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7 i i WEATHER REPORT: Partly cloudy tonight and SaturdayProbable local showers General to moderate shifting winds 1MONWEAI AFTERNOON DAILY SLOGAN: "EVERY ONE FOR EACH OTHER AND ALL TOGETHER FOR SCOTLAND NECK. mt VOLUME FOUR. AFTERNOON DAILY SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. FRIDAY MAY 24 1918 TELEGRAPH SERVICE. NUMBER 55 WlARIE IS NO LONGER A PERIL" BRITISH PREMIER, SPEAKIN G AT EDINBURGH DESIGNAT ED THE SUBMARINE A CONTAINING NO PARALEL OF SEA PIRACY BRITISH PLANES DESTROY BASE Rome May 24. A British air plane squadron successfully bomb ed an Austrian submarine and sea plane base at Cattaro yesterdav setting fire to the piers and bar racks, it was officially announced. PAID TRIBUTE TO SKILL OF SAILORS Edinburg, Scotland. May 24.' The Russian collapse, submarine warfare and special adversities ith Asiatics were unexpected fea tures with which the British gov ernment has been compelled to cope since it took office", Premier Lloyd George declared in a speech delivered here. ; "The submarine warfare was unprecedented and unexpected, even from Germany. History of piracy contains no paralel. 'In 1916 we doubled our pro duction of ships and in 1918 we hope to triple or quadruple our ship out put. The British Premier paid a trib ute to the skill, ingenuity resource fulness and invincible value of the naval and merchant sailors who have overcome submarine difficul ties. Lloyd George's declaration of the admiralty's report which shows the record of destruction of submarines was greeted with cheer "'The submarine is still a menace" declared the premier "but it is no longer a peril. It is still for midable for inflicting injury, but it cannot cause the winning or the losng of the war. CASUALTY LIST HAS 44 NAMES "ft, (By United Press) Washington May 24. Forty four casualties were listed by the I war department today divided as follows :Four killed in action, ten died of desease, nine from wounds four from accident sixteen severe ly wounded and one slightly woun ded. ONE PLANE ONLY REACHES PARIS ITALIAN ACE OVER VIRGINIA (By United Press) Rchmond Va. May 24 An It alian aviator at Newport News flew over the city this morning celebrating the third anniversary of Italy's entry into the war. N if ofllTMOAILS PATRICK MM TEES I ACTS OF eras HUTIER AND LUDENDOEFF' 3 SCLOSSAL KONCEPTION FAILED IN CONVERTING THE ALLIES INTO SECOND RUSSIA .-: NEW METHOD COST HUNS 500,000 MEN -0 HI'S. AUTHOR OF "THE GREAT PUSH" SAYS THE RUTHLESS ACTS OF THE HUN IS IN THEIR BLOOD TO BE FOUL AND DIRTY lfgfefe. . - - ' EVEN A ROSARY ON SHRINE WAS CHARGED (By United Press) By Henry Wood (United Press Staff Correspondent. With the French armies, May, 24. Gen. von Hutier's "new meth od of assault" constituting the lat est production and the latest hope of Prussian militarism, has just District has sent emblems to Rich-1 met its Waterloo at the hands of SEAY PRESENTS STATE EMBLEM (By United Press) Richmond May 24 Governor Seay, of the Fifth Federal Reserve dogs will to be CONNAUGHT ON AMERICAN SOIL (By United Press) Paris May 24 An American air squadron is co-operating in the defense of Paris it is officially, announced. Of the thirty German airplanes which participated in the second raid on Parrs, 'Wednesday -'night only one reached the city so ef fective was the defense by fifty four planes which opposed them. The Echo de Paris warns Ger many that the British are already beginning to carry out carefully conceived air ofensives, and that France's turn will come second. London May 24. "Dirty they are, and they never chancre. It's in their blood foul and dirty-" The old soldier ceased, or rather suspended utterance as he sought in his mind for an incident to illu strate his assertion. The talk in the cafe dealt with the Germans and their methods of wrarf are, and the men who were j in the cafe at that moment had just come back from the front line While they were there, their kul tured enemy had turned a ma chine gun on two British stretcher bejarers who had gone out into No Man'sXand to carry in wounded German soldier. They had placed him on the stretcher and were making their way back to the home trench when the machine gun was turned on them, killing the two men as well as the hapless man whom they were carrying to safety. row branch blocking the entrance to the door he pulled it aside to have a peep in. Branch was trigger I had only gone about a hun dred yards when I heard a shot and I looked back to see the re mains of the dugout in the air. It mond and to the State of Virginia denoting that both are oversub scribed in its quota of Third Liber ty loan. ALL QUIET ON AMERICAN FRONT cans. was the damn est. branch that, cans. 