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VOLUME XX.
AUSTRIANS AND
Him SEES WIFE IT
TOWER: SHE WEEPS:
PASTOR THERE. TOO
Woman Defendant In Black
mail Case Said to Have Been
Startled At Sight of Her
Husband At the Tower
For the first t:m« since her indict
ment with J. W. Cook, on a. charge of
atempted blackmail, and arrest last
Thursday. Mrs Margaret Hirsch, who
has since been held at the Fulton coun
ty tower, had a conference with her
husband. Herman H. Hirsch. Atlanta
insurance man. Monday morning.
The meeting was behind closed doors
and the two. with Dr. J. Sprole Lyons,
pastor of the First Presbyterian church,
present part of the time, talked for
over an hour. All the while Mrs
Hirsch is said to have been in tears.
On meeting her husband she seemed
startled and excited.
There was a round of conferences at
the Tower In connection with this case
which during the Last few days has at
tracted wide attention.
J. R. Bedgood, ot she law firm of
James A Bedgood, called at the Tower
Monday morning and for an hour talked
with Cook and Mra Hirsch in one of
the jail
At 11:15 a m. Mr. Hirsch and Dr.
Lyons arrived at the Tower. At this
time Mrs. Hirsch was closeted with Mr.
Bedgood, while Oeok occupied a seat
tn the jailer’s office calmly smoking a
cigarette Cook and Mr. Hirsch did not
meet
The arrival of Mr. Hirsch and Dr. Lyons
was announced to Mrs Hirsch and Mr.
Bedgood by a jail attache after which
Mr. Bedgood left the room in which he
had been talking to Mrs. Hirsch as Mr.
Hirsch went in. After a half hour with
his wife Mr. Hirsch appeared at the
door and called in Dr Lyons The
three, with Mrs Hirscn crying steadily,
resumed the conference which lasted
until the early afternoon.
At 12:30 p m. Dr. Lyons left the con
ference room and Mr. Bedgood went in.
It was announced at the jail that Mr.
Hirsch had made arrangements for his
Wife’s meals daring her stay at the
tower. With the permission of the jail-,
er Mrs. Hirsch is to be served by one
of the best cases in the city, the meals
being sent into her each day.
Mr. Hirsch remained with his wife
an hour and a half, leaving the Tower at
12:45 p. m. with Dr. Lyons As he
came from the conference room he
thanked Jailer Robert Holland for the
kindness shown him and with Dr. Lyons
holding his arm walked briskly to Dr.
Lyons' aetemob Je. which was standing
in front of the Tower. He declined to
make any statement whatever, skying
that he probably would have something
to say U a few days, but not before.
After her husband's departure Mrs.
Hirsch. crying softly, returned to her
quarters upstairs. Cook then began a
onference with Attorney Bedgood.
Mrs. Hirsch, who, with J. W. Cook,
is under indictment for an alleged at
tempt ax verbal blackmail on Mayor
Asa G. Candler, has again refused to
accept bail. either at the hands of her
busband or several friends, and has
issued a formal order to Jailer Bob
Holland directing him to allow no one
. to visit her without written permission
from her attorneys, James and Bed-,
good.
It is announced by friends of Mr
Hte-sch that be will renew his offer to
provide the required ss,oo<* bond and
will also do bis utmost to furnish the
best possible array of legal talent for
his wife's defense, if she will accept his
assistance in this way. Worn out by|
his long railroad journey and bis
nerves shattered from the shock of
finding his wife under arrest charged
with blackmail, Mr. Hirsch on Sunday
made no effort to visit the Tower, but
promised to lend every possible aid in
preparing Mrs. Hlrsch's defense.
Mra Hirsch and Cook held a lengthy
• onference Sunday night with their at
torneys, but no formal statement was
forthcoming as the result. Thus far the
defense has contented itself with a gen
eral denial of the chargee preferred by
Mayor Candler.
Solicitor General John A. Boykin ts
busy gathering evidence for presentation
at the trial of the case on Wednesday, >
February 37. before Judge Ben H. Hill. I
and it is intimated from has office that ’
details of w a particularly Interesting
character have Jbeen discovered.
Mr. Hirsch has indicated, since his
return tc Atlanta, that Cook has been
• no particular friend of his. bu| rather
a casual acquaintance. Cook has de
clared that his interest tn the case was
on account of his great friendship for
Mr. Hirsch and his desire to see the 'lat
ter freed from Mra Hirsch. Cook, when
questioned Monday regarding this state
ment. Refused to disc use it at all.
