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VOLUME XX
CROWN PRINCE CHECKED BY ALLIED RESERVES
com macs ov
6EOK IS STOPPED
H THE ffIICMK
Two Hundred and Forty Pris
oners Are Taken at Cantig
ny—U. S, Hospitals in Pi
cardy Are Bombed
WITH THE AMERICANS IN PICAR
pv Mr.y CO. Th.' fifth succt-rsice coun-
ter attack against Cantigny was repuls
ed by the Americans last nisht.
Yankee artil’ery responded to the
German barrare witl« heavy and ef
fective fire. Machine guns raked the
enemy positions
The new American portions are rap
id’:' ’being strengthened, infantry and
engineers digging ih regardless of con
stant Boche shelling.
The number of Boche prisoners taken
in this area now numbers 240.
Persistent efforts of the Germans to
recapture the village and heights are
indicative of the importance they at
tach to the heights for observation pur
poses.
Although they advanced in thick
wares in each attack, only one wave
succeeded ‘n reaching the American line
This happened about 7 o’clock at night.
The infantry and machine gunners took
heavy toll as the Roches advanced
Whep the survixors reached the line
they were bayonetted or shot down
These who remained fled in disorder.
• Artillery smashed ail the other at
tacks. As' the Boches advanced, light
and heavy guns laid down a fierce coun
ter barrage, virtually wiping out the
first and second waves. AL the reserve
and support positions also were heavily i
shelled preventing the enemy from re
organizing.
Two of the attacks were made front-'
ally on the village. The others were I
made to the right and to the left.
The Americans now have a number i
of German machine guns and are pour- i
Ing bullets from them into the enemy. |
The infantry are also using Boche rifles
switch they captured. Machine guns.;
rifles and large quantities of ammuni- i
tion taken in the capture of Cant.guy ,
were promptly turned against the Ger- i
mans The exact number of machine
guns taken is not yet known.
Small groups of prisoners are still
coming tn. Between beating off attacks,
details are busy searching the cellars
and dugouts in Cantigny. Nine were
dragged from one hole ibis morning
An accurate eer.mate of the German
losses is not yet possible, but they are
obviously* heavy, not only in the first
lines, but in the rear organizations.
There are tnd.cations that the losses in
’he village alone will exceed 1,000. ex
luxive of the losses in counter attacks.
All the German batteries were heavi
ly car red by American artillery c gain I
Berlin Admits "Local”
Advance by Americans
NEW YORK, May 30. -(Summary o f
Foreign Cables to the Associated Press.)
Violent counter uttacas were made by
the Gertrans aertnsi the American po
mt’ons at Ontigny. Genera! Pershing’s ]
men. however, maintained tneir line un- 1
• broker, and threw tack the enemy with
strong art; aery ar.d infantry fire, in-•
fiicung severe casualties on the attack- ;
ers. Berlin, which delights in officially
• announcing the capture of American
prisoners, does not give the Americint
credit for the success at Cantigny. but
says "the enemy” carried out a local ad-
Fosp.tals far behind the American
sector in Picardy have been bombed b.v
German airmen. Scores of Americans
were in danger bus only’ a few were in
jured by flying vlass. Several civilians
and a French nurse were killed.
Fis-htir.g in gas- masks the American
troops east of Lune x'i lie have checked
a German attack under cover of gas
waves. The Germans retreated under a
heavy fire from Am re tea n machine
guns, suffering severely. At one point
fourteen Germans penetrated the Ameri
can trenches. Nine were killed, one died
of wounds and four are prisoners.
Th* Germans apparently are prepar
ing for another attack against the
American nee or northwest of Tout. I’he
e-.-rny artillery lire has increased con
siderably and German airmen are very
active.. On the other hand, the Ameri
can gunners arc more than answering
the enemy Art and the American avia
tors ore keeping the German machines
on their own side of the line.
Americans Do Well
On the British Front
WITH THE AMERICANS ON ili«-
RRITISH FRONT, May 29.—The first
shell tire to which American troops on
the British froi.t have been subjected
resulted in exceedingly slight losses to
one of the units that was acquiring final
instructions. The American units who
have received actual front trench train
ing. Including patrolling and raiding,
thud far have escaped unscathed.
The Americans in this region have ac
quitted themt-slven admirably, ail re
ports agreeing that they set about
’earning the final details of the busi
ness for w iUh they came to France,
coolly and methodically, despite the fact
tliat they arc inhabiting one of the live
liest sectors cu the front.
nen the time comes for the Atrcri
ans to take over a portion of the line
her* they will kn< w ’.he ground and all
the phases of the dangers feeing them.
