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FRENCH TROOPS NOW
HOLD SAINT QUENTIN
fc»08T FEROCIOUS FIGHTING OF
WAR IN PROGRESS ALONG
FRONT IN PICARDY,
ALLENBY NEAR DAMASCUS
French Cavalry Approaching Beirut
Nothing Heard From Hun Troops
Heportrd in Bulgaria.
Paris French troops have cap-
tured St. Quentin and proceeded to
the canal in the eautern edge of the
City. Si. Quentin war an outpost on
the Hindenburg line, which runs be-
hind the canal. Thecr are no de
la]).- as to prisoners captured, but it
is probabh that the number wias not
very great possibly a lew hundred
left behind lo protect the flight of
the greutei part. The allied armies
are now across the main pai t of the
Hindenburg line In Picardy on a
Iront oi 4n miles and over the battle
line as it stood at the beginning ol'
the year on a front of about f>u milas.
having conquered the strongest posi-
tions the Germans knew how to
build.
Immediately north of St. Quentin
the British advanced on a front of
some eight miles to a maximum
depth of two miles through a net-
work of detensive positions in which
the enemy used machine guns liber-
ally. Farther north and around the
bend in the t'aiubrai region there
was severe lighting Correspondents
at the front say that (lie lighting all
along between St Quentin and the
< Ainbrai region is more ferocious
than has been seen in any other
battle during the war. The German
commanders are using up their scan-
t> reserve supply ut a prodigious
■He and some war critics calculate
thut they can not keep it up much
longer.
In Flanders the Belgians and Brit-
ish have advanced in the country be-
tween Uoulrrs and Menln. capturing
a couple of towns east of the Roul
ers .uenin road, and driving the south
eide of their wedge up against the
Ly> river, which murks the Belgian
border in that region.
In the country between Kheiuu
and Verdun, where the French and
Americans are attacking, the situa
1ion (,il1 no* show much change. The
Americans have gained some ground
indicating that the German resist’
ance is gradually being overcome.
The French continue hammering
away at the German lino between
Jhc Aisne and the Chemln -des Dames.
1 erritory here is valuable and pro-
•portlonately hard to get, but the map
allows that Iho French will soon be
in shape to make a direct drive to
ward Laon 1-aon is regarded as the
most Important railroad center near
the battle line south of Cambrai and
,tto capture would greatly hamper the
German transport system, south of
dhe Aisne, between the Aisne and
the Vosle, they have advanced their
line from two to three miles to the
northeast along the whole front be
•tween the two rivers.
General A lien by Is reported within
jf couple of miles of the famous
(town of Damascus, one of the early
capitals of the Mohammedan world,
about 1U5 miles northeast of Jerusa
lem. French cavalry are reported
(Approaching Beirut, 60 miles north
Nvest of Damascus, on the coast.
I he situation in Sofiu, Bulgaria, is
.rot clear. Nothing has been heard
(from the German troops dispatched
l" Bulgaria since a press dispatch
coming through German territory re
Twirled Mackensen in Sofia two or
three days ago Under the armistice
Maekensen and whatever Germans
ere under his command will have to
.get out or come to open friction with
(the Bulgarians.
LIEUT. COM. CARPENDOR
Lieutenant Commander Carpendor
of the United States navy, who re*
ceived the distinguished service order
from King George.
HINDENBURG LINE
IS BEING SMASHED
allies make large gains in
FLANDERS-FRENCH ARE AD
VANCING EASTWARD.
Peace Demonstration In Berlin.
London A peace demonstration
took place in Berlin Saturday, ac-
cording to news jtwt received here,
ihe cheering crowds assembled in
Front of the Bulgarian legation at
«hc German capital, necessitating po-
lice intervention. The Hotors. «e
fording to the information, got the
nipper hand of the authorities and
♦committed excesses A large number
M'f statutes in the Berlin square,
*w®re destroyed
Senate Defeat. Suffrage Re.olution.
