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C, DL-:-:3 of Tha Eye, Ear, Nc:3 and Threat. . ' AND - riTipia GLASSES, ' 1 -C:d. "::c:.z sad Sr;cry? ' O. V. VHfinson, i , ii.N.C. Mauuin? & Kitchin, I::u,-' h, N. C. r.llGJITY STRUGGLE IS NOW RAGING - NOTABLE. GAINS OF GROUND AND TREMENDOUS LOSSES BY. EN : EMYMARK FIGHTING, ft SOHRY PL'EHT "OF GERMANS Fo Is Fig.. .j.ib Stubbornly But to .1 Ha Avail; Alllts Hava Takgi ; ' Mora Than 34,000 Priaonera. '' .' i' ' ' '. -si--After a abort period of relative calm on . the Bolaaooa-Rbelms salient the central and western .sections, of the battle trontatr&ln have been the scenes of talghty struggles. .' - " On both sectors the allied.' forces bare achieved notable gains of ground which, observed on . the war maps, seemingly place the German armies In front of them la precarious positional . In battle extending from the region Immediately south of Solsaons to the northwest of Fere En Tardecols a,nd southwest of the last named towu over the ifpper portion of the' left branch Of the "V salient running ten mile eastward from Nealos to Vllle En Tsrdenols and with St. Oumme as Its.' southern base; America, - Fronch and British .iroopa have" pushed back .the armies pf the OornTan crown prince, Korthwest tt Kere the entire elbow of ttie line '-where -it tamed eastward along, tho northern bank of the Ourca. has been blottedout, making .the Una a straight one fronTFere .to Hartennes and giving, the all'es much better ground over which to work Id further outflanking Solsaons on the southeaat and for pressing oa toward Flames. . The' most Important gain,1 however, was on the upper wasters point of the "V,".. southeast of Fete, . Here the Village of Clergea and the Meuntere wood were taken, maneuver which places the Germans at the bottom of the "V" at St. Oemme in a seemingly precarious plight, tor from the wood and the village the allied guns will be able to rake the Germans, If they northward, their - only avenue of es cape, ot an enOladlng lire.. Through the capture of the Meuniere wood, the wMIlr tef thr MV fr'omlhe'trtnges f the forest of Rontlgny on the east, has been cut -down relatively 'to four miles. ' i - - ' m SECOND .BATTLE OF MARNE v BEEMS PRACTICALLY AT. END ,:New York. Despite' minor fluctua tions in. .the. ImmeWte future, such as remains -possible after every simi lar conflict has reached its feat term, the second battle of . the Mftrne has. ended. It' was' practically over' last Sunday when, the .Germans.. began to take root In the hills north ef the Ourcq and .south pf the vajley of the Cerise,. about 8olssons and p the Andre west of Rheima.. Boehm's- army has fount! at least a temporary halting place on' this front, as did Kluck's a little further to the north after the retreat from the . Marne four years ago. - - r "... The largest : number of divisions which 'have been reported as fighting In the defeated army- is 71,. and there have been other estimates smaller, but not materially .smaller." Three quar ters ' of a million men is perhaps a fair appraisal of, the fighting strength of the Germane at the Marne, at least a quarter less than were used in the first battle of the Marne, and compar ing with SO divisions used in the bat tle ot Plcardjr In March. Of their forces engaged the Germans have lost between Vquarter and a- third, from 200,000 to 250,000, upwards . Of 600 guns and a mass of war material. Which has not yet been tabulated, but is known to be enormous. In the 14 days of the Focb counter-offensive the Germans have retired something like an average, "of ten miles on a front of 80, with a maximum ot 15, and have thus evacuated more ground' than .they have surrendered on the morrow of any battle in the west, gave the first Marne. -and from a third to a half .as much as was involved in the famous' Hindenburg : retreat ot Warch and April, 1817. . ' LARGE BODIES OF GERMANS ..f ARE FLEEING NORTHWARD WIT'i the' French Army to France. V'ith the tall of darkness fighting Ton! C F nfitl bewteen-the allies and the I on the western side of the T ac' s salient, . Allied ob. i in. jd 'that bodies bf Ger 6 ninns n3 fleuing precipitately north ward along the ro-jd, leading from Lau noy, wliirh lies about midway between Solssows and Fere-En-Tardenoia for tho first time allied reserves are said to outnumber those of enemy. .' FRENCH TAKE GREAT BOOTY;" FOLLOWING L'P HUN RETREAT ' London. TT-e booty captured by V.ia Fron In following 'up the Ger. I u ro net from the Marne included ii ! f. ;si!t of bridging liifitpr'al ' 't : ' ( .ins h:1. 