Atlanta Sauraal
VOLUME XX.
700,000 REPORTED STRIKING IN BERLIN ALONE
American Soldiers Killed in Bloody Trench Fight
TWO 0. S. SOLDIERS
■ SLAIN BV GERMANS
IN MID ON SECTOR
Four Wounded and One Miss
ing as Result of Early Morn
ing Clash—U. S. Men Fight
Desperately
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. Jan. 30.—(Delayed.!—Amer-
ica’s fighting forces suffered more cas
ualties today through a German raid.
Two American soldiers were killed,
tour were wounded, one seriously, and
one was taken prisoner by the enemy in
a sortie aga nst a small American sa
lient early this morning.
The Americans sold their lives dearly.
They battled heroically against superior
odds. There was evidence of bloody
lighting in the small corner of the line
on which the enemy swooped.
\ heavv, low-lying mist aided the
Germans.* Taking advantage of it at
7 13 this morning, the enemy suddenly
put up ar intense barrage fire over a
-mall salient and listening post manned
b American fighting men.
The German rain of high explosives
destroyed the -communication wire by
which the listening post and salient
misht have summoned help. The mist
uid rockets which the Americans sent
u 0 The Americans had to fight without
aid of a counter barrage from their own
guns because of this lack of contmuni
cation.
That they fought valiantly was amply
shown in the blood and disorder In the
little notch they held. The Americans
did not have a chance to” - win against
<he vastly superior force of German
raiders who swooped down on them and
who did not have to penetrate any bar
rage protecting the salient.
The most seriously wounded of the
four men suffered a gash in his abdo
men from a chunk of shell. All four of
the wounded were under ether this aft
ernoon after emerging from the oper
ating room. of the field hospital and
were unable to tell the full story of
the attack.
Barrage Fire
The enemy barrage, it was known, be
gan very suddenly after a night and day
of comparative quiet There had been
only the customary desultory reciprocal
artillerying.
-Ai..erican patrols who had been out on
reconnoissances over No Man's Land
had all returned with the advent of
daylight.
Most of the shells that came in the
deluge of Boche fire were heavy 77’a.
Thej were directed around a little
trench salient held by the Americans
which sticks out like a peak toward the
iter man lines. A listening post, forming
a further extension of the salient, was
included in the enemy zone of fire.
The whole salient was manned by a
P a toon of American iroops—27s men.
How much the Germans suffered in
heir raid was not known. Following
ustom. the raiders took away their own
d«-ad and wounded. From the condition
of the bit of sal-ent which they enter
'd. however, it is certain there was a
fierce struggle. Only one prisoner was
Taken by the enemy. Having secured
h:m for identification purposes, the en-
Amy scurried back to their own lines.
The Amerfcan wounded and dead were
left behind.
The lone American who was stationed
in the listening post was one of the
wounded. He was operated on at the
hospital
••Kell Broke Loose."’
I .apt night was .fairly quiet through
out the American sector. The usual
number of shells came over, doing no
damage and there were the customary
sporadic outbursts of machine gun fire
from both sides at points where the
opposing lines are nearest.
At daybreak this morning the heavy
fog which had been enveloping the
whole position and the country
miles around for several days
still thicker, blotting out all except
ihe nearest enemy positions. At 7
o'clock three muffled reports sounded
through the fog. There were three
whistles, followed quickly by three shell
bursts The projectiles exploded on
»hree sides of an American listening
post just outside the wire within for
ty-five feet of an enemy listening post.
’Then hell broke loose," said one of
• the men there. For fifteen minutes the
enemy broke hundreds of high explo
sive 7“s around the poet and the sur
rounding ground, cutting off the men
there. Two of them were killed in the
first few minutes. Another man who
was at the post told the correspondent
later, as he was lying on a cot in a
field hospital, that he saw four Ger
mans approaching out ofthe fog as the
barrage lifted He brought his auto
matic rifle into play and saw two of
the Germans fall. He kept on firing
until shell splinters hit him in the head
a nd arm
"The last I remember in the time be
fore I reached the hospital.” said an
other wounded man. "is seeing some
thing moving through tip- fog. I deter
mined t« get some Germans’ and put
my rifle to my shoulder, but r pull
'd trigger. There wasa ex
p’osion behind me Frozen earth, ice.
stone and shell splinters came my way."
