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VOL. XXIV. NO. 157
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1918
FIVE GENTS
ONLY ONE SUB OFF
CROWN PRINCE HAS
PRAISE FROM THE VETERAN
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QUIT DRIVE SECOND
TIME WITHIN MONTH
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300,000 AMERICAN
10P3 IN FRANCE
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AMERICAN
OAS
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Number Being Sent Over Lim
ited by Capacity of Ships
MAKES COMPLETE ARMY
Four German Drives Part of
Common Scheme, Says
Peyton March
MUST HOLD ADDED LINE
More Troops Are Necessary
and Importance of Rushing
Forces Over Quickly
Now Paramount
Washington, June 15. American
troops sent to France now numbers
more than. 800,000, General March,
chief of staff, announced today.
The number of troops now being
transported, General March said, is
limited only by the capacity of the
ships available to carry them, "and
e will continue to ship them along
this line," he added.
The 800,000 figures includes all
branches of the Bejvice necessary to
make up a complete army, both com
batant and non-combatant units, Gen
eral March said. .All rar department
figures regarding -, troops sent across
will be made on this basis.
General March said that the four
German drives so far made were "all
n of a common scheme of offen
" Up to this time, he added, the
on of the allied front from
tto the sea had reached 66
o hold that added line, he
'itional troops' were neces
the importance of getting
r
roops over quickly became
March said that "the ob
jective of the German ad-
v first, the channel porta, the
capture o?-VmMcm&1naffi&
esary for England in shipping troops
to go further up the sea, slowing up
and making the transportation more
dangerous, and second, Paris, which
is of great strategic importance as
well as of Importance to the people
of France."
The chief of staff viewed the pres
ent offensive more as an endeavor to
straighten out the German line rath
er than an advance with a definite ob
ject like Paris. The salient between
the Oise and the Aisne offensives, he
described as a "re-entrant angle."
"The most desirable thing the Ger
mans could have now," General March
added, "would be a straightening . out
of that line. Our last information is
that they are still attacking that line
est of Soissons."
AMERICANS MORE THAN
MATCHJFORJERMANS
Reuter's Says Huns Find Men
With No Mercy Will
Avenge Comrades
London, June 15. American sol
ars are more than a match for the
Annans in the opinion of Reuters cor
respondent with the American forces
ln France. Whenever the Germans
jfleet the Americans the Germans have
Jeen beaten. "My impression," he
aas, '-is that the Germans will find
j their new foes men more resem
?hnS our dominion soldiers than the
jome-boni Tommy. They are full of
wnaerness as the German wounded
already have had cause to know. But
ey will not have mercy on men who
jo not fight straight and will avenge
grades slain by treachery to the ut
most platoon."
Remarking how quickly the Ameri-
ns are learning by experience, the
wresp0ndent continues:
There is plainly much to be expect
irom the American army, only, and
QlUSt hp CQirl nr-f Vi troovns nro.
ant a lot of them. Secretary Baker
?oodPlmised a million soon. That is
Email a million goes a wondrous
lion u.Way out here. We want that mil-
n doubled as soon as possible. A
linn T soon win be worth many mil
"0lis later."
I Referring to the large infusion of
"uieriranc! e i -
loidi D nt says that they make good
5rs.
Am Te"sion More Critical
tartan, i: ' June 1&--n the Am-
"Irian u jwuiuc ui caion
HinistP . Austro-Hungarian foreign
ti t0 Berlin, is connentPd xd-HTi
fairs u . in Austro-Hungarian af
has 'i 11 18 believed the tension now
echartme more critical- Austrian
kUrse Fr rrfeCeded a ful1 P0int on the
Activity Should Not Be Taken
seriously, Says Wemyss
PURPOSE TO 1 FRIGHTEN
Vice-Adn I Pays Tribute to
U. S. 'al Force in
Eurt- Waters
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TO CENTR ZE EFFORTS
Sent Sub to rica to Raise
Outcry Agamst Policy of
Fighting The min
Narrow Seas
London, June 15. German subma
rine activity off the Atlantic coast of
the United States should not be taken
very seriously as the Germans prob
ably will not attempt a blockade of
the American shores. This is the
opinion of Vice Admiral Sir Rosslyn
Wemyss, first sea lord of the British
admiralty. The admiral believes that
there is only one submarine operating
off the American coast and that the
purpose of its trip was to frighten the
Americans.
