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VOL.8 Eikin, N. C. Thursday, March 20, 1019 No. 8 kii aim: tih; rragcr of nations to mfrt the dkmands in amkkk'a. Paris. March 10. (Ry Asso ciated Press) Kd'orts arc being directed today to shaping the league of nations covenant so as to insure its acceptance by the supreme council and within the approval of those Americans who are demanding its amend ment. Colonel House conferred with Itrd Robert Cecil, Leon I'.oui geois, and the American dele gates and reported to President Wilson. It is conceded that some of the suggested amend ments can safely be adopted, for instance those safeguarding the Monroe doctrine and fixing con ditions which will permit of the adherence of the late enemy powers. One of the powers has hesitat ed to accept a distinct expres sion of the right of secession from the league. The Ameri cans are proceeding on the sup position that the covenant may be included in the peace treaty. Foreign Minister Pichon said tolay that he felt it was practi cally impossible to include the covenant in the fnt treaty. The views of neutral countries, which had been invited and amendments could not be dispos ed of, he added .before the pro liable early signing of the pre liminaries. The issue, the minister sug gested, might be met by a de claration in the treaty of the principles underlying the league, leaving the details in abeyance. The war would ! ended when the preliminaries were signed he (minted out, but the German would not icgain their ue-war status with libei ty of move ment until the signing of the fin nl treaty, pending which the blockade would ! lifted only partially. V'- ffTT n. M. Pichon the German persist- yheir rejection of the terms the allied commissioners, the entente would have to intervene. Poland could not ! h it in it present dangerous situation. A French general would be sent to Poland with the first Polish, di vision, which had fought in France. as soon as po-iblc. M. Pichon denied the ieHrt that the French government had accorded recognition to the Rus sian RoUheviki. saving that the i-me ronnril would ron,ider the Ru-sian question thi week. THOFSANRS STARVING TO RRATll IN Till: CAFCASl'S. New York, March H". Tl.ous. jin. I of nun women and children are stamng to death in the Cau casus, according to the fust re pot I ft out Dr. James R. R.uton. chairman of th committee ie sently sent to that legion by the American committee for lelief w1n the near east. leceivcd at the hadnuai ters of the committee k here today. "There is no bread any w hei e." said the report. "The govern enint has not a pound. There are 4..00 people m I'.nvan wholly without bread and the or phanages anil troops all through Frivan are in terrible condition. "There is not n dog. rat. horse, camel or any living thing in all the Igdir iTgion. We saw ref ugee women shipping the flesh fnm a dead horse with their bare hand today. "Thirty deaths a day aie re ported from Ashtarag; 2 ftom Ftchmaidzin, Ieir and Sadabad certainly more. Another week will score 10.0(H) lives lost. "For heaven's sake hurry; we have enough foof in the coun try now at Rakit and Ratum to keep the starving people alive for a time. The railroads are doing nil they (ossihle can to get food to the people, but snow is our enemy at present. Please expedite as many men as you can; ftlso please remember wo shall be through with our food supplies pretty soon, so money and credit nre vitally urgent." ' The food nt Ratum referred to in the report is part of the cargo of 5.000 tons of flour shipped from Seattle on the Western m Rclle. :il VAKITIKS OF CUIMKS NOT ARR III NS COMMITTRR Paris. March l.. Here is the list of the .'11 varieties of crime committed by the enemy coun tries during the war :is classified by the sub-committee on fact appointed by the commission of responsibilities for the war: Massacre