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PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY gSTASUSHED GREENSBORO, N. 6.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1917. vouee r:o. b3 iKGEHTIHE-GlRIIAHY BREAKS RlAN MINISTER GIVEN HIS ( p VSSPOKT DIOTING IN BUENOS AIRES. -uencs Aires, Sept. 12. Immense --ds joined in an antiGerman demonstration heTe this afternoon, t-e German legation and German e;v?paper buildings were stoned. Zere was serious rioting , and -ounted police charged the mobs in tn"p fashionable Avenida Florida. De te the strong mounted guard the b broke all the windows in the of fiU of the newspaper La Union. The newspaper La Union, the Ger a ciut), and a German newspaper, building were set on'fire by the mob. Several blocks of German business prases in Calle 25 de Mayo have b-ell destroyed by fires set by mobs. 1 -8 wildest disorders prevailed to nsil t in the down-town section. Buenor Aires, Sept. 12. The Ar--jtine government at noon today sent to the- German legation pass p .rts to be delivered to Count Lux birg, the German minister in Buenos :res. The whereabouts of Count L ixburg still is unknown to the Ar gentine government. The foreign office today sent a communication to the German for eign ministry demanding an explana tion of Count Luxburg's action in ending the secret code message to Berlin through the Swedish legation. The note sent by Foreign Minister p.eyrredon to Count von Luxburg, which the German minister was Tendered his passports, reads : 'Mr. Minister: You having ceased i; be persona grata to the Argentine government that government has de t :ied to deliver to you your pass-' prrts, which I transmit! herewith by orier of his excellency the president o: the nation. " J 'The introducer of embassies has ktriicifcS&& tfiybti r iftvS radiate departure from the territory c: the republic- God keep yju. "H. PUEYRREDON. 'To Count Karl von Luxburg, en voy extraordinary and minister plen i; -tentiary of the German empire." Explanations Demanded. The Argentine minister at Berlin Icen instructed to inform the O'-rman-foreign office that Count vju Luxburg has been hanied his pass-r-.jrts and to ask for explanation ro-z-.rding the telegram disclosures. If r German government disapproves o: ihe text of the German minister's dispatches and especially of the word " : -s." which term the count applied To the Argentine forei.j i minister, T.e situation may clear. If. Berlin does not disavow the minister's coirse Argentina will recall her min cer from Germany, but may permit legation to remain, -f Germany expresses a df sire to maintain relations with Argentina notwithstanding the expulsion of " 'unt von Luxburg, it was said at t-".e foreign office, this government A '"uld be willing to consider the question. Argentina also has asked the Ger ttin government for a full, explana tion of its present policy of sinking -"gentine ships. This apparently vfts settled in the case of the steam ; -ip Toro, but in view of Count von Luxburg's notes, which antedated 1 it settlement, Argentina desires a C'--Ar statement. May Segregate the Races. Washington, Sept. 11. A law for negation of races on street rail ''"vs in the District of Columbia is P-'-jposed in a bill which was intro-tfu-;-ed in the house by Congressman H -rrison, of Mississippi. The bill is identical with one ich Mr. Harrison introduced in the 1?n Congress. It is provided that A 'iin two months after the passage - the bill each street railway com pa:iy shal provide either two or more a -"s or divided cars shall be utilized tor- carrying passengers. Pig Sold For $101.50. Winston, Sept. 11. The most val uable pig ever sold "on the market" We brought $101.50 this week: The Porker, given to the Red Cross by H. ' Russell, a farmer, was raffled off l a clear profit of $75. A tobacco JUyer who held the lucky number save the pig back to tlie Red ' Cross. :5s is Pigs and not tobacco, but this Particular squealer was auctioned off a lot of the weed at a warehouse terday afternoon, bringing $26.50, HAD PLANNED A - RIOT OF BLOODSHED. Houston, - Tex., Sept. T. 11. Negro soldiers of the 24th United States in fantry had planned a riot of blood shed among the white residents of: Houston, August 23, two days be fore the deadly outbreak, Which cost the lives of 15 Houston citizens, August 23, according iovthe report to the city council tonight. The report also criticizes Superintendent of Po lice. Block., for "n'is .Inability to en force discipline" among the police and declares hat he is not qualified for the position he holds." The committee's report says that the "undisputed and convincing