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V'- J- weather;- For North and South Carolina: Fair to night and Wednesday HOME EDITION VOL. XXIV. NO. 132. WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA: TUES0AY; EVENING, MAY 21.19 18. FIVE CENTS' TO 8E REGIST i'- Wit -;t . nj v. v -A7 r lMMl V V ML DELAY GIVES, TIME 10 IMPROVE LINES dBoverplot MILLION YOUTHS o I mmmviiwm I AMLKIUA PKAlStU .1 LAS HUNUKS Pffl : - i ii 'i 11 1 ii i m mwmw v. m m mm r i m mmm .mm m m Am - a. m m mm ERFD I - V : ' v 1 RY IRISH I Fl TH NflTFff AMOR Germans- are Not Reacting Against Nibbling Tactics. FRENCH MOVE AHEAD ImportantGains Made, and 400 Prisoners Taken by Petain's Troops. RUSHING HUN OUTPOSTS In Air Fighting British Have Destroyed 27 German Planes and Driven Three Others Out Delay in the launching of the ex pected German offensive apparently is giving the allied troops little con cern as they improve their positions here and there by strong local at tacks. Whether the Germans are prepared to renew the heavy fighting is not yet clear, but strangely they do not react against the Anglo-French nibbling tactics. On the Lys front, between Mont Kemmel and the heights of Mont Rouge and Scherpenberg, "the Frencn have greatly improved their positions in a forward movement along a front of two miles. Not only were impor tant gains made, but more than 400 German prisoners were captured. The enemy has yet made no counter at tack there, nor has he made any ef fort to retake the village of Tllle-Sur-Ancre on the Somme front, captured in a gallant attack by the Australians Sunday. Between the Somme and Arras the British are harassing the Germans by rushing their outposts and the French hare been successful in similar op erations in the region of Rheims in tie Champagne. The German artil lery fire is especially violent on the sector south of the Some and north of Eethuhe, northwest of Arras. To Bethune has come the fate of 'so many other towns and cities of northern France, and it is now a fass of ruins as arresnlt; of? the Ger man bombardment.' - C' - '"y" . There is tto':ivplj:Ui'&B86 aerial ;riai activity in -ognungf mj uiej ra:r:iTWDf& - 27 German machines andll5in down ,--.; i-. .r- three others out of control as well as burning three baloons. Bombing squadrons also are bus ybehind the German lines and Monday a ton of bombs was dropped on Landau, north west of Karlsruhe, on the Rhine. Several fires were started. On the Italian and Macedonian fronts there have been strong patrol actions. In their raid on London Sunday night the Germans lost five airplanes. Two others are reported to have been brought down at sea. Saw Countess Arrive London, May 21. Eva Gore Booth, lister of Countess Markievicz, who as arrested in Dublin last week, in forms the Daily Express that she saw the countess arrive in London on Sunday. Countess Markievicz says shp was taken to Holloway prison, '"here she remains. No one is per nnted to visit her. Shaken by Earthquakes Santiago, Chile, May 20. La Ser fna, capital of the province of Co ouimho, was shaken severely today fy' earthquakes. A large number of buildings are reported to have been destroyed. ' IN ACTION rour Southern Lads Int.ludsd in Today's Casualty List. Washington, May 21. The casual .;'"l laay contained 41 names, di- 'JQea as follows led in action '3 Jed of wounds .. l Jied of accident ..7 ed of disease ; 2 founded severely 18 founded slightly 8 -Mlssing in action 2 Officers named were: Lieutenants Cyril Mangell, Attle ""ro. Mass., and William K. B. person, New York, killed in action; Jjeutenants Harry C. Colburn, In dianapolis; Alfred R. Metzger, New- H.I-,.- ' and Philip Ribertson, tPn . t?' U-' died of accident; Lieu- ank A- Fritz, Butler, N. J., N f.a severely, and Captain James Phn? i,.1'011"' Iowa and Lieutenant 011 P W . Hunter, JXosk, S. C, miss- iu action. EnedLf disease Private John Kelso, Wilson a-eciaent Private Johnnie Xo"olk, va Princess Anne avenue, Hounded severely: Sergeant John aempMT 282 JIcLemore street, tSlTer p enn'; Private Lennie W. r, Lonverse, S. C. W THREE SOLDIERS I KILLED Whit Monday Holiday Passed in Ordinary Quiet Manner. NOT- HOT BLOOD KIND Some Newspapers Say Coun try Is Relieved Over lNumber ot Arrests. ' tl T PRAISE LORD FRENt Everj'one in Ireland Is A wee ing Proof of German Plof