The Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, December 14, 1917 Page: 2 of 8
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THE BLACK DISPATCH
THE RED CROSS
The big drive la on.
This week It expected to add fifteen million namet to the mem-
berahip roll of the American Red Cross, and Oklahoma Is expected to
be represented In thia Increase to the extent of 500,000 names.
Mr. L. E. Phillips, state manager of the campaign for Oklahoma,
has been constantly in touch with the work of perfecting the organ-
Iatlon throughout the state, and has reports in his possession, on work
already done, which make him confident that the campaign is going
to succeed before Christmas in fine shape.
Preparations are being completed, by the signing up of the neces-
sary number of members, for lighting, on Christmas Eve, candles be-
hind the Red Cross service flag in American homes, in sufficient num-
bers to make a beacon of fifteen million candle-power, to carry its
gleam of hope to every dark corner of the world where its beneficent
rays are needed.
The Red Cross ia your avenue of expression if you are interested
in holding human suffering down to the minimum. If you have not
yet received or qualified for your membership badge and your service
flag, JOIN TODAY. 7
You need perform no service requiring time or money beyond your
membership fee.
YOUR HEART AND A DOLLAR TODAY, though you may be too
old, or too young, or otherwise disqualified for military service, will
show that you are not a slacker.
GERMAN "PILL BOX" TURNED INTO A DRESSING STATION
SIXTY-FOUR LIVES ARE LOST
DESTROYER JACOB JONES
SUNK IN WAR ZONE.
Brief Message To the Navy Depart-
ment Fails To Tell How Attack
Was Made By Submersible.
Washington - Lieutenant Command
er Worth Hagley and Lieutenant Nor-
man Scotti were among the survivors
rescued after the sinking of the Ameri-
can destroyer Jacob Jones by a Ger-
man submarine in the war zone.
These two officers, two warrant of-
ficers and two enlisted men were
named In the admiral's dispatch as
survivors In addition to the thirty-
•oven previously reported saved. It is
now established that the Ave live offl-1
cers on the destroyer wore rescued. |
Gunner Harry H. Wood and sixty )
three men are missing.
Lieutenant Commander Bagley is a
brother of Mrs. .Josephine Daniels,
wife of the secretary of the navy and
a brother to the Ensign Worth llugley,
who was the first man killed in the
Spanish American war.
Ihe Jacob Jones, of the largest and
newest American submarine chasers
of her type operating in the Atlantic,
was the first American warship to fail
victim to a German submarine but was '
the spcond American destroyer to he
lost in foreign waters. The Chauncey
sank with her commander, Lieutenant
Commander Walter E. Keno, two other
officers and eighteen enlisted men af-
ter being cut In two by the transport
Uose, early on the morning of Novem-
ber 20.
Admiral Sims' terse message report-
ing the loss of the Jacob Jones did not
state how the attack was made. It Is
known, however, that the Jones w;.s
on patrol duty between 400 and 500
miles off shore.
In October the Jones went gallantly
to the rescue of the British converted
cruiser Orama accompanied by anoth-
er American destroyer, when the for-
mer P. & O. liner was torpedoed. Tbey
attacked and put the submarine out
of commission and then when the
cruiser began to settle, transferred all
on board to their own decks without
accident.
Lacking details of the action in)
which the Jones was lost, officers as- J
sunied that the destroyer either stum- I
bled upon a submarine and was struck
by a lucky shot, or was surprised
while on patrol duty. As the watch
maintained by American destroyer
crews is notably keen, the last expla-
nation seemed improbable.
THE SUBS
TOW BRITISH
CHRISTIANS HOLD THEIR
SHRINE FIRST TIME IN
673 YEARS
ITALIANS HOLD THE GERMANS
Kaledines, Kerensky and Dutoff Start
New Revolution and Make Rapid
Progress Against Bol-
sheviki Forces.
London.- A slight increase in tha
los. of small British merchantmen
destroyed by mine or submarine in
the past week was noted in the ad-
miralty stalement. Fourteen vessels of
mo:e than 1,600 tons were sunk, as
well as seven under that tonnage.
