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Hundreds,1 possibly thousands, of vic tims remain buried alive or imprisoned by the - wreckage f of their homes. Rescuers in every walk of life are struggling to dig them out. King Victor Emmanuel, who returned last night to Rome; from Avezzaho, personally superintended the release of sev eral unfortunates. ' ; " Rome, January 15. News from the ciirtiujuake stricken " district come3 slow. Enough is known to show the disaster closely . . approaches . that which befell Messina' six years , ago. Estimates of , the killed and injured vary from twen ty five i thousand "to fifty thousand. It probably will bo days before the exact figures are avail able. Avezzaho, twenty five miles cast of Rome, and Sora. ,fifRen..mnpst fcrers, far as the Joss of life is con cerned. About sixty townsf and : vil lages in all are either totally de molished or seriously damaged. Re ports today say the shock was felt at the Swiss frontier. That makes it appear the earthquake through v the entire length of Italy, except in the extreme Southern end. The govern ment was the quickest to extend the people aid. The Red Cross central committee ordered all members to join the relief work. Troops and sup plies were fushed to the scene. ; ' King Victor Emmanuel is tireless m his endeavors to spur the rescue j work and has asked-abandonment of unnecessary formalities. All Royal automobiles have been ordered to the rescue. ; ; Every time the King reached, the telegraph office, he sent - messages to the Queen. Pope Benedict yester-J day visited Santa Marta Hospital and J irfiKeu with forty-one victims being tared for there. ' American Ambassador Pace called the Minister of Interior and expressed Anifii.-as s-ympithy. lie intimated his desire to send members of-his staff to the scene to give aid. He dis patched an automobile with supplies to second Secretary Norval Richard son, Lieutenant Commander of Train, the Naval attache, and Private Secre taries, John Harrison and Marion Sims Wyeth. - At midnight Giornale D'ltalia esti mates the number of earthquake vie-. tiris in the region of Avezzona and Sora, at twenty-five thousand. .1 Ambassador Page is ready to ap point an American . Relief Committee, Avezzano, the chief suffer, pre sents a scene of wreck -and desolation. Practically every , building' is said to ,,(: in ruinsrand nearly all the people ;,r: dead or injured. Many still alive re buried in the - debris. Rescuers working day and night. Late nl Vices say five hundred bodies have "n recovered. Hundreds of injured ll;,v' been taken from the rlins. Early a!1 municipal officials were killed.. ', Similar conditions exist in the towns "round Avezzano. Magliano and Pe ' ina are practically in ruins." Among t'"i missing are Consignor Bagnoli ami the Bishop of Pescina. Cold and snow add to the sufferings of the sur vivors. t : V ' - ; King Victor Emmanuel returned to u'nie last night, and confirmed the cavity of the situation. Some survivors are able to tell a onnected story of the earthquake .- A ,nan taken from the ruins yesterday said: - . , 1 had a sensation of some one. forc- n? me to dance. Then I was thrown to the ground. The roof and walls fell j'pon my head Even after j half mried the earth seemed heavy and hot. - 'A priest was saying mass -when I 't the first shock. He rushed under l"e Arch of the Church, i that saved '.?..-. :. . - . ' .,- - i- -CV rrt. P ih the 9 on death toll from Wednesday s his , life. Hi .Acolytes were struck down and killed." ' ' ' . ' ' The' shocks destroyed the aqueduct system of Avezzano. No water; is there today. ' .'-': :, Some newspapers announced - that Pope Benedict is visiting the wounded in Santa Maria Hospital left the Vati can, thvrs interrupting "the traditional imprisonment of a Pope, always ' ad hered to by -Popes 'Plus IX;; Leo ahd PJus JX after 7 the?taU?ot temporal power, 2 Iri reality the Pope . i3idrit Peter's, he. reached the hospital, with out touching Italian soil.' His predeces sor did the atoe v'hen he visited the Messina victims. : j Estimates Dead About 30,000 Paris, January 15. The Petit Pari- FREE ADVERTISING. The Dispatch will publish absolutely free of cost any advertisement, of not more than twenty-five words, from any one man, woman or youth who desires a position, or firm: that wants to obtain help;; This includes clerks, laborers ofi all kinds, stenographers, cooks, etc. If ans wers fail to come the first time;' The Dispatch will gladly carry the advertisement until replies are received, if desir ed by the advertiser. 