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VOLUME VI.
FRENCHITfiUANS
IN GREAT DRIVE
Paris Reports Ihe Capture Os Strong
German Positions And Over 4,000
Prisoners-ltalians Take 7,500
MANY KILLEDANDWOUNDED
French And Italian Airmen Materially
Aided Infantry, Sweeping Low
And Firing Upon Germans
New York. —With the British troops
busily engaged in the successful par
rying of German counter thrusts
against the newly-won ground in Flan
ders, the French and the Italians have
started monster offensives — the
French against the Germans, near Ver
dun, and the Italians against the Aus
trians from the region of the Plava
to near the headwaters of the Adriatic
sea.
Advance Made On Wide Fronts
Sharp, decisive blows have gained
for the French positions held by the
Germans on a front of more than
eleven miles, extending front the Avo
court wood eastward across the River
Meuse, and into the Bois de Chaume,
while the Italians, after a bombard
ment of an intensity never before ex
perienced in that theater, have leveled
Austrian defenses, cross the Alps and
also the Isonzo river and now are at
deadly grips with the enemy along a
front of about thirty-seven miles.
Many Prisoners Taken By Allies
Nearly 12,000 prisoners already have
been counted by the French and Ital
ians and doubtless this number will be
materially augmented when full de
tails of the fighting are at hand. In ad
dition the Germans and Austrians lost
heavily in men killed or wounded and
in guns and machine guns captured.
The new territory taken by the French
embraces positions that have literally
weltered in French and German blood
in battles that have waged to and fro
since the German crown prince started
his most costly enterprise, the attempt
to take Verdun, which resulted in ut
ter failure as a military maneuver and
cost the lives of tens of thousands of
his men.
Great Salients Captured By French
Notable among the captured posi
tions are the Avocourt wood, two sum
mits of Le Morte Homme, the Cor
beaux wood and Champneuville, all of
which were held notwithstanding vi
cious counter attacks by the Germans,
which were broken up by the French
fire with heavy casualties to the ene
mies. French airmen materially aided
the infantry in the press forward,
swooping low and emptying their ma
chine guns into the ranks of the Ger
mans and in fighting in the air with
German protecting machines, eleven
of which were sent hurling to the
ground.
BRITISH LAND CRUISERS
“GO OVER THE TOP”
Tanks Give “Show” That Gets No Ap
plause From The Germans, Who
Are Paralyzed With Fear
British Front in France and Belgium.
British tanks scored another triumph
in the capture of important German
positions in the neighborhood of the
Ypres-Poelcapelle road, north of St.
Julian. It was a tank show almost
from start to finish and the infantry,
in this case, played the part of super
numeraries in support of the leading
actors, while large numbers of the en
emy troops added a final melodramatic
touch by surrendering abjectly or
fleeing in terror as the heavy leads
lumbered on to the stage and “reach
ed for their shooting irons.”
As recorded in the official communi
cation, the British captured German
defenses along a mile front to a depth
of 500 yards. Among the strongholds
occupied were the famous Triangle,
Hibau and Cockcroft farms, the sites
of exceedingly strong concrete and
steel machine guns redoubts that men
aced the infantry advance. It was
dawn when the tanks lined up and
waited for the signal to “go over the
top.”
The British artillery, observing no
less of chivalry to the tanks than to
the infantry in the past, poured a pre
liminary stream of shells into the Ger
man lines.
Blood Drafted; Drafted Riches, Too!
Washington.—Widespread sentiment
in the senate in favor of adding to the
total of the war tax bill by imposing
higher rates on war profits and income
taxes received new impetus with the
opening of the third week of debate.
Speeches advocating such increases
were made by Senators Johnson of
California; Hollis of New Hampshire,
and Jones of New Mexico. Npw Sena
tor LaFollette is expected to make his
address In favor of levying virtually
all war taxes upon incomes and war
profits.
NUMBER 43.
