North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. 7 l.'lkin, N. C, Thursday, Sept. 12, 1018 No. 24 JIDENBERGLINE PIERCED ON WIDE FRONTJN NORTH . (Ily tin; Associated Press.) .Marshal Foch's succession o f - 1 1 n i i 1 1 1 1 r blows along the German lines from liheims to Arras since July IS have now well nigh com pletely llllU'lie.l nul the melt bulges created ny the German offensives of tin; spring ninl oar l,v summer. Further still, the well eooiJi lulled progress of his attack h.is brought hrm t a point where lie may be well able to strike a still more, disastrous 1 I v to the German defensive system in the west. l'Voin Lion to Cambrai the ' Hindcnburg line stood all last year hi the way of the allied arm i so..king to drive buK the i n oinyfroin northern Franco and Flanders. Little impression w as made in that line except teni orarily in General Byng's drive helow( 'anihr.ii last fall. Already In this summer's campaign, however, the line has h e e n L. pierced on a wide front along its iiortherly stretches hy the Brit ish, and within the past few hours it has been jicnotrated in its southerly readies by the French. It appears that Marshal I'Vli'it plan may prove to involve the turi.ingo.r the line on both its Hanks it Cambrai and Lion. In the north the British li a v e Jmh'H for several days in a pni tiou to deliver what might easily prove a i t al strike to the west of Cambrai, where they h ave halted at the canal .l)u Nord and made no move to.vard driing home the blow which the logic of the silua lion jsiint to as inevitable. In the south tlit-armi-sof Gen eral Potain have now fought their w ay to Mtiuns where t!e left flank of tie' line it under their gun ami the edges of their tie fensive positions are beginning j n. v. hen sUii.ier.iy in eoinpan to ftvl the effect td the pounding. I ions at the table lediced that he On the w estern out-kirls of the P.i-ti.m of St. Gobon, tie fending Lion, the French already at Barist wo in advance of the hue they occupied hi I'.MT and further south he'.ow th mam bastion are standing on ground which had not been in allied hands since l'.'l I. I 'm ther north they are before Li Fere, where an eastward drive would carry litem lloi tb of St. (! till lo o-,f. The French drive seems clear ly aimed at this massif, which, apparently safe from capture by a frontal attack, seems not un likely to prove the objective of an encircling movement. This, however, may have to await the further retirement of the Ccr mans noi thwarJ from theAisno, to the east. Kuril a retirement is regarded as inevitable because of the allied position on the Herman left Hank .from the Aisne at Conde to Vnu vaillon anl there are not wanting military critics who argue thai the Germans here will nut U iwymtUeJ to halt even at the Cltemin ties P tines isition but 5 that ths enemy w id be forced to retreat still further north, this additionally cxp"tog Lvi on the east. The allied uniliel command makes it cert lin that the expect i'J drives at the vital points on loth the north, In th Cambrai sector, and in the south, around the Iion itositions, w ill bo so co ordinated as to insure the maxi mum result. Tito process of closing in to ' ward tho Hindenburg linn at the points where it had iot yet bicn reached was cont'nued rapidly yesterday by both the French and the Itrllish. Tho British moved forward at an accelerated pact) below tl" Cambrai Peronne front and on lull front itself they " already are close to the line. South of the Somme the French pressed on beyond Tergnier and moved up speedily along all the Una opposite tbo front between More Than 00,000 Men Examined in Round-Up New York, Sept. T More than 1,0' men were inducted in to military service and 1 T , h X ) others were adjudged seriously delinquent as a result of the ' .