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Newspaper Page TextDAILY CITY EDITION FORTIETH YEAR. GERMANS ARE HELD AT ALL POINTS Hi HFi Si SR GREAT ALLIED COUNTER ATTACK IS NOW* RAPIDLY DEVELOPING TOMORROW MAY DECIDE BIG BATTLE BLISS CABLES SREfiT DRIVE BEEN STOPPED VAST ARMY OF MANEUVER BEING THROWN INTO FIGHTING BY DI RECTION OF INTER-ALLIED WAR COUNCIL AT VERSAILLES. WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 29 “The enemy is being held at all points.” .Thus reads a dispatch from General Bliss, which was read before the house military committee by Gen eral Peyton L. March this afternoon. Review of Day’s Developments. The elements have now joined with the Allies in opposing the German ad vance. Rain and a high wind is sweep ing the western front battle field, ac cording to a .United Press dispatch from William Phillip Simms, who is with the British armies in France. If the rain continues during any extend ed perior the-German transport system will not only be crippled, but the Al lies have in past operations proved themselves better mud-horses. Much of the success of the German drive has been attributed to the favorable weather which prevailed up until to day. Desperate fighting continues, how ever, despite the gale and rain sweep ing across the battle field. The Ger mans, with ox-like perseverance, arc butting away against the British lines. In the region of Arras the enemy pro gressed some, occupying British front line trenches, while before Orance Hill and Neuville vast piles of enemy dead are littering the ground. South of the Somme, after repeated assaults continuing all day, the Germans bent back the British line a short distance to Ham-sur-Somme. Below this, how ever, the French brilliantly held the roads southward, driving back the German crown prince’s hprdes with the bayonet at places. American army officials at Wash ington late today believed the big Allied counter offensive is already un der way. They see in General Haig’s thrust aaainst the German north flank and General iPetaine’s sharp attacks on the Teuton south flank the first stages of passing of th e initiative to the Brit ish and French, according to United Press dispatches from the capital. Further, American military authori ties. believe that all necessary troop dispositions have been made and that the vast army of maneuver authorized by the Versailles Inter-Allied War Council is now about to strike. ■* • The whereabouts of this body of American, French and British picked troqps has been one of the mysteries of the German drive, and the hurling of this force into the combat has been daily expected. Pershing Wants Sammies in Big Fight PARIS, March 29. —General Pershing in conference with. French officials at the front yesterday, asked in his own and his country’s name that the entire American forces in France be engaged in the present battle, the war effice announced today. General Per shing said the American army is en tirely at the disposal of the French auhtorities. Battle Line Seventy Miles Long. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES, in Frame, March 29. —The tide of battle is ever rising, the groat struggle ex tending northward and southward with a sudden thrust westward and north ward against Anas, and a gradual AMERICUS 1 ii.IES-RECORDEk GENEBai FOGH W - rica- ' x SH ip ? ■' X >’■ ■ ' "&■ Y. 4 » "A ; M \ Yv-xXX > v < X \\ • ■ XG- xX A 'X- X r ■ ~,y ■ - .VI - . • ■■■ T * ' : ... A x h LY "■ x -■ -xY/Ax'x. v -x. Y VA * X ■ F .. GENERAL FOCH “We will stop this attack,” s’aid General Foch. perhaps the greatest of French generals, speaking of the drive of the Germans. ‘But* definitely to win the war we must have a big American army, with shipping mobili zation, the construction of airplanes and munitions —everything. Hurry! Hurry! Hussy! “Dont lose even half a minute. If you do your utmost you will make the right kind of victory sure, and you win hasten it.” spread southward around Noyon. The new battle line is already more than seventy miles long, and Hin denburg has put fresh division after fresh division into the struggle since it commenced. Well over seventy ene my divisions have thus far appeared on the battle lines. British Take Prisoners and Guns LONDON, March 29.—British forces took a number of prisoners and ma chine guns north of the Somme, in flicting heavy lasses on the enemy, Gen. Haig reported. Our positions were maintained against strong at tacks yesterday afternoon and durine the evening the British gained ground hi successful counter attacks. French Capture Monchel. PARIS, March 29.—The French are holding firmly all the territory re captured by them from the enemy yes terday in the Montididier sector, and have advanced as far as Monchel, says an official announcement. WASHINGTON. D. C., March 29. A great Allied counter drive against the German onset in Picardy is now' developing, high American army offi cers declared today. It may take a day or more, however, for the full movement to reveal Itself. Turkish Forces Wiped Out. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 29. Turkish forces at Khanbabbidi on the Euphrates river have been virtually annihilated by British Mesopotamian troops, according to dispatches receiv ed here today. The British captured three thousand prisoners, including a divisional commander, it is reported. PARIS, March 29.