THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 6, 1917. JtO. 3
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ITS ALL OVER, WE ARE
LOST ADMITS GERMAN
B*in| Convinced of United
SanBSrfRSRS
Pari*, Sept. 2.—"It U a pity that no
much Mood baa been shed in vain."
A German officer, taken priaoner in
the recent French advance north of
Verdun, ia thus quoted by the Echo de
la Rochelte and a staff officer who in
terrogated the German ia (riven as au
thority for the interview. The Ger
man paid homage to the heroic cour
age of the French soldier*, but tried to
discourage the idea that help would be
forthcoming from the United State*.
"Why delude yourselvea with chim
erical hope* and thu* prolong the mur
derous struggle?" he went on. "You
expect irresistible aid from the United
State*. They promiae it, but they will
never give it. We know perfectly in
Germany what to expect as to the in
tentions of President Wilson. He is
playing with you; he will temporize
without ever going whole-hearted into
the conflict.
"When you are hopelessly beaten he
will be the arbiter of the actuation and
will impose a peace that will be ad
vantageous to no one but the United
States of America. H« will never
compromise the Stars and Stripes in
an adventure on your front."
French officers vainly informed the
prisoner that thousands of American
soldiers have landed in France and
England and had marched through the
atreets of Paris and Ixmdon, that a
division of American troops was pre
paring for service at the front; that
other contingents, more important,
would arrive before the end of th£
year and that the United States was
arming millions of men.
"These are only adroit maneuvers
designed to keep up the spirits of the
combatants," replied the prisoner.
The French officer then said:
"We will convince you; you shall l>e
conducted before General Pershing,
the commander-in-chief of the Ameri
can expeditionary forces in France,
now here on the Verdun front. You
can question him yourself and you will
learn whether it is the German people
or us who are being deceived by those
who govern."
When the escort came to conduct
the prisoner before General Pershing,
l>ig tear* rolled down his cheeks and
he remarked sadly:
"Since that in the case, it is all ovar.
We are lost."
M«a tried for Giving
*i Nw 'i W~T ii i—«■
High Point, Aug. ^8.—Ford Gentry,
white, was this morning arraigned be
fore United States Commissioner
Warren G. Brown charged with giv
ing whiskey to United States soldiers
while in uniform. A provost who wa.
patroling the streets Saturday after
noon »» the chief prosecuting wit
nes* and he stated that Gentry har!
given whiskey to the soldiers after be
ing warned not to do so.Gentry, on the
stand, swore that he had no recoilec-'
tion of the affair whatsoever and his
attorneys asked that the defendant be
released as no intent was shown.
Commissioner Brown ruled, however,
'he instructions from t?ie authorities
made it necessary that the young man
be held for his appearance at Federal
court and bond in the sum of $150 was
named.
As a result of one of the frequent
visits Deputy Marshal J. C. Kennett,
of Greensboro, has paid to the city
during the past several days, Floyd
McGhee was arraigned before Com
missioner Brown this looming under
a charge of failing to register accord
ing to the rules and regulations of
the selective service act on June 5.
The evidence in the case pointed to the
fact that the youn^ man really did
nqt know his age and that a few days
ago, as soon as he was assured that
'he was-past 21, he appeared before
' the commissioner and asked to be al
lowed to register. The request was
refused as the matter had gone too
' far.
The deputy marshal was convinced
and so was the commissioner, that the
yuung man was in earnest about his
lack of knowledge and this morning he
was permitted to register, raising the
total in the township tol,772. Like
wise was he recognized for his appear
ance at Greensboro during the next
term of Federal court.
Rocky Mount Man Wounded
In Battle on French Front
Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 8.—Among the
wounded in the list of • isualties in the
Canadian forces in Fr nee announced
here today appears the name of F. W.
Carroll, of Rocky Mount, N. C.
VAST SOLDIER CITIES ARE
ABOUT READY FOR ARMY
AlmMMlrU—PUirty of Pur.
Water.
Washington,.1* apt. 1.—Twelve vast
wldlar c Um, training rampe for a
great portion of the now American
army, in about ready for (weaponry
In southeastern states. In each ramp.
Ntroota have boon laid out water mains
put under ground and hundred* of
frame building* erected against tho
coming during Septeuner of thbua
and* of mon who have boon drawn for
, service in tho national army or who
are to aorve tho nation as soldiers of
tho federalized national guard.
