North Carolina Newspapers

IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS CFTHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place lr The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Dojnestic Manufacture of beer in the United States will be prohibited after next December first as a war measure. This announcement comes straight from the food administration, which said that this decision had been reached at con ference between President Wilson and representatives of the fuel, food and railroad administrations and the war industries board. Warning has been issued to manu facturers of all beverages and mineral waters that there will be "further great curtailment" in fuel for the man ufacture of glass containers, of tin plate for cans, o! transportation and of, food products in such beverages." Four persons were killed and more than seventyfive others injured by the explosion of a bomb In a crowded entrance to the federal building in Chicago. The" explosion is attributed to the if W. W. Ra ds on two head quarters of the I W. W., witbn fifteen minutes after the explosion, resulted in the arrest of nine men. On the ground of German ownership, the Amer'can trans-Atlr.ntic j company, which until its ships'. v.ere! comman deered by. the United Sfates sh'ppiiiK board in 1917. operated in ocean trade a fleet of elevf n 5tamships filing the Stars and Stripes, has been thken over by A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian. . ' 5 .. ; Federal officials in New York City estimate more than forty jthousand 'suspected slackers have beeri arrested . in that cjty and in nearby cities in the great round-up of draft evaders con ducted tly twenty-five thousand sol diers, sailors, police , and government agents. xxeariy one minion men, or nan me . railroad employees in the United States, share in additional wage in creases approved by Director General McAdoo for track laborers, watchmen, other maintenance or way employees, clerks, station agents and other classes of employees drawing relatively low pay. The garnisheeing of railroad em ployees is forbidden by Director Gen eral McAdoo as a means of eliminating much legal work heretofore necessary. ' It is made plain, however, that em ployees who do not pay their debts will be summarily discharged. This is considered a death blow to shylocks dealing in salary assignments. Washington The United States army transport Mount Vernon was torpedoed bv an enemy submarine 200 miles from the coast of France while homeward bound, but was able to return to port, j The report to the navy department ! makes no mention of any casualties. ) There were probably 600 or 700 navy men on board, but no military units. Railroad enmloves of the lower nairl classes, not covered by the first big ' wage increase were granted raises in pay by the railroad administration, j Pekin, China, advices to the state department say the Czechs have taken j Chita, a junction point in Siberia and ' Karinsadat. Sudden pressure of business within the last two. days makes it extremely; unlikely that President Wilson will make the Liberty Loan tour he origi nally planned. Senators from the "cotton growing states at a conference decided to pro test to President Wilson against any action by the war industries board looking to the fixing of the price of cotton. It has Been reported, and what seems partial confirmation has been given the report, that German mam head quarters has been movd from Spa, Belgium, to Bonn, Germany. Americans who lose their lives in the war abroad will be buried there on'v temporarily. Where idnt'fica- ''on possible, the bodies will be placed, in marked graves, to be taken un when the war is over and brought home. More than one million six hundred thousand United States troops had been embarked for all fronts up to August 31. President Wilson has asked Attor ney General Gregory for a complete report of the circumstances surround irf? the so-called slacker round-up in New York in which upward of forty thousand men were tafoen into cus tody bj agents of the department of Justice. .Marshal Haig's forces are moving on Camlrai, the key to a large section of the old Hindenburg line, and if that place taken it appears that the enemy will be quickly forced to evac uate thn al-"ent in which he is rapidly being ptvketed by the French and American advance on the Oise-Ailette .lines in, the south. Entente -'tied troops in northern European Russia, aided by Russian -orces, on August 31, captured the enemy's -positions north of Obozer skaya, 75 miles south of Archangel. , The guns of the allied armored train were very effective in the fighting Death sentenoes of ten nsrt fr dierswho participated In the riot at Houston, Texas, August 23. 