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"..1 8 PAGES : TODAY THE WEATHER . i . , For North Carolina, Fair tenifkt, and Supalair. trtah Nonhaaiy -winda. v , - : I II "1 U , I 1 iii) it" PUBLISHED EERY ;; AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY, i .. ; f--4 k VOL. XVI. No. 243 KINSTON, N. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1914 PRICE TWO CENTS PRESS. FIERCE STRUGGLE CONTINU LITTLE RESULTS FRENCH CLAIM LEFT WING IS MOVING FORWARD; GERMANS DISPUTE THE ADVANCE. AU AVAILABLE MEN USED Both Sides, Realizing Importance of Present Battle, Doing Utmost to Win Reports of Russian Ad- Vance are Conflicting. (By the United Press.) Paris, Sept. 26. It is officially an nounced that the French made some progress along the left whig. Fight ing on the left wing has become a hand to hand variety. New British expeditionary forces and French re serves have been brought into action. Also every 'available man from the rear has been rushed to the front as reinforcements for all points, as it is realized that the present battle is the most important of the war. Germany has her first and second reserves and volunteers in line. If she loses her troops will be forced back fnto Ger many. German victory would im peril the whole structure of the cam paign of the Allies. Definite reports of the losses not obtainable. The rivers are running red with blood of thousands of dead who are being "thrown into them. The greatest de gree of "danger is from disease con tracted from infected water. Ger man wounded are being brought in bedraggled and barefooted, showing that Gerrran supplies have not reach ed them. The soldiers in the battle lines are rain-soaked. GERMANY CENTER FORCING BACK THE ALLIES Berlin, Sept 26. It is officially stated that while the Allies have been reinforced, they are unable to regain their lost ground. The progress of the fighting has given the Germans a slight advantage, which is being pressed in a series of assaults by the Germans in their movement along the Meuse river. The Germans are slow ly driving the French back to the main column in the fortified positions to ward Verdun, and the seven forts along the Meuse river, with the heavy fighting toward Toulon progressing without interruption, in spite of the French efforts for relief. There are, no decisive results yet The German center and left wings are slowly breaking the French lines of defense. The Russians are being driven out of East Prussia. Many prisoners cf war, guns and two battle flags have been taken. The situation in Galicia shows improvement. The Austiian3 are fighting from entrenched posi tions, and have checked the Russian sdvance, it is bciieved, toward Pre zjennsl. They will be able to hold out until a relief expedition arrives. The war office reports 75,000 killed, wounded and missing to date. AIJSTRIANS RETIRING BEFORE RUSSIANS AT PREZLjIVKL. trograd, Sept 26. The Austri an are still falling Tack. Tho cul ture o: Prezemyal ic imminent. All J'.i-orabatants hse left the ci'y. The Russian bombardment continues. with artillery fire of the deadliest sort. The Russian main army extends along the railroad toward Jaroslaw, and from Prezemysl toward Cracow. Ger man forces attempting to invade Rus sian Poland have been repulsed in a movement toward Suwalki, with heavy losses. The Germans retreated i to ward Zumbinnen. : f v-1 VflENCH left WING? ENGAGED jXNjriOLENT OFFENSIVE ACTION 1 rjv Sept 26 The entire French M saving, fth considerable reinforce ments,, was engaged nearly" all tight in fighting pf the greatest violence, with the Germans; making a supreme ffrt to check the Alliesadvance. The Alliea'eastV. Aimed ahd Doun ens are reported to -be bo Strongly ntrenched that the capture of 'i St Quentin is believed certain. The Ger mans are merely holding entrenched i positions along the center.: TheGer- j an lines from Mone iouththrough Cwnbrai, St Quentin and ' Ham to Noyon, thence southeast across France i M in the -same situation as during Past few days.' ' ... .; .. : DR. B;l SPILMAN GIVES VIEWS ON EUROPEAN WAR GERMANY SAID TO RUSSIA "YOU .KEEP HANDS OFF, OR WELU