and in Many Quarters u Want it Public. London, May 21. A total absence of excitement in Dublin is reported in all the dispatches to the morning newspapers from the Irish capital and as far as known have, been no un toward incidents in connection with the Sinn Fein arrests anywhere in the country. There' are no outward indi cations that anything has happened, is happening, or is about to happen outside Ireland's ordinary routine. The Whit Monday holiday passed in the customary manner. The various sporting events were attended by the usual lively crowds. A correspondent of The Daily Mail says the calm is sensational and the people appear un perturbed by the recent dramatic de veopments. He adds: "But appearances are deception. Tublin is not Ireland. The constitu tional nationalists one generally meets here are not representative of the wild hot bloods who have given strength to the Sinn FBin. Moreover the whole country evidently is stag gered by the suddenness of the gov ernment's action and the people do nbV hesitate to commit themselves to any opinion until the evidence against those trader arrest is produced." -On the other hand, ' some corre spondents say the country is gener ally relieved over the arrests. A dis patch to The Daily Express from Dub lin says: "If Lord :French had won .a great victorr on the -western xront, ne lff.ffTrttfaiTTffi H" gtatuiattons from the Irish than had mil been accorded him jfor: the suppres sion of the seditious Sinn Fein. The country lias recovered its normal temperature." Meanwhile, every one is awaiting production of proof of a German plot and in many quarters it is oenevea there ought not to be any delay in making it public. It is reported from several sources, however, that the government has no present intention of publicly arraigning those under ar rest who will be merely interned. The question of Irish conscription continues to hold attention. It is as serted that conscription has not been abandoned but that it is held in abeyance pending developments. Vol untary recruiting plans, according to the Dublin correspondent of The Daily Express, are being pushed for ward in the belief that thousands of young Irishmen are tired of their non combatant positions. The recruiting scheme will he given a thorough trial and upon its progress depends the eventual decision regarding conscrip tion. PREVENT IF OE Clynes, Labor Leader, Says Should be Burning Desire of Everyone, London, May 20. John R. Clynes, labor member of parliament from Manchester and acting food minister speaking at Blackpool tonight said that the burning desire of all should be to prevent any continuance of the war longer than is required for s people's peace for the security of democratic communities and for the obtaining of terms which will allow both great and small nations to have their quarrels adjusted through some such medium as a league o nations. Unhappily, he added, the ends can not be reached by merely appealing to the moral conduct of Germany, or by yielding to her militarist and la bor leaders. The peace terms of British labor, now approved by the socialist and labor conferences of al lied countries, have evoked no hep ful response from the German people and it seems absolutely clear that even terms or ending the war formu lated by pacifist bodies would be spurned by the German dictators if those terms are acked merely by pacifist methods. J Those who appeal only to force, Mil Clynes continued, will yield to reason only when resistance has taught them that war is an abominable ini quity, with; lasting5 penalties for the nations who worship it as a spirit to give them - power and greater means of advancement." POSSIBLE C0OTIN1K WAR Fully 750,000 Will Be Obtain ed For Army on June 5. DRAFT IS dUTLINED Proper Allowances are Bein Made For Defects and Exemptions. r W EXCEPTIONS ARE FEW nly Men in Army, Navy and iMnn. . 1 1 . 