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'- t 3PAWI j CAiiVh (Par Tr-ioudy tonight ana ow"- - nrflhablV , cunaayi ' TODAY : j warmer tonight. 171 Ti t f x? A ccn iuiDP crntnrp i ' ; ------ -v si C: r- r -v. . . . i XXIV. No. 60. WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA. iSATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1918. U life-- PRICE FIVE CENTS - 1 M I L TZK MM TIE ULrfHJ' J. M ILi WJU. jil.YJLi.YiL JL H H 1 E VIII 1 ill s nn on1 j of the Three Leaders t- . 1 r -r t0Quit mKerioa or iwo Days $ OVERTHRO WOF BOLSHEVIKI REGIME forming to Take Over Uov- jnment Evacation ot re- jograd Continues mistice on who brought about the Eastern front M010 TO MAKE BIG GUNS V Ordnance Department Asks Congress for an Additional"''; ' . Appropriatiorr i -" FOUR MEN RESCUED FROM DANISH SHIP 9. Congress $ resulted in the present enforc ce on Russia, has resigned as jievik foreign minister. KTrotzky probably more man to other Bolshevik leader is due tne Ut situation in Great Russia. He Isaid to have" cast the deciding on the question whether to send Les tBorest-Litovsk a fortnight Germany, in her ruthless de ls shattered his program of s'elf- fenination and non-resistance. Kodays have seen tae witnarawai Wthe Bolshevik government of the three men wno nave at-. M to rule Russia since the down- f of Kerensky four months ago The resignation ot iunsign feiko, the Bolshevik commander- aef was announced Friday. Nlko- 'jmine is the only one left of the pleading Maximalist figures. overthrow of the Bolshevik re- tia Russia is being planned by Socialist revolutionaries, accord a dispatches today from Europe. FJeff of Moscow University is M In a message from Copenha au authority for the statement ito decision . was reachett- a.rra p conference in Moscow, when pi determined to organize a na plpiardto accomplish the down uthe Bolsheviki. It is stated all great army is now being Or M in the Don district, with the bit of the Cossacks and that the taction of a republic with a coali- isovernment, which will not ac c the German-Bolshevik peace, is aed. News of the movement has t suppressed by the Petrograd iievik news agency, Dr. Eleff is pdas saying. k exacuation of Petrograd by the anient and the populace con- Most of the population are Bted to be indifferent to their Lenlne has denounced -those !ppese ratification of the Ger- 1 Peace, claiming that a revolu- Jiilctory will come from the peace. to, the Bolshevik Commis- ?f Marine; has disappeared. ResinnatLon Announced. lgrad. Friday. March- 8. Leon in an address at a meeting e Maximalist party, today an- pfid that he had resigned as iui luigitu xii Oil o. w Washington, March as asked today by the Army;Ord nance Bureau for an urgent deficiency appropriation of $400,000,000 ; f pr the manufacture of ordnance, principally heavy guns. Addition of the $40O,O0O,0O0vlterA;ttQ the urgent deficiency toil, pending: In the Senate, was requested by thQ- act ing chief of ordnance, ;but 'Senate leaders were disposed "to delaylaetion and have the appropriation take its usual course through the House. Although the appropriation was re quested immediately, it was desired principally so contracts for heavy guns could be let now with final actual expenditure considerably delayed. MING OF JAPANESE FORCES OH Plans qt the Restoration of Popular Government Are Taking Form PEACE MADE BET1EN RUSSIA AND RUMANIA Rumania Promises to Evacu ate All of Bessarabia in vtV- - MdfitKs A Newspaper Says Several Thousand Troops Have Landed at Vladivostok . London, March 8 Details of the al leged landing of Japanese at Vladi vostok in January are given in the Petrograd newspaper Novaia Zhizn, of January 19, which has just been received here. The paper says the Japanese cruiser ?Jikado arrived Jan uary 12 and was, followed by two more . cruisers January 14 Four thousand soldiers were land ed, and numbers of officers continued to arrive in Vladivostok d&ily, accord 'i'Xto the newspaper. - The mtsase to the Notia Zhizn, says the. Vladivostok, public was ax armed greatly and that the- revolu tionary committee were concentrat ing Bo'sheviki troops. JAPANESE HELP HAjS BEEN PROMISED Fighting is Now in .Progress Along a Wide Front With Fortune Favoring the Revolutionists Information concerning the report ed entrance of liriri3h and Japanese cruisers into "Idivostok ?iarbor waa asked of the' ftrttish and Japanese embassies in l trograd on January 20 by the Bolsheviki government. The Jafiqnse embassy in Petrograd Iirt meillately issued an cfhcial statement donynic t:nt Japanese fo'ecchad been at Vladivostok. It v as acded thatthe presence pf a Japanese cruiser at Vladivostok had no connection with the situation in Itussia. The British embassy said British warships had gone to Vladivostok to protect allied subjects against' possible "disorders. . ... .