-.lacker" round up in New York and northern New Jersey early this week, Charles F. Dcwoody, chief agent of the department of j istice, annoii nceil loilay. A to tal of (10,17 men were examined ( if those classed a delinquents Mrs Do woody said many will be proven draft dodgers and sent to camp. Others, who failed to tile their questiuiiaires, to appear for phy sieal examination or to present themselves for induction at the expiration of time extensions al lowed for special reasons, w ill be dealt with by their local boards, the official stated. Mr Do woody asserted that in New York City 21. III:! men were examined and 7eii sent to canton ments, w hile 2,4sj were rated as seriously delinquent. Of IJ.bTj who passed through the hands of oilieials in New Jersey 71.1 were ordered into service and l'2,Zl were listed as delinquents. Choked to Death From Eat ing Steak Charlotte, Sept. .. Frank S. Mit he!, sujM'rintctidefit of steam plants for the Southern Power company, met a tragi; death last night w bile dining with a party of friends at the home of M r. and Mm. ). S. Ogle tree, at The Pines" of Pay street, when a fragit.ent of steak stuck in his t!irat. strangling him to death. Dr. T. II. Wiigbt was summoned immediately, but was unable to do anything for the stricken man. M r. Michel was one of a party invited to dinner at the Ogle tree home, and several courses of the dinner had been serve d, the steak being placed before the guests. Mr. Michel cut u or lion of the steak and was e'tling i waH choKii.g Fiery effort was made to re sult it ate the stricken man, and Ir. Wright was summoned at once, but a I efforts were unavail ing, and h sloy died, stru; k'loig for breath to the last. Dr. Wright ma le an exa:nination of tie' ixsly and succeeded in extri eating th fatal piece of meat from the dea l man's throat, and provir.g conclusively the cause of his death. It is not probable that an inquest will be held. Mr. Michel was born .Novem ber I"1".'-, and was nearly I'i years of age. e was the son of Mr. and Mis. W P. Muhclof Al lenlown. Pa , and came to Char little a'Htui six years airo lie was a .tlasoit ami a Mitiner. His wife died seteral years ago. Ih had a suite of rift n on North Try an street The father ami mother were no'il.ed immediately by wire of their son's death, and the body was removed to Harry's under taking e?iblihnient on Tryon street, w here it Is held, pi'tiding hist radioes fr un the dead man's pau-nts. la Fere and St. Quentin. On "!:? .Msn 'iiT" wss h'.te change towards llio western tart of the front, where the Ameii cans an I Frem It are on the river. fating the (lermans entrenched along the canal which parallels the stream. Further east the (lermans are giving up gru Ig ingly the angle formed by the line trending off southeastward towards Uheims, offering partic ularly stiff opiMtsition to the Franro American forces, near Woman, between Kevillcn and Montigny sur-Vesle. In Flanders the Uritish made some further headway but foun the German resistance atiffenln aruund La Ilassee. The (lermans apparently do not intend to give up Armenticres, In this sector, but arc reported hurriedly forti fying tho region deandintf it. i ... 0 i r I - .i itlli urrilli-ry Itii-mlly ""tt the lit tin1 rutiwn)' i-tfittiiii if Vholl viivtk lu nunti-r struti'LNt tif I In nlllffi urmli-s. TAR HEEL TROOPS HAKE IMPRESSION IN OLD ENGLAND In The New York Times of ist Sunday was an article by Charles II. (Irasty, well-known jondoti correspondent of The Times, relating his impressions of the '"lst division, which left 'amp Sevier, Greenville. S. (' , recently and Ian. led, fur some reason, in Kngland. North Car olinians will hi? siH-cially inter- sled in It for thereasi.it that it contain! many North ami South Carolinians. It is aUocom a.attd ed by a North Carolinian, (Jener al G. W. Mclver. brother of the late I)r. Charles Mclver, founder and president for many year . of the State Normal College at Greensboro. Mrs. Mclver and their d iiighter are at present at Saluda as the guests of Mrs. ockwool Jones of Charlotte. I'he Times slorv reads; "Mr. Gra-d.v's article, in part. is as follows: "I found the Knglislt jmrt swarming with A mciic-in troops. They have but roomily ariiwd, and are letting no grass grow un er their feel on the way to France. Wupid as is the move ment, it is none too fat for these restless men with the 'get there' spirit inbred in litem. I saw one lot mart hing by early this morning, and one of their orticers said; Th't men have math three moves in as many da vs. They turned out about dayhght this morning and are notf on their way to the transports. In spit' of their hevy packs, they marched with a hcht. springy gait, and with an air of going lo a picnic. These men wore a wildcat embroidered