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Boost Eliza. City On 7 Good Will Day News Without Bias Views Without Prejudice July 4th ST r VOL. I ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1916 NO, 21 m'm ii i r- i riinrnvpn r r SEE ACTUAL BORDER SfflCE First Troops Will Probably Entrain by Saturday and This Contingent Estimated to Number Fifty Thousand. By United P. ess) "YTashlngton, June 21. The first nllitfa men detailed tor service on the border of Mexico will be doubt less on their way by Saturday. Or ders lor entrainment are expected by nightfall and the railroads of the country are prepared to move the troops to the 1 order without delay. This first detachment of militia will probably consist cf fifty thons and men. and the opinion at Wash ington prevails that these soldiers will see actual service In Mexico. Unconfirmed reports received at El Faso today states that fighting has already occurred between United -States tnnis and Carranza soldiers. According to these rumors the two columns jester ay dispatched by Pershing into Namlquipa in pursuit (f tandi's were attacked by forces cl the de facto government. Increasingly poftentious are the omens pointing to the downfall of fie Carranza government, wuieh is now marina; the completion of iU cycio h'story. High administration offlcia's expressed the lellf to-day that the machinery of the de facto .cnernrrent is rapidly crumllin: to ward ruin and that cn'y a rkht about ftce in Catrauzi's methods can row sive it from complete dis lnteATiitioi. It is not believed thai 1 can stand even long nnouch to br replaced pcacably by a government strong though t3 prent anarchy. Some officials have p-ophesied this outcome for months. Others have Insisted that the deplorable eondi "jns cited as existing in Mexico ( ere isolated rases. Today, how I ver, no official could I e found who would net admit, privately at least, that watchful waiting has run' t's course. It is insisted, however, that ' such a policy was justified as Ion as the slighest lupo could be enter talned that Mexico could solve her own pioblems. President Wilson's note is now pointed to as final and ronvin"Inj evldmeo thit the Presi dent has made up his mind that ' Carranza's power is at an' end utl that any filth in bis n' fifty to cope with tiie situation is vain and futile. The atten'lon of Secretary of War Baker is receiving many inquires as to the attitude of the Gen -eminent toward' cases where hardship will result If certain members of the "Naticnal Guard are forced Into ser vice on the border at this time. The Secretary is giving no direct answer to individual inquiries but the statement is made that the mat ter of working out a solution of these difficulties .will be taken up after mobilization has been com pleted. 'jviany miisi At Boston (By United Press) "WHshiniton: D. C June 21 Twen 'ty-flve hundred men have enlisted tor service in Massachusetts sine" the President's order Sunday calling the Na'ional Guard to the colors. . This is In edition to those already belonging to the militia of that state. In view of the fact that the mobil izatlon of tate troor-s. must of M' essity proceed slowly It Is the opin ion here that It will be several days before the first contingent of the mlU'la is ordered to tve border. TURIiED EAST Six Divisions of Troops Sent -to Checl Violent Russian Offensive Gain ing Headway. (By United Presa) Lcndon. June 21. Six German di visions, comprising 120,000 men, have been hurried eastward to check the Rusflan offensive bearing Dg;iiiFt Lemberg. ' v Two of these divisii ns are enroute to the Kovel-Lutsk front and the other fcur are being- rushed into action cn the thirty mile front south of Jirody. The Russians have opened a t' 'r riffle" arti li ry "al tacit ' cfi the latter line. Di pitches from Berlin and Vien na admit C-at the right wing of the Austrian army in Biikowinu contin ues to te'ire. The fact that Germany has at last t iken cognisance of the threat filing proportions cf (lie Russian of IVmlve may cause an abandonment of the German attack against Ver dun which has now been kept up nl most constancy since the opening cf sprlrg. ( "A sinister destiny seems to. have selet'ed 'erdun as one c f the rocks of h'story around whi h the storms of battle I e1 ween France and Ger many shall rage repeatedly." says, n bulle'in issued today fiy the Na tional Geographic Society. , whose headquarters- is in - Washington . "It was in th's Hfcy. for the pos vssl-.n f wh'ch the greatest bat tle in th anniH of civilized men has be-n wa:ed for weks, that the 'reiity was signed . which .--divided the eni i e of Charlemagne and es tablished the nucleus of Germany es a mtion sspnra'e from France," continues the lul'etin. "Tim Treaty cf Verdun was executed in the ninth century by tie three grandsons of the great emperor. By its provis ions tie Carollngian domains were pait'tionrd. never again to be united under one ruW. That te.