Inspection of the scene of the raid
-bowed that the ground was ploughed,
up by the explosion of shells.
Five Americans in France
Killed by Chance Shells
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
TRANCE. Jan. 30.—<I>elaycd.»—Five
American soldiers have been killed re
cently by chance shells, according "o
announcement today.
The only American oflv-er included In
the list of recently wounded men is
captain Kingman, who was shot in the
. hest at close range by ar American sol
dier who mistook him for a Boche in the
< Con Unusd on Page 2, Column 5.)
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PHYSICAL TESTS
ARE MODIFIED BY
WAR DEPARTMENT
Thousands Previously Reject
ed by Medical Boards Are
to Be Accepted for Army
Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Changes in
the physical requirements for men of
the national army, by which thousands
who have been or will be rejected under
the first regulatnons can now be ac
cepted for service, were announced to
day by Provost Marshal General
Crowder.
The modifications indicate that the
war department is determined to hold
for service—either general military or
special—ail men registered except those
whose physical condition can never be
remedied to make them fit for any
kind of service.
Physical defects that can be remedied
and make the men fit for service will
be remedied or the men put into some
special work, not so rigorous as trench
fighting. Crowder says.
Height and weight requirements were
both lowered and increased. Flat foot
or club or claw foot and several foot
troubles no longer, are causes for rejec
tion. and local boards are ordered to ‘‘re
ject no toot cases’’ Any rejection for
these troubles must be made by the
medical advisory board. Chances for
rejection for eye and ear defects were
greatly lessened and the dental require
ments were modified. Hernia and simi
lar troubles, the cause of many rejec
tions under the first draft, must be
very serious to win rejection. Only com
plete nasal obstruction will reject, which
means that adenoids and enlarged ton
sils are no cause for rejection.
The minimum height for men of the
new army was lowerd from 61 to 58
inches by the new regulations, although
all the cases of men between 58 and 60
irtches must be referred to the medical
advisory board by the local physicians.
Weight Lowered
Practically all the maximum height
restrictions were removed, indicating
that Uncle Sam sees nb reason why the
giants should not fight. The old regu
lations placed the limit at 6 feet 3
inches, but the new order provides that
men abo'e 6 feet, 6 inches may be ac
cepted if they are well proportioned
The weight minimum was lowered
from 110 to 100 pounds, although those
whose weight is less than 100 pounds,
because of illness, are to be held for
service pending better health. Only ex
treme cases of obesity are to cause
overweight rejection. Registrants in
good physical condition, but under the
weight requirements for certain heights,
ere to be accepted.
With the exception of those hopeless
ly crippled of foot troubles, such as
hammer-toes, bunions, and the various
types of flat-feet that do not interfere
with the wearing of an ordinary shoe, the
registrant is to be accepted. All doubt
ful cases go to the medical advisory
board.
Spinal troubles must interfere seri
ously with weight-bearing power to re
ject. and the wearing of a plaster jack
et will not of itself disqualify the reg
istrant.
Those who can hear with one ear,
spoken words at a distance of ten feet,
will be accented, only complete deaf
ness being a ground for rejection by
local physicians. Deafness in one ear
is referred to the advisory board.
Color-blindness no longer will be a
cause for rejection and those whose eye
troubles can be well corrected with
proper glasses will be accepted.
If a man has six good teeth on each
jaw he will be taken. Formerly if three
were missing the man would be reject
ed.
Only irreducuible cases of hernia will
keep a man out of the service under the
new regulations. Local physicians are
not allowed to reject abdominal cases.
