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An Advertising me dium for Business Men. aligbuiiiry Evening Post MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Local and General News at First Hand, VOL. 1.5. . 1.V5. SAMSBl'RY, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY. Jl'I.Y 9, 1917. PRICE TWO CENTS NEW AND POWERFUL BLOW BY RUSSIANS AMFKH SOI DU'.ltS IX Ol TING ON THE THAMES. They Have Apparently Broken the Austro-German Line West of Stanslau. RENEWED ONSLAUGHT BROUGHT PRISONERS. Germans Making Attempt to Shake French From Positions Along Chemin-Des-Dames. Kl'SSIANS TAK E MORE villages. Pctrograd. July 9. Several villages and seven thousand men have been taken by the Russian west of Stanishui in Galiria, the war ollice announr- ed today. Forty guns, im-lud- ing 12 of large sie, and many machine (funs have been cap- tured also. EXPLOSION AT IRE LAND NAVY YARD Two Storehouses Where Explos 1 ives Were Kept Blown Up and ; Many Men Injured. REPORTED THAT EIGHT WERE KILLED OUTRIGHT The hej'ts of Londoners hi;ve been ' photugruph shows ;i boat load ol them open to the Anieiiean soldiers wh 1 on the Thames looking over the his accompanied or followed Central toric landmarks of which they learn ,lohn J. Pershing to London. This ed in their school histories. lATf WAR MEASURES AROUSED LONDON (By Associated Tress.) New and powerful b.ows are being struck by the Russians in Cilieia. They have apparently broken the Austro-German line west of St mislaii and south of Ilullicz, as today's offi cial report from Petrograd not only reports important trains for the Rus sians in the Stanisluu area but de clares the Russian cavalry pur.-ued th; retreating enemy. The pursuit ha& already reached the Lukza rivi r. Hall.icz, the gateway to Lemberg from the south, seems doomed to fall un less the Russian onslaught is stepped. A Russian push northwest from Ktnn islau would result in Halliez being hemmed in on three sides. The renewed Russian onslaught in this sector brought not only addition al territory but 7,000 prisoners and IS guns, including a dozen large cal ibre pieces. The total capture of prisoners here now amounts to in ex cess of 25,000. North of Stanislau area General Rrussiloff is holding fast to his new lv won positions in the vicinity of Rrzezany near Kaniuchy where his troops are well placed for a contin uation of the drive upon I.emb.'rg along: the converging railway lines. Austro-German counter attacks here failed to shake the Russten po sitions. There is little but local fighting: on the British front in Northern France but farther down the line the Ger mans are giving the French little rest, attack after attack being launch ed by the Crown Prince in the a'. tempt to shake the French from their positions along the Chemin-Des-Dames. There w:s another suh drive last night at Pantheon, but like the others that preceeded it, the ef fort was unsuccessful. Meanwhile such trenches as the Germans were able to hold after their repulse in the attack of Saturday night in the Ainse region were wrested from them in the greater part hy the British counter offensive, started by the French. With the Prohibition Question The Morning Papers Reflect the ! Out of the Way for the Present I General Indignation of the j Turns to Other Matters. I Public Over Policy. 1 COMMANDEERING SHIPS IS SOME CAUSTIC COMMENT QUSTION OF INTEREST . OVER THE SATURDAY RAID Shipbuilders Say That This is ' Papers Say That England is Fall ing Behind in Air Activity and That She Must Speed Up. What is Coming, government Taking the Activities Over. QIAXTICO TRAINING CAMP READY SOON. That at Port Royal, Also for Marines, Will be Ready Within a Week. Washington, July 8. The marine training camp at Quantico, Va., con sisting of approximately 250 build ings, with accommodations for 6,500 men, will be ready for occupancy by August 1, according to present pros pects. Major Seth Williams, of the ma rine corps, said today that the build t ings are nearly complete, and 2,000 men can be accommodated now. The camp include barracks, mess halls, power house, base hospital and other buildings. Only fifty men will bo quartered in each building as a pre caution against possible spread of contagious diseases. It also was stated today that the Port Royal, S. C, camp will be pre pared within a week to accommodate 9,000 men. (By Associated Press.) Washington, .lily 9. With the pro hibition issue disposed of, at least temporary, in the senate the food con trol bill was taken up today with ex pectation that a vote would be reach ed by Thursday. Senator Chamber lain, in charge of the .bill, was asking for unanimous consent for a voteat that time and