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ELIZABETH CITY .NORTH CAROLINA. TUESDAY JANUARY 11. 116
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1,1 GALLIPOLI
Abandon Operations to
Open up Dardanelles
Since Germany Has Es
tablished Railroad Con
nection with Constanti
nople.
In giving several weeks ago a re
view of the Bulgarian and Austro--Cerman
campaign against Serbia,'
this paper promised in an early
issue an account of the operation of
-the allies on the Gallipoli pemiinsu
Ja. ETen then the Impression pre
vailed that the termination of the at
tempt to force a passage of the Dar
danelles was at band, and yester
day the daily papers carried the
Jdfinlte announcement that the last
Avvivision of allied troops had been
'Withdrawn. - Some fear was felt
that the British would not be able
to get from their trenches bck to
-their boats in safety, but it now
pears that .the movement was ac
I complished with almost no losses.
With the withdrawal of the Bri
tish and French , forces from the
southern tip of the . Gallipoli Penn-
insula, after the evacuation 'of the
.Arzac Cove and Suvla Bay positions
on the western coast in the middle
of December, there has come to an
-end a movement that was . begun
" ' with expectation of achievements
twhich would have a great" bearing
on the outcome of the war. Thous
ands upon thousands of men lost
their lives In the enterprise of ef
fecting landings on" the Turkish
-coast and la the fighting that has
.been In progress since. In ad
dition s number of battleships,
smaller warcraft of the entente al
lies, have been sunk or damaged as
they poured a rain of shell against
the Turkish fortifications in an en
deavor to aid their own forces on
?shore.
The chief military purpose of the
Dardanelles campaign, which was
toegun In February, 1915, with the
"bombardment of the Turkish
forts at the entrance to the straits
by entente allied warships, was the
capture of Constantinople and the
opening of the Bosphorus, which
connects the Mediterranean with
the Black Sea, so that Russia mijht
a t Jiave an avenue for the receipt of
Jeinns and amunition and . also for
' the exportation of Russian grain.
For England success meant the pre
vention of another Turkish invasion
of Egypt, and the permanent safety
of the Suez canal and England's
communications with India.
Folitically a victory was expected
.to have a powerful effect upon the
then still neutral Balkan States,
dreece, Bulgaria J and Romania
whose political status has for gener--ations
balanced with that of Tur
key in the eve. changing scale of
Balkan politics. There was cited
the possibility, now realized by Bul
garia's entrance into the war, of
preventing the establishment of a
Balkan link bojtween the central
jiowers and TurRey, and also of the
possible opening a land route to
India, an ambition which with the
English have long credited Germa
ny. ;
In October after the successful In
vasion of Serbia by the Teutons and
' the Bulgars and the reports that
German amunition was on its way to
" Turkey, a storm of bitter criticism
of the Government's Dardanelles
campaign broke loose in England.
Sir Edward Carson, attorney gener
al resigned from the cabinet be
cause of a disagreement with his
colleagues over the campaign,
and Winston Churchill, First Lord
jf the Admlrallty, the principal tar-
'ty of the attack also resigned.
'VurcblH plnced some of the blame
the shoulders of Admiral Lord
Vlnlfor, First Sea Lord. .There
was. also a complete re organization
of the French cabinet which was
..Rftoera'Iy . attr bu'.ctl tj the Uaftan
Dardanelles situation.
The sending of he fleet to force
the Dardanelles without the co-operation
of the land forces was gener
ally conceded to hare been the
big initial blunder of the campaign.
The inadequacy of the land forces
when they were sent was criticised
as another. The government's
assailants asserted , the campaign
should have been, delayed until bet
ter preparations could be made.
Some thought . the result would
have been different had the attaok
been launched ' immediately upon
Hie declaration of war with Turkey.
Aiwlogists for the government
pointed to the fact that p.t least a
lart-'e Turkish army had been pre
vented from ' ofx-rating elsewhere,
paiticularly m Egypt and Caucasus.
Tltey argued also that the- Balkan
situation might have developed
much sooner bad the effort not been
made when it was.
