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Newspaper Page TextThe Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal VOLUME XX. GERMANS CROSS THE TAGLIAMENTO RIVER ..................i.iiHii.iiiimiiiiiisiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiniiiiimn'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinimmiiiHiMtim Many Southerners in Pershings First SUNDAY TAKES OFF COST TO ATLANTA: 3D.OOOATSERNIONS Graphic Story Is Told of Evangelist Day’s Work in At lanta, the Crowd, the Music and the Preaching BY WARD GREENE ON his first day in the south Billy -Sunday has taken off his coat to Atlanta He has preached three typical sermons at the Jackson street tabernacle. He has leaped and crawled and bounded and strutted across the plat form. He has pounded the pulpit, mounted a chair, twisted himself into a knot and pegged the exclamatory ball from deep center to the home plate. Something like thirty thousand people I have heard him. and these he has inter- 1 ested. amused. delighted. disgusted. | shocked thrilled and exhilarated, each according to his bent. Today he rests. Tomorrow he preach es twice, in the afternoon and at night. For seven weeks he will qpntinue to hold forth. Some time soon—it may be next week, it may be the week thereafter— he will call for converts to “hit the trail.” Until then the effect of his presence in Atlanta no man can actually kaow But ia the meantime body is voicing his opinion, in public, in private, in homes, and on street cor ners. from Governor Dorsey on down to old Aunt Sarah Trotter, who has a ' house on Wheat street and claims she heard Mr. Sunday even during the ex citement of cooking a mess of turnip greens in the kitchen. The opinions range from the weighty words of bishops to the remarks of a .small boy leaving the tabernacle la.-t night who said, not without reason. “Well/papa. Mr. Sunday is certainly a sweaty man. ain't he?" OUTBTAJrDIMG FSATTTBES or the orrirura day The matter of opinions let us leave for other*. You can get them gratis wherever you go. or you can invest three cents in a newspaper and read the conclusions of a young army of our leading journalists and Journalettes. hired to express same by the yard and the ream, be the cost of white paper what it may. Brushing them, with due apol ogies. aside, may we confine ourselves herein to an humble endeavor to relate merely what happened Sunday at the tabernacle, when Billy began his re vival. To the casual observer, the opening day had three outstanding features— the crowd, • the music, and Billy Sun day. All were pretty much on a par in interest. Atlanta has had opera crowds and baseball crowds and political crowds and prixe-.'ieht crowds and parade crowds. But it took a Billy Sunday revival to wad them al] into one and make a crowd that for sheer human lure had the ethers looking like Mr. Sunday s shirt when he takes it off at the end of a -perspiry day. From the press-box. which has an advantageous - b‘.ft exceedingly risky site, level with Mr. Sunday’s platform and Mr Sunday’s rather reckless feet, you had a fine view of that crowd. You saw the crowd begin just below you with a row of people. You saw an other row behind that row, and another row behind the second, and another and another until they stopped being rows ‘ after a while and became just a floor of faces, and after that not even faces or people, ouly a blur that ended jam up against the back of the roof It was that way dead ahead of you. that way tn the left and right of you. and when von twisted yotir neck around, it was that way behind you. where the ehoir rose In tiers to the rafters. OUT AMONG THE CIOWD IS WHERE THE LUBE LAY. . If you looked hard enough at the crowd, you could pick out individuals. I saw the society leader whose box heads the list at opera: I saw the fan who missed only three home games last season; I saw the chair-warmers of the Kimball house, the ringside boys from the Columbia theater, the post holders from Five Points and the youth who is always presenting you with a ticket to a dental parlor on Marietta street. Behind me was the governor and the mayor and a whopping big del egation of ministers, but it was out there in front, among the crowd, that the lure !ky- Tn that front row alone, right bslow Billy Sunday's pulpit, was summed up the essence of that crowd. This was at the morning service. First was a well • known Atlanta business man. with his wife and his two children, a boy about ten years />!d and a little girl of eight. Xext were three soldiers, evidently from Camp Gordon. They came a man who can always he found at the city halt, generally listening to jokes in some of fice. He was talking to two women— one very old. dressed in black, white haired, stooped: the other T guessed far her daughter, a spinster probably, per haps a school teacher. A young girl, chewing gum argl manicuring her nails between hymns, was escorted by a chauffeur who used to drive a jitney. On the very end was a sun tanned. red-necked, white moustached old man. with a Confederate veteran's badge on his threadbare coat. He fer tilised the sawdust with tobacco juice, sang all the hymns fervently and never let slip a chance to out loose with an “JUnenl” whenever the general cussed ness of the world was mentioned. WHY WERE THEY THEBE— THESE CROWDS OF PEOPLE’ Looking at them, one by one. you won dered to yourself why each was there. (Continued on Page 10, column a.) Full .