WEATHER REPORT : Fair and continued cool tonight and Wednesday. Moderate fresh northwest winds on the
coast.
AFTERNOON DAILY
VOLUME FIVE
AFTERNOON DAILY
SCOTLAND NECK, N; 0. TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5 1918
TELEGRAPH SEE VI
NUMBER 82
ITALIAM AMY AH A1S
GREATEST V
TORY
TO
PRACTICALLY SINGLEHANDED WITH BUT SLIGHT HELP
FROM ALLIES THE ITALIANS DEFEAT TWO MIL
LION OF ENEMY
AMERICANS
OCCUPY TRIESTE
Amsterdam Nov 5. The Ameri
can fleet will soon occupy Trieste
according to reports received from
Paris.
IN CASUALTIES A
fREC 3,000 SQUARE MILES IN 10 DAYS
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MAKING HEADWAY
Washington, Nov. 5. Of the 1,-
308 jbotal casualties made public I
in the two lists issued by the war i
department today North Carolina ' - -
contributed twenty nine of . her P0RCES OF ALL ALLIED ARMS ARE ENTHUIA3TICALL?
sons . among tnem Ernest -tiyman ,
of Palmyra, who is today officially
i given out as killed in action and ;
Atlanta,, (J a., Nov
5.-
-Unless
(By Henry Wood)
AVitli the Frencti armies afield
yoV The moment the Austrian
armistice became effective the It
alian and allied armies in the ten
fl;iys bdtle had attained the great
military victory in the world's
history.
AY lieu the battle opened over
one million bayonets with an aux
iliary million in the rear opposed
thou.
The victory was obtained by the
ltahai.s practically single-handed
i.nly five Anglo-French divisions !
and on' American regiment aided.
During the ten days the Italians
and allies captured over three bun
dred thousand prisoners and five
thousand guns as well as liberating-
three Thousand square miles
of teritorv and thousand of vill
us
ERNEST
IT1
i vl A N
HERO
the federal railroad administra
tions grants their demands for
Sergeant Charles G. Rossman, of
Enfield, died of desease. I
In addition to the .brave local
men, who are known here the fol-
' lowing comprise the list of state
PUSHING BACK THE EN3MY LT NUMBER REGION
ON WEST FRONT
SftMiltES ADVANCE DESPITE RESISTANCE
(By Frank J. Taylor)
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
closed by the capture of Laneuvill
e
vvatre increase and better working tttt t -rn- t-m AfnTnT
:r.. ' ,- . i ju-.. aeros the Me use irom Stenav
"Pi "K-.Ser William R. Martin, of North ine American mst army Be.rimcmt ,ivhN 0.0lini(1 1
a Aii thnncsm.-l AlAyi.anliA. caf.i , . . XT,r w O.nrt V TVT TU ed.l UlOlll. llv.lgIU,S ai C OCUipieil
i ww 1 JUi .v..., L,lo , uliarlotte aucl Privates Swann x- M- XI1C bv te American and the lines
lion agents and train dispatchers; RY nf Revere anrl Henrv W cans gained six kilometers (three; v . , '
.i ;i , X- 1 OI eeie ana xieniy v . , & .. .. vrere carried to drancVs Armois-
oi Tiie soutneastern aismct tne , Johnson, of Graham' , and three quarters miles) against ; .
order ot railway telegraphers is i died OF WOUNDS :heavv resistance m a sudden lun- ,
fter saving his captain by that they will sever their comiec-! prjates Melvin E. Rineheart, of &e ag the Meuse yesterday j
Clvde. Chester N. Bullard
v
Whiteville and President
sbnotino- o RoaIta who was in thp ' 'v. m i l 4. ..... - -"..c, . - - i nirry merman airplanes , nave
shooting a Bociie ho w as m the . tions with railroads at eight a. m. ; Clvde, Chester N. Bullard, of They captured Beaumont Cesse , (lp;trftVt1
act of throwing a grenade, and ' Thursday morning, November 14
u-Fvivu, ow-. ims is me suusiance oi me in-. Iahala of Ashland
four others of the enemy, Ernest timatnm telegraphed Director Gen! " ' died OF DISEASE
Hyman leaves a recordj of bravery eral McAdoo it was learned today
that will go down in history. . I .
