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VOLUME XVIII. NO. 35. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS
GERMAN U-BOATS DESTROY FIFTEEN VESSELS
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ENTRANCE NEW
■ ' yORK HARBDR
DEPARTURE OF OUTGOING VES
SELS IS BARRED.
Attack On American Shipping Al
most At Entrance of New York
Harbor May Mean Submarine
Campaign to Stop Trans
» port of Troops.
CAPTURE OF U-BOAT RUMORED.
Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, June 3.—German sub
marines operating off the Jersey
coast are known to have sunk one
steamship and several ether vessels
today. One report to the maritime
exchange places the number of ves
sels lost at fifteen.
Port authorities have barred the
departure of all out-going ships. It
is presumed here that submarines are
now being dealt with by American i
Wno+vAvora rinc- rumor is that one
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submarine has been captured.
One of the ships sunk was Edward
H. Cole, a sailing vessel. The com-;
mander of one of the submarines or
dered the schooner to heave-to. He
then boarded the Cole and gave the
crew ten minutes to leave the ship, j
German sailors then planted bombs
and blew up the vessel. The crew
la^er 'was picked up from small boats
and brought here.
The attack on American shipping al
most at the very entrance of New
York harbor is taken to mean that
Germany has inaugurated a subma
rine campaign to break up the trans
port of troops to France.
Associated Press Dispatch.
At an Atlantic Port, June 3.—A
British steamship came into port at
full speed today reporting having
picked up wireless appeals for help
from two American tank steamships ;
Which were being attacked off the
Jersey coast. Both tankers reported
they were sinking.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 3.—The na-y de
partment issued a statement today
paying that it had been informed
jithat three schooners were sunk by
an enemy submarine off the coast.
t_ th.-i F.dwntvi H. Cole.
vessels reported to the navy depart
ment as sunk were the sehooners Ja
cobs, Haskell and Isbelle D. Willey.
(As news of the raid reached Wash
ington naval officials gave assurance
that American anti-submarine forces
in home waters are ample to meet the
attack.
Undoubtedly the submarines were
looking for transports, which is taken
as a German admission to the world
that the American army will turn
the tide of battle against her on the
battlefield in France.
Associated Press Dispatch.
4 New York, June 3—A wireless S. 0.
S. call from the New York and Porto
Rico line passenger steamship Caro
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lina saying she was attacked by a
submarine has been received here, j
No further wireless calls after the
call for help came.
The Carolina had 220 passengers
and 120 members of her crew aboard.
The New York and Porto Rico
Steamship Company was advised this
afternoon from Washington that the
Carolina was shelled by a submarine.
The passengers were taken to boats.
The Carolina’s wireless call was
received at 7 o’clock last night.
Shipping authorities estimate she was
then in about the same position as
where the schooner Edward H. Cole
was destroyed by a submarine.
Later reports told of the sinking
of the schooners, Hattie Dunn and
Samuel W. Hathaway, off the New
England coast and another report
that a submarine torpedoed a ship off
the Nantuckett was confirmed.
AMERICA’S ENTRANCE
INTO THE WAR IS RID
CULED BY GERMANY.
Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, June 3.—American par
ticipation in the war, in the fight
against German submarines and in
the ship-building program were be
littled by Vice Admiral von Capelle,
German minister of the navy, in his
speech in the Reichstag a few weeks
ago, as reported by German news
papers received here.
“The military help of America in
the first year of the war was very
little regarding troops and airplanes,
declared von' Capelle. “The expecta
tion of our enemies has been greatly
disappointed. If America later wants
to maintain half a million troops in
France it will need permanently a
freight space in steam-ships of
nhnnt. 2.000.000 tons which again
would be depreciated from the ser
vice of supplying her allies.
“According to American and Brit
ish statements, the participation of
such a large army is no longer in
volved in this campaign.
“In order to carry out the gigantic
American program of shipping con
struction, the ship-yards must first,
be built. In 1917 America, following j
all the huge promises, built 750,000 i
tons of sea-going ships. The large |
merchant fleet which America has
ordered is not being built for the war [
but in order to take the place of Eng
land as the world’s shipper after the
war when the ships will have been
completed.”
Discussing- the economic situation
created by America’s entrance into
the war von Capelle pointed out that
the United States was the most im
portant source of upplies for the
Entente nations but, he added, “Ow
ing to the tremendous armament pro
gram of President Wilson, such eco
nomic difficulties have developed
fVinf Amprien. the land of export,
must now begin to ration herself in
stead, as had been hoped, to aid the
Entente nations in increasing meas
ures. All in all, it can be said that
the economic difficulties of our ene
mies have been increased by Ameri
ca’s entrance into the war.
