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ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING. JUNE 8. 1917
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(Sereral Pershing
Safe' in England
Receives Ovation At British Port
And Is Whisked Away On
Special To London
British Port, June 8. Major General John J. Pershing,
Commander of the first American expeditionary force to France
has arrived in England, accompanied by his staff.
A tremendous ovation greeted the arrival of the Ameri
cans and a special train is waiting to whisk them away to London-Included
in General Pershing's party are a number of
nurses and army engineers.
Distinguished British officers accorded the commander
of the first American expeditionary force the warmest welcome.
The ship bearing the party was met a hundred miles from the
Irish coast by a British flotilla.
GEr. PERSHING A
MILITARY GENIUS
COMMANDER OK FIRST EXPEDI
TIONARY FORCE IN FRANCE 18
A DEMON FOR DETAIL AND
WILL SEE THAT HIS FORCES
. LACK NOTHING TO MAKE THEM
EFFICIENT
SIX HIDE!
SS TAKEN
RUSSIA
S FATE
IS IN BAIAII
AMERICANS MUST FACE FAIRLY
FACT THAT UNDER PRESENT
CONDITIONS WILL NOT FIGJiT
.(By United Press)
Washington, June 8. 8omeone
once said that genius is a matter of
detail. If that someone was right then
MaJ. Gen. John J Pershing, who will
command America's first expedition
ary forces in France is a military gen
ius. He Is a regular demos for - de
tail. An inspection is a military formal
ity not popular in the Army and an
BRITISH CONTINUE DRIVE SUC
CESSFULLY. GERMANS WAGE
COUNTER OFFENSIVE ON THE
FRENCH SECTOR OF GREAT
FRONT
(By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS)
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
With The British Armies Afield,
June 8. Six thousand prisoners to
date have been taken in the great
Flanders offensive. 8o complete is the
success with which the drive Is pro
gressing. ..
The British cavalry is still in action
and on account of the use of the cav
alry there is nothing to indicate the
(By WILLIAM SHEPPERD)
Petrograd, June 8. Russia's (ate
is hanging In the balance between
Czarism and mobism. .
America and her allies mus-pface
this fact squarely.
Under present concltlons Russia
WILL NOT FIGHT.
Conditions may change.
There is a possibility that order
may be- evolved out of chaos. But
there is nothing to indicate such an
evolution.
There is no man a tower of streng
th in the turmoil on whom hope has
centered.
Russians patriots are working day
and night In a desperate effort to res
tore order and set up a government.
WOUNDED TIDE
WANTS UCE
SOLDIER OF SOUTH JUST RECOV
ERING FROM THIRD WOUND
ANXIOUS TO JOIN THE AMERI
CAN FORCES WHEN THEY AR
RIVE IN FRANCE
LIES. C. L. HEATH DEAD
The funeral of Mrs C L Heath, who
died Friday morning at one o'clock
at her home near Selden Street was
conducted Friday afternoon at four
o'clock.
Mrs Heath was th caughter of Mr
and Mrs Thomas Meads and was
married to Mr Curtis L Heath twelve
years ago this September. She was 32
years old, and a member of the First
Baptist Church. Besides her mother
and father and husband she Is sur
vived by three children, a sister, Mrs
Bill Chorrie. and two brothers, Victor
and Stanton Meads. Interment was
made in Hollywood cemetery.
VERDICT FOR PLAINTIFF
The jury in the case of Chappel vs.
Price today brought in a verdict in
favor of the plaintiff.
This was a claim of delivery pro
ceeding the plaintlfr desiring author
ity to take possession of property set
our In a chattel mortgage.
The case of Britton, administrator,
vs. The People's Navigation Company
is now being tried.
WAR TOO BIG TO RISK I ,
LESS THAN ALL TO WH!
WW-sip--MaaafHnvMa
Young Canadian Wounded Early In The Fighting
Does Not Yet Fed That He Has Bit But Is
Anxious to Get Back to Trenches
i
GERMANY FIGHTS
BLOOD M RACE)
"This war is too big for any one
to say or feel that he has done his bit
until it Is won."
So spoke Jack Stenson, a quiet-man
nered young Canadian now visiting
friends in the city, to a reporter for
this paper this morning.
Stenson was In rue nrst contingent
leaving Canada for the fray. He was
wounded in the first ras attack madei
by the Germans and after spending j0XE
six months in a British hospital, he
returned home to offer himself again
for service In the trenches. Rejected
In Canada he is now in the United
States hoping to flnor a place among
(he fighting men that Uncle Sam will
first send into active fighting in
France. ,'
Failing In this purpose he will offer
his services to Uncle Sam as an in
structor in bayonet fighting
IMIIFFAFflCF 18 -
BUSILY If im;;
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S'E HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
FIVE DELEGATES MAKE RE
PORTS AND HEAR DISCTRsrnva
OF EPWORTH LEAGUE , PRO
BLEMS , -
w wmuu.ou uu botcuij uyu aeie
gates are'attendlng the Epworth Lea
gue Conference in session at Clt
Road Church this week.
