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EVERYBODY READS IT; EVERYBODY NEEDS IT; EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT; EVERYBODY LIKES IT. THAT'S THE TWICE-A-WEEK JOURNAL. Monroe journal PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. VOL.21. No. 13. MONROE, N. C TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1915 ONE DOLLAR A R. HE uk; thing for Russia. Fall of Ihe Austrian Fortress of Pnt- enijsl Urine Rejoicing in Russia, France and England. Petrograd Dispatch. March 22. The garrison of Przemysl capitu lated to the Russian army today with out a fight. The hoisting of the white flag over the fortress caused little surprise. It was generally known that the defend ers were In a terribly weakened con dition, without food and animuuition, and their endurance was only a ques tion of days. War Office advices report that nine Austrian generals, more than 300 of ficers and 50,000 men surrendered. The Russian general commanding the Investing army has been decorat ed with St. George's Cross. A heavy snow failed to check the enthusiastic demonstrations in which the civilian and military populations here united when the fall of Przemysl was announced. Crowds, floundering in deep drifts cheered the officers and soldiers who remained to participate in the celebrations. From the Kasean Cathedral the strains of the National anthem swell ed in volume as the crowds gathered and from other points throughout the city, mysteriously hidden beyond the dense curtain of falling snow, music burst forth and added to the general spirit of enthusiasm. The moral effect of the victory on Russia, it is expected, will be very great, awakening hopes that this will be the turning point in the Galician and Carpathian campaigns. Nothing since the capture of Lem- burg and the victorious sweep of the Russian army through Galicia in the beginning of the war has aroused an equal degree of enthusiasm. News- Taper offices and nrmy headquarters were bombarded with telephone in uiries, while crowds stood in a pelt ing snow storm before the bulletin hoards. The fate of the fortress has been in evitable since the failure of the last Austrian drive from the southward for its relief. There have been daily evidence of a shortage of provisions and reports of the ravages of disease reached the besiegers from time to time. Gradually the lines about the city were drawn tighter until within the last fortnight Russian rlliemen were within range of the outer works, and Russian artillery pounded the forts ceaselessly. The Austrian sortie of last Satur day was preceeded by such an extrav agant use of ammunition that it left the Impression that the Austrian ar aiy was at the end of its resources and desired to use up its ammunition before surrendering. Although Trzemysl had been elimi nated as a positive menace to the Russian troops operating In Galicia i nee it was isolated and surrounded early in October, it always had been a potential source of danger. Many stubborn battles had been fought by the besiegers with portions of the garrison which attempted to break through the Invading lines to join re lief columns which on some occasions ushed to within 25 miles of the city It was believed here that the next important development in Galicia will be a new Russian advance toward Cracow, the Austrians having been virtually driven out of the territory as far southward as the Carpathians. The garrison of Pr.emyl originally umbered 60,000 to 80.000 men but vorties and shells must have cut a considerable number of thousands from that number. The besieging army is understood to number about 110,000 officers and men. BIGGEST CHOI OX RECORD. Government Figurer-s- Show (hat 1914 Col ton Cron Was Ahead of All lYev'ous Ones. The greatest cotton crop ever pro duced was the record for 1914, ac cording to the census statistics Issu- ed Saturday In giving the final figures in the ginning of the years crop. According to the figures compiled by the department the crop was 16, 102,143 bales of 500 pounds each. North Carolina crop ginned was 925.233 524,595 bales.. bales. South Carolina 1 bales. Virginia 25,182 Kcik.i1 Fell Flat. New Orleans, March 21. the chief news feature of the week in the cotton market was the final Cen sus Bureau report of the season on ginning. It fell flat as a bearish in tluenre, although it was larger than even the bears expected. After the figures were issued on the last session of the week the market actually ad vanced. In the early part of the week, the market felt a pronounced buying wave, which had its inception In Liverpool. On this the trading months went 21 to 25 points over last week' close. Profit-taking pared down the advance Friday, but the close was at a net gain of 17 to 22 points. There have been few occasions this season when traders were forced by so many uncertainties as now and trading and this week probably will reflect this condition. The shipping situation Is undoubtedly affecting ex port business for delivery months ahead. Bulls do not feel so certain that the new crop outlook as they did, for the rapid rise of price has caused bears to predict that there will be more cotton planted than has been expected. If in town attending County Com mencement Sai urday don't fall to see "Uncle Tom's Cabin." the motion pic ture at the Rex Theatre- WOLF AT THE DOOR. 