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St h Time to Redeem Your War'StditHp YADKIN : VALLEY HE 1 1 VOL. 9, NO. 17. BLOODY PRES. WILSON '0' GREAT VICTORY BERLIN WITNESSES RIOTOUS SCENES All Alexander-Franzer Regiments Join the Revolting Sailors and Serious Street Fights Occur. RESIONATIONOF EBERT AND HAASE DEMANDED Many Soldiers Belonging to Ber lin Guards and Few Republi cans Join the Mutinous Men. (By the Associated Press) London,, Dec. 26.-The Alexander and.Franzer regiments have joined the revoking sailors in Berlin and it is reported in advices sent from Berlin late Christmas night that nearly the entire Berlin garrison will support them, leaving the government without troops. The advices were transmit ted by the Exchange Telegraph Com pany's correspondent to Copenhagen. They added that a large number of bailors are reported to be coming from Kiel to join their comrades in Berlin. Bloody Street Fight in Berlin. London, Dec. 26. Nearly 100 per sona, were killed in "street fighting which began in Berlin Tuesday morn ing, according to latest reports from the German capital transmitted by the Exchange Telegraph Company's correspondent at Copenhagen The republican guard tried severa' times to take the royal stables and headquarters of the revoltinc sailore but were repulsed. Many soldiers be longing to the Berlin guards and a few republican guards joined the sail ors the Votwaerts reports. When these reports were sent large numbers of armed civilians were continuing to join the sailors, not only at the roval stables but in Koenigstrsse. This street with all of its houses is re ported in the hands of the sailors, who were supported by the Spartacus. They demanded that Premier Ebert and Secretary Hasse resign and be re placed by George Ledabor and Dr. Karl Liebknecht. Dr. Liebknecht, the advices add, went to the chancellor's palace and had a long conference with the minis ter, the result of which is unknown. Further fighting was anticipated, it was. added, as the Spartacus and cail ors decided to attempt to force the guards to return to Potsdem. Guards were stationed in Unter Den Linden on the Wederschen platz. Mutinous Sailors Hoist White Flag. London, Dec. 26. The mutinous sai'ors who had been holding out in the red palace at Berlin hoisted the white flag and were allowed to leave under guard, according to advices from Berlin sent by the Exchange Telegraph Compan's correspondent at Amsterdam. Government troops, the message adds, now occupy the palace and the royal stables. Would Execute Military Commander Berlin, Tuesday, Dec. 24. Herr Wels, military commander of Berlin, who was arrested Monday by the re volting sailors during the fighting in which sailors and republican guards Were killed and wounded was released today. Some sailors wanted his imme tdiate execution but cooler heads op posed this plan. Some proposed that hit be locked in a small chamber with t bodies of the sailors and other victims of Monday's fighting. That he escaped violence was due to the in tercession of socialists. Fifty Bailors, it is reported, are still concealed in the red palace from which most of them were driven Mon day by republican guards. One thou sand two hunder sailor are still i (Continued oa Pag Six.) ZEPPELINS TO PLY - BETWEEN NEW ? Reoorted That Disarmed Zeppelins WU1 Be Concert! Into Aerial Mer ehaatmeat For Cross Ocean Service. Paris. Dee. 26. Havas Agency.) Disarmed Zeppelins will be converted into aerial merchantment to play be tween New York and Hamburg, ac cording to the Echo d' Paris, which aay it received its information from "a reliable source,'' .-.- , - ' , YORMBURu $1.50 A YEAR AND RED LETTER DAY The Wednesday Unit Remembers the Passing Soldiers and Christmas Dinner is Served All Hut Decor ated and Beautiful Tree Stood in Front of Building. One of the coziest and most at tractive and inviting spots in the city Christmas day was the canteen hut at the passenger station. The Wed nesday canteen unit, of which Mrs. J. H. Gorman is captain, had planned to give the passing soldiers a real Christmas treat and in this succeed ed splendidly. For days they had been at work preparing for the day and early Wednesday morning found great loads of the season's best things to eat piled up in the kitchen of the hut. There wa3 turkey, cakes, pick les, olives, chicken salad and cran berry sauce and it seemed as if