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The Second corps was composed j the 27th division consisting of New Iort national guard troops; and th jth division, consisting of troops f roni jeanessee, Xorth Carolina, South Caro- jja anu was commanaea djt xuaj. uen. u-. j. pvead. In complimenting tne corps its work in the fighting in the jritisn scc' in Marshal Haig said in a message jj the cprps: "I am proud to have had r Mmmii nr? thA 'riAria n-f tVi a jou m IU-V -th and the 30th American divisions fill rank with the nignest achieve ments of the war." The second American corps was oper- fill? 1 II uu"Juuv,,v " . ww jnird and Ninth corps and had crossed the Hindenburg line at what Is de Kribed as "perhaps its strongest point" jear Bellicourt. The American corps Tas called upon on October 6 to take jart in a three-day advance' against the Ijne extending from Valenciennes through Solesmes and La " Cateou to Guise. This line ran along in front of lie Sambre canal. To the American jvision was given a tasK or pusmng nit a salient south of Le Cateau, a j-e line until tne nansing aivision moved up. .... On the night or October 3 tne 30tn division tooK over irom two Ausiraiian divisions a front of about three miles. The operation began on October $ in 'OEjurction with the British ana ... m a . a 1 French on eitner siae oi me Americans. The American attack was made behind irollinc barrage laid down by British Kd Australian artillery and using tanks. In spite of the enemy counter barrage, little resistance was encoun tered and by noon tne duin aivision naa advanced three miles and the villages of Brancourt and Premont were captured. 'Consistently, it seems, in these op erations tne American .cuvisioiv was igain at the apex of the advance," says the statement. The attack was. resumed on the fol lowing morning and met witn only rear guard resistance, entering xsusijsiiy md Beciui&ny almost without opposi tion. The day s advance represented four miles. The movement was resum ed on October 10 when a gain of 1,500 yards was attained and the villages of Escaufort. St. Souplet and Vaux-An- digny were taken. In the three .days the Americans and their allies had advanced nine miles with the delivery of nine villages .and the capture of 1,800 prisoners and nu merous machine guns: The o.urtn ray, of which the Second corps was a part, then stood in front of the Selle river. On a crest east of this river the Germans seemed to have prepared to make a stand. A pause was necessary to bring up supplies and ammunition and to strengthen the -divisions. The front was shortened to 4,000 yards. The enemy line west of the Selle river was strongly held by five divis ions, and by elements of six others. The attack was renewed, -1 on October 17; Eain had turned the chalky ground into a slippery footing and a thipk mist made all sense of location impossible. Eleven tanks were sent across the riv er and the infantry started ever the top behind a rolling barrage, the first wave ading the river while the engineers Placed pontoons for the use ofthe rec "i1 wave. Desprte an enemy counter larrags ani machine gvnners hid In Aeil holes under cover of the fog, -the American's drove over the crest east of the river and advanced two miles. One American division, In conjunc tion with the 13th British corps,, deliv ered an attack on the following morn 'us, but it was held up by heavily or ganized machine-gun posts and repeat ed counter attacks supported by artil lery. Obstinate resistance was ehcoiun led at the village of Ribeauville and t until the middle of the afternoon Ltf the enemy line suddenly weaken "id the American advance moved on ward the Cambre canal. By October 13 the American and British forces oc ciPied the last ridge before the canal and a period of preparation ensued. l!,-e advance had resulted in the cap jwe of St. Martin, Rivere, Molain, Ar e de Guise, Ribeauville- and Esalllon. p total advance for the six days' opt Nations was 13 miles, resulting in the CaPture of 3,400 prisoners. BtLC,ARiAN- PEASANTS TRIED TO KEEP NATION OUT OF WAR , London, Dec. 14. M. Stambuliwsky, eoer of the peasants party and head ftp new peasants government in D'?aria, was among those who so.ught "Prevent King Ferdinand from.com-. 'ttlng Bnlev?ria tn wai on rri Kid ft 'Of '.he central powers. h X At a conference of party leaders held "the kins at the palace, M. Stam in? W,Sky spoke hs mind freely, tell con kingr that he was leading the o-ily to destruion, and that : h iid pay for his crime with his crown Perhaps with his head. T buliv-'i!18 the king replied that Stam rovaiSu need heve no concern for the of.ai head, but had better take -care nis 0Wn. Later Stambuliwsky was Surp asses All Other Presents. (Vo, mrst useful and enjoyable HatVm.as Present is the New Inter- iiti i. i ... .... a, oi P -".yi;iopeaia a me-iime eiuem - f intellectual enjoyment and ra i V-?ia! and financial benefit. Sev- orders "B Lon People nave aireaay, r nvr.,i It as a holiday nresent Sifor . For d rices and terms thei hi. MAKING ILLICIT WHISKEY IS TEMPTING BUSINESS Western North Carolina Hive of the Industry at Prices That Are Fabulous Many Stills. By1 C. H. HITES. Aaheville, Dec. 14. Residents of Asheville and Wetsern North Carolina were not surprised at. the statement carried recently by The Associated Press to the effect that one-third of the 2,238 illicit distilleries