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The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1918-03-15

A Canadian order in council pro
vides for the free admission into
Canada of meat cattle until February
z, 1919, when imported by bona fde
residents Of Canada under regulations
by the minister Of customs. Cattle,
except for breeding purposes, are or
dinarily dutiable>at 80 Il per cent.
w. S.S.-
Enlistments in the Regular Army
since April /, 1917, have been more
than $4,000.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1918-03-15

At the last meeting of the Nation;

At the last meeting of the National
Education Association a program was
proposed to better rural schools and
asking Federal aid to the extent of
$140,000,000. The plan would be
carried out in 10 years, one-tenth of
the money being spent each year, the
Government to cooperate with States
and counties.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1918-03-15

Massachusetts and Michigan chap
tiers of the Daughters Of the Revolu-
ton are establishing "mending
rooms" in environments. These de-
partments are opened for hospitals,
where hundreds of garments are
mended each week.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1918-03-15
--W.S.S.

1t is reported from Germany that
wood is being lagely used in place of
celluloid, ivory, and other substances
for the manufacture of combs. Ex-
cellent toilet combs are made from
thinly cut birch and beechwood.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1918-03-15

Mr.. f. N. Robertshaw, County Di-
rector, Washington County, Green
vile, Miss, reports the following in
cident: "There is a laborer in this
city who, up to the opening of Amer
lea in the war, received the sum of
'$1.10 per day, or for full weeks
time $3.50 per week. After he re-
ceived his pay envelope very small
part of the money received by him
ever saw the light of day again.
During the first two Liberty Loan
Drives the Citizens Bank of Green
vile sold through his employer S4OO.-
90 of the Liberty Bonds to this party,
and our War-Savings drive have al
ready sold him $3.50 of maturity val
ne in stamps. How much more he
has in store we cannot yet estimate,
however he has responded to every
call and am interested in watching
future Developments
Wv. SIS
For JOB Printing see the Journal
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1918-03-15
TUPELO MILITARY INSTITUTE

The cadets, with few exceptions,
are now doing most excellent work
Discipline is strict and studies are
heavy. Many missed the 80 per cent
average by only small fraction. The
Honor Roll is small this month:
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1918-03-15

It viii be seen that the leaders of
their respective classes are: Mcclure,
Partlow, Craig, Miller and L. NJ.
Reeves, while Craig leads the whole
school.
Geo. W. Chapman, President.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1918-03-15

There is no safer or finer invest
ment in the world than War Savings
Certificates. Buy them now regular
ly while you can, for you cannot eX-
pect to have so good a bargain Of
fered always. There, Save, Lend and
Hasten Victory.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1918-03-15

The purpose of the War Savings
Committee is to create an army OF
savers who will, by saving, release
labor and materials for the use Of
the. Government in the war, and who
will lend their savings to the Gov
eminent to prosecute the war;
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1918-03-15
w G G .
w $685.

FOR SALE-Rhode Island Red
eggs for breeding, from prize winning
stock. $3.50 for Is. F. L. Kincan-
non, 1922 Church street.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
German Activity
Sure to Continue

Whether the Germans intend a
big spring offensive on the Western
front or not no one but themselves
can possibly tell yet. The strictly
military considerations of the stu
alton are against such an offensive !;
the political reasons are strongly in
its favor. But whether the Ger
mans do or do not make such an at
tack they will certainly continue to
give all the preliminary signs of
one, for such operations are neces-
sary as a prelude if they do mean
to attack and are useful as a bluff
if they do not. There is no sign
made public yet of any special point
of concentration for German troops
which must be made before an at
tack is launched.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Half the Army
Cannot Fight

To appreciate the large proper
tion of men who cannot actually be
used in the fighting is less urgent
for the writer and talker, but has
its Importance. One of the most
frequent (and. to those who know
their subject, most exasperating)
pieces of press criticism on the
army in a certain phase of this war
was the complaint that so many
men were drawing rations and vet
were not present in The fighting
zone. 1t took all sorts of forms:
complaints that the honor of fight
ing had been withheld, or that the
danger of it was being shirked, or
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Allies Rarely
Mention Units