1- The advertiser can sign his or her name, or the firm's name, with address, or can have same come in care of The Dispatch Office. "Initials V can be used if desired. In fact, anything that will i facilitate matters and help those who are in need of work can be utilized free of cost in these advertisements. Send in your advertisements. ' - sen's Rome f. correspondent says the number of. earthquake victims exceed thirty thousand. The list would have been much greater, but no large cities were involved, as . shock was more violent than n that of Messina: The center of ; the - disturbances, he says, was in Lake Fucino. He quotes an eminent meteorologist as saying most likely the hypothesis of the cause are heavy rains, resulting in filterations, which formed great- bodies ' of steam j only three kiHed and seven wounded, by contact with incadescent matter! "A soldier -must have luck! The This seems confirmed by the fact that; captured French "prisoners told-us af a spring at San Guiliano has almost terwards that they had mined our doubled-its flow since yesterday. trenches at eight points, and were go High Estimate of Dead. jing io blow us up at 6 p. m., not yet ' London. January '15 .-The Chron-' hins flnished uttne in the crses- w " ' When wb srtiin n0n ni?r Tronphoo wo icle's Rome correspondent estimates;, the total dead, and injured by earth quake as between ninety and one nun-1 dred thousand. A Central News dis patch estimates ;the victims at twenty thousand, distributed in Avezzano, ten thousand, Sora; . four thousand ; else where, six1 thousand.' 1 " - -' The .Exchange Telegraph's corre spondent in Rome, wires the magni tude of the .Italian disaster increases as further news from the devastated area is received. Casualties at Mag liano "are' estimated at thirteen hun dred out of a population of .fifteen hundred.- At Pesbni four: thousand are reported , killed. The dead at San Benedette are; given . at three thousand.1, . , " ' - .- ? ' ' The Alps Shook. '.v ....... .. ,fv . : - ' ..... ; Genoa, ; January 15 . News from Como and Ciiiasso indicate the earth quake was felt ' in ;the. Italian : Valley clear to the 'Swiss frontier. - No loss of life is i reported " there. .The Alps trembled and' caused avalanches. A message from , Innsbrinek states I that PECULIAR MANNER FIGHTING SHOWN : f ? . " T . - ' Each Side Struggles to Blow . , Up The Trenches of ' ' the Other. Berlin, Jan. -15. The peculiar . char acter, of; tbe fighting now' going oh in the , Forest of . Argonne is illustrated by the following letter from a soldier: "The two , companies forming - our right wing had been lying for five days only 30 to 50 yards from the enemy along a, distance of nearly 200 yards. In front of bur company to the left was "a little valley, on the opposite slope- of which.- the- French "? had in trenched themselves in three lines of pits, one lying, .above the other, and this ; front was generally regarded as impregnable.. We therefore had a de tachment of Prussian sappers and miri erswjiich wasr assigned to our lirieS; to tunnel : under the three French trenches, in order , to blow them up. The; explosion was .really intended 'to SO off. on the anniversarv nf the "hattl of Champigny ( Nov. SO) , but the sap pers said that they had not yet enough 'snuff: into their holes. ' There was danger, that the French would under mine , us and blow us into the air, first. Finally on December 1 everything was ready. At places lay - pounds of dynamite under the . French trenches. . , "At 10:30 all our front trenches were evacuated, but we masked this movement tb deceive the French -. -At ' 11 : 21 a .lieutenant of pioneers pressed his . thumb on a button, and thore was a terrific crash. One might have i though t that whole earth was falling to pieces. From my position I saw- cloud of "earth probably over 600 feet high. 7 After about-a minute some th ing. like a mighty tpm pest broke i loose in the "woods.- I did not know wharitwastili something! struck ixay and stones which had been thrown up by the explosion;, I darted into bur bombproof,- where I stayed for two minutes. Meanwhile our two compa nies pressed forward and. occupied the gap that had been broken in 4 the French lines. The first trench was full of dead and buried Frenchmen. In the next two they were so dazed that they surrendered without resistance. . "Within a half hour we had taken prisoners; the dwellers in all these trenches, so far as they were , still alive. Among them there were eight officers and- 378 privates' who had not been wounded. The . rest, including two officers, were dead and buried un der the debris. We captured three mine-throwers. Our total losses were o - - t. wuuu mcscr miiica. ou wc uau a mines lucky escape this time. "The , higher authorities are giving unstinted praise to. our achievement. Even the Crown Prince sent ; automobiles, with 200 woolen blankets and a bottle of wine for t each of us. "What more could a soldier's heart want? Such are the tricks that we are playinghere!" 