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The Jasper news., 1918-08-01

worked up to a gun-pointer. After a
time got my @. p. o. rating-chief
petty officer. first-class gunner.
The various navies differ In many
ways, but most of the differences
would not be noticed by any one but
sailor. Every sailor has great deal
of respect for the Swedes and Nor
wegians and Danes; they are born
sailors and are very daring, but, Of
course, their navies are small. The
Germans were always known as clean
sailors; that is as in our navy and
the British, their vessels were ship
shape all the time, and were run as
sweet as a clock.
There Is no use comparing the vari-
GUS navies as to which is best some
are better at one thing and some at
another. The British navy, of course.
is the largest, and nobody will deny
that at most things they are topnotch
least of all themselves; they admit
1t. But there Is one place where the
navy of the United States has 1t all
over every other navy on the seven
seas, and that Is gunnery. The Amer
lean navy has the best gunners in
the world. And do not let anybody
tell you different.
The Jasper news., 1918-08-01
F0REWORD.

"Gunner DepeW" is not a
work Of fiction, Dut it is
more thrilling than any tic-
ton you ever read. 1t is the
true story of the e;,1eri-
ences of an American boy
who, had a fighting career
that is unique in the annals
Of the great war. 1t is a
story crowded with fighting
and adventure - big with
human courage and endur-
ance. 1t is the first war mar
rative that tells the true
story of conditions in the
German prison camps. 1t
is a story that every Ameri-
can should and will read to
the end.
The Jasper news., 1918-08-01
tTo BE coNTINUEp.J
MOI to be Taken IN.

Germany will sing small. very
small, In the end. but we'll answer her
like the Judge"
The speaker was Provost Marshal
General Crowder.
EYES," he went on; 'we'll no more
be softened by Germany's penitence
than the judge was by the kldnaper
who wiped his eyes on his cum and
-blubhered:
ledge. Pm down and out
No, no. my man.. said the Judge.
'You're down, but you're not ont ret.
You won't be out for seven years,s
The Jasper news., 1918-08-01
CHAPTER u.
The War Rreaks.

After serving four years and three
months In the U. s. navy. / received
an honorable discharge on April IA.
1914. L, held the rank of chief petty
officer, first-class gunner. 1t is not
uncommon for garbies to lie around a
while between enlistments--they like.
a vacation as much as anyone-and. 1t
was my intention to loaf for a few
The Jasper news., 1918-08-01

Gunner Depew, on board the
French dreadnaught cassard,
gives the PoIlus a sample OF the
Workmanship for which the
American gunners are famous.
Then he leaves hls ship and goes
Into the trenches. Don't miss
the. next lnstaIiment.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18

spent in praying that President Will
son may do "thc right thing" and
fearing that he will not, is time lost"
Index Appeal.
an his latest reply President Will
son seals autocracy's doom. Armis-
ticc and evacuation are matters for
Marshall Foche." Age Herald.
"The American pen has forever
stilled the rattling of that terrible
German sword. This swash- buckling
emperor has brought down upon him
self the wrath of certain other instru-
ments of the Lord The President
has spoken Il word of command. moi
counsel.-N. Y. Times.
"Once more President Wilson has
shown displomacy of the highest or
der. He has denied the cncmy's plan
of military cscape.-Buffalo Courier
president Wilson's reply refers
the question of armistice to the mill
tary authorities. 1t is overwhelming
for unconditional surrender Oma-
ha Bee.
ale could not have said less. II
was unnecessary to say more" st
Louise Globe-Democrai.
Emperor William lifted the lid
off of hell four years ago Wilson
has clamped it down to bury the ter.
rors and horrors of the intern. TT
Worth Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18
COMMENTS FROM THE LEADING
DAILIES.

