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PUBLIJHED D.ZLY under order of THE PRESZDENT of THE UNITED S'TATEr by COMMITTEE on PUBLIC ZNFORMATZON GEORGE CREEL, Chairman * COMPLETE Record of U. .. GOVERNMENT Activities LVOL. 2 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1918. ' No. 384 STATE COUNCILS OF DEFENSE 2 SHIPS, 9 SCHOONERS SUNK "TIME TO HIT HARDEST" URGED BY PRESIDENT WILSON BY U-BOATS OFF NEW ENGLAND AS AID TO U.S. DEPARTMENTS SAYS MAJ. GEN. MARCH British and Swedish Steamers OF ALLIED VICTORIES; LETTER TO SECRETARY OF WAR Go Down and. U. S. Fishing Fleet Is Destroyed. ENEMY RUNNING" Economy and Utility Provided by "KEEP The Navy Department has received the System in Helping With War the following reports of submarine ac- FOE NOW "GUESSING" Work Pointed Out-Effciency of tivities! The British steamship Penistone was Still Much Territory to be OrganizationAppreciated. torpedoed by a submarine at 12.15 p. m. on August 11, 100 miles east of Nan- Gained, However, and The State councils section of the Coun- tucket, Mass. cil of National Defense authorizes the A Swedish steamship was reported None Should be Deceived publication of the following correspond- bombed and sunk at 4.30 p. m. on August into Belief that War is ence between the President and Secretary 8, about a hundred miles southeast of of War Baker: Nantucket. The crew was rescued by a Over-Reason for More TiE WHITE HousE, British vessel. Washington, July 30, 1918. Fishing Fleet Attacked. U. S. Man Power -Loca- My DEAR MR. BAKR: I have read tion of American Divisions with great interest The fishing schooner Helen Hurley your account of four the achievements of the State coun- has reached an Atlantic port with and Commanders Dis- cils of defense and your general sum- survivors from the crew of the fishing mary of the activities in which they schooner Kate Palmer. The crew of the cussed in Press Interview. are now engaged. It is a notable latter reports that a German submarine record, and I shall be glad to have came to the surface in the middle of a Press interview by Gen. March August fishing fleet off the Massachusetts coast 10, 1918: you express to the State councils my sank the Kate Palmer, the Anita appreciation of the service they have and Surveying the battle line broadly you May, the Reliance, the Star Buck, the see that the line along the Vesle has re- so usefully rendered. I am par- Progress, and four others whose names ticularly struck by the value of ex- mained just as it was the last time I tending are unknown. talked to you. There have been a num- our defense organization into The survivors of the Kate Palmer the smallest communities and by the ber of places where we have beenii nib- truly democratic character of a na- were taken aboard the German subma- bling along the river front acquiring a rine and held Itisoners one hour and foothold on the northern bank, but have tional system so organized. set adrift in a dory. I believe in the soundness of your then not yet attempted to go up the slopes on contention that in the interest of the north side where German intrench- economy and efficiency such ma- Total U. S. Loans to Allies. ments are supposed to be. That part of chinery as that provided by the State the line has remained stationary. As council system for the execution of Is Now $6,492,040,000 the line has become stationary Foch has many kinds of war work should be kept up his pressure on the enemy, work- utilized as far as possible by Federal The Treasury Department authorizes ing on the perfectly sound principle that departments and administrations. the following: when you get an enemy going you keep May I suggest, therefore, that you The United States Treasury has ex- him going; never give him a chance to communicate to the heads of all such tended additional credits of $100,000,000 recuperate or think it over; keep on departments and administrations my to France, $9,000,000 to Belgium, and' hitting him. wish that when they are considering $3,000,000 to Serbia. The total of credits British and French Attack. extensions of their organization into advanced to our associates In the war the States or new work to be done in against Germany is now $6,492,040,000. On August 8 a combined British and the States, they determine carefully French force, commanded by Field Mar- whether they can not utilize the State shal Haig, attacked on a front of 20 council system, thus rendering un- 500,000 Bayonets, 2,000,000 miles east of Amiens. This terrain is necessary the creation of new ma- flat, almost level, and while some time chinery; and that they transmit. all Army Mess Knives