'apitol of Austria Suffering For Bread and IVle lb-siege Bake Shojis. Venice Dispatch, March 21. any districts iu Vienna are re ported to have been virtually without bread for a week. The Government order curtailing production one- fourth has been repealed but the sit uation Is said to have shown no im provement, bakers being unable to obtain flour. The working classes in the Vienna suburbs are reported to be feeling he bread shortage greatly. Hun dreds are declared to have gathered in front of bakeshops Thursday morning and within two hours the entire stock of the bakers were sold. At many places crowds threatened vi olence and the police were called out. The sight of cakes and tarts in the windows is said to have intensified the wrath of the people who declared flour was being made into delicacies for the rich instead of being used in bread for the poor. The authorities are organizing a municipal bureau for the distribution of flour among the Vienna bakers. one-fourth of whom already have closed their shops. The bread ques lion also is said to be getting acute in Budapest. Bakers there have raised a fund to buy wheat flour In Rounmnia. The bread situation is declared to be causing apprehension in both Kingdoms. Hungary Is said to have a cloth scandal of considerable proportions. Twenty persons have been arrested and a number of suspects have tied the country. Contractors are said to have submitted good material for uni forms to the war office which sent them to the clothing factories to be made up. During the transit of the cloth the swindlers substituted such shoddy goods that the uniforms were literally rags in a lew days. TURKS SINK ALLIES SHU'S. Two British unl One French War Shin Destroyed ly Turkish Fire. London Dispatch, March 19. The British battleships Irresistable and Ocean and the French battleship Bouvet were blown up by flouting mines while engaged with the remain der of the allied fleet in attacking the forts in the narrows of the Durdanel les Thursday. Virtually all of the crews of the two British ships were saved having been transferred to other ships under a hot fire, but an lnternnl explosion took place on board the Bouvet after she had fouled the mine and most of the crew was lost. The Bouvet sank three minutes after she hit the mine, The waters in w hich the ships were lost had been swept of mines, but the British admiralty asserts that the Turks and the Germans set floating containers of explosives adrift, and these were carried down by the cur rent on to the allied ships inside the entrance of the straits. All the ships sunk are declared to be old ones. The Bouvet was built nearly twenty years ago, and the Ocean and Irresistable in 1898. They were useful, however, for the work in which they were en gaged in the Dardanelles. The sunk en British ships are being replared by the battleships Queen and Inipla cable, vessels of a similar type. They are said to have started some time ago in anticipation of Just such losses as has occurred. Two other ships British battle cruiser Inflexible and the French battleship Gaulols, were hit by shells and damaged. British casualties according to the British of ficial report, "were not heavy, con sidering the scale of operations." A RAID OX SUNDAY. (iceman ("raft Flew Over Pari Hut Did No Damage and Excited No Fear. Paris Dispatch, March 21. Zeppeliu airships raided Paris ear ly this morning and dropped a dozen bombs, but the damage done was un important. Seven or eight persons were Injured but only one seriously Four ofthe air craft started for the Capital, following the valley of the Oise, but only two reached the goal Missiles also were dropped at Com pelgne. Rlbecourt and Dreslincourt but without serious result. Paris remained calm while the aerial raid was in progress and resi dents of the city exhibited more cu riosity than fear. Trumpets gave the signal that all lights must be extln guished as soon as warning was re celved of the Zeppelins' approach Searchlights were turned on the clouds, anti-aircraft guns opened fire and aeroplanes rose to attack the Germans, but their operations were hampered by heavy mist. An official communication regard ing the raid declares it served only to show how well