Total •rnce of attempted heroics
pleases their superiors, one of whom
recounted a junior officer s story of hoa
ne met his Boche tacc to lace while
. leading a patrol-
"In the -semi-darkness 1 suddenly real
ized that a pair of eyes regarding me
puazlingly were German eyes,’’ the
young officer was quottd as saying. "It
W 3» probably his first sight of one of
us. He had a rifle I hadn’t. 1 got
away as quickly as I could. ’
61 Irish Arrests
LONDON. May 30. —Sixty-nine per
sons were arrested and deported from
Ireiand in connection with the recent
r» io’ut onary plot. Chief Secretary
Shortt announced in the heuw of com
mcr.s this afternoon. He made no fur
ther statement.
Full Associated Press Service
'Howard Highly Gratified
That Correspondence With
President Is Pubhs hed
Congressman Reaffirms His
Loyalty to President Wilson
and Great Policies Cham
pioned by Him
Congressman William Schley Howard
left a: 7 o’clock this morning to make
a patriotic address to the Rural Mail
Carriers of the Sixth Congressional dis
trict, at '.he Wigwam, at Indian Spring.
Ga. He was shown a copy of the cor
respondence between himself and the
president ot the United States as printed
in this morning's Atlanta Constitution
Mr Howard dictated the folloxving state
' ment to his secretary before his de
parture and requested the press of Geor
gia to publish tiu- same.
The publication of the correspond
ence between the president and my
self is genuinely gratifying to me
because it has been grossly misrep
resented by Hon. William J. Harris
and that portion of the press of •
Georgia which was Induced to sup
port him solely upon his statement
• that he was the choice of the
president of the United States
For more than a year Mr. Harris
has been busily engaged in telling
the people of Georgia that the presi
dent was for him and busily en
gaged in telling the president that
the people of Georgia were for Mr.
i Harris.
The publication of the correspond
ence is gratifying to me in another
way. It shows every thoughtful
man in Georgia the deep respect,
affection and admiration that 1 en
tertain for our great president.
i Outside of the miserable mis-
I representations and camouflage con
tained in the letter of Mr. George
H. Long, managing editor of the
Macon Telegraph, to the president,
which, by the xvay. the president
totally ignores in his reply to him,
there is not one line in the entire
correspondence of which I or any
other loyal Georgian has reason to
be ashamed.
The object of my visit to the
president was not to ask his sup
port of my candidacy for the Unit
ed Slates senate, but to acquaint
him with what I believed to be the
facts about the political situation
in Georgia. Intelligent men from
every section of the state were al
most unanimous in their Ifeiief that
the banner of the Democratic ad
ministration could no. be safely en
trusted to Mr. Harris against so
adroit a politictian and so specious
a public speaker as Thomas W.
Hardwick.
This view was not only expressed
to me but to other men of promi
nence and ability in Georgia and
they were urged to make the race.
The view was open lx- expressed
that the only hope Senator Hard-
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t has gone into the serv-
> ice from our home, and
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wick had of re-election was that
' his opponent was to be the Hon. i
William J. Harris. Mr. Harris has
claimed to have been the destroyer
of Senator Hardwick since he en
tered this race, but all intelligent
.people in Georgia know that Sena
tor Hardwick’s entire strength was
predicated upon Mr. Harris’ weak
ness.
Quotes Macon Telegraph
In Answer to Long
The view of the political situa-
1 j tion as 1 expressed it to the presi
■ dent was identical with the view
editorially expressed by Mn. Long
in the columns of the Macon Tele
graph five days after my formal
announcement for the senate. Here s
xvhat Mr. Long said editorially in
i the Telegraph:
••We might as well speak plainly
now, and the Telegraph speaks out
of a real affection for the chair
man of the federal trade commis
sion personally and politically, in
regard to his candidacy. It is true
he was well organized. He is »
splendid developer of the firut color
of political strength. He knows
who's who, and he went after the
who's who in each community.
From a great majority he secured
pledgee, assurances or friendly ex
pression in respect to support, but
<vs time wore on he failed to develop
the prime essential of all in this
race, when there became apparent
sot a particle of the real fighting
enthusiasm a sncceeslnl candidate
must have, the fighting enthusiasm
that should be so easy to arouse in
this race of all others, but which
Mr. Hands has not been able to
stimulate.