Another difference, one of policy,
is that the Allies rarely mention
the names of units which have per-
formed some particular achieve
ment, contrasting somewhat
strongly with the German policy Of
naming them frequently, both for
the sake of emulation inside the
army and to cultivate enthusiasm
among the civilians at home. But
the supreme thing to remember is
that the degree of secrecy and the
manner of it are things that can be
judged by the military command
alone, and that to grow weary of it
or to grumble against it is to court
defeat. -.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Amateur Strategists
Usually Ignorant

The third rule, although the most
obvious, is the one most frequently
broken. Napoleon said wisely that
any fool could see strategical ad
vantage and draw up a strategical
plan, but that the test of talent was
to see what in practice was the best
plan and to carry it out on the spot.
Any one could see, for instance, in
this campaign that the Dardanelles
was one of the keypoints on the
map; any one could see in the Dar-
danelles operations that the neck of
the Gallipoli peninsula carried the
communications on which the prin-
cipal forts that defended the Dar-
danelles were absolutely dependent.
Why was not the neck occupied?
Because of hundreds Of practical
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Industrial Output
the Biggest Factor

The present great campaign has
turned the belligerents of nations
not only into two warning 4
Init, s Us II ssefe, INTO L .,sss
peting industrial firms, and by the
output of these industrial firms the
action in the fields is being more
and more decided. On this will de-
pend the victory in the air which
will perhaps be the decisive factor
in 1918-the subjugation of the
submarine depends upon it; and
the putting into use of the derelict
or wasted land-the prevention of
famine conditions in Europe de-
pends upon it.
Why has the Russian state gone
to pieces? Because the Russian
lines were broken in Galicia thirty
four months ago solely through the
immense preponderance of metal
upon the Austro-German side. For
the whole fighting season that fol-
lowed the Russian armies were
sacrificed in masses to the increas-
ing difference in munitionment.
The Germans and Austrians capt
ured droves of prisoners who did
not have even rifles, and the Rus
sian artillery could not deliver one
shell to the enemy's twenty. Even
the calibre of all its weapons above
field guns was not upon the average
half that of its opponents. The air
power, already hopelessly INSULT
cient, fell from less to less until Il
was insignificant.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Victory or Defeat
Depends on Workshop.

Victory or defeat in 1918 de-
pends now upon the workshops.
Every dispute should be forgotten
until the event has been decided
There will be time enough to settle
social questions after the decision
OF the war. That is hard saying
to men whose whole lives have been
given up to the settlement of social
theories and the modern economic
struggle, but it is true one. A
family does not continue it's quarrel
when the house is on fire.
To the man who asks YOU
whether social justice is not the
same in time of war as in time of
peace there is no answer. We must
admit that it is, but if the war is
lost the opportunities for obtaining
social justice will never be what
they were in the past. That again
IS a hard saying for the man who
sees vividly wrong conditions at
home. But for him, as for all
others, the result of the fighting
abroad will determine his own
economic future far more than will
the immediate local result of eco
nOn1ic ntlarroIc
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

that an administration which
needed so many men behind the
lines must be inefficient.
All that sort of talk comes from
sheer ignorance. The civilian
should make up his mind that, espe-
cially in the present war, he is deal
ing with lines of communications
and conditions of transport which
will at least divide in half his total
apparent effective force. Of a hun
dred men drawing rations for
which the nation pays it is lucky if
fifty are at any given time actually
using their arms. The proportion
OF nOn-combatant to actual COM
batant numbers is often much
larger than this.
Another thing the civilian will
do we'll to remember is that the
whole effort of the able, trained
and patriotic men who have con-
troll of the job and understand it is
to cut down the proportion of nom
combatant troops as low as ever
they can.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

