North Carolina Newspapers

IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Domestic Members of the senate finance com mittee have notified the country mat there will be immediate downward re vision of the war revenue bill to about ihe six billion dollar total recommend ed by Secretary McAdoo. The present cotton fabric prices will remain in effect until January 1, 1919, and after that date no further action with regard to cotton fabrics is likely to be taken. Public press censorship has been discontinued. Upon the arrival of the Canadian Pacific liner Melita at New York City, it was learned that the United States destroyer was rammed and sunk. The department of agriculture is interesting itself in Southern moun tain farmers, and intends to help them improve their standards of living. The department of agriculture says there are Southern farmers who sell no mores than $100 worth annually of poultry, butter and eggs, and it is hop ed by the department to educate these farmers in marketing these valuable products. What is considered to be the best world's record for consecutive loops in an airplane was made at Love Field, Dallas, Texas, by Lieut. W. T. Camp bell, who made 151 loops. The United States is facing a pe riod of possibly the greatest prosper ity in its history. It is the general opinion that the first few weeks after peace will be the hardest. Industry will naturally readjust itself to the new conditions. There will be plenty of work for everybody who wants it. Russell Sage's widow left the bulk of her money to her brother and other relatives. The estate is valued at $50, 100,000. It is estimated that the total casu alties of the American expeditionary forces in the war will not exceed one hundred thousand, including the killed in action, wounded,, died of wounds, disease and accidents, and the missing who never wili be accounted for. The Rainbow and New England di visions are believed likely to be back in the states by Christmas. With the exception of the first regular division they were the first troops to land in France. According to Secretary Baker's in terpretation of the present military status, all enlistments will close with the end of the war emergency, unless congress acts before that time. Serious attention is being given to the matter of a standing army after demobilization. - War department officials believe uni versal military training should be in stituted, but they are doubtful about the tone of public opinion. Washington Those who are expected to atU-nd the peace conference, which will be held in Versailles at a very early date, are President Wilson, Secretary of State Lansing, Elihu Root, and Mr. Justice Brandeis. Developments in Europe, not only in the military way, but in the field of international polities, and f the tenden cy of the revolutionary spirit mani fested in every German state, which, seemingly is spreading to every other state in Europe, is causing a hurry up in the peace drive. One reason suggested for the early settlement of the war is the necessity of restoring the channels of trade and industtry in the late enemy states, so as to afford employment to labor and thereby relieve the threat of Bolshe vism and anarchy. It is recognized in all allied coun tries that relief work can best be car ried on in the central European coun tries after formal peace has been ne gotiated. There is some apprehension that de l.iy in the consummation of peace will have an injurious effect upon indus tries in America and the allied coun tries. "The German government and the German people have gratefully taken cognizance of the fact that the presi dent of the United States is ready to consider favorably the sending of food ?o Germany." Thus runs a note to Secretary Iansing from the new Ger man de facto government. Reports from Germany say that the universal form of salutation is "Com rade," and nobody speaks of the new government as the people's govern rnent, but the "Socialist government." Demobilization of men in the mill itary and naval service of the United States after their return from France will be carried out largely on a basis of the ability of trades and occupations to absorb them. - -A dispatch from Budapest, by way of, Frankfort, says that Roumania has rclared war on Germany. Reports have been received at the American consulate at Bagdad that 15,000 Armenians nave been massa cred at Tasu Hasu. It is positively announced that the American marine will be manned by 11 American crews "The armistice' obliges a rapid re turn to the fatherlana. You will find a heavy task before, you", but' in bat tle you have never abandoned your field- marshal who has confidence in you." This is the message of von Hin denburg to the troops in the field. -American naval forces provided es cort for 900,000 troops, which is about half of the men sent over by the Unit ed States. American ships escorted 27 oflied neutral shipping, including merchant men, supply ships, munitions ships and troop ships. , , W-p A mine barrage, 360 raileseiong, Jhej Ion rest in the world, and consided impossible- to perform, has been com pleted by the 'ArtieriQan