No statement will be made by Mr.
Hirsch regarding his future conduct in
the matter until be has thoroughly ac
quainted himself with every angle of
the case, according to an announcement
from his friends
Wife Dies From Wound
Inflicted by Husband
c’HATTANOOGA. Tenn, F*b 18. |
Mrs. Grace Moore Gossett died last
night from the effects of a wound
through the head from the pistol fired
by her husband, William Gossett, and
tier stepfather, J. A. Walters, wounded
at the same time, Is not expected to
live. tJossett is being held on the mur
der charge.
Railroad Heads To Give
Service to Commission
WASHINGTON. Feb 18.—Railroad
ereeattves who appeared today before
rhe raitrnad wage commission said theyj
were present not to oppose the wig :
demands made by tlteir employee, but
io give whatever information they!
»uld that would be of service to the*
.ommlssion In making recommendations
for tnereasea
Full Associated Press Service
EOVERNfIS ASKS FARMERS
TO PRODUCE FDCDSTUFFS
Ten Per Cent Increase in Pork
Production Is Specially •
Urged
Governor Dorsey has issued a procla
mation impressing upon the people of
Georgia the fact that the produc
tion of food on a very large scale
people of Georgia the fact that the pro
duction of food on a very large scale
is vitally important to the success of
the war. and (Especially urg ng the farm
ers and others engaged in hog raising
to make an increase of 10 per cent in
the production of pork this year, has
been issued by Governor Hugh M. Dor
sey. The proclamation reads as* fol
lows :
To the People of Georgia:
Whereas, the government of .the
United States has definitely an
nounced the fact that our soldiers
at the front are dependent on our
soldiers at the plow, and that food
and feed supplies wiß win the war,
and officials of both the govern
ment and the agricultural organi
bations of the nation hays directed
attention to the fact that it ts im
perative that tne production of
these crops be increased this year
beyond the yield of 1917, but more
particularly that it will be disas
trous to permit any decrease in the
yields of last year; and.
Whereas, it has been found neces
sary to bring these facts clearly
before the people of Georgia that
they may realize fuly the food
shortage which confronts us and
prepare to meet the situation and
avert calamity, to which end the
farming, banking and commercial
interests of the state have been
called upon to assemble in the city
of Macon on February 27, at 9
o’clock, am., to advise together
and devise plans and means for
concerted agricult.sral (jffort with
out further loss of time; and.
Whereas, the importance of in
creasing at the same time the pork
production as one of /he chief es
sentials of the food supply has been
realized, and plans to that end have
been already put in operation,
through a series of co-operative
meetings to be held by the exten
sion division of the Georgia College
of Agriculture, the United Stales
department of agriculture, the fed
eral food administration and the
farm demonstration agent, with the
county school superintendents and
teachers of .each county, to bring
about a minimum increase by each
Individual of 10 per cent of the
pork production over that of last
year-—dates and locations of
meetings to be made Imowrt through
announcements in the local county
newspapers; and,
Whereas, these preliminary meet
ings to be held during the week of
February 18 to 23 are so potent a
factor in accomplishing the gener
al purpose aimed at through the
meeting to be held in Macon on
February 27
Therefore, I, Hugh M. Dorsey,
governor of Georgia, call on the
people of Georgia to attend these
preliminary meetings to be held the
week of February 18.-23 in every
community, and urge upon you the
duty of doing your part in bringing
about a minimum individual in
crease of 10 per cent over the pork
production in Georgia in 1917. I
further call upon all participating
in these preliminary meetings to. at
that time, select representatives, if
possible from each militia district,
and charge them with the duty of
attending and participating in the
general state meeting called on Feb
ruary 27. I especially appeal to the
bankers and business men of the
state to lend their unstinted co-op
eration to the efforts making, to
obtain the necessary increase in
food production, bf aiding the farm
ers and those engaged in animal
husbandry in financing their opera
tions.
In witness whereof. I have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the executive department to
be affixed.
Done at the capitol. tn the city
of Atlanta, this, the 16th day of
February. In the year of our Lord
one thousand, nine hundred and
Eighteen, and of the Independence of
the United States, the one hundred
and forty-second.
(Seal) HUGH M. DORSET.
Governor.
Bv the governor:
C. A. WEST.
Secretary Executive Department.
