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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 12, 1918.
THE MILLEDGEVILLE, NEWS.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA
Canadian Officer Vividly
Describes Boche Atrocities
Lieutenant Booth Holds Court
House Audience By Harrow
ing Narrative of Experience
in War.
AMERICANS~ROY ALLY
RECEIVED IN LONDON
People Have Done Much Al
ready, But Pleads With
Them To Buy Thrift Stamps
and Certificates.
The Algerians had begun to get rest
less, many of them falling to the
ground and acting strangely. The
cousin of the speaker walked Into the
embankment and died, gassed, in ag
ony, seven minutes later.
Chlorine gas was used at that time.
London was told. From the giant
Zeppelins thousands of packages of
sugar-coated candy and chocolates are
dropped. The children picking up the
packages, eat the contents and die
shortly ufterwards of cholera, each
piece of candy having cholera germs
or containing cyanide of potassium,
i During his visit to the United States
j Lieutenant Booth says that he has
; repeatedly heard criticisms of Presi-
I dent Wilson, the question being asked
1 why more American aeroplanes, more
Graphically describing his two yearB
and 11 months Ln the world’s war
from the time of his leaving with the
first Canadian contingent, where he
was a commissioned officer with the
Canadian Field Artillery, and dwelling
for the most part on the barbarous
treatment of the Boche toward their
priscners and even the inhumane
treatment to their own soldiers, Lieut
C. B. Booth proved an interesting
talker and personage at the court
house here Thursday evening.
Preceding the interesting talk of
Lieut. Booth Mayor Miller S. Bell,
who, as chairman of the War Savings
Stamp Committee in Baldwin county
introduced the speaker, who told of
the need of buying thrift stamps and
War Savings Certificates, saying that
$57,000,000 must be realized within
the next 30 days in the State of Geor
gia alone, and that the Milledgevillc
quota before December 31 would be
$220,000. Lieutenant Booth, accom
panied Mr. T. O. Hickman, of Augus
ta, to Milledgevllle and they are dele
gated by the Government to tour the
Tenth District in the interest of the
cause.
The Canadian officer who twice was
gassed by the Germans and is in this
country on leave of absence with the
hope of recuperating, elicited applause
when he told his auditors that his
mother was a Southerner, coming
from yirginia, and that there is strong
relation for him existing with the
Southern people.
When the war was declared August
4, 1914, Canada did not have to send
many troops to assist the mother
country, Great Britain, but it was dis
cussed in parliament and a division of
22,000 men was decided upon, the
speaker jocularly remaking that they
believed at that time that one division
would be sufficient to quell I he Hun.
Enlisted For Service.
Lieutenant Booth had been a re
serve office*- mi Canada, but on the de
cision to send troops to France he
immediately enlisted in the Canadian
Field Artillery. After eight weeks of
training near Quebec, the division was
transported to England, where they
remained in training until February
15, when they were sent to France.
Loaded into box cars, 40 men or
eight horses to the car, and sometimes
horses and men in the same car, the
division was started to the tiring line,
a distance of 100 miles. Each man
was rationed with two hard tack bis
cuits and a can of corned beef, “bully
beef.’ This ration was believed suf
ficient for the journey at the time, but
the railroads were so congested with
the transfer of supplies and troops
that one would have thought the men
in hard straits.
“We would, indeed, have been in a
hard way had not the English and
American Red Cross come to our res
cue. At every stop we made we found
hot coffee and cake awaiting us, and
the same order of things prevails to
day in this country, the American Red
Cross working indefatigublv for the
men’s comfort,” he said.
The contingent was detrained 12
miles from the firing line. The order
of warfare was new to the Canadians
who had devoted the greater part o
their time to open warfare. In order
to get acquainted with the adopted
style platoons were taken daily from
each battery of the Canadian artillery
and sent with the older fighting bat-
alions to the front line. Officers us
well as men were included in the de
tail until the entire division had been
under lire.
The position given the Canadians
was impossible for an engagement and
was near that ph.ee where the Ameri
can artillery was first ussigned. In
three weeks the total of Canadian
casualties was but 15 and the tall men
of the maple leaf thought that they
were having an easy time of it.
