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VOL. XXVIII. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1917 NO. 12.
GERMANY SENDS
REGRETS TO SWEDEN
MAJ. FRANK W. SMITH
MISS ANNA A. GORDON
STREAK IS
E POSITIONS
NOT TO BE FOUI
RUSSIAN REPUBLIC
HOW PROCLAIMED
WHS CAPTURE
YELLOW
VALUABL
ALSO SENDS, TO AGENTINA DIS
APPROVAL' OF EXPRESSIONS
USED BY LUXBURG.
ARGENTINA IS NOT SATISFIED
No Spectacular Operation on Large
Scale is Reported in the official
Communications From the Belliger
ent Capitals.
Expressions of regret over the tele
grams sent by Count von Luxburg. the
German minister to Argentine, to Ber
lin through the Swedish minister at
Buenos Aires, have been made to both
Sweden and Argentine by the Ger
man government.
The undersecretary of the Berlin
foreign office has informed the Argen
tine minister to Berlin that Gremany
regrets the actions of Count von. Lux
burg and disapproves entirely of the
expressions used by him in the tele
grams made public recently by the
state department at Washington. Ger
many asks for a safe conduct for
Count von Luxburg in order that he
may return to Berlin to explain per
sonally. Argentina, it was announced by its
foreign minister, declines to accept
the verbal assurance of an under-sec-retary
of the German foreign office
v and awaits the arrival of a formal note
from. Berlin beore taking additional
steps.
To Sweden. Germany has sent a
note .unofficial reports 'say, regretting
highly the disagreeable issues raised
by the Luxburg telegrams and thank
ing the Swedish government for trans
mitting the messages.
No specatcular operation .on a large
scale is reported in the official com
munications from the belligerent cap-
MORATORIUM FOR SOLDIERS
IS NOW A PROBABILITY
Protect Civil and Property Rights and
Saye.Them From Legal Injustice.
Washington. Legislation to protect
the civil and property rights of sol
' dlers in effect a moratorium for the
duration of the waivin behalf of men
who are serving their, country on the
.firing line, ma, be placed, upon the
administration's program for this ses-
w sion of Congress as a necessary ele
t nient of the raising of a citizen army.
The "soldiers , and sailors clyi
rights bill," to carry out this purpose
already has been introduced in both
houses, having been framed in the
office of Judge Advocate General
Crowder. Secretary Baker, it was
learned, has under consideration rec
. nmmenriaiions that the entire weiftht
of administration influence be brbught I
to bear to obtain early enactment of
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To save soldiers and sailors from
all kinds of legal injustice during,
their absence from home, the meas
ure would ne join the carrying out .of
certain civil court actions until after
the close of the war, and establish as
legal excuse for failure to carry cer
tain contracts, the fact that a man Is
in the military service. c
It is proposed that creditors' suits
against officers or men may be held
up and judgment by. default denied,
the framers of the bill recognizing
that a man in the army or navy
would have no opportunity to make
his defense in person or arrange for
its proper hearing through counsel.'
If such a judgment rested against
a man at the time of his enlistment,
the bill would prevent its execution
through the sale of his property, dur
ing his absence. It would set aside
the statute of limitations so that a
debt owed to a soldier rnl'gh t . not'he
outlawed in his absence it would pre
vent the eviction of his family -while
he was away if they failed to pay the
rent; it would protect him agaiiist the
ordinary results of defaulted payments
on business mortgages and keep him
from being sold out in his absence;
it would insure any rights he might
have to public lands, although his
service at the front had prevented
him from completing the legal acqui
sition of the property. -. . '
MEANS ENJOINED BY ORDER
SIGNED BY JUDGE BOYD
Greensboro. Federal Judge James
E. Boyd here granted the petition of
Mrs. Anna L. Robinson, mother of
Mrs. Maude A. King, who was killed
near Concord, N. C, August 29, for a
restraining order enjoining Gaston B.
Means from disposing of the property
of Mrs. King which he is alleged to
possess. Judge Boyd also signed a
receivership order and named .an
Asheville trust company receiver tor
the property.
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Maj. Frank W. Smith, United States
postal inspector of Philadelphia, has
been ordered into active service by the
war department. He will handle all
the mail for the "Sammies" in France.