Venereal diseases will be rejected only
when they make a man permanently
unfit for service. Other registrants
with these defects will be advised to ac
cept treatment pending receipt of or
ders to report for duty.
A strict and careful examination of
the lungs is ordered, with a view of
keeping to minimum the number of
pneumonia and tubercular cases in the
camps. Conditions at camps now Indi
cate physicians should be most careful
in this respect, Crowder says.
Extreme cases of chronic alcoholism
will be rejected.
•Under the new regulations the power
ofi the local examining physicians 1
of the local examining physicians is
greatly restricted. lx><aJ boards can re
ject or accept for physical qualifications
only when the registrant comes within
certain unconditional standards. All
other cases and those of doubtful intcr
> pretation go to the medical advisory
i board, similar to the district exemption
; board.
.Physicians do not need to make a
I complete report on any man as was
necessary under first draft. As soon
’as a defect is round which uncondi
’ tionally disqualifies a man. the exami
i nation ceases.
We Need Help for
Our People, Says »
Kaiser in Message
AMSTERDAM. Jan. 31— "We need
the help of all who love our se
verely tested people, especially our
political leaders.” declared the Ger
man kaiser in a telegram to the
king of Bavaria, ret rted here to
day.
Will Make Khaki Pants
ROMK. Ga • Jan. 31. —One hundred
persons wilP be employed by the. plant
of the A. W. Watters company, Inc.,
which will shortly be erected here to
make khaki pants for the government.
CRISIS OF STRUGGLE
IS HERE: HITS OF
1318 Will DECIDE IT
President Wilson Tells Farm
ersTWe Are Fighting for Lib
erty as Truly as If We Were
in Revolution
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—The cul
minating crisis of the struggle has
come. The achievements of this year
on the one side or the other must de
termine the issue.”
Thus President Wilson today warned
the farmers of the country in making
public an address he had planned to de
liver at Urbana. Ills., today.
And facing this test, he said: ‘‘lt
has turned out that the forces that fight
for freedom, the freedom of men all
over the world as well as our own, de
pend upon us in an extraordinary and
unexpected degree for sustenance for
the supply of the materials by which
men are to live and to fight.
" And it will be our glory when the
war is over that we have supplied these
materials and supplied them abundant
ly. and it will be all the more glory be
cause in supplying them we have made
our supreme effort and sacrifice.
“We are fighting.” the president con
tinued, ‘‘as truly for the liberty and self
government of the United States as if
the war'of our own revolution had to be
fought over again; and every man in
every business in the United States
must know by this time that his whole
future fortune lies in the balance.
Sinister Foreign Influence
“Our national life and our whole eco
nomic development will come under the
sinister influence of foreign control if
we do not win.
•‘We must win, therefore, and we
shall win. I need not ask you to pledge
your lives and fortunes with those of
the rest of the nation in the accomplish
ment of that great end.
"I will not appeal to you to continue
and renew and Increase your efforts. I
do not believe that it is necessary to do
so. I believe that you will do It with
out any word •or appeal from me, be
cause you understand as well as I do
the needs and opportunities of this
great hour when the fortunes of man
kind everywhere seem about to be de
termined and when America has the
greatest opportunity she has ever had
to make good her own freedom and in
making good to lend a helping hand ‘o
men struggling forttheir freedom every
where. You remember that it was farm
ers from whom came the first shot at
Lexington, that set aflame the revolu
tion that made America free. I hope
and believe that the farmers of America
will willingly and conscientiously stand
by to win this war also. The toil, the
intelligence, the energy, the foresight,
the self-sacrifice and devotion of the
farmers of America will. T believe,
bring to a triumphant conclusion this
great last war, emancipation of men
from the control of arbitrary govern
ment and the selfishness of class legis
lation and control, and then, when the
end has come, we may look each other
in the face and be glad that we are
Americans and have had the privilege to
play such a part.
Greatest War Object
The president declared in opening his
message to farmers. "That we are as
a nation in the presence of a great task
which demands supreme sacrifice and
endeavor of every one of us.
