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U. S. TROOPS KILLED IN BATTLE
Coal Crisis Needs Drastic Hand, Says Garfield
PLOT ON ITALIAN KING IS REVEALED
(By Internationai 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
Beattle and other northwestern citics
as the result of a gigantic world plot
of German origin to disrupt the Ital
fan army ‘and assassinate Victor
Emmanuel
The capture by United States offi
cers permits the disclosure for the
first time of what the Federal offi
cers assign as the answer to a ques
tien that has been on the lips of mil
lions and that has puzzled the Al'ied
nations of the world—the reason for
the sudden and myvsterious co'lapse
of he Italian army before the Austro-
German attack.
The answer grows out of the ar
rvests, and, according to a series of
amazing disclosures made here today
by Government officials, is furnished
in a far-reaching intrigue carried
forward in the United States and
Ttaly under the red flag of anarchy.
The anarchists’ organization is
known to the Government as the Cir
ecola Stvudi Sociali, with Pacifict Coast
headguarters here Federal officials
today described this band as a secret
society of direct actionists and bomb
throwers. with murder and assassina
tion as the cardinal principles of its
creed.
(By International News Service.)
ROME Nov. 27.—Repulse of an en
tire d-vision of Austro-Germans with
heavy loss~s in fighting on the north
err front was announc~d in today's
official statement. A large number of
prisoners were taken.
“For a time,” the statement added
“the batt'e assumed a grave aspect,
but Italian reinforcements arrived in
time to save the s‘tuation.”
(Bv Internatioral News Sarvire.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27— rom
the Asiago to the Plave the Austro-
QGermans have suffered appalling
losses without gaining any advan
tage, according to an official cable
gram from Rome today. Between
the Piav~e and the Brenta the enemy
has already worn out six divisions,
these disptachn3 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 a desperate effort to break
throush the line, availing themselves
of their enormous reserves, estimated
at twenty divisions and easi'y shift
ed. With large forces hidden in th.
thickness of the forests, at one pointt
a small patrol of Prussians with ma
ehine guns was sent forward to gath
er information and prepare the at
tack. Shortly after the Austro-Ger
mans appecared in thick waves and
delivered a furious assault.
Wishing to avenge the wounding
of one of their pmf‘ers .the Italians
launched a bayonet att¥ek with such
violence that all the Austro-Germans
who reacned the Italian line were
completely wiped out. The enemy
renewed his efforts and de'ivered at
tock after attack with unabated fury
In the confusion of the struggle
ome enemy outposts fought among
fihemsvlveq the Thirty-first Land
sturm, in action near Monte Frior,
fighting an entire night against other
Austro-German troops, which were
totally decimated. .
Eight More Deaths
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At Wheeler; Ninety
i f Pneumonia
~ Lases of Fne
MACON, Nov. 27.—Eight more
deaths have occurred at the base
hospital at Camp Wheeler during
the last twenty-four hours. They
are as follows:
Clinton Caldwell, Company I,
124th Infantry, New Berlin, Fla.;
Leroy N. Beck, 27, (no address
glven); Frank Neighbors, Talla
hassee, Ala.; John G. Green,
Company G, 1224 Infantry, Mor
ganton, Ga.; Wesley W. Keen,
Company 1, 124th Infantry, Mo
mac Ga.; H. S. Wilson, Company
L, 124th Infantry, Lake City, Fla.;
Charles J. Connell, Naylor, Ga.;
George Edwards, Company D,
121st Infantry, Egypt, Ga.
Street funerals of the victims
in Macon have been abandoned
until the epidemic is over. There
are ninety cases of pneumonia at
the camp. The number of cases
of measles is decreasing.
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Shots Are Fired in
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Chase of Automobiles
Res’dnts of the fashionable Druid
Hills section were thrilled Tuesday
morning by an exeiting automobile
chas~, 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 trving 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 clos-ly in his own machine,
Jackson pulled his pistol and fired at
the wheels on the Cadillac, puncturing
the rear tires.
The puncfures brought the big ma
chine to a halt. One of the men es
caped, but the cther was arrested and
is held at police headquarters. He
gave his name as L. S. Sladamyre, of
No. 228 South Pryor street. The po
lice recovered from the automobile a
number of accessories which they be
l'eve were stolen. |
Casings found in the Cadillac were
identified as property stolen from F
C. Wilkinson, or No. 72 West Eleventh
street. |
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Bandits Get $35.000 |
From Brewery Man
DETROIT. Nov. 27.—Word reached
Detroit police this afternoon that
bandits had attacked the Huehner
Brewery Company paymaster and es
~aped with $35 000 in cash.