FIERCE FIGHTING NEAR LENS
Canadians In Dashing Charge Capture
Hill No. 70 And Sweep Into
Outskirts Os City
London.—Lens again is the center
of the fighting an the western front.
The Canadians have taken Hili 70,
dominating the city from the north,
and are within the city itself, engag
ing the Germans in desperate fighting
at close quarters, after advancing on
a two-mile front to an extreme depth
of one mile. For several weeks the
Canadians slowly have been closing
their lines in the west, northwest and
southwest in preparation for a su
preme effort to place this center of
the coal fields of the Pas de Calais in
their possession. Hill 70, just east of
Loos and north of Lens, was the great
stumbling block.
The Canadians stormed the hill. The
splendid effort was successful, and
within a few hours the important po
sition was cleared of Germans. The
Canadians swept on toward Lens from
the northwest, capturing several sub
urbs and entering the western part of
the city. The Germans tried desper
ately to check the Canadian advance,
but five counter attacks were in vain.
While suffering only slight casualties
themselves, the Canadians inflicted
heavy losses on the Germans and cap
tured almost three hundred prisoners.
Teutons Winning In Roumania
Fighting in southwest Moldavia ap
parently is lessening in intensity. In
the mountains the Russians and Rou
manians have given up a height west
of Ocna to the Austro-Germans. In the
Putna valley and toward the line of
the Sereth, Berlin reports Field Mar
shal von Mackensen has made some
progress, capturing the town of Stra
chan.
In Flanders the' intense artillery
fighting goes on with undiminished
vigor. The infantry has been more ac
tive, but, except for the French, is en
gaged only in raids. On the Dlxmude
road northwest of Bixschoote, the
French pushed forward and succeeded
in realizing considerable progress. Ar
tillery duels and small isolated at
tacks have occurred on the French
front from St. Quentin to the Swiss
border.
EX-CZAR AND FAMILY SENT
TO THE WILDS OF SIBERIA
They Are Being Transported To To
bolsk, Which Was Center For Ex
iles When Nicholas Reigned
Petrograd. — Semi-official Russian
News agencj' announced that 'former
Emperor Nicholas and his family
were removed from the palace at
Tsarskoe-Selo and it was reported
thej- were being transported to To
bolsk, Siberia.
They were removed in an ordinary
train. The former emperor appeared
to be very much depressed. Former
Empress Alexandra seemed to be
pleased at the prospect of a change.
N. V. Nekrasoff, vice premier, said
that the removal of Nicholas
was decided on after a series of se
cret sessions of the council of minis
ters late last month, the reason being
political and military. It was decided
to get Nicholas out of the way before
circumstances arose making it diffi
cult. When the former emperor
reaches his destination the facts will
be announced.
Resigns His Place With Commission
Washington.—Edgar Watkins, for
merly a member of the Atlanta law
firm of Wimbish, Watkins & Ellis, now
special counsel for the interstate com
merce commission, has resigned from
the commission, effective September
1. The impression prevails here that
Mr. 'Watkins stands an excellent
chance of being named a member of
the commission to succeed the late
Judson Clements. His selection would
be- most acceptable to the members
of the commission, who have been
very favorably impressed by his work
and legal abilities.
Submarine Snake Being Scotched
London. —A falling off in British
tonnage sunk last week by mines or
submarines is indicated in the week
ly admiralty statements made public.
Fourteen vessels of 1,600 tons and
over were sent to the bottom, as
against twenty-one the previous week.
Two vessels of less than 1,600 tons
were sunk last week, the same num
ber reported the previous week. Three
fishing boats met with disaster
Government Goes Into Wheat Trade
Washington.—The food administra
tion has prepared to take over the en
tire 1917 wheat crop if necessary to
stabilize prices throughout the year.
It formed a $50,000 corporation, with
all of the stock held by the federal
government, to buy and sell wheat
at the principal terminals. The move
was the- first of a series to be taken
to reduce the price of bread. Millers
already have agreed to put themselves
under vMvmtary regulations and a«*
working o-< with the food administta
•ion a differential of profits.
