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VOL. XVI By? ofig"&oman Co.
Atlanta Begins Ten-Million Liberty Loan Drive
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Atlan{a. this week will undertake
to show the rest of the Sixth Reserve
District just how to start and finish
a Liberty Loan campaign, She has
the neat little sum of $10,000,000 to
shoot at, and she expects to sell bonds
to thdt amount in short order.
'~ But J. M. B. Hoxscy, chairman of
the executive committee for Atalnta,
is not fooling himself about the size
of the undertaking. He has been mak
ing plans for several weeks for this
work, and has the campaign thor
oughly systematized. He knows that
310,000,000 from Atlanta means not a
few big subscriptions from the same
old list of wealthy citizens, but a SSO
or SIOO bond subscription from Tom,
Dick and Harry, and their wives as
well. 1t means that the stenographer
whose boss takes SIO,OOO, must take
SIOO for herself; that the man on the
factory payroll must pledge himself
to bandle a bond; that the campaign
ers must draw subscriptions from men
who never have even dreamed that the
Liberty Loan appeal was directed at
them*as well as the rich man.
Team Captains to Meet.
The team captains appointed last
week were {0 meet Monday at 11:30
o'clock at the Chamber of Commerce
for organization and a choice of ter
ritories to be worked. Chairman Hox
sey urges all men who.are willing to
give four hours a day for three or four
days to join the team captains there
and volunteer for the campaign.
Tuesday night at 8 o'clock in theo
Atlanta Theater the first mass meet
ing of the campaign will be held.
Governor Dorsey, Mayor Candler,
Robert F. Maddox and Lieutenant
Merrick, a Canadian officer, will be
the principal speakers,
St. Elmo Massengale, publicity di
vector for the district, has returned
'trom a trip to New York and Wash
ington, enthusiastic.over the way the
» campaign is being carried on in the
East and filled with new ideas sot
sending the South over the top. He
says New York-s ablaze with Liberty
‘,Loan spirit; subscriptions are being
taken all over the city in all kinds of
places. Baltimore is subscribing tre
mendously, and in Washington itseif
everybody is investing with Uncle
Sam some of the money he pays them.
“The Liberty Loan special trains
are causing more comment at the
Treastry Department than anything
clse,” said. “They are having even
areat success than was expected,
and tle South is fortunate in having
obtain d two of these trains.”
Four-Minute Speakers.
ur-minute speakers will be
e mo*ion picture houses and
ie theaters this week. The
s announced for them is as
John Y. Smith—Monday, Grand;
Wednesday, Lyric; Friday, Forsyth.
Walter 2 Andrews—Tuesday,
Grand; Thursday, Lyric; Saturday,
Forsyth. g
Edgar A. Neely—Monday, Rialto;
Wednesday, Strand; Iriday, Crite
rion.
Linton Hopkins—Tuesday, Rialto;
Thursday, Strand; Saturday, Crite
rion. i
.rnest A. Bentley—Monday, Boni
ta: Wednesday, Savoy; Friday, VAla
mo No. 1. 2
C. E. Robertson—Tuesday, Bonita;
Thursday, Savoy; Saturday, Alamo
Na. 1.
George B. Rush—Monday, Alamo
& No. 2:;: Wednesday, Vaudette; Fri
% day, Alpha. .
B. S. Tallev—Tuesday, Vaudette;
Thursday, Grand; Saturday, Lyric.
B, B. U’'Orr—Tuesday, Alamo No.
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Thursday, Forsyth; Saturday, Rialto.
Mark Bolding—Monday, Forsyth;
Wednesday, Rialto; Friday, Strand.
Robert H. Jones, Jr.—Tuesday,
Forsyth; Thursday, Rialto; Saturday,
Strand.
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Wednesday, Criterion; Friday, Bonita.
Blair Foster—Tuesday, Strand;
Thursday, Criterion; Saturday, Bo
nita.
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2, Wednesday, Alpha; Friday, Savoy.
Clarence Bell—Tuesday, Alamo No.
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Vaudette.
William E. Arnaud—Monday, Cri
terion; Wednesday, Bonita; Friday,
Grand.
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Liberty Loan Total
(By International News Service.)
- WASHINGTON, April 15—With:
the entrance of the Minneapolis Fed
eral Reserve district into the Third
Liberty Loan drive today, the entire
nation has set to work to putting the
minimum goal of $3,000,000,000 in the
background as soon as possible in or
der to go over on May 4, with Secre
tary McAdoo’s call for $5,000,000,000.
