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WEATHER REPORT Partly Cloudy Tuesday anii- Wednesday ; Warmer Wednes nesdav. ESTABLISHED SINCE 1882 - AFTERNOON DAILY 'ALL THE NEWS m A NUTSHELL.' li"me ix. IN SEE 84. tOTJJt O'CLOCK ITION SCOTLAND NECK, N, C. TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1920. app iiommate Silesia N. E. No Clash Armies Prussia Of And m. S9f COUNTRY N GRIP OF STRIKE a. (nrlin. March 16. Berlin is in 111.- grip of a general strike and a Paris Ilavas Dispatch says the tvike is effective throughout (h-rmany, and only food trains ;!' running-. It adds also that severe fighting is reported at Dresden. Leipsig, Brandenburg iimi Chemmitz. Chancellor Kapp threatened the .strike leaders and pickets with death if they in terfere with the public service af ter four o'clock this afternoon ami a possible crisis may follow ;n'r i:v three. Ebert seems to con im! the Southern and Western Cerniaiiy and Kapp Northeastern Prussia and Kilesia. So far as is 1 ELECTRICALLY WELDED SHIP FIRST in tie woe ID LEADS H. JOHNSON BY 4000 St. Pau'i, March 16. General Woods plurality is four thousand over Hiram Johnson in yester days prefereneial primary Hoov er was not an avowed candidate but was leading- Lowden in third place by a thousand votes. The reurns are slow on account of prostrated wires. TINT GERMS 150 Feet Long And Of Five Hundred Tons ILUFF 0. S. STATE DEPAR WITHOUT HEAD Washington, March 15. The state department is technically without a read owing to the fail ure of the Senate Foreign rela tions to act in nominating Bain bridge Cobly. Frank L. Polk who was acting- secretary resum ed his ost- undersecretary adinte rim appointment having- expired. TELEGRAPH SERVICE I BIRTHRATE PRICE TWO CENTS DURING II France icr 11311 LAUNCHED IN ENG. Birkenhead, Eng.. March Ifi I l olnnfvInolliT A .1 . . 1 " . known armed torc.es of the two !,,.". p' . I to oe tne iirst in the world, lias been launched here. It is 4-'rr4- 1 . a ,. f r rr i i t .i icci xuiiii tiiiu r Tony eiveeu me military ana uie . crowds. ' i ' ' : " Washington, , (March (16. Ad miral Sims told the Senate inves tigating committe that little bluff bu the Germans in nineteen eighteen would have paralyzed the transportation of soldiers and war materials from United States to Europe. He su.hl information came that Gernany was building two heavily arm wed battle cruis ers to raid our .troops St'iips caus ed the navy department tr besige him the cablegrams 'out lineing impracticable suggestions 15! mil GE FREDERICK All ARTIST Wierengen, March 16. in the two years he has been in Wieren gen the former Crown Prince Frederick has drawn the portraits of a large proportion of the fish ermen and other inhabitants of the island. LrMvernments have not clashed. The fighting reported is that 150 Pa ris. March 16. Dispatches indicate the Kapp followers may have been put forth as storm troops to try the ground and the re;il leaders remained in the back ground waiting- developmexi CIVIL WAR LIKELY III G many R tit AM. SOLDIERS LOST I! FIRE VLADIVDSTK Undated By Associated Press Civil War seems imminent in Germany as result of the refusal of the Ebert government to ne gotiate with the reactionary re gime. Ebert demands an un- KEILL SAILORS DID NOT JOIN H GOV. London, March 16. An official message from Berlin filed at six Sunday night said no confirma- l-tiali: f-JibaTejvrt&. that.the sailors Kiel Altona joined the new gov ernment. EBERT SUMMONS GERWUI ASSEMBLY Is Arousing Danger Of Out Itself Dying To The Afi A TJ WTIT'US 1 O 17 A USUI V 10 TYT'STC' ITALIAN CDVERHNT BAR WOMEN FROM POBLIC OFFICF at 'ans, -areh lb. r ranee is last arousing it' d' to the elaiiirei iof dying on ducted, 'birtl t1. Believe Soon it iione ao To Raise Barrier INOVATIONS ALARM conditional surrender government. oJ the new Washington, Mareli 16. Two. tin-uibers of the American forces at Vladivostk were burned to death and two are missing In a fin- that destroyed the barracks on My reh, the sixth all were pri vates including James Brantley Fitzgerald of Ga. QAYfl nvu u R TRDOPS -WITH OLD GOV. NINE OF A GREW SAVED BY GAT