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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
Artillery Fighting Active
In ArraS Region of France

NEW YORK, San. i0.-(Summary of
European Cables. )-On the western
front the opposing guns have been
active near the Scarpe, in the Arras
area; northeast of Ypres, and northeast
of Verdun. The Germans have failed
thus far to take counter measures
against the successful French sortie in
the Woevre
British merchantmen lost during the
last week equal the losses Of the pre-
vious week, when eighteen of more than
1000 tons and three of less than that
tonnage were sunk by submarines or
mines. Tine French report the loss of
one merchantmen, as compared with
nine the previous week
Peace emissaries of Russia and the
central powers are meeting at Brest-
Litovsk. IT is reported that the first
discussion revolved around the selection
of a meeting place which has not yet
been decided upon 1t is added, however.
that a settlement probably will be
reached. The Russian government has
refused Turkeys offer of a separate
peace and has informed that country
that she must participate i'm the gem
eral conference.
President Wilson's message has been
indorsed without reservation by the
British Labor party and British public
men. from the Labor, Socialist and Lib
eral parties. Attention is now directed
to Germany and Russia to see what eff
feet the message will have on the peo-
ples of those countries. 1t is felt in
London that the German government
NAV be compelled to answer the presi-
dents address because of the continued
differences between the militarists and
70 ST n GERMANY.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
MINISTER PICHON
TO STATE FRENCH
WAR AIMS FRIDAY
viii Follow Lines Laid Down.
by President Wilson and
Premier Lloyd George, 1t Is
Said

PARIS, Jan. 1o.-The Echo dParis an
allied war aims would probably be is
sued shortly" the exact date to be de-
cided at the meeting of allied premiers
next week
Minister of Foreign affairs Pichon
this afternoon or tomorrow will
ties outlining Frances war aims. accord
ing to authoritative information today.
1t was stated the foreign minister
would follow exactly the lines of Pre-
mier Lloyd George, of England, and
President Wilson, Of America, in barring
to the world the exact aims which
France has in continuing the war and
the only terms on which she can consid-
er peace.
At the opening of the session of the
chamber of deputies today Deputy Des-
chanel, speaking, said, he said in the
name of the deputies, pledged that the
chamber would support the restitution
of Alsace-Lorraine and sustain the ar
mics in the field to this end
Amid a storm of applause he paid elo-
quent tribute to President Wilson'S
speech.
GLORY to all the allied nations" Des-
chanel declared GLORY especially to
the United States, which from Washing
ton to Lincoln to Wilson, has added new
light in universal morale, as she has
added new stars to her flag.
Victorious France will not have a
peace of a vanquished people; she will
not recede; she will oppose her invaders
with an infiexible heart-a heart IN
famed with the one passion that France
is to save the supreme good of our faith
erland by Justice"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
MAY
CANCEL NATIONAL
DEBT Of RUSSIANS
and Russia Have
Concluded Separate Peace
Agreement According to Re-
ports From Berne +

PETROGRAD, Wednesday, Jan. 49,
The German delegations in 'Petrograd
are reported by the Evening Post to have,
got into touch with the Swedish legation
here and to have expressed the desire
that Sweden act as a go-between with
Great Britain. France and Italy.
The German delegations In Petrogra6
were sent to take up with the Russians
questions such as resumption Of com.
mercial relations and releases of certain
classes of prisoners. So far as is known
they were not charged with political
affairs, and in ordinary circumstances
the German government would not en-.
ploy such agents in seeking Sweden 81
mediator. Negotiations would be car
ried on directly with the Swedish mir
lister at Berlin or through the Germa
minister at Stockholm.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
Turkey Refused Separate
Peace Terms by Russia

