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BRITISH TROOPS PRESSING ON. Reach Cherisy Penetrating the Hin denburg Line and Press Toward Reincourt. "Fighting Is Terrible." Reuter's Correspondent Says the "Battling is of the l)ing-Dong Or der. Germans Fighting With Des perate Obstinacy. They Are Mount ing Machine Guns in Tops of Trees. London, May 3?The British troops have reached Cherisy, crossed the Hindenburg line toward Reincourt and are reported to have taken Bullecourt, says Reuter's correspondent at British headquarters. Fighting of terrible intensity raged throughout the day at the main points of the British attack, says Reuter's correspondent. "The battling," he adds, "has been in many places of ding-dong order, which renders it extremely difficult to define the sun, but I think it may certainly be claim ed as a successful day for our gal lant troops. The most conspicuous gains have been on the flanks of the long front, while towards the center, up the valley of the Scarpe, we have made less progress owing to the in tensity of concealed machine gun fire. . \ "Despite the opposition of massed German forces, the Canadian troops took Fresntfy. Oppy, however, still proved too strongly held to attempt to carry it by direct frontal attack without courting a heavier casualty list than the enterprise warranted. The wood in front of the ruined vil lage literally was infested with ma chine guns. "The Germans are fighting with desperate obstinancy. "Machine guns were perched in trees at various heights while lines of uncut wire were discovered in pulleys which concealed them from di rect observation as well as from the searching effect of our barrage, so that the attack upon this place amounted to little more than a recon naissance in froce and our troops withdrew to enable the gunners to concentrate their fire upon the newly discovered obstacles. "South of the Sensee, the battle de veloped into a most successful sweep ing movement, our troops reaching Cherisy. Converging tactics upon Reincourt carried our advance across the Hinderburg line and threatened^ cut off the garrison at Bullecourt. The earrison was reported to have been captured but the report was not con fined. _ , ,. "The Germans are fighting wi desperate obstinacy. Several new di visions have been identified at dif ferent parts of the front, showing that the Germans continue to use their strategic reserves. Counter-at tacks, usually on a formidable scale, developed promptly opposite every point where we gained ground. The enemy recaptured some ground at Gavrelle, but the counter-attacks generally were broken up by our ar tillery fire which was maintained with almost incredible intensity. Greensboro News. READY TO SEND ARMY ACROSS. Government Has Offered Troops to Allies and They Will Go to France Whenever Ships Carrying Supplies Can Be Spared for Transports. Washington, May 1. ? The United States stands ready to send an army to Europe whenever the Allies deem it wise to divert the necessary ship ping from transporting food to trans porting men. * It bccame known definitely today that the Government has offered the Allies troops, but has suggested that the alarming shortage of world ship ping mr.y make it impracticable to send them at once. In spite of ob jections of the General Staff to put ting any American force on the fir ing line before the great war army has been raised and trained, the Ad ministration has determined that the small contingent earnestly desired by France for moral effect shall be sent as soon as possible. The general be lief is the way will soon be found. Whether the force first to carry the Stars und Stripes into battle in France shall be made up of regulars or National Guardsmen, or both, has not been worked out. The subject was not discussed at today's Cabinet meeting, but Secretary Baker re mained afterward for a conference with President Wilson. UNIVERSITY NEWS NOTES. More Than One Hundred Students to Go to Fort Oglethorpe for Military Training. Scientists of State Hold Meeting. Chapel Hill, May 2. ? The meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science at the University of North Carolina the end of last week brought together more than 50 of the leading scientists of the State from the va rious State departments, colleges and high schools. The North Carolina di vision of the American Chemical So ciety also met here at the same time. Among the colleges which sent rep resentatives were The College of Ag riculture and Engineering, Wake For est, Trinity, Elon, The State Normal, Meredith, St. Mary's. The high schools represented were Asheville, Raleigh, Durham and Wilson. The State Department of Agriculture was also represented. Many topics of timely interest were taken up, such as "Soy Bean Meal for