unlses getting the con sent he will invoke the cloture law. The Senate took up the bill that section which would give the Presi dent authority to commandeer fac tories, mines and other plants and to operate them at a fixed wage durinr the war. There is considerable op position to this measure. Shipbuilders Expect Government Ac tion. New Yor', July 9. The comman deering of the ship yards in New York and New Jersey was predicted here today by one official of one of the largest ship yards when he was in formed that labor leaders contem nlated a general strike unless the de mands of the striking workers in some .of the yards are met. There are twelve thousand men in the ship yards in this vicinity and six thousand of them are on strike. The men ask for $4.05 a day, an advance of about 50 cents a day over present scale. A statement by those in charge say that seven firms have agreed to give the increase and one of the officials of a large ship yard stated that the shipbuilders are prepared for the strike and do not fear the issue. YOl 'NG CHINESE EMPEROR ANNOUNCES ABDICATION. Publishers at Asheville. Asheville, July 9. Leading news paper publishers from the Southwest ern States were present todav at the ; opening of the annual convention )f Southern Publishers Association here. ; It was expected that seventy-five publishers would be present. j EMPEROR CALLS (CONFERENCE. London, July 9. According to report which reaches f Rotterdam from Berlin and i forwarded by the News Ex- change bureau, Emieror Wil- iiani has invited the neutral amlwssadors and ministers to a conference. London. July 8. The dispatch from Peaking early this morning announcing- the abdication of Hsuan Tung, the young emperor, who was put back on the throne by General Chang-Hsun, is corrobated by a cable gram received todav from Reuter's correspondent there. It auuears that General Chang-Hsun, depressed by failure of his attempt to restore the monarchy, tendered his resignation to the emperor, who there upon issued an edict announcing his abdication. The republican forces occupy strategic positions on the southern and western outskirts of the city, and there is every prospect of a peace ful settlement. Germans Aid Manchus. Tokio, Friday, July . (Delayed According to reports reaching Tokio, the movement to restore the Manchu dynasty in China 11 being aided by German agents. Palace Bombarded. London, July 8. Reuter's Tekinp correspondent reports that the palace there was bombarded by an ariplane yesterday. Seized Papers Gave Proof. New York, July 7. Papers seized in the offices of Wolf von Igel, secre tary of Captain Frani von Papen, gave "the government proof of German plots to foment uprisings in India and Ireland, it was learned here tonight The information, it was said, also had an important bearing upon the arrest pf Sir Roger Casement (By Associated Press.) London, July 9. The r.-.orning pa pers are devoting much attention to the Saturday's German air raid, and the comment reflects the popular in dignation and some feeling towards the government. The country is hu miliated and disgraced, declares some of these comments. The incident seems to take form in indignation against the war office and the aid service of the admiralty, and there is demand for the removal of the ones responsible for the "miserable (lis play of incumpctircy." Even those comments that are more conservative complain that Great Britain is fill ing far behind in air crafts and that she needs some speeding up. The reference of General Haig to the increased activity in air operations bv the Germans is highly significant. In all comments there is the same note of outraged international pride and disgust at the impunity at which the enemy came, riddled and depart ed. It is remarked ulso that the aerial attack raises to a practical level the question of a possibility of absolute devastation of London by aircraft and the infliction of such losses as will amount to a serious, military de feat. If a score of enemy machine. are able to operate with calm im punity it is asked what will happen if 200 come and as Koelnische Zci tung recently urged, a thousand. To Discuss Defenses of London. London. July 9. In the House of Commons today Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, announc ed that a s?eret session of the House would be held this evening to discuss the air defenses of the country. In official circles it has been defi nitely concluded that 22 German air planes participated in the raid on London Saturday and that the raiders were of Gotha type machines. These are thiee times the size of the single seaters and therefore apparently were flying a third higher