captured in the southeast In the past year were captured In North Carolina. People here believe that if the figures were available,-It would be found that two thirds of the 846 -captured in North Carolina were loated 1 hthe mount tains of Western North Carolina. Four revenue officers, Mark Reed, Henry Reed. J. F. Cabe and J. A. Gal loway, work out of Asheville raiding moonshine stills. Never a week passes that they do not bring In from one to five of the illegal boze makers, and still the "mountain dew" appears to reach Asheville in an ever increasing quantity. The still seized by the of ficers are of every variety , from the crude home-made appliance, with a lard or powder can for a asls, to the fine copper stills, with all modern at tachments. Whiskey is reaching Asheville in such quantities, and cases or drunken ness are becoming so numerous in police-court that Judge J. Frazier Glenn, judge of municipal court, has stated time and again that it is practically impossible for officers of the law to catch the men involved, and has appeal ed several times to the citizens of Asheville to organize a vigilance com mittee for the purpose of stamping out the illegal manufacture and sale of whiskey. Stills have been located in every con ceivable sort of place, from a lonely mountain ravine to sellars of homes in the smaller tons. . Many moonshiners have. been captured, but a large number abandon their stills and take to the woods when discovered by the officers. The most notable seizure of the : past several months was that of J. H. King, prominent Brevard hotel man, and John Pawklns, the revenue officers surpris ing the pair of King's big Chalmers, apparently headed for Asheville. The Chalmers was added to the cars now held for disposition of Judge James E. Boyd at the next term of federal court here. Officials are at a loss to understand the recent increase in the manufacture and sale of blockade whiskey in this section, but attribute it largely to the high prices . prevailing. Bootleggers will pay the ' moonshiner $6 a quart for good whiskey, and they In turn, re tail it at double that amount. This brings in so much more money than any other form of utilizing corn would bring that the officers are convinced that the farmers, ..many of them honest i nthe-.-flrst place ,are simply -dazzled by the prospect of wealth and fall. CANADA COMPLETES HER DEMOBILIZATION PLANS Men to be Returned to Civil Life First Will be Those Most Needed In Industries. Scene of Devastation in Section of Ftance. V , I" ' yA:p&A&mM,iMjM llm m m j Mtv p h m i m ir" - M III ymi :. SAILpRS LIVED UP TO THE BEST TRADITIONS SDen of U. S. Nnry Comducted Them selves Better During; the War Than Durlnsr Peace Times. WHOIiE KimBBB 39,621 ;; , . , ?, ' , ,''h.iuc ., "i . . " ,i , Lare sections of France have been literally blasted away by heavy gun flre-jfirst by the Germans and tlien by the 'alies 'when they were driving the Hun back across the Rhine. -In this photograph British troops are seen advancing over ground captured only a short, time before the armistice, was signed.. This scene is typical of hun dreds of square miles of territory and gives an idea of the immensity of the task of re'construction in France, and Belgium. America and the Future. Christiania, Nov." 10. Norwegian leaders in. science, politics and business have formed a society for the purpose of enrolling Norway in a league of nations built upon a democratic base. Professor F. Nansen, the famous Arctic explorer and scientist, has been elect ed president of the society. In -his in troductory address, Professor Nansen said: "The dream of a fraternity of na tions has suddenly come withinsight; It is the - goal of which . oAe of the world's greatest- statesmen, President Woodrow Wilson, is aiming. The rea son why America is now able to make this .Utopian -.dream a. reality :is -because the nation is young and healthy. America wehtv into the war only? to make future wars impossible. It will achieve that end." Trrsed "Porto Rico." . San Juan, P. R., Nov. 2 T. One hun dred and fifty thousand school children want the United States to name a bat tleship "Porto Rico." A petition set ting forth this fact . has been sent to. President Wilson and congress. i ': Montreal, Strike Settled. ' Montreal . Dm. i3. The strike . of policemen, firemen and othercity em ploye 8' was' settled tonight and the men returned to !-work. Washington, Dec. . 14. The navy lived up to its best traditions during the war and sailors almost invariably conducted .themselves better than in peace times. Despite the large number of men inducted into service from civil life, which' increased the naval force 134 per cent, there . were fewer viola tions of navy regulations. The per centage of courtsmartial decreased from 1.76, tp 1.17 in the navy and from 2.72 to 1.20 in the Marine Corps. This fine record of the sailor's be havior was revealed in the annual re port of Captain George R. Clark, judge advocate general, who also took oc casion to commend the Improved con ditions in naval prisons, which he. at tributed largely to the .efforts of the welfare league. In referring to, excel lent conditions ' at the Portsmouth, N H., yard, the Judge Advocate General said the system .there was initiated by Thomas Mott Osborne,,' former sup erintendent of the New York sta-te prison. iLess promising: results were noted of the