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; ' - : - - -. : - - - -vjlr- L "volume XXIII (Tuesday) WARRENTON, Ni C, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1918 (Friday Number 51 $1.50 A YEAR Forty loisaim ian Prisoieir s NUEftllSEIRED 180,000 Resignation Of Austrian Cab inet Handed To The Emperor The Austrian Lbss-T es Are Apalling Rome, Saturday, June 22. "The Austrian offensive was more than a failure; it was a defeat for the enemy. ,Svho are several points was four times stronger than the Italians." This announcement was - made by Premier Orlando in the Senate today amid enthusiastic cheering. He added: "After the present victorious resist ance another battle may burst out sooner or later. In fact reliable re ports which have been- received say tlhat the Austrians are concentrating large forces in the Tyrol and Trentind $i a desperate attempt to breaK through the mountain front." "A proposal made by an Ialian gen eral to declare Monte Grappa a nat ional monument in recognition of the heroism displayed there, and announc ed by the Premier, has been received throughout Italy with the greatest enthusiasm." The first phase of the Austrian of fensive has ended in failurein defeat. The culmination of what was intended to be the crushing of Italy between the jaws of the Austrian. ..pincers, is .the. rout of the invaders themselves. With their backs to the swollen Piave rryer the Austrians for several days past had beed trying to ward off the vicious counter-attacks of the Italian and save the sitoation. Now they are endeavoring, and still under great pressure, to ford the stream and reach safety on its eastern bank. Enemy in Retreat. From the Montello plateau to the Adriatic Sea the enemy is in retreat. Already his losses are estimated at 180,000 men and the chances of his escape without additional heavy casu alties and men made prisioner seem remote. Large numbers of the pontoon bridges that the Austrians threw -across the Piave have been swept away by the now torrential stream, and on all the sectors of the 33-mile front where they gained edges of the (Venetian plain they are being sorely harassed by the fire of the Italian guns and rifles and by the machine gun fire and bombs of the allied avia tors who have done such notable exe cution since the attempted drived was started. Resignation Of The Austrian Cabnet Handed To Emperior. PARIS, June 23. (Havas Agency.) After a meeting with Emperior Charles of Austria, on Friday, says a dispatch from Zurich, Switzerland, Premier Seydler presented the resig nation of the entire Austrian cabinet. The Emperor said he would decide Sunday whether tot accept the resig nation. German Attack At Blingy, Near Rheims. PARIS, June 23. German force3 last night attacked the Entente Allied Positions at Bligny, about eight miles southwest of Rheims, and succeeded temporarily in gaining a footng in fte Allied trenches, the war office announced today. A vigorous counter-attack instituted by Allied troops, however, quickly ejected the enemy d re-established the line in its en tirety. " Washington, June 24. Austrih josses in the retreat across the Piave include an "appalling number" of froops killed, more than 40,000 made Prisionvrs and an enormous amount war booty, said a report from Gsn eral Diaz, the Italian commander, hich was cabled from Rome tonight t0 the Italian embassy. i. A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS "OF WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY 31 Vienna, via London, June 24. The war office announces today the evac uation of Montetllo and (the right bank of the Piave river by the Aus trian tioops. Charles Reserves Decision Amsterdam, June 24. Emperor Charles, says a Vienna dispatch, has reserved his decision regarding the resignation of the Austrian Cabinet. In the meantime oe entrusts Preoier von Seydler with the further direc tion of affairs. The defeat of the Austrian armies on the western bank of the Piave river is complete. Admission is made by the Austrian war office that the droops of Emperior Charles have bee" forced to evaluate the Montello pla teau, over which they has hoped to press their way and gain the Venetian plains, and "some sectors" of the po sitions they attained last week on the bank of the river between the plateau and the point where the stream emp ties into the Adriatic. . Bad weather, and the rising of the Piave under the heavy rainfalls are assigned as the reasons for the with drawal of the Austrians. But the Rome war oflice asserts that it was the impetuous attacks of the Italians that brought about .the failure of an operation which waV started with the intention ) of crushing the armies of General Diaz and forcing the Italians, like the Russians, to accept a Tea- tonic allied peace. Only Small Units Remain. All along the river the Italians have pressed back the invaders of their territory until only small units remain on the western bank and across the stream King Victor Em manuel's men are keeping well