Newspaper Page Text
SEND THIS PAPER HOME J&b CAMP HANCOCK dT6N& cent postage
_____ fa, _ - j . j-j" Aery x *£*■ ’ ■ - ~“*’***
n: ,__>sg._ - —. i-r -
w® HROIF NiP W /ipi /P A TV
|Z3 i || 'S^£i-—-—I
■T/J IJ/Sf® || |g. PUBLISHED BY THE "*** JBl
, feW JI YM.CA. w
MAs WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
WpM \ THE AUGUSTA HERALD W NATIONAL WAR WORK COUNCIL
\ HA \W J '' AUGUSTA. GA. 4^W -, S -OF THE Y ’ M C ’ A ’ OF THE U ' ’ S “v>
JF/ ____________ , aw*r *"*
VOL. 1.
CURRENT EVENTS
German Offensive. New Allied
Commander. German Big
Gun. Notes in Congress.
By P. A. G7~MACHEMER.
A SECOND~MARNE,
The greatest battle of the world as the
long heralded German offensive in Pic
ardy has been termed has safely passed
through the first part of the game which
make sit a potential Allied victory. The
great question which concerned the
French and English strategists was, “will
the Allied line hold”—not whether this
point or that be retained, but whether the
continuity of the line which is protecting
civilization would hold. This moment
ous question has been aswered in blood.
The Allied line has maintained its con
tinuity. The line is not broken as a
whole and just so far has Germany fail
ed and the price of her failure has been
greater than the price of a true victory.
But what of the counter-offensive? As
Germany has long foretold her offensive
so the Allies have spoken of the count
er-offensive and their giant mobile re
serve arhy. In vain have the Huns their
their men to their death against the thin
line of the British in the hope of caus
ing this reserve arm yto be thrown into
the melting pot to be wasted away. Here
again Germany has failed.
Nevertheless these achievements of the
Allies cannot take the place of the count
er-offensive. The question is now wheth
er the exhausted Boche hordes cannot
only be pushed back but also decisively
defeated as they were at the battle of
the Marne. The counter offensive has
begun according to the papers at this
writing, but as yet it has not assumed
the proportions which will develop during
the next few days. Mav the coming
week bring to pass tuch a victory.
GETTINGTOGETHER.
The Allies have long lacked the unity
of command so necessary Ln any achieve
ment groat or small. The Germans have
had one commander-in-chief from the
very beginning of the war. This has
given to them a great advantage. Thanks
to the overruling of petty excuses and
worse, at last the welcome news has
come from the western front that Gen
eral Foch, the hero of the battle of hte
Marne has been appointed generalissmo
of the Allies. The spirit of France is
the spirit of victory and under our new
leader we have every possibility of a
speedy. success.
President Wilson who in times past has
spoken for the American people, so elo
quently has already voiced our sentiment
In congratulating the new generalissimo
“on his new authority.”
SHELLING 'PARIS.
When the announcement appeared in
the papers that the Germans were shell
ing Paris with a new gun of 76 miles
range speculation was rampant. The
average civilian as well as officer de
clared that there was no such gun, but
the persistence of the shelling and espe
cially the catastrophe of Good Friday in
which 75 people were killed has changed
opinion. The gun. therefore is real.
What do the experts say about this
gun? Jules Vernes, a Frenchman, is
declared by the “Petit Journal” to have
stated that the gun is a French inven
tion. The secret of the gun in this case
is supposed to be the greater suppres
sion of the atmospheric resistance. Sir
Hudson Maxim recognizes that such a
gun could exist.
He declares that it is not a new inven
tion, and that his gun which the Ger
mans are using probably weighs from 800
to a 1,000 tons and is about 100 feet
long. The inventor of the Gathmann
gun on the other hand declares that the
gun is a mathematical impossibility.
Other conceptions of this new German
surprise .ranges from a shell with a tor
pedo like construction or a relay shell to
an electrically magnetized cannon.
Whether the gun exists or not, will not
cause any great uneasiness because if it
does exist it costs too much and its ma
chinery is too delicate to permit it to be
come a potent factor in actual warfare.
CONSERVATION.
I-ast Saturdav night everybody lost an
hour of sleep. The government under the
stress of war has found it necessary not
only to have meatless and wheatless
days but also as far as possible “light
less” davs. In short Uncle Sam has con
cluded that it is cheaper to use an hour
of good sunlight instead of an hour of
lamp light or electric light as the case
may be.
It is almost impossible to estimate the
actual amount of coal and oil which will
be saved by this plan. The coal, how
ever. which will be. saved by electric
lighting plants will be sufficient to pre
vent another winter such as we have
just passed through. This alone wou'd
justify the change. Everybody will be
benefited by the new schedule. The
health and spirits of the workmen will
be improved and the home garden will
more easily be given its daily attention.
IN CONGRESS.
