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VON HERTLING IS
Hi IN AGREEMENT
CAN FUNDAMENTALLY AGREE
WITH THE FOUR PRINCIPLES
OF SPEECH.
SPEAKS IN THE REICHSTAG
"But These Principles Must Actually
be Recognized by All States and
Peoples."
Amsterdam. Speaking before the
reichstag the imperial German chan
cellor, Count von Hertling, made this
declaration: '
''I can fundamentally agree with
the four principles, which in President
Wilson's view must be applied in a
mutual exchange of views, and thus
declare with President Wilson that a
general peace can be discussed on
such a basis.
"Only one reserve need be made
in thia connection: These principles
must not only be proposed by the
President of the United States, but
must also actually be recognized by
all states and peoples."
"But this goal has not yet been
reached. There is still no court of
arbitration established by all the na
tions for the preservation of peace in
the name of justice. When President
Wilson incidentally 'says that the Ger
man chancellor is speaking to the
tribunal of the entire world, I must
decline this tribunal as prejudiced,
joyfully as I would greet it, if an im
partial court of arbitration exists and
gladly as I would co-operate to real
ize such ideals.
"When England talks about the
peoples right of self-determination,
she does not think of applying the
principle to Ireland, Egypt and India.
"It has been repeatedly said that
we do not contemplate returning Bel
gium, but th8t we must be safeguard
ed from the danger of a country,
with which we desire after the war
to live in peace and friendship, becom
ing the object or jumping-off ground
of enemy machinations. If. therefore,
a proposal came from the opposing
side, for example, from the govern
ment in JIavre, we should not adopt
an antagonistic attitude, even though
the discussion at first might only be
unbinding.
"Meanwhile, I readily admit that
President Wilson's message of Feb
ruary 11 constitutes perhaps a small
step toward a mutual . rapproche
ment." TWELVE PERSONS KILLED
IN REAR-END COLLISION
Southern Train No. 42 From Asheville
' Crashes Into No. 18 From
Greenville.
Columbia. . ,S. C. Ten persons were
killed outright, two died of injuries
and between 25 and 35 others were
more or less seriously injured when
train No. 42 of the Southern railway
from Spartanburg crashed into the
rear of train No. 18 from Greenville,
near Frost's station, five miles north
of here.
Railroad officials said all the dead
were passengers on train No. 18. Th'i
dead are:
W. C. Tomlinson, Raleigh. N. C.
Sarah W. Pethel. Kannapolis, N. C.
J. B. Marshall, Anderson, S. C.
P. Frank Baxter, contractor, New
berry, S. C.
M. A. Leaman. traveling salesman,
Greenwood. S. C.
Otis B. Brodie. Wagener. S. C.
.T. F. Nathias. address unknown.
A. L. Ivester, Ware Shoals. S. C.
"Joe F. Moats. Newberry, S. C.
Mrs. Sarah Ellen Johnson, Colum
bia, S. C.
W. W. Richardson, traveling sales
man. Atlanta.
Seriously hurt:
All of the injured are in hospitals
here. Among those reported to be
seriously hurt, are: A. M. Kirby,
Princeton, S. C; R. Anderson. Seneca,
S. C; W. C. Davies, Dover, Ohio; J.
A. Shanda, Troy. S. C; A. S. Tomp
kins. Edgefield. S. C.
FORTY-FOUR ARE FOUND
ALIVE ON THE FLORIZEL
St. Johns. N. F. Boat crews from
the Newfoundland steamer Prospero.
braving the breakers which are bat
tering to pieces the wreck of the Red
l ross liner Florizel on th ledges
north of Capt Race, took off 44 surviv
ors, all that were left alive of th3
ship's company of 136. The death list
stands at 92. Of the rescued. 17 are
passengers. Only two of the 12 worn
en on board and none of the four cbil
COL. SAMUEL M'ROBERTS
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Col. Samuel McRoberts, formerly
executive manager of the National
City bank of New York, heads the new
ly created procurement division of the
reorganized ordnance bureau of the
army. He will pass on all contracts
for supplies of all kinds for the army,
and will have the task of feeding;
clothing, arming and equipping the mil
lions of men the United States will
have at the front.
