North Carolina Newspapers

S 1 Wilmington BisiMMs-i r m-, -FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE - 7! XXIV- -63 L'-! WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLiNA, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1918 ; U S - PRTVE CEflp OPPOSll SMES' ON ARTILLERYND MRS. HIRSCH FACES llHili mmm l a s Mi -i r i : ' i-- ' ' ' : . v jjai(3s ond Counter Raids: Are Becoming Stronger Each;; Day. FLEE BEFORE PERSHING'S TROOPS 'hen Americans Start a Raid, Germans Hustle to Rear Trenches Germans Now Hold Odessa r-,rorable "weather on most , of tho Venerii front has led to increased fating, but none of the armies has jet made an attack in great strength. All apparently are keyed up o the Ughest pitch, and the raids into op po;ing trenches are becoming strong treach day. In the Champagne where jo German artillery h,as been very ictive. the French hve withstood a ilerman attack. The1 effort was re pulsed by the FrencH'Switli severe loes to the attackers! American raid- iK parties and .American gunners loth are busy on th-sectoTs. north test of Toul and-east of Luneville. Tiie Germans do" not remain in their trenches to fight;-the Americans, but See to the rear lines when General Pershing's men appear. British troops in 4he Ypres sector ci Wednesday took the initiative and in a raid southeast of Polygon wood. csptured 37 prisoners and three mart chine rans and inflicted casualties onfiViVI 7 . fe , IJmtetrsStates and Japan would see the enemy. The German artillery ac- rtktwar is not alwavs the most tlrity is intense on the Ypres-sector and betwen Arraes and Armntieres, nkre strong German raids earlier in the week were repulsexiJ&ABjritisix tni Portugese troops. , On the coastal sector in Palestine, north of Jaffa, the British have ad vanced three miles on an eleven mile front. Six villages were taken and iwo streams crossed in the face of Turkish resistance. A slight advance also has been made on the Jerusalem Ji'abolus road in Central Palestine. In the East, the Germans now hold Odessa, the great Russian seaport onisure southward by opening the door the Black sea, which probably will be ased either as a base for an invasion of India by way of Persia or as the terminal of grain shipments from Russia to the Central empires. Tur-co-German planes in the Caucasus, in cluded the surrender by Russia of 'Free Caucasian provinces which vould provide a roadway to Persia :!.'! the Caspian Sea, are opposed by c Caucasus government. Turkey been informed that the Caucasus "'vernment does not recognize the ;aty with the Bolsheviki and that it t-ould treat with the Caucasus direct. British shipping losses for the past vcek totalled 18 vessels, the same lumber as was lost in the two pravi "as weeks. There is an increase, 'fjever, in the number of large ships wnk. Fifteen of 1,600 tons or over J'e reported this week, while in the ; r .ou.s two weeks the ships of largo ;: -nuge numbered 14 and 12 respect- German airships again raided the 5H coast of England Wednesday Hft and a number of bombs were cropped. Tuesday night's Zeppelin was ineffective, all the bombs topping harmlessly. COURT REJECTS BOLO'S APPEAL Jaris, Tuesday, March 12 The ap JI c! Solo Pashe from the sentence fieath imposed by court martial for jfeason was rejected today by the '0llrt of Revision which confirmed the wigiaal judgment. The same action taken by the court in the case Darius Porshe, who was tried with J0'0 Pashe and sentenced to three -vs imprisonment. FLOODS SWEEPING CAN1STEO VALLEY , ?och ester, N. Y.. March 14 Scores ef f, amiHes have been driven from ther flomes and :U industries Ho: m men are paurvzed as th resuiu nf , a disastrous fi.ir.:-J due to a cloud J v mat swept down the valley r. , ('anisteo early this morning, "i-ig one-third of the city. 4.. c'a$ire factory district is m fci,. v'aier "aany buUdings havo th'v7.Qaj,naged to the extent of many jsands of dollars. raei) an a ; i orki: eg for hours ia boats rescuing STERN AFFAIRS Newspapers' Expressing an Uneasiness Over the Situ uation in Russia Amsterdam, March 14. Some sec tions of the German pres are becom ing uneasy over developments in the Far East. The Frankfurter Zeitung considers that the breaking up of Russia into a number of independent States is a bad policy for Germany and urges that the greatest tact and prudence be used in dealing with the border States so that they