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aJ ,s fjjB OAIETTE-NKW HAS ygB UIZOCLKTKD TOTEM gERVICBL WIS IN SVXRT WEATHER FORECAST FAIR. respect complete u SjuMEXX. NO. 88. ASHEVILLS.N.O., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 25, 1915. PRICE 2 CENTS No Mora. Italian FdrMs PenetrMeM Arnerica Issues Proclamation of Neutr(fiity; Teutons9 e in East F orced "to iGive 1 Ground 777177. . Trirr riyins meag kcriv Mi?Jtary and Naval Operations Between Italy And Austria-Hungary. ITALIAN DESTROYER RAIDS COAST TOWN Herman and Austrian Ambassadors And Ministers Leave Rome and Vatican For Their Homes. Rome, May 24. (Via Paris, May 25.) The war office las announced that Italian forces have penetrated Austria nd have occupied Caporetto, the heights between G u i n d o Ind Isonzo and the towns of C o r m o n s, Cervignagno and Washington, May 25. A neutrality proclamation by the tnited States covering Italy's entry into the European war ras made publio today by the state department, under date f May 24. :.. , FOR PROHIBITION WOMEN BEATEN BY STATE ONLY IN NOTARY CASE Rome, May 24. (Via Paris, May 25) Baron Von Macchio, kustrian ambassador to Italy, ind Prince Von; Schoenburg- lartenstein, Austrian ambas- ador to the Vatican, with heir staffs, left here for Vien- io on a special train tonight it 8 o'clock. There was a arge crowd at the station but German steamer in the harbor at Ancona. London, May 25. Active military and naval operations between Austrian and Italian forces are taking place but no land battles of importance have developed. Air and naval raids of minor nature are the sum total of the first 24 hours of the war between Italy and ho demonstration. her former allies of the Triple Prince Von Buelow, the Ger-j Alliance. jnan ambassador, and the Ger man ministry to the Vatican tad their staffs left for Berlin It 9 o'clock. They were fol owed 15 minutes later, by the Bavarian ministers to the Quir- nal and to the Vatican and heir staffs. Rome, May 24. (Via. Paris, Way 25.) The following offi- ial statement was given out fy the Italian general staff to- Right: "An Italian destroyer en ured the port at Buso, near he Austrian frontier and de troyed the landing stage, rail oad station, barracks and sev nil motor boats. The . de stroyer was not damaged and Jione of the crew was wounded. fwo of the enemy were killed J)l 47 were taken prisoners. (Hie prisoners included sin offi cer and 15 non-commissioned ''fficers and " men who were Wought to Venice. ( ''According to Bupplcmenta fy information two of the en momiea aeroplanes which ap ;ared over Venice dropped 11 'ombs but there was no ser ous damago done. The fire of e defense works put them to ight. Damage to railroads J the attacks of warships and ropianes oarly in the morn n? was unimportant and al phas, been repaired. The -unaa cannonade sonic It is generally understood that Italy has reached an agreement with her new allies under which she signed the ex isting treaties not to conclude a separate peace. London, May 25. Instruc tions have been received by the Italian ambassador from Rome to notify all Italians in the United Kingdom to return to Italy at once. Rome, May 25. The Italian ministry of marine has an nounced that a steamer has arrived at Barletta which re ports that whtle passing near the promontory at uargano ax midnight last night, she sight ed an Austrian warship with a heavy list. The vessel prob ably is tre warship which was driven from Barletta after fir ing several shots. On the Italian Frontier, May 25. Prince Von Buelow and Baron Von Macchio, the Ger man and Austrian ambassa dors to Italy, who left Rome last night, have reached Chias so, in Switzerland. They were received Dy tne owiss aumun ties. Act Quickly. ' T.IMU or no time we allowed to elapse between the declaration of the war and actual fighting between Italy and Austria. Anstrlan aeroplane.. " - .r. nd tornado boat deaeende4 on the Italian coaM of the Adrlatlo ..J hnmharded Mveral towns, lnclufl- a mc Vanloti wMla in u 17x01 ma the eastern frontier Italian and Aus trlan advance guards have fired the first shots. The plan of the campaign has not yet been, disclosed, but it Is generally believed attempts to inflict a quick and decisive defeat, or, at least, one that will discourage the Italians, will be undertaken, largely by the Ger man! under Field Marshal von