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Two Monkey Sentences.
World Prohibition.
Where Is Government?
Laying on Hands.
By Arthur Brisbane,——
Professor Garner, who -confided
to this writer years ago his inten
tion to study monkey language is
back from his studies, and postive
that mohkeys can ask, “Where are
¥you,” and answer, “Here 1 am.”
That” is about all they need to
«#ay. The conversation enables Mr.
Monkey to locate Mrs. Monkey,
and the monkey race goes on. They
need no other language, having neo
thoughts to communicate, no benev
olent plans to carry out. Many hu
man beings could get along well if
their vocabulary were as limited as*
that of Professor Garner’s monkeys.,
As a matter of fact, hundreds of
millions of humans are limited in
vocabulary to fewer than 500 words.
With two votes to spare the wom
an suffrage constitutional amend
ment passes the Senate. Thirty
six States must now vote for the
amendment to put it in the Consti
‘tution. It is not pleasant to say,
- but it is probable, that thirty-six
States will NOT vote for justice to
women,
Some States fear their colored
women; say they can control col
ored men, not colored women. Ouvia
ers fear their white women, say
they haven’t brains enough to share
in making laws. It is probable
that this constitutional amendment
will be defeated by the States and
that women will be compelled to
continue their fight, State by State.
They might shorten the fight by
making it a party matter, all voting
for the Presidential candidate of
the party that displays no sectional
opposition to woman suffrage. If a
party discovered that it had to stay
out of power until it allowed women
to vote, it wquld allow the voting.
There is excitement in the Sen
. @te because the peace treaty reach
ed Wall Street before it reached
Washington.
Frank Munsey gave a dinner to
Lord North’lltle after the latter
bought the London Times.
Munsey had all the big financiers
except Rockefeller, the biggest, to
meet Northcliffe. J. P. Morgan sat
sipping his red wine and water
mixed. E. H. Harriman, who died
too young, looked sadly at his milk
and seltzer. Westinghouse, Wide- |
ner, H. H. Rogers and a glorious
collection of others listened to the
speeches. A newspaper man said J
to Northcliffe, “The interesting
thing about the dinner is this: The
President of the United States isn't
here; there is no Governor of any
State, no member of Congress, no .
Judge, but the GOVERNMENT of
the United States is sitting with
you at this table.” |
It isn't as bad as it used to be, in ,
days when Washington learned ‘
from Wall Street what to do. But
there is still plenty of governing ‘
power in the lower end of New ‘
York, and it is in no way remark
able that the text of the peace
treaty reached the financial govern- |
ment South of Canal Street before
reaching the other Government by
the I’oloch. ‘
From England comes the Rev. 1
Hickson, working at Trinity Chapel i
in New York City, curing tle sick
by “laying on hands.” The rever- {
end gentleman says he is not a ‘
Christian Scientist, but something
lse. He THINKS that he has ‘
%ur'ed crippled children with his
hands. |
If this gentleman could, by lay- |
ing on hands, cure the sick, it
would be interesting, but not im- ‘
portant. |
One scientific invention, BY |
PREVENTING DISEASE, can cure
more in a day than the total num- |
ber upon which the Rev. Hickson |
could lay his hands in a lifetime, |
We cleanse the leper now by wip
ing out leprosy. There isn't any to
speak of. We save millions of lives
that were sacrificed to the plague
Lby cleaning up plague spots. We |
put an end to smallpox by vaccina- |
tion, prevent yellow fever and ma
laria by getting rid of mosquitoes
that carry yellow fever and ma- |
y laria. |
The world has passed beyond the
individual healer, as it has passed
beyond the individual stagecoach
driver. Things are done wholesale,
with science in medicine and rail
roads In transportation,
In a world of Bolshevism, dyna- |
mite explosions, red flags, wild
gambling and general disturbance
it pleases to learn of a certain force
working always for pure morality,
The Anti-Saloon lLeague of America
is .starting out to spread prohibi
tion all over the world. There will
be interesting developments when
he prohibitionists begin near the
*mdon docks, or near lLa Halle
Paris, or the raliroad station in
Veniee. To persuade English,
French and Itaulian workers that
what they really want is good cold
water, with perhaps a little grape
juice In it, will otfer extraordinary
opportunities for convincing ' elo
quence.
