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WEATHER REPORT: Fair tonight and Saturday, except probably rain Saturday near coast. Slightly cooler tonight. To moderate shifting winds. AFTERNOON DAILY ALL THE NEWS IN A NUT ; SHELL " VOLUME FIVE AFTERNOON DAILY SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13 1918 TELEGRAPH SLRVIC& NUMBER 44 UOMMONWEAH a STo MnfflEL SAOEOT SAMMIES CAPTURE TEN THOUSAND PRISONERS AIDED BY THE FRENCH ST. MIHIEL THIAUCOURT, PANNES, BOUCONVILLE AND MONTSEC FALL BEFORE THE AMERICAN'S STRONG ATTACKS. INVADED ENEMY LINE at SOME POINTS o (By United Press) L;:?ulon Sept 13. In the offen sive against St. Mill i el salient the Americans captured sixty guns, ! aci-ording to the latest informa-. i tion. j The American advance is contin uing on both sides of the salient today .between the Meuse and the jtfonselle. Actional prisone are con i i i 0 . -"- f " - hpino1 TpnnrTPn. Rain is falling at intervals and the Germans are having difficulty in removing their artillery because of bad roads. Among the captured is a German Count Schesyng who was taken with baggage unpacked awaiting capture. There are 350 Austrians among the captured. O London Sept 13 (1:18 P. M.). The advance of the American sol diers in the St. Mihiel sector, from the south reached a depth of eight miles according' to information from the front. The enemy has been blowing up ammur.lition dumps at Hatton ville, in the center of the pocket. The territory taken by the Amer icans indicate that the neck of the salient lias been narrowed to less than six miles. It is reported that the prisoners taken by the Americans now total 9,500. The progress is so rapid that the situation is changing momenta " ly. The capture of Vignulles in the center of the salient seven miles northwest of St. Baussant where. Hie offensive hit the German lin and henoy four and a half miler. north and slightly eat of St Ban ssant is reported, also the -town of, Zendicourt has fallen. The attack on the western side of the rliffi- mH , i . . i cult country, and Avith more se- rious resistance but the Americans arlvo, i ii, xt. i e acrvanced there to the depth of three in' 1 Gp ' a berman ammunition dumps at omboiixC not on th mnn. hllt theree is a city Damp Vitoux slight h north of the ' actual battle zone) are also being blown up. O - Washington Sept 13. The cap hir? by Americans of eight thous anfl prisoners and an advance of five milos at some points is report- ea by General Pershing in his ; . -nrsday communique as follows : , Asted by French units we - v uacaeuiys legume , "i". rations are still in progress By Fred S. Ferguson ith the American army on the iUfrno S6pt 13. All the Ameri an fiT't objectives were secured 0,1 schedule time. rars Sept 13 Americans are. . SCENE OF (fflREATEST FAIR PRICE FOOD CHANGES o The committee on fair prices for grocery and food products met on Wednesday evening and made some changes in prices in confor mity with the wholesale prices on same and it was anticiDated that these would have been pulislied vesterday but unfortunately this could not be done until tomorrow (however we beg to give the change - jn tnjs issue The changes are shown in the f oiBvthenis""'" ' ' D sat Mpat an ont j , Sliced Bacon 65 cents; Bulk Bacon 60 cents; Cheese 38 cents; Eggs 45 cents ; Molasses $1.00 to $1.10 ; Flour 90 cents ; Steak (native beef 35 cents; Roast 23 to 30 cents. Sugar will be advanced a cent and a half a pound as soon as the present stock in the hands of the retailers are exhausted. O INA HA! O (By United Press j T,nndnn Spnt IS Up Hinlv TpI BEEN MURDERED agraph declares that there is no ! towns and townships. I have se doubt that the Czerina and her'.lected those ra?n wh. 1 el sure doughter have been murdered. harassing the Germans at many j points along the front south of!0ut their qiestionaires St. Mihiel salient where q bir bat i p i - -nc Af' 'te county, and the registrants tie js being iought m series ot, raid - J in the Lorraine Vosges , , a. a American troops captured a , c ,i number of enemy positions and peneiratmg tne uerman lines at 1 . fo some Pomts- Before retiring they captured . , . anc destroyed all material they could not carry away. Machine J -.gun nests, blookhouses and dumps were blown up and very heavy. loss dieted on the enemy The artillery was quiet on the less Active sectors of the front. - O Paris Sept 13 The Americans attack in the region of St. Mihiel continues succssfully j trip hTP.no.n ,, v .r war office .announces. . J . 