of civilian.1-. Putting to death of hostages. Torture of civilians. Starvation of civilians. Rape, abduction of girls and women for the purpose of en forced prostitution. Deportation of civdzians. Internment of civilians under brutal conditions. Forced labor of civilians in connection with military opera tions. I'nemy usurpation of sover eignty during enemy occupation. Compulsory enlistment of sol diers among inhabitants of oc cupied territory. Confiscation of property. Kxact'on of illegitimate or ex orbitant contributions and re quisitions. Debasement of currency and issue of spurious currency. Imposition of collective penal ties. Wanton devastation and de struction of property. Rombardment of undefended places. Wanton destruction of reli gious, charitable educational and historic buildings and monu ments. Destruction of merchant ships and passenger vessels without warning. Destruction of fishing lioats. Destruction of a relief ship. Rombardment of hospitals. Attack on and destruction of hospital ship.-. Preach of other rules relating to the Red Cross. I'se of deleterious and as phyxiating gases. I'se of explosive and expand ing bullets. Directions, to give tiu quartets. Ill treatment of prisoners. Misuse of flags of truce. Poisoning of well .. Kven tl is list, as the sub mittee takes pains to joint out, dues not exhaust the record of the enemy's ttimo and it re commends the appointment of some standing I tody for the pur po e of collerting and systema tizing further information with the view of laying Ik." fore a tii liunal or tiibunals to be set up a comprehensive list of charge and accused persons. In the commission on respon sibilities, as a whole, more per haps than in any other commis sion, dilf.'ieni es of tendenry aie apparent. While some energe tic people take common seno as their guiding star, there are others who aie unable to get it way fio'M legal piecedent, un able to see that war may even have rendered out of date all the ideas of their sacred temple. It may be said that the first draft of at leat two of the ul- committoc were not by any means satisfactory as to the punishment of those chiefly re sponsible for the war, which, it was .suggested, would Ik? satis fartoiilv meted out if a pallia ment of the w ot Id were to pass a resolution declaring the Get man empeior was not a jolly gctod fellow. These drafts me lemg recon sidered and the Rritish. at least, are doing their utmost to bring the ex-k.ti.si-r to litHik. together w ith other hief offenders. SRC. D ANTRIM SAILS FOR FKANCF. WITH KXPRRTS. New Yoik, March l.). Secre tary Daniels and a party of na val exjierts nailed for Fiance to day on the transport M'vialhan to study naval and aviation pro blems. They will visit Great Riitain and Italv also and will be absent until altout May l.The secretary was accompanied by Mrs. Daniels. An aimy guard of honor, an army band. Vice Admiral Al beit Cleaves, representing the navy; Major General David It. Shanks and Rrigadier General George McManus, representing the army, and Admiral Grout, of tha French navy, nut the secre tary and his party when they ar rived at the pier, and a naval guard of honor and navy band 'j Hf ' i f : - -. . - . , . - ..,. I-.., I'NITS OF .".0 DIVISION AT NKWPOUTNKWS MAKCII 2'S Washington, March la. De larture from France of three transports with aUnit 7,oi) of ficers and men was announced today by the war department. Thev are due at New Voik and Newiort New March 'J". The Nordiim carries, for New York, a detachment of the .".7th division headquarters romp.iny for Camp Sherman, the head- . , ,. . i quarters, ordnance, and medical: '''"' "" " r "f " -I - l----!-'i "' i.i V- ... ; w t)i il,.- Tw.-nit s.-,,.,i, ,.. '-' lrl" "'' "tit'-.-' I' -r ii.v I. I !, ! I., , .. . t !,., ,,.., s.,1 i,s. .,.m,ii..-. (l ' ''"' ' "" '" " ''""'I' :'.v ' 'l' ,.,,. ,v,x-.. I.' i ,!.., .r. A !. I., , f,.., f ,. ',,. , t II.. i : I.. !'