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VOL. XVII
PERSHING'S MEN OCCUPY PRUSSIAN TOWN
Kaiser Can Be Extradited, British Affirm
BELGIAN RULERS ENTER
BRUGES TRIUMPHANTLY
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('rowds went wild with joy when they saw the rulers of Belgium triumphantly enter Bruges. The photograph at the top shows
King Albert and Queen Elizabeth having a chat with the Governor and Burgomaster of Bruges. The two latter have been in the recon
quered city ever since the Germans came. The photograph below shows King Albert, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Leopold on horse
back in front of the Statue of Breydel in the main square of Bruges,
MANY OFFICERS MAY BE
DISCHARGED DECEMBER 1
Prospect of itmmediate discharge for
officers at Camp vordon was held out in
a communication published Tuesday
by Major N. Szilagy, camp adjutant, as
follows:
“Officers who desire immediate dis
charge and who do not desire commis
sion in the regular army or in the re
serve corps, if they are not included
under the restrictions ordered by the
War DePartmoM. I. €. not under sen
tence of a court-martial, not sick in
hospital, not accountable for Govern
ment property, will be discharged com
mencing December 1, 1018, 'Frnvlded
their services can be spared, he% will
be discharged by order (rom these head.
quarters and they will not have to
awalt the action of the War Depart
ment,
. . .
Reductiornr in Roilway
Fares Is Announced
WASHINGTON, Nov, 26.-—~Reduction
of % cent a mile in the fare of pas
sengors traveling In standard sleeping
or parlor cars, and of % cent a mile in
tourist sleeping cars, were announced
by the rallway administration this aft
ernoon. The new fare is effective De
cember 1,
TO LIPT EMBARGOES,
WASHINGTON, No 20, «~Kxport ree
strictions on many commodities and mu
terials will be repealed by the war trade
board tomorrow, it was learned this afte
ernoon.
Full International News Service
“All officers desiring commission in
the reserve corps, regardless of what
date they have applied for discharge,
will be discharged as the service deems
it necessary, i. e. if the command is re
duced in enlisted ltronfith. the officers
wls have to be reduced in proportion,
and they will be discharged so as to
best suit the service,
“Officers desiring permanent commis.
sion in the regular army will be the last
ones discharged, 1. e, they will be kept
in the service as long as thelr services
are absolutely necessary, and if thelr
application will not be acted upon by
the War Department prior to their
sorvices belng no longer required, they
will be discharged, and will have to
walt in civil life for the action of the
War Department on their applications.”
.
Big Allied Fleet to
.
Meet Wilson at Sea
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Nov. 26.—A big Allied fleet
composed of British, French and Ameri.
can warghips will meet President Wil
son's ship at sea and escort it to port
with distinguished naval honors, It was
learned this afternoon. The President
probably will land at Plymouth.
NO MORE MARSHALS,
PARIS, Nov. 26,--No more marshals of
Prance are to he ereated, despite recent
rules to the contrary, aecording to a well
authenticated report in circulation here
today.
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov, 26.-~The
Grand Duchess of Luxemburg has
asked the protection of the United
States
The request came in the form of a
wircless message to President Wilson,
it was learned at the State Depart
ment today, The Duchess asks Pres
ident Wilson to ilntervene in behalf
of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg to
prevent excesses in that small coun
try by German troops returning home
The message further requests Pres
ident Wilson to protext Luxemburg
at the coming peace conference “In
line with the policy of the United
States to recognize the rights of small
nations."
President Wilson has referred the
communication to the supreme war
council at Versallles,
v .
Great Allied Naval
Pageant Is Planned
LONDON, Nov. 26 A mammoth na
val review, in which the Hritish grand
flaet, American, French. Itallan, Bra
zillan, Chilean, Greek and Russian war
shipe will take part, is planned for June
according to information secured nere
this afternoon. It will be heid off Spit
head, England,
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1918
(By International News Service.)
ILLONDON, Nov. 28 (2:40 p. m,)—The
Lord Chancellor and the Attorney Gen
eral have both ruled that the Allies have
the right to demand the surrender of the
former Kaiser and others responsible for
the crimes of the war, The Evening News
stated today.
