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0HCERT1T! HAS
PASSED IN GREECE
J0SEPHUS DANIELS, JR.
BETHMANN HOLWEG
RETIRES FROM POST
GUNNER CLANCY
FORMAL ORDER TO
DRAFT D MY
ROAD GONi
LARGELY ATTE
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RELATIONS SEVERED WITH CEN
TRAL POWERS COUNTRY
ACTUALLY AT WAR.
EXPECT EARLY MOBILIZATION
Venizelos' Declarations at Salonlca
are Binding. Mission to United
States Will Probably be Sent.
Washington. Uncertainty as to
Greece's status in the world war was
cleared away with the receipt of offi
cial information that the Greek gov
ernment not only has severed relations
with all four of the central powers,
but is actually in a state of war with
them.
Information has reached the state
department that the Greek minister
in Paris has notified the French gov
ernment that Greece considers herself
a full belligerent and will act accord
ingly. He said it was not necessary
to issue a formal declaration of war
as the government feels it is bound
by the declarations previously issued
at Salonika by Premier Venizelos, who
took with him to Athens all the re
sponsibilities and committments of
the temporary Saloniki government.
As a belligerent, Greece is expected
to lose no time in mobilizing her war
resources and Joining effectively in
the common allied operations in the
Balkans.
The strength of the Venizelos army
is placed at aoout 60,000 men, and the
remnants of the former regular army,
while not over 30000 now, has at
times been mobilized to a total of
200,000 men, anad is capable of reach
ing 300,000, if munitions are pro
vided. The regulars practically were de
mobilized by the allies when fromer
king Constantine held the organiza
tion as a threat to the allies rear,
but can quickly be called to the colors
again.
While it is understood the new gov
ernment has not yet mobilized this
army, the classes of 1916 and 1917,
previously prevented by the allies
from being called out, were called to
the colors about two weeks ago.
A Greek mission may be sent to the
United States, not only to negotiate
for supplies for this army, but also
to present Greece's situation as to the
general word reconstruction after the
war. For the present it is probable
Greece will be munitioned by the
allies.
RUSSIAN AND AUSTRO-
GERMANS ARE AT DEATH GRIP
Germans Are Worsted In Campaign
From Baltic to Roumanian Frontier
Against the Teutonic allies have suf
fered reverses in the loss to the
Russians of a part of the village of
Lodzinay, in the Lomnica river region
of Galicia; in the repulse of an attack
by the Russians northeast of Kalusz,
and in the Champagne region of
France wheer the French drove them
from positions they had recaptured, in
flicting heavy casualties on them.
From Riga ,on the Baltic Sea, to
the Rumanian frontier, the Russians
and Austro-Germans along the entire
front are engaged in battle, but ex
cept in Galicia, where the Russians
continue to develop their advantage
or hold back thrusts of the Teutons,
little has yet become known concern
ing the operations.
Not alone have the Russians in
their drive in Galicia made considera
ble gains of terrain, but their captures
of men, guns and material have been
enormous. From July 1 to July 13.
according to a Russian official com
munication, 36,643 officers and men of
the Teutonic allied armies have been
made prisoners by General Busiloff's
forces and ninetythree heavy and
light guns, twenty-eight trench mor
tars, 403 machine guns and ninety
one guns of other descriptions have
been taken.
The Germans in Champagne have
again attempted with large bodies of
men to recapture positions taken from
them recently near Mont Haut and
the Teton.
SENATOR REED ATTACKS
FOOD COMMISSIONER HOOVER
Washington. A wrangle over the
President's appointment of Herbert C.
Hoover as food administrator, occu
pied virtually allthe day's debate In
the Senate on the food control bill,
but meantime considerable progress
on compromise amendments was
made by the leaders In bi-partisan
onferences. For more than two
rrs Senator Reed criticised Mr.
f'-cver. Senator Phelan defended the
(.od admin'otration.
Josephus Daniels, Jr., son of the sec
retary of the navy, is serving his coun
try In that branch of the national de
fenses of which his father is the head.
