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1 T'VOn fW K0rth Car0lina: GraUy fair tonight and Wedn eaday, light variable winds. Common wk a i ,th. BEE AFTFRNOnN nAliV SLOG AH: "EVERY ONE FOEEACH OTHER AND ALL TO CHfEB FOR SCOTLAND NECK." pElWO AFTERNOON DAILY' SCOTLAND NECK, N. 0.; TUESDAY. AUGUST 28. 1917. . TELEGRAPH SERVICE . " NUMI43 'PRES. tfttffi WORDS wj wmm w.mmmn-n mTTTTiTTw-D -ttg nnpppa urn-PTa1 lurvcc a n-c ixr a o BEAD BEFORE THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE THIS MORNING. Offset grave report of ministers o- (By Wm. G. Shepherd.) (United Press Staff Correspondent.). Moscow, Aug. 28. President V n. Pnocian Wilsons message iu . Inference electrified that assem bly today. His promise that America would iid new Kussia wim w ind material power" was greeted ,-itli thunderous cheers. The entire statement produced k deep impression cummg d n tuu fefter speeciies uy cauiucicwo vhieh had laid bare Russia s 1 i? nnv.m'nl TfirlnOVlSll brave neeci loi iiuaiiuiai, .nx.t.u.oi,.i. .".. End moral support. The president's message was re ceived at midnight. ARGENTINA'S ULTIMATUM Buenos Aires, Aug. 28. The Foreign Office announces that no reply had been received from Ber lin to Argentina's protest against the sinking of the' steamship" Toro nor to the remainder sent to Ger many that the first note had not been answered. Government of ficials do not attempt to minimize the gravity of the siuation caused by this delay. A high official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said tonight to the Associated Press: "The Ar gentine Government is determ ined to put an end to this grave question in the shortest possible time.'' He intimated that an ulti matum was being prepared. 50,000 LOSS IN FLANDERS By Henry Wood (United Press Staff Correspondent.) With the French armies afield, Aug. 28 Germany has lost over fifty thousand men in the Fland ers battle alone since July the first. These figures were eompli ed today when assembling data obtained from prisoners and gives this as the results of the battle in this sector. Opposition By Coal Men The (By United Press.) Washington, Aug. 28. The United States has asked Great Britain and France to to furnish aout two hundred officers to act as advisers in draining the new army of national guard. ' " The two allies are to send ex perts m communication, artillery, aeronautics and modern bayonet fighting, etc. Copper Prices Fixed Soon (By UNITED PRESS) Washington, Aug. 28. Copper prices will be fixed by president Wilson within the week. Eugene Meyer, Jr., a New York : " (By United Press.) -New York, Aug. 28. Sugges tion" of peace at this period of the war was characterized by Wil liam C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce, as "a trap for the un wary ' in a letter to Assemblyman Nathan B. Shapiro, of Brooklyn, made public here. Secretary Redfield declared the United States is in the war until "autocracy will never again lift its head to threaten man." British Take The Third Line KAISER GIVES HIS CONSENT TO CHANCELLORS PLAN FOR PARLIAMENTARY REFORM AND CREATION OF SEPARATE STATE DUKE UR ACH TO BE SOVEREIGN -o EPIDEMIC HITS ALL GERMANY (By United Press.) London, Aug. 28. The British took a firmer grip on the German banker," is slated to be director of . third line of defence, says Haig. copper, lead and zinc, serving un der Bernard M. Baruch. RED CROSS WAR RING MOSQUITO (By United Press.) Washington, Aug. 28. Coal operators are concerted drive against government control, with intimations of injunctions against President Wilson relative toTftttfTJflj mmous prices, particularly from Alabama where it is known that bituminous operators are attack ing the Federal Trade Commission in letters to President Wilson. Italy's Success Austria's Debacle London, Aug. 28. Italy's sweep forward from Monte Sano across the plateau of Bain Sizza is fast becoming a debacle for Austria. The Austrian flank decreed re tirements from several points to save the whole division from flanking movements. $P00 Taken The Bandits 5 By -Two (By UNTTED PRESS) Washington, Aug. 28. The