—Davis Putnam, of Brooklyn. Mass., a member of the La fayette Escadrille, today brought dowm two more German airplanes, making a total of five, enemy planes destroyed by him. AMERICUS. GEORGIA. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. MARCH 29, 1918 SIG MUNITIONS MF BLOWN IIP- £ SPIES THREE EXPLOSIONS NECESSARY TO DESTROY HUGE FACTORY OF INTERNATIONAL EXPLOSIVE CO —ONE WOMAN DEAD. SWANTON, Vt., March 29.—The huge explosives manufacturing plant of the nternational Explosive Company, near here is in ruins, and one wo man is dead, the result of three ex plosions which occurred there during last night. Officers of the munitions concern have begun an investigation, and re fuse to comment upon the explosions until this is consummated. It is be lieved, however, the destruction of the plant is the work of spies. The body of one woman has been rec overed from the ruins, and at noon tee'ey, two others who were taken from the devastated area were said to be fatally injured. Rescue parties are at work searching the debris for the bodies of victims. I. SjSTl MIT PROVE I DEBUG FACTOR IS BITTLE SAMMIES NOW RESTRAINING FUR THER MOVEMENT OF GERMAN FIRST RESERVES ACROSS FRENCH TERRITORY. NEW YORK, March 29—By restrain ing further movement of Germany's first /reserve troops across France, America’s increasing military strength along the Alsace-Lorraine border is exerting w'hat may prove to be a decis ive influence upon the progress of Hin denburg’s attack against the Anglo- French lines. The key to the situation now’ con fronting Hindenburg, Haig and Pe tain is the question of reserves. Both sides must depend for a renewal of I activity upon fresh re-inforcements. If Hindenburg were able to bring up more troops and to slaughter them in I large numbers as a further sacrifice t<> the Hohenzollerns, the situation I along the w r est front w'ould cause much anxiety. There are German reserve, ready for such a purpose concentrated i ai Metz and in the west. It would be fatal, however, for Hin- I denburg to draw upon them. If they : were to vanish the road to the Rhine I would be made into an easy passage I for General Pershing. Were it not for i the American armies now operating in ' eastern France and the fast arriving I American reinforcements, there woul 1 be nothing to prevent Hindenburg from : throwing at least a quarter of a mil lion more men into the western com bat at this critical moment. America’s part in the war on a ma i jor scale, therefore, has already begun ■to be played, though in silence and i without any large activity. Hindenburg cannot push much far ther forward to a decision against I rance and England without risking i the capture of the Rhine this summer Iby the American armies. That is the 1 principal reason why heavy German ■ reinforcements are no longer being , hurled against the British and French , fronts. The initiative in the combat is now "LIVEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA." LOCAL CLOCKS 10 BE SHOVED OP ON SUNDAY DAYLIGHT SAVING PLAN WILL BE ADOPTED HERE IN ACCORD WITH LAW—WILL TAKE EFFECT SUNDAY MORNING. Americus will awake Sunday morn ;ng on the daylight saving basis, with all the clocks advanced an hour. The courthouse clock will be shoved 'up an hour at midnight, and two o clock the official for the j Seaboard and Central of Georgia wid !be hanged. This is iu pursuance to the recent I daylight saving bill passed by Con- I press. i The thing foi every citizen to do is j to advance Ids clgck and watch accord l ingly, so that ihere will'be no edn i’ fusion. People will still eat, sleep and live by the clock, and in a few days it is believed that they will forget all about the change in time having been made, cn the fighting lines. MBS. HAINES Issi imiM THAT HY EO BIG W FORMER AMERICUS WOMAN SUB- MITS TO AIRCRAFT BOARD HER PROCESS TO MAKE FLYING MA (HINES INVISIBLE. Americus friends of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Haines, formerly residents here, will be interested to learn that the former has perfected and Submit ted for approval of the aircraft board an invention which makes flying ma chinces practicaly invisible. The na ture of the invention, necessarily, is not revealed. Mrs. Haines is now located at Tem ple, Tex., where Mr. Haines is superin tendent of the gas plant there, and re ceipt of her proposal to demonstrate the process of invisibility has been ac knowledged by J. A. Paine, acting for Howard E. Coffin, chairman of the Aircraft Board. It is considered prob able the invention will be given a thorough test at an early date, and in the event such test proves satisfac tory. it w'ill be adopted, and American flyers sent to the front in Fiance will have their machines thus (protected from observation by the enemy. Mrs. Haine , during her residence in Americus, w’as quite popular among a large circle of friends, all of whom , recognized in her a woman of unusual I ability, given to deep thought, and these will rejoice with her in the suc- I cess she has attained in perfecting a ■ process so useful at this time, and one s 0 well adapted to that most import- I ant of all aims—the ending of t h? I war through the crushing of the Kais- I ct’s armies and the destruction of his I cities and strongholds through air I bombardments. i passing to General Haig. His report I today of captures of German prison- I ers and guns is the most satisfactory j news that has come from the Allies since the battle began one week ago | It may be too early yet to look for an ' Allied counter atta«ft in force, but way is being prepared for it by the new local offensives which the British are developing. BBIG.