will not ''in the future sigh for a re-union with Russia and become so many thorns in Ger many's side." The newspaper adds: "Clearly the Entente policy is' to use the Japanese alliance to shove Germany out of Asiatic markets for ever. Germany played their game by breaking up Russia. Germany nt has no more hope than ever of being able to conduct a far Eastern policy except in conjunction with Great Britain and Russi. That is why a weak Russia will .not contribute to Germany's ultimate welfare." Captain "von Salzmann, the mili tary critic .of the Vossische Zeitung writes: W Oermany too late began to realize profitable way of settling differences. Germany's Russiaji "policy has' played the gama brilliantly for Great. Brit- ainandthnited-tatiesr " In thef same ; war Germany has increased Holland's debt of gratitude to Grei Britain. .. "It should have , been Germany's game to earn Holland's gratitude by guaranteeing her the safe possession of her East Indian coionies, but ir stead of this, she cemented the Anglo Japanese alliance and delivered the Dutch colonies from Japanese pres- to Japanese enterprise iu Russia, "Only the most limited intelligence can believe that the break up. of Rus sia will be to Germany's . advantage The true results of Germany's Rus sian policy already are patent in th lessening of the differences between Japan .and the United States and the cementing of the Ariglo-Japanese alli ance and the consequent security of che Anelo-Indian and Australian col onial possessions, as well as the Duch and French colonies in Southeast Asia. The consequences are that Ger many again finds herself without friends in the world while Great Brit ain laughs in the background." Bank Burglarized. Chattanooga, Teun.. March 14. Burglars blew open the vault of the Bank of Ringgold, Ga., -last night and escaped with between $4,000 and $5,0000. , . . CHARLESTON WINS. Washington, March 14. Charles ton, S. C, has definitely been se lected by the Shipping Board as the site of one of the two addition al shipbuilding yards to be con structed on the South Atlantic coast. Mmbers of the Doard are Rear Admiral Frederick R. Harris, chairman for the Navy Department and Shipping Board; General Grote Hutchinson, for the War Depart ment; Colonel G.E. Humphreys for the engineer corps, and Ethel bert Stewart, for the Department of Labor. residents from their inundated homes. So far as is known no lives have been lost. The Erie and Shawmut railroad tracks are under water arid no tram are moving. The flood extends 40 miles down the Canisteo river valley, almost to Corning. Rain continued la'.-j this naorning and the water is still rising. Soon after the storm broke and u flood was threatened the girls in ihe Hornell Telephone Exchange sent warnings to persons living in the dan ger disfcctsi -4 SUITING GERMANY K - 1 A THOROUGH PROBE INTO OUTBREAK ON RUSSIAN STEAMER Crew of Vessel at Norfolk Wanted Immediate Adop tion of Bolsheviki Rule UNRULY MEMBERS OF CREW ARRESTED Collector of Port Starts an In- vestigation Into the Mat ter Men Armed Tried , to Seize Ship Wnrfoiv v Msrch 1 4 -Armed Tf ...... ., , . . uuueQ oi-aies sauors anu mspeuuis and photographing, Jhe intrepid Brit from the office of the collector of cus- ishers destroyed 39 German airplanes toms were today searching every nook and brought down 40 others out of and corner of the big Russian steam- control, despite the' fact that the first er Omsk, tied up at Jones wharf, for fire arms and other evidence which might be of value to the government in dealing with 47 members of the crew taken from the ship early this morning and placed in the city jail to await trial tomorrow under a Stats warrant charging them with mutinous conduct. The thorough search of the steamer today added to the varied collection hind the "German lines, which means of fire arms, combustibles and other that the British airmen have been weapons taken from the crew when carrying the' aerial war -vigorously customs officials first boarded the into the nemy territory. Of "the Ger Omsk. Visiting first the quarters f man, the searching party found four revol- German lines. The 4m6uht of photo vers in the personal effects of the sea-jgraphy work that has been done is men, a number of knives and dirks and hundreds of cartridges of differ- ent sizes. One of the revolvers was deeply imbedded in a package of sug- ar; another was found