-a-v.-. London, March 9. Conclusion of peace between Russia and Rumania is announced in a Russian wireless dis patch received- here today. Rumania promises to evacuate all of ' Bessa rabia,, including Bendari,. on the Dniester river, 40 miles southeast of Kishinev, within two months. I1 foe Bolshevik foreign minister, P irotzky, whose real name is F Braunstein, was the most im member of-the revolutionary nt, formed after the over- Pof Keren sky last November, al- r Mkolani Lenine as premier, ae nominal head of the govern- ;; irotzky virtually controlled 13 destiny un in tha Rficond f conference at Brp.st-Tiitnvsk. Has Trotzky who made public the secret documents exchanged former Russian governments en governments and it was, Russia and Rumania have been at odds for, several months and a' num ber of battles have been fought by the former allies. Rumanian troops dis armed Russian forces left-"in Rumania after the conclusion of peace with Germany, saying the Russians were plundering Rumanian towns. Ruman ian troops, were sent into Bessarabia, a Russian province populated largely by Rumanians, saying they had been asked by the Bessarabian authorities to intervene and restore order. The Russians made a number of ineffec tual attempts to subdue the Ruman ians and several weeks ago, issued an order for the arrest of King Ferdinand of Rumatia. .. OPPOSE NEUTRAL SHIPS FOR ALLIES The Hague, Friday, March 8. A re ply was made today by the semi-official news agency, to the recent ar ticle in the Norddeutche Allemeine Zeitung, a semi-official newspaper of Berlin in which it was said that Ger many considered as an unneutral act the arrangement now being made for the chartering of neutral ships by En tente powers. The riews agency says: . "In view of the provisions of inter national law, it would be partial and not in accordance with neutrality if a December, j neutral government were to forbid its at Brest-Litovsk. Thcne-! sail on other than its" own interests ons wPro Ata,nA tti-.- I as' it would hft erantinff co-operation . 'UMUJIICU 1U llllU-i1 CU" ; " " t inn Vir.t.Mjij i I VinlUNcrQnl tn tirhnaa ntaroat it . - "uatiiiiies were renewed, i w a .w i- -iuans then n,KrnAi .was tn nut aimcmues m me way 01 "--jj. ouuiiiiLicu jclm. uai j . - conform "w. nuu ID LUC OCLyVUU SlDe Russian Ipadrs fnronaat h-tf n February 25 Berlin re- W Ul Russian armies, had UUnA aea- A dispatch recei L Jndon Thursday said Krylenko F4e owing to differences council of peoples commis- rpRI ?TH f inn trrnt, A.Annc. Wst Tuesday. The with- v . lrOtZkvanrl If rvlonVn loav.i tie survivor of the Bolshe- Trotzky also Wal of the PfitrncTflH 'CVmnrn fh. ens' and ftldiore' TWtro oa jPomted fon dirpntnr with la.U,hority on February 20. ,;:rped from Siberia where Vut: or Poetical offenses, IV s an exile at the nUthrcnV h trl' Hp was exnelled from v -' filing peace and ar- rot . its enemies overseas supplies. More over, the government by so doing would be promoting the submarine blockade whic it has branded re peatedly as illegal." LIVELY ARTILLERY ON AMERICAN FRONT IM Z york on January 14 A to Russia With the American Army in France, Thursday, March 7. There was com paratively1 lively artillery firing last night and today on the section of the Lorraine ; front, where American troops are now in training. Late , this evening the enemy bombarded Ameri can positions heavily but without re sult. On the Lorraine sector as on the front northwest of Toul, the American artillery is showing effectiveness and accuracy. Its shells are registerin? well on points back of the enemy lines, especially on cross roads, batteries and working parties. ... Because of a new but -probably tem- last porary rule it is not permitted to dis- BOLSHEVIK REGIME London, March 9. The Social revo lutionaries have decided to organize a National Guard to overthrow the Bol shevik! regime in Russia, according to Dr. Eleff of Moscow University who is quoted in a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph as saying that the decision was reached at a recent conference in Moscow. A great army is now being organized in the Don dis trict supported by Cossacks the dis patch adds, and it is also planned to introduce a republic in Russia with. a coalition government which would not accept the German Bolshevik peace. Prof .Eleff asserted that the news of the new movement had been suppress ed by the Petrograd Bolsheviki news agency. WAR FINANCE BILL IS AT LAST READ Y Washington, March 9. The re-draft of the Administration's bill for a war finance corporation, including altera tions which make it virtually a new measure, was favorably reported to day by the House Ways . and Means committee. The bill, as agreed upon by the Sen ate, reduces the maximum amount of bonds the corporation may issue from four to two billion. THE VEEDER SEARCH. WARRANT QUASHED Chicago, March 9. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals today quashed the search warrant, issued by Judge Landis to permit examination of the letter files in the office of Hen ry Veeder, counsel-for Swift and Com pany, by the government. The decis ion was "without bar to further proceedings." BRITISH RAIDERS TAKE PRISONERS London, March. 9. "A party of the enemy Which approached our line yes terday eyening east of Neuve Chapelle was driven off by our fire," the war office announces. "At dawn this morn ing Portugese troops successfully raid ed German trepches in this neighbor hood and captured several prisoners "Another successful raid in which large numbers of prisoners were cap tured by us was made this morning by West Kent troops south of Fleur-baix," tovp. uvertnrow of the Im-rcuss American casualties, no matter j. RUSSIAN SHIPS SUNK. London, March 9. Two Russian transports were attacked and sunk s by German destroyers after a fight south of the; Aland islands on Thursday, according to Copen hagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company. ' " - Peking, March 9. Plans for' the restoration of popular government in Siberia under Admiral Kolchak, for mer commander of the Russian Blacky Sea fleet through the organization of an army to co-operate with Gen. Sem- enoff the leader of the "anti-Bolshe- viki government in Siberia, are now in preparation, it is learned here. Al ready a newly formed organization of Russians has been enlisting men for the support of Gen. Semenoff , and yesterday four field guns and 15 ma chine guns were forwarded to him on the Manchurian railway. Admiral Kol chak, who is a veteran of the Russo- Japanese war and was the head of the Russian naval commission that visited" the United States last year. is now at Shanghai; Washington, -March 9. The first of the expurgated casualty lists was issued by the War -Department today. It shows First Lieutenant Louis, J. JV Jordan killed in action and First Lieutenant John H. Greene slightly wounded. The names of 36 privates are on the list, but according to the new ' custom without home addresses or "next of .kin. It shows two killed in action; eight died of disease, .five severely wounded, 19, wound ed slightly ; ; and two killed in ac- ' cident, one of them an airplane casualty THE LAST PAY DAY FOR VIRGINIA LE6UR E Much Work Unfinished May Be Reassembled in Spec ial Session Richmond, Va., March 9. The last day pf the regular session of the Vir ginia Legislature which terminates by limitation at midnight, found the cal endar still far from completed at noon today. Foremost among the measures yet to be finally passed is the appro priationubrll earryin,g more than $19, 000,000 covering expenditures for the next two years. Governor Davis will probably call the General Assembly in extra session in about 10 days, unleas the Legislature should extend the ses sion and remain here without pay a i . rrti - l J wees or more, ine governor is uery itermined not to sign the appropriation:. BR0YE AWAY 40 GEMAMS REGULAR ARMY RANKS ARE RAPIDLY FILLED Recruiting Has Added 386,- 094 North Carolina Below Her Quota is American on Sentry Duty, Killed Leader and Wound- ed Others FOUR ENEMY GUNS WERE LEFP - -. r r Washington, March 9. Recruy statistics of the Regular Arm Riaders, W th r1 4 r f ing the 11 months since States entered the war more than double the to the States has through voluntary March 7 a total been enlisted. States was 183J quired to brln the strength tional Defens Seven St It Is proposed that Gen. Semenoff r M-fl until he has given it at least &y with the support of the forces to be organized to reinforce him shall ad vance from the town of Manchudia, on the' Manchurian-Transbaikal bor der where he is now fighting as far east as Irkutsk, some 800 miles dis tant on the Trans-Siberian railroad. There he is to await Japanese sup port in money and. ihen which it is declared have already been promised him. (From Irkukst to the Ural mountains on the border of European Russia is a distance of about 1,800 miles.) The .latest telegrams from Gen. Semenoff show that he is fighting along the railway . west .of the town LcliuriaJjC lis; west5 t - hw Ttepdrf s, are being held at that point. WASHINGTON WAITERS THREATEN A STRIKE Washington, , March 9. Four men, all of the crew of the Danish schoon er Urda, which had become water logged, were rescued by a Uniteji States coasU guard cutter on January 26 in the war zone, the Navy De week or more. The Governor is'vdc termined not to sign the appropriation bill until he has given it at least a week's consideration. In doubt, up to the last moment is the fate of a bill appropriating in creased funds for the enforcement of .the State-wide prohibition law. It is expected that a final effort will be made today to pass the Strobe bill, permitting women to enter certain graduate courses at the University of Virginia. This bill passed the Senate, but failed to go through when an ef fort was made in the House last night. bill providing for fto-ordmate ;eavt . altiea Ktmn Nc refsity'"f Virginia n?