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GERMANS FAIL IN BATTLE FOR BOURLON WOOD
British Formally Praise Work of Ametican Destroyers
(By International News Service.)! |
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—From
the Asiago to the Piave the Austro-
Germans have suffered appalling
losses without gaining any advan
tage, according to an official cable
gram from Rome today. Between
the Piave and the Brenta the enemy
has already worn out six divisions,
these disptaches to the Embassy say.
The cablegram quotes, The Rome
ribuna’s correspondent ad saying
the forces of Krobatin and Von Bue
low united in the mountainous zone
between the Plave and Brenta Riv
ers, made a desperate effort to break
through the line, availing themselves
of their enormous reserves, estimated
&t twenty divisions and easily shift
@d. With large forces hidden in the
thickness of the forests, at one pointt
@ small patrol of Prussians with ma
chine guns was sent forward to gath
er information and prepare the at
tack. Shortly after the Austro-Ger
mans appeared in thick waves and
delivered a furious assault.
Wishing to avenge the wounding
of one of their officers ,the Italians
launched a bayonet attack with such
violence that all the Austro-Germans
w 0 reached the Italian line were
completely wiped out. The enemy
renewed his efforts and delivered at
tock after attack with unabated fury.
In the confusion of the struggle
some enemy outposts fought among
themselves the Thirty-first Land
sturm, in action near Monte Frior,
fighting an entire night against other
Austro-German troops, which were
totally decimated.
Seasoned Veterans
F Reinforce Italians
(By International News Service.)
ROME. Nov. 27.—Seasoned French |
and British veterans, who have faced |
QGerman drum fire, poisoned gas and
liquid fire on the wessrn front, are
now joining the Italians in counter
attacks against the Austro-German
invaders on the Asiago plateau.
Advices from the front today told
of the arrival of “fresh relnforce
ments.”
The formidable Austro-German at
‘tacks between the Piave and Brenta
wvalleys have continued with the Teu
tons maneuvering to delive‘ a crown
ifng blow but so far the gallant re
sistance of the Italians has frus
trated all German plans.
General Diaz's troops are striking
back all along the line and are deliv
ering strokes just as violent as those
of the Austro-Getmans. ;
There is heavy fighting around
Monte Tomba, which is regarded as
a critical point. The Germans, early
in their drive, 'made a slight gain, but
gince then they have been held on the
glopes by the Italians.
If the Germans and Austro-Hun
garians can break through at Monte
Tomba and overrun the plain it would
seriously threaten the Italian line on
. the Piave by cutting the Italian lines
of communication.
Bulgarian troops are reported to
have reinforced the Austro-German
armies on the upper Piave and in the
Monte Pertica’s sector.
Situation in Ital
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- Same, Berlin Says
(By International News Service.)
BERLIN, Nov. 27.—There is no
change in the situation on the Italian
front, the German War Office an
nounced today.
British forces under cover of dark
mess attacked German positions at
‘Bourlon wood and at the village of
Bourlon (west of Cambrai), but were
repulsed, the War Office repor Jfo
?dd}'. The struggle was mar;‘:z
_flerce hand-to-hand nghting,
statement said. 3
‘New Chancellor
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§ ToGive Reichstag
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. His Peace Views
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g (By International News Service.)
HE HAGUE, Nov. 27.—Count
¢ T von Hertiing, the new Ger
| man Chancellor, will deliver
his maiden speech in the Reichs- §
tag Saturday, according to a re- E
port from Berlin teday.
It added the speech would deal
with the peace outlook.
3 i
g It had previously been ‘stated in !
dispatches from Berlin that the §
Reichstag would not convene until ;
December 3. The Reichstag Main
Committee is scheduled to mecté
before that date/ ¥ y /
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Drastic
measures to secure needed fuel for
‘the country were suggested to Presi
’dent Wilson by Fuel Administrator
Garfleld this afternoon. Mr. Garfield,
face to face with coal famine in va
rious sections of the country, which
threatens seriously to impair the mu
‘nitions supply and other war essen
‘tials, believes drastic measures must
‘be taken if serious results are to be
‘avoided.
i While information concerning his
‘plans was withheld pending action by
'the President, it is understood that
they include pooling of the entire
coal supply of the country and put
ting into effect a system of dis&ribu
‘tion which will do away with con
gestion now _existing at railway
Jjunction points.
~ Under the Garfield plan, his repre
‘sentatives would have control of all
coal mines everywhere, and would
report tge supply on hand daily so
that it "could be distributed to the
points where most needed.
