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f Post Penny Ads Will be Cash in Advance With September the First alsfoufflpy Eveolinig Post WEATHER FORECAST Probably Showers Tonight and Thursday. 2 CENTS MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS V(J1.. H. NO. 198. SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA, .WIOUNESUAiY. AflJOUST 28, 191H. PKICK TWO CENT ONE EDITION 1 AMERICAN TALK flood full blooded Americans oaht to rejoice muchly over the de 'at of men like Vardemnn and RlcaKO. The man who cannot step to the side of his government when it is In trouble deserves nothing at the hands of the American people, 'i here are too many fine Americans I.) confer honor on to be wasting it on a lot of .sows ears seeking to get into better company. The man who MH'ks for a loop hole and tries to side step the one big patriotic Am erican duty of the day is not worthy of any place of honor. Some small frys, little midget of fellows who thought this war would le "unpopular" and oiTer an issue for demagogues to ride into power and hold pawer im is calculated the temper and character of the Amer ican people. In the first place a man so small and pusillanimous as to seek to make political capital out of a condition like that we now face is unworthy of any of the respect of real Americans Americans ought not to speak to such a fraud on the street. These remarks may not ap ply to the two gentlemen mentioned above, ithey are not so intended, but these two certainly jnisinterpreted the duty of the hour and the temper of the American people. They chose the little, narrow and un-American way of serving their country, or re fusing to so serve their country, and (Tot what they richly deserved. They ought never again to get a vote of a single real American, neither ought man not today an all American. Germans have bombed another Red ; Cross building, and they succeeded! ninly. Twenty-three were killed and i0 injured. We judge that the were ; mostly women, no soldiers and per haps a few old men. When this war is eve" cverv Hun who took nart in ! these jiefal .and inhuman raids ought to be tried and whenever found guilty hung. The chief mur derer ought to be hung of course, for he and a thousand of his hellish accomplices could be convicted of a j million deliberate murders. Then) the lT-boat commanders ought all be j tried and hung, so ought the men ' who took part in the vile murders I contrary to the laws of civilization. Some one says that this might in clude all Germany, and why not? We are not so sure but that the God of Heaven intends these brutes be ! wiped off the earth. I As the draft takes more and more! men to the camps the burden of the j day falls the heavier on the men and ! women left at home. The ones who J stay at home need not expect a cinch, I a picnic, a play day, for their share ! is going to grow heavier each pass-! ing day. We should remember this I and bravely, courageously, step for-' ward to take these additional bur-1 dns like real Americans and bare our shoulders to the burden. This winter these men will spend in training, preparatory for the Spring drive next year when it is hoped the allies can smash their way to Berlin and ) lay the land of the vile murderers j low in defeat. While they prepare I to go, and they later go, jet us at ! home smile as we place our should- j ers to the wheels and give a lunge ' forward. I ftspy os neve wUon Ameri r before America is mericans to be big and ei Jtcus and active in the defense ! of tf e conntry. Each has a part to ' play, each a work to do, and those who do their full share will have no misgivings when the victory comes to our armies. Those who for any leascn do not do their full part will' h.ter feel like fi nking away to some 1 dark place and hiding their faces. ; Every man taken o!T an American j farm today still greater intensifies ' the food problem of the coming , j ears. If this war lasts many ir.ore months the government will have to 1 send workers to the farms to take , the places of these men sent to the i army. Men in non-essential places j today must close their doors and go ! to some front where essential work is done. That is one great reason ' for the extension of the draft age. A ! intn 45 years of age who can do something the country needs to be dene can no longer waste his time in some ; useless occupation. The time is at hand for every American to step to the front and aay, "Here am I, Uncle Sam, send roe, use me." , j The war may not last five yean m m GERMANS I PICARDY REMAH (By Associated Press.) Paris, Aug. 28. Chaulnes has been taken by the Brit ish troops, an official war office statement says today. Progress towards the Somme by