1 luauuc v-uaru ana Winer Branches of Service Not Required to Register Washington, May 2J. Estimates by Major General Crowder, provost marshal general, indicate that prob ably three-quaters of a million men will be obtained by the army by the registration on June 5 of all youths who have attained the age of 21 since June 5 last. Fully a million youths, according to General Crowder's estimate, will be registered. At least one-fourth of them, he thinks, will be exempted on various grounds. A statement by Secretary Baker, giving the estimate and outlining plans for the draft, given out today, read: "Probably three-quarters of a mil lion men will be added to the Amer ican army in the making, by the reg istration xnt June 5 next, of boys who have reached the age of 21 since June 5, 1917, or who will be 21 on or before June 5, 1918. This estimate was made today by Provost Marshal Crowder, who will direct the regis tration. "General Crowder's estimate was based on the fact that almost 10,000, 000 men egistered last year. Thi3 number included all between 21 and 31. Statistics collected by General Crowder's office show that a little more than 10 per eent of these men were 21 years old. Cya that lasis, it is estimated by draft -fErclalsv work ing under General Crowder, -that this yea's registration will exceed $1,000,' 000. t-v- : ij. y :-v-:'; ;".' uv t?- i iwT' T " " - w- r fhreeuarters, or, about Of thia nuTnbrCnT:roVale 750,000, will be available for miitary service. This makes 'proper allow ances for physica defects, exemptions because of dependents and" other bars to military service. Under President Wilson's procla mation, all male persons, citizens or aliens, must register. The only per sons excepted are. officers and enlist ed men of the regular army, navy, and marine corps and the national guard and naval militia, while in federal service, and officers of the officers' reserve I corps and enlisted men in the enlisted reserve corps while in active service. - "General Crowder plans to have the local boards keep their offices open for registration purposes be tween 7 a. m. and 9 p. m., on June 5. Between those hours all young men who were born between June 5, 1896, and June 6, 1897, must regis ter. These men are subject to the provisions of the selective , service under which the first registration kas held." JUDGE SVINHUFVUD TEMPORARY DICTATOR Stockholm, Monday, May 20. Judge Svinhufvud has been nominat ed temporary dictator by the Finnish diet. Judge Svinhufvud was formerly president of the Finnish diet, being re-elected to that office on four oc casions. In 1910 he defied the Rus sian government and refused to sub mit to the Finnish diet two imperial measures. He was removed from the presidency on February 3, 1913, and later was deported to Siberia by the Russian government. His deportation aroused the Finns, who in 1915 de-, manded his return. He was liberated from imprisonment in 1917 and re turned to Finland. During the inva sion of Finland by the Germans he was active in Helsingfors and during the fighting in that city made his es cape and was later reported in Ber lin. MONARCHY IS ONLY FORM FOR FINLAND. Stockholm, May 21. A constitu tional monarchy is the only form of government for Finland, in the opin ion of Judge Svinhufvud, who has just been declared temporary dicta tor by the Finnish diet. He says he is convinced that the only way for British Aviator Killed. London, May 21. Second Lieuten ant Mortimer Crane, of the British flying corps, has been killed while flying in Great Britain and was bur ied Monday. He was a son of T. J. Crane, of Philadelphia. Young Crane joined the American army when the United States entered the war, but wishing to get into active service he obtained a discharge and joined the British army. ; ; l&fIl ' DIGNITARIES PRESENT I J 'li & 1 Impossible For Radical Wing ( MSJl'CSy -of Sinn Fein to. Attend I ,:. . . :' rVM : . - "with shorn. . l- III : . 1 , A7VR',ah v III I I s. p imm PEACE IS OBSCURED 1 III -- ' . v, " a III II Managing Director of the Southern Commercial Congress, Who With Gen. J. S. Carr Spent Monday; and Tuesday inspecting the Wilmington Shipyards cutis JOHNSON SAD HE POISONED HIS WIFE Cloyd. Gill Startles Court- r Was to Help Him'Escape' - - Uhairr ;' Rlenmond, Va., May 21. "Dr., Lem uel Johnson told me that he poisoned his wife." This was the' startling statement of A. Cloyd Gill, a correspondent for a Washington newspaper, from the wit ness stand today at the trial in the hustings court of Dr. Johnson, charged with wife murder. "He said he gave her a poison that would take her life as easily as pos sible, because he didn't want her to suffer any pain," Gill added. After a long argument between