North Carolina Newspapers

EW BERN SEMI-WEEKLY NEW BERKl, NORTH CAROLINA. SEPTEMBER 15 1914 German Forces Flee From Terrific On WOUNDED BELGIAN SOLDIER GENERAL VILLA WANTS O. S. T HOOPS WITH Their Retreat Betore the allies so Rapid That Guns, Ammunition and Personal Belongings are Lett Behind. Russians Capture Forti fied Lines. PARIS, Sept. 12. Tin- Germans are retreating all along the line. The Allies crossed the Asitie at llie Germans rent re and also crossed at Epcrncy and Yitry. France is at the right. ThcC.er nians also retreateil from and aban doned the neighborhood of Nancy while the French occupied l.unnevtle. The retreat is so rapid that it might be described as a flight Everywhere the Germans left not only guns and ammunition but even their personal belongings, thus showing their pre cipitous haste. THE RUSSIANS TAKE STRONGLY FORTIFIED LINE. PKTROC.KAD, Sept. 12. Accord ing to am horlcd news, the Russians yesterday stormed and raptured a sliongly fortified line lorly-five miles in extent and held by the Auslrlans between Oroljr and Turdovln. On the East Prussian frontier ihe Ger mans continue to advance, their chief efforts developing in the region of Mauser Lakes. The Russians were diiven bark by the Germans with heavy losses near Milshcnets and Orjelc. SON OF FRENCH FOR EIGN MINISTER WOUNDED LONDON, Sept. 12. The Exchange says tonight that Jacques Delecasse, son of the French Forgeln Minister, was wounded today at Bordeaux. THE BELGIANS SUCCESSFUL IN FIGHT WITH GERMANS. LONDON, Sept. 12. The Belgian legation officially announced to night that the Belgian army which sailed from Antwerp on Thursday, h'-ul been successful in repulsing the Germans all along an extended line. Alallnes and Aerschot have been retaken and the Belgian troops have blown up the railway between Louvaln and Alrlcmoy. GERMANS HAVE EVACUATED A FORTIFIED STRONGHOLD. PARIS, Sept. 12 Itry l.el'rancols, a fortified stronghold in the German centre, has been evacuated by t hi Germans and they have left the neigh borhood of Nancy. The French have re-occupled l.unncvllle and the Allies hae crossed the Aisne river and are at Maine, between Epernay and V'ltry The German retreat has been so ra pid that It might be described as a flight. These, together with the with drawal of the German left wing In Aronne Forest were outstanding fea tures in the official statement from the war office at Bordeaux tonight. GERMANS FAIL TO OFFER RESISTANCE. PARIS, Sept. 12 The secret fail ure ol the German light to ofler Its usual stubborn resistance, was re vealed In a report of the capture by General Pau of an ammunition column font and a quarter miles long which his forces destroyed. The column was advancing through Crepy En Valois and Pau sent cavalry and artillery against it. The guard was too weak and the column was destroyed. In their retirement the Germans abandoned much eqtipnient, guns, etc., also leav Ing many wounded and sacrificing many prisoners. The French aviators report that the retreat of the enemy- is rapid and disorderly. The British First and Second Division have been very successful, not only in cutting oft" a part of the fleeing forces but have rap tureil six thousand pilsoncrs and fif teen guns. The prisoners were half starved and ate ravenously ol beef an' bist i its with which the British troop supplied them. PRESSURE AGAINST GERMAN LINES FORCES RETURNMENT. PARIS, Sept. 12 The pressure against the German line between Sc r.anne and Revlngc by the French and British armies, forced the German to retire. The second German army was driven into l swamp at Stgond and is still withdrawing. The third German army is also retreating at Champagne. In Lorraine the French have occupied the eastern boundary of the Forest of Chanipchnoii and towns of Tchanl- vil.brs and Germc vlllcr. The Germans have evacuated Stdie, which indicates that the French are assuming the of fcmlve through -Vosgcs from whlrh place they were driven a fortnight PRITISH AND FRENCH TAKE t,0M PRISONERS, j(ONppN, Spc, J2:-V (Ijspatch slaught By French the Dally News from Paris i-ais 'A motor car brings news from the front that the first and second illus ions ol the British army Willi I rem h avalry and artillery cut off and de rated a large force of the enemy (Ml miles northeast of Paris, taking (i.lKHI prisoners and 15 guns. The Germans ire reported as deinoi .illzi'd. During the light 50 British cyclists from the cover of a small wood wiped out 150 of the enemy's cavalry. "The allies losses were seven' Inn they are as nothing in comparison to those of the enemy who is now re treating north of M.irne and west t1 the Ourcq." NO DETAILS OF FIGHT RECEIVED FROM GERMANS. BERLIN, Sept. 12. No details of the battles eastward of Paris and around Verdun have been received either from the German staff or the corres pondents attached to headquarters. Emperor William has telegraphed the King of Saxony congr.in latlng him on the achievements of his army on September but the message throws little light on the lighting near Paris. The army referred to Is that under the Saxon peneral, Von Hansen, which Is in an Intermediate position between he armies of General V on But-low on the right and Duke Albrecht of YVu erttemberg on the left. Its line of march led southward over Ketiiel, so it presumably occupied a position on the left wing of the lei t centre of tin German forces engaged near Paris, the right wing of which effected a retirement before superior lllanklng forces. The captured guns and prisoners mentioned In yesterday's headquarters report are presumably the fr::lt of the success mentioned In the Emperor's congratulatory message. THE AUSTRIAN RETIREMENT CONDUCTED WITH ORDER. LONDON, Spet. 12. Telegraph-ing from Petrograd the correspondent ol the Morning Post says "The Austrian retirement of the Vistula Is being conducted with a sem blance of order, but the case Is very different with the right wing operating near Tomaszow. The Auslrlans here ire routed and fleeing In the utmost disorder. Driving In between the two wings, the Russians have cut off this Austro-Gerinan army and completely surrounded It on tsjc front and flank. The Russians have summoned this right wing to surrender. "The Russian cavalry has got be hind the retreating army with guns and the situation of the Austro tier mans now is desperate. To cross mar shes and rivers with cavalry and artillery forcing it from the opposite bank Is more than any beaten army ever ac complished since Napoleon's lime. Moreover, the Austro-Germans have lost the bulk of their supply trains and the men must be starving. "The Opele Touroblnc line of 40 miles which the Austro Germans had itrongly fortified In order to secure t them a chance of retreat has been taken by storm, thus removing the last ob stacle to Russia's pursuit southward. "The climax to this operation has nearly been reached, for the Russian cavalry on Thursday covered twenty miles, fighting all the way the enemy's rear guard." Paris, Sept. 11. The ball le of Mann as history will term the great five days struggle along a hundred and twcniy- fivc mile front cast of Pails, has li'tin-d In favor of the allies. Not only on tin- left and right wing have the French Iriven Tiack the invaders for a dis tanrc estimated at fifty miles, hut to night It Is staled that the German cen tre is also giving way and the allies, despite the effect of five days of c,n tinuous fighting, are steadily driving back the Teatons, taking many pris oners and munitions. An official state ment from the War Office tonight says after five days of fighting, the battle has turned In favor of the French rk German right and centre Is now re treating and the allies' success on the left continues. They are advancing and taking many prisoners. The Brit - ish today took eleven guns and fifteen hundred prisoners. GERMAN RESISTANCE $ fijyjNG WY. A l.itir lip.ui Ii Mated "The Ger j: .a ii si-taiii i li.i- Iven cin.iv all along I hi- iciiuc" Two -'.gnltleant fjcts : t am I out S i 1 1 1 the herculean struggle whiih i- now entering on lis sixth dav; 1 irsl The inability of the ex ha; sted Germans to stand the terrific assai lis by the I rem h army In t he cen tie particularly and on the whole line in geneial. Vo.nd. n important movement of the Gentian right In dicalcTl by ortni.il statement "that the enemy is rel real Ing to Solsson in some disorder.." Soissons Is llie objective point which the British intend attack ing and cutting the railway lines over which the German right is receiving j its supplies from Aix La Chappelle, its base. If the British snrrrcd ther is