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PRESIDENT GREETS BELGIAN'S MISSION PLEDOES RESTORATION OF BEL BIUM TO PLACE SHE HAS WON. PRESENTEO AT WHITE HOUSE Baron Moncheur Bring* Letter From King Albert Which Expresses Grati tude to America. —Lansing Enter tains Viaitora In Washington. Washington, > In greeting Belgium's war mission. President Wilson ex pressed America's "solemn determina tion that on the Inevitable day of vic tory Belgium shall be restor«>d U> the place she has so rlghly won auioug the self respecting and nwpocted na tions of tho earth." The commission era spent their first day in Washington paying official calls Secretary Lansing accompanied them to the White House, whore Bar on Moncheur, head of the mission, handed to I'refJihlent Wilson a person al letter from King Albert and ex pressed In a short address Belgium's gratitude for America's aid "Since tho first days of the greatest tragedy which has ever befallen hu-. inanity," said the baron, "Belgium has contracted an Immense debt of grati tude tn the generous American na tion" In a magnificent outburst of sym pathy for the little country which had chosen to delay u powerful and pltl less enemy rather ttuui to tarnish its honor or forswear its plighted word, tho initiative of American citizens gave to tho unfortunate victims of German cruelty In Belgium tho most splendid evidence of generosity. "But tho chivalrous sentiment* which animaate fhe people of the Uni ted States wont further than this when President Wilson, giving an adtnlrahlo example of disinterested power, ut tered tho words well fitted to'make us tremble with hope and to cause us to tlx our eyes confidently upon tho starry banner whjch has become more than over the symlKil of strength placed at the service of the highest and most pure principles "Yes. Ilelglum will again take her pfffco anmng the nations. The enemy brought us massacre and devastation, Init there still remains to the Belgian people their soil made fertile by the toll of their ancestors; there still re mains to Ilelglum un Industrious po ulatkm of unconquerable energy "Leaning Upon the young, strong and generous hand which the Ameri can people holds out Hi her, Belgium cinw she is delivered from the oppres sion of the enemy, will arise and throwing aside the odious weight of foreign occupation, courageously and proudly resume the path of progress lu the light of the sun of liberty." ADMINISTRATION FOOD BILL ENCOUNTERS OPPOSITION. Qroup of Senators May Make Early Adooption Impossible. Washington. Opening of debate in both branches of Congress on the sec ond administration food bill, for gov ernmental control of foodstuffs and other necessaries, disclosed determin ed opposition. i>artl ularly hy a group of senators, which threatens to pre vent Its enactment by July 1. as ur gently requested by President Wilson. Passage of the hill by the House within a week is confidently expected by administration leaders. But advo cates as well as opponents In the Sen ate say debate will lie protracted there for st-veral weeiks. and unless the President adopts some extraordinary stops to hasten action, the law hardly can be enaetml In time to set up the food administration before harvesting beg ins Administration supi>ortcrs privately expressed fear of a Senate filibuster. In the Initial discussion of the. hill, admlnistration spokesmen urged that mobilization of America's food power In tho war demanded radical steps and vesting of new and wide powers In the President GERMAN CASUALTIES FOR MAY ARE REPORTED London. The German casualties as reported in the German official cas naMy lists In Hie month of May fol low: KKled and died of wounds or sh'tonifws, 22.000; prisoners and miss- Ing. 26.562. wounded, 62.394. Total, 110,950. These lasuaJties add«xl to those previously reported gave the fol lowing. Killed and died of wounds or s4ckness, 1.068 127; prlsonens and interring, 557.419; wounded, total. 4,356,760. AMENDMENT TO BANK ACT SENT TO WHITE HOUSE Washington.—Amendments lo the federal reserve act designs! to strengthen, the financial system of the country by the concentration of gold reserve in federal reserve banks and to open wide the doore of the feederal reserve system to the state banks and trust companies, were sent to the president for hia signature. The Sen ate Anally accepted a conference re port previously approve* t>7 the HOMO. COL. C. &. BAKER Col. Chauncay B. Baker la In charge of the transportation'dlvlalon of the quartermaster corps of the United Statea army. REVEALS GERMAN SECRETS PRESIDENT WARNS AGAINST NEW GERMAN INTRIGUE FOR PEACE. In Flag Day Addreaa at Capitol Wil ton Telia Why Our Flag Is Being Sent Cross the Waters to Face the Flre - Washington.