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Newspaper Page TextAtlanta Soitmal ■ VOLUME MORE U. S. CASUALTIES ARE REPORTED RHILROMRT POSSIBLE STRIKE DURING MS TIME Put Whole Interests in Hands of President Should Crisis Arise That -Might Cripple War Work WASHINGTON. Nov. I?.—Formal an nouncement was made today that the railroads of the I’nited States had de cided if any crisis should arise, to place their interests in the hands of President Wilson for protection and such disposi tion as he may deem necessary to pre vent interruption of transportation dur ing the war. The four railroad brotherhoods, who have made demands for increased wages, have agreed to mediation o f the dispute, but have refused an unconditional sub mission of the questions to a hoard of arbitration. Today’s announcement, by the railroad board, is regarded by offi cials as eliminating the uossibility of a strike by giving the president a free hand so far as the railroads are con cerned when be meets the brotherhood leaders in conference here next Thurs day. Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern railway and chairman of the executive committee of the American Railway association, commonly known as the war board, wrote this letter to Judge William L. Chambers, chairman of the United States board of mediation and conciliation, in conference with various railroad executives in New York Saturday and with the war board today. "We confirm th it we said to you this morn.'ng in reply to your inquiry us :o what will be the attitude of the rail roods with respect to the manner of set tlement of any demands for increases : n pay or changes in working conditions which during .h<- war may be made upoa them by employes. • >pe;.k:ng for all the railroads to day . wt reiterate our belief in. and ge-c’al acceptance of. the principle cf arbitsation. In the midst of war. we are. however, prepared to go further. As ti.. int«rrupt'on of continuous ratlro d operation can be tolerated under .var londit on*, we are ready, should any crisis now arise, unreservedly to place cur interests in the hands of the presi dent for protection, and for disposition a» he ma* determine is necessary in the putltc i.-verest " ■ Representatives of the brotherhools will conf*-’ Thursday with the president regarding the points at issue and means of settlement. It is expected the rail roads’ war board will meet immediate ly after this conference to learn the attitude of their employes. New Agency Considered. Suggestions are being given consid eration by officials, based on the ex perience of foreign countries, that in stead of adjustments of this single dis pute. a new agency should be created or the board of mediation or interstate commerce commission be empowered to consider railroad wage questions con , tinuou«]y throughout the war. "‘Jerome' Yarter Bound Over for the Theft of Automobile at Game W J iJerome) Yarter. an ex-police man. who was recently on trial in the • state <ourts for being implicated in a robbery, faced trial before Re-’ voider Johnson Monday, and was bound over under a SI,OOO bond for the lar ceny of an automobile A cordihg to Officers West and Webb, •"ifo arrested him, Yarter jumped into the machine belonging to R. H. Atkin son. 256 t'apitol avenue. Saturday after noon near Grant field when the Tech- • ’arlisle football game was in progress and made a wild dash out North ave nue. About the same time the Sunday party arrived to witness the game, ami turned their «-ar over to the officers to ••atch the thief. With Frr-nk Scruggs, a negro, driving mat nine, and The two offerers on the mail | there was enacted a rial movie thriller when Officer West leaped from the Sunday* machine to the t utining board of the stolen car. At ’he same time Yarter leaped out, leav es the c ar running at a high rate of sreed. The machine was not stopped until It had crashed into the automobile belong i*-g to John H. Gordon, a Dodge sales man. badly damaging it. Yarter was captured after he had tried to hide un der a house on North avenue. White Man Kills Negro AMERICUS. Ga.. Nov. IS.—Police au thorities here are searching for Millard, alias “Sook" Bragg, a white man. who Saturday night stabhed Frank Gray, a negro, to death in the restaurant - ducted by- Jack Tinsley, on Lamar street Bragg’s father is John Bragg, captain «-f potice here Beat or Electricity New Lamp Has No Wick. No Chimney. ‘ No. Odor. Most Brilliant Light Known. A mw lamp which -the most powerful home light in the world, is the latest achievement of W. 11. Hcffstot. 