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Tide Of Victory SlowBy But
Surely Sweeping Onward
From Soissons to the Belgian bor- I river where American and French are
der the German armies in various im j facing the Hun.
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x-.. k hp French and British. And
it is a test that seemingly bodies ill
for the Teutonic arms, and nowhere
that seemingly boides ill for the Teu
tonic arms, for nownere have thvy
heen able to sustain the shocks.
Northwest of Soissons, from the
Aisne to the Olise, north of the Oise
to the region around Roye, in the Ar
ras sector and northward on the fa
mous Lys salient the Germans every
where have been compelled to fall
back under the pressure of the French
aid British troops.
Gen. Mangln's New Offensive
In a new offensive launched by the,frontg bringing them to positions
Trench General Manager over a num
of approximately fifteen and a half
miles from Bailly on the Oise to the
Aisne near Soissons, the French in
bitter fighting have carried forward
their line to an average depth of tw.vj Farther to the northj between Al
and a half miles and in the first jbert anJ Arras Field Marshal Haig
phases of the battle had returned to jhas followed up his SUCCesses of pre
Jrench possession numerous enemy vious days by a new-offensive over a
held villages and farms, In addition front of aDOut ten miles and driven
more than 8,000 Germans had been ! f orward his troops for splendid gains
herded behind the line, prisoner. Joyer the entire line, capturing a num-
At last reports Mangin s men were
still hard after the enemy, ana unom-
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various sectors well in advance of tne
positions outlined in the French orfi-
cial communication. j still farther north, in the famous
Along the scarpe river east of Ar- jLyg sector a general eastward ad
ias Field Marshal Haig's forces also vance on a f ront Qf more than four
.have kept up their harassing tactics miles lias been made by the British,
aigaint the enemy, who has been com !wno have brought their positions ap
plied to fall back eastward along the 1 neargr e cid 1916 battle
Scarpe river, lhe Uermans lesistea
vigorously but all to no purpose and
the British brought up their lines to
the east of the village ofEampou A.1-
thdue-h Haier claimed only a slight
forwarded movement here, particular- !
.signifcance attaches to it by reason j
of the fact that the Germans have
Icon driven back until they are vir
tually upop the old battle line as it
stood in December, 1017.
Lys Salient Narrowed Down
Northward the Lys salient -again
has been narrowed down by the oper
ations of the British who, north of
Merville, have taken the villages of
Vierhcok and La Couronne and also
cached the hamlet of L'Epinette. This
Kaio represents a forward movement
r f about a mile and a half and places
trshe British astride the road running
f:;utheastward to Estaires.
New Victories All Important Ones
Taken all in all the new victories
of the Allied troops are highly im
port. ones. The advanco ot tne
French northwest of Soissons, taken
in conjunction with the successful man
euvers I'm .the Lassigny sector and
south of the Roye, where Beuvraig
nes has I'een captured, seemingly
means that5 the unemy" forces from
the Somme t the pise soon must give
up their positions find retreat east
ward. Indeed it seems not improba
ble now that iSoyon is vrel outflanked
on the south Sind southeast and the
German line is' none too secure north
of Soissons, that the enemy will be
under the necessity of moving his
trooips northward from the .Vesle to
ward, if not across, the Aisne.
Germans Fall Back
The Germans :?till are stubbornly
contesting with the British, points of
vantage on the line' south of the Some
near Chanlnes and north of Roye.
which are still in German hands and
which nre the kevstones to the enemy
defense line. With the capture of
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fcuviaignes uy 111c x-
Roye apparently is on the eve ot tail
ing and with its fall doubtless the en
tire line northward to the Somme wil:
r.lso give away.
The Germans in the Merville sectoi
cf the Lys salient everywnere are- be
ing closely followed by the British as
they give up positions under attack
and at last accounts they were show
ing no indication that an immediate
halt is in mind. On the Lys front al
though the G ermans are showing
some resistance, they are not putting
their wonted hearts into their work.
. There has been little along the Vesle
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With the Allied Armies in France
Aug. 21 The defeat tide surges heav
ily against the German armies in
France and Flanders. On four im
portant sectors French and British
arms again have been served, and the
entire German front from Ypres in
Belgium to Soisons, on the Aisne, now
is more seriously menaced than before.
French troops of Gen. Mangin, op
erating from the region two miles
northwest of Soissons to the Oise
river and those of Gen Humbert, fight
ing between the Oise and the Matz,
have materially pushed forward their
which threaten the immediate evacua
tion of the entire Somme-Oise salient
from Braye to Noyon.
Between Albert and Arras
. of viliage' taking prisoners and
, inflictme. heavv casualties
on the enemy.
