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The news-Heraiud.": ' published by the Estate of T. G. Cobb. ThtZty Her"d 1 Consolidate November 29, 1901. Subscription Price $1.50 per Year in Advanct VOL. XXXIV. MORGANTON, N. C, NOVEMBER 14, 1918. 7 NO.. 24 4 i THE WORLD WAR GERMAN POWER IS BROKEN Most Stupendous Tragedy in Entire History Has Cost Ten Mil lion Lives Whole German Empire is Seething With Revo lution While William Hohenzollern Is a Fugutive in Holland. The greatest war in history ended Monday morning at 6 o'clock, Wash isgton time, after 1,567 days of hor ror during which virtually the whole civilized world has been convulsed. Announcement of the tremendous event was made at the state depart ments at 2:45 o'clock that morning and in a few seconds was flashed through out the continent by the Associated Pres?. Details of the terms dictated by Marshal Foch on Friday are of such a nature as to protect the world from a resumption of the struggle by the Germans. The terse announcement of the state department did not tell any thing1 of the scene at Marshal Foch's headquarters at the time the armis tice was signed. It was stated, How ever, that at 5 o'clock, Paris time, the signature of Germany's delegates were affixed to the document which blasted forever the dreams which em - broiled the world in a struggle which has cost, at the very lowest estimate,. Ag hours q mighty 10,000,000 lives. I combat drew near, French, British, When the war began the Teutons j Belgian and American forces were alliance was headed by two of therapidly pUshing the iast German proudest houses in history Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs. j Today, William II of Germany is a ntivp in Holland and Charles I of luuii' v Austria, n -' "Tf PDiy tne last to ne, country has been stripped of paw-, recorded the war, gained an aver-, er and has seen his empire shaWeredjage of two or three miles and ap-, Jrutrstn te TcJ another of the rulers eu jfortres. of Mete. .combination, nas nea irom ms It is suggested that William Hohen- try, and Mohammed V of Turkey, zollern is not safe from the conse- who also joined in the attempt of Ger-.quences of his deed, even though he many to dominate theworld is dead,;has fled to Hoi and After the sink- slain, it is said, by the hand of an Jng of the Lusitania and during the' , v. i i.:n assassin. - ! early ays of aerial raid's on onl " "" - While the curtain is rolling down; he was three times indicted for mur-; The har;dwrit:n?; was on the wa:i on the most stupendous tragedy in'der in England.' Under international nr nr fnno-bt! n.r.l-;l'. Viofnrw ovorti! wpvo m n7 1 . iiaiuviiiu a inoiwij, k.,. ing with terrible swiftness in Ger- many, the nation about which revolt-' ed the plot and counter-plot of the SUMMARY OF VOTE. , TT RTTRKF COUNTY ' Total Vote Cast For Each Can - didate in the Election Lastj Week. ! Beard of elections of Burke county met last Thursday and canvassed the vote cast in Tuesday's election. The following were found to be the total vote of each candidate: Clerk of the Superior Court. MarLhall S. Arney (D) 1385 Chas. G. Hicks (R) ....1505 Register of Deeds. W. A. Ross, Jr., (D) 1346 James R. Howard (R) 1539 County Surveyor. D. F. Denton (D) ..1374 Coroner. T. V. Gode, Jr. (D) 1373 M. L. Clark (R) ..1508 Sheriff." R. B. Boger (D) 1344 Dan A. Josnson (R) 1548 County Commissioners. . W. A. Harbison (D) ...1360 J. A. Fleming (D) 1306 J. W. Duckworth (D) 1280 J. P. Bumgarner (D) ..1341 John W. Brown (D) 1339 S. Huffman' (R) 1568 Da id B. Garrison (R) 1621 W. J. Alexander (R) 1580 W. M. Wall (R) 1520 C F. Wellman (R) 1521 Below is given the vote of tte United States Senator, State of fice IS and .Tiifltroc Yia Snnonnr and Si, - r 1"'eme Court, etc.: l or United State Senator. F- -'I. Simmons (D) 1352 Jhn M. Morehead (R) 1511 Member Corporation Commission George P. Pell, 6 years (D) 1351 J. Jenkins, 6 years (R) 1511 Allen J Tn lhf Justice cf the Sunreme Court. Walter Clark (D) 1351 Wra. P. Bynum (R) ..1510 Fr Associate Justice Supreme Court. K. Allen ( D 1 13U riatt D. Walker (D) .1351 Herhevt F. Seawell (R).....1511 Hey R. Starbuck.(R).,...1509 Judges Superior Court. 