1917. har been commuted to life imprisonment by President, Wilson. In sia other cases the president affirmed the dth sentences because the condemned men had been fpund guilty of having delib erately and with great cruelty mur dered civilians. Although the senate has adopted a resolution authorizing the president to establish dry zones around coal mines, ship yards, munition and other war plants, it has failed in every attempt to reach a final vote on the emergency agricultural appropriation bill with its order provid'ng for national prohibi tion from July 1, 1919, until the na tion's huge army is mustered out after the war. Holding that it had jurisdiction over regulating street car fares in all mu nicipalities of Alabama, the state pub lic service commission set aside the 7-eent car fares granted the Montgom ery Traction company by the city com mission. The war industries board, with the ppprovpl of President Wilson, is soon to auro'nt a commits to consider the desir.-'bTty and fen-ty of effecting p srab'Tzatlon of c inn prices and oMier matters connected witii handling that croo The Brit'sh. demanding reparation md prompt punishment of those culpa ble in the atack on the British embas sv at Petmerad when the embassy ws sacked and Captain Cromf'e was v-d. pont a "hot" tcleeram to the BolshevV.fi government at Moscow. To remove misunderstanding as to who will be requ'red to raster ur-V'- the new mn-nower act. all men whn hnve not re-rfced the'r Tortv-sixth bir hdrv on or before registration day, Soptombr 12. w?ll he mcluded within the maximum aee limit, and all who have reached he!r e'ghteenth birthday on or before that date will bo included within the m'n'mum age limit. President W'lson has decided that the seven recophied societies doing el fa re worl: nmnns; the American sol (i ers at home and overseas shall con duct a joint campaign for the funds nece-sary to carry on their work dur ing the coming year. European Berlin and the province of Branden burg have been placed under "the law relating to a state of siege, which pro vides for a fine or imprisonment of persons inventing or circulating untrue rumors calculated to disquiet the pop ulace." The Germans continue to give ground before the allied armies over the one hundred and fifty mile battle front from Ypres to Rheims. Particularly heavy defeats have been inflicted on the Germans by the French in the old Noyon salient. The French and Americans in the region between the Vesle and Aisne rivers, east of Soissons, have dealt a staggering blow to the enemy. Field Marshal Haig's men, In the north, have pushed their lines east ward at numerous points. The litle forest of Coucy, the west ern portion of the great wooded sector east of Laon that has barred a direct advance eastward, has been entirely taken by the forces of General Man gin. The effect of the recent British suc cesses are hourly becoming more ap parent. The enemy is steadily but surely going back. Successive minor victories in Flanders, the application of sustained pressure in the battle zone scuth of the Scarpe, the' explora tion of the advances north of Peronne and the steady bombardment from the British cannon are all helping the gen eral movement. In-the wake of the German retire ment, fires are reported, together with explosions, in the various sections, es pecially the area in front of the Hin denburg line from the Bapaume-Cam-brai line southward where the torches seem to have been freely used. On the banks of the Somme south of Peronne the Germans are manning machine guns and trench mortars strongly and firing heavily on the crossings and their approaches, ap parently fearing a British attempt to cross. Diaries taken from German) prison ers show that the Germans on the western front (have suffered from the long continued -fighting as never be fore. "We are in mortal danger every day. We cannot last much longer. We cannot hope for further successes. Our enemy is superior to us in num bers and everything else. Victory now is out of the question," is a typical excerpt from an unposted letter. Count George F. von Hertling, the imperial German chancellor, has re signed, giving bad health as the cause for his retirement. It is officially announced that the Dutch minister in Berlin has bees in structed to protest vigorously against "the merciless action" of a German submarine in sheil'ng a Dutch trawler recently off Krommenie, North Hol land, in which fishermen were killed, and to demand compensation. American aviators in a battle with German airmen near Pont-a-Mousson routed the enemy. One enemy ma chine was driven down. "The German people understand the difficulty of the present decisive bat tles against an enemy filled with ha tred, jealousy and the will to destruc tion, but has unanimously decided to devote all its strength to defend assaults against- its sacred soil and kulture which had been won in peace ful work." This is the way Kaiser Bill sizes up the situation as the re sult of the recent allied Yictories. Hne flrpa. which .... .were . seen is - I E Y rrmrr:t fc f Am . - Jf I rS 'f f x' y x 7i?