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VOLUME XXIII - (Tuesday) WARRENTON. N. C TUESDAY. JULY 9. 19lF a xrKTSlT $1.50 A YEAR HA AN Allies Improving Their Positions On The Western Front-Supplies From U. S. Arrive Murmansk. Copenhagen, July 7. The entile population of the Murman coast (on the Kola Peninsular bordering the White Sea and the Artie) has broken with Russia and joined the entente, accordingto a dispatch from Vardoe, Norway, to the Christiania Tidens Tegn. A supply of provisions from the United States has arrived at Mur mansk, the dispatch adds. While there have been local encoun ters of more or less local importance along the battle line in France, there has been little activtiy of significance in its bearing on the genereal tense situation from the North Sea to Switzerland. On the British front east of Amiens, Australian detachments, with which American troops are brigaded, have pushed further east from the little villiage of Hamel, south of the Somme river. The Australians carried their line forward over a front of almost four miles at that point last Thurs day. In their last assault, they have surged aher.d at the center of the new front, which they created" last week. The operation was successful, in that objectives were reached and the positions taken arc being held by the men from the antipodes. Further north, along the southern side of the Lys salient, there has been quite heavy artillery firing, especially .in the Hinges sector. During the fighting in April, when the Germans 'had pushed far ahead in the Flanders area, the battle north and east of Hinges was one of the most desperate character, the village of Locon being the scene of repeated combats in which German attacks were crushed by the British defense. In the French sectors in the Oise, Soissons and Rheims sectors only pa trol encounters have been reported. The Amercans and French have been quite active near Chateau Thierry, where the French have made some ad vance in the neighborhood of Hill 204. cn the north side of which the Ameri cans attacked and captured the vil lage of Vaux last week. The Frencn reports some measure of success in this fighting, while the Germans claim that the French and American as saults were repulsed with heavy tosses. Italian Front. Austrian troops have been pushed back across the Piave river along the lower reaches of that stream. During the offensive last fall, they crosses the new channel of the river and . pushed ahead for some distance westward to ward the old river bed. In the lesser offensive last month they' made fur ther progress there and crossed the old course, but were forced back by the Italians. Since the collapse of the Austrian drive the Italians have been steadily forging ahead in this region and it now is admitted by Vienna that all the Austrian posi tions to the west of the river have been abandoned. This restores to th0 Italians the west bank of the Piave from northwest of the Montello Pla teau to the sea and writes the final chapter in the story of the Austrian drive in that sector of the Italian front. In the mountains the Italians have held all the ground they have won in recent fighting east and west of the Brenta river. In Macedonia. There seems to be some indication that fighting of a serious character may be impending on the Macedonian front, especially on the western end of the line, where it passes through Albania to the Adriatic. Vienna re-i Ports a" heavy attack there by French and Italian troops. Positions were teken, but Vienna says, that the allied units were driven out by a counter attack. The French report says that the positions taken have been held firmly. Excitement in Russia. Russia has again come to the fore m the assasination at Moscow of Count Von Nirbach, the German Am bassador to Russia. It is generally ,A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WARRENTON AND WAR T3 IN PJI 111 F expected that this event will result in theh despatch of German troops to the ancient Muscohvite capital, and opinion in Europe reflects the belief tfhat the assassination may lead to an anti-German outbreak in Russia. So far there has been no official indi cation of Berlin's views on the situa tion. Murmans Break White Russia. The people of the Murman coast, .bordering the White Sea and the Ar tie Ocean, have turned against Rus sia, it is reported from Copenhagen. It is said that supplies from the United States have been distributed among the people there. American, French and British marines are known to be patrolling certain sections along the Murman coast. With the British Army in Frances July 7. (By The Associated Press.) No further attempt by the Germans to retake the ground wrested from them Thursday by the combined Australian-American attack has been re ported today. Not satisfied with the positions acquired from the enemy in the initial attack, thte Austrialians Friday night again drove forward just south of Vaire wood and jammed the Germans back some four hundred yards more along a front of 3,000 yards. The operation was entirely success ful and has made the new line much stronger. Details