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WEATHER. i and Unsettled night. warmer to- Rain Tuesday.' J -, THE PAPER THAT LEADS MOTHERS MAY FOLLOW VOLUME TWENTY-TWQ WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, s MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. , . . . . , . - ' i : "' IIP n Q V IHf GPtJliv" SP?& uiiiu u,ul I mil ;u 1 1 Ln Xxy PM ' I DflHI C QT I I DflPCCKT iS uni ill u I ill .imuLU i nl Second Week of the German Onslaught in Mighty Ef- fort to Take Stronghold. BACK AND FORTH THE BIG ARMIES SWAY Reports From Paris and Berlin Are Conflicting As to At tack on Verdun Frencli Start a counter wirensive Movement. The preat battle of Verdun, now en tering i its second week, is continuing with unabated fury, with the' German ;,rlnies driving hard at the French stronghold, the lenttening iine now running far beyond salient in which by the bringing up of heavy reinforce- the bringing up or Heavy reinforce ments for ueneral Joiire's army the German army has been checlred, but Berlin claims ta continuance of the forward march on the French strong hold.' ' Along the Meuse, to the north of Verdun, the Germans have been u a hue to make us rapid progress as at first although it continues with in tensity. On the Woevre front, where the French at first fell back, they now appear to be offering' effective resis tance. Pressure hefe is particularly menacing to-the fortress, as a crush ing in of this eastern line of the Ver-i dun salient for any great distance would spell disasier tor the strong hold. The French defensive operations at that place arc taking on the nature i , : offensive, as in the attack on Fort Duaumont, four miles north east of Vartiun. ' ' This development has been forecast j in a dispatch which told of the prction m Hans. ine irencn wnere they Jiave fallen oaclc to positions they could hold indefinitely, have driv en back over the ground they yielded in the face of terrific German artillery and infantry attack. . - According to a statement by Aris tide Briant. the FYejich premier, this happened after the fourtji day of the battle. The French brought up strong reinforcements at an unexpected mo ment and the infantry sweeping down on the Germans, already suffering heavily from the effects of French ar tillery tire, stopped them short and. drove ti:sm back. The premier de- dares til r- "French regained the ad vantage, beginning with a counter-attack marking the turning of the battle, now in its second phase. The German accounts fail to agree vith this French version of the fight ing. Berlin having announced a fur ther advance for the Crown Prince's troops, including the taking of Hard aumoiit. easr of .Fort Douauniont, and t.ie village of Champneuvile, on German 'right flank, while the I Tench attack on Fort Douaumont v'us repulsed. The French them selves do not claim the recapture of outlying defense of the main iortress but declare the Germans 'ho had gained a , foothold to the ist and west of this position are be- hard pressed in maintaining them. They say the fort is closely encircled, - A German atack against the French Position at Manherlles resulted in complete failure,- the French war office says '. (ertain advance trenches near 'Kavarir. Farm, in the Champagne, wtr0 taken by the Germans by a irprise attack, the French' admit. Tiif' sinking of the Rusian steamer -teshangaTof 1647 tons, is an nounce 'tl today, fiften persons on board be ing saved. aow i ha t the Italians have evacuat Um azzo thfm TniUfflrv efforts ' so as Albania is concerned, will be (0niuu to Avlona, eighty miles to ti)(- south, accordipg to the Italian llfM'.s ropers. i ri.u:izzo is declared to have been merely as a base for the rescu- i tne remnants of the Serbian arniy and was given up when that I'inpos.. was effected, but Avlona, near the entrance to te Adriatic, is farcied as of ereat strategic im- - I'nrtairct. REPUBLICANS RALLY. legates to Conventions Will Be Named By Committee Tonight. '''Dllhlir-'lTl TkT TT 'umv will meet Mondav evening, ',"rpant to a call . of Mr, J W. rooks, chairman of the Republican "junty ..-xecutive committee-, for the nm- f electing delegates to the 'T;a- ;,1:(5 Congressional conventions. r ;'; 'legates will -be elected" sepa ('' el !y the voters of each political r the county.' The meeting s held in Duls' Hall, No. 22 SfHUh i-vont street- i -1- i.- : ' - - v . . - . ; . 