KORNILOFF REVOLT QUELLED
REBELLION HEADQUARTERS
HAVE BEEN SURRENDERED
TO KERENSKY.
Rebel General Himself Offers to Sur
render on Conditions Govern
ment Commands Korniloff's Abject
Capitulation.
General Korniloff's rebellion against
Premier Kerensky apparently ha3
been quelled, like other attempts that
have been made to overthrow the
Russian provisional government.
Official reports from Petrograd say
that Korniloff's headquarters has sur
rendered and that Korniloff himself
desires conditionally to place himself
in the hands of the authorities. The
government is demanding his abject
capitulation.
Meanwhile troops that had answer
ed the call of revolt issued by Korni-
loft' continue to desert his; ranks and
return to the governmeni-fpid, declar
ing that they were misled" by Korni
loff's professed aims. , " v "
'Iejrensky has been! "confirmed by
itye .cabinet as commander-in-chief of
the army and will have with him as
chief of staff in his prosecution of
the war against the Teutonic allies
General Alexieff, former commander-
in-chief and one of the most brilliant
oncers in the Russian army. Added
strength, is also expected to be given
Kerensky's rule by the appointment
of new military officials for the dis
trict and city of Petrograd.
soldiers' and sailors'
Insurance passes house
Allowances for Dependents of Officers
"'. ' and Men Equalized.
Washington. The administration's
soldiers' and sailors' insurance bill,
amended. so as to equalize the allow
ances ' of the dependents of enlisted
men and 'officers, passed the house.
The vote was 319 to 0, Representa
tives Platt,;,of ew York, and Hersey,
of Maine, changing negative votes to
aye'.bejoxe the,esult...was announced,
"amid ' thunderous ragpiause.
As the bill, went to the senate, pri
vates and VfffSidtheir depend
ents stand on exactly, the same basis.
.Benefits and allowances, now provided
for. are' slightly higfer,. than those
'originally, proposed as tlie minimum
for' private by the' committees and
considerably lower than the maximum
amounts which officers and their de
fend ehts" would have received.
President Wilson scored a personal
victory' in the adoption, 141 to 77, of
an amendment raising from $5,000 to
$10,000 the maximum amount of op
tional insurance policies that the gov
ernment would issue to all men in the
service. The original drat of the
bill carried $10,000, but it was strick
en out in committee.
FORTY-SECOND DIVISION
IS COMPLETE AT MINEOLA
Camp Mills, Mineola, N. Y. With
the arrival here of the first ambulance
company from Michigan, the forty
second division is complete. The di
vision, made up of former national
guard units from 27 states, comprises
two infantry brigades, one artillery
brigade, one engineer regiment, one
headquarters troop, a signal train,
four ambulance and four hospital
units and a machine gun battalios.
GOVERNMENT DECLAREES IT IS
NECESSARY TO STRENGTHEN
THE ORGANIZATION.
DANCER STILL THREATENING
A Cabinet of Five Members, Includ
ing Premier Kerensky, Has Been
Named to Take Care of All Matters
of State.
A Russian republic has been pro
claimed. The provisional government
under date of September 14 issued a
proclamation declaring that to
strengthen the organization of the
state a change to a republican form
of government was necessary.
Danger still threatens Russia, the
proclamation says, although the re
bellion of General Korniloff has fail
ed. The plan of. a Russian republic
has been one of the chief aims of
the radicals and the councils of sol
diers' and workmen's delegates and
wa s given approval by the recent
Russian congress at Moscow.
A cabinet of five members, includ
ing Premier Kerensky, has been
named to take care of all matters of
state. -
The only party men are Premier
Kerensky and M. Nikitine, minister
of posts and telegraphs, both of
whom are social revolutionists. The
others, including the ministers of war
and marine, are the members of no
party.
Although the position of the Ke
rensky government appears to be im
proving, the action of the grand coun
cil of the Don Cossacks in refusing to
surrender General Kaledines, their
hetman, is ominous. The leader of
the Cossacks is accused of complicity
in the Korniloff revolt. The Cossacks
protest their loyalty to the govern
ment, while ignoring the govern
ment's request for the giving up of
General Kaledines.