PETROGRAD, Wednesday, Jan. 81
Separate peace proposals made by Tur-
key, it is reported, have been refused by
the Bolshevik government. Turkey was
requested to participate in the general
conference between Russia and the CEN
trail powers. ...
A dispatch received in London last
Saturday from Petrograd purported to
give the Turkish peace terms as pre-.
scented to Russia, but the dispatch did
not state that Turkeys proposals had
been made independent of the other CEN
trail powers. Among the terms proposed
by Turkey were free passage of the
DardanelIes for Russian ships. Russian
evacuation Of Turkish territory and de-
mobilization of the RussiaIE Black sea
feet. Turkey was to retain her active
army in consequence Of continuation Of
war against the entente.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
Two Georgia Boys
Are Dead in France;
One by Asphyxiation

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-General Per-
shing reported today that Private T. H.
Sharpe. signal corps, was killed January
as the result Of an airplane accident.
No details were given. l.. X Sharpe. his
father, lives at LaMarque. La.
Deaths from natural causes also re-
ported include:
Corporal Edgar Sutton, stevedores,
pneumonia, brownsville, Ga, and Cor
poral Aaron Crook, Jr., stevedores, gas
asphyxtatfon- AhbeYille. Ga
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
Town Reported Wiped
Out by Explosion of
Powder and Dynamite

FORT SMITH, Ark, Jan. 10.-A pow
der and dynamite plant at aPtterson,
Okla, IS miles east of McAlester, Okla,
was blown up at 1890 o'clock today,
according to a message received over a
railroad wire 1t was reported that
there had been loss of life.
The operator of the Missouri Kansas
and Texas railroad at Patterson wired
that the town had been wiped out. He
feared the loss of life would be great
he said.
The explosion rocked the mining town
OF Bokoshe. eighteen miles west of Fort
Smith. At Crowder. west OF Fort
Smith. every plate glass window was
broken.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
Slight Artillery Firing
Is All Gen. Haiq Reports

LONDON, Jan. 10.-Slight artillerying
in the neighborhood of Gonnelieu was
all Field Marshal Haig reported from
the British front today.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
KAISER To BEGIN BIC
MOVEMENT OF TROOPS
Germany Closes Neutral From
tiers Presumably for Of
fenSiVe in France

BERNIE, Jan. 10-Closing of the Ger
man-Swiss and German-Holland from
tiers for a month, just as announced by
the Germans, was aiken today to pre-
sage extensive troop transfers.
Presumably it means switch of Teu-
tonic forces from the Italian to the
west front.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
Peace Negotiations Will Be
Moved to Neutral Nation

: LONDON, Jan. IO.-At The hrat SIT
ting of the resumed negotiations at-
Brest-Litovsk on Tuesday, says a dis
patch sent out by the official Russian
news agency, the discussion between the
Russian delegates and those of the GEN.
trail powers centered on the selection of
a city in some neutral country in which
to continue the deliberation There is
every probability. it is added, of a sat
isfactory arrangement being reached.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
French Easily RepuIse
Minor German Raid

PARIS, Jan. 1O.-"The French easily
repUlsed q German raid against small
posts on the western edge of the upper
Coucy forest" says today's official COM
munication. THE artillery lighting was
active in the region of Vauxaillon.
Everywhere else the night was calm"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11

noninilitarists in Germany.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
Separate Peace Concluded
BY Bulgaria and Rus

BERNIE, Switzerland, Jan. ia
arate peace agreement has been sig
by Russia and Bulgaria, the Bund
ports.
A Bulgarian correspondent of tho
Bund says Premier Radoslavoff read the
following dispatch from Brest-Litovsk.
in parliament:
WAR between Russia and Bulgaria
ceases. Dilomatic and economic rela-
tions between Russia and Bulgaria are
resumed. Russia recognizes Bulgaria'a
right to nominate a delegate to an in
ternational Danube commission. The
first peace is thus concluced with the
consent of Bulgaria's allies
Hhe Bund says Bulgaria has appoint
ed a minister to Pertograd and a consul
general to be stationed at Odessa, and
has ordered the resumption of naviga-
ton to Odessa.
Bulgaria took part with Germanx.
Austria and Turkey in the first negotfa~
tions at Brest-Litovsk and it has been
assumed that no peace terms would be-
agreed to by the central powers except
in concert. However, advices yesterday
giving the names of those who took part
in the first session of the Brest-Litovsk
conferences, when they were resumed
this week, made no mention of a BuA-
garian representative.
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is credited
with opposing the formula of peac@l
without annexations or indemnities, de-
claring Bulgaria should retain the ter
ritory she had won. This would not tn-
terfere with a peace between Russia ard
Bulgaria, however. inasmuch as the ter
ritory Bulgaria desires consists of parts
of Serbia and Rumania. Premier Rado+
slavoff was quoted in a Sofia dispaSch
last month to the effect that Bulgaria had
accepted the Russian proposals. provfd-
ing for ending the war, restoring COM
mercial treaties in effect before the war
nd settling the Danuhe question.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12

