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' 1 News Without ', ,' .; Bias ; ' Views Without ) 'V ;J Prejudice . The Only Democratic Newspaper . Published in Elizabeth VOL. 1 ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY EVENING OCTOBER 2; 1916 NO, 111 Eye Witness Tells 01 Comblcs' Fall Methodical Construction Of Roadways Marks The Allied Advance On En tire Front THE DEHOGRATS DUCAT m in RECORD SHOWS THAT THE TWO WORDS ARE K EARLY 8YNO MOUS IN NORTH CAROLINA i - 1 By HENRY WOOD (United Press Staff Correspondent) With The French Armie3 Near Combles, Sept. 29 Horses, lashed into a furious gallop by mad riders dashing forward over a sunken road with hu-;e qujmtitias of ammunition Aeroplanes hovering above vutlure- like, awaiting the fall of Combles; men. sweating, fighting their way - forward over shell-pocked roads fn . terrible shellflro These were some of the dramatic scenes thaV preceded the capture of 'ti strongly fortified village that had flocked the Allied advance norm 01 tne aomum. . The eventual capture of Combles became a certainty on Tuesday morning when Trench cavalry pa : trols, advancing northeastward., and 4 English- cavalry -tftJ'tlirwtiBg"' aoutheastwrd, met art of,. Combles. Tber thus cpmyletely encircled tne -village, cutting off the la9t' com munications 'With the German army in 'the rear. On the same morning I approach ed Combles from the West, start ing from Maricourt, the Junction point from which the French and Englich offensive was launched on July 1st, and traversing each surf u , ... . l cesslve step m tne advance uiuuo m 1 the Intervener three months to ward ,the attainment of this first great objective. When we arrived within less than a mile and a quar ter of Combles, the town Itself was then undergoing the final bombard- : ment and assault. Although Combles was a nvre village of 1500 inhabitants, the Ger- , mans had s0 fortified every house especially the cellers. where ma .cine guns were installed, that the Allies were forcfd to employ seige t methods. They completely encircled the ton with their hpavy artillery, WhttAi gradually closed In with very aavancD of the Infantry lines. MOST TERRIFIC SEIGE From the viewpoint of the enor ; mous quanity of artilery massed a gainet it, and also from the Incal , culable number of shells rained ln--to it, Combles can easily boast of having undergone the most terrific seige in the h'story of the world. It was only on reaching the most V-advanced artillery lines before ; Combles that one could grasp mathematics lly the methodl"al pro tress which had rendered the Al lies' new tactics of advancing by heary artillery absolutely '' lrrest : stable, thongh the final artillery lines before Combles consisted . of comparatively light batteries. These had tPn rushed forward during ' the lg$ioYer ground rendered im passible 7y shell holes to every thing but foot soldiers. ' But ' while troops were tugging guns over this ground, a veritable tx my of soldiers had sunk a tortuous roadway several feet below the sur- foce of the ground, paying it with : , w. u HUIU , Mum. vj mw 1 wrecked by artllley flre Over this, when we arrived early the next j morning, munition caissons, screen ed from the enemy's observation by the detth of the roadway, drawn by four, six and eight ' horses,' were dacshlng along ' with ' an incredible , nuniber of shells to teed those ad could be reached in no other way. MORE WORK THAN GLORY Back of these advanced lines fed by galloping, careening caissons, were thousands more soldiers, meth odically transforming what had been on preceedlng days caisson roads, into highways capable of jsustaln Ing hugh automobile convoys bring ing up heavier munitions for heav ier artillery that had supplanted the lighter guns now further advanced during the night. Farther behind these automobile-fed artillery lines, was Bt'll a third army of workmen, steadily constructing railways which were bringing up artillery so gigan tic that not only it, but Its shells, can be transported only on speci ally constructed rllwys . , These huge pieces are supplanting the more transportable automomible f4 jjPjaces ,aadywshedjrd '. , If Combles fell before a methodl cal.he avy artillery advance and en circlement, it fell equally before the methodical Construction . of roaa ways, from the dirt and brick bedd ed wagon roads 'to theS full-gauged, rock-ballasted steel railways. This method marks the Allied advance, on the entire 30mle Somme ffont. Reaching