Below are few extracts from com
ments on the Presidents reply to
Germany:
1.-The President at one stro!.e has
swept away this whole German struc-
lure OF paper peace @ithOut guar
antees.' 1.-THE World.
"lf the German military partv
thinks to win bv camoufiage. they are
hopclcsaly mistaken. Mr.. Wilson's
note will find thcndeious applause
wherever it will become known-N.
y. Herald
The Allied armies are not going to
be halted in their advance to the
Rhine. Philadelphia Press.
Again the President has spoken
wit h,he voice of America and for
the civilized nations of the earth."-
Courier Journal.
Actual, unconditional surrender is
now clearly Germany's last resort.
She is brought at last face 10 face
with the inevitable * Charlotte OBJ
server.
Tie latest note from the White
House = is proof that time
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18
THE MAJORS REPLY.

a battalion of the 18th Division, Of
the regular army, by some blundcr or
mlscalculation, was cut Off and sur
rounded in Il hollow in the Argonnc
Forest on the western front. The
story is familiar, how, that for sew
eral days this battalion of American
boys defended themselves as best
they could until their rations and
ammunition were exhausted. their
cantccns dry. The German comman-
der sent Il message to Major Whit
lesey, who WAS commanding the Hrost
battalion" which read: "Americans,
you are surrounded on all sides. Sur
render in the name of humanity. You
will be we'll treated" The tcrse re-
ply of Major Whittcsley was go to
hell"
The boys hung on, determined to
die rather than surrender. They were
finally rescued. Perhaps some very
sensitive rcligionist may not approve
of the Majors profanity, mild tho it
WAS, but the reply pleased his men,
and left no doubt in the minds of the
Huns rs to the kind of stuff in the
make up of the American soldier, who
would mot be starved out, shcllcd
out, OF SHIPPED out, but would light on
to the bitter end" The Majors re-
ply would about fit in exactly as :,
reply to all future questions on terms
of peace sent to the allies by the
Huns. Mn. Wilson does not believe
in cussin', neither would he approve
of it in others, but we venture the
opinion that he did not order Major.
Whlttcsley reprmnnd. None of lis
would like to hear of the Prcsidcn,
using profane language, but We mod
estly suggest that, the next time
"a note" reaches the President from
Fritz. asking for terms" that Major
Whittesley be deputized to answer i,
in true, every day American Ian
guage. We intend no criticism what
ever, of the wisdom u the President ;,
methods OF reply Unconditional
surrender" If this does not suit the
gang, give 'em Whittlesey.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18
THE VALUE OF THE SOLDIERS
LETTERS.

The value of the soldiers letters
to the home folks increases each week
for the reason, among others, that the
writer of the letter is apt to mention
the names of other boys with him, or
whom he may have met recently.
This weeks letters from Bill Kiscr,
for instance, mentions the names Of
Il number of other TaZcwcll boys,
from whom their parents had not
heard, perhaps, for sometime. Send
us these letters AMI pass the news
around. And besides this valuable
feature Of these letters there is anoth-
cr. These letters, all of them, are
patriotic and optimistic. They breathe
Il spirit of buoyant, young American
ism, no complaining, no criticism, all
of which is inspiring to all of us ut
home, "hchind the lines" How any
man can read these letters and not
back up the boys, whether he has Il
boy among them or not-well, it is
difficult to understand the kind of
stuff such Il man is made of. Have
you bought II Liberty Bond?
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18
THE "COOTIES."

In recent issue of the Stars ana
Stripes, the American pepper publish
ed by the Army in France, appeared
the following lament from soldier,
entitled "a Cottie'a Garden of Vcrs-
es":
In winter | get up at night,
And have to scratch by candle light;
In summer, quite the other way;
have to scratch the livelong day.
A soldier boy should never swear
When coots are in the underwear,
Or underneath his helmet label
AT least rs far as lie is able.
The trench is so full of number of
coots,
I'm actually growing quite fond of
the brutes.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18

AT, or about the very moment the
hypocritlcal and sneaking German
WAS debating his so-caled peace
terms to President Wilson, U-boats
were sinking vessels containing wo-
men and children and non-combat-
ants without warning or mercy, and
mad the braZen effrontery to ask for
peace terms" They are a set of
sneaks- snakes in the grass. Presi-
dent Wilson has their number, and
knows where they get Off.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18
TERMS or PEACE"

"a peace that will satisfy Germany
will not satisfy u.s." is the way one
man puts it. No peace terms" snort
of unconditional surrender" will
meet the approval of the men on the
field nor the people at home. Ger
many deserves to he brought to her
knees begging for mercy, and COM
PEELED to do pcnancc and make rcsti-
tuition for the dcvilmcnt she has done
and the misery caused throughout
the world. A private individual,
guilty of any one of thousands OF
crimes committed by that gang OF
butchers and ravagers, would be
promptly executed if lie should cscap,
the mob and reach trial court.
Should leniency and mercy be ex-
tended Il criminal because he wears a
crown, and denied the criminal in the
lower walks of life? Justice? Or
course, but what is justice when it is
measured by years of crime? Where
and how can common Justice, as us
ualiy understood, begin ana end in
such case as the history of ravaged
and ruined Europe brings
court? Talk about "terms of peaccr
No terms" except as implied in two
woids-surrcnder, restitution.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18
WHAT WE DO NOW WE DO FOR.
EVER.
Richmond Nirpininn.

