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WEATHER REPORT FOB North Carolina; Wednesday fair and warmer in wet portion; Moderate west M ieoo variable. ah A Co 1 Jf TLT MMONWEALTH AFTERNOON DAILY . SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY Sj 1917. TELEGRAPH SERVICE NUMBER 27. VOLUME XXXV. mum SJT, U H HI ro ttt'l MH MM ge: NEKAL CARD ON AS TROOPS ERAGE TO CLOSE IN UPON THE KEYNOl BRITISH BOATTS iBY UNTTFD PRESS) j Rome, May 29. The Italians are advancing over a battlefield strewn with hundreds of thous- "IT A amis f Austrian dead. Any es timae ot the number killed is im possible. According to Austrian prison ers entire Austrian divisions have been wiped out. Numerous eoverns, where Aus trian stored enormous quantities of war material, including guns, mortars and thousands of guns are being captured daily. The number of prisoners taken is increasing rapidly. Home, .May 29. The south wing of the Austrian line is being slowly turned today under the tremendous leverage of General Cardornas' full force of arms ex erted westward-von, Hermado pla teau, north of Divino. r Duino itself is bounded on one side by the gulf of Trieste, and is now surrounded on the other two sides by Italian troops, and is all but detached from Austrian hold. The Italian fighting line is with in sight of the town. The capture of Duino is momen tarily expected, and , with this point in Italian possession will open the way from the coast it self for an advance upon Trieste. The way is comparatively flat as opposed to lowering craigs to the north. In such an advance the guns from the British monitors in the ! gult will be of great assistance. The Italian advance is being concentrated on this salient today and fighting continues with great violence. JAPANS RELIEVE FREIGHT PROBLEM (By UNITED PEESS) Tokio, May 26. In order to re lieve the freight congestion on ,(,tl) the Japanese and American sides of the Pacific, the Nippon j "Sell Kaishn .Tnnsin a layorpst steamship company, announced today it -was prepared to place five nevcly charted. vessels on tiie run from Yokohama to Seat tie. More than 80,000 tons of jroods, valued approximately at OOOjGOO, are piled on the docks t okohama and Kobe, awaiting shipment to America. -- i McMillan Crocker Party Is Safe ew York Mav 9Q All , , illl 111c members of the MacMillan-Crock-er land expedition are safe ac cording to a cablegram received Tln, Rroklyn from the Shetland (D) raxBim . LI USINCe iJTNDOUS LEV TO BOMBARD ABOARD OF A BIG BATTLESHIP (BY UNITED PEESS) With the American Great Fleet, May 29. America's great fleet for the moment is a human fac torygrinding out guns and crews by the score. Eoys from every corner of the land, many of whom have never seen a gun bigger than a fourth of "July pistol, are getting nired of ''gun shyness," are learning to point, sight and fire big guns, up on which merchant craft rely for defense against Germany's sub marines. Hundreds yes, thousands of men- are astir at the call of the re veille. They pile out of liam mocks from every nook and cor ner of the great crafts. The great anchor chains rattle and smash, as they heave the an chor out of the deep. The navi gator gives his orders and the ships are off, a line of ugly war riors, streaking the sky writh black smoke clouds. Flags bearing strange devices signal out to the patrol ships, which scurry forth to open the way for the dreadnaughts. Once as far as the secret orders call for, the wTar vessels spread out in a giant circle, targets are put overboard and the gunnery proceeds In 'squads, the lads take their place beside the guns, practise at filling, sighting, and firing the big- rrcT nnn?mn xvllllp the HOT). rOT) of I one-pounders at the distant targ- et gives a touch of realism to it all Aft, on all the ships, other crews are training with dummy guns one pounders and five poun ders. The shell and the powder bag go in like clockwork, and MAY FAE AT AMY MOMENT with a smash that makes it seem "Good," "That took-seconds" as though these lads were in dead- 'he'd yell back after a particular--ly combat with a real enemy. ly good performance. Up in the turrets with the tre- 0ver jn the otncr turret, thev mendous 14 inch guns, other drills Ensigns, fine clean-cut chaps, direct those tasks. Their gun crews from magazine to turrets run up close to 100 men The crews work like the great machines they man. The shell, the powder, the ramming, all go ahead like magic. Elsewhere men are working months into expert marksmen, out on charts just the range, ele- They go out now- by the score, vation and so on of the target. The ready to do battle with any U ensign yells his directions