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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1916.—-
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Terrible Losses Sustained by
Teutons in Tremendous Drive
on Fortress,
Continued From Page 1.
the masses of the enemy hurled
against them, the Germans have now
begun a shattering bombardment of
the outer defensive works of Verdun
on the north,
Fort Deßelleville, Fort DeDouau
mont and Fort DeMarre are under the
fire of the big German guns. which
‘are pounding away from their posi
tions on an eight-mile front between
Consenvoye and Ornes.
More than 400 guns are massed be
hind the German front and the can
nonade of the French redoubts and
“forts is described as the sublimest
spectacle of destruction and thunder
~ since the world began.
French officers who saw the French
bombardment of the German positions
in Artois last spring and the French
cannonade of the German positions in
Champagne last autumn describe
them as mere displays of fireworks
compared with the tornado of steel
which the German batteries are now
launching.
So terrific is the fire of the big Ger
man guns and the reply of the French
artillery that the throbbing thunder is
plainly audible at Bar-le-Duc, nearly
30 miles away from the scene of the
battle,
Forerunner of General Attack.
The foremost military crities in
Paris express the belief that the bat
tle of Verdun is the forerunner of a
German offensive all along the west
front in a supreme effort to smash
through the Allies’ lines and effect a
decisive victory.
But the nation is more concerned
with the outcome of the present
struggle around Verdun rather than
possibilities of the future.
It is estimated by The Matin that
the German army of the Crown Prince
has been reinforced to the strength of
850,000 men, who are being hurled
against the French lines with syste
matic and utter disregard for human
life.
The curtain of fire maintained by
the French batteries has annihilated
whole regiments, and the ridges north
of the Verdun fortress and the roll-;
ing hills along the Meuse are pued;
high with dead.
“The battle of Verdun is infinitely
more bloody than the battle of Ypres,”
says The Matin. “Already our staff
has identified seventeen different at
tacking divisions, which means that
the Teutons are launching 350,000
men into the cataclysmic fire alonyg
the nine-mile front. The German at
tacks in dense formation are costing
them losses horrible to contemplate. ‘
Return Shell for Shell.
“In Champagne we silenced German‘
batteries before we loosened our in
fantry. At Verdun we are returning
shell for shell. if the Germans want
a still further increase of fire, we can
keep time with them. As it is, the
Germans are deliberately sacrificing
battalion after battalion. Entire regi
ments are melting completely away
under our fire.
“General Humbert's tactics are!
guided solely by a desire to hold un
whilst sparing the lives of his soi
diers. That is why our losses are so
+» much smaller than those of the Ger
mans. Always when it has been pos
sible for us to withstand an avalanche
of shells in our shelters we have done
80. Otherwise, orders were quickly
given to retire to stronger and safer
positions. Whenever circumstances
were favorable, we have undertaken
vigorous counter attacks, which have
often resulted in the capture of ter
rain voluntarily abandoned.
“The best idea of how General
Humbert is economizing his men .an
be gained from the fact that the
Frent,h have not sent into the battle
Yet one-seventh of the troops concen
trated at Verdun. We have aban
doned the villages of Haumont, Bra
bant-sur-Meuse and Samogneux, but
at Samogneux we caught the Ger
mans under a particularly bloody en
fllade fire from our batteries on the
left bank of the Meuse whilst we our
selves have escaped the fire of the
» German batteries dominating the vil
lage of Ornea. If our first line is
overwhelmed, the second one will Le
' found still stronger, and so with the
third and fourth.
Verdun Not Even in Peril.
“Verdun isn't near being taken by
the Germans. It {sn't even In peril.
Our high command is displaying the
most serene confidence in the face of
this desperate onslaught. All Fraace
shares that confidence.”
This Is the fAifth day of the battle.
During the past three days the Ger
mans have gained an average of one
mile of territory a day, but are still
between five and six miles away from
the fortress itself
The military eritic of The Journal
points out that the important eastern
seation of the battie fleld lles between
Samogneux and Beaumont, which is a
plain culminating in hill No. 344. This
hill, which dominates the battle fleld
in all directions, is the immediate ob-
Jective of the Germans Another im
portant ohjective is Beaumont. To
the right Ix a vast open terraln swept
by the fire of Fort de Douaumont
Two sallents have been withdrawn
By the French on the Brabant-SBur-
Meuse-Ornes front in order to
straighten the line and prevent the
angles from heing taken under Ger
man fire from two sides, It is be-
Heved that within the next few days
there will be further withdrawals by
the French on the front north of Ver.
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Air Raid Protection
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb, 25.-Lord Derby
will take charge of Great Britain's de
fense agninst Zeppelins and German
Aeroplanes
Premier Asquith announced in Come.
mons that the peer would be chalr
man of the joint committee on naval
1‘ military alr service.
