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2 V- - : AfSiM . v-, v.---, - .i- , : ' V: ,V 1 f W-v. an at Least Be in tine eci 6 :! :rj - v s. ': r&.v.. 1 at-" .- 'K 1 ft II B IV - III I I I I I I VI I I Ml I VI I V IT- : ft v I, mi . 1 ?jr Mr VOL. 4, NO. G8. o HE Retrograde Movement is Begun by the Austrians and the Ital ians Are Pursuing. MANY GUNS LEFT BY FLEEING AUSTRIANS American Airmen Perform Heroic ' Work in Aiding the Italians. (By Associated Press.) Rome, June 23. The Italian troops have crossed the old chan nel of the Piave west of the main stream and recaptured several of their old positions, according to semi-official statements issued to night. From Capo-Seile other detach ments are advancing towards the main stream of the river. The Italians have thrown over bombing detachments across the main stream where artillery and aircraft machines are hammering the enemy. AUSTINS Italian Headquarters, June 23 in " a v vn a i r IN RETREAT J uED Y ITALIANS . f :7jtg ounaay mgni.; ine retreat oi , i ffC the Austrians along the Piave riv- j t ( er besrun under cover of darkness i ;h I on Saturday night. The retreat-i -i troops left their cannon be-i hind them. The Italians are pur- j suing the enemy east of the Piave river. East of the Piave the Austrian j troops left to cover the retreating army used their machine guns to set up a barrage fire. When it was 1 observed that the Austrians had , begun a retrograde movement, the Italians began attacking virtually j along the whole line of the Piave ' from Montello on the north to the mouth of the river. The attack was quickly pressed and became more and more active with violent artillery fire. The number of guns left by the retreating Austrians have not been nnmnntaH Tint. it. IS S3), id that the number is undoubtedly great. The work of American aviators who first appeared on the Italian front on Saturday contributed notably to the disorganization of the Austrian forces that had cross ed the Piave river, according to the Milan Eclo. WS5 A FORMER SALISBURIAN DEAD. Mr. A. W. Watscn, Native of This City arid Former Merchant Here, Dies in Wilmington. Word has been received here of the , death in Wilmington of Mr. A. W. (Bert) Watson, at his home in thai city. Mr. Watson was 73 years old snd was a Confederate veteran. He was a native of Salisbury and resided here many years, at one time being engaged in the mercantile business with the late D. R. Julian. He was re lated to the Watsons and Julians and had numerous other relatives in this section. Quite a number of years ago he moved to Wilmington and had made his home there since. He was an occasional visitor to Salisbury, however, and had many friends here. These will learn with sorrow of his death. w s s A German attack on the French at Antheuil, west of the Oise, was beaten off Sunday night. $1.30 A YEAR AND WORTH IT f7 TT One of the Principal Objects of the Austrian Minister to Berlin Was Opposed. WANTED AUSTRIA TO STAY ON DEFENSIVE FOR TIME Strikers in Vienna Demand That There Be Peace With the Ene mies of Dual Monarchy. (By the Associated Press) London, June 24. One of the prin cipal objects of .the visit of Baron Burian, Austrian Foreign Minister, to Berlin, was to plead for an inde finite postponement of the Austrian offensive, according to the correspon dent of the Daily) Mail on the "Swiss border, this information being learned on unimpeachable authority. Von B. Burian pointed out that the failure of the drive in conjunction with the threatened food problem and race question might lead to" the grav est disorders, even a revolution. He urged that if Austria were permitted to remain inactively on the defensive the desperate situation might be tid ed over. . t Berlin, it. is stated, insisted on an immediate 'offensive "Being "ftces"saj?y to relieve the pressure on the western front and also to appeas- the Ger man people toward Austria. IMMEDIATE PEACE T.ondon, June 24. Strikers in the various factories in Viennt on Satur day formulated a demand orthe gov ernment that it will show itself ready for immediate peace and invite the en emy nations to enter into peace nego tiations. A dispatch from the Hague to the Times says that the workers subscribed to the peace terms of Baron Burain, foreign minister for Austria-Hungary. EMPEROR CHARLES WILL NOT ACCEPT. I Amsterdam, June 24. Emperor Charles will not accept the resigna tion of his Austrian cabinet, according to a dispatch to the Lokal Anziger of Berlin. The dispatch says that he un- donbtedly resignation wiil refuse to accept the of the Von Seydler cabi net and that it will remain as it was with perhaps an exception of Police Minister Twardowski who will retire. It is problimatical if differences between Minister Weiser of the Agri cultural Department and Tronca can be reconciled. Optimism Runs High in Rome. Washington, June 24. Confidence at Rome that the war may be brought to a victorious close this year if the allies give the Italians full meas ure of support in the affensive lnnnfVipd ncninst tho Anatrinnc woe. reflected in wireless dispatches todaum - ."