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VOL.7 hiliin, N. C.Thuraduy, Hay 9, 1918 No. C CERTAIN ENEMY TARGETS WIPED OFF THE MAP Willi tho American Army in France, May 7t. (By the Asso ciated Press. During tho last th ret; days tho American arti 11 ery in Hi" Lunoville sector has completely chased the Germans from their front positions and have wiped certain sections of the targets in the enemy rear ft re a off the man. This is the name artillery that not long ago give a similar performance in an other Lorraine sector. On the present occasion, so far us all investigation shows, the Germans have entirely abandon ed the territory at least as far hack as a point beyond their sec ond line. The Mily signs that they arc there at all are a few machine jun osts hidden in nn out of the way place in the hack areas, which cut loose when the opoitunity offers. .lust now, the German first and second lines are in ubout the name condition as Xo Man's Land, in which lat ter area the Americans me work ing more freely than ever before. The sections a!Tect"d by the work of these American artillery men are the lines south, south west and southeast of llalloville. (This town is approximately l.'l miles almost directly cast of Luncvillc and about six miles from the Gorman border at its nearest voint, to the northeast.) The American raiders have found that the shells had worked ter rific havoc at many places plainly visible where the big projectiles from the heavy guns had fallen. AMERICANS IN AIR BATTLES. Willi the American Army in Ki'.inee, May Tour more aerial haltlc weie reported today by American airmen flying in the sector inn thwest of Toul. All of the niinhals were Indecisive, nl though one of the American ma chines returned with bullet hole in Its wings and two others with holes lorn by fragments of shell from anti aircraft gun. How the Germans f ired is not known. The liisl teMrt was from the pilot of a pursuit airplane who encountered the enemy over the lines at a height of !.( meters. The pair fought a duel for sever ..nl minute, the German finally turning quickly an I, running in to the diicel line of the sun in his homeward way, getting clear. I.iter on. of ihe American photographing tna limes was at tacked by two enemy airplane. The American observer emptied one if n gun Into one of the rnemv machines Then the American pilot i-vmsed dmen I ii oi and turned In mcward. ThM German remained in purutl until Ihe American null aircraft gun pleke I them up Then they turned and went home. The American airplane circled once or twice and then went hark over the line and calmly resumed the photographic tHrition whciti Ihey hid been L it (T. ooooooooooooo Musical Critic U ? Serving His Country i o ooooooooooooo III. Imnl AMrMi. i ll 1,1. .. 11 inn.! I rfilli f Iln Nn Xtk 1iim. hni liwa r.iiiiiiilli.in'il 11 rnpliilu In lh I'nliH Sum tirnij. IH "rW l nf kind hlrli tin r ilfiwrttiirul lint i.lii-rO tint I lliii.tmiiip Iln fa it llmt lh UM n. It-tliT nri- mil cu(tart of tti war In i;nuimi ajr. I I- . JOY OF SNIPING BOCHES DESCRIBED BY PRIVATE. London, (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) "I am a sniper by trade and it was a day of joy for me," said Private Lang ford in relating his experiences in the great German offensive on theSomme. Langford, who was a member of a battalion Rtationed at Mailly, is now in a hospital here recovering from a wound. "We wived on the Somme on the morning of March 2(1," he continued. "As we went up to ward our position, Fritz was shelling us pretty hard, putting over some very big stuff. As s(K)ii as we got into the trenches we s lotted the Germans d()0 or 700 yards away on a ridge. Dur ing the night our Hying men didn't allow those Huns any sleep but kept peppering tlieni with heavy bombs. "About 10 o'clock the next morning they started one of the most terrific, deadliest barrages I have ever seen. It was tierce, and I have had 17 months of strating. Xo ga shells but all very heavy explosives. lie kepi this bombardment up till about quarter of twelve, I should say, then he left his trenches and came toward us in mass. "As the boches came along I killed some myself. All of our chaps were very busy