the French continues, the statement adds. Since yesterday 30 villages have been captured by the British, among 'the larger being Omie- loui i, auuut lvvu nines east, miles east oi noye; Koignes, one ana a nan miles east ot Roye towards Noyon and Vertieries south of Roiglies. French cavalry is harassing the retreating Germans in me unauines region, nampering tne wimcirawai oi tneir forces. It is reported that General Haig's army is cross- ing the Ailette river. PPPMAM RFTRPAT I PRPTIPITATP l UKJHAIN 1 IVEiA 1 IS rKH.CH 11A1L. Paris, Aug. 28. The German retreat on the Somme battlefield has become orecioitate. The French first and third armies are at no point u:..j . : . my. The French have inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans. THE BRITISH HAVE REACHED HAUCOURT. London, Aug. 28. The British forces have reached the reaches of Haucourt, Renny and Boiry Notre Dame, north of the Arras-Cambrai road, according to the advi ces of today. The British lines in Flanders are being made on a front of four miles astride the Nues-Berquin-Eutaires road. South of the-Somme the British have taken Foucau court while north of the Somme they have attacked and taken the northern part of the Trones wood. TRONNES WOOD TAKEN BY BRITISH. With the British Forces in France, Aug. 28. British forces today completed the capture of the Tronnes wood north of the Somme river. vance astride the bcarpe on 000 prisoners. I Germans forces in southern Picardy are retreating over a widefron.t. Af ter the capture of Roye by the French yesterday the German front has crum bled. The line which has held back the French and British the past two weeks gave way and today's official repoit shows the French on a line less than three miles west of the Som me river and canal. Thirty villages have been captured by trie French in the advance which started early Tuesday morning. Chaulnes, the center of the German line between Roye and the Somme as it flows west through the battlefield has been captured and many other vital points hav been taken from the retiring enemy. While the French have been smash ing the encmv front along the Roye Chaulnes line the British have swung forward in the sector east of Arras rnd north of the Arras-Cambria road. They have reached the outskirts of the villages of Haucourt, Reny and Boiry Notre Dame about a mile east of the Hinderburg line. South of the Somme the British have taken Eaucoucourt while north of the river they have gained nearly all of Trones wood. In the Flanders area the British advanced their lines over a front of four miles astride the Neus Berquin road. This is the area from which the Germans have been retiring dur ing the last three weeks. Dispatches from the Far East tell of the allied successes again3t the Bo'sheviki forces. Every means known to modern war God forbid that it should, but we must make preparations for a long, costly war and it means a shorten ing of the fighting days to throw our full strength into the fight at once. The war savings campaign ought to be pushed to a finish. The Liberty bonds ought to be far, oversubscrib ed and the food saved ought to be far more than last winter, and next year the production more. To do this means all at work all for the com - mon good of the country. GERMANS RETREAT ON A WIDE FRON ARE UK STILL ui iiauiims , uaiiaue, uiiee i: ...:i.u n.. losing contact with the ene Canadian troops in their ad- yesterday took more than 2,- fare is being used by the enemy to stay the onrush of the British and French but the allies macine move on. Heavy reinforcements are being thrown into the fray by the Germans, mostly in the center around Bapaume. The one desire of the enemy appears to be to find a line where he can stand long enough to make an orderly re tirement. Marshal Foch is giving the enemy no rest and there is no let up in the allied pressure and each day active fighting is being extended on the north and south. Each extension is marked by fur ther gains, adding to the peril of the enemy in the center. The enemy is fighting desperately to prevent the British breaking through. A Report Denied. Paris, Aug. 22.--The ministry of marine has denied that a French pa- troal boat has captured Lieutenant Schweiger, who sank the Lusitania. It is declared this German official died , some time ago. Roye Taken by the French Army. With the French Armies in France , Aug. 27. (By the Associated Press, , 4 P. M.) Roye was taken this morning by the French in the course ! of a brilliant attack, following an i unsuccessful counter attack by the i enemy. The Germans are in retreat j over a seven-mile front north and south of Roye. I Frenzied counter attacks by the j foe have failed to hold back the Brit- 1 ish and French armies who are hard ' after the Germans on the 75-mile i battle front from the north of Arras ' to the region of Soissons. W S S i It's not our nature to rub it in, but just for meaness we would like to meet Count Roon. the German gent who announced that Germany would be satisfied with an idemnity of $45,- ! 