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WEATHER; kEPORTr-T-Fair, s tonight .and Wednesday, General - shifting . winds, tc moderate.: T )()( r? a AFTERNOON DAILY SLOGAN: "EVERY ONE POR EACH OTHER AND ALL TO GETHER FOR SCOTLAND NECK. VOLUME FOUR. AFTERNOON DAILY SCOTLAND NECK, N. O TUESDAY MARCH 26, 1918. TELEGRAPH SERVICE. NUMBER 7 1R00ES&ARE mm mum VAST VOLUME GRAY CLOAKED GERMANS PUSHED FOR WARD INTO BATTLE AGAINST BATTERING OF GIANT BRITISH GUNS (By United Press) 1 - Washington, Mar. 26. Th$ war department today !apppints live hundred officers from the reserve corps to the national army- j These will include two lieuten ants colonels, twelve majors and forty-one captain. Among .those to be majors, in KAISER PUTTING ALL IN MELTING POT the , j r-niup t. Marye, of the Candler Building, Atlanta, Ga. Among captains of the aviation section William P. AtchelvJ of Docksville, Tenn. and George F. it. John, of Harmon Tenn., are called. ' 500 OFFICERS TO ARMY CALL 0- "VVith the British armies afield, Mar. 26. Thick colomns of the enemy are sloAvly driving forward against the battering British guns- , Their reinforcements are com' ing up from all points of the line. Prisoners say these reinforcements include reserves from Flanders, Leon, Rheims and Verdum. Hindenburg is sparing no lives. The Kaiser is putting all in the melting pot. During Monday night fighting the tommies were cheerful throughout the eritir.e front. T!-".- spirit is Tm broken". Some of them Avere even playing foot ball within the rage of ordinary guns. These are the men now held in reserve. WANTS POWER DECORATE ALLIES (By United Press) Washington, Mar. 26- General Pershing, through the war de partment,today asked that con gress authorize his troops to wear the decorations bestowed upon by allied governments, and to give him similar power to reward allied heroes.. THIRTY WE WIN PROMOTION (By United Press) Washington, Mar. 26.-r-Thirty American soldiers, fighting in France have won promotion by the recommendation of General Pershing, it has been officially an nounced today . State Library -J? m PREPAR FFEMSM PEN PICTURES OF HINDENBURG FEARING DESPERATE DRIVE BY AUSTRO-GERMANS LAT IN FORCES SHOW ACTIVITY IN CO-OPERATION WITH ALLIED DEFENSE ENEMY REINFORCEMENTS ARE ARRIVING -o EXPLAINS BON Paris, Mar. 26.Noyon was eva cuated during the night, the French war office announced to day. Retirement was made in excel lent order, the French holding solidly even to the left bank of the Oise. London, Mar. 26. General Haig reported that fighting had died down east o Rove and Albert, where the British "have established new positions. Albert is twelve miles south east of Bapaume, towards which city only the German Advance of yesterday afternoon occurred. Hove is seven miles southwest of Xesle, which marks the furth erest advance of the Germans in the present drive. Rove is twentv four miles soth oast of St. Quentin, where the lines were held before the German advance began north of the Som me. Continuation of fighting is ex pected but has not yet develop ed. South of the Somme this morn ing attacks were developing also against the French in the neigh borhood of Noyon and Chaulny. The enemy losses severe, wThich has obligated him to reinforce his linos from all parts of, the western theatre. Over seventy hostile divisions are known to have been engaged recently, these divisions, accord ing to most authoritaties would mean nearly one million men of all departments.. SAMMIES' STAGE MUSICAL SHOW By J. W. Pegler With the American expedition ary Army, France, Mar. 26. The f.ellows in ' ' L " Company had a ' ' musical evening ' ' back - in the rest camp on the night -before they went back into the trenches. The big Swedish supply ser geant played everything he knew on his trench-made fiddle. A young boy from Milwaukee, with a German-sounding name, whose Iaddy ean 't speak English with out a Weber and Fields accent, gave the "Star Spangled Banner" on a mouth-organ. Slim, the cook sang "Poor Boy" which has seventy-five verses, Avhile all the rest of the fellows sang in a harmon ious undertone of minors, ' ' plinky- plinky-planky-plunk" in imita tion of banjos. A sergeant from Anodarka, Okla., won the Y. M. C. A.'s first -prize just before the . Regi ment went into the trenches in a contest to advertise the attro cities of the Boehe and park up the Regiment's .fighting spirit. The attempt that copped the five bucks, follows: us AND WAR STAMPS Winston-Salem, March 26. To show the exact difference between Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps, also