The above information came
from his sergeant who wrote here
that Mrs. Ilyman might know how
bravelv her bov died. His letter,
in part, was as follows : !
REA
F.
I .4
1L
LED
L
ENURE ACCORD
"Ernest Hyman was No 1,
gunner in my gun team and
was at the gun when he was
put out. He always did his
work well. He saved one of
our officers lives as the. Jerry
was fixing to throw a hand
grenade at the officer. He cut
him down with his forty five.
"He also killed four others
I
1
Washington Nov 5. Early re
ports from political headquarters
T ana .Jaumay iorest and completed
i the ocupation of Laneuville. , . .
1 . : v it h the American int annv,
i American engineers tnrew pon- x- - . . , , . .
Pi-wneo rtndfvAv frnmartiA of toons across the Meuse at several. n . . - , " . '
i nvats ijroane . tromame, oi. 01 nicreasmcr rfsistance the first
Whit-villp JnAnb Roll in o'swnr- points under heavy shell fire. ' , , -..in ...
waiT.-vMie .jostpii iiouiugswoi- i . . army has eloped the tamous Ste-
th, of Raeford, John Caulder, of ; i nay' (San and is now wilhin ten
. Laurel Hill and Martin Gregory I Pari, Nov. 5. The French fir . mijPS of tle Southern foothills of
of Bartlet. t army laimclied an attack' on ajthe Ardennes.
WOUNDED SEVERELY forty mile line against the. great i-nim(..m tl--Anicricans can
Lieut?na.nts Lacy Lj Shambur- elbow on the west front this morn ;rir;v a,.VOss froill h? heiirhls soutii
ger, of Briscoe and Philip P. ing, extending from Peron river ( f tj,.lt vpja;? jnt0 Herman tcrri-
Green, of Thomasville
southeast to the Aisne. . At the -jorv eleven miles distant.
j shows American voters are turn-; Pi:ivatescicero McCauslev of Hu same time the French forces push
i nig out early and m great num- j
: I
; bers for one of the most spirited
! elections in the nations history. j
! Both democrats and republicans;
; are confident of victory. j
i The loer.I voting was a mediocre
affair very little interest being ev Lieu tenant Harvey Ii.
bert ; Benjamin R. Salter, of ed . forward between 'the Peron j London Nov 5. L Quesnoy, an
M?rritt; Hubert Banks, of Clay and a unction with the British Ihi ; iir,jv0vt:;11t town eight miles south
ton and Thomas Wilson of For- es at tho ambre, extending thej.., .;f Vr.hMicien.r.es. was captur
svthe Countyi ! attacking front to .a widtli of f if - j ;ui Ve:iterdav by the British. U-
. WOUNDED TO A DEGREE
UNDETERMINED
five miles.
Repeated successes of our troop-; j
aor with its jrarr :.n oi
men, renoii;
Field
! tllOl'.S-
?Iarsha
McCov- foreed the enemy to a new with II ai:
kl i ill
i u n - t. fj v. i 5 iy
i. E fig '
(By United Tress)
Nov 5. The Interallied I
the nme nrghtswnirfrTS'pstn!-;-jne?tl Dy anjoiie. ; : ' miek; ofhfjrlnner - 4;Vlrawal olisevral ' par' f-ihf
all of whom were machine gun j - At noon tod.ay only 150 votes Privates Edgar O. Holt, of Wooi front. I
ners. Tic was a very goo
t y r
,1
';l!'is. AOV
ii jiiuiiiatic Council at
soldier and thought well of in
hi company."
