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About The Augusta herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1914-current | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1918)
GERMANS MASS FOR RENEWAL ON THE SOMME TODAY’S WEATHER FORECAST. Augusta and Vicinity: Fair tonight I and Wednesday. $7.00 PER YEAR—S CENTS PER COPY. VOLUME XXIII, No. 113. U-Boat Bases Raided by British ANGLO-AMERICAN CHALLENGE TO HUN ON SEA Mim,m m TIE LIBERTY LOAN Washington.—New subscriptions re ported today raised the total of Liberty Loan already pledged to $1,596,709,900 Until further reports are received it will not be possible to determine whether thtf St. Louis or the Minneap olis districts exceeded its quota first. The Richmond .district headquarters toda - reported total subscriptions of $52,000,000. By states the totals in cluded: Virginia, $13,700,000; North Carolina, $9,600,000, and South Carolina $6,300,000. Durham and Raleigh, N. C. have reached their quotas. ■% Pass $400,000,000 Mark. New York.—An overnight gain o< nearly $17,500,000 in Liberty Loan sub scriptions carried the second Federal Reserve District’s quota past the S4OO - 000,000 mark. Official figures announc ed at 10 a. m., today were $408,100,000. SABOTAGE BILL SIGNED Washington—President Wilson today signet! the sabotage bill carrying penal ties of SIO,OOO and thirty years impris onment for destruction of war materials or interfc: *.*r i.»• will' war industries. Uncle Sam Is Calling YOU! For Victory! Our Allies are holding. They are putting up the gamest fight the world has ever known. They are forming a human line that desperately keeps the Hun curse 'rom overrun ning the world. They are sticking it out against terrible odds until our boys in sufficient numbers can get over there. And our boys are on the way—the finest-spirited ar my that ever set forth to war. In a short time the battle cry i f the Allies will change. "Hold ’em!” will be for gotten. The slogan will be, “Smash ’em!” And if you will buy bonds —buy more bonds —buy all you can—that smash will hit so hard that Hohenzollernism and hellishness will be crush ed, and civilization will be blessed by our VICTORY! TERMS OF PAYMENT. There are three ways in which you can buy Liberty Bonds: By paying the full an\ount in cash. By availing yourself of the United States government terms, which are as follows: 5 per cent on application, 20 per cent, on May 28, 1918, 35 per cent July 18, 1918, and 4C per cent on August 15, 1918. In order to make it possi ble for EVERYONE to buy Liberty Bonds, the Augusta banks ave announced even easier terms than those of the government. They are as follows: Augusta Savings Bank l'or a rSO bond, $5 with ap plication and $1 a week until paid for. For a SIOO bond, $lO with application and $2 a week until paid for. The Other Banks. For a SSO bond, $5 with ap plication and $5 a month. For a SIOO bond, $lO with application and $lO a month. Buy Liberty Bonds Help Push Augusta “OVER THE TOP.” Boost the Big Total. Get In the game tonight Augusta is out to help win the war/ Call at your bank tomor row and ask for a Liberty Loan subscription blank. THE AUGUSTA HERALD (UNITED PRESS) New British Minister of War a Man of Action V. \ hHk ' v-.-V V, |E /*%:. } •'* 'l C- -“i5223- VISCOUNT MILNER The Bari of Derby has been appointed Britifeh ambassador to Paris to succeed Lord Bertie, according to the Paris Matin. Viscount Milner succeeds Derby as British war minister, the paper adds. TENSE SITUftIION-- HUN AND HOLLAND (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.) The Hague, April 23- The Dutch cabinet met yesterterday in ex traordinary session. The British foreign office, ac cording to the London Daily News has learned that the relations be tween Holland and Germany are very strained. The dispute was about the supply of gravel from Holland to Germany was said to have been the cause. Official and diplomatic circles in Lodon were reported to look upon the situation with uneasiness. Rumors were that something in the nature of ultimatum had been delivered to Holland by Germany. The Handelsblad of Amsterdam on Monday expressed the belief that Germany would not hesitate to use * communication through Holland even at the risk of war if she Relieved that by doing so vic tory could be obtairied on the western front. It was reported recently that Germany looked with disfavor upon Holland’s attitude toward the seizure by the United States and Great Britain of Dutch ton * nage in American and British ports. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.* The Stumbling Block. The Hague, April 23. —The Vaderland says an agreement has been reached re garding one point which has caused friction between Holland and Germany but that the old dispute concernnig the transport of sand and gravel to Germany contnues t»o be a stumbling block. Ger many desires to resume the practice of shipping gravel through Holland but the Dutch government offers objections on the ground that new (fircumstances have arisen. RECEIVED BY HERTLING Amsterdam, April 23.