now "are available5 concern ing the work of the large fleet of tanks which participated in Thurs day's battle. The tanks gave inval uable assistance to the attacking in fantry. Officers say that this was one of the - most economical assaults ever undsrtaken on the British front owing to the fact that the tanks saved casualties among the infantry by mop ping up machine gun posts and strong points in advance. In numerous in stances whole machine gun crews with their rapid-firers were literally ground into the earth by the tanks, which swept over the enemy posts like steam rollers. Destroyed Enemy Guns. One grounp of tanks alone destroy ed or captured more than thirteen machine guns and brought about the Germans. In addition, many Germ ans were slain by these great engines. Other tanks were doing similar work. Taken as a whole the German infan try surrendered or bolted on the ap proach of these monsters, the ap pearance of which in itself is terrify- Jjng. The German machine gunners, however fought to the last m many instances. Numerous times the Australian ana American infantry men communicated with the tank crews and gave them the direction from which hostile ma chine gunfire was coming. In every case the tank was able to deal with the rapid firers, and thus allow the infantry to advance. One tank, which was 200 yards in front of the allied infantry, destroyed a nest of six ma chine guns by running over it after the gun crews refused to surrender. Another tank crushed three rapid firers, but a fourth machine gun con tinued firing at a distance of five or six yards. This gun, in turn, was run over and destroyed,together with its crew. At one point a tank moved against a mound which seemed a likely place for a machine gun. No sign of the enemy was to be seen at first but af ter the tank had circled the mound once, about forty Germans came out of a camouflaged trench and ran to ward the allied infantry to surrender. During the consolidation of the new lines the "tanks patrolled the front for nearly half an hour for protection. On one sector, when snipers in a corn field were making things uncomf do able for the men at work on the de fenses, a tank advanced across No Man's Land and fired several shells into the corn. With the explosions, many of the enemy jumped up in va rious parts of the cornfield and all IMl OPE JEFFERSON LEE DAVIS Sergt. Davis is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Davis. He enlisted with Company C 11 years ago and was in camp with his organization at Morehead, Anniston, Ala. and saw service on - the Mexican Border. He received intensive training at Camp Sevier and is now Over There. Jack is popular with the boys, is a sharp shooter and will do his bit faithfully. all were killed by the fire from the tank. Several officers have said since the battle that the prospects for victory never seemed so bright as now. The latest work of the tanks had really opened their eyes to the possibilities of causing the Germans heavy de feats, with slight casualties to the at tacking infantry. -W.S.S.- Wbat Is A Non-Essential Answered j(Ray W. Sherman in Motor World.) . "I tell . you Mr. Reilly, this, motor car business ought to be stopped. It interferes with the war. It is a non essential " "If you say that again I'll sue you" for slander!" retorted Reilly, smiling, and Pat Madden, ward leader and dig ger into anything where there was a ray of limelight, looked puzzled. "Say what?" "Non-essential!" declared Reilly. "Well isn't it?" "Well, is it ? What is a non-essential anyway?" demanded the Sennett dealer. "It's something you can get along without," Madden asserted. "And you can get along without a car, can't you?" "Yes," replied Madden. "So it's a non-essential then, is it?" "Certainly it is," Madden retorted. 'There are thousands of people run ning around in cars, wasting gasoline, spending money that ought to go into Liberty bonds, and -" "Is your necktie an essential?" in terrupted Reilly. "Madden put his hand on the flam ing covering that adorned his chest. "Why yes sure it's an essential." What Makes It Essential? "If it were not an essential you vouldn't wear it, would you?" "Certainly not! Everybody wears neckties " "Does that make them essential?" ""Well it has something to do with Hj but look here, Reilly, you couldn't go without a necktie." "Who said I could," shot back theh Sennett dealer. "I'm talking about your necktie not mine. 