92., Factory Hldg.. Kansas City. Mo. This remarkable new lamp ' I -is or electricity—gives moro ' lieht than three hundred candles,*eight- I een ordinary lamps or ten brilliant elec tric lights, ami costs only one cent a night, a blessing to every home on farm or in’small town. It is absolutely safe and gives universal satisfaction. A child •an carry It. It is the ambition of Mr Iloffsiot to have every home, store, hall or church enjoy the increased comfon of this powerful, pleasing, briliant. white light and he will send one of his new lamps on free trial to any reader of The Journal who writes him. He wants on-* person in each locality to whom he can refer new customers Take advantage of his free offer. Agents wanted Write him today.—(Advt.) Full Associated Press Service THREE THOUSAND START JOURNEY TO BETTER LIFE “Billy” Sunda/s Meetings Re sult in Largest Number of Trail Hitters Yet Produced in Single day During Atlanta Meeting BY WARD GRKKN'E. JI Billy Sunday could keep up the pace he set yesterday, almost t!\e entire population of Atlanta would be professing Christians by the time the revival ends live weeks hence. That is no exaggeration. Speaking in round numbers, 3.000 people "hit the trail" Sunday. If 3,000 a day hit the trail from now on, and you count those who already have hit the trail and those who professed Christianity before the revival began, there wouldn’t be enough sinners left hereabouts by the middle of December to cr*»wd a sat’dine can. Os course, Billy can’t get results like that all the time. He can’t win 2VO prisoners from the federal prison, 430 men and women at the morning service, 1.248 men 300 women at the after noon service and SOO men and women at the evening service, every day in the week. No, he can't come to the end of every perfect day with 2,978 to his credit on the ledger of the Lord. But If he could —and there’s nothing on earth that Billy Sunday wouldn’t rather do than just that—you couldn’t stir up enough folks on the Sunday morning after Billy left town to make up a foursome at golf. They would all be in church, if the churches would hold them and they stuck to their nledge. Sunday night's service at the taberna cle —like the two that preceded it—saw the aisles so choked with penitents when the call for converts went forth and the choir broke into "Just As I Am.” that It took a man nearly five min utes to rise from his seat In the last row and make his .way to the platform to shake Billy Sunday’s hand. Not only was that due to the fact that more than SOO were trying to do that very same thing, but because the tab ernacle again held one of the greatest throngs that ever packed itself into a public bdilding in Atlanta. S. K. O. Sign is Out Long Before Seven. Long before 7 o’clock the S. R. O. sign was out at ail entrances. .Many were turned away. In fact, it was not the fault of a large, portly gentleman who guards his gate on the southwest cor ner that Congressman William Schley Howaad and several newspaper men did not spend the evening gazing up at the stars and wondering what it was like inside. However, after Congressman Howard and the newspaper men had decided either to borrow a jimmj- and a little nitro-glycerine or to go home, somebody discovered that at another entrance the keeper was still honoring cards marked "Good at Any Door.” So we all got in and after prying two or three ushers out of the choice seats in the press-box, everybody was happy again. Where the ushers eventually sat is a puzzle, since a hasty glance around the arena revealed nearly enough room to aciommodate a small and agile fly. Peo ple were standing up all around, people were jammed to the top of the choir loft, people were sprawled al! over the steps leading to the platform, and two little hoys were with difficulty kept from climbing into the grand piano. "What Will You Do With Jesus?" His Text. *An<i when all of those folks began tossing "For You I Am Praying." with one section booming out the first line and aonther the next, until the last soft phrase came drifting out of the dis tance like an eerie echo from another shore, an atmosphere of such hushed expectancy settled down over the tab ernacle that the very sawdust seemed to grow tense and to look up toward the pulpit where the little man in the gray suit had placed his open Bible and now was uttering the text of his ser mon. "What Will You Do With Jesus?” That was the question he asked them. It was his whole sermon—that one question. Around it lie built story after story. From it he wandered away for a moment, only to return again and again, until he had hammered it home into the mind and heart and soul of every man and woman present—" What Will You Do With Jesus?’’ Will you receive Him or will ycu cru cify Him? Will you take Him as did the twelve disciples, or will you toss Him out to the rabble as did Pontius Pilate? Will >ou accept Jesus? or will you deny Him? Spit upon Him? jeer at Him? Cast lots for His garments? Stone I Him? Toss darts into His bleeding sides? Nail Him to the cross? "What will you do with Jesus?” There was no quibbling about the ques tion. When Billy Sunday asked it, he asked it this way—Je-us Christ or noth ing. happiness or misery; heaven or heil. There was no neutrality, no mid dle course. lesus Christ or the Devil! And II was not “what will you do with Jesus tomorrow, or next day or next week, or when you die?, "what have you don** with Jesus yesterday or last week or today?' It was. "What will you do with Jesus Christ N-<»-IV?” That was the question he shot at them, hurlfns it out with a shout, with • a whisper, with a laueh "What will you do without Jesus when you stand before the bar of judgment, i when another there has an advocate in | Jesu< Christ? What will you do when I the black pit opens below and you I smell the sulphur fumes. and there I comes up from the depths of hell, a I wailing cry. ’lx»-o-o-o-o-o-o-st! Lo-o- | o-o-o-o-o-st! Wo—have no—advocate— I in—hell!’ What will you do without I Him then?” The spell of that doleful cry from he|| was still u)>on the audience, as ■ Billy, the sweat pouring from him, lurched about, his face glorified. "Oh. you can laugh at me. old man!” he grinned. "Call me vulgar, if you want to BI T I’VE GOT IT ON YOU! j I’VE GOT JESUS CHRIST!” “What’s Your Answer”* And Crowd Flocks Down. A moment later and he had swung his chair to the pulpit and was mounted an high, one foot on the chair below, the other on the pulpit above, mounted high where the crowd gazed, fascinated, as he wrenched out a shaking appeal: "Oh. Georgia' Oh. Southland! Oh, Atlanta! Jesus Christ waits to be your MISER sjys HE'LL DISCUSS PEACE ffILY i’JITII STABLE RHSSIfI Kerensky, With New Army Be hind Him, Is Reported Ad vancing on Capital, Having Engaged With the Enemy PETROGRAD. Sunday* Nov. 18.— Germany has refused to treat for pease ■ with the new soldiers’ and workmen’s government in response to a recent pro posal. according to the newspapers here, which publish this news as coming from | a well-autnenticated source. It is stated that. Emperor William I announced in his reply that he could I treat only with the legal successor to I the imperial government or with the i constituent assembly. In this connection the Volta Norroda says it has information that the sol diers’ and workmen’s government in the event of its failure to receive replies from the belligerents by November 23 reserves the right to make peace on its own account, after which, if the war continues, Russia will occupy a neutral position. Kerensky Is Reported Marching on Petrograd NEW YORK, Nov. 19. —~By Foreign ! Cables from European, Capitals.)—An i other army is reported marching on Pe trograd to oust the Bolscevlki from con trol there. The vanguard, which is said to be near Hatchina, thirty miles south west of the capital, already has had sev eral brushes with the Bolshavikl forces. It is rumored that Premier Kerensky is returning with the new force. AH the rejyirts lack confirmation. There apparently is internal dissension in Petrograd between the Maximalists i and the less extreme Socialists who have protested against acts of the Bolshevik! regime. A report received in London says there has been a split in the Bol shevik! ranks and that some of the min isters have resigned. In Moscow the revolutionists and the provisfcmal government forces have reached a truce, after days of fighting in which several thousand persons were killed and some of Russia’s religious shrines within the Kremlin were dam aged or destroyed by the artillery of the revolutionary forces. The American embassy in Petrograd has asked for a special train to take 200 Americans to Harbin, Manchuria, whence they can reach either Dalny or Vladi vostok to take steamers home. Americans in Moscow All Safe, Consul Cables LONDON. Nov. 19.—Robert P. Skin ner, the American consul general, has received a telegram dated Saturday from the American consul at Moscow saying that he and other Americans in Moscow are all safe. The city was quiet at the [time, but there had been much fight ing, the message said. Russian Army May Meet Defeat by Starvation PETROGRAD, Nov. 18.—(Delayed) Russia’s army at the front will soon be defeated by famine and will abandon its positions unless there is an imme diate improvement in transportation and fooa supplying, according to the warn ing voiced by delegates to the soldiers’ j comm it tee today. Prolongation of the war under pres ent conditions they are reported to have lo#c the soviet, is utterly impossib’e. j Tne army is now only supplied w'tn rations enough for three days, it was asserted. The Bolsheviki government has been unable to agree as yet on the form of compromise looking to restoration of; a< ininistrative functions. King! Will you choose Him? What’s your answer? Get up and let me look at you!” As one man the whole house was on Its feet. Christians and non-Christlans alike, while from every side came hoarse , shouts of "Yes! Yes!” Billy launched into his whirlwind of prayer. "O devil!” he shouted at one point, "I know you're growling away down there! I know you’re suffering! I know you’ve got cold feet and fits and chills and j fever and ague over this day’s work: . . . . Oh, may there be hundreds and hundreds to walk down that aisle to night. Lord! Oh, may there be hundreds wljp will walk up and say, ’Here’s my hand for Jesus Christ!’ ” And there were hundreds. There were ten small boys in knickerbockers among ' the first. There were six solid rows of | soldiers. There was one white-haired I man who came sobbing and who said. "Oh, please pray for my boy; he’s in France’’’ There was a Y. M. C. A. sec- ; rectary. There was Hob Waggoner, who I has been a detective on the Atlanta j force for lo! these many years. There i was a young man weeping, his hand- ' kerchief lo .his eyes, as tliough his heart would break. There was a red- i headed soldier boy who came smiling. ! a red-headed boy whose hair Billy Sun- , day rumpled and whom he slapped on 1 the back Therce were old men and there i were young men; girls and boys; young couples, lovers, sweethearts; a ragged old wreck as bald as a desert and as red- i nosed and threadbare and down-and-out . as the veriest Decatur street bum, which he undoubtedly was. There was Lang don C. Peoples, the "first Atlanta trail I hitter;'’ bringing up other soldiers from Camp Gordon. But the list would fill a page. Eight hundred in all! Eight hundred to add to that thousand and two hundred who hit the trail Sunday afternoon, eight j hundred to add to those three hundred ■ women who hit the trail at the Baptist i tabernacle, eight hundred to add to the | four hundred and thirty who hit the trail Sunday morning, eight hundred to add to those two hundred federal prison ers who raised their hands for Christ when Billy Sunday asked them to. Eight hundred Sunday night, near three thousand for the day, two thous- i and before that' And five weeks more' for the revival to run. No, Billy Sun day can’t do it every day. But he did it once and he will do it again and when he’s gpne—well, there’s room for a lot . of churches out there in the burned dis- , trlct. if the ones we have won’t hold , ’em all. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1917. CEimi W CDUNGIL OESIfIED 8! AMERICS Lloyd Georgej in Defending His Position, Vigorously Advo cates Unificatoin LONDON, Nov. 19.—" America would have preferred a council with even greater powers," declared Premier Lloyd George in the house of commons this afternoon in* defending his plan of an Inter allied council for the direction of the \var. "Generals Pershing, Foch, of the commanders who agreed to the council last July, the premier declared. “General Pershing, Foch, of the French staff, Robertson and Cadorna agreed to the council,” Lloyd George I declared. Continuing the premier declared that ' it was Lord Kitchener who first sug < gested an inter-allied council and that the allied military authorities again proposed it in July. Launching vigorously into the de i sense of the inter-allied council plan following the opening of debate by ; former Premier Asquith, Lloyd George declared that no criticism was directed against the staffs or the commander in chiefs of England or any other i country In his speech in Paris. The declaration for unity of purpose in a war council included in President I Wilson’s message to Colonel E. M. House, head of the American mission here, was timed too aptly with the crisis in the Lloyd George cabinet not to suggest to many British politicians that President Wilson saw the chance by adding the British premier to achieve that unity of purpose which America feels essential for winning the war. These same circles recalled also that Lord Northciiffe’s famous “bombshell I letter” of last week synchronized very I closely in npint of its publication and in the emphasis laid on the necessity for unity, with the president’s instruc tions to his American commissioners In London. The prime point which the Lloyd George supporters in the house of com mons desired to make clear in the aft ernoon’s debate, was that the Lloyd George scheme of a supreme war coun cil does n °t propose to change Brltlsn army councils nor commands. Opening the commons debate former Premier Asquith declared his own com plete support of the utmost co-ordina tion “which conditions would permit.” The former premier declared he “strongly deprecated the creation of an organization to stupercede or interfere with the independance of the general staff of any nation or the responsibility of each ally