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fOL. XLl MO 0X1 AIRY, JfOBTM OA BO LI YA, THUBSDAt. DECEMBER It, 1919. LETTERS OF INTEREST FROM OUR SOLDIERS I.ctter Ami Jim !■■■■ to Ma hlWr, of M—I Airy. Sufii«wh«rr in Franca. Oct. IS. 1918. D*<r Knther Just • few linae to I at you haar from me I urn enjoying life and health just Una ami 1 am proud U> haar that you all ara enjoying health no well •ml only hope you all will <ontinua. I am ry>t alloyed to aav anything ■ about tha war. I am -goliwr to nay thia murh, we have the Hun on the run. and he la liahla to Rtay on the ran. And I am «ure all ara rejoicing over what we ara doing for the Gar man*. and I nm thankful that I ram* over here. Thin war will ■o'm be over and all of u* boy* that ara coming home will xooii ha at home. When I grt home ' want to work on the farm, I have Man enough of thu world. Only wiah 1 could tall you Iota of what I have *aen. I am mire vou would he nurprined, wa all thought that thia war wr.» had enough to he .it homo and reading about It. You cant tall anything about it. not hy reading tha paper*. I am thank ful tlict I hr.ve been *o murh help to my country. And you ran In thankful more *o than I. I am fitting in a dug out writing and it ha* liaan raining *.id believe me it la ome muddy. Jim Baldwin and Hob MidkilT are the only one* that are with me from Mount Airy. Thev are getting along fine. I nm not n hit ch cken hearte<r. for it will not do to get that way. 1 have got my nerve and will have It till I die. We have lot* of fun we make thing* funny whan they are not, for we have got to havo *ome amuaa . lent, and we nevar *e« anything that ia funny only priaonar*. and that ia lot* nt fun. I often th'nk of home, but never get home *ick. T have not heard any thing except gun* for • montii or more. I *uppo*« I will get reel lonexome when T get whare I can't hear them, any wav I won't kick I on being whara I can't hear them. I have got a 1100.00 I rould *«nd home, | but I im afrnid to Martj|t lot* of tha bay* have aeht money and havent ever heard from it. I am going to *aa jny commanding officer about sending Lftlrr from Chaa. K. Harrell. to Ilk mother. Mr». J. M. Harrell, of Wh.l* Plaina, N. C Somewhere in Franca Oct. 28, 1918. Dear Mother: Will take great pleasure in writing |M to night. An feeling Una and enjoying myiiolf the beet I nave nince I arrived over neaa. Am having plen ty to eat and extra good plare to ■Wep. Sergeant Yatea and mvmelf lave a nice room, coeta u» one franc • night or 20 cent*. Have been hara ten day* cant tell how long we will •tay here, the longest we have etayed in hny plare ia three week*. I went to town yesterday, saw Walter Kidd, told him about you neeing hi* father, 1m had a letter from ——— itnce he •ITived ovemean. Waa glad to hear ef Brady waa getting along line with his work, hopa he will get to stay with It. Write me all the new*. Latter from Charlie McCrmw to Ms mother of Round Peak. N. C. Dor Mother: 1 wilt write a few lines to lot you hsar trom me. I am welt at thi» time. I have not heard a word from you yet, hut I am in hope* will soon. You don't know how much good it would do me to ret a few line* from home. I heard from Bro. Billie the other day. Said he was well and having a flne time. I have seen no corn growing: sinew left the state*, they don't raise corn over here, they raise wheat and potatoes. Say Mama, 1 you must not study about me, for I am alright. The Cord ic with me. I have put all my trust in the Lord. He will look after me and I feel he will stay with me. There are eight of us boys together and you bet we •re having a fine time. We have the best Lieutenant you ever saw, he is iust a little fellow, his name is Mr. irowuing you bet he is a good one. You moat sow a big crop of wheat, you can ralfce that better than you can corn. Have you got both mules yet? 1 want you to keep them, for I am coming back and farm. So here I go* to bed sweet dreams to you all. Letter from Kephas Lewis to his sister, Mrs. W. F. Lambert, of Brim. Oct. 19, 1918. Dear sister: I am well and getting on all right, but our work is rather hard. I have lust returned from the front, 1 have been over the top four times, and am