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'.- v' ROWAN MUST GO OVER THE TOP ON WAR SAVING STAMPS WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy and cooler tonight. Thursday, fair and warmer. 2 GENTS MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. 14, NO. 174. SALISBURY. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. JULY 31. 1918. PRICK TWO CENT! ssjiislbuiiiry-E ONE EDITION AMERICAN TALK Food will win the war (that we Ifclaive iheajxl so often and ao long; Am erica has Che food. Ships will win the war ithat, too, has ibeen repeat edly asserted and, America has the ships. Men will win the war and, also, America has the men. Hoover, our own Herbert, who fed the Belgians alrvl u1ho organized our own food icalmpaign, recently went to Europe and there he invade an invest igation of food conditions, and Mr. Hoover cabled the (hotels and public eating places in America that they could on August 1st have released to them their voluntary pledgee to use no wheat Unrt.il the present harvest. He also congratulated the proprietors of these public eating places upon their .patriotic service. Though exact figures Viave not been compiled, it was estimated today by the food administration that through ithe voluntary pledge made by hotels, restaurants, clubs and dining cars there has been effected between Octo ber, 1917, and Auigust 1, 1918, a saining of between 175,000,000 and 200,000,000 ipoO.nds of wheat and its products; 150 000,000 pounds of meat and 50,000,000 pounds of sugar. America has (been, is, saving food, and America has been, is, building ships, so that' if it itakes ships to win this war iwe are here with, the ships. It takes tjrJe ships to get the men and food and: provisions and supplies across, and we are getting all across. As to men we have more than 1, "00,000 over there mow and others are crossing daily. More are coming up and more are yet ready to answer the rail 'the call to arms to whip the !uns. FVod, ships, men, America has all these, and America having tJhese spells the doom of the obnoxious Hun. The Ten Commandments foir tIMe Fit ipeople will be of interest to Arneriktins. Recently the -League of Patriots, with headquarters in Paris, distributed a leaflet, urging the French people to endure without oam plamt the restrictions imposed upon thsm. These so-icalled Ten Command ments are valuable to us as well as tve Frendv'and are here reproduced: "1 tj hot forget that we aire at ww. In your smallest expenditures ivver lose rght of the interests of the Native lind. 2" Economize on the products nec essnry for li'te life of the country: coil, ihread, meat, milk, sugar, but ler, b?ins, leather, oil. Accept ra tions. Ration yourself as to food, clothing, amusements. "3 iSave the products of American Foil, lest some day you deprive your father, your son, your husband, Who are skidding their blood to defend you. "4 Save the products thut America is iprodlucing. Do not drain reserves of 'gold, which are indispensable to victory. 4 Waste noting. All waste is a crime which imperils the national defense )rirOlon?8 the war. "6 Buy only (according to your needs. .Do not hoard ipirovisions; your selfishness Taises prices and deprives il' eie of smaller Means of things in dispensable bo existence. "7 Do nat travel unnecessarily. Reflect that our trains are, before all, dest'ned for the transportation of the troops, the feeding of the population, the neads of cur national production. "8 iDo not remain idle. According to your age ani your ability, work frr your country. Do not consume without (producing. Idleness is de sertion. "9 lAacept without murmuring the privatidrM which are imposed upon you. Reflect upn the sufferings of tnose who are fighting for you, upon the m-ixtyrdom of the population wfhoso fasartMs have been devastated by the enemy. "10 Remember that victory be Lrs to ihose (Who can hold out a Quarter of an hour the longest." America, has the men, tihe ships and the fct ti Or-ir smrply is increasing oni !.he supply of our enemy is not, According to the best information to be had. Certain it is that just and Merciful Cod Cis been pood to this nation and has given us a bountiful crop out cf whiA we can feed oar selves tnd our allies. This dees not mean a license to wast nd squander. It does riot mean the li'xrty to stuff arvi overfeed, best it means that we have iput into our banc's one of the instruments for the suniufcg at die war. ' wss The sale of the M. P. Mbore farm, formerly th.T. P. Johnston farm, northeast of the city, bordering on , Cranf creek, it taking place today. WIM AMERICAN GENERAL MARCH SAYS RUSSIAN PEOPLE PLANNING UPRISING