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NEW AMERICAN CASUALTY LIST
Whole German Division Repulsed By Italians
(By International News Service.)
ROME, Nov. 27.—Repulse of an en
tire division of Austro-Germans with
heavy losses in fighting on the north
¢rn front wag announced in today’s
official statement. A large number of
risoners were taken.
~ “For a time,” the statement added,
“the battle assumed a grave aspect,
but Italian reinforcements arrived in
time to save the situation.”
(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 dJfficial cable
gram from Rome today. Between
the I'iave and the Brenta the enemy
has already worn out six divisions,
these disptachns to the Embassy say.
The cablegram quotes The Rome
Tribuna's correspondent as saying
the forces of Krobatin and Von Bue
low united in the mountainous zone
between the Piave and Brenta Riv
ers, made ¢ desperate effort to break
throuzh the line, availing themselves
of their enormous reserves, estimated
at twenty divisions and easily shift
ed. With large forces hidden in the
thickness of the forests, at one pointt
a small patrol of Prussians with ma
chine guns was sent forward to gfath—
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 atiack with such
violence that all the' Austro-Germans
who reacied the 'ltalian line were
completely wiped out. The enemy
renewed his efforts and delivered at
tock after attack with unabated fury.
In {he confusion of the struggle
some enemy outposts fought among
themscives the Thirty-first ' Land
sturm. in action near Monte Frior,
figiiting an entire night against other
Austro-German troops, which were
totally decimated.
Seasoned Veterans
. .
Reinforce Italians
(By International News Service.)
ROME. Nov. 27.—Seasoned French
an¢ British veterans, who have faced
German drum fire, poisoned gas and
liquid fire on the wes#:rn 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 rarrival ¢: *iresh reinforce
‘ments.” . i
The formidable Ax;st?xn-Gef‘mén at
tacks between the Piave ahd Brenta
valleys have continued with the Teu
tons maneuvering to deliver 4 crown
ing blow but so far the gallant re
sistance of the Italians has frus
trated all German plans.
@eneral Diaz's troops are striking
back all along the line and are deliv
ering strokes just as violent as those
of the Austro-Germans.
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
since then they have been held on the
slopes 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.
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Eight More Deaths
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At Wheeler; Ninety
Cf P a
ases o nqumom
MACON, Nov. 27.—Eight mgre
deaths have ?ccurred at the base
hospital at Camp Wheeler during
the last twenty-four hours. They
are as follows:
Clintonn Caldwell, Company I,
124th Infantry, New Berlin, Fla.;
Leroy N. Beck, 27, (no address
given); Frank Neighbors, Talla
hassee, Ala.; John G. Green,
Company G, 122 d Infantry, Mor
ganton, Ga.; Wesley W. Keen,
Company 1, 124th Infantry, Mo
mac, Ga.; H. 8, Wilsan, Company :
L, 124th lafantry, Lake City, Fla.;
Charles J. Connell, Naylor, Ga.;
George Edwards, Company D,
12)st Infantry, Egypt, Ga.
Street funerals of the victims
in Macon have been abandoned
untii the epidemic is over. There
are ninety cases of pneumonia at
the camp. The number of cases
of measles is decreasing.
Shots Are Fired in
.
Chase of Automobiles
Residents of the fashiohable Druid
Hills section were thrilled Tuesday
morning by an exciting antomobile
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 Cadillac
and fled. with the determined deputy
following closely in his own machine.
Jackson pulied 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, bt the other was arrested and
is held at police headquarters. He
gave his name gs 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. :
Casings found in the Cadillac were
identified as property stolen from F.
C. Wilkinson, or No. 72 West Eleventh
street,
dits Get $35,000
Bandits Get $35,
From Brewery Man
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.
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stantially only as the men who compose jt own their homes
and build for the future.
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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
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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
Garfield this afternoon. Mr. Garfield,
face to face with coal famine in va
rious sections of the country, which
threatens seriously so impair the mu
nitions supply and other war essen
tials, believes drastic measures must
be taken if serious results are tb be
avoided.
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 distribu
tion which will do away with con
gestion mnow existing at railway
junction points.
Under the Garfleld plan, his repre
sentatives would have control of all
coal mines everywhere, and would
report the supply on hand daily so
that it could be distributed to the
points: where most needed,
Sen. Reed Urges U. 8.
Build Freight Cars
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—"“1 favor
the Immediate expenditure by the
Government of $100,000,000 for freight
cars to relieve the traffic congestion.”
James Reed, United States Senator
from Missouri, made this statement
when he returned to Washington
for the December session of Congress.
“It should have been done Ilast
session when Senator Smith propos
ed it,” he added.
Scenator Reed added there should
be a general upward revision of
wages. ‘‘As prices keep soaring the
purchasing power of the inividual
must be increased,” he said.