Dalton Pair Weds on
DALTON, Nov. 27.—Passersby
stopped on the corner of Hamilton
and Waugh streets, in a busy section
of Dalton, where Miss Lola Boat
right and Will Wilson, two well
known young persons living in the
southern part of the county, were
married by the Rev. Charles C. Ma
ples. The couple was In an automo
bile and, seeing Mr. Maples on the
street, stopped and the ceremony was
performed while scores of citizens
looked on with interest.
Bandits Get $35,000
andaivs '
DETROIT, Nov. 27.—Word reached
Detroit police this afternoon that
bandits had attacked the Huebner
Brewery Company paymaster and es
caped with $35,000 in cash.
The Real Builders Are the
Men Who Own Their Homes
Substantial growth is based on stability. A city grows sub
stantially only as the men who compose it own their homes
and build for the future.
The healthy growth of Atlanta as the city of homes, is due
to this ownership of land by Atlanta citizens. By the same
token, it makes Atlanta a good place in which to own prop
erty.
If you have an eye on future prosperity, buy your home
now. Locations and prices are featured every day over in
i The Georgian and American’s “Real Estate” columns.
Some special locatian which you may have in mind can be
quickly found by running an ad of your own. You have
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—The
work of the American naval flotilla
in Huropean waters aagin has been
warmly commended#by Vice Admiral
Bailey, the British official in charge
of the general submarine operations
of the British fleet. Information
reaching here today states that the
British Vice Admiral has sent to Ad
miral -Benson, now in Paris, attend
ing the interallied conference there,
a lengthy communication reciting
notable work by various units of the
American squadron and praising by
name Vice Admiral Sims and several
subordinates.
The American destroyers, in addi
tion to their general work of escort
ing transports and merchant vessels
through the submarine zone, are tak
ing-over certain sectlons of the
French and British coast ag their
own, and are operating there with
seaplanes and new types of subma
rine catchers.
The American-British-French an
ti-submarine squadrons now are car
rying” the war directly to the sub
marirfe, They have , adopted new
plans, which officials here said today
are most effective.
As a result, the German U-boats
no longer find an open lane to the
Atlantic, and several of them have
recently been driven into shallow
waters and destroyed. The German
yards are reported to be again work
ing night and day turning out sub
marines of the biggest type, pre
sumably for a general raid in mid
ocean and possibly on the Atlantic
coast of the United States In the
spring.
Democratic Leaders
To Frown on Fusion
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, Nov. 27.-—~Fusion tickets in
the eight Middle Western States where
Senators are to be elected in 1918 wilil
be frowned on by Democratic leaders
except in States where the question of
the war attitude of candidates is a
sharply defined issue.
This, was determined upon at a con
ference here of Democratic national
committeemen and State chairmen from
twelve States of the upper Mississippi
Valley region. The leaders met here to
discuss plans for the forthcoming sena
torial elections.
In Wisconsin, where the antiwar at
titude of Senator LaFollette is certain
to be a factor in the election, the Dem
ocratic leaders felt a fusion campaign
may be necessary. The senatorial sit
uation in Wisconsin arising out of the
death of Senator Husting also was dis
cussed The State party men were
glven to understand that a nonpartisan
and prowar campaign aimed particu
larly at Senator LaFollette or any can
didate he may sponsor is favored at
Washington.
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After heurs of fruitless search,
county police Tuesday at 10 o’clock
abandoned the theory that Mrs. H.
W. Finch and her two-year-old
daughter, missing from their home at
No. 67 North Howard street, Kirk
wood, had been drowned. The search
was taken up in Atlanta.
A hat and two coats found on the
river bank near Bolton Monday were
identified as those of the mother and
baby. The conclusion was drawn
that Mrs. Finch, whose health had
been poor for some, had sought the
death of herself and her baby. At
once the dragging of the river be
gan.
Early Thursday, however, Captain
Cheshire, of the County Police, di
recting the search, was given evi
dence that Mrs. Finch probably had
returned to Atlanta after placing the
farments on the river bank. The in
formation came from a resident of
Cobb County, a fruit tree agent, who
sald that late Saturday afternoon, as
he stood at the end of the River car
Issie, a woman carrying a baby ap
proached him and asked the best
way to get to Atlanta. Both were
bareheaded, he said.
The Cobb County man told Captain
Cheshire he instructed the woman to
walk down the car line to Fisher
avenue, which is the 5-cent fare lim
it, and there to board a car bound for
the city. She left him going in that
direction, he declared.