Every State hag responded to tne
Secretary’s request that there be no
slowing dewn, and efforts to have év
ery county of every State oversub
scribe its quota censtituted the an
swer. The latest Treasury figures
place the national total at $573,451,600,
excluding the Minneapolis district.
ATLANTA, GA.,, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1918
Turning Point in West Near
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Cyclops, With 293 Persons on
Board, Has Not Been Heard
of Since March 4.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, April 15. — The
mystery of the United States ghip Cy
clops remained unsolved today. Miss
ing since March 4, when she reported
from a West Indlan port, the 19,000-
ton collier has been given up for lost
by the Navy Department, and the rel
atives of the 293 officers, crew and
passengers notified. There is, of
course, the faint hope that the vessel
may still be afloat, but her silence
indicates that she has gone to the bot
tom. There is also the hope that some
of her company got away in lifeboats
and naval vessels are scouring the
gulf stream for possible survivors’
Meantime interest here centered in
speculation on the cause of the col
lier's disappearance. The theory that
gigantic U-boats have been sent to
this side of the Atlantic to prey upon
transports and supply ships and have
bagged an American warship as their
first prize is not credited in naval cir
cles. There is rather an inclination to
believe an accident to her machinery
caused the disaster. It is known that
one of the Cyclops' two engines was
out of commission as the time she last
reported, and that the vessel was
forced to proceed at reduced speed
with the remaining engine com
pounded.
This would not interfere with the
powerful wireless she carried, how
ever, and increases the conviction that
the ship has gone down. There also
is the possibility, although navy offi
cials will not comment upon it, that a
German agent succeeded in secreting
a bomb aboard. But so carefully is
such an act guarded against it is
doubtful if such a thing happened.
3 Soldiers Killed in
Long Island Wreck
(By International News Service.)
CENTRAL ISLIP, L. 1., April 15.—
Three soldiers were killed, nineteen
were seriously injured, and about 60
were slightly hurt early today when
five cars of a Long Island train were
derailed two miles east of this place.
All the injured were taken to the
Central Islip State Hospital. The de
railmetn is believed to have been
caused by spreading rails. The train,
made up of thirteen cars, was run
ning at more than 50 miles an hour
when it was derailed. Five cars were
telescoped. Late reports say the
wreckage caught fire and is burning.
Freeze Causes Some
Damage to Cotton
AMERICUS, April 15.—Cotton grow
ers throughout this section report that
the recent cold has considerably re
tarded the growth of the plant, and
in some instances replanting will be
necessary. There are thousands of
acres of cotton just “coming through”
that were seriously damaged by the
unseasonable weather, and farmers
are worried over the outlook.
Three days of almost freezing tem
perature with one good frost were
experienced here during last week,
and this, it is stated, will delay the
harvest season at least two weeks, and
this, in connection with the expected
ravages of the boll weevil and the
labor scarcity, has cauged some pessi.
mism ymong the farmers. !
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Report Indicates Friedrichshafen,
125 Miles From Front, Was
Shelled by Allied Airmen.
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, April 15.—Friedrichsha
fen, Germany, where the Zeppelin
tactories are located, is in flumes, ac
cording to a dispatch from Geneva
printed in The Daily News today.
““The foregoing dispatch indicated
that Allied airmen may have bomberl
Friedrichshafen, setting it on fire. The
town is abcut 125 miles from the
western btatle front,
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S. Georgia Expects .=
Record Food Crops
ALBANY, April 15.—Now that the
iast cold spell of the season has come
and gone, it is conceded that South
west Georgia, whose crops passed
through the recent frost almost un
hurt, will produce the largest food
crops in the history of the territory.
This section fed the armies of the
South so extensively in the Civil War
that it came to be known as the
“granary of the Confederacy,” but in
more recent years food crops have
been secondary to cotton culture.
Under the spur of war necessity and
the threatened shortage of food in
many sections, farmers have gone
back to food production on a large
scale and bid fair to do a large part
toward feeding the armies of the
country. The back-yard gardens in
the various cities and towns of this
section will yield food in sufficient
quantities to have a noticeable effect
on the local markets.