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5.000 SHIP WORKERS
RETURN TO DUTIES:
MORE ARE EXPECTED
Intervention by President Has 1
Desired Effect in Breaking 1
Up Walkout that Had
Threatened Shipbuilding
NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—The strike by
carpenters in the Atlantic seaboard ship
yards engaged on government contracts
it> over, John Rice, national organizer
of the United Brotherhod of Carpen
ters and Joiners, said today.. Several
thousamd men who are still idle are ex
pected to be at work tomororw morn
ing.
About 3,000 of the strikers returned
to work this morning, Mr. Rice esti
mated.
In yards at Philadelphia. Baltimore,
Jersey City, Elizabethport, Newark and
New York, about 6,000 carpenters quit
work this morning, Mr. Rice announc
ed, because they were unaware of the
fact that William L. Hutcheson, presi
dent of the brotherhood, had responded
to President Wilson’s letter of last
night, by announcing he would endeav
or to influence the strikers to resume
work pending settlement of their griev
ances by the wage adjustment board.
Many of these 6,000 were later in
formed of this situation and returned
to the yards, Mr. Riqp said, and during
the day every effort would be made to
get in touch with the others.
A mass meeting of striking carpen- (
ters had been called in Brooklyn to
day und P at this gathering the men
1 will be instructed to return, Mr. Rice
! said.
President Takes Hand
In Situation Sunday
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—Shipping
board officials were confident today
that President Wilson's intervention
■in the strike of carpenters in eastern
ship yards had had its desired effect
' and the men would go back to work
! pending settlement of their grievances
by the wage adjustment board.
The president took a hand in the slt
; nation last night and issued a sharp
rebuke to William L. Hutcheson, presi*
dent of the United Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners, who had refused
to send the strikers back to work and
requested a personal conference to lay
the matter before the president. The
* president in his telegram to Hutcheson
declared if the utrion leader did not
wish to give aid and comfort to the
enemy he would direct the men to re
turn to their jobs pending settlement.
The president declined to see Hutche
son until he had done so.
This message broeght prompt action
from President Hutcheson, and local
union officials in affected districts
were notified last night to ask the men
under their jurisdiction to returfi to
work today. The union leader inform
ed the men that he wanted the wish of
the president of the United States
complied with immediately.
MB. BAKErCDMPLTTES
WHEELER INSPECTION
Secretary Expresses Satisfac
tion With General Con
ditions at Camp
CAMP WHEELER, Macon,Ga., Feb. 18.
After onspecting Camp Wheeler and
witnessing a review of the Dixie divi
sion. Newton D. Baker, secretary of
war. and party left last night for Au
gusta where they visited Camp Han
cock today.
Accompanied by General William C.
Gorgas, of the pubfic health service;
Lieutenant Colonel C. L. Furbush, ex
ecutive officer of General Gorgas’ staff;
Major W. H. Welch, a medical officer,
and Edwin Newdick, of the committee on
public information, the secretary of
war motored to the camp yesterday
morning. Soon after his arrival a re
view was staged In hts honor.
He expressed satisfaction because of
the efficiency evidenced by the military
machine and the general condition of
the camp. He spent much time at tile
base hospital and inquired minutely
about conditions there.
Mr. Baker said there was no thought
i of moving the troops from Wheeler be-
I fore they are ready to leave for service
overseas, but couldn’t say definitely
I whether more soldiers would be sent to
I take their places.
The secretary received a committee of
! leading Macon men and thanked them
. for assurances that the city stands
ready to co-operate with the government
in anything it wants done in the region
of the camp. The committee was com-
I posed of W. H. Felton, chairman. For
mer Governor Nat E. Harris, Mayor
, Glen Toole and Dr. J. H. Heard, chair
man of the county commissioners.
As the secretary boarded a train for
Augusta he •aid to General Hayden, act
ing commander of the division:
‘•General, I am satisfied men of the
Dixie division arc in good hands. I
congratulate you on the condition of the
camp and the personnel of the troops.”
In an address to officers here Mr.
Baker discussed war conditions in a
general ’way. declaring it is necessary
that every American do his part. He
said the hospital here will be a perma
nent institution and will continue in op
eration after the war.
Cured His Daughter of Fits
A well-know-n resident of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, reports that his daughter
has been completely cured of Epilepsy
• Fits) by a prescription secured from
a friend. This girl had suffered as
many as one hundred attacks in a day
and seemed beyond all hope of relief.
