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. In the Name of -theMen Who EDie For Y"oui Buy Liberty Bonds To The Limit f A9 (Tuesday) WARRENTON, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1918 (Friday) Number 94 A YEAR A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WARRENTON AND WAR REN COUNTY 5c A COPY :nk ships ! PC Ml feufons less ly On S5-iH lmt- rohi PARIS, Oct. 16o The German ex-Thourut-Bruges and Thourout-Ostend feme ripiiL "'"6 ""'to ""VHKVJiu more anu 11 " " P . i J nrvi Flanders is driven ueeper. ine en- resistance seems to be slacken- rT, avc on1 l i'c V inirl Jt(T 111 r iunui anu a ao utiic v .ere that important; results may be j'eeh within a few days. Already the advance of the allies s from two and one-half to five miles crht the British hold Memn and Wer- J l. mm Pnn y4-tq a 1 1 rv c 4 -firi 4" V T - heir grasp, the evacuation ot the reat industrial centers of Lille, Rou- aix and Tourcoing seems inevitable s the results of this gain. On the eft the Belgians are approaching hourout, only twelve miles from Bruges, and within twenty miles of he Dutch frontier. There are signs that the Germans ealize the days of their occupation of i lelgium are numbered. They already -ave begun the work of destruction i western Belgium. According to in ormation reaching Paris the. Ger mans are preparing to get out oi .bru tes and Ghent, and even Brussels. A high German functionary in Bel- lium declared on uctooer max ter tian occupation of Brussels would end : the latest, within fifteen days ac ording to reliable information re- eived in London, says the correspon- ent of the Echo de Paris. All the civilian population along he Belgian coast has been moved back Jut of the country, and British avia- ors are said to be reporting fires over vast area. roads have defeated the German are retreating rapidly. s who BRITISH MAKE FURTHER GAINS iuonaon, .October 16 The British forces in the sector between Douai and Lille have made further gains all along the Iront and driven- their line to within, about two and a half miles southwest and three and threp ter miles west of Lille, according to -bield Marshal Haig's communication issued tonight. r S. Food Administration. Are you shocked to see the lady drinking ships? You drink ships every time you use sugar unnecessarily, in a beveragre. Seventy-five per cent, of the sugar used in this country has to be brought hero in ships. Everv oossibla shin is needed for the trans. yuriauon ot troops and .Eliminate purposes. Teach your appetite to remember this DON'T DRINK SKIPS. supplies to the other side. sugar as a luxury, and you release many ships Sor war 1ST LIEUT. LOUIS FREEMAN 1 !! 5 Fas Bits M 9W 0to O M nxy In ou ervioe Shall old Warren go back upon the boys who have gone out for it? Shall selfishness and lack of interest thrive while blood flows in France? Shall we at home, in comfort, buy just enough bonds to ease public opin ion while they with the one thought of Victory do and die. Shall we prove false to the high ideals of this War, and by our luke warmness at home invite further suffering upon martyrs of khaki. Shall ,we becomeso ingrossed in the pursuit of Gold at home that we for get that Duty first to the blood which keeps Germany from our doors? Shall we prove false to men of Warren in any way? MAY GOD FORBID! v BELGIAN ARMY ADVANCES London, Oct. 16 The Belgian army nder King Albert is advancing ra- idlr nlono- the rnrtpmnrpV-Thnrniit. , man nere where his early lite was The following letter is of interest to the many friends of Lieut. Free- oad. The fall of the Belerian town of i spent hourout, whose capture was prema- pely announced unofficially yesterday expected almost immediately. ITALIANS POUNDING AWAY Rome, Oct. 15. "Our troops today ontinued their attack on both sides the Meuse, encountering stubborn pistance from a re-enforced enemy. ast of the Meuse French and Ameri can troops have gained ground. West i the river the fighting has increased i violence and our troops have made ubstantial gains, including Hill No. which changed hands three times. The letter was addressed to ins mother at fepartansburg, b. J. Lieut. Freeman was a man -of the fin est sensibilities and died in defense'of a Cause which is a fitting memorial to his high ideals. Editor. BRITISH GAIN GROUND London, Oct 16 Gains of ground by itish patrols during last night in "e Douai-Lille sector are reported by ield Marshal Haig in his official state ;ent today. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Freeman, par ents of Lieutenant, have received the following letter of sympathy from the commanding officer of Lieutenant Free man's company: f Hdq Company Sixth Iinfantry A. P. O. 745, Am Ex. F., France, August 18, 1918 My dear Mrs. Freeman: Last nicrht under heroic circum- . stances Lieutenant Freeman gave his life to the cause of Liberty. Nothing I can say to you can bring him back nrrsiin. hut I want to tell you how bravely he died. "Lieutenant Free man was severely wounded at 7 a. m. Ivptrdv mornin? from which he j vuvw j 0 it i i - r l - l i- -11 .OA t-V TVI LRKEY MUST SURRENDER ALL s , TL Mft;01 imrif l IS OrtlfinlHr rnnnrtaH that I . rt CI T ' ... .... . 