HEAVY ATTACKS BY
GERMANS IN WEST
BRITISH EVERYWHERE ARE RE
BE HOLDING LINE
FIRMLY.
GREAT FORCES OF INFANTRY
Gtrmant Use Masses of Artillery
—About Twenty Divisions. —General
Byng's Forces Make Gains in Sev
eral Placea.
Extremely hard fighting, with th •
German* using great forces of infant
ry in mass formation. Is taking place
along the southwestern and south
eastern sections of the Cambrai sa
lient.
In the region of Gonnelieu, La Vac
querie and southward to Vendhulie
and northward toward Masnleres, bat
tles waged w(th great fierceness
throughout Monday, l.ut with the Ger
mans nowhere sucessful in breaking
the British front At l/a Vucquerle
they again -succeeded in penetrating
the village front which they were'ejec
ed previously, but a strong counter
attack again turned the scales In favor
of General llyng's forces, who threw
out the enemy, inflicting heavy casual
ties on him.
AB in their previous attacks, the
Germans used great masses of art 11
lery, but the British forcea, every
where met their onslaughts stoically
and at last accounts were firmly hold
ing their line at all points.
Although the Germans In their of
fensive have been using men reckoned
at 20 divisions, the British have been
able a! several points to regain somo
of the ground tkey lost in the initial
attack which was delivered with a
suddenness similar to that of Byng's
big drive toward Cambrai. Sunday
night they had gained the eastern
edge of the village of Vlllers Guislaln
and driven out the Germans from La
Vacquerle They held this latter po
sition until Monday morning, when
they were compelled again to cede it
to the enemy, only to take It again
later In the day. Southwest of Hour
lon village, at the west of Cambrel,
the British also have recovered lost |
terrain.
THIRTEEN BILLION DOLLARS
IS ASKED OF CONGRESS
Greatest Budget in Nation's History—
For Prosecution of War.
Washington
than $13,500,000,000 the greatest In
the nation's history- for the conduct
of the government and prosecution of i
the war during the fiscal year 1919
were submitted to Congress by the
treasury department.
In round figures more than $11,000.'
000,000 in for the war alone. Only part !
will be realized from taxation; the
remainder will come from liberty
bonds. |
Deducting an Item of $1,1:1.000.000, |
Intended as an annual appropriation !
toward a sinking fund for Jho (lis
charge of the old public debt, and
some $330,000,000 which will he turn
ed back to the treasury from postal j
revenues, the sum for which J
Congress actually is expected to ap- '
propriate is $13,018,725,595. N'o pre- I
vlous estimate ever lias exceeded two
billion.
Here follows a general statement of j
the estimates by general headings:
Legislative, $5,0211,325.
Executive, $65,329,369.
Judicial. $1,396,190.
Agricult ur;>, $26,458,551.
Foreign Intercourse, $6,535,072.
Military (army), $6,615,936,554.
Navy. $1,014,077,503.
Indian. $12.255.210.
Pensions, $157,060,000.
Panama canal, $23,171,624.
Public works (practically nil fortifl- j
cations), $3,504,918,056. j
Postal service, $331,818,345
Miscellaneous, $1,026,208,317.
Permanent annual appropriations,
1711.166,825.
Total (cents omitted here and
above), $13,504,367,940.
Deduct sinking fund and postal re
turn, $485,632,345.
Total, $13,018,726,696. „
RELEASED BALLOONS ARE
BROUGHT DOWN IN SAFETY
- Kansas City, Mo. —Two United
States army observation balloons, un
leashed by accident and shot unguided
into the air, have been brought to the
ground. One, a huge bag of the new
French type, escaped from students
at Fort Omaha, Neb., and trailing 6.000
feet of steel tethering cable, traveled
a spectacular course through Nebras
-4 ka, Oklahoma and thence
back Into Nebraska, where it was cap
tured.
NO DIRECT DENIAL OF
FUEL OR TRANSPORTATION
Washington.— Curtailment of non
essential industries to save fuel and
transportation will be accomplished
for the present, at least, almost wholly
by indirection. This was made clear
la official quarters, where it was in
dicated there probably will be no di
rect denial of either fuel or transpor
tation to any industries. The tj>est plan
It has been decided, is to begin at the
top of the list and assure coal and rail
movement to the essentials.