City Official to Sue
Gvas Company Manager
CHATTANOOGA, TENN, June 14,
Buit for $50,000 damages will be in
stituted against 8, K. Defrese, man
ager of the City Gas Company, by
©a Herron, Commissioner of Publie
('tilities, it was announced today by
ais counsel, Slatements made about
¢ clt yotliclal during the recent elec
'%n and which Herron asserts are
elous are the basis for the litiga
tion
If you have any difficulty In buy
fng Hearst's Sunday American any
where in the Soutl, notify Circula
tion Manager Hearst’'s Sunday Amen
ican, Atlaata, Ga.
VOL. VI. NO. 10.
BRITONS FLYING OVER OCEAN
ALLIES FLATLY REJECT PLEA OF HUNS TOARGUETERMSOF PEACE
‘IRELAND’S CRISIS ALSO AN AMERICAN AS WELL AS BRITISH CRISIS’
Declares Sel'f—Determination Ap
plies to Irish as Well as to
Pole, Slav, Ukrainian, Finn.
‘As Never Before the Irish People
Are United—Vote as a Unit
for Their Independence.’
George Creel was during the entire
period of the war chairman of the
committce on public information of
the United States Government, the
committee being
George Creel, chairman.
Robert Lansing, Secretary of State.
Newton D. Baker, Secretary of
War.
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy, ) ‘
Since the peace conference in Paris
Mr. Creel, his work as chief official
censor of the United States Govern
ment being ended, visited Ireland,
smw all the leaders, studied conditions
there, and gives the results in this
series of letters, written for The
American, the first newspaper articles
written by Mr. Creel since the war
began. |
By GEORGE CREEL,
Former Chairman of the Commit
tee on Public Information of the
’ United States Government.
The world is asked to consider
Ireland merely as “England’'s do
mestic problem.” Certain circum
stances, unyielding as irop, preclude
the dcceptance of any such view.
Not even by the utmost stretch of
amiable intent can a question that |
strikes at the wvery heart of in
ternational agreement be set down
and written off as “domestic.” That
magic formula, “self-determina
tion,” has marched armies and
tumbled empires these last few
years, playing too large a part in
world consciousness to be limited
by any arbitrary discrimination in
the hour of victory and adjustment,
FEven as Poles, Czechs, Jugo-
Slavs, Ukranians, Finns and scores
of other submerged nationalities are 1
struggling to the upper air of in- |
dependence so does Ireland appeal ‘
to the solemn covenant of the Al
lies, with its champlonship of the
“rights of small peoples,” and its
sonorous assent to “the reign of
law, based upon the consent of the
governed.”
IRISH PEOPLE UNITED.
As never before the Irish are
united. With the exception of pro
testing majorities in four Ulster
counties, Ireland voted as a unit in
1918 for a republican form of gov
ernment, The 73 representatives
elected by the Sinn Fein refused to
take their seats at Westminster and
have assembeld as an Irish Parlia
ment, of sorts, in Dublin.
The thousands of British soldiers
in Ireland virtually constitute an
army of occupation,
In America the race has put aside
the factional bitterness of the past,
and stands solidly and squarely in
support of Ireland’s demand for jus
tiee.
It is this that gives the Irish ques
tion an American aspect. In the
United States there are over 15,000,-
000 people of Irish birth or descent,
woven Into the warp and woof of
our national life by common aspira
tions and devotions. They stand
{mplacably today between this
country and England, erying out
. against any alllance, agreement or
even amity until the case of Ireland
has been fairly considered and just
ly settled.