ALL CAMPS NOW SELECTED
CHARLOTTE IS OFFICIALLY DE
SIGNATED AS TRAINING
CAMP.
North and South Carolina and Ten-
enssee Troops Will Train at Green
ville. Other Assignments Are Made
Public.
Washington. Charlotte, N. C," was
chosen as a site for a national guard
camp over Fayetteville, N. C, "solely
on the ground of the accessibility of
an enlarged and adequate water sup
ply," according to a statement from
the committee on public information.
The statement said that Secretary
Baker expressed approval of the
hearty co-operation of the people of
Fayetteville and their generous atti
tude, but pointed out a new water
supply would have to be tapped to
supply the Fayetteville site, and this
would take considerable time.
In announcing the selection of Hat
tiesburg, -Miss., and Alexandria, La.,
as guard sites, the statement says:
"This decision was delayed only by
consideration of the splendid facilities
offered at Jacksonville, Fla., which
were highly rated by General Wood.
The Jacksonville site is one which
has some peculiar advantages and
will be considered by the department
in connection with further plans."
The Charlotte camp will get the fifth
division, composed of Maine, Massa
chusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Is
land and Connecticut troops, thirty
thousand men in all.
In addition, there will be an avia
tion camp with 2,500 men and 1,200
aeroplanes. Twelve thousand horses
is another item in the Charlotte
camp.
Conservative estimates place the
monthly payroll at $1,225,000. The
more enthusiastic say $1,500,000.
Encampment affairs are now about
concluded. North Carolina troops will
go to Greenville, along with those of
South Carolina and Tennessee, con
stituting the ninth division.
The tenth division, composed- of
Aalabama, Georgia and Florida will
go to Macon.
The sixteenth, Ohio, West Virginia,
Indiana and Kentucky, will go lo
Augusta.
The eighth, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, District of Columbia and
Virginia, goes to Spartanburg.
The eighteenth. Arkansas, Lauisiana
and Mississippi, goes to Montgomery.
STEEL TO BE AVAILABLE
AT REASONABLE COSTS.
New York. Conferences between
government and officials and repres
entatives of the steel industry concern
ing the nation's steel requirements
during the war and prices to be paid
by the government ended in an under
standing announced by Secretary Bak
er that the country's entire steel out
put will be made available at reason
able costs to be determined after com
pletion of the steel investigation now
being made by the trade commission.
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POLITICAL TURMOIL CULMINATES
IN RESIGNATION OF THE
CHANCELLOR.
GEORGE MICHAELIS SUCCEEDS
Chancellor's Resignation Came Unex
pectedly. His Retirement Seems to
Have Been Forced by the Crown
Prince May Affect War
ijonaon. (British Admiralty per
Wireless Press). Dr. von Bethmann-
Hollweg, the German imperial chan
cellor has resigned.
Dr. Georg Michaelis, Prussian un
der secretary of finance, and food com
missioner has been appointed to suc
ceed Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg.
The message relating to the resig
nation of the imperial German Chan
cellor was circulated through the wire
less stations by the German govern
ment and was. received by the British
admiralty. It says also that the em
peror has accepted the resignation of
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg and named
Dr. Michaelis to succeed him.
The political turmoil which has
been convulsing Germany ever since
Russia's first startling success on the
resumption of her offensive, has culmi
nated for the present in the resigna
tion of the imperial chancellor, Dr.
von Bethmann-Hollweg, but all indi
cations serve to show that his resigna
tion, ,far from being the last act in
the drama, is but the becinning of far
reaching developments which are
bound to affect the fabric of the Ger
man empire and have momentous
consequences on the progress of the
European struggle.
The resignation of the chancellor
came in the end quite unexpectedly,
for Dr. von eBthmann-Hollweg, In
the prolonged party discussions and
heated debates of the main committees
of the reichstag, which have been pro
ceeding all through the week, seemed
to have triumphed over his oppon
ents, who have been clamoring for hi9
head, by making concessions which
were tantamount to the formation of
a kind of imperial coalition ministry.
NAMES OF HEROES OF FORMER
WARS GIVEN TO CAMPS.