3rd Dis., John H. Kerr (D) 1352 'Continued on fourth page) HAS ENDED; drama. Berlin, Leipsic, Stuttgart, cologne, riamburg and Frankfort are m the hands of the revolutionists who last week raised the red flag at Kiel Germany's navy apparently is scat tered into disjointed units, each seek ing sanctuary in Danish points or waiting in German harbors for the latest turn of events. Crowds singing the "Marseillaise" are marching through the streets of autocratic Berlin, and a soldiers' and workmen's council has taken over the government of the empire. Wurttemburg, Schleswig - Holstein, and Hesse-Darmstadt have declared themselves independent republics, fol lowing the action taken by Bavaria last Friday. William II of Wurttem- burg is reported to have abdicated. Saxony is said to be near a like de cision and the revolutionists are said to be in control at Dresden. The republic of Poland has served nffifinl nntW rm Anuria W Pnlrwl ! lj - ag annexed thecrown land of ?lie;a theJ x? n itrOOpS from trance and Belgium.. General Pershing's men attacked Sun day over a front 0f 71 from the rA t luuoc ouuiiicaovuaiu iiiv uvixaiu . ... . tj. . ...i . r t ?f ic cnirl rpnnisitinn "for nis PV-: f 1 tradition may be made by England under the indictments still standing ( against him. TAXES IMPOSED LAST YEAR NOT SOON TO BE LIGHTER icAdoo Warns That They Wffl t, t,:u oA.Ti , r Alpreparing for combat since the ius, he said, that, as a matter of More Loans Necessary. Franco-Prusian war. I justice men who had been longest in Government financial needs fori With a determination that could j he service should be released first, many years are almost certain to run! never . recognize defeat, Belgium,lbut .the industrial situation and the above $4,000,000,000 annually, treas-j France, Italy, Serbia were overrun. sPfal need for men of a certain ury experts estimate, and most of the Hard days were experienced by the !cal inS P"bably will modify the prin money will be raised by taxation. allies, but the smile of hopefulness clPle of making length of service a Consequently students of government !orsatisf action in ultimate success : mde to order of muster out. finances think the taxes imposed last; ! year and paid in June probably will not be lightened materially by the i advent of peace. Secretary McAdoo Tuesday warned that, taxes necessarily would be high for many years to pay off war debts, and that additional government loans would be required. He did not at tempt to forecast how big the volume of taxes would be. Roughly, treasury officials and con r;re?ional leaders in chare . of rev enue legislation figure this way: Ordinarily, government expenses, j which ran around a billion dollars a j 'year bsfore the war, now will amount ,to at least $2,000,000,00.0 annually for many years,' and for two or three i years after the war may double that figure. If the $16,850,000,000 of Lib erty bonds already issued are increas ed in volume by later loans to $25, 000,000,000, the interest on this sum would amount to about $1,000,000, 000 a year. In addition, it probably will be the government's policy to es tablish a sinking fund to pay off the . . . ... . .i . i i bonds at maturity, and tms wouia re- m. -mif $i9 9M ftnn onO a vear. ti, v,. mnnW matp nn frree-ate near $4,250,000,000. Mrs. Hood's Mother Died. Mr. and Mrs. J. E.. Hood, of Ches iterfield, left Saturday afternoon for Goldsboro in response to a message announcing the serious illness of jat 6 0'ci0ck Monday morning, eastern Mrs. Hood's mother, Mrs. Hightower. j time in the United States. The arm- A later message from Mr. Hood toldjies 0j the allied forces at that time of Mrs. .Hightower's death, but no particulars were given. The war is over, but our boys must have care and attention before they come. The United War Worw Cam paign has this in mind., Don't forget it bKLAILbl DAY IN THE HISTORY OF NATIONS. Itls Victory and Peace; the Al lied -Arms Are Triumphant -Germany On Her Knees Ac cepted Allied Terms. An Associated 'Press dispatch tell- j Demobilization of men in the rail ing of the great news of German sur-itary and naval service of the Uni- render and peace is a most excellent , summary of the significance of the day when peace came again to theia world. It is given herewith in full: Victory and peace. After more than four years of struggling, the rights of mankind are served. The greatest day in the history of nations has dawned. The German militaristic classes arrogant beyond expression are in defeat. " Kaiser and crown prince are in flight refugees in an alien country, j Germanic kings and potentates no longer hold their sway. The allied arms are triumphant Imperialistic Germany has met the ' fate that ultimately must come to any country that seeks to rule the world, Deserted by her allies", Germany, on her knees, is accepting terms of. capitulation which amount virtually to abject surrender. Except for ac- tual nostlie military invasion, tne . . ... .... - . i Ga-,once reat European power, the ambi- Ition of the monarch of which was to dominate over all, is in complete detasK oi preserving tne naiance oi feat, power of the labor supply without! Beaten on the field of battle, the edict of the allied chief command is' that the German armies Shall retire . ..... 