The newspaper says Holland's position
18 that she has not the power to surren
der the ex-war lord without the consent
of the German Government
Hun Council for
New Constitution
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Nov. 26 (4:10 p. m.).—The
national conference at Berlin adjourned
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today after adopting a resolution lsvor-‘
ing the calling of a constitutional aK
sembly, according to a Wolffe Agency
dispatch recoived at Berne. Frank
fort, Germany, was chosen as the meet
lbr:x place of the constitutional assem
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Ludendorff in Sweden.
BERLIN, Nov. 26 --General Luden
dorft has reached Sweden, The Frank
fort Gazette stated today,
Conference Being Held
: ’
Over Ex-Kaiser’s Future
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Nov. 26— A committes of
law officers of the crown is conferring
upon the future of the former Kaiser
in close co-operation with the French
‘authorities, it was learned this after
noon. Any action decided upon will
be taken jointly, it is expected.
. " .
Italians and Serbians
Near an Open Break
{’ly International News Service.)
ARIS, Nov, 26 ~ltallan forces
that were crossing Jugo-Slav Austria
clushed with Serbians and an open
break nearly resulted, sald a disputch
to L'Humanite today. Jugo-Slavia
Is opposing the Itallan advance on
Flume and Luzak, demanaing that
the Serblans prevent it,
The Jugo-Rlav portion of Austria-
Hungary lles in the south, adjoining
Serbia and bordering the Dalamatian
coast. The Jugo-Sav movement In
reality is for a greater Serbla,
300 U. S. Army Officers
b ‘
Return From Captivity
By ROBERT S, DOMAN, ‘
BERNE (Via Paris), Nov. 26.—Three |
hundrad American officers, who had been
liberated from German prison camps, ar
rived in Zurich today from Villingen
They were met by Red Cross Commls
gioner Dimmick. SBecretary John Price, of
Scranton, Pa., is wvisiting several hundred
captured privates at Restatt as well as
captive officers at Karlsruhe, arranging
for their transportation, clothing and
food Secretary Price found the prisoners
cheerful
The Americans held in North Germany
were aided by the Swiss commission at
(‘openhagen. '
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Nov, 26.—As hostility
against Berlin grows, the German
“separatist” movement is spreading.
said a dispatch from Copenhagen to
day. |
Northwestern Germany has now
joined South (Germany and German
*XTstria in the movement of secession.
Following the reports that the ex
tremists had obtaiged contro! of the
central government™ at Berlin and
were determined to administer na
tional affairs through the Soviets, or
Councils” of Workme nand Soldiers,
the exact status of Chancellor I-Ibc'rti
was not clear here today. It is he-‘
lieved, however, that if Ebert remains
in office, he will be more or less of
a figurehead ‘
Allied capitals are now keenly!
watching the developments that fol-|
low the arrival of the German scldiers
at Berlin. It is presumed that both
sides (the radicals and moderates)
will make strong competitive bids for
their support.
3 -
Bavaria Seeks Data
On Damage by Huns
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Nov. 26.—The new republi
can government of Bavaria has asked
the United States for authorization to
send a commission into the devastat- |
ed war zones to estimate the damage
done by German troops, sald a Ge
neva dispatch to The Echo de Paris|
today 1‘
“ . .
Socialists Demand
1 ) Y
Trial of Pan-Germans
(By Internatieonal News Serviee,)
LLONDON, Nov. 26.-—~German so
clalist newspapers are demanding
that former Chancellor von H--th»]
mann-Hollweg, former Foreign Sec- |
retary von Jagow and ex-Foreign |
Secretary Zimmermann be sentenced
as traitors to the country, said .'m‘
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen this afternoon !
The revelations in Bavaria that the
German junkers brought on the war
is resulting in statesmen of the old
regime fleeing from the country
1+ 3 1 « .
Berli:. Soviet Delegates
Arrive at The Hague ‘
(By International News Service.)