navy from Nor way to Scotland, completely enclps ing'the ' North sea: '. ' The wwrferi 'of Germany" 'ask Miss Jane Addams' arid Mrs? qod'rbV Wil son to intercede for ; modified -a'rniis tice termsln order to. avoid unspeajc-. able disaster" to German women and children. - - ' ' "? ' A dispatch from London says that Lieutenant von Bohlen und Halbach, husband of Bertha Krupp, and wife had been arrested by revolutionists in control of Esfcen. European v Extremists in Holland, demand the abdication of Queen 'Wilhelmfna. Jonk heer Kolyn, former Dutch minister; has been recalled from England' to , Holland, ostensibly to form a new cab' inct. , v' The Dutch government says the mi nority is threatening to seize poyter? but declares its determination to nxain tain authority and order.. s ' r ; M..re than one hundred men, mostly ermans, have been killed in riots in Brussels. The allies are ready to lend their whole resources for restoration of the economic bases of civilized life in those countries desiring order and civ ilization. But this will be delayed just as long as the peoples of the cen tral European states are disorderly. . Three French deputies want the1. im perial family extradited from Holland and put on trial for instigating the war. "The commanders of the German armies continue to propose to the com manders of the allied armies facing them that they should immediately hand over their war material and pris oners to the allies." This is the sig nificant message to the German high command sent out by the French gov ernment wireless station. The German soldiers in various sections of the oc cupied territory have vapiKirently! been getting out of hand. In some places they have attacked their commanders and raised the red flag of revolution. German's troops have begun, to evac uate France and Belgium. The allied troops are moving forward, the Amer icans advancing in the direction of Metz and Strassburg. It is probable that the departments in the re-won territory will assume their old names, namely Bas Rhin, prefecture of Strassburg; Haut Rhin. prefecture of Colman, and in Moselle, prefecture ef Metz. Tlie Freiich government is already considering the establishment of pro visional adnfinistrative government for the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. The allied fleet arrived off Constan tinople, and have passed through the Dardanelles, the British admiralty an nounces. British and Indian troops occupying the forts parade as the ves sels passed. Nine British airplanes landed at Gal- atta, a suburb of Constantinople, two days after the signing of the Turk ish armistice. The first allied officer to reach European Turkish soil was Flightt Commander Henry Wiser, a Canadian, and a graduate of Yale in 19l2. No military occupation of Constants nople is probable unless disorder de mands that such course be taken. A Zurich dispatch declares that a republic was proclaimed at Berlin on Saturday, November 9. Germany's new provisional govern ment will be all red, says a dispatch from Copenhagen that is to say, the bourgeois parties will not be repre sented in it. This (Will not be because of their unwillingness to participate, but because the Socialists after a con ference with the representatives of the former majority party in the reich stag, refused to permit the bourgeois to enter the new government. The plan is to give the independent Social ists the vice chancellorship and two other secretarial posts. There are in dications that the independents will demand more. but their demands have not taken definite form. Germany loses her entire flee of submarines under the armistice terms as amended by Marshal Foch. One hundred ajd' fifty thousand railway cars will be taken from Germany, un der the. changed terms. About, the happiest man in Europe is David Lloyd Gecrge. Before the war the nobility called him an an archist, a Socialist and a little .bit of everything. Now he is the savior and deliverer of his country. "The sun do move." German evacuation west of the Rhine will be altogether under the. su pervision and administration of the allies and their associates. William Hohenzollern, the abdicat ed German emperor and king of Prus sia, and his eldest son, Frederick Wil liam, who hoped some day to rule the German people, are reported to have fled to. Holland. The world war ended Monday morn ing, November, 11, at six o'clock, Washington ime, eleven o'clock Paris time. The armistice -was signed- by the German representatives at imid nifht. . 1 ' l--IMitgen, one of the. cities on the lett oanK-or uie iuuiie " " " thA .,nUtIei- ' "VieW Of the harbor of Helgoland, the fortified island which the mutinous sailors of the Ger, iman' fleeteiied". 3-John D. Itoekefeller, Jr., opening the United War Workjnp . NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Central Europe in a Turmoil of involution, With the Social ists on Top. RULERS THRONES Germany's Plea for Fpod Will Be Granted by Allies Mutiny of Fleet May Hamper Armistice Pre dictions as to the Peace Conference. