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: - :-. "-f- t ,;.' ' '- ' ' . '. F AL 'Rather forecast, Mrth Carolina Fair tonight and .wsday. Cooler Wednesday W;d neSnorth portion tonight, south Carolina Fair tonight and FULL LEASED WIRESERVICE EDITION V0L. XXIII. NO. 86. : ID) f 1 21 JJ D 5Tra w TjfT HJ UJU p A 4 4 4 4 i '4 r ... . oiii -T nosition to oeiecuve 1 Germans promote Draft. " ASSERTS VOLUNTEER SYSTEM COMES FIRST J A Predicts War uepartment 4 REVOLT . (By Associated Press). Rio de Janeiro, April 24. Tele- IN BRAZIL. grams received here from Parana 4" confirm reports that the Germans 4 in Southern Brazilian States are 4 concentrating in the State of 4 Measure Will Never Pass , 4- Santa Catharina. It is believed a . r XI t-! v congress 11c ucuai uucui .4. is immirlpnt 4 4 German insurrection in the South 4 Trying to Bulldoze The Peo ple, He Says, Washington, April 24. Speaker Clark opposed the selective draft and predicted it. never would pass Con gress, loaay m receiving a aeiegauon from the National Security League. Several hundred petitions bearing a million names, asking Congress to adopt the administration plan, were laid before the Speaker. 'Conscription never will pass, in my opinion, ne saia. 1 am ior let ting tha flower of youth of this coun try volunteer before we fasten the disgrace cf a draft. upon them. --.The War Department is jumping around trying to bulldoze people into pass ing this bill, and I don't think they are gom to do it. i ij tft i ago 4 TELLING THRUST TIC 7y WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, lAPRIL 24, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS,-; m o BY THE BRITISH WITH THE FBENGH t IN DEATH GRAPPLE uf IN NEW SECTOR They Push Forward to and Cut The St. Quentin-'Cam-bria Canal. NC Associated Press Representa tives' Account of The Start and The Voyage. VIGOROUS COUNTER OUT OF PARIS IN ATTACKS REPULSED , THE DARK OF NIGHT British Maintain All Their Fast Liner With Lights Out Grains Many Prisoners Taken Defeat of Turks in Mesopotamia. Steams Rapidly Through Danger Zone- No Ves sels Allowed Approach STRIKERS THREATEN TO BLOW UP PLANT GERMAN TACTICS ON FRENCH LINE Explanation of -Recent Gains of Terrain and Capture of , ,, . Booty By- Alliesv (By Associated Press.) Amsterdam, April 24 (Via London). Major Moraht, writing in the Tages Zeitung, says that the results of the French offensive are hitherto com pletely unimportant. Major Moraht writes: "The possession of single portions of terrain, such as trenches, villages While continuing to deliver hard blows upon the German lines in the Scarpe river region, east of Arras, where their offensive was resumed yesterday, the British have pushed home a telling thrust in another sac tor of the great battlefield. Striking south of the Bapaume- Cambrai road, General Haig's forces gained ground last night along a wide f T-z-vTi t rf crroa iocf mnmcnt hnvvpver. was the success of the drive in reach- j national ing the important waterway ueiwteu St. Quentin and Cambrai, ths St. Quentin canal. The canal was cut at a point east of Epehy, near Vendhuille. In reach ing . it here the British pressed to within approximately two miles of (By Associated lres8. Washington, April 24. The Asso ciated Press correspondent who ac companied the commissioners from Prance, sends the following dispatch from the port of arrival: When the ship bearing the French commission came into port today American warships broke out French colors from their , mastheads and American bands played the French anthem, American and French sailors lined Ihc rails on then- respective ships. ,' - The special if ain bearing the mis sion slipped out of Paris in the early morning, observed only by a few se cret service agents "and railway men. The hour of leaving was known no where in advance and when the train At Vital Point of Vantage on The Eastern Battle Front. GERMAN REPULSE MEANS DISASTER To Hindenburg Line Fight ing Principally Above Ground, With Machine uuns rrecanous Conditions. (By Associated Press.? Staunton. Va.. April 24. Failing to receive wages demanded, nearly one and borders of woods, no longer plays hundred laborers in the Augusta ' a decisive role in deeply echeloned Wood Products Company at Deerfield, , and fortified zones. The aim of the Va., eight miles south of here, threat: German defense is, even at the cost tmru iu uiuw up me piaut yesteruay i oi auanaonmg tne ut?au, lugcmci wim aftPrrmnn Tho oVcit-iF inrl momc. wn y -m n tori ale anH nnrh'nn q nf nftsi- afternoon. trates summoned militiamen, who are now on guard at the lumber mill! Twenty-five strikers, accused of dis turbing the peace and inciting riot, vre taken by automobile from Deer field to Millboro in the afternoon and .v nightfall the trouble was appar ently quelled. SUBMARINES AT WORK THREE SHIPS SUNK. (By Associated Press.) London, April 24. It is officially an nounced in Norway, says a Central V:vs dispatch from Christiania that the Norwegian steamer Reice has been sunk by a German submarine in the orth Sea fKjold of 1,125 tons in the Atlantic. Warner With Russian RfiinA: tions, to maintain our own strength while destroying that of the enemy and preventing him from attaining his strategical aim, which is to break through. For this purpose it is neces sary to keep the fighting line mobile." The writer considers that by yield ing at some points the Germans may force their opponents to fight without the support of their heavy artillery, and consequently expose them to de struction by the German infantry and artillery fire. These tactics, he claims, give repeated opportunities for Ger man counter attacks with German reserves who are outside the range of the enemy fire. BALFOUR SPENDS A BUSY DAY Torpedoed. Lonrlnn An;i ni t-m x -i r- anin uispaicnes iroiu 'rograd today state that the Rus !an Socialists are greatly exercised er the Sinking hu n florman anHma. .fl f the Steamer 7nra whioh wns I WKing home a nnmher r.f Rncsion r-ofn. ' J vrf Dv.'f.'cl. Rnar Wrlrl! ppoo m, i-uu"" i icau yji ijiiuoii uvuivi m. xwx o cs. i hp 7 ; l ,1 x :i i -i 3 . ds tornefWri ;n xti x. x (onrerences ran-meri- uays latpr r T :Lt Amn,:;, can ixecepuon lomgiu. Ppfpp iV uu Doard me zara were ler Karpovich. lparloi- nf tho Prn. Krpt;eil r -wwvx xx J. -SlVe mOVempnt omnro V,q otiil. PtltI in "n uuiuug uxxo DL ' ' ' . -. " Mr - his Vf eirsrad University, who lost James Balfour, British foreign secre- T etti h o Jensen, leader of the tary, spent today , consulting omer, in "8n Social Democratic Committee members of the British commission on to Siv ixa,pjviccn was sentencea means io dispose oi uie euwiuuuo Doff D ouuuiiug iu. xJUgir auiuuui Ul nuitt ttxxxvxx xutu uxs vu w ' i V Russian minister of Public in- CBv Associated Press.) Washington. April 24 Arthur : a respect approachmg veneration. When, the train pulled . away men stood solemnly-wltHj headsJbif un til his XiivMM'&ftiQmgm&i The American flag was flying here and there along .the route, not in rec ognition of the party going to Amer ica, but because every town and vil lage in France, both by government I reauest and personal sentiment, is Le Catelet. a railway junction point . , , . ..n , . cn the canal to the south towards Bt- deture"! Joffre quentin. walked up and down the station plat Pushing along the Peronne-Cambrai fornlj acknowleCg:hg pleasantly the railway further north, Geenral Haig s salutation of the few persons who troops captured the villages of Beau- happened to be in the. stations. They camp ana vuiers-fiouivn, vl"" j looked at the great cjpmmander with places a bare three miles irom iviHr coing, another important railwaycen ter, 3 1-2 miles southwest of Cambrai. 1. On, t4iema.in. line of- theArres bat tle front, "extending 12 nliTes from Croiselles to north of Gavrelle the British have not only maintained their positions against the desperate coun ter attacks the Germans are delivering- in an effort to stem the tide against them at this vital spot, but ; showing the American colors have made additional progress east ot (Continued on Page Eight) Monchy-L.e-Breux, and near uoeux. More than 1,500 prisoners were tak en' in yesterday's operations and many more are coming in. The solid nature of the British gains, despite the violent German ef forts" to nullify them, is shown in the report of another particularly heavy counter attack delivered this morning on the village of Gavrelle, on the Ar-ras-Douai road, captured yesterday, which the British successfully with stood. All the German counter strokes were delivered "with great determination and regardless of losses," says the British report. Along the Aisne and in the Cham pagne