German ruthlessness at sea, the first
sea lord declared, must be met by cen
tralized warfare in the North sea and
the Mediterranean. Admiral Wemyss
paid tribute to the co-operation of the
American naval force in European wa
ters. He said the American ships not
only were stationed in the north, but
were also operating in the Mediterra
nean and off Gibraltar.
Opportunity was given this week to
Archibald S. Hurd, the British naval
writer, to obtain from the British first
lord his opinion upon this new de
parture on the part of Germans and ts
effect upon the naval situation gener
ally. - :
"This development should not be
taken very seriously," . said Admiral
Weymesa. ... .:.
4fU I were inclined to bet I should
say there has not been more than one
may be wrong, but taat Is the impres
sion I have formed. That conclusion
fits In with my interpretation of the
enemy's object. The Germans cannot
hope to maintain anything in the char
acter of a blockade. The distance Is
too great from their bases.
"The enemy has merely made a dem
onstration with the hope of causing
us to decentralize our efforts to put
down the ' submarines. His object is
to frighten the American people in
the hope that they may exert their
influence on their naval authorities.
' "Yod will remember that Napoleon
declared that 'exclusiveness of pur
pose is the secret of great, successes
and of great operations.' Now if the
Germans could cause a dispersal of
naval forces this demonstration off
the American coast would achieve its
purpose.
"I hold firmly to two principals. As
chief of staff I believe firmly in decen
tralization, in administration, but I
also believe as firmly in the centrali
zation of effort aganst the enemy. I
think it was Admiral Mahan who said
that the great end of a war fleet is
not to chase nor to fly, but to control
the seas.
"Now, with that statement in mind,
glance at an ordinary school atlas.
Any submarine to reach the American
coast has to pass either to the north
or south of the British Isles, or along
the Mediterranean, where Gibraltar
stands sentinel over the narrow exit.
'That atlas is illuminating. It indi
cates sound strategic methods of deal
ing with the submarine campaign. We
must fight the U-boat in the narrow
seas. In other words, we must cen
tralize, concentrating all our forces in
what is really the decisive area.
"The Germans, you may be sure,
have been studying the charts and in
sending one of their so-called subma
rine cruisers to the American coast
they thought to raise an outcry in the
United States against the policy which
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Elks to Construcjt Hospital at
Boston and Present It to
the Government
Boston, Mass., June 15. Fred Har
per, of Lynchburg, Va., grand exalted
ruler of the Benevolent and Protec
tive Order of Elks; John K. Tener, of
Pennsylvania, past grand exalted ruler
and many members of the organiza
tion, Came here today to attend cere
monies incident to. the laying of the
cornerstone of a re-construction hos
pital to be erected and presented by
the organization to the government.
An appropriation for the Institution
w-as authorized at the annual conven
tion of the. prder n Boston Ustjj
FRED HARPER AIDS IN
LAYING CORNER STONE
A SAMPLE
"SAY KID. YOXr&X
BERLIN HAS HOPE OF
Off!
ensive
Soon Will Pass
From Paper to Officials
ONLY POSSIBLE PEACE
Petit Journal Says Intrigue
Will Fall Before Unshak
able Will of Allies
PERIOD OF PREPARATION
Six Days of Terrible-Fighting
East of Montdidier Real
ized Mediocre Gains
Reason For Copfidence
Paris, June 15 (Havas Agency).
Berlin has not abandoned hope of ob
taining "a good" German peace soon.
The press is following with curiosity
and interest the preparations of a
peace offensive which seems to be
clearly outlined and about to pass
from the newspaper domain into of
ficial circles. The Petit Journal, voic
ing the unanimous opinion of its col
leagues, declared that German intrigue
will fail before the unshakeable will
of the allies. The only possible peace
for them is a peace of justice and civ
ilization, it says.
"The lull along the front of the Ger
man offensive is considered merely a
period of preparation for new attacks.
The six days of terrible fighting east
of Montdidier realized mediocre gains
and the Petit Parisien says that the
German check gives, a good reason for
confidence, as the allied armies are
increasing continuously. It is pointy
out that the army of thL-'jan
crown prince is exhausted and it is
believed that Crown Prince Rupprecht,
of Bavaria, whose reserves are far
from those under his command on
March 21, will probably resume action
on his portion of the front.