1 i-,-'':':-tJ ,t !': ' " ELIAS J. JACOBY . . ,,, "'Maw ' 4' . J J V. ..V rsjwspM)r I n um J I Ellas J. Jaccby of lndlanapoila,for many years associated In law practice with the lae Charlee W. Fairbanks, former vice preeldent of the United'; States, and who Is now vice president of the Railroadman's . Building 'and Savings association, was advanced to "the highest office of the Order of the Mystlo Shrine for North Anterior at the meeting ef the Imperial Council, Ancient ArablcOrdar, Noblee of the Mystlo Shrine, at At'antle City, being mede Imperial notentete. - ' THE ONE. GREAT OBJECT PRESENT LUfct, IS INDICATION OF V FIERCE 8TRUQQLE MAY BE- ; , GIN AT ANY MOMENT.-. ,, Te Kill .aa. Many of the Other le Prime Object ef Opposing Forces. Field Marshal Aasasolnate'd. . Washington. An odd calm fell over the Alane-Marne battle area with only the thunder of the guns to tell ot new and more terrible cults ot the war storm to come. ParU and Berlin boHrt noted it The Infantry had paused for Breath, while . the artillery pounded .new roade of advance - for , Genera) Foch's victorious' armies.-.. ' ' The victory, waa given sew signifi cance by General March, chief of staff. Puttiug jwlde-tae eeseive with -which he hitherto has 'commented on the wider aspects of the battle, General ' March told ' the newspaper men at . his mid-week ; conference that ' each army was now bent on the destruction ?of the other; all lesser strategy objeo ' tives had' been swept away on both r sides. The: mission ' of eachla i to destroy 'the fighting power of the "other. ft is. the ultimate military ob- jective that both are now seeking and there can be no halting short of the . goal. ' ! :-; y-.K,: -' v "The objective ot each amy is the 'other army, each one ot them wants i iir iuu aa many oi iu uiuor as vyw i iible.. ,-. 'i.:,:.v - - ' ' the chief of staff had prefaced this new eonceptfln of the great struggle with a careful outline of the battle positions, showing that since last Sat. nrday another ten mlless had been out out of the length of the battle line by allied successes. It is now barely 54 miles around the flattened salient In which the enemy has. massed vir- :; tualiy a million' men as against 74 i.. miles when the counter-assault was set in motion. From Chateau-Thierry, the Americans have made the maxi mum advance, covering 14 miles to reach the positions where they rested. CONTROL OF- TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE LINES TAKEN OVER Washington. Control of telephone and telegraph lines were taken over ,b? the, postofflce department and their operation placed under the general su perviBeon of a special committee creat ed for the purpose by Postmaster Gen eral Burlesqn. . . . ; Mr. Burleson announced that until further 'notice the-companies will con tinue operation til the ordinary course through the regular channels and that all officers and employes will continue, In the pvTfeirmance ot their present duties of the same terms ef employ ment. The plan is, however, to co-ordinate the facilities ot the: various companies, " . 1 BIG LOCOMOTIVE ORDER FOR MILITARY RAILROADS Washington. The war department baa ordered B10. locomotives for mili tary railroads in France from the Bald win Liifomotive-Works at . a' total cost of about $25,000,000, it. was an nounced. About 10,000 freight cars for s rvlce in France, costing about $18,0u3,C.)O will be ordered within a few days. The locomotives will be of the American mogul consolidation type weighing 270,000 pounds and Will cost about 50,000 each.. COAL IN EELGIUM 13 - " NOW SCARCEST ARTICLE Havre, France. Coal, which before nr wVs the basis of Belgium's prr.i I. nn. ln .P.rcflst article In r.,-v I'f.ir's t ! 