Another indication that the mother
and baby were not drowned was
found in the lack of any signs of
their bodies in the river, although an
exhaustive search was made for a
mile or two up and down the river
from the bridge at Bolton. The wa
ter was extremely low, because the
dam at Bull Sluice, above Bolton, is
closed every night, and the bed of
the stream is visible in most places.
Mrs. Finch is the wife of an ad
juster of commercial accounts, who
is connected with the law offices of
Councilman W. S. Dillon.
Mrs. Finch was said to have bheen
in ill health of late, and her nusvand,
an adjuster of commercial accounts,
who is connected with the law offices
of Councilman W. 8. Dillon, feared
she had taken her own life and that
of the baby girl.
Mr. Fincn discovered the disappear
ance of his wife gnd baby Saturday
night on his return from a trip out
of the city. No note or other clew
had been left, the first intimation as
to the possible whereabouts of moth
er and babe being the reported find
ing of the coats and hat.
These articles were identified
through a purchase ticket of a down
town department store, which was
found in the pocket of Mrs. Finch’s
coat. » .
Mrs. Finch has two other girls, aged
5 and 7, who were left at home when
she went away with the baby.
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structed of wood. The gun is an exact replica of the #hmous
French ‘7s’ which has been doing such wonderful work on the
western front. Ts is a working model, too, as the clpse-up below
shows, having every detail necessary to successful operation. It
will be given to the army for use in demonstration work in artillery
training classe. ¢
Lack of Food and Anarchistic
Propaganda Causes Wide
spread Unrest.
(By International News Servlc:.)
LONDON, Nov. 27.—Widespread
mutiny in thé Russian army is
theratened by starvation at the front
and the anarchistic propaganda
among the troops, said a dispatch
from Stockholm today. Riots and
anarchistic outbreaks are reported
from the interior of Russia,
Winter has set in, and with’ food
and fuel famines prevailing the ut
most suffering is being felt every
where.
The Bolsheviki are closely following
the methods of the French revolutior
and the official term of address now
is “citizen.” 2
“Citizen” Lenine, head of the so
called Bolsheviki Government, con
tinues to issue manifestos daily in
Petrograd. /
It is reported from Paris that the
Russian situation will be considered
at the forthceming inter-Allied war
council, ;
Druid Hills Section Thrilled by
Deputy Sheriff’s Spectacular
Pursuit of Fleeing Machine.
Residents of the fashionable Druid
Hills section were thrilled Tuesday
morning by an exciting automobile
chase, in which the‘pursuer was fran
tically firing a pistol at the automobile
of the pursued.
The pursuer won. He was Deputy
Sheriff Jackson, from Athens, who had
discovered two men trying to strip
equipment from his automobile as it
stood parked on one of the boulevards.
The men jumped into a big Cadillae
and fled, with the determined deputy
following closely in his own machine.
Jackson pulled his pistol and fired at
the wheels on the Cadillac, puncturing
the rear tires.
The punctures brought the big ma
chine to a halt. One of the men es
caped, but the other was arrested and
"is held at police headquarters, He
gave hig name as L. S. Sladamyre, of
No. 223 South Pryor street. The po
lice recovered’ from the automobile a
number of accessories which they be
lieve were stolen.
Casipgs found in the Cadillac were
identified as property stolen from F.
C. Wilkinson, of No. 72 West Eleventh
street, &
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the Police Station—Turnkey
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- Again Suspended.
~ Four United States soldiers, posst
bly practicing the time-honored
methods of escaping prisoners in the
event that Huns get them, “dug out”
of the police barracks early Tuesday
morning-—tunneled thelr way through
a thick but very fragile brick wall,
and escaped.
And poor old Tom Bayne, turnkey,
is again the goat,
Fom s out of luck, it appears. Six
days ago R. C. Jester, an auto thief,
escaped by the same method. It did
not appear to have been Tom’s fault,
If you can't trust a brick wall, what
can you trust? is the way Tom looks
at it.
But Jester escaped and Tom was
suspended for five days. Tom got
back on the job at midnight between
Monday ana Tuesday. It was just
in time tor him to be another goat;
for at 3 o'clock it was discovered that
the four soldiers had - tunneled
through the brick wall in another
place and made thelr way out of what
is called the ‘“city corridor,” where
the prigsoners not held on ‘State
charges are locked up.
Suspended Again.
‘And now Tom is suspended again,
because of course somebody has to be
punished when things go wrong, and
they can't find the brick masons who
put sour mortar in that wall some
generations ago, so the bricks would
all loosen up like a Marcel wave in
the surf and come apart with a little
prodding.
