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n hury Eveimlini WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Wednesday, lit tle change in temperature. m ONE EDITION 2 CENTS MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' VOL. 13. NO. 261. SALISBURY. NORTH CAROLINA, "lIL'Sh AL. NtmTliFlt fi, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS ITALIAN ARlViY AGAINIRUSS1A CONTINUE RETREATING BEFORE! TO DO HER UTMOST IS The Line of Tagliamento River Where Gen. Cadorna Made Stand in Hands of Enemy. BRITISH RENEW THEIR OFFENSIVE IN FLANDERS British Wedge Reaches Its Apex in the Passchendaele Area and Canadians Make Advances. (By Associated Press.) General Cadorna's army in N'nrthen Italy is agin retreating, forced back by the power of the Austro-German thrust. The line of the Tagliamento wlie-e the Italians have leen making a stand' after retreating from the Isonzo, has been won by th- invaders and the Italians have execuated it. Berlin reports. Virtually all of tthe Eastern Venitia also, it appears fr .mi official statements, is being left to Austro-German occupation. Rome announced this morning the evacuaiitno of the mountainous dis tricts of Northern Italian plaii was in progress for the establishment of a new line. This Was soon followed by the Berlin statement that the Ital ians were retreating: all alon.r t front' from Colbricon nort h of the Sugana valley, to the Fella valley. These momentous events mean that the Italians are withdr-i -in all along the entire front as far west as the edge of the Tretino district. Col bricon is near the Austrian border, about 40 miles northeast of Trent, while Fella valley lies almost in a direct line north from Udine. The whole Italian line aope&rentlv is being drawn back hi the direction of the Paize which run" approxima tely 25 miles west ot fhe Taglia mento and Cits iii a reasonably straight course course southwest across Italian territ )ry some 17 miles east of Veniece on the Adria tic to the Austrian Voider. This gives little more than 00 miles in length, compared wit tithe lin of approxi mately 1G0 miles that exi.-itttd before the Isozo retreat began. Newspaper dispatches from the Italian front this morning indicated 1hat General CaJoi'nu was preparing t) fall back on the new line after having made a stai; 1 on ihe Taglia mento to retard the enemy's advance. The renewal "f Ac British offen ive in Flanders was ushered in by ,n intensive biin'iuidir.ent reported esterday which .uri'.' ur)y in an at tack by General Ilaig's for-e.3 in the . hinlty of Passeneiidiicle. The Br!t i.h wedge reaches its apex in the Passchendaele ara. News dispatch es from British headquarter; filed not afte rthe attack was under full herulw-'.y leporied considerable suc-ce-s fr.) the th.r.ist. The Canadians were in the thick of tile figh: and re ported having rushed to a point ICO yards beyond iho village of Passch endcele. Other advances were indi cated to the north. The Italian army along: the Tag liamento river is seriously thcatered by another Austro-German stroke similar to that one which caused the gieat retieit along; the Osonzo line. The river has been crossed and the Teutons have advanced in force from Ihnanzo and the place of crossing would place the Italian army in al most a similar position as that which confronted it at the time of the re treat along the Isonzo. Indications are the the crossing; which was made wheie the river is narrow was not in great number an! the Austro-Germans are not able to advance greatly from this bank. The crossing; of the Tagliamento, however, breaks the Italian mastery of the weA bank unless they can drive them back. West of the Tagliamento river the ground is not broken up by many small streams and canals as is the case further south and the aim of the German staff may be to drive a wedge to the southwest to the river Liven za in the hope of cutting- off the right wing; of the Italians. A strong Italian blow might crush the force that has crossed the river i and eliminate this danger. General I Cadorna has not yet annonced that the Tagliamento river is the line on j (thich he would make a stand to save U'nice