counsel Judge Richardson declined to allow an alleged confession which Gill wrote after interviewing Johnson to be read to the jury. The court did rule that Gill could be questioned about what the statement contained, and that Gill could refresh his mem ory by referring to the statement. Letters written to Dr. Johnson by his wife, Alice Knight Johnson, be fore their marriage last September, will be offered in evidence by John son's lawyers at his trial. Attorney Woodard, of the defense, had a packet of Mrs. Johnson's let ters with him in the courtroom today. "We did not think it would be neces sary to use them, and ' did not want to do so, but there seems no way out of it," said the lawyer. The letters, it was said, have a dj; rect bearing on a theory that has been advanced that Mrs. Johnson committer! suicide or took a capsule containing poison by mistake. Also,, the letters will explain, it was asserted, why Dr. Johnson wrote be fore attempting to kill imself in Wilson, N. C, he had been "caught in a trap." Gill said he first saw Dr. Johnson at police headquarters in Richmond, December 23, and on subsequent dates saw Johnson in the latter's cell in the city jail. ' "I am as innocent - as Alice was pure and good," Gill said Johnson told him when they held one of their first conversations. On Christmas day, Gill said, he told Johnson that he had deliberately lied to him. "From that time on he never denied his guilt to me," said the witness. "I told him that his only chance was to trust to the warm hearts of 12 good old Virginians, and that I would help him to prepare his case," Gill related. "I said he should make every effort to escape the electric chair and that maybe he could get out on a pardon after a few years." LL.D. Degree to Daniels New Brunswick, N. J., May 21. Secretary of the Navy Daniels re ceived the degree of doctor of laws at the commencement exercises of Rut gers college today. SCHOOLCHILDREN. All boys and girls want a littlo extra money for their vacations. Read important announcement on page 3, column 1, of today's Dis patch. ' 1 - 4 f - Visit of Labor Mission Closed I '-MidM V With LUncheon : Official Reports FRENCH. Paris, Monday, May 20. The official statement from the war office ' tonight reads , "There was no infantry activ ity. The artillery bombardment was violent at times south, of the Avre fcnd at;"several. points In the egjo j of Montdidier and .x. JUas TeigniyV. '' .- "--rr - v..--w-- "Army of the east, May 19: -.-Tiwere-r was reciprocal artillery 'fir- ing In the region of Doiran. There was. intermittent artillery and ri-. fie firing on the Serbian front, where enemy patrols were re pulsed before they were able to reacn the wire entanglements. In the Coma bend and in the region of Monastir the artillery and trench mortafs were active. Near Monastir, enemy patrols were driven back. In the Pogradec sector the enemy artillery fire increased. "The British aviators success fully bombarded enemy establish ments in the region of Demir His sar." s ' BRITISH London, May 21. ; North of Merville, in the Flanders salient, the British improved their posi tions last night, the war office announces. Thirty prisoners and six ma chine guns were taken by the British in this operation. A counter attack on the new positions, launched this morning after a period of heavy shelling, was crushed by the British artil lery and machine guns. The statement says "A successful local operation was carried out by the troops of the Surrey battalion yesterday evening northwest of Merville. A re-entrant in our line in this sec tor was closed up and 30 prison ers and six machone guns were captured by 'us. "Early this morning a hostile counter attack against the new. positions delivered after a heavy bombardment, was broken up by our artillery and machine gun fire. "We carried out a successful raid last night southeast of Arras and brought back a fe wprisoners and a machine gun from the enemy's trenches. "During the night the hostile ar tillery was active in the Albert sector, about Hebuterne, between the forests of Nieppe and Me teren, and more active than usual between the Scarpe river and Hill 70, north of Lens. The gas shelling reported to have taken place yesterda'" north of Bethune was heavy." DUTCH STEAMERSHIP SEIZED BY GERMANS