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YOL. VI. NO. 8.
BERLIN REPORTS HEAVY U. S. LOSSES;
SECRETARY DANIELS GIVEN OVATION
Uncle Sam Has 2,000,000 Men
Under Arms, and Will Have
10,000,000 More if They Are
Needed, Declares Secretary.
North Carolinian Appeals to Meth-!
odists for Unity in Church In
stead of Sectionalism—Hun
dreds Find No Standing Room.i
Cheers and vigorous applause greet
ed the assertion Saturday night by
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the!
Navy, at a big patriotie rally at the
Wesley Memorial Church, that Uncle
Sam has more than 2,000,000 fight
ing men under arms and will have
5,000,000 or 10,000,000 if their ser
vices are required to help win the
war.
Every seat in the church was oc
cupied an hour before Secretary
Daniels began his address and sev
eral hundred visitors crowded the
doors, windows and other points of
vantage to hear the distinguished
speaker, who came to Atlanta Satur
day as the guest of the general con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. |
The interior of the chureh was dec
orated with American and army ser
vice flags. Men prominent in the
business and political circles in
Georgia and in the Methodist church
occupied seats on the platform with
Secretary Daniels.
Notab!as on Platform.
Among those on the platform were
G«;\'nrnur Dorsey, Mayor Asa G.
Candler; Major John S. Cohen, edi
tor of the Journal; Clark Howell,
editor of the Constitution; W. G.
Bryan, editor of the Atlanta Geor
gian; W. H. White, Jr.,, president of
the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce;
bishops, clerical and lay delegates to
the Methodist Conference and Miss
Mdargaret Wilson, daughter of the
President, who is filling an engage
ment singing for the soldiers at Camp
Gordon and Fort McPherson. The
musical feature of the program was
provided by the Forty-fifth Infantry
band from Camp Gordon.
In his address Secretary Daniels
appealed to the Methodists of the
Southern church to abolish all sec
tionalism and establish one great or
ganization. Commenting on various
phases of the world war, the Secre
tary paid a tribute to the young Am
ericans who have sacrificed their lives
in the service.
Secretary Daniels reviewed the re
union of the States and spoke of the
fact that the young men making
ready for war have been trained alike
in Camp Grant and Camp Lee, Camp
Sheridan and Camp Stonewall Jack
son, Camp Sherman and Camp Gor
don, demonstrating the cementing of
patriotism of the whole republic in
the struggle to make the world safe
for Democracy. He declared that for
' three years the armies abroad, though
fighting bravely, had lacked the uni
fied direction which is essential for
successful warfare,
McKinley Recalled.
Secretary Daniels recalled that it
was in Atlanta that the patriotic Mc-
Kinley, a Methodist, warmed all pa
triotic hearts by proposing that on
May 30th of every year the graves
of the men who fought under Lee and
under Grant should be decorated alike
in recognition of their common hero
ism and their equal devotion to the
right as God gave them to see the
right.” Secretary Daniels recalied
that this utterance of the martyred
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| HE superb foreign news serv-
T ice The Georgian and Sun
day American are receiving
from the International News Serv
ice was further attested yesterday
in the report of the great review
in London of American troops be
~ fore King George and Queen Mary.
| The Georgian was the only after
noon paper in Atlanta to be able to
~announce to its readers that it was
' the Eighty-second Division Infan
: try from Camp Gorden that played
' the principal part in this historic
- occasion.
: Further details of the event are
embodied in Mr. Wales’ cable dis
; patch on this page.
; The Georgian on Friday scored a
? signal ‘beat in being able to put its
' afternoon edition on the streets 30
fi minutes ahead of the opposition
. with anouncement of the great
§ British naval exploit at Zeebrugge.
; Among feats The Georgian did
; NOT accomplish last week were
5 the discovery of the missing ship
é Cyclops and the recovering of
¢ ‘“2O to 40 dead bodles” from the
‘5 troop train wreck near Columbia.
British General Meets End He
Courted by Attacking Conduct
of War on Front in France.
(By International News Service)
LONDON, May 11.—Major General
Sir Frederick B. Maurice today was
placed on the retired list.
The brief announcement from I.on
don that General Maurice has been
placed on the retired list ends one of
the most Ilistinguished military eca
reers in Britain, and at the same
time brings to the generally predicted
eonclusion the greatest political erisis
England has faced since the outbreak
of the war.
To Maurice himself his dismissal in
igunominious vircumstances can not
come as a surprise. He foresaw, and
even courted it, for in the letter to
the publiz press which caused the
great crisis he said he was taking
the step fully aware of all the con
sequences to himself. He asserted he
considered his duty as a citizen and
patriot to outweigh his duty as a sol
dier.