-f. - t j.- dThe-oen4-f-v'i. -&lfr4or4Pirci ringlilliiuswomeafio cer iuu graauaiB worK .ana ooes;noi per mit taem to enter as under-graduate students. DEATH OF GILLIS REVIVES MEMORIES San Francisco, March 9. News re ceived today of the death at Sonora. Cal., of Stephen' Edward Gillis.-aged 80, stirred in "old timers" memories partment today announced. The ves-j01 nioneer aays wnen uims was an sel had ben drifting 40 days and the ! associate of Mark Twain and Bret crew had only one day's provisions j Harte. left. The ship's commander decided to j Gillis was a printer and writer, ply abandon the vessel and so preventing his vocations on newspapers here her becoming a menace to navigation ; and in Nevada city, uai., and Virginia uity, isev., wniie tne gold excitement was at its height. His brother, James, figured in some of Harte's romances of the mines as "Truthful James." she was sunk. The men were landed at a European port. , HOFFMAN EXPLAINS TROOP MOVEMENTS Petrograd, Friday, March 8. Reply ing to the Russian inquiry as to the reason for continuance of hostilities by the Germans after the conclusion of peace, General Hoffman, the Ger man commander, in a telegram to En sign Krylenko, the Russian command er, says that such military operations as have taken place since the armis tice was declared, have been, due to sporadic movements of disorganized Russian detachments. The "General declares that all regions occupied since the conclusion of peace will be evacuated immediately. Attleboro, Mass., Fire. Attleboro, Mass., March 9. Fire early today destroyed the Odd Fel lows block, a four Jjrick building and plant of the Attleboro Sun, which oc cupied the first two floors. The loss was estimated at $100,000. PARIS RAIDED. Paris, March 9. German avia tors raided Paris last night. Early reports show that bombs were drop ped with some loss of life and prop erty. - Signals that all was clear given at 12:30 a. m. SERIOUS FIGHTING ON WESTERN FRONTi : 531 DiL DAILY! Names and Addr Washington, March 0. Issuance of daily lists of casualties among the American expeditionary forces is dis continued by the Public Information Committee as the result of an order Of the War Department under which the names of next of kin and the emer gency addresses of soldiers whose hames appear on the lists hereafter will be withheld. The official explana tion is that the purpose of the order is to keep information of value from the enemy. On being informed of the order the committee took the position that long lists of men killed or wounded would be worthless to the newspaper corre spondents without the addresses and a notice was issued advising the press that in future all information regard ing casualties must be obtained from the War Department. At the adjutant general's office it was stated that the lists without addresses would continue to be sent to the committee and would be available there. While the disagreement between the committee and the department probably will be straightened out soon so that the "expurgated" lists may be made available to all who de sire them, the purpose of the depart ment to withhold the addresses apar ently is unalterable. Acting Secretary Crowell said the order was issued at the urgent recommendation of General Pershing and that it would be peman- eui. uoin Mr. uroweii and Major General March, acting chief of staff, declared that the purpose was to close up a channel through which the en emy might obtain valuable informa tion and both disclaim any intention of seeking to conceal heavy casualty reports. Germans Strom British Lines on Front of More Than a Mile BROKE THROUGH BUT WAS EJECTED Raiding Parties and Lively Ar-tillerying-. Feature French and American Sectors Airmen Busy Western Flanders for the first time 'this year has been the scene of seri ous fighting between the British and the enemy, who were forced to retire behind, the positions from which they attacked. After a heavy artillery bombardment, the Germans stormed the British, lines on a front of more than a mile south of the Houtholst for est; northeast of Ypres. At one point the enemy broke through but on most of the front he was thrown back with losses. The British counter attacked and drove the GeraaJUHhack to their war office announces. line and then occupied three hundred yards of it, The Cambrai and Ypres areas con tinue the scenes of spirited artillerv actions. Clear weather also has brought increased aerial activity on the British front, and 20 enemy air planes