VOL. XXIV. NO. 164.
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY - EVENING, JUNE 22, 1918.
FIVE CENtD
HAGENR
WAR
Coeyrirfit: 191s!
WIPEDOUT
DECREASES
V" WE. MUST 'MAKE"
FIGHTING
ON
PiAmm
Bar JcflmT. VcCptcbeoo.
LINE
AS
WRECK EA
ELY TODAY
BOCHE
DRIVE HALTS
Hundred or More Killed or In
jured Near Chicago
WRECK CAUGHT ON FIRE
Legs and Arms and . Groans
Testify to Suffering of
Those Alive
RUSHED TO HOSPITALS
Engineer Dead at Throttle
Caused Collision, Is Expla
nation Given by Michigan
Central Official
Gary, Ind., June 22. Estimates of
the dead in the Michigan Central
wreck near Ivanhoe station vary from
100 to 150. The wreck caught fire, de
stroying many bodies and killing the
injured pinned under the debris.
Twenty-six persons were brought to
Mercy hospital; 10 to the Gary General
hospital; 20 to the Illinois Steel Com
pany hospital, and three to St. Fran
cis hospital.
At 10:15 a. m. it was said that 40
bodies had been received at morgues
here and that others were on their
way.
Chicago, June 22. The personnel
of the Hagenback-Wallace Shows is
believed to have been practically
wiped out in a disastrous railroad col
lision between Michigan City and
Hammond, Ind., tod ay. v According to
meagre details," received at Michigan
Central offices, (a hundred or - more
persons were killed or injured. Four
coaches, in which members of the cir
cus were sleeping were demolished by
a rear end collision. '
The show was traveling in two sec
tions of a Michigan Centraltraixfc-par
ing from Michigan Ctty totvHammcmaV
At East. Ivanhoe AipX f.wP
second section to stopt Atrafitf:
empty Pullmans, coming to Chicago,
crashed into it, the locomotive plowing
its way through the day car and four
sleeping coaches. The injured were
taken to hospitals at Hammond and
Gary. . ...
A telephone message from (Gary
said the heavy steel Pullmans crashed
through the lighter circus coaches like
so much paper. The wreck was com
plete. Here and there in the wreckage legs
and arms protruded and groans testi
fied to the suffering of those . still
alive. Trainmaster Whipple, of the
Michigan Central, was on the train
and was reported among the missing.
Fourteen injured persons from the
wrecked circus train were taken to
St. Margaret's hospital in Hammond,
and it was said that 50 others had
been taken to the hospital at Gary.
Ed Ballard, owner of the circus, es
timated the dead at 50 and the injured
at 75. A number of valuable horses
are belieyed to have perished also.
The accident occurred at about 4:30
a. m. It was impossible to obtain wa
ter and the flames burned unchecked.
L. W. Landman, general .passenger
agent of the Michigan Central, said
that his only explanation of the
wreck was that the engineer of the
train of empty cars must have been
dead at the throttle.
"In no other way can I account for
the fact that he Ignored all of the
usual danger signals placed by the
circus train," said Mr. Landman. "He
ran past two block signals, two red
light signals and the usual fuses plant
ed between the rails and throwing off
a brilliant red light visible for a long
distance."
Get More From Virginia Cities
to Atlanta Than From
North Carolina
Washington. June 22. Permission
as given southeastern railroads to
day to charge higher rates on manu
iactured tobarrn movine from Vir
ginia cities tn Atlanta and' other
southpnsstem Uiaa than i r.hareed
for the movement of thesame product
irom North Carolina points to tne
southeats bv th interstate commerce
commission. The order does not af
fect the general Increase in rates, but
auows the railroads concerned to fix
-op differential between the move
"nts which formerly did not exist.
Pl'fltpita wIiqti i"o41rri?e at,
temtitod to matfl tha rata 3!1 ner 100
pounds from Virginia cities and 93
cents per 100 pounds from North Car
olina Which the decision given Is rendered.
CHARGE HIGHER RATES
ON TOBACCO ALLOWED
Five Months A o of Pro
gram, Says G 'March
. . - .
SITUATION LOkS GOOD
Present Lull on Western Front
Means Germans Reform
ing For Big Drive
AMERICANS STAND TEST
Battle at Cantigny Fought by
First Division, Under Com- '--mand
of Major Gen.
