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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 monkeys can ask, “Where are
L &you,” and answer, “Here I am.”
. That is about all they need to
say. The conversation enables Mr.
Mogkey to locate Mrs. Monkey,
and the monkey race goes on. They
need no other language, having no
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 Statés 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, Oth
ers, fear their white women, say
they haven’t brains enough to share
in*making laws. It. is probable
that this comstitutional amendment
will be defeated by the States and
that w‘omep will be compelledfi,&o
continue their fight, State by State.
They might shortem 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 weuld allow the voting.
“ There is excitement in the Sen
ate because the peace treaty reach
ed Wall Street before it reuckkled
Washington.
Frank Munsey gave a dinner to
Lord ANorthcliffe 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
to. Neorthcliffe, “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, Qo
Judge, but the GOVERNMENT of.
the United States ig sitting with
you at this table.” A
It isn’t @s ‘bad as it used to be,’in
days wh,én 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 Potomac.
From England comes the Rev,
Hickson, working at Trinity Chapel
in New York Qity, curing tl e sick
by “laying on hands.” The rever--
end gentleman says he is not a
R Christian Scientist,” put something
else, He THINKS that he has
cured 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 thée 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
by 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
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 rafl
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-SBaloon League of America
is ':;Lurlmg out to spread prohibi
tiofi all over the world. There will
l be interesting developments when
the prohibitionists begin near the
london docks, or near La Halle
in Paris, or the railroad station in
Venice. To persuade English,
French and Itallan workers that
what they really want is good cold
water, with perhaps a little grape
juice im it, will offer extraordinary
opportunities for convincing elo
quence.
City Official to Sue
(Gas Company Manager
CHATTANOOGA, TENN, June 14,
Suit for $50,000 damages will be in
stituted against 8, E. Defrese, man
ager of the City Gas Company, by
4 Herron, Lommissioner of Publie
Utilities, it was announced today by
‘his counsel, Statements made about
the cit yofficial during the recent elec
tion’ and which Herron asserts are
libelous are the busis for the litiga
tion. \
If you have any difficulty in buy
ifng Hearst’'s Sunday American any
where in the South, notify Circula
tion Manager Hearst's Sunday Amen
ican, Atlaata, Ga.
YOL. V1.."N0. 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 Self-Determination Ap
plies to lrish 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 thq
committee on public information of
the United States Govermment, the
commiltee being
GGeorge Creel, chairman.
Robert Lansing, Secretary of State.
Newtop D. Baker, Secretary of
Wat, )
Mosephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy, v
Since the peace conference in Paris
Mr, Crecly his work as chief official
densor ul\thr’ United States Govern
ment being ended, visited Ireland,
saw all the leadors, studied conditions
there, and _gives the results in this
series of letters, written for 'The
American, the first newspaper articles
written by Mr. Crecel since the war
began. 1
1
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
mestiec problem.” Certain circum
stances, unyielding as iron, preclude |
the aceeptange of any - such view
Not even by the utmost stretch o, |
amiable intent can a question that
strikes at the very ‘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 eonsciousness to be limited
by any arbitrary discrimination In ;
the hour of viectory and adjustment, ‘
Even as Poles, Czechs, Jugo-
Slavs, Ukranians, Finns and scores
of other submerged nationalities are
struggling to the upper air of in
dependence so does Ireland appeal
to the solemn covenant of the Al
lies, with its championship 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- i
ernment, The 73 representatives
elected by the Binn Fein refused to |
take their segts at Westminster and
have assembel® as an Irish Parlia- |
ment, of sorts, in Dublin. i
'Phe thousands of British soldiers |
in Yreland virtually constitute an
army of occupation, 1
In America the race has put aside
the factional bitterness of the past, |
and stands solid®¥ and squarely in ;
gupport of Ireland's demand for jus
tice.
It is this that gives the Irish all"-“~1
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
implacably 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
Such a mass, instinet with intel- |
ligent emotionalism, can not be ig
nored =either in honor, decency or
plain common sense. This is a de
mocracy 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
Johng Hopkins University
Pas made the discovery that lo
custs are a delectable fn’lfi He
says they taste much Jik&shrimp
and advises everybody to add
them to the menu.