••
SECOND SESSION
CONGRESS BEGINS
BIG WAR SEBSION IB EXPECTED
BY ALL CONGRESSMEN TO BE
LENGTHY ONE.
816 CALENDAR OF 6USINESS
Appropriation Estimates Are Receiv
ed.—Members Say American People
Everywhere Favor Vigorous Prose
cution of the War.
Washington- Congress reassembled
Monday for its second war session.
Most of the senate and house mem
hers had arrived and arrangements
were complete for the first, meeting of
what promises to be another epochal
session. Increased determination of
the American people for vigorous pros
ecution of the war waß the message
universally brought by the returning
members.
Brief and routine opening session
were by both senate and house.
Immediately after convening and ap
pointing committees formally to notify
President Wilson and each other that
the second pesslon of the sixty-fifth
congress In In readiness, adjournment
was taken out of re.tpect to members
who died during the recess, Senator
Hunting of Wisconsin, who was acci
dentally shot, and Representative
Martin, of/llllnois
Another feature of the opening day
was~recelpt of appropriation estimates,
aggregating many billions of dollars,
for war and general governmental
for the next fiscal year.
Ilefore the holiday recess, which
Speaker Clark and others favor aban
doning, disposition fthe national pro
hibition question is to be pressed.
Itevenue legislation will not be tak
en up immediately, hut a deficiency
appropriation hill before the holidays
to care for unexpected war expendi
tures Is probable. The senate demo
crats' steering committee and house
ways and' committee may meet this
week to discuss tentative legislative
programs, hut no party caucuses or
conferences for that purpose are plan
ned.
;; General Who Smashed
;: 'the Hindenburg Line ;;
1 "H , +4 , +4 , H++++W+++++++4 h H" •
Lieut. (Jen. Sir .lii'llnn 'B.vng, com
mander of the British Tliird army in
France, who lias smashed a great gap
through the Hindenburg line between
St. Quentln and the Scurpe.
WILL ENTER RACE FOR
SENATOR HARDWICK'S SEAT.
Atlanta, Oa.--Chairman William J
Harris, of the federal trade commis
sion, will resign at an "early date for
the purpose of opposing Senator
Hardwick, of Georgia, for re-election,
according to a statement made public
here by Mr. Harris.
BEGIN CURTAILMENT OF
NON-ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES.
Washington.—The government's first
move toward curtailing non-essential
Industries during the war was made
when the fuel administration sent to
coal producers a preferred list of con
sumers to serve when filling orders.
The list establishes preferential ship
ment for government orders, railway
fuel, household requirements, public
utilities, steel plants, coke ovens and
munitions plants.
Mob Burns Negro at Stake.
Nashville, Tenn.—A dispatch from
Dyersburg, Tenn., says that Ligon
Scott, a negro who Is alleged to harig
criminally assaulted a white woman
in Dyer county, November 22. was
burned at stake on the public square
thwre shortly sfter noon. The negro
was arrested in Jackson, Tgnn., late
Saturday and was being brought to
Dyersburg in an automobile by/Tthe
sheriff and his deputies when a mob
met the officers and relieved them of
their prisoner and proceeded to Dyers
burg.
THE ENTERPRISE, WILLIAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA
WHERE GREATEST VICTORY WAS WON
Smashing Forward on a 32-Ml!e Fraat In an Unexpected Quarter General
Halfl Surprised the Foe and Won Britain's Biggest Victory of the War.
The buttle line (1) extended fro
The entire (iermitn line from Rnpnu
Nord (.'!) was ruptured. Noyelle* (4)
reached by tlie Knglish.
M. GLEMENCEAU PRESIDING
CONFERENCE HELD ITS FIRST
SEBBION IN PA RIB THURSDAY,
MORNING.
Delegates Lose No Time Getting Down
to Work, Subdividing Into Commit
tees. —Many Americans Wers Pres
ent.