STEAMER F. A: KILBURN
BEEN BURNED AT SEA
New York, June 15. Word was re
ceived in marine circles here today
that the American steamship, F. A.
Kilburn, 997 tons gross register, had
burned at sea while en route from
Havana to New Orleans and that the
crew had been landed at Key West,
Fla. .
No details of the Loss of the ship or
the cause of the fire were available.
The A. Kilburn was engaged in
the Mexico and, Gull Jtrade .ADA-jyas
nuivit-iviMut rtM
OF. .THE GOODS THAT HE WILL
ATJ- RIGHT; WE ARE PROUD OF
NO NORTH CAROLINIANS
'BHHfiBn
Eight Killed in Action;
Names Among Dead
and Wounded
81
Washington, June 15. The army
casualty list today contained 81 names
divided as follows:
4
Killed in action 8
Died of wounds 10
Died of accident '. 1
Died of diseases 6
Wounded, severely 52
Wounded, degree undetermined 4
Officers named were:
Killed in action: Captain Jewett
Williams, Athens, Ga.
Died of wounds : ' Captain Amel Frey,
Langendorf , Switz.
Severely wounded: Lieutenant Rus
sell A. Warner, Washington, D. C.
Wounded, degree undetermined:
Lieutenant Elmer E. Silver, Jr., Wo
burn, Mass.
Officers named were:
Killed In action: Captain Donald F.
Duncan, St. Joseph, Mo.; Lieutenants
Orlando C. Crowther, Canton, 111.;
Caldwell C. Robinson, Hartford,
Conn.; Clarence A. Denis, Hacken
sack, N. J.
Severely wounded in action: Lieu
tenants Charles B. Maynard, Spokane,
Wash.;. Richard W. Murphy, Greens
boivsla.; Charles I. Murray, Sewick
ley, Pa.; Julius S. Coeswell, Charles
ton, S. C; William A. Worten, Mat
tapan, Boston; Harold D. Shannon,
North Bergen, N. J.; Charles D. Rob
erts, Cleveland, O.; Frederick I. Hicks,
Brownsville, Texas; Clinton I. Small
man, Wheeling, W. Va.; James Mc
Bride Sellers Lexington, Mo.; Davis
A. Holladay, Marion, S. C, an John
D. Bowling, Jr., Upper Marlboro, Md.
The list includes the following from
southern states:
Died of wounds: Private Gaven B.
Reagan, Bernice, La.
Died of disease: Private Henry Tur
nage, Wynne, Ark.
Severely wounded: Corporal Rob
ert O. Smith, Waycross, Ga.; Privates
Marce Adams, Manchester, Tenn.;
William C. Brown, Cross ville, Tenn.;
Michael Elder, Elberta, Ala.; Walter
Everett Harris, Charlottesville, Va.;
Robert G. Hayes, Marietta, S. C; Oli
ver Prince, Morton, Miss.; Joe Rob
bins, Hughett, Tenn.; Boyd West
brook, Chesnee, S. C.
Greystone Inn Opens Sunday.
Greystone Inn, at Carolina Beach,
will open for the season tomorrow.
The management announces that the
prospects for a good year are fine,
already quite a number having signi
fied their intention of registering for
the season.
Fair Next Week
Washington, June 15. Fair weather
with high day temperature is forecast
for the southeastern states for the
week beginning Monday. Showers are
DELIVER.
YOU, ITSIEU
Received Ovation As Squad
ron Started For Germany
WORKED LIKE VETERANS
Received Hot Reception From
German Anti-Aircraftf
Guns at Front
OBJECTIVE IS REACHED
Bursting Bombs Laid Circle of
Smoke About Junction
Reach Starting Point
in Safety
With the American Army in France,
Friday, June 14. The first raid by
an American bombing squadron be
hind the lines was accomplished with
successful and satisfactory results, the
Americans performing like veterans.
Some of the observers already had
been on similar flying missions with
French or British pilots and they
knew exactly how to gauge accurately
the fall of the bombs.