-'.o ..cu from the Italian capital The message eays the Austrian re treat across the Piave and in which the Italians have already captured 45, 000 prisoners has become a vertable rout and information from secret sources show that many divisions of German troops have been detached from the front in France and are be ig rushed to the aid of the Austrian army. American Improve Positions. Washington, June 24. Further im provement of the American position northeast of Chateau Thierry is noted in General Pershing's communique for yesterday, received today at the war N OPPOSED OFFENSIVE STRIKERS DEMAND department. Artillery activity and j cange Telegraph dispatch, the repulse of enemy raids on the Vos- Prominent Bolsheviki Shot, ges also were reported. Moscow, June 21. (By the Associ Only One Bridge Left. ated Press.) iM. Voladarsky, corn London, June 24. All but one of the missioner for press affairs and a very bridges left for the Austrian retreat prominent Bolsheviki, was shot dead across the Piave have been destroyed today dn the streets of Petrograd. SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA, S'K TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1918. (that OPPO WITH ASHE COUNTY DRAFT OBSTRUCTORS Winsto i-Sa!em Company Ordered to Hold Itself in Readiness to Go to Mountain Section Where Trouble Is Brewing (By the Associated Press) Raleigh, June 24. The State Re serve Militia company of Winston Salem has been ordered to hold itself in readiness for a week's campaign against forty drafted men who are de fying the authorities in Ashe county, Adjutant General Young announced today. The adjutant general said reports to his office from Ashe county draft board were that one man, a civilian,' had been killed in an attempt to arrest some of the resisters. The men re fused to be inducted into service and legally are deserters from the army. W S S iSeferetary Lansing's literary Style is not admirable as the President's, Jbut the Kaiser will lhave no difficulty . , , j. , . , secretary w s s Mrs. Theodore Rdosevelt, Jr., is at work fourteen 'hours a day in la1 Y. 'M. C. A. canteen at A3x, Franc. by Italian artillery, according to a dispatch here this afternoon. It is added that enormous booty has been taken by the Italians. . . Meatless Weeks in Germany. London, June 24. Meatless weeks for Germany is a possibility in the near future. Dr. August Muller, un der secretary of food distribution, said at a meeting of the reichstag food commission Saturday, says an Ex- M. q-i o inni 8fN II If '.r - -. v. 1 I J Bby: IE CITIES Reduction of Bread Ration Cause Trouble Among Workmen and Twenty Thousand Quit London, June 24. Extensive strikes broke out Thursday in Coiogr.e and Mulheim, on the Rhine, owing to a re duction in the bread rations. Twen- i ty thousand persons quit work in munition factories, according to a dispatch to the Daily Mail from The Hague. A British workman who returned to The Hague reports that small pox is greatly increasing among the Krupp workmen at Essen. W S S OVER THE SEAS READY FOR DUTY Number of Boys From the City and County Reported Across Safely and Ready for Service. A card received here announces the arrival overseas of W. A. Fleming, an other Salisbury boy who went from here with the 4th Co. He is with the 7th Anti Aaircraft Battery, and this would indicate that a number of the boys who left Fort Caswell, having been attached to other units, have also arrived safely overseas. Another Salisbury boy to arrive safely "over there" is Earl B. Put man of the 7th Anti-Aircraft, A. E. F. The many friends of "Pete" Shaver wiill be glad to learn that Ihe is safe on the other side of the Atlantic. Mr. Shaver is with tihe Aviation Signal Corps. 'Buret Haynes, another iSalisburian and former member of the 4th Co., has landed on French soil and joined the million or more Americans "over there." Another Salisburian, leaving here with tihe 4th Co., and now in France, is J. R. Hooper, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hooper, of this city. He, too, is with the 7th Anti Aircraft Battery. A mm AM I Si is;? J--- IE R00SE- VFI T IR V t-L. I j Jill j ED Although Gassed in the Lungs and Blinded By Gassed Eyes He Leads His Men in the Fight at Cantigny. (By the Associated Press) With the American Army in France, June 24. Major Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has been sighted by the general commanding the troops to which his unit is attached for "conspicious gal lantry" in action during the opera tions connected with the capture of subsequent defenses of Cantigny. Majo1" Roosevelt, the citVion also says, although gassed in the lungs. and 'gassed in the eyes to blindness, retained the command of his battalion under a heavy bombardment. W S S THOMASVILLE ORPHANAGE MEETING TOMORROW. Will Be Held at the Orphanage To morrow and Wednesday and Local Folks Will Attend. A number of Salisbury people will , attend the annual meeting of the' Tbom'asville Baptist Orphanage, which will be held Tuesday and Wed nesday, at the orphanage at Thomas ville. The sermon will be preached Tues day night by Rev. Lee McBride White of Chester, S. C, and the address will be delivered Wednesday morning by Dr. LutheT Little, pastor of the First Baptist church of Charlotte. The trustees will hold hold their meeting as usual Tuesday morning and after noon. Monday night class day exer cises will be held in the chapel Hall. From the beginning of the orphan age in 1885 this' annual event has call ed together thousands of people each year and fully as large a crowd is ex pected this year as ever. W S S Post cards were first used in Aus tria. They became part of that coun try's postal service in 1869. I II X. 1 COMMEND 0 GALLANTRY L50 A YEAR AND WORTH IT 1 1 . " 1 nnnrn mi in nnrrir lit Drawing for Those Registering on June 5th. Will Probably Be Held Some' Time This Week. WILL LIKELY BE PLACED AT THE BOTTOM OF CLASS ONE Final Announcement of Arrange ments Awaiting Receipt of Some ' ' e Delayed Reports. (By the Associated Press) Washington, June 24: 'Wednesday or, Thursday of this week may be fix ed as the date for drawing the 'order numbers of jioung men who registered for the army draft June 5. Announ cement of arrangements for the draw ing await reports from a half dozen local boards whose records "were in complete. Classification WIl Be Made Later , Raleigh,-" June .. 