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On the battle front, ria Ptria.A thrill was in the air all along the x tended allied lines today. The French and British troops who for; more than. a fortnight havefceen? IS 'closest con tart with the Germans, felt they had accomplished their hard task of pre Tentins - the Gerjatuis from breaking through the human barrier erected be tween them and Paris, their main ob jective, and that this meant eventual victory for the allies. ' The lines of trenches made the bat tl front appear like deeply scarred f!ds. The allies, who Quick learned the lesson of .burrowing, face the Ger mans within quarter of mile at some places. Their field entrenchments of fer admirable shelter from the Ger man artillery which consequently re dticen their casualties and permits the allies to awaits in comparative safety the Germans attacks which must be made across the open and often at terrible cost. The fury of the German onslaught was unabated today, especially on the western wing, but their every effort was met with vigor by the allies, who seemed to vie with each other In using all their strength and courage against the attackers. The scene of the most violent at tacks changes day by day. The Ger mans finding it impossible to pene trate the allied lines in the vicinity of Rheims and Soissons, quickly trans jiorted many of their divisions further northwest and hurled them against Roye. The allies' great turning movement continued today and their western wing extended toward Arras. Reports rrom the other end of the line on the allies to be slow but sure. Hun dreds of Gentian prisoners fell into the hands of the allies at every point and it was remarked that the majority were Bavariafns who seem to have been prominent in the front of the German attack. ' Spies are so numerous along the front that orders have been issued stating that any German in civilian dre- encountered will be considered a sry and those furnishing him with clothes will be regarded as accom pllces. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT! ALLIES' EFFFORTS REPULSED. Attempts of French to Break Through German Line Have Been Evaded. Berlin, by wireless to Sayvllle, L. I According to announcement made here the great battle in France is still undecided. The Germans are describ ed as hammering the French positions at mimerous points by their heavy ar tillery. The attempts of the -allies to break The Russians have attacked Przem- syl. the last Austrian stronghold in Galicia, and according to reports from Petrograd two of the forts have been taken. The Austriaos are fighting des perately, but ' the odds are' greatly against them.:0 The siege of Antwerp continues. The' plucky Belgian 'bare succeeded in holding their Xiw& Ttgalngt" the German soldiers. So far the forts surrounding the city have been able to withstand the shells from the Ger mans' great siege guns. King Albert, of. Belgium, Is prepared to flee to Eng land in the 'event of the fall of the city. Antwerp Is considered one of the strongest fortified cities in the world and much interest is being manifested in the attack'ot the Germans on the city. According to the latest dispatches from Paris and London the Anelo French armies have almost succeeded in drivingthe Germans entirely from the French soil. The left wing of the allied army is said to be within thirty miles of the Belgian border. On "the right wing the allies are reported to be gaining steadily pushing the Germans before them. In the center there seems to be a lull in the trenches of both the allies and the Germans. The battle of the Aisne, as it is called though tne great armies are now fighting a great distance north of the river, will probably not -end until the Germans have been driven out of France into Belgium. Battle of Alsne Continues. For three weeks the fate of the bat tle of the Aisne has hung in the bal ance. Along the" great battle line, which extends over a hundred miles in length, thousands of men fought with the desperation of demons. Thou sands of lives were sacrificed by the opposing armies in "their efforts to gain an advantage Over their aggressors. At different points where the fighting was in progress success yras won first by one side and then the other, but at no time was any permanent advantage gained by either of the great armies. Soldiers Fight Day and Night Every art ' known to modern war fare was resorted to by the command ers of te German and afited armies. The suffering by the men in both ar mies was indescribable. During the three weeks the fighting continued day and night. After a day of hard fight ing night came, with its terrors. Tne soldiers slept at short intervals with their guns at their sides ready to spring into action when the alarm was given. Then cold, chilling rains added tq the suffering of the fighting men, Their clothes were soaked and their trenches filled with water. Germany Fighting Two Wart These have been trying days for the German empire. While