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... . ; :, N" " ,rallv fair to- it. -jf 'ina: ,nd Friday, ex- P-in and colder gSay i" treme west FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE JolXXIV. No. 51 WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS . DEATH SENTENCE Mm y German's New Dependencies tke East ; ' : 1? 'I SLEEPING I in owv-'- I - .1 - . I !-.,. 1 I . I I m 4 TODAl t l T . - ----- - - r i ..-i 1 W; ? ! -rtv rilTT TTT T yffSyft M i . - SOLDIERS EEC Chancellor's Latest Utterance Offers no Basis for Peace, Says Balfour GERMAN" ADVANCE MEETS RESISTANCE pr0gress of Invaders Slowed Up by Russian Opposition. Americans Showered With Gas Bombs So basis for peace is found in the h of Count von Hertling by A. v ,, t- i ; V Csnraforv frit r Balfour, tne nuu ww ign Affairs, in maiMs dtdal reply to the German Chancel U in the House of Commons, he re the Germans suggestion con going Belgium and said that the OnceUor's professed acceptance of President Wilson's four principls was jlylip srvice. There vas nothing to indicate : tnat diplomatic conversations with the Cen-1 tal Powers in their present frame of J would bring a lasting peace.- To I mdertake negotiations unless they would lead to the righting of the rongs committed by Germany woma , !"the greatest crime against tne We peace of the world." Secfe-jw"f WBW v . BalLr declared that Germany marine was.een them but a togedher policies to suit her needs; Ton Hertling offered no new proposals. ! J6 In their advance into Russia the!"-' Itomans are meeting with more, re sistance and apparently they, have I Hen unable to make much headway. Itowd Petrograd from PsyoTC, Petrty. cti itdeclared to be the .Kr& jettive in the North. : rtreOax ne I Germans made no progress there, or lit least Berlin reports none, whijL& .in hie South the greatest gains were aade in the Ukraine. A German at tempt to take Vitebsk, near the cen ter of the front, failed before Rus sian resistance which forced the enemy to retire, Petrograd says. ! ion Thp American sprtnr in France on i Tednesday again was subjected to an ! ittack bv gas shells which haa" little ; Pies mignt begin immeaiateiy.. . .it is elect. Tuesday's two gas attacks ! important, however, for the President caused five deaths and the poisoning ! to induce his allies to recognize his of about 60 American soldiers. The principles. As they seem to be hope aajority of those affected by the gas lessly entangled in their own plans ire not in a serious condition. Ger- j while President Wilson himself is not on airplanes are still active over and a league of nations is not in tie American front. 27 having cross- si the line Wednesday. Aerial and artillery fighting on the ten and French fronts is most1 ewp. Eiehteen German airplanes ; A brought down by the French and , Bntish airmen and guns, while Ber-1 n claims to have accounted for 15 nte machines. German airdromes, way junctions and other military ' continue to print reports of seizures wptg. continued to be bomber bv!nf land and other acts of lawlessness airmen. iw British sh innino- IrSccoc fn nroalr WOW an imlrMOA v. n.ntM.9 11 PTiod. Eizhfppn mowhanmon ii ' " 'lil Villi 11 L. 1 11 A-L. , A & Ore thai! 1 fidn tnne tit ciinV marines or mines, as compared "u'; including 12 of the large ton- r!e' .the eek before, i France and a'J lost n0 ships of the large ton- wVv Q "ance only one vessel ofithat he intends to stand by the lnsn u .an 160 tons. Another Span-j convention until the end. He is cred- snip the Serniero. the sixth in 'ited with the opinion that much of t.!eeks- 5s reported to have been! the present lawlessness is due to an ftaoed by a fJprmon enKmonns ' "'"11 JJL kl I JU, I VI AIiah PI I . . j. o'dCKer dim. "ashino-tr.. T-..-L . hlipn o , reo- 28. Tne so-cauca .en slacker bin tn f ana aiitW; j . ,. -j uai nuiu i;iiiz.cii- Som J-R age who claIm exemption Iff draft- y service and authorizing UI any aliens for agricul- Dr manufaotnr?nw 1, " UV tha u vyuih. was pe.nn- 24 to i t86 last night by a vote ite, Jt now goes to the .Sen- &SKS CONGRESS TO 4ID INVESTIGATION Wash ington, Feb. 28. Snecial and tTU ntii 0n t0 lay be the con- trs and a- great meat Pack- ,atn What government in- compielieve. wlU show Plans to mr, Zlyiete Control Of the moot in. He as?e of Congress , today recom i rade Commission. 