Washington. Names of American
military heroes of past wars, includ
ing several Confederate leaders, have
been given by the war department to
the thirty-two cantonments In which
the national army and the national
gaurd will be mobilized for training.
In announcing the designations, the
department revealed that the subject
has been given consideration by a
board of officers headed by Brigadier
General Kuhn, chief of the war col
lege division, and the selections were
governed by a carefully prepared pol
ivy. In each case the name selected Is
that of a man from the section repre
sented by the troops concerned,, but
not unpopular in the vicinity of the
camp. Short names were chosen for
convenience, names like "Washington
and Lincoln were omitted because of
the temporary nature of the camps
and other names were avoided be
cause they are duplicated by promi
nent men now living. In part the
names chosen follow:
For National Guards:
Camp Greene, Charlotte, ,N. C, af
ter General Nathaniel Greene, of the
continental army, a native of Rhode
Island.
Camp Wadsworth, .Spartanburg, S.
C, after Brigadled General J. S.
Wadsworth, ,U. S. V., born in New
Yorfcs
Camp Sevier, .Greenville, ,S. C. af
ter Brigadier General John Sevier, U.
S. A. member of congress from North
Carolina and first governor of Ten
nessee. For National Army.
Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C, af
ter Major General Andrew Jackson.
U. S. A., born in North Carolina and
chosen president from Tennessee.
Camp Gordon, Atlanta, after Lieu
tenant General J. B. Gordon, C. S. A.,
a governor of Georgia.
SOLDIER TOOK HIS
BRIDE TO FRANCE
An Atlantic Port. "Somewhere in
France" is a sergeant in the American
army who was married -just before
he left the United States and ventured
to take his bride with him on the
transport which carried his regiment
overseas. She was with him as a sol
dier, dressed in regulation khaki and
with her hair cut .short. The young
woman bas returned from France, her
efforts to pose as a '"Sammy" having
failed.
Gunner Clancy Is the Texan who
first carried the Stars and Stripes Into
action on the French front. The flag
was tied to his bayonet when he
charged with a Canadian regiment at
Vimy ridge on April 9. Clancy was
wounded several times.
PRESIDENT ISSUES APPEAL
CALLS FOR PATRIOTISM OF BUSI
NESS MEN OF THE COUN
TRY. But Promises Just Prices Will Be Paid
For All Supplies. Asks Business
Interests to Give as Freely as Those
Who Offer Lives.
Washington. President Wilson ap
pealed to the country's business Inter
ests to put aside every selfish consid
eration and to give their aid to the
nation as freely as those who go out
to offer their lives on the battlefield.
In a statement adaressed to the
coal operators and manufacturers, he
gave assurances that just prices will
be paid by the government and the
public during the war but warned
that no attempt to extort unusual
profits will be tolerated.
"Your patriotism," said the Presi
dent's appeal, "is of the same self-denying
stuff as the patriotism 0 fthe
men dead and maimed on the fields
of France, or it is no patriotism at all.
Let us never spea, then, of profits
and patriotism in tse same sentence.
"I shall expect every man who is
not a slacker to be at my side
throughout the great enterprise. la
it no man can win honor who thinks
of himself."
The President declared there must
be but one price for the government
and for the public. He expressed
confidence that business generally will
be found loyal to the last degree, and
that the problem of war time prices,
which he declared will "mean victory
or defeat," will be solved rightly
through patriotic co-operation.
In unmeasured terms, Mr. Wilson
condemned the shipowners of the
country for maintaining a schedule
of ocean freight rates which has
placed "almost insurperable obstacles"
in the path of the government. "The
fact is," he asserted, "that those who
have fixed war freight rates have
taken the most effective means in
their power to defeat the armies en
gaged against Germany." Coal pro
duction and other industries for
whose products the government has
negotiated price agreements are not
taken up In detail by the President.
REVISED CENSUS ESTIMATE
BASIS FOR APPORTIONMENT.
