Newspapers / The Wilmington Dispatch (Wilmington, … / Oct. 8, 1916, edition 1 / Page 10
Part of The Wilmington Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
-J 0 -2 rpefowp ! THE WILMINGTON DISPATCHrsUND AY MQRNING, OCTOBER 8, 1916 Soldiers Have Exacting o-irai H li1 v- F.vnftViences.in Africa?. iiuiaiuiu -x-w vv. , ..,-..,.. .jSW:. , - V-.' ..." lii: Rumania :"Was Oil Supply -Station -li PRIVATE TELL OF LIOII SEIE IN EAST AF English Tommy Gives Excit ing Account of Guarding Snpply Train. WARRIOR ANTS GOOD FIGHTERS Do Not Hesitate to Attack Man and Are Not Re spectors of Persons. Miss Annie JSiqrgah j-:. f0'' ; 1 riinrhn HiiHri, . iDIIPPnllflDG : - r G R El?: POWEft ; j HAVE 0 RGilZED J Almost Dictatorial Powers Enjoyed hy Russian Pro 4 vincial .Governors. I REACTION UN FULL SWING , Capetown, Uct. 7. How he was be Bieged by. lions in German East Africa is described in a letter from Private E. T. Baker, of the Regiment, whq made a march of more than 220 miles to join hiscompany. "There is one night during that march," says Private Baker, "that will stand out in my memory for many a long year. Six ofus were told off as guard to the thirteen oxen we were taking with us to provide us with freh meat along the road. They were wild young animals, and as yet had never had a yoke across their necks. "We decided to sleep at the camp, with them for that night, and go onl next morning. We spent over an nour building a huge boma round them with thron trees, and then constructing two fires. "At twelve o'clock, we were vigorous ly roused by the sentry, and awoke hearing furious roaring not fifty yards from us. Hastily seizing our rifles, we fired In the direction of the roars, ana for a while were left in peace. There was no more sleep that night, and had it not been for the fires we would have i been nearly frozen. "The cold was bitter. At 3o'clock the lions rushed the boma again, and once more the firing drove them back. From then onwards, the beasts wor ried us continually. They are most determined-animals, and, having once smelt the cattle, meant to have them. Through the grass we could at times see their eyes blazing like coals. We were firing constantly all through that wearisome night. ' "At last day began to dawn, and the lions, evidently noticing this, made a final and determined effort to get the cattle. At 5:15 arm. with a mighty roar they rushed from three sides. There must at least have been a dozen of them. We fired as hard as we could j load, but they were evidently keeping j very low while rushing. ' "The firing, however, did not check them, and they came up to within three ; yards of the boma, as their traces af-j terwards indicated, and, giving one; last terrible roar, scared the already j terrified cattle almost to madness, i With one accord the cattle all jumped I the boma and raced for the bush, thej lions hard on their heels and not five; . minutes later we heard their wails as fcuez Canal learnings Have Uc- the lions brought them down. preciated as Vessels INow "The nativeswho were with us recK-j oned that it was the fires alone thatj saved us. London. Oct 7. Another increase! London. Oct. 7. Carrying out the A less tragic night attack by on gfi ?Qr passage schrmj for ending South African na- also in German East Africa, is tnus s described by Vera Stent: of tne Suez Canal will come into j liven to France, 2,000 Cape boys, or "The warrior ants! Let me tell you. force this month, as the earnings j half-caste natives, are being forward It was at Mkallamo, where the trolley j have, gone down considerably, largely ed Jn advance of tne 10 000 for which line crosses Pangani, Jones had bulit in consequence of tle deviation of so oricinallv made mp a little bower of palm leaves, and many vessels to the Cape route, and arrangements were originally made. in it I elected to sleep apart from the the transfer of a number of steamers I - others. In the pride of my exclusive-; from the Indian and Far Eastern j Chamber of Commerce Com posed of Two Nationalities -Has Been Formed. I Petrograd, Oct. 7. A Russo-Jaranese jnam.Der oi cuiumci u f" ed