North Carolina Newspapers

I 1 - 1 - . TODAY'S HEWS ' " -". -!;,, Si-si.; Fair, cold and Fri- olina-" TODAY FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE I - w. fill if XXIV. No. 20. & w WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY '3 1 , 1918. PRICE .CENTS L i - - . -V W In Germ O Stri 77- t ? i f 1 0) A lit C Attack Came Early Wednes day, Preceded by Violent Artillery Barrage JCENE OF CASUALTIES RECENTLY ANNOUNCED kencan casualties nave Occurred Almost Daily in This Unnamed Sector on French Front. For the second time since the Am- i. "a il 1 : Hcan troops entered viie num. imos France their position has" been raid- by tie Germans. -After-a-violent tillery barrage and during a heavy the enemy attacked an American sit'on on an unnamed sector of tie i-each front Wednesday, morning. jo Americans were killed, four :unded and one is reported missing. is believed the soldier is a prisoner (he Germans ; -rte' On the sector which -was ', ' raided be occurred the casualties .sent :ottt m Washington during the past few vs. for military reasons nt was bnsidered inadvisable to send earlier ports. Most of the deaths "and 'most the wounds were caused. by; shrap- A ASIAGO STORY OF PLATEAU FIGHT Italians Cut Way to Hilltop Overcoming Desper " ate Resistance Itaian Headquarters in Northern It aly, Wednesday, Jan. 30. Eye wit nesses of the Italian attack of the past few. days on the AlSrago plateau tell a story of thrilling Interest. From their accoun: it appears that the first Italian rush was in the darkness at 3 o'clock- Mcuday morning. The sleeping . enemy forces were taken completely- by surprise. The Alpini were 5n the thick of this fighting and by; daylight they had swept the first line trenches end taken an , ohT church -'which formed a strategic trniiit ' in "the enemy line of defense. They 'were vigorously supporting thej al&detoolwpHthtoTqsor pel Mtosfj sbthree' f tlniesagainst the stubbornn desperate resistance or the enemy. These early jnovements were a di version, to screen the main movement on the bright, where a stroke wa3 de livered for the" dominating height - of Monte Di Val Bela; It was here that liev. ?se the es that the government desired movement to break off the oWiSa fyn-nH l I a diti "uuuei "a Deen ciosea iis expected there that the strike sS m Gemany son will reach PPe tV uie wortnern Italian front i 'nDetalians have enlarged their u west nf tV n x . ra An , wenrar-xnere . nas e ca elle s, Eix tnan z,6UU prison er w 100 machine guns and AneUi. . . ; ir , i cave sustained heavy fee tC t ,nectual attempts to dis- ions. Tn; .ns from tneir new po- Paes ojTT air fighting - con- ;a3e a h2: are reported to havjs Cenr, y attack on Zeebnigge, m. Drnarine base in Bel- ouunS111111 ves3el sses . for UUQued ou Page Seven). the most severe fighting s occurred through Monday night and ' In the ear ly hours .of Tuesday. ;. . 7 : Italian iBtormnig troops took the eastern and western slopes and by 7 o'clock Tuesday morning had cut their way to' the summit and were ; estah1 lishing themselves- firmly in definite BOSTON SUFFERING FROM FUEL SHORTAGE American cannon and machine guns ve replied to the Germans and it' f s. toed their casualties equal or ex- ed those among General Pershing's loops. In the first raitron'-November. the American losses were three led, five, wounded and 12 madepri&: ler bv the PTifvm v. - - Throughout Germany and especial- tcontroi or tnej Key posmun. .m the industrial sections '-of the prth, the strike movement Is -'spread- and more than 500,000 ..workmen reported idle. Strikers and sol- ers are reported to have collided in suburb of Berlin and lives were lost. several instances, the troops are id to have refused to fire upon' the inkers. Hamburg and .Berlin appear to be most seriously affected. The prkers in eovernment. and nrtvate ciyards at Kiel have joined the ovement as have more workers in industrial cities and towns along Rhine and in Westphalia. In tho Want Bavarian manufacturing 'ns of Nuremburg and Furth, the ursmen are out. hree important Berlin TiPWRnnnArs: eluding the Socialist Vorwaerts. pe