Maurepas, which is but a mile and a quarter from Combles, we had a vivid Impression of the actual state of affairs in Combles, which was then undergoing - the same bombardment that preceededs the capture ot Maurepas. Maurepas, ins:ead of being simply leveled Oq the ground by allied artillery like1 other Somme vlllapes during the first weeks of the offensive, had been literally driven into the earth by terrific shU-pound'ng. The vil lage had a'mo't disappeared from th? surface of the earth, leaving on'y the naked site, prx-k-marked by Hhells like the surrounding coun try. An officer explained that this wa the result of the Allies' new artillery methods, whereby shells are driven as deep as possible Into the around before exploding for the purpose of ousting the Germans, who now dig In, from SO to 70 feet. GERMANS STRONGLY FORTIFIED Combles Le ng several miles in advance of the French lines of ob servation balloons the final observa I lion result ng in the capture of the in .... village was entrusted to aeroplanes. in great numbers they circled above the village nt a great height like a flock of high vultures, awaiting only the certainty that life was extinct before swooping down and seizing their prey. Yet so strongly were the Germns fortified .'n Combles, and so completely were they equip ped with artillery (thr(t It almost the last moment preceedlng the passage of the village into Allied hands, when an aeroplane swooped down within range, I counted within less than a minute the bursting of teveral shrapnel shells about one plane. The aviator, evldentally con- V'tippd that tha villa ni Mil n. "captiired, rejoined his comradies at higher altitudes, outside the range. During our s'eady' progress afoot, ( guns a hundred yards apart all were flrln an fleiyelv anil In r'nA trt in j that they drowned put the general j roar of artillery, and destroped any possible Impression of the gigantic struggle' as a whole, ; It was only (Special Correspondent) Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 2 There's mora interest In politics than any thing else developing around the State . Capital this week. With the election only five weeks ahead it is natuial that this shou d be so. If what Governor Blckett and Su perintendent of Public Instruction Joyncr have done within the last few days to Candidate Linney's ab surd noise, about the alleged "'ex travagant" conduct of the public school system by the Democrats of North Carolina is not dead to light, and has not sought to fairly and honestly enlighten the people. If Republican spellbinders of smaller calibre who have echoed Candidate Linney's utterances on this matter do not now shut up shop and close the shutters ot their poli tical gossip manufactory, then ' . it will be because they have decided to continue to ignore the truth , in the ' continued hope of fooling some of the voters and keeping them fooled till after election day in November. Here is Just one overshowing fact that is enough to settle any doubt these spellbinders may have raised in. the mind ot ny . voterw rjatlonaJL enougn to rormui&ie an laea aa re celve a thoughtful suggestion: To day, after sixteen yean of continu ous hard work on the proposition the State of North Carolina, tinder Democratic administration of affairs is educating properly 288,000 school children for 124 days in the year at a cost per child of only '2 cents more than the Rpublicans spent to "educate" in an inferior manner less than half that number for only 73 days of each year. ' Under the Republican regime the children attended school in the poor est school houe known wherever people wear clothes Jwtth apolo glesto Mf. Blckett), and were "taught" by the. poorest paid "teach era" under the sun (eclipses' not ex cepted), and the cahnca, to get much of an "edd'eashun" undes those con ditions was dim enough to supply everything e'se needed to .complete the deadly parallel ot the contrast between then and 'now. Is. there a well Informed father, or mother In North Carolina who. would vote for, oV desire the election of the' Re publican ticket in this State this year, because of any possible d vantage that might secure to their children? I don't believe It. And I don't Lelleve anybody" else believes it. " f: If there Is any one. thing, of the many splendid accomplishments of 'the Democrats in North Carolina during the last sixteen years, that towers overall the others (Import ant and valuable as they are). It is the growth of the- public