The campaign was marked by
three major operations, one by the
fleet alone and two by the land
forces assisted by the fleet. The
net result was the conquest of the
tip. of the Gallipoli Peninsular for
a distance of three miles and a nar
row segment of its middle western
coast about twelve - miles in length
and hardly a mile deep.
The firs.t disaster came March 19
when mines blew up the French
battleship Bouvet, and the British
battleships. Irresistible and . Ocean,
while they were attempting a dash
for the narrows, the fortifications
of which they had been bombarding
for several weeks. Several other
vessels were damaged at the tame
time, and the fleet withdrew to the
Aegean Sea. On the samoday it
was announced that Admiral Car
den, the British commander, had
been replaced by Admiral de Ro
beck. De Robeck continued the bom
bardment, w'ith an occasional dash
into the straits by the ships until
April, but It was not productive of
any great results, according to ac
counts from the Turkish side. The
Turks however, reported that with
their mobile batteries of heavy can
non they were able to damage many
more allied vessels.
Naval forces were landed March
24 at Seddul-Bahr, the tip of the
peninsula but they were not strong
enough to hold their positions,
though they destroyed the fortifica
tions. Allied troops for a land
ing came April 26, but meantime
the British battleship Triumph had
been sunk and the submarine E 15
went aground and fell a victim to
Turkish fire. The first contingent
of British troops under the com
mand of Geu. Sir lan Hamilton, rel
atively small in numbers, landed at
Seddul-Bahr April 25, but not with
out heavy losses, French troops
landed on the Asiatic side but they
stayed there only three days. The
French subsequently formed the
left wing of the British on Seddul
Bahr. Meanwhile the general
bombardment of (Turk positions by
the battleships was resumed.
Early in May other British troops
landed on the north side of the pen
insula near Arl Burnu which after
ward came to be known as Anzac
Cove. The name was taken from
the initials of the Australian and
New Zealand army corps, . which
comprised thejanding forces. Their
object was to cross the peninsula
and cut the communications of the
Turkish divisions ' at Seddul-Bahr
and storm the Turkish forts on the
Gallipoli side of the Narrows thus
opening the way for the safe en
trance of the British fleet. They
sustained terrible loss during the
landing and troops found them
selves in a sort of rocky brim
bristled with machine guns. It
was a case of entrenchment imme
diately and almos( from that mo
ment the fighting settled down in
to trench warfare which was main
tained until August 6, when rein
forcements landed again with great
casualties ia the famous Anzac Cove
and Suvla Bay positions.
The veteran Anzac troops won a
victory capturing the Turkish posi
tions before them but the failure of
one of the divisions of the Suvla
Bay expedition to accomplish the
task assigned to it, prevented them
frm t'-vi-'g it home. Gonerjl
DOCTORS ENTERTAINED
AT THE HOSPITAL
The members of the local medical
society were on January fifth at the
Elizabeth City Hospital, the -mests
of Dr. John Saliba, director, and
Miss Sempf. superintendent, who
received and entertained them with
a sumptuous supper..
.The paper of the evening was
rend by Dr. I. Fearing.
The following members of the
mediial society were present: Dr.
Peters. Dr. HoiaartL-Djx-XViiliams.-Dr.
6. McMullan. Dr. I. Fearing.
I'r. C V. Sawyer, Dr. W. W.
S..vyer, Dr. t'. G. Ferebee
Dr. V T Griggs of Poplar Branch
was a guest if the society for the
evening.
FARMER LOSES HOME BY FIRE
News has ju.t reached hero of
the loss by fire of the home or
John B. Pugh, a young farmer liv
ing at Old Trap in Camden county.'
The fire occurred last Wednesday
evening at about seven o'clock
while tho family were all away
from home, and the house with
a'l its furnishings was completely
destroyed, the family saving noth
ing except the clothes worn at
the time.
The flumes wore seen - by the
neighbors at about half past seven
o'clock. They gathered on the
scene, brcjlW Into the house hoping
to save' something from tho ruins
but the mit rush of smoke and flame
was too great, and the attempt hud
to le abandoned. Thero is suspi
cion that the fire was of incendiary
origin; for the reason that it started
from the kitchen where there had
been no fire since dinner.
