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If H roue ho:.:e .paper 7 DAILY FREE THE. WEATHER Caaitnlhr fair toabHl mI WJ. PRESS1 VOL. XVI. No. 279 ALLIES ADVANCE AT POINT OF BAYONET lyPOSITIflNS Paris Claims General Prog ress All Along Belgium Battle Line RUSSIANS ARE SHIFTING Positions Before Warsaw to Prevent Being Cornered Should Battle Be Adverse Ostend May Be Evacu ated Victory Claimed (By the United Press.) Paris, Dec. 22. Driving the Ger mans from their trenches in Argonne at the point of the bayonet and tak ing new positions in Northern France and Belgium on the western end of the battle line, is the Allies' work to day. It is officially announced that the Germans attempted an offensive movement between Lys and the Aisne, but were repulsed. About Carency, Manetge and Lihons, where violent fighting is in progress, there have been gains by the French at several points. In the Champagnie district and Argonne the French have advanc ed by bayonet charges. Between Ar gonne and the Meuse the French made progress today. Trenches were taken despite wire entanglements. Russians Try to Shift Field London, Dec. 22. The Russian forces on the .line of defense around Warsaw are directing a strong coun ter attack on the Germans between Rawa and the Pilica river. According to reports today, Skiernie-Wice, an important railroad point, has been practically abandoned by the Russi ans, who are endeavoring to swing the main contact of the engagement in Poland further to the south, to avoid being cornered against the fort resses of Warsaw and Novo Gorgi evsk and the Vistula river. Austrians Claims of Success Vienna, Dec. 22. In the Upper La torcza river district of the Carpath ians, the Austrians are progressing iii the severe fighting. The fighting continues along the Krosn and Tuck ow fronts and in lower Donajec. In southern Poland the situation is un changed. JEROME SAYS THAW WILL GO BACK TO MATTEAWAN (By the United Press) New York, Dec. 22. According to Jerome, Thaw will be back in Mat teawan Asylum on or before January 21. It is expected that Thaw's attor nys will attempt to delay his com- ttranent through many legal loop fcotw still left them. LEVER BILL PASSES THE . HOUSE BY BIG MAJORITY Washington, D. C, Dec. 21. The iver cotton warehouse bill, before io tiouse for months, was passed to- y, 218 to fi7. The measure provides uenu ucensing oi cowon ana srain warehouses and is a substitute a senate bin restricted to cotton warehouses. The bill now goes to conference between the houses. The bill,' approved by the adminia- tration, was the subject of brief de- bate, its sponsors contending that it would greatly enhance confidence in agricultural products. Its opponents claimed it was unconstitutional LAKE SHORE WILL MERGE N. Y. CENTRAL (By the United PreaO I vieveiano, Dec. 22. The stockhold- r of the Lake Shore Railroad toda rirZ , mer ew York I ntul A- ... .. : Resident wants "sensible" men on - V NEW COMMISSION. r WnV?,. Dec 18. President! ""son let it be known today that he : r.."0. common sense" the chief r-uon the five men he soon "ominaU as members of the new fioe commission. He does not ilntin ,yen8ts bu' en able to Intelligent Jr.5 business eonditioni sn' 8 Ll"ted SUtes. TAKEN! SECOND EDITION BRITISH CRUISER IN RECENT BATTLE I 1 1 1 1 111. i One of Sturdee's Ships Bad ly Used By the Defeated Germans MILITARY HONORS GIVEN Dead Germans by British- Survivors of the German FJeet Skeptical About In vitation and Refuse to Come on Deck at Burial (By the United Press.) Santiago, Chile, Dec. 22. The Brit ish cruiser Glasgow was damaged on bow and stern in the battle off the Falkland Islands with Admiral Von Spec's German fleet. The Glasgow and Bristol arrived at Port Monte to day in a search of the Pacific for the German cruiser Dresden. The Bris tol and Glasgow proceeded north af ter spending a few hours at Port Monte. Englishmen Honored the Vanquished. Buenos Aires, Dec. 22. The Brit ish honored the bravery of the Ger man enemies in the Falkland Island battle, according full military honors to those mortally wounded who died aDoara tne nagsnip invinciuie. un wounded German prisoners refused 'to come on deck to attend the services and openly declared their belief that the invitation was to trap them on deck, where they would be shot. A firing squad fired a last volley over the watery graves of the Germans. RACE RIOT IN SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY! (By the United Press) Columbia, S. C., Dec. 22. In a seri ous race riot in Oconee county today two negroes were killed and four whites seriously wounded, as the re sult of the incendiary burning of a barn. NEGRO KILLS WHITE MAN NEAR WILMINGTON. Wilminonn Dpp. 21 .Toa R. Wp- I wett, white, aged thirty, of Seagate, near Wilmington was shot and killed early tonight at the house of Jim Hansley, a negro, who lived only a short distance away. Hansley, with four other negroes, present at the time the shooting oc curred, escaped and have not been located by the sheriff's posse. The dead man is thought