Basis of Hetty Green's
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Riches to be Split
(By International News Service.)
BOSTON, Nov. 27.—The full bench
of the Supreme Court today decided
the $1,000,000 trust fund enjoyed dur
ing har life time by the late Hetty
H. R. Green, and which = was the
foundatfon uron which she built her
colossal fortune, must be divided into
45 parts and distributed among the
heirs of Gideon Rowland, creator of
the trust rund, who died in 1823.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1917
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Nov. 27.—Re-forming
their shattergd forces, the Germans
renewed their counter attacks in
front of Cambral last night, but all
wcre repulsed, the War Office an
nounced today.
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 Cambrai and
Just north of the ruins of what was
once the village of Fontaine Norte
Dame. It rests on high ground.
which dominates the German strong
hold of Cambrai, and so long as they
retain it the Britisn ¢an 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 struggzling furiously 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 defensa
of Queant.
Field Marshal von Hindenburg, the
driving force of the great German ma
chine, has ordered that Cambrai.be
keld “to the last man,” according,to
statements made by. prisoners captur
ed in the fierce struggle raging around
Bourlon wood.
As the German line in the west
stands today the fall of this strong
hold would be a strategic calamity to
the Germans, and the divisionsg bat
tered into wrecks by the British drive
against the Cambrai defenses are be
ing re-formed and sent back into the
fray as fast as the officers can per
form the task. |
German artillery, held in reserve at
the base of Lille, has been rushed to
the front and is now posted behind
Cambrai, Queant and Bourbon sheil
irg the British lines. That Field Mar
shal Haig has the Germans guessing
is shown by their nervousness.
Dispatches from the front today
said that German batteries all along
the front from Lens to St. Quentin
keep a steady shower of star shells
lighting vp the field from sunset to
dawn, not knowing where the next
thrust will be made. 1
The Germans apparently fear the
British tanks more than they do the
infantry, for tamk attacks delivered
on the first day of the attack did
more than anything else to smash
the Hindenburg iine, and they have
put a wholesome fear into the hearts
of the Teutons.
in fromt of Cambral the British
have continued to launch their chief
pressure northwest of Cambrai, at
tempting to drive between the Ger
man base and Queant and thus get in
the rear of the Gorman defenses
along the Drocourt-Queant switch, a
series of positions supporting the
northern end of the Hindenburg line.
The big obective of the British
which lies behind all of the offensive
operations in northern France since
the opening of the attacks in the
spring js to break through to the
French coal fields and industrial dis
trict which lie behind the Hindenburg
line.
Military experts express the opin
ion that the fighting will continue
through the winter in spite of in
clement weather and muddy terrain.
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AT BOWIE.
FIRST—Five and one-half furlongs:
Wheat Cakes, 103 (M. Rowan). 6.20, 3.30,
2.70, won; Jane Mary, 101 (Walls), 6.00,
4.10, second; Heather Belle. 103 (Kum
mer), 3.00, third. Time 1:07 3-5. Star
wort, Ruthie M, Ormles, Matoaka, Pina
fore 11, Will Soon, Lady Small, Celtiva
and Sabre Tash also.ran. *
SECOND-—Six and one-half furlongs:
Bringhurst, 118 (Buxton), 3.80, 3.40, 2.80,
won; Incog, 101 (Troise), 9.60, 4.90, sec
ond; Josefina Zarat, 100 (Kummer), 4.20,
third. Time 1:20 1-5. Between s,
River Pirate, Cornbroom, Peter Jay and
Milk Man also ran.
TIHRD—MiIe and one-sixteenth: \‘Vll:j]
Thyme, 103 (M. Rowan), 16.00, 10.10,
6.70. won; Little Kngland, 114 (Obert),
25.30, 17.60, second; xKing Hamburg, 110
(Rice), 5.00, -third. Time 1:50 4-5.
Maxims Choice, Blue Thistle, Billy Oli
ver, Richard Langdon, Old Pop, xTinkle
Bell, xHickory Nut, Kingling, Frea, xße
sistable and Preston Lynn also ran.
FOURTH-—Mile: Shooting Star, 100
(Ambrose), 8.40, 4.10, 3.00, won; Wood-‘
stone, 102 (A. Collins), 9.30, 5.90, second:
Julia Leon, 112 (Buxton), 4.50, third.
