HEAR CHAPLAIN B. F. DAVIDSON AT THE COURT HOUSE TONIGHT AT 8 O’CLO
NEWPORT JA1LY In IEPENDENT.
VOLUME XVII. NO. 301. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. |
GERMANS SUFFER
LOSS OF POINTS
AT ALLIED HANDS
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BRITISH TAKE MENACING POSI
TION BY STORM.
Germans ' Attacks Are Repulsed and
Enemy Is Unable to Gain Footing
In Any Part. of French
*j i: Positions.
FRENCH HAVE GAINED GROUND
.Associated Press Dispatch.
With the British Army in France,
April 3.—The British last night
stormed and captured a strong Ger
man point south of Hebuterne which
menaced a defending position.
Associated Press. Dispatch.
London, April 3.—The war office
announces the repulse of a determined
German attack in the neighborhood
of Fampoux last night.
The town of Ayette, about eight
miles southwest of Arras, again is in
possesion of the British, the state
ment announces.
French Gain Ground.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Paris, April 3.—A .German attack
south of Moreuil last night was re
pulsed. The enemy was unable to
gain a footing in any part of the
French positions, the war office an
nounces, except at one point. The
French also broke up a German at
tack near Rollot and gained ground
north of Plemount.
STORM TAKES
HEAVY TOLL
Associated Press Dispatch.
Clinton, Ky., April 3.—Mrs. Robert
Jackson and Mrs. Julia Courtney
were killed, several injured and a
number of buildings damaged by
storm northeast of here in Hickman
county last night.
Associated Press Dispatch.
St. Louis, Mo., April 3.—Six are
known dead and scores injured in tor
nadoes in Central and Southeastern
Missouri last night. Property dam
age was heavy.
WILLOPERATE
MEAT PLANTS
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, April 3.—A resolution
providing for the government to take
over and operate packing plants was
introduced today in the senate and
referred to the agriculture committee.
ALLIES PREPARE
FOR Ml BLOW
German Thrust May Occur At Some
Point On the Front That Has Been
Comparatively Quiet.
Associated Press Dispatch. '
New York, April 3.—While German
leaders are preparing for another
plunge toward Amiens, the British
and French aie busy preparing to
meet the next great effort on the bat
tlefield in Northern France.
With their first stupendous drive
stopped, it is uncertain where the
next German stroke will come, but
the Albert-Montdidier sector may be
selected, unless the Germans, con
vinced that it would be impossible to
break through on either side of the
Somme, make an attempt at some
other point heretofore comparatively
quiet.
Both the British and French armies
are confident.
Much significance is attached to
the announcement that the allied re
serve army is intact.
Meanwhile the Americans, one
hundred thousand strong, continue to
march to the battlefront.
Tuesday the Germans made no at
tacks on either side of the Somme.
The British in a small operation
captured an enemy post near Serre,
north of Albert.
j In the south artillery is active be
tween Montdidier and Noyon and
j further east German detachments
were driven back from the Oise.
The French repulsed minor attacks
at Woevre and in Upper Alsace.
There is the usual artillery activ
ity in Flanders and in the American
| sector of Toul.
Inclement weather is hindering
operations on the Italian front.
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NO MORE DAILY
CASUALTY LIST
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, April 2.— Announce
ment was made today that the issu
ance of daily casualty lists here will
be suspended pending definite infor
mation from Secretary Baker wheth
er it is forbidden by the order provid
ing that Pershing’s headquarters shall
issue all news relating to troops in
France.
LENROOT IS
THE VICTOR
Associated Press Dispatch.
Milwaukee, April 3.— Belated re
turns in yesterday’s election confirm
ed the victory of Irvine Lenroot, re
publican, for senator. Lenroot’s
plurality over Joseph E. Davies, dem
ocrat, at noon, was more than nine
thousand.
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Damn Your Bit; Do Your
Utmost---Ma\or Massie
For one and one-half hours last
night at the county court house one
of the largest crowds ever assembled
in the building listened intently and
interestedly to fhe masterful descrip
tive address and appeal of Major
Massie, a member of the Canadian ex
peditionary forces, who won distinc
tion and shed blood for his country
during the progress of many battles
on the western front. Never before
had the people of Newport and sur
rounding community been given ad
vantage of contact with one personal
ly able and authorized to give in detail
conditions that exist on the battle
front, where Jackson county boys
probably are now located, and it is a
matter of regret that a building more
spacious was not available to give the
many persons who sought admittance
bo the overcrowded court room the
opportunity to enjoy this unparalelled
treat.