the French are playing their part in the great battle by keeping up a heavy artillery fire while prepar ing for their next infantry move. In cidentally, in local operations, they improved their positions at some points, notably on the Chemin-Des-Dames plateau. In Mesopotamia the British are con tinuing their victorious progress of the Tigris Valley. After fighting a ASHEVILLE WANTS j Making Strong Move to Have One Located On Part or Biltmore Estate. (By George H. Manning.) Washington, D. C, April 24. After a conference yesterday with officials of the War Department, in regard to the establishment of a military train ing camp at Asheyille, J. E. Strike leather, commissioner of public works at Asheville, and Dr. F. J. Clemen ger, connected with the North Caro lina militia, left for New York this afternoon to confer with Major-General Leonard Wood, commander of hot battle .with the Turks south of, the Eastern Division, in oharge of all Samara, 70 miles northwest of Bag- military movements for points east What is apparently the bitterest fighting of the present Anglo-French offensive is raging today along the Wotan line, the hastily organized po sition east of Arras, to which the Ger mans retired when the northern end of the Hindenburg line was turned by General Haig. The Germans are putting forth a supreme effort to hold this vital por tion of their defenses, the crumbling of which would expose Douai and Cambrai, and bring into prospect an other great retreat. The British have driven two wedges into the German positions, forming sharp salients in the region of the Scarpe river and north of the Ba-paume-Cambrai road. The head of the first salient has been thrust with in four miles of Vitry, the most im portant point on the Wotan line, but the tenacity and power with which the Germans are fighting leaves the issue for a time in doubt. The semi-open character of the fighting affords little opportunity for the tise of great howitzers, these! TOeastftttrs hgines of destruction toe ing best adapted for the smashing of permanent defenses. The battle is being waged largely with machine guns and field artillery, and the meagre reports from th DOM NATION OF GASOLINE MAHKET; BY STANDARD OIL Report of Federal Trade Com mission to Senate on the 1 Subject. INCREASED PRICE f IK f : ASf II IIMk i Reached Some American Port at an Early Hour This Morning. DISTINGUISHED MEN IN THE PARTY General Joffre and Minister of Justice Vivianie Among Them Brought by Fast Steamship Convoyed by War Vessels Met American Destroyers. by 4 ' Accounted For to Great Extent By Course of Action of That Company Synop sis of the Report. WILL REACH WASHINGTON TOMORROW. v (By Associated Press). Washington. D. C. April 24. Later the State Department issu- ed this further statement: "The Department of State la ad- vised that the French commission (SAwociated rre.T " T tcxxwbbxuxxbiuxI nmnrowv' Washington. AdHI 24. Domination morning, ine precise time and of the gasoline industry by Standard Place pf arrival will be annoanced Oil interests, the Federal Trade Com-, later." mission reported to the Senate today, ; - f has been largely responsible for high fighting line indicate heavy losses on , gasoline prices of the last two years. . Washington, April 24. The French both sides; although the British claim The report declares interlocking commission has landed In the United that their casualties are moderate i stock ownership prevents any real States. Thisi official statement (was compared with those of the enemy, competition among the various Stand-1 made early today by 'the government: The situation behind the German . ard Oil companies, and the Commis- "The Department of State is advis- unes, iraugnt as it is witn iar more tremendous possibilities than those presented by any battle, remains du bious and uncertain. The little -news that trickles across the German frontier indicates that the authorities have gained the upper sion recommends legislation to per-; ed of the safe arrival of the French mit reopening of the oil trust case to ! commission." v obtain modifications of the Supreme Court's dissolution decree. No conclusive evidence was found, it is stated, that collusion exists The commission, which includes Marshal Joffre, and former Premier Viviani, arrived early this morning, on board a speedy