RAINS IN EASTERN N. C.
CAUSE MANY WASHOUTS
Wrecking Train Is .Wrecked, and
Railroad Service Demoralized.
Wilmington. Reports " from flood
territory indicate subsidence of wa
ter, revealing greater crop damage
than had been forecasted. Country
roads all over the district have been
severely damaged, bridges and cul
verts washed away and traffic sus
pended. The Atlantic Coast Line has no
fewer than seven washouts between
the thirty-fifth and sixtieth mile posts
on the Wilmington-Goldsboro branch,
and it is officially announced that
traffic between these cities will be
discontinued for several days,
through traffic being routed via
Chadbourn and Elrod for main line
connections, while local trains will
operate for a distance of 35 miles out
of Wilmington toward Goldsboro.
A wrecking train from Rocky
Mount, attempting to reach scene of
a freight wreck. 45 miles from Wil
mington, was itself wrecked and En
gineer J. B. Ericsson and two ne
groes, of this city, were slightly in
iured. Wrecking trains from Way-
cross, Ga., and Florence, S. C, to
gether with available work train
crews and much material are being
rushed to the breaks in the line.
REHABILITATING HOSPITALS
GO TO NINETEEN CITIES
Washington. Sites have been
chosen tentatively in 19 cities for. the
"great reconstruction" hospitals In
which the United States will begin
the work of rehabilitating for private
life its soldiers who return wounded
from the front in Europe. The cities
selected as the largest centers of
population, were announced by Ma
jor General Gorgas, surgeon general
of the army," as follows:
Boston. New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington, Buffalo, Cin
cinnati, Chicago, St. Paul. Seattle,
San Francisco, Los Angeles. Denver,
Kansas City. St. Louis. Memphis,
Richmond, Atlanta and New Orleans.
SENATE PASSES BIG
WAR CREDITS BILL
Washington. The war credits bill,
authorizing new bonds and certifi
cates aggregating $11,538,000,000 and
the largest measure of its kind- in
world history, was passed by the sen
ate without a roll call or disseutlng
vote. Few changes were made in the
bill by the senate, the bond and cer
tificate authorizations, interest rates
and provisions giving the secretary
of the treasury broad pwers remain
ed unchanged.
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Miss Anna A. Gordon, as president of
the National W. C. T. U., Is taking a
great part in the war activities of that
organization.
CLEAR STATEMENT IS WANTED
GERMAN GOVERNMENT IS ASK
ED FOR EXPLANATION OF
. DISCLOSURES.
Break In Relations Is Certain Unless
Germany Makes Satisfactory Con
cessions Populace is Angry Over
Expressions.
" Buenos Aires, Argentina government
at noon sent to the German legation
passports to be delivered to Count
Luxburg, the German minister in
Buenos Aires. The whereabouts of
Count Luxburg still is unknown to
the Argentine government.
The foreign office sent a communi
cation to the German foreign minis
ter y demanding an explanation of
Count Luxburg's action in sending the
secret code messages to Berlin thru
the Swedish legation.
The note sent by Foreign Minister
Pueyrredon to Count von Luxburg, in
which the German minister was ten
dered his passports, reads:
"Mr. Minister: You having ceased
to be persona grata to the Argentine
government, that government has de
cided to deliver to you your passports
which I transmit herewith by order
of his excellency, the president of the
nation.
"The Introducer of embassies has
instructions to assist you in your im
mediate departure from the territory
of the republic. God keep you.
(Signed) "H. fEYRREDON."
"To Count Karl vou Luxburg, en
voy extraordinary and minister pleni
potentiary of the German empire."
The Argentine minister at Berlin
has been instructed to inform the
German foreign office that Count von
Luxburg has been nandeu his pass
ports and to ask for explanations re
garding the telegram disclosures. If
the German government disapproves
of the text of the German minster's
dispatches and especially of the word
"ass," which term the count applied
to the Argentine foreign minister, the
situation may clear. If Berlin does
not disavow the minister's course, Ar
gentina Will recall her minister from
Germany but may permit the legation
to remain.
ALLOWANCE OF $5 TO $50
A MONTH TO DEPENDENTS
8cale of Rates Which Have Heen Ten
tatively Approved.