Washington.—The senate has re
(fused to grant the request of the
president that the woman suffrage
^resolution be passed as a war mea
^«ure. After five days of bitter de-
viates. corridor conferences and cloak
♦room negotiations, the Susan B An
khonv federal amendment resolution,
^enacted by the house last Januan
(received on the final roll call two
notes less than the necessary two
Fhirds majority. Fifty-four voted aye,
ISO no. with 12 absent and paired
JRuss Resistance to Huns Growing.
Washington.—The Germans are
greeting with increasing opposition
in their efforts to establish control
Russia. Swedish press report-
Received at ,he stato deparime-
ffrom Stockholm say that in a roeem
•battle with the Ukrainians the Get
flnans lost l.'oo men. German force,
■which have been centralized at l'sk"'
tdnee Ihe German ambassador wa-
forced to flee from Moscow, have
round their position untenable and
|ure leaving the city.
18 Sailors Drown at Key West-
■Washington. — Eighteen enlisted
♦men from the cruiser Salem are mie
!*in* as tl)c result of the capsizin
fof the boat in which they were i
Turning from shore leave Sundry.’
.nigh; it, Key \x est Fla The name's
lof the men have been made pubu
■by the navy department. The ii,t
•iMvtuMun i itt*ifi Avery havener, ( *r
dell. Ok la.; Albert Sidney Morrir
.Gainesville, Texas; George Washing
ton 8 win burn, Teague. Texas Six ro
t9»vwfid Fer^uried In Key West.
Faria—British and American troops
haw reduced to wreckage that part
of the famous Hindenburg line be-
tween the Cambrai region and Ht.
Quentin and the Germans are fight-
ing desperately to hold secondary po
Hitions In the rear. The French who
got across Die west end of the Che
min des Dames Saturday are report-
ed to have captured some 12 or 15
mlk-H or it. The Belgians on the
north and the British adjoining them
on the south have gained Important
ground in Flanders, the Belgians be-
ing credited with the capture of Rou
‘■rs, an important point The Amei
leans m northwest of Verdun have
lesisted heavy German counter at
lacks and maintained positions cap
tilled Saturday and Sunday. The
British are fighting the Germans in
the streets of Cambrai. with the pros
pect of finally capturing the city in
a day or two French troops are re-
ported in Uskub, Serbia Such in
brief are the high points culled from
the mass of war news or Monday.
I kings are happening so fa.st in
France now that it is difficult to
trace the positions of armies
Measured in territory the greatest
Fains Monday were in Flanders,
whoie the Belgians and British cut
deeply into territory that has been
held by the Germans since 1‘tlc
Probably tho most important fight-
,K °r ,h‘' <1:*y as measured by what
it means for the future was in the
country between St. Quentin and
t anibrai, whore the gains wt)ro
smaller hut more difficult to make
Here after several weeks of fighting
Ihe British are well to the east of
Die greatest military defense system
of modern times, the Hindenburg line.
he German army is forced into or
diiiaiy trenches which they can not
hope to hold after losing better ones
Between the Aisne and the Vosle
rivers General Mangin made pro
Kress eastward on a front of seven
miles, keeping up with the force op
(Mating between the Aisne and the
hemln des Dames. This advance
toward the east promises to free
Dieims in a few days from the Ger-
man shells that have been poured in-
to Die ruins of the city for weeks
Apparently no progress of import-
ant* was made on the American
front between Rhelms and Verdun
(Champagne). Heavy German coun-
terattacks are reported by General
1 e,rsh,n*’ «>» of Which have been re
pulsed. The French west of the Ar
goiine forest, and to the left of the
Americans, drove their lines north
ward to a maximum depth of five
miles on a front of ten miles, cap
firing Ante. Marie a l\v. Marvaux
ami Monthois.
BULGARIA ACCEPTS
ALLIES’ PEACE TERMS
ALLIES ARE PERMITTED FREE
PASSAGE THROUGH BULGARIA
FOR THEIR ARMIES.
London—Speaking at the Guild
hull Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor
of the exchequer, said a Bulgarian
convention had been signed by
which hostilities ended Monday at
noon.