Washington. Postponement of the
drawing of numbers of men who will
be called for examination for the na
tional army was made when it become
evident that states are not complet
ing organizations of their district ex
emption boards as rapidly as war de
partment officials had hoped. Only
twenty-one states have reported their
organization complete, although in
most of the others only a few are
missing. The drawing will not be
made until the listsfor the country
are complete.
A so-called revised census estimate
for the entire country compiled on
the basl3 of the draft registration will
be used for determining apportion
ments. Each city, county and state
must furniah two-thirds of one per
cent of its paper population, accord
ing to the new estimates, which were
made for the purpose ofequalizing the
draft rather than to represent accu
rate population totals.
PRESIDENT ISSUES ORDER PRO
MULGATED BY THE WAR
DEPARTMENT.
CALL 687,000 FOR SERVICE
State Apportionments Are Announced.
Regular Army and National Guard to
Be Filed Up. Credit for Enlist
ments. Washington. A formal order by
President Wilson drafting 687,000
men into the military service under
the selective conscription law, was
promulgated by the war department
together with an afficial a llotment
showing what part of the total must
be furnished by each state and ter
ritory. The only steps now remaining are
distribution by the governors of state
quotas among the local exemption dis
tricts and the great lottery, which
probably will be held next week in
which registrants are to present them
selves for service or exemption.
The men summoned for service will
be used to fill the regular army and
national guard to war strength and
to organize the first 500,000 of the
new national army. The total of these
three forces will be 1,262,985 men.
Later another 500,000 will be called
out.
In computing the number of men
to be required from the various states,
the government put to the credit of
each state every man it now has in
the national guard and every man it
has contributed since April 1 as a
war volunteer to the regular army.
Apportionment Basis.
Placing on the debit side of the
ledged the national army 500,000, hte
entire national guard at war strength
and the number of war volunteers
needed April 1, last, to bring the regu
lars up to war strength, the grand
total was aportioned according to pop
ulation. This gave a gross quota for
ach state, from which a net quota
was computed by checking off the
number of national guardsmen avail
able for federal service and the num
ber of men given by the state to the
regular army since April 1. The appor
tionment was made on the basis of
an estimated grand total for the Uni
ted States and its possessions, of 105,
366,056 inhabitants. This is a paper
estimate, computed from registration
returns, which comes within the law
requiring distribution of quotas by
population, but which equalizes in a
great measure the burden that Is to
(fall upon the 4,559 exemption dis
tricts. Each will furnish under this
apportionment the men its total reg
irtation would indicate as a fair pro
portion, rather than the actual popula
tion In the district would indicate.
The total of these gross quotas is
1,152,985 men. Credit is given to the
various states for a total of 465,985
voluntary enlistments in the national
guard and regulars, making the total
net quota for all states 687,000.
South's Quota.
Following are the' net and gross
quotas for the Southern States:
State. Net. Gross.
Florida 6,325 10,129
Georgia 18,337 27,209
Kentucky 14,236 22,152
Louisiana 13,582 18,481
Mississippi 10.801 16.429
North Carolina 15,974 23,486
South Carolina 10,081 15,147
Tennessee 14,528 22,152
Texas 30,545 48,116
Virginia 13,795 21,334
SWEEPING PLANS FOR
BUILDING MERCHANT FLEET
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Wooden and Steel Ships Wilt iyOlf.aPP that nassnorts are heine How(i
Built. OIK im0 oniy those persons having official
Washington. Major General jp-c'Cial lousiness for the government, and sn
als, manager of the shipping ions tripled men.
emergency fleet corporation, tq two. a confederate soldier General!
charge of the government's shh t famouA made a splendid record and al-1
ing program and announced sj can TOag TJh his hair is gray and his age
plans for constructing the gre Cf body 'you mssventy, the Durham citizen be
ciiant fleet with which the the levers at thehimself still good for war duty.
States hopes to defeat the la load of liine ortplanned to ask admittance in
submarine campaign. ,me carrying bodyTVjy of General Pershing.
CHANG HSUN IS NOW "awelL Dodtre Brol,ff Comm,t8 Suicide.
