenty-four hours to make a
final personal appeal to the union miners
to return to work. District leaders in
Indiana. Illinois. Ohio and the south
western coal fields are already striving
to prevent further walkouts.
William Greene, secretary of the mine
workers, arrived in Washington today,
from Indianapolis.
More bituminous coal minesr are going
on strike today unless their wage de
mands are granted by Fuel Administra
tor Harry Garfield, officials of United
Mine Workers here declared. Admitting
they are helpless to restrain their men,
the labor leaders said Garfield’s threats
to compel production of coal to meet war
needs will not restrain the strikers.
Labbr conscription is running
through the minds of Garfield and his
aides, but they have formulated no defi
nite plans and are doubtful of their
legal premises in the matetr. Govern
ment operation of the mines is author
ized by the Pomerene amendment to the
food control law, but the miners say
they will not work unless given a raise
in wages.
Garfield's statement that he is giving
immediate and close attention to the
wage question with prospect of an
early decision has resulted in strained
relations between him and the federal
trade commission. Garfield to date has
not asked the commission to figure out
the cost of the wage raise to the con
sumer.
Rumors that the commission was de
laying their report to Garfield out of
pique for his having been given the
coal control were bitterly denied at the
commission's office. The commission s
expert wrote Garfield's mine price and
retail price orders, and they are at a
loss to understand why the wage in
crease and its bearing on higher coal
prices is not submitted to them.
Chicago Now Has Only
Three Days’ Coal Supply
CHICAGO. Oct. 18.—A three days’
coal supply is all that remains in this
city today, according to coal dealers,
who said that unles the strike of more
than 15,000 coal miners in south and
central Illinois is settled before Sat
urday night or the government inter
venes. a serious shortage will result.
Illinois mines produce approximately
400,000 tons of coal a day when nor
mal conditions prevail, but according to
advices to dealers here, the total out
put of the state yesterday was only
60,000 tons.
WAR ON WESTERN
FRONT BEGINS NEW,
MAYBE LAST, PUSH
Beginning With Opjeo Fighting,
Germans Later Took to
Trenches—Now They Use
Method Indicating a Rout
■T WXX.X.XAM PKXUP SIMMS.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FLANDERS, Oct. 18.—The war on the
western front today has entered a new
phase—and probably Its las 1 :.
The fighting there is as lifferen'. now
from what it was in 1814 and l‘Jls a»
. it could possibly be.
First there was open warfare—when
i the Germans swept over Belgium and
! ’ rance. Second, there came trench tight
i Ing, which slowlv developed until the
I t-iking of a single trench was an opera
, tion as big as Waterloo. Now one sees
practically open country battles with
' the enemy engaging in a sort of rear
guard action, which, when fully expand
ed. will mean a Prussian rout.
Only the sudden collapse of hostlUi
' ties can prevent this curtain on the
■ kaiser's three-act drama.
Not since the crown prince burned
his eaglet feathers against Verdun more
■ than a year ago have the German armies
dared a real offensive on the western
front. Since the Somme, Hindenburg
i has been openly on the defensive, and
' the present methods of fighting are the
direct outcome of that general's grop
i ings to find a means to hold out.
HINDENBURG LOSING HIS PUNCH
I The Somme battles were a series of
storming operations—the taking of
j trench systems that stretched for miles
in veritable maxes of supporting cuts
and channels. So long as Hindenburg
i believed he might still break through
! the allies' line, he continued this trench
warfare. He kept his front lines full
of men. Tens of thousands df his troops
were killed before he awoke to realiza
tion that he was losing his punch. Hin
denburg dug the trenches and dugouts
| deeper—often thirty or even fifty feet
below ground. But his men still died
like rats in traps when British Tommies
threw Mills bombs down the dugout
openings or rolled charges of high ex
plosives down the almost perpendicular
stairs.
In the fire trenches, where Hinden
burg kept troops standing shoulder to
shoulder to repel attacks, allied shells
; tore whole companies to shreds While
the great German recticlan blundered on,
British and French guns thundered and
I the superb German labyrinth of trenches
became an appalling shambles.
At last Hindenburg saw a light. The
offensive was no longer his. He must
i fight henceforth a defensive war. The
famous retreat on the Somme last win
ter was step No. 1. He abandoned his
once precious trenches, now become a
hell-hole littered with the putrlfying
corpses of German youths.