Following is a list of the losses by
months since the unrestricted war-
fare was begun:
More Less
Than
Than
Small-
1,600
1,600.
. er
Month-
Tona
Tons
Craft
March
41
34
April
3t
34
May
33
24
June
84
18
10
July
.— 79
18
It
August .
62
15
b
September
62
32
9
October
19
4
November . _
23 23
' 1
Week ending—
December 2
... 16
1
4
December 9
14
7
0
Totals
- .691 252
161
Grand total
1,
,104
Rome. Italian losses by mine or
submarine for the week ending De-
cember H were one steamer of more
than 1,500 tons, one steamer of less
than 1,500 tons and three small sail-
ing vessels.
RAIDERS KILL NEAR 1000
Germans Kill in Thirty-six Attacks on
England.
London. German aircraft have
made thirty-eight disastrous raids over
England since January, 1915, inflicting
a total loss of life of !>0(i persons. The
"st of the principal raids follows:
Killed Inju
144
Arrest in Halifax Cass.
Halifax. John Johansen helmsman
on the Norwegian steamer Imo, the
Belgian relief ship whose (collision 1
with the ammunition steamer Mont
Blanc led to the disaster, was de-
tained as a German spy suspect
January 19
May l.l .
June 6 04
June in
August !! n
August 12 1.1
August 1L1 ti
i August 17 in
! Srptmnber 7 n
September 8 'in
October 13 55
nvS'V1.: V' 'S
March 51 '4:f
!Apr" i ..... j« m
August 9 6 i;
I August 24 . $ .{fi
I September 2 • jo
[ September 23 .!!!!! 38
, September 24 Yr. 97
| mi, "
I 24 7fi )T4
'Juno 5 •• on
I Juno 13 <17
July 4 11
July 7 37
July 22 11
' AilRust 12 . . 32
August 22 n
September II jfls
September 21 j -,
September 25 7
September 29 ' n
September 30 '' <1
October 1 10
: October 7 14
October IS ■>'
October 31 ]"x
December ti 7
REAL STRIKE AT FT. SMITH
Everybody In Town Helping the
Phone Girlt.
Fort Smith> Ark.—No other Ameri-
can city, large or smull, has ever done
what the Ft. Smith workers have done.
The labor of Ft. Smith, Its organized
and unorganized labor, has calmly
and methodically quit its work and has
calmly announced to capital and any
other interested parties, including the
governor of Arkansas anil the United
States government, if the latter has a
listening ear, that there will lie noth-
ing more doing in Fort Smith until
the city, state or national government
lakes steps to adjust the labor troublo
which has existed for days between
the telephone company and its girl
switchboard operators.
The workers in this community,
earning as high as $30 and $40 a week,
of whom there is no inconsiderable
number, "left the brick in the air"
Saturday and have gone home to play
with the kids until the telephone com-
pany, as organized labor explains, gets
ready to give the bello girl a square
deal.
The Fort Smith Light & Traction
Co. resumed operating its power plant
after a suspension of three days as a
result of the general strike. The
plant is under guard of a number of
special deputy constables and deputy
sheriffs. Included in the list of spe-
cial officers are several prominent
business men.
j Organized labor of Fort Smith de-
bated many hours on the sympathetic
strike proposition and with calmness.
Finally it was decided to take the step.
There is every evidence here the
strike has been 100 per cent effective.
All organized labor is idle, the last of
the strikers being the barbers. With
so many of the organized workers not
at work, it necessarily has brought
about the enforced idleness of persons
not organized
Now He Can Think It Over.
Camp Mead, Mil — Private fiaude
\V. Knloe of Philadelphia, a member
I of the 315th regiment, was sentenced
to three years' imprisonment and a
dishonorable discharge from the serv-
ice for refusing to obey the commands
American Engineer* Killed
With the American Army in France.