steamship of the was convoyed among tne standard companies! in French line which hand over the strikers by the drastic ! violation of the decree, but the com- acr0ss the Atlantic. xxA l liaj x jl xuixiiaii&iu5 i-uc xuuuiiiuu ixtiSQiuil s linuiiigs ua v c uctrxx iiauo leaders 1 mitted to the Attorney-General. Prices are declared to have Deen dad, they occupied Samara station, making important captures, including 16 locomotives and 224 railway trucks. The pursuit of the Turks is best continued northward" on the Ti gris. Sofia reports the repulse by the Bul garians of a British attack in Mace donia, between the Vaidar and Lake Doiran, which followed drum fire preparations. of the Mississippi. Messrs. Strikeleather and Clemen ger are making an effort to have a military training camp for officers and men established on a site offered by Mrs. Vanderbilt on the Biltmore es tate. War Department officials, while expressing their sympathy with the plans, said the decision in the matter j ds entirely in the hands of General I Wood. d ; industry and forcing strike into the fighting ranks., It is too early, and information is too meagre, to say whether these stern measures ot repression nave in0mi9iitioa woro fmmH in rtiffprcnt t definitely crushed the startling storm , parts of the country. of discontent which has swept overj Tne principal findings of the com- the German empire. 1 ifii?sion are- The vessels were met off the coast by American torpedo boat destroyers and escorted to a port. The distin- - The only news from Austria in some days is to the effect that the Pan-German leaders have emerged as victors in the struggle for control of the government. This news is vague, however, and comes by a roundabout route. Reliable information as to conditions in the dual monarchy is absolutely lacking. -X- -5f -3C- -M- -55- -X- -X- WILSON SIGNS WAR BILL. BOND raised arDitrarny, aitnougn natural euighed commission was welcomed causes contributed. Pronounced price I wfth oaino thA irvnch vhsp1 dropped anchor. The naval and military attaches of the French embassy at Washington and American naval and military of ficers, together with a representative of the State Department, Immediately boarded the French vessels and ex tended a welcome to American shores. Among the most notable figures in France are the members of the French commission. At its head Is Rene Viv iani, Minister of Justice and Vice Pres ident of the Council of Ministers, who That in most marketing territories the Standard companies are domi nant. '' That the Standard companies have maintained a distribution of territory in marketing gasoline, and that no substantial competition in the chief petroleum products exists among the Standard companies. due to a eommunity of stock owner-or acy He'J 7 a oVeesi ta every sense, belonging to the Inde- ship. (By Associated Press.) Washington, April 24. Presi- -3J- 24- dent .Wilson today signed the war bond bill, authorizing the sale of $5,000,000,000 in govern- ment bonds and $2,000,000,000 in treasury certificates. -X- UL1 fM l r n n 101- Z j escapea irom prison ana mo nay to liunaon. U- S. STEEL DECLARES EXTRA DIVIDEND. veloped. ' Officials of all the 'American admin istrative departments having to do with conduct of the wjar have indicated to the British information which would be of value and Mr. Balfour personally is trying to work out tne meats oi I securing and distributing the resufts of New !'.f,.Associated Press.) England's experience t. the b C, "., ADn I Tho TTnitxiH x cs qtn, vj iinvu vantage - till - V T r r- J Z T 1 - alici uivinenn nt ad- cent cent Mr. Balfour took luncheon today Q riDT i T -W TtTL 1 A. . a wot knnnn rtl on th : " witn tienry wniie. lurmer -xuj.ua.ooa.wi. "ic u mmnn in qh tinn - . , .x 'arn.,t7 Jt , trance ana an acquaintance ui " quarterly dividend of 11-4L n voara atf.nr.inB-. and nassed the afternooi making and receiving of-, ficial calls.