-Associated Press Service fIEGLARES GUNMEN PLAN AETACK ON HTLAN MEN District Attorney Declares In timidation Is Plotted in New York Election NEW YORK. Nov. s.—District Attor ney Edward Swann issued a statement today declaring that he had obtained the confession of a "gunman” alleging that an organized effort was to be made during temorrow’s municipal election to prevent voters for John F. Hylan, the Democratic candidate for mayor, from reaching the polls by Intimidation and assault. "I have m mj- possess’on a confes sion made by- one of the men employed as such that thugs and strong arm men. ‘gorillas.’ as he terms them, have been hired to assault voters at the polls.” District Attorney Swann’s statement says. “Their instructions are not to kill but to disable. If the plans ere carried out according to schedule there will not be enough ambulances In New York City I to carry their vlct.ms to the hospital.” The statement charges that the 1 ’’thugs’' ere under the leadership of a strikebreaker who “has unlimited money to spend” and “has been promised pro tection.” “They have employed this individual," Mr. Swann said, "to Intimidate the vot ers of the city. His instructions to his men as related to me by one of them is to pick quarr.’is wtih the supporters of Judge Hylan as they stand In line waiting to vote and put them out of business.” Mr. Swann said he has sufficient evi dence to cause the indictment and arrest of the men who hired the alleged thug leader. He declared that he had already subpenaed an important witness before the grand jury. Pacifism Is squarely arrayed against ■strong support of the national govern ment in New York’s mayoralty election tomorrow. ROOSEVELT JEERED. Morris Hlllqulst, Socialist, concluded his campaign at a big mass meeting in Madison Square Garden, where the crowd yelled, "we want peace:” and where the name of Roosevelt, Morgen thau and Dr Henry Van Dyke were hiss ed and booed. John Puroy Mitchel, mayor, running on the fusion ticket, ended his fight with more charges against John F. Hy lan. Democratic candidate. He reiterat od his accusation that Hylan conspired with disloyal Germans to aid the kaiser in America. Hylan’s supporters, charging Mitchel with gross extravagances in office, also announced today that the "Mitchel fu sion committee” had employed 1.600 thugs to terrorise voters at the polls to morrow. District Attorney Swann as serted he had statements from several men who had been hired for such "strong arm” work. WiTltam M. Bennett, regular Republi can candidate, claimed victory In every borough today. With no strong sup port. Bennett has waged his campaign from the back seat of an automobile, making speeches on street corners. Federal agents who attended Hill quit's rally at Madison Square garden reported today that it bordered on the Incendiary. When the enthusiasm was at its height. Hillquit shouted: “Look out. it’s dangerous to criticize." I>a Follette's name was cheered re peatedly. Hillquit got his biggest ova tion when other social speakers men tioned his refusal to buy Liberty bonds Unless the successful candidates at the mayoralty election here tomorrow re ceive large” pluralities fn the city the result may not actually be known for some weeks on account of the delay in Billy Sunday’s sermons START IN THIS ISSUE OF The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal * • ILLY SUNDAY’S •ermom start in this paper today, and his O fir®t is printed in this issue on another page. Billy Sunday’s sermons start in this paper to- thousand voices stilled and hushed the great audi day, and hia first Is printed in this Issue on another ence as their sweet voices blended as one in the page. soul-stirring strain of “Let Jesus Come Into i ou r Begin with this one and read the series of gos- Heart - pels of the great evangelist—that we are going to Get on the “sawdust trail,’ and read about this print in each Issue. If you can not be one of the gre>t revival today. Don’t miss an issue, as one thousands that are coming to Atlanta to hear him, great sermon follows another in each succeeding be one of the many thousands that are eagerly issue. awaiting the sermons that The Atlanta SEMI- who are not taking this pa per, send in W «?k E ?. L \ JOURNAL is going to print, beginning subscription at once, so that you will not with his first today. migg the Friday isßuet ag W e can not