“We can give everything that is need
ed with the greatest willingness, and
even satisfaction, because the object of
the war in which we are engaged is the
greatest that free men have ever under
taken. It is to prevent the life of the
world from being determined and the
fortunes of men everywhere affected by
small groups of military masters who
seek their own interest and tho selfish
dominion throughout the world of the
government they unhappily for the mo
ment control. You will not need to be
convinced that it was necessary for us
as a free people to take part in this
war. It had raised its evil hand against
us. The rulers of Germany had sought
to exercise their power in such away
as to shut off our economic life so far
as our intercourse with Europe was con
cerned, and to confine our people within
the western hemisphere while they ac
complished purposes which would have
permanently impaired and impeded
every process of our national life and
have pnt the fortunes of America at
the mercy of the imperial government
of Germany. This was no threat. It has
become a reality. Their hand of violence
had been laid upon our own people and
our own property in flagrant violation
not only of justice, but of the well rec
ognized and long-standing covenants of
International law and treaty.”
Statesmen on both sides of the water
now realize, he added, that this year
will prove the critical one. And to show
the resources al hand with which to
launch the mighty blow he said:
Vast Farm Organization
"In the field of agriculture, we have
agencies and instrumentalities, fortu
nately. such as no other government in
the world can show. Th<- department
of agriculture is undoubtedly the great
est practical and scientific agricultural
organization in the world. Its total an
nual budget of $46,000,000 has been
increased during the last four years
more than 72 per cent. It has a staff o;
18.000, Including a large number of
highly trained expats, and alongside of
it stands the unique land grant col
leges, which are without example else
where, and the sixty-niny state and fed
eral experiment stations. These colleges
and experiment stations have a total en
dowment of plant and equipment of
«172,000.000 and an Income of more than
$35,000,000. with 10.271 teachers, a resi
dent. student body of 125,000, and a va: t
additional number receiving instruc
tion at their homes. bounty agents,
joint officers of the department of agri
culture and. of the colleges, are every
where co-operating with the farmer
(Continued on Page 3, Column 6.)
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1918.
JUDGE.«DENIES
COURT’S JURISDICTION
State Courts, He Says, Can
Only Handle Sheriffs Crowe
and Callaway
Judge William T. Newman, in the
Untied States district court, decided
Thursday morning that he has no juris
diction in the cases against Sheriff W.
A. Crowe, of Hall county, and Sheriff
W. W. Callaway, of Bartow county.
The cases were taken under advise
ment by Judge Newman last Saturday,
following a hearing on the petition fil
ed by United States Attorney Hooper
Alexander, asking that the sheriffs be
cited for contempt of court for allow
ing proisoners held in their custody to
be at large frequently when they should
have been serving their
During the trial evidence was intro
duced by attorneys for the sheriffs to
show that some of the prisoners were
allowed to leave the jails by permission
granted by Judge Newman. In one case
a prisoner’s wife was about to undergo
an operation and her husband was al
lowed to visit her at the hospital.
“I have no authority under the law
to hold 'Sheriff Crowe or Sheriff Calla
way for conteippt and it is my opinion
that the cases can be handled only by
state officials," said Judge Newman, in
announcing his decision.
Judge Newman said, however, that he
would grant an order to remove all fed
eral prisoners from the Hall county
and Bartow county jails to the Fulton
county jail.
SUB IDS HEE 111 '
. COTTDNSEED PRODUCTS
Prof. Rast Tells Agricultural
Workers’ Convention of
1917 Progress
The Increase in the value of cotton
seed crushed in Georgia is expected to
amount to $4,000,000, according to Prof.
Loy E. Rast, of the State College of
Agriculture, speaking Wednesday be
fore the Southern Agricultural Workers
in session at the Piedmont.