Bulgaria by the terms fixed gives
up completely the control of the rad-
ii ays.
Control of the Bulgarian railways,
tiie chancellor poll ted out, gives con
trol of Bulgaria.
l his convention means,'’ said the
chancellor, “that communication be-
tween Germany and the east in that
direction has been cut off and that
the German dream of a German Mid
tile Eastern Empire has gone for-
ever."
1 he armistice concluded with Bui
garla by the entente allies Is a pure
ly military convention and contains
no provisions of a political charact-
er.
Bulgaria agrees to evacuate all
the territory she now occupies in
Greece and Serbia to demobilize her
army Immediately and surrender all
means of transport to the allies
Bulgaria also will surrender her
boats and control of navigation on
the Danube and concede to the allies
free passage thivugh Bulgaria for
the deveolpment of military opera-
tions.
All Bulgarian arms and ammuni-
tion are to be stored under the con
trol of the allies, to whom is con-
ceded the right to occupy all import-
ant strategic points.
I he military occupation of Bul-
garia will be Intrusted to British,
h rench and Italian forces and the
evacuated portions of Greece and
Serbia, respectively, to Greek and
Serbian troops.
I he armistice means a complete
military surrender and Bulgaria
ceases to be a belligerent.
The allies made no stipulation con-
cerning King Ferdinaitf. his position
being considered an internal matter.
The armistice will remain in oper
ation until a linal general peace is
concluded.
Free passage for troops through
Bulgarian territory means that mili-
tary aid could be sent to Roumania
in case that counlry should rusunie
hostilities.
MRS- ALFRED WATT
I Texas News j
I he cavalry officers’ training school
at Baa Leon is to be enlarged.
Recent rains In some dry sections
•*■ i exas have started the grass on the
ranges.
h^r*. Alfred Watt, chief outside or-
ganizer of women'* in*titutee, food
production department of England.
THE GERMAN LINE IS
YIELDING EVERYWHERE
A large portion of Lamp anas euuuty
Is now under oil lease, and some wells
are being sunk,
— o-
A new oil well at Hull in South
Texas has extended the field and also
developed strata at a new depth.
A well producing 1,000,000 feet of
gas has been struck on Grape Creek
near Ballinger. The well is 2,000 ieet
deep.
Nueces county shows a total gin-
ning to date of 25,800 bales, compared
with a total of 7,000 bales at a simi-
lar period one year ago.
I here were 18,443 bales of cotton
ginned in Gonzales county from the
crop ot 1018 prior to September 1, as
compared with 7,406 bales ginned to
September 1, 1017.
The plan to concentrate castor
beans planted in the immediate sec-
tion of Cuero has been abandoned and
the beans from all over South Texas
will be concentrated at San Antonio.
The state printing board has just
awarded contracts for state printing,
the prices averaging about 25 per cent
above those contained in last year’s
contract. All were awarded to Austir
firms.
ALLIED BLOWS FROM VERDUN
TO NORTH SEA MAY FORCE
HUNS TO BELGIAN BORDER
Draft Order Numbers Drawn.
Washington The drawing of order
numbers for the 13,000,000 draft reg
1st rants enrolled September 12 was
started Monday by President Wilson.
Blindfolded, the president groped in-
fo the great glass lottery bowl and
drew out one of 17.000 capsules. It
contained a slip numbered 322. thus
giving to men holding that serial
number first place in their respective
Classes after registrants already clas
mfied under pervious registrations
I he number was low- enough to touch
the list of nearly every draft board
In the country.
New Pay Rates Effective Tuesday.
The new pay rates for railroad
employes became effective Tuesday.
This advance is supplemental to oth-
er raises in pay received a few
months back, it is announced by the
railroad administration. The eight
hour day also became effective Tues-
day and all employes will receive
pro rata pay for ninth and tenth
lnur work and fcltjie and a half there
utter. Railroad employes who de-
vote a majority of their time to rail-
road work of any description will be
affected.
Ship Strikes Mine, but Comes to Port
Washington The battleship Min
nosota. which struck a mine Monday
off the Atlantic coast, has arrived
safety at a naval station and is now
dry dock
Influenza Epidemic on the Increase.