with their machine, IL it is in condi-
ton TO make the run.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
USE MONKEY WRENCH
AND SAVE REPAIR BILLS
Owner Will Find II Good Policy I,
Look After Loose
bolts.

RI the owner drives his car con-
stantly II will be an excellent thing
for him TO use his monkey wrench
now and then. Especially with a new
car it is not bad plan TO go over
nuts and hollis occasionally. warns
american Motorist
Even the highest nut will he more
or less affected by constant vibration
and loose hoit should he tightcnoa
since the play 10 which the looscness
gives rise may result in the necessity
Tor later repairs. As the car grows q
little Older tho bolts and nuts settle
and there is less occasion for tight
ening.
The foregoing advice applies with
particular force to spring clips. a
pulling up Of the nuts of which will
take but a few minutes of the on
orators time about once a month.
Keeping the springs properly seated
and adding much to the sense Of Sc
cuTitE that is enjoyed by the maj
who looks after things and knows
ihat. they have been attended to.
Sometimes it happens that the mo-
torist is unable To keep the nuts fas-
tening the bolts absolutely tight. TRY
rs he may the nut will come loose
again.
II a lock washer cannot be applied,
Il good remedy is To put a drop of
solder on the thread of the nut. or
in the absence OF solder 4 little paint
or varnish viii set the nut tight and
prevent 1t from becoming loose again.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
LOOK OUT FOR LEAKS
Frequent Careful Inspections VIII Save
Time and Money for Car

There arc so many places about tho
motor where leaks are likely to develop
that it will pay the car owner to go
over the mechanism once In three
months with this in mind.
Frequent offenders arc tho spark
plugs and printing cups. Pour little
oil around the lower parts of these
while the engine is running. II there
is leak, bubbles in the oil will be-
tray II.
Another vulnerable place for leakage
is the valve system. See whether the
valve stems and push rods are covered
with oil: IL they are the stems or guides
arc probably worn. or the push rods or
their guides may be TO blame.
The cylinder head Is liable to develop
leakage II the gasket is not in good
condition or the head spring out OF
shape. Leakage at the inlet manifold
connection TO the carburetor may cause
poor motor operation by thinning the
mixture.
Sometimes the leakage here Is so
great that il cannot be overcome by
reducing the amount OF air going
through the caburetor itself.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
GLASSES AT HIGH SCHOOL
AND MECHANICS INSTITUTE


ton TO make the run.
CLASSES AT HIGH SCHOOL
AND MECHANICS INSTITUTE
Eighty OF the men will be divided
into two classes containing an equal
number OF men who will receive in
struction in the manual training rooms
Of the John Marshall High School and
the Mechanics Institute. They will
leave the Fair Grounds every morning
II army trucks and return at night
They Will receive instruction in ma
chine work and blacksmithins.
The cooperation and hearty re-
Spouse of the automobile dealers in
meeting the request of the War De-
partment for their best men to instruct
the soldiers has been the subject OF
much comment from various sources.
In IA meeting last week in the John
Marshall High School twenty-five deal
crs plcdged themselves to give the pro-
jet their hearticst support and in ad-
dition TO stand the inconvenience or
giving up their best mechanics for this
work. The manifestation OF their
spirit OF cooperation with the school
authorities and the War Department
for the success OF the undertaking, was
not unexpected, and it is believed that
the War Department. placed reliance
in this action OF the automobile men OF
Richmond when the site for the school
was selected.
Tomorrow night tho instructors.
numbering about forty-:ivc viii moe,
in the administration building of the
Richmond public school on Marshall
street, where final instructions will be
given by Training Director Masee. He
Will outline plans for organizing the
school in order that the least difficulty
may he met by tho teachers In be
ginning work coming within now
realms or their experience. The meet
ing will begin a. 1870 o'clock
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
New bank TN carroll County.