Hindenburg’s next step was observed
(during the battle of Arras in April. His
' trenches were stjll there, but now thin-
Ily manned. The bulk of troops were
■ kept in support trenches hundreds of
I yards behind.
TROOPS ARE SCATTERED.
But his plan was still faulty and later.
lat Messlnes, in June. German troops
I were more widely scattered. Machine
iguns were no longer fired from trenches,
but from special, isolated posts. Also
trench mortars. And specially trained
counter attacking troops were held in
readiness to charge the tired British as
soon as objectives had been won.
But the British got on just the same,
and Hindenburg began to lose faith in
trenches. July 31, beginning the bat
tle of Flanders, found the Germans still
differently disposed.
They were occupying not trenches so
much as concrete shell holes, two or
three linked together with short »unnels
' Pill boxes” —steel and concrete turrets
whose mud-covered tops were Just above
(Continued on Fage 3, Column 4.)
GUMP GORDON PREPARES
FOII FRENCH INSTRUCTORS
Major Derevillers Will Be in
Command—Signal Batal
lion to Be Organized
BT WAMD MOKEMOVBB.
ATLANTA JOURNAL BUREAU.
Camp Gordon, Ga. Oct. 18.—Major
Charles E. Derevillers. a French soldier
who has served in many of the hardest
'campaigns of the war with Germany,
will be in command of the French of
ficers who are coming to this camp as
Instructors. This announcement was
made here this morning. The French-/
men will include ten commissioned and
ten noncommissioned officers. They will
instruct the members of the Eighty
second division in modern warfare, lay
ing particular stress upon trench fight
ing.
Quarters are being arranged for the
French officers who are expected to ar
rive in a few days. A detachment of
British officers also will be assigned to
this camp.
SIGNAL BATTALION.
The Three Hundred and Seventh field
signal battalion, consisting of 472 men.
Is soon to be organized here. It was
announced this morning that 239 men
enlisted for the signal reserve corps In
‘the central department had been trans
ferred to this cantonment and were now
en route here. These men will become
a part of the Three Hundred and Sev
enth battalion, the remainder to be
chosen from among those with special
qualifications for signal work.
F;ve officers for the signal battalion
are already in camp and nine others are
expected to arrive in the near future.
Three thousand six hundred and
twelve Tennessee selectmen will leave
camp this afternoon at 4:30 o’clock for
Camp Sevier. Greenville, S. C. They are
the last of the Tennesseeans to leave
here. About the sanhe time they are
due to depart 1.000 selectmen from Camp
Meade. Maryland, are expected to ar
rive.
Drills for the Maryland selectman who
arrived Wednesday afternoon began this
morning. All of these men have been
through the physical examination and
thus will not be subjected to the rou
'tine physical examination here. How
ever. they will' be “looked over" by the
surgeons of the regiments to which they
are assigned.
Examination of the straggling select
men who come into the camp will be
held from time to time. x
A large number of medical officers
from Camp Greenleaf. Fort Oglethorpe,
arrived here this morning. They will fill
up the various regimental units, while
those left over after the regimental
units have been completed will consti
tute the commissioned personnel of
three field hospital and one ambulance
companies which are to be organized.
Democrats in the West
In Denver Conference
With Party Treasurer
'
DENVER. Col., Oct. - IS.—Leading;
Democrats in six states—ldaho. Utah, •
Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New i
Mexico—held conferences here today
with W. D. Jamieson, treasurer of the j
Democratic national committee, in mak- >
ing preparations for the next congres
sional campaign. National committee
men from the six states conferred with
Mr. Jamieson yesterday, and state
chairmen and members of the Colorado
state committee were to participate to
day. The conference here are the first
held under the plan formed by the
Democratic national committee for
"zone” meetings to organize the state
of the zones into which the country has
been divided for the next campaign.
NUMBER 7.
OFFICER IS REPORTED
THROWN INTO SEA IN
OSTENDPDRT MUTINY
Russian Battleship, the Slava,
Sunk in Naval Engagement
With German Warships at
of Riga Gulf
BERLIN. Oct. 18.—(Via London.)—*
I The Germans have taken 10.000 prison
ers and fifty guns on Oesel island, the
I war office reports.
The Russian naval forces in the Gulf
o£ Riga have been trapped by the Ger»
mans, according to the announcement.
It says German naval units are lying 'n
the eastern portion of Kassar bay north
of Oesel island, and are barring the
passage westward.