living yet, but it is a horrible place to go. hut I trust in God to bring me home some day. I hope it won t be long now, but it is hard to tell when the end will come. 1 hope you all are well and enjoy ing life. There is no pleasure here, we never know when Sunday comas except by looking at ths calendar, but I hope jow day to be out where 1 can reet on the Sabbath day. I am in a town where ws drove the Germans from a few days ago, and the happiest people I ever saw were the French people that were here. They dtdnt even know that America was helping them until we came into tike town. They just held to as snd cried for Joy. You ran imagine how I felt to m them free. I tno.ight if it »tc you no opia u**r there how It would be When wo told thorn th*t they could writ* thoir pooplu 'hoy jumped for joy for thoy hod not heord from hunt in four year*. Will I will rlooo for thin time, will wnto «oon if nothing happena, goodbye with lota uf iova to all. Latter from HfL E. M. Jonea to Ma Mother. Mra. M. A. Jonea, uf Mount Airy. Nov. 12. 1»1B. Doareat Mother: Well I certainly am enjoying my telf thia week, way down in aoutharn i nr. r on u won day leave. It *uro U a great place here, waa a famous health reBort before tho war, lota "f hotel* here. The (J. S. haa taken thorn and fixed up for the boy a. They aura do trout u» fne hero, nice bodi, meala and hot hatha any time you wont lhi-m. Wi*h you all could bo hera with mo. We romo down here from tho Unea a roupla of daya ago. I here wan u great time here yenter day, when Ihey heard the Huna had agreed to the allioa peace. Ix>ta of flagH flying, band* playing, people all Mit in xtroet and lota of U. fv noldiora here aUo. I wan clone to Albert the other day, but didn't know it at tho time. Letter from W. Ed. Newton to hU Father, R. H. Newton, of Mount Air;. X. E. F. Sept. 28. 1918 Dear Pap*: itoceivnj your letter today and was more than glad to hear from you. I 5ue.-:i you all have been hearing of le ifcm<l work we are doing over here now. All you have to do la turn a bunch at "SaonniM" loose and the German* are fon«t I had a letter from Bob a few ago, he is Komewhere over here, but I don't know iuat whore. ( havo Iota to toll you all when I ret back and I don't think that will l» such a lone long time. I went to the front night be could only toll you all that I wanted to I would be writing until tomorrow night this time, and then there would be a few things left out. I wish you could nee our mlleU in which we Bleep they are not quite a* nice a* the Blue Ridge Inn but, they certainly do sleep good to a soldier. Well as it is getting about bed time I will close. TURKISH FLEET NOW IN HANDS OF ALLIES Black Sea FW Alto Eric Gad dm Speaks on Part taken by British Navy in Um War. London, England.—An oAcial ad miralty announcement read*: "All the Turkish warships have surrendered to the Allies and are now interned in the Golden Horn. Hie Goe ben (re named by the Turks the Sultan Ta mer Selim) also surrendered and la now lying at Stenia »on the Bosphor us). "The Russltn men-of war in the Black Sea Acs which wcr- manned by the Germans have now been handed over to the allies. They consist of the drcadnaugh Volga and cix de stroyers. "Four German submarines have been token over, three of which will be se.it to Ismid (on the Sen of Mar mom, 56 miles southeast of Constan tinople.)" Wednesday—Speaking of the work of the British Navy during the war. Sir Eric Geddes, Firm Lord of the Admiralty, in an address in London today, declared that the sea-power of the British Navy, from the very out break of the war. assured the freedom ot the world by its efforts. He pointed out that it was the assic'arure of the navy which had en abled coal, food and munitions to be sent to Italy and France, while Great Britain's own munitions for the western frent had been carried on the back of the navy. It was the navy which had enabled the British expeditionary force to be conveyed to France, in which operations more than 16,000,000 men had been con voyed, with a total loss, from all causes, of less than 6000 men. It «u the navy, he continued which enabled the operations to be carried on in Mesopotamia, Macedonia and Palestine and