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h - s 1 1 ' 5 V.JS-iSr! 1 1 imdls Mms win '-if"'55"-i 4 "' -.'. 'inf:-. i -U.l. T . Di Do WW 7 4 A 7 1 ' - " - V ''iff. IK 4 ''-A : Ml (So' 4 i r"-i ft "VOT.. 4. NO. 99. E H AMERICAN: 118 LIVES LOST (By Associated Press.) Washington, Oct. 8. The United States Ship Tampa, a former coast guard cutter in the naval service, was lost off the English coast Sep tember 26th with all on board while j on convoy dutv. I Ten officers, 102 enlistexUnen, one j British officer and five civil employes ' lost their lives. The navy department statement announcing the disaster say the ship i was sunk at night in.Bristow chan nel and reports indicate that she was struck by a torpedo while escorting a convoy. Captain C. Satterlee of the coast guard was commander of the cutter. Apparently there were no eye wit nesses to the sinking. Navy depart ment reports say an explosion was j felt after the Tampa had gone well ahead of the convoy and about 3:45 p. m. and later a quantity, of wreck age, one d the Tanalt "life boats -and the bodies-ol'two unidentified of ncers were found. W S S RALEIGH TAKES STEP AGAINST INFLUENZA j Will Probably Close Schools, Church es. Picture Houses and Theatres and Other Public Places Many Cases and Some Deaths. New l i (By the Associated Press) .Raleigh, Oct o. xiic wiuiiuaoiw'i ers of Raleigh are today considering , the closing of the city schools, church- ; es, picture and other theatres and all mans have defended tenaciously for one 0f the most brilliant men in Con places of public gatherings until the j four years no longer will be of use , pes., and one of the leading orators danger of influenza epidemic has to them. j of the county. He spoke here sev passed. This course as recommended in Flanders the Belgians, British j eral years ago and those who heard by the city physician , French continue their pressure ! him will want to hear him again, and There are three hundred cases of ; against stiffened resistance of the en- wQ v, a;a u., w the disease in the city and it seems j to be spreading. One hundred and j The salient driven in by the allies three cases were reporfed yesterday threatens the German hold on Bel and there were four new cases record- j gum and an advance of ten miles to ed today early. There was one death ward Whent probably would compel in the city from the disease. j the enemy to retire to the north of Influenza made its first appearencv. 1 the Meuse line, at Camp Polk Wednesday and no.S j On the Cambrai and St. Quentin eisrht cases are reported there. At the front the British maintained gains state school for blind ther are 25 notwithstanding strong German coun cases and at the school for the blind ter attacks. and' deaf, negro, the number has in- j The new British attack north of St. creased to 90. There are three or j Quentin is probably against the four cases among the employes at the j Beaurevoir-Fonsomme line where state hospital and many pupils are 1 General Haig holds a sharp salient in amoncr the patients at the state col- ; the German line. General Berthelot lege where the epibemic is most gen- an General Gouard continue their at rial, reports being that there are 150 j tacks north of Rheims and in the cases under treatment. Here the sit- j nation begins to show improvement as j the patients are now recovering fas- j North of Rheims the enemy has ter than others are being taken ill. ! been driven from most of the hill po The same is true of St. Mary's where siti0ns and will soon be in the open about 112 cases were reported. j where the French advance may be TWO DEATHS FROM "FLU. ; has captured Challerange, a railroad Spanish Influenza Raging at High j junction and his guns are now com Point, There Being Nearly 150 mnding the junction of Vouziers fur Cases Many Places Closed. ther north. In "losing Vouziers the ( Special to The Post) j Germans lose command of their rail High Point', Oct. 3. There were two j way running through Argonne fer deaths here this morning from Span- j est at Grandpre. The line was the ish influenza, of which