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mas. UJL S'VINGS STAMPS UKD BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT VOL.3 . ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, IJONDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, e 1918. WAR SAVINGS STAMPS KlUk.0 V TMB VNITFD STATES GOVERNMENT No. 137 V, ! - Boat Victims Here; T T TON o nil 11 T h n rn INUVV ILiillf u la uwwcii up Crew Of Pinar Del Rio Here ' Came in Monday Morning on Tren- I ton Left In Afternoon For Nor- folk r CREW PINAR DEL RIO NOW ALL ACCOUNTED FOR - V BESS CITI WILL DISK FIK For First Time Since Setting Apart of Second Friday in June For Honor to Native Emblem , For the first time since the second Friday In June was set apart by the National Congress to be known and celebrated throughout the land a Flag Day, this holiday will be observed by Elizabeth City. Flag Day la the one day In the year when the people of the United States are supposed to gather In their sev- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE I DIRECTORS TO MEET Directors of the Chamber of Com merce will moet at the office of the chamber of Commerce Tuesday ing at Ave o'clock. full Attendance la deelred. "The Chamber of Commerce," says Secretary Case, "has no secrets, and the meetings of the directors and of the committees are open to any mem ber of the organization." TELEGRAPHERS STRIKE WILL BE AVERTED French Check Hun's Progress As Resistance Stiffens Germans Thrust Loses Most of its Momen tum And Line Will Hold it Now Washington, June 10. President' Wilson and Secretary of Labor Wilson have successfully acted to avert a ' strike of the commercial telegraph- Appears Paris, .lun." 10, Tli' new German drive between Mont- didicr and N'ovon slowed down before ilie stillcncd 1' rencli re- An Atlantic Port, June 10. The Captain and seventeen members of the Steamer Pinar Del Rio ax rived here to-day on a fruit liner. This accounts for all hands. War was brought close home to Elizabeth City at about half past ten o'clock this morning, when before any morning papers had been received, sixteen survivors of an American steamer Bunk by submarine arrived here on board the Steamer Trenton from Nag's Head. The news of their landing flashed over the city like wild fire and the entrance to the llinton building, in which are the "Lhowln resneet ami honor to the ,nft olu,lon reached. io eianorauon or mis siaiemem ia forthcoming. fnl considers ion of the hiih and holy tilings which He at the foundation of the Republic and which are symbol- national emblem. It Ih a day for careful and prayer r i ized by the stars and stripes. A coeim'ttee of tbi Chamber of Commerce Ih at work planning the details of thp celebration which is to take place on the courthouse green at 11 o'clock, Friday, June 14th. There will be music by the J. H. Zeigler Hand and Mr. Lorenzo D. Case, the new secretary of the Cham- offices of the Coast Guard, wan crowded all the morning as, ber of Commerce, who delighted the throngs pressed in to hear from the lips of survivors the story of mali audience who heard him at the v . . i v. ,i iiii' j la Chamber of CoLimerce luncheon, the latest submarine atiacK on uie American coast. wreeK, Jng-j W(n g(,WtP(1 by thfi roramlUee lish, Spanish, Filippino and negroes, not a man of them but that j tn deliver the tribute to the flag. .,!, l.;,i u IWtl,. o-rmin tilvitifr i.iun-v niiestions Thev wcrelThose who have not beard Mr. Case a good natured lot, without doubt, for they answered cheerfully and readily all the morning long going over the same story again and again as each new group of questioners came for ward. t- . Those composing the crew are as follows: Chief Officer, J. Arkus, a Greek. W. Simmers, 3rd Officer of Lowell. Mass. W. Burroys, 1st assistant engineer, a native of Liverpool. K. Carlson, "rd assistant engineer, a Dane, now of Brook lyn, XY. R, C. B. Menu, Chief Steward, naturalized American, native of Dartmouth, England. Also three Spaniards and four colored hands. Two of the survivors, Frank Bennett, a Philapino, and Joseph Pirevoa, a Brazilian, have booth 1 n in such adven tures three times before. These two say they will make to see again soon. Sixteen survivors of the steamer "Pinar del Kin." silnk by a German I'-boat off Cape Henry Saturday, arrived here this morning from Nags Head. According to their story the Pinar Del Kin was sunk by f shell fire Saturday. June Sth. at !:.! in tn morning. The U-boat fired four shots into, the stymie,-, two nmid- ship and two forward. Almost immediately the vessel listed and within ten minutes she sank from sight, 't CLAIM SAW SCHOONER SUNK ers. It In Indicated In high official clr are supposed to gamer in ineir nrv- - , , . . p eral communities for the purpose of l,'les- formal announcement of distance yesterday evening mid last night, the reiicll onicial communique announces. (Jiiins of about it mile have been made by the enemy in the center and on the allies' right wing as compared with an initial penetration of three miles. ' ' Simultaneously American and French troops have again advanced northwest of Chateau Thierry, taking 2.")0 prisoners and .'