It 'is the ecasiest way to get rid
of the pests, he adds.
I’Postmaster General Issues Order
- Validating Collective Bar
| o
| gaining by Employees.
| i iy
~ (By International News Service.)
WASHINGTONy June 14—"Em
ployvees of télephone companies shall
have the right to bargain as individu
als or collectively through commit
tees or their representatives chosen
by them to act for them,” Postmaster
General "Burleson ordered . today.
"Whg‘re prior to Government control”
the order continues, “a company dealt
with representatives .chggen by the
employees to gct for them who were
not in the employ of the company,
they shall hereafter do so. The tele
phone companies shall designate one
or more of their officials to deal with
guch individuals or representatives in
matters of better conditions of labor,
hours of employment, eompensation
or grievance, and such matters ?m\'t
be taken up for consideration within
five days after presentation.”
The order was issued by the Past
master General following a series of
conferences with members of the
wire board and J. P. Noonan, presi
dent of the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers.
Mr. Burleson tonight would make
no comment on hig aection beyond
saying, “the order speaks for itself.”
Noonan, while refusing to com
ment directly on the order, intimated
that it might hold up the strike of
telephone workers and electyical
workers employed by the !vlelvhnm}
companies scheduled for Monday
morning.
According to the order employees
shall have the right to organize or
to affiliate with organizations ‘“that
seem to them best calculated to serve
their interest.” It is also ordered th;ul
no ' employee shall Be discharged 01'1
disrrlfilinuled against because of his
affilif®ion with Sany organization,
which is stated to be a repetition of
an ‘order issued by the Postmaster
on October 8, 1918, 1
In the event of an employee heing
discharged and it is found that he
has been discriminated against, the
order provides that he shall be rein
stated to his former position, with
full pay for his time lost. Among the
sufficient causes noted for dismis.\'ul‘{
are inability or refusal to do the work
required, excessive use of intuxi:-ums,{
agishonesty and incivility to subserib
ers or to the public. ‘
The Postmaster General also di
rected telephone companies, lwft)rn‘
which demands or-requests are pénd- |
ing, to proceed immediately to nego
tinte a settlement Faflure on Hw‘
part of any official of a telephone
company to comply strictly with !lwfi
provision order, it is stated, “will re
sult in disciplinary action.”
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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 7, 8. Department of Agri
culture, since its inception in 1913,
has resigned, to take effect at the
close of business June 30, 1919, Hu‘
will become vice president and gen
eral manager of a commercial con
cern, with headquarters at I‘mnhurg“
Pa
Ceorge Livingstone, a member of
the bureau staff, will be designated
to act as chief of the bureau until
Mr. Brand's successor is appointed,
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Mrs. Crawley’s Sehool
Will Close June 20
Mrs, C. D, Crawley's private school!
in West End will close its spring ses.
gion June 20, it was announced yes
terday, and on June 23 Mrs, Crawley
will resume her coaching work for
the summer. Assoclated with her will
be Professor George . Looney, who
has been a widely known educator
for many years, (
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Union Men, Soldiers, Women, a
. Few of the Clergy Take Part
in Great Demonstration,
Samuel Gompers Tells Senate
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Committee Saturday Laboring
Men Must Have a Stimulant.
(By International News Service.)
l WASHINGTON, June 14—Labor
moved on the Capitol several thou
sand strong this afternoon and pre
sented its demands’for repeal of pro-l
hibition on beer and light wines.
Thronging the Capitol stéps and thei
great green plaza that stretches‘from
the Capitel to the Congressional Li-‘
brary were thousands of union mem
bers, all carrying flags. l
Soldiers, sailors, marines, W(')mon‘
jand even 4 few ‘of the clergy WPl‘(\l
mingled in the erowd. Cheer upon‘
cheer went up when the soldier deln-|
gation marched upon the plaza.
