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DAILY
FORTIETH YEAR.
GERMANY ANSWERS OUR PEACE TERMS
NO SURRENDER
OF lERRITORY
15 THE REPLY
CHANCELLOR, ADDRESSING THE
REICHSTAG, DECLARES THAT
GERMANY WILL NEVER CEDE
ALSACE-LORRAINE-
BERLIN, Jan. 24.—(Delayed.)
Count Von Hertling, the German chan
cellor, addressing the reichstag main
committee today, said the evacuation
of Russian territory is a question
which concerns only Russia and the
Central Powers, thus indicating that
the program of the Entente Allies re
garding the status of Russia is to be
ignored by Germany.
Commenting on the fourteen points
in the program of world peace set
forth by President Wilson, the chan
cellor said an agreement could be
reached without difficulty on the first
four points. Regarding the fifth, he
said some difficulties might be met
with. He said Germany had never
demanded the incorporation of Bel
gium into the empire by violence, and
that creation of the state of Poland
had been aheady decided by Germany
and Austria. Regarding “righting the
wrong of 1878,” the chancellor said
there could be no talk of ceding Al
sace and Lorraine to France by Ger
many.
Regarding points nine, ten and
eleven, Count von Hertling said he
must leave the answer in the first
place to Austria, but who Germany in
tends to defend energetically. He said
the concrete purpose outlined by Lloyd
George was unsatisfactory.
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H'JNDREDSOFTHOU
SANOS 111 PALESTINE
VAN TO RE-ORGANIZE SULTAN’S
ORCES REPORTED ABANDONED
BY VON FALKENHAYNE, NOW IN
CONSTANTINOPLE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25.
Because of the desertion of 160,000
Turkish troops between Constantino
ple and Palestine, Gen. Von Falken
hayn has abandoned the German plan
to re-organize the Turkish army, and
has returned to the Sultan’s capital.
He is credited with having an army of
300,000 Cb take the offensive against
the British in Palestine. Information
of this development hag reached the
war department in official dispatches.
The dispatches credit Gen. Allenby,
commander of the British forces in
Palestine, with reporting that “more
than 50 per cent, of the strength of
twenty-four Turkish divisions was
lost by desertions," and that “forty
one companies of storm troops which
left the Alexandretta district, each
300 strong, reached the front with
only four officers and 100 men per
company.”
Turkish officers are said to have
refused to support Falkenhayee’s plan
because they knew that the Turkish
troor>s were tired of the war. The
German general persisted, however,
but three days out from Constanti
nople he turned back in disgust.
Typhus is reported to be carrying
off large numbers of the people in
Turkey, 30 per cent, of the army
having died of the disease or become
incapacitated by it.
ANOTHER AMERICAN
IS KILLED IN ACTION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25.
General Pershing today reported that
another American soldier was killed
in action January 22nd, but gave no
details of the encounter. The. deal
man is Private Frei P. Thompson,
whose brother resides in Georgetown,
Ills.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
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“LIVEST LITTLE DAILY IN CEORCIA.”
FARMERS URGEO TO
ORDER FERTILIZERS
IN FOIL CAR LOTS
SUMTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF DE
FENSE SHOWS HOW FARMERS
CAN AID NATION IN ITS FIGHT
AGAINST PRSSIAMSM.
Chairman Franc Mangum, of the
Sumter County Council of Defense,
has just received some startling fig
ures showing the wasteage in car
space caused by less-than-car-load
shipments of merchandise, and in this
connection he urges upon Sumter far
mers especially the necessity fop or
dering fertilizers, which will soon
begin moving, in car-load quantities
only. Where there are several farm
ers in a community whose combined
fertilizer consumption will amount to
a carload, but no one of whom re
quires such quantity, Mr. Mangum
suggests that these farmers go togeth
er and order a carload of fertilizer,
distributing it among themselves af
ter arrival.
