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Mr. Chas. Davis, of the Davis Department Stores, has returned from the Northern markets and the Spring goods are arriving daily. All the newest creations in Young Men's Clothing. Buy your Easter Suit early and avoid the rush. We have the best line ever shown in Smithfield. Remember we have the Clothing, the Slippers, the Hats, the Shirts, the Underwear, the Hose, the Ties? the Entire Outfit for Men. For the Ladies ? Suits, Hats, Dresses, Slippers, Underwear, Hose, Cloth of all kinds, in fact everything in ladies goods. ? ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ '? ? * THE GREAT WAR * * DAY BY DAY. * * * * (Associated Press Summary.) * K * a****************#******** WAR NEWS SUMMARY. The American troops holding a portion of the line of battlo north west of Toul apparently are making raids into enejny territory a part of their daily routine. Following their incursion of Monday morning, when after a bombardent, they raided Ger meman front lines for three hundred yards unaided as had been customary by teh French, they set out again on Tuesday and made a successful sur prise attack on trenches south of Ficheeourt, which lies to the nort east of Xivray, where some of the hardest lighting in which they hs-ve been engaged has taken place. All along te western front inten- 1 sive artillery duels and raiding op erations arc continuing on isolated sectors. The Australians again have carried out successful raids into Ger man trenches northeast of Missines, killing a number of Germans and making prisoners of others. In Lorraine Sector. In Lorraine the French near Mon cel put down effectively a strong Ger- 1 man attempt at a foray, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy and also [ taking prisoners. In addition to a contnuaton of the artillery duels along the Italian front, there is considerable aerial activity daily. In fights in the air Monday the Italians brought down five hostile planes. The British troops in Palestine are giving the Turks no rest. Again they have driven forward their lines northwest of Jerusalem. Numerous casualties were inflicted on the Otto man troops and several machine guns were captured. Paris Kaid Severest Yet. Monday night's air raid over Par is was the most disastrious in point of casualties, the Germans have yet carried out there. Thirty-four per scons were killed and 79 injured by bombs in Paris and its surburbs and 66 other persons were suffocated in the Metropolitan Railways tube, where they had fled to escape the mis siles of the raiders. Some sixty hos tile machines carried out the attack, and four of them were brought down by the French. Berlin says the raid was made as a reprisal for the bomb ing of Stuttgart and other German towns. German aircraft attacked the York shire coast of England Tuesday night and British aviators have drop ped a ton of bombs on the town of Coblenz, in Prussia. / Tre situation in Siberia apparent ly is daily growing more serious. As yet the Japanese government has reached no decision concerning wheth er Japanese troops are to be sent to Siberia, according to an announce ment made by Premier Terauchi. Semenoff Defeated. In the meantime the Bolshevik forces have defeated General Semen off, the anti-Bolshevik leader, and compelled him to retreat into Man churia. Former German prisoners were believed to be aiding the Bolshe vik troops. Whether or not the revolutionists will follow Semenoff into Chinese ter ritory is not known, at present, but a warning has been issued to them by the Chinese commander at Harbin that any invasion of Chinese territory will be regarded as an act of war. An American steamer on its way ta France has successfully defended itself against German submarine at tack. In the encounter the under water host shelled the steamer, f damaging t.\e bridge and boring a hole through \a smoke-stack. WEDNESDAY'S WAR NEW.8 While the Entente Allies are "nib bling" ut the German lines from the North Sea to Switzerland, but are making little or no serious attempts to break through or to bring about a culminating struggle, the Teutonic powers have taken -another step in the exploitation of the east. The advance guards of the Ger mans have entered Odessa, the great est Russian port on the Rlack Sea and the center of a threat agricultural sec tion, the products of which are desired to feed the hungry peoples of the Central Empires. The German advan ces through Moldavia and Bessarabia has been virtually unopposed. With Odessa safely in their hands, the Teutons will have access to vast stores of wheat which can be trans ported over land or by sea to points where it can be shipped into Austria and Germany. Rut the capture of Odessa will mean something more ? an advance over the route to Persia and Afghan itan and possibly India which is to be followed now that the British have secured the famous Rerlin and Rag dad route to the east. The Congress of Russian Soviets, which was to have convened at Mos cow on Tuesday, postponed its meet ing until Thursday. This gathering may be historic, as it will be asked to ratify Or reject the peace forced upon the Rolshevik peace delegates by the Germans at Rrest-Litovsk, when the Congress meets it is probable that the the messag of President Wilson to the Russian people will be read. It is expected to make a profound im pression upon the assembly. The American sector in Lorraine, which is now definitely located east of Luneville. is the most active on the French front. Great