Amsterdam, Monday, May 20. The Germans -have seized and taken to Swinemuende, Prussia, the Dutch steamship Agneta, which was bound from Stockholm for Rotterdam. According to The Hendelsblad, the German minister at Stockholm re fused to supply the steamer with a same conduct, as the German naval staff had decided not to issue any until the conclusion of the negotia tions ,nowin progress between the Dutch and; German governments. Only Co-operaiipn of Every Patriotic Irishman Can Save Country, Is Appeal Made by Lord Chief Justice Dublin Monday, May 20. The three days' visit to Ireland of seven mem bers of the American labor mission closed today with a luncheon given by Lord Decies. A great effort. was made to obtain the attendance of rep-! resentatives of all the Irish parties In order tp .show that however much lo cal issues separate Irish citizens they are united m their friendship and re gard for America. : unionists ana nationalists were both well represented and official Dublin attended in a body, those present including Edward Shortt, the new chief secretary for Ireland, and Major, General Shaw, the. new com mander of the British forces in Ire land. It was obviously impossible that members of the real revolutionary school of the Sinn Fein could be pres ent at the same table with Secretary Shortt and General Shaw, but the more moderate wing of the Sinn Fein was to have jbeen represented by Laurence O'Neill, the lord mayor of Dublin. The principal speakers were tho two highest legal dignitaries in Ireland, namely, Sir Ignatius O'Brien, the lord chancellor, a leading nationalist, and Sir James Campbell, lord chief justice, a friend and supporter of Ed ward Carson, the unionist leader. Both speakers eulogized the great part the United States was taking in the war and expressed the hope that there would also soon be greater co-opera tion from 'Ireland in the Work of de feating the- Germans. :T Jimeffcan" r delegationv said th lord chief justice, who has lost two- foils' In the war, "has come among us at a time when we are un happily distracted and divided. sky of Ireland is dark with heavy and lowering clouds of anger and sus picion, and these clouds have for the time obscured the vision of peace and reconciliation which a few months ago seemed so near and for which many of us so earnestly waited and zealously labored. "The situation here today is crit ical. One thing alone can save it, and that is the co-operation of every sane and patriotic Irishman in a final ap peal to our young manhood to take their place in this world struggle and fill the places of the gallant Irish men who have fallen In the defense of freedom and liberty. If we s. get an adequate response to this final ap peal we shall succeed in vindicating the - fair name of Ireland before the world, and will save our country from tragedy and desparr." During the day the members of the American mission conferred with John Dillon, the nationalist leader, and . later went to the bedside of Sir Horace- Plunkett, who was chairman of the Irish convention. He is .recov ering from a severe breakdown which has kept him to his bed since the con vention finished its work. FOR SHE OF STAMPS Through Error Airplane Was 1 Turned Upside Down by Bureau. New York, May 21. A sheet of 100 of the new postal airplane stamps, but with the airplane turned upside down through an error made by the bureau of engraving and prntin; at Washington, has been purshapcd fr $20,000 by Coi. E. H. R. Green, of Texas, son of the late Hetty Green, it "was learned here today. Over a window counter at tho postofllce in Washington this sheet sold for $ 24. Sofar aa Is known here this is the only sheet that escaped the vigilance of theWashington postal authorities. The vtamps bought by Colonel Green were turned back by a Wash ington citizen at the stamp window because the airplane was inverted. Iivf me mi c w a.a a ntotu who censea yie philatelic value of the s5ee?.ahdpur chased it at its face value and it reached the hands of a Philadelphia stamp . dealer, who today received a bid of $12,500 prior to the higher offer made by Colonel Green. Colonel Green said here today he planned to retain a portion of the sheet for his collection and dispose of the other stamps among his friends. It is predicted by philatelists if the sheet pr6ves;to