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IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER v ''". I IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THI8 AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS 0FiHE SOUTH What It Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Domestic A country-wide move to reduce the cost of food to the consumer and to standardize the methods of compelling the observance by dealers of "fair price lists" has been ordered by Food Administrator Hoover. Prices will be published in every county, town and city, and consumers will be asked to co-operate with officials in forcing the merchants to bring their prices to a uniform level. Five American citiezns and two sub jects of the German empire, one of them a woman, are named as fellow conspirators, charged with assembling and transmission of information rela tive to America's prosecution of the war and the destruction of American piers, docks and troop transports, in two indictments returned by the fed eral' grand jury in New York City. Naval stores operators have been advised that the manufacture of tur pentine and rosin are non-essential to the successful prosecution of the war, and this industry will probably sus pend during the war. Sinking of the Norwegian steamer Vinland by a German submarine 65 miles off the Virginia capes, June 5, has been announced by the navy de partment. The crew was rescued and landed at Cape May, N. J. Government taxes eathered from a wide variety of sources every month are barely sufficient, if levies on in comes and excess profits are excluded, to pay war expenses for two days of the month. This is shown by a de tailed treasury report of tax collections for April, giving thi yield of ordinary and war taxes for that month as $43,- 700,000; government expenses now are running nearly fifty million dollars a day. Nineteen thousand Liberty motors will have been deliveed to the govern ment by September 1, 1919, from De troit, according, to members of the committee in charge of the senate in vestigation into aircraft production. Senator Thomas, of Colorado, chair man of the committee in harge of the senate investigation into aircraft production, said in Detroit that the government "needs airplanes on the French front and needs them badly, Governor Stephens, of California, ha been appealed to a second time by President Wilson in behalf of Thomas J. Mooney, who was convict ed of complicity in, a bomb explosion in San Francisco, July 22, 1916. It is reported that anti-draft riots have broken out among the Creek Indians near Muskogee,' Okla., in Southern Okmulgee county, and the Henryetta home guards have left for Mie scene. Reports reached Henryetta, Okla., that the Creek Indians had attacked two white farmers and that the whites in the vicinity were arming to meet the Indians. Criticism of publicity matter sent out by various government depart ments with requests that it be pub lished, featured the session of the Na tional Editorial Association at Little Rock, Ark. The National Editorial Associa tion, in session at Little Rock, Ark., adopted a resolution asking the gov ernment to employ a competent man to edit matter sent out from the va rious government departments. Washington. Sinking of the British steamship Har pathian by a German submarine 100 mile? off the Virginia capes, has been announced at the navy department. The entire crew was rescued by the steamer Palmer. Secretary McAdoo recommends to the house ways and means committee that a war profit tax be established at high rate to be superimposed upon ex isitng excess profit taxes; ' that the normal income tax on unearned in comes be raised and that heavy taxa- tion be imposed on luxuries. Gutzon Borglum, whose sensational accusations against officers and others connected with government aircraft production were aired before President Wilson asked Charles E. Hughes to act with the attorney general investi gating such charges, has been exam ined by the attorney general. His tes timony has not yet been made public. The war industries board at Wash ington will determine thfe margin of profit wherever a tendency is shown to raise textile prices owing to gov ernment urchases. An American machine gun battalion accounted for approximately 1,000 Germans while holding a bridge at Chateau Thierry during the recent fighting. The Americans lost only one man killed and a few wounded. ! While the, Germans dominated Cha teau Thierry from Hill 204 the Amer icans and French set up machine guns in the windows and doorways of the v houses. Two more vessels, a Norwegian steamship and one sohooner - VV .AU- ed to the list of ships known to have been sunk by the German submarines which are raiding in American waters. A' million young Americans just turned 21, were registered for ser vice on June 5. The registration was attended by the perfect order that marked the enrolling .a year ago of 10,000,000 'men. While the young Americans were registering on June 5, Provost Mar shal General Crowder issued orders to the governors of different states for mobilization of 200,000 more reg istrants between June 24 and 28. . The men who will be called to ser vice (between June 24 and 28 do not include 40,000 