the defensive ar rangements would work out when put to the test. FnotmoiiH Destitution in Poland, Statistics published In Petrograd concerning losses to property In Rus sian Poland as a result of the Ger man Invasion, gives the total of towns and larger villages destroyed as 95 It is said that 4.500 small villages were devastated, 1,000 of them hav ing been burned. These figures, forwarded by the Rueter's correspondent, apply to ten Polish provinces. The damage Is es timated at more than $500,000,000 Thomas Sater, said to be yegg man, and believed to have rbbbed the Dost office at Chandler. Buncombe county, was arrested In Ashevllle yesterday. The Deeper Currents of the War. Dull indeed is he who does not thrill at the despatches that tell how history is being made at the Darda nelles today, the point where Europe nd Asia strike hands. No region on the face of the earth is more celebrat ed in ancient legend and the more redihle annals of modern times than the Hellespont, and the Propontls now the Sea of Marmora. The roar of French and British guns are now awaking echoes of the past against the promotory once trod by toft-heal ed Achilles, Hector, son of Priam, Xerxes, and Macedonian Alexander. The prows of French and British pin naces now bite the beaches onco pack ed by the sandaled feet of Agamem non's spearmen and later marred by the armed heels of Genoese pirates and the stragglers of the Fourth Crusade, while the marines and the bluejackets of the Allies, scouring the neighborhood of the antique castles of dead Sultans, roam per haps "far on the ringing plains of windy Troy" to tho very site of the fabled city. Meanwhile the allied fleet. In weight and gun-powder the greatest ever brought together, though in numbers less than the armada that Helen's beauty launched against "the topless towers of Ilium," Is making but slow progress through the neck of water so often churned by the war like galleys of Byzantine and Saracen. Judging by report of the fleet's opera tions during the week March 3 to March 10, the first account of the successes of the allied war-ships were overdrawn. For the latest word is that the ships have been bombarding the forts at Suan Dere and Dardanos, the latter famous as tho city where Sulla and Mithrndates made peace in 84 B. C, whereas more than a week ago we were told of the destruction of the batteries ct Kilid Bahr and Fort Stiltanieh, several miles towards Constantinople from Suan Dere and Dardanos. In fact the cabled reports of this attempt to drive the Turk from Europe are about as unreliable as the reports from Mexico. About all we can be sure ot is what the Porte has admitted, namely, that the forts at the very entrance of tho straits have been destroyed. All those reports of the "silencing of forts mean little. A fort muy become "silent" because its guns have been damaged in which case after a few- repairs it may become active again; or its guns may be hushed through the desire of its commander to save ammunition or to deceive the enemy. A warrior "playing 'possum," iu to be feared. The Allies face a harder task than Farragut accomplished when he ran the Confederate forts on Mobile Bay, for the necessity of keeping their communications open behind them to avoid rear attacks ablige them to be sure that each fort bombarded is thoroughly pulverized before they pass on to the next. They have yet to pass the narrow elbow of the strait where we know we are the strongest forts of the Dardanelles, many of them armed with fourteen-inch guns, weapons larger than are possed by any of the attacking fleet except the Queen Elizabeth and one or two of her sisters that are possibly with her. Moreover, it Is probable that the Turks and Germans have erected many additional batteries during the past few weeks, including, It is said, earth banks masking the eleven-inch rifles of the dismantled Goeben. The Allies Are Determined Still, in the face ot all this, I would not care to wager against the fall of Constantinople. The Allies have evi dently made up their minds to have the Golden Horn, cost what it may. Daily their forces are strengthened by the addition of French and British war-ships released from patrol in the far corners of the seven seas. The unity of the attacking forces, which mmmmacmMmmmmmmtWRmKMmmMmrmmmmsm We Are Never Sorry That we did our very best. That we kept faith In humanity. That we never lost an opportunity of being kind to one roorer than ourselves. That we looked before we leaped. That we thought before we promised. That we listened before Judging. That we discountenanced all ii'.le-bearlng. That we remained steadfast in our principles when founded on right. That we asked forgiveness when in error. That wo were never discourteous. That we were generous and forgiving to an