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Adds to the Difficulties Now
Facing Russia in Her Oper
ations on the North Front
What Might Happen to the
Russian Fleet is Now Being
Considered Russian Re
treat Not Considered a Rout
and Plans Are Being Carried
Out in a Retrograde Move
mentGeneral Cadorna con
tinues to Report Progress on
the Italian Front.
(By Associated press.)
Petrograd, Sept. 6 It is
semi-officially announced
that a German fleet has ap
peared in the Gulf of Riga.
Rome, Sept. 6 A desper
ate battle for the posession
of vital positions near Glor
izia is in progress, according
to today's war office announ
cementThe Italians yester
day took more than five hun-
to
dred prisoners.
With the appearance of a German
fleet in the Gulf of Riga the difficult
problems facing the Russians in their
operations ' on the northern front are
accentuated. Not only is the safety
of her armies concerned but appre
:iierf&idTfe may
happen to theRuss&n fleet if the
German naval forces are given full
swing in the Baltic.
' Only submarines so far have bee
berating against thp Rnc;an right
flank sts they fell back along the Gulf
at Riga coast. Warships now bid fair
to take part in the activity, increasing
the troubles of Russia in the task
of keeping the flank protected.
As to actual operations against the
Russian fleet, this does not appear
to be expected until the land cam
paign has progressed further and it
is seen what success the Russians
will have in their effort to make a
stand on the new line. Moreover,
it is a long way overland to Reval,
where the Russian warships are con
gregated. The Riga Gulg, however,
offus a favorable base for purely
naval operations againt Reval.
-On. the forty mile front of the
break in the Russian land lines Ger
many is pushing her advantage and
has as yet met no effective resist
ance. It is declared that the Rus
sian retreat is by no means a rout
and well defined plan is being car
ried out in the retrograde movement.
Its success admittedly depends on.
the behavior of the Russ'n roops,
whose morale on this front is now
reported better than earlier accounts
of the retreat seemed to indicate.
The Italia., campaign for Trieste
is- being vigorously pushed in the
face of vast concentration of Austrian
infantry and artillery and General
Cadorna continues to report progress
It seem that unofficial reports of
the capture of San Gabiele by the
Italian were premature, judging from
the latest advices from the front, but
the ultimate deduction of this last
remaining stronghold of the Aus
trians in the Gorizia hills is ac
counted a certainty by military writ
ers in view of the steady Italian, pro
gress. "M
Italians Have Resumed Their Great
Offensive.
.While the Russians continue their
flight, before the German:? in Ahe re
gion of Riga, the Italians, after a few
days of comparative idleness, again
have started their great offensive
against the Austrian? on the Bain
hizza plateau and to the northeast
of Gorizia.
In the south, however, from the
Brestovizza valley to the sea, the
Italians have been compelled to with
stand violent counter-attacks by the
Austrians, who are endeavoring lo
hold back General Cadorna's lines
from a further approach to Trieste.
:The Austrians at one place momentar
ily forced the Italains to cede terri
tory. A counter-attack by the Ital
ians not alone retrieved the lost posi
tipn, but resulted in the capture of
more than 100 prisoners,
i On the Bainsizza plateau northeast
of Gorizia, the Italians have made
'further gains, capturing an import
!ant Austrian position near Ocrogio.
No detaib have been vouchsafed con-
NATION-WIDE RAID
BY GOVERNMENT
Industrial Workers of the World
and Disloyal Socialists Being
Rounded Up.
MASSES DOCUMENTARV
EVIDENCE WAS OBTAINED
Federal Authorities to Tighten
Uu On Individuals as Well
As Organizations.
(By Associated Press.)
"Washington, Sept. 6.
Nationwide seizure by the govern
ment of documents of the Industrial
Workers of the World was said to be
one step in the vigorous campaign
the department of justice is prepared
to conduct against disloyalty and se
dition wherever shown. While the I.
W. W. is perhaps the largest "single
organization which is engaging the
department's attention in tht cam
paign, from now on other organiza
tions and individuals' whose utter
ances and activities have given ground
for suspicion as to disloyalty will be
under stricter surveillance than ever
and more drastic measures will be
pursued in dealing with them.