1 rr-r llllllf ATll I iiinniiifi .fiP vOwJ h nuinn nnaini riirii-r -J- 1 Within Sight of Land Steamer j Strikes Mine and Goes ' T Down. London Feb, 28. Of the total com plement of :411 Dasseneers and rrew on - me renmsuiar and oriental Line Hieamsmp, riviaioja, wmcu stueK a miqe and sank in half an hour two miles off Dover, yesterday, only 260 are known to have, been saved. Of the total of 119 passengers, sixty-four names of persons saved have been registered att- he steamship company's offices. It was stated that there is hope that more names of persons saved still will -be received. The bodies of three morer Lascars of the crew of the Maloja have been washed ashore, bringing the . total of bodies recovered to 47. Many rela- i tives are arriving at Dover for' the purpose of endeavoring to indentify bodies. . Among those rescued yesterday was .a baby warmly clad, which was "floating on its back. The child was discovered by a-patrol-boat and was taken into the engine room. After being warmed it smiled at the re scurs and seemed none the worse off tor its immersion. . STILL REMAIN IN THE WINSTON JAIL ex-hny Warren Woman and Ac- complice Not in Penitenti- ary Causing Talk. Winston-Salem, N. C, Feb. 28. Although daily expecting orders to transfer from the Forsytn county jail to the State penitentiary, Mrs . Ida Ball Warren and Samuel Christy, now ! under sentence of death, the sheriff today stated he had heard nothing from the State authorities. The ser if f said he knew of no reason why the transfer should not have been ordered. The continued presence in the For syth jail of the prisoners when they should now be in the State peniten tiary has-attracted attention through out the State. AGAIN WEST DURHAM POSTOFFIGE ROBBED " Yeggs" Get- Busy and Blow Safe There Stamps Torn To Shreds. Durham, N: C, Feb, 28 For , the fourth time in a -little more than one year "yeggmen" entered the postbf lice in West Durham early today and blew"" open the safe. Stamps valued at approximately $200, were torn "to shreds by the force-of the explosion, j and the robbers made off witn ??u m cash. In the three previous robberies Imore than $5,000 in stamps and cash was obtained. The only clue tne au thorities have to work on in ah effort to locate the perpetrators of today's robbery are numerous fodt prints left on the floor of the postofflce. DR. ROUSSEL TUESDAY. French Divine to Address Two Wilmington Meetings. " The noted French devine Rev. Stu art L. RousseVB. A. B. Sc., B. D., who comes to this city tomorrow'as a. rep-i the. Prflrich Huguenots i I cacutan v- ui - - to appeal to the sister cnurones in iub United States and Canada, will arrive in -the city Tuesday and will hold a, the employment, of a nurse at the Red pubttq iSetmg at the Grace Methodiitlkukrium, ; church on Wednesday night. L Themeeting was hdd in the may-; Rev Mr. Roussel Will be a" drawiug Jors Ui 5 ice . Mayor Moore presided. ST. SlfSS: Third street' - .' ' J' - j Yopp 'and MacMiiiian. Capt-- Thos. j At the public gathering: at Grace : d. MeareV,. i picipjjfand treasurer church Wednesday evening 0 nent mmister wm o uu , audience. , ; . , XMTJL TTLrt. SEJ2VKK New York, Feb.. 28. Jerry Travers announces that he will "not go to Min neapolis in June' and defend the ppen golf title he won last year at Baltusrol. The four times former amatetrr title holder says he is not retiring from all competitions, but that his cotton ex change business will prevent him this summer from taking long trips . Travers and Francis Quimetm who defeated Vardon and Ray, the English champions in the memorab-play-off at Brookline in 1913, are the only amateurs who ever won the open championship in this country. Trav ers, after playing magnificent golf at Baltusrol, finished with a total of 296, one stroke bettei than Tommy' Mc-Namara.-' - BELIEF WORKERS HAVE , STILL MORE BLOCKS Heavy Rain and Sleet Adding .... i. . to Suffering of Refugees in Flood Zone. New. Orleans, Lav Feb. 28. Al though conditions in general are re garded as Improved in the flooded sec tion of No-f.'.?ern Louisiana relief work ers in remote areas today expected in creased difficulty owing to weather conditions. (The rain and sleet, which started Sunday, continued today and suffering was reported intense in" some localities, particularly among the refugees ca j.ing on levees and in lofts of cabins, without fire or -warm cloth ing, j Details are expected today on the recommendations vhich were made to the War Department by Captain Hunt, of.the quartermaster's division of the army, and by Captain Hetrick, ' in charge of the relief work. These gov ernment officials started on a trip Sat urday to investigate the condition in the lower Concordia parish, where ap peal for government aid had been made from several towns. , Seepage water todajf was reported to be causing considerable trouble at Virdalia, La., across the river from Natchez, the water being pumped out at the irate of 2,000 gallons a minute, it a-. stated, but was still co- tinninsr to rise. A snecial levee for ni.Af nntiTi 'Qffajnct Ko nV. iro f ot Vi a a . been built and is holding against the ' press iirn of the rising water, it was stated in the latest, report coming to that city, j The Briars planation, formerly owned by Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, located near Natchez, was today reported flooded with water running to the tops of tbe cabins in the negro quarter. GOMMfTTEES FAVOR A E Joint Meeting of Representa- tives City and County Gov 1 erning, Bodies Held. At 9. joint meeting oi committees of , City Council and the County Commis sioners at noon today' it was decided that the request of the Red Cross Sanitarium j for a monthly appro priation of j $25 from each of the bodies-was !a worthy request, andit was decided that fhe respective com- mfttfifisiwould reooft tavoraoiy to r - their boards The requested appropriation if for - - , , , i FOR SAN TAH UM .