HUv denburg. '' It is said the German troops, with heavy guns, aeroplanes and Zeppelins, already are passing through the val ley of the river Adlege In the direction of Verona, and that rapid and fierce blows will be delivered almost lmme dlately at the Italian center. This, the Germans doubtless believe, . would serve to hold off an Italian advance from the province of Venice, where the flat nature of the country would give the Italians a greater chance of success. Throughout Austria and Germany there is bitter denunciation of Italy which, for the moment, has replaced England, as the most hated enemy. In he allied countries, on ih eother hand, Intalian intervention Is hailed with delight and in the Italian quar ters of London and Paris there have been enthusiastic demonstrations and cheering farewells to the Italians leaving to Join the colors. Roumania, Greeca and Bulgaria have made no move. The zovernroent of Bulgaria has reiterated that ft will continue neutral so long is Ttulariilan Interests are not directly affected, and It sees no reason why they should be. The opposition, however, is voicing the opinion that Bulgaria should seize the opportunity to Join the allies. Bulgaria may be drawn inthroigh a question which has arisen 'vlth Tur key over the seizure by Turkey of a number of Bulgarian railway cars loaded with goods. Sofia has lodged a protest against this action. Roumanla may be affected by a change of for tune in the battles In middle Galicla. Russia here is delivering a strong counter offensive and has regained some ground along the San north of Jaroslan. Berlin, May 25. The following statement has been issued at the war department: "Several British attacks between Neuve Chappelle and Glvlnchy and French attacks on the north slope of the Lorette Hills at Ablain and north and south of Neuville were repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy." Petrograd, May 24. Austro-uer- man forces in Galicia are now on tho defense and their active operation con sist chiefly in counter attacks, accord ing to an official statement issued last night by the Russian general staff. Slight Russian progress Is claimed on the left bank of the Lower San river and it Is said that all the Austro German assaults In the southeastern theater of operations have been re pulsed. Constantinople, May 24. Official announcement Is made today that at' tacks by the French and British yes terday on Turkish positions near Sed- dul Bahr on the southern end of the Gallipoll peninsula wf re repulsed. It la stated that the alllee left 2,000 dead on the field. Turkish Gunboat Sunk. Constantinople, May 23. (Via. Ber lin and London, May 24.) An official statement given out by the Turkish general staff Bays: 'The 25 years old gunboat paien- ka-l-Derla was sunk this afternoon by hostile submarine. Two members of the crew were killed. The other escaped without Injury. General Assmbly of Southern Presbyterian .Church Does Not Support Nation al Prohibition. SUSTAINS PROTEST BY KENTUCKY SYNOD Today ' Busiest Session Thus Far of General Assembly Many Important Mat ' ters Considered. Supreme Court Holds Legisla tive Act Is Unconstitution . al; Mrs. Knight Loses Her Commission. DECISION ON GRIER CASE MAY NOT COME Superintendent of Wadesboro Silk Mill Denies Preva lence of Tuberculosis in His Factory. MORE SIGNS OF GERMAN CHECK PRESIDENT TALKS OF TRADE RODTES He Says Gov't. Will Provide Pan-American Routes If Private Capital Doesn't. Energetic Russian Counter Of- i fensive Telling on What Seemed Overwhelming Teuton Attack. GERMANS PENETRATE BRITISH LINE TWICE Newport News, May 25. A brief business session, this morning with noining advanced lor special order, a trip to Norfolk, near hero, and a pop ular meeting tonight were on the schedule of the general assembly of the Presbyterian . church today. A number of committee reports were ex pected to be submitted this 'lorrlng and questions of importance may be .taken up. Tonight the commissioners will discuss evangelism in schools with Dr. R. F. Campbell of Asheville, presiding. A healthy Increase during the past year tn all branches of Sunday school work of the Southern Presbvterlan church will be shown in the report of the co-executive committee on publl catoin and Sunday schools to be sub mitted this afternoon. The following salient features will be shown in the report: Total number of schools 2.836: to tal membership 310,278, an Increase of owr 3,000. LontriDuuons for foreign missions. 