their armies have been battling against the allies on the northern frontier of France re- Rintine the desperate onslaughts of their enemies another, great menace loomed up in east Prussia, when the Russians began.a victorious campaign nirninRt. the German army corps de- conoii CROP WILL BE SECOND III SIZE FORECAST FROM GOVERNMENT FIGURES OF SEPT. 25 IS 15, 300,000 BALES. BRITONS GEII. FRENCH TELLS HAVE FACED PIAMT GERMAN GUNS GIN NEARLY 3,000;000 BALES throueh the German lines are said to have been repulsed. The heaviest fending the eastern frontier of Prus losses have heen in the Antonne re- sia. The complete failure of the Aus gion. The Germans are asserted to be making steady progress. In the fighting before Antwerp the Orman artillery is reported as hav inc silenced two of the Belgian forts. German troops are said to have cap tured 30 aeroplanes sent from France to BelRium. In the eastern arena of the, war the Russian offensive movement from 'he Xlemen river against the Germans in the province of Suvalki Ifi declared to have failed. It is officially report ed that the Russian fortress at Osso wptz, in Russian Poland, was bom barded by the Germans until Septem bpr 25. The fighting in France, the siege of Antwerp and the offensive opera tions under, General von Hindenberg, all Koing on at the same time, are taken in Berlin to indicate that the German army is not lacking in men. Allies Winging At Aisne Washington. The ' turning move ment of the allied armies in northern France has brought the extreme of their left wing about thirty miles from the Belgian frontier. An official statement issued by the French war office says that part of the battle line stretching generally north and south has been extended north to a point south of Arras. This line, on which the allies are attempting to en velop the German right wing under Gen. Von Kluck, has been pushed gradually toward the Belgian border, as the Germans widened their front in defense iintil it extends some fifty- five miles from the angle that rests on Tracy-le-Mont. Terrific fighting continues on the al lies' left wing, according to the Paris statement, the most severe struggle De ing in the region of Roye, a town 26 miles east fit Amiens and about mid way on this battle line. Here tne Ger mans have concentrated strong forces, probably with the purpose of breaking through the front of the allies and iso lating the forces to the, north. The Paris statement adds that the Germans attempted to bridge tne Meuse near St. Mihiel, but their pon- toons were destroyed. French claims 6f slight progress in the Woevre dis trict are recorded as minor engage ments at various points in front ex tending east and west. Shelling of Rheims Continues London. The Rheims correspond ent of the Exchange Telegraph compa ny sends this story of the continued bombardment of Rheims: "The bombardment of Rheims still continues. The city has now been un der fire of the German guns for sixteen days, and in every part of the city the whistle of shells is heard as well as the loud reports of their explosion. Amsterdam. The Germans hava commenced their attack on the first line of defense of Antwerp, accord ing to dispatches received by the Am sterdam papers. , Moll, an important railway junction near the Dutch bor der, was occupied by the Germans, who again occupy Malines, began a bombardment of Lierre. directly in front of Antwerp. They also contin ued their bombardment of Forts Waehel and St. Catharine. It is be lieved heavy Austrian artillery is be ing used Lierre, according to a message to the Handelsblad, has been under shell fire some time. The people at first hid in the cellars, but subsequently fled to Antwerp, being joined by fugitives from the surrounding villages. It is reported that one shell fell on a hos pital, killing nine persons. German Naval Reserves Ready More than twenty-five thousand Ger man naval reserves have been brought from Kiel and Hamburg to Brussels and are held in readiness to serve on the improvised German fleet should Antwerp and Ostend be taken As ti direct result of this move the British authorities along the Scheldt have increased their watchfulness, for during a siege , of Antwerp England might like to send reinforcements through the Dutch Schledt, which would be a breach of neutrality, while on the other hand a German victory would bring danger of an attempt on the part of Germany to use the mount of the Scheldt as a base from which to attack the British naval forces in the North sea. World's Strongest Forts The fortifications of Antwerp are reckoned N among the strongest in the world. In 1860, twenty eight years after the taking of the city by English and French troops, Brialmont, the noted Belgian builder, ' supervised the ref ortification of , the city and since 1877 if has had a line of forts well out From September 1 to 25, Bringing . Total For Season up to 3,381,8S. Next to the Record. f Washington A forecast of 15,300,- 060 flve-huntdred-pound bales of