Washington.—More than 20 000
news -cases of Spanish influenza were
reported from army camps during
the 48 hours ending at noon Mon
day Pneumonia cases reported num-
bered 733 and deaths 277 The total
of pneumonia cases now is 5,766 and
deaths 1.577.
Gen. Van Zandt Choen U. C. V. Head
,av ,0kla The I’rtted Con red
elect* i /■ 0Ii*n8 ,,avo unanimously
Pd Genera! K. M Van Zandt. of
•I f , • Texa8’ commander In
if. chose the commandants of the
ion alm1:friidiV,8i0nS of ,h*’ organiza
emiion mfj7rn°d 'h,',r 28th
;;i,n' hav,n" the location of their
"PXt [eun,on <<> be determined bv a
committee beaded bv General v„ ,
'iamlt and the division art
uiv is ion commanders.
Ten Thousand Turk, Surrendered.
London In Palestine during Sept.
-• )' northward movement of Brit-
*h oavaIrv a,,d armored cars from
the Tiberias-Deru. , frora
v ,nri>a are» continued
... , u,klsh ll” «'• including ele-
ments composing the Turkish garrl-
«... on Iho 1M,.,
• La station Tb - , „,,
ic one force numbered
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Oversubscribe Certificates $25,216,000
Washington.—The sixth bi-weekly
issue of certificates of indebtedness
in anticipation of the fourth Liberty
loan was oversubscribed by $25,216,-
nni’. making total subscriptions $625,
Allen Academy Suffer. $25,000 Fire.
Bryan. I exas,—Allen aoadernv of
this city, one of the leading prepar
atory .schools of the state, suffered
a serious tire loss Sunday. The ad-
ministration building and main dor-
mitory and large two-story residence
of Professor J. H. Allen, which wa*
also used as a dormitory, were burn
od to the ground. The origin or the
(ire could not be learned. The loss
estimated was $26,000.
Dertling Resigns „ Hun chancellor.
Amsterdam Emaeorr wnn„
’ 1 tto folio " hM
Her'ling -' ’You- r ^cy Ti
Oorted To me that ro'i no In ' *
"i ..f xornrnmriu | ,|U ... . .
r ’ll-, self vow.’ reasons anTm ®
with heavy heart. iWv ravieif 'US1
- in>sfcir vrvur
• -t ♦ til .;>p N’oti - *
f tne .hanks o'
^ Hfioos made in nnkertakin. thr
chancellor’s office <n
ana times
anj for the service* rendered.-'
Wilson Makes Plea f0r Women Votes
W ashington Although President
Wilson, in r. pensonal address Mon
tiny to the senate, asked for passage
of the woman suffrage federal amend
ment resolution as a vital war mea
sure, the senate again failed to reach
’* v0,e- 1 filler the weight of the
president’s influence, advocates of
the resolution are hopeful of muster
ing the necessary two thirds majority
but leading opininents were insistent
that there would be no deflection
from their ranks.
Paris.—-The American. French. Brit-
ish and Belgian armies are continu-
ing their steady advance on the four
sectors in France and Belgium where
attacks wore launched Saturday
Dixmude is now in the hands of
the Belgians, who have also taken a
number or other towns in an advance
of four or five miles on a front of
about 12 miles, in which more than
6,000 Germans were taken prisoner.
further south General Haig Sunday
morning at 5:50 o’clock, assisted by
American troops from New York,
Tennessee and North and South Caro
lina, launched an attack oil a front
extending from St. Quentiu north
ward to the Scarpe river, a distance
ot about 35 miles. The Americans
smashed through the Hindenburg line
and occupied Bellicourt and Nauroy,
a gain of three miles, wdnle an Eng-
lish division crossed the Scheldt ca-
nal and stormed the main Hlnden
burg defenses around Bellenglise, cap
luring the whole German position.