school sys tem, viewed from all angles, and-as was emphasized in a these Letters last week, it s being done in a mora economical manner, so far as spend ng money oges, than in any .other State in the American Union save and except one. .:' 'T r71 It is a record of which the Demo crats of North Carolina are. proud, a record of which all the people should be proud, when they come to know the truth and disabuse their minds of the impressions made by the shyster tricks of the Republican speakers made at the expense of the truth In the desperate game they are p'aylng to "fool the voters. For they are not going to "stay fool ed."': ' ''sff-llVTT- vanc;al I : lines of artillery which ' (Continued on ;page Dwo) COTTON SOU TO HIGHER LEVELS TURMOIL ON THE EXCHANGE FOLLOWED GOVERNMENT SEP TEMBER REPORT'S FIGURES I (&y United Press Washington, Oct. 2 The Bureau of Crop estimates reports the condi tion cf the cotton crop 66 per cent normal against 61.2 per cent in Aug ust and 60.8 per cent in September 1915. This years loss from the rav ages of the boll weev'l is unpreced ented. This report forecasts a yield of 156.3 pounds to the acre and a total production of 11,637,000 bales as compared with 1 1.191.000 last year and 16,131,000 two years ago. Cotton ginned prior to September 25th, 4,063,000 bales as against 2, 900,000 In 1915. Cotton on the New York market lumped 60 to 80 points on the New York exchange Monday following the publication of the government report. December cotton sold sold as high as 16 cents. The exchange was in a turmoil as the prices soar ed to new levels. ID ZEPPELIIl MONSTER LOST BY GERMANS 8UNDAY NIGHT ONE OF LAT EST AND BIGGEST TYPE PABTIGIPATE 1 ' ARE TAKING ACTIVE PART IN BOMBARDMENT OF ST. QU EN TIN ON THE SOMME FRONT By HENRY WOOD (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the French Army before Per onne. Oct. 2 Navai forces have joined the a'l es here in the great land battle along the Somme. Ironolad monsters are using France's magnificent network of canals along the river and are par ticipating daily ip the bombardment of St. Quentin, seventl miles from the sea. St. Quentlri dominates from the east and this strategic position is being steadily encircled by the French in the came manner as Com bles.; - Little Boy Shot Dies Sunday (By United Press) London, Oct 2 The Zeppelin that was brought down north of London during the last night's raid upon the coast of England la one; of the Cew type of super-dirigibles the largest air monster In the world according to the official statement issued th s morning by Lord French commander of the Home Forces. T"u Zepellns crossed the channel and tombarded the east Coast of Kngland last night without, however, doing any damage either tto life or to property. This was the fourth raid on the English coast by German airmen within as many weeks. Hardy Battlett, the ten year old son of Mr. Richard Bartlnt of Cam den county, was shot and fattally wounded Saurday afternoon when a hotgun in the bands of. the H year old son of Mr. Wllloughby Arnold went, off, . the load passing through the left shouler of the victim .. and teirfw, a vaie:lippe.rfclt of tb left long. He died Sunday morning. According to the reports of , the accident received here young Ar nold had returned from. I' hunt and was standing in the yard of Mr. Joseph Hastings trying to eject a shell that had rammed In the gun whn the accdental discharge oc curred. Hardy Bartlett was one of a number of small boys standing a round when the gun went off. All of the families concerned in the accident live In the neighbor hord of the shipyard ferry in Cam den county. P M 0 5 ARE TIED UP RIOTING AND' DISORDER INCI- DENT TO STRIKE FORCE SUS PENSION OPERATIONS - BURGESS GILBERT Mr. Russell E.'Snowden of Snow den, N. C, was in the city "gatnr day. : i The marriage of MIhs Una Gil bert and Mr. Edward Burgess, both of El'zabeth City, was solemniied Saturday afternoon in Norfolk, Dr. Melton of Freemason Baptist church officiating. Miss Gilbert and Mr. Burgess left the city on the afternoon train for Norfolk and there were met by Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Tlllet. relatives of the' bride, and Dr. Melton. The cere mony was performed at the hotel and witnessed by Mr. and Mrs. Tll let. Mr. and Mrs. Burgess heturned to the city today and will make their home here. Mrs. Burgess was for merly' with McCabe and Grlce and Mr. Burgess with the J. H. Aydlett Hardware Company. Both brde and groom have a large number of friends here to whom the marriage came ' as a pleasing surprise, and they are receivfng, upon , their re turn to the city today, best .wishes and conratulatlons on every hand. Miss Llna P. Gilbert of the L. P. Gilbert Millinery Company, Is Inci dentally receiving a shower of best wishes st her place of business to day, on account 6f the similarity of the names oi the two members of the Gilbert fami'y. Miss Gilbert ex presses her appreciation of the best wishes and accepts them in berfalf ot the continuation of her attractive millinery store .'