been Eurjtiressp.d. ThftTiftart nf e great Krupp Works and Field Mar- 11 von Hindenbiirer Tmvp. nnnfin.lftfl we worsers to stav At. t.hair tasks- c Held Marshal darlarintr that tho 5es must cease. ceWre its SUODressinn . Vnrwaprts i M , , - " ! rl-ca. ail Ultimatum tn tho irnvarn. ent in which the workers demanded Seneral nearfi -W7ithrm anno-votisvnu Proration enine of militarv lawn tho, NcKatization of State institutions. "nusn newspaper correspondents p7 0vement is real-or manufac- r"u. una ci a ii oeaind it in tTiP hnna iat 4f -btHI ."the Entente Allied, countries ng about peace, while andther Boston, Mass; Jan. 31. With the mercury .hovering between; 10f and 12 degrees . above ero and a eolef wind sweeping in from the Northwest, Bos ton went to work today in buildings inadequately heated, because $f the fuel shortage which had shut off de liveries to more than one hundred places where- thousands of men and women jwork. r i It was believed that the action of the Federal authorities in Washington last' night giving priority to the load ing andlidespatchtog of 60 -shipsiin Hampton Roads, along wihnelp from the big 'bins at ; the nary yard would bring relief before ft was found neces aarv to carry out a contemplated plan of shutting down all touslnesisfor j 48-hour, period. : ICE GORGE STILL HOLDS IN RIVER Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 31. -Reports early ; today from Richardson'i landing about 50 miles north of this, city, in dicate that the Ice gorge ln the Mis sissippi there still is-nolding. About 40 river craft of all descrip tions are safely sheltered In the local harbor4 and, it is believed will pass unscathed from the passage of the ice and water which has, accumulated, behind the gorge. Reports fromHick man, arei to, the effect that. 53 river craft pid there yesterday, lodged i i the -ica,- ! MW&S&MIM&Pt the past tweek show an increase over the- two previousweeks. The current report of, the .BriUsh Admiralty says khat IS hlns. 'Includinisr nme of isiof e marked TnilitoT.Tr n,:.:t. .t. 1 fl5lA ; Tftn. . warn Admviul Tn ieli? oe ?l Co1 Del Rosso, Col De- each of the previous two weeks eight sMds were? lost and in each of the first two 'reports made In. January, 21 merchajntmen were sunk. ; The ruth less TJ-boat warfare enters upon -its second year tomorrow without" yet having accomplished its announced purpose-7-ending the war.- Gerjman airmen :. have -turned their attention, from London, to Paris. Wed nesday night the French capital was raddd by enemy aeroplanes for the. first! time in inore ; than six months. TheIoss of some lives and damage to property is reported but full t detail? A PUN FOR POOLING ATLANTIC SHIPPING Freight Consigned Abroad Will Be Loaded Wherever Ships Are Available Washington, Jan. 31. A plan for the pooling of trans-AUantic shipping of American, Allied and neutral reg istry in an effort to facilitate the transportation of war supplies need ed overseas went into effect today by direction of the ship control commit tee. The' new government agency is headed' by P. A. S. Franklin, of the international Mercantile Marine: II. H. Raymond .of the Clyde, and Mal lory Lines, recently1 made shipping di rector at New York and Sir Cnnflbp Guthrie, director" of British shipping in this country are the other members of the commission. , Freight ;. consigned abroad , will be loaded in bottoms wherever avail able and the committee is empower- daltld1rec1rfc"re torD freight congestion Is most urgently Jn need -of -relief. Supplies from .the South no longer wjll be sent to NeW York for .oversea shipment, but will go abroad direcUy from -Southern ports. . ; - Formal ; approval jof the plan has not "yet been expressed by the allied governments, btit prompt approval is expected as thej arrangement long has been urged by their representatives here. ' - MAY HAVK3EEN )BIG GERMAN FACTORY Zurich, Wednesday, Jan. 30. A tre mendous explosionr- accompanied By gunfire and followed by a huge col umn of fire, was heard -in the direc tion of Friedrichshaven this morning, a telegram received at St Gall from