Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-10-05

On the opposite noe or tie poster ia
this ,atchllne: 'Eng.and's sea no,ca-
and England's merchant marine have
not decided the war =" Below This
line appears a huge figure intended 10
represent the English shipping facff-
ties at 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 a ship is
drawing designed TO show Uncle Sam
carrying the United States tonnage IN
der his left arm. The caption above
Uncle Sam reads: Can America re-
place England on scar On the shin
which Uncle Sam carries Is printed
this inscription: Three million gross
registry tons" and below that is an
other inscription which says: AT the
beginning Of the war America had on
" a tonnage OF three million gross reg
istered tons" Commenting on these
statements. the poster further declares
America cannot increase her gross
| registered tons for 1918 by more than
| two to two and a half million tons.
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: AT the
moment the bulletin boards Of Ger
many ScOffed the possibility Of Amer
( lea sending a force to France. there
were already more than a million fight
| ing men overseas, and transports.
| walled about by the American navy de-
| flying the cowardly submarines. were
/ 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 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
1 peer of any in the world. America
launched in July alone 63501l tons.
Losses TO allied and neutral shipping
/ combined, from every cause, for the
last six months, amounted TO 2,0S9. 1893
| tons.
The distance from New York to
England, the Boche points OUT" com
ments the bureau OF publicity publ
! cation. "is two hundred times greater
than that from England to France.
from which he spells Opportunity for
| the German U-boats PiJfuI is this
/ boast in face Of the facts. Instead of
| the U-boat being an unconquerab.e
engine of war, as the Hun confidently
! expected. il has become the sinking
! foe Of fishing smacks and other Lso-
| 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
! enemys strongholdS. Across this
| bridge there are streaming our mil
lions of fighting rlen, as good as the
world has ever known, munitions ami
| equipment that have been wrought by
J those back home. whose determination
| is that the American fighting man shall
lack nothing that he needs"
AS back-handed slap at the French
| the uldD plOHdA d&it44oAc ia x ~ -
| duced q French poster which pleads
with French people TO eat less in or
| der that the United States may send
over more man power. The French
poster pointed out that if every per
son in France would save q hundred
grams of food a day that the American
reinforcements could be increased a
! division a month. The French eaten
! line on this poster WIS Does France
want wheat or menu and the German
poster remarks ALSO the allies are
now beginning to have theF doubts
In a further effort to convince the
German people that 1t will be impo>-
| sible for the United States to trans
| port troops 10 France, the German
section of the poster says that Ten
tons Of freight space are required Ter
every soldier In crossing the water
| The truth is that a soldier requires
less than one-half this amount Of
space.
Summing up all the falsehoodS which
the German poster contains, the oooA'
| let saws: 1.-The War Lord OF ter
many may have the futile nope INA.
| his people will devour IN the place OF
food, such statements as the foreS'-
ing. Falsehoods, however, are poor
| substitutes and are likely TO aeera-
vate rather than appease when the de-
lrded people Of Germany learn tn31
| every requirement of the AmeFis@-
soldier will be met by his patriotic anu
unqualified support back home II q
single soldier required ten tons OF
freight space, it would be given hlln
But the truth is he requires less thaH
| one-half of that
"As for Germany's statement that
even If the United States built ifo''
| two and a half million gross reg
tered tons in 1919, it would not mean
deliverance for the allies no fuTlaeI
comment is needed than that by JA.t
Of this year the 2,0O0,ooo-ton marx
has been passed. If further rev.
tation of the Hun boast q M