and dispatches from ,his head masters report that the river cross ing was expected and prepared against. The river Livenzo is short and narrow and would offer a natural barrier. The river Paiva, 25 miles west of the Tagliamento would seem to be as strong a natural defense as the Tagliamento. The Plava flows south and then southwest from the Oarnic Alps to Bellano, a few miles below which it makes a wida surve and then flows easterly to the Baltic, the last strong natural defense before, -Venice. The Pa to and the Tagliamento rise with in a few mile of each other, the one flows south and the other east, to AUSTRO GERMM Premier Kerensky Says His Gov ernment Has Done, Is Doing, Will Do All in Its Power. ASTONISHED AT VIEWS PLACED ON HIS INTERVIEW ! Devoted All Her Might to Cause ! When England Was Preparing ! and America Neutral. (T!y Associated Press.) Petrograd. Nov. r. Russia is still doing her utmost to carry en the war. She will cvn'inue to do her duty. These are the vi nvi of Premier Keiensky, whose secretary, in his name, protested tda,- agairt any other interpretation of his recent in terview to the Asr.i.-ir.l-.d Press. Dav id Fo-dicc, the premier's secretary, made the folio nig statement today reganLng t'. "misi itcrr.retation by some of the London Prers," of the in terview: "I have seen M. Kerensky with ref erence to the interview and shwn him quotations I'-.i.n t'ls Enu'irh p:is;. He is vfv much astonished at the manner in whi'h 'lis plain statements wern received in London. Whoever re-d ;he whoi interview can draw out jnv co'iclus'o l trom :l: Russie, was doing, is .loin, and still will do her utmost to carry on her share of the common cause against the enemy, having devuied all her might from the very first days ?f the war when England had inly begun vast preparations and America was still neutral." that a retirement along the Taglia mento might not seriously effect the defenses. The morale of the Italian army is renorted to be improving. The food urpiy has been replenished and the indications are that the resisting pow er of the Italians is rising, the sol diers having been restej by the Austro-German failure to cross the Tag liamento river as soon as it was reached. The Bolsheviki element is attempt ing to seize the political power in Russia. Reports form Petrograd say the radicals are in control of the Council of Workmen'3 and Soldier's Delegates and have ordered the gar rison in the capital to execute no mil itary orders except those issued by the council's military committee. Pe tropr:vd newspapers believe thr gov ernments will take 'vigorous action against the radicals. Crossing the River Seriously Menaces The Italians. The Austro-German forces operat ive, against the Italians along the Tagliamento river from the region -of the .'amic Alps southward to the Asiatic sen are proving a serious men ace. The invaders of Veneia have driv en their awy across" the river a. Pin zano and are proceeding westward, while to the north, on the Italian left wing, intensive operations are being carried out by the Tetutonie allies, the two .mjn?uvers probably having as their objective the cutting off of the "iitire richt wing of General Cador na's army. The Berlin war office in its an nouncement of tne fording of the river savs 6,000 Italians were madr pisoneis and that an additional num ber of guns also were taken. The Italian official communication makes only brief nientidi of the operation, merely asserting that the enemy suc ceeded in bringing some of his forc es to the right bank of the stream. There is no indication as yet wheth er it is the intention of General Ca dorna to endeavor to maintain the Tagliamento line, but it is' not im probable that his stand here is a tem porary one while positions of great strength are being prepared in the rear. Nevfer since . the retreat from the Isonzo front began has there been any official statement concerning the spot chosen by Cadorna for turning about against the enemy, but some military observers have considered that, with his large losses in men and guns during the retrograde move ment, he would merely elect to stand along the Tagliamento