at Tokio. All the leading Japanese business houses have decided to be come members of tha chamber. ( A big financial trust is shortly to be established in Japan. The scheme is under the immediate patronage and Bupport of the-Japanese Prime 'Min ister and. other leading political pre sonages. The object of the trust is to act as a medium between the Russian and, Japanese governments and the lead ing banks in both countries. IS Town and Borough Councils are Taking More to do With Municipal Government. ' I Petrograd, Oct. 7. Russian proving cial governors exercise almost dic tatorial power. Recently one was, prosecuted for exiling to Siberia a! Jew who asked repayment of money lent to the Governor. But the Duma( had to intervene to accomplish this. : This incident does not stand alone, j for the Governor of the province of j in order to overcome the scarcity of labor for tilling the land and gather ing in the harvest, to reintroduce serfdom, .which .was abolished in Rus sia in 1861. His order is character istic of the lawlessness,-which, even j at this time, reigns supreme outside. Munich, Oct. . me newspaper Petrograd and Moscow. The order "Neueste Machnchten" puDiisnes an was as follows: "1'- interview with a neutral priest who "Farm laborers and other persons ' recently came to Munich as a special of both sexes between the ages of 15 messenger of the Vatican with letters inni K( frw rm the dav of nublica- for tHe faDei isuncio. me cicibj'"'"" I tion of this order from employment refused to say anything about condi i and belonging tp ' the peasant class, tions in Italy, but he talked quite free ! are hereby ordered to report them- ly about the hopes of the Italian peo 1 selves immediately, and those who pie. 'own land, after having gathered their "There is hardly one person in all harvest, for employment for agricui- Italy who is not nrmiy convincuu mi tural work by the land-owners resid- the total collapse of the Central Em ing within the boundaries of the prov- pire is only a question of a few inces of Kaluga, "as well as to ten- months," the priest said. "The gen ants of estates, .etc., who are in need eral impression is that after the cap of labor for gathering in wheat and ture of Gorizia the victorious Italian hay. Wages to be by local Dorougn trops could have marcnea io i nesie ENGLAND. PROMOTES NOTED JEWISH SOLDIER ITALY T TEUTONS ARE LOST ! Neutral Priest Told Newspaper What Italians Think of Cen tral Allies' Chances. j 1 1 1 1 JD" Ji . i RUMANIA HAS ' BEEN ' UAH OIL RESiin When Entered on Side of Al lies Against Teutons Pctio- le' iri i3 Lost to German .. MAJ".'GErf jroHK MoHASH. A Jew of Austrian birth, John A!oa ash, has just been . promoted to the rank of Maj. General by the British War Department, in recognition of his services. Major eGneral Monash is one of the most popular commanding SHIP BUILDING IS INCREASING Large Numbers of Vessels M ill Be Able to Carry Goods Abroad When Peace Is Declared. Berlin, Oct. 7. When Jlumniii joined the Entente, G rm;iny j,,,, large quantities of grain al: ,, v bought and partly paid for ;m.. also lost the petroleum prodw which Rumania was expood ply her and which is sorely n now that Che oil wells of Calx! in the hands of the Russians. On top cf this the Rum:;r.:;.n fensive against Austria mean! t In tension of a front which military perts expect must soon be shoi because of the lack oi inen. 1 On what, one may ask, does or. many still found her belief in vic tory or at least a peace that will r-- -1 of. ' X ' X- officers in the British Army, and his ; establish the status before th promotion was received with profound enthusiasm. He is (but one of many of his race to be honored in various fields by "the British government. He has been serving as Brigadier General with an Austrian Brigade. Paris, Oct. 7. Miss Anne Morgan, sister of the famous New York financier, who has been called the purchasing agent of the Entente Allies, has been, making extensive trips through various parts of France, in specting hospitals and relief work. . j She reports there is pressing need in the hospitals of