Robt. Bullard
Washington, June 22. Nine hundred
thousand men have been shipped
across the sea, General March told
newspaper correspondents at the
weekly conference today. These in
clude the troops shipped from all
American ports of embarkation.
The United States is today five
months ahead of its program for plac
ing an army in France, General March
said.
The figures on American troop ship
ments are significant, since General
March, at his first conference last
week, fixed the number shipped at
more than S00.000, the addition of 100,
000 during the week showing the rate
of progress that is made.
While the general battle, situation
looks good today, General March said,
the present lull on the western front
means only that German combat divi
sions are being re-formed for another
drive. Viewing the whole situation
including the "Italian .front, the chief
6f starsaiatha tlse- efctraipeTS
again were held on all fronts. i ...
American troops have done " wen
wherever the test of battle has come
thus far. General March said, re
gardless of the charatcer of the troops,
whether regulars, national guard, na
tional army, or marines.
The fight at Cantigny, the most im
portant engagement in which Ameri
can troops have participated, because
of the opportunity it gave to judge of
the full measure of their training, he
said, had been fought by the first di
vision, commanded by Major Robert I.
Bullard. This divion is now, he said,
a thoroughly trained, high grade unit,
and was the first American division to
reach France.'
At Cantigny, General March said, in
fantry and artillery . operated in close
Co-operation to achieve the victory,
showing the? successful work of the
staff officers upon whom that co-operation
depended. The fight clearly
showed, he said, that the training of
the American general staff officers
had reached the point where the sys
tem would work under battle strain.
One of the most striking things on
the western front, the chief of staff
declared, was the supreme importance
of a unified command. This was first
advocated, he added, by President Wil
son and carried through under tie
president's constant pressure uniil
unity of command was realized in the
appointment of General Foch.
General Foch regarded that as one
of the greatest single military achieve
ments of the allies, which was already
showing its effect In the fighting.
During the last 5 week, General
March said, the fighting in France
has been of a minor character. Jvt'r
est for the allies has centered on ttie
Italian front, where the Austrian drive
at two points of the Piave line pene
trated deeply enough to cause concern.
That offensive has now been checked,
he added, and the swollen waters of
the Piave aided in repelling the at
tack. The entire Austrian bridge sys
tem on the lower Piave was washed
away.
On the river, at one point, however,
in the Montello sector,, the Austrians
had been unable to replace the bridges
destroyed, up to last night, and their
advance forces are in grave danger of
capture' or annihilation.
General March deprecated discus
sion of the participationof American
combat forces on the Italian front for
the present. 1
Some American ambulance sections
are in Italy, but the chief of staff
thought it unwise to disclose any other
movements in prospect for that frojit
at this time.
The fighting around Chateau Thier
ry, where American marines distin
guished themselves, was confined orig
inally to a small force of machine gun
units, General March daid, under com
mand of a major whose name had not
been reported. The 12,000 marines
composing" the marine brigade from
which these units were taken is com
manded, he Stid, by Brigadier General
James G. Harboard, who went to
France as General Pershing's chief of
staff.- '
TONS
GO OUT MONTHLY
Should Keep Eye on Sea Pow
er in Conflict, Says Hurd
SUBMARINE TARGETS
Grip on Enemy Firmer Than
at Any Previous Period
of the War
IS STREAM OF TRAFFIC
For Past Three Months Amer
ican Troops Going Over
Seas by Tens of Thou
sands to France
London, June 23. -The necessity of
keeping an eye upon the importance
of sea power in the present conflict,
despite the close attention claimed by
the land battles, is emphasized by
Archibald Hurd, the naval expert, writ
ing in the Daily Telegraph. "We
have been apt during the recent offen
sives on the western front," Mr. Hurd
writes, "to overlook other aspects of
the war notably the fundamental
factor, which is sea power. After a
period of 15 months, during which our
strength in ships, has steadily de
clined, the downward tendency has
now been definitely arrested. Not only
is our seapower increasing, but our
grip on the enemy is firmer than at
any previous period of the war.
"Seven million tons of shipping en
ter or leave our ports monthly. Each
ship is the target for enemy subma
rines, vet there have been days in the
present week when the enemy has not
secured a single ship.