Time 1:42 1-5. Sandale, Sweep Up,
Gamecock and Sixteen To One also ran
FIFTH—MiIe and one-sixteenth: Gold.
en Bantam, 96 (Mooney), 67.10, 19.50,
13.00, won; Handful, 105 (Mergler), 14.10,
7.10, second; Lady Little, 102 (M. Row
an), 5.00, third. Time 1:51 3-5. Dart
worth, Goodwood, Miss Represent, |
Smithfield, Edith Baumann, Flora Finch,
| Easter Lily, Margaret L. and Ed Welss
also ran. ; j
' SIXTH-—Mile and a furlong: Crepus
'cule, 94 (Frickson), 2030, 10.00, 7.20,
won; Greetings, 102 (Mooney), 4.90, 3.10,
second; Captain Ray. 108 (A. Colligs) |
'5.00, third, Time, 1:56. Harry Lauder,
i Mirza, N. K. Beal, Hesse, Loneland,
]Muck Ross also.
{ SEVENTH—MII~ and 20 yarda: Judge
| Wingfiela 104 (Walls), 650, 3.20, 2.70.
won; Vermont 11¢ (M. Rowan), 3.10,|
]2 40, second: Widow Bedotte 94 (Erick
son), 3.30, third. Time, 1:44. Foutain
| Fay, Dan, Kilmer, Water Witch, Hudas
; Brother 2lso ran. :
, Racing Entries.
| AT BOWIE.
! FIRST—Two-vear-olds, 55? furlongs:
' Garonne 110 Dioscoride 106, Tegical 103,
Miil Race 103, xOnico 98, Poor Joe 108,
Boy Blue 106, Flame 103, xDon Jose 101.
Ideal 106, June Bug 105, Sister Marjorie
{lO3, xLittle Bov 101. Also eligible:
Umatilla 105, xDairyman 110. xMoose
‘hm\d 110, Green Grass 108. (Eight ex
tcluded.)
| SECOND—Claiming. , 3-year-olds and |
'up, 7 furlongs: Short Ballot 114, Cos- |
tumern 114, Pharoak 114. Joe Finn 109, |
xMiss Gayle 106, The Decision 114, Alex
, Getz 114, Highway 109, xShrapnel 100.,
Little Nephew 114, Refugee 114, xEncore |
. 109, xT.eialoha 106. Alsd eligible: Early!
lIH. xScarpia IT 105, xPreston Lynn 109,
xOnwa 108, Charmeuse 111, (Twelve ex
clnded.)
THIRD—The Dominion purse, 2-year
olds, 6% furlongs: Amackassin 116,
lf)rl:\ndn of Havana 109. Babhette 103,
Lady Gertrude 102, Jack of Snades 102,
aNominee 112, Valorius 106 Eyelid 103,
Partisan 102, aDairyman 102, Bathilde
102 Tea Party 103, Golden Soldier 102
(aßreeler entry.)
FOURTH—Claiming. 3-vear-olds, 1
mile and 20 vards: Comacho 108, Cre
puscule 109. Lady Bob 101, xOnwa 113,
xFlare 99 xOriana 96. Roston 108, Swift
Fox 104, Mother Maghree 101, xAlvord
103, xTom Lowry 99 Wild Thvme 105,
| Anne Edgar 101, Pollv Anna 101, xßose
'Finn 100, xWidow Bedotte 100,
| FlFTH—Three-year-olds and up, 1
mile and 70 yards: Garish Sun 112,
) Akeldama 102. xAmphion 103 xSmith
|fle'.d 99, xLadv Betty 92, aCornbroom
108, Loneland 100, aOld Pon 103 bxDoro
thy Carlin 9%, Hampton Dame 105, Da-
Iv‘fl, Campbell 96, Last Spark 103, bxGay
’Lif» 88. (aCrew entry; bWardell entry.)
SIXTH-—Claiming. 3-year-olds and up
11 1-16 miles: Sir Willilam Johnson 114
Dartworth 110, King Hamburg 110,
;XB:!'“'?\ 105. G. M. Miller 112 Jack Let
1 110, Mary Warren 107, xLohengrin 105,
| Pierrot 112, Richard Langdon 110, Wild
| Thyme 103, xMarjorie 102,
| SEVENTH-—Claiming 3-year-olds and
lwp, 1 1-6 miles: Luther 116. xLittle
' England 189, xMarch Court 105. xHarry |
| Tauder 106 Milton Campbell 110, xSam |
| Slick 109, xKingling IJ 135, xßosewater
|lo‘2. xEla Rvah 107. xßooth 105, xPres
ton Lynn 105, xHickory Nut 98, 1
| x Apprentice allowance.
| Weather, clear; track, fast.
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Bolsheviki Heads
Claim Vote Victory
(By International News Service.)
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 28.—Bolshe
viki leaders in Petrograd today de-
I(-larod that the national election has|
gone in their favor, says a dispatch
from Petrograd. ‘
The foregoing dispatch had evident
ly been cent Lefore the result was
known as when balloting began on
Sunday it was stated in Petrogradi
that it would last four days on ac
count of the great extent of terri-!
tory covered and the demoralized
condition of communication. All men|
and women above the age of 20 are |
entitled to vote in the Russian elec
tion. It is the firs® to be held since
their republic was eptablished.
