Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-10-02


 line appears a huge figure intended to represent the English shipping faclli- ties at the outbreak of the war, which bears these words: England wen into the war with twenty million gros registered tons of freight space.
 Alongside this figure of ship IS q drawing designed to show Uncle sam carrying the United States tonnage un der his left arm. The caption above Uncle Sam reads: Gan America re. place England on sea?" On the ship 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 ly 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 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 tht moment the bulletin boards of Ger many scOffed the possibility of Amer ica sending d force to France, there were already more than 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 anu 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 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 to 2,0S9,393 tons.
 "The distance from New York to England, the Roche points out" com ments the bureau of publicity publi- cation, lis two hundred times greater than that from England to 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, it 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 enemys strongholds. Across this bridge there are streaming our mil lions 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 he needs"
 As 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 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 hundred grams of food day that the American achievements could be increased a division a month The French catch line on this poster was 'Does France want wheat or men?' and the German poster remarks Also the allies are now beginning to have their doubts!"
 In further effort to convince the German people that 1t will 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 soldier requires less than one-half this amount of space.
 Summing up all the falsehoods which the German poster contains, the book let says: '"rhe War Lord of Ger many may have the futile hope that his people will devour in the place of food, such statements as the forego- ing. Falsehoods, however, are poor substitutes and are likely to agra vate rather than appease when the de- luded people of Germany learn that every requirement of the American soldier will be met by his patriotic and unqualified support back home. If 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 Germany's statement that even if the United States built from