•■He has been slipping for weeks,
although he doesn’t believe it, and
has good reason not to, foV he is one
of those men it is hard to tell the
truth about himself. Men who call
themselves his supporters have talk
ed reassuringly to him and behind
his back have confided to each other
that they were afraid ‘Bill can’t
make it.’ That is the trouble. His
supporters haven’t been able to get
up steam and steam Is the prime
requisite in this race as well as all
others."
Thus this Ransey Sniffles of
Georgia politics, who on a false
premise writes a misleading letter
io the president of the United
States, is answered out of his own
njouth. . . •
Tn the futtiftss loyalty to
i the president and his principles. I
told him that Mr. Harris was in- t
capable of arousing popular enthu
siasm and of leading the loyal hosts
who desired above all things a man
who would meet Thomas W. Hard
wick face to face before the peo
ple and who could meet him suc
cessfully. I want to say to the
Democrats of Georgia that since
I my return to my native state, since
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ATLANTA. GA.,‘ FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1918
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“I DON’T WANT TO LIVE,”
GRACE LUSK MOANS
(Every Precaution Is Taken to
Prevent Convicted Woman
From Killing Herself
WAUKESHA. Wis., May 30. —When
J Grace Lusk, convicted of inurder in the
I second degree last night, awoke today
i from a sleep induced by opiates, she
moaned; “I don’t want to live. I don’t
want to live.”
The conviction, which was for the
killing of Mrs. Mary Newman Roberta
carried a sentence of from fourteen to
twenty-fix e years’ imprisonment. Owing
to the prisoner’s condition, however.
Judge Lueck intimated that he would
not pronounce sentence until Miss Lusk
is more composed.
Meanwhile, every instrument by which
she might do herself injury has been
removed from the cell, and beyond her
reach.
When the verdict was delivered Mjss
, Lusk made an attempt to choke Special
: Prosecutor Tullar. but was overpowered
! by court attendants and led, screaming,
1 from the courtroom.
The verdict carries with it a sentence
l of from fourteen to twenty-five years
lin the penitentiary.
When the jury retired Miss Lusk col
lapsed and it took half an hour to pre
pare her to be brought to court to hear
the verdict.
When the verdict was announced Miss
Lusk sprang at the throat of D. S. Tul
lar. special prosecutor, who is nearly
sixty years old. and screaming “He lied,
!he lied,’’ she shook him back and forth
iin his chair at the counsel table. Sev
eral men seized her and she fainted.
Several minutes later, when she had
recovered, her aged father and one cf
the attorneys were attempting to lead
her from the courtroom when she again
turned toward Tullar and attempted to
| escape from the men who held her.
“That man's son lied!” she shouted.
“Maurice Tullar swore my life away!”
! She continued to struggle and shriek
until she was dragged away.
; Maurice Tullar, now in a sanitarium.
| ;s the district attorney, and at the trial
I swor.e that four days after the shoot
ing he obtained a statement from Miss
! Lusk in which said she realized
| why she had shot Mrs. Roberts, but
I could not understand why she had done
it so ’‘calmly and deliberately.”
D. S. Tullar was appointed special
j prosecutor at the trial by his son. who
was unable to act because of his ill
ness
Several hundred spectator®, mostly
women, stood with tears streaming
down their faces during the o.utbr<--i .
The jurymen stood in their places with
j ashen faces as though paralyzed, and
during the second outbreak shrank away
from Miss Lusk as she was led scream
ing past the jury box.
Mrs. Roberts was killed by Miss Lusk
in the latter’s home on June 21. 1917.
after Dr. Roberts had told his wife of
I his relations with the defendant, who
at that time was a teacher in the Wau
esha normal school. Following the
‘•hooting. Miss Lusk fired two bullets
into her own body but failed in her at
tempted suicide.
OUR PRAYER
IS. MW Kill [Jllll
leM'S BI DECEMBER I
i Navy. Climbs From Fourth to
Second Place t Senator •
Lewis Says
.
CHICAGO. May- 30.—Senator James I
. j Hamilton Lewis said in a speech here I
today that the United States now has I
1,000.000 soldiers in foreign lands and I
that by December I it will be numerical
ly equal to that of England.