probation system,, only 55 per cent of themeri so released completing the period of probation against v71 .percentj m tne preseeding year. ENGLISH MUSEUM WEALTH IS . REMOVED FROM ITS "DUGOUT London, Nov. 20. -Several million dol lars worth of Great Britain's treasured paintings belonging to, the national: gal lery and the national portrait- gallery, have - been taken out of their dug out", in the Aldwych tube station. They .were put there two years-ago when, the air-raid menace was at its height. Crowds of people. interestedly watched these priceless works of art being er moyed to the light of day again. Many valuable: possessions of the Victoria and. Albert museum, . Soith Kensington; are still .stored in a walied in deep .level Blatform of the South Kensington tube .station. mmm AMERICAN? BIfr J0BMA1WL1 Admiral Eafle's Report GifeV Some Idea of Work. 1 One of , the Seemingly. Impossible' Pxobv lerni Was Amine Naval AuadUlary , .Vessels and Merchant Cnft ,' Brief Notice. - " Washington, Dec, 14. Some Idea o-l the great .work confronting the navjf, when the , United States entered th war is, set fprth in the annual reporf of Rear Acxrilral , Earle, chief of .erd riance. To Hliis .bureau alone fell hf task of expending during' a single yea a billion dollars rto ' more than , half guns and equipment. '"' ' I , In discussing seemingly lmpossrbl - ((problems, Admiral Carle disclosed that f 1A now wo a lalTajl . . n n y V' arm all American war craft, auxilfar-' lies and the merchant fleet, but1 to jlro- vlde armament .-for British, French, -Italian, Belgian an,d(Russian shipping.' Guns of. 3 to '5. inch caliber were at a premium and the demand for'them wa ten times greater than the existing; capacity' fori manufacture. A, tptal, oi 937 craft of all kinds, not, in the reg ular navy, .were armed' between JUly 1, 1917 andvJnly 1; 1918.' Gun mounts 'formed: a separate kjryft ty problem. .The facilities, created f of .their manufacture met ail1 urgent needs. The, Linderman Steel & Machine, company, of Ttuskegon, " Mich., the Te pprt stated,, delivered 3f0 mounts to 1 4-inch guns 28 "days ahead of schedule and estblished , a record - for 6the manufacturers.", " Only brief .reference was made ' t two of the naost striking accomplish-. ments of the .bureau, the. designing, building . and shipping of the 14 -inch r Continued on' page Two.) : Wlnnepeig, Canada, Dec. 1.. Plans for the demobilization of Canada's 286.304 overseas troops under a sys tem intended to meet economic and In- j Austrial conidtlons have been com pleted and will be put into operation when withdrawal of the forces is con sented to by the high command. After considering available shipping facilities and rolling stock in Canada, the imperial ministry of shipping and the Canadian' war board have conclud ed that the 1 ate of return' can ap proximate 20,000 men a month. Close study of the military and econ omic phases of demobilization result ed In a decision to first return men whose trada classification showed there waa immediate use for them In indus try. Preference is to be given married men, the order, of their return to be de termined by the length of time in over seas service. Then single meh will be returned along the. same general lines. Classification of the troops into oc cupational groups by the militia de partment was deemed advisable to meet the requirements of the labor market in the various districts. To return the men regardless of their oc cupation in civil life and demands of the lafbor market in their .respective districts would work a hardship upon them as well as upon industry, officials decided. Latest figures list 28,304 as the num ber of Canadian troops overseas. An estimate of how these men will be distributed among, the various " prov inces, based on the ratio of enlistment in each province, follows: Ontario, 121,500; Quebec, 39,500; New Brunswick, 12,600; Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, 19,500; Mani toba, 33,500; Saskatchewan, 18,500; Al berta, 21,500; British Columbia, 25,000. The problem of bringing back from England the wives and families of Canadian ' soldiers, estimated at 35, 000 persons, has been placed with the department of immigration. They will foe returned to Canada as quickly as possible, as the government desires to have the-soldier's homes re-established before their arrival. ipasil) The Big Cre 1 as you 1 9 DEAN MARVIN H. STACT. Sketch of Acting University President and Possible President. . (Special Star Correspondence.) " Chapel Hill, Dec. 14. Following is a brief sketch of the life of Marvin Hendrix Stacy since his connection with the University of North Carolina, i He is. at present chairman of the uni versity faculty, with full powers and duties of president, pending the elec tion of a successor to the late Presi dent Edward 1C Graham by the trus tees in June:". '' Mr. Stacy received his Ph. D. 'degree at the university in 1902 and his M.. A. in 1904. Was instructor in mathematics from X902-'06... Was a student at Cor nell universityHn 1905, 1906 and 1911; was promoted to. associate professor, of engineering, which position he held from 1906 to 1910, when he was made professor of civil engineering. When the' late - President Graham was made acting president in 1913, Mr. Stacy was made acting dean of. the college of lib eral arts. 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