laying them out. "Unluckily, when their creep ing barrage 'got l ight on top of us we had to keep down, and we couldn't see what their game was. Fritz managed to slip thru a gap or? the left of our company. "Two machine gun crews In advance of the main body got through the gap and right in our rear. They nipHd through very quick and smart, and planted their guns in a shell hole in no time, and intended no doubt to wipo na (.ft the map. Put our boys otted their game. "There were only alut 2:5 of u and the Hun with their ma chine guns were about GO yards distant al our back. Yes, he thought he'd got us beat, but we had something up our sleeve yet. As quick as lightning our chap threw a nice little dose of Mills bomb al 'cm and that was the end of them. The w hole lot were done In. "We then looked to nee what was happening in front of our trenches. I saw they were full tilt al us. They outnumbered u. I should say, by Into I. Hut we got buy with our machine guns and I ides ,ud d.d gnat ex ivutinii, cutting lines in 'cm. "Wlu n they sM'tt'd whit bad happci ed to those 11.41 l.iae gun rewthej saw their chance was up. iiiey turncti rlcht a'mut ind ran. and Ihey did run, too! You siv, they weren't more than 5 yard away when they turned. and I don't think a single one of them got b.u k to their line sgain. They were a'l killed or wounded Most of them were a brave lot of men. Xo squealing or hands up business. They wore trcmen dou big fellow in fai l. aU.ut the biggesl men I have seen. Jutaljut this lime 1 got wound ed, and I must say I wa a bit sorry, !caue I wa jut having the linesl day's shooting I'd had since I left home." AHI RICAN TROOPS riM.TR ATE HUN USt3 TOR 300 YARDS With the American Army In France, May S-(Hy ihe Aso- ciatsl Prc.)-(ne of the Amer ican patrols In tho Lunrvillc sec tor entered Ihe ham'el of Ann r vi'ders early this morning and .'nelrated tho German lines lo s distance of 'AD yards On the way back the patrol discovered an enemy observation post in which weie a roisiral and nix men. The Americana promptly attacked, killing three of the en emy and taking the other four prisoners, one of them In wounded condition. The first ihe Germans knew that the American patrol was near was when a ahower of hand grenades, followed by bullets, hit the rost. Tho patrol ceased liring when tho enemy rried k lunar. ad." LCD BY A PHiEST, TOFFIES RESCUE STATUES FR01VI THE RUINED CHURCH OF ARMENTIERES V.'. , , ill"- ' 6 " N't ' 'VU. OjU. t,- I U 1 I 1 . I Hi 0.' ! I -.4, . j vr(! t 1, i 1 . t -sn 'Vl-w . ' 7 TMs iiiiii-uiil 1 in. 1. 1,1. ,'li pn-si-idB Ti-nioii ruilili-" .m-xs llmt L'l'i's mil of tin tin- i;.'i'iiniii, llii- sliclii frniii lit. I r lli tin- -iiliii. wtil.li f..ri uniiti-ly i-ii i-i-iin i fl'llillll-'l Iln' 1111 m In 11 r.ifi' .lini- 17.000.000 own liberty bonds of third Issue. 1 Washington, May . Analysis of Liberty loan report, today showed that probably 17.iM) (MTsons Isiught Isiiul in the campaign which closed last mid night 7.11 WOO more than in the second loan anil 1 2. T( more than in the first. Latest tabuli'tions showed -Slfl.j2.2r rejwirted .subscrip tions, but the treasury now be lieves the actual total, which may run to $UUU Win. will not be definitely known until May i:i. four days after individual banks are required to rejmit to federal reserve banks. "Whatever the money total." said a treasury statement to night," the loan just closed prob ably I Ihe most successful ever floated by any nation. The mar velous distribution of the third Uberty loan indicate that one out of every six person In the I'nited States may have paitu i paled in th! loan." Hanks' resource, it wa limit ed out. have Is en draw n on 10 n paralivel y httie to in ie Ihe ! in j a succen. and the pitwtwcls f. r fiit 11 re Joans arc b; i.:!;'er ns ;i const qui inc. An al del nas.n forjubilatiorian.org treasury of- u la!l the inihcatioii th it the-J gioernn-er.t bmul huyivg h.i'.it i , bts'oming stronger among pinpie Jt.f small means, nnd that lh-v probably will mtesl -v-n nnin heavily in the fourth loan iet fall. Secretary McAihsi, in a state- ment thanlimg the nation for it upsrt of the loan, sai I the WldesplC.ld illst 1 1 1 1 ti t it hi if I. nn. Is ; I particularly gratifjicg. and added; 'This Is the soundest fyi m t ( national war finance the distri bution of the loan among the peo ple themselves." lie urged ub( iibcrsto retain their ImiiuU, un'es there is a pressing necessity for selling them, Isith to help mnintain the creilit of the government, and n ! a stimulus U "those economie anil saving w hit Ii release mate rial and latsir necessary to the upsrt, if not the very life, of our army and navy." l'in hearing icmrt on the number of aubrribers anil the uioney lolal of Ihe loan, Sir reUry McAdoo gave out a nUlemei.l in which he declared: "I should hke to thank the thousands of men and women throughout the country, the Li berty loan committee, hankers and business men, patriotic or ganizations, press uHorialions, newspa?rs and in.igay.ines In fat t every ( lassofourcitizi'iiship, , 1 V, , ..s..r "tj - " a nirlkliii.' "lilr."i -1 ln -in iln- uiilt wny to ili-.truy rrlluluii rlillri. Al khii .-i ro i-il Hie i-Imi It. Tn .r- ili'-lr'H 11 1 I In Hrl t r.Itit.-f Till I '. t i 1 1 -1 nllli'liil 1 linli tr,i0i Ii..uk white and colored alike, for their effective assistance and co opera tion in this great victory behind the line, without which a victory on the front cannot be achieved." (bie reason w by thi money to tal probably did not reach the l.'ili5,t1D.t1of the second loan, the treasury said, I that it was understood in the .second cam paign that only one half the over subscription were to bo accept ed, ami consequently g inter est in many cases turned in double the subscriptions they actually desired then. In the campaign just closed, it was an nounced that all over-subscnp-lion would be taken. BRITISH LOSSES O.N WESTERN FRONT 2S0.OOO SINCE MARCH 21 Washingi in, May 4. Ilritisb loe in n.en killed, wounded, captured and missing on the westerr. front since the (lerin oi oiTensive lcgan March ".'I ate i s tim.ili il bv ti e ISritish imiitary llllssii.il li.-ie lit I'. ,u !' 2.0. IK). Tin estimate wuiild apju-ar to 1 Ih in p'oiai KaLie 1 ontrast to the i ' l !.ori!."Us I I.'r1" III losses III the lime. The Grin. at. V-.ir oiVice, I of course, lets ti t ili lnsi',1 w h.il 1 its I ssi s 1 it t he great b it lie Iuw In i-n. but t!.e t-stiaia'.es of aided observe: s have p: u-e I tie-in al a staggeltng I'gU! l'i:ll the wry naluieof tie tiwhtie., noii tary ep.'its have p-iinti'd out, Ihe lussfs nf ihe .iltaikiTs Were 1m ti lit! to be heavier thill ll.oseil li e lU fi-ndei . hut in addition to that, the n ethotl of German at t trk. advancing troop in waves, faster th ill m,ti hn:e gun could mow them iln.v n, must, mi'.itiry exjs-rt say, have entailed cimr in u o r lossi' An Inkling cf how serious the German lossi s aie came some tin.eagi when it w.? rcoited that the Gi-riiiaii military chief dared not disclose their extent to the Gens. a1! p---; !, n'-l there fore, weie sending the wounded to Iteigium. i '.hi r n irt have ui ii 01 railway g.ilewajs lieing t hokeil with train of wounded, while the dispatches of curie pnndent at the f 1 out have told how the battletield were t arprt ed with gray did Isnlie. CRI EN.5B0R0 HLN II UY COAL MINE INTERESTS. Pulaski, Ya, May 4 -It Is known here that Salisbury and Grtensboro, X. t, parties closed a deal yesterday for a largo coal mine, located in the vc-ry heart of the famous Ue.l Ash coal district of Tazewell county, but the writer is not at liberty to give the names of the purchasers at this lime. The ilea! I for l.ll acres of coal land located on tho Xorfolk .'.' ,'-f -v. I''-:-:. ' ' : . 1 '" " "' 1IMn " " " " " 1 1 " mlillrf ll' miriw w M 1 1 - .J rt-i-r nr nil 1 li.mn.. r , 1 tin? Arnn-utli-ri . imu In iln- luiiils if itl fiirilii-r ilniimio- Oi 1 1- i.i.i!ii.-s nf if . iIh-l ThiiihiIi i' l.-l li iln- jiiient i ti.-ni lmln' ih- rlmri Ii ilili llnlr M.S. SMYRF.0F NEWTON, IS ARREST ED ON CRAVE CHARGE. Xewtoii, May I.