'You talked about my cars; why can't I talk about your necktie ? Why do you need a necktie, Pat? You could get along without it, couldn't you?" "But everybody wears neckties " "Nearly everybody has cars, too, but that's "got nothing to do with it? If the fact of universal use makes a thing an essential then a car is an es sential, and if the, people must be ed ucated to do without some of the things they've used, why don't yua make a fine big hit as a patriot and start going without a necktie? "Just see all the publicity you'd get in the newspapers! Can't you see the heading now: 'Madden comes out against neckties,' and then there would be a picture of you minus your necktie. And . then everybody would say it was a great idea and the first thing you know the stores would have to put all their neckties back into the warehouses and all the quarters and (Continued on Fourth Page ' ' , - r . M. M. AUCi T I ' JL UlllUbl J f J ON THIS DAY THINK ON THESE THINGS GERMANS IN WAR FROM DESIRE TO CONQUOR Premeditated Alignment Of Its ; Forces With the Devil and Mars To Make the World Vas sal of German War Lords (By Richard H. Edmonds, Editor Man- . ' ufacturers Record.) . .Ijt you hate sin and evil, then hate Prussianism. If you love the devil and all his do ings, then, and only then, love the enemy of God and mankind, the Ger many' which has sold its soul to the devil. ' Has any man dared to tell you to sink your mannood or womanhood and love the unspeakable Turk or, as a noted divine once said from his pulpit moved thereto by the fearful ' crimes which were then being committed, the 'fdamned Turk"? As you think of the awful atrocities committed during the last four years by the Turks with German aid in tor turing and murdering 1,000,000 Ar menian Christians and in sending irr-o the horrors of Turkish haiemsxthe fairest of the long-suffering Armen ian girls, do you love these brutes ? Would you love them if your own wife or daughter had thus been treat ed? Never let yourself think of Germany or Germans merely as ajnisguided na tion, forced into war. Never think of Germans as of the soldiers of other wars to be forgiven when the struggle is over. Think of Germans as super-fiends who for generations have planned world conquest for world looting. Think of Germans as of people who have gloated over crimes of frightful- ness-- v-v-- Think of Germans as of people who made holidays to celebrate the mur dering of women and children on the Lusitania. Think of Germans who have had one supreme aim in life, Vz.: to enrich their country and themselves by mur dering millions of people in order to loot the world. Think deep down in your soul of this nation of liars, of looters, of ra pists, of murders, of fiends incarnate, and then make your solemn pledge with God and man as your witness, if not fighting on the battlefields of France you will, to the last ounce of your strength, work and fight at home until the accursed power of Ger many and her allies has been crushed; their ringleaders shot or hanged, and the heaviest financial penalties im posed upon these nations, that the world may never again be deluged in blood by nations so steeped in barba rism and sin. Anything short of that would be a premium upon murder, a premium upon rape, a premmm upon highway robbery and a reflection upon those who have died to save civiliza tion from Germany's barbarism. -W.S.S.- Men In Class l,BTo Receive Treatment v Both Dr. C. H. Peete, of this city and Dr. M. P. Perry, of Macon, have tendered their services or equipment or both to the Government for the treatment of registrants in Class I, Group B, that is, those having rem ediable defects. The bulletin sent out in reference to tihis by Major Langston says in part, "Any registrant having remediable de fects who refuses to accept such treat ment and refuses to have the defects removed, with the knowledge that the removal of such defect will make him qualified for general military service, is, of course, a slacker in the truest sense and a list of such registrants who refuse to take such free treatment should be made and reported to this office, in order that recommendation may be madeJ;o the War Department that such registrants be immediately inducted into service and sent to the cmps for treatment or operation there.", - Registrants of Class 1, Group B, will find these gentlemen pleased to be of service to them and thru them to the cause of winning this war. REN COUNTY CHARLES F. GOEHEGAN S:::Sx::W: illliillllli lifftpit Mr. Charles F. Goehegan, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Goehegan, of Creek, volunteered last October in Chester, Penn. According to his de sire he was placed in the Branch in which he' would see most service. He is young, ambitious and popular and his record ' in the' service will be a good one. When It Comes To Spelling, Ask Allen The clipping below from the News and Observer gives an item of interest to the friends of Mr. Joe John Allen, of Franklin county. The Allen family settled first in Warren county in the days of the pioneer and though still numerous in Warren the family has scattered abroad. Many have risen to prominence in public life, but more often the case represents a sturdy yeomantry good citizens with never a slacker or yellow streak. Of such men Alexander H. Stevens said "North Carolina was settled by an honest, in dustrious frugal -people who had few laws and little need of them". The clipping follows: "How do you spell tranquility, Mr. Allen?" a News and' Observed repre sentative asked Prive John Allen, of Louisburg. Like a shot out of a gun came the reply, "Tran-quil-li-ty. It is the only 'ility' with two l's. Ycu will find it in Webster's blue-back spel ler on the 90th page, second column, 8th word from the bottom.", "When didyou first notice that 'tran