enemy. That we were straightforward In all our actions. That we lent a moment to sympathize with the oppressed. That we gave one who had erred just one more chance. That we were patlcr.t with troublesome neighbors. That we were ever prompt in keeping our promises. Grvgory Mason in The Outlook. Germany hoped to disrupt by rousing Russian suspicions of British designs on Constantinople, is now welded by the arrival at the Dardanelles of the Russian cruiser Askold. And at the other side or the capital, which, with the possible exception of Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, has exeerrised more influence upon human affairs than any other city in the world, the Czar's Black Sea fleet is said to be coasting toward the Bosphorus, an xious to be in at the death of the Turk in Europe. The siege of Constantinople lasted fifty-three days in 1453. But once the sea dogs of France and England pass the Dardanelles, the city can hardly hope to hold out for that length of time agala, irrespective of the success or failure of overland ex piditions of the Allies. In 1453 the Christian artillery was out-matched by the guns of Mohammed II, who is said to have had one monster cannon that threw a stone ball two and a half feet in diameter. Unless the forces in the water route from Austria, which Is doubtful, it is unlikely that they will have anything to equal the long-range guns of the Queen Eliza beth, which recently bombarded the fort of Hamldieh in Asia, across both Dardanelles and the Gallipoli Pen insula, from a position 21,000 yards away in the Aegean Sea. Constantinople a Political Keystone The fall of Constantinople might have tremedous political consequen ces. It would mean the final emanci pation of the Balkans from the fear of Osiuanli domination. Bulgaria would hardly Join the Kaiser after the collapse of his Eastern ally and the temptation of Greece and Rumania to Join the Allies and get their share in the division of the "Sick Man's" European estates might well be irresistable. The advance of ti Ann mil) nuiiln nr in tn ho iiiiwln. I to Greece by Russia, France and Great Britain, and the resignation of the leader or the ureoK war party, i Premier Venizelos, who was irked by the Teutonic sympathies of King i Cdhstnntine, are ominous signs, and , wifa Greece helping herself to the Afyan Isles, which would be her naTurai snare in me uuoman pie, Italy would suddenly find that the neutrality thus far so fruitful to her was becoming cold and barren. The conflicting lusts of Russia and Austria for Turkish territory In the Balkans ronstituteed one of the underlying causes of the present war, Would it be very Improbable, would it not at least be poetic Justice the elimination of the Turk and the division of his property formed the basis for a compromise upon which the war could end? At any rate, we are alive in an in tcresting age. The fall of Constanti nople would make 1915 one of the great dates of history, a date to lie remembered with 490 B. C, and A I)' 1066, 1453. 1588, and 1789. Repairing the lliiin It is a pleasure to be able lo turn from the narration of man's efforts to destroy man to a recital of what several hundred thousand good Sa maritans are doing to relieve the ills tress that war has brought upon their fellow-creatures. Belgium is now only a geographl ral expression. Whether It will ever I be more than that Is one of the main issues for which the war continues to he waged. But the Belgian nation cannot be rebuilt unless there are Belgian citizen as timber. Hence is Important that every one who has I resented the violation of King At i liert's country and who wants lo see a new ana stronger iseigium rise from the ashes of the old should strain his generosity for the benefit of the several million non-rombatan Belgians locked in the ruins of their former kingdom, who would have starved long ago for all that their f conquerors have done for them. According to the last report of the Belgian Relief Fund, up to February 15 that organization hud delivered in Belgium food supplies worth f 1.553,- 000, donated by 150.000 Americans co-operating in perhaps the greatest work of human redemption the world has ever seen. The 25.000 letters of sympathy some of these 150. 