guarantee The great tabernacle was crowded with thou- back Issues, if missed. sands of people eager to see and hear the greatest jf you are n ot a subscriber now. or if you are, of all evangelists, and 5,000 people who would and your subscription is not paid in advance, sign have heard him could not get seats, windows and vour nara e to the coupon below and forward to us doors being packed. today with 75 cents for 12 months, $1 for 18 m * ■ • months, or $1.25 for 24 months. Or, better still, oI ., T T U L tU ° U x a P pla “ Be r °se again and again as ° r ’ of five or more subscribers. The Billy Sunday hurled fire at the wickedness of the Itc 1 t ce U ? Or a club of flve or more at one time is 50 world, and his immense crowds went from deep r thought to laughter as his serious and witty re- cents ea cn. marks, so characteristic of him, gave voice to the Don’t miss this opportunity to read the sermons teachings of the gospel. The great choir with its of ’’The World s Greatest Evangelist!” The Semi-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.: Enclosed find sfor which please send me The Semi-Weekly Journal for .months. Name - P. O R. F. D. NoState AMERICAN SHELLS FELL ON SOIL OF PRUSSIAN EMPIRE Unusual Wastage of Ammuni tion in Barrage Fire for Raiders Probably Caused by Pique of German Officials NEl\ YORK, Nov. 6.—The German war office location of the first raid on American trenches as along the Rhine- Marne canal, indicates that American artillery is now firing its shells di rectly on German territory. The western battle front crosses the Rhine-Marne canal within easy artillery range of the Germany boundary of Lorraine. By revealing the spot where Teutonic raiders found the American trenches, the kaiser has been compelled to permit the German people to know that America’s first bombardment on the European battlefield have caused demolition of positions upon the Ger man empire’s own soils. The first announcement that American artillery had been engaged in action in France was made on October 27, while the date of the German raid on Amer ican trenches was November 3. For at least a week, therefore, before the Germans sent a patrol to invstigate the sudden activity opposite the Lorraine border, American guns must have had German ground uhder actual or poten tial bombardment. This is doubtless the reason why the Germans took such unusual measures to raid the American trench sector by providing a barrage artillery fire and cutting off the American victims from all possible help during the period of the raid. Artillery ammunition is too precious to Germany to be thrown away In this costly manner often. The dam age. however, that American shells had probably been doing on German-sol! for at a week, makes explicable the agwsntly reckless expenditur of bar rag* fire to assist a party of raiders. The ’Germans must be fearful of sending raiding parties against the American trenches without artillery protection because of the extreme thin ness of the Lorraine front. In Flan ders. where the greatest fighting In tensity Is occurring, the Germans have four men per yard. ~ Along the Lor raine border it has recently been semi officially stated that they have one for every two yards. German raiding parties, therefore, can depend little on infantry support in returning from the American trenches, and the raiders must have artillery help as if they were min iature offensives. Eighteen Dead in Fire PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 5. —Eighteen homeless men are dead today in the tire which burned the Salvation Army Res cue Mission here.* Four more are dying. Six are still missing. counting the votes of thousands of sol diers and sailors, in the opinion of many political observers. It is estimated there are 70.000 New Yorkers now under arms In the army and navy. Registration at the various camps indicate, it is said, that about 46.000 of these are entitled Jo vote. In addition, many New York soldi* - ? and sailors now with the Ameri can forces overseas are eligible to vote. Under the ruling made at Albany with respect to the vote cast at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg. S. C.. the bal lots from the various camps will be sent to Albany, and then will be for warded to the individual election dis tricts for consolidation with the returns from these districts. A long delay is thus considered inevitable. With the campaign virtually over, the managers for the four candidates for mayor today professed to victory tomorrow. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1917. PARENTS OF FIRST DEAD GLORY IN SCIONS' VALOR i,— American Mothers and Fathers of Soldiers Slain in Battle Proud of Heroes GLIDDEN, lowa, Nov. 5.—“1 am proud of my boy if he has given up his 11/e for his country,” D. Hay, father of Merle D. Hay, twenty-one, one of Ameri ca’s first three soldiers to die for his country, in an engagement with Ger mans, said today when informed that his sior had been killed in France., Mrs, Hay, mother of the dead hero, collapsed when told of her son’s death. 