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 26 -—-Two dele
gates from the Berlin Soviet (Work
men’'s and Soldiers’ Council) arrived
1t The Hague today to assume con
trol of the German Legation. They
are known to be in touch with the
former Kaiser
Only Five Weeks
Until Christmas,
You'll he happler If you 4o not put
off your final :nt selections untl) the
eleventh hour of the day, S 0 will the
stores with the clerks who are not
too tired to enjoy Christmas with the
rest of us.
Shop Barly in the Day,
Make Up Your Gift Lists From
Georglan-AmericanAdvertisements
p ¥ Jriin—
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A sweeping investigation of the re
tail meat business in Atlanta has
been ordered by Dr. A. M. Soule, Fed
eral food administrator for Georgia.
It is to begin immediately, to be con
ducted by a citizens’ committee, of
which W. Carroll Latimer, president
of the Atlanta Bar Association, has
been designated as chairman. i
This is the result of a situation de
veloped from two opposing attitudes
~—the disposition on the part of the
food administration to establish max
imum prices, on the ground that local
meat prices were excessive, and the
complaint of Atlanta merchants and
members of the Meat Cutters’ and
Butchers' Union that the schedule
fixed by the food administration
would mean inferior meats or ruin for
the business.
Pending the investigation, the food
administrator has ordered that a
‘dealer shall not handle fresh meats
in Atlanta unless, beginning Wed
"nesday, he post conspicuously in his
market a pledge that he will not take
more than 25 per cent gross profit,
and include in this public noties a
schedule of sis retail prices on all
cuts.
Until the investigation is made, all
other orders of the administration
concerning the meat traffic, including
the schedule of maximum prices an
nounced a few days ago, are sus
pended.
To Assure Fairness.
The administration has stated
frankly tnat the investigation ils to
assure the public that the recent
maximum-price order, which sought
to fix fair and reasonable profits, is
not excessive, and at the same time
to guarantee all aealers and handlers
of meat that they are being permitted
to make a fair margin of profit. Here
is Dr. Soule's order:
“Effective on and after Wednesday
morning, November 27, it is hereby
ordered that dealers in any fresh
meats in the city of Atlanta shall be
held to a gross profit of not exceed
ing 25 per cent, this gross profit to
include all charges, together with
shrinkage and cost of delivery,
“It is further ordered, that the
public may have knowledge that the
meats offered at retail are being sold
on this basis, that it shall be un
lawful for any retall merchant or
butcher to sell or offer for sale any
such fresh meats in the city of At
lanta, on and after Wednesday morn.
ing, November 27, without first hav
ing posted in a conspicuous place in
his place of business a blackboard,
sign or other form of bulletin, the
following, in clearly distinguishable
and easily read letters and figures:
‘We hereby pledge ourselves to sell
fresh meat on a basis not to exceed
256 per cent gross profit on all sales.
Our prices today are (here list prices
of the various cuts of meat).'
Inspectors Given License.
“Inspectors from the food adminis.
tration will note the prices displayed
on such blackboard or other form of
bulletin in each place of business
and shall be at liberty at any and all
times to call for the wholesale In
volees, make comparisons with the
retail prices and, if it is found the
retail profit amounts to more than 25
per cent gross cases will immediately
be made."”
Following announcement of the
maximum-price order several days
ago, there came a stout protest from
meat dealers, who declared it would
mean they must close their shops or
gerve an Inferior quality of meat,
The most vigorous protest came
Monday in a large newspaper adver
tisement by the Cutters' and Butch
ers’ Union, which declared the ad
ministration’s schedule meant cutting
the gross profits of dealers to 16 per
cent, and concluding
“IT'Bs ALL WRONG--SAMMY
ITB ALL WRONG
“If you want good meats—think
how you are to continue to get them
if the meat market owner« are to en
dure long these INVISIBLE PROF
ITS. Think it over., We may sug
gest a remedy for you soon”
From the last sentence a number of
readers have Interpreted a threat
perhaps political, on the part of the
craft
The one apparent exception to the
general attitude of dealers opposing
the maximum-price order was pre
gented in the advertisement of a mar
ket company in Tuoesday's issue of
The Georgian, This company set forth
its schedule of prices on all cuts of
ment, showing that they were from
21-2 to 10 cents a pound lower than
the prices designated “fair and rea
sonahle” by the food administration
This company's comment was
“We are not going out of bu-l-‘
ness.”