carefully wrap-' ped in bolt of cloth, two being found in the suitcases of the sailors. The searchers ransacked the ship from stem to stern, from keel to deck, pay- Ing special attention, however, to the nnarters nf the crew The search will probably continue well into the night, Agents of. the Bolshevik government fr, T?,iaB1-a ahinnW Qt an American port, are believed by officers of the Omsk to have ' been responsible for I Te, f .0r Tha cwJ ennv ia e,,ncte Shnrtlv after the conk hecame n v..' . ii.. -J,x-J,. memuer oi tne crew, uuicer omiuraiti. said, he observed him preaching the Bolsheviki doctrine to the seamen, ; X"'"fL vLT: ul6lU6 T , A Z , ; CnS demand higher wages and more pay. Smiltreik said the men finally deraand- ed American pay for Russian hours of work, and the dispute over the wage question finally led to an ultimatum from the crew to Captain Jayonski de- mandmg that before putting to sea the ship be placed in charge of a commit. tee representing the sailors. Upon the refusal to accede to this demand the crew became surly and assumed a belligerent attitude. It is the belief of Officer Smiltreik tnat tne purpose oi tne crew in Dnng- . i . it . . i f I kinds of weapons aboard was to kill or place in irons the officers at sea assume vuuuui ui luc aixiy ouu ui- vert. her to some Dort other than the one to which she is bound in order that the seven million dollar cargo, with which the Omsk is loaded, and the large collection of firearms might he delievered to the Bolshevik eovern- ment. The' officer said, however, that anv attemot bv the crew to divert the course of the ship would have been futile, as the Omsk would have been other guest?. forced to remain on her course by the Early in the afternoon the Ameri can vov of warshins which is to accom- can War Secretary conferred with J. nanv the vessel across the ocean. An investigation of theSutbreak of service and visited the headquarters fthe crew of the Russian steamer Omsit ot the Red Cross as the guest of Ma was set in motion today byCollector jor Robert P. Perkins, head of the of Customs Hamilton, while the yes. Red Cross mission to Europe. Atter ei rescued from an unruly crew lay wards the Secretary called on for- at anchor under guard of thecollec- tnr'a riennties T The crew after a dav and nisrht oi rintln resultins from their demands that Bolshevik doctrine be put into effect on the Omsk, was taken to po- lice station here last night, charged with mutinous conduct. $t also was HolrJ that tho Tnlaiindprstnnrliner he- tween immigration officials and tne collector's deputies when the former refused to arrest the members of the crew after they had armed themselves and returned to the ship would be inl vestigated. The Omsk, bound for England, with cotton from a gulf port put into Nor- folk several days ago. and yester-J dav CaDtaSn Edmond Yanvovsky re- XCont&ued on Page Seven). Big Guns Punding Away and Myriads of Airmen Are .,. Aloft IDEAL FIGHTING WEATHER PREVAILS Both Armies. Are Awaiting the Signal for the Mighty . : Clash :British Avia tors Making Records t Rritish Front i& France and 'Rel. Eium, March 12.4-This has been an other day of ideal fighting weather, but there has been no change in the situation. The British and German military machines tuned up to the finest pitch and probaly as nearly per- 15? " "J! K!Bg?i2n: send them crashing against each other. Meanwhile jpe artillery pounds away in thunderous duels at various Point and myriad; . airmen are busy bombing, photographing and acting as eyes for the respective armies. . The British airmen have ben doing marvelous work recently. The first 10 days of March, as a whole, have been among the best yet recorded for the service. .During tne period m addition to a vast amount of reconnoitering two or three days of the mftntb were go stormy that aerial activity was virtually impossible. Against tbis great total, 15 British machines are reported missing.. Yesterday another fine record was made but the official figures are not yet available. There have been many air battles and virtually all . have occurred be- amazing and a large number or tne pictures were taken at close quarters, Bombing raids by British' aviators have been almost continuous. One of the most ,successiUi expeditions was that against three enemy aiddromes Qn March 9, This raid was carried put y a largenumber of machines dur- InK tnp day