BEREANS ENTERTAIN FIDELIS
The Berean Class of Blackwcll
Memorial Sunday School will en
tertain the Fidelis class of the same
church to-night in the annex at'
eight o'clock. A good program
for the evening has been arranged
consisting of speeches by Sunday
School leaders. The program will
be followed by 'an Oyster Roast In
the basement.
MEETS TUESDAY EVENING
The Baraca and Philathea Classes
of the First Baptist church will
hold their regular monthly meeting
in the Baraca room this evening
at 7:30. ' All members of these class
es are urged to be present.
DEGREE WORK TO-NIGHT
Eureka Lodge 317 will confer tho
second degree to-night. at 7:30i A
full attendance is desired.
LOST Cold Metal. Engraved on
front, W. C O. A.; on back L.
M. S. Star shape. Lost Tuesday
Jan.' 4th at passenger station. Re
turn to Mrs. J. B. Stanley, 611 Par
sonage street, and receive reward.
LOST Bunch Keys and Pepsi-Coal
Bottle Opener on Ring. Findor
return to Advance office and receive
reward. It pd.
Hamilton hi a recent report said
this operation failed partly through
the use of untried troops under
generals inexperienced in the new
warfare, and partly through the fail
ure of the water supply.
The British succeeded In effecting
a junction of their forces but gained
no great military advantage.
The fighting here has been dis
crlbed as the most awful of the war,
both sides suffering tremendous
losses.
On November 2 Premier Asquith
told Parliament that the Dardan
elles campaign had been a failure.
Up to December 9 the total British
causualties on the peninsula were
114,555 men killed, wounded or miss
ing'. The losses in the evacuation of
the Sulva Bay and Anzac Cove re
gions were declared by the, British
at the time to have been only three
men wounded making the total
casualties in leaving the peninsula
SOY BEAN VERSUS PEA
NUT PASTURES FOR HOGS
An Interesting experiment has
Just been completed at the Edge
combe Test Farm, In which soybean
pastures has been compared with
peanut pastures in fattening hogs.
In the experiment one lot of pigs
were fed corn and soybean pastures,
while another lot were fed corn and
peanut pasturage. - Those pigs which
were put on the soy. beans had a
longer grazing period than those on
t he-peanuts, ttie'"lty acres of laud
used in the? test carried nine pigs
lur sixty one days whire tho soy
beans were planted, and only cir
ried. an .equal "number of pi .s for
thirty-six days when planted to pea
nuts. "
Th ;. ..treat (UtTorence . .was., how,
ever, offset because the pigs which
were put the peanuts gained
much more rapidly than the ones on
the soybeans. A dally g:iiu of .9
of a pound was recorded for the pigs
on the soybeans and of 1 4 pounds
when fed on peanuts. "When these
pastures are valued at $1 'J .in) pen-
acre, and corn at ?1.00 per bushel,
it cost 5.20 to make one hundred
pounds of -pork"ih'tho soybean lot
nd $3.41 to nnke aa equal it-mount
i:i the peanut lot.
It is interesting ft; this connection
to note the value'of pork made upon
each acre nter the value of the corn
ci nsunicd has been deducted. When
the pi's are valued at 8 cents per
pound, each acre of soybeans pro
duced $18.80 -worth, of pork,' while
each a'TO of peanuts prndueetTf Kt.'.l
worth. Only average crops were pro
duced ou the pastures under consid
eration.
CHURCH -MAKES GOOD
FINANCIAL REPORT
Mr. R. C. Abb.ott, treasurer of
the First Baptist church, made hto
annual report on Sunday of the fi
nancial receipts and disbursements
of the church.
Mr. Abbott reported a total of
$5 821.25 contributed during 1915 by
the church, sunday schools and soci
eties! In addition to the. pastor's
salary, and all incidental expenses
and special contributions, $223.62
was donated to foreign missions,
$300 to state missions, and $234.57
to home missions.
