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GAPE FEAR NEWS B UT THE NEWS ECAUSE IT IS WEATHER. CTTER Fair. You Can Find It In The Cape Fear News 12 Hours Earlier TOLL TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS. FULL TELEGRAPHIC TOL.1. NO. 342. FAYETTE VILLE, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 7, 1916. PRICE, 4 PER TEAS DOS PISS D LEM5EH6, EIICIRCLE IIALICZ m Tori y RUSSIANS EKCIRCLE TmVTf m mucj nil cc cnirru nc i nmvnr llilLiLuJ OUUI11U1 bLdllULillU Teuton Escape By Crossing the Halicz-Lemberg Railway is Threatened by the Advancing Mus covites. Berlin Admits That "After Violent Storming Attacks the Russians Finally Pushed Back the Center of Our Front". Report Ad vance in the Carpathians. (By International Neva Service) London, Sept. f Ilaiirx, the south ern "gat-" to Lemlwrg, is expected to fall tu the Russians shortly s a re eult of -a new advance wore J by the Muscovite during the last laeniv four hour by driving the Austru German force from the lower Gorod enta, capturing a fortified position and pursuing the defender tu the northwest. The envelopment of Hal in which lie sixty miles south of Lemberg. is thus nearly complete, "the town being encircled from three sides w.uh the Russians threatening to cut tff the Teuton escape by cross ing the Halic z-lmher Railway. Berlin officially admits that the Busman Jaf"ter violent storminjt at tacks finally prej bu-k the center cf our front between Lip and fmeia ter, east of' Jlalicz. The Kussian war office reports fur ther, ndvance, in the southern Carpa thian. Tiie German official state ment cum-ede "a ysnail tuAiati ad-vem-e' jrt that theatre of war. Football Tract ictf At University Va. Charlottesville, Va . SepL 6 'Football practice was begun brftny at th I'mversitj- of Virginia, a dozen promising hwking candidates report ing to Coach Fvani. at the first call. The list included hut throe memiiers of the team which lr yrar defem-rd Yale and urrwfully defended Jin f!ml aKnmst narvar-i- Hearings on Railroad Problem November 20 tRy International Newa RerTlre l 'Wahln;iI), .cpt. The joint Congressional cimmutee npp-,inted to invt'stufate the Renetal railroad pnd lem t'Miy decided to .ijin hearing NovTsiarr 'Jo, after the election i over. Americans on lioard Torpedoed ISoat Safe Wahinpton. Sept- Consul Hurst at Varcelona, Spain, late today cabled the State Department that two men "presumably A mericaaa" were on board the Italian sailing wessel Stel aula Del Mare, sunk "presumably by a aubmarine off Vallearica ; islands, August 28. They were uninjured. 'Slackers Living Hard in England London, Sept. . The authorities; are raiding1 prise fights, moving pic-, occupied 7,000 square miles of Hun ture theatres and railways in an at- garian territory in the first week of tempt to round up all "slackers." their offensive. mr, siytyi ONSPIKAt V TO BLOW I I' I'. S. CRl LKK 1F.S MOINES VNCOEKKl ( International New Service.) I'aris, Sept. 6. Threat to Mow up the I'. S. cruiser IVs Moines now at Varcelona. Spam has led to a number f arrest. ' When informed of the conspi racy the governor of Catalonia, who waa ahaeat, returned to Varcelona peat haste. Ihe Varcelona correspondent of the Journal Bays (hat Ger man are implicated. REPULSE RUSSIANS IS German Claim to Have Car ried Seven Strong Armored Works on IVanube. c Ct!y Inleraational Newa Service.) Lon.lmiSept. 6 Germans a"d acted upon an.l the action of the cm Holgarians are in collision with Ru-1 mission referred to their governments sians and Koumanians along th , for ratification. It was pointed out whole of the Dnbrudj front, accord Hiif to reports rearniiiK here today. The (gemianir ofticially . claim I have carried seven of the trujf ar- m,,rcd yrka at iutraken, on the lwihe. in sothetern Roumnnia. the advance defences of wich they captured yeHterday. This river pnM Tion. fily 37 miles sMitheayt of lu-ch:re.-t, is the first German objective. Further toward the sea the Ger man rejN.rt F.uljrarian forces suc ceeded ji tirtvtnK .ack combintnl Ku manian and Russian detat hmeiits mtrth tf BKinc, the capture of which by the liultrartans already has been announced. , , Content Berlin Claim. An official report fnm the war offi ce at Bucharest contests the Berlin claim of successes in the invasion of Roumania. All the frontier points east of the PanuW are teinir firmly held it is asserted. No official confirmation is yet at the Somme today kept hammering hand of the reported rapture by the away against the German linen, the Koumanians of Orsova, the Hunga- British with Dinchy as their imme rian Hill city a thftirpn gates of the diate goal, the French gaining at Danube. 