The sites selected by the war de
partment for these groat camp set
tlements are as near ideal as could be
desired frm the standpoint of comfort,
health and convenience to their in
habitants. Special care has been tak
en to insure an adequate supply of
water, in moat cases the adjacent
dties furnishing it from their per
manent stations. Although former
national guard troops are to live most
ly in tents, the number of building*
erected at their camps is pearly as
arge as the national army canton
nents, thus mailing it possible to aen
vert them into cantonments quickly
f necesaary.
Cantonment* are located near Pe
ersburg, Va., Columbia, 8. C., and
\tlanta, and there are national guard
ruard camps in the vicinity of Char
gtte. N. C- Spartanburg and Green
indria. La., and Hattiesburg, Mis*,
('amp IjCC, which will be the tem
>orary home of national army troops
"rom New Jersey, Vlrgmia, Maryland
:nd Delaware, is situated on a high
levation about half way between
etersburg, Va., and Hopewell, the
lushroom city which has sprung up
inee the beginning of the wer because
•f theg reat explosive plant erectcd
(here by the Du Pont company. It
covers 5,500 acres which until recently
were 25 prosperous .'arms. Sixteen
lundred buildings have been erected
it this camp, arranged in ag reat semi
ircle. In the very center is to be
oca ted camp headquarters and a
:reat space has been left open ad
joining it for a drill field.
Each building is large enough to
house an entire company and a de
scription of one answers for all. The
lower floor is given over to the kitch
en and mess hall, and the upper floor
provides sleeping quarters for both
men and officers. The later have a
room to themselves. Quarters have
been provided for 45,000 men.
At this camp it has been necessary
to install a complete waterworks sys
tem and the pump house has • capa
city of 6,000 gallons a minute. Firty
two miles of ditches for water and
sewerage systemsh ave been dug and
fourteen miles of water mains laid.
Although the camp is situated only a
»hort distance from the James river,
3,000 shower bathsh ave been installed
as the weather shortly will be too cold
for river bathing. A large portion of
the reservation at Camp Lee remains
to be cleared and this task will fall to
the soldiers in training.
lamp Jackson, where National
army troop* frmo North and South
Carolina and Tennessee will assemble,
is xituated about four miles northeast
of Columbia. Accomodations have
been provided for 46,COOmen her* al
so and a great city of frame building*
has sprung up on a site embracing
thousands of acres where com and
cotton grew in June. Sine* June 25
mora than 9,000 workmen have bean
constantly at work frtting the camp
ready for occupancy thU month. The
water supply for Camp Jackson will
bo fumahed by the city of Columbia
from ita permanent mtwi. A doeble
truck atraet railway llae baa boon
built frem thee amp ontraaea ta tha
city, and milaa of itoaa railway
tracka kaft baon laid la and out ai
tha camp, connecting it with tha near
est trank line.
Camp Cordon, 9 1-2 milaa north a4
Ttlanta, naar pifturaaqua lilrar Lake,
will bo tho third national army can
ton men t In tha aouthoaat. Hara wilt
ba rtainad tha man drawn by eel active
ronecriptioa from Georgia, Alabama
and Florida. Tha camp ocupioa 1,1M
acroa of gently rolling land and twa
■mall atraama traverae tha alto. Part
of tha raaarration atill la under culti
vation and a portion of it ia wooded.
The city of Atlanta will furniah a wat
ar aupply of 2,600,000 galona daily
from ita pumping utationjind the city
baa >pent (200,000 in runnirg water
maina to tha camp. The buildinga are
aimilar to thoae erected at Camp Lao
anda ccomodationa hava boon provided
for about the aama number of men.
The camp ia aituatod more than threa
milaa diataat from tha end of the near
eat atroet car line running to Atlanta.
A aingle track axtenaion ia being con
structed by the atreot railway com
pany and until thia ia flniahad tha oaly
rail connection between Camp Gordon
and Atlanta will ba provided by the
Southern railway,w hich expect* to
operate a shuttle train aervice. The
city ia making good ito promiae for
(food roada between Atlanta and tha
ramp, however, and the latter will be
of eaay access by automobile.
Camp Grfcnc, the federalized na
tional guard camp near Charlotte, Hen
on* mil* southwest of the city on
plateau ground, high and welt drained.