sweaters, under wear, pajamas, blankets,. .and what ,are.,linpwn as hospital suits, heavier; garments than ordinary pajamas. T r ; ' ,f '. ' .' Miss Morgan has long been active in the interests of Allied charitable enterprises on the other side of the Atlantic. She said experiences in the fighting zones here had filled .her with greater enthusiasm "than ever for this work. POPE WILL PROPOSE PEACE war? The answer is her inexhaustible wealth in coal and iron. In spite of the war tae output (,f , the German mines and .ml'in ovens is greater than ever. Th- ( u, mines owned or controlled hy tli great Rhine-West Phalian .yn;lic;iv alone have furnished enormous quan tities: 314,602 tons in 'April, :,:a:: tons in May, 328,378 tons in Juru , and 313,913 in July this year, and th- out put is again increasing. In ovr.y month since the. war began i' has been greater than in any month iu peace. ! To increase the output of strrl t li 1 SHIP TOLLS TO NCREAS E E 1 r.rrmin mannfar! nrrr mnko nsf- (if " " : .... :. . . , . a t. . ir- e i i councils, according to the conditions at once, if eunreai ceaorna naa not i LJispatcn rrom owiizeriana every ounce of scrap iron, ntt only prevalent in I he locality. All orders been ordered to halt hi sadvance un- Insists That His Holiness I in Germany but also in the occupi-J of municipal and pojicc authorities til certain operations on the otheri -v7-ii A D C V-, I enemy district. In M::y concerning reporting for work must theatres of war could be carried out be cbeyed unflinchingly. No one has in accordance with the plans of the me ngm io-ckuw,... uu'? '"e5- . ' h k,n nr r,rdinal von other thanu.agrfculvural work. A Drat of the public, is becoming -" Impatient over the delay,rbut the ma jority firmly believe that Trieste, but the whole Istrian Penin j any Persons not" complying with thisj-or- der will either be fined or arrested. Thus reaction is even now in full swing. It is true- that the new min ister of the interior, Khvostoff, has Introduced a proposal for the aboli tion of exile to Siberia. He e,ven Will Act Before Xmas. Berlin, Oct. . The "Cologne Volks- rTlaftmsLnn. v fiubllshfts dispatch from IUti" " , y not only oiwv..auu.u to these no intends to take steps to end the war sula and the Tyrol can be taken wtih-, by making definite peace proposals be- in' a few days, as soon as the order is given. "The Italian papers daily devote this yfir they produced JT2.301 ton;; d iily, w J 1 1 1 (he average daily output before the war was 15,790 tons a day. To !iis must be added large ijuan'Jtio-i i "''- Quccd in Belgium and l'oland, b v ;r.-, figurca are available. In spite of this magnificent clTuit, MINES authority about 120 political exiles. But this was intended for the con sumption of the new Allies of Russ-ia in Western Europe. South African Natives That Take The Cape Route. Are Being Sent France. which is unDrecedented in tini' of fore C'hirstmas. - - u k or,n-riirt thui i. i. The correspondent of the paper, re -s nceded and a mecting says ho gets his information from a on June 6 dcclarcd iat went so far as to liberate on his own! many columns to the awful conditions! tteir furnaces were being worneu io ii.cu. , . ., . , . .... their utmost capacity. "The Holy Father -is awaiting the At tfae eQd Qf August hQ ..B,,.,inpr outcom3 of the Franco-British offons- Tageblatr dcciared that the gnat ive on uie webwrm uuui. n c coal district in the Rhino province. AM knf 4Vt-h swrti on lino ( ..ir r rn mo .nJhieh officials and wholesale starvation-" . " " I tnough tne output naa oeon gr mm;. .7, , " . Ho hr!Ki I in the German and Austrian cities ' cannot De DroK ?n ana mai r rance auu increased, was unable to :.upi ih- pear it nevertheless has its bright Un tne c,erman wa Auirai c Beleium can oniy bc cleared by sac-' . r .i r.. f,. rificing millions of lives he will act I torjes and rairoad3 of thc c,untiy. j 3 It T.. 1 l,n1.tnv Ilia TTnl.l Aii nf tuon, Hisnntrhrs arfi dated i uuu WIU1 if Geman houses were to.be li. a'.ti from Berne. Geneva, rr.r8 and London j iness . assu;eod f tne o-operat on this wten and most of them have the ear