lllLLSNlLLE. VA. May 1.-THE
Laurel Fork Bank. recently organized
to do general banking business at
Laurel Fork, in this county. does not
propose TO do business long In rented
quarters. The board Of directors have
decided TO erect an up-to-date bank
building and TO equip the Same with
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12

workmen are now engaged In painting
and boxing the parts for shipment. MIR.
oNIora. who Is In charge OF the work.
states that the shipping OF tho furnace
will be begun in less than sixty days.
Moro than $4,000 will be required to
cover the freight charges in sending
the big plant across the country. 1T is
stated that the furnace will be re-
erected in California for blast.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
BIG FURNACE.MOvlNG JOB
That Tremendous Undertaking ,
Bristol, Iron Plant Going Across
Continent at Enormous Cost

Especial TO The Times Dispatchl
BRISTOL, VA. May 1.-The Bristol
blast furnace, which stood idle for the
last ten years. is now completely dis
mantlcd. preparatory to being shipped
TO California. This furnace was
bought last fall by parties snid to be
representing Japanese capital.
Tho razinE OF the furnace has been
going on for the last six months and
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12

Greater Hotel Accommuin tons.
GREENSBORO. \. c.. May 1.-THE
plans for the enlargement and gem
cral Improvement of the Guilford Hotel.
me OF Grcensboro's famous hostlcries,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12

have been completed, and tho work
VIII be started this month. Something
like $4,000 Will be expended In tho
improvements.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

office, large Or small in the state, county and town this fall. And that is why the political atmosphere of Newtown is so unhealthy at present and why the political pot is boiling so fiercely.
 The Republican party orators who go around the state building up a sort of kultur kamf of their party have an obsession of mind that is fraught with dire consequences for the nation and by all true Americans should be reprobated as firmly as the kultur kamph of the German is hated by all right-minded people. The new doc Urine of the infallibility of the Re- publican party only differs in degree from the Kaiser brand of hideousness. We want a union of Americans. all Americans at this momentous age and it will not do to separate us into sheep and goats, as the Republican club seem to want to do. The truly patriotic citizens of Newtown not only support the war measure but are back of the President step to step, and that is why many Republicans already have said: 'I am a Wilson Democrat for the war!" The q am" holier than those sentiment has no more place in American politics than it has in the religious ethics of Christendom.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
OUR VIEWPOINT
 NEWS LETTER
(Special to The Times)