on the sleeve, and I recognized the 'Wildcat Division. "In the course of the day I met many oHicers with the same device, and had an opportunity to learn more about these sturdy mountaineers, whoso almost total stH.uston lor generations lias been vr.c cf llio romances of uur polyglot of American history. They have stopped right out of an isolation where the existence of foreign countries was but vaguely known. " They are pure blood Americans, without the cross of strange breeds. "IiCt mo say, 1 have nowhere seen men who have more w orthi ly represented us. They are sparo and hard as nails, and quick to acquire habits of disci pline. I noticed particularly how punctilious they are In saluting, in w hich resH.ct they ket an ex amplo for the new country troops who are usually somewhat lax in that particular. "Tho officers say they are al waya trustworthy and sober, and need no w atching. It struck me that tla-ii badgti of identity -i '.r1. i . L-; wrf? fV ' . 1 ' ' I f - . . . ..:. I I " It i. i ',r i . lui.ip." rn-lniitf ti j . in tin- limitf litie. fiiri' l in !n' fur lit liileilnr. a I.nti-st serves to create pride and self respect in these troops, and the practice might profitably be ex tended to all divisions, so as to cultivate a healthy emulation in valor and good behavior. I talk e l wild one of their officers, a veteran of the Spanish war w ho belonged to a regimental rifle team of the New York national guard. 'They're the best shots in America," sai l he, referring es peci ally to the mountaineers from Tennessee ami tho Caro htfis. 'They've been wonderful in adapting themselves to the new ri:!e. One !:Hn. who never before had his hands on an army rdle ai d who was just out of the hospital, was taken to the ritle nnge. and qualified immediately as a marksman His first shot was low, to the right. I explain e I to l oo how to hold his piece high, and his next nine shots hit the silh'utt-' li-j ire which now serves as the bulls eye. "Most of these men never have seen a tree so hiiJi they couldn't pick u squirrel Off till! topmost iiiiib, but they're Use I to the taenty-twti calibre hunting nlle. Tho least hit of practice is suili i iciit to te.u h theni the use of the new ri:1e, and they're delighted with it "To enumerate where tht men seen at litis park hail from is like calling a rod of lite states. The division referred to above in cludes Fioridiaus and Alabamans, as well as New Yorkers I have u.ct i.Sicer cf a:;ot!ter division. fresh f ion. home, who speak no less enthusiastically of tle-ir sol diers who are from Iowa, Minn" s-'..a arJ Dakotv Thy are all big husky follows of the same hut! I ami typo as the Americans who, a few day ago, helped push the line Lick from Morlancourt to Pray, going in under a bar rage, in conl'nuation of a two days' forced march. These far mer boys from the west are ready now to do tho same, ac cording lo tin opinion of the West Pointofticors w hocointnand them. "I want to say a word about the officers drawn from civilian life. What I have seen here tends t icontirm my previous ob servation of the tine results in training, of which PuitUburg Is the furnished pattern. Perhaps our greatest single problem in putting a huge army in tho tield w as how lo get officers with any sortofexperl training. It lias been dono. What was lacking in time and facilities sotons lo have been supplied by the horse sense and adijitability of the American typo. Nothing surprises staid Furope quite so much as our rap id development in that respect. "We were sorry to leave this place where tho tide of young Americanism is running full. 1 would want nothing better than to stay here and talk war and home with my own as they go by They are til ways changing, but always the same. Whore can 1 ii J,lf r. .ssss . ii -si ii "" " VV ' V' " ' h i ni, r Czfcliu-Slovuk furn-s ix-ioi; ltotect(l ihutii;ruli of ilumhul Foch. th ENEMY IS DOOMED SAYS JUSSERAND New York, Sept. (!. A stirr ing address by French Am bas.sa'- dor Jussorand, in which ho, as serted that 'tho enemy is doom ed" and ' we shall choose and ap l)int the day for peace," brought to an end tonight New York's celebration of the 101st birthday anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette and the fourth anni versary of the first battl- of the