Rosenberg on Lake Constance re ports, he explosion probably was the result of an aerial attack on the Zep pelin works at Friedrichshaven. Investigating Fisheries. Boston, Mass., Jan. 31. The com missions appointed to consider and to. satisfactorily adjudicate . if possible certain long-standing fisheries dis putes between the ''United States and .Canada today - transferreij tehir sas sions from Washington to this city. A series of public .hearings .has been SffTfnffid to deal with questions relat ing to4 the North Atlantic fisheries. Fr6mBoston the commissions will gj to Gloucester, Mass., and then to some place In Canada. . GERMAN SEA WARFARE TAKES HEAVIER TOLL British Shipping Losses for the 7 Past Week-Totalled ' Fifteen London, . Wednesday, Jan. 30. An increase in British shipping losses is shown by the official summary issued tonight which reports the destruction of nine vessels of more than 1,600 tons and six of lesser tonnage. The official statement' follows: Arrivals 2,352; sailings 2,30. Brit ish merchant men 1,600 tons or over sunk by mine or submarine; nine: 'un der 1,600. tons,-six; fishing' vessels, one. ' ''. ' " ' " -J-British merchantmen unsuccessfully attacked, eight. - The sinking, of 15 British merchant men exceeds by seven the total for the " previous two , weeks fn both of Which six larga ships and two small ones' were lost. Thej admiralty 'reports of both January 2 aiid January 9 gave the v sinkings as 21 merchantmen, in ' rY ngoa.nf whicll 1 St .Tn&n 5111oH m.-i-.-o ,rhan 1,600 tons. ead HurtiOne 7 li With the American Army in France, Wednesday, jaii. 30. An American position on a certain section of the; French front was raided during a heavy fog shortly, after daylight this morning. The attack was preceded by a violent riarf age. ' Two Americans were killed and four wounded. - One sol dier is missing arid is believed to have been captured by the enemy. . - . . . , Casualties have been occurring almost daily for several days on this sector. Itis now, permitted to disclose that alLtl-e recent casualties given out from Washington occurred in this sector. The deaths were caused by shell fire, mostly sharpneL One of the mem wounded was hit by a sniper's bullet. He fell in a trench filled with water and almost drpwned before he was rescued by his captain. Several of the wounded had been listed as accidental woundmgs. These were mostly wounds on the hands. It is certain that the enemy casualties from the rAmericah cannon and machine gun firehaJbeen as great as or greater than ours. ; : u : The casualties given out 4n Wasiiiigtph recently occurred over a-certain recent period. The dead were buried within the sound and range of the guns. One man was blown 'to pieces by a shell into a dugout. N Three men were killed by; one shell which fell in a trench and another, died of. wounds kTa h js pital. Quite a few of the men sent to hospitals were wounded in the upper part of the body or on the head from sharpnel. For military reasons it has been inadvisable to sendearlier. ' - t " -- ii rKMtfghtaja'y fairly qmetrthrough- out the American sector The. usual number of. shells came over, doing no damage, and ; there were the custom ary sporadicoutbursts of machine gun fire from both sides at points, where the opposing lines are nearest. At daybreak this morning, the heavy fog which had been enveloping .the whole position and the country for miles around for several days became still thicker,'; blotting out all except the nearest enemy positions. At 7 o'clock three muffled reports sounded through the fog. There were three whistles, followed quickly by three shell bursts. The projectiles explod ed on three sides of an American list ening post just outside the wire with in 45 feet of an enemy listening post. . "Then hell broke loose," said one cf the men there. For 15 minutes the enemy broke hundreds of high ex plosive 77s -around - the post and the surrounding -Aground, cutting off the men k there. Two of themwere- kinea in the first few minutes. Another man who was at "the post told the cor respondent later, as he was lying on a cot in