Washington. Provisions of the sol
diers' and sailors' Insurance bill for
allowances of from $5 to $50 a month
to dependents during the service of
enlisted men were tentatively approv
ed by the house.
Strenuous efforts of Representative
Keating of Colorado, speaking for va
rious humanitarian organizations, to
have the allowances raised, failed. He
maintained that statistics proved that
the proposed allowances would not
permit families to live in ordinary
comfort, but administration leaders re
plied that higher payments would
make the cost to the government
prohibitory.
These are the amounts, in addition
to any sum taken from the pay, that
dependents would receive monthly:
Wife, no children, $15; one child.
$25; two children, $32.50; and $5 ad
ditional for each additional child.
One motherless child, $5; two chil
dren, $12.50; three children, $20;
four children. $30 and $5 monthly ad
ditional for each additional child.
One parent, $10; both parents, $20;
each dependent grandchild, brother or
sister, $5.
Speical povisions are made for the
allowances of divorced wives.
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CREST OF MONTE SAN GABRIELE
IS TAKEN AFTER THREE
WEEKS HARD FIGHTING.
THEIR GREATEST WAR FEAT
Commands Territory on South and
East. German Attack on Casemates
Plateau Repulsed. Fighting Imped
ed By Some Heavy Rains.
The crest of Monte San Gabriele,
commanding the plain of Gorizia to
the south and southeast and the Frigi-
do valley to the east, has been cap
tured by the Italians after three weeks
of the most bitter fighting, the Italian
embassy at Washington announces.
This news of victory, probably
the greatest feat of the Italian
arms thus far in the war, pro
cedes the latest official report from
Rome. The statement from the
Italian war office says that the fight
ing on the entire Austro-Italian front
was impeded by heavy rain.
The Italian effort to capture San
Gabriele began after the taking of
Monte Santo, directly north, by Gen
Seral Cadorna's troops on August 25.
Several times the Italians had reached
the summit of the great mountain, so
important to their further progress
east of Gorizia, as well as on the
Carso, only to be beaten back again,
On the slopes of the rugged rock in
the last few weeks has occurred some
of the heaviest and most sanguinary
fighting of the war. San Gabriele's
top was occupied by the Italians, the
embassy reports after the fortified
hill or saddle ot Dol and the Gargaro
basin, the main bulk of San Gabriele
had been taken. The Austrlans, how
ever, still cling to some positions on
the mountain. In the forest of Tar
novo, east of Monte San Gabriele,
the Italians captured positions from
the Austrians, after suffering heavy
losses.
Except along the Casemates plateau
on the Aisne front, there has been
no marked activity on the' other fight
ing fronts. A German attack against
the French positions on ,the Case
mates plateau, Paris reports, was re
pulsed with heavy losses. Berlin says
German troops penetrated to the sec
ond French line and inflicted severe
casualties. The British artillery fire
in Flanders, Berlin reports, has in
creased to drum fire.
TREASON TO THE UNITED
STATES DEFINED BY ROOT
Labor Pledged to Fight Until Ter
rorism Dies.
Chicago. Treason to America in
the war was defined by Elihu Root
and labor was pledged by Samuel
Gompers to fight until world terrorism
had been overthrown, at a batriotic
rally hehld here by the National Se
curity League for the announced pur
pose of vindicating Chicago of alleg
ed intimations of lack of patriotism.
"The men who are speaking and
writing and printing arguments
against the war and against every
thing that is being done to carry on
the war are rendering effective serv
ice to Germany," declared (he former
secretary of state amid cheers. "It Is
impossible to resist the conclusion
that the greater part of thorn are at
heart traitors to the United States."
"As time goes on and the character
of these acts becomes more and more
clearly manifest, all who continue to
associate with them must come under
the same condemnation. There are
some who doubtless do not understand
what this struggle really Is."
TO COMBAT THE DREADED
PINK COTTON BOLL WORM
Washington. To combat the dread
ed pink boll worm which was discov
ered last week near Hearne, Texas,
12 experts from the bureau of ento
mology, department of agriculture,
have been ordered to Hearne under
Dr. W. D. Hunter, in ch
ern field crop insect in,
the bureau, who left
Texas.