-GEI IV. I WHITE | I 'Yu Th . x* p jte 9 X X-/" I s n F; . a Y' ' .. : >-4 ' ’ <x' JYxc;.. -’n '■ : d h ; ! . - .• o ' ■ ? . 9.. I y:.' W. A. V/HITt... Within the next two months 20,000 Britishers in the United States must enlist, in the British army, says Gen eral W. A. White of the British and Canadian Recruiting Mission. There are some 300.000 British and Canadian subjects in the United States. Ameri cans are busy now handling their own rational army. The British mission is capable of relieving Uncle Sam of the trouble of handling the British i anj Canadians who want to go to the front. EASTER MUSIC AT CANARY CHURCH The Easter music at Calvary church will be more than usually interesting, the program .perpared by Miss Eliza beth C. Cobb, organist, being an nounced today. At the 11 o’clock ser vice,'the following will be rendered: Processional. Come ye faithful, raise the strain. Sullivan. Easter Anthen, Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.—Mornington. Gloria Patri, Mendelssohn. Te Deum, Reed. Benedictus, Anonymous. Introit. At the Lamb’s high feast we sing.—Rosenmuller. Kyrie. Gilbert. Gloria Tibi. Paxton. . Hymn. The Strife is O'er, the battle done.—Palestrina. Offertory Sentence. Anonymous. Sanctus. Taylor. Hymn, of the world, in mer cy broken. —Hodges. Gloria in Excelsis, Old Chant. Nunc Dimittis, Gregorian. Recessional, Angels, roll the rock a way.—Roper. The evening service at 7:30 will be featured as follows: Processional, Alleluia! Sing to Jesus! —Elliott. Gloria Patri, Mendelssohn. Magnificat, Kettle and Armes. Nunc Dimittis, Gregorian. Hymn, O God of Love, O King of Peace. —Neander. Offertory Sentence. Anonymous. Recessional. Christ the Lord is ris en today.—Rimbault. , ON ALL DAYS VTTH Dffl FDKHASE OF VHM HOUR R® HOME USE mWIO) W 0 MUSI BUY ALSO AN BJCJL UJ|||llw AMOUNT Os OTHER CEREALS LIbERTY BONO CAMPAIGN NOW BFIHG PLANNED (HAIRMAN LEE COUNCIL CALLS MEETING OF THE COUNTY COM MITTEE TO ARRANGE FOR SELL ING OF BON DS. Plans are under way for the cam paign x in Sumter county for the third Liberty Bond issue. Chairman Lee Council is lining up his committees, having called a meet for next Thursday afternoon. In a letter to the members of the commit tee, he says: “The third Liberty Loan bond cam paign is scheduled to commence on Saturday, April 6th, which is the first anniversary of our president’s sign-’ ing the eclaration of war. It ijow seems that we are expected to put forth more energy, and greater effort, than ever before in the sale of Liberty Bonds. It now appears that the re-< sponsibility fOßihe sale of these bonds, insofar as our country is concerned, is square'y up to the individual mem bers of each committee that represents our county at large. Therefore, please permit me to say in advance that I earnestly urge your best efforts in this most Important undertaking. “It has also been suggested that I call a meeting of all the different members of the various committees to convene here in Americus, up in stairs in my cotton salesroom office, at four o’clock p. m., sharp, Thursday, April 4th, for th e purpose of organizing for this work. In the meantime, if you have anj’ further suggestion, I shall be glad to hear from you. “Please, by all means, attend the meeting next thursday afternoon, as it is imperative that each and every one of us do our whole and full duty in this most important undertaking. “With every assurance of my best efforts and hearty co-operation, 1 am, “Very truly yours. “L. G. COUNCIL, “Chairman Sumter County Liberty Loan Committee.” The committee is as follows: L. G. Council, chairman; Americus and 27th District, Frank Lanier, chair man; Carr S. Glover, Frank Sheffield, W. M. Jones, Crawford Wheatley; Plains and 26th District, R. S. Oliver, chairman; Ed Timmerman, W. L. Thomas; Andersonville and 29th Dis trict, B. F. Easterlin, chairman; A. T. Hodges, Alex Slappey; Leslie and 15th District, W. T. Anderson, chairman, A. S. Johnson. W. J. Hill. SCHOOL HEAD ON INSPECTION TRIP Prof. J. E. Mathis, superintendent of schools, has returned from Columbus, wh r e he inspected the entire local ed ucational system. He was guest at a luncheon at the ndustrial High school, prepared entirely by the pupils. ,K)( H NAMED AS INTER-ALLIED COMMANDER IN FRENCH FRONT WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 29. That General Foch has been named inter-allied commander of great re serve forces oembatting the Germans in France is indicated in a messag - from President Wilson today congrat ulating General Foch on “your high i outhority.” authority.” He ahs already won many I laurels as a French commander. NUMBER 75.

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, March 29, 1918, Image 1