'On their northern and north- crushing in the Barleux-Chaulnes arm eastern fronts the Roumanians re-fof the now famous salient. port heavy fighting. An Austrian retirement along the i Moldava river, in southeastern Buko- wina, before the Russian and Rou manians is reported from Geneva. A Zurich dispatch says the Roumanians Greece mtmm-utkm nnmilftl1,rn ... LUr.lf.llSblUNtHS 111 FIRST C0IIFERE11CE Decide Question Financing the De Facto Government Will Be Taken I'p Last. TROTIXTION OF I10HDER - From Bandit Raids. Questions Effecting the Boundary and Withdrawal of American Troops First to b Considered. (By International Newa Serva i New London, Conn., Sept. 6. After the formal examination of credentials the American and Mexican Commis sioners meeting here today reached the beginning: of the series of discus sions designed to establish a new un derstanding between the nations. In accordance with ithe.4.entative program it was derided that oue.it ions affecting the boundary, the withdraw al of American troops and an agree ment for adequate protection of the border from bandit raids would be taken up and disposed of before any other angle of the problem is con sidered. The Mexican Commissioners as well as the American representatives are eager to let the question of financing the Mexican de facto government waft i until every other question has been that this is because banker desire to have the-vnire situation settled and made known to them before they con sider attempting t.sell a lartre Mexi can Ian here ttr abroad. A Iterlin Admits Loss of I'lery Village, Three and a Half Miles of IVrunne. (By International News Service.) London, Sept. . In an all day bat- in which, according to an estimate f the Kaiser's war office not less than StiO.OOO abed troops were en- j gaged, the Franco-British forces on The French again scored a series of highly important successes. The result of the British effort was re lative. They hold all of their new I nnnj cj. was resumed on Sunday.. r....i i.j Genera Focha troops hammered I (Coetthaned ea Pae Two.) BRITISH Decides WARFARE PLEDGES ! Twenty Americans Aboard the I 'Torpedoed or Mined" I Steamer Kehinia. AMERICANS WERE SAVED S Stale Department Instructs Consul McCunn to Make In Istigatii e if Pl timation Immediately to ledges Violated. (By International News Service) Washington, Sept. 6. A possible Violation of Germany's submarine warfare pledges to this government waa revealed this afternoon when Cons j I McCunn at Glasgow, Scotland, cable-! the State Department that twei-4ighl American , were.., or board the British steamer Kelvinia, which was 'torpedoed or mine! and sunk, near Glasgow on September 2. The Americans were saved. C msul McCunn was immediately i instructed by the Department to make full invesnjration to determine j lin-- thuro a-ai: one i.iniuti.-.n f th- pltfdjfes in the event that the ship vti sunk hy a submarine. South Carolina Tax Commission in Meet t olumbiu, S. ('., Sept. The State tax cm mission met in Columbia to- fit-lo complete the wurk of aisessine , pr''ierty in South Caiulina. The StaU'j brd ttt review itr the. commisM 1! le cailt to meet at an e;rly date to hear ail appeal cases. LARGE NUMBER AT Committee Appointed to Com pile Farts Relative to Ad vanlaue hy This Cil. iTie many advantages greatly need ed by an industrial plant were enu merated by aUmt seveiity-!ie leading citizens at the Chamber tf Commerce hail last night. The purpose is to secure all the fact relative to the gegraphical and other condition in th.s immediate country so they may be properly presented to the General Consulting Board of the Navy. Fifteen million dollars has been ap propriated by the government for the ablishment of an armour plate plant and a projectile plant. The government wants a suitable place, where labor can tie secured, where ' ' geocraphical conditions are normal . . . ... . and where transportation facilities " excellent. layetteville offer, such, - (Continued on Page Four.) on Future STRIKE CALLED ON ALL SUBWAY AND ELEVATED LINES IN MANHATTAN (International Newa Service.) New- York.