which had brought about a condition of things which re sulted in the breakdown of Bulgaria, while behind the navy was the block ade which crushed the life out of the ( Mitral rowers and made them sue for peace. Fran 1*14 to 1917, he staUd, the te.ith cruiser squadron h.id kept under guard a stretch of sea 800 miles long from the Orkneys to Ireland and had intercepted 15,000 ships taking sup plies to enemy countries. Although this work had been accomplished for the most part at night or in bad light, leas than four per rent of veaelx sue reeded In passing the lines of the blockade. ALL BUT REGULARS BACK BY MIDSUMMEJt Tli'rt i ■■ ,1.,, ^ -* ■ imii L/iTitioni LompriMt Aawrku Army oi Occupa tion ; March Gbai HctWw. Washington, Dee. 7,—Eight of th« It dtviaUna comprising the American third armv, now approachta* tlM Rhine. aithoi are national guard or national army troop*, aad there 1a ■vary raaaon to believe that thay will ha >mi American tall again by mid lummtr. Ganaral Man h. chief of atalf, an nounce today ha anticipated no dif luulty la getting these units home within four montha aftar peace ha* been eetabliahad formally by proclam ation. I'm.ideni Wilson, in his r««ent addrcaa to < imgreaa, said tha aaaaiona at tha ronfaranca probably would ha rnnduded by spring and bcsad urn this aatimnta of tha time, General March's ■tatamant waa aaceptad to maan that than* force* would ratum during tha •unuaer. Two national guard dlvisiona, tha 32nd and 42nd, and two of tha na tional army, tha M9th and WKh, now ira in tha front Una of Major Gan aral Dlckman'a army of occupation which waa wihtin 20 milaa of the ithine laat night, according to Gen oral Pershing a report. Tha 28th and 33rd national guard and the 79th na tional army are in the second line, rnnatituting the reserve whch is oc rupyini{ Luxemburg and various rail rantars in Franca, including Mont medy, Longuyon, Etain and St. Mihial fhe flrr.t Triird, Fourth and Fifth reg ulars comprUe the remainder of the advancing dlviaiona are with the ra te rve. All Hark hy HMauniarr The estimate a* to the possibility that all except regular diviaiona will have lw«n withdrawn from France by midaummer ia huaed on GeQpral March* reply to a ouaation aa to atepa neceaaary to obtain an axtenaion of tha enlistment period for man in tha irmy of occupation. "Tha law aliout the men who wara raised in tha national army ia that they muat be diacharged four montha ifter tha declaration of peace," ha ■aid. "That, 1 think, alao waa ex tended to inrlade men who made vol untary enlistment* in tha regular irmy. I won't have any difficulty in bringing hack from France tha ao *alled national army diviaiona in tiwr nonht* after the daclaration of peaca. It it entirely pnaaibla that we wSTl tava to aak Congrea* for aome mod lAcationa of the law to provide a oager period for tha unite fkkfc will wen, General March aaid, ipeciflcally assigned for earl* retam iv General Pershing. Including in the additional unite reported today ire 1,42*1 officer* and 29,381 men, tha argeat organization* mentioned be iw the flald artillery 'irigade* of the itn < regular) and 92nd (national may—negro) diviaiona and tha Mtth ind 34«th infantry regimenta fro* he 87th (national army) division. rW remainder of the liat conaiata argely of auxiliary diviaional troope. Largaet Unit Yet. The M infanry ia numerically the largeat unit yet ordered haaia. ihowing 77 officers and S.182 men. Diacuaaing demobilization of the force* at home. General March aaid ■olloge men other than thoee ia tU :er*' achoola which were being abaa loned would receive no preference aa M the time of their discharge. The irder of demobilization providing that -ombet diviaiona be d<abanded laat, he aaid haa net been altered. "The systnm ia working at a very much greater speed," General March wid, referring to demobilisation, "and I have initiated a »yatem by which I get a daily record aa to officer* and i weekly record aa to enliited men. The actual number of officer* dis charged at the time of the laat an nouncement was 113; the number dis -harged laat week, up to yesterday. «ra* 7,1168. The number of men dia -hargvd in the United State* laat »?ek wa* over 200,000." WHY WOMEN SUFFER Many Mount Airy Women are Learning the Cause. Women often suffer, not knowing :he cause. Backache, headache, dizziness, ner vousness, Irregular urinary passages weak teas, languor— Kai-h a tortue of itself. Together hint at weakened kidneys. Strike at the root—get to the cause. No other remedy more highly en ioraed than Ooan's Kidney Tills. Recommended by thousands - Endorsed at home. Here's convincing testimony from Mount Airy citizen. Mrs. L. S. Lunwick E. Elm St raya: 'Some time ago I had occasion to use Doan's Kidney Pills. Thev certainly : wrought me flne results, f was trou- 1 !