22. Local" exemp tion, boards have been notified - that the second 5 edition ;of questidnaries for registrants of June 5. will.be mail ed but beginning1 June 25 , , what' mithoofwl'ednrfig' the new registrants order numbers has not been settled upon in Wash ington yet but it is thought here that the men who registered June 5 will not be given a sei-ial number. It is supposed they will be given order numbers only and placed at the bot tom of class one. The local boards have been advised by the Adjutant General that subse quent regulations will be formulated governing the form of the question naire, the period of time for return ing it and so forth. It is likely there will be a slight variation on the form of the first and second edition. w ,S s TO ENLARGE LANDIS MILL. Addition Costing $30,000 and Mach inery Costing $7",000 Are to Be Added to Textile Plant. In the list of industrial activities for tho Soullh appearing in the last is sue of the Manufacturer's Record, of Baltimore, it is stated that an addi tional bu'ldimsr is to be built to tie cotton mill at Landis at a cost of $30, 000 and tlhat the machinery to be in stalled in this addition will i;ost $75, 000. This is the Linn Mills Com pany's plant. W S S A CLEVER DESIGN. Peeler Printery Reproduces the Lib erty Bell, With the Old Crack Through the Famous Emblem of Liberty. The Peeler Printery has a War Saving Stamp advertisement in the Post this evening, a reproduction of the Old Liberty Bell. This advertise ment was set up in the Peeler shop and shows the old bell with the crack plainly to be seen. The Old Liberty bell is ringing anew the call to free dom in America and the Peeler Print ery has hit on a very clever way of boosting War Stamps. 7 S S TO MEET IN STATES VILLE. District Luther League Will Hold the Next Convention There Date to Be Chosen by Executive Committee. The next meeting of the District Luther League for Western Nortih Carolina which held1 a meeting in this city last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, will be held at iStatesville in the fall, the dates to be set !by the ex ecutive committee. An important matter receiving at tention at the .Salisbury meeting but which (has not been finally settled, was one to transform the various district leaorues into a State lea'g-ue and it is 'hoped to accomplish ft lis by the time ths fall convention is held at States-'ville. IIUIIL U 1 II IIU ULUV? 1 '-; 'V . , .:v ..... .yk,..-Vs4VrT? i I m Enemy in Precipitate Retreat and in His Great Haj&s .Many Can non Amtjeft :;-BtaThem RETREATING C0LT7MN& i . PRESSED BY ITALIANS .' - - --i torv on. the Piave Cornea News-y -A oi vrermaa itepuise. (By Associated Press.) large in the news of the Austrian r&j&twA defeat along the Have. Unable to force his way further than the unmeaiare vicinity, or tne river and with the ' ' brids'es thrown, across the stream swept jtwayfqn the , swirling1 waters of the floods the enemy began a precipitate rp"J treat oamraay nigra, jsor was bis withdmw that Tie great manjr oannon;on bankilthel 'SUtbX ing pressed by Italian detach ments thrown over to the easterly side o fthe stream. From the Montello plateau southward to the Adriatic comes the same story of Austrian relreat. The Piave river formerly emp tied into the sea quite near Venice but in recent years the course has changed to the present location. In the first rush of the Austrian offensive the enemy succeeded in crossing the old river bed. From their position there the foe has been driven and the Italians are relentlessly pressing the pursuit. The latest news dispatches from the Piave river front, sent out Sunday, tell of Italian bomb ing units being thrown across the main stream of the Piave, which seems to indicate that the Aus trian retreat was not stayed at the eastern bank of the river. There is every indication that the Austrian "hunger offensive" has been a forlorn hope for sever al days. The effect of the defeat on internal conditions in Austria Hungary, once the news is made public, can only be conjectured, but it may be the Italians have dealt the enemy a harder blow than that merely involved in the military feat of pushing him back across the Piave. I There have been no further re ports foreshadowing a new at tack i nthe mountain sectors of the Italian front. Thrilled by their signal victory in the lower reaches of the battlefront, however, the Italians and the allied troops fighting in that theatre of war way be expected to meet any new move with the stubborn resistance which so far has nullified the ef forts of the Austrian emperor to carry the war into the plains of Italy, and still the murmurs of his soldiers with the loot from cap . tured cities. , I Coincident with the Italian vic tory on the Piave comes the news of Italian units on the Marne Rheims sector repulsing a second heavy German attack on the heights of Bligny, just to the wes of the city of Rheims. The Ger man failure was complete, as was the original blow on Saturday night. British troops have taken pris oners and inflicted casualties in local operations along their sec tors of the front in France. ;'.' is 4; wT.."ir 1'. fl Or
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