-lfory bitig PiM'rf the Rhine nnd incltid hig Bavaria, Franconla. Thuringla. Saxony and the districts around St Ires, Worms and Mainz fell to the lot of louis. who very properly Is known to history as Louis the German, for he may I e ons'dered he real founder cf the German-empire. I.ot'ialr, the eldest son of J,niis the Pious, Charlemasne's sue crs'or. assumed the tlt'e of emperor and secured t'.e kingdom of Italy, together wlh Lorraine, Provence and Lyonnais. To f'hirles the Bald, hlf brother of Louis and I-othalr. was alloted Aquitanla. Neustrla and that pirt of Spain which had been wrested from the Moors. To diaries fell the distinction of found lrg the Frence dynasly. "But lon, before this treaty of R4.1. Verdun was assured a place on history's page. The basin on the banks of the Meuse was known In the days of the Roman emrlreAas, the cam-i cf Virndunum. It was.des troyr-d In the barbarian invasions which occurred during the deca dence of the Caesars, and did not recover until the fifth century. In IN THE WAR'S SLAUGHTER HOUSE f'! J A, 1 .: .. - ' 1 ? f j ;, . , .. 1 ivJT5 vrn sIi k4' j- ' " ' e - v - - .jm. """'"''" xxwf"""- - ..w ...fr.fiinifi iitn-)-iiii ifTi if --"-inni " Massive block of concrete, part of Fort Douuumont'a defensive wall, dis lodged by explosion of mine. Fort Douaumont Is the pawn of the Verdun front. It has charged hands several times and Is now held by the Ger mans. The slaughter of troops at this poijitjs frightful. r02 it was seized by Cloxis, who. actuated 1 y rf-ilrlnus zeal Inculcat ed Ly his wife, the Biirgundiau Princess C'otilda, endeavored to sub 'u:;He :.ll the n: n Ohris' Ian Prank ish v luces. 'In the- elntn'h century Verdun, having te.ome a German city, was the scene cf a bluer struggle iie-'wf-n tlw l.iirgheis and th" bishops of that sea. the former iinni'y w in t'l g Important cone sslims. Afier he cl y has. risen to the di-'iiify of, tree Imperial town, it was enptur' ed by the French, In 1 552, and a bnndr-'d . years later was formally given to Frame la whose possess len It has remained, with the ex "(ptlon of th( two occasions when it was l.eweiged and conc-ucrcyV ,by the T"iitons. .... ; . : " ' Unri'ii tht wi.r cf 1 7.2 Verdun fell Ii fo:e the Germans after u bat '1p h stli'g only a f"w,honr-i. .When the conquerors entered ;he town hey were h spltcbly .received, the city fitln-rs having, sent a group of beautiful yohng gir's to erpet. ,nP strai g' rs and to offer then) dragees the confevtion for. which the place wrs and still Is .famous. The inhab 1 1 ' n ' w p iid deirly, for this. remark able cordial reception of the ene nl"s of France, for when the revol utlonlsts regained the city, after the battle of Valmy,- history tells us three of these young Elrls were put to deith on the scaffold. "Far different was The resistance wh'ch Verdun offered to the Prus sians In the war of 1870. For three weeks the Invaders rained a hall of lead and in n upTn the city nestlKy an.ong the vine-clad hills, the hUh ground being utilized by the Ger mans a-i points of vantage from which to operate their artillery. The beleaguered town finally sur rendered, but France had learned a. valuable lesson and almost immed lately after peac was declared the cors'ructioi) of f rt lflen' ions began, soon raising the city' to a fortress of the first class, with a 'thirty mil" ring of sixteen large forts and twen ty smaller wor';s. On the northern hels;h's the Intervals be'ween forts ifa some places are not more than ... -j ( Rumors Of First Clash (By rnited Press) 1 1 I'aso, Texas, .Tun- 21. General Bel' Iimb received p'rsi-teiit rumors (if fighting between Amercans and C'arranzistas In the region to the sou h of Namiquipa. President Is j For Big Navy ! P.eVd"t WiisiU lias d-clded that. 'the full first year buibliit; program i.idvocated by the "General Board cf the Navy sbou'd be adopted by ('on i gress . ' This program iwliidcs four dread narghts, tlire battle cruisers and four s:out cruisers. The unnounc enient of this decis ion means that the President will bring to bear all the Influence of the -M'hite House to secure. the lncor poiatbn of these provisions in the Navy Bill now pending. two hundred yards, , "When hostilities began in Aug ust, 1914. Verdun was a town of a bout 20.000 inhabitants, more than a third of whom were' soldiers. .4Th city lies In the valley of the Mf-use, 175 miles from Paris, by rail and only 42 miles from the strongly fortified xGerman city of Metz. Before the war the chief ar tides of manufacture were hard ware, confections, leather oods and liuueurs. "Among Verdun's proudest posses Mons are lour cannon occupying a place of honor in the gardens of the Hotel do Ville. They were present et to ine citizens tiy tne govern nient of France In recognition of the heroic resistance In 1870. It is Interesting to surmise what the French