there is be- j main supply line of the Germans tween 125 and 150 cases here. One of ; facing the mericans east of Argonne. today's victims was Mrs. Duncan, wife j In withdrawal in the Lille salient of a well known local doctor, the other j the Germans are endeavoring to get victim being a man, whose name was I ni.it of the giant trap which Marshal not learned. A number of public Foch constructed. By hammering the places are closed, including schools formidable Champagne-Lan line by and pitcure theatres. j Rheims to the Meuse he is bending ' -- I back the .German flanks. The German SA1 ES PASS HALF MILLION, j sunply liries are menaced by the allied j advance on the flanks and should they Country Still Behind Schedule For j be cut the Germn situation -will ha the First Four Days of the Liberty j most desperate. It seems that their Loan Campaign. retirement unless to a ' great depth uy tiic Aoouuioicu iicou; Washington, Oct. 3. Liberty Bond i (By the Associated Press) i sales have tassed the half billion dol- : lar mark .but the country is nearly; From July 15th to September 30th still that amount behind acording to i the allied armies in France and Bel the first four days' campaign. gium captured more than 254,000 pris- -w s 8- "Victory means more to those who earn their bread by the sweat of ti2ir brow than any other class." Lloyd -George. $10 A YEAR AND WORTH' IT ' rml HJV IMOWHfl DEFENSE COKTINU On All Fronts the Allies are Mining- Great Inroads Into Htm . Lines; Marching to Victory. . i ANOTHER MAIN LINE QF V COMMUNICATION 1$ CUT Two Hundred and Pif tjPouT" Thousand Prisoners and Thou sands of Ouns Takent On a front of 20 miles between "Armentieres and Lens the. Gertealtg continue to retire f rom ttnMi&Ijent' west of the fortress of Lille.' Wp- ' North of St. Quentin the Bisjr are again storming the German ofeiiSft, line, while on the Champagne !the 4 French are pressing . northward. threatening the German positions..; " ine evacuation of the LitB saHent is the direct result of the-llied ad vance in Flanders and Brotmd'Cam brai. - The Britjsh. are keepingg-'citthe', heeisVdf the Germari'wno"-re-tired on an average of two miles but there are no indications as to where the enemy will stop or whether he will extend hig withdrawal movement to ! include the region of Douai. Armentieres and Lens apparently i nrp Vtfilrl Vir tVio ondmir Vn f Vii v -fall 4- ! :r V, i . r T, , A 1 the British is probably only a matter j ww v.,,,. I sn ine i.erman lines mnveri narir tn near Lille or beyond the gret coal I fields in this district which the Ger- I emy Champagen and have taken further around from the enemv. rapid. In Champagne General Gouraud would be di little material avail in wyuiu ue w utuic iiiatcitax avail in putting off the retreat all along the line from the North jBea to Alsace. cners, 3,200 guns and 23,000 machine j guns. From September 10 to 30th, : 123,000 men and 1,600 cannon and ! more than 6,000 machine guns had ! been taken. IVi. .8ALISBCRrNORTHvtBbLmAv FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1918. rm . Via lir Xl SUCCEEDS HERTUN6 Prince of Baden Succeeds von Hert ling as Imeperial Chancellor of Germany Council Attended By the Kaiser and Hindenburg. (By the Associated Press) S'' Amsterdam, Oct. 3. Prince Max niilian of Baden has been made Ger man imperial chancellor, according to Berlin newspapers. A council meet ing took place at the chancers pal ace last evening, according to advices by Field Marshal von ' Hihdehburg, who came to Berlin with the emperor. Former chancellor voiv HertHpg and vice-chancellor Payer and several olher secretaries attended. xtr' o ' o - ing Dembcrafwill Be in the State For Three Speeches, One in Salis bury the 22nd. That distinguished member of Con-! gress, l nomas Heflm, of Alabama, j one of the leadiner members of eon- ! . i i .n i . . . Turn HEFLIN COMING wILLSFtAllnLKt ana a DTlll& democratic lead- troops. On his portion of the front er is coming into this -state to make the position of the Germans is get- p.e"ical and..onA .fting dangerous and they must find Tin"VlrtY