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POLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYON, N. C. r ,1 t r IMPORTANT- NEWS THE WORLD OVER t IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS ANO OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS J)T THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Domestic To replenish his private fortunes, Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has resigned, and his resignation will be come effective just as soon as Presi dent Wilson can find a successor. Revelations of alleged crookedness in the prosecution of many cases, civil und criminal, in San Francisco courts, including a charge that attempts were made .to manufacture evidence against Mrs. Rena Herman Mooney, were contained in a report made public in Sun Francisco. In the investigation of the Mooney rase, the investigators allege that more than four hundred thousand dol lars was the sum paid out in graft. In fact, it is alleged that more than ibis amount passed hands in one in stance. Reductions aggregating five hundred mlilion dollars in the yield from the new war revenue bill were made by the senate finance committee in re rsiing the measure downward to the fix billion dollar "total for 1919 propos ed by Secretary McAdoo. x The drastic features of federal pro hibition enforcement laws which dry eladers will insist upon congress en acting in case the federal prohibition amendment is ratified by the states were outlined to a meeting of Anti Saloon League superintendents at Co lumbus, Ohio. American expedition forces abroad had less than fifiy men -blinded as a result of the war. according to Dr. J. R Hendrickson who has returned to his home in Newport News, Va., from. Washington, where he conferred with ihe surgeon general of the army rel ative to the disposition and care of blinded soldiers. More than one hundred thousand persons have applied since the armis tice was signed for permission to go abroad, it is stated by New York City customs officials. The United States destroyers Dal gren and Goldsborough were launched at Newport News, Va.. at the plant of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company. Two hundred and sixty-fixe Ameri can planes and 38 ballons were de stroyed by the Hnns. The third and final session of the sixty-fifth congress will begin in eleven days from its adjournment. Aside from the personnel of the American delegation and the prepara tions for President Wilson's journey to France, interest centers in what na tions are to participate in the deliber ations. The entente powers and the United States have borne the brunt of the war and their representatives will outline a plan of procedure for the .con ference. Each nation admitted to participa tion in the peace conference will be re garded as a unit. Tlie number of its commissioners or delegates will n"ot matter, nor is it expected that deci sions will be recorded on the basis of majority votes of these units. Each nation will be free to adhere to any declaration of principles proposed to the conference or to withhold its as sent. Removal of all remaining restric tions on non-war construction by the war industries board is announced by Chairman Raruch. Air building opera tions of whatever character may now be proceeded without permits either from the board or the state councils of defense. Washington When the Americans entered Long wy they found in a hospital there two American aviators, Vernon Remington and Arthur C. Dineen, who were cap tured in October. The aviators were brought down inside the German lines during the week of October 22. Fourteen million dollars worth of opium purchased by the Chinese gov ernment from foriegn opium merchants at Shanghai is to be destroyed, ac cording to a cablegram from Pekin to the Chinese legation. Txss of 145 American passepger and merchant vessels of 334,449 tons and 775 lives through acts of the enemy during the period from the beginning of the world war to the cessation of hostilities, November 11, is shown by ..figures made public by the department of labor's bureau of navigation. Nineteen vessels and 67 lives were lost through usje of torpedoes, mines and gunfire prior to the entrance of the United States into the war. When hostilities were suspended, American aviators had destroyed 661 more-German planes and 35 more Ger man balloons than the Americans had lost. The total number of enemy planes destroyed by the Americans was 926 and the total number of bal loons 73. On November 11, the day of the signing of the armistice, there were actually engaged on the front 740 American planes, 744 pilots, 437 ob servers and 23 aerial gunners. Between September 12 and Novem ber 11 th.e air forces operating with the first American army alone? dropped twenty tons of high explosives on the German lines and supply depots and rail heads behind the German lines. The second session of the