quillity' was located in the blue back speller where you say it is," he was asked: "When I was seven years old," was the answer. "Have you remembered its location in the speller ever since?" "I have." Mr. Allen, who is the champion spel ler in the State, was in Raleigh return ing from Camp Sevier. He was one of a party of six who went to Camp Sevier to visit his wife's nephew, Luther E. Williams, the others in the party being his wife; Mr. William's father, sister and uncle, Mr. Sydney Williams, Mrs. Robert P. Harris, and Mr. Lindsay Alston, of Essex; Miss Edith Browning, of Littleton. Mr. Allen and his wife also visited ther son, Mr. Leslie Allen, a prominent business man of Spartanburg. Private John Allen is 72 years of age and, to use his own expression, he is still grinning with the same teeth that he had when he was a boy. They are perfectly good teeth too. W.S.S.- Sending Germans To Front In U.S. Uniform Buffalo, N. Y. July 8. That Ger man soldiers who lived in the United States before the war, thus being able to speak the American language fluently, are being sent to the front clad in American uniforms, is the startling information conveyed to Mr. John LaTour, of this city by his brother, James Donohue, a private in the U. S. Marine Corps and the first American ,prisioner to escape from a German prison camp and successful ly make his way back to the American lines. "I saw a number of German sol diers in American uniforms," wrote Donohue, "and all of them could speak English fluently. One of them asked me where I was from and when I told him Buffalo, he laughed and (Continued on Third Page.) :ox-:-x-:-x-:-:-:-x-:-:-:-:-:-x-:-x-:-:4 5c A COPY SUGAR RULINGS VERY STRINGENT HOUSEHOLD CONSUMERS A LONE CAN PURCHASE Sugar Vithout Special Permit; Ruling of Food Administration Explained By County Food Administrator W. G. Rogers. County Food Administrator Walter G. Rodgers is anxious 'that no dealers in sugar or hotel, restaurant, boardin? house, hospital or other institution shall find themselves in such position after July 15th that they cannot pur chase sugar. "The order is perfectly clear," stated Mr. Rodgers to a repre sentative of tho Warren Record. "No dealer in or user of sugar can purchase sugar since July 1 except household consumers. All retail deal ers, hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, hospitals, county homes and other institutions are included inthis list. All of these should write with out delay to the Sugar Division of the Food Administration at Raleigh stating the nature of their business and asking for proper blank forms upon which to file their statements. When these statements have been made out and returned to. Raleigh the Sugar Division will send certificates for the sugar requirements of " each firm or institution. "The attention of all dealers in sugar is called to the requirement that all dealers must keep an absolutely accurate record of the names of pur chasers and of sales and quantities oi sugar and are further reminded that the maximum quantities of five pound to the country household and two pounds to the city household must be rigidly observed. "Sugar dealers are required to sell sugar jmlyto Jheir .regular customers and to conhne such customers, even their regular customers, to a minimum not exceeding three pounds per person per month. The two pounds is not an arbitrary allotment for a week or any other period because the size of fam ilies vary. Some larger families will require two or three two-pound pur chases a week. "Beginning July 1, eight inspectors were put into the field by the Food Administration and they will be able to check up the records of dealers and ascertain the names of any users of sugar who have been purchasing from dealers other than their regular cus tomers." W.S.S. From a Wounded Soldier. (Red Cross nurses who have joined the army hospital work are nota part of the military service within the strict meaning of the term, hence they are not entitled to representation - on a service flag, such representation being confined to men in the service.) In Flander's field, in Holy Ground, We shaped another lowly mound, While sullen raindrops fell; And in the darkness breathed a prayer. Then turned and left her lying there, Whom we had loved so well. She was a gentle little thing Whose greatest joy was minis'tring, But calm and unafraid. In nurse's uniform she dressed, The great Red Cross upon her breast. (Her veil a halo made.) For she had seen the Fiery Cross, And counting all but service loss Had followed where it led. And now in Fianders' field she lies Under"sullen lowering skies With other hallowed dead. She bears no grudge that we decree On serviceflag there shall not be For her a single star. The star, that symbol that we prize Of service and of sacrifice And duty done in war! We seem unmindful of her share In that grim struggle over there, The dangers she must face. I do not wish my star to shine On service flag, O Country Mine, 'Less hers, too, has a place. 7 A. O. T. Richmond, Va., June 16, 1917. Richmond Times Dispatch.
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