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rKIRTY-.NINTH YEAR.
• ENGLAND THOROUGHLY AROUSED
BY GERMAN AIR MID CALLING
FOR INCREASE H PROTECTION
British Press Denounces “Miserable
Display of Incompetence” on
Part of Defenders
CHILDREN OF SOLDIERS AT
FRONT PRINCIPAL VICTIMS
Removal of Those Responsible For
Inadequate Protection Against
Airplane Raids is Demanded
LONDON, July 9. —The morning pa-|
pers here today subordinate everything
to Saturday's air raid, most of them
taking the government severely to task
for what they term inadequate prepara
tions against raids. The incident is
described by most of the angry com
mentators as disgraceful alike to the
war and navy departments. The remo- [
val of those responsible for the “mis
erable display of incompetence” is de
manded.
Many victims are hovering about the
smoldering ruins, searching for me
mentos in their homes. The worst suf
with no means of sustaining them
selves.
Lloyd's News demanding greater air
plane production, says:
“The raiders came at their leisure.
Their flight over London was so slow
that it looked like a parade. They
seemed to despise our defenses.”
The Observer asserts that most of the
enemy machines were comparatively
slow biplanes, and that the fast British
machines made rings around them. It
is held that the low altitude maintained
by the Germans showed their con
tempt for the city’s defenses.
The Weekly Dispatch contends that
the people are in an ugly temper and
no longer of a mood to endure official
obstinacy.
The Journal quotes the lord mayor as
saying that the case of reprisals has
been enormously strengthened by re
cent happenings.
Reynolds’ newspaper suggests it
would have been well if members of the
war cabinet and the government had
gone anion? the people and heard their
comments on the defenseless state of
the capital.
"The man who would attempt to jus
tify yesterday’s defensive operations by
the requirements of the army in France
could rejoice if the crowds left him un
flayed," the newspaper declares.
"Among street groups as well as at
clubs the feeling is one of enlightened
and unanimous bitterness.
“Every Londoner recognizes that Sat
urday’s raid was one of deliberate
murder and terrorism. If there was
military damage, it was only a modi
■um. The man in the streets wants
policy of reprisals on Rhenish towns
put into effect immediately.”
Kennedy Jones, director of food
economy, said there must be no more
shilly-shallying with the question of
reprisals and disquieting reports that
Lord French is hampered in the dis
charge if his duties by other depart
ments must be disposed of once and
for all.
ONE AMERICAN LOST
ON TORPEDOED SHIP
NEW YORK, July 9.—One American
citizen was among the four members of ■
the crew ofi the American steamship I
Orleans, who were drowned when the!
vessel was torpedoed and sunk by a[
Kerman submarine. I
GOVERNMERT Ml*
TAKE OmWIRDS
NEW YORK, July 9. —Commandeer-
ing of shipyards in the New York and
I New Jersey districts by the govern
ment i spredicted by 'officials of ship
yards companies today. Labor leaders
said they contemplated calling a gen
eral strike immediately, unless certain
demands recently presented by them
arc met.
SUMTER COUNTY BOYS
TO TIKE SHORT COURSE
Five Sumter county boys left this
afternoon for Athens, Ga., to take the
"Short Course” at the State College of
Agriculture. They were Carlisle Buch
anan, B. P. Buchanan, Austin Greene,
Neal Ray, Jr., Tom Judson Morgan.
J. G. Oliver, field agent, accompanied,
the boys to Athens and will spend a
month there assisting in the instruc
tions of Georgia boys who take the'
“Short Course” and conferring with
the officials regarding the boll weevil
work in various sections of the state.
Many Sumter county boys go each
year to Athens to take the "Short
Course” and the delegation this year is
thoroughly representative of the most
progressive type of young farmers.
THREE BILLION BUSHEL
CORN CROP ESTIMITE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 9.—A
three billion bushel corn crop is esti
mated as the farmers' answer to Pres
ident Wilson's call for more foodstuffs I
for the allies use. This is far above'
the average crop produced, and more|
than 600,000,000 bushels more than'
that produced list year.