; Her father says he ts so grateful for
i her recovery that he will gladly mail
a bottle of this wonderful medicine in
plain sealed wrapper, free, to any suf
ferer who writes him. If you. a friend,
or a relative, suffer, write R. P. N.
Lepso. 18 Island Ave., Milwaukee. Wis
consin, and get a free bottle.—(AffirL)
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1918.
HUNS SPLIT ON RUSSIA
JUST BEFORE FRITZ WAS SENT DOWN. Photographs of actual air battles have been
mighty few. And here is one of the best ever taken. It shows the French plane (at the top)
maneuvering for position preparatory to swooping down on the German flier below. The Ger
man plane was downed in a sharp machine gun duel shortly after this picture was snapped. This
photo was taken by an observer in another French battleplane.
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.SEWOH HUMBERT IS
IRRESTED IN PIRIS
Editor and Witness in 8010
Pasha Trial Held by
Authorities
PARIS, Feb. 18. —Charles Humbert,
senator from the Meuse, arts proprietor
of the Journal, was arrested this morn
ing.
Senator Humbert was one of the
principal figures in the case of 8010
Pasha, patently convicted of treason
and sentenced to death, through the
fact that it was his newspaper, Le
Journal, in which an interest was
bought with the money 8010 received
from the United States. When the
facts regarding the German source of
the money involved rn the transaction
were revealed last fall. Senator Hum
bert cancelled the contract and return
ed the money. It had not been charged
that the policy of Le Journal was af
fected tn away injurious to France.
Senator Humbert has repeatedly af
firmed his patriotism. In announcing
in December last that be was leaving
the control of Le Jourfia! to tts orig
inal proprietor, Henri Letellier, Sena
tor Humbert declared;
*Tf I have been deceived twice It
has been under conditions which would
have deceived the most rigilant patriot
ism.”
Shortly afterward the senator voted
to suspend his Immunity. He was a
witness in the 8010 trial and becoming
irritated at questions asked by the
prosecutor, he shouted:
"Have me arrested; place me in the
dock and make a frontal attack upon
me. Do not treat me as an accused.”
Senator Humbert was formerly vice
president of the senate committee on
army affairs.
Judge George Is Not
Considering Race for
United States Senate
Apropos of a news item appearing In
the Macon News to the effect, that his
friends were urging him to become a
candidate for the United States senate,
and that be had the matter under advise
ment, Justice Walter F. George, of the
state supreme court. stated Monday
morning that he had no intention of
making the race.
"Some of my partial friends have
paid me the compliment of urging me
to make the race,” said the judge, "but
1 have not considered it, and will not
do so.”
Judge George is a citizen of Cordele.
He served as solicitor and later as judge
of the Cordele circuit and made the race
two years ago for one of the new
judgeships of the st#te court of appeals,
when that court was enlarged. He eas
ily won a nomination. After serving
several months he was appointed to the
state supreme court by Governor Dor
sey to succeed Judge Beverly D. Evans
when the latter was appointed judge of
the United States district court for the
Southern district es Georgia.
ALLIES TO WIN IN
1918 BY CHECKING
GERMANS IN WEST
Simms Says Failure of Hin
denburg’s Drive, His Last
Card, Will Force Teutons To
Their Knees
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
BERNE, Switzerland, Feb. 17.—CDe
layed.)*—Hold the west front, and the
war is won. Therein is the whole
story of my Swiss impressions.
I don’t mean that peace will follow
within 24 hours of Hindenburg’s fias
co. Bat I certainly bqlieve an allied
peace js possible this year. This con
clusion is unhasty. It was reached by
a process tantamount to
1 compu tail on.
From personal opservations I know
what the French punch is like, and
what British bulldog-ism is, while from
my study here I believe I have gained
a fair idea of what Germany can do
From this knowledge I don't believe
•the Germans have the proverbial chance
in a thousand, despite Hindenburg’s
strategy and Ludendorff’s tactics.
Hindenburg can expect little or no
aid from Austria. Emperor CMrl’s po
sition is too wobbly to warrant send
ing Austrians. Hungarians, Czechs, etc.,
to their slaughter on the west front
The Prussians may browbeat them
into activity against Italy simulta
neously with a German offensive
against France, but this appears about
all. Czernin said in December that as
Germany is fighting for Trieste. Aus
tria might fight side by side with the
Germans on frontiers other than Aus
trian.