to have been shot by Hansley. Two white men were present at the time the man was killed but did not see the shoot ing. It is said that the party of five neeroes and three white men . were drinking. NEW YORK MINISTER VISITING IN LOUISBURG. Louisburg. Dec. 21. The Rev. Harding Hughes of Boston, son Archdeacon Hughes of Raleigh, on Sunday preached to a highly appreci- atiVe audience at St Paul's Episcopal church of this city. He will also preach here Christmas morning and next Sunday. . ARMY AVIATOR DROWNED AT SEA YESTERDAY Oceanside, Cal., Dec. 2L Lieut. F. J. Gerstner, observer in one of the six United States army scout aero planes that started today on a flight frnm San TliocrA n AiMreles. was dwn.!d JSTJSt fha nn-jiolriul marhinc. xv n a rescued bv t ,rf.t, - . SENSATION IN NEW HARVARD SCHEDULE. Cambridge, Mass, Dec 2L The 1915 Harvard football schedule, offi cially announced tonight, includes the most radical changes ever made by the Crimson. Five of the nine dates are filled by new teams. Cornell takes the place of Michi gan; Carlisle supplants Tufts; Uni versity of Virginia displaces Wash ington and Jefferson; Colby is taken on instead of Bates and Massachu setts Agricultural College displaces Frrir.E-fielJ Y. M. C. A. College. GLASCQW DAMAGED PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY, KINSTON, N. C BRITAIN'S 11. r ) 1 . J 1 j . . ,. ..o in mail lurjieuu Doui and Its speed, 3G miles an hour, makes it one of the fastest of war craft. MEXICANS STILL HOLD POSITIONS NEAR BORDER LINE Declines to Move to An other Battlefield Against Stronger Force Saltillo and Monterey to Remain Neutral Stop Trains (By the United Press.) Washington, D. C, Dec. 22. The Mexican forces are keeping their positions along the border, and despite assurances from Gutierrez that May-, torena will move back out of range of the border. Maytorena has promised to retire from Naco on condition that Hill fight an open battle south of Na co. It is certain that Hill will refuse this, sjnee his force is inferior num erically to Maytorena's. An agreement has been reached by the military authorities of Saltillo ana lvionterey lor tnose capitals to re- main netral and to suspend the move ments of troop and passenger trains from Mexico City to Laredo during the fighting there between Carran zistas and Villistas. CR.I.&P.R. R. SOLD AT AUCTION (By the United Press) New York, Dec. 22. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway was today bought at auction by James N. Wallace, president of the Central Trust Company, for $7,135,000. NO RETURNS FROM VERA CRUZ INVESTMENT, SAYS MINORITY LEADER MANN. Washington, Dec. 21. The House today passed an urgent deficiency bill carrying $4,730,905, including $554, 371 to cover unexpected expenses in curred by the army in the occupation of Vera Cruz. During the debate Re publican Leader Mann attacked the administration's Mexican policy. "This bill," he said, "carries half a million dollars' to pay the expenses of our troops at Vera Cruz, sent there to obtain a salute of twenty-one guns, which has Tiot yet been given." SENATE HAS NO TIME FOR SEA SAFETY TREATY . (By the United Press) Washington, Dec. 22. The Senate i today refused to reconsider the Lon don safety-at-sea treaty. , HAMMOND LNVENTS v i DEADLY EXPLOSIVE. Gloucester, Mass, Dec. 2L A new projectile which would scatter a white hot mixture of molten steel over the object of attack, and fill the atmos phere with a deadly gas making it impossible for fighters to approach, has been invented by John Hays Ham mond, Jr, according to a statement made by the inventor tr.:vt. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, NEWEST TORPEDO BOAT QeSiroycr wiri IB tne largest or US trDfi. , ... .. . i VON HERTZENDORF RECEIVES NEWS MEN FROM ACROSS SEAS The Austrian Chief of Staff Grants Interview to Unit ed Press Correspondent and Others Polish Hos pitality Commended By William G. Shepherd (United Press Staff Correspondent) On the Hungarian Frontier, Nov. 0. By Mail to New York). Our little newspaper party, numbed with the cold, climbed out of the car today and were led by a sentinel through a great double door into the muddy passage' way of a building. A side door open ed and we entered a huge, long room, warm and well lighted with oil lamps. Three long tables ran the length of the room. There were the remnants of a giant dinner on them, which sol diers were clearing away. A piano was banging. A huge man with a jolly face was singing. Men sat about the tables in small groups drinking beer and listening. It was my intro duction to the Austro-IIungarian press headquarters. In this little town sixty newspaper men are lodged. It requires a small army of officers and soldiers to care for them. The town is set aside en tirely for the press and every soidier to be seen, every horse, every ope of the scores of supply wagons, every automobile, every officer all have as their duty or purpose the convenience of the correspondents, who are mostly Austrians and Hungarians. An auto was waiting for me and I was