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The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-26
BRITISH IN LEAD AS AIR FIGHTERS

some machines why the British serv-
Ice goes after the information.
AT the end of the day Ii may be
necessary to make report admitting
TINT more British thnn German ma
chimes were lost; but what of that?
The needed observation was taken, or
the highly important photograph was
secured.
The British operate their service
not with view to saving their ma
chimes, not with q notion of avoiding
dangers as much as possible; especial
ly not with the idea that to lose more
machines than the enemy loses Is a
showing of inferiority, of defeat.
The British avlators are not spoiled
with laudation and heroics. They re-
gard themselves very much as SO
many Tommies In the trenches 60.
Their business is to go up when they
are told and get what they are sent
for; just as Tommy's business is to
hang on till hades freezes when he's
attacked. and to go over and never stop
when he's ordered to attack. Neither
one of them feels particularly enthu-
siastic about his job as means to
winning honors or distinction; be
doesn't think much about that part of
it. He attends strictly to the Job.
ITS the sporting instinct that makes
these Britishers such good flying men.
They're the greatest daredevils In the
business; do anything. and get away
with things the Boche wouldn't think
of trying. They don't look on their
work as great series of personal ad-
ventures but as part of an organized
mechanism with objects good deal
bigger and more important than the
interest of any one man.
$50 the British don't take so much
interest in the Individual feats of Prov
ess of favorable fiiers. Air duelling Is
not the object OF flying. The object
is to get the information ones sent
for and to get back with 1t.
"As soon as a fller crosses the line
he must count on the great danger of
being shot down by these guns as well
as on the chance of meeting an en-
emy in the air and having to fight him.
"Of course all this means losses, and
when they've toted up at the end of
the day or week or month this part OF
the showing may Indicate that the
Boche has had all the best of it.
But If there could be pitched Into
the scale on the side of the British
service the results gained, the value
Of information gained about the en-
emy and of information he has been
prevented from gaining about our own
lines. the showing of movements ac-
curately planned because of superior
information, of positions taken or ar
tillery fire accurately placed, of SOL
dicrs' lives saved because OF better in
telligence about the enemy's weak
places-then the showing would be a
lot different
suppose set of photographs Is
needed by the staff showing some sec
ton of the enemy's line perhaps a con-
siderable distance back OF the front
To have those photographs may decide
whether particular move is to be un-
dertaken and how; so the airmen are
sent after EN-. Maybe two or three
will be brought down and their ma
chimes smashed up; perhaps some be-
hind the encmy's lines--possibly some
body will fly for the last time. Tn.
point is that II one cnmera gets back
with the pictures wanted the thing han
been successful"
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-26
American in French Service
Pays Tribute to FIiers From
England.
REGARD WORK SERIOUSLY
Germans Ahead as Builders, but Brit.
ons Are Best FIiers-One Object
Is to Bring Back Information
Required by the Staff.

London.-''There's only one air serv-
Ice In this war and it's the British.
If that sounds like bit of British
swank, why, it merely isn't.
It's the precise statement of the
case which was made the other day
by an American airman who has been
during most of the war attached to
the French air service. lie knows all
about the air business. has taught
other men TO fly and to fight and has
himself II highly creditable record Of
bringing down Hun planes. He knows
all the stars of the French service and
many of the British.
He paid high tribute TO the German
flying machines, observing repeatedly
that the procession of German i'm
provements In planes and engines
moves so swiftly that the allies are
all compelled to hustle constantly to
keep from being outdistanced. When
ever the French and British catch up
with German construction the Germans
produce something new and still bet
ter.
Equally important, he declares, the
British have much the most accurate
notion Of what the flying service is
about. They co-ordinute 1t with their
military operations most effectively.
They have less fear of the daily report
of comparative losses on both sides.
They use the aircraft for certain spe-
cific purposes; when the bit of infor-
nation that is wanted Is accounted of
more value than the chance of losing
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-26