Sixty fifth or "war" congress, which began last December 3, ended at 5 p. m., November 21, under a resolution which had been adopted earlier in the day by the senate, and. by the house. Restrictions .on the exportation of raw cotton to Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium and Japan were removed bv the war trades board and the com mittee on cotton distribution. The or der becomes effective December 2. Men now at camps to be abandoned will be either sent home in the near future or transferred to the canton ments which are to become perma nent. When allied troops march under the Arch of Triumph at the close of thfH war allied sovereigns and chief mag istrates will be present. It is under stood the kings of England, Italy, Bel gium and Serbia, Prince Alexander of Greece, President Wilson, a Japanese royal prince, representing the . mikado and official representatives of China, Portugal, Roumania and the South American republics will be present. Well into Belgium and. across the fieVman frontier on the south, Maj. Gen. Joseph T. Dickraan's army gath ered itself for another jump into evac uated territo.v. European Earl Curzon. speaking in London to speakins to the delegates of the inter allied petroleum conference, declared that the allied cause had been "floated to victory on a wave of oil." Up to October 31. 1.5S0.000 German soldiers were killed and the fate of 250,000 was not known.' Four mil lion soldiers had been wounded, some several times. There are 490,000 Ger man prisoners in allied countries. Fire in the east central portion of Brussels resulting from explosions at the Midi station, lasted eight hours, and all the buildings in the streets nearest the station are in ruins. In any question of provisioning Ger many the British government will be obliged to take into account the con ditions under which British prisoners in Germany are being released, unless the cruel treatment which such pris oners are receiving is dlscontinuecf, the German government has been warned by Great Britain. The Ukrainian government has been overturned and Kiev has been captured by troops from Astrakhan. The Ukra inian national assembly has fled and a provisional government has been es tablished by the captors Of the city, commanded by General Denikine, for mer Russian chief of staff, now leatRr of the anti-Bolshevist forces. "We would have demanded the oc cupation of Paris and London. We would have dictated peace at Buck ingham palace and annexed the entire continent from the Ural mountains to the bay of Biscay." This is what the late Albert Ballin, general director of the Hamburg-American Steamship company, in discussing the armistice terms, says Germany would have done in case sue were victorious. The town of Posen and a great part of the province of Posen in Prussia are n Polish hands. The Poles in the soldiers' and workmen's organizations have seized the reins of power and are fonning a legion. The German fleet surrender to the British fleet consisted of nine battle ships, five battle cruisers, seven light cruisers and fifty destroyers. The sur rendered -German fleet was taken to the Scapa Flow, in the middle of the Orkney Islands, off the northeast coast of Scotland. "The commander-in-chief of the grand fleet has reported that he met the first and nvain installment of the German high seas fleet which is sur rendering for internment." This is the announcement made by the Brit ish admiralty 5-ft::Wi:?H::::W 111 it- V Jfc 5 fit , a fit ffl If 1 S4 ewpaper I Genernl view of , Prague, capital of the new Czecho-Slnvnk republic. 2 American engineers and infant ry inen rebuilding a mad 'in war-shattered France. 3 President Wilson inspecting . an American llandley Pae homhing ilnne which I low from Mineola to Washington, 280 miles, in three hours. ' NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Armies of Allied Nations on Their Triumphant March to the Rhine. GERMANY SURRENDERS FLEET President Wilson Prepares to Leave for Europe to Take Part in the Peace Conference Ukrainian Government Overthrown by Anti-Bolshevists. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Tko t riiinipluint march to the Rhine by the armies of the allies has been going on steadily all week. At last tluse brave troops nun;-? forward real ly "with bands playing and banners fixing," and as tlioy pass through the oil 'os, towns :unl liaiidots of northern France ami It'-lgium the people of those, places, released front years of ! harnarous slavery to the Huns, give ! them hysterical welcome. From holes I where they had been hidden since the ! summer of 4 their iitjonal flags are brought forth to decorate the I buildings and streets and the ruins j left by the invaders, and everywhere homemade spciuieiis of the Stars and ! Stripes fly with the other banners. ' The wild joy of the inhabitants is I pathetic in the extreme, and especial- ly in Alsace and Lorraine, which is