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AFTERNOON DAILY
y ORDER OF THE WAR INDU STRIES BOARD ALL SUBSCRIPTION THAT ARE NOT PAID BY OCTOBER at WILL BE DISCONTINUED FROM OUR SUBSC: .PTION LIST ON THAT DAY
VOLUME FIVE
AFTERNOON DAILY
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27 1918
TELEGRAP H SEE VICE.
NUMBER 6
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BULGARIA ASICS AMIS
TO
GRANT
AR1ISTACE
HPREMIER MALINOPF WITH CONSENT OF CZAR FERDI
NAND HAS MADE PRQPOSAL TO ENTENTE TO
CEASE HOSTILITIES
BRITISH MAKE
FRESH ATTACK
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(By United Press)
London, Sept. 27. British for
ces attacked on a wide f,ront south
of the Senze river at 5.20 this mor
ning reports General Haig.
. Satisfactory progress was being
made is reported in his first cable.
ALLIED
CAVALRY i A
NEAR TO USKUB
AMIS HAKE MEN
mm east minis
BERLIN SEVERELY CRITICISES MALINOFF
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(By Uiuted Press; ,
London Sept 27. The allied ad
vanee in Macedonia has reached
the total depth of seventy five mil
es it is announced by the Serbian
War office.
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Was.liing.ton Sept 27. Austria
is rushing reinforcements to the
hard pressed Bulgarians according
to advices here this afternoon.
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Londpn Sept, 27. Bulgaria has
offered an armistace? it was anno
uiu-ed here today.
The announcement came in a dis
patch from Copenhagen stating
that it was officially reported
from Germany that the Bulgarian
premier, Malinoff, had proposed
an aumistace to the entente.
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Berlin learns that the dispatch
of Premier Malinoff of Bulgaria
in his proposal of an armistace is
not supported by other members
of his cabinet though it shows
Czar Ferdinand's hand, and has
caused great dissatisfaction throu
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(By TJnited Press)
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London Sept 27 Allied cavalry .
believed to have reached the ! OVER FORTY MILE FRONT AMERICANS AND FRENCH PEld
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LITHUANIANS
WANT REPUBLIC
(By Associated News Service)
Washington Sept 27. An im
portant conference between im em
bers of the L-ithunian National
Council and Col Theodore Roose
velt has just been aranged by con
gressman W. Frank James of Mi
chigan. Some time later in the
near future a similar conference
will be arranged for the represent
atives of the Jugo-Slavs. These
two peoples maintain bureaus in
Washington in charge of represent
ative men. They are both striv
ing for self-government and be
lieve this country will release
their nations from the autocratic
oppression which they have eiidur
ed for many years.
In this connection the Lithuri
ian National Council has received
word from Switzerland which
riiout the country, where strong; says: "Although Germany has a
measures were being taken to sup ' fondness for kings and princes but
port the Bulgarian front, it was not all of them it seems are to the
stated, liking of German autocracy. On
A counter movetoent against the German pressure, the Taryba or
proposal has been started in Sofia State 'Council of Lithunia was
according to dispatches from that j forced to look for a king without
city by way' of Berlin and Copen having a chance to consult the will
haren " of the people of Lithunia who are
q working for an independent Lith
From a nation of- wasters we ' unian- republic. The selection by
have become a nation of savers the Tarba of Duke von Urach as
it - j? t zi.1 . -: i v
and lenders. Let the Fourth rnig oi iu uma, woa, uul tu m
liking of of the Prussian masters.
:The offiieious note, on this subject
j was published in the 'semiofficial
newspaper Norddeutsclue Allege
rcebe Zeitung which declared that
Lithunia has no right to select a
king or take simlar steps without
consulting Prussia." The German
military authorities demanded
that this note be printed on the
DRAFT LOTTERY
BEGINS MONDAY
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(By United Press)
Washington Sept 27. Provost
Marshal Crowder announced that
America's greatest draft lotterv to
determine the order of service lia
bility of the thirteen million men
who registered on September 12
would start next Monday at noon
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plains south of Uskub according to
unofficial -dispatches received here
The Serbian infantry stated the
message !yvas from ten to fifteen
j miles from Uskub.
