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Weather report for North Carolina: Pair Tonight and Wednssday.-Pr ly Showers in northeast Portion, Strong ITcitsart XTinda c Coast. MMONW AFTERNOON n'AH v SLOGAN: "EVERY ONE FOE EACH OTHER AND ALL TOGETHER FOlT SCOTLAND NECK." ALT VOLUME TWO AFTERNOON DAILY SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1917. TELEGRAPH SERVICE NUMBER 36. W3db (&iraitei3: BsM Him Pirogues Qyir Aim Aima Eoimdlnimg Miles AUTONOMY FOR ALSACE UKRAINE PR IB GERMAN COUNTER ATTACK FAILS AFTERNOON TO BE GER- IN (BY UNITED PEESS) London, Aug. 21. The third most powerful German counter at tack to regain ground captured by the Vritish southeast of Epehy was thrown back by the British fire today, according to a report PROBAABLE SOP TO HOLD ALLEGIANCE FieId Marshal Sir D CHANCELLOR MICHATLIS WILL THIS THE REICHSTAG ANNOUNCE THIS MANY'S DECISION. LABOR WAGE TO BE RAISED AMIS MOLD SWAY o- (By UNITED PRESS) Zurich, Aug. 21. German Chan cellor, Dr. George Michaelis, will announce Germany's decision to grant autonomy to Alsace and Lorraine provinces at this after noon's session of the main Reich stag committee, according to a special agency dispatch. FREIGHT RATE CASE POSTPONED (By United Press.) rcsiWh. N- C Ausr. 21. The Corporation Commission indefi nately postponed the hearoing set for August 30 the petition of the North Carolina railroads to have what is known as the Georgia freight rate tariffs applied-to North Carolina with a view to having a schedule adopted throughout the southeastern freight zone. This probably means the aban donment of the move by the railroads. WILSON PLANS PEACE REPLY YA. EPIDEMIC HAS VANISHED (By United Press) Richmond, Aug. 21. Halting as inexplicably as it broke out the infantile paralysis epidemic in northwest Virginia today had ap parently come abruptly to an end Nearly 100 victims who were smitten recovered during the The whole question now is what swift course of cool weather, and is to be included in the construe- this change in atmosphere is at- tive reply the president will send tributed the cause by the health since he must accept those nro- authorities. ' A. visions in the Pope's proposals calling for disarmament and ar bitration of future international differences. He cannot accept "stafu-quo'' ante-provisions because he de clared against this in his Russian message, and he cannot admit willingness to sit' about a peace . (By Carl D. Groat:) (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Washington, Aug. 21. Presi dent Wilson postponed the discus sion with his cabinet on the pope's peace suggestions in orde.r to give nis unaiviaea attention to war work. . L (By United Press.) Washington, Aug. 21. A nation-wide strike in the steel ship yards, working on government contracts, will be prevented by wage increases paid by the gov ernment. . In his first clash with organized labor on war work Uncle Sam will recognize the claim that for in creased cost of living warrants a higher wage scale. The final decision is to be left with a committee of three ap pointed by President Wilson, Samuel Gompers and the shipping board. ON WE FROM THE SEA COAST TO THE SWISS FRONTIER THE AL T TT1T m . Mx.u AumiJSS AK FIGHTING A CONTINUOUS FENSIVE OVER ENTIRE FRONT. OF- French Are To Study English Paris, Aug. 21. It has been suggested by a state functionary, who resides in the zone where the table with German people repre- American army has taken up , its NEW LIBERTIES FOR RUSSIANS . (BY UNITED PEESS) Petrograd, Aug. 21. Under the regime of the Czar no secret socie ties of any sort were permitted to exist and lodge night was a pleas ure unknown to Russian males. jt has developed there are some 10;000 Masons in Russia, who held loflge meetings behind guarded doors. - "-. ; "'' Steps are being taken to form a national organization. GERMANY MAY LOST WESTERN FRONT -o War Mars N. Y. Boat Excursions Ne wYork, Aug. 21. The war has put pep into harbor ' excur sions. No longer does the small motor launch, the cat-boat or the houseboat wend its way down the harbor unchallenged and unmo lested. Every chaft, large or small, is held up by the government patrol boats and asked for an account of itself. Of course the large steam ers are easily discernible and therefore not stopped. But woe betide the private yacht or craft of any desccription that attempts to get by. It may cruise along for miles, its . occupants smiling at the thought of putting one over on Uncle Sam. At this Juncture a business like little pa trol boat is liable to come along side. A murderous looking mounted gun may be seen and from the boat a stentorian voice diets that the craft put back and report to the mother ship. And the craft that tried to run the gauntlet goes back. sented by a pawn of the .Hollen- ollerns. He must further demand guar antees that will not be regarded as "mere scraps of paper," and such a guarantee would be im possible except from a democracy. The president will doubtless point to a peace for the German people but will make it clear that this cannot come through the of fices of the Kaiser's iron auto cracy. A first reply to the Pope seems to be a general allied -offensive of tremendously increasing violence along all fronts except Russia. It is the general opinion that while the Pope 's message may not meet with immediate success it will lay the groundwork for peace negotiations that may se,e an end of the struggle within another year. quarters, that the tradesmen and officials of this district be made to take a course in elementarv English. This idea was inspired by the difficulties "Sammy" has in making himself understood. The practical means of realiz ing this, says the writer, would be a wholesale distribution of a pam phlet giving the simplest English and American phrases and their French equivalents. The propos: al is favorably commented on and may shortly be realized. HINDENBURG ON EAST FRONT GRAND ARMY PARADE TODAY (By United Press.) Boston, Aug. 21. The "sold iers of yesterday" veterans