marks of the, K,ns?f, Spain .t,nd ejes that j what fs lacking is not ,,,., r serve their purpose, i president wuson win a.su icim u wo:.Ith( bul laboff and to rcmody tin. th Vonfi-iinnueucy- thousands of Belgian and I'oii-n which are said to exist in Germany and Austria-Hungary. Reports of al- leeed hunear riots, political revolu tions, assassination of officers and side. There is an ever-growing con-U""" " va,L Kciousnesr, on the party of the peo-1 of the press tnrougnout lraiy pie. - and practically abandoned to Are Experienced in Mining their own resources, public bodies, a r- . o .r- ' mnnir.innlitirn and' neasants are or- news have previously had experience of i - a- i s ' . r rr 1 i ness I had my bed set under the palms trades to British Government service. "p ' and slept. There was a big. bright! A short time before the outbreak of i We in the compounds under a semi moon. Some while after midnight ! war, the German government acquir-; mintaiy disc.pime. I awakened with a sense of vague dis-1 ed 500 Canal shares. Notwithstand-1 They .will.be placed in charge of comfort and a desire to scratch. i ing this holding, however, the propos- J South American officers who know al to prohibit German and Austrian ! how to treat them. Some or the offl vessels from the use of the waterway j cers have served previously as mag- for ten vears after the cessation of'lstiates in the districts reserved for struct or damage the route "Something bit, a good deep nip. My electric flash lamp lighted the in terior of my tunnel-shaped mosquito net, and I perceived in perfect military order a column of black ants, about two Inches wide the column, not til ants marching over and outside my net, while the 'flankers' and 'foraging parties' Invaded my flimsy citadel, and prospected for 'supply' on my all too solid flesh. The exigencies of the mili tary situation dictated one movement only instant and ignominious retreat. I flung my net to the winds and escap ed. A safe ten yards away I stripped, and plucked from me the 'warriors.' "As theyjire no respecters of per sons, so these warriors are no respec- tors of parts. They bit me everywhere, j a.d V?7??L d"T JrJJ kGrand Duke Michael Has Been ' they remained in possession of the hostilities Is under consideration by j natives. Neither Cape boys nor na the directors, the contentions being tives proper will be permitted to enter that German and Austria should be i the ranks of the army.' They are to punished for inciting the Turks to ob- be employed exclusively at the sea- I I BRAND DUKES IN CZAR'S ARMY ports in the South France district and kept strictly within the compounds. They have volunteered for the work, and will be sent back to South Africa as soon as their lielp ceases to be required. ground, tion." They had captured the posi- Promoted to Rank of Lieu tenant General Petrograr Oct. 7. All the Grand Cannot Make Stand. Dukes of the Russian Imperial fam- "Vr-Kieff. Oct. 7. The general opinion, v hAtvAPn th A?fs of 20 and 45 are prevails in Russia that the Germans now serving in the Russian army and . will not be able to make any offensive navy. The Czar's brother, the Grand Duke Michael, who Is 30, has been promot ed to the rank of lieutenant-general. tary authorities have promised to al . low the educational departments which " evacuated this ity a year ago to re- . turn very soon, ine lacuity of the "I've brought-back those eggs you' .university has already returned. Such gave me this morning," said the new i ftiinfr irni-il1 fiavv VlPon lmfAe(riV.!Ai i , - . xi n x i..rmm. ""o "" y uudoiic j onae, as sne. oegan w uik me - an if the strategical position were unsat- ides in question from her basket. - lsfactory. . j "They're duck eggs." . , ' 7" ; i "Duck eggs!" sneered the grocery K,- Great Britain' Revenue. ibog. "You're mistaken, ma'am. I ' TtnAnn -Oet. 1. Great RHin'o'.iu t. - . 