—Chancellor von Hertllng, according to a Berlin dispatch has received General von Falkenhausen, the governor general of Belgium, at main headquarters. AUGUSTA MAKES ENCOURAGING START IN LIBERTY BOND Approximately $500,000 of the City’s Quota of $1,805,- 000 Had Been Raised Up to Monday Night. Committees Hard at Work Tuesday With approximately $500,000 already subscribed when the Liberty Loan Com mittees began their drive Monday at noon, there is no doubt that Augusta will “go over the top” with more than her quota of $1,805,000 by the end of the week Inquiry at all of the banks of the city indicate that applications filed with them and accepted up to the close of business on Monday are close to $500,000. To be exact, the total for six of the banks is 425.630. The seventh bank, mi* of the larger financial Institutions of the city, was asked for its total subscriptions, but the statement was made that they were not in a position to give a correct figure. But the showing by the six other banks is most encouraging, and there is no doubt that with the figures of the seventh batik, the aggregate amount will easily be $500,000, It should be borne in mind that these are figures only up to Monday night, and do rot include many of the subscription* received by the committees on Monday, as quite a few of them did not report until today, therefore their report will not be included until today's figure* are made up. which will be published on Wednes day Chairman George W. Wright has re quested the newspaper® to publish each nay' tut sis. so ‘hat the public may know exactly what headway 1® being made, and ;the one paper in most homes—the only paper in many homes. : AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 23, 1918. GERMANS LEFT 300 SEAR IN AMERICAN TRENCHES U. S. Casualties No Larger Than Could Rea sonably Be Expected, Says Official Report. Teuton Wounded Dragged Back to Their Trenches and Number Unknown By The United Press. With the American Army in Lorraine, Aoril 23.—The American official report on Saturday’s engagement north west of Toul follows: “Losses sustained by us were no larger than could reasonably be expected. “The engagement was the most severe in which Amer icans have partaken. “The enemy’s losses were much greater than he had anticipated as is evidenced by more than 300 dead in the American trenches and in No Mon’s Land. “The German wounded were dragged back to the German trenches and their number is unknown. Heavy Damage to Germans. (BY THE UNITED PRESS.) th the American Army in Lorraine, April 23. “Heavy dam age w’ys inflicted by Franco-Amer ican artillery where the lines join.” The stories of wounded men re veal # the bravery of American groups in resisting and driving off several times their number bf en iemy troops in Saturday’s engage ment. “Dead Man’s Curve.” One "dead man’s curve” was de fended by a machine gun squads ron, under constant and deadly German fire, keeping the line of communication open. A grenadier, who was in the front line, asked if he was scared, replied: "Didn’t have time 1 was too busy fighting. I had two green men with me so 1 had to set them an example. They were scared at first, hut I saw them watching me. Soon they were fighting like vet erans. We stuck until we were all wounded.” By Storm Troops. With the French Armies in the Field, April 23. Storm troops who supported the German regiment attacking American forces Sunday morning were specially trained and rehearsed for this operation. 4 An official French note says French troops during a raid in Lorraine the night of April 16, captured prisoners who said the . Germans were preparing for an important attack. At dawn Sunday after a most intense bombardment, they at tacked the Americans on a mile front. Additional details show the Americans jointly attacked with the French and chased the Ger mans out of Kemieres wood (half a mile northeast of Keicheprey) where they had established them selves by an attack on the French. The Franco-A merican troops re took the ground lost, captured a number of prisoners, and left barbed wjre entanglements filled with German dead. • • The ground where the battle was fought is hilly. The Franco-Amer icans re-established their line on (Continued on page two). as live banks are the only source from winch this information may be obtained, he linger: that they endeavor to make the information available for the papers. There are most encouraging reports from the various committees. Chairman W. M. Butt, of the Cotton Row Commit tee. states that Jiis Committee has se cured subscriptions aggregating about $120,000. but have not yet covered the field. These figures are not included In the above total of $426,630. The Woman's Committee, under the leadership of Mrs, Warren Walker, are continuing their aggressive drive and are nearing the $200,000 mark Their reports up to Monday night ran the total up to >164,000. zThose who subscribed through the wo man’s