. FIRE ON MARTIN
FJre twice broke out in the roof
of Mr. Alson Soeley's residence on
Martin street Saturday morning, but
the blaze was extinguished with no
further damage than that done the
roof, which wa practically torn off
when the fire department had an
swered the second aiarm. The loss
is estimated at between two and
three hundred dollars. The dwell
ing is the property of A. S. Neal.
The first alarm was turned in at
about nine o'clock ami the chemical
engine was rushed to the scene.
The blaze, was beloved completely
extinguished at this time, but short
ly before noon it was discovered
that it had broken out again and
once more tho chemical engine an
swemfSho call. To the fact that
very little water was used In extin
guishing the fire is aVft) the small'
damage loss.
THE FUNERAL SERVICES
OF MISS FANNIE DAVIS
The funeral of Miss Fannie Davis
was conducted this afternoon from
the First Baptist Church by the pas
tor, Dr. B. C. Henning.
The death of Miss Davis which,
occurred on Sunday morning at her
home on Parsonage street, followed
long and hopeless illness of ty
phoid fever which culminated in
typhoid pneumonia. Only eighteen
ears of age and engaged to be mar
ried In November, the young girl
became seriously ill four months
ago. and from this illness am not
illy. She leaves besides her
fiance, two sisters; Mrs. C. J.
Spears of this city, with whom she
ade her home, and Mrs. Ed Wil
liams of Norfolk who. was here to
tend the funeral today; and two
brothers, both of Washneton conn-
I,, ...n.,i 1 ;w s i ml l.unood I.u.ik.
DISTRICT CONFERENCE
NOW IN SESSION HERE
A special conference of the Me
thodist ministers, together, with
prominent laymen, or this district
will be held this evening at City
Road Methodist Church. The
meeting is to be held In response to
a call froin presiding elder Adams
who desires that the leaders of the
denomination map out at this time
p.ans for the year.
Previous to the meetiivr to-n!ghL
the visitors will be 'the guests of
the Presiding Elder at a supper at
the Sou hern Hotel. ' .
BANK'S DIRECTORS
CHOSEN YESTERDAY
At the annual stockholders meet-
it:;; ester Jay afternoon the follow
ing d rectors of the Savings Bank
and Trust Company were elected for
the ensu'ng year: E. F. Aydlett, L.
S., Blades, J. W. Foreman, C. E.
Kramer, J. T. McCabo C. O. Rob
inson. A. Sawyer, J. II. White, A.
M. Wiley, P. 11. Williams, J.
Q. A. Wood, and W. J. Woodley.
On next Friday the regular monthly
director's meeting tho election of
'Ulcus for the ensuing year will
occur.
This directorate 13 oho of the very
s.r.ongcst of any Bank in Eastern
Carolina and the growth of tho in
st tutii.n t Li., in lis beginning has
bee'i truly renVarkabTeV" Tor the
past twelve moths tfils bantt has
seo.i the most successful year in
its history and prospects are bright
for ks continued growth and devel
opment,. It now has deposits of
$-150,000 or nearly half a million.
The Christmas' Savings Club, in
augurated by this bank three years
ago, has proved very popular, and in
the opltdon of the bank officials, has
bt-eu one of the institution's best
advertisements.
MEETS AT SAWYERS CREEK
The Camden-Currituck Union Meet
ing will be held this month at Saw
yer's Creek church In Camden coun
ty. '
The meeting will begin on Friday
morning, January 28th, at eleven o'
o'clock and continues through Sun
day with a varied program. Sawyers
Creek church is one of the oldest
and strongest in the association,
and Its people are known for their
hospitality; therefore, a large atten
dance is expected at the January
Meeting. Tho program follows:
Friday 11 a. m. Introductory ser
mon Uev. Byrum.
2 p. m. Is tithing binding ou. Christ
I ins? J. T. Ragland.
3 p. in. Denominational literature
J!. C. Henning.
Sat.iirdrry-lO a. m. Devotional exer
cises V. N. Gregory.