“It is shown by statistics gathered
by the American aßilway Association,”
says Mr. Mangum, “that in the trans
portation of fertilizer only about 47
per cent., or less than half, the car
capacity is now being used. Figures
for one month during 1917 show that
iu the movement of fertilizer on one
railroad alone, space to the amount
of 1532 cars was lost by small load
ing. As is well known, fertilizer can
not be loaded in the same car with
other commodities, because of the
disagreeable odor of the material.
“Conservation of the transportation
equipment of the country is one of the
paramount duties of the hour. The
shortage of coal in Americus, and
throughout Georgia, as all of us well
know, is largely due to the lad of
transportation equipment for moving
the fuel, and it is a grace question
whether the traffic of the United
States can be moved by the railroads
unless every freight car is loaded to
its full capacity.
“Because of these conditions, I urge
upon all farmers in this section, and
especially those of Sumter county, to
order their fertilizers —so far as possi
ble, their total requirements—at the
earliest possible moment. I also urge
upon dealers in and manufacturers of
fertilizers to co-operate with the
farmers and order shipments in max
imum car-loads. Otherwise, it may be
impossible for them to secure enough
fertilizer to satisfy even their bare
necessities.
“By acting at once, the farmers of
this county and section can do much
to relieve the present car shortage.
They can lessen by one-half the num
ber of cars needed for the movement
of fertilizer. They can perform a pa
triotic service, and at the same time
insure their supply in so fan as the
resources of the country make it pos
sible.”
n C. JONES IS
MENINGITIS VICTIM
Calvin C. Jones, aged about twenty
years, died at his residence in Atlanta
Wednesday night, after an illness of i
about a week, with meningitis. Mr.
Jones formerly lived in Americus,
where he graduated, and two years
ago moved to Atlanta with his family,
entering the School of Technology. He
would have graduated at the Technol
ogy school this year, had he lived. Mr.
Jones was a young man of unusually
bright mind, and was very popular
among his schooftnates and associates
Surviving Mr. Jones are his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Jones, of Atlanta,
and one sister, Miss Jones, of Atlanta.
His remains arrived on the 2:10 train
from Atlanta and were carried direct!
to Oak Grove cemetery, where services
and interment followed. Rev. Paul
W. Ellis officiated.
The pallbearers were Henry Walker, |
Chris Sherlock, Owen Poole. Henry
1 vnr'kin, Emmett Bolton and Dudley
Gatewood.
The sympathies of the many friends
of this young man deeply sympathize
with them in his death.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. JANUARY 25, 1918
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agement of a theatre on Broadway,
New York City—has inaugurated her
new venture with a proposition which
PEAGE FNMLS
WILL fiEJREHEWED
AUSTRIA AND GERMANY WILL
CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS ON
THE BASIS OF NO ANNEXATION*
AND NO INDEMNITIES.
LONDON, Jan. 25.—Austria will con
tinue peace negotiations with Russia
on a basis of no annexations and no
indemnity, according to a Vienna dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph,
quoting Count Czernin’s address be
fore the reichratch.
Count Czernin is also quoted as
saying:
“It is obvious to me that an ex
change of views between America and
Austria-Hungary might form the start
ing point for conciliatory discussions
among all th e states which have not
yet entered into peace negotiations."
Commenting on the fourteen points
in President Wilson’s war aims, Count
Czemin, is quoted as saying Austria-
Hungary and America are virtually in
agreement as to releasing great princi
ples for new arrangements after the
war, but said Austria-Hungary would
support Germany.
No Advance Toward Peace.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25.
Based on short cable outlines the
speeches of the German and Austrian
premiers to their representative par
liaments, the opinion is expressed by
officials here that no substantial ad
vance towards final peace has been
scored by the declaration. It is point
ed out Count Czernin used more con
ciliatory language, but that Count
Hertling’s adress was couched in the
Janguage of victory.
BIS Billow non
TO SWT IT Him
MACON, Ga., Jan., Jan. 25.—An
nouncement was made today that 22
army observers have be<|n ordered
to the balloon school in Macon from
Fort Omaha, Neb., for their finishing
training previous to leaving for France
to serve with General Pershing’s ex
peditionary force. This will increase
the number of students at the local
school to 44 there already being 22
here. Three big observation balloons
will be adtaifßdil i B ’’-eady
i,. use. Tb-M|jg ; Wj 'gy I
pleted the? j J
and after A XL J
be taught x.
women of the United States will ap
preciate. She says if you will give
her ideas which can be made profit
able on the stage she will give you
sugar, not money, in payment. Ehe
thinks sugar will draw more ideas
now than cash.
