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NO
THING NEIV IS TRANSPIRING
ON ANY OF SECTORS OCCUPIED
BY AMERICANS, STATED TODAY
(By The United Press)
LONDON. According to a dispatch from Gn.
Haig to the British war office, there were artillery
fire and raiding operations reported last night.
Haig further announces that few of the British
troops are missing as a result of an enemy raid.
Near Bucquoy Thursday night the British and
French patrols brought in prisoners from differ
ent parts of the front.
The French war office announces that a de
tachment has penetrated the German lines north
west of Lasigriy and that an enemy raid at the
same point failed.
East of Coupigny there was a revival of artillery
activity op both sides! of the Lys and Scarpe rivers
Thursday evening.-
The German war office reports the capture of
prisoners as the result of five raids southeast of
Bucquoy, and also along the Gise.
Ministers Hake Appeal
The President of the United States has issued proclamation
designating next Thurstday, May 30th, as day of publle humiliation
prayer an feasting. .He exhorts fellow -dtizens of "all faiths and
creeds to assemble on that day in places of worship and there, as
veil as in ourhomes, pray Almighty God to forgive our sins as at
people, and purify our hearts, and defend all things that are Just.
Beseeching Him to give victory to our armies as they fight for free
dom, bringing in at last peace founded upon mercy and justice.
Every individual should gladly lay aside all business- on that
day, feeling it a patriotic and a religious duty to give theatsehfos
wholly to prayer.
The Greenville Ministerial Association has arranged for a union
service to be held in Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church from 9 o'
clock to 12 o'clock in the morning and from 3 o'clock to 6 o'clock in
the afternoon on Thursday, May 30th, and urgges every man and wo
man and child in Greenville to attend these services.
GREENVILLE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION.
Bolshevism Hits
Teuton Pisoners
(By The United Press)
SAN FRANOIS.COMTman and
Austrian prisoners "of war in "Russia
have become so imbued with the spirit
of radicalism prevailing there that they
will be dangerous to. the rule of absolu
tism in the fatherland, if they are tak-
British Positions Bombarded.
LONDON. According to Field Marshal Haisr
there was a bombardment of theJBritish positions KJ
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m tne soutnern ana nortnwestern portions 01 tne
Flanders front yesterday evening and last night.
"In the neighborhood of Hamel last night we
raided the enemy's trenches taking forty prison
ers and two machine guns.
"We also carried out a successful raid and took
a few prisoners near Lens," said the statement.
Bring Down German Planes
With the American Armies in France. May 24.
(Night) The American official communique says
that confirmation has been received that Ameri
can aviators brought down two German planes on
May 21. There is nothing- new on any of the sec
tors occupied by the Americans.
Negro Troops Making Good Showing.
With the American Army in Lorraine, May 23.
Wight) The American negro troops are holding
a portion of the lines west of Verdun in conjunc
tion with the "French forces, it is now permitted to
he announced. .
Announcement from headquarters is to the ef
ft that these Americans are making exception-
ally good showing in the trenches.
IGHTEEN YEAR OLD COLORED BOY
IS
ACCHTLY KILLED ON FRIDAY
Two Americans
Killed by Fall
(By The United Prose)
WITH THE .AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. First-Lieut. Walter V.
Barneby of the Signal Corps, Sumner,
Wash., and second Lieutenant Kenneth
P. Colbert of the U. S. Marine corps,
Orange, N. J. died Wednesday night
after a fall from an aeroplane.
San Francisco after flight from Russia
since the German occupation, expresses
this opionion, and exhibits in support
copies of "The Getaway Express."
"Getaway Express" was published"
on the trans-Siberian train and was
prepared on a typewriter by George F.
Sokolsky, an American. Some of So
kolsky's "sub-editors" were C. W. Cook
managing director of the Russian
American Society of New York ; G. W.