4- 1 il T ; t-u iue eApiusiuii, aiiu uie man who looked in was killed. Amercan armies in France May "I saiv another fellow dead in I 24 An official communique issued n . i i .i . A "I "I j 1 . a one ot tlie nouses at tlie coner oiiirom American Headquarters last a villiage. He had lifted a book ' night stated that al was quiet on from the table of the front room, (.all fronts occupied by the Amen and this in some manner sent the table and the soldier up to the roof. And in the same house I saw a bucket of coal mixed with high explosives, and even the very stove was charged to blow up if a fire was lit in it. Even the chairs would explode if you sat on one; of them- "If you saw objects lying about SINN FEINERS VERY UNEASY At an Atlantic Port, May 24.- 1 mice Arthur of Connaught, Lieu tenant General William Pulteney of the Brtish army, and the Earl of Pembroke anl Montgomery, with their aides arrived here today Their vessel was met and board t'd by American and British offi eials. Colonel E. M. House close friend of President Wilson intends join ifijr them shortly and conduct the party to Washington, afterwards they will journey on to Japan, probably accompanied by Col. Housa. SECTY McADOO NOT DECIDED WAR BRINGS HUGE DEBTS TO NATIONS (you took no notice of them. Spad (By United Press) Washington May 24. The Lon- on Hiconomisi places me toiai cross debt of Great Britain at 5,678,600,000 pounds ($27,636,000, 000). The French minister of finance in presenting the budget of 1918 estimated the pubbc debt of France on December 31, 1918, at 115,166,058,000 francs ($22,227,- 000,000). The public debt of Italy at the end of 1917 is estimated at about The debts of the central Powers are estimated as follows : Ger many $25,408,000,000; Aus- Washington May 24. Secre tary McAdoo still unable to give his final answer to congress jn te need of the new tax bill this tria, $13,314,000,000 ; and Hungary session at noon today. $5,704,000,000. Following a long conference with Our own debt is now around $8, treasury officials McAdoo at this 000,000,000 but more than half of hour phoned congresional finance this amount has been loaned the leaders that he could not keep his allies. It is estimated that of the promise to answer by mid-day and total net expenditures of the U- needed more time. He then left fr a conference vith the presi dent after which it is expected he ill make a public decision. May JULY Oct Bee Jan COTTON MARKET. Open High Ix)W 23.62 23.37 22.88 22.77 22.63 24 20 23.32 23.24 23.21 23.37 22.88 22.77 22.63 Close 23.60 23.90 23.04 23.02 23.15 Local Market Normal nited States tor the tiscal year 1918, exclusive of our advances to the allies, more than one-half wil1 be defrayed by taxation, ac cording to the Treasury Depart ment. Miss Selma Twisdale spent the night here with Mrs. Darden. 1 ' : Mr. Jere Bunch arrived yester day afternoon from Weldon where he spent the daj on business. Other similar happenings were recalled, and it was then that the old man spoke. He had been a regular soldier who had fought many battles and had lived throusrh Mons. Yores. Loos and the Somme. The old man knew the foe whom he was up against. He Knew Their Ways 'It is in their blood to be foul and dirty," he repeated. " Atro cious and treacherous, they have no code of honor or chivalry in their eret-up. I have seen them murder wounded, and kill women and children. That was in the early days when they rushed loose like wild beasts over Belgium. And I've seen the poisoned wells, the poisoned food and the death traps which they leave behind them when they're retreating from our fellows. Last spring, when they ran away with our men at their heels, I was one of tho-e who followed them- Everywhere, in abandoned dugouts, houses, barns and chur ches, in barrels left outside the doors of farmhouses, in shrines by the roadside, in barbed wire entanglements, there were all kinds of slaughter traps hid. "I mind coming to one dugout without a soul in it. I just had a peep in and I was careful not to touch anything, for I knew the men had just left the place. But another fellow followed me, and as I went up on the parapet I looked back at him. "Be careful and don't touch anything in there," I said to him. "You know what the Germans are like with their traps es, shovels, helmets and souvenirs that were apparently flung away and almost everything else were murder traps. I saw a small boy, a rookie, I suppose, going up to a shrine by the roadside with the intention of taking a rosary from the neck of the wooden statue of the Blessed Virgin. "Don't touch that! I yelled at him. "What the devil has it gel to do with you?" He roared back at me. "Eveything!" I called to him. 