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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-16

gone and are undergoing make our
little inconvenience Of wheatless
meatless and fireless days seem tri-
fling and not worth worrying about
much less making fuss over them.
Americans have lived luXuriously
We have been the great MASTERS the
great spenders, the great lovers of
ease, We wanted the best. and we got
it at any cost We had before the war.
become victims of leisure and plenty,
and carelessness was the result. We
had looked upon life with its stern
realities not as seasoned actors but as
irresponsible amateurs, and now that
the stage with its ornaments has been
cleared for action we are beginning to
miss much of the fairness of life; the
wrappings and trimmings are begin
ming to be stripped off, for in the race
between democracy and autocracy we
must not be handicapped with unrec-
essary impediments
Now, for one believe that America
is going to stand the test. pelleNe
our people are ready, if need be. to
strip to the bone, and | resent tbs
pacificists who try and create the idea
that the American dollar is the goal
of our success, and safety First the
national motto. I know that American
, citizenship is put to the acid test END
II have confidence that II needed the
golden calf to which many were wont
to bow will be melted up and tbs
money used to make it easier for Tho
men who are willing to fight to pre-
serve Americanism.
| We are at war with Germany, and
/ the responsibility to overthrow tbs
damnable Hohenzollern dynasty rests
squarely upon the shoulders of each ant
every one of us We can't shift ths
! load on the President. his cabinet, Con
gress, the army. navy, Red Cross, Y
/ NJ. G. A. or other governmental or be
nevolent agencies. The call is to ma
tional service for every mothers sor
! and the only answer should be. wher'
can ! serve, best. and how soon can
[get at its
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-16

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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
YOUNG MEN CALLED
FOR ARMY SERVICE
NEW QUOTA FOR CAMP COR
DON AT END or MONTH 20 MEN

The local regigration board has
listed IS young men from which list
the twenty called for the end of the
present month will go to Camp Cor
den. There will be. some alter
mates and che list will be practical
" as it appears herewith:
Elmore P McLendon Jasper Ben
Clark Alex A Conner Albert HKen-
dial John Edge Alto Lee Espy Eras-
tus f. Segrest, Henry w. Musset
white, Robert Mcgahee, Ben C Will
liford, Wiley NJ Musselwhite, Rob
ert lie Poole, Grover Odom, Guvia
Crozier, James A. Davis, Joseph d,
Mitchell, Elijah Clarke, Beanan An
drews, Lonnie c. Cooley, James M.
Garden. Gradus T. Christian, ORE
@. Bray, Toney w Bundricks Steph-
ems Neal, Jr.,Newsome L. Gibson
luther w. Renfroe.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
CECIL Believes
WHOLE HEART IN
SAYS UNITED STATES IN WAR
WITH GREAT VlGOR

London, Aug, 16.-Lord Robert Cecil
under secretary of state, for foreign
affairs, speaking last night at a gov
eminent dinner celebrating the fourth
anniversary of the establishment of
the international commission on re-
vic'ualling, said he believed the com
mishion had formed the nucleus of a
league of nations.
He said he was satisfied that the
United States had thrown her whole
near. and soul in to the contest.
R. B. Stephens, of the United States
Shipping Board assured the diners that
enough shipping would be available
to win the war He paid high tri-
butte to Italy's splendid victory over the
Austrians.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
Eenmx Artillery Active

With the British Army in France,
Aug. 16.-Q0:00 a. m.)-Enemy artil-
lery was active last night from one
end of the British front to the other.
The activity was specially marked
along the new Somme battle front in
the Essarts sector and the region of
Labasse.
Where Their was heavy lombard
ment there was no development of
the enemy infantry activity anywhere,
however All along the Somme front
the British are continuing various
slight forward movements to gain ad-
vantages in position.
The situation north of the Ancre
has not yet been clarified. the enemy's
intentions being obscure. There are
no further reports of wide spread with
drawals in this region.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
RESISTANCE IS
NOW BEING
CRUSHED
LEAD WAR
FRENCH ARE SLOWLY ENCiRCL-
ING ROVE