7 i fearlessly to a terrible, artillery oar- rage to superintend personally the operations of his own troops." In action he proved to be a leader and his cool demeanor under fire and incessant labrs for the comfort ol his men contributed in a large meas ure to the success of the assaulting troops. Lieutenant Freeman was in command of the trench artillery and their successes are gratifying and in dicative of the earnest efforts and soldierly qualities of their commander. Men who were on the spot speak of Lieutenant Freeman's behavior as a splendid display of courage. During Lieutenant Freeman's ser- this company, since Marcn, We Shall Not Sleep "In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the Crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly . Scarce heard amidst the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn Saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe, To you from falling hands we throw the Torch be yours to hold it high; If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields." What is the Liberty Loan? It's forts and it's ships and it's shin ning guns. It's squadrons that sweep the sea. It's all of the circling band of steel That shall keep all the home shores free. ' It's grub and it's warmth for the sai lor lad. Far out on the wintry foam. For the brave jack tar, as he fights ,afar, J ' , ',. -.v It's the good old "Money from home." What Is the Liberty Loan? It's rifle and helm and it's bayonet, It's shovel and shard and shell For the soldier boy in the olive drab, Out there on the edge of hell. It's the soaring wings of the whirring planes That battle on high alone. For the lad wrho is daring "Over there" It's the good old "Money from home" What Is the Liberty Loan? It's succor and life for a bleeding "world It's the glimmer of Peace at dawn. It's the strength of a mighty arm to strike. It's the gleam of a great sword drawn. But, more than all, it's the pledge of love To the lads whom we call "Our Own" To the boys on land, afloat, on high It's the good old "Money from home" itam has received peace proposals fom Turkey, and that her reply has Pen a demand for unconditional sur fer to General Allenby, comman Er of the allied forces in Palestine d Syria. vice in e end of the present week "to delib- . on mobilization, concentration the national strength, and the rais- of the military age." . This bautiful lyric of the war was written bv Lieutenant Colonel Dr John McCrae of Montreal, Canada, while the second battle of Ypres was m progress His body now lies m Flanders fields. AND YET The sad facts are true that a Committee of Henderson men, special; delegates of Uncle Sam in Bond work, have found that Warren has subscribed less than $50,000 of its $440,000 Liberty Loan apportionment Two days before the close of the Loan the deplorable fact presents itself Warren has been asleep. Vance county has gone over; Halifax county practically over and JSVarren, our county, the home of men as brave as any who fight, has not done its duty. Two days remain to rally to the cause. May the very atmosphere vi- brate with patriotism. May the only thought be tor the isoys uver mere May every mind be turned from SELF to SOLDIER and SAILOR. May every man, woman and child play true blue and stand out against Germany by backing the men who face the steel. These are no times to think of failure. The County's quota can be? raised and it MUST be raised. Today and Tomorrow must see active work we are with you boys, and the FAITH and ENERGY which moves mountains will manifest itself today and tomorrow WE ARE WITH YOU. The one business of America is to WIN this WAR There can be no peace . ' V 1 1 1 "3 T J. 1 T X with Assassins, Murderers, Kapists, Mangiers oi nnaren, oesuai cruies Whose Crimes "Sicken A Tiger", Destroyers of Cathedrals, Robbers Who Have Looted Homes and Nations Alike, Mutilators, Bandits, Despoilers, Plunderers, Pillagers, Freebooters, Looters, Criminals Whose Hands Run Red With Human Blood, Hypocrites, Liars, Destroyers of Womanhood and Civilization Alike, 0T EM WORRIED IN GERMANY London, Oct. 16 President Wilson's FPly to the German peace note pro peed "a TYinst- nnf-nrnroKla imnroooinn' .vjw UIIXUIVIUUIU filial VUkJiv. Berlin. Save n fnf rnrl "NTowc lift- tcn from Amsterdam todav. The location of the renlv. it adds: was fflowed by a panic in Berlin banking c'eS and on t.hp Kt.npk- pvphano-e. The German supreme command, the FKes state, will come to Berlin at , iqig j have come to know him ex- I M Ata -J A. . . ' ' ceedingly well and he has an enviable Atheistic Barbarians Who Would Blot Out Christianity, Murderers on the record. He has clone spienaiaiy dim sharks. Gloaters over their Own Infamies, Makers of Holidays and AXigii sy 7 - The following letter