whisked to a whitewashed house on the outskirts of the town where a room had been reserved for me. The . fh 1 1 ri .n-,. ; family was Polish. All about the walls of the little room were pictures of the Christ and the Virgin Mary. It was the parlor, and three clocks were ticking away merrily. I have been in scores of such houses in America. Poles seem to run clocks. I locked two of the clocks in my valise to muffle them and wont to bod. It look ed to me just as I was dropping off into slumber as if I had been pocket ed by the Austro-Hungarian war de partment. Here I was in a small town, hundreds of miles from the front and no way to get there except by army trains and the Polish woman rapped at my door to tell me it was seven o'clock in the morning. At breakfast time in the big room I found that my status was absolutely military. I received instructions that I was to go to the headquarters town at 9 o'clock. I took the long ride overthe hills in a coach in a wintry sunshine. I met Colonel Von Hoen. who has entire charge of all the field forces of correspondents, and he had a pass ready for me. In German it is known as a "legitimation." It bears my photograph and my autograph and a' careful description of my personal appearance. (To 1 c '' - '! SIX PAGES DESTROYER navlncr n d1nnlnrmnf nt 1 soe . It is equipped with four rai.td-firo enna ; FIFTY GIANT SHIPS LIE IDLE AT DOCKS BECAUSE OF THE WAR German Liners Caught In American Harbors at the Beginning of the Strife Include the Vaterland, Mightiest of Them All New York, Dec. 22. At least fifty gigantic ocean liners representing a total value of a billion dollars are ly ing idle in American ports today as a result of the Eurapean war. The loss sustained each day by the various steamship companies through the idleness of their costly vessels is al most incalcuable. The Atlantic coast ports of the United States in nearly every in stance contain one or more ships eith. er interned or laid up through the lack of trans-Atlantic travel. Boston and New York are harboring the greatest number. When the war first broke out, many big German liners were forced to put back into American ports to avoid raiding by British cruisers. Others were ordered to disband crews and lay up in our ports until the end of hostilities. The two great German linesr, the North German Lloyd and the Ham burg American own forty three ves sels now enforcedly idle in American ports. The White Star line was forced through lack of businer to discon tinue the sailings of - Cedric, the Celtic and the Cymric. The White Star Dominion Line discontinued the sailings of the Laurentic, Canada and Teutonic. The big piers in Brooklyn present some disconsolate scenes of suspend ed activity. At one pier are tied three big ocean greyhounds, their sides dirty from lack of paint and with winches and brass work rusted from disuse. They are the Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Grosser Kurfurst and the Friederich Der Gross. A small crew of men are kept on board to guard the big liners and a wisp of smoke coming from one of the stacks on each vessel tells that fires are be ing kept to prevent freezing. . At another dock stands the mighty Vaterland of the Hamburg American line. At the time of launching, the Vaterland was heralded as the last word in ocean lihers. Her cost was estimated at over '$600,000. Her ton- nage is greater than that of any other liner afloat Today she is worse than useless to the Hamburg American line because every day of idleness is pil ing up huge ' costs on idle invest ments. ; ' !. England having control of the seas, her big trans-Atlantic lines are . still doing business but travel and trade have diminished to such ah extent that all are suffering. The Cunard line is operating all of their vessels either in commercial business or for tve rnvernment of Great Britain. The V, ' ? f tar line is abo operating all 1914 TODAY-42 COLUMNS IK RIBBONERS EN MASSE APPLAUD As Distinguished Alabami an Opens Debate on Na tional Prohibition YOTES TODAY ON THE BILL Temperance Workers From All Sections of the Coun try Are Gathered in Na tion's Capital to Aid In Passing Important Bill (By the United Press.) Washington, Dec. 22. Debate on the Hobson national prohibition bill in tha House was begun today by Rich mond Pearson Hobson, who was greet ed with vociferous applause. Women wearing white ribbons thronged the galleries, and most of the officers of the National W. C. T. U. were among them. Temperance workers and an- ti-saloon league forces from all parts of the country are assembled for the battle. Vive Voce Vote Taken Today wasnington, Dec. 22. Uy a viva voce vote the House today adopted a rule bringing the Hobson national pro- j hibition resolution to a final vote at 9:30 o'clock tonight Mrs. Sayre, daughter of the Pres ident, arrives here this evening. BULLETINS (By the United Press.) GERMANY HAS PLENTY OF MEN NOW Berlin, Dec. 22. Medical pers declare that during pa one week fifty thousand only slight ly wounded soldiers returned from the western