American Red Cross today started ut to help win the war against the German Kaiser and the Amer ican mosquito. Great armies of skeeters now in fecting the vifinitipa nf oantmi. merit camps that will hold Amer icas first 687,000 drafted men next month, are looked upon by the Wat' Denartmpnt j strnnn-lv Pro-German. eminent official today, "would oot an American soldier full of malaria as readily as the Kaiser o"ld shoot him full of lead. One is just about as bad as the other. ' ' In the Southern-States, where rer mosquito scatters malaria 1 e the Kaiser scatters peace pro Posals, the Red Cross has already .farted lis big drive on the night ln?ale of the bedroom. must be eliminated not in camps proper, but in the around i Sixty v Within each Pest, Prepare For Council Meeting (By United Press.) Minneapolis, Aug. 28. Sheriff Langum is under orders of Gov ernor Burnquist. This has been arranged on ac count of the conference of the Na tional People's Council scheduled to meet September 1, and action will be taken if the conference threatens to create sentiment against the government. "g country. Fifteen to S(lare miles of territorv 1 radius nf n rnilp nrnnnI camp must be purged of the Russ. General Guilty Treason g-3r BX UNITED PEESS) Petroarad, Ausr. 28. General Ivanoff swore that General Suk homlinoff, the former commander in chief of; Russia's armies, under the old regime, had sent Russian militarv secrets to Berliu from Petrograd, via Warsaw. He testified in court martial against the" former commander. Trieste Being Evacuated Washington, Aug. 28. Trieste is being evacuated by its civilian population .who is deserting the town at the order of the Austrian command, according to the Zur ich correspondent of Corrier D'it alia, whose dispatches have been cabled to the Italian embassy here. nil I lAM BIBLES FOR SOLDIERS rrencli (By United Press) New York, Aug. 28. A million of kahki pocket testaments have been ordered for American sold iers who are to go to the front by he national war work council. ; (By United Press.) Chicago, Ills, Aug. 28 payroll messengers for Winslow Brothers stell manufacturers were shet and mstanly killed in a pistol dull .with five bandits who escaped wih,$9,000. he holdup occurred in' front of the tlant. (BY UNITED PRESS) Berne, Aug. 28. Germany is suffering from nation-wide epi demic of dysentery, and German mortality rates jumped from fifty to 100 per cent since the first of the year. Tuberculosis is ravaging the people due to their weakened con dition and through lack of proper food. This information came to the United Press from sources of highest authority. rne uerman government is making frantic efforts to conceal news of this epidemic and all Ger man cities have been instructed to stop the publication of mortal lty statistics. The tuberculosis death rate is said to have nearly doubled dur ing the last few months, though every effort is being made to re assure the public mind . Rerio ft Amsterdam, Aug. 28. The Ger man Chancellor's visit to the Kaiser at army headquarters re sulted in his bringing back a scheme of parliamentary reform. It is also stated that he also ob tained the Kaiser's consent to the elevation of Alsace-Lorraine prov inces into an independent Feder ated State. Amsterdam dispatches quoted German newspapers as asserting that Chancellor Michaclis had de cided to make Alsac-Lorraine a Federal duchy with the Duk3 of Uraeh as sovereign. The scheme of parliamentary re form was explained to the main committee of the Reichstag by the Chancellor, who said he had in contemplation the appointment of seven members of the Reichstag and seven members of the Bundes rat which would ot under the presidency of the Chancellor. What was intended was. a free committee, the members of which would not be regarded as repre sentatives of either house of the parliament. More Gains Paris, Aug. 28. Violent artil lerying over half; a dozen sectors of the French front, coupled with raids, wras reported by the war office today. HONK PREDICTED 1AESI TODAY Raider IhTlie Atlantic Ocean ST. MALACHI, IN 1250 A D. PREDICTED START