Advance of Over Four Miles
ijnerunning east "of Armentieres
Numerous additional villages have
been liberated by the French-north
east of Soissons and positions have
been captured on both sides of the
0- which seemingly make un-
tentaDie f or occupation by the enemy
the impovtant town of Noyon, whit,.
is now outflanked on the southeast and
dominated by the French guns from
the south and west. On the south the
French are standing in Sempigny, a
mile and a half distant, while on the
west they have captured the important
pivotal town of Lassigny, the key po
sition to Noyon and the plains to the
north.
Drive Along 120-Mile Front
What is to be the effect of the al
lied drives along the 120 mile battle
line from Ypres to Soissons cannot
be foretold at present but it seems
highly probable that this entire front
soon must be realigned. This partic
ular menace to the Germans, aside
from that in the territory between th
Scmme and the Oise, appears to be
ion. tne sector aiong me vcaic x.
from Soissons to Rheims, which from
the war maps looks to be untenable.
Even the Aisne and the Chemin des
Dames o'not appear to be any too
safe for a defense line if Gen.-Mangin
presses much further northwest
of Soissons.
President Wilson Again At It
Washington, August 20 President
Wslp.m put .in a busy day aftc re
turning here this morning from Man
chester. Mass., where he spent a brief
vacation near the summer home of
Col. E. M. House. The President re
mained in his study during the morn
ing and in the afternoon presided at
a lengthy Cabinet meeting.
To far he received a committee on
aliens and followed this with a walk
, . . War and Navy Building
jwhere he conferred for more than a
L , , jju ciorvef.arv. Baker. The
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matters discussed at the Cabinet meet
ing and with the War Secretary were
not discussed.
W.S.S.
Canteen To Serve Sandwiches
Just a word to tell all the folks who
come here Saturday to bring their
appetites along. The Canteen Service
of the County will sell sandwiches, ice
cream, and other good things to eat.
lie sure am your'sister Miss Virgie Duke were pleasant
your -PPet;f'.fJattt0s0ldier boys callers at J. A. Cheek's Sunday af
patron the Canteen. . Wo, FARMER.
and be here, aon i xuxSc
WARRENTON, N. C,
W. E. THOMPSON
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Thomp
son, of Franklin county. He volun
teered July 26, 1917. He is now with
Company Co., 120 Infantry, "soine
where in France.' He is 24 years old
and a brave soldier doing his duty for
his country. He hails from the Sandy
Crt ik secaons ai.d has many friends
in that section of Warren, where he
was raised.
Governor Bickett
With Us Tomorrow
People in large numbers from all f ense of the Fatherland in the pres
over Warren are expected here to- ent . war. His Majesty is immensely
morrow to greet Governor Bickett in ) gratified at the fact, and in recogni-
his presentation of individual duty in
time of war,
Governor Bickett is an orator. He
knows his subject, he is conversant
with the State's problems and its
duty in time of War, and he clothes
the fine common sense of his re
marks in eloquence. Every citizen is
assured a forceful talk, - - - .
The Governor's first address vyill
be made at 11 o'clock in the Court
House to the white citizens of the
County. His second will be made at
3:30 in the Court House to the colored
citizens of the County and if the
crowd is such that all cannot hear
him in these two talks a third will
be made.
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Items Of Interest
From Buffalo Section
Watermelons, curing tobacco, hoi
weather, gocjd seasons and going to
Protracted meeting seems to be1 in
full sway. It is real August.
Mr. R. P. Davis and daughter Miss
Mable, who have beeA spending some
time in and around Buffalo has re
turned to their home in Newport
News accompanied by little Miss Ag
nes Cheek who will spend some time
with relatives in the city.
Mr. Willis Neal and wife spent5 the
night with J. A. Cheek's family Sun
day was called to the House recently.
Bliss Frank Newell and wife made
a short call in Buffalo Monday.
Miss Pattie Cullom seems to be hav
ing a happy time visiting Miss Fan
n ift Fern Davis.
Mr. A. S. Bugg took his wife to
Henderson Sunday to the Hospital,
Her friends rejoice to know that sue
is steadily improving.
Mrs. Welda Powell, of Spencer ,with
her two bright little children also her
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1918
ESTS OF WARRENTON AND WAR
THE KAISER'S SYM
PATHY LETTER
GIVES INSIGHT INTO GER
MAN NATIONAL LIFE
Contrast Vivid Between His- and
President Lincoln's Letter of
Sympathy; Every Citizen of
America Should Read:
The following from the Literary
Digest we take pleasure in publishing
for it c;aiiy show the two types strug
gling for mastery in the world of
tomorrow:
One word in the Kaiser's letter; to
Frau Meter after she -had lpst nine
sons in the war strikes the majority
of non-Germans with amazement. It
has been often asserted by our ene
mies that the world outside their bor
ders does not think as do the Germans,
and the rebuke is accepted as praise,
but when the Kaiser writes the be
reaved mother that he is "gratified"
by the extent of her sacrifice there is.