i oc-upied by the Third American army together xTth the French under Gen- oral Manirin. Those "lost provinces' 1 no,v regained, have ever remained i loal at heart to France and they wel ; coined the Poihts and the doughboys j with open arms. ! For Lorraine the groat donionstra j tio i took place in Met., which was ! envrod by Mangin s army on Tuesday, i That general was injured the day bo- ! fore when his horse fell, but Marshal i I I'efain vas there unl, standing before the statue of Marshal Ney in the main square, reviewed the troops. The in habitants had overturned the German statues in the city and made the place gay with the allied flatgs and with their own national costumes. Similar scenes were witnessed in Strassburg the rst reached the Rhine The American army of occupation, conni.nnded by General Dickman. and about 2."0,000 strong, marched across thfi old German frontier into Lor raine and swung to the northward into Luxemburg; the marines on its right passing into Belgium. In the grand duchy no less than elsewhere tin Yankees were enthusiastically greeted. Their advance was made al ways with due caution, however, and The allied governments have decided i and oilier cities of Alsace. Near I send an official protest to the Dutch Swiss border the French' troops fi to .government against the violation of Holland's neutrality as a result of her permitting German troops to cross the province of Limburg in their retreat from Belgium. British casualties during the war, including all theaters of activities, to taled 3,049,991. The total British losses in killed on all fronts during the w;ar was 658, 665. Of these 37,836 were officers. In order to end the discussion as Jo whether William Hohenzollern has the task of moving so large an army really abdicated as German emperor it is stated that the German de facto government will publish his decree of abdication. Rumors that William Hohenzollern may possibly return to Germany are supported by the Berlin Local Anzei ger's hint that he would not be refus ed entry to Germany. This statement has created, considerable stir in Lon don. Alsace-Lorraine day was celebrated in Paris, Sunday, November 17. The day was celebrated not. by victorious troops marching through the city, but by countless processions - of civilians on parade before ten thousand troops scattered along the route. It is esti mated that two hundred thousand peo ple marched in the procession. A detachment of American soldiers and American Red Cross women wWk ers participated in the celebration of Alsace-Lorraine day and received ova tions from the French soldiers and thf population generally. The Dutch government says the mi nority is threatening to seize power, but declares its determination to main tain authority and order, Extremists in Holland demand th abdication of Queen Wflhelmina. Jonk heer Kolyn, former butch 'minister, has been recalled from ' England to Holland, ostensibly' 1o form' a heV afc.: inet. ' ' " ' ' ' fc'':K' v ' forward steadily and keening un its supplies and communications was performed in perfect manner. Meanwhile the British and Belgian armies of occupation were keeping pace with their allies, , advancing through Belgium close on the heels of the retiring Germans. Kverywhere the victors found vast stores of weapons and materials which the Huns left in accordance with the stipulations of the armistice, and in general it was sahf the Ger mans were carrying out the terms im posed on them. There xva.s pillaging in some places, and occasionally a storehouse was blown up. but these instance were eompara lively infre quent. The worst charge against the conquered foe related to the released allied prisoners. Many of these, usually sick and half starved, were merely turned loos' to make their way to their friends as best they might. England sent to Berlin stem- pro test against such violations of the ar mistice terms. ' ' The nllied fleets have passed rhrough the Dardanelles to the Blnck ; a. and anted troops have been landed In Con stantinople and On the Gaflipoli pen in- wnnt watf Austrin-rihn.ro , . . . , --" J 111 stila. the n Budapest At sea the surrender of the Ger mans was signalized. last week by the turning over to the allies of the Ger man high seas fleet and many subma rines. These vessels were met by British worships and escorted to port, the submarines to Harwich and the battleships and cruisers to the Firth of Forth. The Huns, who have never shown good faith except under com pulsion, were watched with utmost care. They were sullen and chagrined but attempted no treachery. The ves sels they surrendered were dirty and stripped of nonessentials but other wise were in working condition. te Conditions in Germany still are chaotic and Premier Kbert is not hav ing his own way by any means. He decided that there should be a con stituent assembly as soon as the fran chise lists could be made out, but the soldiers' and