Human Food," "Chemical Chang es Involved in Cooking Cottonseed in the Oil Mill," "The Physics of the Shrapnel Shell," etc. The University entertained the members at luncheon Saturday. More than a hundred University students, and a large number, espe cially from the senior class, will leave the University the last of next week to enter upon military training at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., for the Offi cers' Reserve Corps of the army. Those who are accepted will be giv en credit for the remainder of the school year upon the basis of what they have done in their classes so far this term. Seniors will be award ed their diplomas. Few will be eli gible below the Junior class, so the largest numbers will go from the two upper classes. GENERAL NEWS. During April 19,343 Germans were made prisoner by the British, who also captured 257 guns and howitzers, including 98 heavy guns and howitz ers, 227 trench motors and 470 ma chine guns. Twenty-three Norwegian ships with a total tonnage of 36,000 were sunk last week by submarines, ac cording to a despatch from Christia na. This is the biggest loss Norway has suffered in any one week. The Brazilian Government, despite its diplomatic break with Germany, has issued a proclamation announc ing that it will not interfere in the war between the United States and Germany , says a despatch from Rio de Janeiro. The Uruguayan steamship Gorizia has been sunk without warning by a German submarine. The crew was saved. The submarine approached the steamer and after maneuvering into position, shelled it until it sank. The crew took to the boats. Representatives of the health de partments of nearly all States in the Union met in Washington Tuesday with officials of the Federal Public Health Service to perfect a program of co-operation with the Federal health authorities during the war. On Tuesday in the City of Mexico Venestiano Carranza took the oath of office as the first constitutional presi dent of Mexico since the assassina tion of Madero on February 23, 1913. The new president was chosen to this high position in the March election. Secretary Daniels announced Tues day that the Marine Corps, during the month of April, had increased its strength by 4,677 men, bringing the total to 17,680. A large tract of land at Quantico, Va., near Washington, has been leased as a site for a marine training camp, and temporary bar racks will be constructed immediately for the housing of 5,000 marine re cruits. The buildings were found nec essary because of tent shortage. Petrograd has again been the scene of disorder, fomented by oppo nents of the present government, in which bombs were thrown and the troops were compelled to fire on the rioters. The disturbance took place Monday, but apparently it was short lrTed for a dispatch from Petrograd on Tuesday announced that the Rus sian capital's first May day parade, in which a million persons partici pated, passed without disorder. SELMA'S LIVE NEWS BUDGET. Death of Mrs. Laura Cawthorne Wednesday. Mr. C'orkcrham Joins the Army. Southern Making Ex tensive Improvement. Many Local Items of Interest. Selma, May 3. ? Mr. A. Jones has bought a lot on Gertrude Avenue and will build on it shortly. Mr. A. Dughi, of Raleigh, was in town Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Winston spent Saturday night at Fuquay Springs. Mr. M. C. Winston and Miss Lizzie Winston spent Sunday in Oxford. Mr. B. C. Phillips, a member of the Selma Company, has received his dis charge and will resume work with the Light and Power Company. Mr. M. C. Winston left for New York Monday night. He expects to re turn the last of the week. Mr, J. L. Cockerham has joined the army and will leave for Fort Ogle thorpe on May 8th. We wish him all good luck, and trust that before they have to go to France the enemy will see that we mean business and quit. Messrs. W. E. Jones, C. G. Wiggs, Simon Godwin, Wyatt Brannan and T. C. Henry went to Seeley's Pond fishing last Monday. They had a good time. They did not catch many fish, but had good luck to get back. Misses Blanche and Mary G. Mitch ener, Gladys Whitley and Dora Creech and Mrs. W. H. B. Parker motored to Raleigh Monday afternoon. Selma Chapter No. 65 R. A. M., will meet in special convention on Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock for the purpose of conferring the Royal Arch Degree on the two teams. Lunch will be served at 7 o'clock. The degree will be conferred on the second team at 8 P. M. Companions cordially in vited. Upchurch & Company, of Raleigh, are having the old Waddell Bros. Store remodeled and will open a furni ture store soon. Work has. been begun on the side tracks east of Selma. A great deal of work will be done there during the summer. 