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RED CROSS DBffi
Washington.—With many eleventh
hour subscriptions yet to be tabulated
the great outpouring of American dol
lars to the second war fund of the Red
Cross early today totalled $144,000,000,
an oversubscription of $44,000,000 in
the week’s campaign, which ended last
midnight. Officials today hazarded
predictions that the total might ap
proach the $150,000,000 mark.
• The oversubscription, much larger
than that of the first $100,000,000 fund
last year, was taken as an answeir to
the resumption of th« German offen
sive and as a nation-wide condemna
tion of the bombing last week of the
Red Cross hospitals by German air
men as well as an indication of the
greater realization by Americans of
the value of the Red Cross work.
Tabulations early today showed that
every division with the exception, of
the Central had passed its quota and
every state except Illinois had raised
more than its allotment. The Central
division is within $300,000 of its sl,-
860,000 quota and it was thought final
reports would show that it had raised
its share. Greater New York went
over its quota by more than $6,000,000.
Subscriptions try divisions and states
as announced here late last night in
clude:
Gu1f52,739,891
Alabama 813,627
Louisianal,333,oll
Mississippi 593.256
Southern .. .. $4,387,621
Floridas 568,945,
Georgia 1,000,551
North Carolina .. .. 845,477
South Carolina . . . . 870,000
Tennessee 1,122,648
OVER 600 SOLDIERS TO
BE MADE CITIZENS
Judge Speer and His Court Will
Be Here Thursday to Natural
ize Aliens at Hancock.
More tiffin 600 aliens, representing
nearly every nationality of the world
except Germany, will appear before
Judge Emory Speer at Camp Hancock
this week to receive the oath of citi
zenship.
Judge Speer and his retinue of .court
officials will arrive in Augusta Wed
nesday. He will probably be here un
til next Monday as the work of the
court will occupy his attention for
three or four days.
Louis Weinberger, naturalization ex
aminer, representing O. T. Moore of
Washington, chief naturalization offi
cer. has been at Camp Hancock for the
past week securing the names of ap
plicants for citizenship. Each na
tionality of each company will appear
before the court in groups to receive
the oath of citizenship. The functions
of the court promise to be most im
pressive.
SPECIAL PASSENGER’
RATES FOR SOLDIERS
WHILE ON FURLOUGH
Washington.—Soldiers and sailors on
furlough and traveling at their own ex
pense will be given special passenger
rates of about one cent a mile under an
order issued today by Director General
McAdoo, to become effective as soon as
necessary forms are printed and distrib
uted. probably ithln two weeks. This
fare will be allowed by ticket agents on
presentation of a certificate from the
commanding officer.
BROWNING MACHINE
GUNS SENT TO EVERY
CAMP AND CANTONMENT
Washington.—Enough heavy Browning
machine guns to equip a complete division
have been manufactured, the War De
partment has announced and are in prog
ress of shipment to Camp Meade. Md.
Enough of the same guns for instruction
purposes, it was said, have been shipped
to every National Guard training camp
and National Army cantonment where
troops are training.
civilianTwarnedto
KEEP OFF THE RIFLE
RANGEAT ALL HOURS
Major E. P. Pierson, chief of staff at
Camp Hancock, has requested that civil
ians be warned against trespassing on the
rifle range. Practice firing with small
arms has already begun and the heavy
guns will be brought into play later.
It is stated that quite a few people
have been going out on the range to view
the ruins of an old building that was de
stroyed by the Pennsylvania artillery in
a practice barrage laid down several
weeks ago. This is dangerous, officers
state, and should be discontinued One of
the officers made the remark today that
he had seen a negro driving a wagon
across the range late yesterday, and al
though no tiring was going on at the time
there is likely to be firing at that time
of the day and it is considered dangerous
to cross the range at any time.
Captain—-Your rank, sir.
Rookie—Don’t rub it in. cap’. That’s
just what the sergeant told me. —Yale
Record.