cotton jkaalthe 1914 crop was made by the haSgrjefiL' Afxfeture'i. crop re- t porting boaji hrthe'Beason's final re porting, which showed a condition on September 23 of 73.5 per cent of nor mal. Tat quantity of cotton make this year's crop second in point of size ever grown in the United States, The record is 15,693,000 hales grown in 1911. Last year 14.156.000 bales were grown and in 1912 there were 13,702,000 bales The September 25 condition indi cates a yield of about 200 pounds of lint per acre, which applied to the estimated area planted, 36,960,000 acres, would produce 15,463,000 bales An average of one per cent of the acreage is abandoned each year. Al lowing for that the condition of the crop indicates a total production of 15,300,000 bales. Cotton ginning was active from September 1 to 25, a total of 2,901,556 bales having been turned out. That brought the aggregate glnnings for the year to 3,381,863 bales, according to the Census Bureau's report, an nounced. The period's glnnings-were second only to those of the record crop year of 1911, being less than 4,000 bales lower. In Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Louisiana, the glnnings to September 25 exceeded those to that date in any of the past seven years. Sea Island cotton ginnings exceed ed those of any year in the past seven, while the number of round bales gin ned showed a great decrease. The second cotton ginning report of the season, compiled from reports of Census Bureau correspondents and London. The official press bureau issued a report from Field Marshal Sir John French's headquarters oh the British operations In France. The text follows: "The enemy is still maintaining him self along the whole front an in order to do so is throwing into the fight de tachments composed of units from the different formations, the active army, reserve, and landwehr, as is shown by the uniforms of the prisoners recently captured. "Our progress, although slow on ac count of the strength of the defensive position against which we are pressing, has in certain directions been continu ous, but the present battle may well last for some days more before a de cision is reached, since it now ap proximates nearly to siege warfare. "The Germans are! making use of searchlights. This fact, coupled with their great strength in heavy artillery, leads to the supposition that they are employing material which may have been collected for the siege, of Paris Confident of the Result. "The nature of the general situation after the operations of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth, cannot be better summarized than as expressed recently in a neighboring French com mander to his corps: 'Having repulsed repeated and violent counter attacks made by the enemy, we have a feeling that we have been victorious.' So far as the British are concerned, the course of events during these. three days can be described in a few words. During Friday, eighteenth, artillery fire was kept up intermittently by both sides during daylight. At night the Germans counter-attacked certain por tions of our line,' supporting the ad vance of their infantry as always by a heavy bombardment. But the strokes were not delivered with great vigor and ceased about' 2 a. m. During the day's fighting an air-craft gun of the Third army corps succeeded in bring ing down a German aeroplane. "News was received also that a body of French Cavalry had demolished part Of the railway to the north, cutting, at least temporarily, one line of communi cation which is of particular import ance to the enemy. German Attack Stopped. "On Saturday, the nineteenth, the bombardment was resumed by the Ger mans at an early hour and Continued intermittently under reply from our. IN HEELS H FROIIT MUCH OF DEMOCRATIC LEG I SLA. TION SHAPED BY NORTH jCAROLINIANS. V colossal expenditure of ammunition which has been wasted. "By this it is not implied that their ainnoijr UI it, iwV6W. " - I ....inn nr TliPIB nUlU than good it is excellent: But the flAV L MIMUO Ur Ifltin unn British soldier is a difficult person to impress or depress, even by immense shells filled with a high explosive, which detonate with terrific violence and form craters large enough to act as graves for five horses. Scoff at German Shells. "The German howitzer shells' are from eight to nine inches in caliber, and on impact they send ug columns of greasy black smoke. On account of this they are irreverently dubbed They Have Been With and Against the President But Have Always Stood Four-Sfuare. Washington. The second session of the Sixty third congress is drawing to a close. There Is promise of an early adjourn ment or recess. Two more bills of 'coal boxes,' 'black Marias,' or 'Jack national importance, the Clayton anti- agents throughout the cittoh belt and issued, at 10 a. m., announced that guns. Some of their infantry advanced 3,381,863 bales of cotton, counting from cover, apparently with the inten round as half bales, of the growth of 1914 has been