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WEATHER REPORT 5 Fair toaigllt 8atUKlay. Some loTO t01liM. , ,Trench northwest winds. MW AFTERNOON DAILY VOLUME V1-OTBER TO O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLAND NECK, N. C., FRID A YJANuIriT 21919 TELEGRAPH SERVICE PRICE TWO CENTS J-HL EAJLTH. -- nD)imaiMzd. LORD CECIL SAYS ! U. S. MUST DECIDE! i LISBON CLAIMS A MONARCHY LEON T OTSKY A PRISONER! TOMORROW S SESSION OP SUPREME CONGRESS WILL BE DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF LEGISLATION ON LABOR Portuguese Capital Has Pro- Was Taken At Narva When Es. i claimed For King- Manuel j thonian Troop Took That I Today . ! Town ! THE MUST PAY ' State Libran nn KUrAKA MEETING WILL BE OPEN TO THE PRESS ;s- The A-xmted Press) j ju is, -Jan. 24. The question j me uh- iiif!' the Panama canal should ;. internationalized under the --.tgue of nations" would depend ei-.t upm the attitude of the Vaivd States government, accord i mi :i. tiie belief expressed last; by Lord Robert Cecil who int. submitted to the peace eon- KING STILL IN LONDON PRESIDENT WILSON AGREES TO PRINCIPLE THAT CEN- j REBEL CLEARS FROM NORTH i TRAL POWERS PAV vttt.t. nncr nir tt, t - - wna sj: TCXj PARATION. c. MADRY WRITES TO R.L. HARDY Aa interesting letter has just -;vs a draft of tlie British views jbeeii received from Private R. C. wf the structure of the league. Ma dry, written on December 27 L..rd Cecil spoke at a confer- j from "ober the Rhine. ' ' .'iM-c ui' journalists and held thai! He states that lie was on three t!;-- Panama eanal was not on the ! fronts, two in the Argonne and at 1- ,1 . H . 1 . 1 ;niv nasis as some otner water-; oeuan, anctj apparently escaped' ways since it is the property c- being wounded, as he does noli 1 i rli.- Suited .States and it must be imentiou it. f..r that country to say how it Of course he is anxious to ge Madrid, Jan. 24. -A monarchy! Baslel' Jan 24. Leon Trotsky j has been proclaimed in Lisbon l he Bolshevist minister of war and I J. 1 . T1 . j . I - i uie roriuguese capital, according j marine, did not escape from Nar to a telegram received here from j va after the defeat of the Bolshe Valencia on the Portuguese bor-! vists by the Esthonians but wjis der. I taken nrisoner HceoTvlincr a li' X . - , ... riiij C J 11 - patches-received here from Libau . j Vigo, Spain, Jan. 24. The great er part of the Lisbon garrison has gone over to the Monarchists, ac cording to reports on the progress of the Portuguese revolution re ceived here. ALSO CONSIDER GENERAL DISARMAMENT Advices tyrim the same source state that owing to the interven tion of Finnish troops in northern Esthonia and Livonia the country has been completely rid of Bol shevist troops. be controlled. ion of the Peace Congress, to be held tomorrow, will be open to the 'i'CS. Tin- Hrst subjeet in the order iiusiness as announced yester day by the Supreme Council will' international legislation on. la "'. Pnder instructions given at! iiic first session various national Iflvtral ions have been preparing written statements of their views m the subject and it is understood! these will be received by the eon-J 2!'cs and referred to a committee j whi'.di will reeommend a plan to ! 1 I the' congress for its approval. j back since "all is over-over there" ; and he is now encamped ohi the Rhine, at a summer resort facing la beautiful castle owned bv Anh- i jciser Busch. the St. Louis brewer. ;-" 'Sim arnmt tec li turHyiHailettiAirH ed he has ma relied through France and Belgium and one hundred miles into Germany. He mentions how glad, he is to received the copies of the? Common wealth, which seem like letters from home. London, Jan. 24. A widely cir-j culated report, that former King ' 0 WEflCC FlANT Manuel of Portugal is about to i 0 f f ElLu liUlX 1 itl:: ;:rr Iiantroishfviki (By The Associated Press) Stockholm, Jan. 24. The Swed ish government has sent an ulti matum to -the Bolsheviki legation here demanding its departure of Sweden by. January 25 at the la I est, according to t h e Politikal. LITHUANIAN (!'" The Associated l'res Paris, dan. 24. During the con sideration o1' reparation " at tie-; meeting of the Supreme War Coin. eil yesterday, .the Paris edition of jlhe Daily Mail says President Wil json agreed to the principle that ! I.,. . i p.rerinany must ie made to pay They Inflict Tremendous Casual- 'ndeminties in addition to the full s DEFEAT THE BOLSHEVIST ties And Take Thousands Of Prisoners ADVANCE TOWARD VILNA King Manuel is still in London Itodav. DEDEI I FAHE 1VL.ULL LLrtU SIR E. J. POYNTER MEXICAN R. R. RECONSTRUCTED (Tiy The Associated Press) Mexico Citv, Jan. 24. Rail? 