Sueh a mass, instinet with intel
ligent emotionalism, can not be ig
nored either in honor, decency or
plain common sgense. This is a de
moeracy in which the treaty-mak
ing powers of government are un-
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Johns Hopkins
Finds Locusts
Good as Food
ALTIMORE, June 14—One
‘ B of the entomologists at
! Johns Hopkins University
ras made the discovery that lo
custs are a delectable food. He
' says they taste much like shrimp
and advises everybody to add
them to the menu.
It is the easiest way to get rid
of thé pests, he adds.
With less than a hundred associate
memberships in the Boy Scouts lack
ing of the Atlanta quota of 2,394 at
6 o’clock Saturday evening, A. A.
Jameson, chief Scout executive, an
nouncel that the quota was certain
to be cxceeded, ind that a telexrm
was about to be forwarded to head
quarters that Atlanta was “over the
top” on time.
“And I believe when all the res.
turns are in that Atlanta will be the
first of the large cities to reach its
quota,” said Mr. Jameson, with evi
dent satisfaction. ‘“We had a wire
from the Philadelphia Scout head
quarters just a little whiel ago that
the Philadelphia campaign had been
extended through next week. There
will be no extension in Atlanta—and
I am confident we are going to be
well over the quota at .the finish.”
A pretty and touching little inci
dent occurred at the local headquar
ters Saturday afternoon,
Mrs. M. MeD. Vandiver, of No. 27
Glendale avenue, called to subscribe
for an associate membership.
“I want this to be a sort of memo
rial for my son, Joel,” she said. “He
was in the Thirteenth Company, C.
A. C, and went down with the Otran
to. He was just 18 years old.”
The members of the Parent-Teach
er Association and of the Inman Park
Girls’ Club were doing great work
all day Saturday and, with the re
sponses to the mailed requests, the
memberships poured in steadily at a
rate that made it certain by the mid
dle of the afternoon that Atlanta
once more had “come through” and
had yet to fall down on a drive.
Electrical Workers
Postpone Their Strike
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, June 14.—Oflicials of the
International Brotherhood of Electri
cal Workers today received word from
chiefs of the brotherhood in confer
ence with Postmaster General Burle
son in Wasihngton to postpone the
strike which has been called for Mon
day, pending the result of the confer
ence, .
At the headquarters of the Com
mercial Telegraphers’ Union, now on
strike, an unverified report was re
ceived that Burleson had granted the
right of collective bargaining, one of
the chief issues in the strike.
Debs and Hailey Now
Guests at Federal Prison
The Atlanta Federal Prison. yester
day opened its doors to receive two
guests of more than ordinary prom
m::;::“w“ Fugene V. Debs, noted So
ecialist and labor leader, convicted of
obstructing the draft and sentenced
to teén years,
The other was quite the reverse,
He was H. Kelso Halley, of Chatta
nooga, clubman, bon vivant and own
er of an apartment house, where he
‘vnnr!urtfld a wholesale-size illicit still
until local revenue men smelied It
out,
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\Brand Resigns as Head
Of Bureau of Markets
) WASHINGTON, June 14--Charles
J. Brand, chief of the Bureau of
Markets, U. S, Department of Agri
culture, since its inception in 1013,
has resigned, to take effect at the
cloge of business June 30, 1919, He
will become vice president and gens
eral manager of a commercial con
cern, with headquarters at Pittsbhurg,
Il .I(‘;c-nrxn Livingstone, a member of
the bureau staff, will be designated
to act as chief of the bureau until
Mr. Brand's successor {8 appointed,
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Unon Men, Soldiers, Women, a
ew of the Clergy Take Part
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in Great Demonstration,
Samuel Gompers Tells Senate
Committee Saturday Laboring
Men Must Have a Stimulant.