4n,fB; ror home missions J30.3S2- cnnstlan education and ministerial relief $5,760; Sunday school extension and publication $15,871; schools and colleges $2,190; Bible societies $616, an Increase og $100; orphans" home $33,192, an Increase of IH.OOO. Current expenses of schools $1G9, 546, an Increase of $20,000, Newport News, May 25. The gen eral assembly of the Southern PMsby. terlan church has adopted ths partial report of the bills and overtures com mittee sustaining the protest of the Synod of Transylvania against the ac tion of the 1914 assembly declaring In ravor of national prohibition. It ,s emphasized in the report as In the overtures protest that the action of tho assembly Is In no way a retraction of the stand In favor of measures taken by states against the evil of the liquor traffic. TOBACCO COMPANY UNDER GERMANS Raleigh, May 25. The Supretie court decides the act of the last legis lature giving women authority of no tary public is unconstitutional, and Mrs. Noland Knight of Asheville loses her commission. Judge Allen writes the opinion and Judges Walker and Hoke concur. Chief Justice Clark dis sents and Judge Brown concurs. (By W. T. Bust) Raleigh, May 25. 1 notary aglta- ftldli Is nof"new."ItJi;is "lr.ll on9 in teresting history, not the least w.'s that In the late general assembly. The act went through the house one day when nobody was looking, when sex consciousness was fast asleep. But Judge Will Allen's nephew Matt call ed the house to book, got a rehearing, loved tradltonal woman, pulled his plug hat off to her, aprostrophlzed the uncrowned queen, apotheosized Michelet's creation and received in full house another beating, but he gave the protagonists of equal rights a fearsome race. Then it went through the senate and Governor Craig named Mrs. No lan Knight. But the agitation was older than this. In Goldsboro several years ago attorneys concluded to commission i woman notary. A young widow mak ing her own living, a woman belong In if to a prominent North Carolina family, was the choice. Her appointment was opposed. She was a woman and therefore "could not be trusted with a secret." No tariea stamp lots of private papers "imagine a woman' putting the seal upon a private paper and keeping it a secret." Then It was a man g Job, It was "unwomanly to say the least. " A man was appointed. The widow lost. She came to Raleigh and Is now the attorney general's stenographer Tho man came also. He had been a assembly thus far was scheduled for yesterday when several committees were to report. Many questions i t im portance were brought to the atten tion of the assembly. ; Two business sessions and one popular session last nlht were on the program. At last night's session there was an Inter esting report on Christian education and ministerial reliefs. The report of Henry H. Sweets of Louisville, Ky., secretary of the com mittee on this work waa submitted. The annual report showed that $108,910 has been contributed for this causo this year, an Increase of $1,363 over the previous year. The appeal of Rev. Lloyd P. Flold, former pastor of a church at Onachl tn, Ark., against the synod of Arkan sas was referred to a judicial com mission named by the moderator on recommendation of the judicial com mlttee. The report of the ad Interim com mittee on education waa received and referrnd to the judical committee. Al PrODertV Of BritiSh-Amert-1 Th standing committee on foreign v t Antraanrtn1anr' MiiAmmMilail Im 4m can Co. Placed Under Ger man Supervision. Amsterdam, May 15. -All the prop erty of the British-American Tobacco company In dermany ha been placed rnder German supervision, according to the Berlin correspondent of tho Tl cgraff. t James B. Duke la president of the Prltlsh-Amerlcan Tobacco company, which has a capital of $B3,0')0,uu. One of the principal German aubrlil larlea of the company at Dresden was sold in November to Germans with the consent of the British board of trade. Washington, May 25. With prelim inary work over the delegates to the Pan-American congress here settled down to real work. The day was given over to general discussion, gToup conferences and special committee meetings. One of the most important questions to be taken up for consideration was that looking to