I*arls. —Th«*" Interallied conference,
which has been called for the purpose
of discussing closer unity in the pros
ecution of the war and co-ordination
of resources, opened In the ministry
of foreign affairs shortly after 10
o'clock Thursday morning, with 16 na
tionH represented. The French pre
mier, M. Clemenceau, presided and
welcomed the delegates
The Italian representatives were the
first to reach the conference hall.
They were followed by the envoys of
JaiMin. The American war mission,
augmented by Ambassador Sharp, Gen
eral Pershing and Vice Admiral Sims
conferred at their hotel headquarters
before going to the foreign office,
which they reachtsl promptly at ten
o'clock. The British delegates - came
right 011 the heels of the Americans.
There were large crowds outside the
hotel where the Americans and Brit
ish are quartered unad also In front
of the foreign ministry, but there was
no cheering nor demonstration of any
kind. -
Meetings of the supreme war'coun
cll in which only France, Great Brit
ain, the United States and Italy are
represented, will follow the interal
lied conference. This war council is a
permanent body and will deal only
with questions relating to mlltltary
operations on the western front.
DIFFICULT FOR REGISTERED
MEN TO GET COMMISSIONS
Washington. So-called "slacker
commissions." by which men of draft
ago seek to escape service In the
ranks and get officers' places in non
combatant branches of the army, have
struck a snag in two general policies
laid down by Secretary Baker.
These are, tlrst. that no men of
draft age be commissioned unless It
is shown dearly that they are better
fitted for the special work of which
they are called than any civilian be
yond the draft age whose services
can be secured; second, that no func
tion of the army tha* can w carried
on effclently with civilians shall be
placed on a military footing by com
missioning the men needed to super
vise the work.
from Hhe liability of service at the
front.
JACK TAR LOBEB LIFE
TO SAVE HI BCOMRADES
Washington.—Osmond Kelly Ingram,
of Pratt City, Ala , the gunners' mate
lost overboard when a German sub
marine attacked the . American de
stroyer Cassin in the war tone on Oc
tober 16, deliberately sacrificed his
own life to reduce the risk to his
messmates.
SOLDIERS ARE USING
SHORTER OVERCOATS
With the American Army in France
—The uniform of the American soldier
Is undergoing a further change. A
large number of t-oops have turned in
their long overcoats to receive in ex
change coats of the same material, but
much shorter in length. Because of
the perpetual mud it was found the
long coats soon became caked and
heavy. They flopped about the legs
of the soldiers, hindering the free
movement of the wearers.
m the River Scnrpe to San Quentln.
rue Catnbral road (2) to the Canal du
was out; of tlie advanced positions
DISCUSS PROSECUTION OF WAR
AMERICAN, BRITISH, FRENCH AND
ITALIAN MIBBIONB ARE AL
READY PRESENT.
Questions for Unified Action Will Oo
cupy Attention —The Situation In
Russia—House and Lloyd-George
Among Those Present
The representatives of the chlff na
tions at war with the Teutonic allies
are assembling in Paris for the inter
allied conference at which are to be
discussed momentous questions for
more uniflod action on the prosecution
of the war. r ,
The American, British and Italian
missions already have reached the
French capital. They are led respec
tively by Col. K. M House, I)avld-Lloyd
George, the British prime minister,
and Vlttorlo Orlando, the Italian pre
mier.
In addition to determining a basis
for stronger Joint action against the
enemy countries, the conferees doubt
less also will discuss at length the
anomalous situation in Russia, where
the Bolshevlki factions are in control
and where German staff officers, are
reported to be acting as military ad
viserß to the Lenine government. Pos
sibly a most pertinent point in the
discussion will be the future attitude
of the .allied countries toward Russia
—whether the situation as it now
stands does not place the Bolshevlki
government and its followers in the
category of allies of the central
powers.
Inside Russia the unsettled condi
tions of afTalrs daily seems to be grow
ing more serious. All communications
now has been severed between north
and south Russia, even the foreign
embassies in Petrograd being unable
to get in touch with Odessa and other,
points to the south. Unofficial advices
are to the effect that the Russian
northern army is in dires traits.