Hull din
IRWINTON. WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1917.
TROOPS ARE OSED
TO STOP STRIKE
I. W. W. Headquarters Are Raided At
Spokane And Rowan And 25 Os
His Assistants Are Taken
HELD AS MILITARY PRISONERS
Industrial Workers Declare They Are
Seeking Better Working
Conditions
+++++++ + + + ++ + +
+ ♦
+ No Comment On Arrests +
+ Made By Washington +
+ ♦
+ Washington.—Officials here +
+ were interested in the news of +
+ the arrest of the I. W. W. lead- +
+ ers, but there was no formal +
+ comment. It was suggested +
+ that the order for the arrests +
+ probably was issued by the +
+ commander of the department +
+ of the west. The government +
+ has directed that any necessa- +
+ ry steps be taken to prevent ♦
♦ interference with industries es- +
+ sential to the prosecution of the +
+ war. +
+ +
+++++++ + + + + + + +
Spokane, Wash. —Aggressive federal
intervention io prevent the paralyzing
of industries in the Northwest through
the strike of Industrial Workers of the
World, which has been called, began
when James Rowan, district secretary
of the I. W. W., was taken as a mili
tary prisoner, together with 26 other
members of the organization by Na
tional Guardsmen in federal service.
Maj. Clement Wilkins, Idaho Na
tional Guard, who directed the troops,
declared he did not have specific or
ders to act, but made arrests under
general orders “empowering me to
take such steps as appeared necessary
to prevent destruction of property and
hampering of industry.”
The strike called by Rowan included
all members of the organization in con
struction and agricultural work in
Montana, Washington, Oregon and
Idaho. Row-an declared that the ar
rests would intensify the strike and
cause it to spread. Lumber workers in
the states already are on strike.
Reports from all the states named
in the strike orders were to the effect
that federal, state, county and city au
thorities were prepared for any even
tuality.
Major Wilkins said no disorders had
developed. Guardsmen patrolled the
vicinity where I. W. W. speakers usu
ally hold their meetings, and prevent
ed all gatherings.
E. F. Blaine, chairman of the state
public service commission, here to re
port to Governor Lister on conditions,
declared the arrest of the strike lead
ers was, as far as he knew, purely a
military move.
GERMANS DRIVEN BACK
ON THE SOMME FRONT
British Advance On Mile Front To a
Depth Os 500 Yards In The
Ypres Sector
New York.—-Although for the most
part the British and French forces in
Flanders and in the vicinity of Lens
are engaged in consolidating positions
won from Crown Prince Rupprecht, the
British near Ypres have made another
advance on a mile front to a depth
of about five hundred yards, and also
in the Somme region have renewed
their attacks with advantage. In the
latter maneuver Field Marshal Haig’s
men succeeded in taking positions near
Epehy and inflicting heavy losses on
the Germans.
The Germans have been feeling out
the strength of the French lines in the
Vosages mountain region, where, after
heavy bombardments, they delivered
attacks against the French around Ba
donviller and north of Celels-Sur-
Plaine. Their efforts, however, went
for aught under the fire of the French
guns and rifles.
Likewise along the Aisne front and
in the Verdun sector along the banks
of the River Meuse a continuation of
the attempts by the German crown
prince to break the French lines met
with the usual result —failure.
Ex-Czar Exiled To Birthplace Os Priest
Petrograd.—lt was ^officially an
nounced for the first time that the
new residence of Nicholas Romanoff,
the deposed emperor, is at Tobolsk, a
western Siberia town, which recently
achieved a dubious publicity in rev
olutionary Russia as the birthplace of
Gregory Rasputin, the mystic Monk,
who wielded a remarkable influence
over the ex-emperor’s family up to the
time of the priest’s assassination tn
Petrograd last December. The ex-im
perial family will reside permanently
tn the forhvsr governor’s palaav
GOVERNMENT COAL CONTROL
President Has Turned Attention To
Subject And Action Is Expected
Immediately
Washington.—Government control
of the coal industry appeared immi
nent when President Wilson turned
his personal attention to the subject
and heard the mine operators’ and
miners’ presentation of the situation.
