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WEATHER REPORT Fair and continued warmer tonight and We dnesday light west winds. ; r--,- ' " ' T7 ' 1 fly ry i State Library EAX7I ! WW AFTFRNOHIvr nAHv WHEN THE SOLDIER BOYS CHANGE THEIR QUARTERS NOTIFY THE COMMONWEALTH VOLUME FIVE AFTERNOON DAILY SCOTLAND NECK, N. 0, TUESDAY AUGUST 6, 1918 TELEGRAPH SERVICE. NUMBER 13 TO ALOE II f I II I I I l . 1 I II. W l H. E am- TABL AVIATORS DROP BOMBS ON PONTOONS FRANCO AMERICAN TROOPS GIVE ENEMY NO REST AFTER FORCING THEM BACK FROM THE VESLE AND OVER THE AISNE RIVERS GERMAN COUNTER ATTACKS UNAVAILING (By United Press) O Paris, Aug. 6 4 P. M. With the Germans resisting fiercely along the Vesle the French heavy artil lery on the southern bank of the river this afternoon laid down a terrific fire over the tableland be tween the Vesle and Aisne rivers, and the crossings over the Aisne were heavily shelled. Simultaneously the Franco-American aviators flew over the en emy lines dropping bombs on the pontoons htrown across the Aisne by the Germans. Enemy artillery fire is having little effect, but the French ad vanced troops are encountering dense machine gun barrages The French are awaiting the bringing up of more artillery befo re attempting advances in force. O Capture Thousands of Guns London Aug. 6. Since the Ger mans have begun their retreat from the Marne the allies have cap tured a thousand guns and thou sands of machine guns, together with millions of rounds of artil lery ammunition, dispatches from the front state. O British Repulse Enemy London, Aug 6 Raiding opera tions in Flanders and enemy ar tillery activity, both on the Fla nders and Picardy fronts, is re Ported by General Haig. "The enemy attempted to cap ture one of our outposts northeast f Morris ,but were repulsed and . "i our counter attack we captured a few iin'nor, o i i i-itw pi isoners and some machine ins W iT! i,. u at c last night in the Nieppe for - it sector .. cs Hostile artillery action, with Sas shells, north of Villers Bret t()nncux, has been reported and activity has been shown at Buc !lery, north of Bethune". Vith the French armies afield. August 6, 2:10 P. M. French! troons I ill I c 4 L LI v V I U1C l)nil'rt'Ilt(UlS a(1ross the Vesle despite German jf counter attacks. ! The French during the night oc- j "complete national recognition" f'upied the mill-edge of the village the child born out of wedlock. Braisne on the Vesle, and twojl11 doing so, Norway takes the lri(ljrOS jn tlat reprjon were sejzet i lead among modern nations. from the Germans holding out at! The legislation establishes the raisne. ( responsibility of the state in pro- O- 1 viding for the "nurture, protec- French maintain their gains jtion and education of these un pans, Aug. 6 Noon. Tile allied . fortunate children, oops are ma tj0ls - - j- - Veslc T 110rth bank f tilcbot Parents "equally and con- j eieot'fi ltC German efforts to j tinuously responsible;" the child . i ii v-1 i 2 .j i Hum, tlie War Office annmin- : . " Tl - j tainance, training and education ne French troops advanced ' from both father and mother. thT1 f Montdidier' occupying The new attitude thus establish- a thWeSt bank f the Avre over ed is that the cnJld welfare prob mile front, between Meri- lem must be solved for the sake of a n1 t i . "u iacnes. BIG CASUALTY LIST ISSUED (By United Press) Washington Aug. 6. Four hun dred and ninety eight casualties are reported back from the Franco-American drive in five lists made public today, which includes 358 army troops and 140 marines. The casualties thus far announ ced from the Franco-American push total 1,214, and as rapidly as they can be compiled the wTar department, will give them out, probably today. The army list contains tliirtv one killed in action, six dead of wounds, three hundred and thir teen wounded severely, seven to a degree undetermined and one prisoner. The marines have seven killed in action, three dead of wounds, eighteen severely wounded and one slightly wounded. o n o Private W. L. Morton, of Oakes- , boro, N. C, .JWood, of La Gran- ge, N. C. and Serge. B. A. McCal- rol, of Charlotte, N. C. were severe ly wounded. O Donald V. Hall, of Durham, N. C, W. H. Heath, of Cove City, N. C.j Victor E. Harris, of Bynum, N. C. and J. D. Morris, of Youngs ville, N. C. were killed in action. These men were army men. Of the marines Corporal Mich- aei -K'eo, or siitmore, JN . C. was -, -, wounaea m action ana 1. A. Ki ' , . , . .'Patrick, of Charlotte, N. C. w l ITTAmi I A1 rt i-k Trt Ain rty-i 1 wounaea in action ana 1. A. Kirk as wounded to a degree undetermin- ed. -0- Norway Will Protect Children Christiana, Aug. 5. Norway