Prof Rast said that the oil mills
of the state had agreed to purchase all
high oil-producing cotton seed at a pre
mium if grown in sufficient quantities
to market it in carload lots. This means,
Prof. Rast continued, that seed market
ed in such quantities next fall will be
bought on analysis of oil content. This
will be the means, he said, of eliminat
ing inferior varieites and that it will
automatically increase the value of seed
$5 per ton. Since, he pointed out, Geor
gia crushes 800.000 tons of seed annual
ly, this will result in the addition of
$4,000,000 to the value of the cotton
crop, much of which amount, he con
tinued, will be paid directly to the
farmers.
Other speakers at the meeting
Wednesday afternoon were O. M- Shedd,
of Ixixington, Ky., who described the
relation of sulphur to soil fertility; R
Y. Winters, of Raleigh. N. C., who told
of the value of community seed im
provement work with cotton; Dr. H. B.
Brown, of the Mississippi Agricultural
college, who described the possibilities
of cotton improvement work in the
south, and I. O. Schaub, of Springfield
Mo., who told of the value of the soy
bean in farming.
The association will be in session
through Friday afternoon
THE TRUTH ABOUT BELGIUM
•
Told by Brand Whitlock
WATCH for th* first article, which will appear
beginning FEBRUARY 19TH.
The Atlanta JOURNAL has secured the exclu
sive right to publish THIS GREAT -STORY in the
state of GEORGIA, which will reveal most vividly
and accurately
THE TERRIBLE BRUTALITY OF THE GERMANS
All doubts and denials, aJI the allowances that
we. a generous-minded people have made for seem
ingly incredible reports—must be set aside when
Brand Whitlock tells us the terrible truth that
drives home the horrible facts.
You will hear of the devastation and desola
tion from an EYE-WITNESS. You will see cities
and houses and Cathedrals burned and blasted.
You will feel the horror of, rapine, and will shrink
before the nameless brutality and the murder of
Edith Cavell. He KNOWS —and tells—powerfully.
Faithfully—Brand Whitlock held himself stub-
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ALL INDUSTRIES HOT
USING FDEL ALLOWED
'. TO OPERATE MONDAY
Dr. Hardman Places This In
terpretation Thursday Aft
ernoon on the Ruling of Mr.
Garfield • .
State Fuel Administrator L. G. Hard
man Thursday afternoon interpreted the
ruling of the national administration to
the effect that Dr. Garfield’s original
order “merely forbids use of fuel” to
mean that any and all industries may
operate on fuelless Mondays provided
no fuel is burned.
With this interpretation Dr. Hardman
expressed the hope, that various mer
chants would close as an evidence of
patriotism.
All stores may sell whatever they
please provided they do not burn fuel.
Dr.* Hardman said. The Garfield order,
however, had called for a series of "holi
days” and he hoped these would be ob
served.
‘ The Garfield order, he said, states
that drug stores can remain open, burn
ing fuel, for the sale of drugs and med
ical supplies only, and food stores for
food only, Dr. Hardman said.
Asked whether drug stores, soda foun
tains and restaurant cigar stores, whose
operation would require "no extra
amount of fuel, could continue their
business, Dr. Hardman said: “It looks
that way.”
No fountain or cigar stand so operat
ing, he said, would be prosecuted, al
though he had suggested that they close
as evidence of patriotism.
Hydro Plants to Bun
The question as to whether hydro
electric plants should operate on fuel
les Mondays, along with allied prob
lems as to the operation of various bus
inesses wfien no fuel is used, were con
ceded Thursday by all concerned to be
definitely settled following official word
from Washington that the order of Na
tional Fuel Administrator Garfield mere
ly forbids the use of fuel.
Dr. L. G. Hardman, state fuel admin
istrator, was formally notified to this
effect and made announcement of re
ceipt of the ruling from Washington.
At the same time Dr. Hardman issued
a statement replying to his critics who
have charged that he erred in his rul
ing of last week that hydro-electric
plants must close.
The statement of Dr. Hardman in
sisted that the administrator took just
the steps that telegrams from National
Administrator Garfield indicated ne
should take. In support of this the
messages from the national administra
tion were submitted.
