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GERMANS HAVE CROSSED RIVER AISNE
ENGLISH TENSION HIGH OVER
GERMAN IRISH PLOTS
LONDON, May 28.—Parliament re
assembled today after a short Whit
suntide vacation.
+ Although the business formerly set
for discussion was not exciting mem
bers met in keen anticipation of some
official utterance regarding the alleged
German-Irish plot and the arrests of
the Sinn Feiners.
The Irish nationalist members have
not returned to London. It is under
stood that they will not appear at
Westminister until after an important
party meeting at Dublin Thursday.
In their absence certain Liberal mem
bers have decided to ask whether the
govermment proposed to bring the
prisoners to trial, and whether any
evidence of the plot will be divulged.
OVER 109,000 TONS LAUNCHED
DURING WEEK
LONDON, Ma;—z—??t—'i‘en steel ves
sels totalling sixty-three thousand
four hundred and six tons were coii
pleted for the shipping board this
week ending May 25.
;i There were eighteen launchings
during the week, totaling a hundred
and nine thousand seven hundred
tous.
NOTICE.
The Food Regulations provide
that we can use only 80 per
cent. of the sugar we used in
1917, This means that we will
put out one fifth less bottled
Coca-Cola than our normal trade
demands.
1t will he impossible for us to
supply our customers with, all
they require, and there will be
days when we have 1O Coca-
Cola to offer.
We are endeavoring to distrib
ute our reduced output among
% pur customers on an equitable
pagis, and ask their co-operation
and consideration in the strict
shservance of these regulations.
1f sugar will help win the war,
let'’s all help to conserve it.
" (ORDELE
BOTTLING CO.
CORDELERE, GEORGIA
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
WEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
SERIOUS CHARGE
IS AGAINST
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{JIM ED BRIDGES HELD FOR STAT
| UTORY OFFENSE AFTER PRE
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i preliminary trial yesterday after
noon before Justice Malone placed
Jim Ed Bridges, a young Eight street
grocer, behind the bars with a charge
{against him involving a statutory cap
}ital offense and at the same time re
iveale(l developments in the colored
quarter of the city Sunday afternoon
;that were indeed revolting. But for
é(he counselling of some of the cooler
'hea(ls among the negroes there might
lhave been bloodshed and this time
-t.he case involved the reverse situa
btion to that which has prompted the
‘lynchings of late in this state.
Under the influence of liquor Bridg
¢s is charged with having gone to the
[co]omd section Sunday afternoon
;where at the point of a gun he drove
a colored girl’s male companion away
l_and then took her into a house where
the occupants, reputed as the family
of a respected, hard working negro,
Twere driven out.
2‘ With the house shut up and threats
\'.oi shooting against any one entering,
Bridges is said to have dared the ne
i;groes gathering about the home to of
fer violence. After Chief of Police,
Lee Sheppard had been called, thel
house was forced open, when Bridges
made a hasty retreat out the back!
way and attempted to escape. He was !
arrested and relieved of his revolver!
and later locked up. '
Among the negroes who gatheredi
about the home that Bridges claimed
by force were some of the best color-!
ed people and these kept the crowdl
from breaking into the house and do
ing violence, according to the informa-{
‘tion coming out at the trial yesterday
afternoon. There were guns and pis
tols and plenty of them. There were
?ulsu cooler heads that kept almost per
:l'ect negro behavior until an officer
“could be had.
i Those who held the crowd apnd kept
llorder said they did so with the full
hope of keeping members of their
!own race from being lynched for doing
‘ Bridges violence and with the addition
| all belief that justice would be done in
| the courts.
l The case against Bridges was con
' ducted by Solicitor General J. B. Wall
%and Attorney A. S. Bussey conducted
i Bridges defense. It developed that
| the girl Bridges took with him was
‘oue that by common knowledge he
fwas supposed to have kept. :
WITH PRES. WILSON
NOT KNOWN WHO SOUGHT CON
FERENCE
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood, who has been detach
ed as a commander of the Eighty-ninth
Division and ordered to San Francisco
to command the department of the
west, was to see President Wilson
late today.
It is not known whether he sought
the engagement or whether the presi
dent sent for him.
\FLVING CADET KILLED
| IN FALL OF PLANE
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| SANANTONIO. May 28— Flying
. Cadet Paul Curris, of Minneapolis
" was killed in the fall of an airplane
last night near here it is announced
| today.
HUNS BADLY BEATEN
ON NORTHERN FRON'
CASUALTY LIST CONTAINS
THIRTY EIGHT NAMES TODAY
WASHINGTON, May 28.—A casu
alty list of thirty-enght names came
in today as follows: Killed in action,
7; died of wounds, 1; wounded sever'e
ly, 18; died of disease, 5; died of ac
g:ident, 1; missing in action, 6.
The officers named included Maj-
Rauol Lufberry, previously reported
in press dispétches as killed in action.
Private James ‘Burton of Salada, 8. 0.
died of disease. "
MANY ACTIVITIES
APRIL 6, 1918-APRIL 6, 1919. DESIG
NATED AS TIME FOR WELFARE
WORK.