5ea- ecommendatinn f t ' 'i SDPfiol IOUVJB fission' .C0Unsel conducting the . !a.lned by court ordprs from 'nS thosl ,Papers and also from Ptoraf, e commissioT inin ti,Q -ot, !harSlny S and aske for action. ?8el for m, enry Veeder, lan of tt, i'ers, "is still tne ten used asT PaPers which have ssion nt";Ll,utnentaiities in the UI1 of lonies' Mr. Heney. C -LLY1. V JX GERMAN ARMY HALTS. London, Feb. 28. The German army has received orders to stop its advance" into Russia, according to the Petyograd correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company, who has received , information to this effect which he regards as reliable. CASTLE HAD 182 PERSONS ABOARD Survivors Beliye Hospital Ship Was Victim of Submarine London. Feb. 28, The British hos pital ship Glenart Castle ixad 182 per sons on bard, !t is stated; nnomcially, when she went .down Tnesday in the PiWatAl o)iqimia! 'frkMA Ttorifoo ocriyro. 3naY e been? landed at Swan- sea, Milford-and Pepbrqkev None of the others hare been heairdi from. The missing mciuae aoou seven remaie curses. - - . v .7,,- rt!a - - - aZT " ? jl Jr: X.rl "a- the sip ls shlkeft ater berojre tne snip was snanen " NEWSPAPER SEES PEACE POSSIBILITIES erdam, von Hertling's denial of any intention by Germany o establish herself in Esthorria and. Livdnia', says the Frank futer Zeitung, excludes misunder standing. It adds: "It must now beasumed that there is no fundamental" difference of opin- between the Chancellor and Pres- ident Wilson, and 'peace discusison based on President Wilson's princi- existence 10 ouer iuwuia.nuii., meie 10 slight hope that the Chancellor's ap peal will introduce general peace." eTTQ HF I A WI .kSSNESS OIXTKT T1VI17DC BY SINN, FEINERS London, Feb. 28. The newspapers sinn Ppinprs in Ireland. The po- linn am aaiii t r hfl 11TI ahlp. to iirevent . ntn Amnncr tVi a minnr inr.i- jata a a rcnnrt that Sinn Feiners i.A L. O C A moP'jri flflirc whir.h tWO ! bOVS were carrying in a street in Galway and tore and burned them. Henry Dukes secretary for Ireland, has not resigned and it is understood A..rnn;7 pnnonirapv ne'ainst. the con- vention. It is reported that many hMul"vu f - - J 1J - wealthy families residing in the west of Ireland have gone to Dublin to es cape the disorders. Sparrow Is Relieved. Washington, Feb. 28 Commander H. G. Sparrow, who has been acting as naval censor for several months, has been relieved and ordered to a sea Dost. His successor has notyet been selected. asked for a supplement to the espion age law to facilitate the government's inquiry into the industry. After Federal Judge Landis of Chi cago, had issued a search warrant authorizing the seizure of important documents in the possessian of Mr. Veeder, the Federal circuit court of anneals restrained a marsnai rrom re moving or examining any of the pa pers in Veeder's vault?' and further from examining or in any way using papers already seized by tne govern Tnnt. The action of the appellate court in issuing the stay, said Mr. Heney, pre vented the government from even ex amining papers already in its posses sion, and which a Federal district court had found had been used "as the means of committing felonies by Swift A Co and other corporations.'' YlCNKA. iSCACCoFhVLES 3Bf I a The double line on .the map is vised "Hoffman Line" behind which. according) the terms of the treaty the Bolshetikr have agreed to sizn. er me completion- 1 nussian aemoD- ilization. All Livonia and Esthonia, however, are to be policed by the Ger- mans until "the constitution of the re RUSSIA AGAIN CALLS WTO ARMS The Proclamation. Character ized German Socialists as Cains and Judases London, Feb. 27. The Council of Peoples Commissaries, according to a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd, has issued another call to arms in the course of which it is .declared the German invaders .are arresting the workmen's and soldiers' councils, shooting captured Red Guards and arming German and Austrian prison ers in the Ukraine. The proclamation asserts that the troops at' the front have now pulled themselves together and are resisting the Invasion. It concludes: "May the blood spilled in this un- equal struggle fall on the heads of the j German Socialists who are allowing j the German workmen to be ranked among the Cains and Judases. " Enrollment of the new army Is pro ceeding successfully, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch says. Cossa-ck regiments in Petrograd are being sent in the direction of Pskov and other regiments