A Q Q 1 1 c? on1 rlona ixtx 1 1 Vv given laterf suffice it to announce just i,f tw. ; : tt ; . " iiw u iivb JJtut. ii i ilk vug lit lu plan to hear him on the 22nd. W S S Your grocer is pledged to full co operation in the Food Administra tion program. Are you helping him to keeip that pledge? EXTENSION OF TIE Realizing the impossibility TO ADJUSTPUST SUBSCRIPTIONS Subscription list f ully and Completely revised and adjust ed to comply with the war board s requirement that all subscriptions be on a cash in advance basis by October 1st, we wired asking for a few days extension of time. The following telegram was the reply: Washington, D. C, Oct. 2, 1918. Salisbury Evening Post, Salisbury, N. C. You may have ten days to adjust subscription list. PULP AND PAPER DIVISION WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD. This we take it means that we may have until the tenth to get our list in accord with the demands of the war board, and it means that we will give subscribers who have not paid their subscription in advance as much more opportunity as is possible. It does not mean that they will have until the tenth, but it means that we shall not try to have our list completely revised until about the tenth by the tenth. We shall begin to cut off delinquents before that time. Subscribers who have not yet gotten their sub scription in advance of October, 1918, are urged to do so without delay. Owing to the fact that this , , ., . . . . i heavy WOTK and little help, it us to render prompt service. taken with the distinct understanding that it may be two days or it may be more bet ore they are started. JNotning definite will be promised, and until we get to a more nor mal living we can not promise anything like normal ser vice. V" SALISBURY EVENING POST. CTfST7T7 lfV. 1 0 i&EST (it EfJN. TRAIN Passenger iTratb . Crashes . Into a Crowd :SojtiijUiffhtinK From . . 'l;?s-Beilfo.rd. -Vith Fearful Reult5." ? ' -.r . " (By thAfsocJiited Press) CIeveU''ODie1. 3:Trenty men werex : Tstntly, - .killed and several otWr::bfiiir ed this morli;,;:'JrVAyWnia Railroad passanr-;imcrBhe4 into crowd of weruetlinting "cfroto a local train at Bedfordv' teQ miles from here. ly V ; J Pennsylvania vffleiaB. ay, .ifiany workmen alighecf ffom tbe?loctI trait before it stopped and in heavy fog stepped oferKan tt northbtxttnd track whex5-jthjpafer4ral& struck them. ? Four men died feftet being takea td the hospitals, "makiiig 2$ death. j GermanrvTryhigVto SUye Off theA feiParis. Oct, 3: WBfle thVenertir 1st a desperate effort to stave off the evil hour of defeat the allies are pro gressing on the wings. Slowly but surely the splendid advancing allied forces under King Albert has forced General T.nHAndnrflF tn wifhHraw Mc ' . an effective way to defend Lille which with Metz is the pivot of the whole German system in France. Now that the German first line in Belgium is broken the line of corn- munication between Ostend and Thourout is imperiled and Roulers- j Menin railway cut it can be seen the position of the enemy there is grave. German Situation Grave. Paris, Oct. 3. The German situa ation on the western front is grave, j the Frankfurt Zeitung admits, adding that the German front is gradually crumbling. GRANTED of getting the Evening Post office is simply submerged, . v j .-i-i 1 jt IS and Will be impossible IOr New subscriptions are being; 0 AY FIGHTING Will Arrive at 7 P. M. and Be Meet By a Committee of Public Officials. Death of Mrs. Mary L. Hackett. (By A. W. Hicks.) Spencer, Oct. 3. Supt. J. H. Rick mond and other officials of the South ern have been busy today arranging for the reception of the War Exhibit train to spend tonight in Spencer. The train is expected here from the north at 7 p. m. and will be parked at once at the main shop gate. Mayor Burton today appointed a reception and informaton committee composed of Messrs. C. L. Bunch, B. McBride, S. F. Harris, J. E. Connell, W. C. Crow ell, W. D. Pethel, B. F. Stevenson, R. H. Kluttz, J. R. Cruse, J. D. Dorsett and T. M. Stanback. These men will be on duty while the cars are in