The interests of the public now will
be presented by the federal trade
commission, which has just completed
its investigation of coal production
costs.
Provisions of the food control bill
giving the president power to fix coal
prices from the mine to the consumer
and investing in him authority to
requisition all coal produced and sell
it to the public are expected to be
put into operation almost immedi
ately.
Operators and miners who oppose
government prices fixing in the fear
that prices will be pushed down to too
low a level put their case before the
president through Francis C. Peabody,
chairman of the coal production com
mittee of the council of national de
fense, and John P. White, president of
the United Mine Workers of America.
Their idea is a solution of the situa
tion as expressed to the president, is
that a voluntary arrangement be made
between operators, miners and the
government, and that no move be
made towards enforcement of the dras
tic provisions of the food bill.
The coal situation, according to offi
cials who have studied the subject, is
in a more chaotic state now than it
has been at any time. Miners through
out the country are threatening to
strike unless their wages are raised
to give them a share of the enormous
profits made. Prices are soaring de
spite the agreement made recently be
tween government heads and the op
erators, and many sections of the
country face a winter with scanty sup
plies of fuel.
The program, many officials believe.
President Wilson is most likely to
adopt under the power to control the
industry would provide that the gov
ernment commandeer all coal produc
ed, dividing the country into districts
and fixing a maximum price for each
district.
OVER 1,800 PRISONERS
TAKEN BY THE ALLIES
Tired Os Being Killed, Germans Cease
Rushes In The Ypres
Sector
New York. —Their counter attack
having failed with severe losses, the
Germans in the Pres area of the west
ern front have not resumed attempts
to recapture the ground lost to the
British and French troops..
On the northern wing of the Pres
front the French, after repulsing very
heavy German counter attacks, made
further gains near the Steenbeke riv
er. Elsewhere on this front the latest
report from Field Marshal Haig says
there has been no change. In addi
tion to their capture of more than
eighteen hundred prisoners, the allied
forces captured twenty-four guns from
the Teutons.
While admitting an allied gain along
the Yser canal and near Bixschoote,
where the French advanced, Berlin
claims officially that most of the Brit
ish attacks were repulsed and that
Langermarck is still in German hands.
This claim of the German general staff
is officially denied in London, which
says that the British hold not only
Langemarck. but also ground beyond
the village. London also officially de
nied that the fighting front was twenty
miles long, as Berlin declares. Field
Marshal Haig reported the fighting
front in the Ypres area as being nine
miles in length. The German general
staff reports the recent fighting as “a
full victory’’ for the Teutons, although
admitting some reverses and claiming
no gains.
Lawful To Kill, Says British Jury
London. —The “unwritten" law—
whereby a man may kill his wife's se
ducer —was recognized by an English
jury almost for the first time within
the recollection of the English public.
“Justifiable homicide in self-defense"
was the verdict rendered by a London
coroner’s jury in the case of Lieut.
Douglas Malcolm, who shot and killed
a foreigner. Anton Baumberg. styling
himself "Count Deborch.” Lieutenant
Malcolm, on leave from France, found
his wife with the so-called count.
More National Guardsmen To France
Washington.—Two army divisions
instead of one, comprising a total of
at least thirty-eight thousand men,
will probably make up the first contin
gent of the National Guard to go to
France. Although no official confir
mation was obtainable, there were ev
idences that the composite forty-sec
ond division, whose organization re
cently was announced, will be accoro
panled abroad by the twenty-sixth,
made up of New England Guardsmen.
No New England states have repre
sentation in the composite division.