Reports Coming; Out of Russia De clare That the Bolsheviki Re gine is Losing Power. SOCIALISTS CALL ON THEIR FELLOWS TO INVESTIGATE Russian Masses About to Rise Up and Overthrow the Present Tyranny. (By the Associated Press) Ixmdon, July 31. Information reaching Stockholm, says the corres pondent of the Times, shows that the Bolsheviki regime has come to the end, of its tether, and the Russian masses. workmen and peasants are u.bmit to rise in army against it and the present tyrany. Official reports say that the so cialist revolutionists Social Demo cratic parties in Russia are arriving: in Stockholm and declare that the Socialists have issued a ringing ap peal to the socialists of all other countries of Europe, calling on them to name a commission representing all parties to visit Russia and make an investigation first hand, and deter mine if the Russian socialists are not right in declaring that the Bolshev iki rule is bound to spread disat'.er and starvation and bring about most desperate conditions. The declaration is made that the opre3sion grows and must be stopped at all cost. Czecho Slovaks Capture Bridge. London, July 31. The capture by Czecho Slovaks in a surprise attack of the large railway bridge at Syz ram in the Volffa region is reported in a Moscow dispatch transmitted by the Central News correspondent at Amsterdam. This capture, the mes sage says, secures to the Czecho Slovaks in this region communication with Siberia. W S S THAN GREAT BRITAIN Comparison of Treasury Reports and Newly Issued British Financial Statement Shows We Are Spending More Money Than Our British Cousins. - Washington, July 31. America's V,iT expenses are now running five per icent higher than those lof Great IBritain, it was shown today by com pariscln of treasury rejports and new ly issued British financial statement. Owing to the shorter time the Uni ted States has been in the war, how ever, her national (war debt is only one-tthird as large as that rf Great Britain, and the individual burden of taxation in this country now is only about .one-half as much as in I'ngland. WSS 1 RAILROAD STRIKES (By Associated Press.) Washington, July 81. Railway em ployees Were told today by Director Genetfil McAdoo, in announcing: de tails of the wage increase for man that) 600,000 shopmen, tint the na tion expected new energy from tha workers fn retain for Increase in pay and . improvement in working condi tions, and that strikes and other la bor disturbances must be eliminated during the war. EVIfl FORE SAMDFRE THE POSITION IS BEING MAINTAINED Americans and French Are Main taining the Forward Positions Which They Have Taken. HUNS TRY TO TAKE GROUND FROM THE AUSTRALIANS General Pershing Says Enemy Counter Attacks Are All Repulsed. (By Associated Press.) Paris, July 31. The American troops have maintained their position in the regioin of .Scringes which they tt-.ok after violent fighting, the war office announces today. The Germans made forceful at tacks against the new positions fast of Quncq CWiiteaui. They were repuls ed an dthe Frentlh lime hfM intact. French and Germans carried out raids at a number of other points, east and west of the Martie salient, but they brought no change in the sit uation. Gorman Artillery Active Around ' Merris. Ixndon, July 31. German artillery displayed considerable activity last night in the rejaribn of Merris on the landers front which point wa3 tafcn by the Australians (yesterday, also in the Kemmel sector, the war office an nounces. Gr rman Counter Attacks Repulsed, Says Pershing. Wrshinifton, July 31. The repulse of the enemy counter attacks on the line of tHe Ourcq after hard fighting, land the strengthening of the Amer ican position is the report which is contained in the communique of Gen eral Pershing of y !terday and re ceded Iby the war department today. French Airmen me Parachute. With the American Army In France, Wednesday. Captain Ferret, a French aiviatar, has Hurried out the first experiment of falling from a i ma vino- aimlane with a parachute, i Captain Farret fell 800 yards with an umbrella 12 yards wide and made a safe landing. German Effort Against Americans Fruitless. With the American Army on the Ainse-Marne Front, July 31. Efforts made by the Germans to advance the line against the Americans on this front last night and forenoon was fruitless. The Americans for their part were content to hold the position along slightly advanced lines-'for the time. The German line is reported gradual ly giving away both to the right and left. There was hard fighting throughout the night but no cencen trated attack in force on either side. No Peace Proposals Presented. London, July 