OF WAR, ROOUMANIA ENTRY, AND THAT PEACE WOULD ENSUE TODAY. (BY UNITED PRESS) Baltimore, Aug. 28. Reports of a German raider in the south at lantic have been brought here with the arrival of a Norwegian bark. The captai nof the vessel says he was en route from St. Thomas to a Brazilian port when the raid er appeared, carrying no flag, and had no name on the ship. 4Ie was boarded by the German crew who examined his papers i and returned to the raider. MOSTUKIW FARM IN U. S. Denver, Colo., Aug. 28. The most unique farm in the United States will be sown in wheat or alfalfa this fall. It will be fifty five miles long and 200 feet wide, and will occupy the land which represents the present right of way of the Denver & Laramie railway, which will be "junked" September 1 by its owner. " farm; ' v ill SAME PROPHET NAMED EVERY POPE Austria May Declare War TT"fc -1 1 m i itactetSKv. lne iarni' will ox- tend from Greeley, Colo, to Deli ver, and will pass through fhe business sections of several small towns between the two New York, Aug. 28. The great "Then the fierce beast who for - ,,1 i-o-ir Qnrmrlirnr flirpp vpa.rs and mip month has Wcli JMlULHtl V-AJ.L J " " -, n . b2 1 1 - , i i , 1 r,l J ! IUCI1UUUS Cant Ul too 13 L Ulioi- een filling the earth with blood, . tBY UNITFD PRESS) Washington, Aug. 28. The tre- to a prediction of St. Malachi, an Irish Monk, who lived about 1250 with horror and with carnage, now surrounded, smitten from all in given the enemies of Austria by the United States is expected to result in a declaration of war on monarchy. Strange Float In Great Battle L' oirlpc sinri rnavnior in vain will St. Malachi is said to have pre- seekwhom he may devour, butthe United States b? the dual dieted the date of the start of the snaU not gn(j njm present war and the date of Rou-; There shall be new battles mania's entry into the struggle. J while new moons shall wax and This is St. Malachi 's prophecy ; wane thirteen times. The fifth as found on an original manu-'day after the sun leaves the sign script now in the Civil Museum, 1 Gf the lion, the beast shall die a at Como, Italy : j fearful death. A virgin whose ! "When the first number shall name contains two iotas, two al-j meet the ninth and when the two phas, a tau, and a lambda, (Italia) Washinton, Aug. 28 An official shall be united with the first and shall crush his head and the Latin ; dispatch received in Washington sixth (1916), during the sixth people shall share his spoils." i from Rome, in addition to contain month of; the year (August, ac- Astronomers consider the pro-ing a vivid description of a joint cording to the old calendar) and pheey particularly wonderful be-; Italian and British naval bom after two times four" and two cause it is based on astronomical j bardment of the Hermada, the times ten days shall have passed facts unknown at the time Mala-! principal fortress barring the way (August 28) the new races which chi lived. j to Trieste, and a marvelous infan- drew their name from Romulus , , Italian journals say Malachi has j ;try advance up fortified terraces (Roumania) shall rise and shall predicted with-signs and symbols j 0f this great defensive position, ally themselves with powerful na- Ihe name of every pope since his ; tells of the employment of- a sensa tjons ' tiir.e- i (Continued on back page.) "DER LANGE PLUESKOW Berlin, Aug. 28. One of the best know'n military figures m Germany, General von Plueskow, has just retired. Von Plueskow was known as "Der Lange Plues-- kow" because he measured two meters and eight centimeters (nearly 6 feet 10 inches.) He is the tallest general in the German army and was aide-decamp to the Kaiser and command er of the Castle Life Guard. Dur ing the war he commanded the Eighth Army Corps until bad health compelled his retirement. He is sixty-three years old. Wilson's Reply Is Complete Washington, Aug. 28. Presi dent Wilson expected to read to his cabinet today the completed draft of his reply to Pope Bene dict's peace proposals. It will probably go forward this week. I
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