1 oung Hay enlisted in the army the ninth of last May, shortly after the de claration of war, according to his father He had been working on the Hay farm. “He had my cohsent to go and I am not sorry,” said his father today. “I won’t object to his brother going, though just now he is too young.” Young Hay has a brother, Basil, eighten and a sister, Opal, fourteen. Mother and Sister of Missing Man Smile COLLINS, lowa, Nov. s.—Chins were tilted just a little bit and there were grim smiles on the sister and mother of rt-ivate Dewey D. Kern, reported among the “captured or missing” as a result of the American soldiers’ first conflict wtih the Huns In France. "What! Are we sorry Dewey enlisted? I should say not. We are more proud of him than ever. We encouraged him to enlist," said his sister today. “Somebody has to go'to war and some body has to be killed or captured. We are not shirking our duty.*’ Mother Bursts Into Tears On Hearing of Son’s Fate CHICAGO, Nov. s.—Mrs. William C. Oberst burst into tears today when in formed that her son, Hershel Godfrey was among the "missing” following the first German attack against American soldiers on the French front. "I can’t say anything for the news papers now,” she said. I “I feel too bad ly.” *■ Young Godfrey, who is twenty ye.irs of age. enlisted In the regular army last April and was in the first contingent of the Pershing expedition to cross the At lantic. He has a - younger Elster. His stepfather is a street car motorman. Alabama Methodists Favor Establishment * Os Big Male College (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. s.—The North Alabama conference of the Meth odist Episcopal church, South, in ses sion here, has voted overwhelmingly in favor of the recent proposal to consoli date the religious departments of the Southern University of the Alabama con ference and the Birmingham college of the North Alabama conference. The proposal was based upon the recent re port of the conference board of educa tion. Dr. J. S. Chadwick, assistant editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate, who is a visitor to the conference, spoke in favor of the proposal, declaring that unless the two colleges were united both would face the future without hope because of financial embarrass ment. With the adopted, one large male college will be established at Owenton, Birmingham. where Bir mingham college is now located. ON AMERICA'S ROLL OF HONOR WASHINGTON, NOV. S.—THE FIRST CASUALTY LIST AS K RESULT OF LAND FIGHTING BETWEEN AMERICANS AND GERMANS IN FRANCE CAME BACK TO THE HOMES AND HEARTS OF THIS COUN TRY TODAY. THE WAR DEPARTMENT GAVE OUT THE HONOR ROLL OF THOSE WHO DIED, WERE WOUNDED AND ARE MISSING AS A RESULT OF A SUDDEN THRUST INTO AN AMERICAN TRAINING SALIENT. BY THE GER MANS, NOVEMBER 3. THE LIST FOLLOWS: THE DEAD. PRIVATE THOMAS F. ENRIGHT, SISTER, MRS. MARY IRWIN, 5641 PREMO STREET, PITTSBURG, PA. PRIVATE JAMES B. GRESHAM, MOTHER, MRS. ALICE DODGE, 1001 WEST OHIO STREET, EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. PRIVATE MERLE D. HAY, FATHER, HARVEY D. HAY, GLIDDEN, IOWA. WOUNDED. Private John J. Smith, brother, F. D. Smith, box 82, Ludington, Mich. Private Charles J. Hopkins, brother, James W. Hopkins, Stanton, Texas. Private George L. Box, father, James L. Box, 700 North Grady street, Altus, Okla. Private Homer Givens, father, William F. Givens, Cloverdale, Alabama. Private Charles L. Orr, mother, Mrs., Sarah Regnell, R. F. D. 5, Lyons, Kan. CAPTURED OR MISSING. Sergeant Edgar M. Halyburton, father, George B. Haly burton, Stony Point, N. C. Corporal Nicholas L. Mulhall, mother, Mrs. Bridget Mul hall, 189 Ninth street, Jersey City, N. J. Corporal Edwin S. Haines, mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Haines, route No. 4, Woodward, Okla. Private Herchel Godfrey, father, William C. Oberst, 709 North Ridgeway avenue, Chicago, 111. Private Vernon M. Kendall, father, Sam Kendall, R. F. D. 2, Roll, Okla-. Private Wm. Grigsby, mother, Mrs. Sarah Grigsby, 178 Willows avenue, Louisville, Ky. Private Frank E. McDougal, father, R. L. McDougal, 228 East First street, Maryville, Mo. Private Daniel B. Gallagher, father, Neil Gallagher, Bloc ton, Ala. Private John P. Lester, father, William Lester Tutwiler, Mississippi. Private Harry Langhman, emergency address, Ada R. Langhman, 461 Oakwood boulevard, Chicago, 111. Private Dewey D. Kern, mother, Mrs. Eva Tilton, Col lins, lowa. Private Keckon (cannot be identified.) U. S. SOLDIERS IN HOSPITAL GETTING FINE TREATMENT Wounded Men Are Allowed Ex tra Visitors, One of Whom Is Mrs. August Belmont, of New York AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUAR TERS IN FRANCE. Nov. 4.