mnnds barked by smoke-begrimed Of
hcers-and the gallant Eighteenth
went into action again.
Three weeks later transport
brought Private Smelling back to Cam
ada, sorely wounded. For weeks he
lay on hospital cot at London, Ont,
)ut he never complained of the pains.
He was far more concerned at the
ength of time before he would be on
ais feet again.
"I've Got to Find Her."
I've got to get out of here and get
70 work." he explained to newspaper
reporter one day. you see, I've got to
and that Red Rose Girl, even IL / have
to search the world for her"
1t made a nice little newspaper
story, and evidently 1t was widely
read. For week later there came to
Private Smelling on his hospital cot a
package, from Miss Carolyn ID. $. p,
New Paltz. N. Y. u. s. A. according
10 the fine handwriting in one corner.
Puzzled. the wounded man removed
The wrapper. 1t was photograph. He
turned back the cover, and gazed into
The eyes OF the Red Rose Girl. For
fifteen minutes his eyes never left her
face. then -shyly attempting to hide
behind the photographers stamp, he
found these three simple words:
81 am waiting"
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-26
ROMANCE FOLLOWS
m wake OF war
One Red Rose Made World o.
Difference to Cana
dian Soldier.
MUST FIND THE GIvER
Crimson Flower Parting Gift Of Un-
known Maid Who Is Waiting Some
where-Task May Not Be
So Difficult.

London. Ont.-War Is not all horror.
1t is often beautiful. Therefore It is
lifting that you should know the story
of the Red Rose Girl.
Canada famed with war. Recruits
were hurrying through the streets to
training camps. Came the departure
to far-away France. Some would come
back, maybe. And others? Well. war
would bring many sorrows to the
shores of Canada--and dig many a
grave in Frances fair valleys.
The troops were passing in last re-
view through the streets of London.
Ontario. Visitors fiocked to the city
to give them godspeed. And the khaki
clad soldiers tramped through the
streets midst tears and cheers.
Private Stanley Smelling. Eighteenth
western Ontario battalion, swung
along in the ranks. There had been
none to say goodby to him. Eth, well,
1t was easier-or best, maybe, he
mused.
Then a girl leaned from the tonneau
of big black touring car. She
brushed rose against her lips-a big.
red rose-hnd tossed 1t to Private
Smelling.
Bring 1t back-to me-" she mur-
INJURED. ''and--"
His hat came Off, and in her deep
gray eyes he read the unspoken mes
sage.
Il WILL" he answered simply.
At the Front.
Far-away France. 1t was at st. Eloi.
Cannon doomed prelude. Shrapnel
screamed. Mines loosed death under
the feet of the enemy. And the men OF
the gallant Eighteenth Ontario stamped
lmpatienty and wondered dimly II n
mine would tear the earth from under
them next. Then rifles beat a death
tattoo and the order came to move for.
ward
That night. lying in his trench-a
conquered German trench - Private
Smelling looked at his faded rose and
thought of the peaceful world back
across the waters.
81 wonder If l ever will live through
this hell to find the Red Rose Glrl?'
he asked himself.
The Canadian troops moved on
.oward Ypres. The shrill cries of battle,
the screams of dying men, hoarse COM
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-26
A National Biessinu,

According to DIR. II. f. Griggs, who
has just come back from Katmai, the
latest Largest volcano" It's 1912 erup-
ton will be the last for thousands of
years. Wouldn't it be comfort II
some explosive human beings would
blow off once and shut up for like
period New York Sun.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-26

Milwaukee merchants will cut down
free deliveries of merchandise.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-26
Boy Confessed to Eight eureIaries

vineland, N. J.-Willlam Holt. 13
years old. confessed to eight burglnries
committed during the past three
months. after he had been caught on
one of the Jobs.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-26

ships were compelled to fight Off u
boats. In one instance a destroyer
conveying troopship was firing at n
submarine on one side while second
undersea craft appeared or was de-
tected near by the destroyer. There
was reason to believe that the water
bomb dropped by the destroyer at the
second submarine was effective in Its
object.
The voyage from America was made
in good time.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-26

Ten smiles for nickel Always buy RED
Cross bag Blue; have beautiful, cleaI
white clothes. Adv.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-09-17
FARLEY NOT ABANDONED
stock holm Conference Committee
So Reports.