Cambrai Is virtually in English
hands, although the town itself has
not been occupied by British troops
< anadian troops at night were fight-
ing in (be northern outskirts of t.he
low n. while tlie Sixty-third naval divi-
sion had reached tne southern out
skirts.
To the south of the British the
French launched a powerful attack
over a front extending from St. Quen-
tin southward to La Fere. Consider-
aW gains are reported, with a bag or
500 prisoners.
German evacuation of the Chemln
Des Dames is indicated by the with-
drawal of the Germans on that por-
tion of the front between the Ailette
and the Aisne rivers to positions be-
hind the Oise Aisne canal.
In Champagne the American and
French continue their advance, the
Americans having occupied several
villages and moved forward about
three miles in the woods west of the
Meuse. In the fighting on this front
General Pershing reports that the
Americans maintain absolute mastery
of the air.
Tlie French west of the Americans
in tlie ( hampagno have advanced their
lines, and now control the western
exit of the Argonne forest and threat-
en the strategic position at Grand-
Pre.
The allied advance into Serbia and
Bulgaria continues unchecked. The
Serbians apparently are rushing to
Uskub (o cut the important lines of
| communication through that town.
while the Italians and other allies
1 are bringing up the flanks. The Ital-
ians report the occupation of Krushe-
vo. The Serbians have won the im-
portant mountain range of P.achko-
vista south of Koohana. while to the
I cast the British and Gre»k forces
have taken further territory from the
enemy in (1A> region of Lake Doiran
and across the border in Bulgaria.
*n Pnlestino the victory over the
Turks is llBl but complete. Friday
night General AUenby had counted
50.000 prisoners ami 300 guns.
The losses of the Teutonic allies
on the western front since the allied
offensive began. July IS. have been
200.000 men made prisoner and 3.000
guns. 20,000 machine guns and enor
mous quantities of material captured
An irrigation project is being car-
ried out on the American side of the
Rio Grande Valley in Texas for the
reclamation of 30,000 acres of land,
and the project is expected to be com-
pleted by next spring.
o—
Applications are being filed daily
with Governor Hobby for pardons for
convicts, representations being made
to the executive by families of the
men that are in destitute circum-
stances and bordering on starvation
for lack of support.
— 0“—
It now costs 20c for a glass of milk
arid a piece of pie at many restaurants
in Houston, as a result of the order
requiring hotels and restaurants to use
pasteurized milk. This order, which
went into etfect Saturday, requires all
eating houses (o use pasteurized milk
or quit serving to soldiers.
T T -°----
upon adjournment of the Baptist
( nion Association, held in Rosenberg
September 24-25, Independence. Texas,
was selected as the next place ot meet-
ing, and the convention will be held in
September. 1919, marking the eigh-
tieth anniversary of the establishment
of the Baptist church in Texas.
The Southern Rice Growers’ Asso-
ciation of Texas was advised this week
that efforts would be made by the di-
rector of the United States employ-
ment bureau at San Antonio to supply
tlie rice farmers of Orange, Liberty,
Jefferson and Chambers counties with
whatever labor is needed to harvest
the rice crop.
——O—
in his annual report submitted to
the governor, Game, Fish and Oyster
Commissioner Wood recommends the
establishment of a salt, water fish
hatchery on the coast for the propa-
gation of salt water trout, also the es-
tablishment of additional fresh water
fish hatcheries in the northwest sec-
tion of the State.
rmJl/LAMATION BY
THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES
Every day the great principles for
Which we are fighting take fresh hold
upon our thought and purimse and
It clearer what the end must be
and what we must do to achieve it. j
e now know more certainly than j
we ever knew before why free men
brought ihe great nation and govern- !
lent we love into existence, because
It grows clearer and cleurer what su-
premo service It Is to he America’s
privilege to render to the world The
anniversary of the discovery of A.ner-
Ca must therefore have for us in this
lnteful year a peculiar and thrilling
significance. We should make it a dav
"f ardent rededication to the ideals
upon which our government Is founded
and by which our present heroic tasks
are inspired.
Xow. therefore, I. Woodrow Wilson
President of the United States of
America, do appoint Saturday, the 12th
day of October, 1918, as Liberty tiny.