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Soldier Confident
Of Allied Victory
Sergeant I. Shannon Cormack, for
mer Brooklyn newspaper man who has
been fighting with the Canadian ex
peditionary forces. spoke Sunday
night at the First Christian Church
with an expression of serene confi
dence in the success of the United
States and its allies.
“The beys in France and Flanders
are absolutely sure we can win this
war,” said he, “and are permeated
with the knowledge that we are go
ing to do it.
“The Germans are truly Huns. 1
know of one case where three cap
tured sergeants were nailed to a barn
door by their German captors, before
the horrified gaze of their company.
Americans must cxpect such treat
ment.”
Sergeant Cormack has been as.
signed to lecture in conncetion with
the official war pictures at the Atlanta
Theater this week.
Preacher to Show
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Germany Can't Win
Dr. Leon Tucker, of New York City,
will preach twice daily at the Baptist
Tabernacle this week on the books of
Daniel and Revelation, the hours be
ing 3 and 8 p. m. His sermon Monday
evening will be a demonstration from
Biblical evidence that Germany can
not attain her dreams of world do
minion. A large audience heard his
sermons Sunday,
Situation Seri *
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SaysOfficialßeview!
aysOfficialßeview
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, April 15— ‘The turning point in the west is
being reached. The Germans have scored a distinet advantage
which it would be very unwise to endeavor to belittle.”
With these solemn words of warning the War l)up:n’tment‘
weekly review today sums up the war situation. The Huns are
within 40 miles of Calais, the statement continues, and, as the lines
of communication to channel ports radiate vertically from this
battle front, the German advantage is greatly facilitated.
In spite of this, however, the War Department brings atten
tion to the faet that the prineipal aims of the enemy have not
lz&en attained.
BATTLE OF ANNIHILATION.
‘“We must bear in mind that the enemy is waging u battle of
annihilation to achieve vietory,” the statément says. ‘‘He is fight
ing today with the sole aim of annihilating the British armies.
Thus, Terrain conquered counts for little. If the enemy can mus
ter the driving power he will, in all probability, continue his as
saults, hoping that by ‘an enveloping attaek on an;oblique front,’
to use the classic Prussian definition, he may score a complete an
nihilating victory. |
““While it must be admitted the German operations since the
beginning of the present offensive have resulted in more than a
mere ploughing up of part of the Allied trench system and the
capture of local objectives along a wide front, nevertheless the
aim of the German higher command to obtain a decisive strategie
syecess by these assaults has not been attained.” |
3 Woeakest Point Hit, L
The official statement follows:
““As time passes it becomes evident
that the enemy is striking with re
newed vigor at the weakest point he
can find opposite him.
“In the offensive in Picardy tha
Germans sought for a rift in the line
where the French and British forces
joined. Failing to achieve any defi
nite, far-reaching results from this
cperation, they promptly returned to
the assault elsewhere, and niunged
forward hoping that by driving a
wedge into the sector alo the front
held by Rortuguese and I?fitish units
they may be able to voll the British
toward the sea and effect a break
through.
“This is the operation attempted
this week in the region of the famous
battleground of the early days of the
war in front of Lille. Here, on a
frentage of 16,000 yards stretching
from Armentieres to the La Bassee
Canal, the segment held by the Por
tuguese troops, flanked on either side
by Dlritish divisions, was penetrated
after an intense bombardment.
“The hostile attack was favored by
a thick mist, and in spite of the fact
that the Rritish fought tenaciously,
they wera compelled to give ground
after thePortuguese positions had been
broken through, and have since re
tired, abardoning Armentieres and
other points.
Gains by Miles.
“On the first day of the assault, the
enemy was able to penetrate to a
depth of from 21-4 to 4 miles on a
front of 11 miles, On the second day
the front of attack was exetnded to
20 miles, while the impetus of the of
fensive was considorobly s'owed down
and cnly able to rcech a maximum
additional depth of 21-4 miles. The
front of attack has since been further
extendcd and the British have been
forced to abandon positions to the
north and south of the Lys and West
of the Lawe,
“The enemy has made headway
along the La Basse Canal to within
the immediate vicinity of Bethune,
while other points northwest of the
city of considerable tactical impor
tance have fallen into the hands of
the enemy.
“The enemy now finds himself with
in 40 miles of Calais. The main line
of communication to channel ports ra
diate vertically from'this battle front
and thus facilitates the German ad
vance.