—America's reasons for HiMidliiK her Mag against the (Ire of tlie ermmy across the, the pur pose she seeks, w«ri' Mated anew by President Wilson In ii llwfcjluy address beneath the WushlngtotWfcnonumerit (Wmany'a military mastpr'denlnd the United States lh> right to h' neutral, the President snld, and by extranrdla ary Insults and aggressions 'loft tin no Holf-respectlng choice but to take up armH In defense of our rights ax a free people and of our honor as a sov ereign government." Now that America has been forced to war. declared the President, she bids her youiiK men go forth to fight on fields of blood far away for the mime old familiar, heroic purpose for which It has seen It a men die on eVery battlefield upon which Americans have borne arms slnije th*> revolution democracy. A sinister power, he said, which has the German people them selves In ItH grip, "now at laid baa stretched forth ItH ugly talons an.l drawn blood from UH " "Tho wholo world Is at war," he added, "fiecause the whole world Is In the grip of that power anl is try Ing out the' great battle which shall determine whether It Is to.be brought tinder Its mastery or fling itself free .' New Intrigues for Peace. In giving warning that the Germans actually have carried Into execution their plan U> throw a broatl belt of military power across the center of Kurope and Into the heart of Asia, rejecting the Idea of solidarity of races and the choices of peoples, Mr. Wilson spoke of the "new Intrigue for peace" now appearing In many guinea at the behest of the Merlin government. "It cannot go farther; It dares not go back," he said "'lt wishes to close Its bargain before It Is too late, ami It has little left to offer for tho pound of flesh It will demand " "Peace, peace .peace, litis been the talk of her foreign office for now i year or more," said the President. "A little of the talk has been public, but most of It has been private. Through all sorts of channels It has come to me and in all sorts of guises. The military masters under whom Ger many Is bleeding see very clearly to what point fate has brought them. If they can secure peace now with the iipmense advantages still in their hands which they have up to this point apparently gained, they will have Justified themselves before the German people; they will have gained by force what they promised to gain by It " The President reiterated again the German aggressions which dnqye the United States to war. lie declared the purposes for which American sol diers now carry tho stars and stripes to Kurope for the tlrst time in history are not new to Ameriman traditions because realization of German's war aims must eventually mean the un doing of the whole world. JAPAN TO SEND MISSION TO THE UNITED STATES. Will Have Broad Diplomatic Powera. Washington.—Japan will send a mis siono to the United States The mis sion will have broad powers especial ly in diplomatic consultation, and is expected to leave Japan during the first part of July. BRISTOL INUDATED BY CREEK'S OVERFLOW. Bristol, Tenn.-Va. —Damage to the extent of over $150,000 was done to Bristol an.l immediate vicinity, when Indian crefck, following a cloudburst about seven miles north of here, over flowed Its banks, lnud&ting the princi pal business district, but had receded considerably late In the evening. Many poor people living along the batiks of Indian creek, ordinarily a small stream, had to for safety, losing all their household effects. THE ENTERPRISE, WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA PARI OF SPAIN IS ON VERGE OF REVOLT SITUATION IN CATALONIA IS GROWING MORE SERIOUS EVERY DAY. NUMEROUS THREATS MADE Acute Problem For New Ministry.— One Faction Demands Peace at Any Price, However, a Solution MigHt Be Found By New Premier. Paris.—Some light is now thrown on i lie pre went situation in Spain, whi h ha* been the cauue of roiHglv-1 lugs recently, by a special correspon-1 dent of The Petit Parisian who has been making an investigation ther\ I He wires the following summary "of J the situation which nmde the position or the late cabinet untenable and pre sents an acute problem for the new ministry: First of all, the situation in Cata lonia (a district of about 1,200 square miles In the northeast of Spain, with a population of nearly 2,000,000, whose capital Is Barcelona) is critical The Inhabitants are aroused against the Spanish government and are aglt ' ' « Ir.iilstently for complete independent e. One faction openly declares in a liar ce lon a newspaper that it will obey no law not passed by the Cat&lonlanx for Catalonlans. and demands Independ ence at any price. Aside from this local situation the correspondent finds that the economic sta'e of affaire In general demands speedy action by the cabinet. Strikes are Imminent, especially In Astmi.is (an Important district In northwestern Spain on the Bay of Biscay). Strikes are under discussion l>y all railroad employes and most of the Industrial workers The supply of coal Is so scanty that It Is almost Impossible to operate the trains Stagnation of the export trade, owing to the submarine warfare, is resulting In growing Irritation. Finally, there Is the external situation, whi h every when*,is recognized as grave for Spain, and which, the correspondent says, Is made Infinitely more trouble some by German espionage, German Intimidation and the Germanophllo press, which has wounded and antago nized Spanish pride Notwithstanding these difficulties, the correspondent wires, Spain be lieves confidently .the new premier will be able to find a solution. MISSION FROM BELGIUM 18 NOW IN WASHINGTON Come to Express Gratitude for What America Has Done Washington.