1 ' for the Belgians. The 'tion of coal was 23,Crr. 1 130.000 r l were e i- mines, I ' the C r N'nw C v i i f ' ' CRISIS IN ALLIED . OFFEIISIVE KEAR i ALL ALONQ FRONJ'OF M. MILES " ALLIED FORCES HAVE STEAD- ; ILV PRESSEDf ENEMY. r, ... s , SOISSIS HAS CEEfJ BETAKfN Americana Nov Ceeirol Almost All Hill and ForestiCountry In ' . Southern Area. . .-' ' The crisis In the allied offensive en the SolaaOns-Rhelme'Vssllent " appar ently haa heen reached. French troona ! L... ..I...J . V. . ..... a, O . ik. western anchor point; at what remalna of the famous aalleni; and all along the 36 miles .of curving battle line from Solsaons to 'Thiols, which lies about three inlles wst ot Rhelms, French, American and British troops hAve pushed In the -entire enemy front and sent the Germans backward ev erywhere In preC'IplUt retreat. Over the battle front the allies, by quick and forcible methods: of onslaught, have deeply Indented" the German de fense line for spleaittd gains, Which seemingly foreshadow the necessity of the eventual . recrement of the forces of the German crown prince Lto more tenable ground In the north. (' The plains behind Vie northwestern portion of the battle front now are entirely dominated, -by the allied big guns. In 'the sooth' " the French and Americans have negotiated almost all of the hill and forest Country and are Encroaching precipitately toward the Flames railway, while4 on the east the British and. French are almost astride the Rhetms-SoissoBB (railway and have their guns now sa placed that the en emy is sure to t sorely tried as he endeavors to' press back, and gain a haven of refuge along, the Vesle river. Just how far the retreat ot the Ger- mans will go cannot at present be forecast, but with the southern line swinging northward Jj In conjunction with that on the fast toward the Vesle,! and with the French dominat ing the Alsne eastward from Soissons, it is not improbable that the Ger- 1 Jaana may WeeaadUo jtaka tetuge north of the Alsne. Numerous towns 'and hamlets have been : captured by the allied troops during the latest fighting and at some points they have advanced from two to three miles. South ot Soissons the entire Crlse river has been forded by the allied troops, northeast of Fere-en-Tardenols the allied line haa been pushed well to the east of .the region ot Grand Roioy and the town of Sa ponay has been taken.-.- In the center the Nesles wood is being swept clean ot Germans by the French cavalry and1 American and French troops are pressing the Germans hard north of Sergy andthe hamlet of Nesles. ' Further . eastward -almost - to the gates of Rbeims, combined forces of British and French ; everywhere are sorely harassing the enemy. , In this latter region, in addition to ThillolS the village of Yille-en-Hardenois is in allied hands and the French now are on the heels of the Germans two and a half miles north of the Dormans Rheims high road over a front of nearly four miles. , 1 Altogether, ' viewed . from the war maps, the situation for the allied troops at present is a most promising one for complete success in ridding the Solssons-Rhelms salient entirely ot the enemy, r . . : - v ', t , . 250,000 CHRISTIAN GREEKS H ARE DEPORTED BY TURKS NewTork.iMore than 250,000 Chris tian Greeks have been deported by the Turks from their homes In the flour ishing regions of Turkey bordering on the coast, notably from Samsonn, Aiv all,1 Treblzond and Smyrna, according to a report' from the Greek foreign of fice of the jrellef committee for. GrqeHg of Asia Mor, given ont here, ; ' ' "They have been taxed ont of busi ness, thetr homes and property con fiscated and , themselves driven : into the deserts to die of starvation' DR WILLIS HEADS NAVAL .' . BASE HOSPITAL UNIT " Richmond, Va. Announcement was made of. the organisation of a naval base hospital unit headed by Dr. A. Murat Willis, of' fhe Johnston-Willis bospttaL. The unit will be comprised oO 60 nurses and 10 -doctors who are specialists in various branches of medicine and surgery. . C Word was received a few days ago announcing the arrival or the Doctor McGuire unit In France. , ; . FORMER NORTH CAROLINIAN ARRESTED IN WASHINGTON Washington. S. 1 Travis, of Hall- N. C, former member of the cor- poranon coi.imi.uu ui i. ...I nuu a loader In