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PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1918
NO. 40.
CANADIANS ARE IN
ACTION III WEST
CHESTER W. CUTHELL
17,000,10 OWNERS
OF THE THIRD LOAN
GEN. FERDINAND FOCH
160 III DETAILED
TO STATE COLLEGE
GALLED THIS MONTH
A QUARTER MILLION
CONSIDERABLE ADVANCE MADE
BY THEM ON BRITISH LINES
NEAR AMIENS.
AMERICANS UNDER SHELL FIRE
Intimations Come That Heavy Fight
ing May Be Resumed in France
at Any Time.
Australian and Canadian troops are
in action on the. British lines along
the vital sectors of the battlefront in
France.
The Australians have struck the
Germans near Morlancourt, between
the Ancre and Somme rivers, east of
Amiens, and have advanced their lines
upward of three-quarters of a mile, as
a result of two assauls on the Teu
tonic positions.
The Canadians have appeared in the
Arras sector, further south than they
have been since the battles in this re
gion began March 21. This part of
the line i3 most important, as it de
fends Arras to theh southwest and
includes localities such as Neuville-Vi-tasse,
there have been bitter strug
gles since the Germans launched their
great offensive.
American troops, on the French
front not far from Montdidier, have
been under a storm of shells for the
' last couple of days, projectiles con
taining high explosives being mingled
with those charged with poisonous
gas fired into the lines held by Gen
eral Pershing's men.
No Attack Upon Italy.
- Along the rest of the 'front in
France there have been no engage
ments of unusual character, nor has
the Italian front been attacked as yet
by the Austrians who have assembled
-there."
The British forces which have been
holding the town of Es-Salt, east of
the Jordan and northeast of Jericho
for about a week have been compelled
again to abandon the place before the
superior forces of Turkish and Ger
man troops. The British, however,
are still maintaining their control of
the crossing of the Jordan further
south.
From the official reports and spe
cial dispatches filed by correspondents
at the front, there come intimations
that heavy fighting may be' resumed
at any time. The fact that heavy
rains are falling may have a great deal
to do with the delay in the German
drive but the allies hold high grolind
from which they can observe the Ger
man positions, which are generally in
the lowlands and have kept up a
heavy artillery fire in sectors where
the Germans have been assembling or
have been at work in bringing up guns
for the battle which is virtually cer
tain to come.
METHODISTS WOULD CURTAIL
THE BISHOP'S POWER
Atlanta, Ga. In connection1 with the
demands of the laymen of the church
- that the power of the college of bish
ops be curtailed, additional memorials
were presented, asking laws providing
for the trial of bishops against whom
charges have been made and provid
ing that all involved in the appoint-
ments of ministers at annual confer
ences be given full and free consulta
tion.' '
The presentation of memorials and
an outburst of patriotism in connec
tion with the address of Maj. C. W.
Gordon, of the Canadian army, bet
ter known as "Ralph Connor," the
author, featured the conference ses
sion. Gordon's declaration that the
war would be won when the United
States 'gets 2,000,000 soldiers on the
western front brought a ' demonstra
tion which, it is said, never had
been equalled at a Methodist confer
ence. '
I Arr.FDTS r.PRMAN PEACE
"r- RATHER THAN BE CRUSHED
London. Count Czernin, then Aus-tro-Hungarian
foreign minister, paid a
secret visit to Jassy in the latter part
of February and delivered in person a
verbal ultimatum of the most drastic
sort from the central powers to King
Ferdinand, of Rumania,' it became
known with the arrival here of the
American Red Cross mission to Ru
mania. Count Czernin's visit was
known only in the highest official circles.
V
Chester W. Cuthell, thirty-four years
old, general counsel of the Emergency
Fleet corporation, is the youngest
man to hold a similar position for
the government. He succeeded Judge
John Barton Payne, who has been
made legal adviser to the director gen
eral of railroads.
TO PUT IH EVERY RESOURCE
WANTS AUTHORITY TO INCREASE
ARMY TO SIZE NECESSARY
TO WIN THE WAR.