for its own forces.” Taking up Lloyd George’s “brutally frank” speech at Paris, he vigorously criticised the premier's statement that the allies’ action toward Serbia and Rumania had been “an ineffaceable blun der.” "Such a statement is unjust to the allies' statesmen and soldiers,” he de clared. Sweeps Cartridge Into Fire; Children Painfully Wounded As the result of a cartridge being accidenta’lly swept by their mother on top of red-hot coals in an open fire place early Sunday morning, James Waits, aged eighteen years, and Bertie Waits, aged fifteen years, of 249 Waldo street, were wounded by the explosion and were taken to the Grady hospital for treatment. The brother and sjster were sitting in front of the fireplace reading while their mother was sweeping up the room. Not knowing that tne cartridge was mixed into the small amount of dust before the broom, she swept the pile Into the open fire.’ About a minute later there was a loud explosion. James received a wound in the right leg and his sister was struck by shots in the left foot. Both were rushed to the Grady hospital, but after receiving treatment were able to | return to their home. Read BILL/ SUNDAY’S FIFTH SERMON IN THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Have you missed the preceding ones? If you have, don't make the mistake of missing this one. which is one of his most forceful of sermons. What has gone before, you can get in this—together with all that has to come. Billy Sunday hits the nail on the head in this one—as in all others—he tells you about things—he doesn’t hint at them. What about the “trail-hitters?” He has al ready had numerous ones and are drawing hun dreds more with every sermon. They fall before “God's words of Truth.” Many have walked the sawdust trail and shook the hand of Billy Sunday—you can get the benefit n of his sermon, too—all except the hand shake. Everybody is reading them —discussing them— and you want to do that, too. Be ready to give rhe Semi-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga. Enclosed find $ for which please send me The Semi-Weekly Journal for months. Name P. O R. F. D. No State JEM BEGINS ITS DRIVE FOR SIMO TD AID IN WAR RELIEF Nearly Hundred Business Men at Chamber of Commerce Luncheon Lay Plans for $125,000 Set as Their Goal Confident that Atlanta is ready to I strike another blow for humanity, busl i ness men and Y. M. C. A. workers of j the city met Monday at noon at a luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce and organized the teams that are ex pected to raise in Atlanta $125,000 to be used in the extension of Y. M. C. A. war work among the soldiers and jail ors of America and Its allies. The city has been divided into fifteen districts and each district will be can vassed by a team headed by a prom inent Atlanta business man, who will choose his assistants. The team cap j tains will be: W. T. Candler, Professor j W. A. Sutton, Wylie West, W. E. Har i lington, C. B. Howard, George Winship, | Rutherford Lipscomb, J. W. Goldsmith, i Jr., G. A. Johnstone, Joe Little, A. H. 1 Henley, Hugh Richardson, John Gewin • ner, Loyd B. Parks, and W. R. C. Smith. The campaign, which will last throughout the week, was actively un dertaken Monday afternon and a big rally of all the city workers will be held at the Chamber of Comerce Tues -1 day night, when It is likely that they will be addressed by Billy Sunday. The enthusiasm of the volunteers was fired at the meeting by addresses by Major W. J. Bell, who for twenty nine months was on the western front; Dr. A. W. Beaven, religious director at Camp Wadsworth; H. D. Hermance, chairman of the Atlanta campaign; Dr. M. Ashby Jones, W. W. Orr, George H. Trever, and Samuel Dobbs. NET TIGHTENED AROUND ALIENS BY NEW ORDER President Wilson Issues Proc lamation Prohibiting Their Approach to Terminals, Docks and Water Fronts WASHINGTON, Nov. 19—All alien enemies are required to register.and to obtain jermits for travel, under a procla mation issued today by President Wilson. Enemies also are prohibited approacn ing within 100 yards of water fronts, docke, railroad terminals or storage houses, and are forbidden to enter or reside in the District of Colum.big. The proclamation issued as a supple ment to the one declaring a state of war with Germany, provides further that an alien enemy shall not. except on pub lic ferries, be found on "any ocean, bay, river, or other waters." within the United (States. They are forbidden from flying in airplanes, balloons or airships and from entering the Panama canal zone. Only Germans will be affected by the proclamation, as It specifies "enemies” and not “allies of enemies.” Text of Proclamation. The proclamation orders registration as follows: All alien enemies are hereby re quired to register