'Tis said that the work will cost about $200,000. Mrs. Laura Cawthorne, widow of the late Charles Cawthorne, died Wednesday, after an illness of some four years, of cancer. She suffered a great deal and death was a relief to her. She was the mother of ten chil dren, seven having preceded her, leav ing three, Mrs. Lilly Liles, of Ral eigh, and Messrs. Alonzo and Frank Cawthorne to mourn their loss. She also leaves an aged mother, Mrs. Jo seph Jones. Mrs. Jones is in feeble health now. Mrs. Cawthorne was a good woman and has gone to her re ward. She was one of the old citizens of Selma. She left a granddaughter, Mrs. Murray Lane. The children of Mrs. Lane have lost three grand mothers since Christmas, Mrs. Pattie Jane Blackman, who died January 12, 1917; Mrs. Mollie Cook, who died April 11, 1917, and Mrs. Laura Caw thorne, who died on the 2nd of May, 1917. Her remains were interred in the Selma Cemetery by the side of her son, Charlie, who was murdered by Tom Smith, colored, in 1899. George Harvey Ellis, whose father, George H. Ellis, was killed 19 years ago in the naval battle of Santiago while chief yeoman on Commodore Schley's flagship Brooklyn, has en listed in the navy. He is 19 years old and has been assigned to the radio class at the Navy Yard. The Peninsular and Oriental Line Steamship Ballarat, of fl,120 gross tons, was sunk recently by a German submarine. All the troops were saved. The ballarat was carrying troops from Australia to England. The sol diers were rescued by British torpe do-boat destroyers and trawlers. Admiral Lord Beresford, speaking in London Tuesday and complaining of the incompleteness of the official returns of the submarine sinkers, said that the losses were appalling. He declared that he was so keen on the matter that he was inclined to risk the penalties of the Defense of the Realm Act and tell the people himself, because until they were in formed, they would not realize the importance of economy. Germany's intensified submarine campaign apparently is causing con siderable uneasiness in England. King George, it is announced, short ly will issue a proclamation asking the people to cut down their consump tion of foodstuffs by 25 per cent ow ing to the gravity of the situation. I MEN NAMED FOR COMMISSION I IO Have (1>arfe of $3,000,000 Appro priated for Institutions. Tax List "s Are M)w at Work. Special At tent ion to Be Given Incomes. t (Charlotte Observer.) K lU igh, May 1. ? Governor Bickett announced today the personnel of the 1 1 uilding Commission of five members to have in hand the expendi <- ? the $3,000,000 appropriated the recent Legislature for perma nent improvements for the State in stitutions, the money to be provided y a series of bond issues distributed through the next five years. The members of the commission are Hugh MacRae, Wilmington; Charles E Johnson, Raleigh; Frank Dalton Greensboro, all three Democrats, and Jan latrick, Snow Hill, and J. M Privette, Wilksboro. Mr. MacRae is one of the best known and most esteemed business men of the whole State. Colonel Johnson is a well known banker and business man, who served as chair man of the building commission for the erection of the Raleigh city audi torium and municipal building. Mr. n ^ president of one of the big gest lumber mill concerns in the State and is much experienced in build, ng matters. Dan Patrick is one of the most extensive business men among the Republicans of the State and the appointment of Mr. Privette was recommended by Republican leaders generally as an especially ca pable and acceptable man for one of the minority members. He was a member of the recent Legislature, lhe commission is to organize at once and proceed with the prelimi naries for the inauguration of the building operations at the various in stitutions, there being $500,000 avail able for this year. One thousand five hundred tax listers in the various precincts of the counties throughout the State have just begun their work of listing the taxables for 1917, this work to be completed during May and the tax lists completed and ready for the county commissioners by July 1. The State Tax Commission has issued its special instructions to these listers as a perliminary to their taking up their work. The instructions are much the same as heretofore, a spe cial difference, however, being that special stress is laid on a new pro cedure as to listing incomes. It is pointed out that under a special pro vision of the revenue bill all corpor ations doing business in the State, including non-resident corporations that have salaried representatives, are required to report to the State Tax Commission their employes whose salaries or commissions amount to $1,200 or more, giving the exact incomes. These will be classi fied as to counties and reported to the county authorities for the col lection of the taxes. The State Tax Commission hopes that this exacting provision for employes of corpora tions will stimulate other citizens generally to give in their incomes I airly so that there will be no in equalities. The special effort this year will be the fullest possible list ing of the incomes liable to tax. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Paris newspapers pave further ev idence Tuesday of the famine in news print paper. All penny papers an nounced a cut in size to two pages on four days of the week. Higher priced papers announced a reductiqn to this size at least twice a week, effective May 5th. Secretary McAdoo announced Wed nesday night that the first offering of bonds authorized under the war finance law would be a $2,000,000,000 "Liberty loan" issue, open to popular subscription at par, and that sub scriptions would be received till June 15 next. The bonds will be dated July 1 and will be ready for delivery on that date. One million, three hundred thousand Germans have perished in the war, according to a statement made by Joseph Friedrich Naunann, formerly a Conservative member of the reieh sta?, says an Ansterdam dispatch. Herr Naunann lecturing on the "in fluence of the war on population" said in part: "Until now the war has caused a loss of 1,300,000 dead. This, together with the decrease in births gives a reduction of 3,800,000. The surplus of females has increased from 800,000 to far more than 2,000,000. The nation ha? bled as never since the Thirty Years War." KENLY HIGH SCHOOL TO CLOSE. Lieterary Address to Ik' Delivered By I)r. J. F. .ibernathy. The Sev eral Grades to Give Entertain ments. Kenly, May 3. ? The plans for the commencement exercises of the Kenly State High School, which begin next Sunday morning and close the follow ing Tuesday night, indicate that the commencement exercises this year will be among the best that have ever been given by the school. Doctor J. E. Abernathy, of Monroe, one of the sanest and most eloquent speakers of our State, has consented to deliver the literary address at 10:30 o'clock next Tuesday morning. The exercises by the grades and by the music class will be of high order. The students of the first three grades will dramatize "Snow-White," a very beautiful literary production. The students of the elementary school will devote an entire afternoon to May poll dances, woodland dramatizations, and other interesting activities. The students of the high school and of the music and expression classes will give a number of readings, selections of special music; also, the high school will present "The Pennant," one of the most beautiful and artistic high school dramatizations on the stage to-day. Monday afternoon the Kenly base ball team will play the team of Fre mont on the Kenly diamond. The school has done splendid work this year and for the first time in its h'story has a graduating class of stu dents who are prepared to enter any college of North Carolina without standing examination on a single sub ject. The class is composed of six students, two girls and four boys. At a meeting of the Betterment Association Tuesday afternoon the members decided to sell ice cream on the school campus during commence ment, for the benefit of the Associa tion. A great work has been done by the Betterment Association this year in improving the school campus, and money is needed to defray the expen ses of this work. ? THE A. & E. COMMENCEMENT. Hon. James W. Gerard, Former Am bassador to Germany, Principal Speaker. Class of 91 Will Graduate. West Raleigh, N. C., May 2. ? Plans for the twenty-eighth annual com mencement of North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineer ing have taken definite shape, and the usual form of ceremony will take place on the 27th, 28th and 29 of May. The College has been especially fortunate in securing speakers of great distinction for the occasion, which will draw many alumni and vis itors. Hon. James W. Gerard, recent ambassador to Germany, will be the principal speaker, and in view of his international prominence and knowl edge of the present great world war, no doubt large numbers of people will take advantage of the opportunity to hear him speak. Mr. Gerard's address ? *ii **? i ? m win come on Monday evening oi com mencement. The exercises will begin on Sunday with the baccalaureate sermon, which will be delivered by Dr. Edward Mack, president of the Union Theological Seminary, of Richmond, Va. Mr. Junius S. Cates, agricul turalist in the Office of Farm Man agement of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has been chosen to make the alumni address, which will also come on Monday evening. The annual meeting of the General Alumni Association is scheduled for ten o'clock in