WHERE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT
t
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* fuL °ToarMl *
evilla (
I*WK>iibl
V StQiwntto/,
JUUNm
/
Mup showing the Cambria district in
relation to the geperal battle line.
GYPSIEB AND BOOTBLACKS
- .REGARDED AS IDLERB
_ .Baltimore.—'The status of Gypsies
and bootblacks was established as
idlers and they will come under the
provisions of the Maryland compul
sory work law. Following a confer
ence between Police Marshal Carter
and George A. Mahone, state director
of the Wdrk bureau, a number of Gyp
sies were rounded up. They declared
they had work and stated that some
weeks they earned S6OO as horse deal
ers and coppersmiths.
NATIONAL GUARDS
NOW 111 FRANCE
MEN FROM EVERY STATE IN THE
UNION NOW WITHIN
WAR ZONE.
I
IDENTITY IS NOT DISCLOSED
Al,l Thoae Who Bailed From United
States Arrived Safely and Some Are
Already In Training—French Popu
lation Give Welcome.
With the American Army In France.
—National guardsmen from,, every
state "in the Union have arrived in
France, it 'is permitted to be an
nounced. They are among the troops
now training, cr lately arrived. »
While it 1b not permitted to dis
close the identity of units it may be
said that all those which sailed from
the United States have arrived safe
ly and that some already are in train
ing within sound of the guns on the
battle front.
They are showing a spirit in keep
ing with the purpose to make the
t merican expeditionary force a ho
mogeneous American army In whicn
each division, whether regular, na
tional guard, or national army, cannot
be distinguished in efficiency from
the others. The former state troops
are billeted over a wide area and are
pronounced excellent soldiers.
The guardsmen have been arriving
in the American none for many weeks.
They are scattered somewhat, but as
far as possible the units from the
same state have been kept close to
gether. They found the regular army
had made good preparations 'or them,
and while many are billeted in houses
in French towns, others have, been
gartered lh low wooden barracks 1
specially erected.
The troops from the various states
have been recognized by the. French
population and have been welcomed
enthusiastically. Many of the units
wore the French red, white and blua
cockade pinned to their campaign
hats. After a sufficient time to rest
from the Journey, the troops have
been set to work training for actual
service at the front. In all quarters
they are declared to be most enthu
siastic and their soldierly qualities
have drawn high praise from the
French instructors.
For the information of the rela
tives and families of the men, every |
one who sailed from the United j
States has arrived safely in France. !
MRS. De BAULLES ACQUITTED
OF MURDER CHARGE BY JURY
1
Required Lesa Than To Hours—Gets
Custody of Son.
Mineola, N. Y—lt required but one
hour and forty three minutes for a
jury in supreme court her® to reach
a verdict, of not guilty in the trial of
Mrs. Blanca de Saulles for the tnurder 1
of her divorced husband, John L. Da-
Saulles, former Yale football star and
clubman, at his home near Westbury,
Long Island, the night of August 3.
In the verdict no reference what
ever was made to Insanity. It was a
plea of temporary loss of accountabil
ity which formed the basis of the
defendant's case. Mrs. de Saulles, who
had mantalped an air of extreme self-,
possesslon throughout the two weeks
of the trial, received the verdict smil
ingly. ijjhe shook han*s with each
of the Jurors as they left the box and
to each gave s nod of appreciation. |
As Mrs. de Saulles left the court
room, a newspaper photographer
touched off a flashlight The shock
of the explosion coupled, with the
young woman's helgtened nervous ten
sion. caustxl her to stagger, but she
was prevented from falling by Dr. J. ■
Sherman Wight, her physician She
was taken into a nearby room, where 1
she soon recovered.
Mrs. de Saulles' acquittal automati
cally establishes her as the only legal
custodian of her son. John L. da
Saulles, Jr., according to her attorneys.
WOULD TURN FACILITIES
OVER TO GOVERNMENT
Detroit. Mich. —Approximately 160
automobile manufacturers at a meet
ing of the National Automobile Cham
ber of Commerce here today pledged
their support to the government and
expressed their readiness to turn fa
cilities over to the government as
rspldly as required. In the mean
time, It was decided, the manufac
turers will keep their organisations
intact to conserve the greatest pos
sible strength.