at such times and places and in such manner as may be fixed by the attorney general of the United States, and the attor ney general Is hereby authorized and directed to provide as speedily as may be practicable, for registra tion of all alien enemies and for the issuance of registration cards to alien enemies and to make and de clare such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary for ef fecting such registration: And all alien enemies and all other (Continued on Page 8, Col. 3.) your opinion on.them—don't miss a single one. They are printed for YOU in THE ATLANTA SEMI WEEKLY JOURNAL. Thousands are getting the benefit of Bally Sun day’s handshake —The Semi-Weekly Journal makes it possible for you to get the benefit of the sermon. Get it now—begin them now and keep it up. If you are not a subscriber now, or if you are and your subscription is’not paid in advance, sign your name to the coupon below and forward to us today with 75 cents for 12 months, SI.OO for 18 months, or $1.25 for 24 months. Or, better still, get up a club of five or more subscribers. The price for a club of five or more at one time is 50 cents each. Don’t miss this opportunity to read the sermons of “The World's Greatest Evangelist!” MRS. DeSAULLES, PALE AND SEDATE, FACES HER TRIAL Emotional Insanity Her Plea in Justification of Killing Her Husband—Morning Is Taken Up Selecting the Jury MINEOLA, N. Y., Nov. 19.—The death penalty for Mrs. Bianca De Saullej, beautiful Chilean heiress, was demanded ! by the prosecution today at the open ing of her trial on a charge of murder ing her husbana, John Longer De Saulles, former Tale football star. District Attorney Weeks exercised a peremptory challenge against Thomas J. McLaughlin, of Hempstead, the first prospective juror called, because he was not positive that he could send a woman to the electric chair. | Ghastly pale, Mrs. De Saulles entered ’ the court room shortly before Judge Manning went on the Bench. She was 1 guarded by a woman, Mrs. Phinneas A. i Seaman, wife of the sheriff. Mrs. De i Saulles was simply dressed in a shirt waist and skirt. Her hair was drawn ; straight back from her forehead and tied lin a Grecian knot. The short trip from | the pail to the court room was made through the "tunnel of sighs,” an under ground passage. Mild, meek and gentle, slowly blink ing her great dark eyes, Mrs. De Saulles seemed the very opposite of the “tiger woman” who killed her former husband on the night of August 3 because he would not give up her child. There were many empty seats in the court room when the trial started. Admission was by card only and many were turned away. Chilean relatives of Mrs. De Saulles occupied seats inside the court railing. It was noticed that the woman on trial gave most of her attention to Judge Manning, watching him narrowly. She Ignored all of those sitting around her except her attorney, Henry Uterhart, and defense cffiinsel, Smith. Mother love will play a leading part in the trial. There will be no plea of “unwriten law” or "justification.” Instead the defense will plead that driven to the verge of temporary insan ity when her child was denied her, Mrs. De Saulles shot and killed the man who kept her five-year-old boy from her. Two Killed, Two Hurt Trying to Flag Limited GAINESVILLE. Ga., Nov. 19.—When they stepped across the railroad track at Alto, Ga.. In front of a freight train in order to flag the New York-New Orleans limited train of the Southern railway last night, two persons ware killed and two seriously Injured. They were struck by the locomotive of the fast passenger train. Carl Ledford, twenty-two years old, and his wife, twenty-one, were Instant ly killed. Mrs. F. M. Ledford, forty five years old. was bruised about the head and body. Bonnie Ledford, her six-year-old daughter, suffered a brok en arm. The dead and the Injured were brought here by the train that struck them, which stopped as quickly as pos sible and returned for them. The Ledfords, all of whom reaide In this county, had been to the tuberculosis sanitarium at Alto, to see a relative, and were about to catch a train for home when they were struck. Mr. and Mrs. Ledford, who were killed, had been married but a short time. •Fleecy Staple Goes To New High Mark Spot cotton again has “hit ths trail” for the heights. Atlanta spots were 25 points up Mofi- at 29.15. which set a new high record. The previous high record was 29.05. reached on November 15. New York spot cotton went up 50 points tnd hit a new record at 30.10. while the New Orleans market remained unchanged at 28. NUMBER 16. RAPID PROGRESS IS • • BE BI TEDIONS : BEOm RIVERS Italians Begin Counter Offen sive on thQ Asiago Plateau, 1 . but its Effect as Yet Is Not i - Apparent - s LONDON. Nov. 19. —Five German sub marines were destroyed on Saturday. Premier Lloyd George made this an , nouncement today in the house of com -3 mons. The premier said he had no fur t ther fear of submarines. NEW YORK. Nov. 19. (By Foreign 1 Cables from European Capitals.)