1 ' uvul never sen ao uucn eggs. total revenues last year, It Is announc "But I tested them," triumphed the ied, were $1,686,000,000. Of this Eng-. matrimonial movice. "I dropped them Vtan alone supplied more than eighty into water and they floated." Ex ione percent. change. Paris, Oct. 7. Of the three kings who have been living in exile in France since the war drove them from their thrones the saddest and most pathetic figure of all is the venerable King of Montenegro, who today passes the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth, sur rounded by the devoted members of his family anda handful of faithful fol lowers who are sharing his exile. Albert of Belgium and Peter of Ser bia - may safely look forward to an eventual restoration of their domin ions, with possible large accessions of territory, but for Nicholas of Monte negro the return of peace will have nothing in store, no matter which group of Powers is victorious in the great war. Should the Central Powers win,' Montenegro would be either in corporated with Austria, or else it would be made to serve as a province o"f the reconstructed kingdom of Alba nia, ff , on the other hand, final victory rests with the Allies, as now seems in evitable, Montenegro, which Is peo pled in the main by Serbs, will be as signed to King Peter to compensate him for .the heroic struggle of the Ser bians against the Austro-Germans and their Bulgarian allies, . - ganizihg themselves. Two hundred and- six town councils have estab lished various kinds of organizations for the purpose of fighting the inflat ed food prices, and relieving those who arc suffering most. - A great number ofi Jtown-and bor ouch councils have Introduced the card svstem which not onlv tends to if regidate consumption, but to intro duce the democratic principle of equality amongst the different classes of the community. Up to the present time there are abont a hundred towns which have adopted this sys tem. - Nor has the initiative of town and borough councils stopped at this. Many are more or. less successfully making attempts to monopolize under municipal control the distribution of food and other commodities. In Pe- troerad. Moscow and a number of; other towns municipal shops have been opened which buy goods direct ly from the producers and sell at a more nominal profit. This branch of municipal activity grows every day. Many have gone so far as to establish! their own-farms, keep their own, cows and in that way have become produ cers and distributors of their own produce. The last few months have also wit nessed a tremendous growth in co operation. It goes without saying that such activities have, not been regarded favorably by all those , who speculate in food or by the govern ment, which loathes organization and self-help in any form. Under the pre text that municipal buyers interfere with army buyers the government has prohibited many , municipalities from buying the cheapest food. For in stance, Petrograd bought cattle in Si beria and Mongolia and is now pro hibited from continuing to buy in these provinces. The Petrograd mu nicipality also received : orders to ab stain -from, independent - buying of rye flour. - of fakes, but they because they strengthen "Everybody in Italy, outside well i t a Requ...t.onlng Bu.ld.ng. informed circles, believes that the end j Lonrton- Oct 7. -The Minis ry of of the ,var is very near and that the j Mumtioni which has just " j cu me uig uuuuing ui iub v.uhoiuuuuu- ill prisoners have been put to .work the mines. It is thc country's wealth in mn and "metals which is now buoying u; arms ot tne Allies win inurapn oui . - "-" vf- 1"" all battlefields before the year's end, j al Club' started !!xteenT montis agjof ah honorable, peace. the Central Powers do not break " -.-j,---oi oniy nas uermany so ihi an unuer-aecreiary ana iwo u. .Mb to flirnish hr armies w Hi in Now it numbers 6,000 persons and is ! growing at the rate of 300 a month. I Despite the size of this staff the ad- down earlier." GERMANS WORK eaornious number of guns nee;!' 