31. Speaking in the House of Commons today Andrew J. Balfour, British foreign secretary, j buiu nil enemy guveriimeiib iiau ujr- proached the entente allies regarding negotiations for peace. W S S ARE CALLED FOR DUTY ON SHIPS Reservist Summoned to Get Ready to Take Charge of Ships Now Be ing and Already Built by the Ship plaf Board. Washington, July 31. Orders have been issued by the war department rallinr into active aenvica thousands :of reservists for duty on ships) con structed under ihe stopping board and navy's building prqgraim. The exact number of HI Ml trans ferred to the active duty list is not announced but it is said every man for whom space exists in the training 'ceimps has been summoned. RH ip MOLD PRME OBJECT NOW IS TO SLAUGHTER HUNS L ; Field Marshal Von Eichhorn Com ! mander of the Germans in thA Ukrains Killed by a Bomb. REPORTED THAT HE AND HIS ADJUTANTS KILLED Bomb Thrown From a Cab Whica Drove Along Side Their Carriage. (By Associated Press.) Amsterdam, Jiuly 81. Field Mar shal Von Eichhorni, tihe German com mander in 'the Ukraines, and ih is ad jutant were wounded by a bomb at Kiev, an official announcement at Kiev states. A later message declares that the Field Marshal and his adjutant had Loth died from the wounds. The bomb was thrown at the men while they wer-drwinx to theirlRend - quarters fram the Casino. The ad jutantuWEme was Captain Von Dress- lerx"' The bomb whfcih wounded ibhe men was thrown from a cab which drove along side of the carriage in which they nolle just as they were approach ing the residence of (the Field Mar shal. The assassin and- tihe driver of the cab h'ave both been placed binder ar rest. It rtias been stated that the origin ation of the crime was with the social ists of Moscow. The assassin of the Field Marshall was a lad of 23 years. He declared at the inquiry, held after the crime, adivices st'ite, thai. Ihe oaime from t!he province of Ryazan, adjacent to Mos cow, on orders from the communist, committee to kill the Field Marshall. He reached Kiev yesterday. WSS PF1 1. TFLFPHON.E PlETITION AS TO RATES IS DISMISSED State Corporation Commission Re fuses to Pass on the Question Since the Federal Government Has Con trol Increased Street Car Fare for Certain Cities. IRaleighv July 31. The North. Caro lina Corporatiton Commission today dismissed the petition of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Com pany asking permission to increase its rates in a number of cities and towns in thw state. In dismissing the petition the com mission stated that since the hearing in the matter recently the government had taken over the operation of all telefcrfibne lines in the cbuntry, includ ing the lines of the petitioner, and ahmild it become necessary under gov ernment control to increase rates the Fedsml authorities can do so. The cities in which he telephone company asikeii for increase in tfntes were Charlotte, Davidson, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Hamlet. Mt. Olive,, Raleigh, Reidsville, Salisbury, Wil mington, Wrightaville Beach, Ashe ville and Hendersonville. Pay More Street Car Fare. Rr'eigh, JuJy 31. The North Car oline Corporation Commission today granted the petition of the power companies of RUeigh, (Durham, Char lotte and Winston-Salem to increase street car fares from five to seven cents T August 1st. The companies in these cities are required t? sell four tickets for 25 cents and school dhildren must be transported V and fnom schoiol on one 7 cent fare. WSS The management of the local Bell telephone, as well as the manage ments of all local branches of this company, nm ueen uuijr mi I 1 V . i days checking up and taking in ven-1 GERMAN GENERA IS ASSASSINATED tory, preparatory to transferring the and 30 cities and towns in which, it management and operation of the 'was befiqed, the German populace lines to the government tomorrow, did not need to be (plaeatod with glib August 1st After midnight tortght 'apologies. r all telephone, telegraph and cable and ' "Reveieition of that wutioular ram radio lines in the United States will tfcation of tha German propagnida be under control of the government system la (Aim eric ,w4 snade public during the duration of tha war. by Alfred 1 Becker, Assistant State RUSSIA NEAR E Huns Were Certain of Peace in Summer of 1917 and Had a Big Advertising Plan All Ready. WERE READY TO SPEND LARGE SUMS OF MONEY No Doubt the Germans Will Try to Spring Onoe the War is End-. ed to Regain Their Trade. Thit Germany intends to use every effort to reinstate herself in the rood jjjraices of an outraged world after tihe war is well kmown to the close ob servers of the