Page 16
TRENCH AND CAMP
JULY 4TH WILL BE CELEBRATED BY THE FOREIGN
BORN IN AMERICA AS INTERNATIONAL
INDEPENDENCE DAY
President Wilson Asks Nation
to Join With Foreign Born in
Celebrating Event. Many Na
tionalities Represented.
Giving the lie to the German charge
that the foreign born of America are
lending am unwilling support to the cause
of the United States in the war, arrange
ments are now under way for one of the
most remarkable demonstrations of pa
triotism and loyalty that has ever been
witnessed, and July 4. national Inde
pendence Day, has been set as the time
for a glorious celebration by all the for
eign born societies on this side of the
Atlantic. With the co-operation of the
Committee on Public Information at
Washington at the special request of
President Wilson, the societies represent
ing over a million persons, under the
leadership of their officials and the may
ors of the various cities where they are
domiciled, and assisted by the State
Councils of National Defense will partici
pate in the great event.
Mr. Wilson recently received a letter
signed by the leaders of foreign societies
asking his sanction to the proposal to have
such a patriotic demonstration. Repre
sented in the letter were. Assyrians, Bel
gians, Chinese. Bohemians, Moravians,
Silesians, Slovaks, Danes, Dutch. Finns
Irench French-Canadians* Germans
(through the friends of German de
mocracy), Greeks, Hungarians (through
the American Hungarian Loyalty League).
Italians, Japanese. Lithunians, Norwe
gians. Poles, Portuguese, Russians. Rou
manians, Croats, Serbs, Slovens, Swedes
and Swiss. «
MILITARY NEWSIN~
WORLD AT LARGE
By Frederick B. Heitkamp.
It is expected that the new German
drive has commenced. For the past
three weeks there has been a distri
bution of the German forces along the
entire line and the past few days have
seen an intensifying of the artillery
and gas attacks.
The blow which has just been struck
followed but two brief artillery pre
parations and was launched most
forcibly on two sectors. One was on
the line from Vooremeele to Locre
and the other on a thirty-five-mile
front from Pinon north of Soissons, to
Rheims, which is known as the Aisne
sector.
Reports tell of slight advances into
the allied lines obtained by a reckless
repeated massing of ’infantry. The
artillery and aeroplane activities have
been extremely venturesome. The
fighting on the Aisne front is similar
to that of last summer along the Che
min-des-Dames where for weeks the
German crown prince hurled his men
against the Wench positions only to
see them crushed and beaten. The
number of divisions engaged in the
present drive can not be estimated.
Last year there were seventy-five of
them along this line alone.
It is very probable that the Ameri
cans are engaged in this new drive
for it had been reported that our men
had been moved up into these sectors.
The Germans realize the great im
portance of striking now before the
new ally can send her troops to the
front and so is forcing upon this sec
ond and new drive with great energy.
In the Italian theater we see that
the Italians have taken the offensive
and have launched an attack at the
Austrians. Reports have been coming
to us of a pending offensive by the
Austrians themselves but Italy has
stolen a march on her and taken the
battle to Austria.
Secretary Baker recently announced
that our troops would be sent to Italy
in the near future as well as to the
French line. Then we shall have on
the Italian front what we have on the
western front—an allied army com
posed of civilized nations of the world,
fighting together with a community of
interested, in order that hey may se
cure a common victory for the benefit
of all mankind.
Japan and China have come to an
agreement with regard to a joint mil
itary campaign in Siberia. There are
many conflicting interests of the two
nations and it is hoped that all may be
as satisfactoryily arranged as they
have been during the past year.
Costa' Rica is the latest nation to
declare war on Germany, thus making
the total twenty-one. It is interesting
to remember that the government of
this country has never been recognized
by the United States because it had its
origin and derived its power from rev
olution.
Turkey is having trouble with troops
in Asia-Minor and reports tell of re
peated mutiny.
ITALIAN PREMIER
. OFF TO FRONT
Rome, May 28.—Premier Orlando was
reported today to have gone to the front.