"Twelve months ago we were with
difficult? maintaining one stream of
traffic, namely, that which brought us
food and raw materials. Toaay sup
nlies are flowing through this main
artery in greater volume than a year
en. At the same time another stream
of traffic has started and merchant
shioDins: has been made available for
the greatest transport movement
which has ever been carried out.
"For three months past American
trooos have been coming across the
Atlantic by tens of thousands, far
faster than at one time was .thought
possible. That means that he bal
ance between the allies and the cen
tral powers is being adjusted in fa
yor of the former."
Viftwiner the war in its various as
pects, naval, military and economic,
we have every reason tor commence.
The tide is distinctly turning, and
turning, let us "hope, for the last time.
- Attempt IIIHiEnipf rof r
t . . ;, ",un V.' . ''" .- .
London, June 22. Reports are
current on the Amsterdam. ex
change today that aniimpt has
been made on the life of Emperor
Charles, of Austria, says a Central
News dispatch from Amsterdam.
The reports are unconfirmed.
E
Wekerle Tells the Chamber of
Deputies of Troubles
in Factories
. Basel, Switz., June 22. Dr. Alexan
der Wakerle, the premier, speaking
before the Hungarian chamber of dep
uties yesterday, made a statement con
cerning the industrial strikes and re
ferred to the serious trouble in fac
tories and on railways and the exten
sion of the strikes to several plants.
The premier told how the workmen
in a locomotive works stoned , the po
lice and in return were 'fired upon,
four of their number being killed and
19 wounded. The proceedings in the
chamber ended in a sharp - exchange
between Premier Wekerle and Count
Karolyi, leader of the independent
party.
J. W. Laid law Murdered
London, June 22. J. W. Laidlaw,
manager of the branch of the Standard
Oil company of New York, at Wuhu,
province of Anhwei, China, has been
murdered by brigands, says a Reuter
dispatch from Shanghai. Details of
the crime afe lacking.
The submarine menace is being held.
The allied armies tire increasing in
relative strength. The food position
of this country, of France, and of Italy
is improving and ship building both in
British and American yards is pro
ceeding at a greatly accelerated pace.
There is assurance that by the end of
December at least 4,000,000 tons will
have been put into the water here and
in the United States and that figure
may be considerably exceeded.
On the other hand the enemy's sink
ings of British and allied tonnage have
been so considerably reduced owing to
the activities of the allied navies and
the courage and resources of their
merchant seamen that it is practically
certain there will be a balance of
shipping on the right side.
In a word, the relative naval, mill
tary and economic strength of the al
lies is steadily increasing at a moment
when the enemy is feeling the cumula
tive effects of the blockade maintain
ed over a period of nearly four years
with increasing stringency and of the
war on land, which not only has re
sulted in heavy casualties but has
drained the central powers of Indus
trial workers, ,-a.i.;fc i.
WORKMENSTONEOPOUCE
AND
WER
FRED
UPON
WtL LAY UP
THE LHVtOUSINE
FOR THE
5UMMERl
with one
Off "TWO ,
Chinese Soldiers Ready to Aid
Japs on Siberian Frontier
SAFEGUARD DEMANDED
Peking P remier Says Xants to
Send 40,000 or 50,000
Troops to Allies
TO REPRESS REBELLION
Finance and Lack of Shipping
Prevented Sending Forces
to Western Front As
France Asked
London, June 22. Chinese soldiers
are available for co-operation with the
Japanese at Harbin and near the
Siberian frontier and if necessary
more will be sent, General Tuan Chi-
Jui, the Chinese premier and war min
ister, told the Peking correspondent of
The Daily Mail. The premier added:
"The threatening sitpation on our
frontiers certainly demands safe
guards. We do not want the Bolshe
vik! in China."
With reference to Chinese partici
patioii in the war, on the European
battle fronts, the premier said:
"I would like to help the allies and
would be glad to send 40,000 or 50,000
troops, but am prevented by financial
difficulties and the activities of the
provincial rebels. I have sent 150,000
troops south. I am hopeful that the
Canton rebellion can be repressed
within two months and then a good
many of these troops can be released
for service elsewhere.