ginned prior to Sep tember 25. This compares with 3,246, 655 bales, or 23.2 per cent of the en tire crop, ginned prior to September 25 last year. 3,007,271 bales or 22.3 per cent in 1912 and 3,679,594 bales or 23.6 per cent in 1911. REDUCE GASOLINE TAX 1 CENT. trian armies to check the Russian ar- miPR in Galicia also proved a bitter disappointment to the Germans. When the kaiser learned of the Russians ad vance in east Prussia he rushed every available soldier from Belgium and France to defend his own country from invasion by a dreaded foe. In Poland the Germans and Rus sians have been ii continuous battle for the past week with a slight advan tage v to the 'Russians. It has been the endeavor of the German troops in Poland to push the Russians backward and force them to withdraw into Rus sian Poland. In Galicia the Russians seem to have almost rid that country of Australian troops who have retreat ed south of the Carpathian mountains, where the Russians are pursuing them. It is reported that the Russians, have captured large quantities of guns, am munition, army: automobiles and pro visions from the Austrians. wrecking buildings in every quarter. "The fire is no longer being directed from the inner defenses. In 1907 the on the cathedral, although four snews dropped through the shattered roof and exploded in the ruined interior. BrJssels Faces A Famine London. Seven hundred thousand persons in Brussels are facing starva tion, according to Hugh Gibson, the secretary of the American embassy there, who is now in this city. The supply of flour in the' Belgian capital will be exhausted and other staples are virtually all consumed. The last apportionment of flour to the citizeas of Brussels will be given out later. Germans Lose in Poland. London. A dispatch to. The Central Nt ws from Rome says: "The Rus sian embassy here has Issued a com munication announcing that tbe Ger mans have suffered a terribl A defeat in the provinces of Lodz and Suwalki, Russian Wand. The Germans were ; tracked 'with extreme violence and ompelled to flee from Suvalki, Ostro and other towns, leaving behind preat quantities of transports and uns. Their troops threw away rifles and baggage. Numerous cannon were abandoned. Italy Prepared For War London The report that the 1885, 1886 and 1888 classes of Italian re serves will be called to the colors ear ly in October has been confirmed by several Italian newspapers, according to the correspondent of the London Dailv Mail at Venice. Eleven first cat egory classes will then be under the flag and .will total l,3o,ouo men. government decided to do away with the injier line of walls and replace them with an inner line of forts on the right bank of the Scheldt. The greatest importance is'attaehed to the outer works. They consist in part of new fortifications-, in part of old forts rebuilt. The work was be gun in 1913. . It is probable that this ideal was realized and that the forti fication system is now practically complete. The outer chain of forts lies from ten to eleven miles outside the city and has a front of about eighty miles. Dresden -Reported Sunk. New. York. A. rumor that the, Ger man c-ruiser Dresden had been sunk ry the British cruisers Glasgow and !ood Hope was brought here by pas tensers' on the . steamer Japanese Prince which arrived from South American ports. This rumor, the pas sengers said, was current in Pernam buco on September 17. Fifteen Ger rnan vessels, it was said, are in Per r.ambuco harbor, fearing to venture out because of the reported presence f British cruisers outside tbe harbor: Germans' Great Loss. London. "The Germans have suf fered heavily everywhere under the ll-drected machine gun fire of the Illsians," according to a statement fabled from Antwerp by the corre-, si-ondent of Th Central News. "At the Wavre and' St. Catherine forts "tone (outside of Antwerp) the Ger man dead may be counted by thou;. Banna. At several points the" corpses lie in heaps. Entire companies have been exterminated while, the - other troops weTe driven back at the poin' fit the bayonet." German Women Give Gold Rome. The women of Germany, according to reports received here, are busily at work preparing woolen garments lor the soldiers ra the battle line. The reports also .etate that a committee of women has been formed for the purpose of inducing the worn en of Germany to give up their gold ornaments with the idea of transform ing them into money with which to buy arms. Each woman receives in exchange for her gold ornaments an iron ring inscribed with the words "I gave gold for this." British Buy The "America" New York. Under cover of darkness the America,, said to be the world's most powerful aeroplane, was loaded on the steamship Mauretania and now is being taken across the Atlantic to be used by the British government for war service. The America was built for a trans-Atlantic flight and would have been piloted by Lieut. John C Porte ,a British naval lieutenant. The America and two other aeroplanes were brought here on a special train : - ' ,; r-r - ' :, . Bftlaian Towns Are .Looted London. Correspondents of The Tim in Frances give contrasting in stances of the. manner in which Ger Ttina deaTwith the towns ttrey occu py During the German occupation fWronne. owing to the failure to nrovide the requisitions demanded, the .,.n.Hnff officer.