-r-.-- - t t . , GEJRMANY. STANDS BY r- I ansin i Germany assures; the; United revoking the pledges iven in Washingtoii; EA."-f23. 'Inva note presented to Secretary sr toaay oy uount Dernstorrr. the uerman ambassador. ine note says.jftal Laermany can "conceive or no reason for change or to postpdne the -new instruction to her subma rine commanders to ? tregj:-. as warships enemy f merchahtmen armed ? gdef ensiyely ' iaiid that taken to' prevent ships unarmed Ihe note at the outset reiterates the previous pledges! on September 1 and October 5, of last year, for the safety of un resisting liners aridithen. goeson- to ; say . that the German srov- errtment does not believe these by the new memorandum. v A Ward Liner Reaches New York With Crew of 111 fated Steamed - . 5 New York, Feb. 28. The Ward ' ' Wimiers in the window trimming Line steamer,. Mexico,-in today from .! contest, conducted the last three days Havana and Nassau, -brought eigh- j of la week under the auspices ; of teen men, the crew of the Steamer ne Chambe of Commerce, '.will be an Crescent, which she found in a sinking uoun1ced this evhing at a public meet- condition fifteen miles north of Cape ; 0.clock when iye five.minute talks on Hatteras yesterday. 'live topics will be made by prominent The Crescent, a 400-ton steamer, citizens. The merchants and their loaded with coal, sailed from Newport i rlends as well as the members of the News for Santiago, :Guba, last Satur iambei: a cordially'invited to attend , i the session, which will be the closing day. Her engine became disabled event ; of ;he successful campaign' under the stress of; weather. Later. j Presidentt Louis E. Hall, of the Cham sht sprang aleak and: her pulping ber? wiU presi(Je at the meeti ; gear broke-down. - The cvy Br ol he Chv1 oi been abandoned. Commerce is much pleased with .the -" " " success of the contest. He states COMPLAIN OF CONDITION! that it will tend to enliven the mer- AlWnP PnnR fI- AQQFQ I cnants of Wilmington to need of better AMUU rUUK , dressed windows such as done -n Berlin, Feb, 28 T&e French paoers have.xpubii8he. gjyyifc -SniaBy, letters Ocukd-on German.'" prisoners of war complyaining of the conditions among the poorer . classes. The German au thorities are abouet to take action to see that the soldiers who fight are not discouraged by letters from home.' The best means iof preventing tell-tale letters from reaching the enemy f seems to be to ask the women at home to keep their feelings and worries to themselves. "All sensible persons deplore," says the "Berlin Tageblatt," "that so many relatives of soldiers, principally wo men, are inclined, in their letters, to give an exaggerate dese'ripttion of the hardships they have to suffer. In do ing so, these women , commit an act injurious to their country. The State, which at the present time, has become all powerful and which systematically has suppressed all individual initia tion, has the duty of providing" for the families whose heaxLs are away fight ing, but the families have no right whatever to give the soldiers who have worries enough already tragic descriptions o f their annoyances and i sufferings, most of the petty kind at home j'Certain of these letters may be i truthful enough, at least they are; truthful enough, but at least they are I USeleSS". I is certainly worse than ; useless to send such 'letters to the; - -father and husband, wno; in the midst le th rodants. The of the dangers of the trenches need vas highly pleasing to tne de all the freedom from wory he can get. - Partment. and resulted In the water German women must make up their jfront campaign. I ! mindslto bear their sufferings in sll-'. m -the movement are many ence of .the wholesale houses, the steam- ' ! ship companies, railroad companies HI7I icvcc niQAQTPR N M"' one of 'the large exporters. The ttLlt-VE L) Aj a tlx ' ' campaign is now well underwav. DUE TO GERMAN MINE London, Feb. 28. It Is, believed that the Maloia. the vessel-just sunk j near' Dover, was the victim of a Ger ! man sown mine . . Chefs Dio,. Secret, of .vCook to ebthe BoSiive Kuo fm W nuifnarv .