from the pen of Mr. E. A. Turner, -38 Dixwell Road, Shangai, China, to Prof. John Graham gives an insight into conditions there where Mr. Turner is doing a great constructive work under the Red Tri anglethe Y. M. C. A. Mr. Turner is well remembered here where at one time he taught in the Graham high school. His letter is of interest: China potentially has a greater wealth than America. I have seen two evidences of, it recently. The other day I rode for miles through the coal and iron fields of Shansi pro vince. . The sight of it made my poor white Southerner's heart go into un controllable pit-a-pats. There they were; coal and iron lying on the sur face of the ground! In many places the railroad builders cut and broke through great veins of both precious minerals and left them bulging out of the ground along the railway cut, and the bulges ran on up the hill sides. Then along the great river bed, dry in summer, the seams continue to run in plain sight from the window of the train. Engineers have declared that Shansi province alone has coal enough to last the world at the pres nt rate of consumption for 1000 years. Only the merest fraction is being mined 4y modern methods. Most of it is brought from surface pockets by porters and donkeys during the dry season and stacked along the railway in great piles, made up of the finest quality of bituminous lumps of increu ible size. Small lumps are too trou blesome for the crude miner to trans port. ' Then from the hills I passed into and across, by railway and cart, the long wheat and millet-growing plain of Taiyuan. Before that had come the wheat fi'elds which are crossed by the Shanghai to Peking railway, and next week I go into Manchuria, whose ex pansive plains are the nation's gran ary, and from which her horses, cat tle and hides come. Whether one goes cross-country, through hills, by water, or in the cities he is impressed with the immensity of the country's wealth. She has depressing poverty, too, but wealth predominates. The other evidence of Chinas great ness which I have seen recently is her Christian students. I have seen them at their best this summer. Last week I saw 250 of them gathered in a 600 year old temple in the North China Conference, representatives of 20,000 other students in Chihli province. One could almost imagine the shades of generations of old Buddhist priests stirring in their tombs as this group of prospective Christian leaders sat at their councils of war against a nation's evils. This week I am hav ing the privilege of meeting daily with a hundred more students in Taiku, where rest the bodies of thirty-one of the one hundred and fifty-nine Chris tian martyrs, (fifteen of them Ameri cans) who laid down their lives in this province, victims of Boxer fanat icism and hatred in x900. Th'e place is scarred with the blood of men and women who, like Christ himself, died for. the love of others. It will be sacred also to many of the men gatn- KETIRING FROM BELGIUM ith the Allied Armies in Belgium, jwber 16 The Germans have start a retreat on a tremendous scale 0R Northern Reln-inm - RVenr'h cal- "es from flip vnVo hf v,q nViont- ruges canal TV, iolf i f y ten milfR fvr, Knrdor of and- So fast is tbe enemv re- dtln2; thflf tVi T?-U -DioV. onrl aL ieist, in Hie cciiici he battle front have lost touch en ly with the enemy. e Belgians advancing astride the was loved by his officers and men. The, officers of this company and the officers of this regiment and he was well known by all send their hearts' love to you. In this critical period of the war he took a promi nent part in adding glorious pages to the history of our troops in France, and his death is the supreme proof of the extraordinary heroism which unhesitatingly esposes' itself as an example to others. A greater honor has no woman than to have given to the world a manly son like Lieut. Louis Armistead Free man, United States army. (signed) O. F. CARLSON,- Captain, Sixth Infantry. Medals to Celebrate the Murder of 1000 Women and Children and Non-Com batants, Instigators of every Vile Devil-Controlled Mind and. Soul in Neutral Countries to Poison the Mind as they Poison the Wells, Pirates, Violaters of Every Agreement As "Scraps of Paper" Whose Spoken or Written Contract is as Worthless as a Box of Matches in Hell, Would-Be-World Looters and Rulers' Who Cut Down Fruit Trees With the Same Ruthlessness That They Poison Wells, Crucifiers of Prisoners, Bombers of Red Cross Hospitals. WHERE IS THE MAN WHO HOLDS HIS MONEY BACK IN THE FACE OFxTHE BLOOD OF HIS COUNTRYMEN AND SUCH A CAUSE? A BOND IN EVERY HAND, AND WARREN OVER THE TOP BY SATURDAY NIGHT. ON TO BERLIN WITH PERSHING AND FOCH; wxr wtttt TTTP1 KATSER AND LUDENDORFF DEATH TO GER- 1 1 1 A m anish. -:w . . " y ' ' In the Name of the Boys Over There, Buy More Bonds. ered here now because of the fellow ship they have begun with Christ. I found r myself wondering, as I came by a tedious, tiresome, dusty cart jjuorney over the rough