Major General Sir Frederick B.
Maurice was chief director of mili
tary operations at the War Office for
more than two years. As such he
gave weekly interviews to American
correspondents, reviewing the situa
ticn at the front. At the height of
the Flanders battle, in his last in
terview, he made some innuendo re
marks gravely cffensive to the
French, culiniuating in the irritating
question, “Where I{is Blucher?" —
meaning Foch and his reserves, At
that very hour French reserves were
helping the British to check the Ger
man advance in Flanders.
Almost immediately upon this un
precedented act of indiscretion
Maurice was “transferred to a com
mand in the field.” It was plainly
a demotion, for as director of mili
tary operations he had held one of
the most responsible and confidential
posts in Britain. As to his subse
quent procedure, the consensus of
opinion among observers in London
is that Maurice lost his head when
he lost his job. Instead of using one
of the many direct channels open to
him for communicating with the
prime minister or the war cabinet, he
wrote a letter to several newspapers
impugning the veracity of the pre
mier and Bonar Law. Overnight this
letter conjured up a crisis from which
it seemed impossible that the Lloyd
George government could extricate
itself.
Then, Thursday, Lloyd George
struck back in the House of Com
mons, winning the most triumphant
political victory of his career by
completely turning the tables on his
accuser and simultaneously defeat
ing the plans of the opposition, led
by ex-Premlier Asquith, to make po
lHtical capital of the Maurice letter,
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King and Queen of England and
Other Notables Review First
; Parade of United States Infan
~try Ever Held in London.
‘American Day’ in British Capital
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~ Occasion for Rousing Recep
~tion for Troops Just Sent Over
from Atlanta’s Cantonment.
By HENRY G. WALES,
Staff Correspondent of International
News Service.
I.ONDON, May 11-—King George V
and the Prince of Wales, standing out
side DBuckingham Palace at noon to
day, reverently bared their heads as
American national army troops fromn
Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., marched
by to the strains of “The Stars and
Stripes Forever,” played by the Grena
dier Guards.
From the British War Office flew
oniy one flag, “old Glory.” At a win
dow stood the leading statesmen of
the British Empire, waving greetings
to the American fighting men as they
passed by tne historic building in the
first parade of United States infantry
ever held in the British capital.
These were the high lights of
‘“American Day” in London, one of the
most inspiring and impressive events
of the war,
As the Americans entered Whitehall
‘after emerging from Horse Guard
Arch, the sun broke through the
clouds, and the thousands of London
ers that had turned out to watch the
Yankee troops cheered thunderously
at this significant “rainbow” omen.
Wherever the dough boys passed
traffic was halted and every open
space was a sea of human faces.
With the Xing and his throne heir
at the Palace were Queen Mary and
Princess Mary. Only commissioned
officers in the marching throng re
turned the King's salute.
Colonel Whitman Commands.
Cclonel Whitman, who was General
Fersting's quartermaster in Mexi®o,
commanded the parading troops. He
rode a borrowed coal black horse.
The troops wore the old-style cow
boy hats, canvas leggings and light
shces, instead of the modern trench
boots. They carried full equipment
from trench spades to gas masks, but
no steel helmets, v
The Scots Guards Band, playing
“Hello, New York,” led the machine
gunners. Then followed the Irish
Guards, playing “My Old Kentucky
Home,” leading another contingent,
and finally there were the Grenadiers,
playing “Over There.” In the rear
were the ambulance men. In another
portion of the great throng Grenadier
Guards, bayonets fixed, headed the
second battalion. Bix silk-hatted,
frock-coated civilians preceded the
third battalion with a banner bearing
the words: “We Civil War veterans
hail the United States.”
In the crowds watching the inspir
ing spectacle were many Americans,
including aviators, bluejackets, engi
neers and convalescent soldiers,
Passing St. George's Hospital, the
Americans saw soldiers, desperately
wounded in the great offensiva, placed
in the windows watching the parade.
Every one of the marchers visibly
ached to wave good cheer to these
heroes, but dlscipline checked them,
soo when the bandaged remnants {n
the windows cheerad the greeting waa
nct returned, but many a doughboy
vigorously nodded his head {n ac
knowledgement,
King's Lotter Distributed,
Coplea of the King's autographed
letter of weleomo were diatributed at
the barracks within an hour after the
Amerleany’ arrival, Most of them are
now en route to America as sctuves
Centinued on Page 2, Column 8.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1918.
| FAILURE:
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More Bad News from Aviation De
partment Reported by Sena
tors—America Falls Behind on
Big Cannon, Too, It Is Said.