negro men requisi tioned from twenty states and brings the total number of selective service men called to the colors to 1,596,704. Military authorities estimate that from the number of registrants of June 5, 1918, there will be had 750,000 men fit for active service. An act of congress requires that the new registrants be placed at the bottom of the class to which they are assigned, hut owing to the depletion of these classes many of them may soon be called to the colors. Fixing of prices - on cotton duck and other cotton fabrics to the public where government purchases have up set the markets is under considera tion by the war industries board at Washington. While "luxuries" will have a heavy tax placed on them to support the war, it is not known yet what is consid ered "luxuries." Administration opposition to any attempt to stop the manufacture of beer and wine so long as the sale of whisky is permitted, was made certain by Food Administrator Hoov er at Washington. Secretary McAdoo recommended in a letter to Chairman Kitchln of the house ways and means committee, that the revenue bill be drawn to raise eight billion dollars by taxation, one-third of the estimated twenty-four billion ex penditures in the fiscal year of 1919. "A far as the American army is con cerned," writes Major General Swift to the war department, " it is quite certain that we need not fear compar ison with the allies as soon as we have profited from their experience. . It is to be remembered that the war had been going on from one and one-half to two years before our allies began to show results." Angered by the news of the sinking of the Porto Rico liner Carolina by a German submarine, an anti-German demonstration broke out in Ponce, Potro Rico, and numerous houses oc cupied by Germans were stoned. Although the latest German official communication announces that the sit uation on the battle front is unchanged, there has been a change on one of the most important sectors in Picardy. And American marines were responsi ble for it In a great assault on a front of about two and onehalf miles the Americans advanced more than two miles. The Italian army is improving, both in morale and material, according to Maj. Gen. Eben Swift, head of the American military mission in Italy, who writes of various phases on the front, which is considered interesting, in view of the possibility of an Aus trian offensive. European. There has been no let up in the of fensive of the American and French troops against the Germans in the re gion northwest of Chateau Thierry. Severe defeats have been inflicted on the enemy and American marines have won great praise for their valiant fighting. Eattling shoulder to shoulder over a front of six miles from Vinly, which lies just to the northwest of Veuilly-la-Poterie, to Bouresches, the Ameri cans and French have captured the towns of Veuilly-la-Poterie and Bour esches and also made progress all along the front. Close jpressed, the American ma rines have given the Germans a taste of cold iteel, even in the face of ma chine gunfire; surrounded, they have fouhgt their way through the gray coated lines with their bayonets. From 'all accounts there has been no part 'of the game of modern warfare in 'which the men from America have not excelled the enemy. John R. Clynes, parliamentary secre tary of the British ministry of food, Jtold the house of commons that no ef forts of the German submarines, how ever severe, could menace the civilian population of Great Britain. One hundred acres more of Irish po tatoes have been planted in Great Brit ain this year than ever before in the history of the island. One hundred and twenty thousand acres in Irish potatoes are reported to have been planted this year in Ire land. Margarine manufacture In the Brit ish empire has increased four-fold pince the war began. The hospital ship Koningin Regtfn tes, having on board the English dele gates to the Anglo-German war pris onersV conference at The Hague, Is reported to have struck a mine off the English coast. Four firemen perished, but ai' others aboard were saved. Heavy sacrifices are needed, but the German government hopes that a decisive blow will soon be made against the allies, declared Dr. H. S. Pasche, vice president, in opening the reichstag meeting according to reports from Amsterdam. Four hundred and fifty-seven thou sand tons of bacon and hamhave been recently received in England fioni the United States. ; Between the Aisne and Ourcq rivers the Germans have captured Pernant and to the south of that village the' French have decided a little tnr rain. POLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYON, N. C. . - , Miiii "Wm AMERICANS OVER SM& if rW'MlWM 1 ,f Jf Jh& THAT NUMBER HAS tt " F 1 FOR FRANCE i im.H,n infon,nQn n TTrfMiA pntrniniiier to take their nlaces nt the schooner Edward H. Cole, one of file victims st the submarine that raided American waters. 3 Airplane photograph of a French hospital on tlie Aisne near Soissons, showing Its Red Crosses clearly on the roofs and the ground. NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK German Submarine Raid in Our Waters Fails to Terrorize American Nation. WAR SPIRIT IS STIMULATED ; Splendid Work of Yankee Troops In Halting Hun Drive at the Marne- Enemy's Losses are Appalling Renewal of Offensive Is Expected. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Germany's utter inability to under stand the spirit of the nations that oppose her was never better shown than in the raids made on American shipping in American waters by sub marines. Their purpose could only be to terrorize the United States and thus check the flow of men and munitions to France. Their result, if Germany but knew It, could only be to inspire the nation to continue the sending of its armies across with uninterrupted speed and in every other way to do what is necessary to win the war. The 1 net loss to America is the sinking of a ! dozen sailing vessels and two or three I steamships; the net gain is a renewed determination to whip the Hun, and a large increase in the number of enlist : raents for the navy. Germany attempted to terrorize Eng land by Zeppelin raids on London, and the Englishmen merely turned out their lights and rushed by thousands to the recruiting offices. She tried to terrorize France by bombarding Paris with the "miracle gun," and the Frenchmen gritted their teeth and swore to fight to the finish. Now she has tried to intimidate the Americans, and again she has failed miserably. In . truth, the German policy of frightful ness has been a failure everywhere and from the beginning. Even muti- i lated and ravished Belgium still stands unafraid and steadfast to the cause of decency and righteousness. I feH i The appearance of the submarine or submarines their number is not known off the New Jersey coast nat urally revived the talk of the existence j of U-boat bases on the Mexican coast. , This is officially discredited by our ' navy department, though there is little i doubt that . Carranza and his crew 1 would so assist Germany if they J could. Their behavior and known pre dilections are not such as to delude anyone into belief in their neutrality. ' However, there was evidence that the t raiding submarines had come direct from Germany, and as they have been out some time, they probably will soon return. fe New York city Indulged Itself in a small scare over the chance that it might be bombed by an airplane car ried by the U-boats. There was little danger of this, for a plane would take up too much space on the submarine, and moreover after a raid would be compelled to return to the vessel, thus revealing its location to the naval craft that have been swarming the Atlantic coast waters looking for it. The sub marine is driven by Diesel engines that give it a wide radius, and carries guns with which it might shell coast cities. . Probably there will be more of these raids In the near future, but they must be accepted as incidents of the great war In which we are engaged really small Incidents that can have no in fluence on the outcome of the struggle. Some of them are likely to be directed against our troop transports, but this need cause little alarm because of the perfection of the convoy system. To guard the coast against attacks Secre tary Baker has asked, congress for $10,000,000 for establishing balloon and seaplane stations, thirteen on the At lantic and three on the" gulf. ' ";. - tea Over In France the kaiser's third pretentious drive of the year came to a halt, at least for the time being, at the Marne, the Ourcq valley and the Oise. Early In the week several at tempts to cross the Marne were re pulsed with severe losses. In these ac tions American machine gunners sup ported by French Infantry took a prom- a ifient part and won the warm praise 0fthe French and British by their gal lantry and valor as well as by their ex cellent marksmanship. The Americans vrere called on to hold a bridge head nar Chateau Thierry immediately on tfelr arrival after thirty hours on the rad in motortrucks. They took up teir positions quickly and slaughtered tfke Huns who tried to cross. Under cver of this fire Yankee engineers successfully dynamited the bridges, afid the machine gunners have since hld the south bank and repulsed all attempts of the Germans to build new b fidges.' It Is reported the Americans killed about 1,000 Germans at the bridge' head, having themselves only oe man killed and a few wounded. I.In the Neuilly wood, northwest of Chateau Thierry, the American infan try had their chance, and three times they drove back desperate attacks of tbte Huns, their rifle fire being deadly. Ofi'the third assault they met the Ger mans in the open and put them to rifut with the bayonet. In what may be called their own sector, Iri' the Luneville region, the Afnericans carried out some ' highly successful operations. The allies frankly admit that they ae counting on the United States troops to save the day, and the tests 'tof which the Yankees have been sub mitted show the trust of the British a&d .French is not misplaced. . - - tea Falling to make further progress southward, the Germans turned the mln . force of their attacks on the western front of their salient, between tlfe Aisne and the Marne. Here they ftlmd any advance still more difficult, aid Indeed at many points they were driven back some distance by the Im petuous attacks of General Foch's troops. In that region the dense for