All of us have read of what has oc
curred in Belgium and France, all of
us have read of the duplicity and the
treachery of the despicable hun, and
most of us have heard these stories
related, but few had ever before
heard these things from the lips of a
man who has seen what he told, and
the picture which Major Massie drew
of the German in battle, in the hos
pital and everywhere was none the
less impressive nor did it fall short
of depicting his heralded campaign of
oarbarism. He told of the hun shoot
ing in the back his foe wrho had cap
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United States should answer the Ger
man offensive with a great oversub
scription of the Third Liberty Loan.
“If you do that, it will be the best
news you can send to your boys at
the front.”
The major praised the Red Cross,
the stretcher bearers, the women who
have replaced the men in factory and
field, and gave expression to many
other points touching on the war that
will be forever remembered by every
one who heard him.
At the conclusion of his address,
Major Massie was thanked by Jos.
M. Stayton for his having come to
Newport, was thanked heartily in be
half of every man, woman- and child
in Jackson county.
This masterful talk from a brave 1
soldier, a former merchant and busi- .
ness man, brought inspiration to his
hundreds of hearers, and doubtless ;
no little amount of good will spring
from this planting of first-hand in
formation among our people.
MEN IN DRAFT
TO BE CALLED
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Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, April 3.—In order to
meet the emergency in France meas
ures to speed up the draft program
are in contemplation and eight hun
dred thousand men who were to be
called this year will be called more
rapidly than was previously planned.
Ai’rangements to this end are in pro
gress.
You command the immediate inter- ’
est and attention of local customers
when you patronize the Independent's
advertising facilities. <
ing hospitals, killing stretcher bear
ers, wrecking hosptal wagons filled
with wounded, insulting Red Cross
lurses and attacking them while they
were mercifully administering to
;heir wounds.
When the war broke out in 1914
conditions in Canada, the Major said,
were very much the same as obtain
low in the United States. People
chere went about their business, ac
cepted their happy lot in life, oblivi
ous to the fact for a long time that
Canada really had a part to play in
the great conflict. Before long the
Canadian expeditionary force went
over there. Sbon afterwards the
casualty list came in. It contained the
names of brothers and sons—killed.
Canada did not hesitate. Like a flash
of lightning from a clear sky came
the realization that the war in Europe
was Canada’s war, and that she had
a part to play.
Thousands' of aroused Canadians
flocked to the colors. Many hundreds,
like Major Massie, who was a promi
nent merchant and man of affairs at
Toronto, laid aside their pleasures
and went to the front. That happen
ed in Canada when the casualty list
came in.
Since that time Canada has under
gone a change. The Canadians who
cannot fight have gone to work.
Women and girls have taken the
places of their brothers, fathers and
I usbands in the munitions plants and
elsewhere. Hundreds of miles of
Canadian railways jhavl^ been torn
asunder in order that rails might be
rushed to France for the rebuilding of
railroads.
“You people here do not know you
are at war.” When Major Massie
made this exclamation he delivered a
heavy blow on the table with his fist.
“But when the casualty list reaches
your town you will know it just like
we of Canada found it out.”
“The fate of the war lies with the
United States,” the major said. “You
must do something and do it quick.”
He hit the table again.
Major Massie told of the anxiety
with which the men at the front look
ed toward home for assistance and
encouragement. He said that when
the men knew the people back home
were backing them up they did not
mind going over the top with their
whole and energy and heart in the
business.
“If they know you are sending an
other man to take every man’s place
who falls they do their work with
greater diligence.”
The major said it was time for peo
ple to quit talking so damn much and
do something.
“It’s disgusting to we men over
there to hear that you are doing ‘your
bit.’ Damn your bit, do your utmost.”
And the major again struck the table
a resounding blow.
Major Massie said the people of the
MISS KEARNEY
TO MK HERE
Well Knowrt Woman of Mississippi
Will Speak Here Under Auspices
of the local W. C. T. U.
Miss Belle Kearney, of Mississippi
will visit Newport Saturday and Sun
iay and deliver a lecture under the
auspices of the local W. C. T. U., fur
ther announcement of which will be
made in the Independent later this
week. While here Miss Kearney will
je the guest of Mrs. Mary Dorsey.
The women interested in prohibi
tion work are fortunate in having
seen able to secure Miss Kearney,
who is known throughout the United
States as a forceful talker and a wo
man with a wonderful fund of. knowl
edge. She has often been charac
;erized as America’s foremost woman
>rator, a master of .English and a
writer and literary critic of note.
INDIANA POET- HUMORIST
VISITING CANTONMENTS.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 2.—J. W. Foley,
;he popular Indiana poet-humorist,
who has been devoting several months
m the efltertainment of the soldiers
n the cantonmnts, spent last week
it Camp Pike, and gave his last re
ntal at the. Palace theatre Sunday
ifternoon. Monday he left for Camp
3eauregard, Louisiana. He has giv
m hundreds of readings from his
>wn writings, and during all this
,ime he has never even mentioned
war.
“The boys will get enough of war
—let them think of something more
:heerful now,” said he.
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