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JUST AS WELL PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION NOW AND HELP A YOUNG LADY WIN ONE OF THE PRIZES-YOU NEEDN'T WAIT AT ALL. Monroe journal PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. VOL 20. No. 71. MONROE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1914 ONE DOLLAR A YEAR 'o A SPECIAL PRIZE PERIOD. PRETTY THINGS TO BK GIVEN IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. One tine General Prize and Twelve District Prises Will Be Given to Successful Contestant Within the Next Two Weeks Will Not Inter, fere With the Vote In the General Contest Now is the Time lor Con testants to Work Hard New Con testants Stand Even Chance With Old Ones for Special Prises, For the two weeks beginning to morrow the Journal has secured some handsome special prizes for the many contestants now working or to begin work in the popular subscription con test. These prizes bring up the total number to be worked for in the con test so far to twenty-eight. There has never been such a liberal and ex tensive offer made in a contest in this section. We are simply determined to offer opportunity to every worker to share in the rewards of the contest. For this reason, and in order to give the new workers an even chance at win ning the special prizes, the special vote period will be entirely separate from the general contest, so far as the prizes ars concerned. Of course all the votes secured these two weeks will count in the regular con test just as If no special prizes were offered. But the special prizes will be awarded at once and the winners will receive their gifts Just as soon as the votes are counted. To the contestant securing the larg est vote in each DISTRICT during the next two weeks we will Rive a lieautiful SOUI) GOLD KING, These i lnn are plain gold such as are popu- lar with ladies everywhere. The size will be left to the choice of the win ner. One rinif Roes to each district to the one receiving the largest vote for the two weeks ending Xoveinlier Kith. As a special Capital prize for thl present week ctiilinn Xoveinlier Mb, we have secured a licnutil'iil (iOI.D NECKLACE AND GOLD LOCKET. It is one of those pretty nml popular beauties celled by the Jewelers a love chain. This Is for the contestant who receives the largest vote in the entiiv contest this week. If you fail to win o:i still have a chance at the dis. diet prize lor the full two weeks. If yon do win it yoti would not he ell. lde for a district prize for the two weeks. No one need to hesitate to work In this contest. It is an honoiable em ployment, strictly on a business ba sis. People are going to continue to take newspapers and pay for them, war or no war. They want the news. We want to supply them. We give this handsome display of costly and valuable prizes to the young ladies for bringing the paper to the atten tion of friends and securing their subscriptions. It is a valuable expe rience to all the contestants. It is educatloinal and experimental at once. No contestant could offer to sell a paper that is better suited to its locality, that is more gladly read and more deeply enjoyed than The Monroe Journal twice a week right when they want the news fresh and full. Every one approached does not subscribe, that is only expected. If one man fails another will gladly take his place. Some of the con testants have been discouraged by hard times. Hard times discourage everybody at some time, liut each contestant should remember lhat if she finds the limes hard all the oth er workers are finding them just that way. We do not expect to get as many subscribers this fall iu we would if cotton were selling at fif teen cent But no young lady who really vorks fails to do well for, as has been said, people cannot and will not do without the newspapers, and then the cor,t is so small to each one that sooner or later a contestant will get everyone Fhe goes for. So lets all