Spring wheat condition today was
placed at 83.6 of normal.
ASSISTANT JAP N AVAL
ATTAITIES ARE NAMED
TOK 10, July 9. —The Japanese gov
ernment government has created the
post of assistant naval attache to the!
embassies at AVashington and London.
Paris and Petrograd, the duties being
to assist or to act as advisers to the
regular attaches and to investigate the
naval affairs of the countries to which l
they are assigned. The first officer at-1
tached to the Japanese embassy at
: Washington in the new capacity is
I Commander Viscount Masamichi Hotta, 1
1 who is the son of the late Viscount
' Hotta, a Daimyo peer and the minister
I of communication in 1908. |
RECRUITING OFFICE FOR AMERICUS LIGHT INFANTRY IS NOW OPEN IN THIS CITY-THE NATION C ALLS
AMERICUSTIMES-RECORDER
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. MONDAY AFTERNOON. JULY 9. 1917
WISER CONFERS WITH
NEUTRAL AMBISSIBBRS
LONDON, July 9. —According to re
ports reaching Amsterdam from Berlin
forwarded by Exchange Telegraph,
Emperor William invited neutral am
bassadors and ministers to a confer
i ence Saturday.
SUITH IIHEIL!
raiISJBDWH
ATLANTA, Ga., July 9.—C01. J. R.
Smith, of Atlanta, “the man who made
tv.o governors,” and who probably has
had more identity with public life than
' any one man in Georgia, who never
' sought political preferment, in a salty
and gloveless communication calls on
United States Senator Thos. W. Hard-
■ wick “to answer the whole book of
1 his record, explain his whole attitude
■ to the people of Georgia,” in respect
■ to his persistent opposition to the dem
-1 ocratic national administration, and
• charges that Senator Hardwick has
i never shown the slightest resentment
i to any of those German government
outrages “which the people of this
country do resent.”
Mr, Smith takes the position that in
the interest of the welfare of the whole
country, it became the duty of some
true American to call Senator Hard
wick to account after his Columbus
, speech, and the senator's “letter of de
fense” to call him directly to book. He
then expressed the hope that the news
; papers would fulfill that duty but was
■ then determined, if they did not do so
' he felt called upon, “as an American
. citizen and a Georgian proud of his
state, to see to it that Senator Hard
wick is not permitted to single out his
own material and set in the background
I the remainder."
I
BIS EXPLOSION HI
MARE ISLiNO YARD
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 9 - Two
storehouses at the Mare Island navy
yard were restroyed by an explosion
early today, and twelve or fifteen mag
azines badly damaged. The force of
the explosion broke a thousand win
dows in aVllejo, half a mile away.
Following the explosion, fire devel
oped in the wrecked buildings, and a
desperate effort is being made to pre
vent it spreading to other buildings,
’.■here tons of high explosives are
I stored.
j The fire was gotten under control
Iby 2:30 o’clock, and later it was re-
I ported eight persons were killed, and
may others hurt. Officials at the sta
tion said they would not make a cas
ualty report until full evtent of the
damage and casualties sustained haJ
been definitely learned.
I Two persons on a ferryboat two miles
I distance from the scene of the explos
ion were injured by concussion.
HOMES PUN
TO STAND SEIGE
PEKING, China. July 9.—General
Chang, head of the royalist forces, is
• provisioning the "Forbidden City” and
J strengthening its defensive positions
today. This indicates in the event his
' tioops are defeated at Feng Tai, a
i last stand is to be made there.
AM ERICANS MOVE
OP BEHIND LINE
A FRENCH PORT. July 9.—General
Sibert, second in command of the
United States troops in France, pre
pared today to move with his men to
a permanent camp located within
hearing of the German guns, although
not in direct range. The town took a
holiday today in honor of the depar
ture of the Americans.
687,000 MEN ID BE
TAKEN DRAFT
WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 9.—lit
is unofficially indicated this afternoon
that 685,000 men will be drafted to
serve in the new national army.
Double this number is expected to be
summoned for examination, however,
as exemptions, it is estimated, will re
lease about 50 per cent, of those sum
moned from service. It is understood
this afternoon that the drawing of men
for service will occur Saturday.