testi mony of witnesses prove that the ne grcL soldiers went forth to slay the wh population indiscriminately, that no negro was hurt or molested by them, not one negro home was fired into- and that . negroes were warned before and during the riot to stay off-he streets. "The testimony of the captain in charge of the fire station at Camp Lo gan and one of his assistants is that when the shooting began in the ne gro camp, one of the negro guards stationed at the fire station remark ed that the troops were going to shoot up Houston, that they had planned to do so on the preceding Tuesday night, but could not get quite ready. "This testimony and the testimony of numerous other circumstances in the record convince us (and our opinion is shared by Inspector Gen eral John L. Chamberlain, of the United States army, who so express ed himself to us), that the prior con flicts with the police were mere inci dents of the riot; that the riot was inquestionably contemplated prior to that date, that it probably would have occurred, though possibly not so severe, had the altercation between police officers and the negro Sergeant BattiniQre,not taken JxJape.'.U . ? " .'The report declares that shortly after the arrival of the negro troops in Houston, there was manifested by at least some of them a feeling -of hostility and defiance of the state law requiring the separation of white and negro races in the street cars; that when on leave of absence from the camp the soldiers usually frequented those sections of Houston and those establishments where the lewd and lawless elements of the negro popula tion are to be found; that the nego soldiers while on guard duty at Camp Logan were arrogant and in sulting toward white laborers, seiz ing the most trivial circumstances as an excuse to curse and abuse them; that the discipline existing at the camp was grossly Jax in moral con ditions; lewd negro women, some mere children, 13 years of age, being permitted to freely visit the camp, and remain there overnight and that such women were permitted to bring parcels into the camp without inspec tion by the sentries, keeping the sol diers liberally supplied with whiskey and other intoxicants. MARKED DECREASE IN THE LOSS OF VESSELS. " London, Sept. 12. A marked de crease in the destruction of British merchant vessels by mines or subma rines is indicated in the weekly ad miralty statement issued this even ing. Twelve "vessels of more than 1,600 tons and six of less than 1,600 tons were sent to the bottom, as com pared with 20 in the large and three in the small catagory sunk the, prev ious week. . Tonight's statement shows that four fishing vessels also were lost. The foregoing admiralty' statement shows the smallest number of large British vessels sunk by-nnnes or sub marines since Germany last Feb ruary began her intensified subma rine campaign. ;' Frost Damage Not Serious. Chicago, Sept. 11. Damage by frosl in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin last night was not of dis astrous character, except as it affect ed corn in southern Minnesota, it was said by experts here today. The southern Minnesota crop was three weeks late and the frost three weeks early, and this caught the ce real full of moisture. Damage to garden truck, it was said, will not be enough to figure much , in Mr. Hoover's, calculations, The potato crop, of which both states are heavy producers, is too near ma turity to suffer much.. DOES IT 1IGAN CIYIL WAR ? ANARCHY AND A REIGN OF TER ROR MAY COME OP PRESENT SITUATION IN RUSSIA. Washington, Sept. 11. Wnether Russia faces anarchy and a reign of terror as the fruit of General Korni loff's revolt against Premier Keren sky's provisional government, de pends largely, in the opinion of offi cials and diplomats here, on the spee4 with which the situation devel ops. If the deposed commander-in-chief, now reported marching on Petrograd with troops personally loy al to him, makes a spectacular show of strength within the next few days, it Is believed strong political influ ences, now secretly wavering in alle giance to the government, may swing over, give him a preponderance of authority and pave the way for a powerful dictatorship. If Premier Kerensky, on the other hand, is able to hold fast to the sup port of enough of the various politi cal groups on whose attitude the alle giance of the army depends, he may crush the revolt quickly, adopt some of the strict disciplinary rules advo cated by the Korniloff element, and weld the democratic forces into a stronger instrument to fight Ger many. Separate Peace or Monarchy. The complete ascendancy of either Kerensky or Korniloff