- A sensation was sprung here (bis morning when John L. MilHiolland ap pea red in Xewtui with a warrant and arrested M S. S my re, one of New t"n' leading hard ware men. Mr. Mi!!ho!i.ind is .1 deputy I'nited Stites marshal ami the arrest i the result of an Investi gation that was made here some days ago by a secret service man of the I'nited St ttes government. The warrant chargesa violation of the federal espionage law and the hearing will l in Hickory Monday before John 1'. Miller, F 11 iti-d States con. in is sinner. M r. Suiyre g ive 1,(X1) Ijond lor his appearance Monday. W. A. Self h is been evployed by M r. Smyre to represent him in the case. It i riniini t-d that thi is only ihe In ginning of w hat 111.1V be expected in Catawba county. Usher prominent cili aeiis' leconl have lus-u Ir.vestl gated and future development will l' watched with great inter est in tin community and coiiii I v. and Western r ieioi l. al lioran, a , atid the .inn ....I .( iiioi,. ;,' iii Vi lved s between S.Vll.illll und ,io,ioi. They will begin d;h-i al mil iu'iuedi ttiiy. which mean that ll.ev wii! tw shipping cod by July I. They wtl!h'.o !y have t fVe in Salisbury and GreeiislHiio and al Iloran. Vs. The increased demand for Coal from the Foiled State govern ment for it enlarged navy and men haul marine, nlo for the manufacturing Industries, war manuf leturing plant., railroad and domestic supplies, make it utterly impossible for the pre ent mining facilities uf the Fnit sj States to supply the demand for coal next winter, and s a coal limn remarked "last winter's coal problem w very small com pared with what we will see next winter. Nobody can forecast what ihe coal situation will be. F.vcrybody who I familiar with ihe business knows that coal Is obliged to lo be very scarce ou account of the greatly Increased demand. The ivopte in this deal are far- sighted business men, and want to do all Ihey can Ui relieve the situation, and help lit k the kaiser, snd they are going to push this mine to where they will to turn ing out Jki) to U) tons of coal er day, by Oct. 1, It Is stated. NEW LIQUID CAS TRIED BY HUNS With the American Army on a French I tattle Front, May 4 (My tho Associated Press.) What probably Is a now (Jernian POLICEMAN KILLS NEGRO AT WILS00 Wilson, May 4. This morning about 5 o'clock Police Ollicer Cooper of the Wilson force, w hile going his rounds, shot and killed George Taylor, a well kmnni ne gro, under the following circum stances as told by Ollicer Cooper at the inquest held heforo noting coroner, . I. Alvin Clark, soon af ter the tragedy: Cooer said, in part: "I saw a man early this morning with a screen door; I followed and over took him; found he had something under his coat and on investiga tion found a dead chicken, still warm, ir. 11 bag; asked Taylor where he got it and he said he took il oil' of a fence, and pleaded 'You know, boss, times is hard, let the old nigger go this time.' I told him to consider himself nn dor arrest and started w ith him to tho lockup, holding him by one coat sleeve. After going 11 short distance Taylor broke and ran. I tdiot at him three or four times but did not intend to kill him; called police and left Taylor with them and noli lied Chief Dickens and Mayor K'illette w hat had hapiH'iied and they advised that the wot nded man be hurried to a hospita' as soon as ixissible." Taylor d vd where ho fell in about 1j minutes after tho shoU were tired. Two shots bxik ef fect. The jury found that Taylor came to his death at the hands of Cooper while in the dischargo of his duty and recommended that he be released without bond. liquified gas was projected this morning against the Picanly front whole American troops arc lightir.g. Tho ga. in it fluid form, is contained in glass ImiUIc. On bursting they give off some sub stance from which heavy, white fumes, transparent in texlure, continue to rie for five minute Xo detonation was heard us the Ixittles were hurled through the air and apparently they weie thrown by a spring. The gas caused nausea, sneezing a n d couching, but did not harm any of the American. There ha been lively artillery lire but Ihe American here have not een stt lacked by the Infan try. List night an enemy sergeant major and t ight men attempted 10 raid one of our forward sists, consisting of three men. The German captured one of our 11 en, but he eea('d beforn he cnul I be taken into the enemy's iiues. in iuicirpurg 10 recover their prisoner the German strait-1 Into Ihe American line They were attacked and the p, lro leader wa wounded and cap tured. IK? belongc-l to a reserve Saoti regiment. One of the American patrols ciiCuunteied a superior enemy force of --' men. Fighting as they went, Ihey made their way bark to Ihe Au.ci icati line with out losses. Two German airplanes were brought down today. ' O000000000 000 J Hostess to Our Women j ? War Workers in Paris 5 o oooooooooooo M: ij.mij- nf N.mv i k. iiuiiiiiui'f if ihe ll.isd hmi h nf 1I10 Y. W . n I'm is. Tin- !m-iSi s Imiise U tie ntivi iil.