—A number of American railway en-
gineers have been killed by German
aerial bombs In a town somewhere
behind the British front. It is now
permitted to announce that a Ger-
man bomb fell in a street in a town
through which American troops were
passing. Pieces of the bomb shat-
tered the windows of a house in
which there were officers, showering
them with glass but hurting no one
Wyoming Mob Hangs Negro
Rock Springs Wyo—An unidenti-
fied negro, charged with molesting wo-
men residents of Blalrtown. a suburb
was taken from the city jail and
j hanged to a railroad bridge north or
Rock Springs.
Cuba Declares War on Austria
Havana. The house of representa-
tives passed a resolution declaring a
state of war to exist between Austri-
I uHngary and the repubiic of Cuba.
London—Jerusalem is in the hands
of General Allenby's British troops,
after having been for virtually twelve
hundred years in the hands of the
Moslems.
The capture of Jerusalem by Brit-
ish forces marks Ihe end, with two
brief interludes, of more than 1,200
years' possession of the seat of the
Christian religion by the Moham-
medans. For 67.'! years the Holy City
has been in undisputed ownership of
the Turks, the last Christian ruler of
Jerusalem being the German emperor,
Frederick II, whose short-lied domina-
tion lasted from 1229 to 1244.
Apart from its connection with the
campaign being waged against Turkey
by the British in Mesopotamia, the fall
of Jerusalem was the definite collapse
of the long, protracted efforts of the
Turks to capture the Suez canal anil
Invade Egypt. Almost the first move
made by Turkey afler her entrance
Into the war, was a campaign against
Egypt, across the great desert of the
Sinal Peninsula. In November. 1914,
a Turkish army, variously estimated
at from 75,000 to 250,000 men, marched
on the Suez canal and succeeded In
reaching within striking distance of
the great, artificial wuterway at sev-
eral points. For several months bit-
ter fighting took place, the canal be
ing defended t> an Anglo-Egyptian
army, aided hv Australians and New
Zealanders and French and British
forces.
In sentimental and romantic aspect,
the capture of Jerusalem far exceeds
oven the fall of fable-crowned Bagdad.
The modern city of Jerusalem con-
tains about 60,000 inhabitants jind is
the home of pestilence, filth and fe
vers, but In historic interest it natur-
ally surpasses to the Christian world,
all other places in the world. Since
the days when Joshua rescued if from
the hands of the Jebusltes to make il
the capital of the Jewish race, Jeru-
salem has been the prized prey of hall
the races of the world.
It has passed successively into the
hands of the Assyrians, Babylonians.
Greeks, Romans, Persians, Arabs,
Turks, the motley crowds of the Cru-
saders, finally to fall before the de-
scendants of that Richard the Lion-
hearted, who strove in vain for its
possession more than seven hundred
years ago.
The Italians have definitely stopped
the attempted drive of the Austro-Ger-
mans toward the Italian plains and
the Germans have failed thus far to
follow up their success of last week
against General By tig's army on the
Cambrai sector in France. Both initi-
ally and where they have faced the
British the Teutons have paid dearly
for any gains they have made, and ap-
parently now tliey are endeavoring to
find some ensler spot upon which to
make a drive.
.J.
apparently is gaining momentum. Al-
ready the movement is spreading fan-
like from the chosen bases northward,
northeastward and northwestward,
while preparations are hastening to
extend it southward to the Caucasus.
Moves on Moscow.
From his base in the River Don re-
gion, General Kaledines, hetman of
tho Don Cossacks, is moving toward
the hordes of the Ukraine, which al-
ready lias declared its independence
| of any hostility to the Bolsheviki ele-
j ments, and at the same lime is form-
ing a menace to Moscow, where the
Bolsheviki are in control. I.enine Is
obviously nervous. In the center oth-
ers of the revolutionaries are making
their way, while from Orenburg, near
the Siberian frontier, Geneal Dutoff is
proceeding in a northeasterly direc-
tion with the object of capturing
Chellabinsk, the junction point of tho.
trans-Siberian railway, in order to pre-
vent food and other supplies reaching
European Russia, especially Potro-
grad, from Siberia and Pacific ports.
Although it has not definitely
aligned itself with the revolutionary
movement, the new republic of Si- >
beria has issued an order that prom-1
ises materially to aid the Kaledines j
forces. This order forbids ihe ship-'
ment of food supplies into European j
Russia, the ground being taken that j
they may reach the Germans.