['he Investment Value of
Southern Farm Lands
In land one finds the indestructible and increasingly val
unable investment; in Southern farm lands one finds an
investment not only increasing in intrinsic vaiue but land
so favored by location that it can be made to pay large
dividends in productive crops of various kinds.
No safer investment for money can be found than the
Southern farm lands offered for sale over in The Geor
glan and American’s “Farm Lands” columns. If you are
also looking for a home, you will find them equally as de
sirable. You have only to read these co umns from day
to day and to investigate their claims thoroughly to find
just what you want
1f time is an object, you can help things along by an ad of
your own under “Farm Lands Wanted,” describing just
the kind of tract you desire.
Both reading and using these land columns will bring sat
isfactory results. When you use an ad of your own, leave
it, when ready, with or
Telephone It to The
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Main 100 or Atlanta Main 8000
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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 to impair the mu
nitions supply and other war essen
tials, believes drastic measures must
be taken if serious results are to 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 now existing at railway
junction points. VIR
Under the Garfield 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
{rom Missouri, made this statement
when he returned to Washington |
for the December session of Congress. ‘
“It should have been done last)
sesslon when Scnator Smith propos-‘
ed It,” he added. 1
Senator 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. '
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Basis of Hetty Green's
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Riches to be Split
(By International News Service.) l
BOSTCN, Nov. 27.—The full b 'nch
of the Supreme Court today decid d
the $1,000.000 trust fund enjoyed dur
ing hoar life time by the late Hetty
H. R. Green. and which was the
fonndation upon which she huilt her
colossal fortune, must be divided into
45 parts ond distributed among the
heirs of Gid~on Rowland, cr ator of
the trust fund, who died in 1823.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1917
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Nov. 27.—Re-forming
their shattered forces, the Germans
renewed their counter attacks In
front of Cambral last night, but all
wecre repu'sed, the War Office an
nounced today,
British positions at the northeast
rorner of Bourlon wood were heavily
assaulted, but the attacks were crush
>d by the terrific fire of British ar
ti'lery 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 ‘'nigh ground.
which dominates the German strong
hold of Cambrai, and so long as they
retain 1t the Britisn can rake Cambrai
'iwith their fire,
\ Bourlon wood is the farthest point
that the British lines have been ad
vanced in the encircling movement
tigainst Cambrai, and the Germans
lare struggzling furiously but fruit
‘essly to dislodge them. The wood
s slightly less than two miles from
the Arras-Cambral road and when
this highway is cut Field Marshal
daig’s forces will have opened the
way for a drive behind the defense
of Queant.
Field Marshal von Hindenburg, the
iriving for.e of the great German ma
chine, has ordered that Cambral be
keld “to the last man,” according to
statements made by prisoners captur
d in the flerce 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 divisions bat
tered into wrecks by the British drive
agalnst the Cambrai defenses are be
ing re-formed and sent back into the
fray as fast as the officers can per
torm the task.
German artillery, held In reserve at
!the base of Lille, has been rushed to
{ theffont and is now posted behind
{ Cambrai, Queant and Bourboun shell
! ing tr - British lines. That Field Mar
!sha’ Haig has the Germans guessing
'is shown by thelr nervousness,
! Dispatches from the front today
| rald that German batteries all along
the front from Lens to St. Quentin
keep a steady shower of star shells
lighting up the field from sunset to
dawn, not knowing where the next
iLhrusst will be made.
i The Germans apparently fear the
lßrltish tanks more than they do thq
{ infantry, for tank attacks delivered
{on the first day of the attack did
imore than anything else to smash
the Hindenburg line, and they have
lput a wholesome fear into the hearts
|of the Teutons.
{ In fromt of Cambral the British
have continued to launch their chiet
!pressure northwest of Cambrai, at
|lempting to drive between the Ger
| man base and Queant and thus get in
the rear of the German defenses
along the Drocourt-Queant switch, a
| series of positions supporting the
"northern end of the Hindenburg iine.