!0 machine guns. Several violent attacks on the French left wing were brok en up and the allies have retaken and finally held Fpayelles, which changed hands several times in the early fighting in this sector. The French line held on the right, south and east of Ville, three miles southwest of Noyon, taking live liumireu uer- WEATHER Fair tonight and probubly Tuesday evept showers Tuesday In extfem wot portion. Light southerly wlnda may lie assured that h's speech alone will make their attendance on the celebration well worth while. The Chamber of Commerce cora mlttep hopes to be able to raise a city flag pole and flag on this occasion also, and will do so If all details can be arranged by that time. Otherwise that part of the program will have to go over to a later date. But the char- GUARANTORS WILL MEET TUESDAY NIGHT Chautauqua at Elizabeth City will begin on June 14th. The tickets are now In the hands of the Chautauqua Guarantors to be sold. Each Guaran tor Ih expected to dispose of his quota of the tickets before Tuesday night, when there will he a meeting of the Guarantors. At this meeting each Guarantor is expected vo hand In tha cash for every ticket which he dis posed of and to return all unsold tickets. Any Guarantor who fails to make-ii report at this meeting will bo 1'hns'd wi !i liis full quota of the tickets. ac'er cf tTie men Interested In having the city own its own flag and flagpole iH such that prompt accomplishment of all arrangements Is assured. the steamer which they sighted was a "mother ship" as tin submarine sailed all around it without any sign of hostility Bystanders report a story told by some members of the crew to the effect that the steamer signalled the submarine and that the captain of Kill Devil Hill Life Saving Station, to whom th siirnnl was shown, said that it indicated "follow me." NO QUARTER FOR ENGLISH CREWS When the Pinar d 1 Kin hove to the U-boat came along side. Members of the steamers crew say that they saw no iitim ber on the raider and they are confident that she bore no mim ber. The Gentian officer inquired whetlu r the vessel was Eng lish or American and questioned as to its destination and cargo He soke English. Informed that the steamer was. an Ameri can vessel of the American and Cuban steamship Line bound from Caibarien, Cuba, to Boston, with a cargo of 25,.r(K) bags of sugar, he said crisply: "If you are sure you are American and not English, vou mav take to vour boats. We are going to ... ' 1 ! il. T 1 1 . 1 I . . . . . ... As soon as the steamer was (itsposea oi xne t -ooai iii.iue j, vom. si,ip ien the bouts, already provisioned ant for a schooner sighted in the distance. Members of the steam- rpady for just such an emergency, had put out to a safe (lis er's crew declare that the schooner was sunk also The crew of the Pinar del Kio put off from their vessel in two boats, with Captain McKenzie in charge of sixteen men in one, and the first mate, J. Argus, in charge of fifteen men in ' the other. The first mnte and his crew arrived here. They know nothing of the fate of their shipmates in the other boat. MOTHER SHIP THEORY BOBS UP AGAIN The submarine which sank the Pinar del Rio is described V.Y" as a largo one of a new tvpe, at least 250 feet long. She fired si fiix shots at the American vessel before the Captain ordered the ( vessel brought to. A big steamer appeared in the distance soon - after the first shot and the captain hoped for help. The final fchot, however, came so close that it was seen that any attempt tance from the steamer, the submarine fired the four shots that sent her to the bottom. 1 '"tPM , r' i'Tf AT KILL DEVIL HILL SUNDAY NIGHT The Pinar del Rio was sunk 110 miles northeas of Cape Ilatteras and about 90 miles east of Cape Henry. The lifeboats hoisted sail and drove before the wind to the south west Saturday, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Towan evening Sunday they were picked up by the Steamship "Mary Olsen" of New York and at half past six they were put off at Kill Devil Hill Life Saving Station where they were taken in charge by the Coast Guard. From there they were sent to Nags Head where they boarded the Trenton this morning, They left here on the through train for NorfolE al IfcreS to get away would be suicidal. The survivors now Relieve that -o'clock this afternoon man prisoners. ; N'ew German forces progressed slightly reaching tlio oui- kirts of Cuvillv, eight miles southeast of .Montlilier. Severe fighting is in progress in Thiascourt wood in which the Germans have suffered heavy losses. lleavv artillerv I'iuhting is going on North of Klu inis. NEW SECRET METHODS AGAINST U-BOATS Washington, .June 10. New secret methods of operating . .1ll..i ! I... ..... .....l.....-! .w..l 4.. Vvv in fltratllst Werman COasull l)-loai nimei me unm-mimm i" "V fTeet. MapHd out by sections of operation with the advice of lie naval consulting board, these plans have been communicated ..... rt . 1 4 i t i to Admiral. mdow, it.sp cor ol tiie Aiiaime naval uisirw:i.. GERMAN AIM IS TO ENVELOPE AMERICANS X'j French Armies Afield, .lane 10. The president drive, on the MontdidierNoyon front, according to military critics here, constitutes the northern arm of the vast encircling project aim ed against Paris. This movement, starting from the Avre region, nt Mont- didier is being pushed so'itliward as lar as possinie lowaiu ino capital. It would co-ordinate with the southern enveloping attacs . t , t a from Chantean Thierry, thus seeking to envelope uie American and French troops between .Mnntdidier and i hnteau I merry. AMERICANS FIRM American Armies in France, ,1,,,,,. io, bile the fourth Mnntdidier were bombarded in connection with the German ar tillerv Tironnrntinn for thf at phase of the German 'T'nHive-fnck iKtween Noyon and Mont- is breaking out between Noyon and Montdidier, the Americans continue to hold firm on the Marne front. In addition to heating off two enemv attacks on Bouresches, five miles west of Chateau Thierry, and an assault against 1111 204, thev advanced to and occupied the edge of the wood west of Vaux, two miles west of Chateau Thierrv. Penetrating a portion of Chateau Thierr which wns still occupied by the Germans, they later returned to their own lines. didicr. American artillery responded to the enemy fire in a strong counter bombardment. The Bodies continue to pour shells into Belle wood rive miles west of Chateau Thierry, hut the Marines are holding the position. American Army Lorraine, June 10. American observers report n continuation of Gor man concentration of troops opposite the Toul sector and farther east opposite Nancy. Boche aviators and nnli-air i craft mins are increasinclv hiu The American linos in Pic- tive in ntfacking American ob- ardy west and northwest or porvation balloons.
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