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Americans Do Not Want Army and
Navy Put Unde: Foreign Mon
arch, He Wires.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb, 25.—William
Jennings Bryan to-day injected his
personality into the fight in Congress
against President Wilson's policy on
the armed merchantmen question. He
telegraphed Representative Warren
Worth Bailey, of Pennsylvania, in
dorsing the stand of Representatives
who would warn Americans off armed
ships. Representative Bailey Imme
diately called a conference of leading
Democrats to determine whether to
make Bryan's telegram public on the
floor of the House.
“The American people do not want
our army and navy placed at the dis
posal of a foreign monarch,” was one
of the sentences in the telegram.
Bryan urged that a resolution
warning Americans to stay off armed
vessels be passed at once. |
Verdun Is Doomed,
Say German Experts
(Bg International News Service.)
BERLIN (via Amsterdam), Feb, 25.
That Verdun is doomed to fall be
fore the attacks of German legions
was the opinion expressed by German
military experts to-day. They point
ed out that for' many months the
French army had fought desperately
to keep the Germans out of gun
range of the Verdun forts, but that
from the positions the attacking
forces now hold it is possible for them
to bombard practically all the main
fortifications.
It the French are finally forced to
abandon Verdun, the salient held by
the Germans at St. Mihiel will serve
the purpose for which it has been held
since early in the war. From there
ter#ible flank attacks can be directed
against the retiring troops.
Russians Win Bi
Victory in P%rsia
(By International News Service.)
PETROGRAD, Feb. 25 --Russian
troops have won another great victory
over the Turks, this time on Persian
territory The Ottoman forces are
in full retreat toward Kermanshah.
The Russians are pursuing.
. The following nf{"lll report was is
‘sued here to-day
“Russian troops have dislodged the
enemy from Bidesurkh Pass and oc
cupled Sakhne Pass. They are pur
suing the Turks, who are lin full re
treat toward Kermanshah., We cap
tured three field guns, one mountain
gun, many shells, sight ammunition
wagons and fleld machine guns.”
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British Repulsed by
(By International News Service.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb, 25 -
British troops have been repulsed in
fighting on the Irak front ( Mesopo
"ummv. the Turkish War Office an
nounced to-day
i. Another battle has developed in the
Caucasus
| The report follows
“Irak Front-—An enemy battalion
that was approaching our position
rear Felahle was compelied to retire,
leaving numerous dead. In the re
cent fighting near Felahle the enemy
dead included seven English oficers
We took seventeen prisoners
“Cavcastn Front--Fighting is pro
~eading all along the front.”
Bessie Vickery is 5 years old and
an orphan, and for eighteen months
she has been all alone in a room at
Grady Hospital. She was brought
there by the Georgia Children's Home
Society from somewhere in South
Georgia.
The physicians have condemned
Bessie to two years in the open air,
in some home whera she will be well
cared sos.
The Society hopes some physician
will adopt her, so she can be given
medical treatment. And Bessie must
positively have no playmates,
Who will take her and possibly save
her life?
Germans Lose 17,000
.
At Ypres in 3 Weeks
(By International News Service.)
AMSTERDAM, Feb, 25.—According
to The Telegraaf, the German losses
on the Ypres front during the last
three weeks have totaled 17,000 men.
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LOOKING FORCAPITAL?
Go no farther than the
“Money toLoan” column
over in the Want Ad sec
tion. You will find that
good security will com
mand any amount of
money.
The Geowian-American
Atlanta’s Want Ad Directory
Read for Profit—-Use for Results
Mob Members Avenge Intrusion
at Home of Traveling Man,
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Woman Shoots Black.
- CARTERSVILLE, Feb. 25.—Jesse
McCorkle, a negro, was lynched early
‘to-day for attempting to attack the
wife of a traveling man here last
‘night.
~ He was taken from the Bartow
County jail about 3:30 o’clock this
‘morning and strung up to a tree in
\froht of the city hall, opposite the
;Bank block and depot, in the most
prominent section of the city. . His
‘body was left hanging until after 9
| o’clock, g
~ The negro went to the home of the
traveling man about 9 o’clock last
‘night while his wife and her children
‘were alone, the husband being in
South Carolina, covering his territory.
:When he attempted to attack her she
' shot him in a hand.
~ The negro fled to a house ‘in the
‘negro quarter and later sent a negro
boy for a doctor to dress his wound.
i Woman Tells Neighbors. e
| In the meantime the woman he had
attempted to attack told neighbors,
lwho had been attracted by the shot,
' what had taken place. They notified
the Sheriff and he, with deputies,
‘started on a hunt for the would-be
assailant. The search had continued
far into the night when the officers
found the boy hunting a doctor. From
thim they learned the whereabouts of
the negro they wanted. Led by the
ibny, they went to the house where he
| was hiding and placed him,under ar
rest, bringing him downtown ana
lodging him in the county jail about
2 o'clock this mornine.