- Sept. 6. Follow, ing a mass' meeting of electric railway employee tonight a strike waa voted oo all the sub way and elevated lines of the Interboro Rapid Transit Com pany to into effect immediately. Scouts were sent from the meeting to notify employes on the subway and elevated line that a strike had been called. SINCLAIR PLEASES Report Mr. Sinclair Held the Convention Spellbound for Over an Hour. The following news dispatch ap peared in the Winston-Salem Journal Tuesday: . urry county DcMocrats met " "at u" tooay ana nominarea one 01 Ithe strongest tickets ever put out in this county. Mr. X. A. Sinclair of Fayetteville addressed the convention In one OT ine "ronjje speecne8 ever ma le in burrf unty. f He hrld the convt-tuion speurMiunti i'T cue nour and certainly did make a hit. There was a larire crowd of IVm twiuts p)e-erit and they all seemed t be enthused; in fart, the best 1 con vention ever held in .Surry. A reflation was passed a?Uin; that the officers in the county le nut on a salary, instead "f fees, like it is. Getting: Tents Heady For An Encampment j .Salisbury. Sept. b--Qiurlerma-ter jGatTcn, of Henderson viile has nrritd in the city to s'.i peril; U' lid ihe erec tion of the many lent'-' nrtil I nk af;er i'tiie' preliminary work t'.ir the W , Lm en if t h ' v ; ! 1 w h c ir. here fr-.ni Nurrh hh 1 Suth ,("ar-'ijt ;i n--vt Mond.ty f.u- a wet k'-j i-'vini'i- j ntnt . Wilson May Decide To Take the Stump New York. Sept. ti. resident Wil- ! . $ " son may be compelled to take the' M oIlkjRwio. lit, Sept. ti. While stump. IVmocratic National Chair- 5,tHH persons looked , n, VY. N. Nor man McCormick w ill probably go tu t,,n' of Franklin, Ind . plunged to his Washington within a day or two with demands from all over the country that the president speak in the cities where Mr. Hughes has talked. The president has announced that he intends to contine himself to Shad ow Uwn porch addresses. Large River Ship Sinks At Mobile The river Mobile, Ala , Sept . 6 steamer Volcano, one of the.Tariresl boats plying Alabama river trade ! early today in the Warrior nv- i er near lock No. 8. It is not known ...... .whether any lives were lost nor how j ' vessel was sunk. The steamer w towinj coal barges to Mobile. Action I DECISIQ1I AT CABIIIET MEETIIIG TO ENTER WAR ON ALLIES SIDE (By International Kiss Service.) Iondon, Sept. 6. livtii;ii nn her future course uf action a made by Greece today at a cabi net meeting in .Athens, accord- ' ing to an exchange telegraph dis patch from Berlin. Now word has yet bter. rt'jvi'd cf-. the decisions of the cor.frer.ce but it is believed that it could have .i-rulcd only one way that Greece -v.!I join the Allies. Indications of tlus l.a t been numerous for several day, a dispatch to the Daily Telegraph say and the only question is when ar--$ how Greece should strike. Political factions in the Greek capi to! are waging a bitter struggle, ac cording to this dispatch, while Prem ier Zairois, is endeavoring to steer a middle course and giving satisfac tion to neither Wing: - - On the Saloniki frr.nt there has been a considerable let up in the light ing, artillery combats and engage ments of skirmishing- parties being the only activity. General Serrail, reports violent ar tillery action on the front held by the Seridans. $33,000 of New Fish Caught in One Month (Ry International Ne Service ) Washinjrtf n, St-pt. 6. The catch of tileli-h .ff the Atlantic coat fishint irrounti? reached a record mark liiut niuMh, wh n J.ino.onf pounds, valued ut $.V..tH'.) vei;e brought into New Vo-i port lb.t:n, AtTtmt AcTinC St' 'tVTi City ami other . f ('ommerc lUee figure) Swt-et HUH'-on- ed th , ere i pma- k ai b- in that the t.K'.bh i food evi-i,ly. d;.v . . i,:ed Hy the Partaii a feu mc.iiihs uytt. . a of the fact ) tr.tirely new i an.d popular Ki-fieries en; Wealthy IJalloonM Dies in Fall At Fair death from a balb-on. while making an ascension a! the Jackson County fa"' grounds Norton had been in the 'exhibition rame tor :to wars and was- wealthy. WEATHER. Weather for North Carolina. j Generally fa:r Thursday and Fri- day L.ght to moderate winds. The storm report.! Tuesday off the South Atlantic coast was certra! Wednes- day night over the lrer Chesapeake Bay and moving northward. It ha been attended by winds of moderate gale force of the North Carolina Coast, and rain in the Atlantic states from the Carolina to Maine I 3
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