Berlin, March 16. The German assembly was summoned to meet by the Ebert government Tues day at Suttagart where the old government seat was established. privately eon- light for a higher '. .is been taken over by rnment through the er:a- Jro? a Higher Council of Xa- f.ality. This council of thirty, ap pointed by -J. L. Hreton, Minister of Ilygene, was asked to act im fediately. Mr. Breton, father of five children, is known as a strong friend of large families. Three others of the new eabinet are ad- .... A . ( vocuies or measures io 'the French birthrate. increase Rome, March 16. Italian wo-j 'ar cost France roughly l,r,00 men have been barred from 50, 000 r,V('s- A lmv liitlirato, dur- MR! SPIKER ADOPTS BABY OF positions mostly in state employ by an official announcement just issued by the government. This order excludes women from ap- pointment to the diplomatic and 'consular service and from becom iing members of the Council or of A L ing the war years, cost Franco 1,272,73f loss of populations. These statistics, made into strik ing pictures to illustrate their ef fect on the nation, industry and war, danger are being used in a vigorous campaign by the Nation- ial Alliance, for the increase of This .several 'courts. : a tne r rencii population, inis cam i JvrusuJL i.-- jiivru ivi un; ; - - claration of this abn but Italian is ho'm? 'neted by let observers point out that evidently tors to parliament, m . ,i i. Z4. Inosters. a magazine. The Woman idltimoie, Ma., MaicJi lb. L . a t ChW. and throu-li Ihe flnT.paririr ti thp p;;t rivi soon to raise a barrier against i ' appealing m the (licuit Couit . , mumv soei.illv ml noliticyllv now- ttie )ossii)ie aspirations oi lrauan 1 ' ieriul persons interested in tne i movement. Avith her husband, Perley Spiker, who ws the father of the child made the object of the court pro ceedings. Mrs. Cra fSpiker, of Grangemouth, Firth of ' Forth, j No. 3032 Sast Baltimore street, women for public office. Processor Teresa Labriola, dan-; ghter of the dintinguished pro- T!,c laincst sorts of truths are fessor of Sociology, has lately ob-tld French about the decreas- birtlirate. The National Al- 1 . i.i -lii i 1M1IO" Rutland Abn-eh Ifi Nine tumi asked am obtained from Judee tallica Tile ngnt to practice iaw.j" .i. . a r ... . ic ii t,' .Jlfm-A tl.o annvi i.nrt after ;, IliaiiCe and govorumeont officials oi tne crew, oL me American car- joiamou tut- xtrgcii auupium uy dt, dpampp Fak Fliko wpvp snv-iself and Perlev Sniker. of Alfred 'struggle oi I . 14 1....... . .... ... It I . I !. Dr. Adelina Pertici, has obtained 1,11 "l ' - courage such families trovern- Berlin, f more than seven years f!l0l(I tlmt a family should have led from drowning recently by the! Roy Spiker. instinct of the ship's eat to swim; The infant isthe offspring of permission to perform the fiuic- toward the steamer in a storm 'her husband and Emily Knowles tions of a notary. Those innova- HBURG IT March. 16. Tt is report- 'aiui dtrkness when their small jed that South German Generals boat floundered at midnight be jand Saxon troops have given ad-jtween the ship and the shore. ment allowaiwes of 60 to 200 francs a year are granted for (now Emilv Sniker), and was tions have alarmed Italians who i i, ,...,.,ro :,. ,r; --. an. each child after the second-under period of the war. The parties ;pearane of women in public lift herence to Guastav Noske Minis-ijGhn Shortne, 33, ;ter of Denfence to Kbert govern-1 Marlboro. Mass.. i 1 1 : n mwt mmt a sailor, ofto the proceedings, who were all l and to this is attributed in part 'o)cnha.ren, March .16. Ilin 'iiluirg in a public declaration KAPP UPRISING and Gilmer j present, were Mr. and rs. Spi- Stround. 17, mess-room boy, of jker. Guy S. Spiker who recently North Carolina, were drowned. 