$ Wwtfrn Newspaper Union K g-SSrjg&K&i 'A lOne lone American acting ns guard of a long line of Hun prisoners. 2 Scene in the ruins of Peronne, which the British have recaptured. 3 General Humbert, commander of the French army northwest of Noyon, in conversation with a colonel. NEWS REVIEW OF THE GREAT WAR O.liUU O U IUa tAAM I inn I Dl I a oil dmaSil UIC YVUldll UiiC - and French and Yankees Drive Huns North. GERMANS QUIT VESLE RIVER Continue Their Retreat From Ly Sec tor, WJiere Americans Fight on Belgian Soil Bolshevik! Are Defeated in Siberia and Northern Russia. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The whole western front, from Ypres .o Bel ins, was ablaze all the week, and ! liroughbut all the long stretch the Ger- I ........ ! .1 .. . .1 . L. .. 1 rrv . ii'iui juiiuiiueu men rcirvai, xuv ar mies othi the allies followed closely oo their heels, hammering at them day and night and giving them not a mo ment's pause for reorganization of i heir wearied forces. It was another week of uninterrupted allied success, uud the wlthdruwal of the Huns was extended to include the Vesle river sector, between Soissons and Reims. Until Wednesday there had been little activity there, except continuous artil lery work and some sharp fighting be tween the Americans and the Germans In the region of Fismes and Fismette. But in the first days of the week air plane observers reported evidences of a coming retreat by the enemy, and this developed on Wednesday. The American and French patrols pursued the Huns promptly and by Thursday hud reached the crest dominating the Atene, across which river the Germans seemed likely to take the main bodies of their troops. " This retrograde movement was made necessary by the successful advance of nera' Mangin's army north and northwest of Soissons between the All ette and the Aisne, threatening the Chemln des Dames and flanking the enemy line toward Fismes. With the aid of Americans, Mangin was moving steadily down the Aisne plateau and in the direction of Laon, and it ap-prart-il doubtful that the Huns would be able to remain long south of the Hindenburg line through Anizy and Craonne. They were driven out of Clemency, Bray, Mlssy-sur-AIsne and many other towns In this region, and the French as early as Wednesday night were In the outskirts of Coucy, one of the Important German bases on the edge of the St. Gobaln forest. Be tween there and Chauny the enemy was forced from a series of dominat ing heights that he has relied on to pioteet La Fere. To the northwest of Chauny equally important victories gave General Humbert possession of Guiscard and Maucourt after he had forced the retirement of the enemy from Mont St. Simeon and the Canal rtu Nord. This latter action was a dtsperate fight, for the German posi tions were protected by a wilderness of wire entanglements and by innumer- , rble machine-gun nests. Captured offl I cits said they had orders to retreat to the region of Bethancourt, northwest I oi Chauny. There were indications that the Huns planned to make a stand j on a line through Ham, but the French advance was so swift that their abil- lty to do this was doubtful. The j French First array was moving Irre 1 slstlbly on Ham from Vesle and the At Fresnes the French and Ameri can advance reached the old Hinden burg line, had Ham practically flanked and was rapidly approaching Laon. The last named ffity nas been one of the most important of tti3 German bases In Picardy and the heart of the present Hun operations It Is a great center of railways and highways and its capture by the allies, it was. said, must mean the further retirement of 'he enemy. The British In Picardy opened the ueek by occupying Peronne after an Australian force had captured Mont St. Qiientln In 'a'' brilliant operation. A little to the north Haig's men then ook Combles, Morval. Courcelette and Le Transloy, and straightened out their new line by advancing It to Molslans and to the east of Neuville. Then, on Monday, came a grand British smash which wrecked the much-vaunted Wo tan switch line of the Hindenburg line, from Drocourt to Queant. Despite the, resistance of great masses of Infantry and artillery, the British rushed for ward on a ten-mile front and speedily made a gan of some five miles, the German losses being frightful. In the succeeding days