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RECOGNIZE
JUGO-SLAVS
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(By United Press)
Geneva? Sept 27. The German
Kaiser hid in a cellar at Mannheim
during the recent raid by allied
airmen over that city, dispatches
received here state.
The German ruler was making
fBy United Press)
Washington Sept. 27'. Formal
recognition of the Jugo-Slavs by
this government was asked of the
state department today.
That 'President Wilson and Se
cretary Lansing will consider the
appeal worthy of favorable action
is generally -believed especially as
it would be a fresh step toward the
dismembering of Austria.
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SCOTLAND NECK'S
SHARE IS $93,800
ETRATE HINDENBURG LINE TO A DEPTH OF
SEVEN, MILES
ALLIES ARE PUSHING ON SUCCESSFULLY
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CHILE SEIZED
GERMAN SHIPS
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(By United Press)
Santiago Sept 27 The Chilean
government forces have seized 4
and probably five interned Ger
man merchant steamships.
It is announced that this step is dispatches.
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(By United Pre?s)
j Paris Sept 27. The French
. war office announces that seven
thousand prisoners have been tak
en in the allied offensive in Cham
pagne.
Paris Sept 27. The Franco A
meriean attack between Rheims
and Verdun is progressing satis
factorily according to battlefront
taken as a preventive measure.
None of the vessels have been
damaged by the crew.
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Richmond
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Sept
27. Figures
made public by the Fifth Federal
a visit to the towns along the riv ; Reserve Bank show that Scotland
er Rhine to ally1 the fears of the j Neck's apportionment of the 4th
inhabitants follow the raids lay al ! Liberty Loai is $93,800.
lied" aircraft-. The attack was made- The- other -contiguous towns in
on Mannheim at the time of the 'North Carolina are as follows :
royal visit. Several bombs fell near ; K:nston $445,100; Washington
the cellar where Kaiser Wilhelm; $301,400; Tarboro $236,400; Green
hid. i -ille $404,600.
CASUALTY LISTS
GIVE 604 NAMES
The Armies of Generals Gour
and Berthelet and Pershing attain
ed all their first objectives and
are quickly pushng on.
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Fred S. Ferguson
CIRCUS STAR ON TIGHT ROPE SELLS WAR SAVING STAMPS
Liberty Lor.n xrove
it.
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SI
AY
Owing
to
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the revival
meetm;
(hiring this week at the Methodist ' first page of Lithunian newspa
elmrch Mr. J. H. Alexander Jr. pers refusaj to comply to mean the
chairman of the local committee on suppression of the offending news
the Fourth Liberty Loan has re- papers. 'The Lithunian press once
frained from calling together the j went on a strike for forty years
committee. i while under Russian rule against
Mr. Alexander now announces' an edict of the Czar is expected
that a meeting will ,be held of to go on another strike against
the entire committee sometime dur the latest German manifesto.
m? the day on Monday probably j O
on Monday afternoon and that A salient; ? When the Yanks
each member will be phoned to have been in France a little lon
personally as to the hour of the ger "there won't "be no such ani
meeting ' willn "
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With the American forces afield
Sept. 27. -The second offensive
of the American first aitnv under
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Washington Sept 27 North Car ' commanding general Pershing,
olina contributes ten names of the which began yesterday morning
list of 604 casualties released by has swept the Germans seven miles
the War Department today. j behind the Hindenburg line over
Sergeant Harvey M. Ledwell, of a twenty mile front from Meuse
Randleman and Privates Johu westward to the Argonne forest.
S. Doty of Clemmons and Carl Dri i The Americans are continuing
ver of Raleigh were killed in ac their progress tday.
tion ; -Private George W. Allred of On the American left the French
Franklinville4died of desease; T. troops are attacking on an equal
H. Mitchell of Lillirgton died from
accident; Sergeant Raleigh R.
Wall, of Henrietta Corporal Wm.