Under this caption, Il New York
business firm admonishcs It's custom
crs, through an advertisement, of the
duty that lies clear before every
American. So truly does the call re-
fleet in our opinion, the view which
all should hold, that we reprint it in
full:
In minute il is going to strike
twelve ON the clock of the world.
What we do now, we do forever.
What we say now, we say forever!
What we say now shall he written
in letters of fire upcn the sky, shall
he written in iron and thunder on the
hills and plains of Germany. shall be
signed by God across the face of
Essen, Cologne and Berlin!
We speak the heart of a hundred
thousand cities.
Why do the news boys cry in the
streets that there is Il new Peace
Chancellor appointed by the Kaiser?
What of il? What is it 10 us!
Who cares? AS long as there is II
Kaiser?
War with the Kaiser is Heaven,
four years of Heaven MS compared
with Peace with him!
Who wants to belong to the kind
of human race or be locked up in the
kind of nation that can make peace
with the Kaiser?
What are two million people going
around and taking up national col
lection for this week?
What do the American people
want their six billion dollars for?
We want six billion dollars to tell
the German people with guns and
airplanes that no little theatrical
peace-strut by Il Kaiser up and down
before twenty nations half hung on
their crosses, will be of any avail
Are we spending in America four
million men and seventy billion dol
lars to get out of the Germans thirty
cents worth of peace-tO get out OF
The Germans a dummy peace. with a
dummy victory over q dummy dem
Ocracy?
Shall hundred million Americans
stand on The graves of four million
dead men and tell them that they
have died for nothing?
We have sent over our Gwn two
million sons to face death fer vic
tory. Shall we snatch victory away
from them before their own eyes
before their faces while they are
holding ii in their hands? Shall
we send word TO them TO come home
and that we are going to send their
little boys over presently TO do what
they have tried TO do all over again /?
! We ask this week for six billion
dollars to save four million soldier
boys from being made fco!s IF before
the world.
We throw this week hundred mil.
lien pocketboOks at the Kaisc-!
To a world bound for Berlin. one
hundred million Americans gay.
go! GO! KEEP TO THE RIGHT"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18

while many good Christians are
zealously advocating premllcnnial
views and other equally honest and
earnest Christians call themselves
POstmillennilists. there is one view in
which all Christians can unite-they
should be 'Promillennilists.' Even
though Christians may differ as to
the time and manner of the return
of our Lord, there can be no qucs-
tiOn about the duty of every believer
to desire, to pray for and to hasten
i'll every possible way, the second
coming of Christ. "-Christian OBJ
server.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18

Have you done your best in this
Fourth Liberty Loan drive? There
remains only one day you can show
i'll this manner your appreciation and
interest in your boys welfare III
France, and in the cause to which he
and several millions of others are
dcvoting their lives. If you can and
do not buy Il bond-loan the govern
mcnt little money-thcn. you will
scarcely deserve to be called loyal
American citizen
Join the majority today in striking
Il blow for world freedom and against
world-attcmpted slavery. The winter
is coming on apace. We all hope our
boys may not have to spend it in the
trenches, mud and rain. The ndiil
ercnt man declares that he doesn't
care whether they do or not, if hr
makes no effort to get them out, and
the only way he can efficiently help
is to furnish the boys with the means
Of fighting. Buy Bond today.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18
WHAT OUR BOYS THINK AND
WANT.