Criticism has always been called
Democracy’s friend. After Gen, Wood’s
report to the military committee Sena
tor Lodge of Massachusetts, delivered a
atlhging oration against the failure of
America to prepare herself for ths great
REVERIES
Poison.
Polluted water is POISON! Lately
at the Divisional Trenches a guard had
to be placed on the polluted springs.
Better keep reckless impulses for raids
.in “No Man’s Land." The vile stuff
sold the men is the dirty hovels just
outside our camp is little better.
A Perfect Keystone.
Every day shows progress in shaping
and finishing our Keystone Division.
Straight lines, clean cut edges, true
surfaces and no flaws are the quali
ties that are needed for the Keystone
in the arch that is to withstand the
German pressure.
Camouflage.
There is no reason why a. fighting
man should not love flowers. When
fighting the scout may find it useful to
camouflage a tree trunk, but even the
savage warrior does not use garlands
of flowers on his headdress—he wears
setts pleaded for an amendment to the
draft law providing for the training of all
boys between 18 and 20 years of age.
Senator Hitchcock joined with Senator
Lodge in exposing the failure of the
manufacturers of aeroplanes to even ap
proach the estimated and promised pro
duction.
THE NEW SERVICE STRIPE.
Congress has recently, authorized a
new service stripe consisting of an in
verted chevron worn on the left sleeve.
Major General Peyton C. March is among
the first men in the army to wear this
new stripe.
PROMOTIONS MADE AND
MANY MORE EXPECTED
Second Lieutenants Floyd A. Brad
street and William F. Cutting have been
promoted to the rank of first lieutenants
and assigned to the 103rd Supply Train.
It has been indicated at division head
quarters that there would be a large
number of promotions announced soon.
All officers, including the non-coms, are
looking forward to thes" nromn*'->"'i
eagerly. Quite a number of officers have
worked like beavers since homing th Ua.i
cock, and the authorities feel that the
promotions to be made will be well de
served advancements in rank.
MAJ.
PHYSICAL TESTS
Washington.—Major General Leon
ard Wood has passed his physical ex
amination for active service at the
front and will be returned to com
mand his division at Camp Funston,
Kans.
In his 58th year, the former chief
of staff enjoys robust health and is
not bothered by the shell fragment
wound in the left arm he recently sus
tained abroad, while observing the
fire of afire of a French gun.
DANGER SALIENT
FOR THE GERMANS
# * rax
°to>nWes
17% PERONHEI ?» . ,
' W
• 111 Wiwul<*\
jJ'o Nesle
igOYE AT,
?? LaFwSk’
. . .■ b-rqnler k
rtor.kW.CT CWumiaXl
o / V
Reasons / Bf\.
S2 ”'X7 X
o s .o ts zo n .
SCAI£ or MUC3 f
Military experts say the German com
manders have created a dangerous salient
for themselves by the new offensive. This
map shows how the line bulges out
leaving a salient subject to attack from
three sides —north, west and south. If
counter drives started at these three
points by the Allies were successful, ob
servers say, they might force a retire
ment to beyond the line from which the
f, J1y1...
APRIL 3, 1918.
his flowers at the Hula-Hula dances.
Feasts and Funerals.
Look the Whole World in the Eye.
When we salute officers look them
frankly in the eyes, head up and man
to man. You are saluting your gov
ernment through them and recognizing
the discipline and organization that is
to win this war.
Desk Equipment.
“Several members of the house were
in the republican cloak room yesterday
discussing the large number of army
reserve officers on duty in Washing
ton.
“Why is it,” asked somebody, “that
so many of them are wearing spurs?”
"Uncle Joe” Cannon, of Illinois, looked
somewhat disgusted.
“The reason is simple,” said he. “The
spurs are to keep their feet from slid
ing off the desks.”
111
fly'
( JPCDCYML ...
GEN. FERDINAND FOCH,
NEW ALLIED LEADER
Long Held German Aggression
Would Come.
Gen. Ferdinand Foch, new leader of the
Allied armies, is of Basque origin. He
was born at Tarbee, in 1851, but was
reared at Metz. Rather than become
a German after the annexation of Alsace-
Lorraine, Foch preferred to return to
France and help to prepare France for
the present German Invasion.
Foch began by mastering the strategy
of . the war of 1870 in its minutest details.
Knowing the mentality of the Germans,
he counted upon their repeating in fu
ture conflicts the maneuvers that had
succeeded. He also expected them to
make some of the old mistakes. In his
teachings at the Superior War schoor and
in his writings, he held always to the
Idea of an Inevitable aggression by Ger
man, sprung with lightning rapidity,
after long premediation and most min
ute preparation—the swift thunderbolt of
the opening to develop Into a struggle
of colossal proportions.
To parry the blow, Foch said repeated
ly, France must have a staff working in
the same direction, practicing the same
doctrines under a vicious and audacious
chief.