Norm woirsa politics and two other men, E. J. J ispph and l-on Green, wore arr"' ' 1 at a Wash ! Ion hotol ly fsdc.l e ::'ioriUes ' -".'d w:'h fnap!r:r.r f ).' '!a a ' r v ; . "" ' FRANK L BAYLIES I I 71 ' . '"L- IV: .. i , a L ilflra? Frank L. Baylies ef New Bedford, Masa whe has distinguished himself aa an aviator with the French flying forces was reported mlsalng recently. FRENCH dSO PKEFORMO BITTER FIGHTING CONTINUES BETWEEN - AMERICAN AND GERMAN FORCES. Franoh Troos on Both Side of Fighting Front Also Move Forward for Goodly Galna. . American troops fighting north of the Oourcq river In , the Solssons Rhelms salient have . enlarged ' their brilliant victory of Monday at Sergy, where they cut to pieces divisions of Germany's picked troops and took and. held the village against counter-attacks. ' -. ' Notwithstanding continued heavy opposition by guns, machine guna and large numbers ot the enemy, soldiers from the middle western and eaatert statea drove their line northward from Sergy Tuesday for a distance of about two miles snd were resting at night on the slopes approaching the . woods beyond the town ot Nesles. Where they stood at last accounts, the Amer icans formed the apex ot the long line Tannine acrossr tbe -sail tr- S " " While the bitter fighting " waa In progress between the Americans and Germans, the French troops on both sides of the fighting front also moved forward for goodly gains northeast of Fere-EJn-Tardenols and east of Sergy. " . Tn'.tae- Nesles forest ''the Germans are holding strong positions, from which they are shelling, but thus tar ineffectively, the menacing allied line before them. . , Prussian guards and Bavarians were In the thick of the fighting throughout Tuesday, but 'again they were out-maneuvered and outfought by the Americans and again suffered heavy casualties. ' . v ' The Germans apparently are on the eve of attempting to end their retreat from the Solssons-Rhelms salient and turning and offering frontal battle In force to the entente; allied armies. The day of rear guard actions seems 'drawing to a close. . Violent counter offensive measures against their an tagonists already, are in progress. ' BATTLE OF TH, EMARNE HAS ENTERED NEW ATAGE v Washington. The second battle ot the Marne, has entered a new phase. Both French and German official statements tonight reflect the increas ed fury of the fighting, for several days past, in dictating to officials here that a new crisis is approaching. The decision cannot long be delayed. ' It was not clear whether the enemy had reached a line on which he pro posed to halt his withdrawal, fhe general trend of his present front along the, irregular line that now forms the bottom of the Aisne-Marne salient was regarded by most observ ers, however, as not representing posi tions of such nature as would lend themselves to a determined effort to bring - the Anglo-French-American fOrces tO a halt,..:..i;vV.y;';S:::.;.;;',. CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ' HAS ARRIVED IN LONDON London. The naval affairs commit tee of the house of representatives, headed by Chairman Padgett, has ar rived in London after an uneventfuj voyage on an American battleship. The committee was met by representa tives of the Brttsh admiralty and -other, officials and before preceding to London, visited the naval bases and witnessed the joint activities of the British and American navlea in those waters. AIRCRAFT INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN ORDERED Washington. Criticism byCcneral Pershing and others of the de Havi land airplane are being y investi gated. V After Secretary Baker's statement last week to senate som mittee members that General Tpf 3i ing had sent a cablegram crl " ' t de Havilnnd machines so r changes sn.t 'Vonr-wring i 1? ( 5 BANKS OF AISIIE GERMANS FLEEING FOR SAFETY ARE HOTLY PRESSED ALONG TEN MILE FRONT. TOWN OF FISHES IS MN Former Great German Supply Sae ' Between Soissons and Rheima Taken by Allies. - The German retreat continues ts abated, with the allies everywhere In hot pursuit ' ' Aparenfly the situation now. has resolved itself into a race for the northern bank ot the Alsne river by the Germane, who