noth ing had been left off the bill of fare. These good things were fixed up on individual paper plates with cake wrapped in waxed papers and all pas sing soldiers were served. In addi tion to these a long hospital train pulled in at 12 o'clock having on board a large contingent of wounded men from overseas, these being wounded in every imaginable degree, and the ladies with the assistance of a number of men called into service passed through the cars seeing that every man was given attention and served. Cigarettes were tied in dain ty packages with Christmas cards bearing the words "Wednesday Can teen Unit" and every man was given smokes. The interior and exterior of the hut had been decorated in ever greens .and Christmas bells while on the outside there was a beautiful Christmas tree hanging with tinsel and other decorations and loaded down with dainty little stockings filled with good things and these were given to the wounded men. The tree was illuminated at night and presented a beautiful scene, while on the front of the building Was an el ectrical Red Cross sign. It was t red letter day for the Salisbury canteen service and brought good cheer to the soldier and sailor lads who were away from home. Nothing was left undone to brighten the day for the men in uni form and they enjoyed and appre ciated the remembrance to the full est. Much ' of the good things was brought in by the various county Red Cross organizations and the Spencer shop employes contributed nearly a hundred dollars toward mak ing the event a success and Mr. Wm. Wands was on hand to represent the shopmen and gave every assistance to the ladies in their glorious work of the day. It is safe to say that no where along the route of the travel ing troops were they more lavishly remembered. However, in the case of the hospital tram one officer said at every designated stop the canteen workers had been zealous in their efforts to look after the men and re member them at this glad season. The special hospital train was made up of ten or a dozen Pullmans and on board were some of the most severely wounded yet to pass this way. There was one poor fellow with both legs and both arms off and both eyes out,, many with an arm or a leg off and some with both arms or both legs off, while others exhibited great wounds in the face and neck. Many wore bandages or chields over their eyes and others were wounded in various ways. These boys had "been in the thick of the fight and they car ried the marks to prove it. But with all this it war a cheerful and happy lot of boys. Not a murmur of dis content but all seemed to be proud of the part taken in the great world conflict. The ladies certainly deserve credit for the manner in which they remem bered the passing soldiers at Salis bury on Christmas day of 1918 w s si- BOY'S LEG AMPUTATED. Karl Sheets, a young ton of Mr. G. A. Sheets, of Advance, Davie county, met with a serious accident yesterday while hunting. Hit fun was accident ally discharged; the load taking ef fect in his right leg Mar the knee. The injured lad was rushed to Salisbury and placed in the sanatorium but it was found that the wound waa of such serious nature that the limb could not saved and it ; waa - amputated just above the kne. - y s- AT CANTEEN HUT WORTH IT. SALISBURY, NORTH TD) " TC " TCTTf .1 11 if JiJ RECEIVES G FLEET REVIEW TAKES PLAGE AT NEW YORE 'LONDON POURS OUT T President and Mrs. Wilson in Buckingham Palace After Trip From C alias to London. DRIVE MADE THROUGH STREETS OF LARGEST CITY Guard Regiments in Khaki Com - pose Long Line of Guards and Cavalry Help Form Escort.. (By the Associated Press) London, Dec. 26. President and Mrs. Wilson were in Buckingham pal ace this afternoon after a Journey from Calias to London during which they were accorded all the honors ever given royalty. Never had a royal progress exceDt T EE R DEN those of great national cermonials ex-; the creation of a new agency to buy, cited such interest here as the first j store and sell the 1919 crop of wheat visit of an American President. The i that may be offered to the govern drive of the short procession from the j ment. station to the palace was made j Third 'Possible legislative provis through streets lined with guard regl- ion to protect the government against rnents in khaki. Fresh flags hun wheat or flour brought in from other overhead and covered