In reply to charges that the Ger
man submarine-building program was
I not progressing as rapidly as it
should, von Capelle admitted that
Germany’s enemies had attained cer
tain successes in their defensive
measures against the U-boats. “But,
he added, “they have at no time af
fected the U-boat warfare in any way
decisively and, according to fore
sight will not be able to do so in the
future.
“The American U-boat chasers
over which much fuss has been made,
are a failure.
“The convoy system which gives
the ships a certain protection on the
other hand has great disadvantages,
There is not a day in which one oi
several ships are not shot out of con
voys.”
Casualty List
, Associated Press Dispatch.
• Washington, June 3.—-The casual
► ties today reported killed in action
► four; died of wounds, three; acci
, dent, two; of disease, seven. Then
► were three wounded in action, sixtcci
y severely wounded and one slightly.
TEXTILE MILLS
ME SHUT DOWN
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By Reason Of a Strike In Massachu
setts City, Where 35,000 Opera
tives Quit Work.
Associated Press Dispatch.
New Bedford, Mass., June 3.—Tex
tile mills of this city employing thir
ty-five thousand operatives were shut
down today in consequence of a gen
eral strike. The operatives demand
ed a twenty per cent advance in
wages.
ENTHUSIASM OF YOUTH
OF GERMANY NO LONGER
NOTICEABLE IN WAR.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 3.— German
youths no longer rush to the colors
with the enthusiasm that marked the
mobilization of 1914, according to an
article in the Berlin Vossische Zei
tung, telling of the wartime impair
ment of the German educational sys
tem.
“The spirit of voluntary service,
which at the beginning of the war re
vealed itself in its fairest aspect has
now disappeared,” says the articl
Everywhere we hear lamentations
over the increasing distaste shown
for military service.”
Scholastic standards in the public
school have fallen so low, it is said,
that “promotions no longer represent
any definite standard of accomplish
ment.” Scholastic efficiency has
suffered considerably because pupils
subsisting on war diets for long pe
riods are found to be generally un
dernourished.
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an alarming extent, and it is an
nounced that “already the number of
violent crimes committeed by youths
in the city of Berlin is more than
three times the number reported in
1914.”
“Thus,” concludes the article, “dark
shadows are falling over the brilliant
picture of 1914. Every disciplinary
influence, every effort of the still
fundamentally sound German nation
must be exerted to oppose this ten
dency, and to lead the children back
to the path of rectitude.”
Mrs. C. E. Fletcher, of Newport
avenue, is in receipt of a letter from
her son, Charlie House, who left here
about a month ago for Camp McAr
thur, Waco, Texas, but later trans
ferred to Douglass, Arizona. He
stated the Jackson county boys are
doing well and perfectly satisfied
with the treatment Uncle Sam is giv
ing them, stating they had everything
very comfortable with the exception
of a feather pillow, and his mother
, expressed him one this morning.
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SEA OFFENSIVE
IS LOOKED FOR
Hun Fleet May Come Out At Moat
Any Time Now, According to
Rear Admiral Greaves.
New York, June 2.—The United
States now has a large number of
first class battleships “preparing side
by side with the best ships of the
British navy for an engagement on
the high seas which is expected to
occur at any time with the German
fleet,” according to a statement made
in an address here tonight by Rear
Admiral Albert Gleaves.
“I am not going beyond the border
line of secrecy,” said Admiral Gleaves
“when I say that a few days ago
there came an alarm to the heads of
the British navy that the German
battleships were about to come out for
the expected engagement on the high
seas. I know that the British navy
heads gave the first class American
battleships a post of honor in prepar
ation for the attack.”
“I do not profess to know much of
what is going on in the arena of war
on the other side of the ocean,’’Ad
miral Gleaves continued, “because I
am kept busy with my own part of
the game, which is the management
of the cruiser and transport opera
tions.
“Again I am limited to narrow lines
in the matter of giving out informa
tion and I would not go into details if
I did know such things. But I believe
I am within the limitations of orders
when I say that the United States has
a large number of first class battle
ships now preparing side by side with
the best ships of the British navy for
an engagement on the high seas,
which is expected to occur at any
time with the German fleet.
“I know that our ships now work
ing with the British navy in making
ready for this fight are in the prime
of condition and are fully prepared to
win the engagement. We have about
150 vessels over there now and be
tween 35,000 and 40,000 men aboard
them.”
Admiral Cleaves said that “we now
have a navy of 19,000 officers and
more than 40,000 men, or a navy four
times greater than it was just before
we entered the war.
Describing the life of soldiers
aboard transports the admiral said
that the men have “everything that
can be furnished them to remind
j them of life ashore.”
In reply to a question as to wheth
1 er it had been found possible to carry
airplanes on cruisers, he said:
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it is difficult to take them on and off.
The Seattle carried six and the North
Carolina and the Huntington carried
some, but experienced great difficul
ty.”
PORTO RICO HAS IN
VESTED $6,bOO,000 IN
THREE LIBERTY LOANS.
