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THE: ASHELLE CITIZEN CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS VOL. XXXTTT, NO. 352. ASIIEVILLE, N. 0., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS ' t 1 ' i- :- THE WEATHER: ' ' FAIR - ' BREftTHlWG SPELL GIVEN BRITISH I o IS AFTER HARD DRIVE Haig's Forces Consolidating Their Gains on West ern Front. COUNTER-ATTACKS QUICKLY REPULSED Austrian Attempt to Gain Ground From Italians Easily Frustrated. As la customary after the attain ment of the objective of hla drives. Field Marshal Haig on Wednesday permitted the British troops, in Flan ders to have a breathing spell while consolidating; their gains of Tuesday along; the Tpres front. Likewise the ..French forces on the British left flank were busily engaged In organizing their newly won positions. Heavy Rain. A heavy rain fell during the day and no attempts at strong attacks were made by either style, although at various points there were email forays in the nature of line straightening op erations by , the British and French weak attempts at counter-offensive on the part of the Germans. These lat ter maneuvers were repulsed and the allies held the ground they had won In Tuesday's offensive. , , Along the right bank of the Meuse' in the Verdun sector, the Germans north of the Bola-Le-Chaume, follow ing a' violent bombardment, attacked the French line and penetrated It at several points, but were kept from proceeding farther by the fire of Gen eral Petain's artillerists. In the Austro-Itallan theatre the Austrians attempted to gain ground against the Italians on the Carso pla teau, but in the furious fighting they were worsted, suffering heavy casualties. Considerable activity both by the artillery and the Infantry, continues - on the Riga front in the north Rus sia fighting sone. Southeast of the Spitall form the Germans have vio lently bombarded Russian positions. In the middle sector of -this front the duels have reached considerable pro portions to the north of Lake Mlad lol. d Peace Is Impossible, according to a tatement of the Imperial German hancellor, so long as Germany's an agonist demand German soil er try to.aesrtrj.ta the people from their em per or. -The German foreign secretary In an address to the relchstag asserted that there was no impediment to peace that could not be overcome by negotiations except the demand of Francs for the return ef Alsace-Lorraine. ' The news has leaked out that re cently there was a mutiny on four bat tleships of the German fleet at Wll helmshaven, the captain of one of which was thrown overboard and drowned. The sailors later surren dered and a number of them are said to have been shot while others were sentenced to long terms of imprison-- menu FURTHER LIGHT THROWN ON PERFIDY OF GERMANY BY SECRETARY LANSING Three More Brief Cablegrams, Disclos ing Criminal Disregard of Inlernafiona Usages and Law by Germany, Are Made Public by Secretary of State. REPORTED REVOLT IN GERMAN NAVY CAUSES MUCH INTEREST IN (I. S. Believe Food and Labor Riots Will Finally End the War. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. Secretary Lansine drew upon his collection of secret German diplomatic corre spondence again today to shed further herht upon wha the German foreign office and general staff were doing m tins country, wnile nominally at peace with the United States. He gave to the public, without comment as usual three brief cablegrams, disclosing that more than a vear before submarine piracy drove America to war the Ber lin government was instructing Ambassador Von Bern storff to arrange for destruction of Canadian railroads a"nd to use Irish-Americans in carrying on sabotage in their own country.- They showed, too, that Von Bern storff on his part was even at that early date seeking authority to support a campaign to influence congress Sent to Von Bernstorn. The two telegrams from the German foreign office to Count von Bernstorff, in January, 191b, follow: "January 3. Secret. General staff desires energetic ac tion in regard to proposed destruction of Canadian-Pacific railway at several points with a view to complete and protracted interruption of traffic. Captain Boehm, who is known on your side and is shortly returning, has been given instructions. Inform the military attache and provide the necessary funds. ' (Signed) ' ' ZIM5IFRMANN. ' ' "January 26. For military attache. You can ob tain, particulars as to persons suitable for carrying on sabotage in the United States and Canada from the fol lowing: 1-yJoseph Macgarrity, Philadelphia, Pa.; 2 John P. Keating, Michigan avenue, Chicago; 3 Jere miah O'Leary. 