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FOURTH YEAR 01 'i.<, . TWELVEMONTH AND CONCERN COE t fiii ibJin iLUAAift i'i'Jj L ' i bA i L i UVi Lit j Jl * A Complete and ( uin; Great World War at the i Year of Its Ten It Oi I" jrii i <H\ thi v, U HI KOTO Kvents big with have marked tin* icb navi war has been h<»pc and the Entent* Alliu t vi ».• It w tria d< ning the great HU 1. V that in occurred! been of even greati influence up* on the 11 | ■ i the collapse, the Itttban urn ii, the Germans itupeiidou «iii* and the w tioriH that have i checked the eliem; •d near him seei nt li; d hi the mrld brea ing the Higmfic; actual theatres of the v full participate) volving the trs of more than a mil I i in it must remain sportat a* men t< for all t lUtHtanding great fourth year of the struggle, ll j up America that the Entente j ni . fen for the tide. t cn a A year ago the number ol Aim i troops going to Ei gun to assume large p •guiar* and hi Guard but moat of the big mslil. cum pH men to be called to t |h < o|i citizens' i bad l>< ■y tra: •re Htlll being bti.it :<*ot Jill clothes, of August ol 11H7, Hi ' tolal nuini of Aniera was 2li,lo't Soon nt In r I but d.it <■ In ioidlers taken ove of troops ands were despatched am. bin tic, during tiie winter it was not until the gival fensive was started late in Mutch HUH that the L*d. AI all ths, •eniellt beg; tl 'ally Mute sumo The figure fm the inomiii Ii-hi.i An »rthy pro| I, 111!/, to July 1, IUlH, foil August 18, i'J.I; .September 8,840; January February 48,02'/; March s. .. 11. \pnl 117,212; May 244,315; Jui On July I. ]HIM there were i t, American marines in Kram , . , I Inin the total number troops in that co try and Italy up I During the recent France the work October 38,g.»0; Decern be 1,010,11. '.lit in.:.; f till' Ament; diers has compareil favorably of other lighting men in tne They have held : colors here . n I along the front, and tor. hold by Americans, wti also tiie Meuse, part phase of the Germ; . m the Chuten held their line it • m Alsac •thwnrd in tin The famous St. .dill,cl the line along the height Fa t ot It x im tlioy Im tbc lighting during dm hi I fl'Il.llVC, I merry vital in against the utmost I'my tonic onslaught. Nortli if ( hati-. Thierry, Americans helped to the drive of the tGermans days of June; and in tor, at (JflnUiiy and have gi\ en proof ol th the earl the Somme limy ernes qualities. The Allies have been called upon to face two great offensives during the past year. The first of th last October in Italy and the , < in France, beg; German drives a rated by penoi to several weeks, h, ed as different phases of the &am offensive. The abortive Austrian it tack against Italy in June also i looked upon at against the western 1 rout and not a a distinct military operation. But these offensives perhaps n vn would have been begun bad u not been for the collapse of Russia dur March 21. bile se Is of from a lew •e been c •roly thor attack the past winter. Germ; trian troops, released from the K\. aian front, were taken to Fr. Italy to swell the mm c; of no hurled against the Allies in the We tern theatre of operations. As Ion as Russia remained m the light s)u held great number of Teutonic troops I her withdrawal ft Aus in the East, i the war exercised fluenee on the course of le nient. fund: entiil ... de.eiop. SITUATION \ M:\R ALO. The year opened with tiie fortunes of war apparently favoring the Fnten te. The British hud forced back L.e Germans to the famous llindvnki'-; line. '1'he French had establisluni themselves firmly along the t hemin des Dames, north of the Aisnc echoes of N'erdun were still the knell of German hopes in tna; sector of the battle area. The Ital ians were holding their lines along the Isonzo. The rejnveuuted Russian "regiment of July First* 'had carried the war far into the Austrian defenses in Bukowinu and Galicia. Through August and September,! 