a field hospital, that he 3aw four Germans approaching out of ' the fog as the barrage lifted; fie brought his automatic rifle, into play and saw two of the Germans fall. He kept on firing until, shell. splinters hit him in the head and arm. "The last I remember is the time before I reached the hospital," said another wounded man, "is seeing something moving through the fog. I determined to get some Germans and put my rifle to 'my shoulder, but nev er milled the . trigger. There was a deafening explosion behind me. Froz en earth, ice, stones and shell splin ters came my way." Inspection of the scene of the raid showed that the ground was ploughed up by the explosion of shells. - -r AIR RAID ON PARIS. ' Paris, Jan. 31. Twenty persons were killed and 50 were injured in last night's raid, it is announced officially. , ' One of the German machines which raided Paris was brought down. The occupants of the air pane 'were made prisoners. FRANCIS ASKED T0 REPORT ANY THREATS y - Washington; Jan.; 31. Secretary Lansing has instructed Ambassador 1 Francis at Petrograd to report to the State Department any - developments in connection with, threats made against him by anarchists because of the conviction- of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkmen, but it has been left to the Ambassador to fol low any . course he r may - consider ad visable. ' . . r" ''X', .". Officials of the Department were not inclined today to regard the Am bassador's situation as .""serious, be lieving it probable that' the govern ment authorities would - take such measures as necessary to protect him. DANIELS X)MNfeND5 SAimRS;TOlROT Washington Jan.4?lfrS0cretary Daniels today commended ship's cook, James Marcio for bravery In, rescuing Chief Quartermaster Robertson, wash ed overboard from the H, S. Smith on December "17 while endeavorihg'to clear e jam to. the? steering gear dur? ing a heavy gale.L Robertson "became exhausted' by 4h). cold; and rough sea and was tmable to help 'himself, When Marcio tied a line toihis!jwaist J and jumped into the water after him. yMs lives in Philadelphia. ; V Lie nant J. H: Lgih, of Cincinnati, and Lieutenant J. C, Brynes-Jr., 414 Boussevain t avenue; Norfolk; l were commended to excellent seamanship. EASTERN CT N OF COUNTRY NEDS OA L A Large Area is Threatened With an Immediate Fuel Famine , : 1 mm af'XiJl J JL I I A - Vl r ' ' 1 m E TO THE Calls for Assistance the -Coming Year to Win the War ' r' ' WAR CAN BE WON BY THE FARMERS, HE SAYS Great Wars ' of ' Past Have Been Won byVFarmersand AmetK& : f? e1:ted txJ - Washington, Jan. 31. To the farm-' ers of the United- States President Wilson, sent a message, in which he called attention to the country's need of their assistance, during the coming year in winning the war. The; mes sage was sent, through the Farmers Conference, being held at the Univer sity of Illinois at Urbana. The message was delivered by President James, of the University of Illinois, in the absence of Secretary of Agriculture Houston, vrho was to have represented the President at the conference The President bad ex pected to attend, but indisposition made it impossible and he delegated F- " . German Strike is ; Spreading Throughout Industrial Ceri-l . ters of Ehipire''. -l- .:. - SOCIALIST LEADERS iK ARE BEING ARRTED A State of Siege . is Reported Declared in a Number ;Jo? Cities Hindenburg Ap peals to Workmen. X'l MILLION MEN ARE OUT.. 'X Amsterdam, "Jan. 31. (British Admiralty per -Wireless "Press).: The strike : has1 been- extended fa7 districts hear Berlin, especially jin Tegel, vAldershOf , ; Spandau .- ait! Mariendorf . whero; 500)00-; -men. have quit work.- A siniilar nun)ber? of-, workmen are on strike in; the? remainder of the . empire. . I - T t -if i 1! i? i' : i'l; It' London, Jan. -,3L ;The r5 Bisili growingin; magnitude entafCppennageiivsaysJ ; In vBerHn. 