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. '. - V iv '! SAVi'iSS obive: . Pridnt Wilton' Hu Proclaimed TT FrkUy, June 28, m War Sav' . tag Day St aa4 Bay . to tit Utmoat . '. On or before June 28 every tax- W payer and householder in North Car ' olina will have made his subscription to the War. Savings campaign or giv en his reasons for not doing so. Pres ident Wilson has proclaimed Friday, Jane 28, as national War Savings day, and has requested every man, woman and child to pledge himself on or before the 28th to save and buy War Savings stamps to the ut most of his ability. Gov. Bickett has designated the week of June 23 to 28 as War Savings week and urges ev ery taxpayer to pledge himself to buy all the War Savings stamps that in his honest opinion he will be able to for during the remainder of the year. The purpose of the President's proclamation, likewise that of the governor's, is that the War Savings campaign shall be made to go over the top through the. efforts of an in tensive campaign to be conducted from state headquarters, beginning the week of June 23 and culminating June 28. Instead of taking a year and a month to subscribe this loan to the government, national and state directors of the War Savings cam paign decided that it shall be put over within a week, and that with the same big success that met the recent drive of the Liberty Loan and the Red Cross. The plan by which Nebraska suc ceeded in oversubscribing her quota by four million dollars and raising over 50 per cent of her sales by April 1 is the plan that will be adopted not only in North Carolina, but in every state in the union. -What Nebraska has done it is believed at state head quarters and all War Savings work ers that North Carolina can do. Con sequently the plans for an intensive state-wide drive have been carefully worked out and are now being exe cuted by state, county and township chairmen. The chief principle of the plan adopted is a house-to-house canvass and the taking of subscriptions from every taxpayer in the township, or his excuse for not subscribing. A record of every man's pledge and support of this cause will be kept. On Friday, June 28, every tax payer will be summoned to appear at the school house in his school dis trict "for the purpose of either cele brating the occasion of his township's raising its quota, or if that be not the case, to finish -raising the town ship quota. The township will be tiie unit of organization in the cam paign, and "every township over the top" by. June 28 in War Sayings pledges will be the motto. , THE NEW AMERICANS ARE LEARNING FAST v The work of the new American '.army in France is going on with the . greatest vigar in all weathers-under ' the hot sun and along dusty roads ! V and in the drenching rain, f through ' the French mud, the sticking quali ties of which the Americans have 'quickly learned. - The British officers, commissioned .V and non-commissioned, who' are in ,, structing the troops, are working - kinite as hard as their dudiIs. and are ' -f, finding the new men, the "Yanks," as ' they generally call them, as keen as quite up to it," was the verdict of a :-!- 4 si art . v i . ... . - Kiilea acotcn cniei instructor regaro ing the Americans in his class. " ; The held schools, now largely giv-V- en over to American pupils., repre aent the highest perfection in insti N .j, tutions of their class. The trenches, .'i the targets, the tactics and the meth V ods of instruction are all the latest developments of actual fighting ex ' --.perlence. . In every area where the units of v 54the new army are quartered the men n 'urg mingling freely with the "Tom- Jnies" and are learning much from 1 the greater experience of the British. 't w-Tne Ifttter, so prone to give 'a famil- ' ff: iar name to everything, were" puz- . y ''-tied as to how to deal with the new- ?"i Comers, but they finally fell back on ' i - S fhe appellation "YankVwhich threat- - , w ens, in this zone at least, to be fixed " r on tlje Americans whether they like - '. ', ' it or not. Thus far there have been ' . ' i- : tut ftKiaptinna SA.S fast as new units arrive and get '' '.' "A settled hard, training work is taken , 'q tip. The program differs little from K.Vj that followed by the first divisions x ' that reached France. The men are ' 2i, out on the road every day, while - !"' "are contingents of the British in . yi, atructors nave been distributed ' " ', S. among the British field schools, where - the latest points in tactics,, trench ' Z.) fighting, grenade operations, musket y ry an dbayonet practice and machine gunfire are taken' up. t h. ' . The American army man's pack in ' , ',i'thU zone will be lighter in his sub '; - v. , ; sequent training. It was found that, '. with some articles made necessary by 1 ' '"close co-operation with the British, 1 . the pack had grown beyond practical .'"yi;. 