The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-10-04

send transport OF one-half million men.
But il cannot ship them" Below
Uncle Sam are these words: 1t Is
impossible for America TO train and
III out il time for he European war a
suitable and sufficiently large army
and provide it with the necessary re
enforcementS.' The catchline OF this
section OF the poster is "RuSsia's army
OF millions could not down Germany
and on the skirt of the Russian sol
dier's overcOat are printed these
words: Russia used up altogether
fifteen million men in vain"
On the opposite side of the poster is
this catchline: "England's sea power
and England's merchant marine have
nor decided the war" Below this
line appear n huge figure intended TO
represent the English shipping facili-
Ties nj the outbreak OF the war. which
bears these words: England went
into the war with twenty million gross
registered tons Of freight space
Alongside this figure of 4 ship IS q
drawing designed 10 show Uncle sam
carrying the United States tonnage un-
der his left arm. The caption above
Uncle sam reads: can America re-
place England on sea?" On the ship
which Uncle Sam carries Is printed
this inscription: Three million gross
registry tons" and below thar il an
other inscription which says: Al the
beginning of the war America had on
~ u tonnage of three million gross reg
istcred tons" Commenting on these
statements, the poster further declares
America cannot increase her gross
registered tons for 1918 by more than
two To two n a half million toGs.
our U-boats sink twice as quickly as
England and America can build
The answer OF the publicity bureau
To the two sections of the poster refer
ring to the transportation OF men and
the building OF ships follows: the
~ the bulletin boards of Ger
many Scoffed the possibility of Amer
lea sending a force to France. there
were already more than u million fight
ing men overseas, and transports,
walled about by the American nav de
flying the cowardly submarines, We're
bearing every month hundreds Of
thousands more. The gauge is set and
the summer of 1919 Will see 100000
fighting American men in France. Nor
Will there be a lack of ships to trans
port and sustain them. The Liberty |
Bond buyer is fast giving TO America
a merchant marine that Will be the
peer of any in the world. America
launched in July alone 635.011 tons.
Losses TO allied and neutral shipping
combined, from every cause. for the
last six months, amounted so 2,0S9. 1893
tons.
THE distance from New York to
England, the Boche points OUT com
ments the bureau of publicity publ
cation. us two hundred times greater
than that from England 10 France.
from which he spells Opportunity for
the German U-boats.' Pitiful is this
boast in face Of the facts. Instead of
the U-boat being an unconquerable
engine of war, as the Hun confidently
expected, ii has become the sinking
foe of fishing smacks and other iso-
lated craft. The vast army Of Liberty
Bond buyers, thirty millions strong.
has built an unbroken bridge over the
Atlantic ocean into the heart of the
enemy's st|rongholds. Across this
bridge there are streaming our mil
ions of fighting men as good as the
world has ever known, munitions and
equipment that have been wrought by
those back home, whose determination
is that the American fighting man shall
lack nothing that ne needs
AS a back-handed slap at the French,
the German propagandists have repro
duced a French poster which pleads
with French people TO eat less in or
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over more man power. The French
poster pointed out that if every per
son in France would save a hundred
grams of food a day that the American
reinforcements could be increased a
division a month. The French catch
line on this poster was docs France
want wheat or men?" and the German
poster remarks "AIso the allies are
now beginning TO have their doubts!"
In a further effort to convince the
German people that It VIII be impos-
sible for the United States to trans
port troops to France. the German
section OF the poster says that ten
tons of freight space are required for
every soldier in crossing the water.
The truth is that a soldier requires
less than One-half this aInoun of
space.
Summing up all the f~a1sehoods which
the German poster contains, the book
let says: THE War Lord of Ger
many may have the futile hope that
his people will devour in the place Of
food. such statements rs the forego-
ing. F~alsehoods, however, are Dol
substitutes and are likely to aggra-
vate rather han appease when the de
luded people of Germany learn that
every requirement of the American
soldier viii be met by his patriotic and
unqualified support back home. IF a
single soldier required ten tons Of
freight space it would be given him
But the truth is he requires less than
one-half Of that.
As for G~ermany's statement that
even if the United States built from
two and a half million gross regis
tered tons in 1913. it would not mean
deliverance for the allies, no further
comment is needed than that by July
Of this year the 1000, 0O0-ton mark
10000 - - 80,