<>n that day I request the citizens of
every community of the United States,
city, town and countryside, to cele-
brate the discovery of our country In
older to stimulate a generous response
to the Fourth Liberty Loan. Commem-
orative addresses, pageants, harvest
home festivals, or other demonstra-
tions should be arranged for in every
neighborhood under the general direc-
tion of tlie secretary of the treasury
and the Immediate direction of the
Llhei-ty Loan committee, In co-opern-
tion with the United States bureau of
education and the public school au-
thorities. Let the people’s response to
the Fourth Liberty Loun express the
measure of their devotion to the ideals
which have guided the country from
Its discovery until now, and of their
determined purpose to defend them
and guarantee their triumph.
For tlie purpose of participating la
Liberty day celebrations all employees
of the federal government throughout
the country whose services can he
spared may he excused on Saturday,
the 12th day of October, for the entire
day.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto
Net mv hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
Done In the District of Columbia
this 19th day of September in the yeai
of <>ur Lord One Thousand Nine Hun-
dred and Eighteen, and of the Inde-
pendence of the United States of
America the One Hundred and Fortv-
thfrd.
WOODROW WILSON
By tlie President:
ROBERT LANSING.
Secretary of State.
HOW GERMANS ARE DELUDED
Ridiculous Statement* Made by Kai-
ser's Government Prove How Real
Is Fear of America.
Bulgaria’s Desire for Peace Sincere.
London. The news from Bulgaria
which comes through various chan
nels compels the belief that the prUg
sia or the Balkans is not merely seek
t TV tv * Ke<\n < U Im >- , _ it
~ out reallv
want,, peace. All the evidence ndi
cates that she needs it grievously and
niinf V •) ve •* ..
- m etense
that Premier Malinoff was acUns on
his owtl responsibility finds no con
firmatlon. King Ferdinands crown
apparently is at .take and he 18 try
ing to save hit dynasty.
Messages to Be Further Restricted.
Washington- \s a further step to
prevent information from this conn-
cy getting to tlie enemy, a presiden-
tial executive order has been issued
prohibiting the transmission of mes
b-v telegraph, telephone or
“-'M' to points without the United
*’Ros or to points on or near the
Mexican border, except those permit-
| tod under rules to be established by
tae secretary of war for telegraph
and telephone lines, and by the sec-
retary of the nnvv for cable lines.
I ermits have just been issued by
the department of insurance and bank-
ing lor insurance companies to operate
in 1 exas as follows: Hardware Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company of Ste-
vens Point, Wis.; Palmetto Fire of
Sumter. S. C.; Pioneer Life of Kansas
City, Mo., successor to the American
Life and Accident, and the Morris
Plan Insurance Society of New York.
Tlie 12-inch battery at Fort Crock-
ett, Galveston, has been named “Bat-
tery Leonard Hoskins." by order of
the secretary of war, in honor of Sec-
ond Lieutenant Leonard Hoskins,
coast artillery. Lieutenant Hoskins
was the son of Daniel F. Hoskins. East
Las Vegas, N. M. He was killed in ac-
tion June 28, 1918.
State Food and Drug Commissioner
R H. Hoffman, Jr., this week an-
nounced results of analysis made of
samples of milk collected in several
Texas towns. Of 13 samples taken at
Brownsville, two showed adulteration;
of 18 collected at Texarkana, seven
were adulterated, and one sample from
Llectra showed adulteration.
The Texas State Board of Vocation-
al Education has received instructions
from the war department and the Fed-
eral Board of Vocational Education to
the effect that men engaged In teach-
ing vocational agriculture and voca-
tional trade and industrial education
under the Smith-Hughes law- „iav be
Placed in deferred classification in or-
der that necessary vocational instruc-
tion be maintained, announces Super-
intendent Doughty.
Votes by Texas Women Held Illegal.
Corpus Christi. Texas. Judge Voll
|M Taylor of the Setentynlnth dis-
i ’net court, who is hearing the Cham-
bhas-Chllders dimrirt
«t sinton. h„ -th,r
passed at *he last session of the leg
lslature grantinp to .v„
to participate in primary election*
and conventions is unconstitutional.