Germans Must Attack Soon or Ac
knowledge Deefat in Their Ambi-
tious Attempt.
America is stripping for the decis
ive battle on the battlefront of Europe.
In an executive session of the military
committee of the lower house of Con
gress, Secretary of War Baker, Major
General March, chief of staff, and Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder have
asked Congress to give the president
blanket authority to increase the Uni
ted States army to whatever size may
benecessary to win the war. This
country now has nearly 2,000,000 men
under arms and the army appropria
tion bill for this year would provide
for an increase of this number to 3,
000,000. While America's plans for throwing
her every resource into the battle
against Prussianism are maturing, the
luuu which has brooded over the west
tern battle lines continues. The ex
pected German attacks on the"Ypres
and Amiens fronts have not been
launched. Here and there the oppos
ing artilleries have broken forth into
wild bombardments, such as usually
are preluder to massed attacks on
the allied lines, but they have died out
after a few hours. Here and there lo
cal operations have been carried out
for the purpose of straightening lines
and raiding the enemy's position, but
they have not developed into anything
unusual.
The present phase of the battle is
not unlike that before Verdun, two
years ago, after the first German rush
had been stopped and even attempts
to carry local objectives had met with
defeat. .
Germany has lost heavily, but the
emperor still has reserves to throw
into the fight. The defeat on the Met-eren-Voormezeele
line southwest of
Ypres has taught the Germans that the
allies are prepared to stand their
ground, and there seems little. incy na
tion at the present moment to renew
conflict which threatens to be disas
trous.
The report that Czech soldiers, de
serting from the Austrian army, now
are fighting with the Italians has been
followed by a dispatch saying that Ru
manians who had been captured by
the Italians have asked permission to
fight against the Austrians and that
they are now on the firing line.
GOVERNMENT PLACES ORDER
FOR 70,000 FREIGHT CARS
Washington. Orders for 70,000 addi
tional freight cars to supplement the
30,000 contracted for some time ago,
were placed by the railroad adminis
tration with 15 car building concerns.
The aggregate cost is between $170,
000,000 and $400,000,000 and the aver
age profit to builders is about 5 per
cent.
This is the largest single order for
freight cars ever let. Together with
orders already placed the contracts
awarded make up a railroad rolling
stock building program which will
shortly be under way of $325,00,000,
including $60,000,000 for 1.025 locomo
tives ordered a few -days ago.
7,000,000 MORE THAN FIRST LOAN
AND 12,'500,000 MORE THAN
. SECOND LOAN.
MAY. REACH $4,000,000,000
Most Successful Ever Floated by Any
Nation, Is Verdict of Treasury '
Officials.
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. Washington. Analysis of Liberty
loan reports showed that probably
17,000,000 persons bought bonds in
the campaign. which has closed 7,000,
000 more than in the second loan and
12,500,000 more than in the first. :ft
Latest tabulations showed $3,3fB
628,250 reported subscriptions, but the
treasury now believes the actual jt-o-f-tal,
which may run to $4,000,000,000
will not be definitely known until May
13, four days after individual banks
are required to report to federal re
serve banks.
"Whatever the money total," said
a treasury statement tonight, "the
loan just closed, probably i3 the most
successful ever floated by any nation.
The marvelous distribution of the
third Liberty loan indicates that one
out of every six persons in the United
States may have participated in this
loan,"
Banks' resources, it was pointed out,
have leen drawn on comparatively
little to make the loan a success, and
the prospects for future loans are
brighter as a consequence. An added
reason for Jubilation among treasury
officials is the indication that the
government bond-buying habit is be
coming stronger among people of
small means, and that they probably
will invest even more heavily in the
fourth loan next fall.
' Secretary McAdoo, in a statement
thanking the nation for its support of
the loan, said the widespread distri
bution of bonds "is particularly grat
ifying, and added:
"This is the soundest form of na
tional war finance the distribution of
J the loan among the people them-
selves."
He urged subscribers to retain their
bonds, unless there is a pressing ne
cessity for selling them, both to help
maintain the credit of the government,
and as a stimulus to "those economies
and savings which release materials
and labor necessary to the support, if
not the very life, of our army and
navy."