would satisfy most persons here most interested in Russia's well-being. It is the middle situation, the conflict which would make Russians kill Russians, which they fear and which, judging by to day's unofficial dispatches, seems en tirely possible. Civil war then might lead to either separate peace with Germany, or restoration of the mon archy with its inevitable train of evil consequences. Out of the blaze of the Russian sit nation aTpojeC officials develODed the imnrpsairin that the provisional governmeiit probably would count on the support of the navy, a large part of the army, particularly in the interior, railway employes and industrial workers. Korniloff probably expects the backing jjf a strong element of military leaders, duma members, the intellectual classes, the Cossacks and other considerable professional fight ing elements of the army. In addi tion it is probable he would be open ly supported by the commercial inter ests, and the social democratic politi cal group, as soon as he shows strength. Premier Kerensky's source of strength include the usual advantage of government authority to make ar rests and deal out immediate punish ment to violators of its orders and the extensive system of government representatives among the troops at the front. Kerensky and German Peace. Another situation which may ren der difficult Korniloff 's attempt to march on Petrograd and seize Rus sia's rule by force is that the armies have become so democratized they can easily conduct negotiations with out recourse to their commander-, and they may refuse to fire on their brothers in arms wJien the time comes for meeting of troops repre senting the opposing elements. Opinion here is divided as to whether a passage of the crisis wrill lead to a united and strengthened Russia. Considerable concern is felt over the repeated charges of leaders in the revolt that the composite Ker ensky ministry contains pro-German sympathizers, or radicals whose ideals lead them unwittedly to advo cate German peace terms. Whatever "the next few days may develop officials here point to the re newed offensive of the German-Austrian armies in Bukowina as proof that the present crisis 'will be used by the central powers as an oppor tunity for them. Civilian Governor of Belgium Dis missed. London, Sept. 11. Dr. von Dandt, the civilian governor of. Belgium, has been dismissed; says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch 'from Amsterdam today. "The dismissal is incomprehensi ble,"; adds the dispatch, "as the gov ernment had trusted him to write the iistory of the occupation of Belgium. He was the only "German official in Belgium who ever gave any evidence of humanity in treatment orpeople." 4 ,TV".-i--f,vA &jx&?,$y: 6ERHAB UAH POWER III WAR KILLED, DISABLED AND PRISON ERS THUS FAR NUMBER ABOUT 4,000,000. V "Grand HeaUquarters c f the French Army in France, Sept. 11. TheTAssociated Press is able to give approximately the figures represent ing the man power of Germany in the war at the present time, - together f" - wth the casualties, as follows: yFixed formations on the various fronte, employed in lines of commun ications and stationed in the interior, 5,500,000. Divisions undergoing formation and men in depots, 600,000. Losses in killed, permanently dis abled and prisoners, 4,000,000. ; Wounded under treatment in hos pitals, 500,000. Total, 10,600,000. These figures account for all the men called up to the present for ser vice; as follows: Classes of Men Called. Trained men mobilized immediate ly on the outbreak of the w ar, 4,500, 000, Untrained ersatz (compensatory) reservists called out August, 1914, to February, 1915, 800,000. dlass of 1914 recruits called out November, 1914, to January, 1915, 45,00u. tFlrst of untrained landsturm call ed put at the beginning of 1915, 1,1-00,000. Class, of 1915, called May-July, 191$, 450,000. Remainder of untrained landsturm called out the same month, 150,000. Class of 1916 called out Septem ber-November, 1915, 450;000. Contingent of hitherto- exempted men called out in October, 1915, '300,000. Second contingent exempted men called -out. early 1916, 200,000 . rS(fecbndv3andsturm early in 1916, v I Class of 1 6 i 7 called" o ,ss ot lyii caned out March November, 1916, 450,000. Third contingent exempted men late in 1916, 300,000. Class of 1918, called out Novem ber, 1916, to March, 1917, 450,000. Class of 1919, called out in part in 1917, 300,000. Additional exempted men 1917, 150,000. Total, 10,500,000. Total Mobilizable Resources. The total mobilizable male re sources of Germany since the begin ning of hostilities including the year ly classes of