— Belgium's diplomatic mission came to Washington to ex press Its gratitude for all that the Uni ted States has done In the past to re lieve the suffering of Its people and to discuss wMh American officials the reparation that is to be demanded of Germany for her violated faith art the beginning of the war, and Internation al crimes which have followed It. The rapresentatlvs of King Albert, who has clung tenaciously for nearly three years to the last frev fringe of his country, wore received with All the courtesies and probably with deep er emotions than the official missions of the greater nations who preceded till em Secretary Lanelng. Counsellor Polk and Assistant Secretary Phillips of the state department greeted them at t'he station, after which, escorted by two companies of cavalry, they motor ed to the homeof Anderson, form er minister to Belgium, which Is to be their headquarters. Baron Ludovlc Moncheur, chief of the ixrftt.lcal bureau of the Belgian foreign office and for elg-ht years min ister to this country. Is the head of the mission. It is understood he ex pects to confine his efforts In the Cntted States largely to the ultimate peace questions rather than to Imme dlaite war needs. In the l«tter. he will find his wishes already met, f ( >r the United States shortly after its en trance into the war. took over the en tire cost of the relief in Belgium Bach month the treasury department advances $7,500,000 for this purpose. EXORBITANT PRICE WILL NOT BE PAID Washington.—Suggestions that the country's steel mills will hold for a price of $95 per ton for s*teel that,goes into the great fleet of merchant vessels to be built by the government, drew from Chairman Denman of the ship ping board the statement that a price that high would not be paid "I shall sign no contracts at that figure," said Mr. Denman "The price is absurd wthen the navy is> getting steel at S3O a ton less." ' CHINESE PRESIDENT IS MERE FIGUREHEAD Peking.-—Gen. Chang Hsun now ia dictator. President Li Yuan Hung be ing little more than a figurehead The insurgents are calling a convention at Tien Tsin for the purpose of forming a provisional government headed by th dictator as president. Gen. Chang Hsun's motives are boscure but it Is believed he Is attempting to obtain fronWhe Manchu dynasty an agree- sestorwtlon of the empire. EMIL GATHMANN Among the many American inven i tor* who are devoting themselves to | the solution of the submarine prob lem la Emil Gathmann, a Baltimore engineer. He says the U-boat msitce will disappear in a few months. MANY KILLED IN AIR RAID ONE HUNDRED ARE KILLED AND OVER FOUR HUNDRED ARC INJURED. Principal Damage on City's East Side and Main Result Was Killing of Civ ilians.—No Military or Naval Dam age Done. 1/Otidon.— In a swift anj deadly raid on the city of Ixxidon. Ontn&o air plane* took a heavy toll In killed and wounded. Other placet* were attack ed, but bo far as known, the heaviest losses occurred in Ixxidon lt»elf. At a late hour the casualties an officially announced numbered 534, including Alnety-seven killed and 437 wounded. Fifty-five men met death and 223 men were wounded. Sixteen women and twenty Mix children were killed and 122 women and ninety four chil dren wen' .wounded The German squadron consisted of about fifteen machines and the down town section of London waa the chief objective Many bombs fell In the east end where buildings were de stroyed and others badly damaged and scores of persons fell victims to the explosions In one Instance alone ten children were killed in a school and fifty were injured. airplanes ascended imme diately the signal was given that hos tile machines were coming, hut the j Germans remained at a great height I and Hew swiftly and evidently the British tighten) had difficulty In the ! | pursuit, for the loss of only one Ger- ! J man machine has been recorded. Others are reported to have been ! brought down, but there Is no official confirmation of this The anti-air craft guns of london seemingly were unable to reach the Germans While a great many small business houses anil the homes of the poor in the crowded districts suffered great | damage. Field Marshal Viscount I French, commander of the home de fenses, announces that no damage of J a miliary or naval nature wan done. ROOT AND PARTY ARRIVE SAFELY IN RUSSIA Alto Russian Mission to United States Has Reached Seattle. Jrlrograd. via Ix>ndon (Bulletin. — j The American mission, headed by Rli i hu Root, has arrived here. Washington.