. detachments and machine gun;..,,. ;,, ,!,.,,(, ..... i,,,,,,,,;, company of the IIS infantry, :.7th division, also for Cairn i Sherman, and several ca-iial coini:mies. iiu hiding one from South Carolina. The transKiit Koningin ii.-r Nederlandeu, Ixnind for New-' Hut New,. lu aUud tle ll.'.t.h r...i i ,., i ,n... . i... p. n,.... ,! , lltl.l illUMUl, 11 MitUIIJ .-," division, two-thirds of which it )ames A. R C-. and D and , tachmentsof the lO-Mh animuni-' t.on tnon oM,, d.v.smi, the bulk of which nRo goes to ( amp , Roe. 1 Ihe transport Malsonia. .ul-; ing for New Yolk, rallies the!., ..,.. , r1:I , , . , ' ie.nl. :..i....t .... ... . ..t ii.. ...... ' "'J tm.t.ii "o-,, plete, but showing only .iImhK ; half of its full stiviu'th. audi ... . . . I O "I 'l with datchments if the I.V.Mh!.,,. i ,,. . infantry, lith regiments bein-r of the loth division. i lie .snip can ies jiiu m-iacu- il'.. Tits of the 'Jl'.'h i-ltgil.ei-l It '- ment, a maimity of the imn iV ilig scheduled It.r Camp Real - ney, two casual companies i,nd rasuaR. "lui, .1" tl,..m i.n I... ,1,1 tl,.. , . f'f " " monies coriesonding with those aeconieti rresi.ieiu vvu-on on nis him nip io nance. j The Uviathan firetl a R-guni salute as she started on her voy- age at RT.O p. m., flying the secretary's flag. "We are going to Funqn- to study naval and aviation prob lems which have Ikh-ii brought aliout or made possible by the war." said Mr. Daniels, Ufoie sailing. "We are going to pay particular attention to types of capital ships and aviation." As the transjMiit was being varped away from the pier, a sailor appeal ing at an ,.. n it1. and grasping a dock rope, swung a tie ti over and Mink, aicoiditu" himself ahore. while hi com- to a llavas dispatch fnmi Mar rndes called good-gyes. It tie- did. v eloped that the youth, a tneni-! The l'-l took icfuge at Fer ber of the crew whose asijrn-Jiol in M.uh RMS, .-.nd was in ment to an officers' training t i tied. The at'empti d flight of school had lcen disapproved by ) the l'-liat w ;ts .le , ve, and the the burc.MI of navigation. hal taken his case peisonallv before Secretary Daniels nlxiard the liner. The secretary had ap proved the transfer, the sailor said, and, having no mind for another passage on the levi athan, he made his dash for shore. He proudly exhibited the document signed by the secretary. As the leviathan passed the narrows, at .ri:P.O p. m., the 1 1. S. S. Amphitiite fired a salute of 10 guns in honor of Secretary Daniels. Several seaplanes and a dirigible balloon i-ccompanied the liner a short distance out to sea. VWt ... - ' A;f - ,''" - - POWKK OF (i HUMAN Y DRFIMTKRY RKOKKN. Cologn... March l-"(.It j., safe to .--ay none in the Rritish army i believes Cennany, iii a military t . . . ' -i Use. n anv longer caiial-le o! taking the f'u Id again t the lie Premier Cli nu-nieau'.s fa- hoii; c oiLjuitaiiou of the j.oten-1 ti:d -tieh-'th of the Cennan ar-! lay a. Coo.immi nu n. was teehni rally accurate, but these r.'i'l.Olu no ! ! i - i lon-titufe an rlleetie imhtaiv liiachiiie. Of the total iitiiooei 1 1. 1 ee-i juai lei s, 01 aooui ,-,, )lf ,),,. .,s.'.i , -ja, ... J I ... ,1 t . t ... im- Ru K of equipment. Tie n b - qmne is of the woiM. Theie is little i.-iird lor the1 officers v. ho dare r.ot attempt t ! -" I that olfen es which are of a enforce their autla-iity and .ij.-;'""' g'-n.-ial nature .-uh as ialeiitly nu:-),.-i of t,e men' those ronn.-i 1,h vv ith the re-poi-inake no p:o;. S e of suliii.itting J s1"hty for tl - w;ir and tl,o-e to miht.-iiv ..tii.. but !ne ..involving it !. it ion-hips of .siil- rn j.j,n- "cnM' etif-ugh 1 ... , j ( .... ...'!. Hi -m to pre- ..t b.ti rat k and n,..,, 'IitA I .it -i . i,. it ii.a.i.nig ( ;,,MMM, a, r ,v 1M, ,,,,;, :1 , , ,,, ,!u..