time- A British aerial fleet arrived at an hour when num- hers of German machines about to art were standing in a field near mojws. iue d .usu at a height of 400 feet and, because 0 tneIr,ii altitude were able to fn"V Wltn u,.Mblus 2 : buildings were set cm fire and direct hits were observed among the Ger- man machines. The British returned, flying at a , , , . . s. . . . c . . - , height of 100 feet which just enabled tnem . , clear tne tree tops' T,ney used their guns on every military object in sight. The first attack was made on a horse transport. Some of the horses were killed and the rest stampeded, upsetting the wagons. An- - 'e prt Vaa ped& and th detachment of marching infantr came.into range. Several of the goldierg were shot berore they CQuld reach cover Equaily effective wa tfie snootmg against some cav- alry two officers being among those toppled from their saddles. All the British machines returned safely. As a matter of fact they were not at- tacked bv the enemv at all OtiVKr. 1 AK I !AfwlLI. HOLDS CONFERENCES Paris, Tuesday, March 12. Secre -tary Baker was kept busy today at- tending conferences. In the fore- noon he conferred with Arthur J. Bal- -four, the British foreign secretary and General Foch. Secretary Baker lunch- ed with Generals Pershing and Bliss, his brother, Henry Baker, and a few R. Kearny, of the public information mer Premier Viviani at his home and then saw Foreign Minister Pinchon at the foreign office. The Secretary al- sa conferred with Oscar T. Crosby representative of the American Treas- ury Department. AMERICAN WOUNDED I IN RAID ON PARIS Paris, Tuesday, March 12. A ser geant in the quartermaster's depart men of the American army who was acting as a chauffeur for the depart ment in Paris, was injured slightly in last night's raid In a certain hospital in the Paris district six persons were killed and seven injured hy bombs droped by the German airmen Charged With Attempting to Verbally Blackmail Atlan ta's Mayor CASE EXPECTED TO BE HARD FOUGHT J. W. Cook, Mrs. Hirsch's Al leged Accomplice, Has Al ready Been Convicted. Evidence Atlanta, Ga., March 14. A jury to hear the evidence in the case of Mrs. Margaret A. Hirsch, charged with at tempted blackmail of Asa C. Candler, millionaire mayor of Atlanta, was quickly secured when the case went to trial today before Judge Benjamin Hill in the Fulton county Superior Court. Only 28 talesmen were ex amined. Interest in the rial was keyed to a higft pitch and long before the hour for convening: court, the room was filled with spectators, a great numberjfurnjsh all the ships for moving the of tnem oeing women. Judge Richard B. Russell, formerly of the Court of Appeals, who joined counsel for . the defense at the lasc moment, made an effort to enlarge the number of questions to be asked talesmen, but Judge Hill ruled that in permitting the three questions al lowed in cases involving capital crime, he had taken sufficient steps to insure a fair trial. The details of the visit of Mrs. Rirsch to the mayor's office in the Candler building on February 6, made the basis for the alleged blackmail demands, were again related by Mr. Candler, as the first witness. He tes tified that his acquaintance with the defendant grew out of her activity, in Red Cross work, hi3 testimony beins practically a repetition of that gives in the trial of J. W. Cook, jointly in diqted with Mrs. Hirsch convicted and sentenced two weeks ago. r right of nef counsel to question tales men, as the jury is drawn, as to their prejudices. This permission, usually granted only in cases involving a cap ital crime, was accorded the defend ant's counsel after Mrs. Hirsch's mo: tion for a change of venue had been denied by Judge Ben Hill of the Su perior Court. Mrs. Hirsch alleged in her petition that she would nbt getja fair and impartial trial in the county because of the prominence and innu ence of those connected with the op posing side. The defense, it was said, had sub poenaed more than 20 witnesses in cluding Cook, who was released from jail on $3,000 bond recently, pending the hearing of his motion for a new trial. The charge for which Mrs. Hirsch is on trial is the outgrowth of a visit she is alleged to have nnde to .Mayor Candler's private office early -n. Feb ruary. . According to Mayor anaier s written statement to the grand jury, he had known Mrs. Hirsch previously in connection