POTS BLAME ON RAILROADS
SHORTAGE LIKELY TO CONTINUE
60 DAYS, SAYS ADMINISTRA
TOR HOOVER.
Declares Situation to B Most Critical
In Country's History Many Food
Stores at Point of Exhaustion.
Washington. The eastern part of
the United States faces a food short
age likely to continue for the next
sixty days.
In making this disclosure Food Ad
ministrator Hoover declared that the
situation is the' most critical in the
country's history and that in many of
the large consuming areas reserve
food stores are at the point of ex
haustion. The whole blame is put by the food
administrator on railroad congestion,
which he says also has thrown the
food administration far behind in its
program for feeding the allies. The
only solution he sees, is a greatly in
creased rail movement of foodstuffs
even to the exclusion of much other
commerce.
It was evident that the railroad ad
ministrati n is inclined to resent Mr.
Hoover's blame of the railroads, and
Director General McAdoo declared he
was ready to provide every transporta
tion facility for expediting food move
ment The railroad administration,
he said. Lad suggested that farmers
be urged to release their grain hold
ings that large numbers of available
cars might be utilized in moving them.
Cereal exports to the allies. Mr.
Hoover's statement says, will be 45.
000.000 busliels short on March 1 and
meat shipments also are far short
of the amounts promised.
Inability to move the crops, Mr.
Hoover sets forth, has suspended the
law of supply and demand and has
created a price margin between pro
ducer and consumer wider than it ever
was before.
A large part of the corn crop Is
about to spoil because it is not mov
ing to terminals for drying. The per
centage of soft corn in last year's
crop, all of which must be dried if it
is to be saved, is the largest ever
known. Estimates placed the amount
as high as a billion bushels.
Potatoes, the food administrator
declares, are spoiling n the produc
ers' hands while consumers have been
supplied only from summer garden
crops and stores carried over.
At Reports That German Airmen Con
trol American Sector.
Washington. Army officials show
ad every evidence of surprise at press
dispatches from France telling of Ger
man control of the air over the sector
of the front held by the American
fortes. They would make no com
ment for publication, however, and
Secretary Baker also was silent be
yond saying that hi3 advices from
General Pershing niaile no mention of
snrh a situation.
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PLYMOUTH, N. C, FBIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918
L
GOES TO PIECES
ALL ABOARD NUMBERING 140 ARE
LOST WHEN SHIP IS WRECK
ED IN BLIZZARD.
BODIES WASHED ASHORE
Nobody Catches Line Shot Out by
Gunners Twelve Women and Four
Children Among the Passengers.
St. Johns, N. F. The crack Red
Cross liner Florizel, from St. Johns
for New York, by way of Halifax,
with 140 persons aboard, including 78
passengers, piled up on the ledges
near Cape Race during a blizzard nnd
it is believed that all on board were
lost.
Naval gunners sent on a special
train from this city, shot a line across
the bow of the partly submerged ship
but waited in vain for it to be hauled
aboard. Just before darkness blotted
the wreck from view, five men, driven
from the forecastle by the giant seas,
were seen to climb the forward rig
ging signalling feebly for help. But
when they failed to make fast the line
it was. feared that they had succumb
ed to the cold and exposure. Those
five were the only ones visible on
board several hours after the ship
struck.
Somewhere beyond the white mael
strom of breakers two staunch rescue
steamers, the Terra Nova, and the
Home, manned by New Foundland
sailors, lay in waiting for a favor
able moment to send a boat 'hrough
the jurf, but though the storm ap
peared to be subsiding, it was feared
that it would be daybreak before the
sea moderated enough to make it pos
sible to approach the wreck.
Included among the passengers were
12 women, and four children. Among
the first-cabin passengers were John
Shannon Munn, a managing director
of the firm of Bowring Brothers, Ltd.,
owners of the liner, and his three-year-old
daughter, Betty. They were
gong to New York to meet Mrs. Muna
and Sir Edgar Bowring, one of the
owners of the line, for a visit of two
months in Florida.