You may be SUD_;‘:;(I to know that
so desperate is the need for a know
ledge of proper child care that in many
parts of our own country a new-born
baby has less chance for life than its
father fighting in France.
That is why the Child Welfare As
sociation is devoting all its resources
to the great task of arousing America
to the significance of the needs of
children during the war.
The time is ripe now. People’s minds
are open; absent fathers make tender
hearts; and the Children’s Year cam
paign ofters the opportunity for driv
ing home the Ilessons the war has
taught England and France and is al
ready teaching America, of the vital
need for conserving childhood when
we are making such heavy sacrifice of
our manhood and womanhood.
This is thw greatest opportunity’
ever given tlfe women of America to
teach parents what they must do, and
each community what it must do, to
give the nation’s children healthy
bodies, strong minds and strudy
characters.
1t is pre-eninently the time to show
the nation a great vision of a new gen
eration well born and weil trained—-
a generation equal to the task of re
constructing the world after the war.
The local Advisory Board is plan
ning to help with this werk in Cor
dele. The first number on their pro
gram is a better Babies Week, June
8. Among the features which will
j.make this week a success are an ex
ihibit at the Court House, free lantern
i slides, a parade of young children and
a Baby Show. All mothers who have
babies under four or five years of age
whom they wish to enter, or who have
children four or five years old who
l would like to be in the parade, please
. notify Miss McDonald at the Court
t House as soon as possible.
| TRolieE.
’ The Banks of Cordele will be clos
led Thursday, May 30th on account of
'National Memorial Day and also ac
count of the day being set aside by
the president ag a Day of prayer.
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Y Friends of Mrs. Nellie Patterson
'who has been at Cordele Sanatorium
i the past several weeks, will be pleas
| ed to know that she was suffiently re
‘covered on Monday to be removed
’ home.
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’ To Drive Out Malaria
| And Build Up the System
| Take the Old Standard GROVE'S
‘TASTLESS chill TONIC. You .know
what you are taking, as the formula
is printed on every label, showing it
jis Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form.
i The Quinine drives out the malaria,
'the Iron builds up the system. 60
l cents.—Tues.tf.
CORDELE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MAY 28 1918,
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HEAVY BATILE IS
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RAGING IN
IF’I’!ENCH AND B—I;ITI'_I_SH BOTH HEA
e ILY ENGAGED
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i The crown prince's armies strik
ing south from Chenen De Dames.
have pushed on rapidly and affected
a crossing of the Aisne on a front of
of twenty miles between Vailly and
{Barry-au-Bac. In addition th'ey have
gone some distance south, striking for
’the river Vesle.
" Both the French and the British
are still heavily engaged today.
' The German attack in Flanders was
evidently a subsidary affair.
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Beaten in North
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, May 28.—Britisi and French
troops this morning launched a coun
‘ter attack in Flanders east of Dicke
lbauch Lake. The attack began well
'and its success would make the ene
'.‘my's assault yesterday a complete and
cosily failure.
: Yesterday between Locre and Voor
!mezeele the Germans are believed to
Ehave semployed four divisions on one
part of the front measuring six thous
! and yards.
| The enemy was punished so severely
;‘ that the French on the right flank (liq
'not get to close quarters with them.
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| German Raider in Paris !
PARIS, AMu,v 28.—German aviatorb{
attempted last night to reach Purisg
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SPECIES OF GRIPPE IS
AFFECTING SPANISH PEOPLE
MADRID, May .28.—iThe business
life of Madrid is almost paralyzed
by an outbreak of a species of grippe.
The exact nature of the disease has
not been determined. Although not
fatal, reforts from the provinces show
that about thirty percent of the popu
lation is affected.
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I. C. WILLIAMS DIED OF TYPHOID
LAST NIGHT AT STARLINGS
I. C. Williams, employee at the Star
ling saw Mill near Coney died last
night from an attack of typhoid after
suffering some time. He was 61 years
of age and is survived by a family.
The family came here from south
Georgia and had been with the mill
since ist start. The funeral will occur
this afternoon and the remains will
be interred at Cedar Creek.
Re. Stafford of Homerville, Ga., will
conduct services,
They bombs in the suburbs but will
prevented from flying over the city.
BATTLEING FIERCELY |
PARIS, May 28.—The Germans last
night crossed the Aisne between Barry-
Au-Bac and Vailly, it is announced
officially.
The battle continues fircely between
the Vesle and Aise rivers,
WASHINGTON,May, 28.—The crea
‘tion of an estimate procurement bhu
‘reau to have charge of the adminis
tration of the May Power program of
| the general staff is the most important
i of the changes made,
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; Italians Capture Prisoners
| ROME, Mayv 28.—Italians Monday
|night broke into Teutonic defenses
'Caposile lower Piave to a depth of
éseventy-five vards and captured four
'hundred and thirty-thi'ze prisoners.
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' BERLIN, (via London) May 27—
The battle for possession of the Chem
lin-des- Dames has been raging since
f early morning. Troops of the German
iurown prince have taken the ridge by
storm along the whole of its extension
I'aml now are fighting on th: Aisne,
‘ac(:m'dlng to the official statement is
‘sued by the war office tonight.