and retard the enemy until better arrangements, including reinforcements in men and guns, could be provided further back west ward. Both the Rome and Berlin war of fices are silent as to the movement begun by the enemy in the Trentino region last Saturday, which it was believed at the time indicated that the Germans, and Austro-Hungarians woudl attempt to push southward along the western 'banks of Lake Garda through Brecia and out upon the plains between Milan and Ve rona. In the first attempt to break the Italian front in this region the Teutonic allies met with repulse and even lost men made prisoners. The British and French troops in Flanders continue to carry out raid ing operaticfis successfully against the Germans and to bombard heavily .S. Comes to Understanding Regard ing China and Arrive at Under sttnding Otherwise. SERVICE HIGHEST VALUE PERFORMED FOR U. S. German Propaganda of Years Campaigning Has Been Undone in Few Days, Laming Says. ' (IBy Associated Press.) Washington, Nov. 'j. Japan ard the United States have reached com plete agreement regarding China and at the same time arrived clearly at an understanding as to naval, mili tary and economic co-operation in the war against Germany. This momen tous development was announced to day by Secretary Lansing, who made public notes exchanged by him and Viscount Ishii, the special Japanese embassy, formally recording agree ment? recognizing that Japan has special interests in China, but pledg ing independence and territorial in tegrity of the great eastern repub lic and reaffirming the doctrine of the "onen door" for commerce and indus try. In a statement accompanying the note Secretary Lansing said Viscount Ishii and members of his mission, now in way home, has rerformed. a service of the highest value to the United States as well as to Japan by clearing away a misunderstanding, which, if unchecked promised to de velop a serious situation in the far east. Secretary Lansing spoke of the at titude of constraint and doubt, fost ered1 by the campaign of falsehood jointly and secretly carried on by the Germans and said that through the frankness and cordiality of the Jan anese commissioners the propaganda of years had been undone in i few days. the enemy positions at various points, with the Germans replying actively in the sector between the Houtho'.st wood and the Comines-Ypres canal. Bombardments alw predominate on the southern part of the front in France. Two additional defeats of the Otto man force? ire recorded by the Brit ish in southern Palestine and by the Russians in the region of the Black sea coast North if Eeersheba, the British are pressing on with the defi nite object of the capture of the coast of Gai.a. In their operations?! they have taken 207 officers . and 2,420 prisoners. The Russians have driven the Turks from firsHine trenches in the Black sea region and have ad vanced at some places on the ChiH line. Large quantities of booty were captured. Claims Germany Is Not Democracy. Berlin via London, No. S. "While the troops of the Central lines were APAN AND THE U REACH AGREEMENT THK TRAIL OF THE BEAST Series of Attacks Culminates in Bold lkrd Sunday Night and the Town Is Aroused Arrests Made and .Man in Jail. Lcxinrton, Nov. S. The town is aroused anil mystified over a series of night attac'-s upon women, which leached a climax last night about 9 o'clock, when Missis Mayme Foun. taine and Lena Lefler were attacked by a white man at a dark spot up in one of the most frequented streets of Lexington. Miss Lefler fled when the man appeared andr.e seized Miss Fountaine, who resisted and her screams frightened the assailant :ao.v An hour or so later a young white man who gave his name at different times as Ford, Smith, S'mithersmnn and W. L. Haley, was taken in cus tedy after suspicious action. He was taken before Miss Fountaine, who at first identified him. Later, after recovering from her severe fright, she says she is unable to identify the man who attacked her beyond the fact that he was white of medium build and wore a slouch hat. A man wesring a slouch hat was seen by a man who lives i.ear the scene of attack, but the