world. That the whole organization for which the German empire has been famed will be turn ed over to the spreading of German propaganda and to the flushing of German claims for trade achievements tthe war is certain. The American people may look for titie springing up of a thousand Ger man agencies fund German agents aft er iwar ends, tihe direct object of their sctivity being to erooothe over the past anlJ to neiva the wy for future (trade relations. Tt will be their pur (nose to minimize the depravity of the Germans and to minimize the oat races they have committed. They will resort to all sorts of schemes to make friends for Germany, for the Genrrnn ipeople, German trade and German interests. These slwncies will seek to establish such rotations throupih neutral countries as will en able Oennrwn goods to nnd a wav into unfriendly lands. i These agencies will no doubt be fi nanced by the Imperial government and will use every wile known to the . rr "t Gewrin in order that they may rwe the way fcir a (reinstatement of Cert-nan trade if-a world over. As the I German is a giftH liar, has so wroven h;m?elf during th's war in militnry snd .diplomatic activities, the misrep resentation of filets by these agents m" be expected. That the emissaries of Germany are ready to rfnritMj is fftwwn bv a storv nmminra: to IWht relative of the activi ties of special agents of the Germans in 1917, when, thw prepared to begin a cimlwMrn for the winning of Am erica as a friend. In c:vering the aictivdty of these men and the eroosure the Nt York Krald of Monday carriel a long ar- de. n few r?irfh of which will shew hohv willirt? nd how ready the sisrnts of Germany ere to spring into action for and in behalf of Germany once ?ape is in sight: "Hvri mrenti in America, it became known yesterday, were so confident back in March. 1917, before the United States threw its mighty weicht r&inst the ectwispe of the earth that Germany's ruthless submiirine war fare would bring peace and a Teuton vktorv by July 1, 1917. at the latest, that they frd made all preparations for the spreading of millions of dol lars a year for five years in advertis ing designed to win back the good will of the American people. "So complete were the arrange ments of the propagandists that' the advert i fing 'ccoy bad been written, had been printed and mude up in plate form, and was ready for distribution to the nrlTspaipera and magazines of the country thrcJugh at least three big New York advertising agencies, of Acals of which had been told tfriatt la rye contracts, in one instance for a million and a half dollars would be pl"?id with thefm. "The German sop was to appear In the press of the country on week after the signing of tihe expected treaty of Pa0e, mride of tours in Germany. There w?re between 25 GERMAN PEA PROPAGANDA PLAN GAMS AN GERMAN POSITIONS GRAVE DANGER In Spite, of Efforts Put Forth by the Enemy North of the Ourcq He is in a Very Tight Place. THE ALLIED TROOPS FIGHT THEIR WAY FORWARD All Around the Soissons-Rheims Salient There Has Been Contin uous Battling For Two Days. (By Associated Press.) In Fipite of the tremendous effort put forth by tfite Germjjms to check the relentless pressure of the allies north of the Ourcq river today finds the German position there in grave danger. British, French and American troops are fighting their way forward to the east of Fere en Tardenois. They have driven a wedge into the enemy lines and seem in position to cdrrpel a hurried retreat from Ron cheares and St. Genvme and the ex treme bottom of the salient between So ie sons land IRhetms. The allied line today runs south from Sofaiona to Grand Rbzoy and then it begin to turn to tha east. It passes Juet north of Fere en Tardenois aim! continues to the apex of tha wedges at the villaige of Neales, where it aiuns sh&rfpiy soutrv toward Ron- dheres. The allies advance in this region seems to h?iv placed them in a dom inating position. All around the salient there has been a continuous battle during t5e last two days, with the Germans launching repeated counter attacks against the allied lines. All of these failed and the allies gained 'important ground at vital rptoints. Imbnediately south of Soissons and west of Rheims the German lines are being strongly (held but the enemy effort to improve positions in the lat ter regiion have broken down. There now seems to be little doubt that the German retreat to the Vesle river eliminates the possibility of making n stand at the Ourcq. The new British position at Meris on the Lys salient where the Germans were driven back by sharp attacks Tuesday have been heavily bombarded. Attorney General, and