Tonight the conference will be ad-
One has dreed by Rev A D Wilcox of Golds-
London, June 8. Introducing Mr.
I-Tnrrv MrMfrh&pl nf Aiipnatn Cla Wlaf
Inspection by Gen Pershing Is always tomp.eie reaK aown or the German hag bpen 8trafed tnr,ce y thj Ka,g
antclpated with fear and trembling. trench lines. ' er's missies, but he hasn't taken the
'Thorough" hardly describes it.Last' i-onaon. june s. Across tne munt
September Gen. Pershing conducted wedge five miles broad at the apex the
an inspctlon of 3000 troops stationed British are still forging ahead smash
t the base of the Mexican punitive 'n8 Germany's steel grip on Belgium,
expedition in Columbus, N. M. ' At nght the fighting is intense. The
It occupied five hours and when German lines are bent far back by the
completed the General knew the fit-: Initial shock of vast mine explosions,
ness for immediate field service of she" "re, artillery and dashing blows
nvaTv man in thn rnmmund (,f infantry. The Germans are massing . , . . . . ,,
every man in me comuiaou. ; u coo.., ncj,e(j D8 brow as he went over the
"Shave off those decorations," was their reserves fiercely to oppose every t()p jn a cnarge
ui .I.. - at an tt f Va llrirlah aHimnstn I
a frequent oraer to tnose cuiuvuung ; " -v ".. uui.c.
beards. ; Paris, June 8. Germany has ap-
Dirty rifles aroused the General's parently started a counter offensive
ire. "That's a line looking instrument, along the great sector of the French
Been using it for a hoe have you?"ifrnt. All attacks thus far have fail
ed.
count yet and all he wants is another
shot at a spiked helmet.
Mac learned the game in the Sec
ond United States cavalry. He joined
the Fifteenth Canadian Battalion in
June. 1915. A machine gun bullet hit
his leg in the fall of that year. Back
from the hospital, a shell fragment
be would ask.
Down the line he went, his eyes
taking; in every detail. Take off your
uniform when you sleep," he would
snap. "Don't you ever wash those
pants?"
Without stopping to eat or for a
moment's reet he kept at his task
through the infantry, the signal troop
the ambulance and hospital units and
along the long line of motors and
drivers In the truck companies and
the aviation corps.
Pershing knew what he had in men
And equipment every minute he was
, in Mexloo.' And he saw that his men
f-eited nothing. And so la France he'
will know every minute what he has'
in men and equipment and he will
see that they lack nothing to make
then efficient soldiers. For Pershing,'
"In the phraseology, is a hound for de
tail."
ffl OFFICIALS
I-P KF.UJ AC'S
fii.vtcc
: f a "I.;:
M.Wr V.
Rack once more from "bligty," Mac
took a stretch and a yawn in view of
the German trenches and a bullet
bored his Jaw, removing five teeth
Today, in the hospital, this soldier of
the south is just getting on his feet
again. He wants to join the Americans
when they arrive and his ear is eag
er for the welcome sound of "Dixie."
THAT IS EXCUSE PUT UP RY GER
MAN OFFICERS FOR THE KILL-ue 8a'd K there was any one there.
INO OF THE WOMEN AND CHIL
DREN OF FRANCE
(By WILBUR 8. FORREST)
(United Press tSaff Correspondent.)
Paris, June 7. "We aro not mak
ing war solely against the French
army and French territory but against
Frenchmen generally, your women,
children and everything that belongs
to the French blood aud race
to do something," ha explains. ooro; H18 "inject will be "8unshine
Stenson'a home Is at Hamilton, a and Moonshine." , ,
town of a little over a hundred thou-i Tn,s "fternoon at :30 the dele-
hand Inhabitants in Ontario. "I might : BBteB were iaKen n n automobile
not mind staying at home so much,irlde over the c,ty-
iu iuui uju b bbbbiuu reports.
nut one man nas enlisted for every""" -re unanimous in
ten persons in the city. That means not,n&" much improvement in effl
10,000 soldiers from this one town lency and Interest In local league
alone. I have hardly a personal friend I wor,t- -' ;
left in it." I Devotional exercises were ondoct-
n- i n ft ii... Sd hv RaV H P niaaa nt T .kftpn ,ttA
mi ruu luio oieuBuu iciv nauimuu - ihviv nw
Tuesday evening and arrived In Elli- ured that much time be given to
abeth City Wednesday on the night Blb,e 8tudr without wnlcb there could
express. They are now the guests of be no hPe ot -igheet life 5 ,'.