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Fulling thrones- arid lWing kins and princes; a maelstrom of social revolu tion and military mutiny : Soviets of the workers and soldiers in control, and former autocrats in hiding. That In brief is the condition in cen tral Europe, following the cessation of hostilities. How it will all end not the wisest statesmen can conjecture. Quick "work by level-headed leaders may direct aright the great movement and bring out of the chaos orderly and firmly grounded governments of and for the people. At present It seems that 'a favorite jest has become a sober fact and that the big task now Is to make democracy safe for the world In Germany the Socialists are estab lishing themselves under the leadership of their chancellor, Friedrlch Ebert, a brainy and highly esteemed man. The Keveral factions of the party appear to be working in some harmony, and the bolshevikl. though yet in the de cided minority, have been given recog nition which is encouraging them to demand more. In Berlin, where the German republic was proclaimed, ihere has been Intermittent fighting between the revolutionists and some officers and troops that remained loyal to the" old order, and in some other cities there were conflicts; but on the whole the chance has been accomplished with re markably little violence. The leaders occupy the reichslag building in Berlin and are striving to put the affairs of life tin a normal basis. In the allied countries there was a shrewd suspicion that the revolution was being fostered and directed under cover by the leaders of the old govern ment in the hope that through It they might be sparfd some of the rigors of the peace settlement. Such. too. was the explanation of the establishment of a republic in Bavaria, and in Schles-wlg-Holsteln, which states now say they will become parts of the new Ger man republic. The man in the street, and most of the newspapers, in America, England and France, did not at first look kindly on Doctor Solf's appeal to President. Wilson that the allies take steps to save the people of Germany from star vation. It savored of impudence, com ing from a representative of the peo ple who starved Belgium. Serbia. Po land and Uoumania without a qualm of conscience. But the allied govern ments have looked at the matter in a different light, and, probab.y wisely, have determined to supply to the Ger mans such food as can be spared, not only for humanity's sake but on the theory that order can be more quickly and easily restored among a well-fed people. If the excesses of the starving Ilusians were repeated in Germany it might be difficult" to carry out the terms of the armistice. The feeding of hungry Germany, becomes a common sense business proposition. Herbert C. Hoover already has 'sailed for Europe to direct ihe distribution of food. The Socialists in control, though walling at the "terrible harshness" of the armistice terms, declare they will do all they can to obey them. On land this will not be so hard, but the naval situation has been complicated by the seizure of most of the German fleet and of the fortified Island of Helgoland by revolting sailors. These men saw. in the surrender and dismantling of the war vessels, the end of their livelihood. o tbey took possess! -in of the ships and sailed from some of the ports. Their future plan of notion, if they bgv.o any, is misty. When the allies ABANDON wmmmmm iiiiiiiiumi f i.ninuii in mini1 ill ""'Ill i Aff 'Y-.trtWrW Vwww" w w --. into are given possession of Hie land bat teries the warships can be driven to sea, and there they can be dealt with by the allied fleet. The abdication of the kaiser, the em peror of Austria and the rulers of mi nor states in centml Europe, while doubtless of absorbing interest to them selves, cannot be considered of great moment amid all the tremendous events that are taking place. These nionarchs were but symbols of the or der that is passing, and even the kaiser already had lost most of his power, lie, as William Hohenzollern, is now interned at the residence of his friend. Count lleutinck, in Holland. Abdica tion was forced on him, but In fleeing from his country he showed the yellow streak. Compare his course with the really dignified exit of that other seek er after world domination, Napoleoil. The Dutch government pretended to be surprised and disconcerted by the arrival of William, but in reality it. knew he was coining and arranged for the ev4?nt. There is a report that the former kaiser will eventually take up his residence in his palace on the Island of Corfu. This presupposes that the allies will not take possession I of his person and put him on trial for his monstrous crimes airainst civiliza- tipn. The Germans themselves might decide to do this, for there is an in sistent demand among them that such war leaders as Admiral von Tirpitz, Major General Keim. Admiral von Holtzendorff and Dr. Wolfgang Knnpp be arrested and tried. Hindenburg and others of the army commanders have sought to evade such fate by sub mitting to the rule of the soldiers' councils. The former empress of Germany is said to be ill in Potsdam, and there are all kinds of rumors about the ex crown prince. Probably