ests of Villlers-Cotterets and Neuilly offer the best of defensive positions fori thje allies, enabling them to move and cdjticentrate their forces unseen by the etJemy aviators. The allied artillery, tcf), has been brought up with remark able speed and is pouring a devastat ing fire I into the Germans from well selected, positions day and night. Along thfe line from the Marne northeastward tb'-Rciriis the allied line was holding strongly, and the ancient cathedral city wfta' still, rather unexpectedly, in the possession of the British. SThe Germans made no claims to defl- advances during the week, and thlr losses were growing so appalling th$t government officials in Berlin felt U nnecessary to speak of them apolo getically, asking the people to consider thV magnitude of the operations and ofthe stake. Toward the end of the week there wre signs that Von Hlndenburg was preparing for a renewal of the drive OTjanother part of the line, possibly inf'the Amienjs sector, but the allied military authorities expressed satlsfac tiin with the situation and confidence Inftheir ability to meet any new at tacks. . ii,.' tea The German press was almost a unit last, week in its calls for a peace offensive, but the papers and the fac tions they represent were as far apart asjfever on the question of what Ger mtiny should state as her peace alms. Tljje radical press still Insists on the no annexation and no indemnity pro gram, while ,the organs of the pan Gepnan party blatantly insist that the central powers are now in a position to bake demands and to enforce them, anjl that though Germany entered the wtr in 1914 with no predatory pur poses, it is now entitled to take what it, fdesires - to make up for Its losses and to insure its future safety. Sphere is no longer any pretensions on Germany's part of treating the Rtfsslan provinces as any other than coquered territory, the treaty of Bist-Litovsk being now Ignored. Nei ther Is there any evidence thatGer mthy is getting any benefit from those lairds, .for the food question is still driving the civilian population to dis traction; and In Austria-Hungary the situation is far worse. ' (iJreater Russia is actually starving, foi; the soviet government can pro cure no more food from the Ukraine, an in the Kuban and Don regions thfre are counter-revolutionary bands thtjt keep things in a turmoil. The counter-revolution plot, the govern ment says, spreads throughout the country and In consequence Moscow haiV Been declared In a state of siege. It i reported the American govern the fighting front. 2 Survivors of ment is contemplating the extending of assistance to Russia in the way of assembling food supplies in Siberia and distributing them in European Russia. In equally parlous state Is 'Turkey, where famine is widespread and many of the poorest, people are subsisting on chestnuts and pumpkin seeds. In some districts the troops have de stroyed the crops though they them selves are on mighty short rations. Only the oflicers are well fed. With these food conditions, the steady ad vance of the British In Palestine and Mesopotamia! and the growing strength of the Arab forces, there are evidences of-the approaching break up of the Turkish empire. It has got nothing yet for all its efforts except certain oil districts ceded by Russia under com pulsion, and the possesesion of these is threatened by the northward move ments, of the British expeditions. ' tea The Italians kept on hitting hard at the Austro-Hungarian forces along the Piave .line, and they heard undisturbed of the massing of thirty enemy di visions at three points on that front for a resumption of the drive toward the plainsT The Italian army Is now in better condition than ever before and, with the help of the Americans, British and French, can be relied on to stop the expected offensive, -fe- The supreme war conference of the allies at Versailles expressed Its com plete confidence In the ultimate defeat of the central powers and declared the allied people are "resolute not to sac rifice a single one of the free nations of the world Jo the despotism of Ber lin." The premiers of Great Britain, France and Italy agreed on the crea tion of a united independent Polish state with free access to the sea as one of the conditions of a just peace, and adhered to the declaration of Secre tary Lansing) expressing sympathy with the national aspirations of the Czechs and Jugo-Sl a vs. mis means, ir it means anything, that Emperor Charles has lost his last chance to retain his emfiire entire by breaking away from Germany. It foretells the dismember ment of Austria-Hungary when peace Is made, if hot at an earlier date. )m In the United Shites the U-boat raid served to Impress the people with the pressing need of the conservation of wheat and sugar, especially. The former must be sent across the ocean In Increasing quantities as our forces there row rapidly greater; and sugar cannot be bought from Cuba, because we must use all available shipping for the transportation of troops and mu nitions to Europe. The fuel administration devoted its energies last week to urging the people to order their next winter's supplies of coal at once. There has been wide spread complaint that the retailers