FIGHT." SUCCESS MEANS SHAKE-UP Results Now Guesswork, But It Is Certain That a Great Transform tion In Geographical Lines and Religion Will Follow. Dr. B. W. Spilman, field secretary for Sunday school work of the South ern Baptist Convention, declares Ger many's greed for the control of the commerce of the Orient was responsi ble, in his opinion, for the world war now in progress. Unlike others who have taken the view that internation al jealousy or the TCaiser's coveting of the Belgian and Dutch ports was at the bottom of the conflict, Dr. Spil man, regarded as one of the best in formed men in the South, believes that the Balkans were destined to pay the toll exacted by William s craving for expansion. Dr. Spilman says: "When Daniel Boone left North Carolina and settled in what, is now the Blue Grass, region of Kentucky he located at the' place, on the banks of the Kentucky river now Known as Boonesboro. When American inde pendence Was declared in July,1776, the -news did not reach him and his companions until mr along in AUg ust. Then they celebrated. In that 6ame village a retail grocer this past summer bought some sugar for- which h paid three and three-quarters cents per toound. A week later iie placed another erder for sugar and, paid eight cents per pound for it. What was the trouble? "War in Europe," said the wholesale man. America to day is in a financial upstir because some men are fighting thousands of miles away. "What is it all about? Four words will give the answer: Race, religion, conquest and commerce.' ' But to get 1 at the meaning of it all we must re fresh our minds a little on the geo graphy and the history of Europe. "Take a look at a map of Europe. Russia occupies all norteastern Eu rope. Immediately to the southwest of Russia lies Austria Hungary and the German Empire. South of Rus sia is the Black Sea. To gain access to the high seas from' the Black Sea, it is necessary to ps through the Dardanelles, which is a strip of wa ter about forty miles long and at places less than one mile wide, and strongly fortified on both sides by the Turks. -"Southeast of Austria-Hungary lie the Balkan States,, six in number, if Greece- btf included. iz: ; Roumanla, Bulgaria,' Servia, Montenegro, Alba nia and Greece. "To the west of the German Em pire lies the little flat land countries of Belgium and the Netherlands. Den mark occupies the peninsula jutting up to the north and between the Bal tic and the North seas. Between the North Sea and the Atlantic lie the British Isles. France is separated from the British Isles by the Eng lish Channel and the Straits of Do ver, and is situated immediately southwest of Germany. "With your eye on the map, let us get a few scraps of history. Follow ing the conquest of Europe by the Christian religion the catholics divid ed into two wings, the Roman Cath olic and the Greek Catholic. The for mer had its chief sear in Rome, whila the latter had its center in Constant! rople. Russia, Greece and the ter ritory of the Balkan states all went with the Greek Church, lhe ilavt. of whom the Russians are the most numerous and powerful representa tives, occupy nearly all or the Balk an territory. About the year 1350 the Turks, an Asiatic peopre, crossed the Dardanelles and soon overran all of the Balkans and went far into what is now the Austria-Hungarian Em pire. ' By the intervention of the in tervention of the European powers Turkey was held in check and so did .not overrun all Europe. In -1830 Greece gained its independence of Turkey, and this was guaranteed to it by England, France and Russia. The Balkan states threw off the Turk ish rule some years ago. Then com menced the movements of the Euro pean powers to gain control of the situation in the Balkans in such a way as to give the greatest possible ad vantage to "the powers concerned, which makes it necessary to pick up a few other thread of history. -A.?Austria-Hungary is a dual mon archv ruled bv Francis Joseph, who is Sow in his eighty-fifth year, and who as been on the throne since Decem ber, 1848. The empire is a loosely united affair composed of a conglom erate mass