Orders of the fuel administration. Dr.
Hardman stated, are issued from Wash
ington and .the various state adminis
trators issue rulings on them.
Original Baling
Immediately after the original order
of Dr. Garfield was issued. Dr. Hard
man was called upon, he said, to rule as
to the effect of the order on hydro-elc
trically operated plants and ruled that
they could operate under water or
dro-electfiic power alone, using only
enough steam to prevent damage to
their plants by freezing.
Washington wired him on January 17.
Dr. Hardman says, confirming this rul
ing, but on January 22, after mills had
been operating in Georgia under hydro
electric power. Washington wired him
to “use your best efforts through public
sentiment and through the press to have
(Continued on Page 2. Column 5.)
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ITALIANS IMPROVE
NEW POSITIONS IN
FRENZELA VALLEY
Twenty Killed and Fifty In
jured in Air Raid on Paris.
Zeppelin Works Reported
Bombed
• i
ROME, Jan. 31.—The Italians’ new 1
1 positions west of the Frenzela valley on
i the mountain front was impnpved yes
terday, the war office anounced today.
Th» line advanced slightly northeast of
. Col del Rosso.
* Berlin Claims Italian
i Offensive Breaks Down
> I BERLIN, Jan. 31.—(Via Ix>ndon.) i
f ■ The Italian attacks which were launched
j yesterday against the Austro-German
positions southwest of Asiago, on the
northern Italian front, broke down un-
i der the Teuton tire, the German war I
. office announced today. In the recent
j fighting the Austro-German forces in
creased the number of prisoners taken
to more than 600.
r The statement reads:
“Italian front: Southwest of Asiago
the Italian * attack broke down utjder
our fire. Between Asiago and the Bren
ta river a lively artillery bombardment
■ was maintained. The number of pris
oners taken by the Austro-Germans in
i the recent fighting has been increased
to fifteen officers and 600 men.”
Huge Column of Fire
At Big Zeppelin Works
ZURICH, Wednesday, Jan. 30. —A
tremendous explosion, accompanied by
gunfire and followed by a huge column
of fire, was heard in the direction of
Friedrichshafen this morning, a tele
gram received at St. Gall from Rosen-
I berg, on Lake Constance, reports. The
1 explosion probably was the result of an
■ aerial attack on the Zeppelin works at
. Friedrichshafen.
French Patrols Return
With Number of Prisoners
PARIS, Jan. 31.—“ French patrols op
erating at various points on the front
. took prisoners,” says today’s official re
port. “Otherwise there were no devel
opments during the night
‘‘On Tuesday a French squadrofi, in
cluding Captain Guillemin and Sub-
Lieutenant Lancreux, bombarded from
a very low altitude the railway station
at Thiaucourt, where a large fire was
observed.”
Twenty Killed in
Air Raid on Paris
PARIS. Jan. 31.—Twenty persons
were killed and fifty were injured in
last night’s raid, it is announced of
ficially.
One of the German machines which
raided Paris was brought down. The
occupants of the airplane were made
prisoners.
The alarm was given at 11:30 o’clock.
Bombs were thrown at various points in
Paris and the suburbs. Several persons
were killed and material damage is re
ported, according to an official announce
ment.
An official announcement from Faris
last night said bombs had been dropped
at various points in the city and su
burbs by German aviators, that several
persons had been killed and that ma
terial damage had been reported. It
was the first aerial attack on Paris
since July 27 of last year, the German
ratd er s having been checked bj
the strength of the Paris defenses. The
construction of new German high fly
ing, speedy airplanes, however, led to
resumption of the raids, as has been
forecast in seyera] dispatches from
Paris telling of preparations to meet
the expected aerial attacks. A few days i
ago the Paris police were provided, witn I
gas masks as protection against gas |
bomba.