Committee to Make New Tour of
Gun Factories—Senators Say
Borglum’s Motives Do Not Co
ncern Investigation,
By JAMES NOURSE.
Staff Correspondent of International
News Service.
WASHINGTOUN, May 11.—Mem
bers of the Senate military affairs
committee who attended the confer
ence of the Wor Council at the War
Department today returned to the
Senate with details of a fresa dis
couragement in the nation's program
of aircraft construction.
The Senators learned that the Bris
tci heavy fighting plane, Ipon wnich
a great deal of dependence has been
placed, has turned out to pe a fail
ure. Plars for the manufazture of
these planes in large quantity have
been practically abandoned, *he Sen
ators were told.
Accordirg to the information im
parted to the members of the com
mittee by army authoritics who sit
in the War Council, the ckief trouble
with the LDiristol plane has been in
the matter of providing a moter for
it. The plane is a two-seater of the
fighting type and requires a specially
powerful and dependable motor. Ex
pcriments made with various types
of motors, including the ILiberty mo
tor, have failed to produce aone which
could sustain the flight of the heavy
plane,
In the use of the Liborty motor it
was explained to the =Seantors that
the radiation was faulty, so far as
this particular type of plane was con
cerned. The trials showed that the
motor became overheated in attempt
ing to keep up the power necessary
to propel the heavy plane. Other mo
tors used in the experiments failed
to produce sufficient power to drive
the plane and its weight of equip
ment
German Spies Accused.
The coatracts for the manufacture
of the Bristol plane are held by the
Curtiss plant. It was this plane
which was brought to the notice of
the Senate recently by Senator Over
man, when he exhibited a broken
stay wire from a Bristol plane. The
wire, he asserted, had been filed and
the hole filled with lead, so that it
was weak anil unrtable and likely to
break under any severe strain.
Senator Overman charged at the
time that German spies were em
ployed in the Curtiss plant on the
manufacture of these planes.
The committee members also
learned that thare Las been little im
provement in the matter of the man
ufacture of heavy ordnance, This
subject has been under inquiry by a
subcommitter, of which Senators
Hitchcock, Fletcher, Beckham, Wads
worth and Weaks are members,
The members of thls subcommittee
conferred with Assistant Secretary of
War Stettinius and learned from him
that conditions, already reported bad
by the subcommittee, have not {m
proved. It is stated that America Is
still dependent upon France for heavy
cannon and that France {s being
texed to great limits to supply them.
Froduction of heavy cannon by this
country, the subcommittee learned, is
practically at a standstill,
Mr, Btettiains agreed to accompany
the subcommittee ocn a tour of the
gun factories next weak, Coneral
Williaris, of the Ordnanee Depart
ment, alee will be in the party, The
first vieit will be made te the leth
lehem Rteel Company's plant, where
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Tribute Is Paid
E, To Mothers By
. President Wilson
WASHINGTON, May 11.—g
President Wilson and the
entire Government ren
dered homage tonight to Ameri
can mothers on the eve of Moth
¢ ers’ Day. The following state
¢ ment was issued tonight from the
¢ White House:
“I take the liberty of calling spe- g
cial attention to the fact that this s
is ‘Mothers’ Day,’ and 1 take ad- ¢
vantage of the occasion to suggest E
that during this @ay our attention 2
be directed particularly to the pa
triotic sacrifices which are being !
so freely and generously made by %
the mothers of our land in unself- !
ishly offering their sons tg bearg
arms. and., if need be, ts die in ¢
defense of liberty and justice, and %
th¥t we especially remember these {
mothers in our prayers, praying )
g God for His divine blessing upong
them and upon their sons, whose
. whole-hearted service is now given §
fg to the country which we love.
if “WOODROW WILSON.” !
Secretaries of Army and Navy
Mark Mother’s Day by Mes
sages of Reassurance.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, May 11.—Secre
tary of War Baker and Secretary of
the Navy Daniels each issued a state
ment today carrying a message of re
assurance to mothers from their sons
in the army and navy.
Secretary Baker’'s statement reads:
“To the mothers of America: To
bring you a message from your boys
in France. They are cheerful and
earnest and full of fight—as proud of
their country as their country is
proud of them.
“From you they yet draw inspira
tion and to you they send a message
filled with determination and with
hope. They hope to make this war
the last war that America will ever
have to fight against a military des
notism, and they want to fight till
that hope has been achieved.
“They ask you to be of good cheer,
to be with them fondly in your
thoughts, and to sustain your hearts
in the day of battle as they will sus
tain theirs.
(Signed) “NEWTON D. BAKER,
“Secretary of War.”
