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! I. -i if 1 1 ) I pm.ir VinnwTY NEWS, TBYON, N. C I ? 1 !': J : : ) ttvi V i lf1 t ! Hi I f j il J, v. 5 f i t i A hi 31 1 1, V' A''. ' -1 t; ill , f H i- I,' tt .. u IK It t 1. h i : 'l It r !i l; N 1' - .4 5 1 t J) IS IN !.f :i V JiruKTANT NEWS THE .WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND dTHEft NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS JT THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The South, v land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Domestic Anouncement In France of the safe arrival of the Dixie division, which left Camp Wheeler recently, has been re ceived in Macon. The division is made up mostly of drafted men from Illi nois and Michigan, but the majority of the officers are Georgia, Florida and Alabama men. A New York City dispatch says the British steamship Port Philip, out bound, was sunk in a collision with a United States war vessel off Swine burn island in the lower bay. The Port Philip's crew of forty men was saved. The survivors were landed by a coast guard cutter. The British vessel was of 4,060 tons gross. She sank in about seventy-five feet of water. To extend agricultural, educational and experimental work along the rail roads in undeveloped sections of the south and west, the railroad adminis tration has appointed committees of railroad executives to make investiga tions of local conditions and submit recommendations. In anouncing this the administration explained it expects to promote - agricultural extension work more actively than in the east. Shortly before the American troop ship America, formerly the German trans-Atlantic passenger steamship Amerika, was about to sail for Eu rope with soldiers and supplies, the vessel sank at her pier in Hoboken, N. J. So far as known there was no loss of life. The cause of. the acci dent is a mystery. With probably five hundred dead, thousands homeless and without clothing, and with property damage mounting far into the millions of dol lars, whole sections of northern 'Wis consin and Minnesotta timberlana are smouldering, fire-stricken areas, with only the charred ruins of abandoned, depopulated towns to accentuate the general desolation. The bodies of 75 Draft calls for men who .nave passed their thirty-seventh birthdays are t- j.ected to begin about March T. It is announced that the plans for bringing the older class of new regis trans into camp have not been com pleted. . General Pershing has sent an appeal to the American miners, declaring that "the more coal you produce the sooner we shall have peace." The American Naval Base, France, telegraphs: The record of submarine activity for the summer months, Jane, July' and August, the period most fa vorable to submarines, is now prac tically made up and : shows two high ly significant results, a steady fall in the allied shipping sunk and a steady rise in the submarines destroyed.. From "An Atlantic Port" comes th news that the army transport Amphi on arrived there from overseas and re ported having been engaged in a. two hour battle with a submarine 800 miles off the coast. Eight men were wound ed, two fatally, and the superstructure of the vessel was carried away by the first shots. Apparently the U-boat was not seriously damaged. The trans port finally outdistance the German.' The Americans sprang another sur prise over the Germans, the infan ttry advancing north of Romagne and taking Bantheville without artillery preparation. The Americans captured the Talma farms, northwest of Grand Pre, in the face of a stiff machine gun resist ance. In Belgium the enemy is giving ground hastily in order to bring his ar mies safely out of the trap which men aces them. Zeebrugge, Germany's second great submarine base on the North sea, has gone the way of Ostend, and the flag of Belgium once more proudly floats' over it. IP CONDITIONS' MT - : J -?&3&m& r; MADE Clt. WSW' 'WM , "JwS fc (wkjff 1W te'f-J Federalizinr, .f &ifln!?R M&&wl tsS'- &&JwW.m3W-$m wi vw-fm "A :"' -' "T Austria. WIHK; " iff v2i- I .... iJmAi ...IrW. .. h... . '..s..2&& hm . x i.o Knnn tnmMl or the fleeine enemj In Flanders, z 1- Brltlsiv Gunners oneratine cairn reu kuu:9 mnt aT - A,neri "ZTZ ?t m, to Berlin." paSSioS a signpost that marks the border between Ft.nc. d AUaee. j l . ni.. nA fotitti.toiiinor nrnnnffnn la over tne nun lines. i Inflating some of the small oanoons usea vy uie i HEWS REVIEW OF THE GREAT WAR Germany, Admittedly Defeated, Is Now Squirming to Pre . venf Utter Disaster. Washington Out of the great sack between the North sea ana the Lys river the en emy isfleeing fast in an endeavor to prevent capture or interment in Hol land. He hopes to be able ta reach Antwerp and there reconstitute his lines. The Belgian coast again is Belgian. Germany's dream of an invasion ' of England's coast across, the North sea from Calais is ended. Belgian Flan ders is fast being evacuated by the enemy. Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Burian says that a sentiment of pure humanity always pervaded President Wilson's idea of the solution of the world problems, even when he joined ! the adversaries of the central powers and then laid down certain principles directed against them. The Austro-Hungarian foreign min ister expresses the view that the cre ation of a league of nations constitutes a preliminary condition for the estab lishment of a peace of impartial js tice "such as President Wilson and we desire:" A telegram from Stockholm says in surrection is spreading in the Ukraine and recently extended throughout the entire government of Podolia. At sev eral places, it is reported,' the German troops are siding with the rebels. Sev eral thousand troops are declared to have hoisted the red flag near Eka terinoslay and-to have killed their of ficers. , A peasant force of 5,000 men, well armed with machine guns and cannon, is reported to be moving on Poltava, in the Ukraine. A mutinous Germany army is re ported to be marching on Kharkov, in the Ukraine, to join the revolutionary soldiers, who hold that town. Consideration is being given by, the house to the' military deficiency bill carrying $6,345,755,000, reported by the appropriations committee to provide for the enlarged war program during the coming nine month. Ceaseless prosecution of the war is the underly ing thoughts back of the bill. Legislative features of the military deficiency bill include a section au thorizing the president to establish a war salvage commission which would recommend to congress what disposi tion shall be made of property acquir ed by the government during the war. The new military deficiency bill when passed will bring the total olt the government expenses for the year to $36,1&8,709,722, of which practically two-thirds is for f he army. A stamp of 2 cents on all bank checks is provided for in an amend ment to the war revenue bill adopted by the senate finance committee that is revising the house draft. Such a tax is opposed by the treasury depart ment. FiAal returns from all states show that It 1966,594 men. registered for mil itar service September 12th. It is announced that in all 23,456,021 Americans are now registered for mil itary service, r very American soldier held by Ger? man will get a Christmas present, the u rosjj announces. European An English officer at Cambrai had his hand torn off by one of the ene my's infernal traps. Seeing a piano abandoned in the middle of a street ae struck a chord and an. explosion followed. A grenade had been placed in connection with. the keys. Herbert H. Asquith, former pre mier of Great Britain, speaking at tht National Liberal Club in London, said that there was no man in the allied world better qualified to be a spokes man of the entente nations than Presi dent Wilson. Both of Mr. Wilson's re cent replies to Germany's peace pro posals were heartily endorsed by Mr. Asquith. Ex-Premier Asquith of Great Brit ain says: "We must be sure that the government whicji has invited us to deal with it is not the'old Prussian mil itarism dressed up in a democratic disguise. That is the great' question. The reply to it can come only from the German people themselves. At a meeting of the Hungarian par liament a proclamation was readV de claring Hungary to be rn independent state, says a dispatch from Copenha- i gen, and, according to the dispatch, j henceforth there is to be only a per- j sonal union between Austria and Hun gary. Dr. Christopher Addison, minister without portfolio in charge of recon struction, speaking in London, said Germany must be made to return all machinery she has destroyed or re moved from France and Belgium. Holland, has decided to send 40,000 tons of shipping to South America to take back the remainder of the 100,- 000 tons of grain alloted to the Neth- j eriands on March 21 at the time the United States toc'j over the Dutch ves sels in the United States ports. Allied forces, including Americans, are engaged in repulsing heavy Bol--sheviki attacks on both banks of the Dvina, 150 miles north of Ketlass, in the north Russia fighting zone. The Americans and Russians hTP uriirano. ed in the direction of Weisk, northeast of Vologda. The Bolsheviki now are trying to spread their propaganda among the allied troops. Captured trenches and villages on the Dvina front are full of proclamations printed in English, asking the British and Americans not to fight. These proclamations were laughed at by the British and Amer icans. - The central powers found them- selves no longer able to hope for a military decision in their favor, and Bulgaria's demand for peace only has tened the presentation of their peace propositions. Baron Burian, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, declar ed in a recent statement to the for eign affairs committee of the Hunga rian delegation to Vienna. . . The entente forces in Belgium and France continue to successfully drive the central powers before them. In Belgian Flanders