Mr and Mrs G W Parsons on East1 Mr8 H B Branch of, Wilmington
Burgess street.
spoke on "Christ the man, as liven la
'It is fine to see how seriously the.Luke'8 Q8Pel-
Thjs Is what the German command-' States are taking the stern business ReT c M Culbreth of St Louis con-
Thej havs octea tne social setvle department.
ln officer in Noyon told Senator I of war," says JUr Stenson,
Noal. mayor of Noyon, before the
Germans sacked the town. Shortly be
fore the destruction began, the com
mander summoned Joal and demand
ed that he name specific instances of
atrocities and vandalism com
mitted by the Kaiser's troops.
Noal put in 15 minutes the time
allowed naming instances after in
Htiince with full details. The crimes
charged included rape, burglary, as
sault, arson and murder.
After having listened, the comman-
dWlrondeitttortlre tiuiw1 'tneyaW Tb- JVPn.fwencj!, opened tbuwdajr
been In it. And the hospitals which n,B w,th devotional .xerclses br
they are establishing are already of RT 0 T Adams. Mayor Sawyer wel- .
immense value to the allies."
Asked what he thought as to the
duration of the war Mr Stenson said
that he looked for two years more of
it. "America will hav.; plenty of time
to get into the fight before it Is over,
then," said t he reporter. i
"Oh, yes!" was the answer." Amer
ica must take France's place In sup
plying man power for the fighting
der excused such conduct by saying i lines. In this respect France is about
his countrymen were warring against at the end of Its resources. The gaps
"French blood and race." One of the
Instances cited was the case of little
Andre Labot, a child who was beaten
with a cane for falling to salute an
officer, then forced to salute a dummy
draped with a German uniform until
he-fell exhausted, and finally bayonet
ted and killed.
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AMONG MEN IV
M-'LWNG HHIPS
.IIS VKCHANT1
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r
1
MinncnnntQPn
MUu ui niiiLiiiun
OF 111 PROBLEMS
STATUE TO LEE
AT
GETTYSBURG
(By LY.:t : IY
Washington, June . - - !)i: . cr : i
among the men who are bu
ships to enable the United State lj
I be prepared to keep her allies sup.
plied with food came o a head today
, when General Goethals, In charge of
I tho work, relieved from duty F. A.
I Eustis, Assistant General Manager of
the United States Emergency Fleet
Corporation and F II Clark, consult
ing engineer.
The two officials discharged Issued
statements last night charging Gen
eral Goethals with derayin construe
tion of the wooden ships.
Chautauqua This Year Will Turn People's ' Attention
M SW rf Personal Efficiency and Individual
Fconomy to Meet War Needs.
Washington, Juno 7. I" &O00
Chautauqua tents and auditor. uu '
this Hummer, an Brmy or the cou -try's
best speakers will pnach practi
cal patriotism and seek to train the
national mind along lines of most ef
fective service.
vt ixMHo'. il "lytriene, conservation of
food, and eimllal -
f lid Dr. Pear-
. in nt bendH every
Yv tion of the phy-
ti e United States,
IBy United Press)
Gettysburg, Pa., June 8. Beside
that field of. waving wheat across
which General Pickett led his memor
able charge against the Union Lines
at the Bloody Angle there was un-
MOUNTAINEERS PLOT
TO RESIST CONSCRIPTION
" liiii' t' : T
effort to i ' ' !
fiicnl resources
, we will do our part In mobilizing the
mind of America."
! 'We will help to mobilize the minds Tho Hpnakera wno wni undertake
or America," said Dr Paul M Pearson, tMs campalgn lnclude Vice-President
i secretary of the Chautauqua Mana- Mar8nal, Frank DiXon, Mrs LaSalle
Kur'a association, yesterday at a meet (;orbee 1McUetti Dr Thomas E Green,
fug of the executives of five thousand Hon percy A,den (), the Brltgh Par.