formed mixed detach ments are marching to the front. EXAMINING THE IVJAIL ON SPANISH LINER Havana, Feb. 28. Postoffice Depart ment officials ana secret service agents are examining the mail from Mexico on the Spanish liner . Kema Maria Christina. The Spanish minis ter to Cuba, who is in charge of Ger maninterests here, is watching the inspection. -An unconfirmed rumor was current last night that certain documents from the interior of Mexico addressed to a German consular officer in Spain had been found. The documents were said to contain information relating! to the military plans of the United States and Cubaagainst the Central Powers. DANISH FLAG OVER GERMAN RAIDER Copenhagen, Feb. 28. The German crew and a Spanish officer have been landed from the German converted raider Igotz Mendi which sought re fuge in Danish waters. The Spanish flag is now flying from the vessel. A detachment of Danish soldiers escort ed the Germans to Skagen, where they have oeeninterned. m 1 ft .jr. c 9 : 1! c re-spective countries shall guarantee their social security and political -or der inal protectorate for a time, are: The Western halves of Esthonia and Liv onia, including the Moon -Islands in the Baltic Sea, all Courland, Lithunia, . NOTHING FROM FRANCIS. Washington, Feb. 28. No fur ther word from Ambassador Fran cis as to his plans for leaving Petrograd had been received here early today and Secretary Lan sing, when asked about unofficial reports that the ambassador and some of the other embassies had departed, declared the State De partment had no information what ever. HURLEY MAY VISFT WILMINGTON LATER (By Geo. H. Mannig.) Washington, D. C, Feb. 28. Ed ward N. Hurley, chairman of the United States Shipping Board, has re turned to Washington from a trip of inspection to some-points .in Florida and Georgia, where shipyards are building vessels for the Shipping Board and where it is proposed that other plants be located. Mr. Hurley made a hurried return from Savan- nah and did not ston off at Wilmine- ton, as it was expected he probably WOuld do. He has no plans for going to Wilmington to discuss with the business men there the establish ment of a shipbuilding plant at Wil mington, but may be able to go there some time in the near future, he said. .. FOOD PRICES SHOW ANOTHER ADVANCE per cent, added to the retail prices of food from December 15, 1917, to Januarys-is, 1918, made a total of 25 per cent, while the cost of living advanced in the year ending on the latter date. The Bureau of Labor statistics to day announced that 11 of the 15 stan dard" articles increased in price from December to January, the greatest ad vance being 8 per cent, in hens. Flour decreased 2 per cent, and lard, bacon, corn meal one per cent. each. In the 12 months from January, 1917, to January, 1918, potatoes alone registered a decline in price, being 16 per cent, cheaper. Corn meal ad vanced 77 per cent., bacon 64, lard 53, milk '35, hens 29, butter 23, sugar 18 and flour 17. DISTRICT ATTORNEYS NAMED BY WILSON Washington, Feb. 28 The follow ing nominations wece made today by President Wilson: United States Attorneys William C. Hammer, Ashboro, Western Dis trict of North Carolina; and Francis H. Weston, Columbia, Eastern Dis trict of South Carolina. To Be United States Marshal James L. Sims, Charleston, Eastern District of South Carolina, k 11 1 1 Poland and the Ukraine. The last named is, perhaps, under Austrian in fluence more than German, The Russia promises to meddle no more in th affairs of Finland, whieh wilt be more or less under German qontrol and comercial domination. PLANS FOR HOUSING Designed to Protect Men From Exploitation Through High Rentals Washington, Feb. 28. Plans of the Emergency Fleet Corporation to pro vide ample living accommodations for shipyard workers are being complet ed today in anticipation of President Wilsons approval of the $50,000,000 appropriation recently made by Con gress for housing purposes. The bii carrying the appropriation is now be fore the- President. In a statement of he Fleet Corpo ration's plans J. Roger Flanneryt di rector of housing, said the expend! ture of funds authorized would be ad ministered in such fashion as to "ab solutely protect the men from exploit ation through high rentals." It is the intention of the Shipping Board to erect houses in the vicinity of ship yards only where suitable living ac commodations can be obtained for workmen