>led with pains In my back, had ner- | (out headaches and was in pretty had condition. Doan's Kidney P'lls re iev*d me - f this trouble and it is a , pleasure for me to recommend then." i Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't «implv ask (or a kidney remedy get [loan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Lunwick had. Foster-Milbum Co.. Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs. laley'a Letter. In a recant letter Mrs. D. W. Isley ot Litchfield, III., aaya, "1 have used Itiamharlain's Tablets for disorders »f the stomach and aa a laxative and liave found them a quick and sure relief." tf you are troubled #ith in digestion or con«tRation these tab lete will do yo« good." HOW THE GERMAN FLEET SURRENDERED British and Amri»a I Strippud for Inttaai Actian •I um Surrender. Spatial Tka Naw On Board Um U. fl. I. Florida, t.rand Fleet, riiUl of Forth, Nov. 21.—In Um bright *unlighl ihte after noon nina German oatUeahipa, lira battle cruieera and wven light rru iaera "teamed into Um firth of Forth and cava themaeiwa up for intern mant. Thay wera lad by a Britlah rruiaer, and aa thay pauad between tha long linaa of Brttiah and Amari ran battlexhipe, tha vary perfection of thair • teaming and arcuracy of thair handling inaaiml to accentuate thair humiliation. How roapiatalj- tha manaca which ha» hung like a cloud ovar iha Allle. wax diaaipatod today ia ahown by tha roll of veaaela given up. Chief of tha battleahip nquadron, which waa com manded by Rear Admiral von Rau tar, waa tha naw Ilayorn, of 28,000 ton* and carrying eight Ifi inrh gun*. Than came tha uroeaer Kurfurnt, tha Marhgraf. and the Kronprina, each of 26,300 tona, and with tan 12-inch gun* and lantly the Frednrh <ler OfMM, Konig Albert, Frtn*. regent I.uitpold, Kairer, and Kaiaerin, each of 24,210 tona and ton 12-inch guna. • ommodare Tagert rommandeil tha Ave battle rniiaam, the Derffllnger and Hindanburg, each of 2A.1H0 tona, with eight 12-inch gui)»; the Seidlitx, 24,dl0 tona, with ton ll-inch guna; the Moltke, of 22.641) tona, and name armament and the Von der Tann, of ltt.100 tona and fight 11-inrh guna. The light cruieere Drought in today i under Commodore Harder included tho Karlaruhe, Numbarg, Coatn, Drummer, Hremne and Emdcn. In addition there were fifty deatroyera. All theae are now av anchor under the guna of the Grand Fleet in Britiah water*. nrc pr«*ni om iwr uie nurranuer wan nlmululely aimrle. The German* had expresned • wulingnes* to give them selves up and there was nothing for them to do but to com* on their last cruise acro*s the North Sea. Laat Monday the German*, in ac cordance with ord' ■ from Admiral Ueatty, put out U sea, with maga zine* empty, their rum secured amid nhip* and only navl^iting and engin ctnng crew* aboanf The Brit'r.h and American fleet* were in parade order to receive a visit from Ring George. On Wednesday the King accompanied by *• Prince <4 Waiee. in tl* 4a* fthtpe. He wai received formsTiy en the American flagship Hew York in the afternoon by Admiral* Sim* and Rodman and Captain Beach, and he I met the commanding officer* of the other dreadnought*—Florida. Arkan sas, Wyoming and Ten*. But there Wfrt two noteworthy incident* con nected with that viait. A* the king ■tapped upon the deck of the New York for the flrat time *ince the Re volution the British royal >Undud waa broken out at the mainmast of an American warship in honor of the King of England, and before he left he mads an interesting tuggeating to Admiral Rodman. Speaking of his hope that whether there would be a formal alliance between Rngland and America