MRS. LEE ALLEN
DIEB HERE TODAY
SHE HAD BEEN ILL FOB ELEVEN
DAYS WITH PNEUMONIA—FUN
ERAL TAKES PLACE HERE TO
MORROW.
Mrs. Lee Allen died at her residence
on College street Friday morning at
six o’clock. Before her marriage she
was Miss Bee Clegg, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. P. C. Clegg, and had resid
ed in Americus for the past twenty
seven years. She was forty-seven
years of age, and had been ill for
eleven days with pneumonia.
Mrs. Allen was well known in mis
sionary work, and was a member of
the foreign and home mission socie
ties of the First Baptist church, in
which she took active part, and vras
one of its most interested workers and
did much good.
Mrs. Allen is survived by her hus
band, two daughters, Mrs. W. B. Wor
thy and Miss Annie Lucille Allen; two
sons, Lee Allen, Jr., and P. C. Allen;
also her mother, Mrs. P. C. Clegg, and
one sister, Mrs. E. B. Clements, of
Buena Vista, and two brothers. Sam
Clegg, of Americus, and Perry Clegg,
of Cordele.
The funeral services will be from
the First Baptist church Saturday
morning at 10 o’clock. Dr. Lansing
Burrows will officiate, assisted by
Rev. A. D. Kendrick. Interment will
be in Oak Grove cemetery.
The pallbearers are Frank Sheffield,
Arthur Rylander, C. C. Hawkins, Chas.
I. Ansley, Jno. W. Shiver, J. E. Shep
pard, Frank Harrold and T. F. Gate
w'ood.
Mrs. Allen was a loving and affec
tionate wife and mother, and to her
brief-stricken husband, children anl
relatives the sympathies of all are ex
tended.
APPLING FARMERS
WILL GROW TOBACCO
BAXLEY, Ga., Jan. 25.—Following
talks made here by experts, a number
oi Appling county farmers have de
cided to go into the tobacco business.
The fact that almost any prodr
bo successfully grown in,
is taken as M
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$120,000 BRIDGE AL
MONTEZUMA OVEB
FLINT 15APPROVED
IMPROVEMENT OF DIXIE HIGH
WAY TAKEN UP BY STATE HIGH
WAY COMMISSION AT MEETING
HELD IN ATLANTA.
Americus mootrists, and especially
those accustomed to travel between
this city and Macon, are well pleased
with the action of the State Highway
commission in approving the expendi
ture of $60,000 of federal funds in
the construction of a bridge across
Flint river at Montezuma. This sum
is to be used in connection with an
equal amount appropriated by Macon
county, and the bridge to be built will
be one of the finest along the western
arm of the Dixie Highway. The pres
ent bridge at that point is considered
one of the weakest points in the high
way.
Altogether, the commission approved
bridge ana highway projects requiring
the entire federal road appropriation
for Georgia, amounting to $257,000 in
the aggregate. This sum is to be met,
dollar for dollar, in money, labofr*
and material, by the counties whose
projects are approved, before the fed
eral money becomes available. Com
mission and county engineets are now
preparing the data to submit to the
United States department of agricul
ture for approval of the federal gov
ei nment, which must also be obtained.
The federal appropriation means,
heretofore a sum of $514,000 to be
spent under this apportionment.
The commission expects to hold an
oilier meeting in about a month, when
the 1918 appropriation, available next-
July, will be appropriated. Applica
tions sufficient to consume the 1918
appropriation, which amounts to ap
proximately $400,000 are already on
file with the commission. This cir
cumstance, however, does not prohibit
other counties from filing projects for
the approval of the commission.
WAYCROSS GAS
PLANT SUSPENDS
WAYCROSS, Ga., Jan. 25.—Judge T.