fleeing man had his back to the observer and only the fact that a slouch hat was wrrn retained itself upon hu mem ory. After the excitement of last niaht, it develops that at leait two similar attacks have been made upon wom en here within the past fe.v weeks, but both assailarts fled upon alarm and nothing was publicly said of the incidents. The attac'-s are of a srange nature and have been made near or in thickly populated sections and usually at an early hour of the night. Ti e man irf jail will be given a hearing tomorrow. He stoutly main tains his innocence. It appears rww that his name is really W. L. Hiley and that he came here yesterday with his wife from Winston-Salem, where he is wanted by officers on a charge, of housebreaking. Should he be released here tomorrow he will be turned over to officers from that place. ' forcing their way across the lag'ia mento fiermsny at home quietly crcsfed the political rubicon and in the'scace of five days change! from autocracy into democracy," declr.rcd Mathias Erzberger, leader in the Centrist party in an ;ietvie today with the Associated Prei corre spondent. Rome, Nov. C -The Italians have completely evacuated the territory in the mountaineous area in the north em plains of Northern Italy i:i order ta establish their new line, the war offic" reports. The enemy occup;ed this territory after the Italian withdrawal. BURGLAR CHOKED INFANT TO DEATH Lucy Henderson Plummer, Little 4-Mcntha-Old Daughter Raleigh People Silled During Night. BURGLAR FOUND OUT; MADE ESCAPE THROUGH WINDOW Thought That the Child Cried and the Burglar Promptly Chok ed It to Death. (By Associated Press.) Raleih, Nov. fi. Lucy Henderson Plummer, the four months oh) dnjgh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Kemp Plummer. one of the most prominent families of the city, was f mnd chok ed to 'death in her bed this morning shortly before 9 oVl)C, choked to death by burglars in the house aoout 2 o'clock this morning. The theory (Tf hu police is that the h;;by c:ied out and the burglar fear ing that its outcry mi?ht lend to his detection seized the baby by the throat and noze pnd choked it to death. No arrests hav- been made. The infant was very fretful last niftht mid it wai ncirly 1 o'doek hen the mother succeeded in fcetting it to sleep. It was an hour later when she heard "he rattTng of wish es in the dining room below. She thought ,k her 'msb i i I, who is as sistant state chemist, :ind who was out rr the city, thinking he had ie turnefl. lis;oeriiig th:U this was 'not the esse Mrs. Plunr.ur telephon ed the police and C.:)tim Duncan, who lived next doir. They dis.-ovcr-ed that the house had been :ntvod by burjlar, that he collected some food, and being interrupted by an ojt:ry he fied through a side window, drop 'irg a coat of Mrs. Pl.irnmer' as he left. Allied Fcrces Est.iblis'hed Themselves London. Nov. 6. Additional forct-s in the offensive against Germany have established them r'-Mves ' northeast of Ypres on the Belgium fidnt and have established themse'ves at a point be yond the village' of Passchendaele, says a telegram from Reuter's cor rcspondint at British hearduarter in France. AKStro-Gormans V.'iu Italian Line. Berlin via Ixndon, Nov. rt.--The Ttalaian line-on the Tagliamento river had been won by the, Austro-Germans, it w.H3 officially announced today by the German general staff. The Ital ians have evacuated the entire !in? along the river to the Adriatic coast. An automobile wind shield invent J ed in France has a hinged eerter fee j tion that can be ojencd to any extent I desired to lessen the air resistance. 1 A wide, fertile area wi!l be reelaim j ed by the construction of a thirty"- two-mile canal in Matanxas province 2 Cuba. IT ARMY Y. M. C A. ! Campaign to Raise Thirty - Five Million Dollars Is Bointr Plan- j ned for Throughout Nation. SALISBURY DISTRICT TO RAISE FIFTEEN TH0US0ND One Thousand Pledged at Confer 1 ence on Monday Night When Plans Were Made. The ii:t'o:i in going to ruise J.'i'i, p:() OIH) I mi the army Y. M. C. A., mid t -o Salisbury district, composed of ! Rowan, Stanly and Davie in to ra se $l.V0IHi ,,f thu. I At n conl'xi nice held in the t'om 'niiiniu I. ti i lil i ii.T ll night an organ jm.'ion was m:ido and the fifteen men j present pledged $1,001) of tli fifteen to be r .i.