1 B Frank V Taylor with the American troops in Al- ; sace.Lorraine Sept 13. It is Jlrij officially reported that the French are now occupying St. Mihiel, at the, tip of the salient. H ' The important town of ' Thiau court has been taken. by the Amer icans who also seized Pannes; '3od conville and Mont sec. BRUSSILOFF REPORTED K1LLE1 o 'By United Press) Copenhagen Sept 13. Brussi (loff, the former commander in chief of the Russian armies was killed at Moscow near the Sabrine prison, according to dispatches I from Kieff. I o LIGHTER LIST OF CASUALTIES (By United Press) Washington, Sept. 13 Four men is the day's contribution by North Carolina to the two lists is sued by the war department, in total three hundred and nifty-nine names. Corporal Commie D, "Wheeler of Creedmoor, is reported as killed in action, while Sergt. Wm. A. Kay, of BockfMd, Corp. Jas- W. Shambley, of East Durham, andj Private Jesse V. Elliot, of Holton, were each wounded severely. The total list shows, 76 killed in action, 41 missing in action, 47a:wQ-''in1-d,.sfivo-re1y, 35 dipd ,nf ; wounds, 14 died of accident and othcr causes, 9 died of disease, 8 wounded to a degree. undetermiu-f ed and two prisoners. ' . MEMBERS OF LOCAL LE GAL ADVISORY BOARDS OF HALIFAX COUNTY To the Local Exemption Board of Halifax County : 4 I take pleasure in herewith sub- mittmg tne names ol those ap pointed by me for service on the Legal Advisorv Boards of Hali- p , a x a: Mx COUIltV dlir Hie it S J )f L" 1 1 V will gladly give of their time in the work of assisting the regis trants of Halifax county in filling This list will be published in the papers of should preserve the lists when so 'published, so that they may know1 ; J ' ': iUpon whom to call for assistance p XTr,AXTAX A oxrTT, . I TlLiERl J. O. Applewhite, Grover Howell. SPRING HILL dcu-xwiix j. II. Darden. BRINKLEYVILLE TOWNSHIP i HOLLISTER RING WOOD C. A. Williams Jr., J E. Avers Jr. ESSEX H. W. Quails, Sydney Williams G. L. Knight BRINKLEYVILLE N. M. Harrison Jr., N. G. Bethea ENFIELD TOWNSHIP ENFIELD J. R Matthews, Dr. C. Highsmith, P. O. Petaway, J. Waldo Whitaker, . George H. Johnson, C. J. Edwards . D. Dodd, B. D. Mann HALIFAX TOWNSHIP HALIFAX s M Gary swain Norman, W. F. Cop pedee. E. N.Sater. WEIiDON TOWNSHIP WELDON Win. L.. Knight, Ashley Stainback, W. E. Daniel, R. S. Travis, H. G. I , Howe, D. R. Anderson, J. Pierce. ROANOKE RAPIDS TOWNSHIP NOW DAVID CLARK BRINGS FIRST BALE C( David Clark of Palmyra district brought in yest erday 'the first bale J of cotton of this years crop. The bale weitrhed 440 nnnnrls a d looks lik nH raif,fllinff , T, . , ' , , nD . ton. It had not been sold this morning. -O- BERWICK FAILED TO DECLARE WAR London Sept. 13. One town in the British Isles is, technicallv, 7 7 still at peace with the Central po wers. It is Berwick-oirTweed, h city on the North Sea coast, half in England, half in Scotland thru I which runs the boundary line of the River Tweed. Under the British Constitution. Berwick must issue a seperate de- elara tion w hen the British govenr ment announces hostilities- It has just been disevcred that Ber wick vvas overlooked in the declaration- of August 4, 1914. At the samemf -itwas realized that Ber wick is, technically, still at war with Russia, having forgotten to proclaim peace at the end of the Crimean war in 1856. ROANOKE RAPIDS W. L. Long-, E. II. Ricks, J. T. Chase, J. M .Jnc-kson, John W. House, A. M. I'roetor. ROSEMARY W. F. Horner. T. W Mullen Thos M. Jenkins, R. L. Topping. SCOTLAND NECK TOWNSHIP SCOTLAND NECK Hugh Jo't-o:?, A. V. Kitehin, Sam Dunn Stewart Smith, Asliby Dunn. Dr. A. O. Livernian, Dr. J. E. Shields, L. L. Cherry, Clee Vaugh an. LITTLETON TOWNSHIP LITTLETON , W. R. Harvey, B. R. Browning, W. II Johnson, Rodney Glasgow, T. C. Alston. THELMA renn and Blady