of people of various- lan guages and religions, and commercial interests. Germany is the 'dominat ing influence in Austria-Hungary. . ?At theoxloaeiof ' the .Erajiew-Prus-sian .war, when- the Pnuss'an army had a regular walk-over and took Pa r'3 in forty-five days from the day COX DUPLEX PRESS 'Pi .sr. t v-Vt , 1 ' BY Mi. HOE & COMPANY, OF NEW, YORK,, JHE WORLD'S LARGEST PRESS MAKERS The Free i Press' ms placed raanutacturers m me mom. lot in its Prcss foment will put The Free Press on aar with the larger cities of the state and Will enable the management to carry out the plans to give to Kinston and eastern Carolina a paper in thorough keeping with the . t - i mi l press, the size of he paper will.iq complete at the rale of 4,000 an the first gun was fired in 1876, the va rious States surroundine Prussia came together -and formed -the Ger man Empire. The present German Empire is- little more than forty years old. , . For centuries Engalntt has been the dominating force' in the world of education, commerce and war. Her ships have ruled the high seas; her armies have not known defeat; she rules onethird of the land on the earth and also about third" of the people. But with the coming of the German Empire a new world power appeared on the scene. With the best school svstem in the world, with the best drilled array, with her com merce ever expanding, Germany was destined one day to be a very formi dable rival of Great Britain. "In 1879 the Triple Alliance was formed by Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. Thus were the three great , powers in the very center of burope bound together to assist each other in case of war with any other nation. It was a formidable arrav of force, and made the other nations' of Europe sit up and take notice. Ger many continued to assert herself in all of the commercial and warlike movements of the world. It became alarming. The result was that Great Britain, Russia ajnd France, in self defense, formed a compact as against the lnpie, AlUance. And thus have these six powers stood for years, each watching the others, "We will go to the Balkans again. At the close of the last war there with Turkey, the States immediately fell out with each other, and civil war seemed almostcertain among them selves. This was the pulling of the strings of Russia and Austria-Hungary, the one against the other. The city of Salonica was the chief bone of contention. This city is the best sea port on the Aegean Sea. For years the Turks had granted free access to it by the railway from Berlin via Vi enna. This route, and the way by Constantinople, were the trade routes for Germany and Austria-Hungary to and from the markets of Asia. The railway lines this way into Asia were all owned by Germany. The line of railway passes through Servia. The Russian and the Servian people are the same in race and in religion . Sa lonica is just south of Servia. In the division of the territory following the Balkan war Servia wanted Salonica, but in the final adjustment of affairs this city went to Greece. This placed two national frontiers between Austria-Hungary and the sea. Since Rus sia and Greece and Servia were of the same people in religion, much the same in race, and closely allied with each other in a commercial way, it gave "to Russia the free passage through the Aegean Sea, except for Turkey, whose power had been so crippled that , she was no longer a power in European affairs. A part of Servia in the three years gone Jby was Bosnia, lying on the Adriatic Sea, so that Austria was completely inland. Years ago Austria-Hungary seized the strip of land being a part of Italy. It is snoken of to this day as 'unre deemed Italy.". The Italians have not forgotten. Then in the mixup of the Balkan war Austria waiKea in ana took charge of Bosnia. These seiz ures gave an outlet through the Ad riatic Sea: and "Austria-Hungary sat in "watchful waiting' for an oppor tunity to seize Servia and so make Jier way to the sea in: that-direction. - "Then came' the" match which blew up all Europe and very seriously dis- Curbed '"conditions, in- the rest of the 1 civilized world. ' A half crazy Ser- it's a game of skilU- ' vian student shot ; Francis Ferdinand, j But tveail yon ar gWe to CDnvince a nephew to the Emperor of Austria, 1 1 , , . y . . in Bosnia. Irttoedaitely Austria- fooL.waat s the oseX : ,-. Vi.