1 He said that 700.000,000 pound? of
j explosives are in process of manufac-
. I ture. The ordnance department has
spent, he said, $776,000,000 for projec
tiles. and 75,000,000 projectiles are on
their way to General Pershing. One thou
sand rifles are being manufactured daily
and 3,500,000,000 rounds of small-arm
am.unition has been contracted for Last
month, he said, we produced 275,000,000
, rounds. He placed the machine guns con
, traded for at 350,000 and added that
I 100.000 have been ‘delivered. By July
1, he added, we shall be producing 18,000
a month.
The American navy, the speaker said,
has climbed from fourth to second po
i sition among the world’s fleets. Me have
' 150 warships in European waters and
I fifty others of a war character. There
are 400,000 men in the navy and by
■ October I there will be half a million
I he added.
Clemenceau Narrowly
i . J
. Escapes Capture by Huns
i 1
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PARIS, May 30. Clemen
ceau had the narrowest possible escape
■' from falling into German hands yester
day, according to the Petit Journal. He :
left a certain point on the front only a
few miutes before the arival of a patrol
I of forty Uhlans.
When the Germans entered the little
; town the premier had just quit, they |
I cornered a few of the French who had '
: -remained, including a general, who was :
i examining positions with a field glass,
the newspaper adds. The general was
I ; killed in the encounter.
i
Germans Warned Not
To Expect Too Much
i
ZURICH. May 30.—■ An official notice
from grand headquarters, warning the
; 1 people not to expect the advance to con
! tinue at the same rate it has for the
• ; past few days, was published in Ger
, i man newspapers today.
“The enemy’s resistance is desperate.’’
> i the notice continued. “Counter attacks
s I are to be expected. Our losses hax’e
. I been only commensurate with the ini-
. portance of the struggle. ’
AMERICAN WOMEN SHE
PROUD TO SERVE NATION
Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Daniels
Send Inspiring Messages
to Countrywomen
i WASHINGTON. May 30. —On this
j “most solemn of Memorial days” the
i women of America should “add to our
i tributes vows of service,” was the mes
! sage sent to soldiers' mothers today by
Mrs. Newton D. Baker and Mrs. Jose
phus Daniels.
From Mrs. Newton D. Baker, wife of
the secretary of war:
“Never were the memories of those
soldiers and sailors who have already
gone before more dear to us than today
as the women of America are bidding
good-by to sons, brothers and husbands,
who are fighting for the preservation of
the democracy tor which those others
died. Let us as we strew the water
ways with flowers and decorate the
I graves not forget the women who then
: so bravely shared, as we must in all
i times share, the hardship atvi sacrifice.
I They also shared the vision of the ideals
; for which our country stnd?. Let us
' today add to our tributes vows of serv
i ice so that we may say to those who go
i to protect our security, ‘we. too. are
ready to serve.’ ”
From Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of
the secretary of the navy:
“This is the most solemn of Me
morial days. Let every tear we shed
today inspire us with new courage-, new
faith. We women of America have giv
en our men to a sacred cause, and for
the sake of the cause we rejoice we
have given them. We, who are mothers,
know only too well how to conceal ->ur
I heartbreaks. Today we shall stand with
I dry eyes, we mothers cf America, and
j with resolute voice cry, ‘Call on us, my
country! We serve” ”
American Casualties to
Date Number 6,463;
800 Killed in Action
WASHINGTON. May 30. —Memorial
I day finds America's roll of honor for the
' great war to (fate totaling 6,463. Casual
; ties reported are divided as follows:
Killed in action, SOO: killed by acci
dent. 261: died of disease. 1.122; lost at
' sea. 291: died of other causes. 84; wound
ed. 3,598: captured. 99; missing, 208.
; Total. 6.463.
Cured His Daughter's Fits
A well-known resident cf Milwaukee,
Wis., 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 is so grateful for her
recover: that he will gladly mail a bot
; tie of this wonderful medicine in plain
sealed wrapper, free, to any sufferer
who writes him. If you, a friend, or
a relative, suffer, write R. P. N.
18 Island Axe., Milwaukee. Wis., and-get
a free bottle. —(Advt.)
NUMBER 71.
GEMS CAPTURE
SOISSONS. BUT ME
HALTED ST. RHEIMS'
Wedge Is Driven Eighteen
Miles Into Aisne Front Be- ’
fore Foch's Army of Maneu
ver Stops Prussian Hordes '
NEW YOIJK. May 30.—Summary of '
European Cables io the Associated ’
Press.) —General Foch’s reserves have
begun to come into action in the fight i
against the powerful German thrust 1
southward from the Aisne and the ene
my is finding his progress increasingly
difficult in consequence.