Willis of the Gaston, William & Wig-
more Company ; C. J. Mayer of the In
i Hurvpstpr Oomnanv. and a
l. X uui.u. . Mr - . . . . , . .
number of men who were in the M.os-
tieorgia nas eigni nunarea ana seven
teen thousand; North Carolina has
Seven hundred and sixteen thousand;
Florida has four hundred and two
Fine Report Of
Red Cross Drive
From South
(Special to Daily News)
ATLANTA, Go This division's to
tal reached one million, five hundred
thousand, seven hundred and forty
seven dollars.
Tennessee still leads with nine nun-
23, Casualties
Number Reported
for Yesterday
(By The United Press)
WASHINGTON. - Twentyrthree
casualties were listed by the War De
partment today. It showed four killed
in action, four dead from wounds, three
dead from disease, - four severely
wounded and eight slightly wounded.
Charles McCurry Candler of North. Car
olina and Zeb V. Plemmons of 548-W.
Haywood St., Asheville, are among
those severely wounded. .
15 German Sailors
Pay Death Penalty
' (By The Onited Press)
AMSTERDAM. Fifteen German
sailors have been tried at Ostend for
their connection with the British naval
opera tons, wheh resulted in the block
Ing of Ostend and Zeebrugge harbors,
according to reports brought to Bruges
and from that place here by fishermen.
Thirteen were executed and two sen
tenced to twnty years imprisonment.
53 AMERICAN SOLDIERS WERE
LOST ON BRITISH TRANSPORT
MOLDAVIA WHEN TORPEDOED
(By The United Press)
WASHINGTON. Fifty-three men, all mem
bers of Company B, Fifty-Eighth Infantry, Fourth
Division, are reported lost when the British trans
port Moldavia was sunk by a torpedo. Lee Reas
er of Cedarville, W. Va., is the only Southerner
among those lost.
The 58th division was recently entrained for
France. It was in quarters at Camp Greene, at
Charlotte, N. C, until a few days ago.
America Vent
Oyer the Tops for
Red Cross Today
(By The United Press)
WASHINGTON. What the Red
Cross asked, America has given, pro
viding the one hundred milion dollars
today. According to an unofficial es
timate she swept over the finish at
noon. Official figures given out ear
lier in the day showed ninety-seven
million dollars was already in.
WASHINGTON. The war department in re
ceiving the list of the identified Americans dead
in the torpedoing of the British troop transport
Moldavia, said that it was less than originally es
timated, the number being fifty-six, it is thought.
It is notasyet established whether this will con -stitute
the fally or not. However, it will be an
nounced later.
cow oflice of the National City Bank of
New York.
Here are some excerpts:
it r.rr-KTnin-U'-Kr air A T A HThan fh frfHn
reached here a tovarish conversed with ' fhosad n South Carolina has five
his Ivostik in Viatka about Bolshevik-
hundred and thirty-four thousand.
All chapters and auxiliaries are urg-
crm innthor HisfllSSPfl thp War With
who assembled at the. lo 8S Pieae raius l"ruu8UUUL lue
l
the above result. ' "
Coroner Wilkinson and a jury held an
inquest. In their verdict they exon
erated the 'father but compelled him
"Mpnlay afternoon about 2:30 o'-
k Huhprt Mewborne, colored, the
-yr oM son of Henry ilewborne.
aww a D""- e" to give a $100 bond for his appearance
r' h. farm of Mr. Meekin Moye, four at the next term of Pitt county crim
'i' from fJreenville. The boy lived for arrying the shotgun.
''MM m taw minnfno T'Virv anffro lnnrl ' ", "
froiJ1 the gun entered his body just be
lf,w tht. breast.
-"ins that Henrj' Mewborne,, the
u,y'- father, attempted to whip his
"Min-,,,. sorij jessej for ieaying niS home
-'.ing to that of a neighbor to get
linner. He started toward the boy
;1 -ll.it
purpose of correcting him with
gun in his hand. When he drew
" !r Hie hoy drew a hoe on his father.
'Jli"v oarne together and fell to the
f,ii!i with the shot gun between them.