'DC BODY FOUND (By The Associated Press) Amsterdam Jan 24. The body of Rose Luxemburg, the Sparta can leader killed "by a mob' recent ly, was found vesterdav in the Landwehr canal, according to a report from Berlin. The body was terriblv mutilated SOLDIERS LIVE ON BOX CARS Paris, Jan. 24. The Lithuan ian troops have inflicted a terri fic defeat upon the Bolsheviki near Koszedarz, according to re-; ports from Kovena today. The casualties of the Bolsheviki are said to have been excessively heavy and that they are reported to have lost b'.oOO prisoners. The Lithuanians are said to 1)3 jd,v;ncmr toward. ..Vilna, cost of reparation. At the instance df British rep resentatives th' mvspapers says, a discussion was also begun on the abolition of conscription and gen eral disarmament. It says it is possible the plenary session of ihe peace congress today will gi-.? some attention to these question; In future, the Daily Mail says there will be due full meeting oS the peace congress each week. (By The Associated Press) With the American forces on the Vologda Raihvav, Jan 24. nminnmrr IAirn ! rreSpondei.t of The Aiater: wmmm m w m..m v v ; . , - . v ... . i : iiiis Lnuii pojnuctieu aoiesi. uu i TEXAS FARMERS OIL MAGNATES Da lias. Texas, dan. 24. Some ' the West Texas farmers who de- WILSON LIKELY PRESIDENT OF LEAGUE NATIONS (By " ;.' AsSMci:it'l jM'ess"' Paris, .Ian. 24. President Wil son is likelv to be offered .Ui DIED TODAY I'.y Tbe Associated Press) j tundra region along the railway j serte(l tlleil homes last summer in presidency of the Commission of leading from Archangel to Volog- j Pitif 1,1 vhite li,,es yr old P'-airie ; t),e League of Nations, the Leho j'da, the American troops fighting I wagons are now going back in;de Paris says today. I the Bolsheviki in the North Rus-' automobiles. Driven out by three j By commission di'-the league ol VV hi-ington. Jan. 24. Mr. Pein- sian front are living, when free .vears ot liojrlit, they are going nations ii probably is meant tl back as oil men. permanent executive bodv for the luoke Jones, of this city, one of :from trench and blockhouse duty the wealthiest and best known ! jn tiny Russian freight cars. J Stretches of land where th i conduet of the proposed league' n;''!i in the south, died this morn-! jn this thev a,re imitating the j drought had virtually withered ev affairs. Uy Tlie Assoej:ited Pres.- I-'iidoii. .Inn. 24. Sir Ed h!ii I oynter has resigned t all v destroyed during the last few 1 tv'''n tl,is c'if: imd Wnghtsvilb-dwellings. iTl I I'll 1 Jl .i . iieaeii, wnicn ne nas oruamcniea lien ttte box cars ar tie 14 AC DCClPMITi alid ties are en route to Mexico ! lhwing an operaton at Tom-; Russian soldiers, wlio, since the! cry leaf of vegetation and from ilAu lLuiillljlllCity for the reconstruction of the ! Ik 'i,svi!; York- revolution, have commandeered which the disheartened farmers i railroad between the capital and' Pembroke Jones has a magnifi-: freight cars wherever they found j departed for the cotton fields Cuerna vaca. which has been virtu-i''lellt (MiUll1l.v ,1Gme halt wa.v ue-;them and remodeled' them for and other more prosperous see- turns, are witliin the new oil dis- whieh he has ornamented When the box cars are fitted tnet. and beutified in a most extrava-jnp with stoVes, they are known! Some of the farmers who strag gant manner. His wealth was all as "f topluchkas. " They are nor j gled, almost penniless, from the gained through his association as particularly warm in zero weatli j" parched zone" a few .months a one of the Standard Oil Magnates ' er, but a welcome change from go can qualify as oil magnates, during its early history. i the cold trenches in the snow. ; according to Vance .Muse of the The forests here are dotted with fort Worth Chamber of CVmmer- It is to be hoped that the ! small blockhouses, built almost ' ce, who has just completed a tour 20.70 21.09 20.70 21.69 American soldiers now in Russia 'on the model of the blockhouse of Ranger, Eastland, Cisco. Breck- i1"1'- deney of the Koyal Academy l! f he has held years as the result of bandit de predations. since Mr k'bvard exhibited his first pic-1 at tlie age of twenty-six and: ivc years later his pieture "Israel ; Jn huypt." brought him into prom-1 'Atalanta's Race'" and j January visit to AMseulapius" and two'Mar,fl1 -his t f st known classical pictur- j MaV - COTTON MARKET Open High Low CIo-" 21.35 21.3; IRISH PARTY ANNOUNCED fT5 rJ'iie A .