HEAR BANDS PLAY. l
Scéatteréd throughout the plaza|
grounds were several bands whir‘hl
broke into “The Star-Bpangled R:m-l
ner” at 2 o'clock and the great throng
stood unrnoved and silent, until the
national anthem was completed.
Then there were cheers for Gom
pers, cheers for the American Feder
!ation of Labor, cheers for Congress
lml‘-n and cheers for “beer.”
‘ “What are you going to have,l
boys?” some one in the crowd would
shout.
“Beer,” was the thunderous :mswcr‘
that came from thousands. !
SAMPLE SLOGAN.
“Ohio wants beer,” “We won the
great war,” “Lift the ban,” “Watch
our soldiers vote next November"-—|
these were some of the signs lhatl
were carried,
Samuel Gompers left the gathering
and went into a committee room and
appeared before a committee ol Sen
ators headed by Senator Steriing, of
South Dakota,
“Labor wants beer and light wines,”
l(:ompors told the committee, declaring
laboring men must have some stimu
'mm. l
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lSlmners Keport Great
. . .
| Time at Indianapolis
*
“The biggest time we ever haq|
since the Shriners met in Atluntn."!
was the verdict of the Shriners frum;
Yaarab Temple who reached home |
yesterday from the national condave |
at Indianapolis.
The Atlanta Shriners stopped at
Louisville on then way to Indianapo- |
lis, and many of them went on to oth-|
er cities, paying their last visit befur(-'
July 1 changes the map of the r-oun‘l
try.
Tha most interesting feature of the!
convention, the returning Hhriwrsl
gald, was the solemn funéral of john |
Barleycorn, #taged in the streets with
a score of bands playing fnnm'a:sll
dirges and all the Shriners weeping |
real and copious tears I
.
Debs and Hailey Now t
Y A -
Guests at Federal Prison|
The Atlanta Federal Prison yester- |
day opened its doors to receive two |
guests of more than ordinary prom- |
inence, ;
One was Eugene V. Debs, noted So
clalist und labor leader, convicted of |
obstructing the draft and uenl«‘nvnlj
to ten years {
The other was quite the reverse, |
He was H. Kelzo Halley, of Chatta- |
nooga, ¢lubman, bon vivant and own- |
er of an apartment house, where he |
conducted u wholesale-size fHcit still |
until lgeal revenue men smelled it |
out,
18 Wounded Soldiers i
’
, Hurt in Auto Crash
(By International News Service.) ‘
HARRISBURG, PA, June 14
Fifteen convalegcent xnldrm rrnml
the United States Army Hospital at |
Carlisle, Pa., were injured, some of |
them perhaps fatally, this afternoon, |
when a truck in which they were |
riding collided with a street car, '
ATUANTA, GA., SUNDAY, :AUNE :16, 11919,
Wilsen Tells Big Four Terms Are
Just, Germany Started War
and Must Abide the Penalty.
President Says He Will Accept
Rejection and Resort to Force
Before Permitting Bargaining.
By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N, S.
PARIS, June 15.—Proposals that
[lh(- German envoys be permitted mi
discuss the peace terms with the Al
| lied representatives were flatly rP“
j jected at today's meeting of the Big
' Four, ‘
President Wiison, addressing the
‘mher members of the hig four, de-
Aared that inasmneh as there is com
| plete agreement among the Allied and
| associated Governments, there is no
| necessity of permitting the Germans
| to even assume the role of bargain
lins:. l
The President declared that the po
| sition of the United States is that Hw]
'tenrns are absolutely just, however
lhard they are, anr'l that as Germany
urecipitated the war 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
!mnn-wliutoly resume the most drastic
measures,
When the renly of the Allied and
associated powers te Germany's coun.
ter peace proposals is handed to
' C'ount von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head
of the German peace delegation, Mon«
day, the outstanding 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 GGermans to create
liscord among the Allied plenipoten
tiaries will be emphatically defeated,
|it was declared today in official
American circles.