—Heavy masses of Austro-German troops are be ing thrown against The Italian lines be tween the Piave and the Brenta in an effort to drive a wedge between the t Italian armies defending the Piave line I and those to the west, in the Asia go ! region. ’ Comparatively rapid progress has been made in this operation within the last day or two and it is becoming clear ’ that the main Austro-German effort is ; centered at present upon what is prob ably this most vulnerable point in the ! Italian defensive line. ' Quero, on the upper Piave, about fifty miles from the coast. wa s taken by the ! invaders, who subsequently pushed the left flank of their line west of the river a considerable distance south along ( that bank. Further west the massed offensive movement has carried the Teutons to ! Monte Tomba, some five mil«s southwest of Quero, and they are attacking the , front between this eminence and the river with a force which the Italians are finding It hard to cope with, despite . their most desperate efforts. Should, the Austro-German thrust be t carried much further here the entire upper Piave line, from a point near ; Conegliano, approximately thirty-five . miles from the Adriatic, will btf Tn Teutonic possession and it is difficult to , ese how the Italians in thi s case will , be able to continue their hold on the southerly stretches of the river, which at present they are bravely and suc cessfully defending. In the eastern Trentino ths Italians have begun a counter offensive on the Asiago plateau which already has netted them gains. It is not apparent as yet. however, that thl g movement is in suf ficient strength to constitute any menace to the Austro-German operations fur ther east. More Casualties Are Reported by Pershing WASHINGTON, Nov. 19—General Pershing has reported to the war de partment that two men were killed in action on November 13. Three were severely wounded and four slightly wounded. The killed in action on the evening of November 13 are: Sergeant John F. Czajka; father, Al bert Czajka. 1001 Twelfth avenue, Mil waukee, Wls. Private Stanley Janovicz, sister, So phia Giebutovicz, 34 Morrie street, past Boston, Mass. Severely wounded: Private Earl E. Aurand; mother, Em ma Aurand, 1625 Logan street, Harris burg. Pa. Private Francis Blevins; father. Max Blevins. Eckman. W. Va. Private Edward F. Cahill; mother, Bridget Cahill, Bakertown. Pa Slightly wounded: Sergeant John A. Logan; father, Charles Logan, 201 East avenue, Mount Carmel, Pa. Private Chester Johnson: father, Sam uel Johnson, Forest Hill, La. Private Robert L. Redd; mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Redd, Burneyville, Okla. This Is the second casualty list re ported from actual fighting with the Germans and, presumably like the first, an American training detachment fig ured in It./ General Pershing’s report gave no details, however. Whether the Americans were the aggressors or were attacked by another German "shock” party was not Indicated in the war de partment’s announcement. Reports from the front last week told of further casualties among the men in the trenches bordering on No Man’s Land and of injuries t« Amer-4 icans from an exploding shell. It is believed that today’s official announce-' ment deals with these but no mention was made of an engagement in which Germans were believed killed, as the press reports stated. Italy Starts Offensive Against German Line ROME, Nov. 19.—Italian forces have begun an offensive on the Asiago pla teau and have occupied advanced ele ments of trenches, the war office an nounces today. Further attempts of the Austro-Ger man troops to cross the Piave have been stopped. On the front west of the Piave south of Quero, great numbers of Austro-Ger man troops are attacking the Monte Monfenera and Monte Tomba lines. Capture of Two Towns Is Claimed by Germans BERLIN. Nov. 19—(Via Londono Quero and Monte Cornelle. on the north ern Italian front, have been taken by storm and the Italians have been driven from Monte Tomba, the war office an nounced today. The announcement follows: “Northeast of Asiago the enemy re peated his fruitless and costly attacks to gain the lost heights. Between the Brenta and the Piave the last few days have brought the Teutonic allies fur ther successes in different mountain fighting.” German Destroyers Are Reported Sent Down AMSTERDAM. Nov- 19 —One and pos sibly two German destroyers were lost with most of the members of their cr» ws, in the fight with British naval forces off Heligoland Saturday, trav elers from Germany said today.