Again the allied flanks are standing
firm and while Soissons has been lost on
the west, Rheims is still holding out on
the easterly edge of the battle front.
The chief progress of the Germans
revealed in today’s official reports was
in the center of their advance, where
some three miles additional ground have
been covered from Loupeigne, twelve .
miles north of the Marne, to Fere-En-
Tardenois.
Tjie blunt edge of the German wedge
is shown to run here from Fere-Ep-
Taddenois. about 10 1-2 miles directly
east to Vezilly, 15 y-2 miles southwest
of Rheims.
Along this line the Germans are •.
about eighteen miles south of the
Chemin des Dames, giving them a pene- :
tration of approximately that distances
at—the beginning of the flfth day of
their offensive.
The steadiness of the allied flanks
under the heavy German pressure is. !
one of the outstanding indications in
the Paris official report. The Germans
for instance, attempt after at- '
tempt to debouch from Soissons after ’
gaining that town, but the determined
French in the outskirts prevented the
enemy from achieving this object.
To the southeast, the French reserves
are coming into play and here the allies ’
are resisting the enemy in engagements !
of extreme violence along the road from
Soissons to Hartennes-Et-Taux, seven
and a half miles southeast of Soissons.
Fere-En-Tardenois. 8 1-2 miles south
west of Hartennes-Et-Taux. apparently
marks the limit of the German advance '
toward the southwest, with Verily j
10 1-2 miles eastward, representing the ‘
extreme southeasterly progress of the
enemy.
From Vexllly, the front trends north
eastward. BrouiHet is the next point
mentioned In the official communique
and it lies 3 1-2 miles north of Vezilly '
and only slightly to the east if a nortli
and-south line running through the lat
ter town.
Brouillet is thirteen miles southeast
of Rheims and along the ten-mile line
from that point to Thlllois, three miles
east of Rheims. and thence trending
northeastward above the cathedral city,
the Franco-British defensive line is re
ported to have broken all the German »s
--saults and to have maintained the front
intact.
Soissons fell to the Germans a*ter a
fierce fight in tjie streets of the city
for several hours, and the French were
last reported holding tenaciously to the
western suburbs. The enemy advance
to Soissons has not yet affected greatly
the French line eastward from Mont- |
didier, which the Germans apparency
hope to bend by their success en
the Aisne. The curve in the battle line
northwest of Rheims has been wiped
out and from Soissons eastward the line
runs southeast and then east into the
Champagne.
In the center* of the forty-flve-mile
front where the German progress has
been greatest, the enemy forces are
near Loupeigne, four miles north of the
river Ou req. and twelve miles north of
the Marne. The fighting is most entire
ly on territory untouched by the war
since 1914. Berlin, In its latest report,
claims the number of prisoners has in
creased to 25,000. _ |
Apparently the Germans have used a
large part of their reserves in. the q£-
fensixe across the Aisne. as they have
not taken advantage of the movement
here to strike elsewhere on the northern
front as might have been expected. The
course of the fighting Wednesday Indi
cates -the possibility tha’ the German
crown prince will try to strke west
ward along the Aisne, Instead of at
tempting to force his way nearer tae
Marne.
Except for some sharp fighting
Cantigny where the Americans haxte
pulsed 'German counter attacks againdt
their new positions, there has been lit
tle fighting on the line north of Sois
sons. A local German attack against
the French north of Mont Kemmel «i
the Lys battlefield was repulsed com
pletely. I
French Hold Everywhere r
In Furious All-Night Fi&ht
PARIS. May 30. —The battle along the
fighting front continued all night, with
the French maintaining the western
outskirts of Soissons, the war office an
nounced today.
Northwest of Rheims the Franco-
British forces broke all the German as
saults and maintained the defensive po
sitions.
French reserves are continuing to ar
rive at tbe front and the German ad
vance is oeing resisted with great
tenacity.
The Germans made repeated attempts
to break through the defense in the
Soissons region, but were each time
held up by the determine 1 French re
sistance.
In the center of the German advance
fighting is taking place in the neigh
borhood of Vezilly (approximately
eighteen miles south of the Chemin des
Dames, where the German attack waa
launched on Monday >.
The statement follows:
’’The battle continued with undimin
ished violence during the night. French
troops energetically maintained the
western outlets of Soissons, and the en
emy, notwithstanding repeated efforts,
was not able to debouch from the town
“Further south engagements of ex
treme violence developed in the region
of the road between Soissons and Har
tenr.es, and on the front between Fere-
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