— Russia's mission to | the I'nited States, consisting o forty ! members, has arrived safely at a Pa j ciflc port after an uneventful voyage. ; Boris A. Bakhmetteff. special ambosea : dor to the United States, heads the mission After a stop at Seattle, the mission j will proceed at once to Washlngutn l'reckenrldge Ix>g, third a*wisarrt sec retary of. state, will Join It at Chicago *>t the representative of President Wilson and the department of state, and courtesies similar to those extend ed to *t.her mtsions will be offered. SHIPYARD EMPLOYES DEMAND HIGHER WAGES. New York.—Employes in forty-one private shipyards in this vicinity have demanded higher wages, it has been learned. Compliance is requested by June 23. and unsatisfactory responses or no responses at all would reßult automatically in a walkout on July 3 by 20.000 machinist*, bollermakers and pattern makers according to the men. It is reported federal mediators are endeavoring to effect a settlement. GENERAL PERISHING HAS REACHED FRENCH SOIL. Boulogne. France.—MaJ. Gen. John J. Pershing, accompanied by his staff, put his foot on French soil as com mander of the American military ex pedition. French, British. Belgian and Indian officers and soldiers salut ed their new allied comrades, the American national anthem waa play ed by a military band, and a guard of honor stood At "present arms" as the ship bearing the American general to the scene of tbe war cac.e Into dock. AMERICAN GUNNERS MEET FIRST DEFEAT ARMED AMERICAN STEAMER IS SUNK AFTER RUNNING FIGHT WITH SUBMARINE. ONLY FOUR LIVES ARE LOST Hundreds of Shots Fired Before Bteamer Goes Down.—Survivors Re •cued From Life Boats.—Treated With Marked Consideration By Ger mans. Washington.—American naval gun ners have met their first defeat in open fight with a German submarine. Official dispatches announced the de struction of the tank steamship Moreni, abandoned ablaze June 12 by her crew and armed guard after a desperate _ running fight In the war zone, which cost the lives of four of her crew. llalf an hour after the tanker had been se,\t to the bottom, her forty three survivois, including all of the members of the ar>utd guard, were picked up with their life boats hv a passing steamer. The «..rman com mander had set them adrift after con gratulating the American skipper up on his game fight and having the wounded men treated by the submar ine's surgeok. The Submarine began the action at a range of 8,000 yards, four nautical miles, when she hardly was visible !o i th-* steamer without glasses. Present ing virtually no target herself, she ! sent two hundred shells at the big tanker, making many hits, while the American gunners wasted 150 shots without harming the speck from which the deadly hall came Naval officers assumed that the sub marine was armed with the six-Inch rifles mounted by most of the newest undersea boats No statement was available as to the armament of the Moreni. The failure of the gunners I to get the submarine was attributed generally to the long range and small target The action of the submarine com mander in treating his vanquished op ponents with such unexpected cour tesy was the subject of much com ment Germany has proclaimed , her Intention to treat British armed mer chant crews as pirates. LIBERTY LOAN OVERSUBSCRIBED MANY MILLION OF DOLLARS. Washington.—The American peo ple have responded to the govern ment's call for funds to finance the war with an over-subscription to the $2 000,000.000 liberty loan of propor tions so huge that officials are buried beneath a landslide of untabulated re turns. It was overwhelming beyond the most sanguine hopes of treasury offi cials, though not one of the twelve federal reserve banks, reglnal head quarters of the loan, could hazard more than an estimate of its total. In the country's answer to the call, the dominant note' was the voice of the small investor. His money talked the last day of the campaign in elo quent terms. The hope for a wide spread response of the average man with the average income was more than realized In the multitudes that flocked to the banks. It appeared that all previous estimates had gone by the boards, and that nearly 3,000,000 men and women have bought their bonds In the absence of official figures, officials hestiated to predict how high the total would soar. It mounted every hour to new heights and assum ed such proportions that there was an apparent inclination to accept with some allonwances the rosy estimates of local liberty loan committees as to their totals of their districts. ' At the treasury, a not# of conserva ! tism was sounded concerning these es , tlmateß. It waa feared that the com mittees, tiushed with success, might be, over-optimistic, and there was \ manifest unwillingness to accept as final any estimates unverified by , actual tabulations. GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE OVER MERCHANT SHIPPING Washington.—The vast amount o steel merchant shipping under con struction In American yards, probably 2.000,000 tona, will be taken over im media toy by the government under power granted in al provision of the war budget bill signed by President Wilson. The annuoncement was made at a conference of the country's steel ship builders with the shipping board and its emergency fleet corporation. INCREASE IN STRENGTH OF NATIONAL GUARD Washington.