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, rJune 14.—Labo
moved on the Capitol several thou
sand strong this afternoon and pre
sented its demands for repeal of pro
hibition on beer and light wines.
Thronging the Capitol steps and the
great green plaza that stretches from
the.Capitol te the Congressional Li
brgry were thousands of union mem
bers, all carrying flags.
Soldiers, sailors, marines, women
and even a few of the elergy were
mingled in the crowd. Cheer upon:
cheer went up when the soldier dele
gation marched upon the pln!!..
HEAR BANDS PLAY.
Scattered throughout the plaza
grounds were several bands which
broke into ‘“The Star-Spangled Ban-‘
ner” at 2 o'clock and the great throng |
stood unmoved and silent, until the
national anthem was completed.
Tehn there were cheers for Gom
pers, cheers for the American Feder
ation of Labor, cheers for (‘ongress-|
men and cheers for “beer.” }
“What are you going to have.i
boys?” some one in the crowd would
shout. {
“Beer,” was the thunderous answer
that came from thousands. ‘
SAMPLE SLOGAN. J
“Ohio wants beer,” “We won thel
great war,” “Lift the ban,” “Watch
our soldiersvote next I\‘ovombnr"—(
these were some of the signs that
were carried,
Samuel Gompers left the gathering
and went into a committee room and
appeared before a committee of Sen
ators headed by Senator Sterling, of
South Dakota,
“Labor wants beer and light wines,”
Gompers told the committee, declaring
laboring men must have some stimu
lant.
.
Shriners Keport Great
. . .
Time at Indianapolis
“The biggest time we ever had
since the Shriners met in Atlanta,”
was the verdict of the Shriners from
Yaarab Temple who reached home
yesterday from the national conclave
at Indianapolis.
Teh Atlanta Shriners stopped at
Louisville on their way to Indianapo
lis, and many of them went on to oth
er cities, paying their Jast visit before
July 1 changes the map of the coun
try. )
The most interesting feature of the
convention, the returning Shriners,
said, was the solemn funeral of John
Barleycorn, staged in the streets with
a secore of bands playing funereal
dirges and all the Shriners weeping
real and copious tears
Jury Seems Deadlocked
Over Fate of MeDonald
The jury deliberating on the fate
of James M., Mcbhonald, prominent
young Mississippian, for slaying Joe
Jung, Atlanta Chinese citizen, in the
fall of 1917 at the Southeastern Fair
grounds, appeared hopelessly dead
locked Saturda night
It was rumored about the court
housge that the division was seven,
three and tw«
It was expected that Judge Render
Terrell, before whom McDonald was
tried in the emergency division of
Criminal Court, would keep the jury
locked up until Monday In the hopes
that an agreement might be reached.
The case went to the jury Saturday
afternoon at 1:30 o'clock,
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18 Wounded Soldiers
Hurt in Auto Crash
(By International News Service.)
HARRISBURG PA., June 14—
Pifteen convalescent soldiers from
the Unlted States Army Hospltal at
Carlisle, Pa,, were injured, some of
them perhaps fatally, this aftermoon,
when a truck in which they were
riding collided with a street ear,
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, <#UNE 15, 1919.
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‘Wilson Tells Big Four Terms Are
Just, Germany Started War
and Must Abide the Penalty.
President Says He Will Accept
Rejection and Resort to Force
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Before Permitting Bargaining.
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By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN, }
LStafi Correspondent of the I. N, S.
| PARIS, June 15.—Proposals that‘
the German envoys be permitted to
discuss the peace terms with the Al
lied representatives were flatly re
jected at today's meeting of the Big
Four.
President Wilson, nddress“ the
other membmers of the Big Four, de
clared that inasmuch as there i com
plete Agreement among the Allied and
associated Governments, there is no
necessity of permitting the Germans
to even assume the role of bargain
ing.
The President decalred that the po
sition of the United States is that the
terms are absolutely just, howev
hard they are, and that as (‘.ermar,
vrecipitated the wwar she must accept
the consequences,
NO COMPROMISE.