Secretary Daniel's statement fol
lows:
“To mothers of defenders of dem
ocracy:
“The courage of the mothers in
the homes is'refler‘ted by the bravery
of the men at the front. It is al
ways true that the morale of a na
tion’s soldiers and the ideals for
which they fight are born in the
spiritual heroism of a nation's moth
ers. Let the nation join in interna
tional prayer to all mothers of de
fenders of democracy to cheer and
strengthen them, thelr sons, and the
nation itself to fight to win the fight
that must be won.
“Our country stands before the
world as a nation fighting for the
ideals of natlons, and the world
knows that the mothers of Ameri
cans are sending men of i{deals to
the front, In that lles our strength.
Faith and prayer are the two basic
supports of national ideallsm., Inter
national prayer for all mothers of
democracy—there are thirteen mil
llons of them-—can not but ald every
soldler in eamp or trench, as well an
strongthen every mother at home,
(Blgned) "“JOSEPHUS DANIELS"
Petrograd, Hopeless,
Turns to Free Love
(By Internationa; Newa Bervlce.)
PARIS, May 11,-—~Advices from Rus
sia show that Petrograd la afflicted
with a desperate food shertage, Fach
eitizen gets nnl{ 100 grama of bread
dally, Socia]l diserder s ateadily in.
ereasing, Hundreds of “free love”
sogloties and gireles are helng estab.
lished in the rleh gquarters,
Ameng the poer gulcldes are n
ereasing, Dosens eof "guleide elubws”
have been farmed, The prospeet of a
Finnigh-German mareh on the eapital
leaves the pepulatien of Petregrad
indifferent,
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Germany Shifting Troops to Rus
sia From West Front in Effort
to Crush Uprising, Says Am
sterdam Report.
State of Anarchy Said to Exist in
Ukrainia as Result of German
Interference With Internal
Problems of the Country.
(By International News Service.)
AMSTERDAM, May 11.—Germany
is shifting troops from the west to
Russia, according to information re
ceived today from a frontier corre
spondent. He reported the arrival of
large contingents of Bavarian cavalry
at Liege from the Flanders front.
The Bavarians were on their way
to Ukrainia and the correspondent
was told that the war is to be renewed
there
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Ukrainia Is Reported
On Verge of Anarchy
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, May 11. —Ukralnia,
thrown into a turmoil because of in
terference by Germany with the inter
nal affairs of the country, is on the
verge of anarchy.
This was the outstanding feature of
an official Ukrainian report read to
the Reichstag committee by Herr
Scheidemann, according to the Ger
man newspaper Vorwaerts, a trans
lation of which was made public by
the State Department this afternoon.
The report, which was read after
the committee had voted to raise the
injunction of secrecy* on debates of
affairs in the Ukraine, said that on
April 20 German soldiers surrounded
the building in which the Central
Rada holds its sessions and arrested
the members, as well as the members
of the Government. They were sub
jected to the roughest of treatment,
and all the private papers of theg
Rada were confiscated. The Ministers
of the Interior, Foreign Affairs and of
War were arrested without warrants.
Reports of what had occurred
spread rapialy through the country,
and disorders were reported from va
rious sections. The German Minister
to the Ukraine, Baron Mum, protested
that he had no knowledge of the ar
rest of the Ukrainian officials, and
later announced that the protest of
the Government had been forwarded
to Berlin.
According to The Vorwaerts,
Scheidemann closed his speech by ad
vising the Germans to cease playing
the part of a figurchead, and if it was
rot “in agreement with occurrences in
the east, openly to leave the respon
sibility to those who are to' blame.”
Would Postpone New
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Rates on Periodicals
(By International News Service)
WASIHINGTON, May 11.—Senator
Watson, of Indiana, gnve notico In the
Senate today that on Monday he will
move an amandment to the postoffice
appropriation bill postponing for one
year the xone rates on perlodicals
which are to be imposed under the
revenue net, The new rates are to go
into effeet, hut the amendment which
Benator Wataon will propose wlill
postpona thelr operation until July
1 of next year,
Losses at Ostend
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Small, Berlin Says
(By International News Service)
PERLIN, VIA LONDON, May 11,—
The (German Admirqlty, in a seoond
version nf the Pritish naval attack
en Ostend, says the Vindietive sank
eutgide the ehannpel, 'The statement
&dds the German losses were “delight
fully small.”’
(Copyright 1913 by the
Georgian Company.)
gTextile Plant at
: U. 8. Prison Here |
. Favored by House
3 (By International News Service.)