the establishment of steam ship lines independent of Europe to ply between the principal ports of the two Americas. Washington, May 25. President Wilson speaking at the opening of the Pan-American financial conference yesterday expressed (he hope that the Americas might show the world the path of peace. He was loudly ap plaudert by the delegates representing1 18 South and Central American na tions. President Wilson declared the peo ple of the Americas were not trying to use one another but trying to be of use to each other. He spoke of "handsome rivalry which he said was good for nations. Lack of the physical means of com munlcation between the Americas, he said stood somewhat in the way of the development of commerce and friendship. In advocating more ships for the Pan-American trade and the opening of new trade routes, he said that if private capital does not soon provide this government must under take It. Some of the obstacles which war across the Atlantic has thrown into the paths of Industrial and commer cial DrosDerity and the march of trade In the western hemisphere were outlined. The outstanding thought of the con ference as expressed by many speak era was the need for Improvement of transportation, for a readjustment of methods of financial exchange and for uniformity of laws north and south of the equator In relation to subjects of international importance. Steps were taken at the close of the day to oave the way for uniform statutes through appointment of a committee with a representative from each lnvlt- By Use of Asphyxiating Gases, Says French, Who Claims He Is Regaining; Some Lost Ground. report that greetings be sent to the northern assembly In seanlon at Roch ester, N. Y, and the United Presby terlan assembly at Loveland, Col., and these recommendations were adopt ed. ... Three of the visitors who addreaaed the assembly were Rev. Dr. Sydney L, Gullck, formerly a missionary to Japan and now a representative of the federal council of the - church' of Christ, In which capacity he recently visited the orient, and member of the commission on peace and education: Rev. A'.va C. Hardy, who delivered a fiatemal message from the Presbyte rian church In Brasll, and Rev. fltuart V. Rousael, of rarla, representing a detention from the HuejrenoU. These bankr and he could keep a secret, ed nation and several representatives Keeulmr a secret was his long ault. of the United H'ates. i'resiaeni wnson, wno weicomeu the delegates to this country, dwelt on the need for development of trans portation, and Secretaries Bryan, Red field and McAdoo and Postmaster General Burleson lated added their recommendations for steamship lines independent of Europe to ply between all principal ports of the two Amer icas. Expression of thia idea culinl nated last night In the promise o Secretary McAdoo to select a commit tee of representatives of the United States and of South American conn tries Including Argentina, Braxil, Chile tnd possibly others, to take up today the question of steamship lines, either co-operntive under these governments or under private control. Besides delegations from eighteen Latin-American republics partlclpnt lng in the conference whlrh la to con tlnue throughout the week, are mem hers of President Wilson's cabinet, the federal reserve board, the federal trade commission, treasury officials and more than a hundred representa. tlves of great American banks, lndu trial corporations and commercla houses. The American huslness men and financiers were named by Secret Ury McAdoo sa official representa tives of the United States at the con ference. v. . . v. I.. -I0U hun4 Icont nn with The busiest session of the general K,is lcrt nt)l evell the directors of the bank or the state examiner had the suctorial ability to make the oyster mouthed man tell what he knew and thu private things he did. He Is In Ualelgh now-serving seven years In the penitentiary. Commutes Jackson benuwe. Governor Craig has commuted to an indefinite term the death sentence of J. G. Jackson, colored, of Burke county, who was to have been elec trocuted Friday of this week. Jackson is a preacher 64 years old and was onvicted by a Burks Jury of having committed the worst of tho crimes against a woman of his own rnce. Certain Incidents in the case quickly led the governor to conclude that death w too harsh a judgment But he waa much