by no other means. Where improvement or expansion of trans portation facilities to and from ship yards will serve the purpose, this wil De autnorizea instead ot new con struction. "Where construction is necessary the statement says, "the individual shipbuilding company will apply to the Fleet Corporation for the loan which, if granted, will be amortized over a period of 10- years, bearing in terest at the rate of five per cent., payable semi-annually, and be secured by a first mortgage upon the real es tate upon which the development is had. "The shipbuilding company then will organize" a subsidiary company which will acquire at its cost and ex pense and hold in its own name real estate upon.which the houses would be erected. "This subsidiary company will have Charge of the maintenance, the rent ing and sale of these houses; it witl be restricted in its right to pay divi dends, salaries and various other ex penses, until such time as the loan to the Fleet Corporation had been en tirely paid, and even beyond that time for the protection of the men." Two Aviators Injured. Lake Charles, La., Feb. 28. Lieu teant William L. Magill, of the army aviation corps, was fatally injured, and Lieutenant Telland L. Colman, of the marine corps, was slightly hurt when an airplane fell near here late yesterday, according to information obtained today from Berstner Field. Lieutenant Magill died in the field v-"-ntal. His home was. in Jersey 1 CJtY. SHIPYARD WORKERS JAPAN PREPARING TO PLAY A MORE IMPORTANT PART In Conjunction With United States Would Look After Siberian Resources ENTENTE POWERS HAVE BEEN SOUNDED Negotiations Between Japan and United States Concern . ing Proposed Action in Progress London, Feb. 28. A speech made Sunday by Viscount Motono and re ported from Paris as to. Japan's pos sible activities In view of the German advance into Russia are given prom inence by the morning newspapers. The Times says it understands that the statement of the Japanese foreign minister is regarded in well-informed quarters as an authoritative declara tion on Japan's policy. In its editor ial comment The Daily Mail says: "General Foch's appeal to Japan and the United States to co-operate in confronting the Germans in Siberia is answered by Viscount Motono a far' as Japan is concerned. "If an allied expedition in which Japanese and Americans would nec essarily have leading parts could con trol the Siberian railway and with it the rich food raising and mineral bearing districts of Siberia, a heavy counter stroke would be dealt to Ger- able; it is not impossible that she will soon add to it." Announcement was made in Wash ington Wednesday that -Japan bad sounded the Entente powers and the United States concerning Joint mil itary operations in Siberia. Negotia tions on the subject between the Unit ed States and Japan are still in prog ress. Increase Granted Because of Wage Increase to Em ployes at Mines Washington, Feb. 28. The Fuel Ad ministration today raised the bitu- menous coal prices in the Tug river j district of West Virginia and the up per Clinch district in Virginia. The New Tug river prices are; Run ' ANOTHER ADVANCE IN BITUMINOUS PRICES or mine .u; preparea sizes o.D,,in cigar factories, three-tenths of one siacK ?z.io. The new upper Clinch prices are: j Run of mines .2.50; prepared, sizes $2.50; prepared sizes slack $2.25. The old prices in both fields were run of mine $00; prepared sizes $2.25; slack $1.75. The Tug river prices apply to min ing operations on the Norfolk and Western railroad, west of Welch to Panther, including its branches ex cept New Hall, Berwind, Cane Break rnd Hartwell. The upper Clinch pric- es apply to operations on the Nor- folk and Western from Hockman to Finney, inclusive. Forty-five cents a ton in addition is allowed to be added to the new prices to cover, recent wage increase grant- ed by the operators. That already is being paid in most instances. JAPAN'S NEW MOVE WIDELY DISCUSSED Washington, Feb. 28. Japan's move to develop the feeling of the Allies to ward a proposal for joint military operations in Siberia to keep the vast stores at Vladivostok and also the trans-Siberian railway from falling into the hands of the German invad ers of Russia, was widely discussed today among diplomats and officials, but all xwere reluctant to give opin ions for publication. Opinion in London that the declara tion by the Japanese foreign minister, Count