Ludendorff has practically reorganiz
;ed the German army, which probably
will comprise 200 divisions (2,600.000
to 3,000,000 men) when the offensive
starts, if it starts. Despite the armis
tice agreement, the cream of the divi
sions from the Russian front have been
■ drafted to the west- The older troops
on the west front have been replaced
with storm troops. Austria will aid
with artillery and guns captured in
Italy, and elsewhere. The Germans
are boasting a horrible new gas. They
i brag that this gas has already been
i tried out in Italy and at Cajnbrai.
I But if the information which T have is
■ true, the allies have no need to worry
I much.
Germany is putting up its biggest
I bluff. Dying of rot, she is trying to
scare the allies by making faces.
Doubtlessly, she has one punch Jest,
after which —nothing.
The masses are thoroughly war
weary. The election at Bautaen Is
proof of this. This is an agrarian cen
ter. always was violently pan-Gcrman
and adamant against Socialism.
Before the recent election the war
party, certain of the result, proclaimed
1 the outcome would show the extent to
‘ which the people are backing the kai
ser.
A Socialist was elected by a large
majority, throwing the militarists into
consternation. Through the latter’s
own demands the eflection cry was “for
or against reconciliation and peace.”
However, as George Archibald. Ameri
can jockey, just out of Austria said:
"Don’t let this German peace talk
fool you too much. Just give them a
GDNSTKBLE IS KILLED-
'Bl RESISTING NEGRO
Posse Pursues Alleged Slacker
Who Escapes After
Shooting
WILLACOOCHEE. Ga„ Feb. 18.—Mr.
C. D. McCraw, a prominent citizen of
this place, was shot and instantly killed
at Crenshaw, Berrien county, at 11
o’clock Sunday by Ed Dancy, a negro.
The deceased vzas acting constable of
this district, and accompanied by John
T. Paulk, undertook to arrest the negro
under a warrant charging swindling.
Dancy, who was located in a house oc
cupied by his brother-in-law, S. B.
Johnson, resisted arrest, shooting Mc-
Craw with a double-barreled shotgun,
the load taking effect in the right side
of his head.
After killing McCraw Dancy snapped
the other barrel at Mr. Paulk and made
his escape. Johnson is in jail at Nash
ville charged with being an accessory,
and a posse is in pursuit of Dancy.
The dead man was the father of Will
McCraw of the Paulk & McCraw Hard
ware company, of this place.
Dancy is an alleged slacker.
Alleged Negro Slacker
Shooting Sheriff, Killed
• SANDERSVILLE, Ga., Feb. 18—Jake
Sigero, a negro, sought by Sheriff Ben
jamin English, under a warrant alleg
ing that he failed to register for mili
tary service, fired from a deserted cabin,
near here yesterday, where he had been
located, striking the sheriff, slightly
wounding him iif the head. The sheriff’s
deputies fired on Sigero, riddling him
with bullets and killing him instantly.
DUCKWORTH ARRAIGNS
CRITICS OF PRESIDENT
Speaking at the Plum Street Church
of Christ Sunday night on the subject
of "Deception,” R. F. Duckworth, the
well-known Farmers’ union leader, paid
his respects in no uncertain terms to
the members of congress who are ob
structing the administration in the
prosecution of the war.
"The members of congress who are
trying to block the war program of the
administration do not seem to me to be
sincere,” said Mr. Duckworth.
“War is the direct result of the deceit
and corruption of men, hence I am op
posed to war. It cannot be justified by
the doctrine of Christ, the kaiser to the
contrary notwithstanding. But that has
nothing to do with the position tAken
by unprincipled and yellow-streaked
members of congress who are trying to
deceive their people at home by playing
a deceptive game of rotten politics, or
worse, pretending to be patriotic while
they help Germany by hindering the
president.
"A member of congress cAn do but
one of two things—help or resign. Any
other course is deception, or lack of pa
triotism."
/
winning streak and they'll insist on
annexing New York and <Jh-Ecago
"On the other hand, if they pull an
offensixe, just give ’em another dose
of that Verdun stuff and they'll be
eating out of your hand.”
(Copyright. 1919, Petted Prem.)
NUMBER 42.
ttML DE STATE
OF WAD RESENTED
BV GEWVS ALLY
Bolshevik! Capture Kiev, One
of Largest Cities of Uk- •
rainia, But Are Defeated by
Holes Near Minsk
I.ON DON, Feb. is.— a deep, serious
schism has been created between Ger
many and Austria-Hungary by the ter
mination of the armistice between the
central powers and Russia and the re
newal of a state of war, according to
the Copenhagen correspondent of the Ex
change Telegraph company.