It* entire area comprise* eight and a
half square miles, moat of it cleared
and affording a fine drill ground. Na
Hampshire, Vermont, MuMCfoMtti,
Rhode Inland, Washington, Oregon,
Montana, Idaho and Wyoming have
been assigned to Camp Greene, al
though other dispositions may be
mad eof the New England soldiers at
an early date.
Camp Wadsworth, the training
ground for New York state national
guardsmen, embraces two thousand
acres of high land three miles west of
Spartanburg on the main line of the
Southern railway. The mountains of
western North Carolina are visible to
ward the northwest. The camp is of
the semi-cantonment type and in
cludes more than 900 frame structures
costing approximately 9 2,000,000.
Spartanburg will furnish the water
supply from its reservoir and pumping
station. Hard surface highways have
been constructed from city to camp.
Camp Sevier lies rour miles north
east of Greenville among the foothills
of the Blue Ridge mountains. To this1
camp have been assigned more than
38,000 national guardsmen from Ten
nessee, North Carolina and South Car
olina and the District of Columbia. It
covers 1.900 acres of well drained land
and the water supply will be furnished
from a reservoir located on Paris
mountain, one of the smaller moun
tains of the Blue Ridge range. The
water is obtained from springs noted
for purity. Two railroads, the South
am and the Tiedmont and Northern,
run near the reservation and solve
transportation difficulties. This ramp
\s of the semi-cantonment type and
nearly 900 buildings have been erected
ir.c-tuding a base hospital which covers
more than 50 acres.
The Camp Hancock site comprises
2,000 acres of high rolling land situ
ated four miles from the center of
Augusta on the sand hills overlooking
the city. The camp will receive Its
water supply from the city pumping
station which is located near the en
trance to the reservation. The Geor
fcia* railroad and an slectric line run
nenr t^tv. camp and the roads leading
to it are mostly city streets. The
ramp site takes in alt of Camp Mc
Kemie, where Pennsylvania troops
were encamped daring the war with
Spiii. Pennsylvania natinaa I pw*
ibU cisp far tniiiic ■—hi
Camp WhoaIt. mm Macoa, «UI ba
the training ramp for national guard
troop* from Georgia, Florida and Ala
bama. It (a situated ftve miloa from
Maeon and coven IMt acrea, Uklad
ing beautiful grovae with a large lake
in the center Divisional headquarters
are located about 200 yarda from the
lak* la the edge of a grove of virgin
pi nee. A great hoepital hae been
erected at the extreme weetern end of
the ramp. Provision haa been made
to accommodate 3M.OOO men in addi
tion to a remount station at which 12,
000 horeoe and mulee will bo eared for
and treated for the service. To the
east of the camp 10,000 acres of land
are available foe an artillery target
range. The water supply will ba fur
nished by the city of Macon from its
pumping station.
Camp Sheridan, to which Ohio na
tional guardsmen have been assigned,
is situated throe miles north of Mont
gomery and covers 2^W0 acres. The
site plan is in the shape of a horse
shoe, with the divisional headquarters
in the center of the upper CToea bar.
It ie located on a plateau of undulat
ing lands with streams cutting the
property in two places. The extreme
northeast and northwestern sections
are wooded. An electric iisa divides
the site and two railroads cut through
the reservation at opposite ends.
Three county highways touch it onj
three sides. The city has extended its
water mains through the camp.
Until winter sets in the soldiers will
live in walled-up tents, but during eold
weatherr they will be more comforta
bly quartered in wooden buildings,
still to be erected. Separated from the
ramp and half a mile removed from it,
on a high knoll, is an immense base
000 horses and mules, is located Just
southeast of the city.
Camp McClellan lies six miles north
east of Anniston in cloa* proximity to
a chain <3? the Blue Ridge mountains.
It embraces lfi.000 acivs of rolling
land and has natural drainage through
out. The water supply comes from
Coldwater Springs, which flows at the
rate of 38,000,000 galons daily. This
camp also is of the semi-cantonment
type. More than 800 large frame
buildings have been erected in addition
to a number of smaller ones. Nation
al guard troops from Maryland, Vir
ginia, New Jersey have been assigned
to this camp.