Versailles; The ' sergeant, a
had been cast out of a possible -100 dale: .and Clarence L "Walsh, j , Fnceasingly pursuing his rear
; which shows the people are not in of Monroe iyuards which are charged to pro
: terested there being no contest, WOUNDED SLIGHTLY 'tect his retreat and. delay our ad
Franklinton i Tonight however the wires will Lieutenant Murray II. Grant, of . vance our troops with ever a sting
P,r:ti.?r thus- i-r-vi r.;u
diarp .salient .wel'- luui be.:n
ated by yesterday's adv;nee.
M
h mm
terminated its work yesterday. man, became ecquamted with br i be busy with more important news Wilmington. ! ardor are tightly maintaining coni
All the members are in entire i nest Hyman through the latter ; of country wide returns which Corporal5 Richard C. Hinson, of i tact.
airrec-ment concerning armistice ! lending him the Commonwealth i will show the trend of public opin
terms to be presented to Germany i to read.
SUFFS MAY
OLSHEVK
j ion on the present administrations
standing with the people of, the
country.
The Commonwealth will give
fill I omiAi
ASK P
MS
j these returns as they come in and
! same will be posted outside this
office.
Norwood, and Dennis L. Hardi lu the region northeast of Guise
of Everett. j we oe.-upied, Bergues sur Samlre 1 f
RESOLUTIONS
Privates James L. Young, of . liberating two hundred civilians
Mooresville; Thomas S. Howei, j
of Gastonia ; "Walter M. Bray, of!
NUING WAR
Copenhagen Nov o. A great
demonstration v.'a.s held Sunday at
the Bismark monumimt Berlin in
favor of the cont'nu-; ion of the
i'y Associated Mews Service)
(By United Press)
Raleigh X. C. Xov 5
London Xov 5. The Americans
Rockingham John W. Hammond ', are' continuing' their pmgress ho
of Roberdeal and Fred Ledjford ! tween the Aisne and the Meuse.
of Busick iadvam-ing about t!?ree miles on a; war, a-;-.)i-(ang lt'
The total losses show that 124 'fvnt of about twentv miles as in I Tagebbit t.
Early this j were killed in action; 75 died of j dilated in an American eommuni-j le.'.on ions were jolooted agairt
the woinuls 5 died from accident: 103 one to hand this morning. st ac'"iitinjr a humiliating p'nce.
Bci-lincr
ni!:io-!
Xov
. A "Wash-! Copenhagen, Xov ". The Rus- state points to thirty thousand ma died of disease: 210 wounded so- Mst important was the com-
ii judge lias decided that the ; sian-Bolsheviki government lias iority for the democrats willi a verely : 2"7 wounded to a degree mand of Stenay. the principal la.O J:-
Mrcttes have a legal right to ' sent a note to the allies asking for solid delegation in congress and j undetermined ; wounded slight point of egress for the Germans in j This being elections day t tie ex
the Capitol park and picket peace negociations, according . to '; Senator Simmons leading the tiekllv: 44 mis'n in action and one their 'ret-e at south of the Atden-j changes are all closed and no cot-
11)1 entrance to the Senate.
reports received here.
'et.
prisoner
nes, vdd h ha been dfinatelv ton market can be given.
f
A human "interest letter from1 the heaviest I ever saw, or heard ry ammunition back to a dump,
the battle front has been received ! and 1 have heard quite a few. The When we returned the companv
from Charles L. Dunn by his moth- j first gun that spoke .at one A. M. .had gone so Ave went over on our
' ! extracts from which are sure ! was about twentv feet from me : own to catch em. "What had been
1,, interest those friends who know i and, it like to have seared me out Boehe trenches were mostly shell
him and our readers in general. i of' action. I thought the biggest holes then and, believe me I sur.