16 Park Row, New York. "One and two are absolutely reliable and discreet, No. 3 is reliable but not always discreet. These persons were indicated by Sir Roger Casement. In the United States sabotage can be carried out on every kind of fac tory for , supplying munitions of war. Railway em bankments and bridges must not be .touched. Embassy must in; no- circumstances be compromised. Similar- pre cautions must be taken in regard to Irish pro-German propaganda. (Signed) "Representative of General Staff." The telegram from Count Bernstorff to the foreign office in Berlin was sent in September 1916, as follows: " 'September 15. With reference to report A. N. two hundred and sixtv-six of Mav tenth, nineteen sixteen. I The embargo conference in regard to those whose earlier fruitful co-operation Dr. Hale can give information, is juv.t about to enter unon a vigorous campaign to secure a majority m both houses of congress favorable to Uer- Come Across, Sis'er! RUBE BENTON AND DAVE ROBERTSON WIN PLACE IN BASEBALL HALL OF FAME ASMlANTS TAKE THIRD GAME OF SERIES New Yorkersh on Their Home Lot, Turn Desperately Against the Invader and Lower the Proud Colors ii Eddie Cicotte and the Chicago white Sox by 2-to-Q Score Benlon Proves to Be Master of Crafty Cicotte. NEW YORK, Oct. 10. Cheered on l the contests to coma. - After the gams by thousands of loyal rooters, the tne Nationals expressed tne belief that (.CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) PEACE IS IMPOSSIBLE AS LONG AS THE ALLIES DEMAND GERMAN SOIL KAISEB LOSING HOLD. "r G WASHINGTON. Ont. 10 TTmt Aim. patches since the war began have cre ated more interest at the navy de partment than today's reports from Amsterdam telling; of a revolt In' the German navy. Officers unhesitatingly declared that the story, so far not con firmed in official reports, was one of the most encouraging signs of the year for the allies and probably one of the most ominous from the German view. They pointed out that while the al lied powers have noted repeatedly re cently In their official statements that the morale of the German troops was declining, and observers have believed that the end would come In food and labor riots or perhaps In a political re volt, there has been nothing to sug gest mat me iron discipline ' or the German military system had lost its ,ho!d over the fighting millions in the lightest degree. - 1 The declining morale on the western fron. noted, it was said, had shown it' self in the feeble character of coun ter-attack as compared to the all but Irresistible drive a year ago. Assault after - assault has dashed Itself to pieces before the French and British trenches. The revolt tn the navy, these offi cers said, was a more serious matter for Germany. ' The sailors generally have not been subjected to the bat tering of guns day after day, month after month. - They insisted that if there is discontent among the sailors with their condition, it must be even greater in the army. As one possible explanation of the itavy revolt they pointed trat that ever since submarine warfare was started by the Germans, the British have adopted the constant policy of 'sup pressing information as to the fate of submarines sent to the bottom by their -patrols. The policy was adopted as a vellberats method of breaking' down the morale of the submarine crews. - - Crews for the U-boats are under- stood to be drafted from the high seas fleet as needed. The big ships are practically idle. They have done little - since the North sea fight, but to steam out to target practice behind mine- protected sones. For the men of the , ships there has been little but the deadly routine of this business, varied1 .only by calls for duty and probable death on the submarines. Cannot Come Between Peo ple and Kaiser, Either, Michaelis Says. STAND TOGETHER. AMSTERDAM. Oct 10. At the plenary sitting of the relchstag yester day. Dr. Michaelis, the imperial Ger man chancellor, asserted that peace was impossible as long as Germany's enemies demanded any German soli or endeavored to drive a wedge be tween the German people and their emperor. The speech of the chancel lor was delivered during the discus sion of the resolution against propa ganda in the army in favor or a uer- man neaca. "We would get along much better." said the chancellor, "if those who combat the peace resolution , of July 1 and assert that its supporters .want a separate peace, would be more Just toward this resolution. We must work out in their positive sense, and force fully, the aims comprised in this reso lution. We must be clear In our minds as to what we desire and must .emphasize what was said in the reso lution. ' "The German nation will stand to gether as one man, unshakable and perservere in the fight until its right and the rights of our allies to exist ence and development are assured. In Its unity the German empire is in vincible. '- ?" "We must continue to persevere until the German empire, on the con tinent and over-seas, establishes Its position.