‘ 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 is to break through to the
'French coal fields and industrial dis
‘lrict which lie behind the Hindenburg
| Hne.
Military experts express the opin
ion that the fighting will continue
through the winter in spite of in
clement weather and muddy terrain.
Bolsheviki Heads
l Claim Vote Victory
(By International News Service.)
COPENHACGEN, Nov. 28.—Bolshe
viki leaders in Petrograd today de
clared that the national election has
gone In thelr favor, says a dispatch
from Petrograd.
The foregoing dispatch had evident
ly been sgent lefore the result was
known as when balloting began on
Sunday it was stated in Petrograd
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 first to be held since
their republic was established.
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First Maine Heavy Artillery and
| Seventh U. S. Regiment
' Elevens to Play.
. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Nov. 21.—A
game of football, in which a dozcn or
more ex-players from Princetun,
Dartmouth, Andover and other lead
ing colleges will take part, is sched
uled for Saturday, December 1, on
the gridiron at Wearn Field here,when
the eleven from the First Maine
Heavy Artillery at Camp Greene will
fight for goals sgainst the crack team
o! the Seventh Regiment, U, S. A.
To make the occasion more inter
esting, there will be a sclect band of
200 pieces picked from the dozen mil
itary bands at the camp, to render
martial music whenever a touchdown
is scored, while Brigadier G._neral
Sweetzer, camp commander, will at
tend and review the troops, who will
be marched over to the field for the
game. |
Tae proceeds will be given to the
dependents’ fund of the American
Red Cross. |
Among tb’ veterans of former bat-?
tles over .ne pigskin taking part in|‘
the game will be Edgar Curtis, Dart
mouth halfback; Tudor Gardiner, of
Harvard; “G nger” Frazer, ot Colby.:
and others, on the First Maine team,
while the Seventh Regiment wil! have |
a half dozen old veterans of the foot
ball game. ]
Favorable commen:s are being ut
tered on the health of the 20,000 men .
now at Camp Greene, as compared
with health reports from many other
camps. While pneumonia has takvu‘
h-avy toll at several camps Camp
Greene has had but four deaths slnce“
September 1, and none within the
t two weeks' time. The camp site
is regarded by mi'itary men and med- |
ical corps oTicers as one of the most |
sanitary in the South. 1
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In order to meet the requirements
of the colored troops at Camp Greene,
who have just arrived from Vermont
and Massachusetts, a nrovisional bat
talion with co'ored . slicers from each
of the two States, special tents have
been erected for the en‘ertainment of
these troops, corresponding to the Y.
M. C. A huts alrerady in use at the!
camp. The colored troops were given |
a regimental reservation near the
center of Camp Greene, and are now
well established in their new quar
ters. It is probable that several hun- l
dred other colored troops will be add- |
ed to the population of the camp
during the ear'y winter, 1
Fol'vwing close on the heels of the|
statement that Major General Dick
man had been order~d from Camp
Custer contonm-nt to take cormmand
at Camp Greere {s another rumor that
Major General French, now at (,‘amp‘
Jackson., Columblia, § C., will be or
dered here, The report as to General
Nickman was sent out from R'\(tln!
Creek Mich,, and sta‘ed without res
ervation that G- neral Dickman would
assume command at the locai carv.p.]
Brigadier General Sweetzer was |
p'aced in comma-d only flve Jays'
ago, succred'ng Colonel Frank Jones,
until that date ranking officer at the
camp w'th the United States regu- |
lars. Camp Greene, since it was
placed unier military regime in Oec
tober, has had not less than sev"n‘
changes in its commanding oflicers.}
Major General Liggett holding the
short record of less than twrnty hours
28 military head of the camp.
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 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
fdeath of herseif 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
idence that Mrs. Finch probably had
returned to Atlanta after placing tre
‘garments 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
line, a woman carrying a baby ap
proached him and asked the best
way to get to Atlanta. Both were
bareheaded, he sald.
The Cobb County man told Captain
Cheshire he tnstructed the woman to
walk down the car line to Fisher
avenue, which is the H-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 bodieg 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, {s
closed every night, and the bed of
the stream is visible in most places.
Mrs. Finch is the wife of an ad-
Jjuster of commercial accounts, who
is connected with the law offices of
Councilman W, S. Dillomn.