with Red Cross work. During their conversation on the day Mrs. Hirsch called upon the mayor his attention was diverted, it was al leged before the grand jury, and when he turned to face her again certain articles of her clothing had been re moved. This with tire sudden appear: ance of Cook at the mayor's office door, according to Mr. Candler's state ment, led him to become suspicious. He said he then placed ; the matter in the hands of his attorney, who subse quently laid it before the grand jury. Witnesses before the grand jury are reported to have sworn that after Mrs. Hirsch's visit to the mayor's of fice, she and Cook had attempted to extort $500,000 from Mayor Candler through threats of revealing alleged relations between, the mayor and Mrsi Hirsch. In a statement in his own defense at his trial, Cook alleged he and two other men had seen Mrs. Hirsch enter the mayor's office, and that later he appeared at the office and found Mrs. Hirsch there. Long before th time for court to convene the room was filled with spectators, half of whom were wo men. Mrs. Hirsch made her appear ance early, bright and smiling, fol lowed a few minutes later bv Cook. Both took seats at the table occupied by counsel ior tne defense. A temporary halt occurred when Judge Richard B. Russell, formerly f the Court of Appeals, stated to the court, immediately on convening, that he had just been engaged by the-de fense and asked a few minute to confer witn-nis associates. Tne re quest was granted by Judge Kill ffid the attorneys retired. ' On their return to the court room Judge Russell requested that the de fense be permitted to question tales men regarding their occupation and home address. The request was de nied. Judge Hill stating he wuia permit only the three instructions provided by statute in cases involv ing capital crime. This was an unus ual privilege in a misdemeanor case, (Continued oa Page TenJ mm WILL INCREASE MEAT EXPORTS TO ALLIES Arrangements Being Made to Send Much Meat to 'Europe Washington, March 14. Meat ex ports to the Allies will be increased 50 per cent, and, perhaps doubled shortly under arrangements being ne gotiated by the- Food Administration with the Allied food representatives here. - ' The purpose is to build up the Al lied meat reserves from the great sur plus which has ibeen. accumulated in this country and which recently ZXr;'?TJZa Lfes"l luooi wuoumjjuua. iub Allies W UlUU meat. ANOTHER ATTACK ON HOSPITAL SHIP London, March 14. The? hospital ship Castle was attacked unsuccessl' fully . by a submarine in the Bristol channel n March 10, it was announced Channel on March 10, it was anounyed oniciaiiy today. This is the second submarine attack on British hospital-ships recently, a fortnight ago the Glenart Castle was sunk in the Bristol channel, about 150 lives being lost. The sinking, an official announcement said, was a vio lation of the German pledge as to the immunity of hospital ships in that area. The Guilford Castle is a steamship of 8,03$ tons gross., The Bristol chan- an arm of Ihe Atlantic. extendingin& the southwestern part of of Great Britain between Wales and England. RAILROADS ORDERED TO MAKE INVENTORY Washington, March 14. Railroads were ordered today by Director Gen eral McAdoo to make an inventory of materials and supplies on hand De cember 3i; 1917, when private con trol ceased, for use in connection with government administration of pur chases, additions and. betterments, and railroad financing. The inventories must be begun by oi&y i, and are to pe adjusted to snow Conditions on December 31. If invent ories have been taken since that date or within SO days before then, they may be used as the basis for the rer port. zl These inventories will be valuable to the . government and the railroads when the period of common control ends, and the eovernment is remiired to return the railways' property in as good condition as when it was taken over. TROTZKY TO OPPOSE RATIFYING PEACE Washington, March 14.. Further in- dications that Leon Trotzkri ; thfe for mer .Russian foreign minister, will pose ratification by the Soviet Con - gress of Germany's peace terms, and that he will artvneate rennrani ration and. use of the army in defending Rus sia were contained in a despatch- to the State Department today from Am bassador Francis at Vologda. Flying Cadet Killed. SanAntonia, Texas, March 1. - Howard Holladay, Denver, Colo, a fly - ing cadet at Kelly Field, was kiiiel late Wednesday when fell 4,000 feet. his airplane -STORM WARNING ISSUED. Washington, March 14. South-;, west storm warning signals were ordered up this afternoon from Bal timore to South port. RAINBOW REPULSED Washington, March 1 4.