Camp Shelby, where the Indians,
Kentucky and part of the West Vir
ginia National guardsmen will be
trained for war, has been transformed
in a few weeks from a wild ridge of
cut-ov<,r pine stumps, bushes and
briars intq a hustling troop headquar
ters. It is situated 10 1-2 miles south
of Hattie'burg and stretches about
four miles from headquarters in one
direction and about one mile in anoth
er. The ridge on which it is situated
rises nearly 200 feet above immediate
surrounding territorya nd is 350 feet
above the sea level. Although it is
designated as a canvas camp, about
1,000 buildings have been erected.
(.'amp Beauregard is situated five
m, es from Alexandria, La. in the pine
hil * on the north side of the Red river
It wars several thouaand acres of
roll njr ground and leases have been
obta ted for 60,000 additional acres
for use if needed. The &mp is about
two miles from the state-owned Camp
Stafford, which has been used for na
tional guard encampments. Water is
piped at present from Camp Stafford,
but four artesian wells are being drill
ed for the new camp. National
iruardsmen from Louisiana, Mississip
pi and Arkansas have been assigned to
■this camp.
Has a High Pinion of Chamberlain's
"1 have a high opinion of Chamber
Win's Tablets for biliousness and as a
laxntive." writes Mrs. C. A, Barnes,
Charleston. 111. I have never found
an/thing so mild and pleasant to use.
Mr brother has also used these tablets
with satisfactory results."
COUNTRY TO STRICTLY
RATION THE NEUTRALS.
Dutch VmwU I ii I.J VMi
Grans ia N.w York Ml Per
mitted to SailL
Wuklnitan, Itopt. i.—MtlW—
that the Urn tad State* intends to ra
tion tha northern European nautial
countries in tha strictest fashion, wara
amvi 4udty in the idninioii thst tlM
axporta admlmatrattoe beard haa dia
edty tha Dutch mimater bar* and tha
Haitian relief comraiason for fttriaiaa
hatwaan Holland and Belgium of tha
nearly 100 Dutch grain cargoes haid
in American porta.
Tha first nawi that parmiaaioa far
tha xhipa to aail had boon denied eama
today ia a special dispatch from ftot
tardam. The general understanding
had boan that tha arrangement would
ba approvad and that soma of tha vaa
aala would aail immediately.
The export* board, it waa learned,
will let no food cargoea go to Euro
pean neutrals for at least two months,
or until the American govemman haa
ascertained its own feed requirements
for the year and tha size of crops that
are ot be harvested. All of the neu
trals, it ia held, can feed themselves
without difflculty until thia informa
tion ia available. The United States
wishes to kauw also the size of crop*
to be harveatad in the neutral cotm
triaa thia fall. ■.
It was mail* clear that the United
State* ha* no intention of letting neu
trals go hungry, but emphasis wma
placed on the fact that the govern
ment feel* it* first obligation is to the
American people and to the allies.
A counter-proposal that haa barn
made to the Dutch, which the other
neutrals are invited to accept, is that
all neutral vessels now in America*
lia and Java for wheat and sugar.
These cargoes would be brought back
to the United States and divided be
tween the United States and the neu
trals.
American government officials feel
that in asking the United States to
supply them with foodstuffs, the neu
tral* should be willing to increase the
general supply of food.
Most of the Dutch ships in Ameri
can ports are loaded with corn, which
has spoiled and is fit now only for cat
tle feed. This was taken into consid
eration by the experts board which
held that the need for cattle feed is
much greater now in the United
States than in Holland.
It is not known how the neutrals
will look on the suggestion that all
their ships, numbering about 150, dis
charge food cargoes, but it is known
that Chevalier Van Rappard, the
Dutch minuter, does not view it with
favor. Mr. Van Rappard takes the
position that his government already
is making great concessions in offer
ing to share its food cargoes with the
Belgians.
Chance For the Privates
Enlisted men in the national army,
Nulional Guard and regular army will
lie given every opportunity to fit them
selves for commissions, says an an
nouncement from Washington. This
in line with the fixed policy of the gov
ernment to take no more officers or
officer candidates from civil life after
the second series of officers' training
camps, now in progress, has been com
pleted. Thereafter all additional offi
cers needed will be found in the ranks
of the various branches of the war
army.
To carry out this plan, it has vir
tually been decided to establish an
officers' school at each of the divis
ional training camp*. Men from the
ranks who show qualifications will be
sent to these schools. With staff*
and French and British officers of ex
perience on the firing lines on d»ty
at each camp as advisors, an unuswal
opportunity for lecture courses will
he presented.