than the smaller machines would seem to be. The immense drive of the new type also gives the impression that the airplanes were flying slow whereas they were traveling between 70 and 80 miles an hour. Fire Started in the Wrecked Building and These are Con sumed. Windows Broken. (By Associated Press.) San Francisco, July 9. Two store houses at .Mar Island navy yard on the San Francim-o bay were destroyed by :.n explosion thi . morning. Wheth- ' er nny lives were lost has not been ; determined. Twelve or fifteen maga-1 zines were badly dam-aged by the ex- j plosion, the force of which broke; thousands of windows in Vallejo, hall' a mile away. File started in the' wrecked buildings and despite efforts -to check the flames they spread to ' other buildings where explosives were ; stored. Several buildings used as sleeping quHtters for detachments of gunner-I were wrecked. Whether anv of the I men were in thee buildings is not known. Naval officers at Vallejo said about 200 men were employed in or near the biuidings wrecked but whether these had icported for work at th.- time i.f the explosion was not km.wn. Eight Killed, Many Injured. Vallejo, July 9. It is repirted (hat eight men were killed in the black I powder storehouse explosion at Mar Island navy yard at Vallejo this morning. Navy officials admit that a great number of men were injured. Men on Ferry Were Injured. San Francisco, July 9. The explo sion at Vallajo occurred at 7:45 this morning and the concussion was so terrific that a train under the South err Pacific sheds at Vallejo, some dis tance from the scene, had the express doors torn from their hinges. Among the injured is Lieutenant Bird, United States marine aviation corps, and two other men residing in Pass?.dena, who were passengers on ferry boat operated between South Vallejo and Vallejo junction. They are suffering from shock and glass cuts. Although the boat was in mid stream two miles from the explosion, all the doors and windows were blown out. Orders that no person be allowed to leave the Mare Island navy yard were issued by the commandant of the yard. No official announcement has been made as to the number of casualties. AMERICANS LEAVING FOR THE FRONT ARE GIVEN OVATION BY THE FRENCH City Astir Over the Leaving of the Men For the Permanent Camp in the Rear of the Firing Lines General Sibert Leads Men to the Front. A French Port, July 9. This city was astir to day at the prospects of the intended departure of the American soldiers for a permanent training camp. General William Sibert will leave in an automobile for the front today to take up headquarters which have already been prepared "s omewhere in France," in hearing of the Gtrman guns, if not withing range of these guns. The troops hailed with delight the prospects of early departure and the whole city took a holiday to visit the troops before their departure. CHAPTER I SPENCER Organization is Formed With Mrs. Stanback as Chairman and Secy. Stevenson, Secy. MAYOR WOODSON AND OTHERS MADE TALKS Shake Up in Passenger Service is the Rule Now That New Sched ule is in Effect. VISION OF A MURDER IN MISS CORRIHER if Y The Massapequn Sent to the Bottom on Last Saturday, I he Crew Being All Saved Sailed for a French I'ort in June. (By Associated Press.) London, July !. The American steamship Massapequu was sunk on lust Saturday by a German subrout ine. The crew was safely landed. The Massapequa was a 3,193 ton gross ship. She was armed and manned by gunners from the navy. She was built in 1K03 and wa owned by a New York and Porta Ri'-an com pany. She ship sailed June ISth from the United States for France with a general cargo. She was com manded bv Captain A. S. Strumm and had a crew of HI men, of whom 10 were listed as American citizens. DIVINE SARAH WINNER IN FIGHT WITH DEATH; PLANS A WORLD TOUR. DRAFT CREDIT TO N. C. War Department Announces That the State Will be Given Credit for 1,003 Men Enlisting in Regular Army. fBv Associated Press.) Raleigh, July 9. Advices received j here fiom the war department are. that North Carolina will be credited against the draft with 1,003 men who enlisted in the regular army between April 20 and June 2. Gaston county led in recruits with 81 men. What credit will be allowed for men enlisting in the national guard was not announced but it is certain the number will be greatly in excess of that for the regular army. Hendersonville Woman, Missionary to China, May Die From Injuries. Hendersonville, July 0. Mr. and Mrs. George Corriher, of Henderson ville, have just received a message from Shanghai, China, that their daughter, Miss Bessie f'orriher, who is suoerintendent of the Southern Presbyterian