Six cadets of the royal flying corps,
on their way from New Foundland to
join their comrades, were aboard. The
body of one member of the detach
Iment. Fred Snow, was included
J among the six washed ashore. Anoth
jer New Foundland officer who, it is
feared was lost, was Michael Sullivan,
U. S. ARMY OFFICER
GIVEN 25 YEARS
Wanted to be Relieved of Commission
Saying He Could Not Fight Friends.
New York. Capt. David A. Henkes,
Sixth infantry, U. S. A., has been sen
tenced to dismissal from the service
and confinement at hard labor for 25
years by a general court-martial held
at Governor's Island.
Captain Henkes, who was stationed
at San Antonio last May, wrote the
secretary of war, urging him to accept
his resignation, which he had already
submitted, and giving reasons which,
he declared, would no longer allow
hira to serve as an officer of the Amer
ican army.
"Further service as a commissioned
officer must sooner or later take me
to Europe and there bring me in con
tact with my relative . and friends,
although for the time beipg my legal
enemies," Captain Henkes wrote.,
"My father came from Germany; my
mother was born here shortly after the
arrival of her parents. We have
many other relatives and friend
there.
"I cannot force myself to the con
viction that I am capable of making
war on my kindred upon their soil in
a manner that would become my duty
and station. I earnestly request that
I may not be required to undergo this
ordeal. I seriously doubt my ability
to withstand it, and would avoid, in
the interest of my country, family
and friends, what at least appears to
be the probable consvequences."
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY READY
TO CONCLUDE PEACE
Amsterdam. Count Czprnjn. the
Austro-Hungarian foreign minister,
according to a dispatch from Vienna,
has sent a message by wireless teleg
raphy to Leon Trotzky, the bolsheviki
foreign minister, stating that Austria
Hungary is ready conjointly with her
allies to bring the peace negotiations
with Russia to a conclusion.
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MRS. N. DE R. WHITEH0USE
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Mrs Norman De. R. Whitehouse,
chairman of the New York state suf
frage party, who has been selected by
Chairman George Creel of the fedtral
committee on public Information ae
one of a group of prominent persons
to bring to the German people, through
neutrals, the war alma and Intentions
of the American people. She Is the
first woman to go abroad on ouoh a
mission for this government
ANNOUNCEMENT BY BAKER
PLANES SHIPPED NEARLY FIVE
MONTH8 AHEAD OFORIGINAL
SCHEDULE.
Marks Final Overcoming of Many Dif
floultiec Met in Building New Indus
try Only a Few Yet Shipped.
Washington. The first American
built battle planes are en route to
France, nearly five months ahead of
the original schedule.
In making this announcement, Sec
retary Baker said the first shipment,
although in itself not large, "marks
the final over-coming of many diffi
culties met in building up this new
and intricate industry."
"These 'planes," Mr. Baker said,
are equipped with the first liberty
motors from machine production.
One of them in a recent test sur
passed all records for speed and climb
ing for 'planes of that type. Engine
production, which began a month
ago, is now on a quantity basis, and
the peak of production will be reach
ed in a few weeks. Only the 12-cylin-der
type is being made, as develop
ments abroad have made It wise to
concentrate on the high-powered en
gine instead pf the 8-cylinder."
Optimistic as these statements ap
pear, the secretary said they should
not be exaggerated and should be con
sidered in the light of these facts:
That after three years of warfare
the total number of 'planes able to
take the air at one time on either side
of the western front has not been more
than 2,500.
That 46 men are required on the
ground for every 'plane In the air,
making a total of 115.000 men needed
for the present maximum of 2,500
'planes.
That for every 'plane in the air,
there must be two replacement 'planes
on the ground and one training 'iane
for every pilot who eventually reaches
the front, with a spare engine for
each 'plane.