-oi:itt-. I'ross) Dublin, dan 24. A new political association called the Irish Centre parly was formally constituted yesterday. The new party embraces a con stitutional nationalists and s.nith- 20.70 20.S4 20.05 20.8-i are North Dakotan s. ern unionists. Those,, forts of the old American wars nridge. DeLeon, Moran. (ionium t j He is now 82 years old and!Jub" 19.86 20.0.". 19.30 20.03 j i,.,vs would sooner fight in the "with the Indians, but have the ad- j and other towns in the heart of most completely deserted last sum 'Agnation has been accepted - October 1S.50 18.76. 1S.20 18,7( jsnow than they would shovel in ; ded advantage f being fairly jtlu new oil district. He says the mcr, has reached unprecedented -gret by Ids colleagues. Local Market NOMINAL lit. dirapnel proof. population in many counties nl- figures. We Erak ThB OM IHHimdleinilbiuiirM ' Lnimeg liv ' ' '.'li'il o, I);ivis 1 lite .,f December 29 wc ,ii,v' jiiM received a bmg letter Private Joe R. Davis, who is Co. K.. 119 infant rv vision. Like all men wh;- 1,;n" 'ecu overseas and faced the '"it!'i"s T""e he is full of enthus and grit. Un J Davis says. -It was :l,i;'y. September 20, when "" went over the top and "'' -l-. ,i ,n,,.... i i. o mar Tamoiis llin- il. -I- I Uie. '-omrades were i'all :m - de. -si iiiic with maeh ine gun bullets and some from shell fire, and here it was that I also got wounded. As I lay on the ground and the bullets went whistling by then was the time I thought of home and mother dear. L'Kor some hours I lay on the battlefield, waiting f'or some stray comrade to- help -me back to a f,:rst aid station. Finally there came from out tlie mist and pow der smoke a bunch of captured (ermaiis. and the bov in' charge made them gather me up and car ry me back. "One of the-e (Jcrmaus eouLl i speak broken English and he ask- ! ed me if I was a Tommy, or what. ,1 told him I belonged to the Red. White and Blue. He acted rath er queer when 1 told him that aim was silent for a few minutes, then die said 'the war will soun be ovet ' 1 asked him why he said that ami he replied 'because the Americans i were too much for them.' "We were not alone in this great battle, as you can imagine, for the artillery was t here belrnd us at the zero hour oV the morn ing, and when they opened fire ' sounded like all hell had broke loose. Such a roar I had never; "You may have heard of the ; oners since 1 !)1 4. sure showed t heir heard, and the screaming of the Merman women being in the bat-.'appreciation of freedom by giving jshells as they passed over our hies, and this is true for when I u. hugs and kisses and what little dieads was terrific. :smashed the Hindenburg line we- , : , , . . ; oit To eat thev had. '" Three minutes after tlie bomb-; captured some women along with. iardment we hopped over and solthcrest of the prisoner. I don't: As "v through Calais ! eager were some of the boys for; know what their part was in th - many prisoners ,jn the Ithe fight that they rush on into, game but in some places the boys 'cage a'nd they said hdlo boy?, ithat great barrage and were kill-;captured some operating machine ; there is a bir national ballgame i ed bv our own uns. Iguns. Alaybe tlie ones Ave took on up at the lutes, and believe me ' "On niv twenty third birthday Avere doing the same thing but '1 was standing in the front lin 'jthey Avere not. around them Avheu : trencli the lookout for the jthey were captured. it was some gamp, but they lot, The Kaiser Avent to the game and his knees were shaking and to his Phis w;i at Ypres. in Pe!-j "We captured many, villages bodyguard he said 'give me room "ium, on that well known Flan- and towns in our battles and the to run foV 1 have got a failure of d"-s i'ront. Freie-h pe- le. avIjo had been pris- ' my heart." and run lie d'd." Hoc he.
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