square deal has decided on the or children. Laws recently enacted give X lie i5lttC: HCllOCJ-Ui 111 V ILL II 1 ll to he entitle! tn hrincrinor nr mm'n ,the child and the stat LAND WILL ADOPT 80 PER CENT WAR PROFIT TAX (By United Press) Washington, August 6. The house ways and means committee is ready to write eighty per cent war profits tax into the new re venue bill after once practically rejecting the proposition. The committees turn about on the war profits tax means that Secretary of the Treasury Mcdoo has won out in his first skirmish with congress regarding what will go into the bill. CHAR DUNG VIVIP EMRIEEES FIRST DESCRIPTION BY LOCAL MAN OF THE FIGHTING DONE IN FRANCE BY THE AMERICAN MARINES WHO SAVED PARIS BOYS REALIZE STUPENDOUS TASK AHEAD The following is an extratct of commander has been congratulat letter written to G. C. Saunders, of ed by every one worth while. welcton, by Corporal Charles L, nnu uie unueu states marine corps in the front I 1 m . -m . . line oi the Kheims Soisson nlient ..xxv,,.., , uz mufcL viviu aescrip- tion so far received from a local man on the battle front man on the battle front, is repro- aucea m tull. Not on yQnr life They go iiiti j,ave workP( as an nnit contjnil. Dear Old G. C Boy, you can they find a shell, bullet' or Boche. ' "sly for the past month to attain never realize how much I appreci- The French and Germans sav w5'tlie object they secured vesterdav ated your letter nor how good it are crazy, but the former seem to,a"l too much praise cannot be makes a fellow feel to know that love the 'Marines" and the latter ' bestowed upon them for their un old friends remember him, and hate and fear us which is as it ' tiring: efforts which are now crow appreciate him getting himself should be. ned with success, shot at to make the world a better Tell the folks to look at that ma- Fully thirty citizens motored place to live in, for after this war rine picture with respect and put!to Halifax yesterday to adtl their TO niTflM -flirt 1TT-V1 1 -xw II krt l,il J? . -1 . . - I . .,v im wm ueuerior . it, m more ways than one. Of course it's an awful price to pay but m the long run it will be worth the price. If I should be one of those to hit tlie Jong trail I won't consider that I have lived or died in vain, ! and, as the song I used to hear at home, says "some day you'll un-; derstand." None of that is for me to worry about. My part is to do my little "bit" the best I teeth clinched ,but his lips' were B' United Press) can and Someone, higher up than smiling and he was joking the fel-j Paris Aug. G. The long rage W. TV. or "Bill" will attend to jlows around him. On a stretcher bombardment of Paris was contin the rest. . next to him was another fellow ue aain today, but no report is AVe are right and we are going to win without a doubt. I have j never heard anyone even refer to ; Germany winning, except one manning a vaudeville of his own. and he was a Boche prisoner. j You can tell every body to just You would have laughed if you j back us up and not to worry for could have seen me reading your we are going to win this war as letter. I had a little hole dug in sure as there is a God in Heaven, the ground, as all the fellows did, The officers know it, and we, the iimnnuuui iiu ujj ami ut- icou- ing our mail when along would come a shell and everyone would ana .would perch up and be read-1 anve into tneir notes liJse a bunclijWiIl never go home to enjoy the re. . of prairie dogs. some of the We have been in fiercest fighting of the war (so a French soldier, who has been in four year, said) and my brigade has been cited for bravery and our GEN. PERSHING DECORATED WITH LEGION OF HONOR (By United Press) With the American troops in France August 6 President Pom caire personally decorated Gener al Pershing with the Grand Cross of, the Legion of Honor this morn ing. Impressive military ceremonies at the American general head quarters accompanied the decora tion. X O ( Dr. Cliff Whitehead is expected to spend 'a few days on his farm arriving some time this week. I have decided that the only wav to stop an American , a marine anvwav. is to kill the w,i ti - - ' -vvx. aiiv-j . i i- ! i . ... U1C aic jLoonsn aoout gettui"- where they start. Mavbe tW get everyone in the front line ex - C, - 1 1 111.' 11V1IL 111 H - cept five or six. Do tW cf? it wliere it will show for there a v-.