Sometime ago tbs paper gave it
as AN opinion and positive conviction
that no matter what other folks
thought and wished, the American
army in France would hear to moth
ing short of unconditional surrender
and absolute crushing of the German
army. This opinion is confirmed by
an extract taken from the Stars and
Stripes, the official organ of the ex-
red!tionary forces. The extract, tax :
en- from the Roanoke Times, follows
Let the weak hearted who are
dreaming of compromise; let the
pacifists who are taiEng pence by
agreement; let the side liners who
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18

Only about one-half of the States
allotment in the Fourth Liberty Loan
had been subscribed the first of tine
week, according to reports in the pa
pers. OF all the loans the Fourth
should 20 over with the greatest en-
thusiasm. The reports from the front
are thrilling and encouraging. Our
own boys and their brave brothers in
the Allied armies, should not be al
lowed a pang of encouragement by
the news, that we are tagging. The
time is nearly up.
Get in, quick!
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18

Now comes Turkey asking that Mr.
Wilson help save his neck. If justice
is done, and it will be, Turkey will
come to the chopping block and her
gobbling ceased forever. The infa-
nous government of the bloody Turks
should be wiped Off the map. If there
can be a more dctestablc and undesi-
rable, hateful, dangerous ruler on the
earth than Kaiser Bill, it is his pro-
tege, the ruler of the Turkish En-
nirc. For both of them the same,
get off the earth"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18

YET .. ~ II.
nave had enough of war; let the Sc
certify inclined pro-Germans who
think this war should end without a
decision-let them, one and all, know
once and for all that for the Ameri-
can EXpeditionary Force there is no
such word as peace with the Huns
unbcaten. The man who talks of
peace today, except through victory,
is traitor"
AS the boys say, chats the stuff
Let the boys in France know that we,
at home, are with them from Prcsi-
dent Wilson on down to the humblest
Of us. The dogs of war" will not be
called off until the ferocious, danger
Gus animal is safely bagged, once for
all.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18

Enemy now trying to change its
form of government" - Headline.
What Germany needs is II change of
heart. Their disease and trouble is
on the inside.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18
OUR BOYS IN FRANCE ARE
WATCHING OUR ACTIONS

at was with interest that |
read in the c. V. News where
the good DeOpie and the May
or of Tazewell had set apart
two minutes at noon each day
to pray for the boys over here.
do not think they could have
done anything better, and we
only hope this will not be all
the time they will spend in
prayer for the soldier boys" -
From letter written by Sergt.
r. NJ. Russell to his brothers,
at Indian, Va.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18

In closing the churches the Board
of Health does not wish to be un-
derstood, of course, as extending the
"gasless" Sunday order.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18

The Germans have made peace sew
crai times on paper. The Allies will
make peace with shot and shell.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18

VIRGINIA.: In the Clerks Office of
the Circuit Court of TaZewell coun-
ty, in vacation, the End day of Oc-
tober, 1918.
w. +. Hartman, Complainant
VS.. In Chancery.
}. Baach, Bertha Stern and Aaron
otern, ............ Defendants.
The object of the above STYLED suit
is to attach the estate of the said de-
PENDANTS, or either of them, in that
certain lot or parcel of land, with all
buildings and improvements thereon,
situate in the town of Pocahontas,
Tazewell County, Virginia, known as
Lot No. 3, on the south side of West
Church street, which was conveyed to
Mrs. Lena Baach by William Il. Butt
and wife by deed dated August 18th,
1885, recorded in said county in Deed
Book No. 2l, page 16; and to subject
The same, and TO attach and subject
all other estate, real and personal, of
the said defendants, or either of them,
to the payment of debt due from
said defendants to said complainant
for the sum of $40 ,74GS0, with inter
est thereon from February Goth, 1917,
due by reason of the deficiency in
acreage of the land embraced in that
certain deed executed by said de-
PENDANTS to said complainant, dated
February 16, 1917, and recorded in
the Office of the Clerk of the County
Court of Mcdowell County in Deed
Book 70, page 2T4.
And it appearing by affidavit filed
N this cause that the defendants, j.
Baach, Bertha Stern and Aaron Stern,
ire not residents of this State, it is
therefore ordered that said defend
ants do appear within fifteen days
after due publication of this order,
in the Clerks Office of said Circuit
Court, and do what is necessary to
protect their interests. And it is
further ordered that this order be
published once week for four sue
cessive weeks in the Cinch Valley
News, Il newspaper published in the
County of Tazewell, Virg mia, and
! the newspaper hereby directed, none
having been prescribed by said Cir
cult Court.
C. w. GREEVER, Clerk.
s. NJ. B. Coullng,
Chapman, Peery & Buchanan, p. q.
Oct.4-4t.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18
TEXT OF THE PRESIDENTS AN
SWER TO GERMANY.