Fremier Llovd George, of England,
who for a while opposed some of the
| suggestions of the Americans and
' French, finally has come to a complete
agreement with his colleagues: Count
;\un Brockdorff-HRantzau will leave
| for Weimar as soon as he r(w-nxw-sl
| the Fintente's reply. ‘
The chief German envoy will hold a
conference with Government officials
| ir. Weimar Tuesday to deeide upon a
!(l(‘l‘l.‘fl\‘t‘ course of action,
WAR PREPARATIONS MADE.
i In the meanwhile the time" limit
impored on Germany will include the
necessary three days abrogating the
armistice, making it possible for the
immediate resumption of phostilities in
the event Germany rejects the treaty
i The only chance that Germany has
of securing additional time beyond the
five days decided upon is in the event
that Government changes are decided
| upon If ministry changes oceur,
however, the ofliclals in control must
give thelr pledge that the successors
i:» the present Glerman cabinet will
accept the terms,
| U. 8. URGES REDRAFT,
| American delegates insisted that
:th-‘ fact that changes of verbiage in
certain of the treaty terms presentoed
E to Germany made It necessary to
draft a complete substitute for the
iun,;mul treaty, and that such action
was fully justified,
’ The council of five has been en
deavoring to withhold the text from
publie attention pending submission
L:n the Germans on Monday
| It Is stated, however, that the res
?\lm-ll document will be made publie
j;»f‘nbuhl}'“}l( once after 1t is presented
to Count von Brockdorft-Rantzau and
l 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 BAB;;_I-IT;ON GERLACH.
Former Under Secretary of State in the Ebert Cabinet.
BERLIN, June 14—We have
hated; we hate; we are hated!
Hate among oursélves; ha&e 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, T met soldiers.
This was the substance of their
talk:
o \
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
handg of eaptalism. We poor dev
ils are still poor devils. Well, if it
can not be done otherwise, we shall
‘at least see to it that all others
will be poor devils, toe. Of coutse,
this will mean the spilling of much
more ‘Mood.” \ s
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, It
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 he 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
ANDI FEAR.
~Our plenipotentiaries went to
France, Slowly théy traveled
through the desert which was once
the most fertile part of France,
It had been made a waste by our
ruthless methods of warfare, Hate
accompanied them; hate received
them; hate has dictated the condi
tions of peace-hate and fear, Hate
for a Germany that has become
pacifist only as a matter of op
portunism, Rut remains militarist
at the bottom of her heart,
Wilson is free from hatred against
us, A peace dictated by him should
be aceeptable to every reasonable
German. But he had no free hand
in making his decisions, His hands
were tied by s 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 1 consider the greatest sin
‘of our Government is its failure to
tell our people the truth,
All the world knows that Ger
many ‘caused the.outbreak of the
world war; that we are responsible
for miltarism in Europe; that In
Jly, 1914, 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 guapowder barrel; that
we baged our declaration of war
against ‘rance upon false claims
and that by our breach of neutral
ity against I.uxumbour? and Bel
gium we proved C.reelves to be
morally unscrupulous,
Only the German people-—the vast
majority of them--4o net as yet
know this, They still belleve that
fletion of an encircling poliey, of a
war forced upon us, of Belgium's
unneutral attitude,
WORLD KNOWS GERMANY IS
TO BLAME."
All the world knows that Ger
many is to blame for the endless
prolougation of the war;. that as
enrly as the spring of 1015 there
had been an opportunity to open
negotiations with London, but that
our Foreign OfMce brusquely refuscd
to entertain the proposal made by
Dreeselhuys, of Holland; that in
1016 & decent ‘:flme could have been
m with the ald of President
n, but that we preferred to
promise a few American ;utu to
Mexico and inaugurate an inten
sified submarine warfare; that in |
the winter of 1917 a serious attempt
(Copyright, 1913, by the
Georgian Company.)
) to bring about negotiations 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
I 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 is only this misled majority of
_the German people that still. be
~ lieves that Germany always was a
lover of peace and that the other
nations were filled with an unprid
led lust for war. :
! _All the rest of the world knows
that the German army command
~ practised extreme ruthlessness, if
not inhumanity. !