—An increase of 316 officers and 13,976 enlisted men in tiie national guard not in the federal ser vice is shown in the latest reports to the militia bureau of the war depart ment. On May 31 the Strength of the national guard was 4,462 officers and 108,631 men,; while on June 10 a total of 4,778 officers and 122,607 men had been reported with the of Arkansas, New York and Texas still to be heard from. FM GRAFTING PHYSICIANS ALSO I » NEED FOR MORE MEDICAL MEN IN THE ARMY IS VERY IMPERATIVE. DOCTORS NOT VOLUNTEERING Medical Section State Committee on National Defense Sends Refla tions to National Board. Greensboro. —Recognizing the im perative need of more medical men for the army and in view of the fact that doctors are holding back and not vol unteering an they should, the North Carolina State Committee on Nation al Defense, medical section, in ses sion in Greensboro, passed a resolu tion recommending that the plan of selective draft in order to secure ade quate medical service for the army be adopted in Congress This for ward step on the part of the North Carolina Committee was taken for two reasons: first, because it would give an adequate medical service to the army, and, second, it would re lieve Individual physicians of the re sponsibility of a decision. The members of the State Committer who met In session were Drs. J. W. Lxnig and Chas. Banner, of Greens boro; Hobt. L. Gibbons and I. W. Fals on, of Charlotte; H. P. Long, of States vllle; M H Pletcher and J M. Lynch, of Ashevllle; I) T Tayloe, of Wash ington; Chas. O H. of Greenville; B H. Hays, of Oxford; H. A. Royster and W. S. Rankin, of Ral eigh, and M H. Biggs, of Rutherford ton. The action of the committee at this point was not influenced altogether from the fact that North Carolina'* Hat of medical volunteers is far be low her quota, but the fact that the whole country is falling far short of what is expected of her or Is needed in the way of medical care for her soldiers. Out of tl* 100,000 doctors in the United States, only about 2,100 have accepted service. The number in North Carolina to apply, not to ac cept service, is about 300 out of about 1,700 or 1,800 doctors,- Right Honor able, Arthur, J. Balfotfr, on his recent visit to Amerira, said that the great est war service this country could render was the sending of medical men Immediately to Prance. He fur ther urged that America avoid the mistake made by England of failing to provide medical care for her soldiers at the front The resolutions passed by the com mittee are as follows: Whereas, the wisdom, and e(ft*tiveness of the 'selective draft have been recognized by Congress in raising a strong army from our civial ion, and Whereas, the advantages of the se lective draft apply with equal force to securing adequate medical service for the army; therefore, be it Rosolved. That we, the North Caro lina State Committee on National De fense. Medical Section, recommend to the General Medical Board of the Council of National Defense that the said board use its influence with Con gress In having the principles of the selective draft adopted for securing an adequate medical service for the army Lawyers to Meet In Ashevllle. Wilmington.—Thomas W. Davie an nounced here the program for the an nual convention of the state bar asso ciation at the Battery Park Hotel, Asbeville, July 3-4. The address of welcome will be Tuesday night, July 3, by A. Hall Johnson, of Ashevllle; response by Matt H. Allen. Golds bom, followed by president's address, Hon A. L. Brooks of Greensboro. Wednesday morning. July 4. address by Hon R. N. Sims, Raleigh. Wednesday night, address by Sen ator Thomas W. Walsh, of Montana. Thursday morning, address by Hon. I Charles A. Townes, of New York. Nine Guard Camps For N. C. Washington. D. C.—Senator Over man on a visit to the war department in regard to the establishment of can tonments and national guard sites in North Carolina, ascertained that three cantonments will be established in General Wood's division and there will be nine national guard camps estab lished In the eastern states. The sen ator hopes that either one of the can- , tonments or one of the national guard camps will be established in North | Carolina Each of these camps will have about 20,000 men. Girl Meets Terrible Death. Troy—The four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barna Allen, of this place, was caught on a shaft at the Troy Knitting Mills. The clothing on the child was wound around the shaft, which was running at the rate of 300 I revolutions per minute, the shaft be | lng about eighteen inches from the i floor. Before the operator could stop the machine the child was almost dead and- died a short time later. The force of the child being battered aaatnit the floor caused the shafting »« b* pulled loose from the floor
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