Allied pressure has been effective
~ renewed in the region OF Roye on
the Picardy front. The enemy is cling
ing determinedly to this town as
bulwark of the positions he took up
after being driven back from the
Amiens region.
Both he French and the British
are pushing closer, making his pro-
longed tenacity of the place doubtful.
Roye is fast becoming the virtual
apex of the salient which is soon to
invite the crushing Allied stroke, If
the Franco British pressure can be
as effectively maintained as it has
been recently.
Berlin announces officially that Ger
man troops are withdrawn from the
small salients. The enemy still holds
Albert but the British are in the west
ern outskirts. All other sectors of
the western front appear to be effect
ed by the fighting lull.
German artillery fire and aerial ac-
tivity have decreased along the Vesle
where the French and Americans still
maintain their pressure.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
GERM NY NEEDS
MANY NJ ORE
SOLDIERS
RENUOUS EFFORTS BEING
MADE TO MEET NEW AMERI- 4
CAN FORCES u

With the British Army in France,
Thursday -Germany has acknowled.
ged that her man power once SO free
ly wasted, now is dwindling in porpor-
tons great enough apparently to cause
considerable anxiety to the higher
command. r,
The Toll taken in the recent fighting
and the prospect of being confronted
by ever increasing American forces
has caused Ludendorff to issue most
imperative orders to recover from the
auxiliary units all the men capable Of
entering the trenches First eo1sid-
Grafton will be given to men over 43
who have served six months in the
trenches u
The generals are instructed to make
a greater demand on the local person
lel instead of using the Germans In
auxiliary services as retnforcements.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
JUDGE GRIFFIN
Also in CONTEST
FITZGERALD MAN HAS ASKED
VOTERS TO ELECT HIM AS So
LICITOR GENERAL 80. -.

Judge D. E. Griffin OF Fitzgerald
has made his announcement as can
didate for solicitor general Of the SUI
perior courts of the Cordele Circuit.
The entrance into the race was made
last night at the close of the time for
getting into the race.
Today his friends are at work and
they will give their time to making
the campaign as active for him as
possible. Judge Griffin was judge
of the city court of Fitzgerald when
Il was established and was reelec-
ted and served till the court was abol
ished. He was made referee in the
bankruptcy court to succeed Judge
Hal Lamdin and served in this ca
pacity till Judge U. V. Whipple of
Cordele became the regular appointee
Judge Griffin is a brother of Col.
]. A. Griffin of Cordele, owner of
fremont Farm, and has many friends
over the circuit who will be inter
eeted in his success,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
CHECKS NOT HAPPY
OVER SITUATION
aOLSHEViki MOBILIZE AuSTRoI
GERMAN PRISONERS

Vladivostok, Aug 1.-THE situation
in western Siberia leaves no room for
optimism, in the opinion of the Vice
President OF the Russian section of
the Czecho- Sloyak national council
In a statement recently he said the
Bclshevik mobilization OF Austro-Ger-
man prisoners had added hundred
and sixty thousand men to the enemy
forces He said it would be impos-
sible to reach Irkutak, even under the
mcat' favorable circumstances in less
han a month.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
COSSACKS MARCH
AGAINST zARACIN
CLEAR DON RIVER OF ENEMY AND
MOVE FORWARD

Amsterdam, Aug. 16.-Don Cossacks
nave cleared the left bank of the Don
of their opponents and are marching
VIGOROUSLY on Zaragin from which
hey only are days march, says and
official statement received from KieV.
Newspapers of Kiev report that the
Cossacks from the northern Don re-
gion and goernments and leaders in
the adjoining regions have entered ne
gotiatiOns looking to the establish
ment of a joint central government.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
WHIPPLE is GONE
TO SPEAK AT ELBERTON

Judge u v Whipple of this city left
al noon today to speak tomorrow at
Elberton in the interest of William ].
Harris for the United States Senate.
Judge Whipple has made number of
speeches and this will be one of he
mos important. No doubt large crowds
of the people of Elbert will hear him.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
CALLAWAY COMES
HERE TO SPEAK
BIG CROWD EXPECTED AT COURT
HOUSE TOMORROW AT II
O'CLOCK