REFUGEE SEEKING SAFVIt gives you re-Seadla Allen, dr. " J
Washington. Chinese legation dis
patches from Peking said that quiet
had been restored in the capital after
a battle In which the monarchist
troops of General Chang Hsun were
overwhelmed by republican forces.
The republican victory was com
plete the dispatch said the last con
tingent? of Chang Hsun's men having
lf-en forced to Purrerdr. The mon
fcrrhist general, himself was reported
a refugee la the Dutch legation.
ANNUAL SESSION GOOD RC
CONVENTION AT A3HEVIL
ADJOURS. .
RE-ELECT VARNER PREST
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Meeting Most Successful In H!:
Association. Number of TroK
Awarded. ' -
Asheville. With the electioa
fleers and the adoption of resolu
the annual convention, of the f
Carolina Good Roads Association
ed. -
The following officers selecte
the nominating committee were yj..
mously elected: H. B. Varner,o"
ington, president, re-elected; Dr
seph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill, b
tary-treasurer; re-elected"; Ben
Cameron" and Julian S. Carr.
president; R. P. Cabe of Sanford,
D. Cansfield of Morehead City, W.
Howard of Tarboro, Geo. E. Butl
Clinton, Joseph C. Brown of Jal'. '
W. C. Boren of Pr ;r7 &
Millan, Jr., of Wilmington, Frank' 5"
Cauley of Mt. Gilead, W. W. Stri:
field of Blowing Rock, W. McCaC 1
Brown of Greensboro and Dr. M. 1
Fletcher of Asheville directors. v '
The executive committee is cc:.
posed of the general officers and
luii-uwine who were eiecieu. vv f 1 x
t 1 - 1 x - .3 . ttt
Hammer, of Asheboro; D. A. McTjf
aid, of Carthage; R. R. Cotten "c
Bruce; W. A. McGIrt, of "Wilmington:
James A. Gray, Jr., of Winston-Salami
N. Buckner, Asheville. This commit
tee will decide the next meeting plse 1
Kinston, Greenville, Greensboro &nl
Wrightsville Beach are asking for thf -convention.
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Silver trophies were awarded ths
following: Mayor E. V. Webb, of
Kinston, for the largest delegation!
from a North Carolina city; McD. HfK
ton, chairman of Pitt county com,jJ )
sioners, for the largest county de'if
gation, and J. C. Asksy, Jr., for comiRf
the longest distance in an automobi:
Resolutions were adopted urging tl
use of all able-bodied convicts on start
roads, and pledging the efforts of Us. i
association for legislation to this ec
The resolutions also call on the leg
lature to provide adequate funds1 f
the State Highway Commission.
Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt secretary
treasurer of the association, jatfde hff
annual report showing that 172 actfr
members belonged to he associatto)
during the past year. He made a pluA
for more members. ' I.
K. E. Bennett, W. S. Fallis and R. A
lejtfjl
McCoin led a discussion on road
lation passed by the last session of t'a
legislature.
D. M. Clark and W. S. Wilson d
cussed "State Security for Count?
uonas," ana tnis Drougnt out a genertiv
round table discussion for and again! y
the Idea. State Engineer W. S. FallVu
and Senator Benehan Cameron m&tir j
short addresses, pointing out the ben; Ht i
fits of the bill providing for the ua
of automobile tax for road maiutaaj
ance, showing the immense amount oft
food accruing to the state highway!
through this measure.
Bruce Craven talked on road bon
and the prison reform bill in re?ar
tions was discussed by Senator W. D.t
Turner and Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt. , -
Gen Carr Refused Passport, i M
Durham. Gen. julian S. Carr, col
mander of the Northern Virginia Cos
federate veterans and Durham's "firs"
mind to join the allied forces in
France, has been refused a passport
by the war department.
In refusing the passport war de
partment officials informed General
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pflfatf oralis city, coramittv
the warden's apartment
of,( . fj, .
upp-lfcl on
ty jail here.
Allen, who was jailer
was to have been supp.
August 1st because of excessive dissi
pation. . He had been drinking, and
despondency, prompted by a knowl
edge, that he was to be dismissed
socn. caused him to take his life. Sur
viving him, besides a wife, are four
children.
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