- 8 Times corre- VUUiuiauuMo ' --nnndentvays gave me troops per- f lnnt the town. For two hmira the Germans needed no second invitotioniityrsaid. and furniture, ancienlind JBOderM jilyer andronzes pictures were taken away on trams, Invaders Have Trying times London. A picture of the sufferings of -the German troops, cramped in un derground trenches and galleries along the Aisne river, is given by the Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail. He says that the antumnal weather with its dahiD 'nights ana Ditteriy coin dawns, is extremely trying. It tne men step from their trenches to the level ground they- do so at the risk of their lives. At night every German .nMtor must be at his post in the narrow ditch, sleeping as best he may, with his rifle at his side. . Exchanae of Prisoner Begun London. The British and German crovrnment have begun exchanging lists of prisoners oi war mrougn ui the American Ambassador Page, pre paratory to arranging an actual ex change. Germany's Army Of Unemployed Geneva. A report received here from Munich estimates that 2,000,000 men and women are idle in Germany and that the number of unemployed is increasing daily. Lack of -raw material. it is Baid, is the cause. Mayor Of Brussels Arrested London. Burgomaster Max of Brus sels, who was- arrested on the order of the German military governor on the charge that he had ordered the banks to refuse to pay an installment of the indemnity which was due, has been released, .according to an Ostend dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Automobile to Be Taxed 50 Cents Per Horsepower at Time of Sale. Washington. Reduction of the pro posed tax on gasoline in the war rev enue bill from two cents to. one cent a gallon and imposition of. a tax of 50 cents per horsepower . on automo bile sales were agreed to by Demo crats of the Senate Finance Commit tee. The committee will have before it a subcommittee recommendation that the proposed tax. of $2 a thousand on bank capital and surplus be eliminat ed and 'that there be substituted a stamp tax on checks, drafts, certi ficates of deposit and other negotia ble paper. The tax on checks, drafts, etc would be two cents and on certi ficates of deposit, etc., two cents for each $100. From this it is estimated that the revenue would be about $10, 000,000 a year. It was also agreed to retain the proposed increase tax of 50 cents a barrel on beer in the House bill with the understanding, however, that a further increase of 25 cents might be made should the committee find it necessary to raise more rev enue after it has completed consider ation of . all sections of the bill. The proposed tax of 20 cents a gallon on sweet domestic wines and 12 cents on dry wines, the committee German People Are Isolated Berlin. The cutting of German sub marine cables, the censorship and the exclusion of foreign newspapers from the empire have resulted in "Shutting out from Germany virtually all news of the outside world. For the past three days the Berlin newspapers have been carrying full descriptions of the architectural details of the Rheims ca thedral, while in the last sixteen days only three places have 'been specifical ly mentioned in the government war bulletin. These are Noyon, Rheimp and Chauteau Brimond. J A . tnlntn tl,A UmiOA agreeu to revise, uic iiyjuoo jct rite on sweet wines, but reduceing T" JS .at t 'c toY tn S r-onts greater suacw. Ui nine wua Austrians Desert Huns London. "From the latest events in Galicia and along the Carpathians the conclusion drawn is that the Austrian army has abandoned Hungary to its fate and has left the route to Buda pest 'to be defended by the Hungari an national troops," says me tr eirograa correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. j y. C., Consul Lives In Cellar Paris. William Bardel, the Ameri can -consul at Rheims, his wife, his daughter and his son are the only Americans left in the French city. German's War Fund Enormous Berlin. Response of" the German public to the government's efforts to raise a war fund of five billion marks ($1,250,000,000), has, it is asserted here, removed all anxiety the nation may have had regarding its ability to meet financial obligations due to the war. Originally the reichstag allowed a war credit of five billion marks in ad dition to the war treasure, and of this amount 4,500,000,000 marks has been subscribed by the public without straining seriously the financial re sources, of the empire. Will Wear Cotton. New York.