-. Further we must strive to see that-the .armed alliance of our enemies does not grow into an econo mic offensive alliance. . "We can In this sense achieve a peace which guarantees the peasant the reward of hla land; which gives the worker merited recompense; which creates a market for industries and sUDDlies the foundation for so cial progress; which gives our ships the possibility on a free voyage of en tering ports and taking coal all ttver the worlda peace of' the widest LARGE DAMAGE SUIT IS FILED AGAINST THAW BY FATHER OF TOE GUMP BOY Asks for $650,000 for Treat ment of Boy by Slayer of Stanford White. THAW IN ASYLUM. PHILADELPHIA. Oct 10. Suit for damages aggregating I65O.000 against Harry K. Thaw was fllea here today by attorney representing Fred erick Gump, father of Frederick Gamp, Jr. the Kansas Clly htg'j school hoy who was nrteged :o have be-n floggit by tha Pittsburgh millionaire In a hotel Christmas day,' 1818. Thaw who was adjudged insane after at tempting suicide here is In a local asylum 1 where he was committed sometime ago by a committee on lunacy. The suit, technically listed as a sum mons in trespass. Gumn asks 1 500,000 for "the wrongs, injuries and gross indignities to which- my son was sub jected" and $160,000 forAhe suffering he says the affair caused-him. According to statements set forth in the petltipn. Thaw persuaded Gump to accompany him to New York on the promise that he -would educate him In a w;t known technical school. For several days th petition alleges, the boy was kept a prisoner in a New Tork hotel, during which time the fogg'ng is said to have been admin istered. . j When located by detectives In a rooming house here Thaw slashed his wrist with a raxor and was critically ill for weeks. Later he was adjudged Insane, committed to an asylum and extradition for his removal to New Tork to answer aa Jndiotment on the Gamp charges was denied by Gover nor urumDauxi. . . , . . : -; plan Long flight.' .' New Tork Nationals turned desperate ly upon the Chicago Americans in the third game of the world series this afternoon and shut Out their inter- league rivals, 2 to 0. It was an en tlrely different appearing team that faced the White Sox at the Polo grounds. For the first time since the struggle began the Giants fought for and won both victory and the breaks oi tne game. Pitchers' Battle. As was the case in the first contest In Chicago, the struggle developed into a pitchers battle, but today it was Eddie Cicotte who-was forced to bow before the prowess of the opposing hurler and the sweeping bats of the Giants. Pitted against Rube Benton, the star of the White Box hurling corps found a rival as skilful as he In delivery, as crafty in generalship and who -refused to allow Cicotte's team mates a run to ease the strain. Only six of the visitors reached first, five on hits and one on a fielder's choice, and of these only two saw second base. Behind Benton the Giants played with a dash and brilliancy completely missing tn the preceding games. - De spite Cicotte's fine control and de ceptive curves, they smashed into the delivery of the White Sox pitching star in the fourth inning and hammered out the two runs which spelled vic tory and restored their confidence for they would be able to repeat tomorrow ana start westward Thursday night on even terms with their American league opponents for the fifth game of tne series set tor Saturday in Chicago. Robertson Star. Among the fans tonight the name of David Robertson of Norfolk, Va., Is praised in equal proportions with that of Rube Benton, another southern player, hailing from Clinton, N. C. Between them these two diamond combatants from below the Mason and Dixon line brottght about the down fall of the Chicago combination when the outlook for a break In the aeries of defeats was none too bright For three and a half Innings the opposing boxmen had proved In vincible and the thirty-odd thousand fans were settling down for a hurling duel when Robertson sprang into ths calcium glare of fame. He ended the White Box fourth inning attempt to penetrate-the pitching of Benton with a great running catch of Gandil'a long, sizzling drive to right field when he hurled himself against the concrete wall of the grandstand and plucked the ball with one hand Just aa It was about to strike the wall. Had he missed the catch Gandll's smash would have gone for at least a two base hit. i But Robertson was not done. The Norfolk player doffed his fielder's glove and stepping into the batter's box picked . one of Cicotte's sharp breaking low balls and drove it high and far into right center. Tha sphere sailed -upward and onward under the force of the blow until It seemed cer tain it would equal Felsch's home run drive. of -the opening game. Both Jackson and Felsch raced frantically after the ball but It hit the bleacher fence and bounded away from their clutches. Robertson was sliding into third base when the ball was returned to the Infield. Holke followed with ' a two-base drive to left field, scoring Robertson. Catcher Rarlden, playing In place of Mccarty, wno was injured in the sec ond battle at Chicago, advanced hla team mate to third with a sacrifice, Cicotte to Gandil. Benton could not fathom Cicotte's curves and struck out Aa Burns cams' to bat Umpire Klem took ths ball away from Schalk and after examining it carefully, threw it into the Giants' dugout while the crowd, scenting ths "shins ball, booed vigorously. . ', When Cicotte hurled up a new white ball Burns: hit a puzzling slow grounder to.ward third which scored Holke, who was half way to the plate when the bat -met the ball. Cicotte finally captured the sphere and tried to retire Burns at first, but his fhrow was wild and the batter continued on to second.