committee on Monday were hh fol low* l»i W. R Houston. Miss Lffie L. Hogsn, Miss Sadie M Allen. Mrs. A. .! Martin. Neill Merritt, Mrs Marv L. Carr, B. F. Rees, Jr.. Mth 13. F Reese. Hr.. Miss Margaret S' Godbee. Miss Gladys Ovlatt., Mrs. Cec il* B Ovlatt. L 11. Char- Ixinnier, Jr., Miss Kmma .1. Tv/iggN Miss Katherine May Twiggs Miss Delia Burns, Mrs. K. C. Neely, Jr . Mrs William Flem ing. Mrs. L. A. Garden*. George W Wright. Mrs. Georgia Lovett, Miss Mar garet Hickey. Ward Subscriptions. First Ward $ 33,760.00 Second Ward 20.860.00 Third Ward 25,560.00 Fourth Ward 4,860.00 Fifth Ward 12,160.00 Hlxth Ward 68,360.00 Total S 104,800.00 Chairman Hl.ax X. Floyd of the Colored Committee, makes encouraging reports. .The Georgia Mutual Insurance Company, a colored organization, h.ui faitati $2,000 worth of bond®. RESERVE ABLE TO MEET ANY STRAIN O O I London, April 23.—“ Tho enormous I strain thrown on 11s (luring the pres- I ent battle and the destruction of ! material have been great. hut wo [ have enormous reserve* capable o£ I meeting- any strain.” Winston I Churchill, minister of munitions, ! declared In an address to the I American Labor Mission hist night. I “We are able to arm and equip I any Americans sent temporarily to ! serve with us. 1 “The enemy's territorial gains do ! not affect onr, or our allies' power, I to continue the war at maximum ca ! parity.” O o GERMANS FIRING ON RUSSIANS Moscow, April 22. —Foreign Minister Tchitcherin today sent the following wireless message to tho German foreign offic: “I have authoritative information that German troops are firing on Rus sian towns and shooting the populace. “At Bepel, German troops exterminated an entire family, including the women. “At Nova Selki peasants resisted seiz ures. killing a German officer. German troops fired upon the town with ma chine guns extorminating populace. “We feel the deepest indignation and are protesting, asking assurances against any repetition and punishment of those guilty.” EIGHTH WAR LOAN OF THE TEUTONS Amsterdam The relchstag assemb led yesterday. The vice president, I)r. Hermann Paasche made an address, Berlin dispatches report, in which he said: “The success of the eighth war loan undoubtedly will help to show our op ponents as well as neutrals to what extent a web of deceit has been woven around Germany and also to reveal to them the fact that Germany’s internal strength remains unbroken. We hope this victory in the financial field will contribute substantially to the attain ment of our goal as quickly as pos sible." 4 REDUCTION IN PLEASURE AUTOS Washington.- A further curtailment of the manufacture of pleasure Auto mobiles was Indicated today as the out come of a conference held by the fuel administration and the war industries board with representatives of tho au tomobile industry. The curtailment, if made effective, would restrict the manufacture of pleasure cars to about 25 per cent of the normal production A thirty pet cent reduction already has been rnadu operative. FOR WAR ON TURK AND BULGARIA Washington—Th« resolution introduced f>v Senator Bratidegec of Connecticut, calling Ufa n the sc nafe foreign relations committee t > sivi early consideration to a i«- < hjrlou proposed by Venator King of I’tab providing for a declaration of war agidnsr Bulgaria and Turkey was called up for conalderatlon In the sen ate today. “ALL GOES WELL," SAYS CLEMENCEAU O ; O Paris, April 23 All goes well 1 very well." Premier ejernenceau I declared on returning fr< m the * front today. HUli SUBMARINE BASES ARE RAIDED BK BRITISH ill! Amsterdam. April 23. —"Accept my thanks for your cooperation with out victorious armies which will bring a strong German peace. Fight and con quer”, the kaiser is quoted as say ing in an address to fifty submarine commanders at a base on the. Flan ders coast. Bruges Canal Blocked. London, April 23. In all prob ability the entrance to the Bruges canal has been blocked effectively In consequence of the naval raid. Sir Krlc Goddes, first lord of the admiralty, announced today in the house of commons. Landing Parties. London, April 23 -While the operation was In progress, Sir Erie announced. British parties were landed to distract the enemy. The officer who developed thg scheme of attack was killed. Storming pa .’ties were landed on the Mole HP* mtlie cruiser Vindic tive* The casualties to the per sonnel said Sit* Eric, were heavy in proportion to the number en gaged. An enemy destroyer was torpedoed at Zeebrugge. Two of the blockading ships were sunk and blown up at the en trance to the Bruges canal. The piling besides the Mole at Zee bzrugge was blown up by an ob solete submarine filled with ex plosives. (BY THE ASSOCIATE?) PRFBM London, April 23. British naval forces today raided the (ierman submarine bases of Ostertd and Zeebrugge, the ad miralty announces. Five old cruisers which had been fill ed with concrete for use in blocking the channels were run aground, blown up, and abandoned by their crews. The admiralty reports that according to incomplete information thus far re ceived the raid met with a reasonable measure of success. Ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge on the Belgian coast are the principal bases for the operations of submarines in their campaign against shipping in the North Sea and the Fnglish Channel. They arc* of great Importance to the Gormans for this purpose and it has been recognized by the Allies flint, to deprive the enemy of them would tie one of the most ef fective means of dealing with the sub marine. An attack on these ports by the Brin ish naval authorities apparently regard the land defenses us too strong to make this practicable. Various measures have been adopted to destroy Berman subma rines on entering or leaving these ports. Field Marshal Haig’s offensive In Fland ers last summer was generally believed to have as one of its main objectives the bending bac k of th* Herman northern flank so as to deprive the enemy of those two points. Interest in Washington. Washington. News of the* British raid upon the Herman submarine bases at Ostend and Zeebrugge, and of the attempt to bottle up those harbors was received with great interest at the navy department. The move was tak en as another definite step in the carefully planned campaign against the U-boat which, it has been repeat edly predicted would begin to show material results about tills time*. The recent raid of the British grand fleet into the (Kattegat, when ten Her man trawlers were sunk, was said to have been another of the steps to pre vent the egress of the submarines. It has long been established that the principal bases of aubmarlnea which operate in waters around the British isles are in the captured Belgian ports. The wharves, workshops and basins of those harbors have been frequently bombed by allied airmen, in several instances with good results. 200,000 MARCH AT BUDA PEST Zurich, April 23—Two * hundred thou toirid prrHODH participated In a demon el rat lor, for electoral reform,, at Iluda F’est yesterday it. was learned here today. Five thousand* marched *o the Palace Club, shouting "A has ’’***' ~ n Work and truffle was halted. Hlmllar demonstrations were conducted In vari ous towns Sunday. Premier von Heldler told the polonaise leaders today that Halida would he re stored to Poland. South Carolinian Killed Seven Germans Before Himself Slain Washington The American nnldler in France hue Ihe “endurance nt the K.nnllih. the charke of the French and the pep iimt belonK* to tho American alone,'' according to Lieutenant Daniel (' Itoper, Jr, ton of In ternal Itevenue Commlmdoner Itoper, In n letter to hla father made public todny Lieutenant Itoper tell* of the K allnnt fight of « yoiinx Houth f'lirnllnii officer named I.avid, who overwhelmed by Orman*, accounted for aeven of the enemy before he wen killed. . . „ ~ , "You will he proud to know of the ca*n of a Houth « arollnlnn, eon of Mr David, of near Clio, H. lie wnx overwhelmed by the hoc he hut he had u pile of human fle*h In front of him. He fought like a liner accounted for aeven hoche* with 111* platol and then win fighting will. „n empty rifle when *truck from behind. My friend wit* a Citadel man and a fine officer." An excerpt of the letter regarding young David waa aent to hi* father In Dillon, H. by Comml»*loner Itoper and Dr. David In acknowl edging the letter «ald " Your non * account of my dear boy'a death waa the heat that wo have had and a* he Mate*, It wan glorious and I feel quite aurn that If he had had the chooalnf of the way he waa wan to go, that thi.i would have been hla choice." i (ASSOCIATED PRESS.) British Gain on Somme Front, Enter Trenches of Hun East of Arras Artillery Activity West of Albert and South of, Nieppe Forest. Germans Massing Large Bodies of Troops Southwest of Ypres. Making Ready For Next Blow By The Associated Press. London, April 23.—0 n (he Somme front north of Al bert the British last night improved their line by a success ful local operation it is announced officially. On the Flanders front in the ftobecq sector and near Wytschaete the British took prisoners. ON THE SOMME—NEAR RHEIMS. Paris, April 23.—Active artillery operations on the Somme front and east of Rheims are reported in today’s of ficial communication. “German raids between Lassigny and Noyon, northwest of Rheims, and in the Vosges fell down, we taking prison ers.” ABSOLUTE POWER TO FOCH. By The United Press. Paris, April 23.