7 dimensions for long marches. All . ' ( Yf superfluities have now been removed Ci ' and everything else reduced to a min- rjmum. The effect i3 observable in -'J.-thr lighter step and greater endur ,nce of the men. i CAMEL MEAT, DOG MEAT AND HORSE MEAT EATEN IN SAXONY '-'I-'' Camel meat, dog meat and horse ; meat are. being eaten in Saxony by " the poorer classes, according to the '.'Berliner Tageblatt of April 7, a copy . of which has been received here. ' The camel meat is being sold in Zwickau and comes from the mohair - camels of the Hagenback menagerie, ' , which ; gave a show in Zwickau in " March. The' camels' were sold to- .a butcher because of lack of fodder. The larger camels gave fronvOO to 400 pound! 01 meat. ' . . x ment oi me ioreign-oorn ciuzensmp Consumption of dog' 'meat and recently' sent the President ypetH. horse meat has Increased greatly ow- tion announcing plans, for a; great ing to the war time scarcity of meat "demonstration on the Fourth of Iby and the price has also gone tip. Dog alty to the United States and the neat ? :; j f oE,i'.,Wki''' J 5 i pfintttor.1. toumf orwblcK it is fighting, and ; a pouad iM horse; meat" at 1, inarlc: asking the entire ,. country to join b0 pfennigs.. -v .,.-, . '," .: , ENGLISH WOMAN TELLS OF HER GAS EXPERIENCE TV n4 n;- Mairi Chisholm, two English women who have lived in a dugout on the Beltrian front for three and a half years, caring for the Belgian troops, and who are known throughout the Belgian army as the "good women of Pervyse, have arrived in London, suffering from the effects of a gas attack on the Belgian front in the recent fitrhtine there.- Both have been seriously ill, but are now sufficiently recovered to be admitted to a con valescent hospital in London. "We were accustomed to bombard ment," said the baroness in an inter view, "and our dugout has been hit a hundred times since we lived there. But in this last attack the shelling was more dreadful than we have ever known. "It was early one morning after a nijrht-lone bombardment that we de cided to venture olit, knowing that there would be many wounded need ing our care. While we were dress ing I heard a shell burst outilde our dugout, and a moment later I found our orderly lying on the floor -of the corridor. I rush up to see what I .could do for him, when suddenly I felt as if a rope had been fastened around my neck. "I could not breathe and was ab solutely helpless. Miss Chisholm, too, was m agonies. My little dog Shot: whod had been with us for about three years, came up and looked at me with wondering eyes, licked my hand and died. I don't think I ever before felt that I actually hated my enemy, but ever since my dog was gassed I have longed above all else to kill a German. "It was only about half an hour before we were taken away in an ambulance . The ambulance was smashed by a shell, after a quarter of a mile and we were picked up again and taken in a 'big truck to a base hospital. We were there sev eral days before we were able to be moved to London." The two "women of Pervyse" have been the only women who have been permiuea to live ana wora at we Belgian front Hundreds of volun teers, American and British, have asked to be allowed to help them, but the Belgian command would not allow a third woman at Pervyse. In the early days they worked sin gle-handed, but a doctor, two stretch er-bearers and a chauffeur came to help them later in their little cas ualty station. The( nearest hospital is ten miles from Pervyse. Their station was always open day and night for trivial ailments as well as for serious wounds. Their dugout was made of concrete, and had an operating room, a kitchen and a small sleeping room. FIRED AT SUBMARINE ON THIS SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC The master of a British steamer reported on his arrival at Newport News last week that he had fired five shots at a mysterious submarine 150 miles off Cape Henry. The captain did not know whether any of the shots were hits. He said the subma rine disappeared. Navy department officials said this week that there was nothing 'to indi cate the presence of enemy submi rines on this side of the Atlantic. They thought the British ship which reported at Newport News firing at a submarine 150 miles, off the Vir ginia capes probably had sighted a bit of wreckage or some ether float ing object. THE PRESIDENT APPEALS TO PEOPLE TO BE ECONOMICAL Washington, May 29. To save materials and. labor for necessary war purposes President Wilson today appealed to Americana "to buy only those things which are essential to the individual health and efficiency," and to volunteer on or before June 28, national thrift day, to Invest sys tematically in War Savings and Thrift Stamps, or other government securities. "This war is one of nations not of armies,'' said the President, "and all of our 100,000,000 people must be economically, and- industrially ad justed to war Conditions if this na tion is to playjts full part in the conflict." , . WILMINGTON MAN MOBBED 0. J. Dykeman, traveling salesman for the Cement Products Company of Wilmington, N. C, was last Friday taken from a hotel at Birmingham, Ala., by about 100 citizens, members' of the Red Cross war 'fund campaign committee, and escorted to the ter minal station. Dykeman was forced to carry a banner on one side of which was inscribed in yellow "This is my color," and on the other side, "Slacker leaving town." .