fall in this week and next and show what can be done. Remember a gold ring gees to each district and the lovely necklace goes to the highest In the whole contest next week. If one does not win the necklace this week she still has a chance for the ring for the whole two weeks. To Contestants Frequently sul MTihers who are a year behind wish to pay tin and renew for another year. This is a two-year renewal. Contestants get the same credit for collections as they do for renewals. Votes will not lie issued for subscrip tions paid before the contest. Here is the vote standing this week MONROE. Mrs. Lee Griffin 5,000 Mrs. W. I). McManus 50,000 Miss Annie Lee Hlnkle 5,000 Miss Eugenia Williams 5,000 Miss Bright McCorkle 5,000 Miss Llda Basinger 5,000 Miss Myrtle Price '...28,450 Miss Ethel Helms 5,000 NORTH MONROE. Miss Daisy Thomas 50,000 MONROE TOWNSHIP. Miss Ethel Sprouse 5,000 Mrs. S. E. Price 5,000 Miss Belle Medlin 5,075 Miss Amy House 5,000 Miss Lona Polk 33,000 Miss Bright Richardson 5,000 Miss Mamie Helms 5,000 Miss Mildred Broom 5,000 Miss Edna Helms 5,000 Miss Jennie Richardson ....42,000 Miss Ethel Mangum 5.000 Miss Clair Ashcraft 5.000 Miss Johnnie Parker 5,000 Miss Bright Secrest 5.000 Miss Yeaie Cook 5,000 WIXGATE. Mattie Jones 35,000 Miss Bessie Caddy 5,000 Miss Eula Whitmlre 5,000 WEST MONROE. Miss Delia Iceman 13,000 Miss Nellie Earnhart 5.000 Miss Glennie Helms 5,000 SANDY RIDGE TOWNSHIP. Miss Annie Gordon 5,000 Miss Odessa Secrest 5,000 Miss Lillie Boatright 5,000 Miss Emma Morris 5,000 Miss May Garmoa 5,000 Miss Flossie Moore 5,000 Miss Pauline Crane 5,000 Miss Carrie Godfrey 15,000 Miss Clyde Belk 34,000 MINERAL SPRINGS. Miss Ora Lee Porter 46.8 Miss Edna Winchester 5,000 JACKSON TOWNSHIP. Miss Myrtle Blythe 50,000 Miss Blannie Hinson 5,000 Miss Olive Krauss 5,000 Miss Maggie Simms 30,900 Miss Lessie Helms 5,000 Miss Addie Tyson 5,000 Miss Bessie Weir 31,100 Miss Myrtle Helms 5,000 Miss Carrie Simpson 22,175 WAXHAW. Miss Zaila McCain 39.000 Miss Georgia Broom 5,000 Miss Mamie Gamble 5,000 Miss Ellse Davis 5,000 LANES ( REEK TOWNSHIP. Miss Sarah Katherine Pierce . .5,000 Miss Lillie Smith 5,000 Miss Flossie Smith 5,000 Miss Leola Griffin 5,000 Miss Rena Moore 5.000 Miss May Meigs 5,000 Miss May Rushing 5,000 Miss Sarah Baker 3,000 Mrs. John L. Helms 11,330 Miss Eula I'hifer 5,000 Miss Sarah Tarker 13,000 Miss Alice Lee 5,000 Miss Rosa Rogers 5,000 Miss Mary Lee 5,000 Miss Alma Davis 5,000 Miss Lizzie Simpson 5,000 Miss Annie Smith 5,000 MARSH YILI.E TOWNSHIP. Miss Mayme Griffin 5,000 Miss Jessie Strawn 5,000 Miss Blake Braswell 5,000 Miss Maybelle Jones 5,000 Miss Ada Curlee .' 5,000 Miss Odessa Hamilton 5,000 Miss Myrtle Sinclair 5,000 Miss Blake Ashcraft 5,000 Miss l'earl Edwards 5,000 Miss Foy Pierce 5,000 Miss Ethel Webb 5,000 Miss Annie Perry 5,000 Miss Bessie Mclntyre 5,000 MARSHVILLE. Miss Annie Lee Plyler 5,000 Miss Bessie Mae Hallman ....5,000 Miss Lizzie Arm field 5,000 Miss Euna Bailey 5,000 GOOSE CREEK TOWNSHIP. Miss May Austin :10,000 Miss Odessa James 5,000 Miss Addie Baucom 5,000 Miss Lillie Hinson 5,000 Miss Lela Little 45,000 Miss Maud Griffin 5,000 Miss Letha Austin 5,000 Miss Beatrice Watson 5,000 Miss Ola Medlin 3S.750 Miss Nannie Deese 5,000 Miss Carrie Clontz 5,000 Miss Minnie Hinson 5,000 Miss Delia Helms 31,250 Miss Addie Biggers 5.000 Miss Winnie Uraswell 5.000 Miss Annie James 5,000 Miss Ola Baucom 15,325 Miss Mattie Hargett 5,000 Miss Wilma Duncan 5,000 Miss Lela Helms 5,000 I MON VILLE, Miss Miranda Price 5,000 Miss Wilma Hargett 3!), 42 Miss Lola Price 5,000 111 TORI) TOWNSHIP. Miss Era Belk 5,000 Miss Galther Coan 23,625 Miss Lillian Mical 5,000 Miss Arlie Flncher 5,000 Miss Mary Starnes 5,000 Miss Wilma Plyler 5,000 Miss Ida Broom 5,000 Miss Vara Belk 29,275 Miss Thelma Little 5,000 Miss Kate Funderburk 5,000 Miss Maggie Sistare 5,000 Miss Arlie Rollins 5,000 Miss Lessie Plyler 21,200 Miss Nancy Lathan 5,000 Miss Ruth Rogers 5,000 Miss Mayme Belk 32,000 Miss