(i M!,n ,., , ,li, .... . llf , :.,,.. ,,,,. m-i , . ..! ... i ,. . . ,... . , ... , I,.. oi.ee.I Ii,.m, I L Oi I great coats, an! the whole sv - nil;.,!.!',', coiiunissai i,,t .oi t : i d.-or;' an i;e.t. I ' f 1 , 1 . . 1 I I . t . . I ' V ;i lal ge pal t ol . te still dreams (i itis.it i t I ut tit t v.ai Aiiah will i . - ivei,. Hi,, t.i.b.l of i),i. .n.. i . ,. ,it . . t . , , . , f , , .. ii . . . i ... a'lie b. !, 1 1 ;.n Rut I Ve ..in V .. i, ..!, I,. lis, oil t Mst, j(o lu. Ii,u,s,.,jta.,. ,,,,. liUy i, , c '.g a' to I. I. th. ar against the entente. T,. n.1,,l,11,i ,,.,,.. ... j j, Kli,!l(.v f U( (i H.VI doubt, tbe CeilL.tli people as ;i whole are teiiil.ly all aid. It is in the aieas occupied by the al lied troop alone tl-.at ;inv s.-n e of se III it v eXl t 1 1 r n r.Rovr attkmits TO RS( APR AND IS SI NK Paris. Maich I.. The Cer- man Mibmaiine I-15, wlule at- tempting .i escape from FelM'l, Spa:n. la t night, v. a: rha cd by torpedo lMi.it dest rover Antol.i i (un sue I her. The Oman lxat was sunk outside the Re i ltd roads. The new was saved. When the German Mibmat ite I'-lH .sought ic fuge at Feriol her propellers were unshipped by the .iiithoi it ie and h'-r guns and munitions were taken out, ac cording to a dispatch from that port. The rj plain of the sub-' marine dccl.ued his craft had I ecn damaged severely in a fight with three ship;. The F-lmat carried a cr w of "0 nun, and for a tini-1 a i'.i.inish warship stood guard over her. In RU7 the U-H wan leported off Rermuda. itM : ..'0 : i 3 f - -iP'.f - - . 1 ( - . . I , r CONYICT RKR.MANY ON TIIKIU OWN RVIDKNCi: Paris, March R'. The com- inittee on responsibility for the war will shortly present its re- ... 4 I ' I. ' I II P'"i- i uses wun consKierjuue i . ... eMect certain remarks made bv Mar-hal von Rielevstein :it The "ague as to what is or is not permissible in sea warfare and convicts the (leimatis, so to ipeak, on their own evidence. Set out in the report arc two categories of breaches of law. In i .r. I..t l.i ,i, I .l.a-t e if i i ... '. n enm-nded that all ofleiises v hich fiill. ;is it were, under the common law of the slate to which the artl-ed belong shall be tried by their national courts Imates to s,p,., iors sh.ill be t ried b- fore intei national court. 1 he ls of .Ti.ts whol'l it i '. ,;,.,.. t.., (,.. I . l,.ov;;(., I,,-. loie tin . iiit' i national tl ibiine is h-a.lei I,-,- j'o nu-r Rmp.-ror Wi'liam. Ibqie for Rxtiaclion. No rocommet.datioii. it is bell- Ved.i ,.,.. in the retoit as to the nirji i, whit h -diall lie adopt--d to blllig tie- Ioiiik kaiser to 'si .ti, i-e, but aoifiig the members !of the committee there is gieat hope that his extraction may lie ; demanded from Holland. ! Pn mi. i Hughes, of Au tralia. ' was t!,e rui st itt lunch vestenlay M ' " "O. 1 1,-1 -V t i,t U'- mg part ol the lair pio-'iam. M. Haiii.t. the in. nor. lu.si.led f,, .,., , , , tlA ,),. I- ( t for h;s p. et Ii ".liistii e V!(sl C- I)..n, " !H..l!.. h att.uk th ii.!. "tl.-hl el !.! civi! .,l wm!- and d.-hheiately indavored to ciiish hbertv aii-l conqtit-r the woild. She has slain millions of in.-n on the battlefields; ha as sassinated treacherously and maltreated thousand and ten of thousand of innocent non i oii balaiit. nn ti. women and lit tle chiltiieu; she has sunk at the li.ttom of the ocean thouainls I lop and million of ton af ter miii.iei mg in u ld IiIimmI the new; she ilev.a tated hundred of the big cities and town and villages of Fiance and other countries, and inrpo.a'd on the a! !'! n: '.ion a cnihi!'g bunhn of ,U.t. She t:;u-t luv, and that , on.pli telv, for her unspeakable climes. She fancies by chang ing the foi!n of her government and by a combination of olht'r ingenioii maneuvers she may e-c.