I
CIRCUS SENDS LIONSKIN
4
RUGS TO AMERICUS MEN
Two beautiful lionskin rugs are en
route to Americus and on arrival here ;
they will grace the homes of Frank
Lanier and L. G. Council, who have
been informed of this fact by Messrs.
Jerry Mugivan and Bert Bowers, pro
prietors of the John Robinson’s Ten
Big Shows, which wintered in this
city.
Letters were received this morning
by both Mr. Council and Mr. Laniei*
and within a. day or two the rugs are
expected to arrive. The big circus is
filling its schedule of dates in the
northern states, and although bad
weather early in the season proved
somewhat of a handicap, the shows are
now playing to huge crowds.
NAMED IS MEMBER OF
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
i
/ L. G. Council has been appointed by;
President Rufus Brown of the Geor-ia
Bankers’ Association, as one of the
members of a committee from that org
anization to attend a conference to be
held on July 16th at Columbia, S. Cy'
for the purpose of discussing methods
of operation with F.J. Von Engelken,
president of the Federal Land Bank ■
located in Columbia.
The other members of the confer
ence committee are C. B. Lewis, of Ma
con and Orville A. Park, attorney for'
the Georgia Bankers’ Association. Mr
Council was formerly president of the;
association and his selection as one of;
the members of this committee is a dis-1
tinct tribute to his ability as a banker, j
<1 RM ANS TRYING TO EXTEND
FINANCIAL POWER IN HOLLAND
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands. July 9.
The lierlin Tageblatt, in a financial ar
t’cle, calls attention to the increasing;
danger of German financial power be
ii g concentrated in the hands of a few
through the growth of “multiple direc-j
terships.” German bankers, it says
are rapidly accumulating directorships
in all the concerns in which their banks
are interested. Thus, the number of
directorships held by Louis Hagen, a
Cologne millionaire is 58; arl Fursten
berg, of Berlin, has 55; Herr von
12; Baron von Oppenheim and two or |
three others have 40 each; while there
is a large group of bankers and indus
trial leaders who boast of between 30
and 40 each.
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NATIONAL GUARD NOW
NEEDSJOO,OOO MEN
WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 9.
Latest reports to the war department
show that the total strength of the
national guard now is something over
300,000. More than 100,000 men still
are needed to bring the guard up
to war strength and vacancies pro
bably will have to be by draft.
A gain of more than 30,000 enlisted
men is shown for the last ten days of
June. Only a portion of this number
represents enlistments during this pe
riod, the total being swollen by offi
federal recognition of a number of na
tional guard units recently authorized
and formed.
This recognition was given prior to
June 30, so that the states might re
ceive full credit for all their men un
der arms in computing allwoances in
making the draft.
FATAL AUTD SMASH
OCGIIRREL SUNDAY
ATLANTA, Ga., July 9.—One man is
dead and five others suffering from se
rious injuries as the result of an auto
mobile smash which occurred Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the inter
section of Peachtree road and Piedmont
highway just one-half mile beyond
Duckhead.
When the collision occurred the
Paige machine, whose occupants were
all injured made a complete somersault
and then turned turtle, pinning some
of the passengers between the machine.
The occupants of the other car, an
Overland belonging to Hon. C. B. Hay
good, of Alpharetta, representative of
Milton county in the house, were not
seriously hurt.
The Overland car, which was driven
by Paul Gilstrap, of Alpharetta, and in
which Mr. Haygood, his wife, small son
and daughter and son-in-law, Grady-
Wood. of Alpharetta, were riding, was
going east along Piedmont road, and
the Paige car was going out reachtree
road when the collision occurred. One
of the cars was going at a high rate
of speed and the occupants of each car
Haim the other machine was at fault.
The dead and injured are :
Nageeb Hadded. dead.
Gus Ackle, internal injuries.
Solomon Monsour, bruises.
Fred Ayash, fractured skull.
George Ous, injuries about head and
; hands.