1. but what is even more encouracin? is that she has been able to go n I . . . . . . A 1- i a I ministrative cost aitogetner wonts ouii witv. hr hinhniiHinf nn;triirtmc a RUSSIAN CROPS All War Prisoners Now in Czar's Domain Are Engag ed in Work For State. ; at only one seventh of. one per cent. jof the expenditure. The ministry i occupies twenty-one separate build I ings . It directs the millions ofi muni j tion workers throughout the . country . large number of vessels which will be ready to carry abroad her prml ucts.from thc very day peace is con cluded. V She has also right along been :U1'' to sell coal and iron to neighboring j Recently it added .to its responsiblll- . ..... ! ties the provision of all tne mecnani-1 neutral countries and get food in x leal transport for the British armies j change. It is Germany's mines ami and much of those of the Allied na-j furnaces which have so far save l .tions. It has suplied one-third of the industry from bankruptcy. raw material for the French munition industry. Petrograd, Oct. 7. Orders havei To Construct Vessels, been issued by the Minister of Agri-j Belfast. Ireland, Oct. 7. The great culture to include German and Hun- shipbuilding firm of Harland and Wolff garian prisoners of war along with will soon begin the construction of the Austrian prisoners now employed three freight vessels on the standardiz in the Russian factories and on the ed principle. The firm hais orders for farms. ! other series of ships to be built on the Four hundred thousand Austrian same principle. It is asserted the war prisoners are working under the new; method will save about a third control of the Department of Agricui-, the first cost in construction and ex ture. The German and Hungarian 1 pedits the time of ( delivery twenty- prisoners who have been sent to Work-five per cent. along with their Austrian allies in the Seven Old Men , JLohdon, TJct, 7. A Lowestoft fish ing boat, the Sussex, now at work off Scarborough, contains a "war time" crew of seven men whose united ages total 473 years.- The youngest is sixty-two years old and the oldest seven ty-five, fields, bring teh total up to 600,000.. Would you mind letting me off fit- WILL PRESENT FLOWER WREATH French Soldiers to Pay Tribute . to Dead Commander Wbo Was Killed in Action. Paris Oct. 7. In the trenches on UP in It is stated that all the enemy war teen minutes earlier after this, sir?"! the Somme the soldiers are taking prisoneis now in Russia, except those ( asked the bookkeeper. "You, see, Ive J a subscription among themselves n invalied1. are engaged in some employ, moved into the suburbs and I-can't order to buy an immense weath o ment for the good of the state Buying Silk Stockings. London, 6bt. .r-Cpmplaint.is made that in numerous munition areas -in Yorkshire ther girl workers are spend ing extravagant sums in high boots and oilli stockings.. paying as tauch as $11.25 a pair for the former; r.fttr.h m v train unlpsa T Ipavo at nuar-' flnwari nViloh' la in hfi nlar.pd on th ter before five o'clock." jtomb of a young officer of Zou ,r - "1; suppose I'ii have . to," grumbled J Noel Marquot, who has Just been l i" the boss; "but you should have thought ed. in their midst. Get, New Uniforms. Leede, England, Oct. ; 7. The. city of that before you moved "I did," confided tha bookkeeper to the stenographer a little later, "and that's the reason " I moved." Ex change. , ;, To PHH Gypsies. , Budapest,1 Oct. 7 .The t Hungarian goyertunent, has. ju?t .provided a new-, government .is taking a census of the unifortn for women street conductors, gypsies, owing to. the scarcity of men, It is a divided skirt, but is so contrived ; with a view ,to the possibility of utilit that it looks like an ordinary' skirt, ex- jihg these Incorrigble nomads as sol cept on close inspection, , i dlers. : -.. " This )ieutenaht, he. was not fillP 24, had been mentioned twice in a"n Orders. He was decorated with tiuir medals for, bravery. "We owe. the flowers to our lieuten ant because of his grandmother." t'10 soldiers say. . ' The li3tttenant was a grandson the celebrated Madame Duchamp. t1'0 heroic canteen woman of the FioikU and Prussian'. war in 1870, who is ?ti11 allte and s wears the military medal herself. of i -
The Wilmington Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 8, 1916, edition 1
10
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75