Marn. In this address, delivered at banquet of the Franco American society, M. Jussorand pai l t rib ute to America's efforts in th,: war, showed the insincerity of former German peace offers and predicted that the enemy's next peace offensive "will fail as well as his other offensives." Tonight's meeting, however, was only one feature of the pro grain arranged for the joint cole bration. At an impressive cere inouy in the citj hall were read messages from American ai d al lied leaders, all expressing con tidonoe in ultimate victory. One from Marshal Foch assert ed that "if the allied dead could open their eyes they would see the blue sky " The other mes sages were from President Poin caie. Marshal Joffre, General Pershing, Ambassador S It a r p, Admiral Sims and Count IhCYl lore, Italiau ambassador to the FniteJ States. Addresses were delivered by Col Tfieodore Wxscvu!t and John Jay Chapman, each of whom has ost a son fighting with the aloe forces. U tonight's banquet, at which Dr. Nicholas Murray Kutler, president of Columbu presided M. Jussorand declared that the Germans "with their thousands of spies and their millions of dol Urs for what they were phased to call propaganda (which ittclud id murder) has no idea that Am erica could lend such aid," "There was ono iot o;H.-n to us ail, but into wiueli (erman spies could not pry tho Ameri can heart," lie said. M, Jtissorsnd tlost ribed the American forces In Franco as valiant army, the praise of which is on every lip; a youthful, cheery army, whose every soldier Is wel come In tho castle au l iu the hut an Immense army that ceaseless ly grows." you find llio like of these exuber ant, practical Ideal crusaders in the cause of liberty? And they have such flat backs, and straight legs, and their eyes shine like stars. (Tho following young men from this community are in the di via Ion referred lo above: Claud Iong, Walter Matthews, Miles Woyall, Paxter Mathis, Clyd Woodruff, Grover Key, Wayiir Davis, Gray Poindexter and number of others w hose names wo cannot now recall. Iklitor Tribune.) Eighteen Deaths From Typhoid Among Aliens Washington, Sept. tl. High- teen deal hs oecii rrcil among the 1 17 cases of typhoid fever which coke out early in August amonuj nomy aliens interned near Hot Spi ings, N. C, the war depart ment announced today in a state ment issued through the commit e on publication. All of tho pa tients were removed to the gen- ral hospital at Kiltmore, N. C, tnd all remaining prisoners were akentothe internment camp fit ort Ogietln,rpe, Ga , the war epartment announced. Contaminated water caused tho typhoid outbreak, the war tie- arlment stated. There were two camps near Hot Springs. 'amp A containing J.UXJ jwrsons and Camp 11, 1,127. P.oth camps received their main water supply from the city of Hot Springs and this water, the department said, is good, but owing to the fact that the camp has been over- rowded it became necessary to augment the water supply by construction of service wells at amp M. Prisoners were in structed to use this water only or bathing and for sanitary pur poses and as an additional safe guard the water was impregnat ed w ith chlorine. Investigations made in August showed the service well water to be responsible for the 6ickness and that hospital facilities were "primitive," the statement said, and all the sick were transferred to the iiiltmoro, hospital, while all the prisoners were inoculated against typhcld and the chlorine and purifier was greatly increas ed. The statement adds that over crowding of the camp had cur tailed the efficiency of sanitary arrangements originally provid ed for the health of the prison ers. Lieut. Paul Montague Held As Prisoner in Germany Lieutenant Paul N. Montague of the I nited States aviation corps on the western front in Fiance, who was listed in the casualty list recently as missing in action, has been lis ated in German prison (amp, although tho name of the camp has not yet been ascertained. The information was announc ed last night by the War Depart ment. It had been several weeks since the announcement lltal Ueut. Montague w.14 missing and many of his friends had al most given tip hoe of hearing from him agsin. His host of friends here as we! as friends of his parents. Col. II Montague and