Under Fire Firet Time.
Soon afterwards the Canadians
were ordered to Ypres. It was here
that Lieutenant Booth experienced his
first gas attack and belieyes that it
was one of the first attacks of this na
ture made by the enemy. He and a
cousin, commanding officer of the unit
were in an observation position. Ad-
olnlng them were Algerian troops.
Looking over the observation parn-
L **t. they saw a heavy greenish cloud
^kthat looked as if it might be a fog.
w
It is greenish in color and five times j lnun itkns, more soldiers are not Bent
heavier than air and is used only with | frola here the who i e fau i t i ying with
favorable winds. Later Lieutenant ;he p re y cnt , according to the talker,
Booth, in walking up a slight embank- ,.j f ee ] knocking a man over the
ment, got a few stray whiffs of the i jj ea( j w hcn he openly criticises the ac-
poison and was carried feet first to j Uons of p reRident Wilson,” he said,
the hospital. With nothing to combat i Our Troops in London,
the gas, 11,000 or half of the Canadian ( Lieutenant Booth told of the recep-
troops were that day numbered among | t | rn 0 f t he American troops swinging
the casualties, despite the fact that | a j onR the Strand in London, blase
AMERICANS HAPPY
TO BATTLE UNDER
U.S. COMMANDERS
In Action Alone The Marne
They Show Valor That
proves A Surprise to The
Enemy.
With the Allied Fighting Armies,
June 10—For the first time In the
world war American fighters have oc
cupied the center of the stage. On no
part of any one of the fronts has there
been the same amount of fighting and
the same success as in the attacks
made by American soldiers to the
northewest of Chateau-Thierry. The
attacks were directed by American
commanders and were carried out
by American soldiers.
there were existing treaties that no ■ i v0n( ] on that is used to every sight
poison or poisonous gases were to be j aTK ] undemonstrative to none, looked
used Many died running mack to the . w j t h but mild curiosity on the pass
dressing station alter inhaling 1130 j a g e of the Canadian and Australian
fumes, when they should have laid j troops, but when the first contingent j
upon the ground. | of American soldiers invaded the 80,el >'
Atrocities of the Germans. ] Strand the enthusiasm of the people I ln every case our objectives were'
Following his recuperation from ! knew no bounds, even the famous Cold g a ied. Our losses were not out o*
gas, Lieutenant Booth was assigned j Stream Guards, but memories of the I proportion t0 our gains Enormous
i losses were inflicted upon the Ger
mans, some of the captured terrain
was assigned i Stream Guards, but memories of the
to the claims department in London, early days of the war, turning out and
It was in this capacity that he was standing at the position of attention
brought intimately in touch with the until the American troops had tssed.
atrocities of the Germans to the poo-1 In closing he urged the pe* pie to
pie of Belgium. One claim investigat-: buy more thrift stamps and war sav
ed by him took him to a Belgian home ings certificates. Lieutenant Booth
at meal time. A mother and two chil- j told his audience what their help at
dren, boys aged 9 and 11 years, were , this time meant. He commended the
seated at the table. The mother was people for the hearty money and mor-
feeding the two youngsters which ar- j al support they already had made, but
Start theDayRiqkt
with a Cup or Two
of Luzianne-
H AM-AND-EGGS and • cup
of steaming, stimulating
Luzianne. What better etart could
anybody have for the day’s work!
The sanitary, air-tight tin locks
the flavor in! Buy a can of
Luzianne today.
If you don’t agree it’s the best
hot beverage that ever passed your
lips, your grocer will give you back
what you paid for it, and ask no
questions. So, there.
“When It Pours, It Reigna”
oused the curiostiy of the officer. Lat
er he learned that the right arm of
one of the boys had been severed and
dipped into hot pitch and had not then
healed; botli arms of the older boy
had been cut off and the stumps dip
ped into hit pitch. This was explain
ed, the Germans knowing there was to
be conscription and knew that by car
rying out this dastardly deed that the
boys would never be enable to fight.