- -Hungary demanded satisfaction iromj vAs beetma'tf OB : political buzzers (Continued on Ta?e Ftfur) . Jmi-t fcllong felt want ,: J0iBi?4lMSTALlLED -it '41 t-s--..-... -. - -. ' . an order with R. Hoe & Company, aocle bar .ox Uuplex rress to be progress f thw districts - With the i j . i fi enlarged to 7 columns. The press Kout, The price of the Cox Duplex, BULLETINS GERMANS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCE THAT ALLIES DRIVEN BACK TEN MILES. (By the United Press.) Berlin, Sept. 2f , It is officially announced that the Germans have driven the Allies back ten miles along the Mon and Oise rivers. BELGIUM PROTESTS AT BOM BARDMENT BY ZEPPELINS. Ostend, Sept. 26. The burgo master has presented the American- consul for transmission to President Wilson, a request for protest against Germany's operation-of Zeppelins in attacking un fortified cities in Belgium. BAVARIANS COURTMARTIALED FOR HELPING ENEMY. Oatent, Sept. 26., It is report ed that' a German courtmartial is trying a squad of Bavarian sol diers ea the charge of conniv ance in the attempted escape of seven thousand prisoners of war. It is staled that the friction be tween Bavarian and Austrian troops is very acute. DREADED ASIATIC CHOLERA ATTACKS AUSTRIAN ARMY Vienna, Sept. 26. A govern ment bacteriologist has pronounc ed as genuine the supposed Asi atic cholera cases developed in Austrian concentration hospitals at the front, and every precau tion will be taken to stamp out the disease. There are seventy thousand wounded in the con centration camps. GERMANS PREPARING PLACE FOR RIGHT WING OF ARMY TO FALL BACK TO LATER. , Antwerp, Sept. 26. Belgian aviators report that the Germans are active in preparation on the Plain of Waterloo in entrenched lines which extend from Schelvt to Dendre and Senne Rivera. The entire line to Senne has been made ready for defensive opera tions. 1 is admitted that this t precautionary ' measure by Ger many is to' prepare a place of ref ng for lhe right wing. It is be leefaalao to be the plan to use Watcrto field for a winter cam paign, which will include a renew' ed effort to capture Antwerp, if necessary to he Gennant purpose. ; y POINTED PARAGRAPHS' j . A man Isn't necessarily square when ls. conierea, . - - ... u Marriage used to be a lottery; now FOR THE FREE PRESS a . ai r - ...j,;, - ', i - ; of New York, the largest press press installed within the next thirty davs installation and operation of the new -ii a o i wijl print a 4, 6 or 8 page paper new, at the factory is $6,400.00, MARCONI STATION AT ' SIASCONSETT CLOSED BY PRESIDENT'S ORDER. Washington, Sept. 25. By order of President Wilson, as commander in chief of the army and Navy, the wire less station of the Marconi Company at Siasconsett, Mass.. was closed to day because it declined to recognize the right of the Federal government to exercise a censorship over the plant. The Navy Department took no cog- nlTQTlifl gf ttlA fof that t)ia MflfAAnl Company had filed in a Federal court an application for an injunction to re strain the naval officers from closing or censoring the station. .Although it appeared as if the wire less company finally decided to offer no resistance and the station was closed at 1 p. m. HOUSE COMMITTEE QN RIVERS AND HARBORS CONCURS WITH SENATE. Washington, Sept. 251 Democrats of the house rivers and harbors com mittee today authorized Chairman Spftrkman to , recommend agreement with the Senate's reduction of, the rivers and "harbors bill from $5J,bO0,- 000 to $20,000,000., Representative Sparkman expects to call up the bill in the house tomor row. CARRANZA'S TROOPS LOSE FIRST BATTLE NIN NEW REVOLUTION Douglas, Ariz., Sept. 25. Carranza forces under Gen. Benjamin Hill, were routed today by the troops of Gover nor Maytorena in the first engage ment of the new revolution proclaim ed by the State pf Sonora ' in connec tion with General