Portions of the German naval forces
pressed forward through the mine field
in the Gul sos Riga to the southern exit
of Moon Sound. The statement says
there was a short engagement with
about twenty Russiajt warships, which
later retired to Moon Sound.
German Sailors at Ostend
Refuse to Man U-Boats
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 18. A mutiny
among German sailors at the Belgian
port of Ostend who refused to go on
board submarines is reported by the Bel
gian Wagblad. The newspaper says an
officer was thrown into the sea and that
thirty mutineers were removed in hand
cuffs to Bruges.
Mutinies in Austrian
Navy Also Reported
WASHINGTON, Oct. IS—Official
diplomatic dispatches received here to
day reyort mutinies Jn the Austrian
navy and clashes between Austrian
sailQfs and crews, of the German sub
marine fleet based at Pola. in which
officers on both sides have been killed
and which resulted in a decision to
change the base of the German flotilla.
Despite the attempts of the Austrian
admiralty to suppress the news, it
reached here today, coming byway of
Berne. The Austrian crews are said to
have revolted under ill treatment of of
ficers and bad food, while the clash
with the German submarine crews was
caused by the overbearing conduct of the
latter.
The dispatches say the tension be
tween the Austrian and German crews
became so alarming that extraordinary
measures were taken to prevent a recur
rence of the fighting between them,
which included the decision to move the
German submarine fllotilla from the
Austrian base at Pola to another point
further south on the Adriatic. The fight
ing between the two sets of crews is
described as having been sanguinary.
This news of mutiny in the Austrian
navy, received in the capital today al
most at the same time as the Amstfer-j
dam dispatches reporting further mu
tinies In the German navy—this time
among submarine crews—created a pro
found impression among American nav-.
al officers and among other officials:
who have been watching the situation
with expectation since the first mu-i
tinies in the German fleet were report
ed a few days ago.
The first signs of mutiny In the Ger
man fleet were regarded as most sig- 1
niflcant, since unlike the army it has
endured little of the hardship of cam-'
paigning. Dispatches from abroad, how
ever. confirm the opinion of American'
naval officers that it probably was due
in part at least to the drafting of sea-,
men for submarine crews, a service
which has come to hold terrors for the
German seamen because of the inflexible
British policy of never making any an
nouncement whatever of the fate of cap-'
tured or lost crews of the German sub
mersibles. This suspense as to the fata
of comrades who go out never to ba|
heard of again was expected to under
mine the morale of the navy.
Clashes between German and Austrian
crews are regarded in naval circles hero
as of much significance, particularly
when considered in the light of the ex
treme situation of Austria, whose fight-l
ing forces are at the point of exhaus-;
tion.
Petrograd Admits Loss of
Battleship in Riga
PETROGRAD. O<*t. 18.—One Russian)
battleship, the Slava, has been sunk ln (
a naval engagement, in A'hich for a
considerable time Russian warships,
stood off Germany's strong fleet at the
entrance to Riga gulf, an official state-;
ment announced today.
Complete occupation by the enemy of.
the island of Oesel was reported, but)
the statement said everything of mill-,
tary utility had been destroyed before)
the Russians were forced back.
"Our ships defended for a consider
able time the entrance to Moon and
Riga gulf." the war office stated, "and
only severe damage caused by dread
noughts forced us to retire to Moon
sound. - •
“The Slava was sunk by hits below
the water line, and nearly all of her
crew were saved.
"Oesel is completely occupied by the
enemy, but before, our retreat every
thing of military utility was destroyed."
The German fleet, which forced the;
Russian warships to withdraw, was ai
formidable one. the official statement
declared. Fifty-five ships were seen at
one time.
Eleven German Airplanes
Brought Down in Day
PARIS, Oct. 18.—Elfeven German air
planes were shot down by the French
yesterday, or driven to the earth in the
German lines in damaged condition, the
war office reports. Nancy was again
attacked, this time by a squadron of
thirty German machines. The announce
men follows:
"At about 6 o’clock yesterday eve
ning thirty enemy airplanes made a
new raid over Nancy, and threw sev
eral bombs. There were some A’ictims
among the civilian poulation.
“On October 17 six German airplanes
were destroyed and five fell disabled in
the German lines.
“Our aviators carried out several
bombing sorties. Many projectiles were
dropped on railroad stations at Cour
celles, Thionville, Mezieres, «and Wain
llle, factories at Pagordange. and on nu
merous depots and bivoucks."
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