I lu (,i,lr son Hubert, who was en
Kaged in work not far away, saw the
liffir-ulry and went to the father and
"other and in attempting to pull the
Sun from between them it fired with
NOTCE TO CONTRIBUTORS ;
As the Second Red Cross War Fund
Committee is expected- te make a com
plete report Monday evening, May 27?
all persons wh ,onavf ' not paid the
amount subscribod are urged to pay
same at once to either of. the follow
ing: . I
E. Gr. Flanagan, J. B. James, E. B.
Ficklen, B. W. Moseley, W. J. Hardee,
G. B. W. Hadley, H. A. White, G. E.
Harris, T. G. Person, Miss Pattje Woot
en. Mrs. E. BFleklen, Miss Eloise El-
German prisoners
depot. Before night 40 prisoners "bad
assembled and things looked bad, we
thought. They seemed friendly, though
aud exchanged greetings. . ; . .
Prisoner Tells Story
THE URALS. At Radiezd a Hun
garian war prisoner, told of condit;i0A8
in a lumber camp near there. They get
two pounds of bread a day, a quarter
of a pound of meat and noj, wa rm
drinks or sugar. Theyjt a maximpm
pf 15 kopecks a day. The men are
suffering from cold and exposure-, :
SIBERIA. Several Tovarishi board,
ed the train. The home guird threw
them off the rear platform.
OMSK- This afternoon at JJovo. Nl-
kolaevs interviewed several nujaorea
Austrian and German, prisoners.- Their
train was also held up at ( that point.
There were probably J.90Q f them on
board. Some of - the members . of our
party, who cocld speak German did;
some propaganda work, outlining A
merica's war. aims and bits front Presi
dent Wilson's speech, We found that
every prisoner desired peace...... Germany
and Austria, they said, were afraid to
allow the prisoners who had .been in
Russia to return. They had . been so
fed up on radicalism that almost every
man was ready to spread bolskevik
principles. ' v ,; - ' :
Condition is Pttifnl
The condition of thesg, prisoners. was
pitiful. ; TJhey w.ere penned 40 to 50 in
a car, and received but a meager food
allowance. - Several of the Americans
contributed toward their aid.
For the past two days this city has
been dominatedy the bolsheviki. The
Red Guard, we learn, attempted to rob
churches 'and homes. Eighteen,; Red
Guards were killed by enraged? .citizens.
church congregations Sunday and to
make Monday a sweeping popular can
vass in each community and also in the
"chapter jurisdictions.
' Southern division officials, in view of
the' fact that President Wilson serious
ly advocates that the fields of France
may show the spirit of Lee may be be
tween all as the sons of the South ad
vance unconquered there.
Four out of the forty largest towns
In the division report over their sub
scription ..some have duobled their
qudta and stilK going strong.
lu.trtnw, . Rni rvns . Heaomiarters .a 'xtita ,urio. we uwi wme iuwo
nr.. nmV rmnajiv oc K. W. Cobb. Austrians and Germans. The Austri-
aris,' patticularly, were strong in their
denunciation of the Kaiser's machina
tions. They declared they had become
anarchists, and announced that when
ihey get back to Austria they will
"make things, hum." They all expressed
for" the -work of the American Red
Cross and the T. M. C, and were most
friendly toward the United States.
MANCHURIA We have left Bolshe
vik territory and our ride is now trium
phant.
Viutefs Theatre
TONIGHT v '
fJBDfe LOST EXPRESS, fea
turing Helen Holmes. ;
"injNGBID HONS Df -A HO
PTTAii.'';Alsosther geed ones.
; Monday
"Neglected Wife"
; vv Tn6oincRath Roland v'. '
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Children's Day
at IL E. Church on
Sunday -Morning
The Children's Day program to be
rendered at Jarvis Memorial Church
tomorrow morning promises to be both
interesting and entertaining.. Below
is published the program in full. The
public has a cordial invitation to be
present :
Processional.
Song, "Welcome," Beginners.
Prayers Louise Hooker.
Welcome to Cradle Roll Lon'se
Hooker, Elizabeth Win slow, Rather ine
Utley.