down a boat that sticks its nose out of the multitude of tubes, pushes but- waters. tons, flashes lights, and then up Gunnery training constitutes in the secret "fire control" tow er, a man pushes some more but: tons and the whole thing shoots L all the big guns at once. I sat up in a 14 inch double tar- ret with a chap named Erickson, iresn trom Annapolis only a snort BIG MEN DISCU FOREIGN AFFAI (By UNITED PRESS) Long Beach, L. I May 28 -Re- presentative men of all shades i opinion assembled here today t discuss the foreign affairs of the United States. The convention was called for the purpose of de- veloping unrestricted debate on j un to be composed of practical ' all phases of our international j woodsmen, loggers portable saw problems, and intersting all inter- j operators and others experi- j esting all Americans in them, j encedjn lumbering operations. It j Some of the scheduled speakers i will Xor unler the supervision are Charles E. Hughes, Henry WT. t technical experts in cooperation ; Morgenthau, former ambassador j with French officersetaointaointh i to Turkey William II. Taft Nich- pvith French to.-caters furnishing j ojas Murray Butler, president of j timber for bridges, railroads audi the Columbia university ; Samuel j Gompers ; Bainbridge Colby, the representative Racier ; Walter Fisher, former secretary of the in terior ; John Basset Moore, former state department counsellor and Albert ShawT, magazine editor. Open diplomacy, American problems in the Carribeaii, labor, the far east and the United States future- relations with' Latin Amer ica are among the topics under discussion. NEGROES FLE! FRON t ST Li (By UNITED PRESS) East St. Louis, 111., May 29. Hundreds of negroes are fleeing from here today, fearing a repe tition of the riots of last night, which resulted in injuries to a score of blacks. The rioting is a protest against the importation of negro labor from the south. New York, May 29. An un successful attempt has been made on the life of the new Minister of War Kerensky in Petrogard as reported in a dispatch to a Jew ish daily paper and forwarded. The said rumored plot was ar ranged by supporters of the old regime. time ago. "Load," he'd shout, and the crew from the below ships men to the loaders and rammers in his turret would be off like fiends. i1fi,irfi that, call of so manv sec- onds, and it was the call to battle. "Come on there. That other sransr did it in seconds. All rlav tbp hif" vpsspIs shifted! around, firing at the targets and whipping men into shape to man the ships that go to sea with pre- cjous f00d cargoes. The gun crews develop inside of , i iiiret; the biggest present task of the great fleet, but it must assimilate and train eager thousands for all the work that lies ahead of Am erica in naval warfare. And, it has willing hands and clear heads for the job cut oxtt. RESTERS TO FRENCH FRON (By UNITED PRESS Washington, May 29. A regi- merit of American foresters will accompany the first contingent of United States engineers to France it was announced today at the de partment of agriculture. This trench construction without peV- manethly damaging the forests from "which it is cut. The for esters will be assembled at central points. six ( Exempt Men Only Who Support Washington, May 29. Only married men who have persons de pendent wholly upon them for support will gain any considera tion in the exemption from se lective service. y However, secretary; of war. er dt$i hopes to exempt as many mar men as possible. SHADES OF SHERLOCK ' HOLMES ! MYSTERY SOLVED (By United Press) London, May 29. " Rush sec ret bread urgent heinemaim." Hist! Deed stuff! Maybe Ger mans planning to dump Englands bread supply into the bottomless sea. Postal inspector summons pos tal censor and hands him the tele gram. Censor summons a detective in spector from Scotland Yard. Detective inspector lights pipe, ties mustache behind his ears, dis - guising appearance, and sets out to thwart plan. With aid of mag nifying glass, smoked glasses, gum shoes and false face detect ive ascertains from telegraph of fice that telegram was sent by C. S. Evans, a publisher. Detective visits Evans, first filling all cham bers of pocket howitzer for possi ble gun-play. Dialogue : Detective: "Did you send a telegram signed 'heinemaim' urg ing someone to rush secret bread?" C. S.: "Yes; that is, I mean to sa3' cc rtainly. ' ' Detective: "Explain please . Evans: "Certainly; 'Secret Bread' is a new novel. I tele graphed the printers to rush thej1 1 te , . , . . . i 1 , 11T.,r . it i new euiiion to vv 1111am xitiueman and company the publishers. Detective: "Oh I" Unmystery. ? 