the College Y. M. C. A. auditorium the morning of Monday, the 28th. The alumni dir.her in the Dining Hall will follow the meeting. The graduating cxercisea will take place on Tuesday morning, the 29th, at which time a class of 91 will re ceive diplomas. The graduates are divided as follows: Agricultural, thirty-five; civil engineering, fifteen; electrical engineering, ten; mechan ical engineering, nine; textile indus try, thirteen; and master's degrees will go to nine. General business conditions throughout the country, the Federal Reserve Board announced Wednesday night in its monthly review, have not been materially affected by the en trance of the United States into the war, although in every district there is going on a process of readjust ment which is reflected in viany lines. SUBMARINE MENACE GROWING. (ierman U- Boats Kefognizrd as Her Most Powerful Weapon ia War. Plans to Combat Campaign Under Way. Deadlock Persists on Battle Fronts, With Big Guns Still Roar ing Their Messages of Death. The following is the Associated Press war summary for Wednesday published in yesterday's papers: That Germany's submarine arm, not her military arm, is the menace which for the moment is greatest for the future welfare of the United States and the entente allies is rec ognized by the governments of all the powers which are at war with Ger many. The last days of April saw the un derwater boats send to the bottom hundreds of thousands of tons of shipping, which means that huge quantities of ammunition and food stuffs, the receipt of which would have greatly heartened Great Britain and France, have been irretrievably lost to them and made the pinch of want to those countries, their soldiers and their people more acute. The unseen monsters of the under seas from April 20 to 27 had their share with mines in sending beneath the waves, some of them unwarned and with tolls of death, 38 British vessels of over 1,600 tons and 13 others of less than 1,600 tons ? the aggregate in each category being on ly two vessels less than the British admiralty reported the previous week, when the high point in the sinking of British merchantmen since the re ports have been issued was reached. Impetus is being given to the plans to combat the menace by all the countries at war with Germany, and hopes are expressed that shortly a check may be put to the inroads of the submarine into commerce. The military activities on all fronts in France and Belgium are still in a stage of apparent deadlock but the big guns everywht eoi v.nuf roaring in violent duels I ubties. new phases of infantry actions are developing. On none of the other fronts have there been engagements of great importance, although the British in Mesopotamia have driven forward their lines against the Turks and made captures of men, guns and stores, while the Turks have forced out the Russians from Mush, in Tur kish Armenia. The anticipated proffer of peace by the imperial German chancellor will not be given to the reichstag Thurs day, but will be withheld for a "more fitting occasion," according to advices reaching Copenhagen. That peace is not uppermost in the minds of all German officials apparently is indi cated by the address before the reich stag at its reopening session of Dr. Johannes Kaempf, president of the chamber, who asserted that the Ger man people adhered to the "firm be lief in Germany's star and in a peace which will secure for all time the fatherland's happy development." NEW YORK SHIP ARRIVALS. Fifty-One Greater During April Than in March. Departures Gained Thirteen. New York, May 1. ? Fifty-one more vessels entered the port of New York last month than in March, notwith standing the German submarine men ace. The increased tonnage was 96, 468, of which 32,470 was represented by seven more ships flying the Amer ican flag than during March. Departures in April were decreas ed by 13 vessels, or 37,562 tons, as compared with March. Eighteen few er American ships sailed fjrom here. These represented 49,651 tons. The total number of vessels of all nationalities arriving here last month was 449, of which 121 were Ameri can. Tho total tonnage was 1,149, 740; American, 317,202. The Government got its first offi cial news of the sinking of the Amer ican steamship Vacuum Tuesday in a cablegram to the State Department. Official announcement from the de partment said: "A telegram to the Department of State from the Ameri can Consul-General at London says that the American vessel Vaccuum was destroyed by a submarine. The mate and seventeen of the crew, in cluding three gunners, were r?scued and landed. These were all in one boat. Other boat* with the master, naval lieutenant and the remainder of the crew are still missing."
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