Cornelia Laney 5,000 Miss Eula Cox 5,000 Miss Pearl Pate 5,000 Miss Edith Plyler 5,000 Miss Gladys Laney 10,000 Miss Olga Williams 5,000 Miss May Hinson 5,000 VANCE TOWNSHIP. Miss Tommle Hoover 5,000 Miss Myrtle Stallings 5,000 Miss Mabel Lewis 5,000 Miss Velma Porter 6,000 Mrs. Rilla Crowell 6,000 Miss Florence Helms 6,000 Miss Bessie Lemmond 5,000 Mrs. Clarence Helms 5,000 Miss Clara Stlnsoa 6,000 Miss Pearl Stllwell 5.000 Miss Dora L.King 4009 INDIAN TRAIL. Miss Ruth Morris 5,000 Miss Annie Crowell 6,000 Miss Mary Boyd 40,600 Mrs. J. Y. Fitzgerald 8,000 STOUTS. Miss Maggie Haywood 6,000 NEWT SALEM TOWNSHIP. Miss Pearl Braswell 6,000 Miss Kola Smith 5.000 Miss Eunice Simpson 5.000 Miss Sallie Staten 5,000 Miss Odell Brooks 5.000 Miss Rosalind Caddy 5,000 Miss Dora Thomas 5,000 Miss Alma Hargett 5,000 Miss Mitie Simpson 5,000 Miss Ola Staten 5,000 Mis Ada Austin 5,000 Miss Dora Parker 5.000 Miss Ella Smith 37,400 Miss Clennie Moore .5.000 Miss Efn Edwards 5.000 Miss Ettie Simpson 5,090 LANCASTER COUNTY. Miss Elise McCain 5.000 Miss Mattie Steele 5,000 Miss Sallie Neal 6,000 Miss Beulah Thompson 5,000 Miss Bessie Flyan .....5,000 Miss Odessa Plyler 5,000 Miss Myrtle Thompson 5,000 Miss Annie Sapp 5,000 Miss Ella Rowell 5,000 Miss Carrie Funderburk 5,000 Miss Estelle Gordon 5.000 Miss Marguerite Sapp 5,000 Miss Maud Funderburk 5,000 Miss Ethel Taylor 15,000 CHESTERFIELD COUNTY. Miss Hassle Arant 5,000 Miss Blanche Pressley 5,000 Miss Maud Sanders 5,000 Miss Dora Terry 5,000 Miss Ollla Stegall 5,000 Miss Gertrude Jenkins 5,000 Miss Geneva Funderburk ....6,000 Miss Myrtle Wallace 5,000 Miss Maud Funderburk 5,000 Miss Hessie McRae 39,300 PAG ELAND Miss Nell Cato 5,000 Miss Marie Brewer 5,006 Miss Ruth Chavis 5,000 Miss Maggie Smith 5,000 Miss Jessie Quick 5,000 CHESTERFIELD, Miss Bertha West 5,000 RUBY. Miss Ethel Oliver , MT. CROC HAN Mrs. Lucy Htintlev , JEFFERSON Miss Maggie Miller , ,.5,000 ,.5,000 ,000 SECOND NUMBER OF COURSE. LYCEUM Xet Entertainment to Come Monday M,lit and Is Ili.Ji ( la s Like On of Last Saturday Niulit. The first number of the Redpath Lyceum course secured bv Mr. Hern- don Hasty and Mr. Robert Howie was presented last Saturday niirht in the Monroe onera house. It was at first thought that the onera house could not be rerured, which account ed for the small house. Those who attended remarked that the Weather wax quartette was the best of its Kinu ever seen in Monroe. THE MAN FROM VERMONT. Charles R. Taceart. the man from Vermont, is the next atractlon of the Lyceum course, which will be pre sented at the onera house nevt Mnn day night. Mr. Taggari appears with me following announcement: To the People at Laree. "If von are contemplating spending an eve ning witn me, I can assure you that I shall be del ichted to see von ami t trust we shall enjoy ourselves to the fullest extent. My aim is neither to teacn nor preach, to advise nor lec ture; I shall not seek to elve von in formation on any special subject noi to influence your minds In any par ticular direction. If I can turn youi pain into pleasure bv music, vom worries into wonderment hv mlmlrrv ...j, and your sadncs to smiles by humor in snort, it I can succeed in liftln; the cares and burdens from your life for one evenine onlv. mv numn.-to will have been accomplished." Mr. Taggart's programs are dp scriptive. piano relections. sours, rp citations, character sketches, ventri loiiiiii'.l. dialogues and vlo in mimi cry. In addition to this, the Monroe orchestra will furnish music. Mr Taggart comes with a guaranteed at traction and with the announcement "box office oncn after the show." all of these attractions are advertis ed. In commenting on Charles n T?. gart, the man from Vermont, Strick land Gillian, one of the great metro politan critics says 'Charles R. Taggart's nlatform worn is a marvel of power in proving that clean, high class fun may be Just as nonularlv nldo-unlit ting as Is the suggestive variety the vaudevillians think necessary to amuse the public. His humor Is ba sic, simple, direct In its appeal; as effective as any I have ever watched or heard; and is fairly crowded with novel originality and a Yankee In genuity unsurpassable. The stamp of the artist who knows how to con ceal the bastlne-tbreads and niher shop-marks, Is on everthlng he does. His music Is real music, his Imper sonificatlons miraculously faithful his mimicry photographic, his pro gram oienaing perfect. 