dry-stream roads of the plain to this out-post of the Church, about the circumstance, motive, or opportunity that brought out the first missionaries. There was no railway then, and the journey that took me Vwo days from Peking requir ed weeks of unimaginable hardships for them On inquiry I found that it was the rieat famine of the seventies that brought the first missionaries to Taiyuan, the provincial capital. Then wjde fawuke advertising of the need and suffering of the province from the famine prompted the American Board to establish its station in Taiku, with Oberlin as its home Base. The death of some of Oberlin's sons in 1900 brought forth the establishment oi the Oberlin Memorial Academy, in which the. Shansi Student Conference is being held. Two days by the same mode of travel is the station of Fen chownow the frontier station of the province. Thus the outposts of , mis- to -! sions are established in answer .the call of need and suffering. There are two men alone in the con f erence here for whom, because of their present leadership and influence, the suffering and the pioneering o. the past years has been worth while. One is K'ung Hsiang-hsi and the other is General Chao Yu-Ch'in. The for mer is a lineal decendent of Conf u cius, the great sage of China, a grad uate of Oberlin and Yale, present prin cipal of th eOberlin Academy here, outstanding leader not only of the Christian community of Taiku, but of the community, Christian and non Christianof the whole hsien (county) of Taiku, member of the China Con tinuation Committee, delegate at large for the election of the local mem ber of the National Assembly, ana fine Christian patriot, too clean " xo enter present day politics in China. During the Revolution of 1911 the keys of the city were turned over to Mr. K'ung and he was "father of the. city" for several months. General Chao says in his testimony that he was a gambler, drinker, pro fligate, spending as much as $1200 an nually in drink and cigarettes among his army companions. Driven by ex tremities of reverses in his campaign against Mongolia he tried the Chris tian's habit of prayer, and attributed the success that followed his prayers for victory. Investigation of Chris tianity on his return from the cam paign resulted in his conversion. He is now one of the most attractive, mag netic Christians I have seen in China. He leads the conference athletics, has a Bible class, and is one of the plat form speakers. In private life he is a lay preacher, ready for evangelistic trips to surrounding districts when ever the church calls on him. He sup ports a day school and pays the sal ary of a country preacher. He is still in his early thirties. Such men as these and the hundreds of students in the ten conferences of China-this; summer - are - her greatest wealth. Above her coal and iron and wheat the are her wealth! I wish I had time and space for the personal word that I should like to write to a great number of my friends. The long illness of the baby claimed my attention and that of his mother for many weeks, and since his recov ery I have been on the go. I hope you will take the thought for the deed and. believe that I follow you and the won derful participation of America in the present world situation with warm interest and prayers. I hope you will return good for evif and write when you can. I am sending this to Shan ghai for printing and mailing. Mrs. Turner and the baby are in Japan where I am to join them for the month of August. ' With every good wish to you, I am, - As ever yours, (Signed) 'GENE TURNER. W.S.S.- BRITISH REACH TRIPOLI In the Palestine theater the British calvary has driven far to the north and northwest of Damascus, having reached Tripoli near the Mediterran ean coast, 45 miles north, of Beirut and Horns, 85 miles north of Damascus. By this maneuver there seemingly is created for the Ottoman forces the menace of again being caught between General Allenby's armies and crushed. W.S.S. RED CROSS WORK IN FARAWAY SIBERIA; WORKERS WANTED People who desire to go to Siberia for Red Cross work may possibly be given the opporunity a little later on 1 conditions in that country make advisable to send over a commission. While there have been no requistions so far for workers for this branch of the service, the division department :of personnel all over the country have been asked to consider applications so that if the call should come workers can be supplied promptly. All those who are interested and who wish to have their applications on file in case of being needed can obtain the necesary papers and inf ormation from the Department of Personnel, Southern Division, American Red Cross, 822 Healey Building, Atlanta, Georgia. - WJ3.S.- There can be no peace with an 'unre pentant, non-crushed Germany. Keep the boys winning with Liberty Bonds, and end this war next year, instead of dragging it out thru untold suffer ing. It takes bonds of Liberty to keep off scourages of slavery.