the allies are rapidly advancing. The Germans are fighting desperate ly in France to withstay the advance of the allies. The position of the central powers from the Lys river to the sea is re ported to be seriously threatened. The Lille salient is gradually being enmeshed by the allies. In the Champagne region a mighty struggle is going -on, because the Ger mans here must . effect a perfect re tirement to their own border in the event of a final debacle. The Germans are said to be partic ular bitter in their counter thrust against the Americans. The "German battle line in France continues to bend under the attacks of the entente allies. But aowhere has It been broken. The enemj almost ev ery where is in retreat towkfd new po-' sitlons.. Buthis retreat is orderlVand the allies are being comnellwl iA trh J their wav forward slow!. GREAT CIVIL UPHEAVAL Oil Austria and Turkey Ready to Quit Huns, Forced by Allies, Begin Gen eral Retreat From Belgium Still Refitting Fiercely in Champagne. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Squirming, dodging, wailing, the ;rman iniM'iiul government seemed lust week to he on its Inst leg. Thick sind fust cjiiue the rumors of uncon ditional sui render and of the abdica tion of the- kaiser, and though these were unconfirmed or contradicted as fast as they came out, enough au thentic nen-a seeped through the veil of secrecy to show that things were in a despi rate state in Germany. Its ptnre trar was sprung harmlessly by President YVTson when, in reply to what at first glance looked like full rcceptanc? of his terms, he told the government flatly that only absolute ca pitulation would he considered and that the allies would not listen at all while the Huns occupied allied ferrl t ry and ontlnuod to perpetrate out rages on land and sen. Any persons who may have had doubts concerning llu firmness of the president's will and TMirpose were joyfully reassured, and the answer ere.ited consternation in lierlln. The "Govman press admitted that It was a great blow to their rising hopes of jveaee, and the ruling minds of the empire began to try to find seme other way of escape from the Vsperate situation. As a preliminary, some democratizing amendments to the constitution were adopted or pro posed, notably ope taking from the emperor the right to declare war. The iw.wer of the junkers was sapped, to gether with that of their war lord. There Was, indeed, evidence that a civil upheaval of extraordinary pro portions was beginning which, even more than the great military reverses, would bring on a, debacle for Germany. The governments, the fighting forces and the civilian peoples of 'it'll 'the al lied nations made It absolutely plain that Germany could not obtain the "peace without humiliation" which it Is seeking. - Nowhere among them is found any sentiment of pity for either the brutal soldiery that has ravished the earth or the people who have sup- ported..--and rejoiced over the inhu manity of the armed forces. The de mand for exact justice is runiversal outside the lands of the offenders. It would not be In the least surprising If the prediction made In these columns many months ago were -fulfilled, name ly, that one of the conditions of pence will be that Germany surrender the kaiser and other instigators and per petrators of frlghtfulness for personal punishment. ' With this sprit prevail ing among the now victorious nllies, what chance has Germany foi peace without humiliation? The abdication of the kaiser, which after all would he hut incidental, was considered likely, and it was reported that he; intended to step down in .favor of Prince William Frederick, oldest son of the crown prince, who is only twelveryears old. I -- . ;. President Wilson delayed his reply to the :peuce proposals of Austria-Hungary and Turkey, probably in order that the truth about their hopeless sit uation jnight soak into their minds, and reports showed they were realiz ing the facts arid. beginning To act ac cordingly. f The brenk-np . of the "dual kingdom became rimre imminent,5 the Hungarians'' openly declaring their in tention" to separate from Austria, the Poles. Croats and Bohemians boldlycom ing out for indepndence. The govern ment tnade espafrlnir plafcsT to 'hold the erapirertogetlief In the form of 'confederation? of the "varldu national!