- With Hertsog at bat, the crowds were rooting strenuously for a continuance of the hitting, but Gandil checked the rally with a wonderful GOVERWMEWT IVILL TAKE CONTROL OF ALL FOODSTUFFS - .uj .,...,:.-,....4...; Proclamation of President Directs Licensing of Handlers of Necessities. FARMERS GRANTED SPECIAL EXEMPTION Designed to Prevent TJn reasonable Profits and -to Stop Hoarding. WASHINGTON. Oct 10. GovmiU ment control of foodstuffs Is extended to take la virtually all the essential articles of diet by a proclamation is sued tonight by President Wilson dl rectlng the food administration to -1U ' cense after November 1 the manufae ture. storage. Importation and dlstrl-. button of some twenty prims commo. ditles. Many small dealers are ex empted, as art farmers, who were spe cially excepted In the food eontrol law. 1 ' The move was forecast In a state- . ment last night by the food adminla-' tratlon declaring It was necessary to prevent unreasonable profits and to stop hoarding and speculation. rreeiaent's - rrociamatlon. ' , After Quoting the food control act ' under which the action is taken, the ' president's proclamation says: "it :a essential, in order to carry mo effect the purposes of said act to Icense the importation, manufacture. storage and distribution of necessaries " to the extent hereinafter specified. "All persons. firms, corporations - and associations engaged in the busi ness either of (1) operating cold stor age warehouses (a cold storage ware- nouse, lor tne purpose of this proola matlon, being defined as any place ar tificially o mechanically cooled to or below a temperature of forty-five de- grees Fahrenheit, in which food prod- ' ucts are placed and held for thirty days or more); 2) operating eleva tors, warehouses or other places fori, storage of corn, oats, barley, beans, rice, cottonseed, cottonseed- cake, cottonseed meal -or peanut meal; or 3) importing, manufacturing .in cluding milling, mixing or packing) i or distributing (Including buying or -selling any of the following commo dities: fi'iV ;VWV-.V 'T:4'FS!St Wheat, wheat flour, rye or rve . . : ----- jiuriey or oariey nour; - " "Oats, oatmeal or rolled oats; ' -Vbrn Products. "Corn, corn grits, outmea, hominy, corn flour, starch from corn, corn oil. , corn syrup or glucose; -. "Kice, rice nour; "Dried beans; "Pea seed or dried peas; . . -, "Cottonseed, cottonseed oil, cotton seed cake .or cottonseed meal. "Peanut oil or peanut meal; , Soya bean oil, soya bean meal, palm - oil or copra oil; . . . 'Oleomargarine, lard, lara sunstl- (Continued on Page Two. - NEW DRAFT LAW NEEDED TO INCLUDE YOUTHS WHO REACH MATURITY SOOJ Representative Kahn Say New Act Will Have to Be Passed. ; (Continued on Page Two.) Captain of Westf alen Thrown Overboard , and Drowned. NKWPORT NEWS, Va Oct. 16. Announcement was mads here tonight that unless weather conditions are un favorable Captain Resnatl and Lieu tenants Baldolll and AdamontLiof the Italian army, will leave Langley Field AMSTERDAM, Oct 10. A mutiny among the crews of 'four battleships of the German fleet has occurred at Wllhelmshaven. One of these battle ships was ths Westfalen, whose cap tain was thrown overboard and drowned. The crews landed. Marines refused to fire on them, whereupon soldiers surrounded the sailors, who surrendered. A mutiny also is reported to have occurred on the German warship Nurnberg, which was at sea. The men seised the officers and proceeded in the direction of Norway, with the intention of being interned. The Nurnberg was overtaken by de stroyers and forced to surrender. ' Emperor William went to Wll helmshaven and ordered that one out of every seven mutineers be shot. Chancellor Michaelis protested, with the result that only three were shot. Heavy sentences were imposed ton the others. Emperor William's visit to Wll helmshaven in company with Chan cellor Michaelis was mads after the mutiny had been suppressed. The chancellor's objection to the emperor's order that one mutineer In every seven be shot was on the ground that he could not assume such re sponsibility before the relchstag. Ono of the reasons for tha mutiny was bad and Inadequate food. THE