on the heels of the retreating enemy who is fleeing in disorder. Again the cal vary has been thrown into the fight ing and is sorely harassing the enemy, while machine guns from the ground and from aircraft, some of the latter operated by American aviators, are working havoc among the fleeing Austrian columns. -W.S.S. - Enemy Submarines In American Waters Sink Their First United States Troop Ship; 67 Crew Missing. Washington, June 24. German submarines operating on this side of the Atlantic have sunk their first troop ship. -The Navy Department an nounced today that a British trans port, under charter by the American government and bound to this coun try, had been destroyed June 18 some 700 miles east of the Deleware capes and that 67 members of the crew are missing. ' There were no troops aboard. Not Under Convoy. The troop ship apparently was. not ,under convoy. The submarine was not seen until a torpedo had struck tjhe ship. Afterwards the submersi hle arose to the surface and fired nine teen shots into the sinking vessel. When the steamer settled the crew took to the boats, the occupants of four of which, numbering 81 men. have been landed. Three boats are missing and a search is being made for them. W.S.S. TEXT OF GENERAL DIAZ'S MESSAGE TO ITALIAN EM BASSY LAST NIGHT "Yesterday we obtained a great viotorv." said General Diaz's mes sage. "Uwing to tne extreme co sure of, our troops and the continuous fire of the artillery and airplanes, tne enemy, after having desperately clung for eight days at the cost of apalling losses to the right bank of the Piave on the night of the 23rd began to re treat to th 3 left bank under our ter rific fire, i . & i Aos lata LSSHS WIFE SPEARS HER MIND ECONOMY SHOULD BE PRAC TICED EVERYWHERE Not Only Farmers Wives But Everybody In Cities As; Well Should Conserve; Contributor Urges Thrift In City i ' The following clipping has V been Contributed and we take great pleas ure in publishing it: , Mr. Editor: If you will allow me space I will drop in a few words on how we Americans can win 'the war. We want to win and must win, but it all can't be done by economy of the farmers and farmers wives. There has been a lot of talking, speaking and writing on the subject of econo my, all of which has been addressed to the wives of farmers. There are not many farmer's wives who have not done their part and have been ais the while. It is springtime and there is a great demand for farming hands,; and we, the farmers' wives, can take our babies to the field and set them "down under a bush in a cracker box and hoe back and forth while two or three little ones play around the. box. This' is often seen cn ths farm. And there is another scene, oftened Tvitnessed in the cities, and that is a nurse in the back yard with the chil dren while the mothers are at card parties andr eceptions, or some other social functions. I do not know any thing about those societies, but I read about them. They do a lot to win the war, they say; but they could send those colored nurses out in the coun- trty and help up farmers' wives work on the farms, and attend to their own children like I have to do. They could do their own cooking and send their ccoks to the farms where they are much needed, to raise food-s$uffr They could clean their own clothes and the washerwomen and the scrub women could be used on the farms. Try this for three months. There are thousands of men and women who are doing nothing but having a good time just like there was no war. It makes me tired to read a piece of advice to farmer's wives. After we have finished our breakfast, clean ed up our house, milked and churned, fed our chickens and pigs, taken our box and babies to the field, hoed un til we think it is 11 o'clock, take up our load and go back to the house to hurry dinner by the time the plow hands get in. Wash days come when it is too wet to work, and ironing Sat uvdav afternoon. And I think after we have gone through all this day after day, we might have biscuit or meat, if we raise it. And if any one has to do without let it be the ones that do not work. I am not trying to run the government s business, but I say if all the nurses, maids, butlers, cooks, chauffeurs and corner loafers were sent to the farms and the sol diers to the front, we could win the war and have plenty to eat at hom; and to feed our soldiers. But the farmers cannot feed themselves and soldiers and all these idlers. Let's everybody work. Let's all do some thing to save our country and win th thing tc win the war and save our country A Farmer's Wife. . "The retreat continued during the entire day, protected by strong ma tfrine gun contingents and rear guard trnits, which, after oppossing obsti nate resistance were successfully overpowered by the impetus of our troops which have enveloped Mon tello and swept over on the entire Piave line with the exception ot M short section at Musile, where the fight continues. "Thus far forty thousand prision ers have been counted and an enor mous