Hamill. FAUCETT TOWNSHIP A IT RE LI AN SPRINGS T J- 1 John II. Taylor. THELMA E. F. D. S. P. Johnston. - HEA.THSVILLE W. K. Neville. ' PALMYRA TOWNSHIP PALMYRA W. II . Newell. HOBGOOD Lcvira Leggett, W. N. Herring Leon Shields, R. H. White. KOSENEATH TOWNSHIP SCOTLAND NECK R. F. D. Eufus Cherry, W. C. Allsbrook. BTJTTEEVOOD TOWNSHIP LITTLETON R. F. D. A. E. Carter. j AIR LIE ; S. T. Thorne Jr., W. E. Nicholson W. K. i Thorne. Assuring your Board and the ! Registrants of Halifax county that - th3 Council of Defense of Halifax j County will serve the registrants) i m any way possible, l am, Your very truly R. C. DUNN j Chairman of Council of Defense Halifax county - TTON THE COBMJCT GERMAN INFANTRY, ASSISTED BY AIR SQUADRON, TRY TO RETAKE KAVRIN COURT liUT ARE BEATEN OFF WITH VERY GREAT LOSS ENEMY REPULSED -o LACKERS TAKEN AT ifi A r&feTSST A I I ARnJIVAl O uy united rre Durham Sept 13. Forty fivejvance was made east of deancourt men are in the city jail awaiting . which is in our hands, a hearing to determine if they are j Strong hostile forces assisted slackers as a consequence of a raid 'by a squadron of Uernum airpbm last night on the carnival here. es, attacked our new positions ot The police, sheriffs'1 posse and j IlavriiKVourt bujt were repulsed two hundred arrested fifteen to twenty who are likely to prove genuine slackers : o m JLli J I JfSL Si! WAR o (By United Press) London Sept 13. Englis and French children are founding an "entente" of their own. Those iittlb- French children whose parents find it impossible io remove them from Paris and the terrors of a daily bombard ment are to be adopted into En - glish families "for the duration of war."' Manv a lonelv little English child wiii profit by companionship of a bright, vivacious Freiu-h child and the -French child will have an opportunity of studying the English life and language ; Parents aU over England are1, sending out invitations for "dur ii tion" adoptions, glad to do some thing to lighten the lot of the bar rassed French mother who is in daily fear for her child's safety. 0 HE HELPED MAKE THE SECURITY LEEGUE of i ON CAM BRI FRONT o I (By United Press) I London Sept .13. General Haig ' reports tIiat hc J"" gained :tlie Posession of Iiolnon wood dnv iT L - V. v- J tv. hi i ii rill LIU UK ttlll 1. o 1 le r i n g resistance. Further north of the line an ad with great los Opposite Mouvreville, on the Cambnii front, hostile infantry as :;embled for coirnter attacks, bur vere observed and -subjected to heavy lire making the attack u:i iUocesvt'iii, only a few Uerman" l-e-iehii.'g our lines, those being or her killt (1 or taken prisonors Progress was also made during the night west of. Auehy le Basse. O Paris Sept VA West of St. Quen tin, i!i-rt.he?ts' v-'i : t(ward "ITes neil Ij-; Hurlus an im)oitant ene my surprise attack was repulsed In the region of Verdun our sev eral surprise attacks brought in prisoners. Germans in force continue to re ist near Gouzeaucont throwing- ijhs Australians back to their line j south of "dead Man's corner". 'Under a hurricane bombard ment from trench mortars support ed.by heaviest machine guns the Vermand the British f;-.rrison is reported to be holding neverthc less. YESTERDAY o- The following Lrdics v:ivo work ing in the wfu kiN- in Vv ed:iesda' : Mesdames Flamriier, llbc Shields Milliard, Haskell. Livermon, Arth ur Itobcrson. Nonna AValston, Walter Hancock T. W. "Russell, Arrington and Martin. There were about sixly five ref ugee garments taken out to be made, Caroline Powell 'taking a '-.rnt M-fv.t- fnr. f r tlw f'nlnrn 1 Auxiiliary. Yejterday Mesrlames Shields and Ililliard spe?it the .afternoon i there and got the allotment arrang 'for the II(7brood Aaxilliarv which is to going to -make fift3r. The others will be distributed today, and it is hoped wiii be finished and returned by te last of the month There is an urgent call for Red Cross nurses and also for young women to go into the various train 'hig schools to prepare themselves j to fill the places of the large num ' ber who have gone into the milita ry hospitals and to work at the front: AT
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