GOVERNMENT PREPAREB TO AID
IN ADJUSTING LABOR SUPPLY
Washington. Preparations for
greater governmental aid in adjusting
labor supply to war needs were put
under way by the council" of national
defense with the appointment of L. C.
Marshall, dean of the school of com
merce and administration of the Uni
versity of as chlsf of a newly
created section on Industrial service.
The section will undertake prelimi
nary investigation of the increasing
number of lafor problems.
WALKER PRESIDENT
OF STATETEACHERS
SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION AT
CHARLOTTE ENDS WITH
PATRIOTIC RALLY.
ADDRESS BY 60V. BICKETT
Appeal la Made for Higher Sauries
for Teachera and Fireproof
Buildings for Puplla. -
Charlotte—The thirty (fourth annual
, convention of the North Carolina
Teachers' assembly, after a thre days'
session In this city, was concluded
with a mammonthf patriotic celebra
tion at the city auditorium, .. when
I Honorable Thomas W. Bickett, gov
i ernor, was the principal speaker,
i Fully 1,000 delegates from over the
I state, and a number of notable edu
| cators from out of the state, have
been In attendance.
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF NORTH
CAROLINA TEACHERS* ASBEMBLY
Prof. N. W. Walker.
Officers of the assembly and local
committeemen express themselves aa
the convention, and with the co-opera
tion of the citizens and organizations
of Charlotte toward that end. Re
tiring president, A T. Allen, Superin
tendent H. P. Harding and others
especially commend the hotels for
their courtesy Jto visitors, for their
able handling of the large number of
transients at a time when all the
hotels have been crowded, and de
clare that the service has been su
perior on this occastion „to that of
any previous convention. To those
citizens who opened their homes for
the entertainment of guests, public
thanks are also given. So well had
the committee on accommodation done
Its work, that there were at leaat
100 reservations In local homes not
assigned to teachers, although dele
gates were here numbering 1,000 and
perhaps more.
The annual business meeting of the
• ssembly was conducted at the First
Baptist church at 12 o'clock Friday.
A. T. Allen, of Salisbury, the effi
cient president for the term 1916-17,
presided. Following are the offi
cers elected for the yeifr 1917-18:
President, N. W Walker, of Chapel
Hill; vice-president, S. B. ITnderwood,
of Greenville; secretary. E. E. Sams,
of Raleigh. Members appointed to
fill vacancies on the executive com
mittee are. Superintendent A. S.
Webb, Miss Mary Arrlngton and Supt.
R. H. Latham.
Especial stress was placed by the
convention on the need for Increased
school funds throughout the state.
An immediate campaign in the in
terest of school funds, falsing teach
ers' salaries, and erecting fire-proof
buildings, will be substituted at once,
and In every possible way pressur*
will be brought to bear upon the state
legislature toward that end. The cam
paign will include personal contact
with state officials, educating the pub
lic to the needs, and stimulating in
terest through every possible medium.
The concluding and crowning fea
ture of the three days' session of the
North Carolina Teachers' assembly
was the masterly address Friday
evening at the First Baptist church by
Governor Thomaa W. Bickett |t waa
termed "patriotic night," and the ad
dress of the governor, aa was that of
Dr. Edward K. Graham, president of
the University of North Carolina, waa
an eloquent and convincing appeal for
some form of patriotic service and a
thorough justification of this coun
try's entry into the present world war.
Governor Bickett, who ia always an
interesting and able speaker, surpass
ed himself on this occasion, When
his audience was not choking back the
tears of tender sympathy excited by
aome pathetic atory or word picture,
they were laughing at the speaker's
sharp witticisms, .or listening with
amazement to his scathing denuncia
tion of the slacker and shirker in to
day's conflict The governor did not
mince terms when he spoke of the
failure Of any man or woman in tbla
country to accept the war as just or
who are in the slightest degree remiss
In their demonstration of patrioQui