The soldiers are as follows:
~ Walter Domitrovitch, Battery A,
Fort Oglethorpe, charged with a mo
tor car theft.
~ F% B. Fair, Company I, 1224 Infan
‘try, Camp Wheeler, charged with a
lmotor car theft; captured at Tem
ple, Ga.
~J. H. Corder and Walter Fowler,
Jr., Company G. 118th Infantry, Camp
Sevier; charged with absence without
leave.
| Tear Up Steel Bunk.
The four men were locked in one
big cell in the city corridor, guarded
on one side by steel bars and on the
other (presumably) by the brick wall
at the end of the corridor. About
midngght they tore up a steel bunk
and used portions of it to loosen and
pry bricks from the wall.
With very little trouble and prac
tically no noise they made an open
ing large enough for a whole Key
stone company to fall through, and
(as the oid-time novelists put it)
breathed once more the air of free
dom.
~ That is to say, they beat it.
. And poor old Tom is the goat again,
"He is suspended after about three
hoars’ reinstatement, and will remain
’suspendod until the board meets De
cember 11, when his case will be con~
sidered,
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§ THE WEATHER.
! Forecast—Wednesday, fair; not
$ much change in temperature,
2 Temperatures—6 a. m. 37; 8
a. m., 41; 10 a. m., 45; 12 noon, 51;
1 p. m, 54; 2 p. m., 56.
{ Sun rises 6:22. Sun sets 4:29.
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| (By International News Service.)
. LONDON, Novi 27.—Re-forming
‘their shattered forces, the Germans
renewed their counter attacks in
front of Cambral last night, but all
werq repulsed, the War Office an
‘nounced today.
i British positions at the northeast
‘corner of Bourlon wood were heavily
assaulted, but the attacks were crush
‘ed by the terrific fire of British ar
tillery and machine guns.
’ Burlon wood, which was the scene
of violent fighting Sunday, lies about
three miles west of Cambral and
just north of the ruins of what was
once the village of Fontaine Norte
,Damo. It rests on high ground,
'which dominates the German strong
hold of Cambrat, and so long as they
retain it the Britisn can rake Cambrai
with their fire, ’
Bourlon wood is the farthest point
that the British lines have been ad
vanced in the encircling movement
against Cambrai, and the Germans
are struggling furicusly but fruit
lessly to dislodge them. The wood
Is slightly less than two miles from
the Arras-Cambrai road and when
this highway is cut Field Marshal
Haig's forces will have opened the
way for a drive behind the defense
of Queant.
Fleld Marshal von Hindenburg, the
driving force of the great German ma
chine, has ordered that Cambrai be
' held “to the last man,” according to
| gtatements made by prisoners captur
ed in the fierce struggle raging a.mund’
' Bourlon wood.
' As the German line in the weast
:.st,ands today the fall of this strong
hold would be a strategic calamity to
!thl' Germans, and the divisionsdl;z
itr-r(vri into wrecks by the British o
'against, the Cambrai defenses are be
i!m: re-formed and sent back into the
fray as fast as the officers can per
iform the task.
. German artillery, held in reserve at
Fthe base of Lille, has been rushed to
"the front and is now posted behind
Cambrai, Queant and Bourbon shell
ing the British lines. That Field Mar- '
'shal Halg has the Germans guessing
is shown by their nervousness.
| Dispatches from the frent today
| said that German batteries all along
the front from Lens to St. Quentin
ikeop a steady shower of star shells
lighting up the fleld from sunset to
!dawn, not knowing where the next
thrust will be made.
' The Germans apparently fear the
British tanks more than they do the
[inf:mtry, for tank attacks delivered
on the first day of the attack did
‘mnm than anything else to smash
the Hindenburg line, and they have
put a wholesome fear into the hearts
)uf the Teutons.
. In fromt of Cambrai the British
ihav» continued to launch their chief
‘pressure northwest of Cambral, at
tempting to drive between the Ger
'man base and Queant and thus get In
‘the rear of the German = defenses
along the Drocourt-Queant switeh, a
series of positions supporting the
northern end of the Hindenburg line.
The big obectlve of the British ,
which lies behind all of the offensive
operations in northern France since
the opening of the attacks in the
spring is to break through to the
French coal fields and industrial dis
trict wnich lie behind the Hindenburg
line. "
Military experts express the opimm
ion that the fighting will continge
through the winter in spite of ims
clement weather and muddy terrain,