canot fill orders, but Doctor Garfield says that orders now, whether or not they .are filled soon, will do much to stimulate production. There is plenty of coal if only It can be got out of the ground and if the railroad admin istration will find some way , of sup plying enough cars. The shortage of cars really is at the bottom of the whole trouble and will be to blame if the predicted coal famine materializes next winter. "- r lea The senate's attempt to stop the manufacture : of beer and wine by means of an amendment to the emer gency agricultural bill was blocked by the. administration last week. Food Ad ministrator Hoover opposed it because he believed It would put the nation on a 'whisky, brandy and; gin" basis with attendant evils far outweighing the small food sayings that would result. President Wilson had told Senator Sheppard he j would not forbid the use of foodstuffs; in beer and wine unless Mr. Hoover regarded such a step nec essary. The senate therefore receded from its position. ... - J The week i saw the registering of about a million young Americans who have become twenty-one years of age since last spring; and this registra tion probably will be repeated about nnfo In fV.nn .1 - m4 cv iuuhius. trovost j Mar Thal GenewiKfVnwHoi. An A i v-v " xjcui IU UlC gOT ernors of all the states except Arizona orders for the moblljzatlon of 200,000 more registrants between Jun 24 and 28. and 40,000 negroes were called from twenty, states., - Washington. American soldiers ham -n "J to carry back to Franc L agement and assistam MIC eacot u assistance u-'ni . .1 ette and Rochamhcn u. 1 Amp.rira ffnnrotn-,. t, , ut 1 1 xcucu Aiyine unasseurs in hi VI mem wen nere at the base Washington monument. Hi Thp roar conroto .,-' i ment some weeks ago concernil! sizfi nf thp. AmoT-iV. "nil "-""a" iurces ah, was 500,000 men had sailed fnf? hattlfi front 1U' i The Alpine Chasseurs , aa mc umc uevus or France to America last month tn a,' the third Liberty loan campaigj, ! axuc uo,c iuui cu me south and m Uic ncoi. TVnair mora roninn.Aj , iYlcWCU ail( ronai... by the secretar yof war before leaTi! f nr their naHuo lonJ Vrt. nnlln.. 171 ivu ouiuiciis oi r ranee. ' ir1 U Baker, in addressing the chasse 'came to this country in order tir the people of America might see their own eyes in your persons J kind of men who have written a nev page in the record of human herois; and success. You were welcomed ;. this country from one end of it to J other. "Vnn ova ernSnrr Knnt, 4- a. c 6uu6 iu your or country still, thank Gcd. your awih and when you get there you will fc; U 4- tL. 1 : : . wai me sluu.ii uegummg oi Our arc which you left there has grown into i mighty manifestation. When you ltf France, the American army was tie- in small representation, butnw more than 700,000 Americans 1m sailed from their shore to cam to your army and your people the & couragement and assistance LaFayette and Rochambeau broujlr. to America in the early and struggling days of American freedom. "Instead of believing in mere cal force, hereafter, we are going tc. believe in the strength of moral fore. JAPANESE TO TAKE HAND IN SIBERIA! Harbin, Manchuria. Although : has been reported that General Sell enoff, commander of the forces open ing against bolsheviki in Siberia, 21 hourly expecting Japanese troops i support him, there is no confirmatEl that these troops actually are on j way. It has been learnea. noweis. . . . 11 - i that strong recommendations hw been made by the diplomatic cd? j for the immediate intervention of tin I Japanese in the face of the grow-i German menace. These recommend tions have been forwarded to the got ernments of the respective diploma including the Washington governmem ADDITIONAL GROUND GAINED BY GERMANS The Germans in the center of ti new attack on the front between J rildlpr nnrl Mnvrm have gained m tional ground against the French on both the rieht and left wings m are, being held. In violent success xi.. .1 x j v, irillazes S anacKS iney capiureu iuc Merv. Bellov nad St. Maure ana pressed forward and gained a loot in the village of Marqueglise, the named place representing the deeF noint nf npntratinn since the offenSi " v X' " .- . and six m'ieii j JLrvv v-- . The French still are exacts, heavy toll in lives from the Gerna as they deliver their attacks in v and are giving ground only forced to do so under sup numbers. Nowhere has the el" been able to pierce the front, r has been sent back in p"u i wheriever the' necessity arose. ..Hn AMERICAN TRANSrun FIRES AT SUBf An Atlantic Port.-An Ao transport fired five shots at a Ge . .. .' ... n- tf the J'"' suomanne o mue 4 coast, with unknown read ing to information brought her freight ship, sightea m & soon after 10 o'clock. 1 (e, full speed ahead was ruc'; minutes later a United transport, opened fire on rine. GERMAN U-BOAT ON TH' nS IDE 350 FEET i- . x r ir f)ne of e m isewpon news, theAtiaD" man U-boats operating oft w coast is 350 feet long, earn inch guns and 75 men and 1 ed with a heavy Den - x. x 11 ,nrfliDK tO if. me waier nuo, - oa hld nrisoner on i x covpral day8- vr S . h t-iked with a meui the crew and was toTms sb U-boat had been in these wa ten days. r "Mj I
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