In reply Mr. Wilson said:
"To our .citizens of foreign, extrac
tion:
"I have read with great sympathy the
petition addressed to me by your repre
sentative bodies regarding your proposed
celebration of Independence Day, and 1
wish to convey to you, in reply, my heart
felt appreciation for its expressions of
loyalty and good will. Nothing in this war
has been more gratifying than the man
ner in which our foreign born fellow citi
zens and the sons and daughters of the
foreign born have arisen to this greatest
of all national emergencies. You have
shown where vou stand, not only by your
frequent professions of loyalty to the
cause for which we fight, but by your eag
er response tq calls for patriotic service,
including the supreme service of offering
life itself in battle for justice, freedom
and democracy. Before such devotion as
you have shown all distinctions of race
vanish, and we feel ourselves citizens in
a republic of free spirits.
"I therefore take pleasure in calling
your petition, with my hearty commen
dation, to the attention of all my fellow
countrymen, and I ask that they unite
with you in making the Independence
Day of his. the year when all the prin
ciples to which we stand pledged are on
trial, the most* significant in our national
history.
As July 4, 1776. was the dawn of de
mocracy for this nation, let us. on July 4,
1918. celebrate the birth of a new and
greater spirit of democracy, by whose in
fluence we hope and believe what the
signers of the Declaration of Independence
dreamed of for themselves and their fel
low countrymen shall be fulfilled for all
mankind.
“I hace asked the Committee on Pub
lic Information to co-operate with you in
any arrangements you may wish to make
for this celebration.
(Signed) "WOODROW WILSON.”
BISMARK CALLED
KAISER LUNATIC
“Iron Man” Confided to Friend
That Wilhelm Might Have
to Be Locked Up.
Washington.—Long distance alien
ists here who say the kaiser is actually
scientifically insane have first class
German indorsem.nt for their be
lief.
Bismarck himself was convinced
that Wilhelm was crazy.
The Iron Chancellor knew the kaiser
from his childhood, and knew the se
ret family history and family maladies
of t ie Hohenrollerns.
Some time before his death Bis
marck confided to his friend. Felix
Dahn, distinguished German historia
and lawyer, that the kaiser was a lun
atic. H - intimated that he might have
to be locked up. “If the worst ccmes
to the worst,” said Bismarck, “and it
should become necessary to put him
under restraint, my successor will have
a more difficult task than would have
fallen to my lot. For I feel sure the
German people would have trusted
me.”
The kaiser is endowed with super
human cunning that characterized
many of the famous paranoiacs and
epileptics who hav- been world lead-
Another German chancellor, Prince
Hohenlohe, said: x
"Far from being the sincerely relig
ious man which human stupidity has
credited him with being, he is the cool
est rationalist, the greatest egotist, and
the most ungrateful person I ever came
across.”
Another German chancellor, Von
Bulow, who had so much trouble with
the kaiser because of his habit, of “but
ting in" on diplomatic situations with
personal telegrams like the famous
Gruger dispatch—a dispatch which al
most brought Britain and Germany to
blows in the nineties —gave a hint in
the reichstag that he was irresponsi
ble.
When Bulow was being attacked for
allowing the kaiser to commit so many
dangerous indiscretions, he said: “If
you only what I prevent."
Pope Leo XIII was one of the great
world figures who ckme into contact
with the kaiser when he was a young
man. The Holy Father’s estimate of
him is perhaps the most interesting of
all. Here it is:
"This young .nan is obstinate and
vain, and it is to be feared that his
i ign will terminate in disaster."
BIGGER BANDS
FOR ILS. ARMY
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Washington, D. C. —The army g?n- j
era! staff has ordered on General
Pershing’s recommendation that all I
regimental bands be increased from I
28 to 50 pieces, a war department
announcement today says. Besides
enlarging the bands, the announce
ment. says the general staff has
decided to create a bugle and drum
I corps for every infantry regiment.
Band leaders at General Persh-
I ings suggestion will be made first
I or second lieutenants according to
1 whether they have had more or less
than five years experience.