they kept up the drive remorselessly, putting much of the Ca nal du Nord behind their lines and ap proaching within a few miles of Doual and Cambrat. These two cities were so Important to the German defensive sjfctem that large numbers of troops were rushed to their rescue and the British drive was slowed down percep tibly by the end of the week, though it was by no means stopped. All-through the week there were re lorts that many towns and villages back of the German lines In Picardy Were In flames and It was certain that the foe were destroying great quanti ties of supplies which they were not given time to remove. ta in the Lys sector, the salient west of Armentieres, the German retreat, under compulsion, continued steadily and the British advanced as far as N'euve, Chapelle and Laventle, taking a number of villages. The northern part of this sector became of especial interest to Americans because the Yan kees were there engaged In their first battle on Belgian soil. These troops, biter identified by General March as the Thirtieth division of Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina men, captured Voormezeele and other towns In the vicinity, and next day pushed on further eastward. Thurs day the British, presumably aided by these same Americans, took Ploeg steert village and Hill 63, dominating rolnts on the Messlnes ridge. By that time the British, from Neuve Chapelle south to Glvenchy, had reached the line they held before the German drive of April 9 last, and east of Glvenchy they had occupied parts of the old Gehnan positions. Altogether It was a highly satisfac tory week on the west front. The German military critics have given up tiying to conceal wholly the truth of the Hun reverses, but some of them predict that the retreat will not go much farther. The German crown prince broke into print with an inter view in which he declared the German idea of victory now Is ."to hold our own and not allow ourselves to be vanquished." He said only the allies were waging a war of extermination; tLat the Germans wished to annihilate none of their enemies. The Hun peace offensive seems to ' have petered out entirely for the time being. ta The British government, aroused by the: sacking of its embassy in Petrograd and the murder of Captain Cromie, the British attache, has sent an ultimatum to the soviet government at Moscow, demanding reparation and prompt pun ishment of the guilty and threatening to hold the members of the boishevik government Individually responsible and to have them treated as outlaws by all civilized nations. Meanwhile the British are holding Litivnoff, bol shevik representative in London, and his staff under arrest pending the re lease of British officials who wue ar rested In Russia. ta Belated dispatches from Siberia tell of the destruction of the bolshevik army east of Lake Baikal, by the Czecho-Slovnks and say the Cossacks are co-operating with the Czechs. It appears that uninterrupted connection has been established between the al lied forces across Siberia all the way from the Aolga to Vladivostok and that the vanguard of the Czechs has Joined hands with General Semenoff's troops on the Onon river. In northern European Russia the allies and loyal Russians have gained further successes south of Archangel and inflicted severe losses on the bol shevik!. On the Ussuri front In eastern Si beria the allied forces have been driv ing the bolshevik! northward, defeat ing them in every engagement and in flicting heavy casualties. The Ameri cans under General Grave Joined in these operations. ' " ! The suppression of the Social Iter- olutionists In Moscow Is being carried ; out with a heavy hand. About five thousand of them have been arrested I and sentenced to death, and it is said they will be executed If their party shows any further opposition to the soviet government. The streets of Moscow are under the strictest mili tary guard. Details of the supplementary Russo Gerrann agreements have been made public. Germany promises to evacu ate all occupied territory east of Li vonia and Esthonia as soon as boun daries are established, and to get out of all other territory east of Germany when Russia has fulfilled her finan cial obligations, which must be with in four months. Russia Is pledged to fight against the entente forces in northern Russia, arid Germany prom ises that Finland shall not attack. Russia renounces Its sovereignty over Esthonia and Livonia, but Is to have free transit to Reval, Riga and Win dau. An attempt to assassinate Nicolai Lenlne, soviet premier, was made by a girl In Moscow, but at last reports he was still alive though In a serious condition. Very likely his death would be a godsend to Russia. ta i