Rather than allow bargaining the
President indicated that he is willing
to accept rejection of the, terms and
immediately resume the most drastic
measures,
When the reply of the Allied and
associated powers to Germany's coun.
ter peace proposals is handed to
Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head
of the German peace delegation, Mon
day, the ountstanding factor will be
the positive and emphatic declaration
of complete unanimity among Ger
many's enemies,
Urless Germany accepts the con
sequences the terms will be carried
out with the sternest possible “iron
hand.”
HUN EFFORTS FAIL.
All efforts of the Germans to create
discord among the Allied plenipoten
tiaries will be emphatically defeated,
it was ' declared today in official
Ameriean circles, ®
. Premier Lloyd George, of England,
Who for a while opposed some of the
suggestions of the Americans and
Irench, finally has come to a complete
arrcement with his colleagues, Count
von Brockdorff-Rantzau will leave
for Welmar as soon as he receives
the Entente's reply,
The chief German envoy will hold a
conference with Government officlals
i, Weimar Tuesday to decide upon a
(ll('l.\l\" course (‘f action,
| WAR PREPARATIONS MADE.
' In the meanwhile the time limit
impored on Germany will include the
necessary three days abrogating the
armestice, making it possible for the
immadiate resumption of hostilities In
the event Germany rejects the treaty.
The only chance that Germany has
of securing additions! time beyond the
five days decided upon is in the l-w-n(I
that Government changes are 'lw‘ulw”
upon It ministry changes oceur, |
however, the oflicials in control mlmtl
give thelr pledge that the successors
to the present German cabinet will
wceent the terms
U. 8. URGES REDRAFT,
American delegates insisted that
the fact that changes of verbiage In
certain of ml treaty terms presented
;‘w Germany made It nece wry to
draft a complete substitute for the
original treaty, and that such action
was fully justified
The council of five has been en
lcavoring to withhold the text from
llv iblie attention pending submission
to the Germans on Monday
’ It is stated, however, that the re
vised document will be made publie
‘ prabably at once after it iy presented
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his colleagues
Baron Von Gerlach
Tells- Germans Why
World Hates Them
Declares Peace Dictated by Wilson Would
Have Been Acceptable, but That His
Hands Were Tied.
By BARON H. VON GERLACH.
Former Under Secretary of State in the Ebert Cabinet.
BERLIN, June 14—We have
hated; we hate; we are hated!
Hate among ourselves; hate of
other nations; shall there be no end
of hate? \
I took a trip to Thuringia the
other day. On the outgoing trip,
traveling third class, I met, soldiers.
This was the substance of their
talk: b
“The revolution hag not been of
any benefit to us. Militarism is
still alive. Noske (the Minister of
National Defense) is a prisoner in
the hands of army officers. The
Government is a prisoner in the
hands of captalism. We poor dev
ils are still poor devils, Well, if it
can not be done otherwise, we shall
at leass see to it that all others
will be poor devils, too. Of course,
this will mean the spilling of much
more blood.”
On the return trip I traveled sec
ond class and met many rich man
ufacturers of Central Germany.
Their view, as represented in their
conversation was:
“The Government is too weak. Tt
hesitates too long before it orders
the soldiers to shoot and does not
give the orderg often enough. Every
Russian whe agitates against our
Government should be shot. Every
communist, too, should be stood up
against a wall. But Schiedeman
does not dare, and Noske, who
probably would like to do so, does
not permit it. Under William the
Second things were much better.”
LAYS DESOLATION TO HATE
AND FEAR.