COAL PRICES ARE
FIXED JI MINES
Country Devided in 29 Districts And
Every Producer In The District
To Sell At Same Price
PRICES RANGE BELOW $3.00
Officials Admit Plan Adopted Will
Work Hardships On Many
Small Mines
Washington. —- Bituminous coal
prices were fixed by President Wilson
for every mine in the United States.
The next step in coal control, a white
house announcement said, will be to
fix the prices to be charged by mid
dlemen and retailers. Prices were
set on cost of production estimates
furnished by the federal trade com
mission after months of exhaustive in
vestigation. The country is divided
into twenty-nine districts and every
producer in a district will market his
output at the same price.
Coal Administrator To Be Named
The president is expected to ap
point soon a coal administrator who
will be given entire control of the coal
industry. Rumors named President
H. A. Garfield of Williams college as
the man. Mr. Garfield now heads a
committee appointed by the president
to fix a government price for wheat.
The wheat committee probably will be
dissolved September I.
Run Os The Mine Coal About $2 Ton
The prices asked for run of mine
coal in the large producing districts
averages slightly more than $2. In a
few districts they are below that fig
ure and in the western territory they
are higher. Washington state is the
highest, with $3.25.
President Wilson's Statement
The president's statement said:
“The following scale of prices is pre
scribed for bituminous coal at the
mine in the several coal producing dis
tricts. It is provisional only. It is
subject to reconsideration when the
whole method of administering the
fuel supplies of the country shall have
been satisfactorily organized and put
into operation. Subsequent measures
will have as their objects fair and
equitable control of the distribution of
the supply and of the prices not only
at the mines, but also in the hands
of the middlemen and the retailers.
Based On Actual Cost Os Production
“The prices provisionally fixed here
are fixed by me under the provisions
of the recent act of congress regard
ing administering the food supply of
the country, which also conferred upon
the executive control of the fuel sup
ply. They are based upon the actual
cost of production and are deemed to
be not only fair and just, but liberal
as well. Under them the industry
should nowhere lack stimulation."
BLOODY RIOTING IN
MANY SPANISH TOWNS
Many Have Been Killed—Firing From
Roofs Os Houses In Barcelona
And Several Other Cities
Barcelona, Spain.—Violent rioting
has been taking place in Barcelona
and the neighboring towns since a
general strike was proclaimed. Fir
ing from the roofs of houses and from
behind closed shutters has been go
ing on daily. A considerable num
ber of persons have been killed, and
many have been wounded, though no
reliable figures are available. Artil
lery was brought into action against
some buildings which were strongly
held by the rioters and three houses
were destroyed by shell fire. While
these events are going on in Barce
lona and in other Catalonian towns,
reports are circulating by word of
mouth of great disturbances in other
parts of Spain and of a republic be
ing proclaimed at Bilboa and Saragos
sa. It is impossible to learn the truth
regarding the rumors as a rigid cen
sorship is exercised over the telephone
and telegraph lines and the newspa
pers.
Liberal Newspapers Suppressed
All the Liberal daily newspapers
have been suppressed. The only jour
nals appearing in Barcelona are The
Vanguardia. which prints only official
and inaccurate reports, and The Dia
grafico, cdmmonly believed to be sub
sidized by the Germans.
Germany Split On Benedict's Note
Copenhagen.—Doctor Michaelis, thq
imperial German chancellor, at the
(Convening of the reichstag main com
mittee in Berlin, said the recent peace
proposal of Pope Benedict had been
issued spontaneously and not at the
wish of the central powers. The com
mittee was informed by the chancel
lor that the pope's note would be an
swered only after the closest consid
eration with the reichstag. The pre
liminary reports of the session of the
reichstag committee indicate that the
parties are divided.
SI.OO A YEAR
STATE ITEMS
CONDENSED
Valdosta. —Sea island cotton is open
ing rapidly and the gins throughout
the belt are having unusual quantities
this early in the season.