Included in the classes with whom
the department soon may deal are so
called soap box orators of New York
and other large cities; writers and
publishers in a few instances'connect
ed with the German language press
in this country; the so-called conscien
tious objectors an4 a large number of
individuals not classified among the
foregoing, whose activity has led them
to be regarded as active friends of
Germany in this country.
or months the government has been
collecting tremendous amounts of ev
idnece which will be utilized in pros
ecution in connection with yesterday's ,
seizures of the Industrial Workers'
of "the Wericl papers aMd mother- prose
cutions contemplated in the near fu
ture. Telegraphic reports from all sec
tions of the country received uy the
department today tell of the result of
yesterday's raids. Great masses of
documentary matter were obtained
and all this will be gone over careful
ly by local United States district at
torneys with a view to determining
the truth of the charges against per
sons identified with the organizations
against whom there had heretofore
been no actual prosecution.
Washington, Sept. 5. The govern
ment today took drastic action to end
the anti-war propaganda and activi
ties conducted in the name of the In
dustrial Workers of the World, the
Socialist party, and other organiza
tions throughout the United States.
On orders from Attorney-Keneral
Gregory, United States marshals in
many towns and cities descended at
2 p. m., central time, upon local head
quarters of the Industrial Workers
of the World, seized books, checks,
correspondence and other documents,
and in some instances, arrested offi
cials found upon the premises.
In Chicago, federal agents took pos
session of the national headquarters
of the Socialist party and a warrant
authorizing the seizure of its docu
ments was served upon its counsel.
The seizure of documents was car
ried out in accordance with a plan
perfected here by William C. Fitts,
assistant attorney-geaeral, working
under the direction of the attorney
general. A statement issued by the
department of justice announced that
the seizure of papers was made in
connection with a federal grand jury
investigation of the Industrial Work
ers of the World now under way at
Chicago.
The department's action was taken
on the eve of a report to President
Wilson by Chief Justice Covington,
cerning the battle which is in progress
northeast of Gorizia, and no confir
mation is at hand of the reported cap
ture by the Italians of Mont San Ga
briele, the last dominating position
held by the Austrianj north of Gor
izia. Nearly 1,700 men have been
captured by the Italians in the fight
ing in the Gorizia sector.
In the region of Riga the Russians
aTe retiring eastward and northeast
ward all along the line, pursued by the
Germans. The war vessels which were
reported to be , shelling the Riga
coast line, and which it was thought,
probably might be covering a landing
of troops, to cut off the retreat of the
Riga army, were submarines.
The operations on the western front
in Belgium and France continue to
be carried out mainly by the oppos
ing artilleries.
Reciprocal air raids continue to be
carried out by British, French xand
German airmen at points far behind
the fighting line.
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While this photograph shows a
respirator drill for British soldiers it
is the same form nf drill American
TO PROTECT SOLDIERS AT
CAMPS MAKING PURCHASES
"Government to Locate an Officer of
the Quartermaster's Department
With each Division to Prevent Ov
ercharges and Mai-Administration.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Sept. 6. The efficien
cy system is to be evtended by war
department to the point where even
the personal expenditures of he men
in the army may be protected. By a
general order made public today an
officer of the quartermaster's depart
ment will be assigned to every divis
ion to supervise exchanges that are
conducted for the convenience of the
soldiers wishing to make small pur
chases. The profit of the exchanges
will go to the men and it will be the
duty of the supervising v officer to
'IpartbftVcEttrea' ind' UlaT-aP
ministration. 'v
of the Sunreme Court, nf the niatriM-
oi oiumDia, wno was designated re
cently by the President to investi
gate the labor situation in the west.
Judge Covington has completed his
investigation, and probably will re
port personally to President Wilson
tomorrow.
.Whether the concerted action of
marshals throughout the country was
in any way related to Judge Coving
ton's investigation was not disclosed.
The charges against leaders of the
organization under arrest or whose
arrest is contemplated were not made
public here. It was said at the de
partment of justice that these would
have to be determined by the grand
jury investigating the organization.
Officials also declined to state if in
dictments had been found by grand
juries in Chicago or elsewhere against
Industrial Workers of the World
leaders. It was intimated, however,
that the investigation had only be
gun. Indications are that federal
grand juries in other cities will be
called upon also to investigate.
For many weeks past the activities
of Industrial Workers of the World
leaders have been under close scrutiny
of the department's bureau of investi
gation. These activities have never been re
garded here as a labor movement.
They have been held to be political
and, in some instances, conducted with
a view solely to hinder and hamper
the government.