1 nave, and always shall have, heard and seen as often as possible." , Old Favorite Here Tonight. Beverly of Graustark. an nM fov. orite, will be presented at the opera house tonight. This is the same com pany which toured the South several years ago, and wrought much ap plause from the public. It is a dra matization of the novel of fha ma ma name by George Barr McCutcheson. Mr. Earl Shute, manager of the Monroe Opera House, says that though he was late in securing the best attractions this vaar on airmint of a misunderstanding, he is going to secure several good shows for this winter. ELEVEN NATIONS NOW IX. Turkey Having Joined Germany ami Austria, More May Yet Be Drawn Into War. London Dispatch, Nor. 1st. Turkey has definitely thrown her lot with Austria and Germany and if Portugal is counted there are now 11 Powers at war with prospects of at least three more Greece. Bulgaria and Rouraania being drawn in it. The note which Great Britian pre sented to Turkey on Friday last de manding an explanation of the ac tions of the Turkish fleet in the Black Sea ud the dismantling of the form er German cruisers, the Goeben and the Breslsu, was really an ultimatum to which Turkey was required to make a reply by Saturday evening. So far as is known here, telegraphic communication with Turkey being In terrupted, no answer was made and the Ambassadors of the Triple En tente at the Ottoman Capital, it is understood, demanded and received their passports. Turkish troops, which bad been on the Egyptian border for some time, already are reported to have crossed the frontier, while the Turkish fleet continues to menace Russian towns and shipping in the Black Sea. Neither Russia nor Creat Britian was unprepared for this move by Turkey and the Allied Bowers have forces on hand to oppose a Turkish invasion. When the regular forces were with drawn from Egypt to take part In the war in Europe, they immediately were replaced by troops from home much greater in numbers at least and only last week they paraded through the streets of Cairo, making a splendid impression. The problem for both England and Russia, however, Is the attitude of their Moslem subjects who, under or dinary eorcunistances. would prefer not to fight against Turkey. Another problem relates to the at tlude of Roumnnia. Bulgaria and Greece. Bulgaria, owing her exis tence to Russia and belns under many obligations to Great Brit ian, beside bciir; de-irons of re curlng Thrace a.i n-.r East as the Enos-Midla line, which she was awarded by the London conference alter the fir: t Balkan v;,r but which Turkey retook when Bulgaria wps at tacked by Greece ami Servia. would naturally side with the Entente. But she objects, political observers point out, to fighting pido by sido with Greece fend Servia. Russia, however, is expected to ask Bulgaria dellnately on which side she is ranged, as her mere neutrality un der the circumstances appears Insuf ficient. Should she Join the Austrians and Germans, Roumania almost cer tain to declare for the Allies', and Greece even before this may decide to lane ner revenge on Turkey. In fart it Is believed her treaty with Servia would compel her to take action should the latter be attacked by eith er Bulgaria or Turkey. Italy, too, Is brought nearer to war by the entrance of Turkey, for she has large Mediterraueau posses sions to protect. EVEN ISEIXJAX ROYALTY IX THE HUKADI.IXE. K1XJ ALBERT ASKS FOR AID. Says the Suffering of Belgians Will lie infold This Winter Unless Americans