recruits up to 1920 num ber about 14,000,000. Those called up number 10,600,000. The remain aer are accounted for as follows: The remaining portion of the class of 1919 awaiting call, 150,000. Class of 1920 still uncalled, 450, 000. Men employed as indispensable in industries and administrations, 500, 000. Men abroad unable to reach Ger many, 200,000. Men entirely exempted owing to physical disability, 2,100000. Recruits of the 1920 class cannot be called legally until they attain their seventeenth birthday. SENATE PASSES BILL FOR ANOTHER JUDGE. f Washington, Sept. 11. The bill providing for another judge for the fourth United States circuit, com prising Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, passed the senate today. The judges already in this district are Messrs. Jeter C. Pritchard, of North Carolina, Who was appointed April 27, 1914; Charles A. Woods, South Carolina, June 5, 1913, and Martin A. Knapp, of the District of Columbia, who was assigned to that, district when the commerce court was abolished. There is much interest in who will be the man for the new place. North Carolina is already represented, but efforts will be made o have a prom inent Tar Heel lawyer named. The bill must first pass the bouse before the chickens can be counted. Interned German . Dies. ( Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 11. Karl Graul, " warrant officer, one of the interned -German sailors from the Prinz Eitel Friedrich, confined- at Fort Oglethorpe, died late yesterday afternoon of fever. This is the first death to occur among the German I DEATH OF MRS. KING j TO BE INVESTIGATED. Concord, Sept. 11. -The first move toward the re-opening of the investi- atioh into the mysterious shooting of Mrs. Maude A. King, at Black- welder's springs on the night of -August 29, will be made- tomorrow morning. Detectives or uistnct At torney Swann, of New York, will ar rive here to co-operate with Concord authorities to determine whether or not there are grounds for re-opening the whole case. At ft-e same time, p. W. Mc-Duffie, attorney for Mrs. AnnaL. Robinson, mother of Mrs. King, will arrive in Salisbury from Asheville for a con ference with Solicitor Hayden Clem ent. The two Robinson boys, broth ers of Mrs. King, are expected to reach Salisbury with MeDuffie. The only incident of interest in Concord today was tiie departure of Afton Means, brother of-Gaston Means. Asked where his brother had gone, Gaston replied, "you had better find out from Afton himself." Later in the day Gaston hinted that t his brother might have gone to Chicago to institute proceedings for criminal libel against certain Chicago papers. Gaston Means, when informed that MeDuffie was to be in Salisbury to morrow, said: "Why don't you newspaper men make some inquiries into -the record of Mr. MeDuffie?" Ernest Eury, the negro chauffeur of the Means automobile, denied the truth of the statement of Farmer Charles S. Dry that he saw the auto mobile coming down the - Gold Hill road after the first siiot was fired. Eury is positive that he- was waiting with the car not more than two hun dred yards from the spring when he heard the report of the first shot. WILL ANNOUNCE RETAIL COAL PRICES SOON. -ashlsigtoflSeirt. 1 11 Retail coal prices will be -announced for -every city and community in the country before September 30, Dr. H. A. Gar field, the fuel administrator, an nounced tonight. They will be fixed on the recommendation of local com- mittees to be named by state fuel ad ministrators. "It is obvious," Dr. Garfield said, "that the prices will vary consider ably between localities and between city and country districts. Care will be taken to include all items which ought to be included, for there is no disposition to deprive the local deal er of his fair measure of profit. It may be necessary to make the price tentative, as in the case of prices fix ed at the mines." Although there is a shortage of cars, there will be enough to trans port all the coal the country needs, it is said.' John P. White, secretary of the United Mine Workers of America, was named today as a special assis tant to Dr. Garfield. A representa tive of bituminous operators will be named also within a few days. Gaston Man Held Under Grave Charge. Gastonia, Sept. 11. Christie An thony was placed under bond of $7, 500 in a preliminary hearing in a magistrate's court here today on charge of making liquor and assault ing an officer with a deadly 'weapon. The father of Joe Anthony' was placed under $500 bond tomans wer to a charge of making liquor. Chris tie gave bond promptly, mosting in cash. Deputy Sheriff G. Lee Bain, of Cherryville, was