Our plenipotentiaries went to
France. Slowly they traveled
through the desert which was once
the most fertile part of France,
It h’d been made a waste by our
Juthless methods of warfare, Hate
accompanied them; hate received
them; Jiate has dictated the ctondi
tions of peace—hate and fear. Hate
for a Germany that has become
pacifist only as a matter of op
portunism, but remains militarist
at the bottom of her heart,
Wilson is free from hatred against
ug, A peace dictated by him should
be acceptable to every reasonable
Gerfndn. But he had no free hand
in making his decisions, His hands
were tied by his allies, with whose
hate and fear he had to compro
mise. It was thus that the peace
treaty acquired a form so terrible
to us.
* What I consider the greatest sin
of our Government is its failure to
tell our people the truth,
All the world knows that Ger
mnny caused the outbreak of the
world war; that we are responsible
for militarism in Furope; that in
July, 1014, we frustrated every at
tempt at coneiliation; that by al
lowing the Austrian ultimatum to
be sent to Serbia we applied the
torch to the geapowder barrel; that
we baged our declaration of war
against [“rance upon false claims
and that by our breach of neutral
ity against I,nxemboun\i and Bel
gium we proved curselves to be
morally unscrupulous,
Only the German people—the vast
majority of them—do not as yet
know this, They still believe that
fiction of an encircling policy, of a
war forced upon us, of Belgium's .
unneutral attitude,
WORLD KNOWS GERMANY I 8
TO BLAME."
All the world knows that Ger
many is to blame for the endless
prolougation of the war; that as
early as the spring of 1916 there
had been an opportunity to open
negotiations with London, but that
our Foreign OMce brusquely refused
to entertain the proposal made by
Dreeselhuys, of Holland; that in
1916 a decent peace could have been
made with the add of President
Wilson, but that we preferred to
promise a few American States to
Mexico and inaugurate an inten
sifled submarine warfare; that in
the winter of 1917 a serious attempt
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to bring about negotiatigns for
peace could have been successful,
for Wilson’s friends in Switzerland
plainly showed the way, but the
supreme command thought it could
achieve final victory by its spring
offensive; that the Brest-Litovsk
peace made it plain to everybory
what sort of peace Germany was
seeking; that Germany never in
tended honestly to keep the promise
made to Belgium on August 4, 1914,
to right the wrong done., |
It ig only this misled majority of
the German people that still ‘be
lieves that Germany always was a
laver of peace and that the other
nations were filled with:an unbrid
led lust for war. g
All the ‘rest of the world knows
that the German, army command
practised extreme ruthlessness, if
not inhumanity. 5
The fact remains, nevertheless,
that by sinking merchant.and pas
senger ships by our submarines
without warning we inaugurated an
especially hateful system in viola
tion of international law; that by
using poisonous gas and flame
throwers we a very bad exam
ple; that by r air attacks upon
open places England, militarily
worthless, we created a sentiment
of hate among the English masses;
that by systematically devastating
the whole Somme region we incited
the whole French nation to send up
a unanimous shout for revenge;
that by bleeding white the territo
ries occupied by us and deporting
their populations we furnished a
semblance # truth to the accusa
tion that we were robbers and
slave-drivers,
STILL BELIEVE WE ADHERED
TO LAW.
But the majority of the German
people still believe that we con
fined ourselves to what was abso
lutely necessary from a Jnlmnry
standpoint; that we adhered scrpu
lously to international law,
All the rest of the world knows
that Gefman propaganda in for
eign landgs was more abominable
than anything ever heard of before;
that long before the United Stafes
entered the war we misused our
diplamtic office, committing all
forms of corruption and violence;
that we prostituted the inviolability
of diplomatic Intercourse with neu
tral countries, such as’' Norway,
Swedep and Switzerland, for the
purpoge of smuggling explosives
and bacteria into enemy countries,
there to be used against our foes;
that we attempted to make traitors
of our Irish and other prisoners of
war.
Whoever knows only a part of the
sing committed by our former rulers
understands the world atmosphere
of hate surrounding us. But, as |
have pointed out, the majority of
the German people do m{t as yet
know of these erimes.