'vaded territory. Impotent as the Ger- in lu iiieir wwii iiumc ixiiu xium au m- man armies snail De, also as impo- I. . i .1. .i y. i i l 'tent snail ne tne merman neet. 01- hand and . the rj.: of the supreme war council at Versailles. Reparation and restitution, in fact, fuU compensation of all kinds, is to be aster that has followed ter armies and v . ,M,-4,M;:fllwnu,i !" - v'-- ...... . .1 11 vai12nt.1v tnrcusrnout tne morre tnan four years 0f warfare Bu what had been con;ideMd in Germany an invin- cihla army was beaten in feats of arms by the allied powers. Even t2- fore Germany's allied deserted her the ! rtrenth of the ntente allies had be - icome apparent. Unprepared, they had! insisted for mo: e than three years the assaults of an enemy who had been never faded. When finally the Uni- ted States was drawn into the war by Germany's continued violations of in' ernat-'onal law and of the pros- Ipects of humanity, the gleam of the dawn of victory for world democracy rose in the sky. On the field of battle in France and Belgium the Germans were fast being defeated when they flew the white of submission and askd for terms of peace. Everywhere, from the Belgian coast to the Mosselle river the allies were pressing them. It was only a matter of time when their armies were to be decisively beaten on the battle field. Their great fortified lines of resistance had crumpled suc cessively under the impetus of the at tacks of their foes. They were being harried everywhere from pillar to post. Even the great Rhine fortifica tions, it was foreseen, would prove no barrier to the onward rush of the vic torious armies. Hence, Germany, de serted by her allies, recognized that defeat stared her in the face and cap- itulated For Germany is a nation sorn of! her imperialistic and militaristic pow- no-Jers the defeat mav not Drove in the: (long run of disadvantage. Already! ithe revolutions throughout the coun - try are tending toward democratiza- tion.which may prove the salvation of ; guns to be delivered by tne Germans j that will never be forgotten. The a country once controlled by war is reduced front 30,000 to. 25,000. j j French people give us credit for sav lords. .German troops . in .East -Africa are j m Paris, and the Germans call us Fighting on the battle fronts ended even to the second were hard har rying the enemy. The British troops were fighting their foes across the Belgian frontier in Belgium. The French had all but cleared the Germans from northern (Continued on last page.) BASIS OF DEMOBILIZATION i TENTATIVELY DECIDED ON Will Be Ability of Trades and Occupations to Men in Service Quesitonnaires Sent to ployers in All Industries. ted States after their return from France will be carried out largely on basis of the abnity 0f trades and occupations to absorb them, under a; iplan being worked out by the labor, i war and navy departments and the ! morning ' which meant that peace had war industries board. It was said j come again and that the horrible world Tuesday that the plan will be sub-. war was ended. .mitted to President Wilson in a fewj The terms of the armistice were days. 'read to congress by President Wil- The war industries board has. sent . questionnaires to employers in all in- Idustries, asking the needs of each for I men and the answers will show where, i and when and how rapidly jobs will! be ready for discharged soldiers and sailors and what trades are most in j need of them. Supplementing this information will be that received from ; craft boards and community labor . boards. The war labor policies board and j the United States employment service j will be combined to handle the labor .1 4 .1 1 P..n,J. uepaiimciits cim. ucnciui ivwuci was suggested by some officials as the man best qualified to deal with the delaying demobilization operations, Officfals pointed out that with the i i j.i mi i enumg. oi nusiiuues mere win ue a rr-aRt wwimnti'mi nf nvivat. cnnstrur- o- 1 x i tion and manufacturing, help up and u y. Viof tV.nnconilc n-f drilled lohnrare ennn ' ""-rwc.c wiv.u i.UUa.s,o wx ing studied on that side, Mr. Baker' said, , while the general staff is pre- paring recommendations as to the , . . . i .... i. ... . , ... nnmKop t n no Irorf nnrloi- orme in ' " country. The problem in Europe re-, main3 one of ioint