or not their friendship would continue to iacr«a*e. He aaid he would like to sea certain Britiah skips across the Atlantic each year to take part in Amertan manoeuvers, ind American vessels in British waterT~fet work with the British fleet. Thus, he thought an understanding between the two great naval forces might be ptfPttoatod. Meanwhile as the King spoke of his plans for peace, half a mile away was a reminder that the war was not yet over. As he shook hand* with the American officers, out of the mirta above the Forth Bridge came a long line ef low, gray war *< ucls. They paid no attention to the battleships, with their cheering crews. They paus ed not to salute the flag. Quietly they kept on their way. As they swung a little to northward toward the sea, another division of them slid silently up, and before these grew dim In the dusk yet another half doten hove into sight. They were destroyers, the eve* and ears of the British fleet, and they were already putting out to meet the Germans. Slhce a little before noon they had begun to get under way and from then until well after dark division after division of them kept slipping by. As they went, every one of them was as ready for action as though the armistice had not been signed and U-boats lurked beneath the surface of the sea. Bratty Took bo Ckura. Admiral Beotty tu taking no chances. He know it would have bean suic.de for the Germans to attempt resistance at the laat moment, butare there no momenta whan brave men prefer death to diahonor? So, aa the British and American (loots prepared to receive the surrender, they were al so prepared for action. The decks ware stripped, their battloflags were hoiated, ammunition for the nig runs was in the turrenta, and every officer and man waa ready. The plan was that the Germans -h. uld reach the rendexvous sixty miles out, at t o'clock in the morning. All but their destroyers were to form in a long column headed by the Brit ish light cruisei Cardiff. First came the battle cruiaera, then the battle shipa, each three cablee apart, than j after a gap of three miles the light cruisers at the same interval, and last three miles astern, the destroyers in groups of lltt. The Cardiff waa to regulate their movements and gel, if possible, twelve knots out of them. All their big guns war* to ha trr.ined inboard. Meanwhile on either side of their coarse, the graad (Ice. waa to leuat twenty mi las lung, wera thus to be tormad, and between hem, under -oriilafit aurveiliance all Um way. the (ioriaen shipa were to aait. Ther* «m to be no cmmmmImUh httir—ii ihMn mi Mi tht AUim. TW vara to ha loft completely aioita. and Iiad unit to obey >ignal» and lake up the anchorage aaaigned to tiiim. Long bafare dawn this mor tug the U.'aiid Fleet gac under way go down to the appointed placa. Thirty-three battlaahipa, nine battle cruiaera, Ave rruuers, and thirty -one light cruder* were to laka part in tha great tri umph, ami it takes a \sr.g time to muva a mighty fleet Ilka that in single Ala. It was a wonderful sight to watch lhara slip uway In the small hour, of tha muminf. Th.ra waa a full moon, but tha shy *>< nvpmwt For ovar aix hoar* tha Britiah and American ship* wara picking thair ] way ilown tha Firth an<l manoeuver ing to aasume tha two-column forma tion. From time to time through tha < air came signal* from tha lirimana, announcing exactly whara they wara and what progress they were making. At 8:18 o'clock tha OofCMK. Com mander reported ha could not make the 12 knol£ required, but only 10. < Everything wax going wall, hut it waa not until 9:15 that tfle Germana wara ttrst made nut from tha Grand Aaat. They wara holding strictly to their i course and steaming steadily ahaad 1 in excellent order, but from the nor thern column, at any rate looking into the aun and acroaa the miata, they »eem very ghosts of a fighting force. They were Jim and shadowy and were barely diacernable against the gray sea. Above them floated a British observation balloon and a dirigible,, but they made no signal* and paid no attention to any one. Ml 1MV IJM KITIU. After they had passed the cruiser , they mat the famous flifth British battle nquadron which one* before hxl : cone