buildings while ! countries during the period of effec windows, balconies, sidewalks and j tiveness of the guaranteed price and open spaoes were filled with people, I also to protect buyers of such wheat many of whom, wore the American j as long as the wheat is in this country colors. It was a brief spectacle. I and not consumed. First came the sovereign escort of W S S troops from the household cavalry helmets and field cuirasses. Then came the carriages with King George and President Wilson and Queen ; Mary and Mrs. Wilson. These were followed by threw others which passed almost unnoticed, all eys being on President and Mrs. Wilson and the roval family. The procession in which President Wilson traversed the streets of Iondon to Buckinham palace was a short one. There were intervals of J00 feet be tween the units. First came a de tachment of police and then- a general and his staff with troops of the household cavalry four abreast In , ins: measures whose object is mitiga khaki, and with drawn swords. Next i tion of several sections of the consti came the king's carriage in which 1 tution. The reforms refer to sections President Wilson sat at the riirht.of concerning the power of state lesigla K'nsr George. The Duke of Con- I tures to fix the maximum number of naught sat opposite them. Another troop of cavalry followed and then came a carriage with Queen Mary and Mrs. Wilson on her right and Princess Mary facing them. Then came a third troop of cavalry and af ter it the three remaining carriages of the procession. The gleaming coats of the outcriers scattered along the procession gave an effective dash o color. The king was dressed in the service uniform of a British field marshal. He remained covered throughout the journey, per- t mitting President Wilson to accept I the demonstration. Mrs. Wilson car-1 ried a large boquet of flowers and wore black. Queen Mary was dressed in a dark costume with light colored ; hat. -W R S- GERAMN DEMOCRATS ASK FOR A UNITED GERMANY Democratic Psrty Appeals for Union of All liberal Parties the and Adopts" a Platform. Coolenz. Monday, Dec. 23, Appeals for the union of all the liberal parties which desire a republic and do not wish the new Germany to fall into the hinds either of reactonaries or soci alists were made at a meeting Sunday of the German democratic party, which assembled in Coblenz to adopt a platform. Theparty desires a united Germany including German Austria ;equalKy before the law of citizens of all classes, male and female; freedom of thought and religion ;a free press and free speech, but no arbitrary attacks on the rights of the church. Families with many children, it is declared, should be protevlcd from excessive taxation. So that the burdens may be borne, strong industry and healthy trade are 1 necessary, aa well as freedom of trade from the fetters of war industries. The- abolition of war industries is de sired.' The party advocates the living of free peasant! on free soiL Officials must be insured a, livelihood. In order to insure good service. There most be sympathetic care for the war wounded and for the dependents of the fallen soldiers, which would be made a point of honor in the new Ger many. Upon ' this platform, it waa an nounced h German democratic par ty will jfcand in the national assembly1 CAROLINA. FRIDAY, DEC. REAT M0NS11AI1N IWANT LEGISLATION E Memorandum Sent to Representatives Lever Chairman of House Agricul tural Committee Maks Suggestions. Washington, Dec. 2ti.--Legislatie to make effective the wheat price guarantee for the 1919 crop and at be same time safeguard the govern ment against losses was recommend- ! ed to congress today by the depart ment of agriculture and the food ad ministration. A memorandum sent to Representa tive Lever of South Carolina, chair man of the House agricultural com mittee, made the following recom mendation: First The extension by congress beyond June 1, 1910, of the date for government purchase of the 1918 crop. Second Continuation of the food I administration grain corporation or Concern Power of State Legislatures to Fix Number of Clergy Partici pating in iReligioua Rights Extra ordinary Powers for President Car ranza. Mexico City, Dec. 26. The Mexi- ' ran chamber of deputies is consider- , clergy participating in religious rights and requiring all members of the ! clergy to be native born Mexicans Another