-iiii- of tin- Amerii mi ir.iui 11 il.'lr wiir -rk "iiver Ihiru." rlMl 1 ' Ui ' 5 it :sr ,ir; , AUSTKIA ON DRINK 01' REVOLT SAYS TRAVELER London, May 1. Softon Del-mert-tdographs to tho Daily Mail from Annemasso, on tho Franco Swiss frontier under date of Tuesday, April I!, an interview with a man just out of Austria whoso information there is rea son to credit. His informant says "Austria is at this moment seething with revolution, hut there are no resolute, dauntless leaders and no means whereby tho hungry, angry masses can organize themselves effectively into groups. Also the. whole ieo plots cowed by tho prospects of punishment that might bo in flicted on them by the Germans if tho much-vaunted victory of LudendorIT in tho west really comes otT. The Ukraine peace started plans for revolution. The Ukraine peace has not, as hoped, tilled Austrian stomachs. "The people of Austria still are starving. They manage to keep body and soul together with po tatoes it nil mangle wurzels and odds and ends, but there is bad feeling, under feeding and conse quent illness everywhere in An tria. "Vienna, itself, ion Ihe brink of starvation and living from hand to mouth, although food speculators are believed to have considerable hoard. A railway strike 6f two or three days would leave tho city foodless. There is no catastrophe the government fears worse than a railway strike. "As regard t Ii e Southern Slavs, the new o!icy of ihe Unit ed States, Italy and the entente, although peiilmislv lung jmisI oiieii, i oea'ing I run. .News that the entente iccogniesa sep arate southern Slav nation ha in whispers already thrilled south ern Slav soldier on the Austrian Iroiit. Fnlcs the Germans win a decision in Ihe west and win it quickly, slrange thing are going to liapMMi in Austria. Another Verdun, whatever it means to Germany, mean to Austria de spair and the revolution of de spair and nu n mad b hunger." WILSON SAVES FOUR SOLDIERS rROM DEATH PENALTY Washington, May I Presi dent Wilson's action Imlay in par doning two soldier ol the Amer ican i-XHdiliiiii.iry force who had been condemned lo death by it military court martial in France for sleeping w hile on sentry du ly, and commuting to nominal prison terms the death sentences imposed on two others for diso beying orders, was viewed by many army o!li' ia!s a approval by the President of Secretary Maker's stand k aiiisl the iuit silioti of the death penally in the army except in social cases. Piivale Forrest ). Sebastian, of LSdyrado, III , und .lc!T Ckk, ol Lutie, Okla., were the men p.u done, I. In reaching hi. de cifiion the President took Into con sidernlion their extreme youth Ihe former being 10 years old and tho latter !'., and concluded that they did not realise the seri ousness of their offense and it possible disastrous result Usin the unit lo which they were at tached. Private (Hon Leiloyden. of At lanta, Ga., and Stanley G Fish back, of Connellton, I ml . 'vei n the men convicted for disobeying order. Their sentence was com muted to three years In the hsl eral penitentiary at Fort I Leaven worth, Kan., and they will be brought to this country for im prisonment. Tho so! Iiors'are PJ years old. All four of the men were volunteer In th regular army. The recent execution of 111 ne gro soldiers in Texas after con viction on the charge of rioting resulted In President Wi'son is suing instructions that cases In which similar sentences were Imposed should he sent to hiui for final approval. Army regu lations givo General Pershing full authority to order tho carry ing out of death sentences, but in these cases ho sent tho record to tho war department fnrconsider-ation.
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