1917, there came rumors that Russ was exhausted by the war. and quiet settled down along the lines from ti e gates of the Uarpulhians of th,* ihu tie. Stories were heard of frater-! nization of German troops but asuratices ci trograd that Russia would stand true to her allies. Russia ' fl'U! FALL Ol FF.Nril\ E IN ITALY. The German ni Austrian High to fur Commands had no illusion ther Russian belligerency tic tv came to the Allies reports that ti Central Empires were taking the pit of their force from the Russian front and concentrating them for a drive the wes Then came intimations ' aimed against against part of the line , tern theatre, that the blow was Italy. The storm broke at Capon-:to on 1 Oct. 26 and almost immediately tl. whole Italian line was throw dieor.-.r. Pouring through tlu es, where in some instance.- uisurte, . Pus ... ftt Italian troops held positions, the into up . :<*ot l: *•! 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Aim i ■ V ull luve it to, - n >d for th Cf/3 is l be J) X /..77 3g tl n ■ir m Coming N. } # s Mgm Sold ii bolt] sd casct ManvfectoreJ hy * TENNESSEE BEVERAGE COMPA2CV T \ ' < L 1 n; r lei lure* (;uo( ::r uumfanv D1STRUU TORS. ■Jil) •V.- m-js .*• 7 tWKarsafl • — ! i ter b .u Thi- L 1 an a in die to t »f 1 i :»r cm by the treaty of I>« \!- D ! ..n on July 0 and is still in e year British fores in t iif German forces before • r:i»an r.~.-t Africa and in : ...t.iWist Africa and final i ihcra to disperse or sur - ' took from Germany t s *.f t- vast colonial possessions her when the war began. \;:im: warfare. » I s*, year has b<*en marked - i «.i decline of submarine . compared with the number b ;i" built by th? Entente rations of (he British in i an destroyers have spread i• i 'A" the "wasps of the sea a great ni ne field compared in b t e British navy converted y i:ie whole North sea into» cio.-ed against U-boat acti-1 W add * t ' r " u Y a ^ alnst Entente i her sealed entirely ca valuele.v, as sub , oaring naval and air tne British in Mav. j ubmarines vnsited Ameri hrrb*rv f Zeebrugge and Oi fruin which German submarines Tin b ViS IN AMERICAN WATERS.' :■ in June and sank at least the field of the U'-boat being the North New t 4.-v south of the Virginia .t. . .y half way to the he . .. Un.ted States transport ■ aig troops to Europe i uscaiiiu, which was torpe • trie- north coast of Ireland* •• with a loss of 212 men. .'HUMS SINK. ! r the year eleven hospital _ i .vc been sunk by submarines, 'i and most flagrant case of atari of tiie Geneva Conven v the destruction of the Brit- of •i : *dier Llandovery Castle, car adian nurses and doctors. 1 con June 27, only f the 258 persons on to ■nig rescued . | Burmudas. arr • fi .1 ..is \ Lion bei b 1 his took pu L 1 i. i iAl snipping reported sunk ted • -'"C.iim 1, lUl/, is more than u, r tills destruction of ship-' Abies have combined their opacity. The actual num-1 ah.pping launched and put | ■'.ce has not been published.' you announcements* have been the On July our t at more ships are being w.-seis were launched at IN >i ViTLE. I has fignunK has entailed tor most of tne belliyer- not i • urnthe drive into Italy last and * u- 1 .November the Teutonic claimed the capture of more in tiie German ■ins in 1-ranee • thi/year about law no French, British, American 11 . ue: e were reported to have taken prisoners. j u to these losses arc the casu-1 ui killed and wounded. No de -1 Unite Jigures have been issued by j an ■ n.v and Austria but it has been the . i *d on what appears to be good, an an it \ that in tne fighting from . i,i 'al till June 14 the Germans ' in The toiis. mining of Dii.cia in the recent past, however, to i t ina . are being sunk. a shipyard Uc ■ ' .mo Italians. an »f le t ii 500,000 men. ir.d British losses were con .mailer as the Allies were cred for relief] from entrenched positions. 1 i. -i AA IAL ASPECTS. I he United States has floated three' v h L i.e.ty Loans. The proceeds ih *c loans have aggregated $10, 88,54.1.900. I he total war cost to ; States, according to latest i !<lv figures, is $13,800,000,000. . ,iu> nation entered the war it tended credits to the Allies •>* it-gr.gating $6,091,590,000. I the i he Lota I cost of the war to Eng-1 ,K ' up ' to December 15, 1917, was ! i2,000,0001bs., while French of credit are somewhat smaller, doubt are - stage when I>« . D latest reports the total of ■»( PRESIDENT WILSON DENOUNCES - s MOB SHiiii -AND muB ACTION AS 'BLOW AT LAW AND HUMANE JUSTICE ■ While He Dees Me Refer Specifically to Lynch ings of Negroes in the South, It U Known That Be Included Them in His Charact erization cf the Mob Spirit. WASHINGTON, July 2G -President W 5 Ison today in a r md st it .