—After the full discussion the Allies agreed to give General Foch absolute power on the west not tgt;,,Uo influenced by any external pressure.” -v4 comparative quiet LONDON April 2MMAII Doctor® of the western front continued compara tively quiet official statement said. Field Marsh.:! Haig said hostile movements were repulsed south of the Som me and opposite Cambrln. south of the La Bassee Canal. The Germans succeeded In capturing an out post position northwest of F e,t artllery activity In the region of Noyon and Montdidier,” was all the French war office had to report. The German war office said Allied attempts to cross the La Bassee Canal northwest of Bethune broke down, under fire. Successful raids wers reported north of Albert and southwest of Attklrch, in Alsace. TODAY'S WAR REVIEW (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I Great Britain's armies in conjunc tion with the French are preparing for the next German blow on the w <- ; tr ill *ntltin front, now mninentm lly fXpertnd, rtfnl the Brltlxh navy has given new evidence of aggressive activity In a mtvul i;u|d on the <ier mflii mibmarine partsTwt Hie tlelßiun count. IX'tallH of the operutlon which wnu run led out only ililh mornln* »rc yet. nieiixie The attempt uppeurn to lino: been inniln to nl»k Hevernl concrete vessels in the channels leading ft’oijj Out end and /.cehrugne, from which htiHPH mtmherH of uulimurlne* day by day net forth on their predatory mission*. The admiralty reports on the basis of the scanty information so far re ceived from tho returning forces that the raid met with it reasonable mein ure of HUCeenH. I'lv" cnileera of an obuolete type with their 'om rele burdens were run aground and blown up by their crews. The exploit wsm attempted, appar ently. In much the manner that Lieut. Hobson sank the collier Mcrrlmac n the Santiago channel In uri effort to ),lock that harbor and bottle up Cervera’s fleet In June, 1898* during the Spanish-American war. There are evidences of German con centrations for a renewal of the great battle on the Somme front. Field Marshal Haig reports enemy activities of this nature In the vicin ity of V illors-Brent milieux where the German wedge south of the Somme has been pushed furtherest toward Amiens. The enemy masses with taken under fire by the British ar tillery as were similar concentrations north of the Somme, near Serre. 7 rnlleu north of Alt,ert. The Hermann ure heavily bomb ha,din* the ronton went of Albert and lb"' entire northern aide or Hie Kalient aloiiK the l.yx. on the Handera front. The Purl* war office report* cooHlderahle artillery activity «!*<> In the Somme battle area The chief activity of the British Infantry last night was north «»f Al bert where the defensive position was Improved and prisoners taken. Local fighting, In which the Brirtlsh had the advantage, occurred also on tho Ly* front, near Robecq, and tho (Gontlnued on page two) HOME EDITION Canadian Assaults. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Canadian Headquarters in France April 23 The Canadians during the last twelve hours have raided the German lines at. seven places, gassed the enemy with thousands of lachrymatory and lethal shells, harassed him by special artillery shots, swept his trenches with ma« chine gun and rifle bullets, and hammered his front lino with trench mortars. In some of the rads sharp fight ing developed in orio instance pro tracted hand-to-hand fighting tak ing place, this stmggle being so intense that the Canadians were unable to take prisoners. From dusk until dawn the whole front has been living north and south of Lens. The ceaseless rum ble of our heavies, whies are neu tralizing hostile batteries by cal culated and continuous gas shell ing has been accompanied by the sharper chorus of our field artil lery, carrying out a particular? harassing fire program. Period ically our artillery fire has reach- 1 ed a barrage intensity in support of raiding parties- Scores of Flares. Regularly tho Doc he lines have been lit up with score® of flares betraying the nervousness which has been produced among the en •my by such activity as has not been known on this front for weefefc The enemy hu . been forced to flm his guns under gas clouds and in gas masks. He bus betrayed tlje effect of our tactics by the dimin ishing volume of his fire but he has made answer to our general raid ing and gas activities by project ing much tear gas against our posi tions north of Lens. This projection was bigger in volume than anything ever at tempted against the Canadians by the enemy. P * effect, beyond dis continued on pag« two.) GUATEMALA JOINS IN 10 ON GOCHE (BY THE ASSOCIATEO PRESS ) Guatemala City, April 22.- The na-» tionsl assembly at its toduy de clared the republic of Guatemala to oc cupy |be Maine ffosltion toward the Kuro pean belligerents as does the United atfttfg. Guatemala broke diplomatic relations with Germany in April, Tho Hut on now taken Is apparently intended to con stitute a declaration of war against Ger many and Auntrla-Hungary, with whom the United States is now at war. (BY THE UNITED PSCtt.) Its Moral Effect. Washington, D. C.—-Guatemala's entry into the war waa regarded favorably hers today for its moral effect on Central and South America. Authorities said It would aid material ly In the campaign against German pro pagandist*. active In Central America arid responsible for minor disturbance* there Guatemala can furnish certain meat and food supplies. Minister Mendez declared Guatemala In making war desired to show her full sympathy for the Lotted Mtalea.