1 ' ; . TRUSTEES' SALE. Of the G. H. Haar stock of Dry Goods. Notions and Fixtures continues until sold. " Prices Guaranteed Below Whole sale CoaL Advertisement de 26 tf;' in the "Alps, and near the Italian fron tier, .- twenty-seven i soldiers were ' over whelmed by the avalanche and" three seriously-hurt. - Taking Bodies From the Ruins -. Sora, January 15 .r-Detachments of troops have arrived here to help (the work " of rescue., Over . four : hundred and fifty bodies have been taken from the ruins., Large number ; of injured were rescued" '. . .- 1 Former Tar Heel -Delivers . Fine Address . i. 1 oday. , ; BILL WAS: HELD UP Senator Cooper. toGet;v.;Hearinq" - on Representative Stacy's . Bill as to Registration Wllkesboro Jefferson ! Turnpike to Be Sold. ' - Special to The - Dispatch. " , - Raleigh, N. n. 15. The" Sen ate spent xnost ottimlioay ln discuss: ng a. bill to' . alow : Womn to act as notaries pubiicutf Tpcet ponod. the matter until. tomorrow. ; -President AJdermnf ihe Shiver sity of Virginia, ws heard ithrapt attention in the lUse. Hei appears to have recovered his health. .He apr pealed for pulIiC'l Schools and r State institutions a-ld ps giveu-xiuing vote of thanks. V--"? Senator Cooper received a telegram from Wilmihgtoiyequtinsii'ra : to hold.- up the NanbVerllegJiBira-' tion bill . until ifeariiig could be had.- He said, he' would do so. . Speaker Wooteu . .Informed. -1 the House that the Wiikesboro-Jefferson turnpike, on which! theistatespent $60,000, ; was to, he old January : 1Z t h" for a $7,000 debt, and. a' committee was named to. act at'once'. ',' The Virginia . legisi atur e sent , f elici tations. 4 "A" reply- wilif be ' forwarded. STRIKE COMMISSION ; r MEEtSiSUGGESS New , York,; January 15.-The strike commission appointed in November by President .Wilson has completed its negotiations with miners and coal ope rators of Colorado, and is now on its way to Denver to culminate an agree ment between; the coal barons and their workers looking rto the preven tion of future labor wars in the Col orado fields. . The commission consists of Hon. Seth Low of New York, Chas. W. Mills of Philadelphia and Patrick W. Gilday of Clearfield, Pa. These men have been in almost constant commu nication with both sides of the big controversy, and have brought reason to bear on both sides. "Everything is satisfactory" said Commissioner Miller, "and we hope and expect to devise a working agreement between the miners and the operators." The present trip to Colorado is the second stage " of its work-.; That is, the problem of the present unemploy ment of miners and their suffering as a result of their idleness. The com mission will cooperate with the local authorities in Colorado in1 an effort to solve the present situation ofi unem ployment. . , . - , Before journeying westward, the commission awaited the new adminis tration in Colorado. Governor Carl son has - now been inaugurated, and his views . have met with ' an improved popular confidence. The ' field has been cleared for. conciliatory plans, for much of the bitter: feeling a gains, the State government on account of its barsh means of handling the strike situation, has been allevfated. Recon struction is the watchword of the com mission .that will meet all sides in Denver next, week. . J AMERICAN MINISTER CABLES ABOUT IT ' Washington, Jan. 15. Dispatches 'from Ambassador. Page, -"at. Rome, place . the dead at - between twelve thousand and 'fifteen thousand and the seriously, injured at about the same number. He said he inquired of Italian government If aid is needed He was told Italy was not accenting - 'assistance from any foreign country. No Americans are reported victims. 4 ' i i 4 4" 4t' 4 4 4" ' 4 4 4 4 4 -4' X- JAPAN TO: SEND TROOPS. -. ', 4 4 Tokio, Japan,; Jan. 15.- Pro- 4 4 moters - in Japan of what., has 4 4 been called the volunteer" move- 4 4 ment have announced the inten 4 4 tion of: dispatching an - army 4 4? corps to Europe.- .To that end 4 4 they are appealing; to i Japanese 4 4 and foreigners ; for - funds: A 4 4 manifesto says , LaFayette , help- 4 the United States? and ' Gari- 4 4Jbaldi helped ; France- so the Jap- 4 4 anese. wish Ito assist the. Allies 4 jf to ., terminate the misery of war. 4 4 ; 4 4 4 4 4 -4 ,4 ;4 4.4 4 THE HUMAN MOLE WORKS AT NIGHT How Trenches Are Dug While . Shot and Shell Scream ; ; I. Over Battlefield. - Karlsruhe, Ger., Jan. 15. At night, when the searchlights flit from trench to trench of the enemy and when' gun ners send shells into hostile works which during the day have been sin gled out for this attention, the human mole the pioneer goes to work. The DrMPnt war at rlnoo nnort a.