no doubt but that the German right will be surrounded and, being left with out food or ammunition there will be notlnn,' left to do but to surrender. TERRIBLE FIGHTING TAKES PLACE AT TOWN OF VITRY. PARIS, Spot. 11. -The most ter tilile fighting of the last forty eight hours has been at Yitry which marks the centre of the Allies' front. Three ereat armies under Von Klnck, Duke Wurtembtirg and the Crown Prince, joined before the French centre and hea vy masses of troop were thrown against the allies in a desperate attempt to break through and thus relieve the pres sure which was crumpling both wings. Every attack was thrown back and finally the French followed up their advantage with a counter assault which carried everything before it This fighting lasted all last night iluri ing vich time a heavy storm was n- progress. RUSSIANS NOW FACING LARGE GERMAN FORCES. PETROGRAD, Sept. 11 The Rus sian forces in East Prussia are retir ing on a new defensive position in East Prussia to meet the attack of a large German army just arrived from the west, This force is reported to be made t'p of several corps withdrawn from the French front and two hundred thous and troops of the second line. This is believed to have denuded great fort resses in East Germany in order to in crease the army for a general assault on the Russians. THE SERVIANS HAVE OCCUPIED SEMLIN. N1S11, SERVIA, Sept. 11. The Ser vians occupied Semlin, across the river from -Belgrade this morning after a bloody battle. Semlin is tin important town of Austria-Hungary in Slavunla. It Is lo cated on the tongue of land formed by the junction of the Danube and the Save opposite Belgrade, Servia, with which it was connected by a railway bridge across the Save. It was Irom Semlin that the Aus train infantry and artillery in conjunc tion with the monitors on the river, be gan their liglillng on July agniusi the Servians. The Servians early that morning blew up the bridge connect ing Seinlitl with Belgrade, An intermit tent bombardment, according; to re port, has since been kept up iy tne Auslrians in Semlin on Belgrade. GERMANS CLAIM TO HAVE HELD THEIR OWN. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. The German embassy today received the following wireless from Berlin. "Headquarters in its first official report says that in a battle east of Pails the Germans held their own in a hcavj two days fight superior force attack ing between Meaux and Monlinlrall and from the direction of Paris. We captured fitly guns and several thous and prisoners, but retired the flank when the advance of strong hostile col imns was reported. The enemy failed to pursue." FEELING IN PARIS IS ONE OF SATISFACTION. PARIS, Sept. 11. The popular feel ing here over the result of the five 'davs' fighlin". in the great batlle of (Tiampaignc is our of lively satisfac tion. The successes, II Is admitted, do not mean that the battle has been won, bul the gain of forty miles on the German left increases the jeop ardy of their line ol coinmnnlc atlon and must cause. It Is condslerrd, a demotallzatlon of the enemy's tired forces. As yet I lu-re Is no linllcatloi thai the German army on the Lorarlne frontier will be able to get through to held the main forces, as last ac founts reported that Maubeuege was still holding out, though several fort had been placed home de combat The fall of this place might have a H" bcartiur on the result of the tatuc ,n "j" , commit fili ation, battle Iti opening a ready meant of Some critics say that even if Mau . beticge falls, that route will not be ' come available for at least two days. Bml he 't,e decided before Photo by American Press Association This photograph was made In Pt Jean's hospital. Brussels, befo flan capital was captured by the Germans. TAX ON FREIGHT TO FUTILE EFFORTS MADE TO EX EMPT FROM THE FREIGHT TAX FARM RPODUCTS. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. Pisre grading opposition from some of their colleagues to the proposed lax on freight transportation, Democrats of the ways and nieanscommittee completed'the. war revenue bill today without vital changes and It will be Introduced by Chairman Underwood. The bill will be reported to the house Monday and call ed up Tuesday. A special rule to ex pedite its passage probably will be pre sented. -x Kfforts will be made to exempt from the freight tax farm products en route to market, but the proposal was rejected, Administration leaders thought it unlikely the bill would be amended in the house. ' No one wants this bill, said Mr. Underwood. We don t want any kind of a tax, but we ran t help it.; We didn t want the war in Europe. , Administrative features wereaded to I he bill tndav nrnvlrltno f.r a rvnnlt rill.., . . of double the tax on persons who seek 1 , . i ,i : ,i to evade It and authorizing the secre-, , f .ho tm., ,,,,1 ,.,' of internal revenue to fix rules and reg-1 ulatlons. I Representative Rucker, of Missouri today introduced a bill to increase the Income lax rate one-half per cent, and to reduce the exemption to $2,000 and $3,00(1 as originally provided by the ways and means committee in the rev enue bill, but withdrawn at the request, of the President. In fm ther effort to relieve the finan cial situation, the commerce committee of the senate continued today its read-. justment of the rivers and harbors ap propriation bill, planning to reduce it. from $53,000,0000 to $31,000,000. , TO OPEN TUESDAY. The Day Will Be One. a Momemtous The opening of the Kennedy Memo rial Home on ncl Tuesday Is going lo be quite an event In the history of cnolr county, says Dr. B. W. Spill man, who is In charge of the prepa rations lor the opening exercises at the Baptists new eastern orphan age. Dr. Spilman, who will preside at the exercises. Is hearing from a num ber of people, who will be present Hon. N. J. Rouse of Kinston will for mally prsent lo the Thomasville or phanage, the parent institution, the .enolr county building. This build ing will be accepted on behalf of the rphanagc by Mr. J. II. Canady, also of Klnslon, One of the trustees of the orphangae. Hon. J. Y. Joyner, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, has acccpteil a place on the program. Rev. Might C. Moore of Raleigh, edi tor of the Blblcal Rcrordcr, will be another speaker. President Robert I.I. Wright, of Ihe East Carolina Teachers Training School at Greens ville, has written I hat he will be pre sent. The Lenoir county building Is one of the two donillorles at the eastern branch of the Baptist orphanage, thi ol her bring the gift of an Individual. It can be of any practical use, cxrept as a way out In case of disaster. The later contingency is not count ed oa as much as it is hopedd for by Paris. but the undoubted, rrvVrse ol the German left wing has given the people here immense courage. It Is pointed out that In a forced march the Germans would find the fortified city of Rheims in their path. On the whole it is considered here that if thr invaders do not retrive their fortunes rapidly jhey will have . . . . i f . ' iv gci uiii n r ranee. - , u .", - the Re! HER FUN TOO BITTER, THEY SAY OF TEACHER SHE RIDICl I l.'i PUPILS' CLOTHS AND NAMET, AND PARENTS' OCCUPATIONS, BROCKTON, Mass., parents of twenty-three Sept. 12. The pupils of the Hancock school are banded to "get the scalp" of Miss Clara J. Wetherell, the school principal and teacher of the ninth grade. The parents are keeping their children from school and say they will not let lliem return un til Miss Wetherell has been ousted. The gist of their complaint is that the tongue of ihe Yankee school ma 'a in Is too free and too sharp. Il is con stantly stabbing and stinging the little ones, the parents say. There are four specifications, as follows She makes fun of children's clothing. She makes fun of their names. She makes fun of their parents' oc cupations. She uses much slang telling chil dren "to cut it out," for instance. There is an additional allegation favoritism. The cases of Edith Skill lngs and Elsie Lays are stated. They got the same marks at examinations f In the same class, but E 1th was , , , . ,. , from going to high school and Elsie was promoted, it Is said. The parents began their effort to have Miss Wetherell removed last year, but the charges, they assert, were tabled. So now they have framed and signed a petition and have sent It to Mayor Howard and members of the Scho ! Uoard. A special meeting will be held soon to consider the charges. Miss V etherell, who lias been in service thirteen years, says the acci' satlons are unfounded. She will fight SUSPENDED SENTENCE Invoked