1'ios1 Distinguished Military Critic
American forces holding first line
positions not only in the neighbor-
mood OF Toul, but also along the
Alsne, and in whatever other Sec
tors are held by your troops, is to
be expected from this time on. In
cldentally these raids also give an
opportunity for testing on larger
scale than hitherto the comparative
lighting value of the two kinds of
infantry engaged in the encoun-
ters.
The brief dispatch describing
this encounter near Toul gives in
dlcatlons strongly in favor of the
new American contingents which
have just come onto the field as
being superior to the veteran Ger
man troops with whom they were
engaged.
We further heard this week-on
day unnamed-of what was really
the first attack on American troops
other than raids. It was not ap-
parently on a very large scale. The
Germans, as all soldiers do, but
more than any others, depend upon
exact calculations. Now, the Amer
lean army is a big and growing and
unknown factor in these German
calculations, and you should be pre-
pared to find that fully half of the
German effort on the Western
front in the immediate future will
be concerned with finding out all it
can about this factor-its numbers.
its disposition, it's fighting quality,
its supplies of material and NUM-
tlons and stage of it's training.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Teutons Can Do AS
They Wish in Russia

Meanwhile in the East we must
clearly grasp two things. First,
that the Austro-Germans can do
what they like; second, that the
forces that they require there arc
quite small. The international gang
that has captured Petrograd has
destroyed the Russian army. It no
longer exists at all as an army.
When the invaders stop in their
police work (for it is only police
work that they are doing) will be
entirely their own affair, and the
stop will come Of their own free
will.
When they do stop we shall hear
plenty of nonsense from whatever
crowd may happen to be on top
i'm Northern Russia. We shall be
told that there has been "a counter
offensive" or that the Germans
have been checked. We need pay
no attention whatever to this talk
when it does come. The small but
disciplined forces which, as write,
are already in possession OF klev,
the capital of Southern Russia, and
of Pskofr and Nieusk, in the north
and centre, car 90 where they
choose and do what they like. They
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

TIME intelligence which COM
manding officer can obtain
L of the enemy's numbers and
# the disposition of his forces Tin
fornation which is essential for
the commanders success and
Witch it is the principal business of
tie enemy to conceaD is arrived at
m~Earious ways: through spies,
through the piecing together of i'm
rudently published news and
through observation, especially
from the air. But one of the most
important ways Though which
this information is obtained is by
raids such as both sides have un-
aertaken vigorously for the past
month on the Western front and
which are usually preliminary to
actions on a much greater scale.
These trench raids fulfil two
purposes: They discover the state
Of the enemy's defences and the
lighting trim of the men who are
holding them, and they generally
bring back prisoners. 1t is the in
terrogation of the prisoners which
furnishes the fullest information.
The questions asked may not seem
mportant-they are often dis
gHised and conceal their purpose.
I Ihe answers given are often mis-
hading or falsa, more often igno-
rant, and sometimes they have been
Dictated to the prisoners long be-
fore they were captured by the
prisoners former superior officers.
But the total result of interro-
eating very large numbers of pris-
oners from many sectors of the
line is considerable. All the an
sSers are carefully collected by a
central bureau, where they are in
deSed and digested, and most Of the
emciuslons reached by the intel
1gence department about the arri-
sa OF enemy units at their front,
a0cut their strength, equipment,
&C., depend on this sort of evi-
knce.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Fourth Rule
Is the Vital One

These first three rules are dull
because they are negative and their
effect is not immediate. But the
fourth rule is another matter. Let
me repeat it: ITO work and to help
others to work to appreciate the
vital determining character of the
industrial activity at home on mod
ern warfare of this style
If this rule is not acted upon YOU
may get disaster very promptly. Il
is the very core of civilians duty
during the struggle. If it is still
lmperfectly understood-and act
ually it is imperfectly under
stood on the enemy's side as upon
our own even after four years of
war-the reason is that it is novel.
In no past war has the industrial
activity of the civilian population
at home been the vital and over
whelming factor which it is TODAY.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Rules of Secrecy
Hard to Practise

The first rule we all know in
theory, but find it very difficult to
practise. Its observance requires
degree of civilian discipline which
looks easy in the first enthusiasm of
the campaign, but becomes more
and more difficult to maintain in the
long process of the war. People
want to hear which regiments are
engaged in this or that action;
newspapers want news-the more
vivid the better-and readers will
tell you that it is difficult to main
tain civilian support for the war un-
less such news is Forthcoming.
There are degrees in the secrecy
which must be maintained. 1t IS
perhaps more important in the be-
ginning of operations than after
they are we'll under way. The
various commanding forces of the
various armies have interpreted
the rule with varying emphasis and
severity But, roughly speaking,
the more perfect the secrecy is
maintained the better is the chance
of success. The enemy's intelli-
gence department, like ones own,
pieces together every scrap of in
formation, and the most apparently
insignificant detail may furnish a
most important clew.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