workmen's council at Berlin declined this, demanding In stead the summoning of a general sol diers' and workmen's congress "in or der to make a decision as to the fu ture of Germany." The extremists are in the great majority there and their strength is reported to be grow ing in many other German cities. The Socialist government is striving In various ways to bring to bear influ ences that may mitigate the rigors of the armistice and peace terms. Aj peals for food continue to come, from both Germany and Austria. "If our stomachs are full we will behave much bettor," cry the Huns. As a matter of fact, shiploads of food for hungry Europe already have been dispatched and the Germans are making agree ments by which they will be able to obtain food from Denmark, Argentina and other countries. What the United States can spare probaldy will not go to them, but to more deserving suf ferers, and even to Russia. Considerable stir was caused by the rumor that the former kaiser intends to return to Germany because his presence in Holland was embarrass ing the queen and government of the Dutch. Wilhelniiua weathered the crisis and the radical Dutch abandoned their attempt to force her to abdicate, but doubtless she would be glad to get rid of William Hohenzollern. Germany might permit him to return though the danger of his becdmiug the cen ter of a reactionary movement is rec ognized. However, it is to be hoped the peace treaty will settle the future of the deposed ruler so that he need never again bes considered. Charles of Austria is in better state than Wil liam, for, though he is said to be in poverty in Vienna, neither his people no the allies have any serious charges to make against him. te- President Wilson has ended the doubt as to his going to Europe by announcing that he will attend the opening of the peace conference, though he probably will not remain to preside over its sessions or take part in them. The entente govern ments seem to be pleased with this decision. The members of the Amer ican delegation had not been an nouueed when this was written, but it was believed they would include for mer President Taft and perhaps Sec retary of Agriculture Houston, as well as Secretary of State . Lansing and Colonel House. According to the Washington cor respondents, the president will seek to influence the peace conference in five matters especially. These are: The creation of a league of nations to enforce peace. An , agreement to reduce military armaments. An agreement making freedom oft the seas in war as in peace subject to" regulation by the league of nations. A square deal for the German peo ple. Aid for Russia. Four of these the people probably Avill willingly leave to Mr. tilson and the other diplomats to settle," but the .fifth, "a square deal for the German -people," I calculated to arouse the apprehension of many millions of peo ple in America ajid the countries of the entente. Even if they are not-demanding reveuge, they do demand that a square deal be given America, Great Britain, France. Belgium. Italy- and the other catloiis that fought, the cen tral , powers and whipped them, , and t na .Ufirnuiny a nd her fellowi. conspira uianf 1 g entered J The governments of the allied nations tmve kept from the Imowtedge of the people many facts concerning the war, and doubtless this has been wise, but they could not if they would conceal the part the German people as a whole have played. Every one of us knows that the latter, whatever their status or their politics, supported their gov ernment as long as it appeared to he winning, gloatingly approved all the crimes and outrages committed, and repudiated the leaders of the criminal conspiracy only when their failure was assured and it became necessary for them to look for some way of crawling out from under the wreck age. Why. then, should the president of the United States or any other repre sentative of the powers that defeated Germany, feel it necessary to make a special plea for a square deal for the .vanquished? Paraphrasing the old saying, what we demand for the Germans is plain justice, and d d little of that. fe Mr. Wilson is said lo be especially concerned in the problem of estab lishing a stable government in Russia, and there is reason for his concern. That distracted country has bobbed up again in the news columns and the situation there is, if possible, more com plicated than ever. The new all-Russian government that was established at Omsk and recognized by most of the anti-bolshevik elements is now in control of Admiral Alexander Kolchak. The council of ministers executed a coup d'etat and made Kolchak the vir tual dictator and commander of the all-Russian army and navy. He is called "supreme governor." Several opposing .ministers were imprisoned. What the course of the commissioners of the allied governments will be is not known. Along the Dvina the bolsheviki at tacked the