Ordered ago there were small clumps of woods, requests for action by the State coun- all of those undoubtedly had been lev- cils through the State councils sec- The War Department authorizes the eled long ago by artillery fire,.so we can tion of the Council of National De- following from the Ordnance Depart- count that country as practically level fense? ment: with very little natural impediment to Cordially and sincerely, yours, The Ordnance Department has placed an advance. There are a few valleys WoonRow WILSON. orders with Landers, Frary & Clark, of perpendicular to the front of our advanc- Hon. N. D. BAxER, New Britain, Conn., for 500,000 bayonets ing armies instead of paralle to it, so - Secretary of War. and 2,000,000 Army mess knives. The that the advancing troops dan go right price for the knives, 10i cents, is the throught the valleys. Secretary Baker's Letter. lowest ever paid. Enemy Taken by Surprise. Seeretary Baker's letter to the Prbsi- The dent follows: 106,860 GIVEN FARE WORK. enemy were apparently taken by surprise and made no essential resist- CouNeI OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, In. the six months from the 1st of ance in the center, confining their strong Washington, July 24, 1918. February to the 1st of August the Em- -resistance to the flanks. They made a MY DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: ployment Service of the Department of counter attack toward the north of this As chairman of the Council of National Labor directed to actual employment on advance, and retook part of the ground Defense, I beg to report to you the note- the Nation's farms a total of 106,860 that had first been taken by the British. (Continued on page 8.) permanent farm workers. Hitting the big salient there on a 13-mile 2 THE OFFICIAL U. S. BULLETIN: MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1918. front we pushed it in an average of 8 - miles, and reduced it from an outer salient to an inner salient. That gives us a salient somewhat corresponding to President Wilson Issues An Appeal the Miarne salient and places the enemy again in a bad position. The advance to allPersons Engaged in Coal Mining of the British and French at this point comes up so that they are getting into Asking New control, or threatening, the railroad line Effort to Increase Output of communications which at that point runs up from the Montdidier seator to The President has issued the following appeal: Chaulnes. To All Those Engaged in Coal Mining: On the Flanders Salient. The existing scarcity of coal is creating a grave danger -in fact, the most serious which confronts us-and calls for prompt and xigorous action on ihe On the Flanders salient the enemy, on part of both operators and miners. Without an adequate supply our war pro- August 9, was withdrawing on southern gram will be retarded; the effectiveness of our fighting forces in France will b sector of the salient, south of Merville, lessened; the lives of our soldiers will be unnecessarily endangered and their and British occupied that territory. Gen- hardships increased, and there will be much suffering in many homes throueh- eral effect of these movements is straight- out the country during the coming winter. ening out of the line everywhere. Have not yet, of course,* gotten back to the Let .Every Kan-and Boy Do Best. original Hidenburg line of defense where I am well aware that your ranks have been seriously depleted by the draft, the German began his advances this by voluntary enlistment, and by the demands of other essential indu i'. year. We still have some territory to This handicap can be overcome, however, and sufficent coal can be mined in sp;t, gain, so when statements appear in the of it if every one connected with the industry, from the highest oflicial to the papers that indicate the war is over at youngest boy, will give his best work each day for the full imunbor of work that point, discourage it. This is the hours. The operators must be zealous as never before to bring about the hi he L time for the greatest effort; keep the efficency of management, to establish the best possible working conditions, and enemly running. That is the reason the to accord fair treatment to everybody, so that the opportunity to work at ls United States is being called upon for best may be accorded every workman. The miners should report for work every increased man power; that is the reason day, unless prevented by unavoidable causes, and should not only stay in the we xvant the age limits of the draft both mines the full time, but also see to it that they get more coal than e er before.