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s - -"A ? -- v i 1 6 r$ .yL.po?:&. eat cf. . 3li SEftIG PIIEDU0I1IA FCftllCD m vmm is agid n r?A?,IE3 IN BELGIUM BEIXG THE WOUNDED. AKlEBXaWd itf FRENCH HOSPITAL OIVEN BAND CONCERT. . POSTOFFlOSTfinANBLB ALL EX OEPT TSTSbE WVtt SALfeS AND GENERAL GORGAS FINDS 300 :- CASES OF PNEUMONIA AT ' OAfP WHEELER. VERY LITTLE IN THE CHARGE OF PRINELY FARES FOR-HOT SPRING GERSfANS. , ET31JATED IX NEW1V IN : VADED TERRITORY. " . , ., - .- i '.y . - - i- , - - ; i , . .:' ' . t - ;-.-'- ' - -. ' .. ' . Z-i-Xwi Hi . , ' r - . v .. With the Brttlab Arrai;lii Tt&B$&, rrwund between Moeuvj adsBoaN n today are clingtn io a . field of horrors. The ground I? littered with German dead. -The Brft!$h are'd$ in" mW shatteraiumax: .bodies aafl broo implexaents of war. A ereat iaerman waro moved "facrosa thu cround in a counterattack affainet the British last-nihtT Aave receded to leave DMqsjtTi nz foam lUerally ' .composBd' wcrf strips of ' flesh, plte-"of :.ponnni'' J fnrims. metal and cloth- Using tljeir old stonafciS'iaethodsi tho Germans chargetl full into tbe British machine ' gun positions ' in densely packed masses. , Into the waU of jiumanity, the maciiine guns' pour a steady fire. J3ritisb aftille far behind, anrelyoauglrt Jthe wall with beavyfeheiis 3 They jez plod e d , tearing" to pieeeft tbe potions of the German ;iine that ;stiWstood "jin4 the face :bfvttie -earittg ov'tlo nmj cMaft guns, iMie avancingj wan melted away. Elodln sUi ung hits "Of wbat haobeei,inumanrlboibgs over the fleldV-:ino.'eiiiifire'CdB tinned to slice holes in he quivering column. - Then . the pitif uV- remniits tu rn ed and s dissolved": in -flight.' " V This was only one of numerous al most colUnifrbli- trnC gjrr tackk Aliere rneavy CrownPrince Kupprecht. evidently has determined on every effort,1 byy "massing bf ovi available man. to resatn eome; if all, of t be'-gro nd ne wly5; won by the drovo the German crown-prince back from Verdun in February," 1916. German attacks around Graincourt cost countless dead for every few yards of gain and that gain did no hold in the face of an instantaneous British infantry counter-blow. Tne Prussian artillery throughout , the whole Cambrai sector is laying "dotvn an almost ceaseless barrage of shrap nel, high explosive shells and, gas. In Jhe Bourlon sector today their air men were busier than usual. There vas one exceptionally daring exploit by a German fighting pilot. While the sky was liberally flecked with British airmen, a lone German, watching his chance, slipped through ttio cordon and charged a 'British sausage observation balloon. He swooped above It, loosened an incen diary missile and curved beyond. Then he turned almost on one end and escaped back homo in a whirl wind of shell bursts. The balloon had been hit. It burst suddenly into a mass of flames. One observer in its basket leaped out, ' his parachute gracefully unfolding and gently de positing him on the ground. The second occupant of the basket, with won nerve, waited until the balloon Parted falling before, he, too, jump- with his parachute. By a miracle l'ie heavier and more rapidly filling mass of flames just grazed him as it s!ifl to earth. He got off unscratched. Drill With Wooden Guns. Durham,' Nov. 30. The govern meirt is so slow in furnishing guns fMi equipment to the Durham home SUards, that a patriotic citizen of rham has funnicVinl - V. A nnmnonv ttith wooden suns', and the one hun- tlein for the first time last night, anl went through the manual of m with all the snap and. vigor of masoned soldiers." -They: were "to ave an exhibition drill at the Coun- Club Thursday',' but rain interfer- Atter the drill last night a fine andChen f Brun'3ick etem, pickles hread Was servpfl nf fh a armnrv. 9nj ... , j v eta a ; suaras by several pufa-- ""u citizena f niir citizens of the city. littsboro Cans Preacher. uuro, uec. 1. People are can- Dec. 1. ? nearly everything these days, SO Ph,iS0,that the Methodists of pj, r " ""ucu tixcix ureauxi i). Woodall and family iasf tit. , . - veaneeday Canned fruits and' TeSetables of every description were VUL to the parsonage. miISfll Bf; ment of the' war aims, of fhe entente will regn the.prgeernwnrms. $ies favoring aW attempt to se have MSMIfl: peacemfpre -thMcmgaWtt : -;!L'aIF:ra lwi m eafi xo : iae . mm ot sue i Wa&hXngipn, Nov. JO All ths op pressive ineteures ' wnl-harat'er ixovf.'tlie iirvafiioxt ot- Belgfniu and iaay -of the acts o barbariisin wliich reyjlte the civillzod world, sam- of ficial .dispatches ttom Romo, today say, are nour bein practiced by the AutroHQerman invaders of Italy. :4'ear !4enoxi tho dispatches say. tlie In vadeft's placed Italian ' women ic ijuildriv before tbeir trobps as ativaaicecP and the, Italian soU l4ter wer' compelled to..