STOCKHOLM. Sept. 16.-Following con-
ferences with the Russian delegates who
have returned from their mission to Lon
don, Paris and Rome. the organizing
committee OF the Stockholm conference
in a report on the present situation says
the conference has not been abandoned.
but on the contrary that a date will be
hxed as soon as passport difficulties are
overcome.
The Russian delegation Is still con-
WINGED that the working classes of Great
Britain. France and Italy are unani-
mOusly in favor Of the conference be-
under which the interests of, small ma
tions will not be sacrificed to great ma
tons. can only be reached by a common,
concerted effort on the part OF the pro-
letariat OF the entire world.
''The brutal refusal Of passports" says
the report. appears In the eyes OF all of
us as an exhibition of crushing reaction
But II will be overcome. We appeal to
the workers Of Great Britain, France,
Italy and America not to be deprived
of the elementary liberty to exchange
views The enemies Of Socialism have
resorted to the traditional manpuYre
against us: they have employed methods
Of insinuation and have invoked nom
existent documents to impress the
ma sses. Above all they have abused the
monopoly Of postal and telegraphic SER
vices to misconstrue and falsify our
declarations
The conference has been postponed
probably until next year. according to
the Alton bIddet. The members Of the
Dutch and Scandinavian committees. the
newspaper adds, are about to depart for
their homes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-09-17
SAYS FRANCE WILL
INSIST ON VICTORY


Henri Franklin Bouiilon, Minister Of
Missions Abroad in the new French
Cabinet. asserted yesterday afternoon
that France would make no peace save
one that was founded on victory. The
member Of the French Ministry and
Mayor Mitchell spoke at Carnegie Hail
Yesterday afternoon before the Bohe-
mian National Alliance and the Slavic
League. kilograms were sent from the
meeting to President Wilson and to
President Poincare pledging allegiance
to the INST and saluting the second in
recognition Of the heroic defence made
by the people of France of all people,
especially Of Belgium.
"A victorious peace liz the only peace
that France ever will make" said M.
bouillon. commenting upon the peace
propaganda that Is being conducted In
this country. Some Of the pacifsts
wish to stop bloodshed; others are inn
PEELED by the German propagan nda. The
war cannot stop until we restore Justice
and liberty upon the ruins of Prussian
militarism. We prefer even death to
the conditions that Germany would inn
pose II she won. We shall give every
thing that the world may be cleansed /;
that the power Of brute force may be de.
stroyed.' a
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-09-17
KAISER D0DGES
PEACE TERMS IN
REPLY TO POPE
At Last Minute Germany
Decides to Make Answer
General in Character.
PAPAL VIEWS ACCEPTED
Definite Compensations for
Belgium and Balkans
Abandoned in Note.
PAPAL VIEWS ACCEPTED
Special cob'e Despatch to TaI srS from tAs
London TifneA

Special Cooie Despatch to THE srr from tAs
London Times.
Copyright. 1917. all rtohts reserued)
AMSTERDAM. Sept. 1e.-At the last
minute Germany decided to eliminate
most Of her "terms'' in her reply to
the peace proposal OF the Pope and to
make her answer general In character.
The Berlin To0eblatt's Vienna CORE
spondent wired that the German and
Austrian replies were to have been
handed Saturday to the representatives
of the Holy See.
These answers. which each Govern
ment had drawn up for itself. acknowl-
edge the Pope's proposal affirmatively
and fall In with his general views for
bringing about and insuring lasting
peace. but having regard to the attitude
Of the Entente Powers and the United
States they enter into no detailed dis
cussion Of peace conditions.
The Amsterdam Tyd's correspondent
In Germany writes:
The latest events have not had q
favorable effect upon peace feeling In
Germany. The answer to the Pope's
note bears traces Of this"
The correspondent says the idea OF
definite compensations respecting. for
example. Belgium and the Balkans has
been abandoned in the replies, which
have been brought back to the well
known theoretical peace, with assur-
ances Of the acceptance OF the papal
note as the basis for negotiations and
. declaration Of readiness to participate
in an agreement to prevent future wars
At the eleventh hour the discussion OF
the details Of the so-called war aims
was recalled
MS is not to say that such peace
terms will not follow IL. as the reply
says. the enemy Powers give evidence
Of sincere abandonment of their de-
sire for destruction and surrender their
expectation Of the disunion which they
hope to create between the German
Government and the people.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-09-17
24,OOO ORDERED OUT
IN PACIFIC YARDS
Last Effort Fails to Avert
Ship Strike This Morning.

SAN FRANcIsco, Sept 16.--Twenty-
four thousand members of the San Fran
cisco Iron Trades Council, employed
mainly on Government shipbuiding con-
tracts. 1t was announced tonight, will
strike Tomorrow for an increase in
wages.
A final attempt to prevent the strike.
made at a meeting proposed by James
l., Ackerson. representing the Federal
Shipping Board, failed.
r. W. Burton, president of the Iron
Trades Council. said postponement Of
the walkout was impossible
The men will report for work as usual
and walk out at o'clock II no agree
ment has been reached
Conferences will continue. The hrst
will be held tomorrow, with Mr.. Acker-
Son presiding.
The working agreements OF unions
affiliated with the Iron Trades Council
expired last night. The men demand a
minimum wage Of Sc day, an advance
Of 80 per cent.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-09-17
ERROR IN WIRELESS?
Navy Department Believes Raider
story Is Hoax.