-r-A movement to aid Southern planters by popularizing cotton evening gowns was started here recently when Miss Florence Guernsey, president of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, issued an appeal to 100,000 members, tion of attacking, but on coming under fire they retired. Otherwise the day was uneventful, except for the activity of the artillery, which is a matter of normal routine rather than an event. "Another hostile aeroplane -was brought down by us, and one of our aviators succeeded in dropping several bombs over the German line, one in cendiary bomb falling "with consider able effect on a transport park near La Fere. "A buried store of the enemy's ammunitions of) war also was found not far from the Aisne, ten wagon loads of live "shells and two wagons of cable being dug up. Traces were discovered ef large quantities of stores having been burned all tending to show that as far back as the Aisne the German retirement was hurried. "There was a strong wind during the day, accompanied by a driving rain. This militated against the aerial reconnaissance. Several Germrn Attacks Fail. "On Sunday, the twentieth, nothing of importance occurred until the after noon, when there was a break in the clouds and an interval of feeble sun shine, which was hardly powerful enough to warm the soaking troops. The Germans took advantage of this brief spell of fine weather to make several attacks against different points. These were all repulsed with loss to the enemy, but the casualties incurred by us were by no means light. "In one section of our firing line the occupants of the trenches were under the impression that they heard a mili tary band in the enemy's line just be fore the attack developed. It is now known that the German infantry started their advance with bands playing. "The offensive against one or two with no The brunt of the re sistance naturally has fallen on the in fantry. In spite of the fact that tney have been" drenched to the skin for Bpme days and their trenches have been deep in mud water, and in spite of the incessant night alarms and the almost continuous bombardment to which they have been Subjected, they have on every occasion been ready for . . uf.nfrv tt on tbe latter Ui. LUC lUUCtauvu ifV as mu 'attempted to assault, and they have ViPfltpn them bacfc with great loss. In- tion to be neia aunng tne we. comj up has October. Miss Guernsey .announced a 6 f,nl . , t rvinz oeen a positive icwci - hours of inaction tinder s&eil nre gown and wear it at peace demonstra tion to be held during the week of she would offer resolution at the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs conventipn New Ruler For Albania London. A dispatch to the Central News from Rome says that a message received there from Durazzo, Albania, announces that ' the Albanian senate has elected Prince Burhan Eddin, son of the former sultan, Abdul Hamid, Prince of Albania, ' In succession "to Prince William of Wied, who left his kingdom some days ago and subse quently renounced his throne, retiring to Switzerland. The correspondent adds that Essad Pasha has arrived ai Dibra and declares his intention oi proceeding to Durazzo. Peace For Mexico. Washington. An outline of what the imemdiate outcome of the conven tion at Mexico City and Agnes Calien- tes probably will be, was received by Mexican Constitutionalist agents. Ac cording to the dispatches, delegates of General Carranza's faction, now in convention at Mexico City, probably will adjourn soon to meet in joint session October 5 with the Agnes Calientes peace conference attended by representatives of General Villa and General Zapata, as well as the Carranza faction. Holds Leo Frank InnocenL Atlanta Ga. Leo M. Frank, now under sentence of death here for the murder of 14-year-old Mary Phagan was held to be innocent in a state- ment made herl by William Smith, formerly attorney for James Conley, a negro factory sweeper who is now, serving a sentence of one year's im prisonment as accessory after the killing. Frank, who was superinten dent of the National Pencil Company here now has'an extraordinary motion fofr a pew triaf pending before the state Supreme Court. German Cannon nre rana. "The object of the great proportion of artillery the Germans ' employ is t beat down the resistance of their enpmv bv concentrated and prolonged fire to shatter their nerve with high explosives before the infantry attack is launched. They seem to have re lied on doing this with us, but they have not done so, though it has taken them several "costly . experiments to discover this fact. "From statements of prisoners it ap pears that they have been greatly dis appointed by the moral effect pro duced by their heavy guns, which, de spite the actual losses inflicted, has not been at all commensurate with the Johnsons' by the soldiers. "Men who take things in this spirit are, It seems, likely to throw out the calculations based on loss of morale so carefully framed by the German military philosophers. "A considerable amount of informa tion has been gleaned from prisoners. It has been gathered that our bom bardment on the fifteenth produced