( liantauquas. I llament and Special Commissioner of
In each town visited this summer Agriculture in charge of England's In
we plan to have a rousing, patriotic tensive wheat raiing scheme, Dr. Car
day when the best available speaker olyn E Oelsel of Battle Creek Michi
gan, Dr Lydla Allen DeVilbiss, chief
Hy
(By United Press)
Roanoke, Va, June 8. Desultory wni indicate methods of efficient Hv-
veiled today a bronze statue to the guerilla warfare developed in this me and food conservation and out- of the Kansas Bureau of Child
valiant commander of the South's for section on account of harbored re- nne avenues of service for men and glene, and many others.
ces, General Robert Edward Lee. Isentment for Federal enforcement of (women not lnlisted for military ser- In their session the Chautauqua
j draft. Mountaineers for two nights vice and the Red Cross. j Managers pledged their support to the
have fired from ambush on the Natl-1 "Good Health of the individual per President and Congress, offering their
lonal Guard patrols and today the De-'g0n under the extraordinary high pres services especially towards tha effl
parttnent of Justice sent Us agents mire conditions of these was timet Istcient and democratic organization of
into - tbe section following tne dls- a most important adjunct of prepar- jthe industrial ana social force of the
WEATHER
mads from now on In the French
ranks must be filled with Americans.'
It was about the end of September
1914 that Stenson left Canada on one
of the ships of the big transport fleet
of thirty three vessels that took over
the first contingent of Canadian fight
ing men. It was the Intention to take
the fleet into Portsmouth, and pre
parations had been made there for
corned the delegates in behalf of the
city. Rev C B Culbreth and Rev, J L
Cunningglm in behalf of the local
Methodist churches, v R Pugh in be
half of City Road Epworth League
and T J Markham In behalf of First
Methodist Epworth League.
The response was made by Rev J M
Ormond of Hertford.
An address by Rev H B Hill on 'Th
Kvangellstlo Message of the Bible"
followed and the meeting closed with'
a reception in the Sunday School an
nex. .,
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FEDERAL SERIVCE FOR. .
COLONIAL MILITIA
(By United Press) .
Washinglon, June 8. The native
militia and other armed forces on the
I'hillplnes may be called Into Federal
- 1 J M A - -
taking care of the new troops.But the service uuuer an amendment iq
activities of the German submarines national defense act passed today. t v
caused a change In plans at the last -- -
mhiuto and the fleet's deetinatln
was changed to Plymouth. There no
provisions for the troops had been
made and it was a week before Sten
son got off his ship and into a train
ing camp. He had had tjiree years
military training in Canada in the
all zed and their panie was pitiful to ,
see." -'i .
It was under these circumstance .
that 1100 Caitadian found them
selves In the way of the advance of
20,000 Germans. What it meant to u :
you can Imagine when I tell you that 1
Canadian organization corresponding of the 1100 only 112 an8Were(i the'
our Natonal Guards; but it was not roii caii next moinlne
until ho had had four months In a
training camp where the routine work
was 'worse than the trenches' that he
was sent to the front and put into
trenches under fire of the big German
guim.
'I was struck by a shell fragment
first. Then the gas got me and finally
a bullet wound, enough for one '
day's work I think. ,
"After nightfall when the attack
slackened I crawled off the field some
how. I was given hhsty attention at
the dressing station, which the GerV
mans, as habit was, had under fire. A
few hours later I was sent to the base
Asked about the sensations of a
raw soldlor under fire, Stenson said: I
'Why I was scared of course. One
can not rec I comrortaDie wun sixteen
... i
incn Biioits Dursting in nis neignoor-, i108,,ital and from there to England, '
hood. The experience Is too much like wlKM.(1 i stnyf,(i ln tho hospital for sbt
an earthquake. It is my personal opin- months while mv wounds healed. 1 i
Ion that tho man who says he Is notot mck (o Canada ln October. Since
scared Under SUCh Circumstances Is then I httV tried to rat tntn tha rnaV
either a liar or a fool. And there is no
particular harm In a man's being scar
ed so long as he sticks to his post
and does his duty."
Stenson got Into the trenches ln
February. It was on the evening of
April 23, 1915 that he was wounded
the day on which the Germans first
used a screen) of poison gas to coVer
their attack.-
"None of us knew what had hap
pened," said Mr. Stenson." but It was
the Algerian troops against whom the
Probably local thunder showers to-. closure of a widespread plot to resist d ness, and we have arrange a most country and the unification bf the dl-new method ot attack was most luc
ent and Satnrdav! moderate winds, rnnscrinllon.
thorough-golnr campaign la methods versified element of our population. cessfdL. They were completely demor-
dian army four times. -
"If I am accepted In the United
States I should like to go over with
the first troops that will see service.
I suppose, though, that Pershing and
his regulars will get off soon- if they
have not already left. "We 'will of
course not know they are gone until
wo hear of their safe arrival in Eng
land." ' ': ,
Before the reporter got to hi type
writer with his story the wire had
flashed over the country tbe new of
the arrival In England of ' General
Pershing and his staff.