Foch foresaw Joffre as clearly as he
foresaw the war 1814 arising from the
same objective—Paris. He thought he
saw quite as clearly as different issue,
and it would be difficult to estimate the
value of the service he rendered to
France by communicating his confidence
to the young officers. His work at the
superior war school contributed largely
to the perfection of the French army
which, if less “disciplined” than the Ger
man army, was held by him to be far
better "educated.”
At Nancy.
The war found Foch at Nancy, the
headquarters of the Twentieth corps.
His corps was attached to General Cas
telnau’s army and he was selected to
command a new army concentrating be
hind the center of the forces marching to
r<‘lnnt.ii>u*zr nn llaor« f<w* x
BASEBALL MEN
ENTERTAINED
BY SOLDIERS
Visit 112th Infantry. See Re
view Arranged by Lt. Col. R.
B. Gamble. Mess With Com
panies. “Griff” Speaks at *Y’
Hut.
Clark Griffith and the members of the
Washington American ball team, who
won the 4-0 contest with the 112th Regi
ment Saturday afternoon, paid a visit to
the 11th camp On Friday evening, saw
the regiment pass in review before Lt.-
Col. R. Bruce Gamble and staff and
then stayed for “mess.”
Then, just to make it a day of real
pleasure, they had th privilege of seeing
half a dozen of the cleverest bouts Liut.
Louis R. Abel has yet staged for the
benefit of the soldiers. - The bouts took
place near the Y. M. C. A. and the 112th
Infantry band furnished the music for
the occasion.
Many Notables on Hand.
* Clark Griffith. Walter Johnson. Harry
Harper. Nick Altrock, Ed Gahrrity, Jim
Shaw, Joe Judge, Howard Shanks,
George Mcßride, Bert Shotton, John
Rupley and all the other well-known
Washingtonians who are known as the
Griffmen were on hard. Johnson and Al
trock did not arrive until after mess,
but were on hand later.
The ball players were dlighted with
the program arrang'd in the'r honor,
and openly exprssed their pleasure. Many
of them pronounced the review one of the
best they had ever seen—certainly the
112th nas seldom looked peettier and
more military than when the units pass
ed in column of companies, lines straight
as a rule and every man in perfect step.
Like many another parade that bas been
staged on the drill field, it was a sight
not soon to be forgotten.
Companies Entertain Players.
Immediately following the narade, each
company commander was told he was to
have one or two ball plavers as his guests
for supper, and in a twinkling all the
players were properly provided and pro
visioned, and they enjoyed the sensation
of eating in the mess halls with the sol
- as much as the doughboys did tn
having them present. A cheer went up
in every company street when it was an
nounced a big leaguer was on hand for
the evening.
The ball players then watched the 112th
officers playing volley ball, the evening
pastime, which takes place between stx
and 6:45 each night near the Federal
building, as the second battalion mess
hall Is now known. Then the boxing
bouts followed at 7 o’clock, and at 8:30
the entertainment came to a close. Clark
.Griffith told Lieut.-Col. Gamble that he
enjoyed the occasion immensely, and
felt that he spoke? for all the men when
he announced It was a real treat.
Nick Entertains at “Y” Hut.
Messrs. Griffith, Johnson and Altrock
saw some of the Y. M. G. A. doings a
little later in the evening at Hut 231.
They were Introduced to a packed house
and each made a neat, brief speech full
of enthusiastic patriotism. Nick en
tertained the boys with some of his reci
tations and his diamond humor. Mr.
Galffith appeared a little later and the
delight of the soldier fans was manifest
In cheers that made the baseball men feel
as If the world’s pennant were just be
ing raised above their heads. “Gris”
responded to the Innovation with an ad
dress that got across the plate in good
style. In the course of his remarks the
team manager said this: “The American
soldiers have carried baseball with them
wherever they have gone. Civilization
thrives with baseball. The Philippines
were civilized with baseball. I hope
you carry baseball to Berlin and civilize
the Germans.”
HANCOCK AGAIN
LEADSJN HEALTH
Latest Reports From Surgeon
General’s Office Show Sick
Rate 8.2 Per Thousand.
Camp Hancock again leads all camp?—
both National Guard and National Army
—ln the country, according to the latest
reports issued from the office of the surg
eon general of the army. The health
rate Is given as 8.2 per 1,000, the lowest
reached since fall, when a record low
mark of 6.4 was chalked up. This is
the fourth consecutive week in which
Camp Hancock has led in the matter of
health. .
Health officers are confident that the
next report which is already in the hand - ’
of the surgeon general will show a much
lower sick rate and be almost equal to
♦i**.
o I
s afl
| H |j
r I
txinmursraa
IS - si
11’ -T -
i6ll c ’
® I
ffl
Jw SR! K
( JLM
fl
M
4 is El
wuii'
IS
IwrS
11
jn*
I
pp
If I
II ii
» - 1
No. 26.