-American troops that repulsed the German raid of March 5 were from the 42dor Rain- bow division, which is made up of National Guardsmen, General Per- shing reported today. : The commander of the American ; division was personally congratulated by General Gerard, commander of the eigkth French army, for the manner in which the Americans conducted ' themselves.1 - ;t General -PershinTa message. w Holland Has-Been Delaying! Too Long in Reaching an' C Agreement" StipTBy ll ? THE COMING AVEEK If Government Doesn't Con sent Allies Will Proceed tQ take 6vW; 1,000,000 Tons - , of Dutch Shipping . i'., London, Majrebi.-r-Because of tha- long delays in the negotiations wiidi Holland over Dutch ships in Alli! ports anLthe- slowness of the Dutch goverjnment . to . act in this respeoi, J: Great Britain and the; United States have reached an agreement to end the negotiations and -take over all sue!) ships next week for the use of the. Allies. ':-M- The amount of tonnage made avai&t able t0 tne AIliesr through .the.Dutc.J arrangement is 1,000,000 tons of which 70 per cent.- is .-in the. United Staler 15 per cent.-la British ports and II per cent, invother Allied ports. " Every precaution Will be taken t The ships' Will be'insured and -armed a and any ships sunk will be re-placed i at the earlies possible time after the war A similar arrangement already made-in the case of Norway is word ing satisfactooily to the NorWegUli owners and shipping ; interests. : & i The Allied decision finds av Jega.1 basis in the Lex Angaria, or the Un? covering the forcible seizure, of a ship ' for public use, undj? which a belli5" went nation may ugiUenJonnap if adequate compensation is paid. The Germans exercised thjs right- bn Brit--ish vessels in the Frtncp-Prussian war. ' , As regard Dutch ships in other. than ports in Great Britain and United States, it Is. 'believed the a rangement includes a number of su?h vessels In Far Eastern pdrt8. . A th egram from th Hague yesterday stat ed that the Dutch foreign office haji learned that clearances had been fused to several Dutph vessels in Sing, apore. - - jj The negotiations with Holland ha v been in progress for many months and it was expected an arrangement would fee.lrJ?4?M 'l'asV:,ChIs?ihas. The Geir mans,l however," rwere continually bringing pressure t? b.ear upon Hp land and the delay .in reaching aa agreement operated. Icontinuously tp the advantage of Germany and the dis advantage of the Allies. Realizing the difficult position of Holland,- -the Allies decided' to force an-immediate settlement. While Ger many - has '-been "ebstrlacting the enj ployment of Dutch-tonnage by - the Al lies, . she has been enjoying the use. of Dutch barge tonnage on the - German canals to an amount greater than the ocean going tonnage which the Allies will obtain under the - new arrange mentl :. -' - . . Final Notice Presented. - Washington, March 14. The United States and Great Britain have present- I art u final. rytifl An. T-Jrtl IgnH ho fin. ! i.1 .J! -. a. Al ' ! ? e1"u1lu j Oof -shlp -is accepted by March .18, the: ships..will be taken: OTCf for Allied use. The Netherlands-minister, Augustus Phillips, had .an engagement to see President Wilsqn today and it wis be hexed; be wt)uld"present a t final - ap jpeal for his government -that the .in- ! Jf nXl?tt United States, and ' G,r?at Brttain to take- over Dutch ship j PinS. at least be mQ4ified. , GERMANS REPORTED : : AS TAKING ABO Petrograd, Wednesday, March 13.-r A strong .German . detachment, isvre ported to' have occupied Abo, on the coast of .Finland, west of Helsingsfprs. The Germans Immediately began rto inarch into the interior of Finland.":; DIVISION GERM A NS i given out bv the War Deoartmenl follows: .- '- Summary of activities ' of ; 42n (Rainbow) division front, night 6t 4tt 1 and 5th of March: Enemy attempted trench "raid early morning, March es. Raid was repulsed with losses- to the enemy. Our losses reported lightens missing or prisoners. General Gerard,' commanding eighth Frecih army co' gratulated - .division C iimander oc1 wa f WBlcll the trofTrtH mii asrid. r,v- A v