Judge E. H. Galloway of Augusta,
comes here tonight from Camilla
where he has been making an address
in the interest of w. j. Harris for the
United States Senate. He will deliver
strone address here tomorrow at
tile court house at II o'clock in the
interest of Mr. Harris,
Those who would hear sensible
presentation of the issues are urged
to attend and hear this address. Judge
Galloway is a strong speaker and the
time will be we'll spent by those who
go to hear him.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
British Advance Line

London, Aug. 16.-South of Albert
the British the British have advanced
thir line slightly in the region of
Morlancourt, it is officially announced.
Local fighting occurred last night on
the east bank of the Ancre on the out
skirts of ThiepvaI wood. -. -. 49,.
Further north the British pushed
patrols eastward ma three-mile front
between Beaumont-Sur-Ancre and Puts
ieux-Eu-Mont
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
French Mack CAMS

Paris, Aug. 16.-The French have
made an important advance on front
of two and half miles west of Roye,
the war office announces.
Progress was made also in the re-
gion of Villers-Les-Roye about two
and half miles west of Roye, Staurin,
and Armancourt.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
ALBERT METIN IS
DEADO AP'OPLEXY
HEAD FRENCH MISSION I'M THIS
COUNTRY FOUND uNCON-
SCIOUS

Pacific Port, Aug. 16.-Albert Metin,
head of the French Economic Commits
sion now in the United States and for
mer minister of labor in France and
m2nister of the blockade, died here at
midnight from stroke of apoplexy.
He was found lying unconscious on
the floor of his apartment shortly at
ter his arrival here. He died without
'regaining consciousness.
Metin was accompanied by General
Paul Gerald sPau,noted French mill
tary leader who is joint head and 9th
er members of the mission.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
KILRY WINS IN RACE RI
GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA

Birmingham, Aug. 16.-Based upon
complete official returns from sixty.
three counties, and estimated plurali
ties in four counties, the News an.
uounced today the nomination of Thos.
n. Kilby for governor by a majority Of
$500 ''' - =
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
Roye in French Grip

Paris, Aug. 16.-Q:00 p. m.)-Roye
is held in a wise like grip by the
French. Stubborn resistance by the
Germans is being crushed. The
French are slowly encircling the
town.
The Germans are clinging despera-
tely to the range of hills east of Ri
becourt also. stubbornly defending Las
singny and the Disc canal, the loss of
which would entail the evacuation Of
Noyon.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
HUNSTOABANDON
OFFENSIVE IN
WEST
WITHDRAWALS INDICATE PLANS
TO MAKE STAND

London, Aug. 16.-Withdrawals on
the western front by the Germans in
the past few days is believed here to
indicate that the enemy intends to
abandon the offensive.
Military observers say here is every
' indicate that the Germans intend to
stand on the present line. There is a
possibility, however, that they may
fail back to the Divette, small tribu
tary of the Disc which joins it south
of Noyon
The French now hold all the high
ground in that region.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
COLUMBUS WANTS
TROOPS WITHDRAWN
MWEETING TONIGHT OF CITIZENS
TO MAKE PROTEST

Columbus, Ga, Aug. ia mass
meeting of citizens will be held tonight
at the call of Mayor Farmer to consid-
err the strike situation. 1t is stated
that the withdrawal of the troops will
be demanded.
No disorders are reported today.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
Enemy Withdrawals

London, (Thursday)-Further slight
enemy Withdrawals from the Lys sa-
lient were announced in London today,
The enemy evacuated the village of
Vleur-Berquin, south of Merris and
has retired from one two two miles
on a front of nine miles.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
US. AVIATORS Are
BOMBING. ENEMY
BOMBED RAILROAD YARDS IN
VERDUN SECTOR TODAY

With the American Army in France,
Aug. l6.-Amerfcan aviators success
fully bombarded the railroad yards at
Dommery- Baroncourt, inthe Verdun-
Metz area this morning.
Longuyon, north of Verdun, and
Thiaucourt were attacked Wednesday,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
GERMAN LOSSES
SIX MILLION
MEN
TOTAL LOSSES SINCE BEGINNING
OF WAR