- This evening will coinel the formal dinners- by Secretaries Losing, ' Balder and Daniels to the diplomatic, military and naval officials, respectively, and afterward the Pan- American reception. NOTH ER AMERICAN KILL. ED IN FRANCE. m,. .... y associated Press). ' aid HnV1r".!:-rPoral Kon- J.. UI aoutn Orange, N. inL : UI ine stars of the Amer- Representatives of 175,000 anthra cite miners yesterday, formerly pre- T 'can fu-ir, me Amer- , sentea to a committee oi operators a m an 7J T rps nas Deen kIlled request for .i d r I 1 Q 1 1 a sive tw A,muat in tne often- in wages 4. r r uow m progress. an increase of 20 per cent proportioned in such manner 4 and way as to be helpful and construe- tive." - S: How to Sell More Goods In the Wrilmington Territory The Wilmington Dispatch, the paper with the largest circu- . lation, will carry your advertising message into a majority of the homes of the better and buying class in Wilmington and adjacent territory every evening at minimum cost. - For better business in Wilmington Concentrate in Wilmington Dispatch The growth in the advertising patronage of The Wilming ton Dispatch, both' local and foreign, is evidence of the recog nized worth of this paper as an" advertising medium. No other paper here can show such gains in advertising in the past year. If you want to reach the buying public use the advertising columns of this paper. " - That the facts disclose advances in i prices of gasoline and differences in price, corresponding to Standard marketing territories, which could not be explained except under conditions charged. , That the combination of pipe lines with other branches of the industry has tended to establish and perpetu ate monopoly. That there is no conclusive evi dence of collusion among the Stand ard companies in violation of the dissolution decree. The Commission recommended ! these measures as necessary to rem i edy conditions: j A law providing for the reopening 1 of anti-trust cases on the application of the Attorney-General by a bill of j ieview for the purpose of obtaining i such modifications of decrees as are i required by new .conditions. pendent Socialist party, which In cludes such men as Painleve, Briand and Millerand. As Minister of Labor, in the Clemenceau Cabinet, he passed the workers pension law through Par liament. Other members of the party are: Marshal Joseph Jacques Cesalre Joffre, commander-in-chief of the French arm ies until last December, now military adviser of the government; Vice Ad-, miral P. L. A. Chocheprat, dean of French admirals, and an expert on submarine problems; Marquis Pierre De Chambrun, member of the Cham--her of Deputies and a student of In ternational affairs; M. Simon, inspect or of finances; M. Hovelaf que, inspector-general of public instruction; and Surgeon Major Dreyfus. Viviani was born at Sidi-Bel-Abbes, in Algeria, November 8, 1862, and was Legislation to abolish in certain ' aamittea to practice Deiore tne uourx cases common stock ownership in of Appeals at Paris in 1887. His So- . corporations formerly members of cialistic tendencies early manifested I combinations dissolved under the! themselves and he became counsel of i Sherman law. the railway workmen -and employes, j Effective limitation of common ownership of stock in potentially com petitive corporations by withdrawing the power of voting and control. Legislation, which, while recogniz ing common ownership, would fix upon such common owners the re sponsibility for the acts of each of the several subsidiary companies i which prevent competition. I Segregation of ownership of pipe lines from the other branches of the petroleum industry. Congressional enactment to fix; standards for gasoline. Federal collection and publication jof accurate statistics and information concerning the Industry. Conditions in the gasoline industry (Continued on Page. Eight). Elected to the Chamber of Deputies In 1893 and again in 1898, he retired tem porarily from politics to become a French citizen, practicing. law. in the provinces. Ke was re-elected to the Chamber in 1906, however, and has maintained his membership ever since. . He has the reputation of being one of the most fervent and eloquent of French orators, and also has attained distinction as a . Journalist, writing ' many articles for the . great French dallies. On June 14, 1914, Vivian! succeeded Gaston Roumerque as pres ident of the Council of .Ministers, and , Minister for Foreign-Affairs. In that dual capacity he accompanied Presi-; dent Poincare on a special mission to Russia, and only four days after the (Continued on Page -Three). , t ' t f r ; 1 1: IT mi 4. ' mm i. I, r 2 ! 'Si,. 4 : P. V. . :tV .it 1 i !l" ' .1. 1 H . ir It i 1 ? ' I1 ! V I1 J .,1 , "a ,'