-;' tie; tout thlg did dot' seem to interest the people who utye suffered so lonjr under Austrian domination. Baron Burian, admitting the central powers no longer had a chance of achieving a military decision, plastered President Wilson with flattery, declaring that his humanitarian policies were fully accepted by Austria-Hungary. I it was t;tken for granted that Tur key, under the leadership of Izzet Pasha, the new grand vizier, was about ready to make a separate peace. In the effort to hold her in line, the German Black sen fleet was sent to Constantinople and the government vRg warned that the first step toward breaking away from the alliance with Germany would be the signal for a bombardment of the city. Despite the presence of the warships, 20 in num ber, a revolution broke out in Con stantinople against the Young Turks, nhose power had not been wholly broken by the change in cabinet. Roumanla, which has been frankly looking for a chance to get into the war again, may have the opportunity very soon. Already the inhabitants of the northern part of the country, in the province of Moldavia, have risen in armed revolt against the Austro German forces of occupation. - " On the western battle front the gteat event of the week was the smashing drive of the allies in Flan ders by which in a few days the Bel gian seaports held by the Huus were practically cut off and the Germans were forced back rapidly almost to the Dutch frontier. This drive, made mostly by the British and Belgians, was directed toward Bruges and Ghent. In quick succession Roulers, Menln, Lendelede and other towns were captured ; Wednesday night the British occupied Courtrai, and on Thursday the city of Lille was taken by them. The Belgians took Thourout, and moved ahead rapidly to Bruges, which they occupied with little oppo sition. At the same time the British were entering Ostend, and a few hours later King Albert and Queen Elizabeth were In that famous town which for years had been one of the thief U-boat bases of the Huns. Zee trugge, also, It was said, was being evacuated as fast ns possible, and the Germans in the strip of Belgium be tween Bruges and the Holland border were making strenuous efforts to get out of the bottle neck. There was only one practicable road,for them, and that was under the constant fire from the Belgian batteries. Having given up Lille, which they did not destroy, according to new or ders from the army command, the Huns were next forced to get out of Doual, and the process of flattening cut the salient proceeded merrily. It appeared likely the Germans would continue their retirement untH they were on the line Antwerp-Namur-Xiezleres-Metz. This, of course, meant a tremendous retreat on a very wide front and would not be at all easy of accomplishment while Marshal Foch was unrelentingly hammering at them in every sector. FronVthe coast to La Cateau the withdrawal was be ing carried on so rapidly that at this writing no. adequate guess could be made as to its full extent. The aban donment of the Belgian coast by the Huns meant that allied commerce was freed Ingreat part from the U-boat peril and that air raids on England could no longer Jjp carried out with ease. The allies captured vast stores and many heavy guns in Belgium. Having forced he Huns out of Laon and La Fere, the French maintained v steady pressure on both sides of the waning salient there, making progress tl-at was continuous, though not rapid because of the Increased resistance of the enemy. As the Hundlng line of refuge was approached, in the region of Bethel, an Important German rail way supply station on the Alsne, It be came apparent that the Huns Intended to try to hold that line for a time. From Rethel almost to Yerdun the French and American armies fought continuously, driving the Germans back i across the Grand Pre-Vouzleres road and np both sides of the Meuse. The Yankees took Grand Pre, on the northern bank of the , Aire river j north of the Argonne forest, through vhb?h they nad fought their M ay so .bravely am doggedly. .The place, -tlwMigblW n sm& k jrlliagcfe te.pt great "tnfteglc . Importance, belnffi the. JuncUon of the railways feeding a large part' of v the German armies. Immense numbers of machine guns, with some artillery, con stituted most of the Hun resistance in this region. Such counter-attacks by infantry as were made were rather feeble and easily beaten off. The defense in general, however, was powerful,-and it Is evident that the German command attaches great Importance to holding back the Amer icans as much as possible in the Ver dun region. Every foot gained here by the allies weakens the hold of the Germans on the, invaluable coal and iron fields of the Briey basin northeast of Verdun. It .looks- as though the Germans were reconciled" to retiring from Belgium and France, but wrould hang on to the Briey fields to the last moment. Such a course would be Jus tified by their greatly depleted stores of material. They are running short especially of metal for guns and am munition. fe In Italy, the Austrians have been attempting very, little of late, proba bly because they hope soon to be out of the war; but in Albania and Serbia the allies are keeping them on the jump. Italians, Serbs, French, Brit ish and Greeks all are taking whacks at them, and at last reports they had teen driven far north of Xish, which was captured, by the Serbs, to whom 11 belongs. In Albania the Austrlans evacuated their, great naval base of Durazzo, which had been largely de stroyed by a naval raid the previous veek. ' )ej Little news came from General Al lenby's army iln Palestine, which prob-t-.bly was resting