Mob Soon Forms,
News of the attempted attack hadi
spread around town and it was not
long after the arrest had been mado‘
that a mob began to form. The jail
was stormed shortly after 3 o'clo(‘k‘
and the negro taken out. carried down
to the City Hall and hanged. |
The mob was orderly and deter
mined, going about its work In a de
‘ liberate manner. After the negro had
been hanged the mcb quietly dis
persed, leaving the body swinging in
the moonlight
The McCorkle negro was about 30
vears of age. T*e woman he at
tempted to attacl x about 40,
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Cyanide Analysis
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(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, Feb, 25.—The defense
{of Will H. Orpet, University of Wis
'cnns!n student, accused of the mur
der of Marian Frances Lambert, was
| declared by the Lake County authori
!ties to have been considerably weak
|ened to-day when Dr. Ralph Webster
reported that his analysis of the
| cyanide of potassium found in the
| cellar of the Orpet home was chemi
|cally pure. The father of the accused
| youth had said at the Coroner's in
| quest into the death of the girl that
)ha had ordered the cyanide dumped
{into an ash heap because it had
| “gone dead.”
THE -ATLANT A GEORGIAN.
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U. 8. Investigation ‘
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Begins W. & A. Work |
Arriving at the Capitol Fridey, J. C.
Meyers, expert of the Interstate Com
merce Commission loaned to Georgia for
work with the State Railroad Commis
sion, at once Flunged mto an investi
gation of physical facts connected with
the Western and Atlantic Railroad
\ln;.?{iflh the State proposes to re-lease in
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John Howe Peyton, president of the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Railroad, lessee of the W. and A, will
spend Monday at the Capitol, when hel
will go over the details of the arranged
co-operation with Messvs, Candler and‘
Meyers. The latter will accompany Mr.
Peyton back to Nashville and continue
there his work of examining into the
bhysical condition of the W. and A. |
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Budget for Fair *
Considered at Meet
Members of the executive committee
of the Southeastern Fair Association
were meeting Friday to consider the
fair's budget and otherwise plan for the
exposition here in October.
A. M. Striplin, the secretary, made a
report on his recent visit to the East,
where he arranged to book a number of
attractions. He has a number of photo
graphs and other data on successful
fairs of the country from which the as
‘Sociation expects to profit.
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Grossman, Fined by |
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ourt, Wins Point |
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Leonard J, Grossman, an nttorne;,‘
was fined $lO for contempt of court
Friday by Judge W. E. Thomas, when
the lawyer insisted on talking aftér the
court had ruled on the point involved.
The fine afterward was remitted by
Judge Thomas.
Grossman appeared to ask a contin
uvance. of a misdemeanor, case, saying
the negro was represented by Colonel
T. B. Felder, his partner, and that he
(Grossman) knew nothing of {t. Judge
Thomas overruled the motion, but
Grossman continued to argue his point.
The fine followed.
Subsequently the court decided to
grant the continuance and remitted the
fine.
Valdosta Judge Gets
Judge W. E. Thomas, of Valdosta,
who has been conducting Judge EBen
Hill’s branch of the Superior Court for
two weeks, left Friday afternoon for
his home, and court was adjourned to
March 4, when Judge Hill will take up
the calendar.
Judge Thomas, who had passed on a
number of important cases, including
those of J. H. Miles and J. Wylle
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Smith, was thanked, in a briet ad
dress by Deputy Sheriff Plennie Miner,
for his kindness and courtesy to the
court attaches.
“We hope you will come back and
try some more cases for us,” said Mr.
Miner,
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Store Here gI Held
W. W. Dickson, wanted for the al
leged embezzlement of $450 from the
Red Seal Shoe Store, No. 93 Peach
tree street, in July, 1914, was being
held Friday in Goshen, Ind., a special
‘dispatch to The Georgian announced..
Court officials state that Dickson,
manager of the store, was indlcted
last June, nearly a year after the al
lezed offense. The indictment was
rendered at the instance of the
American Surety Company, which
had bonded Dickson,
A court officer will leave Friday to
bring Dickson to Atlanta for trial.
BURGLARS ROB POSTOFFICE.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 25.—Burglars
broke into the postoffice at Shiloh,
Harris County, eighteen miles north
of Columbus, last night, securing SSO
in stamps. Nothing else was missed.
ATLANTA, GA.'
Atlanta Scientists
Aftér Sei raph
r Seismograph
Dr. S. W. McCallie, State Geologist;
the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
and Dr. K. G. Matheson, of Tech, are
co-operating in an effort to secure a
seismograph for Atlanta, to be kept
at Tech. There have been three earth
tremors in the southeastern region in
the last few years, not to speak of
the great shock in South Carolina in
1886. :
While the tremors in the vicinity.
of Atlanta have been very mild and
there is no reason to apprehend any
danger, it is declared by scientists to
be desirable that there be a complete
record kept of tremors throughout the
Southeast.
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(Greorgian Wanted for
Trial Held in Carolina
Jess Watkins, wanted in Richmond
County for assaulting and shooting
John Wilson with intent to kill, has
been arrested in Aiken County, South
Carolina. g
Governor Harrls issued Friday a re
quest for his extradition to Georgia
for trial. g
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