puzzled to know just what should be the punishment. Judge W. J. Adama tried the case. Governor Craig waa not able to de termine Just what ahould be done to the old preacher-reprobate. The ele ment of crime waa undoubtedly pres ent but the governor la not certain how aggravated It la and will study the case with a view to final action, Jackson will be put In aome depart ment of the penitentiary this week. ! Inheritance Tax Inductions. The corporation commission spent a rood part of I la work hours In pre paring Instructions and giving advice as to appointment of Inheritance tax collectors. The commission havinr won Its point before the Supreme court last winter In having all realty taxed for Inheritance, la unable to say how much this will raise the collectible moneys In the state. The lowest esti mate made prior to the court's docl sion waa $100,000, 811k Mill's PMo. 'Throuch Its superintendent, the Wadesboro Manufacturing company sddrasea were referred to the commit-1 denies the startling prevalenoe of tu- tee on forlgn correspond ence. (.Continued on Page I.) THE "CHAPLIN" WALK TAKES IN NEW YORK London, May 25. On the' eastern front signs of the check of what at first seemed an over whelming Austro-German of- tVisive are becoming more ap parent. ' Even the flying wedge which was driven into the Russian center along the River San is being compelled to give some ground by the energetic - Russian counter attack. In the west General French reports that the Germans by he use of asphyxiating gases succeeded in penetrating the British lines at two points, but claims that some of the trench es he lost have been regained in subsequent fighting. The contest is still raging. Domestic politics continue also to absorb attention in England. The members of the new cabinet have not been an nounced. The delay, according . to the Manchester Guardian, a mil ?sterial organ, is due to the insistence by unionists on eight places in the cabinet. A clean sweep is looked for in the admiralty, where Baron Fisher as well as Winston Churchill will go. The most Important battle, In the east, Is that raging southeast of Prze. mysl, where the Austrian and Ger man are making repeated attacks In : an endeavor :n break the R.isslan line and thus iel!eve the pressure the Rus sians are bringing to be.-.r on the Ger mans who crossed the San, Fighting also is In progress In Cour Innd, along the east Prussian frontier and in Central Poland, where the Ger mans have attempted an offensive along the Rawka river. None of these actions apparently has been decisive although heavy losses have been suf fered on both sides. Russia expresses satisfaction with the situation alone her front. Heavy fighting has been resumed In the west from Arras to the sea and both Germans and French claim the, advantage. It Is evident that tiie allies do not intend to relax their effoita on j this front although a general meve- ment has not yet been undertaken that Present preparations having as their object Improvement in their positions and forcing the Germans to counter attacks. v i The allies have landed additional ' troops on the Gallipoll peninsula, and, although progress there must continue N slow, there Is every confidence here ' that the resistance of the Turks will before long be broken. Tht loss to the allies la heavy, aa Is shown by tne iuaualty lists, but It Is asserted that the Turka are Buffering much mrv severely, aa they are under cross fire from the ahlps. New York. May 2S. The "Charlie Chaplin Walk" Is spreading to Fifth avenue. Have you noticed how many of the "deah" boya In tweed suits, malaera canea, and speckled guinea egg resta are strolling along with their apat-elad feet turned In at the heel and out at the toeaT Fact. Fifth avenue barbera report, too, that the spring fashion In moustaahee follows closely upon the lines of the hirsute adornment worn by Chaplin In his recant reel oomedlea $1,600,000 BELGIAN DEFICIT London, May 26. A dispatch to Ihe Exchange Telegraph company from Amsterdam, says: "Gen. iron Biasing, the German governor general In Belgium, has published the Belgian budget for ltlt. It gives the revenue or the year aa ; $35,0$1, to and the expenditure at $19,811. 90s. The statement aaya that means for providing for the deficit of $4,100,000 will have to be found later.
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