Roll Call and Presentation of Flow
ers to Cradle Roll C. R. Snpt.
Invocation Pastor.
Prayer Song--School .
Song Jesus, Friend of Little tTiild-
ren," Primary and Beginners.
Recitation, "When We All Grow Big."
Song "The Children's Hosaana"
School.
Recitation, Flower Exercise - .Pri
mary.
Song, "My Country Tis of Thee"
Louise Hooker.
Recitation, "The' Saviour and the
Children" Mrs. Underwood's Class.
Recitation, "Children's Day Ode"
Bessie Louise Albrltton.
Recitation, Jesus, Our Helper" I
Boys.
Recitation, "The Nest" Doris Garrls.
Song, "Baby Moses" Beginners.
Das-id Livingston (acrostic) Miss
Ross class. '
Recitation, "Those Who Do Not
Sing," Mrs. Taft's Class.
Recitation "He a Boy Scout" 4
Boys.
Song, "The Sweet Story" School.
Recitation, "Mother's Heart Is in the
f'Garrlen" If&rfe Hardee
Recitation "I Cannot See the Pow
er," Ramona Ray.
-Recitatiop, "Our Land for Christ"
Mrs. Zahniser's and Miss Tyson's
Classes.
Recitation, "I am Glad" Fannie G.
Allen.
Address Pastor:
Offering for Needy Sunday Schools.
'AntheinV V Remember i Now Thy
LONDON. The British armed merchant troop
ship, Moldavia, with American troops on board,
has been torpedoed and sunk, according to an of
ficial bulletin issued by the Admiralty. It occur
red yesterday morning'. There were no casualties
among the crew. When it was seenjthat the Mol
davia was settling down, all on board were taken
off by the escorting ships. The Moldavia was tor
pedoed without warning. It was a moonlight
nighgt and although a good lookout was kept, the
attacking submarine was not sighted before the
torpedo struck. The sailors and soldiers alike
showed no panic. The Moldavia is the third trans
port carrying American soldiers to be torpedoed
and the fifteenth troop ship sunk by the Germans.
Red Cross Treas.
Is Enriched By
Two Matchers
Yesterday in the Warren Drug store
two of the city's citizens In the per
sons of W. H. Bennett and Max Sil
ver, the latter proprietor of the Green
ville Electric shoe shop, got into an
argument over the Red Cross.
Bennett asked Silver if he had given
to the Red Cross, to which Silver re
plied that he had. Bennett then said,
"Why don't you give more."
Silver, not. to be outdone, made the
proposition- that he would match Ben
nett from a nickel up, and the money
be turned over the the locar chapter.
Bennett, not to take a Deck seat, plank-
Johnson Denies
Charges in Trial
at Richmond
(By The United Press)
RICHMOND. "I never gave my
wife any medicine except a prescrip
tion of aspirin phenacetin for the
headache. She was always taking med
icine of one kind or another. I warn
ed her against it. I knew that taking
aspirin as frequently as she had oen
doing was liable to make a dope fiend
of her." ,
Thus testified Dr. Lemuel Johnson
this morning In -denying the charges
that he had given his wife cyannlde
of potassium. '
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ed down a nickel and -ho sooner than
he had done so before Silver covered It rivalry afforded
it. This went on until each one had tor. the bystanders.
placed on the - counter $5.05,
! for the Red CtossIO.10: This friend-
much amusement
Both of the con-
totaling testants were, game to the last nickeL
RELATIONS BETWEEN MEXICO AND
CUBA SEVERED, CURRENT RUMOR
(By The United Press)
WASHINGTON. The Mexican Charge &' Af
fairs at Havana has been recalled by President
Carranza, according to information reaching the
State Department.
. ' Unconfirmed rumors are current that relations
between Mexico and Cuba have been severed.
For some time therehas been tension between
the countries over the Cuban changes that Ger-a
man plotting had been directed from Mexico that
aimed at the destruction, of the Cuban sugar crop.
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