WKATHER. : ' EVIDENCE IN REICHSTAG "No Politics in Army" Principle Is Controverted by Set of Instructions. near Hampton. Va. Saturday morn ing for a flight to MIneola. N. T. It I - WASHINGTON. Oct !. Forecast aoonomlo and cultural development a is expected that barring mishap, ths 'for North Carolina:1 Fair Thursday real peace. This peace wo cA attain aviators will arrive at Minaal is ths and Friday, not much bang in tern within taese limits." - - faarljr after no aa, . tisratu - COPENHAGEN, Oct. !. An un censored report of Monday's debate In the relchstag .shows that the so cialist speakers produced a whole series of Instructions from the higher military authorities concerning tho "enlightenment campaign" whloh were In direct variance to the principle of no politics- in the army arid with the general regulations wmcn .Liouienaiu- General von Stein. Prussian war mm later, said governed the campaign. It was asserted by the socialists that the war minister, was unable. to controvert this testimony. The socialists also directed attention to the fact that the general order for enlightenment against peace was issued Immediately after the adoption of the relchstag peace resolution July 19, showing that the campaign was directed against the relchstag ma jority. They brought out also the fact thtt a conference was tailed by the war ministry in the middle of Au gust to discuss preventive measures against strikes, and that the strike movement of the rillcal socialists against the war and food and labor conditions was still a menace. Mem bers of the conference, it was stated, advocate! tho suspension of tho right of asssnbly under certain circum stance and the putting of the lead era of the workmen into the army In order to cope with strikes, . .?. - phlllpp Bcheldtmann, leader of the majority socialists, did not participate In . the debates of either Sunday or Monday. It Is reported that he was in Copenhagen on business which it is considered must have been im portant to keep him out of the relcii- ateg in such aa tmsrgencjr. T REACH UNITED STATES Have Been Flying With the French Forces on the Western Front. AN ATLANTIC PORT. Oct 10. Three American aviators who have seen service as members of the La Fa yette ercardrille In France, arrived here to Jay on a French steamship, They are Archibald Johnston, Pitts burgh; James R. Doollttle, of Chicago and Mark Leslie Hull.- of Austin. 111. . Johnston has twice been cited by Franco for bravery; With a com panion he downed a German aviator who was taking photographs above the French lines, after wounding the German with a machine gun. Doo little silenced a battery shelling a British captive belloon and was dee orated by , the British government Hull's legs were broken when he fell from a high altitude Into a tree, and he has corns hers to have one log amputated so that he may receive an artificial limb and return to duty.. . DEFENSE ENDS CASE, HARRISONBURG, Va., Oot. 10. The defense in . tha trial of Robert Monger for the killing of J. Milton Henaley. a neighboring farmer, last Jnly In a quarrel over a boundary line, today conclnded its case and the state began Its mbuttal. SUBMARINE OBSERVED-. MUST BE TRAINED. WASHINGTON, Oct 10 Repreewn. tatlve Kahn, of California, the repub lican , who led ths administration forces In the house when the army ' draft law was passed said today a new draft act would have to be passed at the next session of congress to reach the : many young men who have be come twenty-one years' of age since May is last, and that It probably . would amend the existing law so as to -register 1 all youths from sixteen or seventeen - to become ' automatically ' subject to call upon reaching the age or twenty-one. Mr. Kahn also said ho Intended to make a fight for a unl--versal training law and an act to deal with alien slackers without vlo- ' latlng treaty obligations. , ., , - "Sixty , per cent of the American' boys are being rejected for physical disability a percentage that Is appall ing," said Mr. Kahn. "That means that six out of ten young men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one are so deficient physically that they . cannot be taken into the United States ' army, a fact that must be a revelation to 'thinking people of tha country, -though tho proportion of the deficient . Is not quite as great as was the case In England.- Universal training would , ' give the young men thorough knowl- -edre of hygiene and sanitation and would develop a race of men strong physically and mentally." '. "i -. s COPENHAGEN, Oct 10. A ' large submarine was observed today pass ing through the-little belt southward la a badly-damaged condition. Both port and starboard quarters and the stern of the submarine gave evidence at a severs snaacsmslxt. TEE ASCEIILLE Oil! . Ckcuktioo Ye'-So" Gty . -4. - ' Suburban . -; Country ; i. t )
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