"France originally suggested that
we send troops to the western front,
but questions of finance and lack of
shipping compelled us to lay the pro
posal aside." ,
Regarding the feeling of the Chinese
toward the Germans, General .Tuan
Chi-Jui said that the people generally
could not distinguish , between the
Germans and other Europeans, add
ing: "But the enlightened classes remem
ber that because a mob killed two
missionaries, Germany forced us to
cede Tsing-Tao and owing to that pre
cedent places like Port Arthur and
Wei-Hai-Wei were sliced from China.
But for Germany, China would be
whole today.
Fair Weather Next Week
Washington, June 22. Fair weather
with temperature slightly belcjsr- nor
mal is forecast for the southeastern
states for the week beginning Monday.
WANTED IN CHINA
aSgrows
Shows Increase of Participa
tion in Fighting in France
53 ARE KILLED IN ACTION
Great Care Exercised Not to
Reveal Losses in Any
Particular Battle
BRITISH PASSED 30,000
Lists Show Limited Extent to
Which America Has Been
Able to Bring Its Pow
er Against Huns
Washington, June 22. The steadily
increasing participation of American
troops in the fighting In France was
sharply marked in today's casualty
list. Of the. 153 men named, 53, in
eluding three officers, were killed in
action, the heaviest death roll from
battlefield yet made public.
Probably no particular action is re
sponsible for the number of killed, but
it is an accumulation from the five or
six sections of the front where Amer
icans are fighting and from patrol ac
tions, as well as from larger opera
tions, like the attack yesterday near
Chateau Thierry, to rectify the lines
Great care is exercised in forwarding
the lists not to reveal the losses in
any particular engagement.
The British take similar precautions,
yet their casualty lists last week
passed the - 30,000 mark. During the
week, so far as known; the-British
were involved in no major operations
exception the Italian front. A com
parison of the American and British
lists, however, in some measure forms
a gauge of the limited extent to which
the TJnitde States has yet been able
to bring its power to bear against the
German invaders.
The army casualty list today con
tained 153 names divided as follows:
Killed in action a... 53
Died of wounds 26
Died of airplane acoident . 1
Died of disease I
Died of disease 9
Died of accident and other causes 10
Wounded severely 37
Wounded, degree undetermined ..
Missing in action 15
Prisoner
The list includes the following from
southern states:
Killed in action: Lieutenant T. H
Watson, Raleigh, N. C; Privates Ely
Light, Jr., Melbourne, Fla.; Charlie H.
Mclnturff, Powell, Tenn.; James W.
Ray, Pages Mill, S. C; Edgar W. Sel
lers, Elkton, Va.
Died of wounds: Corp. Joseph F.
Eeeley, Easly, S. C.
Died of disease: Private Edco Ruf
fin, Spring Grove, Surry county, Va.
Died of airplane accident: Sergt.
Sam W. Campbell, Anniston, Ala.
Died of accident and other causes:
Private Louis B. Kleeber, Woodville,
Miss.
Wounded severely: Capt. Mark W.
Clark, Atlanta, Ga.; Corp. Charles H
Barckley, Rosemary, N. C; Privates
Sammie Bell, Pensacola, Fla. ; Jacob
L. Bowman, Lebanon, Tenn.: Heyward
Dennis, Troy, S. C; Harry J. Houge-
sen, Escatawpa, Ala.; Walter P. Kyte,
Columbus, Ga.; Sam R. Lucas, Ker
shaw, S. C; Shelby D. Lee, -Calhoun
City, Miss.; William C. Parker, 563
Plum street, Macon, Ga.
ONE TAR HEEL IN
MARINE CASUALTIES
Washington, June 22. The marine
corps casualty today contained 31
names, divided as follows:
Killed in action 4
Died of wounds 15
Wounded severely 12
Southern men listed among the ma
rine casualties today are:
Killed in action: Private Isaac N.
Boone, Stokesdale, N. C.
Died of wounds received in action:
Private Kenneth L. St. Clair, Egles
ton, Va.
Wounded severely: Sergeant Geo.
B. Roan, Pattison, , Miss.; Private
Thomas B. Crossland, Mobile, Ala.