-. ' sacrifice IWR.IfWljynntrymen. - loa-Combatdnts Massacred. In thfr Friulf xepb, war taxed, r quisitioiis dcscription Of lab'r is, being practiced as it ras in Bel gium3 and Sbiftbern France; Auttro Gein prjoners tetl of ftaliaiQft combaau ; massaed by the Intad ing troos nd loot from Italian homes and shops "has been found fthe'botdiebf dadv tops. Sldier& ilbn; thoifPiaye T declare ; they i hear the fccreams of wonten, and ch ildren fro ai l fne opposite sidfc'df the river.- Unnameable Atrocities .,. The. invading amis have taken away cattle and other property and urned household furniture;- for; their bivouac fires.-, Bosnian trbops. -4 dispatches say, have committed un- nameable atrocities .'.ii' o ;?r" n.r: Bitter JHscussion of Ltansdowne. ietfejr; torquia ALani- dof opfloj Great Britain' leading tatepni pleading for hl. restate- Ixrd Robert Cecil, the. blockade minister, and Andrew Bohar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, both have stated that the view's of the marquis were not those of any of the members of the British cabinet. . At a meeting of the Unionist party, Mr. Bonar Law repudiated the letter of the marquis of Lansdowne de scribing it as a "disaster," while the meeting in a resolution condemned the utterances of the -marquis. . American Units in Paris. Units- of national guardsmen from all the states in the country have ar rived in Paris. Some of the men al ready! are training within sound of the guns on the battlefront. ARE MOBILIZING FOR A DRY RESOLUTION: Washington, Nov. 30. The prohi bitionists began today a movement to bring the Shepard resolution for an amendment providing for nation al prohibition to a vote' in the house before the Christmas holidays. Representative Webb, chairman the - house judiciary committee, ar rived this afternoon and took -chargo of the "dry" forces. He hopes to re port the prohibition resolution from the judiciary committee Tuesday, and get a rule for a vote within the next ten days. "I believe," said Mr. Webb, "that members for and against have an un derstanding that we will pass upon the prohibition resolution during De cember. I hope the proposition will be adopted, but I have not polled the house to see just how the members w ill vote. We expect t wo-thirds of the representatives to support the .. -n . amendment. "The members of the house are di vided into two pronounced groups, the 'drys' and the 'wets.'.; About fifty members are considered doubtful or 'oh the fencfe.' If the prohibitionists can get twenty of these they know they will win." . , , .. " Leading members of rhe Anti-Sa- loon League of America, prohibition Representative weDp ana- oeuators Tnoo nf Wn h in ett. nn : Shennard. U UUOf ! V. o J XT W Kenyon and other prominent anti-liquor congressmen w, ill hold - confer ences Monday and Tuesday with a view- to coming to a definite under standing about the program for the pending contest. s : Speaker Clark is opposed to a long fight overeithef prohibition or w. man suffrage. . He . thinks that either anhfopi has been fully discussed - in ithe housefrom time' to time, . ; ; f j 'American ; -Fieldf Headqnarters France Norl" 'S.American infantry, bands played all day' long yesterday in the yard of a' certain American base hospital because taJI sick major general of the army m that hospita;! learned that -wpunded American, soldiers in the -w,r adjoin ing his were lonesome The general issued orders from his sick bed that brought the band with-s,uch- tunesr as "My Old -Kentucky Home," "Sewanee River' and the latest' jazz stuff; inits t Thanksgiving serenade. But ywheniA the United Press crrespondgnt: took ed for any igns of loneaomenesa amohgr the 2American; wounded Xt wasn't there. All the-' 'Americans were anxious about, was whether or not they were going to get enough .M turkey. f There was Sergeant ,;Eng strom, of Fort Sill, Okla.i : lying in hed atttiblpite His left, arm Vas ; shattered and v'suendedj, inr?'a sling from' the ceiling. He "grinned juBv-; ine same. f. --.!;.. "How'd I get it?" he responded to my questlonl : '"Wellour battery ;wae just finishing its- turn " at the f ronj Our relief was due in a few hours; We ; had just two shells remainin-'1 bpth of 'em in our., guns ready: to The Germans had been touching position all day long, and .ywe f&Z quently had. to Jump f or Kthe dugcWi; Alohg about noon a fragment oif at shell hit me full on'the chest -but it .didnVtr benettate and :I wasn't ihutti Just the same,,r;had ; hunch rid pral)ably be wonmlie ; bf pre . dusfc.1 Stire enqupatr oiJttjtbt .darkV ih'a:Geiaa eaeu wnistje. Berantrfiei totals from Hartwell,'- Ga. -andPri