The fact remains, nevertheless,
that by sinking merchant and pas
senger ships by our submarines.
without warning we inaugirated an
especially hateful system in viola
tion of international law; that by
. using poisonous gag and flame
throwers we set a very bad exam
ple; that hy our air attacks upon
- open places in 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 natton 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 abhso
lutely necessary from a military
standpoint; that we adhered scrpu
lously to international law,
All the rest of the world knows
that German propaganda in for
elgn lands was more abominable
than anything ever heard of before;
that long hefore the United States
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
purpose 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, -
Whoeyer knows only a part of the
sing committed by our former rulers
understands the world atmosphere
of hate surrounding us. But, as 1
have pointed out,.the majority of
the German people do not as yet
know of these erimes,
We need pacifism within as well
as without, We Germang must
learn to understand ourselves and
other nations as well, Hate I 8 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 Germany to the brink
of ruin and earned for her the
hate of every nation has been rp.
celved with all the more attention
becnuse he I 8 not a Socialist or
radical agitator, but has bheen
known as an idealistic pacifist
throughout his career. After the
revolution last November he on
tered the Ebert Cabinet as Under-
Secretary of State. When war
clouds arose on the Polish border
he was sent there and tried to pla
cate the threatening forces by the
use of reason and conclllation, A
short~time after that the militarist
and Pan-German influences orced
his retirement,
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Giant Vimy Bomber Has 2,440+
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Mile-Mile Flying Range for
[ Overseas 1,950-Mile Flight.
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Aviators Will Capture London
Daily Mail's $50,000 Prize if
They Make Journey a Success,
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ST. JOHNS, N. F., June 14,—Caps
tain Alcock, in his big Vickers-Vimy
bombing machine “hopped off” in an
attempt to fly across the Atlantie
Ocean at 16:13 Meridian time (about
12:13 New York time), this aftere
noon,
The start was made after it once
had been abandoned for the day.
Early in the day Captain Alcock pre=
pared for the flight, but strong, ad
verse winds caused him to postpone
the zttempt. It was announced that
the start probably would be put off
until’ tomorrow. Shortly before noon,
however, the wind veered round and
the word went forth that the start
would be made today,
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 Ate
lantie,
Lieutenant A, W. Brown, R. A. F.,
Captain Alcock’s navigator, was his
only passenger. The big machine
carried a four-pound bag of mail, put
aboard her at the last moment.
Captain Alcock will win The Daily
Mail prize of $50,000 if he aecome
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 o possibilty that the
Handley-Page machine may also at
tempt to start its trans-Atlantig
Jjump today.
Admiral Mark Kerr, its pilot, hows=
ever, sald that it was unlikely that he
would start before tomorrow.
2440 FLYING RANGE,
The Vickers-Vimy plane in which
Captain Alcock started across the At
lantie today carries 350-horsepower
motors with gacoline tanks having a
lunmu'v of 865 gallons, The oil tanks
contain 50 gallons of lubricating oil.
With this amount of fuel the plane
has & flying range of 2,440 miles,
wherens the distance between New
foundland and Ireland, at the closest
point, is little more than 1,950 miles,
I Captain Alcock has chosen Ireland
as a preliminary destination, but if
'llw machine s working in good shape
| they probably will continue to Enge
frwm' ruther than attempt the landing
In Ireland, where the facilities are not
as fuvorable
f The plane I 8 equipped with a wire«
less outfit, which has a range of ap
proximately 300 miles, which would
enable the flyers to communlicate with
nearby vessels aiong the route,
TWO NOTED FLYERS,
Captain Aleock, D 8. N, and Licu.
tenant Brown are officers with ples
turesquely checkered and dramatio
war records, The former also enjoys
unique distinetion as an inventor and
puitder of alreraft. He was and is the
only pllot the air service of the
Alltes to huave designed and cons
structed a machine of his own, dise
tinetly original in its outstanding sea«
tures, while on active service. This
was in 1016, the Alecock fighting scout
biplane being concelved and given ace
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