after its gallant and successful campaign against the Turks. But word was received that Beirut, the Turkish base on the Mediterrane an, had been captured, following which Baalbek Tripoli and Honis were oc cupied. m Bolshevik forces in eastern Russia have been greatly strengthened of late and are reported to be pressing back the Czecho-Slovak troops there. The hitter have appealed for help from the allies, and it may be that troops from the Siberian expedition have been sent to their relief. Meantime the allied forces in north Russia, Including a considerable American contingent, are fighting their way along both banks of the Dvina In the direction of Welsk, northeast of Vologda. Their progress has been difficult, for the bolshevik! have been making heavy attacks and keeping the expedition under almost constant bombardment. On the river the enemy has gunboats, protected by nine fields and-' small islands, and the shells from these do considerable dam age. The Bine's, however are getting along fairly well there and are confi dent and cheerful. Lenine and Trotzky are reported to have had a violent quarrel, the pre mier having accused the foreign min ister of fostering a counter-revolution. Lenine again has been attacked by an assassin, this time being shot In the shoulder. hi The Finns seni to be getting them selves into a peculiar position. First they elected as' their King Prince Fred erick Charles of Hesse, brother-in-law ot the kaiser, Whereupon France broke off the semi-official relations that had existed with Finland. Next the Finns formally requested Germany to with draw all her troops from their coun try. The substitution of a monarchy for a republic was really the work of the Finnish diet, not of the people, and If -may not stand. , John D. Ryan, director of the Amer ican air service, on his return from Europe,-made the welcome announce ment that unification of operation, and to a great extent of production of aircraft, had been agreed upon by the allies. He also told of . the splendid work of the American aviators and of the success and popularity of the American De Havlland planes and the Libert v i piece of news concerning aeronautics was disclosed by MaJ. A. Cushman Riee, this being .that the allies had worked out a practically perfected wireless telephone device which will enable the allied airmen to fly over the German lines and terrttorr In lm ? mense Cfleeta, all t the planes directed w by, the voice ff jity commanded "TUif, ha cofe ...111 . '. -' -"-' i w-t jsivjii- weep me. iiuns .rrjoti the lrv anil mHMl. ;;;r..i.fc '' rnuirij JUl UUl IUH r VtJW of their artillery. Stau Ttt wasiim ently, ot from (Jcr rejected for an a ra tions an! j,, er the on, powers nr;; In a note m was well on Pi-,. : i rtltf -ins; fl . the whi( I" nnh ;,. utI( President jM ,.,,. f V1 no talk of ;,.,-.. wiM,Vu.Te l)V;-,i!.i.,t tfH!. " 1 rcept liT-t v rim,. ties as fre,. !:.-i:h(.T, of nations T !.. , ... ., Anstrn-H,,, ... ' 10 suggestion f0t. reason without lisc-un ... f "'I I I 11, ,L, -i ' we Germany. garian ei basis of com Slovaks and questions ermany The Vienna MovernniPnt asi(jl rfp.nf nm, .. '"Ulr 3 equations on the 1 um s, announr-eM pr0R..am Q mentioning th speech of w last, in which the President 'J. peoples of Austria-Huncarv ho.fi accorded the frt 0pportU3jtr autonomous development. The says this is impossible; that", Czecho-Slovak national council been recognized ns a de facto be; erent government, the justice ftf nationalistic aspirations of the-, oias nas ueon recognized and t autonomy no longer can be accep mis declaration which may be reaching in its effect upon Ait; Hungary, where long enslaved dm apparently are nearly ready tost away the hated dual monarchy the Hapsburg dynasty clears bb some critics of the President's pt: nave pointed to as a source of ... less controversy m his program peace. Jt conies one day after proclamation of Emperor Karl fed izig the Austrian states in a ds ate effort to save his governing home and at the same time pre the way for peace. REPORTS ARE CURRENT M GERMANY HAS ALSO REPL1 London. According to unoffidi ports reaching Amsterdam, the man, reply to President Wilson been delivered to the Swiss mini: in Berlin, says an Exchange Telep dispatch from Amsterdam. In the note Germary cocsetfi the evacuation of Belgium. Oermanv protests against oharees of crueltv in- the Preside note and savs she was forced E cnKmarinp warfare 1)V til? CUUIllUllll ' " - - blockade. ' The German government, it H denies responsibility for Ihe m women, and children on torp passenger ships, hut to advance J Germany is prepared .prows. Bton unrestricted submarine & Finally, the note disputes therfl niiu'Pr to meddle norman internal affairs and w Germany should enjoy the amR cnif.otpvniination a other J L ol.-vi-" ' ..ntAwn HERMANS ; FIFTEEN inuuo.w - , . r- .m-tcdmPD IN nw- have -reached a n rfiil Fteleian forces . . ,l,urii 1.1. Dutch trontiei. he i-Ptreai. 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