Germans began by detailed casual
ty lists, which were first falsihed
and then abandoned; the British
have continually maintained the
policy of full and accurate casualty
lists up to date. That is an ex-
ample of difference in degree
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
French Suppress All
Casualty Lists

AS an instance of the varying
rules, the French have gone so far
as to suppress all casualty lists; the
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Cermans Seeking
News of Americans

1t Is natural that the German
lspe OF mind should attach a great
saiue to such knowledge as they
ean obtain Of the American arri-
saS, their number and the posi-
.ons they are to occupy, because
aese are the new and Ito the Ger
nans) the unknown factor on
shlch the campaign of 1918 de-
Bends.
! nave been given the privilege
as week of visiting certain por-
nns Of the American army now in
sarce. The journey to see them
mpels me to be away from Lon
M at times in the week when this
s1lcle is usually written, and | am
"feed to postpone until next week
Wy commentary which | would
.'aSe upon actions affecting the
'iNdil troops which may take
''aee IN the interval.
me last news Of such actions at
s moment at which ! am writing
s''s Is that determined attack was
a'doe upon the trenches held by the
americans in what is called the
s"'or of Toul"-a bit Of ground
A''oW very veil, because | served
'e twenty-seven years ago as a
a'ser IN the field artillery of that
~ ifils attack, from the infor-
aaslon at hand, was apparently
n'aocted, as are most Of the re-
~a' Operations by both German
~ Allied troops upon the Western
a.h1' with the object Of obtaining
a'0'niation. The French call such
D1ations taking soundings."
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

will be halted only by their own
deliberate policy until Cor if) the
great battle in the West is decided.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
WHY GERMANS RAID L. S. TRENCHE
Four Rules Which
Must Govern All
Writing and ak
ing About the
G. mpaign

Copyright, 1918, The Tribune Association
reasons which your amateur map
strategist does not, perhaps can
not, know.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

A TO work and to help
r. others to work to appreci-
ate the vital determining char
acter Of the industrial activity at
home on modern warfare of this
style.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Rules Affecting
Civilians in War

During this lull in the fighting on
the Western front and because of
the inability which | am under to
deal with news which may arise
later in the week (as | shall still be
travelling), I should like to close
this article with some words on the
rules affecting civilians in this war.
Unfortunately, a long experience of
war conditions has at last brought
them home to me, though even here
in Europe they are not yet nearly
enough appreciated.
There have appeared in the
course Of the campaign four great
rules which not only every civilian
writer upon the war but also every
talker upon it should have stuck up
in large letters upon the walls of his
room and, as you Americans say,
pasted in his hat" These four
rules are:
I TO appreciate the neces-
- sity for secrecy all the
time and on all military opera
tions and plans.
q Not to grumblc at the
As small number Of effective
soldiers at the front, but to ap-
preciate the very large proper
tion of man power i'm uniform
which cannot take part in the
active operations.
. TO avoid amateur strate-
Oe gy as a plague; to ap-
preciate the impossibility of any
man not on the spot and not in
command giving any strategical
suggestion that is worth having.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
q 'mencans Have
se" On Germans

&C development Of vigorous
A'ah trench raids against the
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
American Boys Show Them
selves Better Than Their
Veteran Assailants-In-
formation the One
Thing Sought
By HlLAIRE BELLOC

Elements the Great War; and M;,
HNHE intelligence which American ho1a;aa
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-09
WILLIAM REPLIES mo-
TO ULTIMA TUM SENT
BY SOCIALIST PARTY
Refuses to Assume Terrible Responsibility of Hand
ing Germany to Entente and delivering Country
Up to Anarchy Maximilian Resigns.