ASHINGTON, May 11.
g oo The administration 1
g bill to establish a
Z cotton goods factory at At- |
%lanta Federal l’onitcntiaryi
{ passed the House this after- |
noon, despite the vignrousg
fight by Representatives from i
textile manufacturing dis- |
! triets. ;
Important Vctory Won in the Val
de Larsa in Fighting Marked
by Great Gallantry.
(By International News Service.)
ROME, May 11.—An important lo
cal success by the Italian troops was
announced by the War Office tonight.
The statement follows:
“In the Val de Larsa, on the night
of the ninth, after brisk fighting con
ducted with great gallantry, light de
tachments of our linfantry stormed
the strongly organized height, Monte
Cforno, taking 100 priséners and two
guns and four machine guns. Some
material also was captured.
“Several patrol encounters took
place yesterday, the enemy leaving
prisoners in our hands.
“Three was intense aircraft activ
ity. Our airships dropped a ton of
bombs on the Mattarello railway sta
tlon. These airplanes were brought
down. One enemy ‘Drachen’ ma
chine was shot down by British air
men.”
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Dr. C. W. Strickler
Enters Army Service
Dr. C. W. Strickler, one of the best
known physicians of Atlanta, has en
tered the service of the Government,
having recelved a commission as ma
jor in the Emory Unit to succeed Dr.
Stewart R. Roberts, who was promot
ed to lieutenant colonel and trans
ferred to Columbia, S. C.
For many years Dr. Strickler has
been practising medicine in Atlanta.
He served his apprenticeship at Grady
Hospital and later attended the old
Elkin-Cooper Medical College on
Luckie street. His appointment be
comes effective immediately, and Dr.
Strickler will enter into active servico
in a few days.
FRENCH TAKES NEW POST.
DUBLIN, May 11.—Field Marshal
Viscount French was today sworn in
as Lord Licutenant of Ireland. Chief
Secretary Shortt also took his oath of
office.
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French Troops Score Imperiant
Advances Both in Flandars and
Picardy—British Fliers Con«
tinue Their Destructive Worky
Another Week Finds Germang
Still Unable to Deliver on Ad< "
vertised Double Offensive As<
sault on the Western Front.
(By !nternational News Service.)
BERLIN (Via London), May 11.-4
“We inflicted heavy losses by a mine
bon bardment on the Americans
southwest of Apremont and north o‘
Parroy,” says a War Office announce«
ment.”
The rtatement, which is part of
today's official report cavering yester=
day's operations in the West, follows#
In the Apremont wood we re
pulsed an advance by French bat
talions, which were supported by
pioneers and flame-throwers.
By means of a strong mine
bombardment we inflicted heavy
losses on the Americans south
west of Apremont and north of
Parroy.
It was in the burnt Apremont wocdy
four miles east of St. Mihiel, in thd
sector northyest of Toul, where thd
battle line makes a sharp turn north<
eastward to Pont-a-Mousson, that o
violent engagement was recentlyl
fought between Americans and Gers
man shock troops, the latter being
signally def»ated. The town of Apre«
mont lies south of the wood. ?
The German War Cflice statemend
shows that mine hombardments werd
carried out on two widely sep:lr.vled
sections, scuthwest of Apremoaiy
which is the sector northwest of Touly
and in the region north of Parroyy
which 1s on that part of the line gend
erally referred to as the Lunevillg
sector. Parroy lies on the Rhmei‘
Marne Canal, and it is there that the
first American unit entered the fron§
line trenches in France. The sw‘toi
is about midway between Nanecy .'md
Metz. Parroy is northeast of IL.uined
ville
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Another Week Gone
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With the Big Drive
{By International News Service) |
NEW YORK, May 11.—Anothed
week has passed and the advertised
double offensive of the Germans hag
not been begun.
The week just ended has seen min
attempts made by the foe, but
have been defetaed with ease and t
period has closed with the Allied poJ
sitions improved wherever (‘hange‘
have taken place in the line. |
Artillery action still is violent al}
along the Fanders and Picardy frontd
and in the Italian theater, and it ma‘
be a masterstroke may be attempted
soon by the enemy. Authoritative
statements from the Allies’ capitals
all point out that a powerful, if nos
indeed the greatest of all Germag
drives, must come and come within &
short time.
It is probable the delay in strikirfl
is not in keeping with the desire
the German high command so muohl
as with the necessities of the caseq
The results of the fighting in t
present campaign have demonstrat:
that the Germans can hope to ad
the Allies back only after the mo
careful of preparation and the mo
extraordinary of artillery concen
tlons, Bince they were stopped -
thelr first great rushes in Picardy a
in Flanders—which dsveloped
the preparation of months—they
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