1 married Miss Knowles and the S... l The eleven members of the lulL Screw had been ashore on leave. i M i Ttiev naa wit ntnem tne sim- - b h m m m 'ys that he is not connected with ', III SI j Sf HS f-cat. A storm began while they proves says Hanover Tageblatt j Wsahington, March 16. The;SOme distance out on their return restoration of authority, by Ebert j journey to the steamer, their boat government with a few Sporadic j jcapsized. In Tthe darkness' no "ormer English irl herself. REPUBLICRNS HAVE H RESERVATION the new bar against women set up by the government. W.M.1LLIAM50FALA C1IP u. DANIEL ROPER x3 years. The Alliance asks also for legislation to provide for the construction of cheap attractive homes available only to large families, establishment of "super salaries"' in industries to heads of such families, preference in government employment, the plu ral vote, giving the father as many votes as there are persons in the family, and real war, on "birth control. known here OFFICERS KILLED Spartieicist utbreaks throughout 0ue could make out the Washington. jManch 16. Wil Washington. March 16. The H,,nis Martin Williams Alabama ,Noo-Malthusianisf litrhts of new reservation the League as ofiselected to succeed Raniel Roper! , ! " iti t " -- .... i . - Germany is expected by military , the ship. Tabby, however, with theeovenant containing a general tMinnnssioner ot internal revenue officials who interpret the dispat- j her instinctive desire to get out of ' dec-la ration out' our policy to-j hes from Colonel Edward Davis ! the water as ouieklv as nossible. wards the European affairs is; COTTON MARKET. 'x'rnc. March 16. Encounters the military attack at Berlin indb'swam elirectlv tward the steamer, cemsidered bv the reinibliean lead Kid and Mageleburg are re- eating the. coup was not so serious ; The men swam after her and nine ers whose purpose it is under-jMarch AT KIEL PEACE REIGN pried by a telegram from Berlin.; Nava officers killed c.t Kiel v '11'1' there was fierce fighting at -'iudeluiro; postoffiee. as first suppose el. The Soviet sympathizers in Germany is said jto eonstitiute a very small minor ity. of them reached .the ship. The stood, favor declaring the cause other two went down. of the European disturbance Tin T 1 TTM .1 1 e liiiKc .EiiiKo ciearea Norfolk, Va. May Llulv OTOGA L from threatening civilized institutions j October ihe Tnited States intervene. December 30.15 37.23 34.31; Libson, March 16. Peace reigns 30.71 here and quiet have not been dis 30.82 turbed recently. Clhiimes IExBOiiftna)iniir ; i JH Kunipc about - these , front. i6. The Chinese that I thought it worth ! Amsterdam, March l ; ,Vs! 'iident of the Handelshlad my while to learn more about reccnlly !returned from a them. As a joke, I asked every 1i!! in Soviet Russia gives the one who asked my opinion o the '""wiuo- account of his investi- Bolsheviki to siiow me some 'real odious of the activities of the man-killing Chinese,' but I was li-,ii,.St, ..niployed there by the always told that they, couldn't 1'Mslieviki as executioners. produce any just now ;because 'uHi horrible stories were be- they had all gone to the Denikine "I was tedd the Chinese, if com manded by their own officers were excellent soldiers, but they ran like hares if their officers were killed. Executions are now very rare in Moscow, but, in Au gust, when thousands of 'counter revolutionaries "were slaughtered it was carried out by the Chinese .because the authorities feared the Eussian soldiers would refuse to do the work I "The Chinese do this work in ; differently like tliev do all other i work they are ordered to perform .They are blind, consienceless itools in the hands of the men who i .feed them and pay them anel who raised them from the position of coolie in which they came tv llus sia to the rank of soldier, of the guards. ".If the 'Holtsjak.' his name for Bolshevik, orders some thing, the Chinese does it. and he does it in his typically practical way. He first makes the victim dig his own jri'ave anel then shoots him with his revolver. lie is- not cruel -.about it, just practical. ' 1 When Boltsjak says kill, then ihe kills an unperturbed face. And when Boltsjak says 'you ;may stop now. with the same cool face he lets his victim go." j The correspondent after some weeks in Eussia left when he was refused permission to make inves tigations freely as he pleased.
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