There Is not much to say of the war on the Italian, Albanian and Greek fronts. Small engagements are nu merous, but no decisive operations have been started lately. In Albania the retirement of the allied line for a short distance is explained by the necessity of preparing for winter by occupying certain domlnatlnghelghts. t Austria has not attempted anything important In Italy, possibly because she Is too busy trying to settle her Internal trou bles, or because of the call on her for troops to help out the sorely-pressed Germans In France. Several Austrian divisions have been Identified on the west front. Meanwhile the Italian airmen, aided -by American flyers, have been doing a lot of bombing of Aus trian towns, railways and naval sta tions. ta According to dispatches from Mu nich by way of Geneva, Count von Hertling, the imperial chancellor, re signed Thursday, giving poor health as the cause of his action. Fronj Cologne came the news that the commandant of the Brandenburg province had placed the province, in cluding the city of Beiiin, under mar tial law in order to stop the "invention and circulation of untrue rumors cal culated to disquiet the populace." ta General March said last week that more than 250,000 American troops were landed In France during August, and that up to the first of September more than 1,600,000 had embarked for the various fronts, including those sent to France, England, Italy and Si beria. There has been no official men tion of late of the First American Field army, and observersjn France and in England believe it Is being prepared for a great drive, of which the present big offensive is but the preliminary. fe- All preparations have been com pleted for the registration of men be tween the ages of eighteen and twenty one and thirty-one and forty-five, un der the new draft law. General Crow der has called on the people to aid in making the registration a complete suc cess, and, so far ns the older men are concerned, has given assurance that a very large proportion of them will not be required to go to the front. The young men, he and most others believe, will be only too glad to get. Into this greatest ! and most righteous of all wars. fe- Spaln has not yet come to the break ing point with Germany, but another Spanish vessel having been torpedoed, has decided to seize German Interned ships without further Darlev. The tone of the press there, and also In other neutral countries. Is becoming distinctly proally. 1 ea American shipyards set a record dtlrlcg August, turning out 66 shlp aggregating 340.145 dead weight ton. Forty-four were of steel. The total tonnage built for the shipping board has now passed the two million mark. British merchant vessels completed during August amounted to 124,673 gross tons. The new construction In the allied countries Is now well a heal of the destruction by submarines. vuan sCr.. i r- f ners on t I 5 - 0,.Washino, " static ' The state, ' lines- had7"te !s Siven nnl,. . if Apparently ft 4 that th ... . "c "wetter J f the alliens front, in ,K flTa- British ann "(fs " - .1 Dh.. subsequent 'M sh0 how Marshal ;BM" ine Problem j se set upbjtl gian and Fret,,), .., --""SOU the allied forces J way forwards rear guard screen ners which sriii , J of the enemy's prespl oeavna this screen t helipvpd tn Hindenburg defense i nave Deen repaired a SHARP GAirSMADEl IN BRIT London. The Br& uvei a iour-miie m Havrincourt wc captured all the GenJ the high ground bo points and won their 1 tions overlooking Gq cording to the officii! irora t ieia Marshal a zeacourt wood also is: English and Neil performed the task righting repulsed heiTrl ter-attacks. The text of the state- "Advanced detacte and New Zealandenq ried the German po&a ground between Peizir rincourt wood. After sJ the cfturse of which ': attacks were repulsed t gained the old Briisj on the ridge overlook and captured Gouzeac "On the left of or English troops sufffii our line in the eas:e:J?l Havrincourt wcod. ; number of prisoners i tions.' AMERICAN TROOPS Cl THE With the Americas' Aisne Front.-In the faj act machine gun icans crossed the Vesle-prir-an infantry ap points on a curve M Glennes to iw A1V The . advance w J heavy artillery bon continued all nm hp nlateau &'l drain northwar - necessarily. iul', ,,,, ration Montasne. which"; m.,,,Jl. . r,.rv b01 erican tum . , tain, .here the f strop. e mplac?!CU- 6ERMANTS0B' ..The A-.l ;, :; form Mount hm, 5; man -umarm , 1,. m rr,aKe ' .-a was arn.f i , ,01 wounded ana - the mite w ill.. wJio p,eats an of r.!?lVi from a - i1' HEAVY WEa . . .... Pritish little ?c ' h?en gi"ed hef. ,;,!3l battles .lines . 4 . .j,. the p'1 il uu 1 atationa" . WHIPPY efie torn dv - tnkii aa8arily resuu - sit rt:: f ti ; c