The ruling came when the court
overruled a general demurrer filed
by the contestee in the election corn-
iest case.
1 exas has furnished approximately
200,000 men for the great American
army fighting for world freedom and
j peace. A total of 114.208 have been
| formally inducted into the army
through draft, of which 81,208 were
! W hite and 32.281 were negroes. Volun-
I tarv enlistments and inductions augre-
j Kated 42.452. The old Texas National
| Guard sent 15,000, and the new 16,000,
i not including those wno went into the
j navy and with the marines. The lat-
ter two classes are expected to bring
the total to 200,000.
O——
Lumbermen of Texas will offer op-
position to the increase In freight
rates on lumber as proposed by the
railroad administration when the mat-
ter comes up for hearing before the
Dallas district traffic committee Oc-
tc.br-, 15 in Dallas, ibis decision was
reached at the meeting held at Hous-
ton Friday with about fifty represent*.
tioin iu parts ot the
State present Sentiment was unani-
mously in favor of opposing the pro-
posed increase and in order to present
a forcible opposition two committees
were appointed.
A poster recently issued by the Im-
perial German government in an effort
to belittle the participation of America
in the war and thus strengthen the
morale of her people form tlie text of
one of (he most striking pieces of litera-
ture that the bureau of publicity of
the war loan organization has prepared
for use In tlie forthcoming Fourth Lib-
erty loan.
ihe title of the poster is "Can
America s Entry Make a decision of tlie
Warr Integral sections of it attempt
to convince the reader that America’s
army cannot take the place of Rus-
sia's withdrawn forces; thut the Unit-
ed States cannot build enough ships
to have any effect on tlie result of the
war, and that the U-boats will destroy
virtually all the ships that America
can build when those ships at-
tempt to cross the ocean. A French
poster also is reproduced in the Ger-
man poster and Ihe meaning so twisted
as to make it appear that France is
very badly in need of food.
Two millions of the booklets have
been printed and will he distributed
in various parts of the country, par-
ticularly in theaters where Liberty
Loan speakers take the book as their
text.
The enormous figure of a Russian
soldier is tlie first object on the poster
to strike the eye. He stands with
hands in his overcoat pockets, Indie--
t*ve of the fact that he is through
fighting. Reside him stands Uncle Sam
holding u small figure, designed to
represent the United States army, in
his right bund. In his left hand Uncle
Sum carries h banner which bears the
Inscription, “America threatens to
send transport of one-half million men.
But it cifnnot ship them!" Below
Uncle Sam are these words; "It Is
Impossible for America to train and
fit out In time for the European war a
suitable and sufficiently large army
and provide It with tlie necessary re-
euforcernents." The catchflne of this
section of the poster is ’’Russia’s tinny
of millions could not down Germany,”
and oil the skirt of tlie Russian sol-
dier's overcoat are printed these
words; "Russia used up altogether
fifteen million men in vain ‘
this catehifae: “England's ,-e* poweJ
and England’• merchant marine have
not decided the war Below this
hue appears a lniKe figure i u: etc It d to
represent it,H English slopping f a cl II-
( ut 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 a
drawing designed t« show Unde Sain
currying the l idled States tonnage uu-
< er his left arm. The caption altove
Incle Sam rends: "Can America re-
place England on sea?" Ou tlie ship
which Uncle Sum carries is printed
this inscription: "Thrc.yyitiioil gr„ss
registry tons.” and hehfiv ,i1#t ls u„.
other inscription whi^ffsnys: -At ihe
beginning of tlie war America had ou-
L ii tonnage of three million gross reg-
istered ions.” 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.
<>ur U-boats sink twice us quickly a»
England and America can build !”