—(Delayed.) A few wounded American soldiers are in la certain big base hospital today. They are getting the very best treatment American nurses and American surgeons can give them.—and extra visitors. One of these visitors today was Mrs. August Belmont, of New York, who made a detailed Inspection of two base hos pitals. The wounded Sammies, with some of the sick soldiers, were at one of these. (Note.—This is the first mention in direct front dispatches of “wounded American soldiers.” It is evident these men were wounded in the German raid, reported by the war department today to have resulted in the first actual casu alties to American troops. A staff correspondent evidently was not permitted by the censorship to de tail the circumstances. Only one wound ed American has heretofore been reported In Pegler's dispatches—a signal corps lieutenant whose leg was injured by shell fragments early last week). Mrs. Belmont had a good visit with the American soldiers, chatting with them at their cots, and then departed for (deleted) to visit a Red Cross sec tion there which is at present engaged In civilian relief work, tn this city she saw the terrible effects of air bom.bs re cently dropped by German raiders in what was described by survivors as a veritable rain of explosives, which tore great holes in the buildings and streets of the residential section. Mrs. Belmont declared she hoped to have an opportunity to visit Rheims, but was dubious whether the French authorities would permit so dangerous a trip. The delegation of American congress men is expected to arrive in the Ameri can training area Monday. A special pro gram showing the American troops go ing their war paces has been planned for their edification. Next week flve additional American major generals will visit the American eamp—making a total of ten major gen erals of the United States army who have been here in two weeks. • Albany Bull Wins Prize (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) ALBANY, Ga.. Nov. s.—Dougherty county’s exhibit at the Macon State fair won distinction when it was announced that "Lillyan-Rex.” the registered bull of Shackelford & Jones, of Albany, had won first prize in the two-year-old class. This fine animal is a part of Dougherty's exhibit at the fair. 6ERMINY TO MOKE NEW PEACE DFFEH, IS BEUEF Count Czernin’s Visit to. Berlin Thought to Be Prelimi nary Step COPENHAGEN. Nov. 5,-Jt is gen erally believed in diplomatic circles here that the visit to Berlin today of Count Ottokar-Czernin, the Austro-Hun garian foreign minister, may be a pre liminary to a new peace offer by the central powers. First Woman Mail Carrier of Country Begins Work Tuesday WASHINGTON. Nov. s.—The first I women letter carriers ever to be em ployed by the goveriment will appear on the streets of the capital tomorrow, as an experiment by the local postoffice to meet the shortage of men. They will be Mrs. Permelia Campbell, widow of a former carrier, and Mrs. Nellie McGrath, the wife of a letter carrier drafted into the army. They will not be uniformed, but will wear a carrier’s badge and will be assigned to , routes where the mail is not heavy. Canadians Take Meetcheele MONTREAL, Nov. 5- —Private advices announced today that Meetcheele. in Flanders, which was captured last week, was taken by the Princess Patricia Canadian light infantr>\ ALABAMA~DOCTOR CONQUERS PELLAGRA Great excitement prevails among the medical fraternity of the south, over the reputed discovery of a cure- for Pella gra by the famous scientist. Dr. W. .1. McCrary. 101 Park Sq., Carbon Hill, Ala. Several prominent physicians state that Dr. McCrary’s discovery has suc ceeded in curing scores of cases which were considered hopeless. Since an nouncing his discovery, the doctor has been literally swamped with requests for information, and in order to quickly spread the glad tidings to sufferers of this dreaded disease a few public-spirited citizens of Carbon Hill have arranged to assist Dr. McCrary in publishing an il lustrated 50-page book, which not only explains the cause of Pellagra, but also tells how it may be quickly over come by anyone in the privacy of tfieir own home. While the supply lasts, this book will be sent in plain, sealed wrap per without cost to any reader of this paper, who writes Dr. McCrary.—(Advt.) NUMBER 12. CROWN PRINCE MAY ATTEMPT BIG DRIVE AGAINST PERSHING M / Having Located Position of American Forces on Battle Front, Germans May Attempt to Wipe Them Out » NEW YORK, Nov. s.—(By foreign cables from European capitals.)