measure concerns clauses af fecting the naturalization of church proncrty. These measures were taken tip1 by the chamber after the .passage of a bill giving President Carranza extra ordinary powers in financial matters. W S S JAPAN'S LOAN TO CHINA. The Stupendous Figure Are Made Publics During the Present War This Was Enlarged Very Much, (Correspondence of Associated Press) Pekin, Dec. 25. Japan's loans to China are estimated by the Toklo correspondent of one Pekin newspaper to have attained a total of about $148,885,000. Loans from Japan con tracted by China in the present yeir are placed at $R6,513,000. The nwspancr':-" correspondent al leges that according to his informa tion much of the proceeds of the loans contracted for this year has been diverted from the stipulated purposes for which they were made, and have been "squeezed" by private persons or wasted in prosecution of the civial war. He elaborates as fol lows: "The loan of $ 25.000,000 contracted by the Bank of Communications nominally for the purpose of effecting reforms in the said bank did nothing to attain that end but, on the con trary, the value of .the bank notes kept dropping steadily. The pro ceeds of the Telegraph Administra tion loan amounted to $20,000,000 were also wrecklessly squandered. The Military loan also amounting to $20, 000,000 was contracted ostensibly for the purpose of participating in the European War by recruiting and es pecially training three divisions and eight brigadea of troops. But the proceeds were nsed for prosecuting the internsl war." Further loans in process of negotia tion by China are estimated by the correspondent to' amount to about $70.000 000. Of this sum about $60 -000.000 is intended for the purpose o establishing iron works. "According to the provisions of the loan agree ment the engineers and nwhamV to be employed in these Hwworka must be engaged for tha Chinese Govern ment bv tha Japanese," says the cor-1 respondent. WHEAT R mr nil n iiinrn IVItAILRN OnfllilDL.il TAI KIMR DiTflDM? inLiunu iili unmu 201918 MTMG E T L Roger 0. Tredwell Held in Cus tody at Tashkent, Russian Tur kishtan, But Well Treated. EFFORTS BEING MADE TO OBTAIN HIS RELEASE Just What Caused His Detention Not Known But Probably Fact That He is American Official. (By the Associated Press) Washington. Dee. 28. Urgent mes sages sent throught many channels when reports reached Washington that Roger C. Tredwell, American consul, had been arrestetj by the Bol sheviki at Tashkent in Russian Turk ishtan, brought worth that the consul,, while in cuatoday, was being well treated and was confined in his room instead of in prison. Efforts to ob tain his release are now going for ward. Just what cansed the consul's ar rest is not known but it may be that hostile authorities arrested him for no. otherg-eason than the fact that ha is an American consular officer. The last regular post held by Mr. Tredwell waa consul at Petrograd. Since hii withdrawal from Petro grad he has been assigned to a roving commission to various points in and near Russia and made exhausted re ports to this government of condi tions as he found them. W S S FRIEDSHIP OF AMERICA AND FRANCE RENEWED President Wilson Declares Ancient Friendship Takea on. a New Depth and Sincerity. Chaumont, Dec. 25. In response to an address presented to him at the Hotel de Vil1eaoon after his arrival here today, President Wilson said: "I feel that I have been peculiarly honored in the generous reception you have given me and it is the more de lightful because it so obviously comes from the heart. And I cannot but be lieve that it is an instinctive response to the feeling that is in my own breast, because I think that even you, who feel contact with our soldiers, cannot but realize the depth and sin cerity of the feeling of the United States for Frace. "It is an ancient friendship, but it has been renewed and has taken on a new youth, it Is a friendship which is not only tentative, but one based upon a communion of principle. "You have spoken so generously and beautifully of the relations which have sprung up between yourselves and our soldiers. Thst is because they came not only to associate themselves with you as the champion of liberty, but they came with personal affec tions in their hearts for the people of France, and it must have been that which you realised. They did not come as strangers