The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal
VOLUME XX.
GERMANS CROSS THE TAGLIAMENTO RIVER
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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
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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
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