As they made their start for Ger
many, the bombing planes received
quite an ovation. A number of French
and British aviators and officers and
a large number of American fliers
cheered them from the flying field as
they came racing down the grass, tilt
ed upward, and then turned north to
ward the enemy's lines.
The German anti-aircraft batteries
gave them a hot reception as they
crossed the front, but this shelling was
extremely tame compared to what
they underwent as they approached
Dommary-Baroncourt.- Two of the
American planes, leading the squad
ron, became the particular targets of
the anti-aircraft guns. They twisted
and dived under a heavy shrapnel fire
until they arrived over their objective
on a railway junction and the sur
rounding buildings, three miles below.
The commanding unit was in the
leading plane as observer and It sped
over the objective first, the command
ing releasing his bombs.
At the same time he signalled to
the other machines, which followed
in a nearly straight line.
Bursting bombs laid a perfect circle
of smoke about the railway junction.
The smoke obscured the building as
the bombers turned southward toward
the American lines.
German attacking planes met the
Americans two miles from Dommery,
and attempted to pick off those planes
which were trailing, but the lively fire
of the other machines forced the en
emy to give up the attempt Just as
the line was reached. Arriving at
the starting point, the aviators were
showered with congratulations on the
results of the first raid by their en-
yious comrades.
AMERICAN BOMBING
mm MESS
CZECHOSLOVAKS
OCCUPIED SAMARA
On Siberia Railroad All Towns
Held For 1,250 Miles ,
OMSK TAKEN BY IVANOF
Grain Stores Have Been Cut
Off From Moscow and
Petrograd
RATIONS ARE MENACED
Forces Are Now Able to Pre
vent Traffic From Siberian
Granaries Soviets Fast
Being Overthrown
London, June 15 The Czech-Slovak
troops operating against the Russian
soviet government in Siberia and the
Ural region continued their successes,
according to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Moscow, dated June 11.
During the ninth and tenth of June,
having occupied Samara, they ad
vanced rapidly toward Ouffa.
On the Siberian railroad from
Tcheliabinsk to Tomsk (a distance of
1,250 miles), all the towns are in the
hands of the Czecho-Slovaks. Omsk
was occupied on June 8 by a united
force of Slavs and Cossack peasants
under command of Colonel Ivanoq, the
Soviet forces having retired by Omsk
and Tunen.
Menace Bread Ration.
Moscow, June . 15. The Czecho
slovak troops tft their operations along
the railways connecting Siberia with
Central Russia, have temporarily cut
off communication between the Si
berian grain stores and Moscow and
Petrograd, seriously menacing the
bread rations which already are in
adequate. The Czecho-Slovaks now
control the stations of Omsk and Novo
Nicholaevsk and Tcheliabinsk and also
many smaller stations. Consequently
they are able to prevent traffic from
the Siberian granaries to both Mos
cow and Petrograd.
At Novo-Nicholaevsk, which is the
nearest large city east of Omsk, the
Czecho-Slovaks, joined with the white
guards in overthrowing the Soviets
and have established what they call a
new Siberian central government,
which is the fourth government now
claiming control in Siberia. The Bol
shevik government has sent emissa
ries to negotiate with the Czecho
slovak officers, and hopes to arbitrate
the disputes growing cut of the at
tempt to disarm the Czech-Slovaks,
who insist that they must be given the
right to pass through Siberia to Vladi
vostok on their way to the fighting
front in France.
The new Siberian government 1 es
tablished in the Omsk-Nicholaevsk re
gion, has notified the soviet govern
ment at Moscow, the correspondent
adds, of the abolition of the govern
ment of soldiers and deputies In Si
beria and of the . creation of the new
provisional government. The notifica
tion states that the Siberian govern
ment, which is joined by Commander
Ivanoff, in the forwarding of the com
munication, does not intend to work
for the separation of Siberia from
Russia and is ready to negotiate for
a supply of provisions to the northern
districts of Russia.
Should the council of commissioners
of Moscow, however, attempt to re
establish the soviet power in Siberia,
it is declared the Siberian government
will resist and will discontinue the
sending of bread grains to northern
Russia.
Inquiry Into Reports Asked of
Secretary of State Lan
sing by Senators
Washington, June 15 Investigation
by the state department of reports
that China is about to close her doors
to American tobacco shipments was
asked of Secretary Lansing by south
ern senators.