in their thoughts. Thev brought withjthem something that made them feel at home the mo ment they were at Havre or at Brest in France. "So I am very much moved by be ing thus drawn, as they have been, into your midst and into your confer ences and wish to thank you very warmly for them and the people4 of the United States. I, like' them, shall carry away with me the most delight ful recollections and in my heart shall always say as I now say: 'Vive La France.' " W S S ; GEO. ESPY PLYLER DEAD ML Ulla Young Man Killed in Action in France, November 11. - The following is from this week's Mooresville Enterprise: 'Mr. George K. Plyler, of Mount Ulla, was officially notified last Thursday that his son, George Espy Plyler, was killed in action in France on November 1. Espy Plyler was an excellent young man and was well and favorably known- in Mooresville, Where he frequently visited, being a member of the Amity string band. before coinr to war. The young man who made the supreme sacrifice was member of Company, a 809th in fantry. - - . - -W 8 ,- The ton of a new typewriter desk is unbroken, . the machine twine mounted en a shelf that swings out- wai ard and upward. BOLSH I ARRES AMERICAN CONSU $1.50 A YEAR AND WORTH IT. II BRITISH ADMIRALTY BATTLE WITH SUB. The Battle Between the British Decoy Shin Dunraven and German Sub marine JusfOneof the Struggles of the Submarine Warfare. (Correspondence of Associated Press) The loss of the British decoy ship Dunraven in a desperate battle with a German submarine, the atory of which has now been made public by the British Admiralty, constitutes one of the moat daring and heroic episo des of the anti-submarine war. With their vessel ablate, and jboxea of cor dite and sheila exploding every few minutes, the after gun crew stuck to their gun until the magzlne exploded anJd blew their gun into the air. Meanwhile the battle with the sub marine waa firecely waged. This action took place in August. 1917. The vessel waa one of the de coys which was commanded by Capt. Gordon Campbell, who had previous ly won the Victoria Cross by heroic and successful work in decoying sub marines to their destruction. In her role of an armed British merchant ship, the Dunraven waa tig-tarring her course in the lanes haunted by the submarines when a lU-boat open Dues ajuuiMVi nival n iiaju at) rw tyve W Vl""" I d firenpon her at 6,000 yardat VJ Dunrsvenwturned the fire with het! Dunraven returned the firs with her merchant ship gun and reduced .her speed to enable the Hun to overtake her. To coax him on, wireless sig nals were, sent out reading: "Help. Coma quickly. Submarine chaaing and shelling me." Finally when the submarine's shells began falling close, the Dunraven stopped and the usual "panic party" abandoned the shin. The Dunraven was then on fire art and the submar ine closed in to a distance of 400 yards, but was partly obscured from view by dense clouds of tmoka issu ing from the Dunraven's stem. Although he knew that the mRga. zine must explode if he waited, and that a gun and a gun's crew lay con cealed over the magazine, Captain Campbell reserved his fire until the submarine had passed clear of the smoke. A moment later there was a heavy explosion and. the Dunraven's gun and its crew were blown into the air. The concussion started the fire gongs at the remaining gun positions. The screens hiding the guns ' were dropped and the only gun that could be brought to bear opened fire. The submarine commenced to submerge. Knowing that a torpedo would surely follow, Captain Campbell had all the wounded brought up and concealed in cabins. The after part of the Dun raven was a mass of flame but the crew fought the fire with hose while wireless signals were sent out warn ing all other vessels to keep below the horizon so as not to interrupt the final phase of the fight. Twenty minutes later another tor pedo struck tha ship abaft the en gine room. Another "panic party" was sent away in the boats, leaving the ship apparently completely aban doned frith the British flag flying and her guns unmasked, but Captain Campbell and a handfull of officers and men had remained on board and lay hidden for nearly an hour while the submarine commander held off watching the burning ship through his periscope. During all that time boxes of cor dite and shells were exploding every few minutes and the fire was biasing