The speaker related that the Ger
mans shelled the churches only on
Sunday mornings between the hours
of 11 and 12 o’clock when they knew
he Belgians to he attending mass,
the destruction of the fruit trees by
utling the bark a foot from the
ground, the wells poisoned cr filled
with filth, or infernal machines being
placed in homes and explosives under
the floors, even to poisoning the oats
the stable that the stock would die,
as but a few of the perpetrations of
the Germans in Belgium.
The First Tank.
The fright caused by the appearance
of the first tank was tcld by Lieuten
ant Booth. It was while the English
were at the Somme front and the
French at Verdun. Lieutenant Booth
was again in an observation position
uul his attention was attracted to the
rear by a thunderous rumble. Seven
ty or eighty feet away, he said, he saw
his iifst tank creeping slowly towards
the enemies’ lines. His servant ot
batman threw up both hands in horror
and said that the Germans were com
ing from the front and the rear.
The tank until this time was new to
the game of war and only Field Mar
shal Haig and a few intimates knew
of its existence. The slow, ponderous,
death-dealing machine kept wobbling
its way to the very lip of the Georman
trench, where it stalled A constant
stream of machine gun fire was turn
ed on the trench, either direction, of
the Germans. There were some of the
enemy so close to the tank that they
could not be reached, but they were
quickly routed by the infantry. An at
tack was made by the Germans with
picks and shovels on the side of the
iron monster, inflicting no damage.
When the Germans are taken pris
oners they are put into cages to be
taken hack to internment camps.
Lieutenant Booth told of an incident
where a German officer was captured
and refused to enter the cage with his
own men, also taken as prisoners, de
claring that he would not he near
those swine. Lieutenant Booth at this
Juncture told <f the equality between
officers and men in Canada and this
country. Where the German officers
follow the men with drawn pistols in-
o the fighting ready to shoot down
the first man who turns his head, the
Canadian and American enlisted men
are lead by their officers. The Ger
man is oppressed to that extent that
the speaker told of having seen seme
German artillerymen chained to their
field pieces.
Of the many men invaladed back to
Canada there are many in a sanitari
um neur Montreal, who are incurably
ill with consumption. Taken prisoner
by the Germans they were inoculated
with tuberculosis germs, worked until
they were ready to fall exhausted and
then taken to Switzerland where th = y
were exchanged for prisoners of the
Allies. Ts it any wonder that Cana
da has no reputation for taking pris
oners?" he significantly asked. The
German prisoners in England uro
treated as honored gueats he said.
The perfidious practice of the Ger
mans during their aerial raids over
pleaded that they make some further
sacrifice and subscribe to these funds.
Dr. E. H. Clavert, West Monroe, La.,
has never known “Baby Percy Medi
cine” to fail when baby's sick. Get a
bottle. 3
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WAR
RAGES in FRANCE
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They cannot w«t,4rri Z>enyina our.
fifth tO. raise P'3. M3 1 1 selves only a
food at the FEED tittle means
Same tixntP Lite to them
tlnltad States Food Attain titration
being almost covered with dead
boches. We took 200 prisoners. Am
erican losses in prisoners were almost
nothing. Despite their losses, which
included many officers, the fighting
Americans are in the highest spirits
and are still hammering away at the
German crack troops.
Marines eBar Brunt.
The brunt of the fighting was borne
by United States marines. A unit cf
marines by a long fight had prepared
the situation when at 5:22 o'clock on
a recent afternoon orders were given
to attack with all vigor. Our line at
the beginning of the forward move
rested on Veuilly la Poterie, and ran
through Champillon, through (Lucy le
Cccage to south of Triangle, and in an
irregular line to Chateau-Thierry. As
this is written our line runs just south
of the village of Torchy, south of the
village of Belleau, the woods of Bell-
eau being in our possession, through
Bouresches, south to the highway
east of Thiolet, and thence to Chateau-
Tliierry.
The hardest fighting took place in
tile woods of BaUeau, where the Ger
mans had many machine gun nests
which greatly hampered our advance
and inflicted many casualties.
Communications Cut, But No Stop.