BLOW UPON ITALIAN
FRONT SEEMS IMMINENT
Over the battle lines along the!
Piave river and in the mountainous
region in northern Italy, where the
allied forces have been holding their
positions since last November after
the great Italian retreat from the
Isonzo, there is increased tension and
the long threatened blow at thi sfront
may be launched by the Teutonic al
lies within a few days.
For many weeks, the Italian war
office has been aware that the Aus
trians have been assembling the le
gions withdrawn from the Russian and
Rumanian fronts for a drive at the
Italian armies, and it is believed that
it will not be long before the central
powers will maka another attempt to
reach the plains of Venetia, break
through the allies' lines and seek to
bring about a decisive combat in that
theater of the war.
Emperor Charles of Austria, ac
companied by his chief of ttaff and
high German and Austrian army offi
cers, is reported on his way to the
Italian front and the great movement
of troops in Tyrol and Trentino would
seem to indicate that vast bodies of
men are being taken from other fronts
to be hurled at the Italian positions.
United States Consul Dies.
Washington. The death of Maddin
Summers, United States consul gen
eral at Moscow,-was -announced in
a cablegram to the state department.
Mr. Summers collapsed under the
strain of long months of oterwork.
U. S. TROOPS PENETRATE
HUN LINES FOR 300 YARDS
With the American Army In France.
One of the American patrols in the
Luneville rector entered the hamlet of
AnservHIers and penetrated the Ger
man lines to a distance of 300 yards.
On the way back the patrol discovered
an enemy observation post in which
were a corporal and six men. The
Americans promptly attacked, killing
three of the enemy, and taking the
other four prisoners, one of them in a
wounded condition.
- ir
Qen. Ferdinand Foch has been put
.In supreme command of the armies of
the allies on the western front. He
gained great fame in the battle of the
Marne, and is considered . France's
best strategist He is chief of the
French general staff.
PASSENGERS WERE IN BERTHS
TEN MEN AND TWO WOMEN PAS
SENGERS BELIEVE TO HAVE
GONE DOWN.
Vessel Sank So Quickly That Boats
Launched by Warships Were
of Little Avail.
An Atlantic Port. Sixty-six persons
lost their lives, when the steamship
City of Athens, bound from New York
for Savannah, was rammed and sunk
by a French cruiser off the Delaware
coast. The missing include ten men
and two women who were passengers,
seven but of 24 United States marines
who were on board, 14 out of 20
French sailors and 33 members of the
crew.
All the passengers and many of the
crew were im their berths when the
bow of the warship plunged into the
side of the 2,300-ton coastwise vessel.
Fire broke out almost immediately
afterwards in hold No. 1, but it had
no bearing on the fate of the ship,
for the flames were quickly quenched
jjy the rush of waters which poured in.
f Capt. J. Forward, one of .the vet-
eran commanders in the service of
the Ocean Steamship company, own
ers of the vessel, did his best to avert
a panic and man the lifeboats. So
quickly did the doomed vessel sink,
however, that there was no time to
get the boats away and many of
4those who perished were trapped in
their berths.
The cruiser launched lifeboats im
mediately after the crash and turned
its searchlights upon the waters in
which men and women were strug
gling for their lives. Sixty-eight per
sons were picked up and brought
back to this port by the warship,
which was not seriously damaged.
Those Believed Lost.
The following passengers are be
lieved to have'been lost:
M. Green, Astoria, N. Y.; James J.
Kastl, Morristown, N. J.; Richard
Bonzeiner, Mobile, Ala.; Miss E. G.
Stiles, NewYork city; Jean Caddron,
New York city; Rev. J. P. Reynolds,
New York city; Isaac Dalzell, Pater
son, N. J.; Mrs. F. D. Holthan,
Iyde Park, Mass.; Edward Clug, Sa
vannah, Ga.; Gaw Donk, Brooklyn, N.
Y.;r. A. Younp. Brooklyn. N. Y.
Th following United States ma
rines Vwere reported drowned:
F. R. Dixon, P. Van Hanegen. S. H.
Tynge, H. Rosenfeld, W. J. Mack, S.