000,000 arid the English navy and a i few other little old things like that. I n'ne guns wre brought into ac and ask bim how he feels about it j ticn by the American troops were de now. Macon Telegraph. i nied although machine run was set W S S up in an office facing Mexico. If the German people accept any of i No 0M seemed to know exactly the excuses that are being offered for i that little affair on the Marne. to say nothing of the situation in Italv. Tur. key and along the Eastern front it will be because kultur has robbed 1 them wholl of reason. Savannah JNews. prisoners si AMERICANS FIGHT Pitched Battle in the Streets of Nogales When Immigration Officers Ovterstep Authority. NUMBER AMERICAN BOYS KILLED; MANY MEXICANS Mexicafi8 Fir87 opened Fire and Americana Replied When the Mexicans Came in Droves. (By Associated Tress.) Najroles, Ariz., Aug. 2S. An arrree- ment by ,w.:u-h further trouble win be avoided is said t3 have resulted from " c,nftrenie tweem American and Mexican officials who were summoned here on account of the -fighting on the ii ne late yesterday between American wers and Mexicans in which three Ameru ns 'were killed and twenty- eight wounded. The Mexican casual ties in the fig'hitV.g are j.nriously esti mated at from l.r0 to 200. Carran.a Impresses Regret. Nogales, Ariz., Aug. 2S. Profund re? ret for yesterdr.-'s clash between Mexic.ms iml American soldiers was e) tj-eesed by Elias Culles, military go.iei'-ir of Sonera to 'Brigadier Gen. DeRossey Cabell in a telegram re ceived from 'Gen. Callea at Magdalene, Sanora, today. Gen. Calles stated thit he thad 5e.n ordered to proceejLlo tb. border oy President Carranza to ex press these regrets. Additional Mexicans Approaching. Washington, Aug. 28. Maj. Gen. Wm. Holbrook notified the war de partment today that intermittent fir ing between civilians in Nosales on ,he borri,,r :ia(i cea8ed after ccntin ing all night. Under agreement with the Mexican commander all troops on bot'i sides are ito be withdrawn but additional Mexican troo.is are noted approaching Nogales. The border has been placed iunder control of General Holbrook who has been given orders as to the action to be taken in case of emergency. Xogales, Ariz., Aug. 27.-One Ameri can officer fell fighting in the streets of Nogales late tod'iy, one civilian was killed, another officer seriously wounded and between 10 and 20 American soldiers killed during 'the skirmish wliich took plaice along In ternational avenue between American troops and Mexicans in Nogales, So nora. Appioximately 15 Americans were wounded, including Lieut. Col. Fred erick H. Herman, who wUs shot through ti-.e right leg whfile command in?: the American troaps, but contin ued to command on crutches. The dcid include Capt. 1). J. Hun- gerford, who was f qlled in action. The civilian was Gaston Reddock, who was killed during the first hour of the fighting. Lieut. Luke W. Loftus was seriou.sly wounded. Casualties on the Mexican side, ac ?arding to a late report, were over 100 killed und -wounded. The American casualties are said to be t'-ree soldiers killed and 12 wound ed, wicludinjr Lieut. Col. Frederick J. Herman. The trouble was auroposed to have started as s result of an attempt on the part of a Mexican immigration official to pass a fellow countryman acicss the border illegally. Aimeri can sentries drew guns aind Mexicans fired. Other Mexicans, apparently fully armed, came from all directions and a' led t'-ve Mexicans on the line until thev were driven back. An infantry detachment in com mand of Lieuterjtnt Colonel Herman fas rushed to the border and was nomwed cy negro cavairy rroops wno j ; ook iv positions along the street 'which forms the (boundary line. The ( firing continued until 5:30 m. when it died down sightly. Reports that !" I t C-ippened ftr the firat hot j wts fired. An American entry was seen to enter an office on Internation- i ! al avenue with his awn dsirgling at his ' (aide with a Ibullet wound through his , ; shoulder. Soon after, the firing be-' i came general. i WE i n. mm SENATOR JAMES DEAD IK BALTIMORE Kentucky Senator Passed Away in the Johus Hopkins Hospital After a Long Illness Wife and Brother With Him When Knd Came Karly in Day. (By the Associated Press) Haltimore, Aug. 28. United States Senator Ollie James, of Kentucky, died in Johns Hopkins hospital of an acute affection of the