-.pe chastisement, but she won't Micceeil and she must not be given the possibility of suc ceeding. "She must reconstruct Fiance Relgium and the other countries she has ruined; must recon struct wolkshops deliberately destroyed; must restore or re place machines and plants stol en; ti ii si reimburse the cost of w ar. "Justice demands these re parations. Wo must insist on justice being done. It is our duty to take all necessary meas ures to prevent Germany ever making war again on the world. Her navy must be surrendvrod to us to the la t vessel : her army m ;st be disarmed and disband- RIGIIT GRRMAN SHIPS FOR I'NITRI) STATRS. Piiri March la.- I'mler the a,rn. which the German. r.'; ad-.' at r.ru.-sels. the United State.; will receive eight German hips which will be ready to go to sea within four clays. Th'.' vessel.; ;ire the Zeppelin, of R", ooO tons; the Prins Frederich Wilhelm. of 17.000 tons; the Gnif VViilch-isee. of R1.000; the Patricia, of 1 RIOTi tons, the Cap I'inistre, of 1 I.TiOO tons ; i'ie pre toiia. of l: 200 tons; the Cleve land, of 1( .)oo tons, and the K.'iiserin Augusta N'ictoi i;i. of L'.'i.ouo tons. The gi.int Imper;itor of .'2.000 tons w ill 'o to the I'nited States. At the present time the Imnera- tor 1s .stuck in the mud but it is believed she can be floated in a few days. The total ships made available to the allies under the agreement number more than 700, approxi mating 1 .."Oo.ooo tons. The vessels going to the I'nit ed States are passenger ships on account of the American desire to use them for the transport of troops. Those going to France and Kngland immediately are cargo vessels in neutral ports in South and Centra! America and the Dutch West Indies. They will be permitted to leave with cargoes for Germany with Ger man crew s but under jellied l!ag-. When ships put out from Ger man ports to be handed over they will be manned by Ger man, but on .arrival in jdlied ports the crews will be replaced b allied civws and the Germans returned. Theie i .available in Rngland for immediate movement to Ger many approximately "n.Oon tons of oik product., .i.ooii tons of bean . ."t.ooo t ns of rice and l ". O'Hi tons of cereals. The I'nited States has in Rotterdam and on the way there appioxiniatcly 7."..oin( ton, of bread stulfs. A Mimmjiry of the agreement ment by i I.-i man.v w ill be made by freigh hire jic c iuing to the Gel nans for the use of the shipping, jiinl part froni'cre. dits Germany may continue to e. lai'ii h and maintain in iieii tlal coin. tries; part fioni Ger man export.; part from the sale of G-i man owned foreign secur ities and part by the i,e of Ger man gold. The Gel mails agiecd to plac e a deposit of gold in the national bank of Relgium at Rru.els for Use ;is collateral. (Wnri.RD III N FOKKF.U PLANKS TO I . AISO R . AMKUICAN ( I MRS. Washington Maich R -Thiee living circu.es of Ameman. Ficiuh. and Rritish ;iviati. in American and captuied Get man Fokker planes will tour the I'nited State in connection with the Victory Liberty loan cam paign, giving' iieiial sham bat tles and jicrobatics over 0 lead ing American cities. The demonstrations will le under the management of the n toiy loan publicity buieau. of which Frank R. WiRon i d ie, -tor. am! the actual flights w id I e under the supervision of the niihtaty jicronauties brancli of the war department. Fourteen captured German Fokker planes were landed to- tl.i.v at .cwport acws .-.rat wi'.i I,.- .shipped ;.t or.ee to Washing ton. The In t types of Ameri can plane developed dining the war will be demonstrated. The toins will start April lo. although the loan selling cam paign does not open until Apiil 21. Rach squadron will lie ral lied in ii special train of 11 cars, traveling nt night. Nine end -door baggage cars will bo re quired to cjirry the 17 airplanes in each squadron. ed; guns, large and small Zep pelines and airphmcs must le handed over to us and her ar senals be razed. Justice de mands it, and nothing less will satisfy the free nations of the world. Justice must lc done and that without delay." Premier Hughes' words, sjwk cn in French, made a deep im pression on the great represnta- tivc audience. PRI.SIILNG RR IRWS TIIK mi;n of :!jiM) ri ision. Cobleir.. Salurd-v, Mj-.i-eh lo. - -l!y A .,- 'i-i;-,! !',, ...,.