The Austrian press, continues the cor
respondent, is warning Germany against
the reopening of hostilities in which
Austria does not wish to participate. The
semiofficial' Fremdenblatt is silent, but
the Neue Freie FTesse is quoted as
pointing out that the Austrian monarchy
no longer borders upon Russia and ?s
not, like Germany, compelled to resume
warfare. The only thing Austria might
do against its will, says the newspaper,
is t» protect the free connection between
the monarchy and the Ukraine.
i ie Zeit, which has Intimate connec
tions with the Austro-Hungarian for
eign office, is reported by the correspon
dent as contending that Count Czernin,
the foreign minister, can continue to act
as a negotiator with the west. "For our
monarchy,” it says, "the war is in -the
main finfehed, and for one of our an
tagonists it has virtually not begun.
Millions of thinking people now point to
Count Czernin and President Wilson.”
The article concludes with a sentence
which the correspondent interprets as
being plainly addressed to Germany,
reading:
"From our side the -pre-disposition to
positive negotiation has never been in
terrupted, and it is to be hoped that the
r.cgc; la’uens will not be interrupted from*
the other side.”
The Austrian press is protesting
against a re-opening of hostilities in
which Austria has no desire to partici
pate. the correspondent says.
' The newspaper. Die Ziet, hopes "Thc\
Czemin-Wilson rapprochement contin
ues, and that Germany won’t interfere
with it.
Germans Resume War
Against Russia, Report
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 18.—The Germans
resumed war measures against Russia
today, the Social Demokraten states.
Their first objective- is the ’ seizure bf"“
Esthonia and Livonia, it declares.
Germans Expelled From
Trenches, French Report •
PARIS, Feb. 18.—The Germans last
night made an attack on the Champagne
front, today’s war office statement re
ports. They gained a footing in the
French but after a spirited
engagement were driven out.
Bolsheviki Take Kiev;
Lose Another Battle
NEJW YORK,
European Cables.)—Belated dispatches
from Russia furnish farther revela
tions of the disordered conditions pr«- .
vailing throughout the former empire;
ravaged by civil war and apparently
about to be subjected to another mili
tary attack by Germany.
The thick of the fighting has been
in the Ukraine, from which fertile re
gion the central jxwers have been con
fidently expecting shortly to secure
supplies of foodstuffs to replenish their
sadly depleted stocks.
Kiev, the seat of the government of
the New Ukrainian ’ republic, which/
made peace’ with Germany and Aus
tria, is reported to have been captured
by the Bolsheviki February 8 after
fighting in which the killed were es
timated at 4,000 and the wounded at
7,000.
About the same time there was a
battle in the streets of Odessa, the
great grain shipping port on the Black
sea, in which hundreds of persons wers
killed and the city wa/s bombarded by
warships.
On the other hand, the Bolsheviki are
reported to have been defeated by the
revolting Polish troops in northern
Russia, the Poles winning* a battle at
Bobrinsk, some 85 miles southeast of
Minsk and sending their forces on
toward Smolensk, on the road to Mos
cow, and nearly 200 miles northeast
of Minsk.
In the "two air raids of Saturday and.
Sunday nights on London the Germans
killed a total of 19 persons and injured
41. In each case .only one raider ap
pears to have been able to escape the
British barrage and bomb London it
self. The greatest harm was done by
the Sunday night raider, when bomb;;
killed 16 persons and Injured 3.7.
As the time for more active
military operations on the west
ern front approaches the American
expeditionary force is widening its
sphere of activity along the front lines.
Not only do American soldiers hold a
sector of the front east of St. Mihiel.
but American artillery is helping the
French in Champagne and infantrymen
in company with French units are hold
ing the front lines in one of the most
famous fronts in the world.
It is not disclosed Where this front is,
but it is describea as being a plac*;
where ruined villages and devastated
country tell of bard fought battles in
which the German pushed forward only
to be driven back later by the French.
The Americans were well equipped to
deal with the enemy and their officers
with' difficulty restrain them from at
tacking the Germans at every opportu
nity.
On the American sector especially,
the Germans have tried various ruses in
an endeavor to outwit the newcomers »n
the battle line but in vain. Raids have
had no effect. The enemy has tapped
and destroyed telephone lines, he has
sent up false signals and has charged
hik wire entanglements with electricity
but he has been outmaneuvered each
time.
The artillery has been active at vari
ous points on the British. French ard
American fronts. British airmen have
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