Armsti'.e In Operation.
From the Baltic sea to the mouth j
of the Danube the armstice between i
the Russians and Roumanians and the
Austro-Germans is still in operation.
An unofficial dispatch from Jassy. the
Roumanian capital, says the armis-
tice is to continue for three months
and that the Teutons have argeed to
all the proposals made by the Rouman-
ians. except that providing that troops
shall not be removed to other fronts.
This proposal is still under discussion.
In the meantime German troops are
being withdrawn and sent to Italy.
4
rtroJi!!lTati'!'.L,r''nt'nni!,J '",X" " in"(i(ly' torn""'' s"('tion of tl,e west frout. bus been converted into
« t , ! . IT* (lrpSsl"K being close to the fighting lines, are the means of saving mnuy lives by
,quick attention to the wounded. 9
HELPING WOUNDED COMRADE WHILE PRISONERS TRAIL ALONG
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frJ'ia Ibh1f"C!erlSt/!C scene ft'ul" the wc'st front showa Canadian soldier helping n wounded comrade back to the
while two German prisoners, only too glad to be captured, follow after quite unguarded.
NEW AMERICAN AIRPLANE BOMBS
RAVEN JOINS BRITISH NAVY
The counter revolt against the Bol-
levlki regime in southeastern Russia
V :
This raven Joined up with the Brit-
ish naval forces In the Mediterranean,
and is now an especial pet aboard one
of the cruisers. Sailors the world
over are very fond of mascots, and al-
ways have them aboard ship if they
can.
Several types of airplane bombs Invented by Americans and adopted by
the United States government are shown in the illustration. The man Is kick-
ing one of the missiles to show that It Is harmless unless Its noso hits some-
thing.
MUCH IN LITTLE
Frauleln Thea von I'attkmer. at-
tached to the Turkish forces operat-
ing In Mesopotamia, Is the only wom-
an war correspondent officially recog-
nized by the German government.
Miss Augusta Seaman of Milwau-
kee. whose father was an officer In
the German ariuy, will purchase and
outflt a Itrd Cross automobile and
drive It herself.
The Central railroad of Georgia em-
ploys 11) women agents, whose duty
it is to solicit and handle all freight
>nd other matters pertaining to this
-nd of the business.
The Grand Falls of Labrador are
the highest In the world—they have
a sheer drop of 2.000 feet. The falls
of Niagara drop 164 feet.
New Zealand, In 1918. slaughtered
3.34S.61S Iambs for food.
Argentina's national wealth Is es-
timated at $9,820,000,000.
Britain has replaced 1.25«.O00 men
In industries by women.
Spalr's commerce In 1016 totaled
*479.072,322. of which $230,664,231
represented Imports.
In some of the cigar stores of Italy
patrons light up from a piece of rope
| which Is hung up in a convenient place
] and allowed to bom slowly.
Annexation of South Sea Islands.
A formal declaration that Japan It
tends to retain possession, after the
war, of the South Sea Islands, now uh-
der her protection, is urged upon the
government by the Tokyo Asnhl. The
new French cabinet hns declared, In
the chamber of deputies, says the To-
kyo Journal, they will not stop fight-
ing until the recovery of AIsace-Lop-
ralne; It Is wise for a nation to de-
clare its alms In prosecuting a war.
Notwithstanding this, some Japanese
bureaucratic stntesmerr make a point
of denouncing the attitude of those In
favor of declaring to the world the
Just and proper demands of the Japa-
nese people, In connection with the
war, lest It hurt the feelings of the
allies. It is a mistake to view a dec-
laration of the Just claims of n nation
as a demonstration of selfish Inten-
tions or breach of International eti-
quette. says the Tokyo paper, and the
Japanese government should follow
the example of the French cabinet and
1 Z ? f ',er,ara,lon «t once as
to Japan s mtentlon to retain posses.
*on of the South Sea Islands a£^£
war and to make other proper rf lmo
Such frank declarations on [he iart
«f belligerents are Important In m!? X
important Juncture. Present ^
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