Associated Press Dispatch.
San Juan, Porto Rico, June 3.—Six
million dollars in subscriptions to the
three Liberty Loans is, in round fig
ures, Porto Rico’s investment of
money in the war.
On the first loan approximately
$700,000 was subscribed in the island
while nearly all of the large subscrip
tions were placed direct in the United
States. Subscriptions of sugar com
panies to the first loan, placed in the
states, amounted to close on a half
million dollars, one subscription alone
having been $200,000. Total sub
scriptions in the island to the second
loan were $1,986,900, while to the
Third loan the total subscriptions
were $2,783,050.
With the increase in the total
amount subscribed the number of
subscribers also increased. The De
partment of Finance reports 4,877
subscribers to the second loan and
8,714 to the third.
WAR WORK TEACHING
WOMEN TO BECOME
MORE BUSINESS-LIKE
London, M?ty 9.— (Correspondence
of The Associated Press)—The war
has taught women not only how to
drive cars, make shells, plough fields
and become effective soldiers, but it
also has taught many of them, who
didn’t know how before, to cook and
to sew.
A writer in a London paper says he
knows of several girls in a British
government office who spend their
evenings in learning cookery. “Most
of them,” he says, “come from homes
where the things of the house have
always been done for them by well
trained servants. I asked one of
these girls why she was spending her
spare time in learning how to boil
cabbages and make potatoes look at
tractive.
“I want to feel independent,” she
(•aid, “I expect to be married shortly,
and I should feel such a fool if my
husband came home suddenly on leave
and I couldn’t cook him a decent din
ner. We can’t count on servants
these days.”
War work, the writer concludes,
whether it is work in an office or in
a hospital or in a factory, is teaching
v. omen to be business-like and order
ly. It is teaching them that if a
thing has to be done at all, it more
pleasant and infinitely easier to ao it
well than to do it badly. And, above
all, it is teaching women to be self
dependent, giving them the desire to
make a success of whatever they un
dertake.
One of the hardest-worked of the
new order of women employees is the
“conductorette” of the motor bus.
Her job is particularly nerve-wearing
and physically hard. She is exposed
to all kinds of weather and she must
be constantly climbing the narrow
winding stairs to collect fares from
the passengers on top. She must
make change in the dark and punch a
ticket for every fare, and the fare,
unlike that collected in the usual
American city street car, varies ac
cording to the distance the passenger
desires to ride.
In the rush hours she must handle
surging crowds. All the onerous du
ties she performs wonderfully well,
and the marvel of it is that the strain
of the work doesn’t spoil her temper.
But it is a rare sight to see a con
ductorette show irritation. As a rule
she is a cheery, friendly little woman
who gains the good will and admira
tion of all who ride with her, espec
ially the Americans. Londoners seem
to have recovered long ago from their
astonishment over her achievements.
NOTICE.
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500 Malcolm avenue four hogs, one
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GERMANS HELD
EVERYWHERE BY
FRENCH TROOPS
ENEMY LOSES HEAVILY AND
GIVE UP PRISONERS.
French Make Progress By Counter
Attacking Between Ourco sad
the Marne and German Attack
Was Broken Up On
Road to Paris.
VERY LITTLE ACTION SUNDAY*
Associated Press Dispatch.
Paris, June 3.—The French held
the Germans everywhere last night
and enemy losses are reported to be
very heavy. The war office reports
that the French took prisoners. In
counter-attacking on the whole front
between Ourco and the Marne, the
f rench made progress at several. ,; -4'j J
points. Violent German attacks on
both sides of the road between Cha- ' Jg
teau and Thierry and Paris were '^f|
broken up.
Associated Press Dispatch. ||||||jl
New York, June 3.—Bitterly de
fending every barrier in the enemy’s
path French resistance on the western
side of the Aisne salient is increasing.
Sunday was apparently the poorest
day the Germans have had since the
offensive was renewed, .*1^1
The Germans are continuing strong
attacks between Soissons and Noyon j
and from, the line on the Marne to
North Ourco. The intention is prob
ably to outflank the northern sector . !-Jj
by forcing back the sector south of
Soissons to the west of Villers Cot
terets. The Germans have not cross
ed the Marne, but hold the greater • ®
part of Chateau Thierry.
On the eastern wing the Germans,
who crossed the Rheims road, taking
(Continued on last page.)
The congregation of the Presbyte
rian church extended a call to Dr. E.
L. Brown Sunday to move to our city ||
and become a residential pastor, ur. '
Brown has been filling the pulpit here
each Sunday for several months, but 1 f|
continued to live at Batesville, where |§
he has taught at Arkansas College.
He will not be connected with the col
lege next year and the church is anx
ious to have him move his family to
our city and occupy the manse. Dr. iS|
Brown has not given his answer yet,
but it is thought most likely he will
accept the call.
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