WASHINGTON. Sept. 1b.-There may
be or not a U-boat sktilking along the
Atlantic coast as far as 1t is possible to
learn from the Navy Department. And
there may have been or not an attack
upon a merchant vessel sixty-five miles
on Nantucket last Friday morning.
Officials OF the Navy Department. as
sorting that they have no information
corroborative of the stories brought to
New York by British steamship ana
an American tanker. incline to the belief
that the sensational report either was
the result OF hoax or erroneous read
ing Of wireless signals.
The Sasconsett wireless station at
about the time that the two merchant
steamships report picking up the second
distress call. heard from q British
merchant vessel reporting her position,
which. the Navy Department says. was
In about the spot where the submarine
attack Is supposed to have been made.
It Is suggested by naval ofhcials that
her wireless might have been mistaken
for an 8 o s. How this error in read
ing might have occurred is not ex-
planned.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-09-17
PAN-GERMANS ANGRY.
Newspapers Complain Of Count
LuxburE's Diplomatic BIunder,

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 16.-The Pan-Ger-
man newspapers. which have taken a
longer time than the remainder Of the
German press to digest Count Luxburg's
famous dispatches to the German For
eign once through the Swedish Lega-
tiOn in Argentina, complain OF the
Counts lack Of discretion and caution,
and indeed appear to be very cross with
every one concerned.
The newspaper TdeOliche Ruadscha au
Of Berlin says II was not absolutely
necessary for the Count to announce by
cable. the most rapid channel, that he
regarded the Argentlnian Foreign Min
lister as "a notorious ass" 1t thinks
that might have been said later.
The Zeitun9 am Mittd0 asks IL 1t
would not have been sufficient to call
the Foreign Minister pro-English, and
wishes to know what political conclu-
sion the Berlin Government could have
drawn under any circumstances from
such a blunt Characterization Of the Min
ister's intelligence.
The Krcmr Zeitung. like several other
newspapers, protests Indignantly against
the Interpretation placed in enemy coun-
tries on Count Luxburg's famous express
sion, for which 1t has discovered a new
meaning, namely, that persons in life
boats were to he taken on board subma-
rines instead OF being left off enemy
coasts.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-09-17
CENSOR SHUTS
UP REVENTLOW
His Newspaper Suppressed for
Criticism Of Submarine Pol
icy in Argentine Expose.
Special Gable Despatch to THs suS from fAe
London Times.

Special Gable Despatch to THs Sur from fAe
London Times.
fCopprighf. 1917. all ri0Ats reserred.)
AMSTERDAM, Sept 16.-The Toges
Zeitun0 and the BoerSen Zeitun0 Of Ber-
lin have been prohibited from publica-
tion by the censor, according to infor-
nation reaching here to-day. The Fret
sinnge Zeitung also announces that it
has been forced to suspend.
Reasons for the action of the German
censor are not revealed in the dispatches
reaching here. but the Ta1es Zeitun0
possibly was stopped owing to Count
Won Reventlow's article on Friday, in
which he attacked the Government 8
submarine policy. He said that from
the proposals of Count Luxburg, the
German Minister to Argentina, concern
ing the treatment to be accorded to
Argentine vessels 1t appeared that the
order of the day in Berlin was to con-
duct the submarine war according to
the wishes of German Ministers in neu-
trail countries.
This phase Of Count Luxburg's de-
epatches Is much more grave than any
other. says Count Won Reventlow, who
recommends 1t specially to public atten-
ton.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-09-17
Thousands of Scouts
Enlist to Aid Fund
TT is now $72,993.13 and going