shot from ambush while he and assistants were raiding Anthony's farm in the northern part of the county Saturday. The injuries are only slight. Both Anthonys, the officers state, have been in ourt on numerous occasions for various of fenses. Only Twelve Americans Answer Roll Call. Paris. Sept. 11. In the last great battle of the western front when the roll of the foreign legion was called only twelve Americans answered' to their names, says the Paris edition of the New York Herald. Several Americans were wounded in the recent "fighting, the Herald adds, among them Parring Field, of Ian Francisco, shot below ithe knee; ockwell, f'Philippi," of 'California,! Lnd Knocke. IS The wounds of the last two men re serious.. s TO CRUSH THE HEW REVOLT RUSSIANS ARE NOW OFFERING STRONG OPPOSITION TO . GERMANS. The Russian government again ia facing a crisis, but apparently with his usual "blood and iron" method Premier Kerensky has taken rigoroua -steps to combat, it and to punish se-. verely these of the opposition ele ments who brought it about. , Succinctly, General Korniloff, com mander in chief E)f the army backed oy a group or political agitators naa demanded for himself : dictatorial powers by the surrender of the gov- - eminent into his hands. ' Kerensky . v- - refused to comply with the demands and 'has had incarcerated in the Peto- povlovsk fortress M. Lvoff, member of the Duma, who acted as Korni-. loff's mediary and who under a se vere examination lias had wrung from him the details of the plot to overthrow the government and bring about a return of the despotic reg ime'. The names of the chief -bdn- : spirators in the plot also have been ascertained, and these men doubtless will receive .punishment at the hands of the government. As for Korniloff he has ben depos-. ed from the chief command of the army, while General Lokomsky has been pronounced a traitor for refus ing to take up Korniloff 's duties. Meanwhile, martial law has been declared in Petrograd and its envir ons, and the government is taking measures to crush the revolt swiftly and decisively, probably by the crea tion of a directory composed of a small number of men, tried and true friends of the. revolution. An indication that Kerensky and his followers have a good chance quickly to bring about order is con tained in a proclamation issued by the soldiers' and workmen's council urging that all the army and navy' organizations obey , ' the . .provisional, goveritfiajjlii W 'io w the conspiracy and asserting that Korniloff will be punished for "his treachery. - t On the northern Russian front the Russians are now offering strong op position to the Germansiwho are en deavoring to-press their advantage farther eastward from the Riga Dvina line. Thirty-two miles north east of Riga, near Segevold, "a death battalion" has even defeated the Germans and forced them to retreat to -the south, while along the Burt netsk line to the Pskoff railroad the Russian rear guards : are . giving strong battle to the advanced teuton contingents. In the Rumanian theater the Rus sians and Rumanians have again as sumed the offensive, delivering re peated attacks with large effectives against teutonic allied positions in the Trotus and Oituz valleys. No details of the fighting have- come through, except from Berlin, which asserts that the combatants met n i.and-to-hand encounters and that the Russo-Rumanian forces were re pulsed. V- - .. fcfB PLOT TO POISON HORSES OF ARMY. Fort Sheridan, 111., Sept. 11. A plot to destroy a consignment of armv hnrsps hv -nnis-on. that. mv he a part of a nation-wide spy plot, with headquarters in Chicago, was reveal ed today when four horses at Fort Sheridan died of arsenic poison and scores became ill. Secret service men' from Hinton G. Cladbough's of fice in Chicago were notified by Col onel Ryan. Analysis showed arsenic had been sprinkled on the hay fed to the horses. Thes secret service men believe the arsenic was put in the hay while the horses were being shipped through Chicago, where the shipment was de layed for half a day in the stock- Yards. Flag Oyer Verdun. . Paris, Sept. 11. The American colors now flies over Verdun. The flag which was a gift of American Red Cross workers, was 'hoisted over the ruins of the'dty after-sL ceremony at tended -by the sub prefect Jean ; Gril lon.' - V : ; : :" . - " : Southern Declares Dividend. " ;'. - New York, Sept, 1 1 .The South ern Railway today declared a divi- dcnd of 2 1-2 per cent on the prefer red. atock This is. the first dividend declared, bxuttiis issue since October. ,1 fj. pouna. 4 . - J -
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