MISS JEANNETTE R
TO SPEA
Washington. Miss Je
kin said she would acceK
tlon to speak in Raleigh 'Sr
woman's day at the state fair. A per
sonal Invitation was extended her by
Congressman Stedman and R. O. Ev
erett, of Durham. The only thing
that would prevent Miss Rankin from
gaing to Raleigh would be adjourn
ment of Congress. She intends to
go to Montana immediately and would
uot return for the occasion.
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THERE IS NO DISLOYALTY IN :
NORTH CAROLINA, SAYS
GOVERNOR BICKETT. - "
GERMANY IS WATCHING US ,
Governor Bicket Urges. Perfect
Untty in Address Given Under
Auspices of "Four Minute Men.H
Raleigh j "1 know the people of
North Carolina. I have been through
its valleys and over its hills, and if '
all the books were torn up I couli
make a geography of the state. From
Cape Lookout to Slick Rock creel;
there is not a yellow streak."
This was the declaration of Gover
nor Bickett when he appeared at a .
local theatre under the auspices of '
the "Four Minute Men," and he was
greeted with tumultuous applause.
"When individuals enter a fight to
the death they fight with the who!'
force of their bodies," declared the
Governor. "So must nations fight. '
In order to have the maximum effect
the entire weight must be thrown
into every blow. If Uncle Sam is to
win against Germany he must fight
all over, from the dig of his toe nails
to the sweep of his whiskers."
"There must be perfect unity of
purpose and will. This unity will re
sult first in the sureness and th
weight of each blow delivered. It will
secondly have a telling effect on the
nerves of the enemy. 4 (
"When individuals are engaged la
combat they watch with iatentness
the eyes of the other, and when a
weakness shows in the eyes of one he
Is at his opponent's mercy. So it It
with the nations. The Imperial Ger
man government is watching with
taut nerves the syes of America. It
it reads therein a oneness of purpose
and will, an Inflexible" determination
to throw every man and every dollar .
into the fight, then the fight . is won
already. On the otHer tia'fjtf,' if It sees
doubt and division then-itj9 hopes
are keyed up, its couragjlncreased,
and It will continue the ..great' "war
with a still greater fury?"-'
"In this crucial hour of the; nation
history that man who ittemp'tsTto di
vide the thoughts of the people, or
who in any manner tries to divert
their will and purpose, is an ally of
the German Kaiser. Every move made
by such a man is strength rto the
Kaiser's afms, . his words are sweet
music to the Kaiser's ears. . i '.
"Yet we find men here and there
who do not seem to understand the
difference between a debate., and
fight. Prior to April 6 last, there was
a great debate in progress ' as to
whether the United States woild en
ter the world war. Then it was legiti
mate, and highly proper, to hold opin
ions and express them. But on the
sixth day of April the Congress of the
United States acted. Right thn the
debate 'ended and the fight began.
Now opinions do not count, it is deeds
for which we look. No loyal Ameri
can citizen has the right to hold anjr
opinion save that aimed at the de
struction of the Imperial German gov
ernment. There are Just two sides to
the fight, and there Is no room for
neutrality. Every citizen must be
either on the side of Germany or the
United States. The only question Is
whether Uncle Sam is going to lick
Bill Hohenzollern, or whether Bill
Hohenzollern Is going to lick Uncle
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"Every man, every woman, every
child is in the fight. Failure to do
the utmost is in itself aid 'and com
fort to the enemy. The question is.
under which flag will you register
Shall it be the black eagle of Ger
many or the glorious Stars ' and
Stripes?"
In closing Governor Bickett paid a
beautiful tribute to the men who on
the far-flung battle lines will give
themselves for their country, and urg
ed complete concord among the peo
ple at home to back them up.
Head Nurse Has Resigned.
Morganton. Miss Nannie I. Kersey,
who has been head nurse "at the North.'
Carolina State hospital here several
years, has resigned, on accoount of
failing health, to take a much needed
rest. The great 'responsibility of this
position and the duties connected
with It are very trying and few peo
ple have been able to hold it more
than a few years. Mlsa Kersey's
resignation is a distinct' loss to the
hospital, as she was a weman of
splendid executive ability, as well a
an efficient nurse.