across them and left ite mark • upon them. Th«y were the Harham,, Valiant, Warspite, and the Malaya, •hip* which rushed at the "hattlo of ! Jutland to the rescue of the battle | cruisers. Then they were sheathed in smoke and Are; today they stood out in the sunlight glistening as If with silver, and gay with signaling flag*— sturdy and solid looking craft | they were. Then next liehind them tame Ave tell htp» from .across the A tlantic, with Star* and .Stripes (loot- . mane used their glasses they must [ have seen their decks almost hare A ■m ■ ■ tu.4 AW — 1 ^ ^|| I | I ntfurcft. out uitir nimciny cops crowd •a with them at their stations and their big cans ready to be swung [ round at a second's notice. To the trained sailor's eve they re- [ presented warships ready for inatant •ous battle. "It is the proudest moment in my life," said an American officer as he looked at one moment through the i mist at the Carman fleet slinking into , inglorious safety, and again at the { line of American ships keeping per fect distance and direc.lon as they followed the flagship New York. Rut even waen these two powerful squadrons had gone by, the Germain ; had otill to pass the nine battleshiph of the second battle squadron, Admir al Beatty's flagship, tile Queet Elisa beth, and four ships of this first bat tle cruiear squadron and the Lion, a* well as the fourth light cruiser squad ron. Moreover, what the Germans ■aw on thoir starboard bow clearly enough la the sun, they knew waa repeated on their other quarter, even though it waa shadowed by the mists, they were stealing of their own vo lition between two mighty fleets, which could blow them off of the wa ter in five minutes. And it was of their own volition, "ibis is what the :eremony af today seemed especially ' designed to bring out—that the sur render of the German fleet was a vol- j untery act on their part, and that j there was no reason wny they should i have done it If they had not been ' tfraid to fight. After a time the British columns turned and accom panied their prisoners back, each sep sratc squadron wheeling out of line ind back again so as to reverse the arder of the whole array without al tering that of each unit. But through it all the Germans kept plodding an. Ko one apparently gave tliem orders; no one coerced them; that were self confessed in defeat and fleeing to isfety while there was yet time. The ceremony was almost terribly impersonal, so ostentatiously did the 3rand Feet keep its hands off ite prisoners. It had been at grips with the Germans before, and now it was ; on tent to let them pass and leave them alone. Ai tile iitrmnns drew nearer tneir iiu-horage the humiliating nature of their plight mutt have come home ■till more sharply CO th*a. A» it -hsnred, it «U necessary for the three line* of vesneli to nine closer ■ojpether The north and south col imns of the Grand fleet sheered in toward the German, and it seemed as hnujrh it was merely one division of mighty fighting force. Still Flew Battle Flags. The German ships ware still flying l heir battle flags. The guns ran out >tifly from their turrents, and their «>w silhouettes showed how skillfalljr they had been designed as war ma Mm. They ware keeping a beautiful for mation an regards distance, and them was nothing to suggest what they vara, yet every mile wat bringing them nearer hopeless and prolonged -activity, and all their professional ■kill served was to aid their enemtea in putting them easily Into cooflne nent. So as they reached their as itiwp m the Firth. mm Mtea M low thu K«rth flrklga ia iblJlwn I* erdere from tha fl. ittah they ifUt as Mo Mvwtl l«ea aatf MM KlMl There thay lay. wutiaaie* and harm la— ami the Mm ,.h ai u AmerlaM vktort awepi br. leaving t-ham m the can of (utrMnia. What will ba na Gmm—i Aaal'a ui tUnsts f>tf is m y§t uiuuuimuucmL Tt>air puaittor la aa peculiar aa (Mr ■mwr. TWy were not, atrirOy ■paaklni. aptured; they .nil upM* antly legally beleag I* whatever to the Garau Oov.mmeat ^.ey came In flying their own rotor*, ana ae far ne mm from the Brltuh Navy except the neeeaary pilot* Kaa boarded them. They are interned under the aimtetiae merely aa ■ matter of (reeaution. Meanwhila thay