For J. N. Houston at T ren ton. TRENTON. N. C, Sept. 11. J. N. Houston, ordered to leave the State some time ago after conviction for carrying concealed weapons, or if he remained to serve a sentence of two years of the Jones county roads, has been returned here to serve the sen tence. Houston was arrested In Camden county upon belief that he was J. W. Morris, a second degree murderer, who escaped from States prison In 1900, but when he was taken to Ral eitgh denied that he was the man. The Chief of Police of Littleton, in Raleigh at that time, identified him as Houston, and the prisoner admitted his name. Houston said he had compiled with the banishment order for a time, but returned to North Carolina a few weeks ago. E. I.. Haywood, of Conneaui, Ohio, has arrlven in the city and accepted a position in thr men's department of J. J. Baxter's department store. X MAYBE SPENCER WANTED A RIDE HIMSELF. Alfred Spencer, while talking to a colored girl at the Union Passenger Station yesterday afternoon, jerked her ticket from her hand anil tore it to pieces. The man was arrested by Captain Hi an but allowed to goa fter he had purchased the woman another ticket to Wilson. STEAMER TAKEN British Warship Capture Slnftan The SHANGHIA, CHINA, Sept. 12 Reports from Hong Kong say thr steamer Singan has been taken by a bntisn warship on tne nign seas twenty miles outside of Manila Bay at which point she had taken on Wad of tea frynj German freighter. Says That "We Should Have but One Flag Waving Over Mexican Soil, It is Humiliating.'' MEXICO CITY, Sept. 12 Gen eral Alvaro Obregon has telegraphed to ( .eneral Caranza a request by Gen eial Villa that the Constitutionalists ask Washington to withdraw the United States troops from Vers Cruz. The telegram quoted Villa as follows "With dissolution of the Huerta government now completed we should have but one flag waving over Mexican soil. It is humiliating that the Stars and Stripes yet wave." WILSONS REPRESENTATIVE AT VERA CRUZ. VERA CRUZ. Sept. 12. Paul Ful CENTRAL j FIGHT WON BY THE BRITISH GERMANS DEFEATED AT NYAS SALAND WITH HEAVY LOSS, LONDON REPORTS. LONDON, Sept. 12. British troops have met and defeated a German force of four hundred, which entered Nyas salnd, British Central Africa, accordin to an announcement by the official press bureau, which adds "The Germans lost seven officers killed and two wounded, two field and two machine guns. The loss among the rank and file has not been ascer tained, but was heavy. "The British loss among the whites was four killed and several wounded; loss among the rank and file not as certained. "On September 8 a British force ad vanced against the Germans, who, however, evaded them and attackee the British station at Karonga (oe the terminus of the Stevenson roado which was defended by one officer, fifty African rifles, the police and eight civilians. "After three hours resistance a column arrived from the British force and drove the enemy off. Later the main British force came up, and after a day's fighting in which the Ger mans fought with great determination and had to be dislodged by repeated bayonet charges, the British drove the enemy toward the Songwe river. The Biltlsh were too exhausted to continue the pursuit." T VIRGINIA CONCERN SHIPPED FIVE CAR LOADS OF CIG ARETTES TO EUROPE. PETERSBURG, Va., Sept. 12. Those interested in the effects of the European war upon the Industries of Petersburg and this country generally are very much eldted to learn that shipping to foreign countries, which is the principal business of several of Petersburg's leading Industries, has not been delayed to any great extent. The British-Ameilcan Tobacco Com pany yesterday shipped to New York for export to foreign countries five solid carloads of cigarettes. Theso goods will be shipped principally te Italy via the Suez Canal, and is an evidence, according to representative of the company here, that the English arc keeping the seas well cleared for (he transartion of business between this and European countries. It was also learned from the genera M 1 superintendent of the Norfolk anB leg, ,pace in the newspapers than the Western Railway Company here ye war against Germany and Austria, terday that the Norfolk and Wester jhig cur9e of Russia has undoubted alone was handling between