took refuge in our ammunition Hug out. I might just say incidentally that a few hours before that dugout was chuck full of ammunition: "Well, as we hunched down there a German high explosive shell pene trated the roof. A fragment struck my helmet and bent, my head back so hard that the rim of my helmet gashed my neck. Sergeant Peck'e helmet was also hiti There isn't any use talking those helmets saved our lives. I was stunned for a few min utes and awakened sort a sickish, but I managed to crawl to an adjoining dugout and summon aid. We found Miller and Richmiller dead and the others wounded. As for me -I awakened in the, hospital. I went over to see Sergeant Peck; He lay close by on a cot, with a box like arrangement protecting "his left leg, 'which had been amputated below the knee.- I'm' thankful I only lost part of that leg," he said, smiling cheerfully. And then he looked anx ious. "iSay," he whispered, "please influence that nurse to give me some more Thanksgiving turkey. She thinks I'm sick."-. : V MORE SUGAR AT v CHEAPER FIGURES. iNew Ybrk, Nov. 30. The bulk of the new Cuban sugar crop will soon become ' available in the New York; market under an agreement reached today at a conference of the Cuban Sugar Commission and , the Interna tional Sugar Committee fixing the base price pounds. of $4.d0 per hundred yates Miller; Rtshtnilier, , WatklnaU'l oe1my This- price represents $4.60 ; per hundredweight free on board at Cu ban "ports, plus an estimated thirty cents freight rate to New York. The actual price of the sugar at New York cannot be determined until . the United States shipping bureau has fixed the freight rate which it is ex pected to do within a, few . days.. It was reported to the Internation al Sugar Committee that American beet , sugar is moving , steadily and satisfactorily. Ohio refineries are said to be receiving , about 10,000 tons daily. ; - i . Y . , -r . 1 : V i Death , of Chadbonrn Soldier. "Washington,' ITov. 30. -General Pershing today reported the deaths of five members of the American ex peditionary, force in France. -They include Private Clinton J. Hardwick, engineers November 26, . cerebro spinal meningitis emergency . :adt dress,: D. W- Monroe, Chadbourne, N. C.V and Corporal Frank1 J. Mecon, in fantry, Nqvember 26, pneumonia; emergency address, "unidentified." . .v '- . -.";"''- '- l-f : ' ! - Washin'gtjbni -Kovi- 3ft. 4)ocumen tarvstamkiBs' of the war tax bill ge effect tomorrow 'Revenue,' ftamps TOU3 v pt? .anww vo ; uuuus i eninitgr jor ;mtJebtedness,, capital stoc&' issue, stock transfers, produce salV on exchanges, drafts; , promis sdrVf notesneJ;ances and deeds, custcms hlstxs gentries;, eieamshrp ticket proei,jsslgnments of pow er of Ucraey jayittg cards 4 and parcel ostJ'VaSkaiges. v None are; re quired on jaiecks. - ' ;'An,stausjLre sold by postofltea &x&$ thosae for stock transfers and produce iafe -which are distributed through revenue collectors- Millions qf dollars in' receipts are expected to f reach the. treasury from this source. The, taxes are similar to those im posed during, tha Spanish war and by emergency revenue act of 1914. , . On capitel etbek transfers, from which, the government expects to de rive a large revenue and which will ; f alleavil vBtock exchanges the t&xt M twoVots, for each $100 Or f raction of' the. face value. Stamps iare to be affixed to the stock books, not.- to .therceiftihcates of sale or ex 'Change.. ; ;.- ' " 'JP'sit produce sales on exchanges jthe tax is2 cents for $100 of value bLthe -merchandise Covered by the reement and stamps are to De ai- ; to the nlemorandum or hill of The rlaw, covers transferred or snatch sales and sales for future de- VioBs ; of indebtedness are taxed safor eaCh $10q of face value lacjtion and renewals are taxed dS&mUy and surety : bonds 'l are inoieclt 6 a siE?bf 5 0 : cents;; or;one; tne xee.ution'HOi me. 'oona r ipnas qj; policies of reinsurance are exempt. A tax of 5. cents is levied on. each original issue of certificates of tock, either on organization-or reorganiza tion, of faceivalue of $100 or frac tion. To meet the: practice in some states of issuing stock without face value, it'; is specified that the tax shall be laid . on the " actual value if there is no face value. For drafts or checks payable other than at sight or on demand, and.. for promissory notes and their renewal, the tax is 2 cents for each $100 or fraction. This levy will lay a bur den particularly on the banking bus iness. Ordinary bank checks are not taxable. , Realty conveyance and deeds are taxed 50 cents for each additional $500 or fraction. Deduction may be made of only a lien or encumbrance remaining on fhe property! at the time of sale. Before any parcel . post package may be accepted by a postoffice it must bear, in addition to the regular postage, revenue stamps amounting to one cent for each 25 cents postage or fraction. The entry of goods at a customs house for consumption or warehous ing is taxable 25 cents when the val ue is not more than $100, 50 cents when the value is between $100 and $500, and $1 when the value exceeds $500. Passage tickets to trans-Atlantic, South American or other ports not in the United States, Canada or Mexico are taxed according to a sliding scale running from $1-on tickets costing between $10 and $30, to $-5 for tick ets costing more than $60. Proxies for voting at any meeting, except Teligious, charitable, frater nal, educational or literary organiza tions, must bear 10 cent revenue stamps. For a power of attorney the tax is 25 cents. In addition to the old tax of 2 cents on playing cards, a new levy of 5 cents a pack is impos ed. ; . ' Farmer Severely Punished. London, Oct. 25. (By Mail.) The severest penalty yet given for violation of the farm cultivation acts has just been administered to Alfred White, a farmer of Maidstone. He was ordered by the authorities to cut down his acreage of hops by one-half. He paid no attention to the order, de claring that he would maife a profit of $50,000 out of the hops, and so Could well afford to pay a substantial fine. The court, fined .him only $li 000, but ordered the forfeiture of the. entire 'crop of hops ; and added a sentence'of two months in prison. - Washington, wNov. 30. Surgeon General William Gorgas reporting-on his investigation-of the epidemic -of meaVles and prevalence of pneumonia i t Camr ".Wheeler," Macon,: Ga.; de- blared that the number of cases'' of measles was decreasing, but express ed the fear "that we may -be begin ning here an epidemic of septic pneu monia.' r The report in full follows: JIn my recent inspection of Camp Wheeler, at. Macon, Ga., I found con di ions as had been indicated by re ports.. There has been a sharp epi demic of measles, some 3,000 cases; and, as always occurs with measles, a certain number -of cases of pneu monia. At the time of my visit, there were some 300" cases of pneumonia in a hospital. While the hospital was crowded, the righ t of -way was given to pneumonia cases and they were being well cared for. -"In the past month there have been about 60 deaths from pneumo nia. The height of the measles epi demic was passed some 3 0 days ago and at the time of my visit the epi demic was markedly on the decline, but the pneumonia does not develop until a week or 10 days after the in cidence of the 'measles. a "The camp is well situated .and was in generally good condition. I think the reason for the measles af fecting so. severely this particular camp is the fact that the men came from the surrounding Southern states which are sparsely settled and therefore , the , inhabitants do not,, as a rule, have measles in. childhood. '''A large proportion of the; cases ot.pneumonia frere evidently contact cases and-1 am .. anxious on this score, here Itndetc-df septic; pMo- nia. We have hfiti a few cae l ma. we nave nan a rew cases- or ineningitik; a f e wj eases of f scarlet fever arid some cases of mumps. "Whatever the -original cause of the epidemic and the present condi tions, all these evils are accentuated by the crowded condition of" the camp. The tendency to pneumonia has no doubt been increased by the fact that the men have generally been exposed to the cold weather of the past month with no5 other protec tion than their summer clothing. Clothing is now rapidly coming into camp and about two-thirds of the men are being supplied.-with woolen garments. "1 recommend that it be insisted upon that all men in the camp have 50 feet of floor space each, and to ac complish this that such additional shelter be supplied as may be neces sary; that no fresh men be brought into ca.np until the epiden ic has sub sided; that an observation camp be established and that all new men be kept under observation until tho main camp is free from infection." Appended is a statement by the war department which says that 1,000 additional tents had already been shipped to the camp and the number of men per tent reduced from nine to five. New arrivals are being segregated to minimize the danger of contagion and winter clothing, delayed; by the necessity of first equipping divisions in Northern latitudes and those sent abroad, now has been supplied. Woolen underwear reached the camp sometime ago and heavy out side clothing is being delivered as rapidly as railroad congestion will permit. ' General Gorgas was accompanied on his inspection tour by Col. Dean W. Howard, of the medical corps, re cently health, officer in cLarge of san itation in the; canal zone; Maj. Victor C. Vaughn, .'of the medical .reserve corps, formerly professor of hygiene at the University of Michigan and president of Michigan state health board; Maj. William H. Welch, .re serve corps , former professor of pathology and dean of the school of hygiene, Johns Hopkins . University, and Maj. Theodore- O. j Janewayr.re serve, corps; formerly prof eispr' .of medicine ait Johns Hopkins. -? ;r' German Destroyer Sinks. London; Nov."' 30.