Aid. King Albert of Belgium, has asked the American people to help feed his sinning people during the comin winter. His message written under ire In the battle before Dunkirk, and transmitted to the American commit tee follows: "I am Informed that American of ficials and citizens in Belgium and England are working to save mv peo ple from the horrors of the faminfe winch now threatens them. It is a great comfort to me in this hour of sorrow and misfortune to feel that a great hearted, disinterested neoHo Is direcing its efforts to relieving the distress of the unoffending civil pop ulation or my country. Despite all that can be done, the suffering in the coming winter will be terrible, but the burdens I must bear will be lightened if mv neonle can be spared the pangs of hunger with its frightful consequences of disease and violence. 'I confidently hone that the anneal of the American commission will meet with a generous response. The whole-heartedness of America shown my people at this time always will he precious memory." England Will Buy W hen Colon Hits Bottom. A New York Dispatch of Saturday says: Although no representative of the New York coton exenange has been present at the conferences here, the attitude of the Federal Reserve Board and New York bankers pro bably would have an effect on the op ening date. Sir George Talsh has ofter expressed the belief that Ameri can cotton would be purchased in quanlty by English manufacturers If they had assurance that the bottom had been reached. A reopening of the exchanges and the 1135,000.00') pool are expected to furnish the bottom. It was announced tonight (hat pro gress was being made in raising the lean fund and that clearing house committees In various cities were ac tively at work. Rev. A. B. Haywood, who was se riously injured at Indian several days go by falling off a school house which he was helping repair, Is now Improving. From the Throne to the Cottage the Whole Population Has Been He. reft of Shelter and Now Fares Starvation The Awful Condition of a Devastated Country. Brussels Dispatch, Nov. 2nd. Between 6.000,000 and 7.000.000 Belgians have little or nothing to call "home." They are a people almost without a country. Foodstuffs, forage, horses, cattle and automobiles not commandeered by the German army have been seized by the Germans. Fractirally every acre is now swept of everything val uable. It is estimated that there are now 200,000 Belgians in England and 800.000 in Holland. The lowest es timate made here places the number of Belgian homes destroyed or unin habitable at one million. Malines, Louvain, Liege, .Namur, Charleroi Mons, Dinant and a score of smaller places have been so shattered by the artillery fire that less than half of the normal population Is decently sheltered. The seizure of cattle for the arm ies has left the country without beef, milk and cheese. The supply of grain has been cut oh". For several weeks Flanders was able to help the eastern portion but now Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp and Ostend are suf fering the same distress which ear lier befell the eastern rart of the country. At Liege, the TMtssburg of Belgium, the steel industry has been brought to a standstill. At Antwerp, the New York of the Belgians, all ship ping has stopped. Hundreds of big steamers lie idle at the docks. Thousands of freight trucks are rust ing beside the canals while the horses are dead on Flemish battle fields. The drivers and freight handlers are in hospitals or with King Albert's army. Nieuport and Ostend, the latter suggesting Atlantic City to an Amer ican, are occupied by the Germans and the hotels are filled with German wounded. Brussels, the deserted capital, has been spared destruction, but its in dustries are shut down. Lace work ers are being fed nt soup kitchens. The stores have no food to sell and the public has no money to buy if opportunity offered. Members of noble families have discharged their