-pwiaii- i New York, Feb. An exposition , thropicai society openea toaay m Grand Central Palace. The, chefs of 1 the prominent clubs and hotels of New r VorV f, rfnisli W iifnrmfltinTi to: housewives about the hundreds of pre-! pared dishes that are exhibited. CHARLOTTE COTTON f MAN. KILLS HIMSELF N C . . ... ' - V V jl t -1 . ' ... j i oftthe cottpn firm of O, P. Heath & Co., committed suicide in his of fice here atHhl o'clock- today. . ..-.-j MrV Heath was one of the-oldest merchants in the cotton h)n, one of the largest operate, jIwo years a.go he met cftnancfiaixreverses, but apparently was-doing thriving'busness at this time He.was about 60,years bld'and also seyeral brotherS;,who are prominent -cot lQn maufacJfujrer8 in this section. SUBMARINE POLICY States that it has no intention of the Lusitania case. L special precautions have been from being attacked. k v assurances have been modified I - j t: i Merchants and Others to Meet i n , Chamber of Com merce This Morning. ine larger cities. . N . T THE RAT" ON THE WATERFRONT Concerted Effort to Wipe Out Whole Tribe of Damage- V Dealing Rodents. Concerted effqrts are being made by business interests bn the v Wil mington waterfront to rid the wharves, warehouses and terminals here of the thousands of rats, 'which annually damage and destroy, it is estimated, considerably more than' a hundred thousand dollars worth : of merchandise. The campaign, whidh is being wag- art Vii. TVT. ' Xr XT' Afnn.n V. "J M ; v - known4 fat f f rf T . vision of the Wilmington Heal h Department, bids fair to be highly SU5essul- e ' , ,r ' . The Fro Street Market, which used denionstratiou by Mr. FAVORABLE REPORT ON SUGAR MEASURE Waahingtnn B"Ah 9.R A' favhrohla rpnnrf on iVir A.rlnriiTitrntirri'fi Wit ! tn I ;t tr.ar c.o. .io00' iw, I SWA I has been ,,', . J . uuimous vote of the House Ways i - ; Z:' l . . :. . -. r ii . J. xi . neuuer uas reiurnea home from a .business trip to New York, O HfatVi. senior member SSI AflREST-flFFErJDEfl Deptuy in Halifax County, I Britisn Merchantmen Go Arm-. " This State; Was Fatally , ' ed for Purpbse of Attack Woundpd Yesterday, . v " ing Submarines. j HIS ASSAILANT HAS B IN JAIL Feeling Runs High But No Vi olence Towards Prisoner ,1 Anticipated -Leaves a Large Family. Rocky Mount;' N. Feb. 28. Deputy Sheriff Halifax county, C. ' Ivi . Hawkins, of was ia tally wounded yesterday and died last night as result of a gunshot said to have been fired ov Ge Collins. Hawkins went; to Faucette township ' vBsteniai fn arrLf rnHin nn a mtnnp yesterday to arrest Collins on a minor charge. Collins! it is -eharged resist ed arrest and fired on the ' deputy i Collins was captured last night near Littleton and lodged in the Halifax county jail. Strong feeling against him is manifest but no violence lias been threatened. ' Hawkins leaves a wife and seven children . Committee Is Busily Engaged Today Erecting-Booths and : Furnishing Hall. Flags'jpf many natlohs will adorn the walls and booths of the bazaar of StJ George and St. ; Andrew which is to open as a benefit for. the war sufferers of the Entente J Powers, Wednesday! nigh on the second floor of Woolvin j ing. - but attacking. - ' N j . , building on Princess street. Germany claims that the .new policy Brilliant decorations, a veritable riot j towards armed ships squares with Iu of color, are being" arranged, a commit- ternationai law inasmuch as British tee for this purpose having begun to-j merchantmen violate th6 law as inter day to place the booths and decora-. preted by the United States. Germany tions. (realize that if it should sink an armed Deep interest in the movement has ship upon if rests the burden of proof been created in Wilmington, and even elsewhere, ladies of Southpbrt hav ehergetically; set to work to help the cause, sending valuable donations and otherwise assisting in the movement. Donations have been received' from as far north as Baltimore and as far south as Tampa, Fla. The Wilmington ladies and the com mittees of the Brotherhood are having wonderful success in their efforts, and all indications are for; splendid. results tor the aid of sufferers in. the war stricken countries." - - NOTHING NEEDED BUT JARS FOR CANNING Seaside Factor For Sea Foods Now Ready to Begin Ope- ration Near Supply. Vilmlngton people' have been much interested - in the new, Brunswick county venture of canning sea: foods, as begun by Mr. F. S. Webster, be lieving that this is the entering wedge for the development" of a great in dustry through this section of the' coast. That the new factory near supply isv now ready to begin , operations, waiting only for the arrival ofthe can ning jars, .is reported in the Bruns-; wck': Eftgle, a& fqllOWS: "The Sea-food canning factory , erecting at Seaside for some time L"?,; T t 1 on in a very short