of the G. A. R., more than 7,000 strong, marched in a huge parade here today, the second of the na tional reunion. With the veterans marched other allied organizations, among which was the Navy Medal Honor League which is holding its an nual convention in conjunction with the G. A. R. encampment. Many a young soldier just be- J- ginning., the. game:of war-watched with a thrill the veterans march by with a swing that might be en vied by many a regiment o to dav. In the evening the veterans will attend a camp-fire when promi nent officers of the organization will speak. (By UNITE) PHESS) Washington, Aug. 21. Field Marshal Von Hindenburg has been personally conducting the Austro-German operations against Russo-Rumanians in the drive against Jassy in Rumania, cables to the Russian embassy here report. HOGS SOLD FOR $20 HUNDRED (By Henry Wood.') (United Press Staff Correspondent.) With the French armies afcM, Aug. 21. The greatest bait Jo of the world is being fought i-nhiy. From scaeoast to the Swiss rentier over iour hundred and thirty five mile the allie;; Threes are fighting a practically contin uous offensive. France's great assault at Ver dun is still driving on and has completed a chain of battled wedd ed forge of war into one gignntic action unprecedented in the ox tent of p..-er. The fe the An Flande- Vritish sta t" 1 with v v e in .1 jto tho tbenee to the French attacks around St. Quentin, then the French offen sive at Chemin des Dair.cs, Moroii ville and Verdun, concluded with heavy artillery fighting in A .ace Lorraine and down to Svftozer land. The western front lias never seen such an offensive battle, nor has the allies supremacy every where been so thoroughly demon strated. With three months more of fighting weather this year Ger many's hold on ihc western front may yet become precarious before winter. (By United Press.) Chicago, Ills., Aug. 21. Hogs sold at $20.00 a hundred pounds, Paris, Aug. 21. German picked fifty cents higher than yesterday. troops flung violently, but vainly, BOOELEIS OF SELECTED LABOR PARTY WITH SOCIALISTS FRANCO-GERMAN MAR RIAGE IN FRANCE. Bordeaux, Aug. 21. For the first time during the war a purely Franco-German marriage has taken place here. Local papers carried the message without com ment. The contracting parties )were Ernest-Carl Braunschweig "German subject" and Miss Marie-Jeanne Huni. Braunschweig is an employe of a commercial house at Libourne near here. DRAFT AM READY MADE UP WITH EVERY NAME OF THE 3563 MEN WHO REG ISTERED JUNE 5, WERE GIVEN SELECTIVE NUMBERS JULY 20, AND FIRST CALL EXAMINED AUGUST 13, 16 AND 20. Pigs were also twenty-five cents higher to $18.50 per hundred pounds. (By United Press.) OlKiou Alio- 1 rtrt - V,000 21. By a vote of to 1.231.00 the lafror members decided to parti- j Party fl 1 W 1 at the Terence. JAPAN REAPS A RICH HARVEST Tokio, Aug. 21. Japan lias made $50,000,000 from ships since the outbreak of the war. Thirty two merchantmen, aggregating 200,000 tons have been stold to England, France, Italy, America, Spain and Norway for $42,500, 000. The money obtained from PUBLISHED IN ROTATION WHICH CALLED Stockholm peace the sale of ninety trawlers is esti mated at $7,500,000. The Commonwealth has prepared a booklet o forty eight pages in which the names and numbers of all the young men of Halifax county, between the ages of 21 and 31, who were called upon to register on June 5, and who were part of the selective "lottery" drawing held in Washington, D. C, on July 20, and of whom 662 have been examined in Halifax, August 13, 16 and 20. The work of preparing this book has been an extensive one, as well as expensive, and but for the fact that the necessity of retaining a list of these men for a long time to come, perhaps always, the publi cation in the columns of The Commonwealth would have been suffic ient. This booklet has been printed in limited numbers and as long as thev last can be obtained from the officeof The Commonwealth at the 1 price of ten cents each, which is considerably less than cost. ! These names will never be published again, in their entirety so send in your orders and receive what you want now. DOWNED AVIATOR MUCH ALIVE. Paris, Aug. 21. Adjutant Ed mond Thief fry, a Belgian aviator, who has just distinguished him eslf by bringing down two Ger- man machines in the same combat, j has another distinction of which; today he is still the sole possessor in the entire aviation world. In the course of desperate aer ial fights Thieffry has himself been brought down no less than five times by his adversary, and has figured in the German offic ial account of these combats "as having been killed. No other avi ator has ever survived an equal number of defeats. The fact that Thieflry has been downed five times by enemy ma chines demonstrates his qual't" as an aviator rather than his lack of them. Each time that he has been " downed" he has been en gaged in the closest, deadliest combat with his adversary in which the latter merely happened to get the advantage, the "drop" as it were, that must come to every aviator once in awhile. against four points of the French fighting line last night the war office reports. At three places, Chemin des Dames a special "Stosstruppen" battled desperately to loose the French grip aronn.T Verdun. Petains fighters r pulsed the as saults, which wer: of thr most violent nature, an ! all French ground was held. il B R .1"U. rMm ah k. m mm m r a Hi) TO POPE S PEACE (By United Press.) Rome, Aug. 21. England is the first belligerant power to answer the. Pope's peace suggestions b presenting a formal note to the Vatican, through the British min ister Desalis, declaring that the Holy Father's p1?:: would be ex amined "in benevolent and ser ious spirit." Cardinal Gasparri, the papal secretary of state, expressed grati fication at the response. Master Raymond and Linwood Love grove arrived on the morning traia 'from Norfolk, where they have been Visiting Mr. Emnett Lovegrove.
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