Mrs. Finch was said to have been
in ill healih of la.e, and her nusoand,
an adjuster of commercial accounts,
who is connected with the law offices
of Councilman W. S. Dillon, feared
she had taken her own life and that
of the baby girl.
Mr. Fincen discovered the Aisappear
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 fdentifled
through a purchase ticket of a down
town department store, which was
found in the pocket of Mrs. Flnch's‘
coat. |
Mrs. Finch has two other girls, aged
5 and 7, who were left at home when |
she went away with the baby. 1
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State Witness Balks
When Called in Trial
(By International News Service,)
SAN FRANCISCO Nov. 27.—-A
sonsation was sprung in the trial of
thirty-three busincss men, former
German agents and Hindu revolution
ists, charged with fomenting a rev
oluiior in India, when Jodh Singh, the
Governm=ut'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 PN T EANS 2 NO. 97
New Chancellor
ToGive Reichstag
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His Peace Views
(By International News Service.)
*THE HAGUE, Nov. 27.—Count
r von Hertling, the new Ger
man Chancellor, will deliver
his ma'dan speech in the Reichs
tag Saturday, according to a re
port from Berlin today.
It added the speech would deal
with the peace outlook.
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 meet
before that dats.
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Second Jail Delivery in Week at
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the Police Station—Turnkey
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.
Tom 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
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But Jester escaped and Tom was
suspended for five days. Tom got
back on the jcb at midnight between
Monday and 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 their way out of what
is called the ‘“city corridor,” where
the prisoncrs not held on State
charges are lockcd up.
Suspended Again,
And now Toum 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 wa'. some
generations ayu, 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 rollows:
Walter Domitrovitch, Battery A,
Fort uglethodpe, charged with a mo
tor car theft,
K. B. Faiwr, Company 1, 1224 Infan
try, Camp Wheeler, charged wilth a
motor car theft, captured at Tem
ple, Ga.
J. H. Corder and Walter Fowler,
Jr.,, Company G. 118th Infantry, Cainp
Sevicr, coarged with apsence 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 oice more the air of free
dom. 1
That is to say, they beat it.
And poor old Tom is the goat again
He is suspended after about three
houars’ re'nsiatement, and will remain .
suspended until the board meets De
cemb:r 11, when his case will be cun
sidered.
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Situation in Italy
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Same, Berlin Says
BERLIN, Nov. 27.—There is no
change in the situation on the Italian |
front, the German War Office an-l
no'nced today.
British forces under cover of dark
ness attacked German positions at
Bourlon wood and at the village of
Bourlon (west of Cambrai), but were
repulsed, the War Office reported to
day. The struggle was marked by
fierce hand-to-hand fighting, the
statement said.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Tweo
American soldiers were killed and five
serlously wounded in an encountef
with Germans November 20. The
casualty list was given out by the
War Department this afternoon, but
details of the action were withheld.
~ The dead are: ;
~ Private Harry 8. Miller, field are
tillery, next of kin Mrs. S, Copeland,
an. 1602 Center street, Baker, Oreg.
| Private Charles Rissmiller, ficld ar
;tmery. next of kin, Clara R. Rissmit=~
ler, mother, Reading, Pa.
| The severely wounded are:
' Sergeant Julian M. Péel, field ar
tillery; next of kin, Z. B, Peel, Hart
well, Ga.
Sergeant Andrew Engstrom, field
artillery, wife, Mrs. C. Engstrom,
Fort Sill, Okla.
Private Harry C. Watkins, field ar
tillery, mother, Mrs. Fannie D. Wat
kins, North Bend, Oreg.
~ Private Oscar F. Jones, field artils
lery, mother, Mrs. Marlon Jones, Lu
cas, Ohlo.
Private Joseph Lewitt, field artil
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 general work of escort
ing transports and merchant vessels
through the submarine zone. are tak
ing over certain sections of the
French and British coast as 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 sube
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 the
Atlantic, and several of them hava
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 rald in mid
ocean and possibly on the Atlantie
coast of the United States in the
spring.
Seasoned Veterans
Reinforce Italians
(By International News Servies,)
ROME. Nov. 27.—Seasoned French
and British veterans, who have faced
German drum fire, poisoned gas and
liquid fire on the wese rn front, are
now joining the Italians in cQunter
attacks against tne Austro-German
invaders on the Asiago plateau, "
Advices from the front today w%
of the arrival of “fresh ree
ments.” e % a