Newtown, Aug. 3.-Despite mid summer heat and the busy days for the agriculturist of Newtown an or agnization known as the Young Mems Republican club are adding to the torridity of the season and adding distraction to the farmers other wor- ries by appeals to the latter to at tend the bi-monthly meetings of this club and help save the nation from the pitfalls their speakers say they see in the darkness ahead. The club has already had one outdoor feast of clans and the libations going with the bivalve, addressed by speakers from Bridgeport and other county cities, and now another is slated for August 2S, and the appeals for a gathering of the rank and file of the party at the council board of the club are vociferous. The 40 or more office holders, biy and little, of the town, whom faction fight in the Demo- cratic party last year made possible, are the clug. They are really a crowd of satellites revolving around strong personality who first attracted them together and still holds them in their orbits. The strong force Is W. D. Parker, the genial landlord of the Inn, whose party bias bears the Bridgeport stamp of meretriciousness but he is not the "big noise" in the camp. That is an emanation from the youthful politicians who compose a majority of the aggregation and who are trying to make the political hni1 hafnro Io paign season is here.
 Besides these outdoor feasts the club has indoor meetings addressed by loCpl orators, and occasional by some politician whose fame has gone beyond his habitat and who has gumption enough to camouf1age these youthful enthusiasts so that they go home at late bed time hugging the delusion that the party of Lincoln is the same party as Roosevelt now has bagged. Recently the club was ad- dresse by Judge Davis of Danbury along Rooseveltian lines The Re- publican party had supported and would continue to sand back of the government in the prosecution of the war; but not one kind word was ut tered in commendatfon of President i Wilson for the heroic work so far done and no encoura cement breathed to cheer that gigantic silent atlas of the worlds weight of war and woe in Washington who bears on his shoul- ders the fate of two continents. and whose wisdom will in Gods good time preserve civilization for us. our chill dren and for all future Americans, if We are truly sincere in our support of his war plans.
 But these little Americans tell us that the country can only be saved by the Republican party and hence the members of this organization were urged to keep the fires of partisanity burning, elect a Republican Congress
 to hamper, not aid, the responsible head of the nation in his clear-headed outlook for the future of the world i These Republicans of Newtown
 swallowed that unpatriotic pabulum entire; and propose to carry on an 1 active campaign, it is said. for-ev
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
By LOUIS TRACY

New York, Aug. 3-Tomorrow, Au- gust 4, a stricken world will have en- dured four years of war and enter on a fifth. How many more years will the human race be called on to suffer this agony? God alone knows. But if it be not impious for a mortal man to dare interpret the decrees of the AL mighty I do now most solemnly say that, although this carnival of woe may be permitted by Providence to scourge us for months or years yet to come, it cannot cease till Germany is beaten to her knees. And why do l dare In the same breath proclaim that the issue rests in the han4s of the Lord of Hosts and yet that 1 am con- vinced in my very soul that the only outcome can be Germany's defeat? This is my answer: If I believed oth- erwise would cease 10 be a Chris Sian; if I admitted the possibility of a Prussian victory I would never again believe that He who gave us the Ser mon on the fA7unt died on the Cross of Calvary for mans Redemption. I would know, perforce, and go sorrow ful to, my grave with the knowledge, that Might is more potent than Right, that the ethics which brought France, Britain, Italy, America and even poor, torn Russia into the conflict, the prin- ciple which led Belgium to risk and lose all, the sheer sense of justice which has ranged twenty other na- tions on our side, were nothing more nor less than foolish, even groteSque blunderS. Yet l laugh to scorn the notion that l shall ever accept any such theory-no, not till Mllton's re- incarnated self declares him a disciple of Lucifer, not till Shakespeare rises from his grave and scoffS at the beau tiful England he loved so well, not till Lincoin's Gettysburg speech is proved sham and a fraud. Some miracles do happen, but not such miracles as these. l have lost everything valued in the world. I walk hand in hand with tribulation, but there is a great joy in my heart that comes to my aid even in those dreadful watches of the night when memories of the dead drive almost to frenzy those who loved them and still live, because I know-yes, knoW-that my country is fighting for the right, and not my own dear land alone, but her kith and
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

which shall transcend in power and greatness the widest dream ever dreamed by enthusiastic Pan-German. It must be so. It is a deduction based on the soundest theory of life, the very essence of all that science has taught US either of men or of the low CT animals. But cannot blind my eyes to the immediate gaps in our ranks.
 Our universities are empty. Oxford and Cambridge gave eight thousand of their undergraduates to the army in the first year of the war, and, be it re- membered, no matter what view may be held as to the value of a university education, these young men were the future rulers of the British Empire
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

these figures. They are official. We know some of the details with a
 mournful exactitude. During one month in France in 1917 we had 27,OO0 men killed. In the first twelve months of the war we had 6,660 officers and 95,000 men killed. During the month of April of this year as the result of
 the great battles which began on
 March q, 1918, we had over 10000 casualties among officers alone. Of course we have killed and wounded many Germans. But what does that matter? What does it matter how many of the brutes are killed? It is our duty, duty put on US by the laws we live under, obey and swear by to