kindey today. Mrs. James and a brother, E. H. 1 James, were with him when the end I came at (:45 o'clock. Senator James i had been a patient of the hoipital for three months. j Ollie M. James was one of the pic turesue and forceful figures in Con fess as well as a popular idol anion , Kentucky Democrats. He ranked hi'h in leadership in both houses ' duringhis successive service in the ' House and Senate, and his towering : nlivsiqre and powerful voice always ( oiiii.ianiled attention in legislative eopopntion halls. He was nominated t- :..iceec'! hin.aiif in the Reuate ir Ihr rrccnty Kentucky Oeriocratie primaries by an overwhelming vote, i After the United States entered i the war in 1917 Senator James be- i ... came one or the most aggressive senate spokesmen of the administra tion and champion of the army and prypriort, . Hi- 1m4 appear- a nee at the capitol was on February 14th last to deliver a fire speech in answer to an attack upon the War 1 Department by Senator Chamber lain, chairman fof (the,. military com mttteee. He appealed to all Ameri cans not to heckle, badger or han dicap the President, ' and declared I "we are going to make the Kaiser hand over his sword." Three days later he was taken ill at a dinner. Several weeks after- : ward he insisted on returning to the senate.b ut was too weak to take any part and soon went to Johns Hop kins hospital in Baltimore. He was operated on in an effort to stay the ravages of a chronic case of Bright's disease. Senator James was a prophet of , Democratic success in every politi- ' cal contest and an outspoken partis an on all occassions. He made the keynote speech on Democratic achiements at the St. Louis Demo cratic national convention in 1916 and rew from the gathering of 10, 000 persons cries of "Give it to us, ) again Ollie" when epitomizing , He made the speech notifying Presi dent Wilson of his election to the ' Presidency in September, 1916. Senator James was 47 years old. He began life as a page in the Ken- ; tucky legislature. He seconded Bryan's nomination for President in 1908, headed the Kentucky delega- i tion to Democratic national conven- ' tions in 1904 and 1908, served in the House in the 68th to 62nd Congress I and has been in the senate since i 1913, when he succeeded Thomas H. Paynter. yf g g iMcADOO SAYS BUY BONDS WITH MONEY Director General of the Railroads Re quests Every Railroad Employe to Invest in Bonds "No Better Use Can Be Made of Back Money," He Says. (By the Associated Press) Washington, Aug. 28. Railroad employes were asked today by Direc tor General McAdoo to invest their back pay. which they will get as a re- sun oi me recent wage increase, in bonds of the fourth Liberty Loan, which will open one month from to- day. "No employe can make better use of his back pay," says the director gen eral in a circular to be distributed to gether with the envelopes. W S S Closing of Cotton. New York, Aug. 28. The cotton market closed as follows: October 35.33 iPeceimber 34.64 Jamitry 34.60 March 34.54 -May 34.60 ILY EWMFR E SERIOUSLY ILL1 Wife of the German Emperor Confined to Her Bed at the Cas tle and Grows Worse. KAISER COMPELLED TO REMAIN AT HER SIDE No Bulletins Will be Issued on the Condition of the Empress for Fear Exciting People. ( By the Associated Press) liondon, Aug. 28. The German Empress, who has been ill for sev eral days, has taken a turn for the worse, according to a message from Dusseldoiff received in Amsterdam and forwarded to the Exchange Tele graph Company. The message adds that her heart displays increased weakness. Emperor Wililam is not nlile ti leave the bedside of his wife, who is at the castle at Wilhelmshoho. It is declared no bulletins will be is sued on the Empress' condition in or der not to alarm the people. Earlier reports received through Amsterdam intimated that the condition of the Fmpiess was improved. w s s The Latest Decision ia to ffulld More lhcadnaua.hu Than Waa at First Planned Years Required to Rring Navy to Desired Strength.,, Tokio, Aug. 28. (Correspondence of the Associated Press). Japan has made preliminary plans to increase her army by fifty per cent and to build three times the number of dreadnoughts and battle-cruisers pre viously planned. No official announcement !has been made but it is understood that the project adopted at a recent confer ence of field-marshals and fleet admirals includes the creation of an army of 21 corps, or 42 divisions and the enlargement of the navy so that it will eventually include three main fleets, each to consist of eight dread dreadnaughts and eight battle cruisers. Eadh of the new army di vision will be composed of three regi ments, instead of four, as at present. Years will be