a great impression. The opinion also is reported that our Infantry makes such good use of the ground that the Ger man companies are decimated by out rifle fire . before the soldier can be seen. "From an official diary captured by the First army corps it appears that one of the German corps contains an extraordinary mixture of units. If the composition of the other corps is sim ilar it may be assumed that the pres ent efficiency of the enemy's forces is in no way comparable with what it was when the war commenced. Germans Lose Many Officers. "The losses in Officers are noted as having been especially severe. A bri gades is stated to be commanded by a major: some companies of foot guards by one-year volunteers, while after th battle of Montmirail one regiment lost fifty-five out of sixty officers. "The prisoners recently captured ap preciate the fact that the march on Paris has failed, and that their forces are retreating, but state that the ob ject of this movement is explained by the officers as being to withdraw into closer touch with the supports which have stayed too far in the rear. "The officers are also endeavoring to encourage tbe troops by telling them that they will be at home by Christmas. A large number of the men believe that they are beaten. "Among the items of news are the following: Recently a pilot and ob server of the Royal Flying corps were forced by a breakage in their aero plane to descend in the enemy's lines. The pilot managed to pancake his ma chine down to earth and the two es caped into some thick undergrowth in the woods. "The enemy came up and seized and smashed the machine, but did not search for our men with much zeal. The latter lay hid till dark and then found their way to the Aisne, across which they swam, reaching camp In safety but barefooted. "Numerous floating bridges have by now been thrown across the Alsne and some of the permanent bridges have I been repaired under fire. On the twentieth Lieutenant (name deleted) of Third signal corps, Royal Engineers, was unfortunately drowned while at tempting to swim across the river with a cable in order to open up fresh telegraph communication on the north. Telephone Aid to Spies. "Espionage is still carried on by the enemy to a considerable extent. Re cently the suspicions of some of the French troops were aroused by com ing across a farm from which the horses had been removed. After some search they discovered a telephone which was connected by an under ground cable with the German lines, and the owner of the farm paid the penalty in the usual way In war for his treachery. "After some cases of village fight ing, which occurred earlier in the war, it was reported by some of our offi cers that the Germans had attempted to approach to close quarters by forc ing Drisoners to march in front of them. The Germans have recently re peated the same trick on a larger scale against the French, as is shown by the copy of an order Issued by the French officials. It is therein referred Wto as a ruse, but if that term can be accepted it is a distinctly illegal ruse Charaes Tricks to Germans. ' "'During a recent night attack,' the order reads, 'the Germans drove a col umn of French prisoners in front of them. This action is to be brought to the notice of all our troops, (1) in order to put them on their guard against such a dastardly ruse, l) in order that every soldier may know how the Germane treat their prison ers. Our troops must not forget that if they allow themselves to be taken prisoners the Germans will not fail to expose them to French bullets.' "Further evidence has now been col lected of the misuse of the white flag and other signs of surrender. "During recent fighting, also, Ger man ambulance wagons advanced in order to collect the wounded. An or der to cease fire was consequently giv en to our guns, which were firing on this particular section of ground. The German battery commanders at once took advantage of the lull In the ac tion to climb up their observation lad ders and on to a haystack to locate our guns, which Boon afterwards came under a far more accurate fire than any to which they had been sub jected up to that time." trust and the war tax measures axe yet to be disposed of before the work' of the session is over. "? After the November election . eon-' gress will meet in extraordinary ses sion, or after a recess, and take .up. the merchant marine mill, the Philip-, pine bill and other measures that the President would like to get out of the way before the regular session in De-'. cember opens. North Carolina has played an Inter esting part in shaping legislation in Washington since the Democrats came in in 1913. Of course the state has a little more than the ordinary in terest in the president first, because he is a Scotch-Irishman, and second, that he resided In the state for a time." , The North Carolina congressmen. have been busy, and, generally, to some real purpose. Senator Simmons, as chairman of the finance committee helped