artillery com bats are being carried out by the Americans, who h:ive demonstrated by raiding operations that their ar tillery, fire has forced the Germans virtually to abandon their front lines. Two hundred gas projectors, installed for the purpose of supporting attacks on the Americans, have been destroy ed by shells. Tho gallant conduct of the Ameri can soldiers in the field is reflected by their brothers in arms, the American sailors of the destroyer squadron in British waters. The courageous action of eight American sailors who plunged overboard from the destroyer Parker to rescue sur vivors of the hospital ship Glenart Castle has been the subject of compli mentary remarks in the British House of Commons. The German Zeppelin raid on Eng land Tuesday night was not success ful. It reached no objects of mili tary importance and only one airship succeeded in dropping bombs on a town. Four bombs fell at Hull, but the rest of the aerial raiders wandered aimlessly about the country and their bombs fell in open fields. The Germans who raided Paris on Monday night did not escape unscath ed. An official report from Paris states that four of the enemy's ma chines were brought down and 15 trained airmen were either killed or made prisoners. There has been only the usual in fantry activities along the British and French fronts and on the battle line in Italy. In Macedonia, however, there have been numerous encounters and in this theater the Germans claim to have made advances in the past few days. The German official report on air | fighting states that on Tuesday nine teen entente .'armen were brought down along the Franco Belgian front. Faithful Newspapers. Who says the newspapers of this i country cannot keep a secret? It was known to every Associated Press pap- j er in the country as long as a month ago that Secretary Baker was plan ning a trip across and ten days since the papers knew that he had sailed, but never a word or hint I found its way into print. The first I the public knew about it was when the papers carried the news yester day of the safe landing of the Sec retary on the other side. That the sailing of Secretary Baker should have been "kept quiet" was a matter of more than ordinary importance. One can well understand that if the Germans could have had word that the Secretary was on the way they would have made extraordinary ef forts to intercept his ship and sink it. There would have been a spec ial detail of submarines scouring the probable route with the set determina tion of waylaying the vessel carrying the American Secretary of War and I j 1* ? 1 A A 1 1 11 1l ? A 1 1 _ I sending it to the bottom. It is to the credit of the newspapers of the coun try that they religiously withheld any information of any sort from the Ger mans and to that extent added to the safety of the Secretary on his peri ANOTHER SUPPLY "TEN NIGHTS in a Barroom" just received. Five cents each. By mail, eight cents. Herald Book Store. At a recent hearing of the Federal Trade Commission there was introduced correspondence taken from the private files of Swift & Company, which showed that the Company had been con sidering for some time an educational advertising campaign. The need for this publicity has been apparent to us for sev eral years. The gross misrepresentation to which we have recently been subjected has convinced us that we should no longer delay in putting before the public the basic facts of our business, relying on the fair-mindedness of the American people. The feeling against the American packer is based largely on the belief that the income and well-being of the producer and consumer are adversely affected by the packers' operations, resulting in unreasonably large profits. Swift & Company's net profit is reasonable, and represents an insignificant factor in the cost of living. For the fiscal year 1917 the total sales and net profit of Swift & Company were as follows: If Swift & Company had made no profit at all, the cattle ra:9er would have received only one-eighth of a cent per pound more for his cattle, or the consumer would have saved only one-quarter of a cent per pound on dressed beef. UNION MEETING Johnston County Baptist Association to be Held With the Four / Oaks Church Saturday and Sunday, March 30th and 31st, 1918 PROGRAMME: Saturday Morning 10:30. Devotional Exercises R. M. Von Miller, Pastor 11:00. Sermon Rev. J. E. Dupree Enrollment of Delegates and Organization. DINNER. Saturday Afternoon: 2:00. How to Finance the Kingdom Rev. C. E. Stevens 2:30. Best Methods, how to raise money for Mission Objects in Country Churches Bro. J. F. Pool 3:00. Our obligation to the Biblical Recorder. .Rev. H. F. Brinson 3:30. How to reach the Unenlisted Members of our Churches Rev. G. W. Rollins 4:00. Miscellaneous Business. Saturday night Sermon Rev. R. R. Lanier Sunday Afternoon:.. 10:00. Sunday School 11:00. Our Association, Its Outlook and its Needs Rev. J. E. Lanier 11:30. Sermon Rev. A. C. Hamby DINNER. Sunday Afternoon: 2:00. Baptists and Christian Education .... Rev. A. C. Hamby 2:30. Pastoral Support: "Cooperation," Mr. T. J. Lassiter Pastoral Support: "Financial," Judge F. H. Brooks Immediately folowing this will be the Meeting of the W. M. U. Quarterly District Meeting. Special Programme and Special Speaker. Irish Cobblers on the way. See us for flour and feed stuffs. We have just received a large lot of nice Seed Potatoes. Come and get yours now before they are all gone.
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