NUMBER 37. •
STATE OF SIEGE IS ■
BEPOBEEDIIH THREE
CITIES OF GERMANY
a
Socialist Leaders Ask for Ses
sion of Reichstag to Consid
er Sitaution—Ship Workers
Included in Walkout
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 31.—(British Ad
miralty Per Wireless Press.)—The
strike has been exetnded in districts
near Berlin, especially in Tegel, AJders
hof. S panel a u and Mariendorf, where
500,000 men have quit work. A similar
number of workmen are on strike in the
remainder of the empire.
LX>NDON, Jan. 31.—The German
strike is still growing in magnitude,
the Exchange Telegraph correspondent
at Copenhagen
000 persons are on strikf, he reports,
58,000 of these being women.
A great number of Socialist leaders
have been arrested in various German
towns, according to this authority.
The fact that Berlin is wrapped in
a thick fog has made it impossible for
the authorities to prevent the dissemi
nation of pamphlets, the reports state.
State of Siege Reported
In Three German Citise
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 31.—A state of
siege has been declared at
Altona and Wandsbeck. according to
Hamburg Echo, a Socialist
Socialists Demand
Session of ReichstagW
LONDON, Jan. 31.—The
party leaders in eGrmany, according u
a statement in the Berliner Tageblatt,
forwarded by the Amsterdam corres
pondent of the Central News, have ask
ed President Kaempf, of the relchstag.
to summon the relchstag immediately
in view of the alarming events/of the
past few days.
The cessation of work in Hamburg is •
now virtually complete, according to a
Daily Telegraph dispatch from Rotter
dam. The strike has extended from the
Vulcan ship-building works in Hamburg £
to the works of Blohm and Voss, anoth
er large shipbuilding concern. The
strikers demand an immediate peace on
the basis of no annexations and no in
demeties. ’ -9
700.000 Go on Strike
In German Industries
NEW YORK. Jan. 31. —(Summary of
European cables.)—Throughout Ger
many, and especially in the industrial
sections of the north*, the Strike move- *
ment is spreading and more than 700,-
000 workmen are reported idle. Strikers
and soldiers are rcportel to have col- '
lided in a suburb of Berlin and lives
were lost. In several instances the
troops are Said to have refused to fire
on the strikers.
Hamburg and Berlin appear to be the
most seriously affected. The workers
in government and private dockyards
at Kiel have joined the movement as
have more workers in the industrial
cities and towns along the Rhine J
in Westphalia. In the. important Bav
arian manufacturing towns of Nurcm
burg and Furth the workmen are out.
Three important Berlin nMvspapers,
including the Socialist Vorwaerts, have -J
been suppressed. The head of the great •
Krupps works and Field Marshal von
Hindenburg have appealed to the worn-‘
ers to sta;. at their tasks, the field mar
shal declaring that the strikes must
cease.
Before its suppression Vorwaerts
printed an ultimatum to the government
in which the workers demanded a gen
eral peace without annexations, amelior
ation of the food situation, the 1«= see
ing of military law and the democrati
zation of state institutions.
British newspaper correspondents in
Holland are uncertain whether the
strike movement is real or manufactur
ed. One says that the government ii
behind it in the hope that it will affect
the entente allied countries and bring
about peace, while another believes that
the government desi.ed to use the move
ment to break off negotiations with j l
Russia.
The Swiss frontier has been closed /
and it is expected there that the strike
situation in Germany will soon reach
a crisis.
/ 7
Inside Story of *
Italian Retreat
A most remarkable account of "S’
German intrigue in politics, tn I
business and in the army. Italian
soldiers at the front were led to
believe that the Austrians would
lay down their arms and go home
if they would do the same.
Herbert Corey
Famous war correspondent, whose '
articles appear in Atlanta ex
clusively in The Journal, has re
i vcaled this inside story in a se
ries of articles from lhe Italian
front. The first article will appear
in
The ‘ ?
Semi-Weekly Journal
Tuesday, Feb. 5
Other articles will follow in each
issue.