Ginsberg, H. E. Wetmore.
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BOHEMIANS 'JOIN IN
FIGHT AGAINST' ALkSTRIANS
The Bohemian troops are joining
the Italians against Austria, according
to The London Mail's correspondent
at Italian headquarters. Kvei now
some of the Bohemians are c the
Italian Vne, clad in Italian uniforms.
This Information has passed tPiru
the hands of both Italian and British
censors and woul dtherefore appear ttl i
be authentic. The defection of ihe
Bohemians would in a measure explain
the delay in the proposed great offen
sive, long heralded, cf the Austrian ,
against the Italians.
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EVERY EXISTING CANTONMENT
IN THE COUNTRY IS TO BE
GREATLY ENLARGED.
FIFTEEN BILLION FOR ARMY
Over Eight Thousand Men Called
From North Carolina Go to
Camp Jackson.
Washington. Simultaneously with
the announcement that 232,000 men
from 45 states had been called to
Join the colors in May, Secretry Baker
indicated the scope of the govern
ment's plans for increasing its fighting
strength by stating that Congress had
been asked to appropriate approxi
mately 115,000,000,000 for the army for
the next fiscal year. That amount is
exclusive of funds provided in the for
tifications bill which not only covers
coast defenses, but as a rule provides
the bulk of heavy field ordnance.
The call for a quarter of a million
men during May, goes to all states ex
cept California, Oregon and Nevada,
which with the District of Columbia
already have supplied so large a part
of their quota that it was decided not
to include them this time. The move
ment in most states will begin May 25
and will be completed in five days. By
this order the war department aban
dons its plan of assembling men in
even monthly increments of approxi
mately 100,000. Under the original
program it was intended to call out
not to exceed 860,000 men during 1918.
The call for 110,000 in April and 233,
000 this month will bring out in two
months half of the number originally
contemplated for the year. Officials
made it clear that it is now the pur
pose to mobilize all the men for whom
equipment and training facilities can
be provided.
Need All Camps.
In preparation for this tremendous
increase in the army, the hoic mili
tary committee was tola touay that
every existing cantonment in the
country will be enlarged and every
national guard camp utilised to its
full capacity . It is regarded as prob
able that some new cantonments must
be built, but in the interests 'of speed
and eccnomy of effort and material,
pressure will be placed upon expand
ingg exijting facilities. Ground has
already been obtained in the vicinity
of several cantonments for the expan
sion and details of the new construc
tion are being worked out by the gen
eral staff.
The men called out this mnnt will
be mobilized generally at Vne canton
ments to which the men from the
same states have previously been
sent. In many cases they will find the
divisions originally created at those
camps gone. Some of the camps will
have been converted into replacement
divisions, and the new men will be
redistributed in accordance with their
qualifications.
To Fill Divisions at Home.
It is regarded as likely that the
April and May drafts will be used
largely to fill up divisions at home
while the seasoned personnel from
those divisions is sent overseas to fill
me gaps. Since the number of di
visions on the other side is rapidly
and steadily increasing, the flow of
replacement troops must increase pro
portionately. The apportionment among the states
of the men called today include:
Alabama. 6.820 to Camp Sevier,
S. C.
North Carolina, 8,114 to Camp
Jackson, S. C.
Pennsylvania, 7.700 to Camp Mead,
Md., 4,000 Camp Lee, Va.; 3,000 Camp
Humphreys, Va.; 2,923 Camp Green
leaf, S. C.
South Carolina, 1,900 Camp Jack
son. S. C; 288 Camp Wadsworth,
S. C.
Tennessee, 4,130 Camp Pike, Ark.
Virginia, 6,135 Camp Lee, Va.
West Virginia 4.797 Camp Lee, Va.