Fred Ballard of Alexia and Pri
vates Lawson T. Munclay of Taylor
sville, Robert E. Paris, of Winston
Salem and Joseph D. Porter of
North Wilkesboro were ail wound
ed severely. (
The total list shows that 171
were killed in action : 126 missing
in action; 146 wounded severely;
119 died of wounds; 21 died of do
sease ; 12 died of accident from ac
cident and qther causes; 1 died of
an aeroplane accident; 3 wounded
to "(a degree iinde-t ermir.jp 1 aivl
five wounded slightly,
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Here is a chance for some super
statesman Whose gigantic intel
lect' is to frame the economic for
m ula f He will be a greater eman
cipator than Lincoln himself.
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COTTON MARKET
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Open High
frontage, extending westward to
Suippes river where they have ad
vanced to an average of four miles.
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ROPHY TRAIN
HERE OCT. 1.
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At eleven oel
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Bird Millman the famous circus star selling War Saving Stamps
from a tightrope at Broad and W all streets. Miss Millman sold
several hundred dollars worth of the stamps to the huge crowd that
assembled to see her perform.
Oct.
Dec
Jan
Mar
Mav
32'.90
32.50
31.40
31.38
31.33
33.50
33.20
32.69
32.60
32.60
Low at 2 :40
32.90 33.50
32.50- 33.20
31.40 32.69
31 .38 32.60
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and until eleven o'clock the next
morning a trophy train carrying
war trophies captured from the
enemy will-be on exhibition here.
The train will be in charge of
the Liberty Loan committee but
a squad of soldiers who have seen
service abroad will explain these
war tropb.es and an. opportunity
will be given the people, here to
study ordnance arid supplies used
i by our boys overseas and by our
allies.
Speakers of national repuTation
will address the people on war tro
pics these probably being Gran
ville Jones of Montana and John
Brooks Fletcher of Illinois
At the evening meeting pictures
Loc
Cm,-!
of war scenes will be thrown on
Market 31 cnts!the screen. The tr:-n will be light
ed bv r-lectriCltv.
Bfcifftlfti (C&nrdliiifiigi Beys Cwir TEhim
v Associated News Service) ;
Washington, D. C, Sept., 27 -1
A twentieth century proverb has!
en coined by the war reviewer;
f the Associated News Service,'
it finds apt application at this'
tifce.' It s this:' '11 war news is
good news." : - !
The continued success of the at !
lel armies in the. eastern theatre
f the war have caused great en
thusiasm here and Are referred to
as "the near eastern debacle."
For the time the portentious ev
ents in the Balkans and asia minor
have overshadowed the splendid
achievements on th e western front
Already the' slogan, "Prepare for
peace?" is being sounded at the
Capital. Not a peace made in Ger
;rfl.Tiv, but a peace with complete
ubfnission on the part of the Hnn
Gen. Allenby, commanding the
British forces in the eastern thear
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er-has become the hero of the hour
and the completeness of h's great
victory over the brutal Turks wi'l
pot be fully known for several
dav. ' ''
Late advices recvVd at vl- v
War Pepartmer.t state that the tri
umphant advance uf the. r?r:
forces ha lenn temporarily lu:'-
ed on the Lorraine front not br
German gun fire but by (dd Jupiter
Fluvius god of the elements. The;
Yanks have been deluged with rain
and their front made impassable
by the deep mud and mire. Thus
held up. the'Amenc'aiis are quick
h: reorganizing and preparing for
the'Vyr.tiiHiJtion of their drive.
hi a letter from tlie front reeeiv
ed exclusively by the Associated
News Service the writer an 'Am-' writer also says a North Carolina
erican officer? says: "We have in
terrogated a number of Hun pris
oners recently captured by pur
boys and they are coincide in
the view that Germany now has no
hope of winning the war, bi.it will
fight on for th purpose of getting
the most favorable peace kterrr
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from the allied nsroins." The
"outfit", recently engaged - with
Si he Micmy " covered" itself with
gi -ry. 'advancing w:Jr heavy ma-
chine gun and art.''! cry fire driv
lug back the enemv :..tia taking pri
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soners. " rteeent c'l-saliies listed
tl:.e War.. Department contain
the I'nics of a nnr-3er o soldiers
rr Xoith' Car'-lli.
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