Recently it was charged that in
cluded in the ranks of the Industrial
Workers of the World were many
Austrians, who have been active in
stirring up strife intended to hamper
American industries, doing work han
dled by Germans before the United
States declared a state of war exist
ing with Germany.
Continued investigation has failed,
it is understood, tb connect these ac
tivities with German money. The
department has determined the .prin
cipal reservoirs of German funds . in
this country and, it is reported, has
not connected them with recent dis
orders in the west and southwest.
As a result of the country-wide
seizure of the organization's papers,
the department of justice xJght
finds itself in possession of Lr?raments
by the thousands, many of which will
be submitted to grand juries.
Prosecutions may be begun under
several laws, chiefly , the espionage
act, covering the utterance of treason
able and seditious statements, and
the food control law.
Suggestions.
(From the Porcupine.)
Now that Hoover is on the job
maybe he'll put Congress on a "no
pork" diet. . Of give us a speechless
day once or twice a week. Or, when
the Germans of St. Louis plead for
bread, he might give them a Stone.
troops are now undergoing in France.
In order to make the British soldiers
perfect in putting on . and off the
COUimBOWTS
Much of Two-Day Session County
Oommissioners Taken Up
With Highway Matters.
SUPT. THOMASON IN CHARGE
OF REPAIR OF BRIDGES
Ordered if Township Road Funds
Become Exhausted General
Fund Be Drawn On.
The board of cottnttonamissioners
at a two-Jlay . reitiiiMltelyes
sion this week at which all members
were present, with Chairman Hall
presiding, the following business was
transacte'd :
Ordered that the 4th company
coast artillery be given $50, this be
ing half of the regular appropriation
from the county.
Ordered that Robert Ritchie be giv
en $5 per month from outside poor
fund, and that Ham Freeze be given
$2 a month from same fund.
Ordered that E. E. Gray be given
$3 a month, same to be paid to D. E.
Overcash.
Ordered that Sheriff have his
office counter rearranged to suit his
convenience.
Ordered that ' Supt. Thomas have
charge of repair of the bridges in
the county.
It has been ordered that Supt.
Thomason relocate road on thet lands
of Mr. Bailly Wilhelm and J. L. Bos
tian. Ordered that the county appropri
ate $10 a month for the treatment of
Boger child and that Dr. Currie make
application to -Sanatorium for said
child.
Ordered that the Cauble case at
China Grove be referred to County
Attorney Craige.
U was ordered that Supt. Thomas
on have sign posts erected according
to law.
It was ordered that Undertaker
Kelsey be given $7 for burial of col
ored person.
Ordered that J. K. Culbertson be
given $5 damages to his home by
dynamite, also ordered that he be not
allowed damages for' building or
changing road on his farm.
It, was ordered thati the monthly
account statement office county be
published in the Salisbury Evening
Post.
By . order of the board Dr. Summer
ell was not allowed the relief asked
for in regard to reduction cn land.
Ordered that Supt. Thomason go
to Needmore to find location for roati
as suggested by Mr. McDonald, with
view to taking oare of the old Wilkes
boro road leading to Roueche's fora
weathertoeoSt
mask the drill is practised on going
into and coming out of the trenches.
MEN ARRIVING AT
COLUMBIA CAMP
The First Men for the New Army
Are Reaching Camp Jackson
at Columbia for Training.
NORTH CAROLINA MEN ARE
FIRST TO REACH CAMP
South Carolina-Florida Drafts
men Are to Follow and Men
Are Being Sent to Camp.
Columbia, Sept. 6. More than 600
North Carolina "men are in Camp
Jackson today and more are expected
to arrive today, also some of the
men from the state of Florida. South
Carolinas first quota was mobilized
yesterday and the men from North
Carolina and Florida are arriving
now in smaller number.
As the various contingents arrive
they are grouped and distributed to
Camp Jackson on shuttle trains while
various officers attached to each train
as a mustering in staff arrange the
detachments as they reach the mus
tering grounds at camp. It is un
derstood that a great deal of the
equipment has not yet arrived.
Thirty Thousand Men Moved First
Day.
Washington, Sept. 5. Thirty thou
sand men, the first increment of the
national army, are on their way to
cantonments to day to begin train
ing for service overseas.
After receiving transportation ex
penses and final instructions from lo
cal boards yesterday, they generally
were allowed to spend their last nght
at home before joining the colors. Un
der command of leaders delegated
from their own numbers, ihe various
sections were preceeding towards 14
.nobilization ctmps.
on South River.