10:30 . a. m. Laymen's "Movement
E. F. Aydlett.
11:30 a. in. The Every Member
.Canvass I. N. Loftin.
2 p. in, Baptist History and Grow
th J.' K. Henderson.
3- p. ra. Baptist possibilities today
It. P. Lamb.
Sunday 11 a. m. Mlsslonery Ser
mon D. P. Harris.
VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT
The Jury to-flay at the opening of
the afternoon's session brought in
Verdict for the defendant in the
case of Jones vs Coefield.
This case occupied the court's
attention throughout the morning
session and the latter part of Mon
day afternoon. Cofield listed
his farm for sale with the firm of
Jones & Davis. The firm secured
a purchaser for the farm but before
the deal was entirely put through
the prospective purchaser died.
Meanwhile Cofield had received
$400 of the purchase money, and
Jones & Davis were seeking to re
cover part of the commission which
they would have received If the sale
had been made
Miss Gussle Edwards of N'.tw
Peru was In. Ihe v ty Monday; .
TV AGENTS
10 BEET HEBE
Thirty ' Three Counties
Represented in Assem
bly to be Held in Eliza
beth City oil February
8th 9th, 10th and 11th.
The annual meeting for the agri
cultural-demonstration agents for
the Eastern District of North Caroli
na, embracing tho thirty-three
counties, wfll oo held in Elizabeth
City, on February 8th, 9th, 10th,
and 11 th.
This was the statement of Mr. R.
W. freeman, district supervising
agent, who was in the city thli
morning. "Elizabeth City Is a
convenient point for this meeting'',
asid Mr. Freeman to a reporter for
this paper, "and Pasquotank Is
the only county north of the Albe
marle that has a demonstration
agent. As Pasnuotank lias tnkn
the lead in this work we feel that
the bringing of this meeting to Eliz
abeth City is but a fitting express
ion of our appreciation of the .coun
ty's progressivonesB in this particu
lar.
"The holding of the meeting In
Elizabeth City will mean the assem
bling here in conference of about
twenty agents to discuss agrlcultu-
arl problems in this section and to
report progress in their respective
counties. Each agent will be ex
piated, especially, to report fully on
work which he has done which has
not been undertaken In other coun
ties. As the meetings will bo
open Pasquotank farmers by atten
dance will have opportunity of mak
ing themselves' well informed about
the agricultural possibilities in thli
part of the State.
"While here the agents will visit
the plaut of the Elizabeth City OU .
and Fertilizer Company to see the
process of soy bean oil and meal
manufacture. The county agents
are very much Interested in the soy
bean and are working to get the
farmers interested where the bean
Is not now cultivated. I believe
that the Elizabeth City Oil Company
is manufacturing the soybean pro
ducts on a larger scale than anyother
mill In the United States.'' ,
PLAINTIFF TAKES NON-SUIT
After having Bpent nearly two
days In presenting their . case to
the Court and to the jury, attorneys
for the plaintiff took a non suit yes
terday afternoon in the case of
Joseph Elfiott vs. J. W. Jones.
The non suit was taken JuBt as
his honor, Judge Bond was on the
point of concluding his charge to
the jury. Elliott was injured
some time ago while at work for
Jones as a roof painter. He fell
from a roof, breaking his leg in the
accident, Jbut agreed to accept, a
hundred dollars and payment of
doctors bills as satisfaction in full
for his Injuries. He was a minor
at the time of the accident and it
was the contention of his attorneys
that he did not realize what he
was doing when he made the agree
ment. The E. T. Burroughs Company
got Judgement against I. M. Meek
ins in the sum of $100 Saturday
On the same day plaintiffs were
given Judgement In the case of
Doyle Gillam Company vs. W. T.
Deans & Company. The easoxof
Cofield vs' Dare Lumber Company
resulted in compromise judgement
on Saturday.
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SAWYER SI VI L8
Hillery R. Sawyer of Camden and
Miss Eflle Si vtla of Shawboro were
married here Wednesday by Rev. 'I.
v. I.."f''n t Ms rpsl'b'iiH' on I'etiii
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