seen to be a depth yet unplumbed in
the Emperpr's psychology. Americans
instinctively place alongside this
strange message of sympathy the let
ter that Lincoln wrote to Mrs. Bixby,
ana x,ie two men seem to stana our
in a clearer lignt:
The Kaiser's Letter
''His Majesty the Kaiser hears that
, .
you have sacrificed nine sons in de
tion is pleased to send you his photo
graph, with frame and autograph sig
nature." Lincoln's Letter
"Dear Madam I have been shown
in the files of the War Department $
statement of the Adjutant-Cteneral of
Massachusetts that. 'you-are. the moth
er 1F five 'sons who have died glorious
ly on the field of battle. I feel how
Weak and fruitless must be any words
of mine which should attempt to be
guile you from the grief of a loss so,
overwhelming. But I can not refrain
from tendering to you the consola
tion that may be found in the thanks
of the Republic they died to save. I
pray that our Heavenly Father may
assuage the anguish of your bereave
ment and leave you only the cherished
memory of the loved and lost, and ilie
solemn pride that must be yours to
have laid so costly a sacrifice upon
the altar of freedom." .
It .will be recalled that the Kaiser
in one of his recent speeches spoke of
the war as a struggle between two
world ideals, and his letter, together
with the act that it signalizes, must
be taken as tribute $0 the ideal that
possesses the soul of William. As
editorial writers East and West view
the contrasting letters, "the spirit of
autocracy and the spirit of democracy
are here contrasted beyond the power
of any commentary to it." The Kan
sas City Star observes:
"Only a humane man, a man of the
loftiest as well as the tenderst of feel
ings, could have written the letter to
Mrs. Bixby. Only a surpreme egotist
could have written the letter to Frau
Meter. Yet it would be a mistake to
assume that Lincoln, because he felt
his heart melt at the grief of an Aper
iean mother, had not the sternesVof
purpose to persevere in his task of.
saving democracy en this ' continent.
The other word for German efficiency
is cruelty. To be thorough, in the
German theory, is to be unfeeling. The
Kaiser, therefore, was 'gratified' that
nine sons of a German mother1 had
died to preserve his autocracy, lo
him it was merely evidence that his
system was still working, and he con
gratulated himself. That is the mean
ing of his letter. It could not con
vey any other and be German.
"Lincoln could lay the balm of a
noble sympathy on a mother's aching
heart, but he would not have restored
her sons to her even if he could have
done so at the sacrifice of the cause
in which they died. He was a man
of the gentlest nature, but he was not
a sentimentalist. He knew that the
war must go on and that mother's
sons must die before it could end in
j the establishment of the right. He
did not assume that he could square
the account with them by sending
them his pictured autographed or by
expressing gratification. Mr3. Bixby's
consolation must be in 'the solemn
pride that must be yours to have laid
so costly a sacrifice upon the altpr of
freedom.'.
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(Friday)
REN COUNTY
WILLIE P. KING
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Private Willie P. King, son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. W. King, of Areola, vol
unteered and enlisted in H. Company
May 24, 1917 being among the first
who volunteered from Warren county j
Willie is a cabinet of good qualities
and is well liked hy all. He is now
doing his bit with the men of War
ren in France,
"There was a purpose here as firm
as the Kaiser's is cruel. He was gen
tle, but not weak. It was the purpose
of the Gettysburg address -again ex
prest that these dead shall not have
rtierl in vain. There could be no coine'
u, from th rie.hteous al beeau
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men had perished. Rather there must
be renewed determination to press on.
These are things to be remembered
when the letter to Mrs. Bixby is
brought up to illustrate Lincoln's gen
tleness and sympathy. He had these
attributes, but they did not constitute
weakness in the structure of his de
votion to a human cause."
One commentary is supplied by the
New ork Times in warning us that
tho report has it that "Frau Meter
has now joined the street-beggars in
Delmenhorst-Oldenburg to get a liv-
Hng," before viewing the Kaiser's let-
ter "with laughter and - scorn, it is
well to remember that the recipient
may have viewed it exactly as did the
giver." For
"If she helieved, as she presumably
does, in the divine right of kings, it.
; may be that she was appreciably com
forted in her bereavement, and, at any
rate, it can be assumed that the Kai
ser honestly thought she would be.
"Lincoln, naturally, did not send his
photograph to the mother who had
lost five sons, and he admitted that no
words of his could mitigate her sor
row. All he felt that he could do was
to thank her in behalf of the Republic
her sons had died to save, and to re--mind
her of the pride she had a right
! to feel who had 'laid so costly a sa
crifice upon the altar of f ieedom.'