-e I in this district. One man 'in the . nfcrence Monday night said jtivt In would be one of five men in ! S:ili. I.i.i y lo g'.e ?500 t;i thi.i lioblo wcrk. The i uci'.i.g whivh was hld in tho I l'l.r.ir.v .M.nnl.iy night was culled to ' plin fcr the campaign in this city nnd l.) l'or"i the organization nnces sary fo- we.giiig the campaign to rair the money. It was presided over by Mr. W. F. Sniclar, the chair man of the district organization and .addressed by to or the army work ers from ('snip Greene. Mr. H. D. j Fryer, who is connected with the 'state organization talked of the wor ! and the plan for ruining the money j which is to he rpend in the homo and I foreign field with American and al lie's soldiers. Mr. A. K Bagley, h i in one of the physical dirt.'f.'irs at Camu Greene tald of the work in tho camps. Ho gave somewhat in detail the ma"ncr the day Is spent by the soldier and how the Y. M. G A. comes in an touches and strengthens his life. Rev. .1. H. Keller, of China Grove, the county chairman, made a short tal i saying he ia ready to go to work and help rais: tho money. Mr. Kne blc Rpoke of the local plans and the vyoik ahead for the county. , f Mr.' Snider tlwjt announced, the plans for organization, announcing the chairmen o fthe committees and calling for service. The city campaign organization in cludes an executive committee with Colonel A. II. Boyden as general chairman, Mr. A. S. Jones is vice chairman and Mr. J. M. McCorkle is fcasurer. Division leaders are nam. ed us follows: Men Mr. M. L. Jackson. Women Mrs. R. L. Bernhardt. Boys Mr. W. T. Andrews. Colored- Professor Sugg. Chairman on Publicity I. F. Hur ley. Chairman on 'Union f.'erviees A. B. Saleel-y. Coloin : l;.yden mane n short talk in acc'pting the general chairman shir tnd strid that he believed in the Y M. C. A. and was irt position to realize ami appreciate what it means '.a the men, the army and the safety of tho nation. He said that he wanted those present to say what they would give, that they ought to show their faith in a practical manner and start out with a definite sum pledg ed on the spot. This was responded to liberally. The first vaicet was for $100 and soon doubled. A number of ?100 sub srrpitions were made, some fifty and ome for $25, until the total pledged by the fifteen men present totaled $1,025 as a starter. The meeting was's very enthusias tic one. The men present pledged thtmselves to rot only give but to work, so that the amount asked for the district be met readily. It was planned t& bring in the boys and have them do a definite task. Thp women will be led hv Mrs. R. L. Bernhardt and will do fine work. The negroes aie to aid anil have been assigned a 'e.ider, and they have already plan, ned for a conference and in orgun i.ation to begin active work. The Union meeting Sunday night will be held in the Methodist Taber nacle and it is earnestly desired that all the city joifl in this meeting that the city campaign may be started wih an earnestness that will carry to a successful conclusion within the week named. MN J. L. MORRIS BEAD. Wife and Mother Living on Chestnut . Hill Virtim of Pneumonia Funer al and Burial Wednefday. Mrs. Mnry Louise Morris, age- S7 years, wife of Mr. J. L. Morris, died this mornine at 7 o'clock ai her home 919 South Main street, of pneumonia. Surviving is tho husband and two children, a boy about 12 years old and a girl about 9 years of age. The fun-1 oral takes place Wednesday after noon from South Main street "Meth odise church, conducts by the pastor, Rev. J, H. BrenHall, nd the inter ment n1ll.be iaf Chestnut Hill ceme tery- , r1 OPENING SESSION L Sermon by President M. 0. M. Scherer, of Charleston, S. 0., ; Marks the Opening, WELCOME MAYOR WOODSON AND STAHLE LINN, ESQ. N SYNOD Morning, Afternoon and Nifrht Sessions Will Be Held and Pub lic is Invited to All Meetings lcitiatir, t' the (.pcning of tho Q;nJi ii entenrn:il Convention of VtA " ted Southern Lutheran Synod in thus , city services were held in