Mass Prisoners on Rhine
Geneva, June 22. The Germans are
massing more and more allied prison
ers, both officers and men, along the
Rhine and in frontier" towns, says the
Lausanne Gazette. An Alsation news
paper ' reports that five allied prison
ers were killed and six wounded dur
ing a recent air raid on Thionville
Germany. .-- .ii i
Rising of Rive; Bds in Play??f
ing Havoc With Austrians t. "
DRIVING ENEMY BACK? ii j
Italians Made Gains at -MoutKI
of Piave, Pushing the In-.v--;
vaders Backward
LOSSES ABOVE 1 20,000
Behind Battle Front the Dual i f
Monarchy Is Seething Wit&:;: !
Discontent Over the Fobtl j
Situation i;
Fighting on the Piave line appsjrafc ifi
ly is decreasing as the Austrian of
fensive enters upon its second week, V
In the mountains there has been litr'rf
tie activity for several days but the-lf
Austrians are reported to be concen-, t jji
trating large bodies of men there pre
sumably for a push outward to fie
Venetian plain. kv!v
Italian resistance and counter- at0
tacks from Montello to the mouth -of 2
of the river have played havoc with
Austrian hopes of capturing Montello
and dominating the plain. Slowly the
enemv on the imDortant tlacau is
being driven back by the Italians and I
nis enorts at otner points nave eitnerv ;
been driven back or repulsed. Thd
fighting on Montello continues intense. ; ;
At the mouth of the Piave, the- ,
Italians, have made gains and it is apr .;
parent the Austrians have been un - ;
able to capture the angle between:
the old Piave and the Fossetta canal:
which they reached north of Capo SUe.
West of San Dona di Piave, where)
the canal leaves the river, the Italiandr
have driven back the Austrians. Vlen-v
na claims the repulse of all attacks. , .
A statement from the office of the : '
Italian premier says there was no in .'!
fantry fighting Friday and that -the;",
situation is tuichanged. Seemingly: the V-1
Austrians in refusing to attack if urv
ther are 'prepared to admit the defeat ;
of their plans and the victory ot the
Italians. .
Austrian, losses have been heavy aid :
an Italian newspaper estimates them
at 120,000. More than 40 Austrian
divisions have been engaged on the I
battle line and 30 of these have sufv
fered heavily. A report received ittil
London is to the effect that 12 Ger-: f
man divisions are to be sent to Italy j
to take the place of an equal numberi
of Austrian divisions to be transport;
ed to France. I
Behind the fighting front the dual";;
monarchy is seethine with discontent :?
uver iub iuuu sii.ua.uuu, wiucu appar,
ently shows no signs of improvement
Dr. von Seydler, the Austrian premierV i
who has attempted to resign several
trian headquarters to again place his f
resignation in the hands of Emperor;
Charles.
The unrest in Vienna continues to g.
spread throughout Austria-Hungaryi jj
and much anti-German feeling is be-
ing manifested in Vienna and in Hun-J
gary. I the Austria capital the pollqe
have prevented an attempted 1 attack
on the German embassy, the mob cry-,
ing that Germany was starving Aus-
tria. Bread riots again have occurred X
in districts of Vienna and the number j
of munition workers on tke there;
has been increased to 150,000. -
BULGARIA AND TURKEY '
DIFFER OVER THE LAND
. '
Von Kuehlmann Says Musi;
Find Solution in Union of ; V
Dobrudja With Bulgars V:j
Amsterdam, June 22. Difference
have arisen between Bulgaria - and
Turkey over the division of l&4ds
taken from Rumania under the peace
agreement with the central powers.
Dr. von Kuehlmann, German foreign,
secretary, indicated yesterday in ad
dressing the reichstag at Berlin upon,
the occasion of the first -reading of the
Rumanian peace treaty. r ,f:
"We all take the standpoint," said
the foreign secretary, "that the pro
visional arrangement which we desire
shall continue as short a time as pos
sible, must find its rational solution In
the union of the northern Dobrudja
with Bulgaria, in accordance with the
desires of the Bulgarian people. r As
in the present case, it is a matter of
difference of opinion between two of
our allies which will be bridged, ye
must, bound as we are by exactly
equal ties to Bulgaria and Turkey,
avoid everything which could'evoke
the impression abroad that the; Ger
many policy favored the claims of the
one at the expense of the other,
V