7 COTTON MARKET Open. High. Low. Close. July 21.22 21.49 21.22 21.49 Oct. 20.82 21.10 20.80 21.10 Dec. 20.88 21.18 20.85 .21.18 Jan. 20.S6 1 21.21 20.86 21.21 March 21.07 21.41 21.07 21.41 Local Market 20 1-4. REVEALS 1 I TV77TW1TT SAYS THAT GERMANY TRIED INVOLVE UNITED STATES IN TROUBLE WITH ENGLAND AND FRANCE ASKS TRADING WITH ENEMY ACT ISSON FLYERS TEACHES YOUTH (BY UNITED PRESS) Paris, May 28. Didier Masson Los Angeles, one of the oldest of living American aviators of the tj,0 v.lf-kl, , ' " , ine organization ot a big steam- days when the aeroplane was a"; ship company to deliberately vio county fair novelty, fighter with late the "foreign trading with Carranza, in Mexico, member ofjeiiemv acts.' the La Fayette Escardrille in "The plot now being investiga France and receipient of the tQd b' tho -Partment of justice v n , 1V n , w 'i ' is upon the authority of reliable French War Cross and Military . y " . government intorniants, secre- Medal, is burning to get back m-; tary Lansiujr sai(1. to the firing line. I LallshlJi. Rp(lfiel(lj assistant at. Slasson was such a good avia-' torney general Warren have been I 'tnv that tho Frpii:li -antiinnitps hpfnrp tho fmnimittiifi rf . tin - 1VJ1 JIIIIJ.' MT1 I 111 tif 11" II ;i U M J II I i V4.vii.i T MtVb. . . J Tiecf It'isn't!excitmg enough for the commuree quesiioned Bee- veteran birdman, he told the Uni ted Press in Paris today. Masson is a dean of the college for America aviators, candidates for the Lafavette Escadrille, a Camp A'Avord when he has more j than fifty of America's young av iation bloods under his tutelage. When the young would-be bird- men pass the initial tests, medical j moral and otherwise in Paris, they are sent to Masson. First they "fiy" a "penguin", a little short winged machine which cannot rise from the ground. If they have the "knack," Masson tells them os Tf nnt lio iilf tells them so and , ,. they are invited to step out or nne , , ,. ana make room ior more promis- j jng material, ye iiaVe our good material and bad material,'" Masson said today. "The business of flying in war isn't like the work the avia tors used to do in America. I re member the time when I was one of the first men to ily over Frisco fighting. and Los Angeles and to make the f the provisional army is air trip from Los Angeles to San strong enough to back him up his Gernardino. Crowds of people supporters believe he will succeed stood with open mouths to watch in cementing Russia into cohes the wonderful performance., 'The iVe united force, newspapers printed big stories; ,n thp meaillini(. tl(. sij,ns Im,j and my picture 011 the first pages. I tjj)y that the'1H.asants wJose in. That was peace aviation. War av- itiaJ jllsisteHf.e oil tj1(, division of t rn 1 rn .1 j1 lation is amereni. laivt inese youngsters who come over to France to fly and fight. They soon realize that no crowds are going to stand and gap, no news- laooui Tiiem. its tneir ousuicss to fight the Bosche and they soon have to realize that 110 exhibition 1 flying is wanted." NEGROES RISING IN ILLINOISE (By UNITED PRESS) Springfield, 111., May 29. At- mobilizing and that speed is urg torney general Brundage received ently required. Armffly OT (By UNITED PfcESS) Washington, May 29. Another ; German plot was revealed before the House Interstate committee today when Secretary of state Lansing said that German agents attempted, shortly before the na tions war declaration, to involve the United States in differences : With England and Frniwn tluMinr?i l'etary Lansing regarding the real need of the act, when he re vealed the plot of Germany to coerce the Cnitcd States. KERENSKY NEW IDOL OF RUSSi (BY UNITED TRESS) Petrograd, .May 29 The Lloyd George of Russia Minister of War, Kerensky began today the supreme test of his power in his new riders t othe ivmv restoring ! discipline to the Russian armv . 'tii" authorization lor )UI!ls:M ; 1:, of offenders, iiu tiding penal sor- vitude for deserters which became effective in the orders issued 10 day. A popular idol, Kerensky is staking all on his abilitv 1 in cite Russians in the annv in to a!U for a time threatened the internal safety of the govern ment, are realizing increasingly the necessity for united action. 1 lie peasant congress ;t is pected reject the resolution ex-de- manding the publication of the al lied traties. and will denounce the fraternizing of Russian troops with the enemy. a telegram from the states attor ney of St. Calir county informing him he is dispatching message to Governor Lcnvden asking to rush troops to East St. Louis to quell the race riots. lie stares mat me ncgi us-.- i
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