'And if you put your hand on it I'll put a bullet through your head "I took aim at him with the in tention of firing and he got a ut frightened. Anyway he came back from the shrine. Test discloses trap "I went up and had a look at the shrine. Round the neck of the Virgin the rosary beads were plaeed, with a cross hanging to the end of them. I looked at the' (By United Press) Dublin May 24. Sinn Feiners and nationalists are uneasy await ing the next move of the govern ment. Their principal concern seems to be that the government, will rest now that the Sinn Fein lea ders are interned. Many Irishmen are applying to get into the American Army, but the nationalists are counselling a gainst this, hoever, saying that such a move should be put off un til home rule has been secured. , Meanwhile the government is rounding up the last of the alledg ed plotters. About a dozen perons were arrested yesterday and last night and immediately reported. BRITISH REPORT SMALL RAIDS (By United Press) London Mav 24. Bombardment n -v 1 a back, and there I saw that the ! ot various isntisn sectors contin ! ued. also raiding: operations re- UCitua Cl C Lieu, iuuuu a. 1 1 1 1 1 j M'i ' " which was stuck in the long wood-! ports Field Marshal Haig. work. We tested it, by tying a long string to the rosary and get- Hostile artillery was active last night west of Lens & in the neigh ting back twenty yards into ajborhood of Festubert, the state trench and pulling the string. The whole shrine was blown to pieces, for the tugging at the bead had detonated a charge and caus ed a charge and an explosion-" He paused. ment said also "that in the Niep ne sector the enemy bombarded with gas shells- "We took a few prisoners in a successful raid southwest of Lab- esse, and in a patrol encounter nor They're more beasts thaiijth of Ypres and the Comines can men," said one of the listeners, j al. "They're devils from Hell, said another. "They're all that," said "A few men are missing as the ; result of an enemy raid north of the hill 70 yesterday- "An attempted enemy raid ear- can 't old soldier. "But they I'll only look in, "-he shouted 'help it. .It's in their blood to bejly last night at AveHy wood fail onl Q thpr wa a lone nar- loui ana tuny. evi tviuFIClw. UltV&J UUU MK9 - i foul and dirty. the stolid French poilus on the La- Fere-Amiens front. Successful to an astounding de gree in the capture of Riga, this new method applied on the west ern front has cost the German armies to date half a million men, has shattered Ludendroff 's Kol ossal Konception of crushing the j English army and marching on Paris, and has wrested from Ger many her last dream and hope of a successful termination of the war on tin- western front. Although Von Hutier's "new method of assault'' was known in its general lines to the Allied com manders as a result of its first try out at Riga, it is only since its ap plication on tlie French front that all of its details have become known. Its collapse is all the more humiliating owing to the fact that General Von Hutier was call ed from the Riga front, to Com mand himself the troops, that ap plying his method, were to smash through the English front at St. Quentin and then march down the valley of the Oise on Paris. Had Aroused Confidence Von Hutier's new method dif fered in, onegreat fundamental j." j? j -i it-'Mieci irom its immediate pre decessors with the German impcr- -ial command, in that the Germans, having early in the war esthlished the dogma that the onlv wav to crush the enemy's lines was by heavy artillery, came back on Von Hutier's recommendation to the attainment of this end bv massed attacks of the human beings. How Method Worked The detailed appbeation of Von Hutier's method both at Riga and on the western front in the region of St. Quentin was as follows: First of all, the troops to partici pate in the attack were drilled and rehearsed for months in advance in the part they were to play, un til each was letter perfect1 When the hour set for the at tack arrived, the German artil lery began a short preparation. In order to avoid losing the bene fit of a surprise attack by the old time artillery preparation of sev eral days, Von Hutier planned by an astounding concentration of guns to accomplish in a few hours the previous work of days. In addition to this artillery pre paration extended to an extreme depth to the rear, demolishing the second and third lines at the same time as the first. To prevent the enemy's guns from intervening and silencing the German batter ies, gas shells were showered all over the enemy's artillery lines rendering it impossible for the gun ners for several, hours to serve the jpieces. Continued timorrow
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