here an Uy heerl dealt a staggering blow. ,orlolk daily Ml solid trains oi coa for export in addition to other freight NEW PUMP IS BEING CONNECT ED. The new pump which is to be used at the wells back of the City Hall has arrived and Is being connected up. The pump la rotary made by the Gould Manufacturing Company of Seneca Falls, N. Y., and has a capacity of seven hunderd gallons per minute It will be propelled by a .seventy-five horse power motor. TWO CASES ON DOCKET IN PO LICK COURT. There were only two case on dock et at ToHre Court VMterdav after. noon. John Watrtn, colored, was taxed with the cost (or being disorderly in the city limits, and John Pollock colored paid the cost lor tilling a bicy cle at night without light. - . ler, personal representatl.e of Presi dent Wilson, here today enroute from Mexico City to Washington, spoke of his rerent mission to the Mexicai capital with much reserve. He said he .had been accorded every courtesy by General Carranza but he evaded questions regarding which he had ac complished. Mr. Fuller said he had complied with the Instructions to present his message, adding, "I got all I expect ed." He charterlzed the situation as "not altogether dark." m BLESSIIE TO RUSSIA; NATION WAKES OPINION OF ST. PETERSBURG WRITER DRUNKENNESS CURSE OF COUNTRY. PETROGRAD, Sept. 12. So far, the war has had merely a stimulating and Invigorating effect on Russia.- True, she has suffered her losses, the increase of mourning-clad figures In the streets bears melancholy witness to this. But individual bereavement and suffering are merged in the national rejoicing over the results already ac hieved, and the iron determination of the government to prosecute the war through all vicisitudes until Germany Is brought to her knees. When Germany light-heartedly em barked upon the war she was under many delusions, but none ; ol th greater tliafr'tTiaf ' which concerned the attitude of the people of this country. Months before the outbreak of the war. it had become the fixed belief of Ger many that Russia was on the eve of revolution and that any war in which she became involved would only hasten the progress of her disintegration. Nothing could be further irom the truth. The sobriety and stidiness of her attitude have neen -eonspicous. The announcements of the generaf staff, which form practically the oriry news published with reference to the operations of the Russian armies, are models of modesty. As a metter of fact, when they depart from the barest statement of fact they are inclined to rather un derestimate the accomplishments of Russian valor. By the public they are received with calm, whatever their purport. Very little disposition to hysterical exultation is apparent, either in the press or the public attitude. Even the news of the fall of Lemberg was received without any loss of dig nity. At the same time a deep enthusi asm is coming over the Russian peo ple, and if the war continues tb fol low the course it has taken, this will probably result in a great national renaissance. For generations, in spite of her astounding progress in many directions, Russia as a whole, has ef fected nothing which has deeply stir red the imaginations of her people. The successful issue of the present campaign will mean a great rebirth of self-confidence and the revival, in thousand-fold force, of the old ideals of liberation held by the people. The prohibition of alcohol con sumption, extended to the conclusion of the war, points to one of the obvi ous paths to national rebirth. The war against drunkenness occupies only MUSICAL COMEDY. King and Glbba at the Athena - Thl Week. King and Gibbs, with their company of ten musical comedy artiste, will ar rive in Kew Bern today to begin weka . . engagement at the Athens theatre which will mean that ther will be el. -y day, and nights "of real enjoyment ' (or the' patron of that popular play house. ... .. , 1 This company it composed of seven - fascinating girt and three men.' They '' a. ..... . r carry the most .elaborate costumes - and acenic effec of any company on ; the road this seasoa and their show is ' far abora the standard set by musi cal comedy companiea. ' - ' , The .first performance wjll be given tomorrow afternoon and at night thrf willba' wfh9f . ,.: ; ' ' . them ".S - 1