amount of boothy captured. An appalling number of Austrian corps es litters the ground bearing witness of the unfortunate bravery and of the crushing defeat of the enemy." PATRIOTIC MASS MEETING AT WISE FRIDAY NIGHT Rev. E. W. Baxter will deliver a War address at the Wise School Build ing Friday night at 8:30. This is National War Savings Day by Presidential decree and every cit izen of the community should be pres ent to hear Mr. Baxter, who is a speaker of force, upon the War and our duty therein. . A FARMERS and iSave'the WHERE YOUR R. C DOLLAR GOES SHOWING WHERE EVERY PENNY GOES FOR RELIEF World Mercy Organization Run i Most Efficienctly and. Every Penny Goes To Relieve Suffer ing Wherever Most Acute Cally Ryland in Richmond Dispatch) Now that Red Cross ' week is over and the people of Richmond have giv- j en so generously to the greatest and most beautiful ' of ail charities, some of those who have given . have te feeling that they would like to fol low their dollars into Red Cross work and see what really becomes of them, where they go, how thoy are spent and what they actually uy. , There are some interesting statis tics on this subject in a current maga zinc, illustrated by a cut of a big round dollar divided into sections, in dicating the various - percentages of its activities. Out of. the dollar, you give, the Red Cross; for example, the biggest slice taken is 22 1-2 cents for services that extend to the French and American armies and a further . expenditure of 18 cents for the American army ser vice alone. . The refugees and repatriates those poor souls, some of whom have been driven twic i frorr tl-eir h'.mes by the invading army, consume 10 cents of your dollar. For them is furnished hastily knocked-up shacks or even p:rtched-up cow. stables on the site of their old homes, and these shacks must be furnished with everything that the Germans took or destroyed, from a dish towel to a bed, and from a cow to a coffe pot. Nine and a half cents go for recon struction work m the devastated areas. For Red Cross ambulances, for camions or trucks, for warehouses and transportation and dockage 9 cents out of the dollar are spent. Eight cents go for general relief of war vie tims. Some cf these war victims are civilians who- are how living five r six in a room iii refuge lodgings in Paris; some are the soldiers who have been terribly, mutilated and who must have artificial arms and legs, and even facesi-before, they can begin to take up their brave lives again and tarn a living for "themselves and their families. - "The small sum of $20 and the vol unteered skill of an American woman scuptor," says the article in question ? "provided ore of the marvelous facirl masks of thinly rolled copper, painted to resembled flesh,, which enable these most pathetic of all mutilated men to go about ? normal business and social life without causing that instinctive horror. which the seamed wreackage of his face must otherwise arouse." Perhaps no man who has been to the front will ever look upon a cup of chockolate again with anything but grateful reverence. Hundreds of thousands of cups of cups of chocolate have been furnished by the Red Cross to men on their way to the front, and some of the canteens find their way even to the front trenches to cheer the men who are about, to ro into battle. For additional services to the French army and for tuberculosis victims your dollar gives 7 cents each, and for children five cents. Perhaps of all the civilian activities of the Red Cross the work for children is the most touching and most helpful. At Evian and Toul are great hospitals for these ponr little children of Frr..-.-some of whom can remember nothing but war in all their short lives. There was another hospital at Nesle which has recently fallen into German hands, and others are going up as rapidly as funds permit. . " For the re-education of war crip ples your dollar gives 1 1-2 cents,, an 1 the same amount ?oes toward rest, light, heat, insurance, office furniture and construction. Emergencies re quire 1 cent, general administration of military affairs one-fifth of a cent and of civil affairs one sixth of a cent. No fault can very well be found with this distribution of all the cents cf your dollar. It is a minute budget system carried out on the most business-like scale, and some of the finest business minds in "America planned and are executing it. You do not toss your dollar into the air, . scarcely daring to hope that perhaps a quarter of it may reach the charity for which you intend it. In the Red Cijoss every penny that you gave is spent on actual Red Cross work, the work that you yourself would like to do if you could, and the work that it must make you happy to know that your dollar is doing for you. V . , , 1 TV.S.S. CRUELTY, THE PRO MCTOFRULTUR MAN OF GERMAN ORIGIN GIVES PUBLIC FACTS IN Talk .With Friend In Baltimore; Whole German People Satiat ed With Idea That Force Is To Be World Standard; No Respect For Weak. "It is easy to