-c .. tim. made it impossible for. him to labor in daylight. Not alone is every part of tne neia scrutinized with powerful glasses by the observation officers, but men in aeroplanes are- also constantly on the lookout for a red or brown scar in the-landscape that might show pio neers busy at work digging trenches. Contrary to popular belief trenches are but seldom dug the infantry men nowadays. The little spades they carry serve for the sole purpose of throwing up cover when during an at tack the firing line, owing to superior ity of fire from the enemy's position, must intrench itself superficially -until reinforcements can be brdught up. The trenches of the permanent posi tions are dug t by the pioneers, as are also the approach of trenches, bomb proofs and tunnels, which make up a modern "position-fight" line. , 1 :'.Wh.at It means to be a pioneer is weir told in a letter which has - just been published in the German press. The writer explains that the division staff had thought it advisable to ad vance closer to the French trenches, Before this could be done a-trench had to be dug; otherwise the infan try) sent there would have been mowed down by the fire from the otherside; The locality of the proposed trench lay "between the French . and German trenches. :-,r....,. v :- 'P'-.W r' fr. .t-''? " . J ;. r-A i'". i;; -3'-a. viTla'e-A An , rUW77VTUx.: Hove '-a Wisnli? Lkmaon. ' Ener " Jannarv xiSfilTh. reached the highway, and labored through the deep mud and around the holes blown in the ground by the shells," continues the pioneer. "About us hummed bullets which seemed to have lost their way, and the spades ' Z " - -wm. f .4iv . VMi I I till I . (Continued on Page Two.) S'A-IARGER PREPARING THE MILITARY PAY BILLS - Washington, Jan. 15. A conference held here today of tho. executive com mittee of the national guard associa tion, in which the views cf the War Department relative to the militia pay bill were considered:-- Ilrls believed that the siUiaispfwiil- be1 cleared up when the bill as approved by the mili tia men and the War - Department is submitted to President Wilson. . . A peculiar situation has developed in regard to the militia pay bill The association has been working for- It for a long time. Last" summer an agreement was reached as to its terms between the executive, committee and the War Dpartmont, but it was never submitted to President Wilson for his approval. The bill'-was introduced in the Senate and the House of Repre sentatives, and the committee imme diately, announced that they were not responsible for the introduction of the bill, as they had agreed not to move until the President had been consulted. Today's meeting may focus the atten tion of the administration . . on : this measure, and it may be approved and backed, in its passage through Con-, gress. - . . , ' -The militia pay bill contemplates much greater, funds tor, .the; organized militia or guardsmen or tne various states and an enlistment for a longer period with time, for service In the. re serve, jt wouia Dnng tne jiationai guard into' still closer, . relation with the regular army andthe War Depart- j ment. . - , " ; .-. VICE ADMIRAL NARES , HAS PASSED : AWAY , 'London, Jan. .15. The death " of' Vice Admiral: Sir George S. "Nares,. R. N., retired, was announced here today, He" was born in. 1S3L Nares'! career was brilliant. He gained : f ame ! in an VArctic expedition in .1875; He j-pianted the British ,flag beyond .lati-,. tude t: eighty-three, north..- As - com maqder of the H.s M.. S. ' Challenger, NaVesi made deep rsea. i explorations' around the 'orld. ', C , Looks Like .General Aggressive Movement in the Vicinity i of Warsaw IT WE IFERJfSlHJ L(l!)E v Swollen Current Prevented Them Get ting Reinforcements, So They Retired British Claim Victory Petrograd, January -15 . The Rus sian General Staff has' reached the opinion the Germans are ' preparing for a general aggressive mov west and southwest of Warsaw, Statf . - oincers say the opinion Is borne out' by the facfr the. Germans have removed their sick" and wounded; from Lodz and Piotrkow ; into Prussia and changed their ammunition bases. Further more information has been received oJ: arrival of large bodies of German troops in Northern Hungary and dis tribution with striking distance of for tified positions, coverng the northern entrance: of Hungary and tha prncipal Carpathian passes held , by the Rus sians. f "this is taken to indicate the Germans are reinforcing the Austrian for a vigorous effort to free Bukqwina, Northern Hungary, of . danger f roni ::rw . ':.:uBack ' Across thef Aisnj violent lierman attack in : North Sois sons, under direction; of' General 'von Kluck, which; coupled with flood stage in that river, has forced the French back across the Aisne, "was the most striking news of the' last k wen ty. four hours from the seat of war. The eh gagement in North Soissons is the .K-- JiH ?gi. ''-C r ft Senator Cooper Introduces a Live Local Bill. WOULD HAVE EIGHT MEMBERS Advocates a Member to Be a Trustee For Each School- . Representative Stacy Not Consulted As Yet. ' Special to The Dispatch. Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 15. Senator Cooper today introduced a bill to in crease the number of members : of the New Hanover Coundy Board' of Education from three to eight," so that each . school , in . Wilmington might have-a trustee, so as to give attention to it. . The bill would i not t: interfere with the - county. -The names proposed in the bill for trustees are: B. Solomon and J. G. L. Gieschen, two years; J. O.vCarr and Sam , Bear, four years; , B C Moore and W. E. Perdew, six years J. Loughlin and W. M. Cummins:. J eight years. ' Mr. Stacy has not been ? consulted about ; this . bill,' Senator Cooper sa BRITONS PROTEST - ' ' -AGAINST CARRANZA )'-' rz : , . - - . Washington January ' 15 The Bri- tish Ambassador made, urgent rep resentations to the State Department today- against- the Carranza embargo oh oil exports from ; Tampico, ' from which the British Navy, draws some of its fuel. . - ; . , 1 first notable fighting thereabouts since last. September. Snow in the' Vosges. and floods in Flanders still prevent awn. io iue eastern or . western wince ; v Tn nrUt!, : ,t sppears ttZ22 trict has been selected for a ' point where, ", with reinforcements and . first line troops, the Germans are planning 'k to display once more hammering tac tics. On the other hand: RnmA war experts contend operations at Soissdhs ;f; ! may have been undertaken to compel;" the allies to lessen the pressure ln:'-' Alsace. The British claim to hav won marked success several days 'fe' X ago, near LaBassee, when they drove v the Germans from strongly entrenched positions, t gaining a , mile j;'dls,tance,f i . and inflicting severe losses ontlie . antagonists. There is no T;hahgoit s importance- in the east i & ' $M$&'tl Turkish troops, ; who ' recently J&jp&f ' vaded 'Persia, - are; advancing, to ' tho " interior, according to a Tehefair dis patchc to-.The -Renters,- The message v; when they; occunipii Tahrii iriai jan province,- shot the; Persian Gover nors of the . towns of Soujbulak, Mk-' 'Z i ragha and Burat. The small Turkish force, r which entered Tabriz, is now", moving in the direction of f Ispahan', ' Central Persia, two hundred - mile3 V" south of Teheran, supported by other Turkish contingents.'' ; ' . ; Expects Italy ;To Enter. Italy is momentarily distracted front . the thoughts of war by the earthquake. Assertions are still made in Londdn that the Allies" -confidently ex pect Italy to join them in due time. British Win a Victory! Paris, Jan. 15 AHavas Agency dispatch from Stomer, dated January -10th, relates a British victory and ad-. vance near LaBassee of one milef' The message follows", A - "The British by impetuous' attack" " stormed the strongly1 entrenched German position, . near t LaBassee.'. at 2; o'clock this afternoon, after a vig- ; orous preliminary shelling. This la an important strategic- point. Its oc- . cupation represents an advance': of . one mile. The British; losses were ' slight, and the Germans heavy. Many Germans were taken prisoners," ( - French Statement. ; ''" The French official ' report refers very briefly this afternoon, to the mill- tary, situation in Northeast Soissons." It says the Germans , yesterday oc cupied the village r of St. Paul, close ' to Soissons, but the French immediate ly drove them out.; With exception" of customary artillery exchanges from, the sea to Lys, Craonne, hear Rheims, a spirited infantry encounter in . Vos ges, in whfch the French claim vie- tory and a successful Infantry charge : near Arras, in which the French got through the German wire entangle- -ments,- and took some trenches, the report contains littlei new. . The tr- -tillery silenced the German batteries, 5 demolished two pieces of artillery, ex ploded an ammunition depot, and . de-' v stroyed field works being built at Tar- , gette, St. Laurent and at a point north; of - Andechy," in the region' of Roye.- German Statement.. ; . r v - r . .' Berlin, Jan. 15. The German ; offl-; . cial statement today declares ' all the French troops have been driven' from -the northern bank of theAisne, north- east of Soissons. It" records repulses of. several French attacks ; and prog-: y ress in Poland.- - - ' s ;w ; WILL BE RELEASED . . IF JUDGE SAYS SO Washington, Janukry 15 A state-: ment issued today by the British Em bassy says release on . bond ships de tained' In British .prize courts will be permitted by - the British Government if the Judge of the Court consents. TRUSTEES' SALE. ; , Of the G. H. Haar stock of Dry Goods, Notions and Fixtures continues until sold. Prices Guaranteed Below Whole sale Cost-A-Advertisement de 26 ! "It i lii rentiritiA fa-hit? Jlhi -v" '
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