A. Parker, a member of the state fuel
board, and H. D. Wilson, manager of
the Consumers Gas & Coke Company,
of this city, have just returned from
Atlanta, where they went to confer
with Dr. Hardman with the view to
getting coal for the local gas plant,
which has been closed dowm since ear
ly Wednesday morning, and will re
main closed until a supply of gas coal
arrives. Hundreds of households in 1
Waycross are without means of cook
ing, as a result of the failure of the
company to supply gas. Through the
help of the fuel administration, Mr.
Wilson states he has several cars of
coal in transit, but due to the congest
er transportation conditions, the date
when gas will be turned on again in
Waycross is uncertain. It is under
stood' here that Albany, Americus and
Cordele gas plants are also badly in
need of coal.
BAKER WILL REPLY
TO SENATORS ATTACK
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25.
Secretary Baker today asked Senator
to arrange an occasion
at which all members of congress dis
posed to attend may do so, to hear a
statement in reply to the senator’s
charges of inefficiency in the army and
navy.
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BINTELEN DI TRIAL
FOB CONSPIRACY IO
OESTROYSTEAMSHiP
PRINCIPAL IN SABOTAGE AND
BOMB PLOTS BEING TRIED FOR
LACING FIRE BOMBS ON KIRK
OSWALD.
The trial of ranz von Rintelen, com.
ipanion of Prince Henry of Prussia,
and a dozen other defendants, charged
with conspiracy in placing fire bombs
on the steamship Kirk Oswald, con
tinued in feedral district court here
today.
Henry L. Barth, a the
New York police department’s bomb
squad testified nearly all of the ses
sion. He said that in the ugise of a
paid agent of Wolf von Igle, a Ger
man agent ,he formed the acquaint
ance of Capt. Charles von Kleist, one
of the defendants, in a Hoboken sa
loon.
“Von Kleist told me, after I had
gained his confidence,'” said Bartit,
"about th© making of the bombs for
the destruction of munition and sugar
carrying steamships. He said five
had been destroyed by these
bombs, and complained that while
seme of the men in the plot had made
considerable money he had not been
given his share.”
The witness, who speaks German
fluently, told of a visit to von Kleist’s
home in Hoboken April 12 last. i«
company with Lieut. Barnltz'and De
tective Busby. They found numerous
cups and lead screws used in the
manufacture of fire bombs, .These
were shown to the jury and placed in
“Von Kleist told me,” continued
Barth,” that Rintelen was supplied
with a great deal of money to further
the anti-ally sabotage plots in the
United States, but that he did not
get much of the plot fund, and was
very sore.”
The witness then told of bringing
Bonford Boniface, another defendant,
to the office of the department of
justice last August. At that
Barth declared, Boniface said the
wireless operator on the steamer
Frederick der Grosse kept tabs on
vessels sailing for allied ports.
Barth said he went to No. 220 Bast
15th Oct. 10, and took Eugene
Reister, another defendant, to police
headquarters, where he was ques
tioned. The witness said Reister told
him and Capt. Tunn that he had
tested five bombs in his back yard
and had given them to Walter Uhda
to deliver to a German on the west
side, who was to have them placed on
the Lusitania. Uhde is one of those
indicted, and was in court during the
witness testimony. He was arrested
Oct. 10, after a struggle.
Joseph Zeffert. another defendant,
Barth testified, was given a job by
Reister to carry the bombs on board
ships and to report the movements
of vessels, at a salary of $25 a week.
When arrested he said to his mother,
according to the witness: "Thia is
what I get for going back to work
for those Dutchmen. Well, don’t wor
ry; they’ve got me in and they’ll have
to get me out.”
$50,000 GEM ROBBERY
STAGED IN DETROIT
DETROIT, Jan. 25.—1 n broad day
light on one of the citys - busiest
streets, three armed men looted the
jewelry store of Ralph Dewey of dia
monds and other precious stones
valued at more than $50,000, and made
good their escape.
The only man in the store, William
Grainger, who is manager, was at
l!l fibers who bound and
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