Ordered that the bill presented by
Mr. Glover for a particular piece of
work be paid.
It was ordered that in case special
township road funds become exhaust
ed that the general fund be drawn on
until said township funds are re
plenished. Ordered that Mrs. Dry's property
be condemned. '
Ordered that report of commission-
ei'j on roads from Charlotte Gra
ham's on Sherrill's ford road to
Statesville road near John Nesbitt's
residence be adopted.
It was ordered that the work on the
road from Bear Popular to Walnut,
tree on the old Lincolton road be done.
As there was no bid for general
supplies for the county the board left
the matter of securing same to Supt.
Thomason.
It . was ordered that the State
Highway Commission proceed with
the' Federal aid project on the Sal-isbury-Statesville
road (central high
way) as outlined at meeting by W.
S. Fallis, state highway engineer,
subject to approval of state highway
commission, Supt. Thomason and Mr.
Wm. Kester to secure right of way
for said road.
It was ordered that Supt. Thom
ason put camp No. 3 in charge of K t.
Bradshaw, and that camp No. 3 stop
work on Sherrill's ford road as soon
as completed and saned from a point
at Ebenezer church as far as graded
near J. K. Goodman's.
"Might is right," says the pessi
mist. The optimist's philosophy re
verses the order.
BELGIAN LAWYER
TALKS OF BELGIUM
In an Address Before the Ameri
can Bar Asso. Distinguished
Lawyer Tells of Misrule.
MADE LAWS TO SUIT THE
END DESIRED SECURED
Germans So Stretched "Absolute
Necessity" As to Include Ev
erything They Desired.
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Sept. 6.
The story of three years of Ger
man violation of the covenants of the
Hague Convntion, during the Teuton
ic occupancy of Eelgium since the
world war began, was told briefly
today by Gaston de Leval, of the Bar
of Brussells, to members of the Amer
ican Bar "Assiciation, in convention
here.
Many articles of the Hague conven
tion, when tested by the facts in Bel
gium with the invaders applying their
own interpretations, "proved almost
valueless," Mr. de Leval said:
The imposing of excessive fines,
the punishment by death and impris
onment of Belgian men and women
and children unwarrantably accused
of treason and lesser crimes, and the
deportation Of his compatriots into
slavery were discussed by Mr. de Le
val from the legal viewpoint.
Notwithstanding "all the suffer
ings and tyranny to which 'the Bel
gian population has been subjected,"
the speaker asserted, thg people are
as patriotic now as when in the early
period of the war they stemmed the
German flood at Leige.
"No matter how much the Germans
have advertised " their victories and
how powerfully their military system
has impressed the Belgian popula
tion." he said, "that tjoTuIauSr is
aays xnarrne eause . or civnization wm
triumph, and that tyranny will be
crushed, because they know that right
is might, that right is the only might,
and that the Lord has said: "Bless are
they which hunger arid thirst after
righteousness, for, they shall be fill
ed." Mr de Leval told how the Germans
tried to make capital of the quarrels
which, before the war, had taken
place between the Flemish and Wal
loon elements of Belgium the ones
descendants of German tribes and the
others descendants of the Romans.
"Since the very beginnig they (the
Germans) cajoled the Flemish pop
ulation," he said. "They tried to
make it believe that Germany was
helping their aspirations to free
themselves of the troublesome Wal
loons. They told them that, owing
to the German efforts, these Walloon
and French elements were to be set
aside and the Flenmish population
emerge richer, freer with its own
language in the foreground.
"But the people did not listen to
tese siren songs. So, the Germans
added compulsion to persuasion, and
by their law made one country of the
Walloons and one country of the
Flemish, hoping of course, that after
the war the Flemish population at
any rate would bea stepping stone
for Germany to further conquest.
"But this separation is only on pa
per, and is not and will never be com
pletely obtained. All the chiefs of
Belgian departments have resigned
rather than carry out such instruc
tions, and the Germans, who had,
when they came into Belgium, prom
ised that all agents of the Belgian
government continuing their duties
would always be free, if they so de
sired, to leave their posts, are now
sending to German prisons the chiefs
of those departments who have car
ried out what their conscious told
them was their duty."