have been evicted from strategic positions along the Vesle river. In the center, ot the line and directly east ot Rheima, which seemingly renders aecesaary that they put the Alsne between themselves and their pursuers as quickly aa possible In order to escape further large losses of men made prisoners. Just how large . this bag of cap tives Is at present cannot be reckon ed, but unofficial advices, from Paris assert that when the figures are made public they wUl thrill the allied world. General Pershing in his com munique saya the Americans alone have taken 1,400 prisoners and, la addition, 338 guna. ' " .. After hard fighting the 'Americans and French have succeeded in taking from the Germane the Important town of . Fismes, once Germany's great ammunition and aupply. depot, midway on the railway between Soissons and' Rhelms, while to the east at a num ber ot places along the Veele river the French have croased the stream, driving the . enemy northeastward. East of Soissons allied trops have negotiated the passage of the Alsne to the northern bank of that . stream, where they are in a position to harass the enemy aa he endeavors to straigt en out hla line In conformity with that running northeaatward. So fast as has been the retreat of the Oct uiaua la 'the tenter--that "mi ready some element of their forces have auCceeded In reaching the north ern bank of the Alsne and getting numbers ot their big guns across with them. All through the salient town are still ablaze behind the retreating German,, and even corn fields have been set afire in order to prevent the allied troops from garnering the rip ened crop. ., With the river at freshet and the Germans unable to ford 4t,' they stood with their backs to it and gave battle for their lives. A majority of them were killed and the remainder were made prisoners... One of the most Im portant nsanuevers north of the. Vesle was the penetration by the French to the village of LaNeuvlllette which re leases the German hold on the north ern outskirts ot Rhelms and seeming ly delivers the cathedral city . from the German menace. SPEEDY ENACTMENT OF :V DRAFT EXTENSION MEASURE Washington. Legislation to extend the selective service act to all men between the ' ages of 18 and 45, aa recommended by the war "department, will be Introduced in both houses "of Congress at the semi-weekly recess sessions. According to plans of con gressional, leaders, spending their va cation here, the bill, which will .'be , j . . i t t . will be referred to the senate and house military a: airs eommlttees, of which .Senator Chamberlain and Rep resentative Dent are the respectjve chairmen.'. ." , ' ! . Though the house does not reassem ble until August 19 and the senate qn August 24, it is expected that the draft extension bills will be enacted speed ily, Chairman Dent, of the house mili tary affairs commtltee, said ha would call his committee together aa soon as the house reassembles and hear ings are hMi;,-f-fif'-y-x,M: GERMAN U-BOAT MAKES FORAY . ; IN NOVA 8CQTlAN.WATEr8 Halifax, N. 8. Three American, schooners were sunk by German sub marines off Seal ; Island, "'Yarm.qu.Hi county," on the Nova Scotia coast. Tfce crews landed tn the tov Scotlan coast. The commander ot the subma rine told an American skipper that he had sunk more American-schooners hailing from Boston and Glouces ter . recently. - He did not give the names of the vessels, ' ; GENERAL PERSHING GIVEN ' ,. CROSS LEGION OF HONOR Paris. General J. Pershing com mander in chief of the Amerl-i t 'peditionary forcos in fr v awarded the gra 1 r t i..e Li-.ton of Honor by, t ?i I Oi j wenimenL Prw.'.rn' CU'-menc f t the f--"nw-Inp te'c-ra'n to ' 1 F "I take l -(' r e HUfl RACING FO The Success Of A Business Depends in large measure upon the policy employed; , Correct business policy demands a strong banking connection. . - . An affiliation with this Institution insures dependable counsel, timely financial assistance and every modern banking facility. We cordially invite business " men's accounts. Planters Nation'! Bank Rocky Mount, N.C.' Every: Citizen of Nash v County is Invited to Visit . 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