AMSTERDAM Nov S-Empeor William of Germany has refused
abdcate wireless
despatch picked up here tonight
replied through
Minister the refused abdca voluntarily
ground that he could the the
be responsibility handing the Entente and deliver
ing the country to anarchy.
Prince Macmillan of Baden the Imperial German Chancellor has
according wireless despatch The wireless
that Prince Max rendered his resignation of the altered parliament
situation but that of it is still outstanding
BASEL Nov 8The abdication of Emperor William and the
the Prince Frederick William before
demanded umatum the
mee of the German Socialist o'clock yesterday afternoon to
Macmillan Baden Imperial Chancellor according the
Correspondence Socialists the official the Socialist party
Carma
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-09
ERZBERGER HAS.
TRAIL0F BRIBES
German Truce Envoy's Part in
PrOpagandism Is shown
by Becker.

Matthias Erzberger. leader OF the Ger
man armistice delegation, who has been
described by the German press and other
Teuton sources as the true representa-
tive OF the German people. was at one
time the Imperial German propaganda
paymaster. according to depositions
made public yesterday by Alfred l..
Becker, Deputy State Attorney-General
The dispositions which were obtained
by Mr. Becker In recent Investigations
into the spreading OF German propa-
ganda in this country allege that Err
berger. who is now the German Foreign
Secretary and head of the German War
Press Department, paid 5000. 900 marks
to Abas Hilmi Pasha, former Khedive
Of Egypt.
Prince Nour-eddin Bey F~rid OF the
Albanian house OF Vlora. who married
Mrs. Ralph Thomas OF this city about
a year ago. In a deposition prepared for
Mr.. Becker. said that when in SwitZer-
land in 1918 he met and had friendly
association With Abas Hilmi Pasha.
His deposition also alleged that in
Ma, 1915. Matthias Erzberger appea red
at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Luzerne.
Switzerland, and there paid to the for
mer Khedive 5000. 900 marks to be used
for German propaganda In France and
Italy. 1t was further alleged that in
November Of the same year Erzberger
demanded from the former Khedive an
accounting for the propaganda fund.
The former Khedive and the Kaiser
payr1aster had stormy interview. ac-
cording to Prince Nour- -eddin, who said
that the ex-Khedive made an account
ing. This accounting. said Hlmi Pasha,
as quoted by the Prince consisted OF a
statement that 100000 marks were
paid TO Bolo Pasha to carry on German
propaganda in France. 100000 marks
were paid to Filippo Cavalini for similar
work in Italy. and the balance OF 2.000,-
900 marks were retained as commits
sion for distributing the funds
The second deposition obtained by
Mr. Becker was that OF Salih Gorgji. a
Turkish journalist who was pro-ally and
went to Rome when Turkey entered the
war on, the German side.
Gorgji deposed that he knew Erz-
| berger when the latter visited Rome In
! 1914 and the early part OF 1915. and
| that the German imperial paymaster
| had carried with him a fund with which
to bribe Italian deputies,
! In commenting on the AFFAIR Mr..
| Becker said yesterday:
Germany Is claiming loudly her de-
| mocratiZa tlon, hut when an important
| mission Ia selected to represent her In
the armistice negotiations they put at Its
! head Dr. Matthias ErEberger. who be-
! longs to the same old gang that tried to
put over German propaganda in Italy
gnd France" :"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-09
GEN. WOOD URGES HIS
TROOPS TO CARRY ON
Training to Continue EUen If
Armistice Is Signed.

CAMP FUNSTON, Kansas. Nov. S.
Msjor-Gen. Leonard Wood to-day posted
the following appeal to men of the Tenth
Division:
Even II an armistice is signed IL
does not mean the end OF the war. II
simply means that the terms Of peace
will be discussed. They may or may
not be agreed upon. The work and
training OF the division will go on with
the same energy and spirit as heretofore.
There is nothing in the present sit
uation which justifies change OF pro-
cedure on our part. and as soldiers 1t Is
our duty to carry on without reference
to an armistice until We receive instruc-
tions to the contrary"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-09
MARINES SHOOT AT
BROTHER OF KAISER
Prince Henry, Head of Navy,
Flees From kiel.

CoPENHAoEN Nov. S,-Prnce Henry
OF Prussia, brother of Emperor william,
left Kiel on Wednesday in an automo-
bile flying red flag, the Schleswig
VoIksseitun1 states. He was pursued
by marines who fred dozen shots at
him. the newspaper adds,
The Prince has arrived al Flensburg.
in Schleswig. after his escape from Klel,
His chauffeur was wounded by the
marines.