-m nt add re ml to his fellow countrymen, denouncing mob spirit and m b action, ca IM upon the nation to -how the worW that while it fights for Demo crac y on the foreign field*, it is not j destroying Ihimoc,at home. The president referred not alone to mob action against tho. suspected of being enemy aliens or enemy symno thizers ;he denounced more emphati cally mob action of ail mrts, ospec ia'lv lynching.-,, and wh.le he did not refer specifically to lyrichings of ne groes in the south, it i h; own that he included them in h - e!uu;i-tenza tion of mob spirit as "a blow at the heart of ordered law ami humane jus tee." It is known that the lyn< h : ngs of negroes, as well as attavi unmi those ! suspected of being < u-ni^ - r sym _ pathizers, have been u.-wl by the man pronagnnda throughout central and South America, as well as ir, Eu rope, to contend that the pretension - of the United States as a champion of Democracy are a sham. Deeply «*on 1 cemed by the situation the president decided to address his countrymen* and to declare that ''every moi) contri | bates to German lies about the Uni ted States what her most gi 'tod liars cannot improve upon by way of cal u, ™y•" Tne president's statement in full follows: "My fellow countrymen: | "I take thi- liberty of a ldressing you upon a subject w affects the honor of the i the very character and our institutions that I tru.-t you will j think me justified in speaking very r plainly about it. * j "1 allude t.. the mol. spi.-it which I has recently here and there wry fre fluently shown it- head umonp.-t us, not in any single region, hut in many and widely separated par.s of the country. There have been many lyn -1 filings, and every one of them has been a blow at the heart o.' ord- red law and humane justice. No man who . loves America, no man who really | cares for her fame and honor and j character or who is truly loyal to her institutions, can justify mob action -1 while the courts of justice are open j an d the governments of the states and the nation are ready and able to do their duty. "We are at this very moment figlit ' in t-' lawless passion. Germany has outlawed herself among the nations because she has disregarded the sa eh s • vitally .-•tion and integrity of , cred obligations of law at lynchers of her armies. Lynchers emulate her disgraceful example. L for my part, am anxious to see every ha» marie - - $10, Germnn war loans approximated to latest $*H,000,000,000. INTERNAL DISOHDEKri. it There have been numerous reports Allies •>* disorders in countries engaged I the war. Riots and bloodshed have Eng-1 ,K ' en wporied from Germany and was ! Austria many times during the past lining and summer and there is little doubt that the Slavic races of Austria are seething with discontent. -- Ireland came to the tenter of the stage in this connection early iii May, when a pro-German plot was detected but nipped in the bud, with the arrest | of seventy-eight leaders of the Sinn Fein. Recently disaffection was r- outer!! against the British in South Africa, but it has apparently been stumped out. During the year one ruler of a belligerent country died. The death of the Sultan of Turkey was announc ed in June, subsequent reports inli | mating he had been murdered. : ASSISTANCE FOR RUSSIA. | Since the collapse of Russia, the ! Allied nations have sought to find a way to assist the people who are be ing'exploited by the Germans. French Brutish and American forces have been landed on the Murman or Kola pen insula, on the north. They have not actively interviewed, however, being there only to protect Allied pro erty which had been landed at the port of Kola before Russia withdrew from ; the Entente Alliance. I In Siberia there is a well-defined anti-Bolsheviki movement which has been built up around Czecho-Slovak prsoners of war who armed them selves and inflicted defeats on the Bolsheviki. been set up there under General Hor vath, president of the Chinese Eastern Railroad. Japanese, British and Am i erican marines 'have been in the city of Vladivostock for months. I NEUTRALS. j Countries which are not