allied forces and were re pulsed with heavy losses. Since then they have contented themselves with shelling the Rnssoallied positions from the gunboats, With which they are better supplied tlian their adver saries. An event that was very gratifying to Washington and the eutente cap itals was the overthrow of the Ukrain ian government and the capture of Kiev by anti-bolshevik troops from Astrakhan under General Denikine. This opens the way for the allies di rectly into the heart of Russia. While they were being ousted at home, the Ukrainians were engaged in continu ous righting with tle Poles in Gallcia. where they had taken Lemberg, and in Bukowiha, where they held Czerno witz. There, as in the Ukraine, the Ukrainians were hei;i by German officer: No news has come from eastern Si beria, nor is much to be expected, since its dissemination is under the control of the Japanese. The recent lifting of the censorship does not seem to apply to that region. fe The government took two steps last week that aroused much comment and not a little protest. The first was an order making effective governmental control of all the marine cable sys tems of the United States; and the second was the consolidation of the services - of the West era Union and Postal Telegraph companies under governmental control. Postmaster General Burleson is in control. 1 Congress adjourned ou November 21 in order that the members might have a brief rest before the short ses sion opens on becember J. The pres ident has planned that all important legislation shall be held up during his absence in Europe, the scheme being to have the vice president and speak er withhold their signatures to bills passed ; but considerable opposition to this plan is developing. Many leaders in congress contend that there is urgent- necessity for legislation in the line of reconstruction, in which Amer ica already is being outstripped h? Eu ropean nations. te! President WHson signed the food production stimulation bill with the Jones rider, and consequently the United States will be "bone dry" from Jjine SO next until the time when the demobilization of its fighting forces has been completed. The importation of "all intoxicating -drinks tops at once, except that wines may be inn ported until May 1, 1939: The liquor Interests may contest the constitu tionality of the l&r, TOTAL 32,679,036 SIRED OF ""MKSllltSI, Nnrth Caro""a and A,afa Georg the VnluA w ... U" , ' 1 Ho! work- ,. . ' ' t ,vtt i :. the S,'V n war r,.:;..; 111 en- work ,!,;.. I- li:0 e urn,, a-M ,1. 'an M-'i ... 1 i:rr v. Ul ( ;r'r . ft ".'f ovor rr,. "l0r-ofth ,;;, the statJ i t:i- iini.m ' of '"ylvnniH and '81 !':;; 4 fl I Fouvt ( ii stato 1 U) :; Pkd ... cent or more zona he,. !b, cent. ,-,,. un-ll "U1 l" V .1 1 OiiriM :,n, ,.. 1G0; Georgia .nd v.." 1 A feature of the 4 iiwn.i in wnicti men of tv J and navy thernsftlves t,?1 ed to the fund. Th , ; .1 "'ill JVJ gave $618,346: ('inn, ,,..,.1 Russia, ?11.00i; cuba v.. . imu, jjoumhi ; Mexico. :n 1'orto Kico $S 2iOO New York State wen' ton" with a neivMitr.iK. im" . D. Rockefeller and John D.l feller. Jr.. who hnrl wuiiu "iiUlf ing subscription to the amocm 623. 6S9 were cullpd i ,.J $370,0f7 to make up the toil ?a4,629,30:J. GERMAN PEOPLE ARE NOT ml ANY DANGER CF STARVAtI London TIih Voozw Gas November 16. published as ar der the caption. "Arn;i:;..-e a Food Supply." written ! named Oetelshofen. wi.n arpei' there could --be no question o! a age of food in Germany was urgent lv mvessarr '.e tt. rations. The writer nuiintaiH ix t -many could deal with the problem by readjustments, afe the transport of potatoes aai? tables and confining the transpK cilities to foods ol greater r value in proportion to their k"i Dealing with the harvest. Oe fen estimated the bread con 5r apart from barley and Qatsatr than 12,000.000 tons and te'f harvest at about 4T.;.W k The writer pftintd out .manv must have an abunda sugar, hitherto, had been ued- . . ...a cat. material for munition m"- now had a sugar harvest o. 1,808,000 tons, as compared peace consumption of only " tons. Even lifter "the armi-' i ,-4e ter said, "there is aDuntum- Germanv for feeding the :. i.ww, t:,o cnnsiimn111 male hv redncine the stocks ft DUMARU LOSE THEIR .... L'.vMferi If3 wasningion. from the American lost their lives alter u wreckea neai uu.. ,, line. Tl,ena,!Z:- posure and starvation m an J and that two others A when the boat was at San Jose. L'Orier.i. Pn ands, November 0. " - -r ilDfD WAR WORKERS TO d IN RETURNING - pio-ii to a-'-" Washinsto!!.-na. s return home ofthoun ers in Waslnr.ou 4 by the transit .on Aie)& reaus from 1 ,.Po'P' officers of the ai srf r v '. . . , , , (o pri"" department, tarv liaufr i v j tions as to nietaoii. r.BPUANYREDUCEO TO p(j POSITION AS W- Germany i? ow' to be surremieieu - er , recent and t"",,M e A rendered are - ctl w j, hps surrendered fifty million pounoV . tf 1; the sea po'er lxw indeed. A