Paris, Aug. 16.-The total German
losses since the beginning of the war
to the end of July this year are under
stood to be six millions, according to
he morning newspapers.
The figures include million four
hundred thousand killed to the be-
ginning of the German offensive last
March.
From March II to June II the Ger
mans are said to have lost one hund-
red and twenty thousand killed alone,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
FLORIDA NEGRO HANGED
FOR DOUBLE MURDER

Arcadia, Fla, Aug. 16.-Dave miller,
a negro was hanged today for the
double murder of Deputy Sheriff wig
gins and Hiram Smith in 1916. This
was the first legal hanging in this coun-
ty in twenty years.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
American Sectors Quiet

Washington, Aug. 16.-Gen. Pershings
communique for yesterday said that
there was nothing of importance to re-
port from the sectors occupied by our
troops.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
BRAZILIAN SHIP IS
SUNK OFF COAST

New York, Aug. 1.-THE Brazilian
motor ship, Madrugada, 1000 tons has
been summarized off the American
coast. SRI
The crew was picked UP and will be
landed at an Atlantic port, insurance
circles learned today.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16

Prof A. F. Ware is back from In
dian Springs where he has been spend
ne sometime He attended the Camp
Meetings and heard Rev Joseph FEs
ninth the Abe Lincoln of the Method.
iEt pulpit. ~
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
FIRE DSTROYS LARGE
STOUGHTON WOODEN MILLS

Stoughton, Mass, Aug. 16.-Fire to-
day destroyed three mills of the
French Ward Wooden company engag,
ed in goernment work.
The loss is estimated at 100000.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16
ARMY CASUALTIES ARE -.
REPORTED VERY LIGHT

Washington, Aug. 16.-The first sec
ton of the army casualties shows AZ.
Killed in action 18; wounded severe
~ rs. :,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-16

An ounce of gold could be drawn
into a finewire fifty miles long.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-28
Mining and Financial NetUS
BY REVIEW LEASED WIRE.

NEW YORK. April 27.-Further German aggressions on the western front resulted in a heavy and dull stock market today. Dividend paying rails and industrials registered eX- treme reversals of 1 to points at the outset of the session, but in sev- eral noteworthy instances half way rallies and eevn more substantial re- coveries set in before the close.
 United States Steel was case in point making a gross decline of 1A points, but regaining all but a small fraction. Shorts extended their com mittments at the opening but in the main covered before the finish.
 Reversals of l to points in such rails as Reading, Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific were largely re- trieved, and similar reactions in equip ments. Similar reactions in equip ments and higher priced specialties, including industrial alcohol, were wholly regained. Sales amounted to 145,000 shares.
 Bonds were irregular, trading be- ing largely confined to Liberty issues, which were slightly variable. Total sales, par value. aggregated S4,725.O00
 United States bonds, old issues, were unchanged on call during the week.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-28
TEUTONS WORSTED IN GAS ARGUMENT

LONDON. April 27.-The German government is back of the move to in duce all the belligerent nations to agree to stop the use of poison gas, declares the National War Aims com mittee. Having let loose this pest of modern warfare, they wish, when they see it about to devour them, to cry peace" adds the committee. This eX- plantation is given for the movement set on foot by the International Red Cross Society of Geneva to abandon the use of gas in fighting. It is as- serted that the influence of neutral powers is being enlisted to bring about this end. German pacifists in Swift zerIand are strongly supporting the movement to save the Germans from receiving payment in their own coin.
 When the Germans introduced this new and deadly means of warfare, % says the National War Aims Commit. tee, they put into the hands of their enemies a weapon which could be used against themselves with terrible effect. The use of poison gas in clouds is en tirely dependent on the direction of the wind. A study of the meteorological records of Northeastern France for a period of ten years previous to. 1915 would have shown them that for every day on which the wind blows from the east or northeast, the directions neces- sary to allow the Germans to use gas, there are at least six days on which it blows from the west or southwest, the quarter favorable to the Allies.
 '1n not more than two months in the whole year are the prevailing winds favorable to the enemy and their pre- ponderance even in those months is not so great as the preponderance of westerly winds in some of the remain ing months. The Allies were, of course, not slow to avail themselves of this natural advantage with results that must by now made made the German higher command bitterly rue the day tha tthey committed what was not only a crime, bu ta blunder.
 "The development of gas warfare became a conflict between the scien- tific brains and manufacturing capac- ities of the two sets of combatants. Time and superior industrial resources
 have assisted the British and the French in catching up on the original handicap and the participation of the United States in the war is about to throw the balance overwhelmingly on the Allies side. At the present mo- ment the respirator worn by the German trccps is markedly inferior in protective power to those with which the British, French and Am erican armies are equipped. Gases which penetrate the German respira- tor but not those of ths Allies, have already been employed by the Allies with marked effect.
 "On the other hand the respirators of our troops give a complete pro- tection to the lungs and eyes against all gases hitherto used by the enemy and unremitting investigation and foresight are at work preparing for the adoption of new forms of protec- tion to-meet any further developments that may arise.
 Tt is at this stage that the German government is exploiting a movement for the abandonment on humanitarian grounds of gas warfare"
Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-28
J. s. ADOPTS FRENCH
 PLAN 0F PROMOTION