-Dykeman is said to have talked, disrespectfully to a woman soliciting funds for the Red Cross who approached him for contribution iq the dining room of the. hotel. After being escorted to the ' station Dykeman was arrested and taken to jail. Two Man in Rowan Talked Too Much Two Roman men talked to much. Parks Basinger of Morgan town- shin is alleeed to have said, that President Wilson ought to be hung and engaged in similar patriotic talk. He is now under bond of $1,000 to answer in Federal court When a Red 'Cross soliciting com mittee entered' a store, in Rowan county to solicit, contributions E. 8. Clontz, who was present, said vile things about the Red Cross organi zation and Red Cross nurses. He is in jail in default of $1,000 bond. A WIDER SCOPE FOR " ' THIS FOURTH OF JULY Native Americans' have been called upon by President ' Wilson to joinf with the foreign-born of the United States in celebrating on the Fourth of July this yea the birth of a new ! and greater spirit of democracy. ' Committees representing national organizations of nearly every el. T:wlth them. r v mm mmi ETip phi London, June 4. German artillery was active in me sectors of Albert and bereck, says the British war of fice. ; . . . , . . HORRORS OF HUN PRISON V . CAMPS ARE .DESCRIBED There is keen interest in London over the reported proposal of the American government to Germany, through the mediun of Spain,, as re gards, the treatment of prisoners of war, and especially to leant what the ideas of the United States are on the subject As w know thousands of columns were written in the earlier periods of the war on the subject of inhuman German ' cruelty to prison ers, .but recently , the . subject has come again strongly to the front Some papers, including the London Times, are running conspicuously a3 almost aauy xeatures revelations re cently showing that the German treatment of prisoners today, is as bad A if not worse, than ever, r The Times a few days ago printed the- following from a Britishour nalist who had spent two and a half years at Kuhleben: "Owing to the fact that the pris ohers receive literally no vegetables nor fats of any description, and practically are living on tinned stuff," he says, "the condition into which the prisoners have fallen is appalling. In his own case. as in numerous others, the - entire absence of these necessary food, constituents caused prolapsus ox tne stomach, the body commencing to feed on itsown tissues and muscles. Ruptures' were frequent A wealthy man, by giving a big commission to tne camp commander, as a few did, can set the latter to place an ordet for clothes, bedding ana a utue furniture with a firm of the commandant's -choosing. These fortunate ones paid to get their horse stall or shed cleaned out and then in stalled their heavily paid for bits of furniture. These were the places carefully shown to the American am bassador, on which his earlier reports on the condiiton of British prisoners were founded. He was carefully pi loted through that part of the camp where prisoners had been allowed by heavy payment to make the best of their plight and was guided away from places it was undesirable he should see." VON TIRPITZ WANTS TO RETAIN BELGIUM "We must retain Belgium econom ically, politically and militarily," said Admiral von Tirpitz, former German minister of marine, in an address at Dusseldorf, as quote in the Nach richten of that city, says a "dispatch from Amsterdam. The' admiral's address. was deliv ered before the Dusseldorf branch of the reactionary fatherland party, of which he is one of the' leading spir its. Speaking of Germany's require ments after the war, he said: "Neither central Europe, the Orient nor northern Europe can sup ply us with the raw materials re quisite to our industries. .We need to have t&e sea free from Anglo Saxon tyranny for that purpose." Apparently the admiral did not mention the submarine warfare. which was discussed at the same meeting in a highly optimistic man ner by Herr Bachmeister, a deputy in the Landtag. TWO BABIES ARE UNHARMED IN BATTLE The recent fighting in Flanders has furnished an amazing experience for two French children who are in a British military hospital. These tots were among the few persons in Neuve Eglise when the Germans overran . that place. The town immediately became a storm cented which was continually chang ing hands, and German soldiers took these two babies into