"My last was written just be-j shell in Germany had struck right . would have hated to have hen
we struck and I used a shoe at my feet and I thought I must ther11 when our shells were light
s,)h' for a desk. I didn't know . be dead and not know it. jing in them.
iit'tlipr I would ever write 4Tiose trenches were dark and: "Then we began running across
;i.i!;iin. muddy and w worked our waVI1eHfl r'p"ans. Some killed by
'"Von. get the war news and j through them to the front line "We shlls R"'"e by the bayonets,
know more than T do for a fellow 1 stumbled and slipped and ran ov-;Nrly all the dead I saw were
knows only what goes on right a-jer each' other in the dark and a kl"('s 18 to 20. After a while we
T'-mhl him when he is in a bat- ! fellow poked a machine gun with, struck a road down which the pris
tit.. j a iUTnp 0f mul in the cover right j oners and. wounded were being
The night Ave went to the at-m my eyes, but eyes were no good brought so we followed it.
t:r:k was just about the darkest in such darkness anyway. ''The most pathetic sight I ever
I ever saw. Each man nept his j "Then we got in action and add saw were tle people who had been
h;;nu m the man in front to keep ! ed all the noise we could to the liberated by our advance. They
from getting lost and even then we j hell that was raging all around.; had ben held captives in their
h;;d a time of it. The line kept By daylight the doughboys were towns for four years and, God on -hrd-ino.
, as some fellow would! over in the. Boch'e trenches with ly knows what they had suffered.
,1n in a ditch, tree or barbed wire 'rifje and bayonet, and the sup j They were simply wild with joy
rain the bottom sure fell out 'porting waves swarming out of . and were laughing, crying, cheer
JUl,l T had no rain coat. I was the trenches and spreading across ( ing us Yanks all at the same time
K:u one wet, cold, muddy "sol-. "Xo man's land."" jl saw one old woman walking to
'''t". ' j "Just before wy company went ' the rear with a big husky dough-
"The. barrage we put over wTas over I was put on a detail to car-s boy. She was holding his hand
like it was her hope of salvation
and he was grinning and blushing
while the wounded and. others guy
ed him.
"Yfe hiked till night without eat
chiiig our outfit and lay down t
sleep from utter exhaustion on the
wet f-oor of a shack we found.
"We were up at light and on our
way and. after hiking about a
"thousand" miles more ue found
the company in the front line resr
- i
ing.
" Just as we reported the Bodies
started a counter attack and those
M. G's started cracking away. It
didn't amount to much and lasted
no time.
"I had to go and get sick rlien
just as if I wasn't having enough
trouble anyway. T sure was glad
when we were relieved for I was
one puny citizen about then. I
wouldn't ask for relief but-decided
to try and stick it out and man
aged to make it.
"At one place we halted the
linns started shelling us and every
body began to "dig in". I start
ed but I was so sick and weak I
quit and decided to take a chance
on top. I found a spot that did
n't have more than a "million"
roots and rocks in it and curled
up and went to sleep. After my
eompany was relieved 1 reported
sick and went to the. hospital for
a while. I was soon all to the
merry and will jdn the out fit
any day now.
"You just can't beat the Yank
spirit. The night we went to the
attack was one ?f the worst I ev
er saw. rain, cold a:rd miub and we
all knew what we were going in
to and nobody could'tell who oul 1
answer "here" next night, but all
the men were laughing, talking
and joking as if they were in their
own home town. You would nev
er have known they were going
into "the valley of death" and the
"Mouth of IIc-11". It seems im
possible that men can be that way
yet they are. Sometimes as the
skclis whistle - over and around
'and you don't know wht second
laugh and joke the fellows around
and they do the same. Tlow we
do it I don't understand, but it is
done all over "this man's army"
' every day. ' '
; 1 was certaiidy tickled with one
'any in my sou ad (a Tar Hel too.)
i We '.-"ie holding a section of the
front bu" one afternoon with noth
ior between u- and the I lun but
i atmos?)iere. and this boy pulls off
his shirt and starts a cootie hunt.
Ue found oodles of them and the
wav he talked, to thcmvas a cau
tion. He kept the whole squad
handling v'th Ids cooties.
"There is one thing about coot
ies. They sure will stick to you
through thick and thin. Xo mat
ter how dirty, or wot. or deprav
ed, or broke you get the cooties
won't desert you-they clingeth
closer than a brother.
"All the nws we get is good
news and it can't come too good
to suit me, War is all that Sher
man said it'was when the weather
is fine but in winter over here
vou are goiug to "get it"
you Wow, oh boy:!