After hours 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 hank 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
garments on the river bank. The in
formation came from a resident of
Cobb County, a fruit tree agent, who
said that late Saturday afternoon, as
he stood at the end of the River car
line, a woman carrying a baby ap
prvached 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 Slyice, above Bolton, is
closed every night, and the bed of
the stream is visilJle in most places.
Mrs. Finch i{s 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 been
in ill health of late, an@ 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 and 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 identifled
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.
.
State Witness Balks
. .
When Called in Trial
(By International News Service.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27.—A
sensation was sprung in the trial of
thirty-three business men, former
German agents and Hindu revolution
ists, charged with fomenting a rev
olution in India, when Jodh Singh, the
Government’s star witness, refused
absolutely to testify when called to
the witness stand. He said he would
“stand by his brothers,” and he be
came a defendant.
Assistant United States Attorney
Annette Adams said reports that
Singh had been tampered with by
German spies would be investigated.
3 CENTS
E New Chancellor s
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E ToGive Reichstag
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| His Peace Views %
§(By International News Service.) f
{ "YHE HAGUE, Nov. 27.—Count |
g T von Hertling, the new Ger- ¢
man Chancellor, will deliver |
his maiden speech in the Reichs- |
tag Saturday, according to a re- |
port from Berlin today. )
It added the speech would deal 3,
~< with the peace outlook. {
; It had previously been stated in |
{ dispatches from Berlin that the |
2 Reichstag would not convene until !
; December 3. The Reichstag Main §
2 Committee is scheduled to meet ¢
{ before that date. /
Second Jail Delivery in Week at
the Police Station—Turnkey
.
Again Suspended.
Four United States soldiers, possi
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 theilr way through
a thick but very fragile brick wall,
and escaped.
And poor old Tom Bayne, turnkey,
is again the goat.
Tom is 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 jch at midnight between
Monday and Tuesday. It was just
in time for him to be another goat:
for at 3 o'clock it wus discovered that
the four soldiers had tunneled
through the brick wall in another
place and made their way out of what
is called the *“city corridor,”” where
the prisoners not held on State
charges are locked up.
Suspended Again.
And now Tem 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 wali 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
motor 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
midnight 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
houars’ reinstatement, and will remain
suspended until the board meets De
cember 11, when his case will be con
sidered. \
THE WEATHER.
Forecast—Wednesday, fair; not
much change in temperature,
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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FIVE CENTS.
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—~Tw0
American soldiers were killed and five
seriously wounded in an encounter
with Germans November 20. Tha
casualty list was given out by the
‘War Department this afternoon, but
details of the action were withheld.
; The dead are:
| Private Harry S. Miller, fleld are
!!illex'y, next of kin Mrs. S. Copelandy
No. 1602 Center street, Baker, Oreg.
Private ChaMes Rissmiller, fleld are
tillery, next of kin, Clara R. Rissmit=
ler, mother, Reading, Pa.
The severety wounded are:
Sergeant Julian M. Peel, field are
tillery; next of kin, Z. B. Peel, Hart=
well, Ga.
[ Sergeant Andrew Engstrom, flelq
artillery, wife, Mrs. C. Engstrom,
}]"ort Sill, Okla.
~ Private Harry C. Watkins, field ar
tillery, mother, Mrs. Fannie D, Wate
kins, North Bend, Oreg.
| Private Oscar F. Jones, fleld artils
lery, mother, Mrs. Marion Jones, Lu=
cas, Ohio. !
| Private Joseph Lewitt, field artils
lery, friend, Roy Woodside, Mount
Holly, N. J.
British Laud Work
~ 0f U. 8. Destroyers
! (By International News Service.)
| WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—The
work of the American naval flotilla
in European 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 yeneral work of escort
ing transports and merchant vessels
through the submarine zone, aretaks
ing over certain sections. of the
French and British coast ag their
own, and are operating there with
seaplanes and new types of subma
rine catchers.
The American-BEritish-French an
ti-submarine squadrons now are car
rying the war directly to the _sub
marine, 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 tha
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 gensaral raid in mid
ocean and possibly on the Atlantia
coast of the United States in the
spring.
.
100 Anarchists Are
Held In Northwest
(By International News Service.)
SEATLE, WIS., Nov, 27.—More than
100 men, all of them alleged to be
death-dealing Italian anarchists and
revolutionists, are under arrest in
Seattle and other northwestern cities
as the result of a gigantic world plog
of German origin to disrupt
ian army and assassinate Yistog
Emmantel, e e