—l nJ fantrymen of the American overseas forces have • had theif first clash with the Germans in a front line trench posi tion and three Americans were killed, five wounded and twelve captured. The Germans attacked at daybreak on Nov ember 3 under cover of a heavy bar rage fire which isolated a short salient occupied by a company of Americans and apparently left the little force at the mercy of their enemies. The re port from General Pershing dealing with the engagement which was made public by the war department early to day did not mention whether i the trench had been captured. However, the fact that one wounded i German was taken by the Americans leads to the belief that the attacking party did not remain to further edn- I test the position but were content to j slip back to their protecting lines with their prisoners. General Pershing’s first casualty list gave the names and ad dresses o fall the Americans killed, wounded or missing, which included many southerners, although none of the ' southern men met death. That American troops receiving ln« , tensive training in the trenches had ■ had their first fight with the enemy was I intimated Saturday in a cryptic official ! statement from Berlin announcing the capture of "North American” soldiers. I Cable dispatches from the American I army headquarters in France also serv led to prepare the American public for • I the news of the engagement through I anoiyicement that the artillery activity ; was somewhat above normal, although not anything near as Intense as on other I parts of the front. Italy’s situation appears increasinfly ' grave today with the announcement. | from Rome that the 'tagliamento rivxr, west of which General Cadorna had es [ tablished his new line after the great re treat from the Isonzo, had been crossed by the Austro-German invaders. The crossing of the river apparently I has not yet been In sufficient force to compel Cadorna to decide upon abandon ment of the Tagliamento line, but the , Teutonic commander undoubtedly Will make the most of the opening he had forced to debouch against the Italian positions north and south of the point where he has gained a footing on the / west bank of the stream. That this process is already under way is indicated by the fact that Romet tells of Increasing Austro-German pres sure against the Italian left wing, where the crossing was effected. The spot selected by the enemy for the successful attempt—near about forty miles from the mouth of the river and about seventeen miles north west of Udine —was at a point where the marshy ground encountered further to the south begins to disappear, the banka rising perceptibly and the river narrow ing down. If General Cadorna decides to abandon the Tagliamento line, at which it is by no means certain that he intended to fight more than a delaying action, his { next natural stand for the defense of Venice will be at the Livensa, from ten to fifteen miles further west, or finally at the Piave, some ten miles further in that direction. Berlin’s account of the Tagliamento crossing gives the movement the appear ance of an operation in great force which already has resulted in a decided Teu tonic victory. More than 6,000 Italians were taken prisoner and several guns were captured in the engagement, de clares the official statement. The Aus tro-Hungarian and German divisions which effected the passage, are advanc ing westward, it is added. Meanwhile, as the opposing armies are struggling for the temporary mastery of the field, the entente leaders, includ ing the British and French premiers and military advisers, are in council in Roma to deal with the situation, which admit tedly Is recognized as grave, coupled aS the powerful attack from the east is with the threat of a flanking movement by the Austro-German forces southward in the Trentino, to the west of the pres ent battle front. , Meanwhile Prance and Great Britain are rushing their great est military and governmental leaders to aid Italy. Premier Lloyd George, General Sir William Robertson, chief of the imperial staff of the British army; Lieutenant General J. C. Smuts, the former South African commander, and other officials in company with Pre mier Painleve, who is heading ths French mission, are on. their way to Rome for a conference with the Italian war chiefs presumably to map out an intensive campaign involving the Italian forces reinforced in both man-power and materials drawn from France and Great Britain In Flanders only minor operations are reported, these being confined to artil lery activity and small raids into the German territory. Signs of a probable impending renew* al of the offensive by Field Marshal Haig in Belgium may be seen In thl German statement on the western front operations. This reports the opening last night of heavy, destructive bombardment along the Yser lowlands and from Hou tholst wood to the Ypres-Comines canal. This means, apparently, that Haig’s guM have opened up forcefully along virtu ally the entire front from the North, sea to the French border. Crown Prince May Try Big Drive Against Pershing WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—Three Amer ican infantrymen are dead, five woundad and twelve captured as the result of a (Continued on Page 10, Column S.)

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, November 06, 1917, Image 1