be the only one in" existence outside, government ownership the stamps will attain a philatelic value of $250 each. . GREEN PAD W) yv rcaius riacca oy vmraow '; oh Body of Major LufberyMM ft IMPRESSIVE FUNERAC punches of Roses Were Thrown Down From Planes : ) . High in Sky. TRIBUTE FROM FRENCH' American General Pays Hom age to Dead Aviator as Last Services at Grave Taps 1 Were Sounded v With the American Army In France, Rlpday v May 20. Before . the . Tody. of Major 1 Raoul Lufbery was placed in "a gra"vemear a certain French vil lage it' lay in state in a room of -i majlt frame building. Around It were hundreds of wreaths of flowers sent: Dy .American comrades, French aviators who1 had known him in the ..-.-. -. . Frenph army and by French army corps; M i ? Atop.. all the handsome wreaths. was a lttkebncK of wild roses and dais ies to s wh was attached a piece ot -riaersaylng that it came from "Major;" Lttfbery's orderly, and men-- tlonmg many kindnesses; With tears in his eyes , the orderly came . up ' to the casket and reverently placed the flowers on .it. , S :. , Official confirmation Is still lacking to the report that the German air plane responsible for the death .of. Major. Lufbery had been brought The funeral of Major Lufbery was very impressive., The pallbearers, three American and three French av iators, carried the flag-draped coffin , from the little frame building to a motor car for the trip to the grave. The procession : was led by an Amer-, lean band, a . company of American infantrir liist from th trenchea flUil:- a company; of French infantry. v ?it If ? Following the coffin were 200 Uaw'43: I k A Lufoerys -cflairwo-lx? i-'TW'Sf r; RercevtEe American general corix- manding the sector-northwest of Toul ;and a French general commanding an army corps. . mt x 41 ..... j. lie V""1 ureH.up o,l uib gra.ye buu while the service was being read one American' aviator after another planed down, from the sky, his motor shut off, until he was just oVerhead-' Each threw out- great bunches of red roses which floated " down on- the cof fin and the bared heads of the offi cers and caps of the soldiers who were drawn up at attention. At the conclusion of the services the French general stepped forward and said: "On behalf of my comrades of the French army I wish to pay respectful tribute to one of the heroes of the air who was victorious 18 times; a, son! of. the noble and, generous republic which,, came. to. our assistance to save the liberties of the world. "Rest peacefully, Major Lufbery, ' close by the martyrs to our great, cause. Your glorious example will in spire in us the spirit of sacrifice until; the day when humanity's enemy shall be finally vanquished. Good-bye. The American general, under whom ' Major Lufbery once served as a pri-; vate soldier, and the chief of the aerial service, also paid homage to the dead aviator. The firing squad fired three times across the grave, -a! bugler sounded taps, and another bugler, hidden - In a nearby wood, echoed it. : As the sound of the bugles died away all was silence exr cept for the droning of the machines of Major Lufbery's comrades, patroll ing the line high in the air, and oc casionally the dull booming of dis tant guns. UP TO ISDN WHETHER TO McAdoo Wants New War Revenue Bills Passed After July 1. Washington, May 21. Indication today were that . President Wilson may-'be. called upon to decide whether congress will remain in session after J&ly 1 to pass new war revenue legis lation, as suggested by Secretary Mc U.doo. Congressional leaders who confenv ed with the .secretary yesterday were not convince dof the immediate ne cessity of ,..the legislation and were . disinclined to abandon their original' plan of adjourning, in July. Secretary McAdoo at the same time was said to. have been considerably impressed by the assertion of leaders that it would be extremely 1 difficult to hold congress. Further conferences on the subject are looked for later In the. week, however, and in the" event of a deadlock President Wilson prob ably will be called upo nto speak th CONGRESS ADJOURN decidinar word. v Xii- - ' . J -. iiiH: :;t.: r i : IIS: W far,: 1 1 . : - it; 'i .3- 4 -A. mm 1 'i r i: - j-c ' : H 1 i ii-! i i .-mm- ill It; 'j' r X-,,
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