repub'lr wiV give Verdun In token of her unparalleled resistance In 1910." sueii E ISSUE REOPENED SOON BY GEBUIIf Berlin Dispatch Claims That Ger man Sentiment Condemns Sur render to American Demands in Controversy. tBy United Press) Lenin, June 21. Taking advana,'e of in? growing indifference of Anier lean opinion on the submarine issue between the United States and Ger many, advocates of an aggress! va and vigorous submarine policy have here re-opened a campaign (or a more effective and drastic use of submarines. TheGennan people see no hope of bringing the, war to an early suc cessful close and realizing that th conflict will drag along into another year they are united in the desire that Germany may press her cause with the utmost vigor. This feeling has been growing stionger and spreading over the whole coun ry for several weeki. The state of public sentiment hiu been seized upon as a weapon Just to their hand by those who con tlemned Bethmsnn Hclweggs jl'dd Ing to the Unit d States in the! re cent submarine controversy. Recent conversation with public, men lu re sums up the German view point thus: ' "Sixty per cent of the American I et pie sre I gainst us. 'Thirty per ei nt are for us. 'Ten per cent are Indifferent on the submarine question. "Nothing ..within the power of the German Government wh'b h It might do would- ko change American opln Ion as to bring America to the left ;f Germany In this war, so Ger many fhould go ahead concentrat ing all h r energies on victory,' Boys Enlist In Beaufort (By Kastein PrexHl Washington N. C. June 20 With 1. rerutc already signed up. for s rvice in Mexco and with 'others having given their promise or en- is men!, Washington Is going to be '.ell rep. t-suited ill Mexico -if the utional guard is cilled for service on the other Klde cf the Itlo Grande; Sergeant Major ItobeVt llandey Is if ch ir e of the locul ret rolling of ice. lie has erected a "dog'' tent In front of the sheriff's ollice, over bbh waves a hrw American tla;. 'hot' g'aphs of camp Hie are also on xhlbitlon on a bug' easel. The reirulling ollice has been vislled by a la'ge number of local It'zeiiH during the day arid ban be nine the central point for the dls ussion of all matters pertaining to the present, crisis. Simmons Is For Allen (By United Press) Wa-iblngton, I). C. June 21 Sena- tors Overman and Simmons this mi ruing recommended Judge W. K. Allen, Associate Jus'lce of the North Carolina Supreme Court, to succeed Justice Hughes on the United States Supremo Court Bench. AT ALKRAMA TONIGHT The "Mysteries of Myra" Is the chief attraction In motion pictures at the Alkrama Theatre tonight. Remember that the Big Sale starts tomorrow at the S. R. Siff Co's store. adv. W BE HYOBBPLAriE WILL BE HERE Committee from Chamber of Commerce at Newport News To-day to Make Final Arrangements. Subscriptions to the fund to se cure a hydroplane as one of the at tra -lions Tor Good Will Day have ' accumulated rapidly since the first mee.in for tnis purpose called' in the Chautauqua tent last Friday nigh;. A committee Is In Norfolk today making arr-ngements for the hydropU: ne's comllg having been as nurul by the Finance Committee -' that the funds wl 1 be cu hand. Other contributions will no doubt be added to these already pledged and the members of the finance com mltte '.-Mfs-rs' So:ig. Robinson, if. G. Kramer, II. T. Gioenleaf. Stall legs, Cliff Sawyer, Joe Wllislow, .VIUs Clark W.lklnson, und George Twlddy-c).- Secretary Pugh. will be glad to hear from any who wl to make ii coniril utlon for this pur pose . Secretary Puch says that the pub lie should make a close i-tutly of the list of contributors published below since suc h a list Is an Index to town and community pride aifd loy alty. Following Is the list of contribu tors to date: (). F. (il b. rt $23.00 Savings liuuk & Trut-t Co. ., 25.00 It G. Kramer 2.5a W. II. Jennings 1.00 Culwyn Twiibiy Krauur Tiuvls . .60 .50 Citizens Bulk '. 2300 U. G. lcollinson .50 , 1)111 I tJUl , J I , (.,.,.,,,,,., J II. C. Newhold 1.00 M. II. Griffin 1.00 First Natl Bank i 25.00 VV. G. (lalther .... G.00 K. V. Grlllin ...v l.Oi) Walter Mann 1.00 J. M. Martin . .7.7; .77 .. . . . . 2.00 1. M. Hnney 1.00 C. G. Old & Grlce 10.00 Advance COO Kvenliu Nows S.OO Gas Ci.mpany. , 5.00 Owens, Shoe Co . I.. P. Gilbert & Co 2.00 C: Prlght 2.00 V. Johnson 1.00 IrletiHrd Millinery 1.00 Margrave's Barber shop 1.00 T. McCabe 10.00 Apothecary Shop 6.00 I). W . Harris .T. .77777. ... ; 5 00 Parker Tiros 1.00 P.nrlpv'a S'hIi'pm 1.00 Electric Light Co '. . 5.00 E. C. Water Co 5.00 1). R. Morgan Co 2.50 V. R. Gregory 1.00" W. K. Stallfhgs 1.00 C. P. Anderson 1.00 J. W. Grlssom 2.00 S. B. Par?. 1. 00 Dr. William Parker 1.00 G. W. Parson & Son 2.00 .1. C. R. Ehrlnghaus 2.00 Walter Small 1.00 Dr. MeClenny '. .-1.00 Dr. . Blades 25.00 (Continued on Last Page)
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