engaged in ' the war have suffered during the twelve months, Switzerland ami Hol land, being adjacent to Germany, have been threatened by the Central Pow ers a number of times in matters re lative to economic concession, land especially, has been beset with difficulties, and at present the Allies are protecting against her exporting supplies to Germany. Norway has signed an agreement with the United States by which com mercial relations may be canned on. Sweden has been dealing openly with Germany and has been threatened i with a virtual boycott by Great Brit - ain. Both nations have lost severely through the depredations of German , submarines. *• j Denmark is in a serious plight also ! and it has been reported that thei-e is 1 great suffering among tiie .people of that, country. : NEW BELLIGERENTS. J Three new countries have declared I war on Germany during the vear. They are Costa Rica, Guatemala'and! I H&yti. The Argentine, although a break became of the machinations of von I.uxburg, the German ambas sador at Buenos Ayres, has taken no step in that direction, remained neutral. ONE MONARCH DIED. A new government has Hol itear Mexico has •" 'ft ty n America rise above th-,* level, with pride and a fiy e ,j lesolu nt ti- 1 which no man or set of men can' afford to despise. n "We n:«H y claim to b*» the . harm piun- «.f Democracy. If we really >» ■ ,«| nr d 'n truth, In us ,,, to it that we do not discredit our own I say plainly that every AmeriZ to v.iio Lake- part in the action r.f a moh of or gives any sort of countenance i „ . . is no true son of this great Democracy but its betrayer and does more to discredit her by that single disloyalty to her ■.fandurds of law and of right than tic* v-rds of her statesmen or of the sa-.-rificc-s of her heroic boys ?n the tre.r. he* con do to make suffering peoples believe her k> be their S av iour. How shall we recommend Dem o racy to th * acceptance of other peo of j>'. s, f we disgrace our Own by prov ii g that it is, after all, no protection to th weak? Every mob contributes to Geranan lies about the United States what her most gifted liars can 1 t improve upon by the way of cal - um*i>. They can at least say that of such things cannot happen in Ger many, except in times of revolutions when law i swept away. 'I therefore very earnestly and sol. emnly beg that the governors of all the stat the law officers of community, and, above all, the men ar.J women of every community in the United States, all who revere America and wish to keep her name without stain or reproach, will co-operate— not pa m j "I have called upon the nation to r put its great energy into this war and j jt has responded—responded with a ; irit and a genius for action that ha-, thrilled the world. I now call up on it, upon its men and women every, v 1 ere. to see to it that its laws are kept inviolate .its fame untarnished. -1 J,i ; t ns show our. utter contempt for the things that have made this war hide-ms among the wars of history . l y showing how those who love lib | erty, right and justice and are willing lay dov/n their lives for them ' every vely merely, but actively and .ally, to fhake an end of this di graceful evil. It cannot live where t community does not countenance of , it. upon foreVn fields, stand ready also to il 1 listPHi' 1 to all mankind their loyalty to the th A at home which they wish to see established everywhere hie.--.s:n:r and protection to the peoples wh.o ha e never known the privileges of liberty and self-government. '1 can never accept any champion of, liberty either for - Ives or for the world who does-not rev, i nee and obey the laws of our iv beloved land, who e laws we our v( - ha e made. lie has adopted 'e standards of the enemies of his country, whom he affects to despise. 'WOODROW WILSON." as a man as a our L j in and past the For Indigestion, Constipation oi Just try one 50-cent bottle of LAX-FOS I WITH PEPSIN. FLIES NEVER BOTHER. In the summer flies worry an ant Get a bottle of Farris' Healing Remedy—costs but pint worth $2.00. wound. mai. 50c—makes a Apply it to the Flies will not bother it. Get t terlay. You may need it tomorrow. We sell it. DUNN COMMISSION CO. 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