operations with1 ine Kmeu liauuils m aner-uie-war, it. .11: .j x i yarding and other work to be done by the military forces and no conclu - SIons cn thls Pomt can yet be made- - Mr- Baker aid several factors will pvern th ordern which men will , ue iea&eu rrom tne army., n is, ou- GERMANY LOSES ENTIRE FLEET OF SUBMARINES. Germany loses her entire fleet of submarines under the armistice terms ;as amended by Marshal Foch before he signed them with the German en voys Monday morning. Instead of 160 vessels, every one of the undersea pirate craft must be surrendered to the allies and the United States with in 14, days. Eighteen of the articles as original ly prepared by the supreme war coun cli and as read by President Wilson to Congress were changed under the limited authority for alterations giv en the supreme commander in deal ing with the enemy envoys. The State department Monday received and made public the amended articles, with the explanation that no informa tion had come as to how the changes were brought about. Apparently most of them Were conceded in re sponse to appeals of the German spokesman,-, though several besides that touching submarines make the terms more drastic than before. . be needed in a parts p the is to notify neutrals that there is free urton, as the cancelled postage on country for this work trade &t once on seas with the al. the box from Oregon to Morganton Secretary Baker said Tuesday that lied countries. - jwas $1.20, besides several revenue every phase of demobilization of the Amo'ng the financial terms included old friends here of army is being carefully studied by war ! are reJtution for damage done by Mr. Hallyburton's have viewed with department agencies, but as yet no the German armies restitution of theiln es eY1ence his success as a plans have been finally formulated. icasb; taken iiom national bank of potato grower. The question of the number of ,Bel ium and return of old taken v American troops to be retained in from Russia and Rumania. ' William Ward Wounded France .elsewhere in .Eurovesber' ,.:-;- . . - . " nwunuraV Instead of " 50,000 railroad; cars : to be surrendered in evacuated territory, jthe number is made 150,000. On the other hand the number of .niachine ; permitted to evacuate instead of be - ing required to surrender; provision is made for considermining1 food -heeds in Germany in the taking of .means of transportation ,anda specific ref erence to repatriation 6f German pris loners of war at the conclusion of Peace is added Another added clause provides for an armistice commission, - to which (Continued on last page) TTlf TOTTrT? TTTTVrrTVrv nr a TO WORLD Em-iGerman Has Been Stripped of Terms of Armistice Most Drastic Known in Historv to Congress Monday Afternoon. Closely following the abdication on j 'Saturday of Kaiser Wilhelm and the ! renunciation of the Crown Prince of his rights to the German thrpne an armistice was signed early Monday son at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. . Assembled in the hall of the house, where 19 months ago senators and representatives heard the President ask for the declaration of war, they heard him speak the words which her- aid the coming of peace. The Strictly military terms of -th armistice are embraced in eleven spe cification which include the evacua- tion of all invaded territories, thej withdrawal of the German troops from the left bank of the Rhine and the surrender of all supplies of war. The terms also provide for the j abandonment by Germany of, the (treaties of Bucharest and Brest- .uitovsK. The naval terms provide for the surrender of one hundred and sixty submarines, fifty destroyers, six bat-, i : . i ni. i : .aj. ire, cruisers, ten uaiiiesmps, eigiiL lie-ht pniispr?? and nther rYiisrpllnnpmis ships. Au ainea vessels in uerman nana x 1 1 . 1 1 ; I r are to ue surrenuereu anu uerniany A.he mjlt?Z n Tw" m 1 A letter received Iat week fron ?f to h?JTt-: half 1 aJt,llery m,!.Mn. and Mrs L" A- ard' toId of hls .eunti o.uuu name tnrowers ana zajvv ;i . . The surrender of 5,000 locomotives, nu.ifiiii wap-ons. iii.imiii mnrnr irvrmps. r. f f f f AAA a -1 ff jREPORTED DEATH RUSSEL j GREEN IS NOT BELIEVED. j . Message Received Last Week By Parents Is Discredited Be cause of Recent Letters. A message came last Thursday to Mr and Mrs. E. A. Green announc ing that . their son, Private Russell Green, had been killed in action, July 18th. Because of the fact that ten or twelve letters have been received from the soldier bearing dates later than that of his reported death and because that was the date-on