700,000 persons afelon . strike,": here ports, 58000 1 of tbese bprng wOTnm t r , A great number ofSoclalistJ leaders have been -arrested m various. Germinl .': towns, - according iojthis VauthoatyJ 'X The factx that' Berlin is wrapped: in" a, ;" thick fog has ' made it impossible;-for the authorities to "prevent the :disseshj . ination or pamphlets,, the reports v state. The cessation of' work; in -Haniburff; 4 isnow. virtually, complete.' according! ; to a Daily 'elegraph. dispatch .front oRtterdam. . The. strike has- extended! from the:; Vulcan ShipbuUdmgfl W in . Hamburg 'tec the works' of, Blohin. Voss, -anotheri1 large , shipbuilding -co cern. -. The strikers demand an' imnle. Mr. Houston, who was preventedAiate peace on .the basis of . no annex' trom panicipatmg Dy toe ue-up m -X- THE DISPATCH AND WILMINGTON auons ana no maemniiies. , j ; iw. ii'- 'Vilniincton ri:-i)(ch ha? crest, faith in ili ultimat mr:lnn mi e future of. W;l- bovt'-rn LnroJjna wni f while it probabrp i$ not ' "csssr -xe vouM !ik to sny here )ha1 .wherever the interests flf th? City' of .Wilmington" net th- Stat i ite of Xflrili Carolina are concerned, you will always - find;? t&isW :pnier in t)i? -an fighting for the city and. evcrtliins-that would lend for . - : J . - i ', i V , . ; -:-..-r Y rTa o c? onn-nr a nrnnnioorl in mrw fl&n. tions east of the Mississippi and theref-iere5ls 1 - ? fcre indicationsraat msny lndaamai I Th. a1-flvfi hnT.ftiHrf of Th. n5narftWrSvt..il!-Vftt'f;- rilanta m New Ene'snd. Darts or l'en- - ----- r ' -- "K;..Mrf, lack of fuel. In response to an urgent rrom j. J. fatorrow, or tne xsew ng-icaits 0f Uu- people of this city. RETAIL PRICES OF FOOD ADVANCING 'Washington, Jan. 31. Retail prices of food regained in December the one per cent decrease which in No vember caused householders to hope that 'the time of deliverance from- the high :6st of living was at hand. Of 7 articles for whieh prices are -received by the Bureau of Labor Statis tics, 16 were more costly in Decem ber than in the preceding montn. three remained the same and v eight dropped slightly, s. upbuilding; with North Carolina as a whole a second, X- Our efforts are not altogether selfish, although they oiay be in V, measured X br whatever is for the good of Wilmington and Eastern Carolina U' rood-for 1 f The bulk of oar living comes out o this city, and its: people read -The Washington, Jan. 31. A fuel fam ine of large sections of the East was dominant today unless the railroad L administration found a way to speed! , " ' ; .4Vll:'';:i coal movement despite snow and iceiAcyau' auuo"iU,J iVi ltB .suubucbb iiu trcaia aoerua traffic, iste W like baTteforf .-i aad thi5 aad-thc WilmiastDft Dispatch :arc bound u in:mutua n vrt Tirania onH ho Al1anHf SAAn Virfl.1 . " -. -. ... -' . .- - - . -1'-; . : dicts may be 7oKed to ciole iorf lQU u3 " 15 J- vmwmvmmni. w a large -acsree; this.. appeal . . .. . -.,. . ,:v "" ' t V"." Board promised some relief for thatj There is no polities in our championship except wc ar pesjtOCrats section by directing: coal pier3 at I " '. ,v; . ." . v ' Hampton Roads to give right of way ays support the Democratic . administration local, Staje - aadKatoiJi i.: to the loading; or 50 snips waiting! - v - there to take coal to Boston. TheFe have no axe . to griad,; except benefit drths ty,;wMch meaABp? nrioritv P'ivpn Nw "Rneland ahin.1 ' v - ' f'.r i m ent s. is for. a 72 hour- -period begin-1 :Qurse; .our own benefit as 'well. . Aboreall tbiath-wofk.Ve fali-i&90Xi r ning this morning. -- ' X . . X' v X''y --'Vitf ii - - i .. - - " - .- . . ' ; ' ; .. ; i V-A-S.' x -x tradsportatlon facilities. "f . he President's message said. In part::: iX,-. - v r "L need not tell youi forI am, sure you realize as keenly as I do .that we are as a nation in the presence of a great task which ' demands - aupreme sacrifice . and endeavor,? of ? every, .one of us. , We can give everything' that - '.':''- v State' o7 Sleae. v ; Copenhagen, .Jan. -31. Al state :of , siege .has been declared ' at i Hamburg, ; Altona . and' Wandsbeck, accordlngto ' , . the Hamburg Echo, a Soclalfst news- ! t paper.. s-. -j. v.;- Cjf..;.4-C' - ''Altona, utid Wandkherk are ltf'?ia: '.M " 1 . CContInned"iLPaga SeTenJ T;..--lv,;- (Continuedr. oa- JPasep-SeTenk'ii-i'li ; are lacking. - - ' . . "l jV WltiU.A fc?,AivtliSiii': i'.i J i