few care whether or not he has been killed. Charles of Austria by abandoning his throne dodges the great task of straightening out the affairs of the countries that comprised his realm. This will devolve on the peace confer ence, and doubtless will not bo settled without many disputes over conflicting claims and aspirations As was fore seen, the German part of Austria has elected to become a part of the new German state. There was great rejoicing along Ihe entire front in France and Belgium when the news spread of the signing of the armistice. Allies and Germans alike cheered the announcement and at once emerged from their trenches and threw aside the caution to which long years of warfare had accustomed them. The retrograde movement of the Huns was accelerated in obedience to the terms of the armistice but for several days the allied armies did not follow them. Then began their own advance into the regions the enemy hal been forced to evacuate. On Thursday it was announced that the Americans had crossed the frontier toward Metz and Strassburg, and that on Sunday Marshal Foch, commander in chief of the allied armies, would make formal entry into those cities of Lorraine and Alsace in the presence of President Pol n care and Premier Ulemenceau. In Brussels and other cjties the Ger man soldiers got out of hand and were reported to be burning and pillaging. The allies' high command at once warned the German high command that -unless this violation of the arm istice terms were stopped the allies would take drastic steps. fe lt is generally agreed now that the world peace conference will meet some where in Europe, probably in Ver sailles. Whether or not President Wil son will attend is not settled. It has been suggested that he be present at the opening and then return home to attend to the vastly Important domes tic problems that must be solved. Pos sibly America' representatives at the peace board will include Secretary Lan sing. Colonel House. Elihu Boot and Justice Louis Brandeis. The proceed ings of the conference are sure to be protracted, and well informed corre spondents are amusing' themselves and their readers by speculating on th conclusions that It Willi reach! Briefly, ithey predict that Germany will be com pelled to restore Alsace-Lorraine to iFrance : that Luxemburg will he united To Belgium that- Polahxl will - receive large addition Sr Including part f Prus control of the allies by the terms of sia with an outlet to the sea, and parts of Austria; that Serbia will get Bosnia and Herzegovina; that Jtaly will re ceive tlie Trentino, Trieste and most of Dalmatia; that a plebiscite may be taken to determine the desires of the Croats and Slovenes; that Ukrainia may get part of Galicla; that England is to have Mesopotamia and France will take Syria, and that Palestine will become an independent state. Among the many difficult things to be settled are the conflicting claims of Italy, Serbia and Greece; the status of the Arabs and of Armenia; the dis position of Constantinople and the coast of Asia Minor, and the reduction of Bulgaria to the weakest of the Balkan states. It is 6xpected that the peace confer ence will open in the latter part of December, after the English parlia mentary elections, and already tlie representatives of all the small naJ tionalities with grievances are gather ing in Paris. Many of the questions, it is understood, will be settled in ad vance by the entente powers and the United States. Turkey is awaiting in dread the rep aration demands of the aliies. Al ready the allied fleet has passed through the Dardanelles and dropped anchor off Constantinople. The men now in control in Turkey have accused Talaat Pasha, former grand vizier; Enver Pasha, former minister of war, and Djemel .Pasha, former minister of marine, of embezzlement and other crimes, and those worthies have fled from the capital. fe Before the ink was dry on the armi stice agreement America began turn ing to the problem of getting back to a pence footing. Its solution will require the best work of our wisest minds. The demobilization of the immense army will be gradual, and the men will be returned to civil life in the order of their importance in peaceful pur suits and with proper regard to the ability of industries to absorb them. The National Association of Manufac turers gives assurance that every man will find awaiting him the place he left when he wont into the service, and there is little doubt that there will be work for all. Innumerable projects that were suspended owing to the de mands of the war will be resumed at once, and the demand for labor on these public and private enterprises will be enormous,, The department of war put a sud den stop to the sending of drafted men to the army camps and notified men between the ages of thirty-two and forty-six to return their questionnaires unfilled. The men below twenty-one now in the camps may be retained there for a time, for the training and possibly to replace some of those who already have seen service in Europe. As for the army on the other side, it is likely to be therefor a good many months