LARMY*CAMPS J
Issued datly and antered as second-class matter at
the postoffice at Atlanta under act of March 3, 1879.
Convict Cons
onvict Confesses
Murder for Which
Girl W Trial
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—The trial
of pretty Elizabeth Baksa, a 19-
year-old Freemansburg (Pa.) girl,
for the murder of Mrs. Helen Ha
mel here last February, came to a
dramatic end today when James F.
Regan, a conviet, voluntarily con
fessed that he and not the girl was
gulilty of the crime.
The young woman was overcomse
momentarily with emotion by the
startling announcement which came
after the case of the prosecution
against her already had been be
gun,
Regan, a man about 28 years of
age, with a criminal record dating
from his eighteenth birthday,
learned that the young woman was
being tried for her life, while he
was serving a ten-year sentence in
Sing Sing prison for burglary.
No suspicion had been cast toward
the convict, and his name had not
even been mentioned in connection
with the murder.
At a conference with Judge Ro
salsky and District Attorney Swann
early this morning Regan made a
complete and detailed confession.
“I could not rest,” the conviet
declared, “with the thought always
present in my mind that this young
girl might be convicted and exe
cuted for a crime which 1 commit
ted.”
A rigid investigation of all details
of Regan's confession was started
immediately by Judge Rosalsky.
Meantime the trial of Miss Baksa
stands technically “adjourned.”
4 .
Delegation of Editors
| Return From Abroad
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—A deleiluon of
American newspaper editors who went
abroad some weeks ago as guests of the
British Government returned to the United
States today aboard the steamer Balmoral
Castle of the Cunard Line,
The returning editors are: E. W. Bar
rett, of the Age-Herald, Birmingham, Ala.;
Edward H. Butler, Evening News, Buffalo,
N. Y.; H. V. Jones, Minneapolis Journal;
Frank R. Kent, Sun, Baltimore; E. H.
O'Hara, Herald, Sracuse, N. Y.; A W,
Patterson, Western Newspaper Unlon, Chi
cago; Edgar Piper, Oregonian, Portiand,
Oreg.; B. Lamingray, Globe-Demoecrat, Bt
louls; G. A. Rock, iDspeatch, Pittsburg,
and Lafayette Young, Capitol, Des Molnes,
lowa.
T -
John Dorsey of Marietta
To Succeed Herbert Clay
Governor Dorsey late Tuesday afternoon
announced the appeointment of John Doh
sey, of Marietta, to succeed Herbert Clay
as Solicitor General of the Blue Ridge Cir
cuit, the appointment to take effect hinme
diately. Mr. Dorsey is slightly related to
the Governor and was one of his campalgn
MAnAgers.
Solicitor Clay resigned a few days ago,
without stating why, and requested that
his resignation be accepted at once and
“unconditionally.”
. s
Mrs. Caruso’s Brother,
.
Sergeant, Got Six Huns
(2} International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 26 —Sergeant R. P.
Benjamin, brother of Mrs. Enrico Ca
ruso and a member of the United States
marines, is lying in a Brooklyn hospital
recovering from wounds and the ef&r\‘u
of poison gas. When Mrs. Caruso vis
fted her bhrother today he told her he
had got a German for her, one each for
his mother and father, and three in ad
dition,
.
Severe Blizzard Has
.
Texas in Its Clutches
FORT WORTH, Nov. 26 —Texas today
is storm-bound by one of the worst early
season blizzards in the history of the
State, causing heavy losses to stockmen
The snowstorms which have been sweep
ing the State for the last two days have
covered the scant vegetation on the ranges
and the stock is starving, the stockmen
being unprepared for such an early season
storm.