Captain Chas. L. Lloyd, of the Army Intelligence Bureaw, who are in charge of (the up rooting of tSe propaganda." The Herald's story goes into detail, showing how the German hireLAgs ought to spend large sums of money through large advertising agencies, and how these men made it plain that they would have to be convinced that the sci'reme was open and clean and did not carry any German propagan da The end of the war would have unloosed the plans of the German gov ernment and the German leaders for witting into operation the (machinery whddh was carefully (planned to carry out their schemes for ccmarcial rein statement. The American people may rest as sured that at the end of this war they will come face to fe (with a most carefully planned ecfleme to bring about a way for the entrance of Ger many into trade relation with this country, and the propaganda will have fir its nurpose the winning of the md wf.. of the American -people. They will seek by soft soaping the Americans to overcome their un friendliness and ipave the way for the operation of Se whole German r?heme for promoting Germany and German made things everywhere and always. For Aids evil day America must m re para. For this adheme the Ahterkan people must ba Drepared and refuse to be deceived by the crafty Hun, one ha . can torn his cun ning from slaughtering men and out rginr women, brnlng churches and hotf-a'taTs. drowning women and chil dren, poisoning wells and destroying all thtao human and irrmn to tht fooling of guileless peoole into again associating iwith him and his. . ' SLAUGHTEROFMEf NOW CHIEF OBJECT This is Now the Sole Aim of the Allies and Germany, General March Says in Statement. , FLATTENING SALIENT KILLS HOPE OF BAGGING ENEMY Participation of tht 42nd, Rain bow Division in the Fighting is Officially Announced. - (By the Associated Preis) Washington, July 8f. The sofe ob ject of the allies and Germany in the Soissons-Rhemis salient now is to kill as many men as possible, General March, chief of staff, said today at the semi-weekly conference with , newspaper correspondents, ' Whatever object either side had at the beginning. General March said, has been submerged by developments -in the fighting General March pointed out that the salient has been greatly flatened, thus virtually dissipating any hope- the al lies had pf bagging large numbers of ( the enemy. The German withdrawal since Saturday has reduced the length of the line another ten miles, to M miles. The maximum German re treat in the center is 14 miles. The arrival of the 42nd (Rainbow) division and its participation in the fighting east of Fere-En-Tardenois was announced, ' , 1 The 8rd regular division also was Identified as' in action at Sergy and Cierges, where the crack German division had been defeated in recen fighting by the American troops. General March announced the for, motion in the United States of six mors divisions, numbered from 15 to 20. tAs in the ease of the six divisions announced last week. these will be built around two regular infantry renriments, numbered from 301 to 315, into field artillery. These will comprise part of the artillery nnits for the new divisions. General March had nothing 4o re veal as to the extent of the cas ualties sustained by the 'American forces in the recent fighting. He said, however, that General Pershing' had been ordered to cable casualties as received, and that these would be given out here at once. Ba added that there would be no distribution of, casualties over a long beriod here, t:: after. wss- A caravan of army trucks rolled ' into the city about 2 o'clock this af. temoon from thea outh. Thu fnwVa were reported due here Saturday but for some reason they did not arrive until today. They were met by the canteen workers and served the same as the men on troop trains. W8S TODAY'S CASUALTY LIST "ifasiirigton, July 81The eaMMrfty list shows: - army Killed in action, 36. I Died of mounds, 40. Died of disease, 6. , Died of aeraolafne accidents, 1. . 'tiled of accident and other causes, five. : ;.- . Wounded severely, 67. " ' -Wounded, deftree not determined, 15 Miaaing in action, 24. , Total, 194. .1 f -The list include the following Notfh Carolinians: - - ' Lieutenant John W. Hassell, Wil mington. ' " SeryeWnt John Huffman, Hickory. (Mechanic Faiaon Harris, Goldsbore. JMvate MUllard Parish, Smtthfield. All these were killed In action. Privet Martin. Venedble, of Win- fton-alem, wa wounded severely. , !. Marin List. The marine list shows: - Killed to action, 4. . . ,J V'.. ; Died of wounds la afction, f. . ' . Wonnded severely, 12. , , Total, 18.
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