The qualtly of American leadership
is shown in the fact that the German
tire cut almost all the lines cf commu
nication, destroying telephonic con
nection, hut the Americans simply
went ahead until their objectives were
reached. In the woods of Belleau the
Germans had filled the plateau with
machine guns, about twenty of them.
The Americans tried in vain to put
these out of commission by rifle fire,
mortar fire, and hand grenades with-
|out success. Then, despite the stream
of bullets, they surrounded the plateau
cut off the Germans and went on
ahead, capturing the hill beyond the
woods and inflicting extra heavy loss
es on the Germans while they were
withdrawing.
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One of the most notable actresses of
lie American stage, Elsie Ferguson,
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capabilities.
In the meanwhile the Americans prisoners. These prisoners, to some
were clearing out the Germans from ' 0 f w hom I talked, said the Americans
After capturing the hill the Ameri- Bouresches, which the boches tried to completefiy surprised their command-
cans moved on Boureschhs, a large hold by vigorous counter attacks. Fi- er8) who had told German soldiers to
village and an important point on the nally his resistance died down, and . ... , „.i,,
.. . ... fear nothing from the Americans, w u j
railroad. The men in the fight told daybreak showed the Germans busy > —
me they did not have great trouble in digging in north of the railroad tracks I were easy-
getting up to the town, but in the tdps to the north.
All shortenings are short. Some
r.re shorter. That means they are
richer.
Cottolene is a particularly short
shortening. It sets the highest pos
sible standard for purity and richness.
You use one-third less of Co'nolene
than you ord'»;rily use of other
shortenings. The results arc per
fectly delicious.
RECIPE
RoliV"
2 cup* putry flour 1 level tablespoon
\ teaspoon salt Cottolene
4 level teaspoons 1 cup cream (or yoa
baking powder can use half milk
and half cream)
Sift together flour, baking powder
and salt; rub in Cottolene with finger
tip*. Add cream and mix with knife
to soft dough. Roll % inch thick. Cut
with biscuit cutter, brush edge* with
milk and fold as Parker House Rolls.
Press edges together, brush top of roll*
with miik. Bake on buttered sheet in
hot oven fifteen minutes.
Cottolene
-of the houses the Germans had ma
chine guns which drove back the at
tacking Americans several times. Fi
nally Lieut. W. C. Robertson, with
what was left of a platoon, penetrated j
into the town under heavy German |
fire and cleared it of infantry. He '
held it for thirty minutes, until two i
companies cf Americans came to Ills 1
aid, boche machine gunners with rifles I
and hand grenades, when the ammuni
tion began to run low
Brought Up Needed Ammunition.
A runner was sent out, and Lieuten
ant Donald Moore, a former Prince-
Infantry Also In Tthe Attack.
Infantry Also In The Attack.
These two fights were staged by the
marines. Meanwhile American infan
try on the right of the marines had
advanced against the boche in a sur
prise attack which was completely suc
cessful.
At first the too eager Americans
found the going so easy that they ad
vanced seven kilometres instead of
four, as had been ordered.
This led to a situation where lack
of support units on the right and left,
“Like hell,” said a Saxon fighter,
' who used to tend bar in Brooklyn.
I Germans All Hungry.
|. This man said the American artil
lery fire had made it very difficult ior
‘the Germans to bring up food ami
Supplies, and that the eGrman soldiers
attacked were all hungry. The prison
er said his division used to be on the
Galician front, but had beeD training
> for this drive.
ton athlete, took a truckload of am- I which had not advanced so far, forced
Al grew la tins
of i
munition along the road toward Bottr-
eselies. Germans who had hidden be
hind tie advancing Americans put him
under a heavy fire, but lie took the
truck right Into the town and distrib
uted the sorely needed ammunition.
Then he brought the truck hack. Com
mended for his fravery, he said he
mertfly was lucky.
them to withdraw to the fcur-kilome-
ter line. However, in every case they
got to where they were sent.
The American attack all around was
well planned and a complete surprise
to the Germans.
Our movement blocked the plans of
the boche to make an attack on the
Americans tomorrow, according to
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