DEATH COMES TO
AGED LADY TODAY
Many in Americus and this vicinity ‘
Will be grieved to hear of the death of I
Mrs. Maggie P. Finch, which occurred;
this morning at ten o’clock at her res-]
| idence four miles from Americus on;
I the upper Dawson road, after an ill
! ness of two months. She was about
j eighty years of age and has spent the
i greater ; art of her long and useful life
i in Sumter county.
| She was the widow of the late W. P
| Finch, and is survived by four sisters,
I Mrs. Q. W. Fuller and Mrs. J. F. Bol
| ton of Americus, and Mrs. Mary Wilder
and Mrs. Lizzie Ratliff of Sumter coun
ty, three brothers, Joseph Walters of
Sumter county, John AV. Walters of
■Cordele, and James Walters of Atlanta.
Mrs. Finch was a consistent member
of Providence Methodist church and the
funeral will take place from this
I church tomorrow- morning at 10
o’clock, Rev. Tinley of Plains officiat
ing. Interment will be made at Prov
idence cemetery.
HUGE SUM ASKED
FOR HWiCS
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels asked
congress this afternoon to appropriate
$45,000,000 for naval aeronautics. This
amount is in addition to the hu?e sum.
previously asked for in the army pro
gram.
RUSSIANS POSH
FORWARD IN NEW
DRIVE IN EAST
NEW YORK, July 9.—(Compiled by
the Associated Press from European
cables during the day.)—New and pow
erful blows are being struck by the
Russians in Galicia. They have appar
ently broken the Austro-German line
west of Stanislau and south of Halicz.
Petrograd official reports say the
Russians not only made important
gains in the Stanislau region but de
clares that Russian cavalry there is
still chasing the enemy, the pursuit
having reached the Lukva river. Ha
licz is the gateway to Lemberg on the
south.
On the north the Russian onslaught
quickly stopped, although a" Russian
push from the northeast would hem in
Salik on the east side.
The Russian drive brought not only
additional territory under theircontrol,
but 7,000 prisoners and forty-eight
guns, including a dozen large-calibre
pieces.
North of Stanislau, the Russians con
tinue to hold the positions recently won
in the vicinity of Brizezan and Koniu
chy, where Austro-German counter at
tacks weje beaten off.
Only local fighting occurred on the
British western front today, but the
Germans are giving the French little
rest farther south, attack after attack
being launched there in the effort to
wrest strategic positions from the
French on the Chemin-des-dames pla
teau. The French war office reports
all of these were repulsed successfully.
BOYS OF COMPANY I
IN HIRD TRAINING
The Americus Light Infantry, now
at the mobilization camp at Macon, are
undergoing a period of as strenuous
training as ever was imposed on any
military organization. Lieut. B. C.
Hogue was in tihs city yesterday an
spoke in highest terms of the excellent
work the Company I boys are doing at
Camp Harris, standing up well under
the stiff program of drills, etc., that
has been arranged by the commanding
officer of the Georgia brigade.
The merit system is in vogue at
Camp Harris, all companies of each
i egiment marching in review before
the commanding officer at 10 a. in. each
day. Each campany making a perfect
i score is allowed one hour of recreation
iiom to until 11 o'clock, but those com
panies failing to score perfect marks
are compelled to drill durin- that hour
to improve their efficiency. The A. L.
I. has scored perfect marks on Wed
nesday and Friday, with an “extra
; good” mark on Thursday. The merit
system was inaugurated on Wednesday.
Only one othe rcompany of the Second
Georgia beside the A. L. I. scored a per
fect mark on Friday.
The following program went into ef
fect on Monday last and will be con
tinued for 10 weeks:
From 5:45 a. m. to 6:15 a. m.—Calis
thenics and marathon run.
Drill 7:30 to 8:30, then 30 minutes
rest period for reading of articles of I
war and army regulations.
Drill 9 to 10 o’clock, designated for
mation of close order.
Merit review at lo:"o a. m; all mak
ing perfect marks get one hour off
from 10 to 11.
From 11:00 to 11:45, study of the no
' nunciature of the rifle.
Officers’ meeting 11:45 to 13.