000 donors will become part of the per manent historical documents of the Belgian Government if that Govern ment exists after the war. Not all of the work of the Belgian Relief Fund has been done in Europe, how ever. An Important reature or its activity has been the assistance of Belgian fugitives to this country, who have found homes and positions hrough the Fund. According to the report of the in vestigators sent abroad by the Rocke feller Foundation, by the first of April Belgium's entire non-combatant population, numbering approximately seven millions, mainly helpless wom en and children, will be entirely de pendent for existence upon continued charity. It is no time to stop giving. We must redouble our gifts. War correspondents in the smitten king dom report that Belgian women with babies in their arms go grubbing in rubbish heaps for empty condensed milk cans, thrown aside by soldiers, In the hope that a few drops of the precious fluid may remain. It s the only way to get milk for their babies," said a German officer. I have seen them run their fingers around inside of a can which looked as bright as a new coin, and hold them in the babies' mouths to suck." An Faster Gilt For Belgium Hundreds of tons of food must be sent to these destitute mothers and their emancipated babies if they are to live and see the verdure of summer mercifully springing up to hide the ruins of their homes. On behulf of the 1,500,000 homeless and hungry children of desolated Belgium the Belgian Relief Fund now appeals to the boys and girls of America to fill up a ship with food and clothing, which is to sail as soon as possible, as an Easter gill to Princess Marie Jose, the nine-year-old daughter of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. It Is quite like a fairy story, reads the appeal of the Fund, "for all you American boys and girls, as well as all the young folks between the ages of sixteen and sixty.... to rave from starvation and death the boys and girls across the sea, who only a few months ago were, like you happy In their homes and schools, at their work and play. The cargo of this "Ship of Life and Love" Is to be devoted particularly to the sustenance of the more than thirty thousand war babies in Bel gium babies, that Is, who have been born since August 4, 1914, in barren fields, ruined cottages, or wherever their unfortunate mothers could find temporary shelter from the udvanc ing tide of carnage and violence. Whoever contributes twenty-five cents or more toward the equipment of this Easier argosy will have the privilege of sending an Easter mess age, not to exceed twenty words, to tho little Belgian Princess, and will reveive in turn a Princess Marie Jose picture souvenir card of thanks. Con tributions should be sent to the Bel gian Relief Fund, 10 Bridge Street New York City, and marked for the "Belgian Easter Argosy." Divided Poland Poland's misfortune has been per haps less dramatic than Belgium's but no less acute. A divided people, the Poles light ea h other under the eagle of Germany and the double eagle of Russia. Over the terrain that was the ancient Kingdom of Pol and the Czar's Poles and the Kaiser's Poles, whether they will or no, must destroy each other and each other's homes. By the account of dependable eye-witnesses, Russian Poland, where llindcnburg and the Grand Duke Nicholas have been grap pllng these seven months, is now In as sorry a state of waste and ruin as Belgium. Americans and Polish-Americans have not forgotten fur-off Poland even in the enthusiasm ot minister Ing to the Belgians. The American Polish Relief Committee, of 14 Eas Forty-seventh Street, New York City headed by Madame Marcell:i spin brich, has raised already thirty thou sand dollars for the distinguished prima donna's suffering countrymen while a like amount has been gather ed together by a similar organization in Boston under Ihe leadership of the famous Polish pianist Madame Antoi nette Szumowska-Adamowska. A New Spirit mid a New Hero, There are yet no sins of an early peace, nor any considerable Indira tlons of weakening in either hostile camp, if the apparent crumbling of Turkey is expected. However, the old Prussian tone of bombast seems to have left ihe German leaders, and among them as among the people the spirit of Hindeiiburg's grim motto "Durchlialten" ("Hold oul". Is ev erywhere. Pertinacious old llinden burg and all that h!s dogged charac ter stands for have caught the Ger man imagination to-day. He is the ( Incinnatus of the German Emigre. Says a correspondent of lh- London Time', Just returned from Germany, after lerlaring that the Fatherland i (till rtt-i n rltirl hi- l IlliliSlftl (inl. "Yet one hears little talk of victo rv. There is little boasting of the power of German arms. Stranger still to f.-roiunrs, tho Emperor a name r:-r y If ever, figures in conversation. In ,k of popularity with the people 1 r ! - about fifth Field Marshal j .,,. . .