-7-A German tor pedo boat MegtrloyCr belonging" to the Zebrugge flotilla, struck a. mine, off Westkappelle, Holland, and sank, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam. Only two of her cfVwere saved, -y. . ' Washington, Nov. "30. The de partment of labor has swatted 2St of the ffalse reports' about: the iatijii ed Germans, at Hot Springs, in Or tlli ple statement. ' -t It was explained that the Inm&tes at the Ho-t Springs station' are&ot prisoners of war but alien enetiies. ' T5heys would have been deported it it had not been' for the international situation. The quarters- at. ' Hot Springs for officers are similar to those provided in .immigration sta tions for first-class passengers and for crewmen similar to the lodgigti for steerage or third-class passen gers. The full statement of the de partment says: Not Prisoners of War. "The inmates-of this station, un der the jurisdiction otr the" depart ment of laborare not prisoners of war. They comprise officers and crewmen of the German merchant vessels which were interned in the ports of the United States at the time of the declaration of war. As aliens they were amenable to the immigra tion laws, and "as alisn enemies" under the terms of the president's, proclamation they were also subject to the provisions of the revised status on which such proclamation is based. Their deportation which' would fol low in the ordinary course of events,. w as-impracticable in view of v. e in ternational (situation. C': "i ;" Mnst Be Cared For. "It 'early became apparent that pro vision imust be made for some cen : trjal conceratfon camp which woatd be adequate to. house .. these - alie s who were ' temporariiy , detained at various immigra'Uoti tib o4rtrhujD($ry4;i Afte4arhlr: ;: ' - ri - selected the resort at Hot SDrlnss.- T C., which offered admirable location from the standpoint of isolation as well as that of climate Accessibil ity to the railroads and a hotel ot adequate proportions for all imjgjfi diato needs. r More recently addition al buildings have ' been constructed, so that hew quarters similar to those which would be provided in immi gration stations for first-class passen gers arriving at ports ot. the United States are 1 f urnished " officers, -and lodging similar to ; that . which would be given steerage or thirdiclass pas sengers is furnished to the crewmen. Get Money For Working, "Contrary to the general imfjrs sion, these aliens receive no com pensation from the government ex cept such as is allowed them for work actually performed. Those who engage in construction work of one sort or another are paid at the rate of $20 a month, with an additional allowance of $5 per month to those acting in the capacity of foremen.' The interned officers have been per mitted to receive from any source not to exceed $10 and the crewmen not more than $5 a month. Re ceipts in excess of these amounts , are. placed to the credit of the aliens in a postal savings bank, or otherwise,, disposed of as desired. Permission is of course granted for legitimate purchases of clothing and other 'ne-r" cessities. -. .... .-. . Well Cared For AH Round. Sanitary conditions are maintained. :n jtr the direction of an experi enced officer from the public health service, who has been detailed for this purpose. Under the direction ; f the Y. M. C. A., suitable facilitie haye been provided for recreation of a healthful and wholesome nature. Arrangements are also made so that married men may have opportunity to see their families once a week, ; under the supervision of government officers, in quarters provided for this purpose. t . - -. . : Eggs? Yes, But Only d Few. "There is no warrant whatever for the statement that theso aliens are allowed an excessive amount of food. Three meals a day of plain, but: thor oughly palatable "and substantial food arep'roiy&edfor,fi. A limit ed numDer; of eggs is furnished; For thejnost jiart eraporatsd milk such as seamen prepare, on shipboard ,is '. usedi There;is no wasteland; thtT'y- j? ' same measures of economy '"and. cojir servation which are being, urged up- - -on every (housewife' are being prac ticed" at Hot' Springs.-. 3
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