yet, for there will be a big job of policing to be done. The navy and marines still are taking recruits. Their part in enforcing the armistice and peace terms will be a considerable one, if present plans are carried out. lEB Many of the regulations to which we have grown accustomed in the past year and a half are being abandoned. The food administration has suspend ed the rule requiring the use of wheat substitutes in baking and has increased the sugar ration in some states, but at the same time emphasizes the ne cessity for continued conservation of all staple foodstuffs. Deferred build ing projects amounting to many mil lions of dollars were released by Chair man Baruch of the war industries board, and many industrial restric tions were removed. )sa The government's contracts for war materials are not to be canceled abruptly, so the contractors will have time for readjustment. The people of America are being kept awake to the fact that with the near approach of peace their financial responsibility due to the war has not ceased. At the present time they are called on to raise a huge War Work fund to be expended by the seven or ganizations whose work is bv no means ended. Then, early next year, there probably will be a fifth Libertv loan, for the nation's expenditures due di rectly to the war.mu8t.be enormous for a long time to come. Most of what was raised in the past was spent be fore It was received. MtnlW 111 TO RECENTLY ORo.' FALLS ,fcU it.. HONOR nr . he.-. F'RST BIG ADVANCE ""0 Mr. 'SI un1t TWELVE MIES Advance Is Be,ng and Not in n-.,. Coin... ot Bstti. .I F ranee. tvw. a, : x ' gun to move ;()W;l, ''"' army will travH ;,!,.,, , n day. . - To the army j. ;,;:i.1. en the honor of hini Jfc unit of the alii,,! oA-, The advance will b,. fl) and not in nnir , ' .' .'- 'X " "UL 111 .orner of yAUl lowed. But ,t is not f0. ; losi :hnically. at iP1t, ,lt,,.e ite of war. N'l.th;,,,, 1'1- , , u (.t. chance and every precaution U taken to guard against ur,r.- . iv withstanding none is expei-' If' Care will be taken to have ;i.'M. rill 1, . fclli'i have been instructed not onlv pair roads and recoastnu-t bridge! u to inspect keenly evoiy object' -position, that might he a trap MV will be sought carefully. The Gea-'. have sent word that the way h and the mines removed cases which they have desgnate. ter also will be insperted carefully"" 750,000 AMERICAN TROOPS IN LATE DECISIVE BATTLE Paris. Out of the confusion arl daze of the crowding military ever on the western battle line sir.ee U:. in September, when battle follow battle until from Flanders to Ycrfc there was ceaseless action, i; is cr permissible to outline to a certain ei tent the part played by the Amerkv, armies in the final decisive battle ' the war, which ended with the a:i: tice. Military reasons heretofore ha--prevetited accentuating the accom plishments of the American?, exr-ey. in a most general nnanner. The dis patches from the field have beenn1 essarily fragmentary and pos?ib;y were overshadowed by the account. of the more dramatic operations ov: the historic battlefronts to the . But it now may be stated that .: American divisions, totalling mc-'" than 750,000 American combat troops participated in the action beginnit: Septeni'ber 26, known variously as ii battle of the Argonne and the batt of the Meuse. but which history mar call Sedan the battle that brongr Germany to her knees and as far human foresight goes ended world's bloodiest and costliest war PLAGUE OF INFLUENZA WAS MORE FATAL THAN WAR Washington.- The recent .epideir of influenza in the United biw ed more deaths than occurred the American expeditionary for f from all causes. This announcement by the bureau was based on unofficial es. mates of the total casualties amor the overseas forces and report? Vv-. 46 cities having a combined popu--tion of 23,000.000. which show! -306 deaths from influenza and pnej monia from September 9 to Novem ber 9. Normally these cities would hs had 4.000 deaths from these cau during this period, it was said. .ea approximately 78,000 as the numo properly chargeable to the epiem "The total casualties m tne can expeditionary forces." said t . nouncement, "have recently d - . officially estimated at lOO.OOfl. On basis of the number thus far repo it may be assumed that , from all causes, including d:sen ', accidents are probably le ' H per cent and may not be more per cent of the total casualties. KING AND QUEEN OF BELG" HAVE NOT ENTERED BRUSS London Confirmation h ceived here that Germans ai ?,, ing or destroying property burbs of Rrusseh vvoluti"-a'v' ment is in no sense i ,ucul 10 fW allied n;: is regarded probable tiu. uuy steps will be nectary ' tki ormi'ctirP ed 1- f Advices received in ionuu,'.n; aP. the entry of the 15elpan h-- t. queen into Brussels has poned. MANY SHIPS DEMANDED ARMISTICE SUNK BV CR Coienhagen.--A law shipsf demanded by the ain , the naval terms of the arm.- sunk by their German r. the revolution, according to of Berlin. m ii. - orvnmice v ,-V Clause 3u oi in G$Tn,: that all merchant vest. allied ctnre - xtiated Powers are to d- ports to he specified by fiur United Static DAILY