- : ; ''; .. ', ; . 4 : ATTEND KRAMER FUNERAL Among those attending the fun eral of Mr. John A. Kramer from out of the city were: Mrs C. W. Ed wards of Durham a half-sister; Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Russell of Bedford Pa; K. S. Klip of Lawton, Mich., and Mr. and Mrs. Simon Kramer of Edenton. The funeral wan conducted by Itev. C. B. Culbreth at the home and the body was laid to rest In Holly wood cemetery. , Mr. Kramer Is survived by his wife an,i three sons; Harry O. Kra mer of the Savings Bank and Trust Company, J. Howard and Frank K. Kramer; by three brothers, A. K. Kramer, Joseph P." Kramer, and C. E. Kramer; andf by three sisters, Mrs. A. T Davis, Mrs. J. H. Banks, and Mrs. P. H WlMams, all of this city. HAVE BOUGHT BUSINE8S J. P. Overman, Sr. and P. C. Cd hoon, representing The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Id Elizabeth City, have moved their offices from The Hlnton Building, They will hereafter conduct their business in room No. 218 in The Kramer BuMdln?, formerly occupied by O. M. Scott as a Fire Insurance office. adv. BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEET A meeting of the .Board of Di rectors of the First Baptist Qhurclj will be held Tuesday night at 7:30 in the church parlors. This is the regular meeting for the election of officers and the transaction of other important bus'ness' Every , member H urged tto be present. ' i , (By .United Press) i' -: Asuncion, Paraguay, Oct, 1 Para goan railways have completely sus pended ' operations because . of the serious disorders arising from ; the strike here. The strikers attacked trains and buraed i bridges5 O ; ' IIS E ?0 10 REPORTS THAT GREECE IS -;'A-BOUT TO ENTER WAR ON SIDE OF ALLIES RESPONSIBLE !.-Jt' (By United Press) I Rome, Oct. 2 Reports that Greece f was about to declare war has led. ' to the wholesale masscre of Greeks ID Asia Minor by the Turks the . Greek Legation Wat advsed today. . , School Fiaht Draws Crowd A case ot unusual interes't, ,' es peclally In Newslnd township . la this'' county, Is . being heard t ; the courthoute, here today by " Referee P. W. MtMullan of Hertford . ,The crowd attending the hearing s lar v ger thin that which ordinarily ' is ; present at the sessions of superior courft :, , a - t On October 12th, 1918, a special ( tax ' election Fas held in Newland , township and accordJs to the offl clal returns with 132 registered rot-. ers in the proposed tax district 69 ', voted for the tax and 44 against it. ' The aeeming minority hold that , the votes were hot properly counted t and asked for a restraining ' order to prevent the levy and the colled' . tlon of the spec'al tax. The order was granted by Judge Bond, and V the case was to be heard by Judge '' Whedbee, wJao, when it came before him suggested that a referee be an- ' , pointed to pass upon questions ' Of fact. Mr. McMullan was named referee by mutual consent of coun- r tel on both sides of the controversy ' . and the hearing is still in progress s this paper goes to press. ; , CARD OF THANKS , We desire to express to our friends our appreciation for the many acts of, kindness anl. words fit sympathy shown us during our recent bereave . ment. i'Vu'V'-ij MRS. JOHN A. KRAMER, . HARRY O. kramer; : V; . . 1. HOWARD , KRAMER, ' f 5 FRANK K. KRAMER. ' V CITY BOXER WINS The final bout between Joe Dally,, of the Pacific Coast, and W. H. Bateman, El.'sabeth City's Fighting' Machine, was pulled off at the Car nival here Saturday night. Bateman' had knocked out his rival In two bouts out of three dur ing the week and In the final, en counter sent him through the ropes once and over the ropes once. When put back into the ring and the gong sounded, Dally was unable to go. Bateman announces that he will not do any' more ring flghtlng.'and that he still holds, the welter and mltldre wetsht title." .
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