required to develop the army and navy to the desired strength, but a beginning will be made as soon as conditions, especial ly financial conditions, will permit. Under the new military program, Japan would have 126 regiments, as against the present 84, there being now in existence 21 divisions, each of forr regiments. An increase of 42 egiments is provided for. Of this increase, four new divisions are covered by the army program laid down in 1906 when it was decided to increase the number of divisions to 25, or to a total strength of 100 regi ments. This program has not yet been carried into effect. Writers on military matters estimate that the new plan contemplates an eventual enlargement of the Japanese army by fiftv per cent above its present strength with a corresponding en largement of the reserve due to the great numbers passed through the service each year. Many think the ex pansion will be easy from the stand point of man-power. The naval program adopted at the last session of the Diet was to fill out a fleet of eight dreadnaughts and six battle-cruisers. The new naval proposal therefore means that Japan Dlans to build two squadrons each to be composed ef eight dreadnaughts and eirht battle-cruisers, and two ad ditional cruisers to fill out the pres ent battle cruiser feet. In "other words the construction project calls for sixteen additional dreadnaughts and eighteen more battle-cruisers. . , The estimate expenditure involved is large. That for the army ia plac ed at about S87.150.000. and that of the nsT at abort 1540,000,000. It la probable that the actual costs would bo muck higher as the estimates men tioned above are baaed upon figures GERMAN MPRESS mm o - IN? MORE SHIPS FBI OUT 210 GERMANS TAKEN BY ALLIES Enemy Prisoners Falling Into Allied Hands Since July 1st Pass the Number Indicated. FRENCH ADVANCE CEEATES A NEW AND DEEP SALIENT Enemy ia Now Being Put "Be tween Pinchers" and There is No Cessation Allied Pressure. (By Associated Press.) Wiarfiirvgrton, Aug. 28. The number of Genrnan iprisoners taken by the al lies since July 1st has passed the 112 000 mark, General 'March, chief of staff, said (xxLuy. In trie same period of time the al lies have taiken from ithe Germans 1, 300 cann:n of field gun calibre and Urjrer. The French advance noted in this morning's official statement front Paris, the chief of staff pointed out, ennnkfl the creation f another deeip salient ni the enemy lines which art now being put 'between pinchers." The French have reached the Nesle nnd re within two miles of the river Socnme at this (point. " Since last Saturday the British as a result of persistent advances have' - JjOKSJjwaJtM Hlndenbufg lint, fof 'a distance of one mile on a front or 3 k miles. latest dispatches to the department General iMarcfh said, do not indicate any cesmitxin in the allied (pressure, the British apparently continuing (Wogress on the Flanders front, W S R y I EVII MET A SET BACK Anti-Bolsheviki Leader Crosses the Siberian Frontier and Takes Prisoners. AMERICANS AND JAPANESE ENTRAINING FOR FRONT Little News from the Siberian Activities but Something Will Soon be Doing. (By Associated Press.) Pekin, China, Aug. 28. -General Se menoss, the anti-Bolshevtiki leader, has crossed the 'Siberian frontier at Matsiezfl' Ii station, west of Manchuli, and captured prisoners. The Japan ese troops 'have engaged the BolsheY iki troops near Dauris. . . Bolsheviks Forced to Retire. London, Aug. 28. On the Ussuri front north of Vladivostok, the Bol plheviki have retired six miles before a general advance of the aJlied troops, according to a shanghai dispatch to Reuter's Exchange. American and Japanese, the dispatches say are en training for the Ussuri front. .News from the front ia meagre. The Japanese are taking over the giving out of news and the Jatpa are very reticent to ig)ve out information. Another Treaty Signed. Oopenhaven, Aug. 28. German and Rwsvm diplomats Tuesday signed three addHional treaties, which are augimentary to the Brest-Litovek treaty, accordintr to a Berlin dispatcSu W S . ' A man arrested in Maine as a spy said he didn't even known there was a war going on. At that he's about as intelligent as most German spies. Detroit Free Press, W S S ' Various members of Congress who were not heartily for the war are making excuses for not being able to return to 'Washington next year. . Chicago News, : .- worked out before prices were lower. . the war when Honoului T. H, Aug. 27. Japanese residents are investing iir war secur ities of the United States. At a recent meeting of the Japanese here hun dreds of Jopanse girls sold $21,640 wo of drift tarapa. " - BOLSH I
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