Following is the text of Pre- ii.leat
Wilson's reply to the German note:
"Sir: In reply to the commune
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18
ORDER OF pUBLICATION

ViRGINlA-In the Clerks Office Of
the Circuit Court of Tazewell coun-
~, on the 9TH day of October, 1918
X. o. DILLARD,. -. Complainant,
against
DAISY ANGLES BILLIARD,
The object of this suit is to obtain
a divorce by the plaintiff from the
defendant upon the grounds of adul-
terry.
And an affidavit having been made
and filed that the defendant. Daisy
Angles billiard. is not resident of the
state of Virginia, it is ordered that
she do appear within fifteen DAYS
after due publication hereof. and do
what may be necessary to protect
her interest in this suit And il is
further ordered that Il COPY hereof
be published once Il week for four
successive weeks in the Clinch Valley
News, newspaper published i'm the
county of farewell. and that a COPY
be posted at the front door of the
Court House of this county on or be-
fore the 2lst day of October, 1918,
that being the next succeeding Rule
day after this order was entered.
A Copy-Tcste:
c. w. GREEVER, Clerk.
Spratt and Spratt, p. a. oct l8-1t
Arizona republican., 1918-10-17
BELGIAN
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1


 HAVRE, Oct. 16.-The Belgians have extended their lattle front north of the HanGzeeme canal, where they have made progress in the region of Shoore, five miles from the North sea, southeast of Nieuport, and generally gained ground eastward as far as CoOls- camp, according to the official communication issued tonight. The town of ISeghem, east of Roul- CTS, has been captured. The com- munication follows:
 We have progressed on the whole of the front of attack, which has been extended north of the HandZegme canal, between Theurout and the Yser. We have gained ground in the direction of Schoore, taken Keyem, reached the Praetbosch wood and Chateau Wynendael and captured. the out skirts of Thourout.
 ITO the east, our line has been carried as far as the Wynendael- Hooger road, running to Thourout and Bruges, where we progressed.
 Between Thourout and Mandel we reached Turfhauwe, carried, Lichtervelde and progressed as far as the outskirts of Coolscamp. South of the Lichtervelde railway, Thielm Ardoye has been passed. lseghem has been occupied. Sev- eral hundred prisoners were taken"
 At Coolscamp we are less than three miles from the important Thielt railroad. We have ap- preached Inglemunster. Hulst has been taken and we have gained ground along the Lys almost ev- anywhere from Menin eastward to Harlebeke. We are at the gates of Courtrai.
 Further west we have crossed the Lys river and are less than two and a half miles from Turcoing. The attack is progressing methodically.
 "The enemy is throwing bombs into cellars where inoffehsive in- habitants are awaiting deliver ance."
Arizona republican., 1918-10-17
HUNS DARE TURKS
 ID ABANDON. THEM
IRspubuesr A. p. Leased wirel

WASHINGTON. Oct. Ie.-Wuh the Berlin Cons %santincple railroad cut by tho allied occupation of Nish, Germany is relying upon its Black sea fleet to hold Turkey in line. Information has hccn received at the state department that the Turkish government has been told by Berlin that the fleet will open fire on the Ottoman capital at the first sign Of defcvtion.
 This German fleet consists largely of warships captured from the Russians, hnt is believed here to be strong enough Go control. for the present at least. the Turkish government It was rointcd out today that with the British forces rapidly clearing Palestine and Mcsonotamia of Turkish control. Tur- key must hold to Constantinople as it's only hope Of maintaining any power as d government.
 News from Copenhagen that Izzel pasha has been appointed premier and minister of war in the new Turkish cabinet was interpreted as meaning that Berlin still is not without friend at court. Because of his long service .ls chief or the Turkish army staff and his association with Germany service officers. Izzel is looked upon as friend ; iv Co Germany.
 Tho accuracy Of reports that the rnion and Progress club. the most powerful organization in Turkey. had aecn closed at the demand of the Turk ish army staff was doubted by off tials here. who said such action would hc tantamount Co a military revolution it the report is true they declared. any thing might happen in Constantinople