furiously. Eventually the submarine emerged astern where no guns could be brought to bear upon her. and shelled tha Dunraven for twenty min utes. -The U-boat then steamed past the ship 150 yards off and Campbell fired one of his torpedoes at her but missed by a-few inches. A second torpedo also missed. The submarine saw it and submerged. A third "pan ic party" was planning to jump over board and leave one run crew for' final attempt to sink the U-boat when British and American destryers ar rived on the scene. Tha Dunraven's wounded were transferred, her runs recalled and tha fire - extinguished. The Dunraven, in a sinking condition was taken in tow, but the weatehr grew worse and oa the following morning aha sank with her ' colors flying. ,- yg g Miss Regina Ribelin Dead . Hiss JUgina Ribelin, seed 27 years, daughter of Mr. Isaac .Ribelin of the fit. Pant neighborhood, died Tuesday afternoon of bronchial pneumonia. The funeral and burial took place i Wednesday at St. .Matthew's Lutheran ; church. , . v PRICE TWO CENTS. - j , lI&JiMeflMu; f,:Vv III. m if AnminiM m umuw- BIG VICTORY FLEET REVIEW NEV YORK American Battleships from Euro pean Waters Steam Majeitioal. ly Up New York Harbor. . REVIEWED BY DANIES AND DISTINGUISHED MEN Warships of U. 8. Which Had Pa trolled Submarine Infested Seas Oiven Great Weloome. , (By Associated Press.) ' ' , New York, Dec. 26 .Led by the SUfK;. perdreadnought Arizona ten great . battleships commanded by Admiral , . Mayo the vunguar dof the American,' t' victory fleet in (European waters l steamed majestically up New York ' harbor today in review before Secre ; tary of the Navy Daniels and were ; " greeted with a tumultuos reception by ' harbor craft and hundreds of thou r sanda of persons who lined the shores, V Tha fleet reached Ambrose channel , late yesterday afternoon. The ships weighed anchor at 7:30 this morning and escorted by a fleet of 21 airplanes .1 ... , m. , . - . . Pff V tha Statu- ol Liberty where Secretary DanleU and a party of distinguished roasts on the presidential yacht Mayflower , reviewed the procession. . t ' Tha shrieks of thousands of welcom ing sirens and whistles were drowned by the thunderous salute of 19 runs ' ' from each battleship as they came abreast of the Mayflower. The dreadnoughts passed up the , Hudson and anchored from 65th street to 125th street and preparations were . then made for 10,660 men to disam bark for the land parade down Fifth avenue. , The ships welcomed home after 18 months of strenuous patrol of the seas Infested by enemy submarines werei The Pennsylvania,- tha Arizona, tha Oklahoma, the Nevada, the Utah, the New Yorky the Texas, the Arkansas, the Wyoming and the Florida. W fi , - YARD FOREMAN KILLED V (BY TRAIN AT ASHEVILLE J. R. Sutton Jumped Across One Track in Front of Locomotive oa Another. Asheville, Dec. 24. J. R. Sutton. ' yar dforeman here for the Southern t s railway, was almost instantly killed ' Sunday morning early when he Jump . t ed across one track in the pouring -rain and on to another directly . in front of the locomotive. The wheela ; passed over his body. Mr. Sutton, 82 1 years old, had been employed by the Southern for 10 years and was one of , its most popular men. The brother ' hood of railroad trainmen took charge 1 1 of the funeral services today at Dills v : boro, Mr. Sutton's former home. -' MORE TROOPS, COMING HOME' " (By Associated Press.) V Washington, Dec. 23. (Lists of j units of tha expeditionary forces as l signed for early convoy home cabled ' today by General Pershing comprise 4 ; 600 officers and nearly 20,000 men, ' They include the 44th, 60th and 64th coast artillery regiments and 40th and ' 331st infantry. W 8 S Allied Representatives " Reach This DecisionNeutrals May Addresa Claims to BeUigereata and Special Body WU HearTheea. - (By the Associated Press) Paris. Dec 28. (Havas Agency.) Allied representatives have decid ed that neutral nations will not be ad , m it ted to the peace conference, ac cording to newspapers her. Neutrals may address their ciiams to the belligerents, however, and any demands thus made will be referred to a special body which will be create! by the peace conference. It has been dedJed. it is report- thai neutrals will be allowed to r" - cipste tn the deliberations incki t t the formation of a league of est, - NEUTRALS WILL , , o HOT BE ADMITTED N PEACE CONFERENCE 7,