to frame the Democratic tariff, and the president thanked him for his excel lent work. Senator Simmons was of more service to the White House in the toll repeal bill fight than any oth er person in the senate. Many per sons on the inside during that contest believe that had it not been for the ability of . Mr. Simmons to organize for victory the President would have been disappointed in what he goL The Democratic handbook recognis ed the good services of Senator Over man by referring to the breaking up of the Mullhall lobby. President Wilson saw the force of a great and powerful lobby in Wash ington. He took occasion! one day, to tell the Washington correspondents that an insiduous lobby was at work to defeat Democratic measures. As chairman of a sub-committee to inves tigate the lobby,- Senator Overman exposed a number of active lobbies and drove their representatives from the capitol. This was one of the best pieces of work ever done by a committee. Three North Carolina Democrats, Representatives Kitchin, Webb and Page, have convinced the president that his position on certain measures j was wrong. 1 Mr. Kitchin, after others had failed, v switched the president about on the I labor section of the anti-trustjbill. The j Kitchin idea is embodied in the bill j now before the senate. i Representative Godwin has endeav- I ored to clean out the civil service. Representative Doughton has filled the mountain counties of his district ! with Democratic postmasters, Bome-' thing that no other Democrat ever j did. . Representative Small has aided ; the Democratic administration on all r measures execpt the Alaskan railway '. bill; he bitterly opposed that Repre-; sentative Stedman has never failed to , be on hand and vote with his party! on all important bills. No man has been more regular in attendance than he. Representative Gudger will have done his party a good turn when he defeats J. J. Britt. Kepresentanve Faison has not been as active this ses-i sion because of poor health. The state has made a good record; in Congress. ' Money For Crop Movement. Washington. The, Treasury Departs ment has deposited $13,029,746 in 231 states for Fall crop moving purposes up to September 28, according to aq announcement by Secretary McAdoo, Of this sum Missouri has taken the largest amount, $1,550,000. with Mary land second. $L450,000. Tffe amounts secured by other states include: North Carolina $455,250; South Carolina $525,000: Tennessee $675,000; Virgin)- U $798,750. 1 Where Big Things Grow.' Kinston. "Buck" King of Trent township, Lenoir county, lives in a real Brobdingnag. King brought to Kinfton a tobacco leaf, of fair grade. which measures 24 inches wide and is three full feet in length. There is some more nearly as large on his farm and on the surrounding planta tions. The plant from which the spec imen leaf came was set out on June 16. King also exhibited 13 locks of cotton from one stalk, three in excess of the usual number. One of the two bolls contained eight locks. "UNCLE SAM" SOCKS NOW IN DEMAND IN LONDON London. Socks patterned after the design of the American flag are on sale here. They are guaranteed to prevent "cold feet." One purveyor asserted that these "Uncle Sam" socks were meant to establish the identity of Americans going on continental missions. Stripes run from top to bottom of the socks with the exception of three row of stars on a blue field just above the ankle. It was argued by one mer chant that no passport would be need ed for the wearer of such creations. Low shoes must be worn to get the proper effect with this, new style of hosiery. To a large assortment of post card photographs, which now are in great demand, has been added the picture of President Wilson. It has been one of the most popular pictures, so sta tioners assert, and has been enjoying a very large sale since thevwar brokt out Von Ruck Sanitarium Bdrned. Asheville. The main building of the Winyah Sanitarium, the handsome structure used by Dr. Karl von Ruck as a hospital lor tne treatment di tubercular patients, was practically destroyed one morning recently with a loss of between $50,000 and $75,000 to the hospital management and an unestimated loss to the patients, the majority of whom suffered the loss of all their belongings. The large struc ture housed about 50 patients, all of whom escaped without injury. t Will N6t Suffer. Scotland Neck. With peanuts sell ing for $1 a bushel, the people of Hal ifax county will not experience the dire calamity some of the mora panic stricken population predict. Cotton has been selling since the opening! of the local market for eight and nine rents, and it has been as high as nine and one-half cents. The market . seems to be pretty stsady, there be- ; ing. only slight variation since the opening. Halifax cpunty is one J of the largest prod :cers of peanuts': in the state. i K" I- i 11, t if 1 3 ii' v. - - "4 5 '
The Siler City Grit (Siler City, N.C.)
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