discern why Germany feels no qualms of conscience in the use of any criminal method employed to win the war. She does not delib erately become : a criminal. " . For tae German in this war there is no su ti ( 9 thing as crime. What we . call crime she considers means to a holy end. She has organized in a throughgoing, scientific manner the whole d.omain of crime as a measure for winning the war. Cutting off the hands of Bel gian children and the scattering of disease germs accomplish two results. They kill or maim the enemy and they fill him with terror of the German name." The foregoing is an extract from a broad philosophical discussion of the history of the growth of German Kul tur by Rev. E. Y. Mullins, D. D. LL. D., president of the Southern Baptist Theoligical Seminary, one of the most widely known and most learned minis ters in America, who in tracing the history of German Kultur reaches the qonclusion which he has thus so clear ly and graphically stated. Here is a statement of a great religious leaaer ftfiat the German nation has become so steeped in crime and barbarism thai; it has no compunctions of conscience. It is against such a fearful condition of morality that we are fighting to save ourselves from this Hunnsh, dev ilish brutality. Dr. Mullins article is published in full in this issue. A specific illustration will illuminate the whole story and doubtless give even to Dr. Mullins a clearer insight into the reason for German barbarism tpian that developed from his philoso phical researches. The story is this: Mr. William C. Seddon, a Baltimore banker and a son of the Secretary of War of the Confederacy, has in New York a friend of German birth, who, however, to his everlasting credit, has '' (Continued On Third Page) 5c A COPY CANTEEN SERVICE DESERVES SUPPORT NOBLE WORK DOING MUCH TO KEEP MORALE HIGH Organization, ... However, Needs Support In Great Task of Min istering Unto the Boys Who Pass Norlina rhe officers and men of our army and navy are being moved from their homes and the place where they are known to their training camps ami from these camps to the points of em barkation. Loneliness and uncertain ty prey on these finei men of ours as, day after dav, night after night, the troop trains carry them through cities and towns strange to them and peo pled by strangers. They feel forgot ten. . They were never so sensitive as now, never &S receptive of lasting impressions. To be welcomed along the way warms their hearts. To be appreciated shows them that th whole country is with them. It is the privilege of the Red Cross, through the cordial ministration of the women of the Canteen Service, to show these men of ours how proud we are of them, how we delight to honor them, and that, whether they are here at home or overseas, all of us are . unitedly and unshakably behind them. What It Means To The Men. From post cards written enroute: "The Red Cross gave us some very good things to eat in . They take good care of us. I never thought that the' Red Cross was so good, but it is wonderful." "It is a treat just to know somebody cares." . "God bless all Red Cross workers." "The Red Cross people have just come with cigarettes and. candy and also mailing this card at their ex pense.. This is the. first time anyone has shown any appreciation of en listed men since I held up my right band." From Car Window, Norlina." "To any mother of the Red Cros3 in the U. S. A. The sweet smiling faces of mothers and girls is the best tonic you can give a soldier. God bles,s the Red Cross ladies. We owe them our lives and we are on our way to pay the debt. G. L. L. Hcney Grovf-, Texas." Washington Pleased With Canteen Wo;k The Canteen report to Washington covering activities for the second half of May shows approximately four hundred troop trains given Canteen service in the Southern Division dur ing that period. Washington is great ly pleased with the plendid service of our Canteen workers, and says the boys coming through there are all singing the praises of the wonderful hospitality of the South. W.S.S.-T TAKING A MAN'S PLACE. I'm going to fight the Kaiser with a hoe, I'm going to beat his legions with a plough, The yellow corn shall bourish, row on row, To mock the gleaming crown upon his brow. I have a brother battling in a trench, I have a cousin serving on the sea, They're fighting with the British and the French, That people world-wide over shall be free. And I that am too young to bear a gun And yet have strength to serve my country's need, Shall do my bit of duty in the sun The warriors for liberty to feed. I'm going to fight the Kaiser with a drag And grind his power beneath my rus- . ty disks, . I'm going to live this summer for the Flag Though far away from glory and its risks. Until the Hun acknowledges defeat, Until the world is safe from Prus sian harm; IH help to make bare acres rich with wheat, 111 daily do a man's work on a farm. -Edgar A. Guest, in the American Boy.
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