Meet With failure Everywhere
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, May 27.—(8y the Associat
ed Press).—Von Hindenburg's troops
thus far have met with failure virtual-
Jy at all points in their attack against
‘the French in the Locre sector,
In the early stages the enemy suc
ceeded in driving in the defending po
citions at some points, but counter
attacks threw the Germans back m‘
most of these places, and the French
virtually re-established their line.
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Germar, Hordes Thrown Back
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
Y"RANCE, May 27.—Launching a heav‘v{‘
‘offensive at dawn today against the{
French in the Locre Voormezeele sec
tor. the Germans failed of their ob
jectives at virtually all points. At
some points the defending patrols
were driven in, but vigorous «:uumer‘
attacks threw the Germans back at
most places. Virtually the entire
French line was re-established.
Hard flighting at this hour still cou-
DAILY EDITION
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'COMMISSION WILL HEAR THEM
WITH VIEW OF ADJUSTMENT :
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WASHINGTON, May 28— (‘nnl-:
plaints against the order of I)irw'tm'f
General McAdoo increasing t'rnighli
‘and passenger rates will be heard by
‘the Interstate Commerce Commission
despite the action of that body yvester
day in approving them without hear
ings.
It was pointed out today by rail
road officials, it was said, that the sug
gestions will be welcomed either from
individuals and concerns or from
state railroad commissions. It s
hoped in this way that satisfactory
adjustment of the new rates can be'
'mu(le.
tinued on the northern part of th': bat
‘tle front. Just south of Dicfebusch
Labe the Germans forced their way
into the French line for a distance of
800 yards and also got into the front
line system at another point in this
'regicn. In both thiese places the ene
my was clinging desperately to his
newly acquired positions but the
French were dealing with the situa
‘tion, which appeared to be satisfac
lmry at the latest reports.
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. PARIS, May 28. —Threz were killed
‘:illl(l fourten injured in the bombard
]mem today by the German long range
iguns,
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! Attack American Hospitals.
| WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
I‘I"KAN(TE. May 28.-—What was appa
ircmly a deliblarate attempt to wrechk
gthc American hospitals in the rear
jof the Amuerican lines in Vicardy o
{ curred Sunday afternoon when the
:Gcl‘rlxarls hurled high explosive gas
Eshells within a hundred yards of two
I'huspi(uls. Fortunately no damage was
done.
’ Germans Cross Aisne. -
' LONDON, May 28—The Germans
| yesterday forced passage of the Aisne
;west of the British sector, compelling
Ithe left of the British line to fall
i back, the war office announces.
| The enemy maintained pressure all
{da,v yesterady against the British on
f‘the Aisne front. Severe fighting con
;tinues today on the Lys front. Local
ffighting was resumed this morning
!‘uml the Germans are developing at
!tacks of great strength along the en
iliru Aisne front.
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COUNTRY NEED
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- GREAT COAL
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" PHILADELPHIA, May 28.—The pro-
Idu«'tinn of coal in the Unitzd States
;i’m‘ the year beginning- April 1 must
ylro,-;u'h 735,000,000 net tons, J. D. A.
Morrow, general director of distribu
;n'nn for the fuel administration today
told the national coal association in
‘convention here.
i This means an increase of 85,000
fmm tons over last y2ar’s production.
'h is doubtful, he said, if the anthracite
iiprudur'ilm can be increased, therefore,
;S:’s.mm,umn tons must come from the
| bituminous mines.
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If Col. Rocsevelt has any real friends
| they can prove their friendship in no
!he:lter way than by sewing a button
|on his tongue. ¥
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Y WITH EACH PURCEASE OF (5
VHEAT FIOUR FOR HOME USE, (Y7} AR
wou rmst sovauso an out, SN
AHOUNT OF OTHER CREALS. R 0
ENEMY RAIDERS RAN PAST
THEIR OWN TRENCHES
AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS ON
FRENCH ®RONT, May 28.—1 n the si
multaneous attack of three German
raiding parties against the American
position in Picardy today the enemjr_
penetrated the American first line t@
a depth of 200 yards. A brilliant cbulfi
ter attack threw the Germans ont
and the Americans kept on until the®
‘runlurml the enemy first line wher_§
‘they remained until ordered back. ¥
" The Germans sufferad heavily in the
fighting. A heavy German bombar(if
ment is going on while American fi;
nerals are being held, but the eeré}
mony has not been disturbed. ;
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snat Bightng: . oA
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY [N
FRANCE, May 28 -German raiding
troops attacked the Americans in thé
Luneville sector this morning.
| 'n sharp fighting the raiders loqt
| five men killed. The Americans safe
fered some casualties. ’-’:
WANTED MORE ACTIVE DUTIES
WESTERN CAMP ’
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Maj. Gen.
Wood's request that he be given more
active duty than as commander of the
western department was unduraluu:l
today to be granted by the war de
partment. ‘
He will L'e assigned to train another
division of troops, probably at Camp
Funston. 4
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