-'ur Is II: .' rttlonal hero, TWO ;MHI ONUS ON 1 lA-President Tall Rf-teats Jokes That Illustrates Characteristics of Roos evelt. Chapel Hill Dispatch. March 19. What might lie interpreted as a contrasting view between the diplom acy and saneness outstanding in the policy of President Wilson and the policy of Roosevelt to usurp any pow er not clearly specified by statute was presented by former President W . H. Taft here tonight. His method of effective contrast was by citing illus- rations in the settlement of big dis- pules. YA hen President ilson was called upon to negotiate a settlement in the Colorado strike, the miners put a proposition to this effect: We ask you to close the mines and unless you do and station soldiers here, we are going to create disor der." President Wilson recognized the injunction only in part, stationing troops that were later withdrawn. The diplomacy worked admirably, was the conclusion of Professor Tall. When Roosevelt settled the coal famine in Pennsylvania during his ad ministration, which Mr. Taft pro nounced as one of the greatest arts of Roosevelt's administration, bis policy under the last strain would have pur sued the usurpation of a power to sta tion working troops in charge of the mines. "Thus," surmising Mr. Taft, "he would have appointed the Gov ernment a receiver of itself whereas the Jurisdiction should have been ex ercised by the courts." Takes Shot nt Teddy. Not content with his drastic criti- icism of his former friend, Professor Taft associated Roosevelt with the story of Mary and her self-appointed scholarly attainments. The story goes. hat on returning home one day form school, Mary, much elated over her discovery, told her father that she was the best scholar in school. Her father anxiously inquired "When did your teacher tell you so?" The little girl replied "She did not tell me; I noticed it myself." Roosevelt illus trated the story when he put himself In the Lincoln class of Presidents and myself in the Buchanan type of Pres idents," was the statement of Profes sor Taft. Illustrating the power of the Pres ident In granting pardons he told an other one on Teddy. He said: "Roos evelt used to head the rough riders. These rough riders were composed of two classes adventurous, . educated class of collegians and those that were not collegians and toughs. While in office Roosevelt received a letter hearing the date line of a penitentia ry. The contents of the letter said: "Dear Colonel: As you see, I am in trouble again, but It is not my fault this time. I am In Jail for shooting a woman iu the eye. I was not shoot ing at her but at my wife." Court of Arbitration. Exploiting the powers of the Pres ident, in conjunction with the Senate, in matters of foreign relations he urg ed the establishment of a court of ar bitration. "After this war is over there will be those in favor of set tling international disputes by other methods than bloody slaughter. I do not mean that an arbitrary court would eliminate all the possibilities of war but would make war less probable," he asserted. although among well-informed people his Chief of Staff, General von Luden dorf, Is given credit for his victories. The war of the eastern frontier is to the Berliner of far more Interest and importance than the campaign in the west. And, trying to account for this same strange, last-ditch kind of assu rance which Germans profess to feel to-day, the Berlin correspondent of the New York Times says: The answer is llindenburg not only the old man himself, but all that he stands for, the personification of the German war spirit, the greatest moral asset of the Empire today. He Is idolized, not r.nly by the soldiers, but by the populace as well; not only by the Prussians, but by the Bavari ans and even the Austrians. You can not realize what a tremendous factor he has become until you discover per sonally the Carlyean hero-worship of which he is the object. France Undismayed. France, of all the Allies, has most cause to desire peace except Belgium, Servia, and Montenegro. Yet the French papers reflect nn almost unan imous resolve of the people to see the war through its sanguinary course, cost what it may. This spirit of te nacity is reflected in a letter I have Just received from a young French soldier. "The French public," he fays, "has made up its mind and has quickly tic M V Oitlg tha) repted the Idea that the war is goi to lust long. I hear from home this abnormal war life lias become A a way normal. Nobody expects the end before the last months o this year at the soonest. In the army, the men, however severe the strain, are res:dy to go on to the titter end. Among the reservists, nijstly married men, (he Idea that their children must not see this again is the backbone of I heir 'morale.' I ;0 not mean to say that the men b'j live with the water up to their ankles in dry weather do not long t, nee the end of this, but thy woulj laugh at anybody wh would trik of peace now. Tb strength 0f wni s all the more no worthy because one might well b P'jCted that French 'nerves' w h've broken down in a long, tec Unsportsmanlike war like tnU.j
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