“During the four days’ fighting the
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enemy has gained a considerable local
sueccess in this area.
“We must bear in mind that the
enemy is waging a battle of annihila
tion to achieve victory. He is fighting
today with the sole aim of annihilat
ing the British armies. Thus, terrain
conquered counts for little, If the en
emy can muster the driving power, he
will, in all probability, continue his
assaults, honing that by an ‘envelop
in~ attack on an oblique front,’ to use
the classic Prussian definition, he may
score a complete annihilating victory.
“The turning point in the west is
Leing reached. The Germans have
scored a distinct advantage, which it
would be very unwise to endervor to
lelittle. Yet they have failed in their
great purposé to achieve victory in the
field, and will soon be forced to re
sume their old tactics—seeking to gain
limited objectives, striking first at one
point, then at another, in order to
render the Allied position untenable
and give themselves greater security.
Line Is Consolidated.
“There has been less activity along
the southern flank of the Picardy sa
lient. Here the line taken over by the
French is now fully consolidated.
“After the bloody battles which
have been raging in the area between
Montdidier and Noyon, the enemy,
fearing a counter attack ulonf; this
flank of their new deeply curved
salient, struck repeated blows to give
themselves elbow room south of the
Oise. \
“The Germans. by stubborn and
costly driven thusts, were able to
force the French out of the triangular
area formed by the Oise, the Aillette
and the old line stretching from La-
Fere to Anizy-Le-Chateau.
“On an approximate twelve-mile
front the enemy advanced to a deptn
ranging from three to six miles. The
French contested every foot of the
ground, were able to check the en
emy’s onslaught, and carry out the
carefully arranged plan for the occu
pation of the line which they now
hold south of the Ailette.
“In the sectors where our own
forces are fighting considerable ac
tivity prevailed. After protracted ar
tillery preparation, the Germans
launched an attack against our posi
tions northwest of Toul. Our artil
lery was able to disperse the assault
ing columns and checked the attack
before our lines were reached. Our
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LONDON, April 15—Severe
!lighting again has developed at
Neuvre Eglise, the British offi
}(-inl statement said today, and
‘the British withdrew for a see
ond time.
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, April 15—Despite their
employment of vast forces of fresh
men, the Germans have been una
ble to extend their gains in the great
Flanders battle, and today found the
British istill holding fiem in their bat
tl2 positions and the lines intact.
In the latest outbreak of hostili
ties along the 9-mile front that
stretches acrces the Franco-Belgian
frontier near Neuve Eglise the Ger
mans have bent their greatest ef
forts to break the British grip on
the railroad town of Bailleuil.
Bailleuil is about a mile from the
fishting line. 1t is' between 7 and 8
miles northwest of Armentieres and
from 3 to 4 miles west of Neuve
iglise, which the Germans claim to
have captured Sunday.
In the official report put out by the
British War Office Sunday night, it
was stated Neuve KEglise remained
in the possession of the British
after stubborn fighting.
The German attacks in this dis
trict were pressed homa with great
determination and German losses
throughout the battle - have been
heevy as a consequence, Field Mare
snal Haig reported.
Fighting Continues.
The Germans Sunday resumedstheir
ittempts to gain the village and the
fighting has continued.
“An attack, commenced by the Ger
mans early Svnday morning in the
neighborhnd of Bailleuil, was repulsed
by the British, and another hostile
attack which developed late in the
neighborhood of Merris likewise was
a failure,
“During Sunday German troops
tried to attack to the northwest of
Merville, but the assaulting waves
were broken up by the British artil
lery fire.”
German guns in the Albert sector of
the Picardy battle front were thun
dering all day Sunday, and it Is ex
pected there will be a renawal of the
Ge.man drive toward LZmiens soon.
Merris lies on the Hazebrouck
Railway, three miles southwest of
Bailleuil. The village is between
twelve and thirfeen miles north of Be.
thune. Merville is between four and
five miles south of Merris,
The German War Office, in its offi«
cial report Sunday night, made a
vague claim of further progress, saye
ing there had been “successful ene
gagements” between Neuve Eglise
and Vieux Berquin.
The twenty-sixth day of the battles
on the Picardy and Flanders front
found the British still holding to the
crest of the famous Messines ridge, in
Belgium, arainst which the Germans
have been making futile .flanking
thrusts,
The battle line now runs as fol
lows:
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