which he . was wounded, about which he had written friends and relatives, it is be lieved that a mistake has been made , ur the announcement. His family j tating. Then, at exactly one minute , and friends are fully convinced that of 11, like a final thunder crash at he is still alive and as further evi-the clearing of a storm, the guns on dence substantiating their belief was both sides abruptly ceased, a letter received Sunday of this week The silence was more startling than and reproduced below. The letter , the defening roar of the barrage, bore the date of October 16th and is; For a brief minute intermittent rifle as follows: . ! fire followed; then came a pause, Dear Brother: ... ! punctuated by rippling cheers from. No doubt you will "be surprised to the trenches on both sides of the line . hear from me. I just wanted to -let What followed on one sector was you know I was still on the map. 1 1 perhaps one of the 'most singular would have written to you before now j events of the war. Against the sky but ever since, f left the hospital Inline figures were suddenly silhoutted. have been moving" from place to. place i They appeared cautiously at first but and .haven't had a chance to write to , soon, growing bolder all along the -anyone. I think I will be stationed at j line, they stood upright. These were this place for some time and can write more often. ' I suppose you have been reading about what the marines, have been dor ingk in France. I was in a whole lot of-iUv I went into the big fight on the! 8th of June and was wounded . on the 18th of July. I lasted longer than I thought . I would. . In fact, I 1 didn't think I would ever get out alive. The j marines have got a name in France , "Devil Dogs." Tell mama 1 will be home sometime. I will close for this time. Love and best wishes to all. RUSSELL. Pvt. R. E. Green, 3rd Marine Guard Co., A. P. O. 716,' tA. E. F. France. The United War Work is a worthy cause. - SIGNED MONDAY Power President Wilson Read the railways of Alsace-Lorraine for use by the allies and stores of coal and iron also are included. The immediate repatriation of all" allied and American prisoners with out reciprocal action by the allies also is included. The Proclamation. At 10 o'clock Monday morning President Wilson issued a formal proclamation announcing that the ar mistice with Germany 'has been sign ed. The proclamation follows: "My fellow-countrymen: "The armistice was signed this morning. Everything for whicu America has fought has been accom- - nliaW - Tf . nnm , ate duty tQ asgist . example bv so- ber, friendly council and by material aid in the establishment of just dem ocracy throughout the world." Big Potatoes. No such optatoes are grown in this country as were received by The News-Herald this week from Mr. H. ' t TJ n..i i -v xj. xxaiijruuriun, oi umey, uregon. The three sent wpiipH qpupm nm1nB and four ounces. They are on display r - -y Hllltp on PYnoneivo rri-flr fvnm M ITnt n r" - n um ax4. um- hnvina- wpmvh eiia-iit 'WAnnie i .recent wounds recent battle. He stated that the were not of a serious nature 1 A 1 J 1 ( i ann rnat ne was cpT.r.ine- n inn rr hipo v - 0 & SILENCE MORE STARTLING THAN DEAFENING ROAR. What Happened On American Front at Exactly 11 O'Clock Monday Graphically Described When, dawn came Monday morning there was no hint of the cessation of hostilities. East of the Meuse, re- gardless of the situation, the- Ameri can, second army attacked in force at 8 "o'clock. The onslaught was de feated by a tremendous barrage which was returned in kind by the enemy. For three hours the Americans swept forward, hurling themselves against the wire entanglements. The German gunfire was devas- Germans. : " The Americans were not so cau tious. As the barrage died, ending . hx a final husky rumble "in the dis tance from the big guns, -runners went springing along the" fire - line. Instantly comDrehendinj? fhp wlinlp ' line, of doughboys leaped from trench es," fox-holes and shell craters, split-, ting the unaccustomed silence with a shrill - cheer. - "The roar of voices was very like an" outburst at -some great college contest in America when a contestant scores a classic play. Stxangc to relate., the defeated en emy joined vociferously in the cheer ing. The world War was finished. At one minute before 11 it' would have meant death to show one's self above shelter. Not more than a min ute . after the bour the rolling plain was , alive with cheering, shouting men friend and enemy alike. ' Not (Continued on last page.)
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