time ; "As was stated in; this paper some weeks ago, Mr. Webster has already canned a few products at his factory for sample purposes, but' as soon as the samples were put up he shut down and went North to purchase jars and some material whiph had. been over looked in the first' shipment, and as soon as he ret urned "he. , went to work to put everything in - tip top ' condi tion before he began running reg ularly.. He informs us - that , every thing is now in excellent condition, and that he will begin operation just as soon as - the jars -.arrive and they are- now on the road. ' , - "Mr. Webster spates ' that in all probability - his factody will be run regularly when ' it starts as products deem ' to be - plentiful? c- . i Forgery Charged Robert Barnhill, colored, will J5e tried before Justice Harriss tomorrow morning on a charge . of forgery, G 1 rj TO ii REPLY TO UNCLE CITES INCIDENTS TO . SHOW THIS SITUATION - jDeclares' New Policy Squares ) With International Law, According to Interpreta tion of U. S. Washington, Feb- . 2 8 Germany' jrespon?e to the reply of the United i States for assurances regarding -ihe Londuct of submarine war in future is , , rt ., , : in the hands of Count yon 'Bernstorff, , the German ambassador, who -was pre j pared to present itto Secretary Lan sing today. .The reply is in the form of instructions to ! the ambassador . and will not be put in the form of a noto" ! unle?s the secretary desires. une-amDassaaor s ansiruciions were to inform" the United-States that the assurances in regard to the future con duct of the Teutons' submarines, given by Germany in the Lusitania and Ara bic cases,, still are binding, but that they apply only - to merchantmen oC peaceful ?.Tacter. v - - Germany-contends that British mer chantmen armed ostensihly;for defense carry guns for the special, purpose of attacking German submarines and thus show themselves Knpt to .be peaceful and - are subject to destruction. To sup i port' this claim, Berlin foreign office sends a list of ; a -score , of;.- incidents where the .British merchantmen at tacked submarines. V , The instructions call attention to the SI claim ofGermany , that despitg assur- vW j j cnantmeu -were armetrior aerense ana "will never 'flrV uKfess Iflrst" fired 6n, and that they "will not attack any ves- V. sel," British ships are not only! resist regarding the guns, but contends upon the ' government owning the ships is the burden of proof that the guns were of a non-offensive character; The ambassador was instructed ta call attention to the fact that 1 French ships are not armed! and that Britisn ships entering American ports are not armed and 'consequently the Berlin' government considers remote the chance -of difficulties withthe United States as a result of the Tiew policy of sinking all armed enemy : merchant ships - beginning tomorrow midnight. - MIGRATORY BIRD NOT BEEN SUSPENDED yashington, I). C . , ; Feb i 28 . A. misleading stateuiint has recently be come current in newspapers of the Mississippi - valley and elsewhere, to the. effect Chat the Department of Ag , riculture 'has suspended 1 the enforce ment of the Federal regulations under the. Migratory Bird' Law and by "this has i enabled sportsmen, under State , laws, to shoot wild fowl the coming . spring: Under the . Federal regulations as " . I they now stand,, the season on all- migratory wild fowl , is : closed 1 until next autumn throughout the' United'' States, Federal inspectors and war' dens are required, and others1 inter- jested-in the protection of wild fowl are requested to report to the Department of h Agriculture-, all cases of violations of the regulations, in order that proper; action may be taken. ; - , -The . Department of Agriculture has ho power to suspend the law or to pardon violations of the regulations . Doubtless the erroneous impression, on wnicn the newspaper statements are based growing out of the pendency of. litigation -involving : the constitution-.: ality of the Act ofjCongress approved c March 4, 1913, under which the regu- la tions were promulgated The lower 1 Federal - courts .disagreed as to ' the" validity of the statute and the issue was carried to the 4 Supreme Court of -the United, States 'i The case " was ar gued in the Supreme Court in Oc tober, 1915, but has not: beendecided . ' following the; lower court decisions,. Congress apprbpriatejd money, for; the purpose of continuing the enforcement of the. law. T)ie Department of Agri culture is bound to s report to the r De- partment of Justice v violations of. the regulations if the' Supreme Court' should declare the law constitutional. All persons should, therefore, be warn- ed of the danger they incur from 1 fail-' , .ure to abide' by the regulations; i! v i
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