"So speaks the representative of
autocracy, and so the exponent of de
mocracy! Each of the letters is a
characteristic product of the country
in which it originated, as of the man
who wrote it. Today the two exem
plify the causes for which so many
men are dying on both sides of the line
between the Central Powers and their
confederated opponents."
Celebrates Her Seventy-Eighth
Birthday
On Friday, August 16th, the old
Colonial home of Mr. and Mrs. How
ard Palmer, of Six Pound, was the
scene of much pleasure, the occasion
being the seventy-eighth birthday of
Mrs. Sarah F. Twitty.
The spacious parlor and halls were
beautifully decorated with golden rod,
ferns and flags. The color scheme of
red, white and blue was carried out
in the dining room, where a large'
number of children and grand chil
dren gathered around the board. The
birthday cake, decorated with white
icing and tiny red candles, stood on
a large gl(ass salon around which
eight circles of red, white and blue
candles were arranged. While the
I candles burned, velvet cream and na
biseos were served. As the last of the
candles burned out, the cake was cut
by the grandmother, assisted by her
little grand daughter Lalla" Fitts Pal
mer, The singing of old fashioned songs
vas an enjoyable feature of the af
ternoon. As the evening came to a close Miss
Fern Scott, of Knoxville, Tenn., and
Miss Sue Palmer accompanied by Mr.
Russell Palmer, sweetly sang Mother
Macree. Wishing the grandmother
many joyful and happy returns of the
day, the party dispersed.
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Tomorrow
Number 78
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A CALL TO THE
YOUNG WOMEN
WARREN COUNTY ASKED TO
FURNISH FIVE NURSES
To Work In American Hospitals
Releasing Trained Nurses For
Overseas Duty WThere They
Are Much Needed.
To the Young Women of America.
Across the sea, from France,
with every closing day of the heroic
struggle of our fighting men, thera
comes a more imperative call to the
women of America to assume their
full share of responsibility in winning
this world war for the right of men,
women, and nations to live their own
lives and determine their own for-
tunes
There exists now an extreme need
for at least 25,000 women of charac
ter, intelligence, and education to fill
the gaps in our hospital staffs caused
by the calling of many thousands of
skilled nurses to the fighting front.
There is only one way to fill these
gaps: By keeping our hospital train
ing schools supplied with students,
who are not only preparing for ser
vice abroad and at home at the end
of their course and at the same time
are equipping themselves to earn their
living in one of the noblest of pro
fessions, but from the very outset of
their course are serving their country
as well as learning.
The service which we are asking1
calls for the best that the womanhood
of America can oifer in courage, de
votion, and resourcefulness. We can
not go forward to victory oversea ir
the wives and families of our fighters
are not sustained in health and streng
th, if wTe can not protect our workers
against the hazards of war industries,
if we can not defeat accident and dis
1 ease, our enemies at home. Upon the
health of ., the American people will
depend the spirit of their forces in the
field.
Acting on the urgency of the need
the undersigned have asked the State
divisions of the Woman's Committee,
of the Council of National Defense,
through their local units, to enroll the
25,000 women needed. We ask the
women of America to support us in
our further effort not to lower Amer
ican hospital standards, and to give
us the practical assurance of , their
support by going to the nearest recruit
ing station established by the Womans
Committee of the Council of National
Defense and enrolling in the United
States Student Nurse Reserve.
ANNA HOWARD SHAW,
Chairman, Woman's Committee,
Council of National Defense.
W. C. GORGAS
Surgeon General, LT. S. Army.
RUPERT BLUE,
Sttgeon General, United States
Public Health Service.
H. P. DAVISSON,
Chairman, War Council, Amer
ican Red Cresa.
DR. FRANKLIN MARTIN,
Chairman, General Medical Board
Council of National Defense-
This appeal is designed to be direct
to the young womanhood of America
and to the young womanhood of North
Carolina in particular. This appeal is
made on the basis that every day of
a student nurse's training represents
a double patriotic service, in that
while she is preparing for military
or civil duty later if needed, she im
mediately releases a graduate nurse
for military duty and herself cares
for the civilian population.
Warren county is asked for five
nurses. Applicants must be between
19 and 35 years of age. Application
should be made to or information re
ceived from Mrs. Kate P. Arrington,
chairman, Woman's Division, Council
of National Defense for Warren.
W.S.S.
Bob Wanted Copper-toed Teeth
The admiration which Bob felt for
his Aunt Margaret included all her
"I don't care much for plain teeth
like mine, aunt Margaret," said Bob,
one day, after a long silence, during
which he had watched her in laughing
conversation with his mother. "I wish
I had some copper-toed ones like
yours." Biblical Recorder.
W.S.S.
We raised a good crop in Warren
this year, now let us invest heavily
in War Stamps and help our boys in
!the task of "raising H-ll for Germany"