Motono, in the Japanese Diet, could only be incorporated as a decla ration that Japan was about to inter vene, was regarded as further evi dence of the negotiations now pro ceeding between the co-belligerents to make the action of an interna- Four Americans were Caught Asleep ori Sentry Duty, Sentenced to Die CASE REFERRED TO WAR DEPARTMENT1 While Pershing Has Power to;; Execute Men, He Has Ask-v ed That Their Cases Be ' viewed by Washington S Washington, Feb. 28. Four Ameri ¬ can soldiers, caught asleep while doi ' ing sentry duty in the first line. trenches, have been sentenced death, but General Pershing, al though he has authority to carry outv the. sentences, has referred their cases to the War Department for review, 'v These are the first cases of the ; V kind since the American troops went to France. One soldier has been exvs ecuted there for an unspeakable ofv: fense on a French child, and in his ? case General Pershing acted swiftly. tJ without as much as referring it to Washington. In these, however,, some extenuat"; fhg circumstances may be found, for. ; men, tired and nerve worn by front-? line trench duty in a hitherto nn-"- known manner, of warfare, to save, them from the death penalty at the . hands of their own fellows. " President Wilson, probably, in the -end, will review their cases. Going , to sleep on sentry duty has long been ; recognized as an unforgiveable offense p punishable by death, and such cases rare as they have been in the Ameri- j can army, have furnished some of the most absorbing incidents of history. v JJIANCETO CHARTER r SHIPS FROM BRAZIL Paris, Wednes$ay, Feb. 27. The Chamber of Deputies voted today toC; appropriate 110,000,000 francs., to bem used infchartering German ships placi -F5re?iTE for ; Piehotf; in snptlSst- ing the i it was the first transaction uv. French and' .Brazilian governii. .j-J'-1 ice Brazil, broke wfth Germany and was a gen v uine demonstration of Brazil's friend ship toward France. The Brazilian government, he said, had had toj choose between identical offers front; the United States and France. Very amicably Brazil had leased the ships' to France and no less amicably the United States had accepted the de-v cision. - -, v The agreement consecrated the enl tente between France and Brazil: Be-V sides from an economic view it was i' an additional bond between the tWoti; countries which M. Pichon regarded as important in view of the great fu 1 ture of Brazil. -V FEWER WORKMEN IN INDUSTRIAL PLANTS Washington, .Feb. 28. Cigar mak- ing, paper manufacturing and the 1 iron and steel mills were the only in-"r dustries out of 13 investigated by the-;f Bureau of Labor Statistics, which em-- t ployed more persons in January, 1918, than in the same month last year The increase was 4.9 per cent per cent, in paper mills and two per ? cent. in iron and steel. Automobile plants showed the greatest decrease- in workers, 1.04 per cent. : Nine industries had a greater pay?3 r0ll last month than in theV samel! . month of 1917. the greatest increase 1 uciiig J.O.O yci Ill WMUtcll UlolUU i facturing. The payroll of cotton fac-;i tories increased 17.4 per cent, as conl-! pared with 1.8 per cent, decline in the'j number of workers. 'Pi lO O .r4- 4 , 1 Eighteen British Ships Lost, j London, Feb. 28. Eighteen British ( merchantmen were sunk by mine pf : ; submarine in the past week, accord-- ing to the British admiralty report. Pi Of these 14 were vessels of 1,600 tons i or over and four were below that ton-.;; ' nage. Seven fishing vessels also were ! j sunk. 4 i tional character, probably including the participation of American forces. I While officials here were silent and f disposed to minimize discussion of the ! subject, it is known that exchanges I of opinion are going on with the ob- ject or a perfect understanding be- a tween Japan, the United States and the other co-belligerents which would ' make the plan of joint action wholly ! acceptable to all and thoroughly de- fine its extent and duration. Russian representatives here oppose : action by the Japanese in Siberia, but ' the co-belligerents are thoroughly : alarmed, lest the vast quantities of " supplies piled at Vladivostok, bought and paid for with American cash, ' should fall into the hands of the Gw man,. i- 1 i-rt I m 1 I 1' r 'A - lit I it ! i 1RV i Itn: 1 1 $4 hi i: i- 1! i i 1 n I 3 it 4:-
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