Ihe answer of the publicity bureau
t" the two sections of the poster rcfeY-
ring to tlie transportation of men anil
tlie building of ships follows; “At the
moment the bulletin hoards of Ger-r
many scoffed the possibility of Amer-
ica sending n force to France, there
were already more than a million light-
Ing men overseas, ami transports,
walled about by the American navy de-1
f.ving ihe cowardly submarines, were
bearing every month hundreds of
thousands more. The gauge is set and
the summer of 1919 will see 4,000,000
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 ullied and neutral shipping
combined, from every cause, for the
last six months, amounted to 2,089,393
tons.
“The distance from New York to
England, the Boclte points out," com-
ments the bureau of publicity publi-
cation, “is 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
tiie U-boat being an unconquerable
engine of war, as the Hun confidently
expected, it has become tlie slinking
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
Atlnntle ocean into the heart of the
enemy’s strongholds. - Across this
bridge there are streaming our mil-
lions of fighting men. {is 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 a back-handed slap at the French,
the German propagandists have repro-
duced a French poster which pleads
with French people to ent less in or-
der that the United Stutes may send
over more man power. The French
poster pointed out that if evmw/ per
soil in France would save a hundred
grams of food a day that the Aim-^fit-an
reinforcements could he increased a
division n month. Tlie 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 a further effort to convince tlie
German people that it will he impos-
sible for the United States to trans-
port troops to France, the German
section of tiie 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 amount of
space.
Summing up nil the falsehoods which
the German poster contains, the book-
let says: “The War Lord of Ger-
many may have the futile hope that
bis people will devour in the place of
food, such statements as the forego-
ing. Falsehoods, however, are poor
substitutes and are likely to aggra-
vate rather than appease when the de-
luded people of Germany learn that
every requirement of the American
soldier will he met by his patriotic and
unqualified support back home. If a
single soldier required ton tons of
freight space, It would be given him
But tlie truth is he requires less than
one-half of that.
“As for Germany’s statement that
even If the United States built from
two and a half million gross regis-
tered tons in 1918, It would not mea »
deliverance for the allies, no further
comment Is needed than that by July
of iIlls year the 2,000,000-ton mark
has been passed. If further refu-
tation of the Hon boast of his
U-boat prowess were needed, it might
be s’a ted that less than 500 American
soldiers have lost their lives in the
present war as a result of U-boat at-
tacks.’’
Closing the booklet is this striking
quotation from Secretary McAdoo:
"The Fourth Liberty loan Is the hilV
rifi-t’ Winch will precede the victorm j
thrno /if /ut* m 1
District.
Percentage.
Amount.
New York
30
$1,800,000,000
Chicago
MV4
870,000,000
Cleveland
10
600,000.000
Boston
8 1-3
500.000,000
Philadelphia
8 1-3
500,000,000
San Francisco
6 7-10
402,000.000
Richmond
4-2-3
280,000,000
St. Louis.
4 1.3
260,000,000
Kansas City
4 1-3
260.000,000
Minneapolis
3/2
210,000,000
Atlanta
3 1-5
192,000,000
Dallas
3 1-10
126,000.000
Minimum Amount of Money Which
Each Federal Reserve District
Is Asked to Raise.
Six billion dollars Is the minimum
i amount which the pimple of the United
i States are asked to subscribe for tIiv
Fourth Liberty loan, according to an an-
nouncement by William G. McAdoo,
I secretary of the treasury.
Following are the quotas and per-
l cent ages of the total by federal re-
| ----------------
TD ASSURE SUCCESS OF LOAN Now that the fourth loan Is upon us
we must fasten our minds upon a fur-
ther fact:
The loan will not he u complete suo
"■” unless every individual bases hii
subscription on a budget.
That is to say, he must know jusl
now niuen ne is getting and Just how
much he is spending, and he must
subscribe with this knowledge In mind
The day for guesswork has gone.
The country Is stripping for action
| We must know what we enn do. Thei
i we shall be surprised at the outcome
Each Person Must Estimate Just How
Much of Income Can Be
A (I.** . J a tt
c %j il
We have learned;
1 t ^ ▼ f %. »•> * 0
good Investment.
That the money the government
acts from them Is absolutely neces-
Miry.
3. That the money Is being well
tpeuL
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