St, John's ? I.iitiierin c ui:h, vheie the seuions . if the S)nod will be held, last night, an I a largo rongregatian wai pr- cut. T'.ie devotional excrcisei were conducted by Rev. Dr, Longacre, of : Hk'r.cry, mid the aermon was hy Rev. ;; Dr, .Jnmes K'.nurd, of Greenood, S. C. Di. Kuiard spoke on "S3me i Fruits nf the Protestant Reforma ' v t'on," 'Hid delivered a most Interest, iiu discoi'-se, He nit only pointed- mi! that, the Reformation gave to the v world nlitrmis liLeitv hut civil lib crty as well, also that tha education of te youth ;; givc.i its onward .,,.. n atch through the Reformation. , Thee and other helpful things which are so much enjoyed by Protests nt countries today were shown to bo the direet fiuit of the work of Martin.v Luther in giving t: the world the open Bible and the Reformation. Delegates to the Sjnod began com !ng in Minday afternoon and fiulte a . ? turnber of ministers were present at the initial service last night. This , morning other minister! find dele . gates and those who will attend the ; , Svnod came in and others' expect: ' ed this afternoon and t. might. The first, session was held this v morning beginning at 10:.10 o'clock,' , at which time Rev. Dr. M. G. M. Scherer, D. D., of Charleston, 8. C, pesident of tha S'ynod, delivered the : ? opening sermon. This was followed by the formal opening of the Synod, tha roll call and recepttan of dils gates from other bDilles. Then came y a statement by President Scherer ' touching, or the work for which tha body waa assembled. Thfs cbseJ the momi vr session pnd and an adjournment wis taken fjr the. noon recess, the Sjnod asBii)b' ling again at 3 o'clock this afternoon, at which time devotbnul exercises were conducted by Rev. J. A. HurTard an:l then came reports of doloates i from other bodies and hearing of the . delegate?, from central bsdics. .Thfra were re'snonses to thc30 reports" ty ' Revs. C. A. Freed and Geocre S. Bow."' ; crs and tl.c.i enmc at aiMnju, ''Tha formation and the Office of tli Miniitry," by Rev. G J. Canswarp, I). D. Mayor Walter M. Woxlaui on le half of the city in a fltwly spoken nddrcsa welcomed tho memliehs of this great body uf Southoci Luther. an representatives tJ ttis city, ar,e ; ot the centers of I.utheranism (n the Southland was followed bv Stable Linn, Esq., a member of St. John's church, who on behalf r the 'Lat.c, , ans of the commiunify, wot.-omed the '" m!plsWj and delentjs nnJ all vis itors ta St. John's chuch r.n.l tj the ' homes of tho Lutherans of tho city and community. This evening at 7:110 o'clock m ; :h pers will be by Re?. P, B. Chusun, , nd then an vldre on -"The Refar." mation and tho Liity," by Prof. , Gcrrgo B. McAllister, of Mt. Pleas- : ?nt, who will be followed byvRoV, J.'-,-Henry Harmes, P, D., in an addresa ! on "The Effect ot the Reforniation in ' ths Quickening of the Human Con science." . ?. As previously stated all of the seg' v thm of the Synad willbe open to the . public and special invitation is given any and all who wiah ta attend the ' ?e-sions. Semo splendid addresses are on the program by leading clergy j men rnd hymen of the various Luth ' eran Synods on the United States. ; Wednesday's Program. . The fallowing is the program for ' tomorrow's sessions of the Synod: v, 9:30 a. ra.-Matins, Th Rev. J. W ' Marine, f). I). . . , . Import of committee on moarrer and proposed constitution. j Hiscussion and action, . .100 r- m. Devotional services, r Rev. R. L. Frttx, D. I). , ' - - v Address: "hat Twentieth Century , Protestantism Inherits from Sixteenth , ;" f'entury Devotion to Truth.--Rev A. G. Voigt, D. D, LL. D. 7:W p. mv Vespers, . Rev. , W, ' Hoope, D. p. ' . .'" r ,; . Address :Effect of. the Beforma-: s tion in the1 Sphere of Education-Rev.v f- A. Fax, D. D., LL. D.; v . , , Social ' Hour Rev. M. M. InardW pastor, presiding. 4 , j; . - The Junior Davidson of Spencer Methodist church -wUI give a literary program and hold a business session at the school auditorium tomorrow . night The exercises will be , in rbirfr of Mru. W. M. Eagle and will take place, of the usual prayer meet ing. ' " -
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