Villa's defiance of Carranza. Hill's loss is not known. BRYAN, IN POOR HEALTH, RETURNS TO ASHEVILLE. Asheville, Sept. 25. Secretary of State Wm. J. Bryan has returned to Asheville, for an indefinite stay fol lowing a hurried trip to Washington. The health of the secretary is poor, and he has been told to spend his time is the open air. His ill health is at tributed to overwork. MISSING NAVAL OFFICER : WAS WITH CAPT. SMITH. London, Sept. - 25. Lieut, Com- mander H. E. Dep Rennick, reported missing from the British ; cruiser j Hogue, sunk by a German submarine, was in tauu ivuuert ocuua arctic expedition. He was second in command to Lieut, Evans on the Ter ra Nova. He leave's a bride of twelve months. . . v , Many a man who tries to make money merely Succeeds in making I trouble.!. H- -Mt. Aii5J.fti; - It's ensy lor a' woman to aiiscever that a marf'Has.brainsll ahe's his mother. r .. - UNIVERSALIS WOMEN'S MISSION WORK STATE PRESIDENT, MRS MARY E. RHODES. PRESIDED AT FRIDAY'S SESSION. ELECTION OF OFFICERS Mrs. J. L. Everton of Clinton, New President of Missionary Society of State Universalists Regu lar Sessions Today. Delegates from the various wo- jnen's mission circles in attendance upon the State convention of the Uni versalist church now in progress at the local church, held a session Fri- day afternoon. The meeting was called to order at 2:30 o'clock by Mrs. XLT much activity in mission and chari- table work- 11,6 conventon listened to an address by Mrs. Minnie J . Aver3 of woonsocket. R. I., nresident of the Woman's National Missionary 4 ioow ivivit vii in too. vtt nviiv nv uviua and abroad. Mrs. Ayers used a num ber of charts and maps to show the fields of mission work of the Uni versalists. Remarks were , made by Dr. Van Schaick, pastor of the Church of Our Father at Washington, D. C; Rev. W. O. Bodell, pastor of the Kinston church, and others. Officers for the coming year were elected as follows;, President, Mrs. J. L. Evertori of Clinton j Vice-t dent, Mrs. Mary E. Rhodes of Kin ston; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. M. O. WinsUad of Rocky Mount. The regular convention of the iw resume its sessions this morning 'and afternoon. Tonight at 8 o'clock a sermon will be preached by Rev. W. O. Bodell, the Kinston pastor. MAXWELL MOTOR CO. IN BUY-A-BALE CLASS Authorizes Kinston Garage and Deal ers .Throughout South to Buy A Bale Direct From a Planter At Ten Cents. . The Kinston Garage, the t local agent of the Maxwell Motor Com pany, has been authorized to buy a bale of cotton at 10 cents a pound, in accordance with a plan of the auto mobile manufacturers to gather in several thousand bales in the South. Instructions have been sent to every Maxwell dealer in the Cotton States to buy a bale. "Kindly buy your bale directly from a farmer," is the re quest made of every dealer. The com pany promises to put into effect "an extensive and practical plan of co-operation" as "an indication of our feel ing toward the Southern dealers." It is the desire that the cotton be pur chased direct from the planters, so that they may be saved brokerage and commissions. JACKSONVILLE PASTOR ON WAY FROM GERMANY Friends here learned today that Rev. R. M. Von Miller, pastor of a church at Jacksonville, Onslow coun ty, is en route home from Germany, -where he has been spending the sum-' mer. He was in Europe with Rev. C. T. Rogers, also of Jacksonville,; when the war broke out. Rev. Rogers re turned to America immediately, but Rev. Von Miller preferred to remain . to settle up the estate of his father, r who died some time ago, . His friends in Jacksonville became .uneasy and oni-iicam uuk Mia uiuuiw nuuiu ; v - drafted into the German army, he be- ing a native of the Kaiser's land. Sec retary Bryan, at the request of the. absent preacher's congregation, dis covered, however, that he had already served his time in the German army add was not liable for service a gain. IKev. Von Miller has adjusted his de- ceased parent's estate and left, tho I fatherland three weeks ago for the .United States. r 1 t : r: an
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