the similarities, ad vantages and 'purposes of each, Mr. Gilbert T. Stephenson, direc tor o service for State Headquar ters for War Savings, has prepar ed a short and concise article in which he explicity sets forth the characteristics and merits of each Their main differences lie, he says, in that the unit of the bond is $50. while the unit of the cer tificate is $4 plus a few cents; that the bond matures in an inde tjnite number of years while the stamp matures January 1, 1923 ; that the bond is not redeemable before maturity, except at option of the Government, while the stamp cerSificiate is redeemable at. any time, upon ten days' notice that the" bond is negoeiabIeJwhile the certificate is not. As to the advantage of the two he says bonds enable one to make large investments in Govern ment securities while the certi ficates give this privilege to the small investor; the bonds enable long-time investments while the stamps provide; for one to get his money back at once if necessary. The bond provides the best colla teral security obtainable. The stamp enables one to make small investments at convient intervals. (By United Press) London, Mar. 26. Here are two pen pictures of Hindenburg. Both were taken from German news papers. . Take, your , choice or neither. "He is a gross, obese, glutton ous, elephantine, slow-witted man more fitted for a butchers slaugh ter-house than the command of; an army a man who eats enor-j mously, drinks prodigiously, and derives all of his inspiration from , his henchman Ludendorff." J On the other hand he is "a! tamed Wpdin, a smiling, gray-! haired Siegfried. The more at tentively one studies him tin more evident becomes the fact; that one is standing in a mighty! presence. The man must be seen 1 in all the overwhelming grandeur ! of his personality. It is symboli-j cal of all that is lofty and noble ; in the men of the Germanic race. i Since the days of Bismark no. head of such power as his has NEWS FROM STATE CAPITAL By Maxkell Gorman (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Raleigh, Mar- 26. The excite ment over the desperate fighting on the western front is serving to the instill a deeper and fuller patriotic spirit in the mass of the people, who see more clearly each succeeding day what a calamity jit would be to the United States and to the free governments, and 'institutions the world over, if the ! militaristic autocracy, represent iby the enemy, shall not be sub i dued and punished. Therefore when United States Treasurer Burke and others spoke here Saturday night to launch the Third Liberty Loan move- (By United Press) Rome, Mar. 26. Activitv on the Italian front is brewing great er in co-operation with t!.e allied defense- 1 French cables would indicate that the Italians have begun a demonstration in their theatre, either to prevent further with drawal of Austrian forces for use on, the west front, or in the hope of compelling Hindenburg to use a portion of his reserves in Italy. Rome, Mar. 25. Austro-Ger-mans are preparing for a great offensive on the Italian front, of ficial cables slate. The official review of the situa tion at the, front shows beyond doubt that a drive awaits only the return of natural conditions in northern Italy. Dispatches say that Austrian divisions are arriving steadily, arid dailv reinforcements of artil- ment, they found a most respon- lery and mac,Hne sun contingents, sive audience some fifty counties while new aviation camps and . of this state being represented munition drnnns to be under con- nnii it is nrmpn niiH IipIipvpH thjif x j.: been met with in Germany. On his ' m , x . . hT utl Kd inthpmt nf w the Tar Heel State will respond Usual artillerying is reported hair. Hindenburg has a patch of ?T7 efficacious1 doin its everywhere along the front wi beautiful auburn which no picture IU" P , . . . moderate recomoitering activities. i, tj j Uncle Sam is going to need more gjx enemv airplanes were th as thougn on con weird combination of that which is good and that which is demon- templated a i mmey than w dreamed of, and brought down. -1 l VI 111 Ull VFJ- J.U iac The profiteers seem to have rounded up all the food. Now let the government round up the profiteers and we'll have the yeggs with the goods on them. verv soon, ii we had a thousand more airplanes to help (with dynamite) in the battle now going on, and the ships to carry several million troops across, the enemy would certainly be defeated before Nov. and most surely before the snows , of next winter. GERMAN STAX ALSACE HENS ber of Government bondholders, (By United Press) With the French Armies, Mar. 26. 