the trenches for their -protection. ' During a counter attack the, Brit ish stormed and captured .the trench. They N found the little ones safe and sound, and brought them back. The children had been living under ter rific gunfire, and how they escaped death cannot be accounted for. Another French baby was found by two British signal men at another place. As the child had no protec tion the soldiers took it with them to their billet in a barn. That nightthe signal men went to sleep with .the babv between them so that no harm might come to it German airmen bombed the barn and both the Tom mies were killed. The child escaped injury and later was rescued. JAPAN IS NOW READY TO FIGHT WITH -THE ALLIES The military agreement between Japan and China has caused increas ed attention to be given the question of intervention in Siberia. It is un derstood that both Great Britain and France are actively favoring inter vention, the former because of tne danger f the spread of German in fluence,and both Great Britain .and France because they are convinced that itwould hasten winning of the war. .The general staff is ready for any action that may be ordered, but the government has not announced any decision in the matter. The best opinion in Tokio is that intervention is not likely until it is favored by the United States. Now is the hour of our testing. wneat is one oi tne tests. II !!': I! u h SUBMARINE CHASERS TO BEJ3U1LT SOON BY FCRD watchword of the great Ford ship building yard which is being erected at Detroit for the construction of the United State's navy "Eagles," the lit tle vessels which, it is hoped, will help rid the seas of German U-boat. - . . The assembling , plan has been greatly elaborated and will be ap plied to the building of .the "Eagles." The raw material will enter .one end of the plant to emerge at the other a completed fighting craft- Each of the little vessels will be passed along by powerful - machinery from one group of workmen to another, and as it passes each group will add some thing to the boat When the last rivet has been driv en in the steel hul the boat will be picked up bodily by a powerful hy- drulic lift and , deposited further down the ways, where skilled work men will install the motor equipment Three ways have bee nconstructed, each to hold seven 'of the submarine chasers. It is generally understood that the plant will be able to put into the water one completed "Eagle." a day and some estimates have placed the number as high as three for each twenty-four hours. There will be no champagne christenings- nor elaborate, launching cer emonies. No efforts "are-being made to give the boats any touch of arti ficial beauty, the sole effort being to turn out with as great speed as pos sible an efficient weapon against Ger man ruthlesshess on the seas.. Gov ernment secrecy shrouds the major details of construction. "If these boats will hasten the end of the frightful carnage and bring a lasting peace there will be no occa sion to worry over the cost," said Henry Ford in discussing the project "This is youit war and my war, and although we did not make it we must see it through to a successful con clusion.',' Sixty days ago the land, on which the plant is being erected was a des olate marsh, a vast acreage of mud through, which wandered aimlessly a sluggish river. Now it is a network of railroad tracks with locomotives running between great buildings of steel, tile and glass. What engineers in Detroit say is one of the largest buildings in the world will be used to house at one time" a score of the little vessels. It is 1,700 feet long, 300 feet wide. The building where the boats are to b assembled is fully half a mile from the Rouge river. The launching ba sin adjoins this building and thence a channel is being excavated to the river. SAILS .WITHOUT PASSENGERS The Holland-American line steam er Niew Amsterdam has sailed from Amsterdam . for an American port without American passengers, as the German government made the safety of the vessel dependent on this. Implements work easy forAe former. z Seed Time and Harvest Thousands of years ago the Lord said : "While the earth remaineth seed time and harvest and heat and cold and summer, and winter and day and night shall not cease." Seed Time ha "come again, and to get best results at Harvest timet you must have good farming tools. We carry a line of earth-working implements that poaaess advan tages no others can duplicate. LENOIR AMERICAN TROOPS OVERSEAS HUNGRY FOR NEWS FROM HOME has a voracious appetite . for news from home,' declared, Eliot Wads Worth of the Red Cross war'council, who has returned to Washington af ter three months spent in observing the activities, of the mercy organiza tion in England, Belgium, France and Italy. - . ., - - . f'How did Mayor Thompson make out in Chicago!" and "Who's police commissioner of New .JYork?" are questions which Mr. Wadsworth