mission hospital of that city, had been very seriously burned by the explosion of an alcohol lnmp The letter gave very little encourage ment for them to hope for her recov- I ery. j Miss Corriher has been in China j eight years and is supported .by the j First Presbyterian church of Greens boro, N. C. She was at home on fur lough last year and traveled over a sreat part of North Carolina making addresses before missionary societies. She spent several weeks during last summer and autumn, in this city with her parents, and delivered several addresses here which will long be re membered for thir earnestness. She left here in November to sail back to China. New York, July 7. Trifffis like be ing nearly 73 years old, being in a crippled condition and only recently having recovered from an illness and an operation which for weeks held her life in the balance, do not daunt Sarah Bernhardt. The great French actress is now planning a dramatic tour of the world, which will tirke her across the United States, to Hawaii, thence to Australia, perhaps Ceylon and oth er countries of the Orient. She will start late this fall. The plans for the trip are not yet sufficiently definite for the details to be made public. Mme. Bernhardt has only been out of Mount Sinai Hospital since May 27, where she was confined for week with an illness which threatened her life. Clina j WEATHER FORECAST er v..,. i British women are taVinar the places of lumbermen being called to the front for war serriccs. Generally fair tonight and Tues day; general to moderate shifting winds. FORMER GERMAN EMBASSY ATTACHE IS SENT AWAY. New York, July 7. The United States Government sent Heinrich Schaifhausen, a former German em bassy attache in Washington, out of the country. The departure of the Norwegian steamship on which secret service agents placed him was delayed by their actions in arresting a Ger man, Berg Von I.inde, under the1 es pionage act. This prisoner was charg ed with passing money and three packages of letters to the ship's steward. Von Linde was taken to the Fed eral building in B-yoklyn. He said he was engaged in the import and ex port business with offices in Wall Street. Schaafhausen was brought here this afternoon from Washington by Department of Justice agents. With him on the ship when he sailed were aman and women who gave their name3 as Mr. and Mrs. J. Berg and two children. Schaafhou3en refused to make a statement. Linde was later released officials saying they were convinced he was not a spy. Fifty thousand disabled soldiers were placed in employment in Eng land last year. Paisley (Scotland) printers have been granted an increase of pay of 75 cents a week. Failure of Mr. Ira Bailey to Return Home Saturday Night Caused Much I'neaMiies l.oculed in Roanoke, Va. Some excitement was created In the Woodleaf section of the county and uls. in Salisbury Sunday morning when it was announced that Mr. Ira Bailey had disappeared and no trace of him could be found, Mr. Bailey Is a son of Mr. Radford Bailey, Rowan's largest trucker and fruit growe-, and :s himself a largft raiser of tr.Jje articles. He has been making regular trips to Winston-Salem with a truck load of vegetables several times a week, always return ing early in the evening. Saturday he madi his usual trip to Winston Salem, sold a bi load of truck but failed to return home at the usual time. Inquiiy was begun and later when he had not shown up an investi gation was started. It was learned that he had drawn some money from a Winston bank, so it is stated. On the road .from Winston to Woodleaf a place was found where an automo Lile had turned around in the road near the river and there were -places whic'i gave signs of a struggle having taken place in the road. Then there were feais that Mr. Bailey had been waylaid and robbed and his automo bile stolen and in which the murderers made their escape. The body had been thrown in the river, that much was certain, with some. Sheriff Krider was communicated with and went to the scene early Sunday morn-1 ing with deputies und the -Winston officers were also notified. However, all the fears and uneasi ness of the family and friends van- nhed when it became known that Mr. Bailey hud gone from Winston to Roanove. Va. He had sent his wife i telegrah from WinstDn lat? Saturday evening telling her he was going overt to Roanoke on business but as the office at Woodleaf was closed at the time the message was started from the Winston office the telegram was not delivered until Sunday morning. It was a night of suspense for the wife and other relatives as well as friends of Mr. Bailey, and 'the sus pense was all the greater because he is