New York, 6,800 Camp Dix. N. J.;
6.850 Camp Hancock, Ga.; 7.600 Camp
Upton, N. Y.; 9,700 Camp Wadsworth,
S. C; 1,380 Camp Sevier. S. C.
NEW GERMAN PEACE
OFFENSIVE IS EXPECTED
Lndon. In the personal opinion of
Lord Robert Cecil, minister of block
ade, that failure of Germany's "knock
out offensive" on the western front
will result in a big peace offensive,
directed mainly against Great Britain
and possibly made in an attractive
form, but which will not afford any
terms the allies can look at. In this
opinion made in a statement, Lord
Robert expressed the further belief
hat the iew peace offensive wcuM
fte largely for German consumption.
A. & E. FOUND MOST 8UITABLB
BY GOVERNMENT FOR TRAIN.-
ING IN SPECIAL LINES.
USE OTHER COLLEGES ALSO
Requirements of Army Make It Neces
sary to Train Thousands of Men
for Modern Warfare.
West Raleigh. Provost Marshal
General E. H. Crowder has announced
that 160 men will be detailed to the
Agricultural and Engineering Colleei
of West Raleigh on May 16 for a twej
monts' scientific course for prepare
tion in the pursuits of such trades as
automobile mechanics, radio or wire
less telegraphers, machinists, electric t
cians and telegraphers.- Similar tech
nical schools were designated in va
rious portions of the United State
but North Carolina's share oi the war
trained technical students will study
at the Agricultural and Engineering
College.
The war department has adopted a
policy whereby 60,000 specialists will
be trained in technical schools of the
United States this summer. The stu
dents will not be assigned to any spe
cial branch of the army service until
they have completed the two months
course, at the termination of which
tim ethey will be distributed to the
various branches of army service.
The requirements of , the army for
waging modern warfare make it im
portant for the training of thousand
of speciaiists. Other North Carolina
educational institutions may later be
designated as the training ground for
these students, but the ready equip
ment and facilities at the Agricultural
and Engineering College were found
superior to other state institutions by
the investigaton committee of the war
department.
Close Raleigh Pool Rooms.
Raleigh. The pool rooms of Ra
leigh were ordered closed at midnight
on May 31, when the city commission
ers unanimously adopted resolutions .
declining to renew city license and de
scribing pool rooms as harmful and
unnecessary institutions, encouraging
idleness fostering gambling and tend
ing to icrea'se crime.
The final action on the question of
closing the pool rooms was taken after
Mr. W. B. Jones, representing the own
ers of the places, had asked for a fur
ther postponement of the vote for an
other day in order that he could pre
sent additional argument for his cli
ents. However, Commissioner Moon
eyham stated that he saw no reason
why the matter should not be decided
at once and the vote was taken.
The resolutions adopted were In
troduced by Mr. Mooneyham as a sub
stitute to Mr. Pace's resolutions, of
fered previously and made the pool
room closing a moral instead of a pa
triotic move as provided in the Pace
resolution. v
Mr. Pace, explaining why he advo
cated closing the parlors for patriotic
reasons, stated that he did not wish to
embarrass officials of the present or ,
any previous administration by mak
ing the issue a moral one. "If it is a
moral issue today, it was a moral is
sue a year ago."
Were Penned In Tunnel.
Lincolnton. While at work in ft
tunnel at the tin mine near town.
Messrs. Jake Johnson and Jake Mos
teller had a narrow escape from deaih
when the tunnel, in which they were
operating the hydraulic pressure ap
paratus, caved in and the men werfj
completed buried by dirt.
Men at work at the mine infmSdi
ately set to work with tools in an ef
fort to rescue the men from their peril,,
and they succeeded in a short time.
Neither of them was injured serious
ly. Mr. Johnson suffered a fracture
of ribs and was painfully bruised. Mr.
Mosteller's shoulder was dislocated,
and he was otherwise bruised.
Touflht War Near Over.
Charlotte. A farmer and his so
were walking along a highway in the
count yeast of Charlotte when an au
tomobile party of Liberty loan solici
tors drove up. The old man was ask
ed if he had bought a band. He look
ed puzzle and asked them what they
meant. They told him It was abso
lutely necessary that Liberty hondf
bo sold if the United States is to
the war. Tho farmer was startl'v
exclaimed that he had been t
the war was nearly over, butr
bond.