The senators tol dthe secretary that
they had heard control of the Chinese
tobacco market was to be turned over
to Japan through negotiation in Japan
of a Chinese loan. If Inquiry develops
that the reports , are true the senators
'asked that a protest be made.
American tobacco Interests, the sen
ators said, do a $30,000,000 tobacco
business annually with China,
CHINA 10 CLOSE DOORS
TO AMERICAN TOBACCO
Blows of Hun' Forces Checlpr!
, mated by Allied Strategy
NEW ASSAULT EXPECTED S
Large Masses Have Been Used
on Short Front Since '
Last Sunday ' 1
FRENCH TAKE OFFENSIVE
Berlin- Claims Capture of 1
050 Guns, 1 80 Miles of Ter-
- ritory and 15,000 'Prisoners?
Since May 27 jj
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Allied strategy and tenacity In convf
bat have again checkmated blows byj
massed bodies of German troops and!
the German crown prince has given'
up his . second offensive within a-'
month without either of them having)
affected seriously the general sttua-; :
tion on the western front. Except fox! ;
artillery duels a lull has come ta the
fighting sectors, but a ne w. enemy as
sault Is expected soon. In' the often- -
slve which began last Sunday the
Germans used large masses of troops
on a short front. For three days they
gained ground and were rapidly forc
ing the way " southward along the
Aisne. French resistance ;stiffened
and then the French took the often- -sive.
German efforts to "strike south
of the Aisne and reach the Oise south
of Compie&ne also failed after a slight,
gainf
Friday there was no infantry fight
ing of any moment anywhere near the
front from Ypres to Rheims, which
is now the vital section oL the western,
line. ' The Germans made no further '
attempts and, are probably re-formins
the divisions shattered by the Frenclx. . ;
M-J. M X i W-S
resistance 01 ine past wreic . .. .rc
- r South of the Soffime . and betweea
the Aisne and the Marne the artil
lery fire has been above normal, but:
there are no indications that the Ger-i
mans are prepared to renew their of
fensive on either sector. Military ob-
servers believing that the Noyoh
Montdldier effort was a feint to oc
cupy the allies, expect that the heav
iest blow yet will come soon on the
Pi card 7 field with the enemy again at
tempting ro separate the French and
the British and reach the coast.
Berlin reports the number of guns '
captured since May 27 by the crown
prince as ,1.050. in the latest offensive
the Germans gained 180 square miles
of territory, and captured 15,000 pris- (
oners and 150 guns, the poorest show- i
ing in any of the four major move-1
ments since March 21. j
While the American Infantry has j
been inactive on all sectors, American ;
aviators on the Toul front have been:
bombing towns behind the German 1
lines. The first American bombing
raid was against Dommary-Baroncourt,
northeast of Verdun, on Wed
nesday. This was followed Friday by T
another incursion on which 79 bombs j
were dropped on Conflans, a railway ;
junction midway between Metz and'
Verdun. On both occasions the Amer- :
icans returned despite efforts of enemy, '
airplanes and anti-aircraft guns.
Italian troops have checked success- i
fully strong enemy attempts to force i
a passage through the important
Tonale pass, northwest of Trent. Two
attacks by Austrian infantry wer
broken up by the Italian defense and
130 prisoners captured. Tonale pass
is just north of La Busazza, where the
Italians recently fained a commanding
height, an dthe Vermigllo valley pass- .
es through It. The remainder of the
Italian front is quiet, c
TWELVE YOUNG WOMEN
ARE BORNEO BY ACID
Was Thrown From Bottle or
Squirted From Gun
Four in Hospital : 1 1 1
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New York, June 15. Twelve yountf
women were victims of strange at
tacks last night and early today when
they were burned by an acid thrown
from a bottle or squirted from a gun
by an unidentified person. All of the
attacks occurred within a short pe
riod of time at Seventh avenue be
tween Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh,
streets. Two women, none of whom
was seriously burned, were unable to
tell the police where tne acid came
from and said that the first they
knew of the attacks was when they
felt pain, after the acid had eaten
through their clothes.
Four of the women were taken , to
hospitals while the others were given:
first aid treatment by ambulance sur
geons and at drug stores. Police off!
clals believe that the acid was thrown
a crank.
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