-r men nietnrerl the ,o. ght, and men who have bled, audi men who have died without a 1 ; murmur in order to make it im-' possible for the Hun to repeat his i YES treatment of Belgium and fny", " If you are not already proud of F) h T)1C A p K I1VT being an American pet.busv. ill AlilU flUlll saw one of my crew prettv badly nniT fl niNffitv wounded, nale -aV fr-,, I KB litill A D litjll of blood 1 v., i -. ; from my company who did'nt even'bein? filetl of sPecial loss or dam- seem to know he w-as wounded and 1 bleeding like a hog for he was run-! men who are fighting this war, men win) are ngnting tins war, j know it. Of course we realize ! that a'lot who help win this war wards, but they will be rewarded somewhere else, mavbe. Your old pal, Corp. Chas. L. Dunn, 77 Co, 6 M. G. Bat, U. S. M. C. A. E. F. via New York CDF VJFjSUJE S. N. LEADERS LAMB ROANOKE HALIFAX COUNTY COMMISS IOKERS VOTE FORTY THOU SAND DOLLARS TOWARD S BUILDING BRIDGE NEAR HE RE TOTAL COUNTY ALLOTMENT $61,000 Yesterday the County Commis sioners of Halifax, in regular meet ing assembled, passed a resolution (such resolution to be in form and manner prescribed by the High way Commission) that county bonds be issued to the amount of forty thousand dollars for the pur- pose oi ouiming a Driuge across the Roanoke river near to Scot- 1? 1 IT" 1 i I land eek, at sueh point as the highway engineer shall designate, and a highway connecting Win ton or Windsor, in Bertie county, with Halifax county, to extend to the Edgecombe county line, and Bertie and before the Hoard of further the county commissioners j Trade of Rocky Mount to ascer of Halifax asked the Highway; tain definately what contribution Commission that the sum of $21,- each would make, ooo, available for Halifax county. To Bertie Messrs J. E. Bowers from the Federal Aid Road Fund, 'and N. B. Josey. with Senator W. be also applied to this purpose. j H. S .Burgwyn, of Northampton. Thus, in truth and in fact, the j .To Wilson Messrs A McDowell county commissioners guaranteed ; A. Paul Kitchin and F. 1 Shields the sum of -$61,000 towards the whieh committee also agreed t xvoanoKe river image project win- : eh assures the building of the 1 connect; lint tti;w 1 n - "'"--" iiuiiiuA, t..x- .. -i t. , Afiue aim ionnampton counties. Such then is the result nf the 1 devoted and cohesive work of the i -( - ' ' - v. v.miv-,jitv. U Ml IV Vi UiU ! leadins- men of SpntUnwl Yp,l- ! voice ana influence to the leaflet : - -"- ! who asked for the nnnvnr;o;A,, Having gained the unqualified agreement of the county commis- sioners a Pnon message called for a meeting of the business men IIIflflilMlllSB'ai age ENEMY PLANES FAIL I RAID (By United Press) uonaon Aug. o. ut three Ger- man airships which attempted to raid the east coast of England last T 1 A - v a . a night one was brought down in jiJames and landed in the sea, and ! another was badlv damflcp'd hut I probably reached its base. The admiralty announces that the aircraft failed to penetrate far inland. BRIDGE in Scotland Neek for half past five in the mayor's where further action was determined upon. Mr. S. A. Dunn, for the commit tee who met with the Edgecombe county commissioners in Tarboro yesterday stated that they wen met with everv favor nn.l -pM j promised that at the September j meeting a definate amount would ' he agreed upon as Edgecombe's contribution. Upon resolution the following committees were appointed to go j to be adjoining counties of Wilson see the Board of Trade of Rockv Mount, which bodv was in heartv r , ' jcivur in iim' nroiecT. . jV committee eomposcd ly b. l Shields. J. H. A lev.uulev .lr and S. A. Dunn was confirmed to see the commissioners of Gates and Hertford counties and get their consent fo their allotment of Federal Aid money being utilized on this bridge, if Halifax would match with an cpial amount. io It was reported that the high way engineer as-nred the commit tee that the survey would be done next week, and the chairman was 'iJ4j'xivvi''t(fAf Willi Ll' !i.;,.i.w,. i-iii iinvnni i ) i;ikc un wmi tn of obtaining an act of rongres j empowering TInlifax and Bertie I counties to bridge flic Roanoke I river, which is a navigable stream. WOMENS CORPS" AMONG WOUNDED (By United Pres) London, Aug. 6. Several mem bers of the women's auxiliary corps are included among tin: mis--ing and wounded on the Torpe doed British hospital ship Warii da, and their commandant :s be lieved to be among them. () WIRE STRIKE IS IMMIZfUNT (By United Press) Washington Aug. (j. Svds tft ward off the threatened wa'kout )f telegraph operators thronghout the United States is being formu lated by Postmaster General Bur leson and Wire Director Lewis. Until President Konekampf, of the telegraphers completes his conference with Burleson, sche dules to begin tomorrow, no plan. of settling the growing discontent of the. operators will be annou-ced- . - -i
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