Sycamore.—Cotton is coming into
Ocilla at the rate of seventy-five bales
a day; three hundred bales have been
ginned to date. Gins are now running
full swing.
Waycross.—Heavy rains added to
the damage already done to roads in
this section this month by excessive
rainfall. Reports indicate that all
roads are very sloppy and in almost im
passable condition.
Zebulon. —Approximately one hun
dred people attended a meeting here
to protest against selective army law.
Although resolutions were passed con
demning the new army plan, the meet
ing aroused little enthusiasm.
Mount Airy.—Federal Judge Emory
Speer upheld the selective army law
in a decision rendered to the effect that
the law is constitutional. The decision
was the result of an appeal made by
Thomas E. Watson as a test of the
law.
Macon. —Thomas E. Watson advised
local supporters over telephone from
his home at Thomson that he would
come to Macon, and speak here both
in the afternoon and at night. He
stated that he would speak at some
place in or near Macon.
Camp Harris, Macon.—Final prepa
rations for the departure of the ma
chine gun battalion of Georgia troops
for their eastern camp to begin train
ing for service in France, are being
rapidly completed. It is expected the
troops will leave within a week.
Marietta. —Maj. W. N. Litchell visit
ed Marietta to inspect available sites
for an artillery range, and was met
by members of the chamber of com
merce, who showed him several sites
in the general vicinity, any one of
which meets the requirements of the
government as to size.
Gainesville. —Mrs. B. M. Stallworth
was thrown against windshield and
small artery was severed just above
her eye and a young man thrown en
tirely from the car to the pavement
as the result of the car of Mr. Tiberts,
from Jackson county, striking Mrs.
Stalworth's car here.
Decatur. —A widely advertised anti
draft meeting was held on the court
house grounds here. There were ap
proximately a hundred men, many of
them too young and others too old for
draft, present. E. M. Crowe of Moun
tain View was elected chairman and R.
W. Eaves of Lithonia secretary.
Gainesville. —Ten thousand acres of
wheat are to be sown in Hall county—
an estimated production of 150,000
bushels of wheat —enough bread for
every man, woman and child in the
county—is the mark set by the Hall
county food council and Eugene Ba
ker, county demonstration agent,
Moultrie. —Several hundred men,
nearly all of them rabid followers of
Thomas E. Watson, stood in the open
without any protection from the blaz
ing August sun and listened to an
hour's speech on the selective con
scription law by Grover Edmundson
of Alma.
Sycamore.—The second district ag
ricultural college will open Monday,
September 3. The school is full to
overflowing; girls are now being noti
fied that there is no more room in
the dormitory. By next week boys
will likewise be notified upon applica
tion for admittance.
Oxford. —The trustees of Palmer In
stitute, the public school of Oxford,
announce the election of the following
teachers for the ensuing term: Princi
pal, Miss May Nelson, of Newborn:
first assistant. Miss Louise Bonnell, of
Oxford; second assistant, Miss Vir
ginia Peed, of Oxford.
Macon.—A sensation was created in
the local recorder's court when evi
dence brought out during the trial of
a negro, Ed Jordan, a shoe repairer,
charged with receiving leather being
stolen from the plant of the Massee-
Felton Lumber company, developed
that the negro had purchased the
leather from City Detective E. F. New
berry. •
Macon. —A windstorm that struck
Camp Harris while the second Geor
gia infantry was being paid .off, car
ried away twelve hundred dollars in
currency. The money had been col
lected in a pan by Lieut. John J. West
of the Albany company, in payment
for canteen checks, and he was ap
proaching the canteen to make the
transfer when the storm broke.
Macon. —If the proposed anti-draft*
meeting which Tom Watson and his
followers are planning to hold in Ma
con should materialize, it will not be
held in any of the public buildings
of the city, for, in addition to the use
of the city auditorium having been re
fused for the purpose, Manager De-*
Bruler of the Grand theater has also
d’cllned to permit the use of the
playhouse for the meeting.