'vstem," ''Method'' and Secretary Daniels to A. & E. j "Organization" which constitute Students j the basic principles of "Kultur," to say nothing of "universal, ob- which is the , cardinal "principle of Prussian pay back the loan. In issuing the War Stamps the Government's ! QrtT.ofQT,,r nf T1QT7,T ti,, nurnose was to increase the num-'n.. -.i. ct.. j ti u iiatory service. r uameis, speni ouuuay in xvaieigii returning to Washington jester- Washington, Mar. 26. Accord ing to an official war review it would appear that the Germans commanders had succeeded in pushing a wide salient into ,the allied lines- Ihis swing in a south-easternly turn southward to Chaulnes con tinues south to Roye and swerves abruptly eastward, following- a course of the Oise to the original battle front of Ally Noye salient is abot thirt miles across from Peronne, and is almost twenty four miles deep from St. Quentin to Rove.- A further advance in this di rection will ;; increase Hinder By the rifle on my back By my old and well-worn pack By the bayonets we sharpened in the billets down below When we 're holding to a sector By the Holy Jumping Hector Colonel, we'll be goot-straffed if the Blankteenth let it go. And the Boches big and small Runty ones and Boches tall Won ' keep your boys a-spuatting in the ditches very long For we '11 soon be busting through, sir God help Fritzie when we do sir . Let's be going, Colonel Black because we 're feeling mighty strong. Then came the closing number that brought down the house. They whooped it up: 'The Infantry, , the Infantr ee, With the dirt behind their ears, The Infantry, the Infantry, t They can't get any beers, The Cavalree-7-the artiller ee And the LOWSY engineers, Well they couldn't lick the in-fan-tree In a hundred thousand years." burg's danger tank attack. It is rather improbable such an allied attack s will come f rom, , the north as reserves are needed in that region to defend Albert. a. i ij. j? n i XO maKe IV pussiuie lur smuu in- TbnP who Ivp knmvn The purpose of the Govern-j vestors to buy against the nnan-njm intimately for years do not ment in issuing the bonds was to cial depression after the wrar, and 's6e j,. change in him his secure large amounts . of. money to-encourage economy and thrift cneerful ereetino-s and good hu- mimeaiateiy ior war purposes anu oy maiiiiig anu investing to allow itself plenty -of time to pariotic enterprise. m a Fighiiog for Patriotism m Wisconsin - -- ....- mor have-not deserted him. When 'some of the News and Observer staff expressed the hope that he j would not go to France, lest a I submarine attack his ship, he re i plied "used, to think, I .was the Militarism, have just been in- i troduced by tbe Germans among st the poultry of Alsace-Lorraine. A copy of an order which reg ulates the minimum number of come into the hands of the French military authorities- Under the terms of this order every inhabitant of Alsac-Lor-raine who keeps poultry must turn over to the Herman gen- : most important Person, around darmes between January 15 and i this shop, but now I feel like a ihundred per cent 'non-essential' I so well are you boys carry on i the work." i Sunday afternoon Secretary Daniels spoke to the Agricultural and Engineering college students WEAHEE EEPOST FOK WEEK September 15, fifty eggs for each hen. owned. Failure to comply with this new regulation is to be met with dras tic punishment. in a message that honored Amer ican youth and which inspired ; the student body to greater efforts ENDING MARCH 24, 1918 By J. Y. Savage TPTiiperstnre highest 70 on GERMMANKS GREilTOPRMSED i Temperature lowest '.4 ' ' on Liar Temperature hih G7 2-7". Temperature lowest 47 2-7 ' Rainfall 30-100 inches. ivJ - r . FRAKCIS E.W1seOVERM; IKYIN6 U. LENROOT. (By United Press) v ! j Amsterdam, Mar. 26. German I tanks fought south east ' of St. COTTON MARKETI i Quentin stood the test brilliantly, May Former Governor, Francis E. Mc Govern of .Wisconsin will not be i according to a semi-official Ber- July a candidate-in tne jepuoiicaii- pmuaij' iuiuuhsu utukvo- Uvuvw, mvoiuvv .vw, -WW- f ml J J 1, ill,, -m-nr against Representative Irvine Li. -benroot. fie nas announcea nis withdrawal in order to consolidate the loyal American vote universallv nraised All . return- Jn- Open Hijrh Low Close 32.80 r.iJ 32,73 32.90 32.07 32.:; 32.03 32.24 30.96 31.10 30.85 31.10 30.76 30.00 30.67 300 30.66 LaFoIIclte candiuate. ed undamaged. Lflcal Market cents.
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