FRENCH FRONT, March 21. Cor respondence of The Associated Press) American army officers have adopt ted the French army methods of SC heciing. training and promoting of ficers for artillery service. In recent operations, it is asserted this plan has produced efficient artillery commando CTS.
 Immence increases in the artillery units of the French army made nee essary the provision of new sources whence officers of that scientific arm might be recruited.
 In peace times two-thirds of the gun her commissions were distributed among the pupils of the great Poly technic School, the other third being left open to non-commissioned ana warrant officers rising from the ranks and passing through a special course of study. When it was found that more officers would be needed to fill up gaps in the various units, the com mander-in-chief was authorized to pro- moter officers of any rank to higher grades by selection and without re gard to length of service. He was authorized also to confer temporary commissions on capable non-cOmmis. stoned officers. These were not com pelled to submit to any formal paper examination, but were sent 10 centers where they could, compete their prac- tical knowledge.
 The results of this system of selec- ton of aspirant officers from the low CT ranks are declared to have been excellent. Since it was introducer the commander-in-chief has promoted 5000 non-Commissioned officers to temporary commissions. 2,000 of them in the active army Besides these 5000 pupils Of various high
 schools who were already serving have been taken from the ranks and given temporary commissions after passing examinations at centers Of in struction in the interior Numbers of other high school pupils and stu dents of scientific schools also have been put through a special course Of instruction on reaching military age and thousands of them have gained commissions in that way. Altogether the total second lieutenauts' commis- sions granted in the artillery alone amounts To nearly 10000 since the be- ginning Of the war.
 American officers when they arrived in France found the system so good that they at once established similar method for providing officers for the American artillery.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-28
STUDENT OFFICERS 60 0N WAITING LIST FOR
 EARNED COMMISSIONS

WASHINGTON, April 27-Ten thou sand or more student officers who today have completed their course of training at national army cantonments and national guard camps. will not be graduated and given commissions, but will be placed on an eligibility list, from which in order of their ratings, they will be commissioned and called to service as the army needs them.
 The men are exclusively non-com- missioned officers and privates of the national army, national guard and reg ular army or students from colleges having military courses in the cirric- ulum.
 Until called to duty as officers these men will wear white brassards on their arms as an insignia of their status. They will be called to the service in small groups Consequent ly it is impossible tO present today any list of graduates" as was done when the two previous series Of camps closed.
 Any man who has remained in the camps until today is assured of a place on the eligible list.
 Late reports 10 the War Department bear out the estimate that sixty per cent of the men admitted will com plete the course.
 Elimination Of unfit students has been proceeding practically since the opening of the camps Physical eX- aminaticus Of those who passed all ether tests began on April g.
 In each division school. students drawn from the division organizations will be placed in an eligible list for infantry, or eligible list for field ar tillery.' according to war depart meut memorandum. Students from other sources will be placed on sep aTate lists for the same arms. lt is Inc purpose of the War Department tc return the new officers. SO far as is practicable 10 the units from which they were taken.