TT is now $72,993.13 and going
strong; that is, of course,
THE SUMS fund to supply to-
bacco for the soldiers and sailors
abroad, particularly those in
France.
Yesterday afternoon the Labres
at Richmond Hill trimmed Bill
Hogan's Senators, 7 to 4, in a
baseball game and 1000 persons
helped boost the fund along.
The American Junior Naval
and Marine Scouts have set apart
the week beginning October / to
work for the fund. There are
$4,000 scouts and $500 of them
will work in the metropolitan dis
trict Of New York.
Interest in the fund is growing
rapidly, as you will see from the
story on another page.
WARNINGS! THE SUN To.
bacco Fund is not connected with
any other fund, organization or
publication. It employs no agents
or solicitors
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-09-17
RUSSREPUBLIC ANNOUNCED
BYKERENSKY, PRESIDENT;
GEN. KALEDLNES A MENACE
KERENSKY'S PROCLAMATION

pETROGRAD Sept 16-The proclamation Of Kerensy
establishing republic in Russia follows:
Gen. Kornlofs rebellion been -queed the
thereby and great the danger threatening
the fate Of the fatherland and its freedom.
Holding necessary put an end the external ndefnteness
remembering
Of the republican idea State
organization according which the Russian repub
can organization and hereby procams the Republic
Minister and President KERENSKY.
Minister of Justice, YAROUDNI"
The title Minister and President affixed of the
probably refers Keensks position President of
the Ministry Presidency
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-09-17
TORPEDO FAILS
TOHIT US. LINER
Big Ship. Here With 100 Pas.
sengers, Received Warm
ing of German Raider.

A dramatic tale OF how a big Ameri-
can liner which reached an Atlantic port
yesterday barely escaped joining the Luz
sitania and numerous other vessels that
owe their destruction to German torpe-
does was told by passengers who. seemed
glad to place their feet once more on
solid earth.
These same passengers-there were
100 on board-asserted the ship received
wireless warnings or the enemy subma-
rine of Nantucket and altered her
course accordingly. On this point. how
ever. the steamships officers refused to
comment.
This was the only word received Of
the U-boat which was reported to have
shelled an unidentified British vessel
Friday morning sixty-nve miles SOUTH
east Of Nantucket lightship. In ship
ping circles 1t 10 believed this Is the sub
maripe concerning which wireless warn
ings- were sent out from Cape Race.
Newfoundland. on September II. and
that she DETECTED her course to try her
luck in more southeriy waters. Scout
ships are still carefully patrolling the
coast from Maine to the Virginia Capes
1t was a woman who best told the
story Of the liners adventure. At ex-
actly II rs A. NJ. on the second day out
from European port a sailor stationed
on watch near the stern gun sprang
from his position and shouted: Torpedo
coming" simultaneously another mem
Der Of the gun crew, who was standing
In a lifeboat. repeated the warning.
Gunners rushed to position. whirled
their gun in the direction Of the oncom-
ing torpedo and fred one shot. which fell
harmlessly in the water some distance
away-there was no plain target Then.
as the steamer swerved. the torpedo.
now almost under the stern. was seen
to disappear twenty yards from the ship.
When the attack occurred a majority
OF the passengers were on deck. An
alarm was sounded. but there was little
confusion.
William Smell. a negro survivor Of the
crew Of the Belgian steamship Belgian
Prince. which was sunk by a submarine
July 81 with loss Of thirty-eight lives,
was on board. He confirmed the cablc
reports that he and others Of the crew
were ordered on the deck OF the U-boat,
their lifeboats destroyed and their cork
Jackets taken away, after which the sub
marine submerged. leaving them to
drown. He escaped because he man.
aged to hide his life belt under his coat.
Also on board were Capt. Charles Da-
Wis and four members Of the crew OF the
American schooner Laura C. Anderson.
which was sunk with bombs August 20.
after being stripped Of its stores, by the
crew Of a German U-boat.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph c. Norton Of Chi
cago. who for the past three years have
been engaged In relief work among Bel
gian refugees and also among the sol.
diers and their families. returned to the
United States to solicit further aid for
the war victims.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-09-17
TWO KILLED IN FEUD.
West Virginia Farmers Accused Of
shooting Four Fox Hauters.

FAIRMoNr, w. Va, Sept. 1s.-As a
result Of feud said to have existed
for some time between farmers and fox
hunters In the vicinity of Rivesville and
Lowesville. near here, Harvey Hayhurst
and Albert Thorn are dead and Charles
Musgrove and James Hayhurst are suf-
fering from gunshot wounds. The four
men were shot early to-day while seated
around a campfire. The shots were
fred from close range.
Three brothers. John, William and
Charles Keyser. prominent farmers Of
Lowesvilie, have been arrested and
charged with the shooting. II is said
that crops on the farm Of the Keyser
brothers were burned recently and Il 10
believed by the authorities that the
shooting was an act Of retaliation.