We need pacifism within as well
ns without, We Germang must
learn to understand ourselves and
other nations as well, Hate is an
evil counsellor. Violence will al
ways beget violence, The system
of +Clemenceau or Noske will not
redeem the world any more than
the system of Tirpitz and Lnden
dorff, .
Baron von Gerlach's condemna
tion of the militaristic policy which
has brought Gérmany to the brink
of ruin and earned for her the
hate of every nation has been re
celved with all the more attention
because he Is not a Soclalist or
radical agitator, but has been
known as an idealistic pacifist
throughout his career. After the
revolution last November he en
tered the Ebert Cabinet as Under-
Becretary of State, When war
eclouds arose on the Polish border
he was sent there and tried to pla
cate the threatening forces by the
use of reason and concillation, A
short time after that the militarist
and Pan-German influences orced
his retirement. .
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‘Giant Vimy Bomber Has 2,440-
\ Mile-Mile Flying Range for
Overseas 1,950-Mile Flight.
Aviators Will Capture London
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Daily Mail’s $50,000 Prize if
They Make Journey a Success.
ST. JOHNS, N. F., June 14.-Cap
tain Aleock, in his big Vickers-Vimy
bombing machine “hopped off” in an
;attempt to fly across the Atlantic
Ocean at 16:13 Meridian time (about
12718 New York time), this after=
noon. ’
The start was made after it once
had. beem abandoned for the day.
Early in the day Captain Alcock pre
pared for' the flight, but strong, ad«
verseé winds caused Him to postpone
the attempt. It was announced that
the start probably would be put off
until tomorrnw.‘ShnrHy before noon,
however, the wind veered round and
the word went forth that the start
would be made tbday,
CROWD SEES START.
A good-sized crowd was on hand to
witness the start. The big machine
took the air gracefully and after
swinging around over the starting
point she headed east across the At
lantie.
Lieutenant A, W. Brown, R. A, F.,
Captain Alcock's navigator, was his
only passenger. The' ' big machine
carried a fouwr-pound bag of mail, put
aboard her at the last moment.
Captain Alcock will win The Daily
Mail prize of $50,000 if he aocom
plishes the flight, as he is flying di.
rect for Ireland,
20 HOURS’ FLIGHT,
He expects to reach the Irish coast
in about twenty hours,
The weather was fine for the at
tempt Reports from abroad said that
good conditions were reported all
along the course Captain Alcock exe
pects to take,
There was a possibility that the
Handley-Page machine may also at
tempt to start its trans-Atlantie
Jump today,
Admiral Mark Kerr, its pllot, how
ever, sald that it was unlikely that he
would start before tomorrow,
2440 FLYING RANGE,
The Vickers«-Vimy plane in which
Captain Alcogk started across the At
lantic today carries 350-horsepower
motors with gasoline tanks having a
capacity of 865 gallons. The oil tanks
contain 50 gallons of lubricating oil.
With this amount of fuel the plane
has a flylng range of “2,440 miles,
whereas the distance between New
foundland and Ireland, at the closest
point, is little more than 1,950 miles.
Captain Alcock has chosen Ireland
as a preliminary destination, but if
the machine is working in good shape
they probably will continue to Eng
land, rather than attempt the landing
in Ireland, where the facilities are not
as favorable,
The plane is equipped with a wire.
leas outfit, which has a range of ap
proximately 300 miles, which would
enable the flyers t ocommunicate with
nearby vessels siong the route,
TWO NOTED FLYERS,
Captain Alcock, D. 8, N,, and Lieu.
tenant Hrown are officers with ple
turesquely checkered and dramatic
war records. The former also enjoyvs
unique distinction as an inventor and
publder of alreraft. He was and is the
only pilot in the air service In the
Allles to have designed and econ
structed a machine of his own, dis
tinetly original in its outstanding fea
tures, while on active servigé. This
was in 1916, the Alcock fighting scout
biplane being conceived and given au.
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