Spencer and will furnish such in formmation and assistance as may be called for. It is expected that large numbers will come out on the street WW'mZ & cars' froitl Salisbury during the even- ana near , what the.irtsitme' soldiers from France will say. ' 'i-w..ffwn-roTtn'fa Salisbury Industrial Institute, has arranged to bring his school in a body and many others will also be here. Mrs. Mary L. Hackett, aged 81 years, died at her home near Spen cer shortly after midinght.this morn ing afte,r a lingering illness. Her condition: had been critical, however, since Saturday when she sustained a hard stroke of.paralysis: She was one of the oldest citizens of this sec tion, settling here long before Spen cer was thought of. Surviving are three sons, W. T. Hackett and A. H T Hackett of St. Anthony, Iowa. and one dauehter. Mrs. Cora Clin i man, of Yadkinville, all of whom were with her at the end. Mr. H. T. Hack ett arrived from the west just a few minutes before his mother died. The funeral takes place Friday at the home being conducted by the Rev. C. B. Heller and Rev. John S. Woodof the Presbyterian church of which 'ftie deceased had been a life long member. The burial will be in the Old English cemetery in Salisbury. W S S LOCAL MERCHANTS Sales Made By Local Merchants Dur ing the Past Two Weeks. During the past two weeks the merchants of Salisbury have been celling War Savings Stamps jwith earnestness to make up for past de ficits in their allotment for the mer cantile allotment of the state. The following are sales for the past two weeks as reported by the chairman, Mr. M. G. McCurdy: Dixie Furniture Company . . $ 55.00 Singer Sewing Machine Co. . . 20.00 J. L. Nix 80.00 Brown Shoe Store 15.00 W. F. Areyl 65.00 Efird's Dept. Store 51.00 Piedmont Cafe 260.00 J. O. Frick & Son 55.00 Salisbury Bakery ..25.00 V. Wallace & Sons 60.00 Jos. Dreyer 415.00 Nassar Bros . . . . 100.00 Bell Shoe Store- 70.00 W. L. Rogers. . 40.00 J. I. Morgan 15.00 P. A. Surratt .... 10.00 R. B. Brittain 30.00 C. W. Windsor 350.00 ! j R. W. Norman & Company ..'34.75 . 200.00 c- -Clark j Xicher . 7. V. .'. too -r l i . m r f n Total $19o7.25 W S S- "It is inmoflsible to over-produce any line of essential food." U. S. Food Administration. STAMPS SOLD BY j $1.50 A YEAR :TORTH IT i . United States Forces Lead AH Others in the Advance Sauth East of Archangle. ,4 REMOVING INHABITANTS FROM ALSACE-LORRAINE Heavy Fighting1 Going on North of Rheims and Germans Con tinue Rearward Movement. (By the Associated Press) Archangle, Oct. 3. American troops hold the fartherest point reached south by the allied forces in the advance southward from Arch angle. This is a small village 35 miles south of Shenkursk (300 miles southeast of Archangle) on the river Vajra. The Bolsheviki stronghold of Velsk is only 400 "miles away. Hmtv Fiirhtincr Nnrth nf.RhimA. . Pans, Oct. 3. Heavy fighting; and ilie French continue their advance ahd 4ave captured Loivre, says the war 'office statement today. The rail way junction of Challerange in Champagne has been ' captured by General Gouaud. West of Challe range the Germans made . desperate effortss to drive the French from the woods southeast of; Orfeuil but were driven backwith heavy losses.. The French attack,, in Champagne contin ues today. " ; ' Germans Continue Rearward Move ' ment. London, Oct. 3. British troops this morning resumed their attacks north of St. Quentin, General Haig reports in his official statement. The Ger mans are continuing their rearward movement on the front from Lens to Armentieres. They have evacuated highly organized positions in the area on a 20-mile line. In pushing after the retreating enemy the British reached the general line at Chite, St. Auguste and Douvrin east of LaBas see east of Aubers and west of Gre nier wood. The German attacks las? night on the British positions north of Cambrai was repulsed. Germans Removing Inhabitants. Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 3. Ger man military authorities have begun removing the inhabitants from Alsace, according to the Democ, in expecta tion of the Franco-American attack on the frontier. The inhabitants of 20 ".liases already have been sent to Bavaria. Some of the villagers have escaped to Switzerland. Fear of dis order is rampant throughout Alsace Lorraine, not only among civilians but among military forces. Food is scarce and there is little fuel available. Ger man authorities in Alsace Lorraine, the newspaper adds, are afraid of a general uprising in those provinces when the allies cross the frontier. Belgians Improve Positfon. London, Oct. 3. Belgian forces Wednesday improved their positions according to olficial statement is sed from Belgian headquarters last night. W S S PROMOTIONS TO HIGH RANK President Promotes Several Army Officers and Major Genej-al Gorgas is to Retire October 5th. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Oct. 3. Brigadier Geenral Peter C. Harris was nomi nated today by President Wilson to be adjutant general of the army with the rank of major genral for a per iod of four years beginning with September 1 1918. The Prsident also nominated Major General Merritt W. Ireland "of the medical corps to be surgeon general with rank of ma jor genral for a perior of four years ! beginning October 1, 1918. Major General .William C. Gorgas is to be ! retired October 5th. PRICE TWO CENTS ft-. MM 0 OB ! T T WAR AMERICAN ATTACK Furious and Desperate Struggle, One of Fiercest of War, in ;-tThich We Participated. CLIMBED ON TOP OF ENEMY MACHINE GUNS - vr r A Dash a Leap, a Flare of Bayo nets, .a, Flajne of Rifle Fire and Eemy Was Silenced. (ByiAssociated Press.) American.' Army in St. Quentin Sector, Wednesday, Oct. 2. Ameri can regiments fighting in the Hhi denburg line .along this- sector of the front have' seen some of .the hardest fighting of -the war. : , . Ifc wiii furious and v desperate struggle J; .which thev -Awwrleails-! plunged. Thfey fought day. and night, in groups ngle nanded, in.. and & out ofheU?, lOlfes. owed..fe'$a a-isrjptaSl ixifo any other from the Frenches they rifointosnip ers and hordes of machine guns"; The German infantry stood up before them offeWng fierde hand to hand combat. On , the first assault- the Americans rushed-forward suddenly and met masses of machine guns .camouflaged and which held their fire until the Americans were close up6n them. Then the Americans went right on and on top of the guns before the firing began. The Germans did not continue their murderous work long. A dash, a leap, a flash of bayonets,1 stream of flame from rifles and one nest af ter another of the machine guns was silenced and the Americans plunged on. -W S S- LADIES OUT FOR Will Have Large Working Commit tees Out Through the Day Selling Bonds Much Interest Shown and Many Subscriptions Being Taken. . The ladies will be out in force on Saturday selling Liberty Bonds. The whole force will be out through the day and in an effort to canvass and sell every one. Chairman Rouzer has been inform ed that the county will get credit on all bonds sold to all railway employes and also for the quota of the Kesler mills and other institutions that have branch or allied plants here in the county. According to the plain statement of Secretary McAdoo, director of ra'l ways, the bonds bought by the em ployes of the roads will be credited to the home county. They need be no fear as to this. Rowan has always gotten such credits and will in the future. Just now large interest centers in the coming of the special train carry ing 1 war relics and sepakers promot ing the bond sales. Today the local committees of ladies are out and a number of members of the various organizations are located at the banks and other public places giving opportunity for buying bonds. There is no excuse for any one pass ing this up from lack of opportunity, the opportunity is not only at hand, but is being thrust on all. W S S- New York, Oct. 3. Cotton closed as follows: January . . .' 32.16 March 32.01 July . . 31.85 October 32.19 December 32.86 ALL DAY SATURDAY 1 ' 1 'Pi ! 4 ( .jr.. -.4 r V 1 1 I 1 -iV'-"';-': 1 a ,i 0 i
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