always prompt in returning home or eUe notifies his wife. (By A. W. Hic'-s.) Spencer, .l.ily !. A Red CrQ3S Chapter was or ranized in Sponrsr Sunday night with Mrs. T. M. Stan 1 ack, wife of a prominent druggist, as president, B. F. Stev-iiifon, secre tly of the Y. M. C. ., ii j secretary; and Mrs. J. Wruy Freaman, ; well known church worker here, us treas urer. The organisation win effected at a must meeting held .n t:ie graded M-hcol nudito ium at which Mayor Wal'.ev II. W'jo.lson, of Salisbury, was the central speaker. About 50 members were enrolled nt the Vltial metting and the chapter is to remain in tact during the war or longer. Half of the membership fee is o be used locally and the other half g-es to the National organisation. The shake up of passenger sched ules on the main lino of the Siuthern Railway effective Sunday is affecting quite a number of well known nct neers and conductois. Amonf these i3 Engineers Geo. J. Freelaiul, ai.d W. C. Gatewood who for years have been pullini Nos. 21 end 22 beteen here and Goldsboro. The former ht;P taken a wor. train out of Selma and the latter a through freight run from Spencer to Selma. Another man on this run is Engineer Will Rippey who takes a passenger run out of Greans horo. It is said th curtailment of the service will amount to more than 250 miles daily o nthe Danville division. FOR GREAT AVIATION PROGRAM gerretsrv Daniels Asks for Addition al Million to Put Through a Spec ial Program for the Navy, Inde pendent cf the Defense Council Pro gram. (By Associated Press.) Wellington, July 9. Brigadier General Squier, chief signal officer, and otehr army experts, appeared be fore the House military committte to day to advocate immediate action on thf bill providing the war department with a great aviation program. At the request of General Squier the ses- sion was executive, the general ex plaining thit the 22,625 aircraft de sired and the engines would, cost ap proximately $363,000,000 and the rest of the $27(,000,000 would be neces sary to man the air fleet and provide ammunition and supplies. Secretary Baker and some French officials on duty here and others are expected to appear before the com mittee lated on and Chairman Dent hopes to report the .till to the House the last of the week. LONG AERO SQUADRON FLIGHT, CHARGE CONSPIRACY TO PROMOTE A REVOLUTION Three Hundred and Twenty-Threc Machines Take the Air at One TJme and Make Practically Mile a Mln- Chicago, July 9. What is believed to be the longest squadron flight of army aeroplanes so r was quietly accomplished today when 323 took the air at 6 a. m. from the aviation field at Ashburn, a subun'-, and flor in one hour and 25 minutes, practieal lv a mile a minute, to Rantoul, near Champagne,- III. The trip was made without accident. The Ashburn camp was abandoned because the government was unable to secure additional land needed with out paying what was considered to high price. SFABOAR DCLERKS STRIKE. Indictments Returned Against 98 Men Charged With Efforts to Cause Indian Rebellion Again British. San Francisco. July 7. Indictments charging conspiracy to promote a revolution against British rule in In dia were returned here today against j HH men located in various sections of Ameiica and abroad and ranging from millionaires and diplomats to Hindu laborers, w.th San Francisco as the base of operations in this country. The true bills were pres ented to Federal Judge W. W. Mor row by the federal grand jury after mnny weeks' investigation. Fourier German consuls in Chicago, Honolulu, Shanghai, Manila and San Francisco, together with members of their staffs and former attaches of the. German embassy at Washington are among those indicted. V'..ia R C Pitv rViunril ha IIVUMI VI ( ' ' -' ' passed a three-dollar-a-day minimum wage ordinance for city laborers. Richmond, Va.. July ?. Twenty six clerks comprising practically the entire force went on strike today at the Seaboard Air Line freight offices here, and business was immediately suspended. The strike was referred to the rail iy's c'lief offices at Nar ,n. r .liintmant It was occa sioned by the refusal of the railroad . to grant a raise, reported to be 20 per cent. An increase of 10 per cent had ieen granted, effective July 1st T.iis was not satisfactory to tha clerks. Daniels Wants More Money." (By Asjrociaid-Press.) x Washington, July 9. Congress was asked by Secretary Daniela today ;. appropriate 45.OO0.P0O for aeronau- , . tics in additbn to the amounts ear ned in the fiscal year- appropriation, bill. The navy is working out a, Con siderable air program of Hs own asidtJ from the $626,000 ,000 air craft pro ject of the defense council program.