How to Write
The Want Ad
That Brings Results
Any Georgian and Ameri
cean Want Ad will brln% re
sults because it will reach the
Want Ad reading &üblm in
Atlanta, but the ant Ad
which conserves your time
and saves your money is the
one which states its object
definitely and fully, using
enough space to outline your
proposition accurately,
Btate the detalls of the work
you have to offer. Gilve the
terms of the sale you wish
to make and a deseription
of the article or business for
rale Give your qualifica
tions and experience for the
situation you want. Name
prices, quote salaries; In
short, be specific and clear in
your statement of detalls,
When your ad s written see
that it 1s printed in The
Georgian and American's
Want Ad pages without de
lny, and you have assured
yourself success in obtaining
the things you are seeking
The Georgian and American
Atlanta’s W ant Ad Directory
20-22 East Alabtama Str.et
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(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Nov. 26 (noon).-—~American
troops have entered Prussia, reache
ing the city of Treves, according to
information received here today.
Treves is five miles inside the Ger=
man frontier, lying on the Moselle
River
The Americans reaching that eity
were advanced guards of the Amer
lcan army of occupation that passed
through lLuuxemburg
At Treves the Germans surren
dered a number of airplanes in ace
cordance with the armistice terms.
. Major Willlam Thaw, of the Amers=
}_mn air forces, received the surren=
2 r
American Troops
Reach Bollendorff
' By BERT FORD,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. 8.
. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
OF OCCUPATION, Nov, 24 (by cour
fer).—Unlts of the second division of
the American army of occupation
reached Bollendorff, on the border of
Luxemburg and Prussia, on Saturday
at sunset,
Sergeant R. L. Hopkins, of Arcadia,
Ind, commanding a bridge detadl,
said the arrival of the troops ‘“‘was
Just like play.” Hopkins went on:
“Our arrival seemed funny. M
company of the Ninth Infantry, to
which we belong, came over a you];:
mountain and behind us in extend
order were the folks of the villages.
Scared children scampered into the
houses to their mothers, not knowing
who we were. But they soon found
out we were Americans and then
they could not do too much for us.
They invited us into their homes for
hot meals, although they did not have
any too much grub for themselves.
Barns Barred to Doughboys.
They would not stand for us sleepe
ing in barns, but insisted that we oce
cupy the best rooms in their houses,
“My bedfellow in the house where
I was billeted had just returned from
Germany
“Women and girls were busy getting
bouguets ready for the doughboys.”
The first two doughhoys selected
as bridge sentries were Michaol
Sprezser, of New York City, a frult
dealer, and William D. Shepard, of
Campbell, Texas
Here is Sprezser's deseription of
his first hour on duty:
“T would pace to the middle of the
bridge and the Germans would pace
to a point a few yards from me. The
first thing they asked us for was to
bacco and then cigarettes, We didn't
get any too friendly with them, You
ought to have heard them when we
established optuosts on the bank of
the stream (Moselle River?)., One
fat guy asked
“‘Spreachen zle Deutsche?
German Was From Chicago.
“One of our gang hollered back?
T see vou chucked the Kalser,'
“They kept on asking us questions
in German. Some of our gang could
speak it, too They nearly knocka_d
us flat when a voice shouted: ‘How's
the weather over there? I'm from
Chicago.! °*
“A few miles beyond wires were
gtrung over the landscape and men
were posted at prety little rallroad
stations at the foot of the mountains,
1t was like a scene in the movies.
Jack Frost had paid a visit and the
scenery was like fairyland with the
trees. underhrush and ground a 8
white as though there had been &
fall of snow
Adding to the spectacular backe
eround were the opposing armies and
the frontier villages gayly decorated
with varied-tinted paper, festoons
ind draped Christmas trees, reminde
ing the doughboys of home and the
proximity of Thanksgiving and Yule=
tide
The children, many of them Gers
man. form Instant friendships with
the donghboy The soldiers gave
them rides on horseback, whils othee
kids were Jumping and romping
ylongside
' < ’
[talian Flag Hoisted
. N 2
On Austrian Soil
(By International News Serviee.)
LONDON, Nov. 28 (2 p. m.)~The
Italian flag has now been holsted on
the farthest boundary of Italy’'s news
ly oceupled territory in Austria, sald
v A=pateh from Rome this afternoon.
The Italians on Monday oecup[.‘
Vetta d'ltalla and Plzzao, Bt i
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