Mrs. Montague o Cherry street, w ill hear the news of his having been located wit! the deepest Interest Winston Salem Journal, bth. Japanese Cavalry Has Taken Town of Iman Vladivostok, Sept. 1. On the Fssurl front Japanese cavalry has occupied Iman at the junction of the Iman and Fssurl rivers Prisoners report consiernatiou In tho ranks of the Hulshevik forces on the disovery of the presence of enk-nle allied troops which they did not suspect unti Ihey were in actual contact wit them. On the Manchurian front Gen eral Semcnoff's Cossacks have reached the fortifications) of Ikr gia, on the trans Siberian rai way, W) miles southeast of Tchilau, the capital of trans llaika'ia. A detachment of Jap anese cavalry covered tho right wing, look Chir.gyang after sharp tight and captured 100 prisoners and a baggage train The enemy is retiring toward the Ouon river, HO miles northeast of Ilorgia. The Japanese are issuing gol yen notes in an effort to Improve tho desMrate currency situation Dr. Hudolph II. Tusler, of the CONTINUE TO CUT THEIR WAY INTO GERMAN LINES fiondon, Sept. The British troops advanced today to a depth of two miles on a 20 mile front and captured the town of Koisel, About nine and a half miles north- astof St. Quentin. The British and French armies ontinue to cut their way Into the German lines on various sectors of the lower part of the battlt ine in France. Notwithstanding the weather, which lias caused Homowhatof a laekoning in the violence of the perations, Field Marshal llaig'n forces have material y encroach 1 uxn Cambrai and St. Quen tin, while farther south tho Vench armies aro pressing east ward on the old Noyon sector to ward La Fere and Laonand north ward from Soissons in an aux iliary maneuver with tho sam objectives in view. I let ween the Yeslo und tin Aisne rivers, white the American troops are lighting with tbs Vench, additional ground has been gained by the allied forces. The Uritish are now staudiiiK at Villequeq, six miles from St. Quentin, having carried out an advance over a 10 mile front on the general line of Kpehy, Hesbe- court and Vcrmand. To the north the greater part of the lavincourt wood, one of the Ger man strong points barring th way to Cambrai a'.so has boon captured. Sorttpid Imsheontbe British advance tlong this por tion of the front that they now are in tho ositioiis they held be fore the big Gorman drive of lal March. In U.eso positions the Germans are offering stout resistance to frthar progress by the British Gradually the French are work ing their way around the St. Quentin forest north of Soissons in the movement that aims at tho outflanking of Lai 'ere and Laon and all the Gorman istsiUons east of this region. They have reached the outskirts of tho til lage of Sevais. on tho northern edge of the forest aud 2 12 miles from la Fere while a short dis tance to the nurth they have ta ken Iho village of Mennessis mi IhoSt. Quontir. canal. This latter gain brings tho French within little more than eight miles from St. Quentin. North of tho Aisne, mar He Is sons, tho Germans are lighting hard to keep the French in chock, reahadi'.g that the gain by litem of much more territory in Ibit region, in conjunction with the maneuver that is in progress arounJ the St. Gobnin f ircst will place the entire German defense line eastward toward l'hctms iu a critical position. Near I .afflux and north of (Vile Sur AunoUm Germans have delivered strong counter attacks but llio French every w here hsve maintained their ground. Tho Germans also are rsacling somewhat south of Ypres, rs- jhh ially In tho region of Piueg steert, where the llnti-h tir threatening the recapture of Ar mention's. Counter offensive maneuver here and al of Wul-u-iK bem war broken by the British. During the tirst week of Sep tember, Field Marshal Ha!;;' forces have taken moie than U',000 prisoners and large ttuui bers of machine guns and quan tities of stores. The further big ovenU aro on tho program of Iho entente allies in the prosecution of the war Is indicated by tho fact tn.it New ton D. Hakor.tho American see rotary of war, again is In Franco for a war conference. American Hed Cross, is prepar ing a I Jed Cross hospital base at BenhalJen. Tho French com mander has accepted tho tender of Rod Cross services for his troops.