servants and joined the bread line. The fear is commonly expressed that the city with Its famous build ings will be destroyed either by at tack or by the Germans themselves should they be compelled to retire. German money Is In general use. Military proclamations in all the store windows announce that the mark must be accepted. Brussels has no postal communication except with Germany. Everything is cen sored. No railways are operated In central Belgium. Most of the lines are without bridges. Canals are the only avenues for the shipment of freight. Belgians here estimate that one fifth of the Belgians remaining in the country have employment of some sort. These include farm owners and lessees. The beet crop has been ruined by the armies and sugar fac tories are closed. There are no horses or other equipment for har vesting, or trains to move the small amount of beets that have survived the devastation of war, and few able bodied men to assist the women, who are endeavoring to ward off starva tion by gathering what little remains of the crops in the Held. Antwerp's diamond cutters are in the army. Malines tapestry factories are In ruins. .Many cotton mills are n ashes and those that stand are closed. All universities and schools have been abandoned. Nearly all physicians are at the front or serv ing in the hospitals. nunareas ot priests and nuns are raring for the sick and wounded. Few churches are fit for occupancy as hos pitals or otherwise. Convent homes have been deserted by the sisters. Many are so badly wrecked they could afford no shelter. Canals leading from Belgium to Holland, and the one railway line be tween Antwerp and Rosendaal con stitute Belgium's only communication with neutral countries. The disheart ened Belgians are unable to commu nlcate with their relatives whether they are refugees in Holland or sol diers on the battle line. Their iso lation Is almost complete. To the grief over their dead and the exile of their Government is now added the lawful spectre of starvation. The single ray of hope is afforded by the American commission for re lief In Belgium. The liberality of Holland Is described as splendid, but the country's grain supply Is exhaust ed. Great Britian having limited Dutch importations, the sole source of an adequate food supply Is the United States. Even the few Belgians with money cannot buy food. There Is no wheat, dour, coffee or suit to be had at any price. In nmny cities conditinns are worse then In country districts. Ba keries are clo.-ed mid vegetables are the only diel. Supplies that the American comniltfeion Is shipping will help a Rule, but thousands of Belgians positively are hungry. Imperfect means of communication have prevented the American Minis ter, Brand Whltlock, and other prom inent men from advising the world fully of the terrible situation that confronts the Belgians as Winter op ens. The abrence of King Albert and high Government officials has made It impossible for the local authorities to make their plight known. ARMIES YET AT STANDSTILL CHECK OF GERMAN ADVANCE SEEMS TO UK PERMANENT. Turkey .May Yet Stay Out of the War If She Makes Sufficient Guarantees for the Future Better Situation for the English in South Africa German Cruiser Still Picking Up English Merchant Ships The Slow Progress of the Annies. Turkey may yet keep out of the general European war provided she can give sufficient guarantee of good behavior. The officials have tried to place upon the German officers on the warships the blame for attacking Russian ports. England and Russia may accept the excuses provided there are some -guarantees of future good behavior. In Belgium and northern France where the big armies are locked in death grapple and have ben for weeks neither side makes any mark ed progress. It is said that even when one side makes any advance it is only in spots and then but i few yards at a time. A gain of 1,2m) yards Is accounted a marvel. The men are burrowed like