battle front. GERMANY PINS FAITH TO UNDERSEA BOATS The Hague, Dec. 22. Germany Is building forty 900-ton subma rines, according to reports receiv ed here. FIRST OHIOAN IN 1915 WILL GET MANY GIFTS Lorain, O., Dec. 22. The first baby born in Lorain after January 1, 1915, will come into the world in possess ion of the proverbial silver spoon. A Lorain newspaper today offered a prize of ten dollars for the first 1915 baby. Lorain merchants are also to be asked to come forward with offers of go-carts, clothes and other articles to the well-being of infants. Lorain's first 1914 infant received gifts ranging from a corset to a case of beer. IRELAND A CLERIC FIFTY TWO YEARS St. Paul, Dec. 21. Archbishop Ire land observed today the fifty-second anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. No formal ceremony wa held but the day was observed quietly. The passing of this anniversary leaves uj.l .1.- T:i.j . :i oi service, ine ouier oia memDers I a . m. . i .t i . i i are Cardinal Oibbons, Archbishop Ryan and Bishop Hogan. WILSON AND SENATE FACE EMBARASSMENT (By the United Press.) Wastiinrtnn. Tek 22. The Presi- dent today declared a gerious with the Senate over patronage iil threatened. He. admitted the right of the Senate to reject his appointees. CITY WILL GIVE ITSELF A GIFT Roanoke, Va, Dec 22. This city expects to mske itself a Christmas present of an auditorium and expo sition halL A campaign of contribu tions for the past few weeks is ex pected to result in sufficient funds ta make it possiMe to erect a buuJiiv RICHMOND PRICE TWO CENTS MRS. GEORGE GREEN BADLY INJURED IN- WASHINGTON CITY - 1 Noted Temperance Worker Representing Local W. C. T. U. In Capital MANNER IS A MYSfEftY Relatives In New feern and Friends Here Cannot Get Information of the Acci dentHer ) Son Hurries to Her Bedside - : , t A message from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Wash ington to relatives in New Bern Mon day night stated that Mrs. George Green, who is In the . capital as a representative of the Kinston Union to be in attendance upon Congress during the discussion of the Hobson national prohibition bill, which was ' commenced this morning, had . been "seriously injured." No details were given. Mrs. Green asked that her son, George Green, " Jr., be sent ta her. All attempts to secure infor mation on the subject of Mrs. Green's injury have been unavailing.; f Mrs. Green, who is regarded as Eastern Carolina's 1 most ardent "white ribboner," left here several I days ago for Washington. She r- rived in tne capital without mishap, and the news of the. accident or what ever it was that occasioned injury to her created some little excitement in New Bern and among her admirers in Kin&ton. - ' - "f? V '-' George Green, Jr., left New Bern , at 12:30 this morning to be with hi mother. - , The officers of the W. C. T. U. here had not been informed 'of the trou ble with which their delegate had met until notified by The Free Press about noon, and were shocked at the new. The Greensboro "Everything" - " ; cently devoted a column to - a very complimentary article which had Mrs. , Ida Green as its subject She is one of the brightest and most loyal club women in North Carolina, and haa filled positions of honor and respon sibility in many lines of women's en deavor. ' " MR. HOWARD'S BODY WAS FOUND LONG AFTER DEATH Indications Were That He Was Struck By Train About Midnight Sunday a Remains On Way to Dur ham to Be Burled. . The details of the killing of Rev. Leslie P. Howard of Durham, son-in- law of Mr. J. W. Goodson of this City, whose death under a train near Kingston, N. Y., was related in The Free Press Monday, were received here Monday night The body , was found on a track about three miles from Kingston, and was badly man gled. He had been dead several hours when discovered. The coroner at Kingston stated that he was killed by a Lake Shore train abavrc-tOT night Sunday, but the body was not located until 6:30 a. m. Monday.' Mr. Howard had been ill since late in the summer, but friends in Dur ham had been informed (that he was getting ' along nicely and understood that he honed soon to be able to re- turn to me Dmuiniui ul .lueinunai - w . . i . ... Methodist cnurcn m tnat my, k seems that be left tne aanatanum. where he was staying v late Sunday night and was not ; seen again , until his dead, body, was found. ; A . It was stated at first that Rev. Mr. Howard was killed In a wfeclt, but hi friends did not expect him to return to North Carolina for Christmas, and did not accept the report without res ervation. Mrs. Howard was" preparing td coine here to spend the holidays with her father and was on the way to take, m train "when she; received the shock- inr intelliirence. r , . Rev. Mr. Howard was a native of Alabama, but has been in North Car olina many years'. He graduated at Trinity College. He has held pas torates in Rocky Mount Morthel City and Durham. The body was shipped to E. '. v Monday nirht Ecsi.ks the wh!;w, v v
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