--Within vi-i'lit of th- I i t --tit. Mils of uiiocciiMied Germaiiv, 20.000 t loops, of Hi" ;'.2n! divL ion to day lirard Generj'l I 'i f R ng ex press jippi eciation of th'. ir ef forts at Chateau The !T. , Soj., 'oiis an I on tin- Metis. --A roiine front, w hich th , co'm' .i-i ei--in. chief sjiid, ma I.1 it p,,s ;i-!e for them t .stand where tl.cy weiv toclav. Th e soli lier- .:.i'll;l in a .mall vjdley jifter being j: .spect ed and reviewed. ( It her. I Per shing said he tool; the lib- rty of thanking the .soldier, to. their .-orvi'-es in the name of more than 100,0011,000 Ann i i : is at homo, whose hearts had been with the soldiers all ciuri ig the fighting ,-ind since. The :'.2iid division, win h was compo. c-d originally of n ttional guard troops from Michigan and Wi-coiisiii, is .scliedj', d t start for home early in April. Gener al Pershing said he r.-ali.ed how the relatives and Iii -n.l; of tho soldiers we i o eai-eilv availing their retuiii aod how piot, 1 they would be of the part the s.,!dielii had p!..;,;,; i; tin- -tt v.;-:-. In the ear-. to conic. Goner; I Per--hing said, when tl - hi..t..iy of :he wjir was written, the ,,eop,. vould jippreciate more th:. i ever the American .-luiio in r -lging the stim".'t" to ;i t ii, i '-;sfi, con clusion. i i: rrd STrn-s "fimkmis might rip.i:i:ati: turm. Raleigh. March II'.. 1 h.e' of ficers from Surry c ounty ;.i i ived at the state prison tonight, hav ing in their custody .Jo. Cain, Gardner Cam jmd Joe R.wles, who were recently coir, i ted at Dohsoti of a charge of i nrder and .sentenced to death in the elec t je (hail'. Tll.-s,' th:,' - llic-ll are to be electrocuted Ajcil I. Th Surry oflifei s hiou-.'' . with them it document Iioii .Solici tor S. Porter Crave . of .'I unt Airy, alluding to fear that flic lids of the priaiici, might seek to i;t,er;ite them, 'li e Jail Dobson not being p. :;i i. tal ly strong, it was rotisiti -i ', wi. fo have the i-e n piac cd 1.1 rtate (, risen for safe kee ping. .. ord ing to the paper lorwaid d by the o!ie itor. Whe n they leach ed the pcnitentiaiy tonight the thiee in.-n all w.ie hand. -tiffed together. They Were of r,,nrse placed in sepal ate e !! lit. .-. 1 I! RIG I lI H A NSFRR AT INM VN V RDS DRSTR0RD Atlal.ta G.t.. March If..- Dam age c.stimjiled by railroad offi cial at approximately ?RM". Oihl resulted fitim the coin il.-le tlesti net ion bv fire heie e; lb to night of the Southern raiiwav fic igh ttiitisfer at Imnan y.tnls. Alxwit SO t ai loads of lotid stulfs and other ftcight within the transfer and a number of e-mply freight cats were ce slroyesl. Fifteen of the 21 stoiage 1 1 arks in tin' yards were burned thlnuuh. some of them for stretches an eighth of a mile long. The main freigh1 and passenger track, however, were not in the burned area. The origin of the fire has not been determined. Raihc.t ! !':' Pghtirvc j.ppj'.ra tu hi oils.' hi from points .-.round Atlanta, railroad officials said, saved approximately lOOcaisof fie ii ht from the flames. .- The Inman yards plant was sjiid to be one of the largest freight transfer stations in the south and was the receiving and re-routing point for fiTight from the extreme south hilled for northern cities. Next week Is to lie observed ns clean up wee k all over North Carolina. I,ot every merchant, and family in Kile In. have their stores, cellars, hark lote, and yards thoroughly cleaned tip. Have aU rcfuso matter put in piles In a convenient place, no the wagon can get to It, and it w ill he hauled away. Plenty eif lime and other disinfectants tdioulJ ho used. Remember that a clean town tucaiii a healthy tuvvn.
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