Q Q
ANOTHER GRAFT •
AFTER JUNE STH
Washington —The provost marshal f
general's office intends to make a
sizeable draft call directly after the
21-year-old men register on June sth.
This developed today as one of the
steps contemplated in increasing rap
idly the size of the army.
The United States war machine is
now striking its pace and it is esti
mated that by the end of this year the
supply of Class One men will have
been nearly exhausted, either at nec- '
essary war work, or in the military 3
establishment. Already men have *
been called from Classes Two and
Three, men who are skilled in trades
or callings that fit into the army’s.war
work.
Lutheran Soldiers’ Reading and
Social Rooms
The attention of the new men in
camp is called to the soldiers’ social
and reading rooms maintained by the
National Lutheran Commission for
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Welfare in The
Herald Building on Broad Street op
posite the Confederate Monument in
Augusta on the second floor, rooms
214-216. The leading newspapers from
every section of the United States
will be found on file here, also church
stationery, magazines, piano, etc. All
of the conveniences and accommoda
tions furnished are open to all soldiers
and members of their families visit
ing in Augusta. '■
Wednesday evening, May 29th. the
young ladies of the Lutheran churches
of Augusta will hold a social hour with -
games and refreshments in these
rooms, and on Wednesday evening,
June sth, they will give a. lawn party »
at the home of Miss Elizabeth Clark,
1412 Johns Road, near the Base Hos
pital. All Lutheran men in camp and
their friends are very cordially in
vited.
ALL INFANTRYMEN ARMED
ON SAILING FOR FRANCE,
The following staatement is author
ized by tiie . cting hies of Ordnance: j
The Army Ordnance Department has
thus far met every demand imposed
by the new program for overseas
shipment < r American troops. Despite
the great acceleration in the tl.e send- •
ing of American forces to France no
Infantryman goes aboard ship without
a United States model 1917 rifle (mod
ified Enfield), bayonet, belt, haversack,
pack carrier, bandoleers, bayonet scab
bard, and full mess equipmtnt.
Tonnage is today a limiting factor in
the shipment of ordnance material ov
erseas, especially because of the pres
ent necessity of increasing the trans
port of infantry regiments. French 75
mm. and 155 mm.
Sufficient supplies of artillery—
American heavy railway artillery—are
already in France .o meet the present
demand. Sufficient machire guns are
also immediately availablt for Ameri
can forces in France.
FRENCH oWICERS AT
CAMP WEAR KHAKI
Members of the French Military Mission
at Camp HancoSk are now working in
the garb of the American soldier. Most
of the uniform which they now wear is
American khaki, although they wear hats
and other symbolic parts of the French
uniform.
The change from the spectacular uni
forms of their own army to the. durable
and comfortable American khaki is
brought about principally by the fact that
the khaki is much cooler than their na
tional uniform.
IVar Plant Contracts
For $11,000,000 Let
Washington, D. C.—The War Depart
ment has announced contracts had been
let by the Ordnance Department for the
establishment of two' picric acid plants,
one to cost $7,000,000 and to be located M
Brunswick. Ga., and the other to cost
about $4,000,000 and to be located at
Little Rock, Ark.
Contracts for the Brunswick plant have
been let to the Butterworth Judson Com
pany of New York City, and for the Little
Rock plant to the Everly M. Davis
Chemical Corporation.
Men and materials for the construc
tion already are on the ground at Little
Rock and the plant will be in operation
by September.
BASE HOSPITAL JAZZ BAND
DANCE.
The Jazz Band of the Base Hospital
will give a dance at the Lenwood hotel
on Friday evening of this week Be
ginning at 9 o'clock. Admission will
be one dollar per couple. A cordial
invitation is extended to everyone.
king~callsTor '
THE PREMIERS
Washington.—The King of England
has called an imperial conference of
Dominion premiers to determine war
policies for the coming months.
Quotas in men and money from Eng
land's dominions and the voice of each
at the peace table are to be
May 29.