Mr. de Leval paid tribute lo Amer
ica's aid to his country, and especially
to Brand Whitlock, former minister
to Belgium. "His name," he said
"will go down in history," adding: "I
know that in no other country of the
world, so much as in America, in this
country of freedom and justice, do the
sufferings of the Belgians arouse
sympathy. You have saved Belgium
from starvation, and still the end of
all time there will be in each village
of Belgium a memorial put up to re
mind future generations that if the
Belgian race has not died but,?thnor
for its preservation is due to the cit
izens of free and generous Ameri
ca. Mr. de Leval paid a tribute also to
Cardinal Mercier, who, he said, "stood
in the country like a living flag of
Belgium, like a religious king, and
from all the world he received the
homage due to his courage and gen
ius." The speaker said that on place
which remained sacred from invasion
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Reported That a Barge On
Which Soldiers Were Being
Transported Was Capsized
And the Men Lost In' the
Gulf of California On Wed
nesday Night Officials Dis
claim Knowledge But Say
the Movement of Troops In
Such Manner Was Ordered.
(?By Associated Press.)
Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 6. More
than 200 Mexican .soldiers were
drowned in the Gulf of California last
night by the sinking of a barge on
which they were being transported,
according to information received
here today.
ICarranza Officials Have Not Heard
Officially.
Los Angeles, Sept. 6. According
to the meagre advices received the
soldiers were from the Guaymas gar
rison and were being transported on
a barge together with a number of
horses and a quantity of military sup
plies to Point Isabella in La Boso Se
nora. The barge was accompanied by a
tug. A Southern squall is said to
have been the cause of the barge cap
sizing. It is said to have been one
of a number of barges that were built
for river transportation and not
adaptable to a running sea.
Carranza officials at border points
last night disclaimed any information
of the disaster, but said that the re
port was probably correct. They ad
mitted that such a barge was being
used for such movements and also
that such a movement of troops of
the character reported had been or
dered. The report said that the squall
caused the capsizing of the barge was
so . evere jas to prevent the tug ac-
; eampanylns- it to jgo to, its rescue. ' iCr J
titTfw rniwMTasmw to
URGE EMBARGO LIFTING
Members Arrive in America and Will
Ask for Partial Modification of Act.
Come on Dutch Liner.
An Atlantic Port, Sept. 5. "Not
until we have ha'd an opportunity to
confer with our minister to Washing
ton will we be in a position to dis
cuss conditions in Holland or tho
probable effects of an embargo on
grains and foodstuffs. For the past
eighteen days we have been at sea,
unfamiliar with events taking place
in our absence."
This statement was made tonight
by A. G. A. Van Ealde, of Holland,
here to discuss with the United
States government the advisability
of lifting, at least partially
an embargo that has practically cut
Holland away from her every source
of imports. The mission arrived to
day on a Dutch liner.
The mission, composed of three civ
ilians appointed by the Holland cab
inet, was selected from men in colsa)
touch with food conditions in the
small neutral country. At its head
is A. G. A. Van Ealde, former direc
tor of the government grain buteau,
a civil engineer by profession. Joost
Volenhoven, a member of parliament,
managing director of The Nether
lands bank and member of the exec
utive committee of the Over-Sea3
Trust and J. B. Van Der Houven Van
Oordt, former vice-president of The
Netherlands Indian state council,
complete the mission. It is accom
panied by J. G. Heldring and J. E.
Van Der Wielen, as secretaries.
The mission will leave tomorrow
morning for Washington, where they
have an appointment upon their ar
rival with Minister Van Rappard.
Tuberculosis in Berlin.
(By Associated Pres3.)
Copenhagen, Sept. 6. The vital
statistics for the city of Berlin now
published for the months of, March,
April and May sfiow 55: per cent in
crease in deaths from : tuberculosis,
as compared with the same months cf
1916. The winter months also 3how
a higher and more unfavorable cordi
tion with regard to all lung diseases.
Russian 'Prisoners Taken.
Berlin, Sept. 6. More than 7,500
prisonera so far have been taken by
the Germans in the Riga "offeirisive,
army- headquarters announced today.
Guns to the number of 180 have been
captured.'
German Attacks Repulsed.
Paris, Sept. 6. Two German at
tacks on the Ainse front last night
were repulsed by the French, says to
day's official statement. Heavy ar
tillery fighting occurred on the Cham
pagne and Verdun fronts.
Fits .of abstraction have brought
mariy pickpockets-to prison.
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