moles In the ground and in many places the lines are only a hundred yards apart. No spot can be permanently held unless the men have time to dig their way into the ground to protect themselves from the hail of iron and lead that is soon showered upon them. THE LATEST SITUATIONS. London Dispatch, Nov. 2nd. The Grand Vizier of Turkey has apologized on behalf of his Govern ment for the warlike operations ot the Turkish fleet under German com manders in the Black Sea, but It was stated authoritatively tonight that the Borte will have to go much furth er than this before the powers of the Triple Entente will agree to resume friendly relations with the Ottoman Government. There Is every reason to believe lhat despite the apology of the Grand Vizier which it is understood comes from the peace party in the Turkish Cabinet and may not be :dl.ced to hv Enver 1'a-dia. the Minister ot War, and his Voting Turk followers. Era nee. Iiti.i.-la and Great liriian not only wiil demand reparation lor ihe op erations of the Turkith tk't in the. Black Sea but will insiM that Tur key's entire fleet, or at any r;'!e the cruisers Goeben, Iirerl.ut and Hatni Uiech he put out of commission until after the -war, Tur!!oy' ceou-ity bo ng a guarantee in the meantime. This would give Russia mch su periority in the Black Sea that there would be no danger of Turkish raids. It Is suggested also that demobiliza tion of the Turkish nrmy would be demanded, which means that those troops which have crossed the Egyp tian frontier must be withdrawn. However, as the terms of Turkey's apology have not been published and must be considered by the Entente powers before the apology Is accept ed or refused, there seems to be n long way to go before diplomatic re lations betwen the Ottoman govern ment and Allies can be resumed. Meanwhile a report conies from Constantinople of the reizure of another Russian steamer and also that Bulgaria, which had been ask ed on which side she would n'ly her self, had commenced to ir.ob;ii.e her second line troopr. 1 he eGrmans eortiiiMe to strike hard blows on the Allies' lines in their endeavor to got thiough to the coast. Thus far they have found ev ery road blocked but appaientlv di:- arding losses thy continue to r.l- tack. The floods, the Belgian rrtnv and the British tleet having baited ihrir way southenr.twr.rd along the const, the Germans are now striking on a line stretching from Ypres in Bel gium, to La basse, farther f-outh in France, but seemingly with no more success. The stubbornness of fight ing along this line may be gathered from the fact that the town of Mes slnes, which the Germans now occupy has been taken and retaken no less than four times since last Saturday. The belief Is growing here, and it is also expressed by those returning from Belgium, that the Germans are making a last effort to get thruugh to the ccast and that If i falls they will fall back to the positions pre pared In central Belgium. The backbone af the rebellion In South Africa seems broken. Colonel Muritz's command in the northern Cape Province has ben defeated. Sev eral of the raiders and most of their men have ben captured. General Beyers Is In flight and General De Wet has opened negotiations for sur render, it is said. The German cruiser Karlsruhe has added three more British rteamrrs to her list of captures in the Atlantic. One, the Vandyke, Is a vesrel of about 1,000 tons. There were reports todav of naval activity In the Straights of Dover. A dispatch from Dover said a British torpedo-boat destroyer was observed In action, apparently against a Ger man submarine. A Oood Idea. Lumberton Robesonian. There Is a certain young farmer In Robeson who bought license to marry a certain girl last week, but before he bought his license he also peught three nice hogs. He is a young man with the right Idea. "There ain't nothing beats having a wife and living at home In the country."
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