Mess period from 12:00 to 1:30.
Drill from 1:30 to 2:30 in bayonet'
exercise, under new manual adopte.’ I
from warfare in Europe.
From 2:30 to 3:30 p. m., bomb-throw.!
ing.
3:30 to 4:3o.—Semaphore signaling
Guard mount 5 p. m.
Battalion parade. 5:30 p. m.
Mess call for supper 6 p. m.
School hours, 7 to 9 p. m.
On Saturdays, calisthenics at regu
lar hour and company inspection from
8 to lo o'clock.
Sundays, Church call 9 a. m. Parade
5:30 p. m.
riTv
Veditionl
GERMANV FACES
MOST CRITICAL
JUNCTURE MH
BERLIN, July 9.—Unless all present
indications fail in the next few days,
the German empire is on the eve of a
momentous, if not historical, parlia
mentaly upheaval. Developments under
the golded dome of the Reichstag
building in the last forty-eight hours
point squarely to a significant re-align
ment in favor of sweeping electoral and
- parliamentary reforms, in spite of the
stubborn resistance of the reactionary.
' old guard.
Although the sessions of the maim
committee and of the constitutional
committee have been of an executive
nature, the press comments permit the
inference that the discussions of vital
1 subjects of governmental policy fre
' quently reached the boiling point. That
they have been of gravely significant
import is indicated clearly by the sud
' den decision to postpone the Saturday
plenary session, which was to have
marked the opening of debate and the
expected speech of Chancellor von
Bethmann-Hollweg. The absence of
1 the chancellor from the sessions In the
lost few days has caused general com
rdlent. Late yesterday it was an
nounced that the desire of the chan
' cellor to inform himself more thor
oughly on the nature of the commit
tee conferences was responsible for the
delay in the general sessions.
' Today marks the inauguration of
what promises to be one of the most
■ momentous parliamentary sessions in
! the history of the empire.
All of the reichstag factions remain
ed in individual groups until late last
night to decide what line of action
should be taken.
The Zeitung Ammitages says a depu
tation of six members of the ocial dem-
I ocratic party called on Chancellor von
I Bethmann-Hollweg last Friday for the
purpose of impressing the gravity of
the situation on him. The delegates in-
■ sisted that the chancellor make an
■ unequivocal declaration that the gov.
i ernment was prepared at any time to
enter into peace negotiations on the
. basis of the status quo ante. The
i deputation also demanded immediate
: introduction of parliamentary and elec
toral reforms urging the appointment
■ I of leading reichstag deputies to secre
t tarial and ministerial posts.
; Representatives of the Progressive
People’s party and of the National Lib
t erals also were in conference with the
i chancellor.
There are rumors that Prof. Adolf
i von Harnack, one of the most intimate
J advisers of the emperor, is slated to
i succeed Herr von Trott Zu Sola as
- Prussian minister of education. The
3 preesnt minister is said to be opposed
r to sweeping electoral reforms.
KISS (IF “TRIGGER FINGER”
II
t Ml BAR TO ENLISTMENT NOW
1 WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 9.
- Because the loss of the “trigger tinger’'
had prevented his enlistment, Walter
- Cogswell forse, age 19, of Binghamton,
- N. ¥., walked all the way from that city
to Washington to make personal appli
cation to the major general commaud-
I ant of the United States marine corps,
i Forse carried a sign on his back which
read "From Binghamton, N. Y., to
| Washington, D. C, to join the U. S.
[Marines. It’s worth it!”
Upon his arrival here young Forse
■ proved that the loss of the index finger
:’ os’ his right hand was no handicap in
j the performance of military duty, and
special authority was granted for his
[ enlistment. So far as is known, he is
!the first man, similarly handicapped,
!to pass the military authorities.
fiMERIGRN STEAMSHIP
TORPEBDEO SATURDAY
LONDON, July 9.—The American
steamship Massapequa was sunk Sat
urday by a German submarine. All
joi the crew were landed at a small
port twenty-eight miles from Brest to-
I day. The vessel was unarmed.
NUMBER 162.