are reported to have been pyt out of action, includnig 10 destroyed. On the American and French fronts German raiding parties and batteries are busy, but there have been no de termined attacks. The artillery firing is especially heavy along the front from Rheims to the German border. Indications along the American sector northwest of Toul are that the enemy is preparing for more serious work there. A naval engagement on Thursday between German destroyers and Rus sian transports, south of the Aland Islands is reported in a Copenhagen dispatch. Two Russian, transports were sunk after a fight, according to the report. Attacked In Force. London, March 9. After a bom bardment lasting all day, the Germans yesterday evening made an attack on a front of nearly a mile In Belgium, from a point south, of the Menin road to a point north' of Poelderhoek, the RUMANIA MUST WIN BESSARABIA Amsterdam, 'Friday, March 8.Com menting on the treaty with Rifmania, The Berlin Tageblatt says that the quadruple alliance has taken tbestand point that Bessarabian questions must be settled between Rumania and Rus sia, but that the alliance has already intimated that the union of Bessarabia with Rumania would receive its ap proval. Rumania, adds the newspaper, must herself therefore win and hold Bes sarabia and may keep a sufficient number of troops mobilized: until she has conquered Bessarabia and aid for its protection against the Russians. NO HOPE HELD FOR MEYER'S RECOVERY Boston, Mass., March 9. No hope was held out this morning for the re covery of George von L. Meyer, form er Secretary of the Navy, who has been desperately ill ,with a tumor of the liver at his home here for sev eral weeks. After seeing Mr. Meyer at o'clock, Dr. Henry Jackson, his physician, said t . : "Mr. Meyer is 'very low and I fear the end Is simply a question of a few hours,'' 1 re raplaii-- leader f elphVfirst crack of r the rifle. The others in the trench . hur riedly sough protection, but " thejj were not quick enough for the sen try's bullets caught some of , them. As the American began firing " a German some distance outside the wire shouted "come out, come out!" The Germans needed no second invi tation. In faet those who were still in the wire already had started out. The small American patrol saw the eneniy trailing back across No Man's Land, under fire from the sentry and from Americans at a point further along the line. The patrol joined in the fray and helped to speed the Germans on their way by hurling a large ..number of 1 hand grenades,- some of which prob ably took effect. Four- rifles wer0 found in the American iiacs. Patrols, both American and German are constantly seeking opportunity to inspect the opposing lines and the, Germans on this occasion certainly did not wish to be discovered. They cut the American wire with the great est caution, making no noise, but the sentry who later drove them off was watching their peformance all the time. " . American troops in the sector northwest of Toul have been subject ed for the first time to an attack with liquid fire. Enemy troops carry ing flame projectors were just open ing the attack when an American patrol Vhich happened to be nearby fired on them. The Germans flfled pre r cipitately, pursued by the Americans. They dropped four projectors, two of which were flaming. The Ameri cans went into action so quickly that the enemy had no chance to light the other two. No damage, waa f done by the flames. The projectors lay in No Man's Land for three day! ' Early this morning, they were brought in by an American patrol. All had been punctured by shots from tho -American trenches. Late this evening, the projectors were taken to headquarters. They were strapped to the back of the men who brought them from No Man's Land and moving, pictures wers -taken. They are of a iype long fa miliar on the Western front - : ; - Enemy snipers have ben exception-' ally busy in the last 24 hours aV v certain point with more or les sqc-v cess. Various parts of the American' sector were bombarded without ; suf fering great damage. Many valuabls points in the German positions were bombarded with success by the Amer- . ' lean artillery. A gap in the wlrs' through which .thes Germans apparent ly thought patrols were emerging" wag covered with bursts of machine ' gun fire all night long an even jto- ' day. An enemy observation balloon In, " the rear of Mortsec caught fire this morning and was hauled down. There'' -was great activity in the air all day following the bombing expeditions of last night, during which the Germans threw down near towns behind fhe- American lines bombs, aerial torpe-" does and heavy shells. They -set; toe -fuses and dropped them froni their planes, but the only result was tocuk large holes, in the ground,- . v. -r - K. :- ---i). -in'- f : '