are manned by their own rrewa, reduced it hi true, to ' akrleton strength. and ar« left under their own olRcar* aa carataken. They will matply be kept until the Alltoa, ■ itting et (ha I'taca Conferance, de ride what it in he done with them. Thia aftemiMi i .in- David Heatty aent to Admiral von Hauler thta order: "Tha German flag i* to be hauled down at 5:57 today, (that la aundown) It la not to be hoiated ai ain without permiecion." Moreover. it ia aaid that before many daya ara over the German nhipa will ba moved under doae ifiard in >inall detachment* to that fielightfol Winter neaort, Skapa Flow, In bleak Orkney*. where thuy w II be able to mediate for weeka and montha on what RritUh and American tea men dared to endua to rut their clawe. BIG POLITICAL BATTLE IMPENDS IN CERMANY Fight ia to Eliminate Partisan Politics in Soldiora' and Workmen's Council* Berlin, Friday, Dec. 6.—What pro mises Ui bj i decisive balilc for Um elimination of partisan poiiUcs in the soldiers' siid wi.ikmens council throu ghout Germany, has alrwuly been pre cipitated by the announcud dsic.mina tion of the anUlen to insist upon par ty repreiiciilaiM.il on all governing boards. The licdars of the soldiers dec!.n» that if the present virtual dic tatorship system of government is to be eon-inued they will demand an vote with the woiking men. Otherwise they insist upon the imme diate convocation of tha nr.ti^ial ss BmI(». : w. many's splendid middle clauses." We represent all imlltnga, trades and pro fessions. The working men, on the other hand, have succeeded during the progress of the war in creating a special social category brought shout by the prosperity of labor. The bour geoise today is really the proletariat. The soldiers object to being outvoted and therefore demand strict party representation in the composition of the soldiers working men's boards." The soldiers seem thus far to have proved themselves inferior psrlismen tary tacticians as compared with the radical labor elements. This realisa tion is drawing on them, and their movement designed to reform the working methods of the executive committee and bring about doeer communication between the two di visions promises to furnish the first big political sensation of the revota tioiary government. It is commonly understood that the soldiers are anxioua that both wings of the German sqpial democracy busy themselves in trying to ret together oa a common national platform. The existing system of a comprise gov ernment is said to have exhausted tha patience of the soldiers. Public demonstrations on the part of the troops returning from the front are commonly interpreted here as ia approval of the Ebert-Schidemann group. Phillip Srheidemann ia iUIIv ernig the bulk of the patriotic speech es and glorifying the revolution, while the Haase wing of the cattinet and ita independent following apparently ia in possession of decinve strategic ad vantage. Former German Held to be Responsible. London. Dae. 8—Th« Nmn Vu Dmg of Amsterdam, a copy of which hu been received here, up it hold* the opinion that the former German emperor U responsible for the acta of hie troops in Belgium and France, for the ruthless submarine war and the aerial bombardments of open towns, and that, consequently, no Dutch wor emment with common aanae weald al low Holland have her food reason of acta the former monarch. to be involved in war er •d supply endangered by ta of friendliness towArd 5s3SW"Z3r r-y *'«»», HohenacSen,', r*l£rr^ <* soon as poeaible, U that many persona In Germany have not yet abandoned the hope of restoring the iaperihl power. "It would not he surprising if these people entertain 'Nations with Ger mans in Holland," the article con clude*. "Consequently, aa long as the kaiser is in Holland the terms of a political plot are exMtent. Change From Poverty to Cimii Poo tk. Duluth. Minn.. Dee. 7—Te«r > millionaire after a life of hard sod poverty. Max. A. , today at Two ((arbors i rised that a relative ta freaedew to* died and left hto more than H.OO*, i
The Mount Airy News (Mount Airy, N.C.)
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Dec. 12, 1918, edition 1
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