says occasionally supplemented the con stant' inquiries about baseball. "So long ' as you've - come from America within a month you're a wel come object for attack by any mem ber of Pershing't forces," says Mr. Wadsworth. "A crowd of news-hungry boys in khaki will light on you and compel, you to ransack your mind for news' concerning every part of the country. . "And if it;nappens that a dough boy from Terre Haute or Kankakee discovers inNthe course of the con versation that you know someone from those towns well, his joy sim ply can't be' described." WHERE IS THE MISSING COLLIER, THE CYCLOPS? What became of the missing col lier Cyclops,? Is she a prize in some German port the victim of treachery? Does she lie disabled in som eunfrequented cove of the tropical seas, driven there and helpless by accident? i Or has she made her last voyage and, with more than 300 souls, turn ed up in the Port of Missing Men to join seventeen other ships of the American navy which has disappear ed just as mysteriously since 1781? Sailing from Barbadoes in the West Indies March 4 with a comple ment of 295 men, the great 19,000 ton naval collier has not -since been sighted or reported. By order of the navy department all available navy craft in southern waters have been making a dragnet search for the ves sel, but daily the conviction among officials grows stronger that the great modern mystery of the sea will re main unsolved. But the search for the ship still is maintained with unabated intensity. Cruisers and destroyers have retraced her route. Every island among the scores that dot that portion of the sea is being carefully scrutinized for any clue. But the unremitting anx iety of the searchers has failed to disclose any trace of a ship appar ently plucked in a day from the busy lanes of the South American trade routes. TEN STEEL SHIPS ARE COMPLETED LAST WEEK Ten steel vessels, totaling 63,486 tons, were completed for the shipping board in the week ending May 25. There were eighteen launched during the week of a total tonnage of 109,700. GET THE BEST Ber it haf tla gjp Co. i Wholesale and feetaU HARDWARE AND ) FURNITURE ,9 FRISONERS ARE BADLY TREATED BY THE EOCIIES a T)...inn "rircr.cr Trhc rc??"t!y returned from Germany has made a statement at Moscow which now is. available to the effect that he saw American prisoners of war in a camp y , ' at Tuchel, West Prussia,' and that. they asked him to let it be known . that they were being treated brutal ly. The prisoners said they were' v hungry and penniless. L- When the Americans arrived at- the Germans removed all their clothes. Thevwere particularly anx ious to have the Americans' shoes. They told the prisoners they should . not wear expensive clothing and; -shoes while working-and that their ' property would be taken care of til their return to America. The Russian said, however, that every one knows what that means. A consul,, the Russian was not sure whether he was a Swiss or Spaniard, visited the camp. Complaint was made to him, by tne Americans and their clothes, were returned, but as the consul sel dom visited the camp the Germans- -had opportunity to practice many iiw- justices. .. The Russian said eight Americans captured several months ago reached the camp at mid-day and, being very hungry, asked for bread. They were? told bread was distributed only in the morning. They were placed in a hut: with Russians, after being required to stand in a square where Germans: were given an opportunity to insult; . them. The huts m which the Ameri cans are living, the Russian said, are damp, cold and unfit for habitation. Some of the Americans became ill. Two of them who were in a hospital had an opportunity to talk with tha Russian, and it was through them;. , that he obtained the information ont which his statement is based. GERMAN PATIENTS REBEL ' AGAINST TREATMENT" , Drastic methods employed by, thw German medical authorities in treat- ' ing nervous patients in military hos pitals in Munich resulted in revolt -by the patients in which wards were wrecked, according to the Koelniche ' Volks Zeitung, says ah Amsterdam dispatch. At Rosenheim the hospital -' was Durned oy the rebellious pa tients. The paper adds that electric shocks of such strength are employed' that the patients scream in terror. ' Deputies have prepared a long se ries of questions to ask in the reichs tag concerning the reports of ill treatment REFUSING RED CROSS AID, . ABNEY AROUSES COLUMBIA. The Columbia Southern railway shop's federation at Columbia, com posed of 500 railroad men, has pass ed resolutions urging the removal of Benjamin L. Abney ac chief Counsel in south Carolina of the Southe railway. Mr. Abney is allesred to have told the president of the Co lumbia Red Cross chapter that he had "not a damn cent for the Red? Cross." ; NORTH CAROLINA ) ..I it 'Vj;.h, I 'St "tk -.-.- i
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