After reviewing the many obstacle
that had to be overcome in getting the
aircraft production program under
way, Mr. Baker said the great problem
now remaining is to secure the thous
ands of skilled mechanics, enginemen,
motor repairmen, wood and metal
workers, etc., needed to keep the
'planes in perfect condition and with
out which the machines turned out
aooj? would be useless and the flyers
helpless.
KAISER REPLIES TO
CARRANZA'S TELEGRAM
Mexico City. Emperor William's re
ply to President Carranza's birthday
message to him of January 27. was
given out officially here. It reads:
"I am very grateful to you for your
amiable telegram of felicitation on the
occasion of my birthday. I send to
you. Mr. President, my sincere thanks
together with my best wishes for your
self and for the prosperKy of the Mex
ican people.
"WILHELM. Kine and Emperor."
ORDERS
GUERRILLA
M BE STARTED
RUSSIAN OFFICIALS TAKE STEPS
TO CHECK MARCH OF
THE TEUTON8.
ARE GIVING OVER TO EHEIREY
Under Penalty of Death Russians Are
Ordered by Bolsheviki to Resist
Advance of Germans.
Facing absolute subjection at the
hands of the advancing Germnas, the
Russian premier and commander-in-chief
have taken what steps they
could to initiate at least a nominal
defense against the invaders of their
country. Orders directing that guer
rilla warfare be carried on and plac
ing Petrograd in a state of siege have
been , issued by Lenine and Krylenko,
and it is expected that the Germans
will meet with some resistance before
long.
That the Teutons can be tempor
arily checked, however, is doubted
even in Petrograd. The Russian
army's debacle apparently is so com
plete that there is no shadow of au
thority over Its units. Berlin reports
that the first Esthonian. regiment has
deserted in a body and offered Its
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seryices 10 me uerman commander
who is operating in the northernmost
Baltic province. The Russian navy,
too, is completely disorganized and,
while it Is desired to withdraw the
warships from Reval and Helsingfors
to Kronstadt, it is believed that this
operation is impossible, in view of
the disuse into which the Baltic fleet
has fallen. Only the submarines are
in a seaworthy condition, it is re
ported. There is as yet no definite advices
as to the rumored fall of the Lenine
Trotsky government. The proclama
tion directing that resistance be of
fered to the German advance, how
ever, did not bear the name of
Trotiky who hitherto has been a vir
tual dictator, which may be signifi
cant.
The Germans have pushed still fur
ther eastward. In the far north, the
village of Hapsal, on the south coast
of Finland has been captured. Fur
ther south the city of Rieshitsa, about
100 miles east of Riga, has been enter-
Jed by the Teutons, who report that
they were welcomed by the people.
Still farther south the village of Leu-
:zin, east of Minsk, has been taken.
LARGE DETACHMENTS
ORDERED TO CAMP GREENE
Will Be an Assembling Point and Prob
ably An Aviation Camp.
Washington, D. C. The war depart
ment took the first step in rehabilita
tation of Camp Greene as an assemb
ling camp. This was in the ordering
of a detachment of from 10,000 to
12,000 men to the ordnance depot.
Assistant Secretary Crowell stated
that arrangements for assembling
these men are" now under way.
Secretary Baker stated that it is his
intention to send inspectors to Camp
Greene at once to look over the loca
tion for a signal corps depot.' All in
dications point to utilization of the
camp to its full capacity.
It would be advisable for the city
and township road building authori
ties to proceed with their work and,
anticipate completion of the camp as
the government may be depended upon
to carry out its part of the contract.
Secretary Baker expressed the opin
ion that Charlotte is going to have a
better camp than before. It has never
been regarded as a training camp and
never was so intended. It will be re
membered that Secretary Baker made
that statement a couple of months ago
but its establishment as a permanent
military assembling camp may be ac
cepted as a settled fact and that as
such it will be likely developed stead
ily to full growth.
Divisions now there are to remain
there until ordered to France, and
that date seems indefinite.
VON KUEHLMANN AND
CZERNIN GO TO BUCHAREST
Amsterdam. According to The Lo
kal Anzeier of Berlin, Dr. von Kuehl
niann, the German foreign minister,
has- gone to Vienna where he will be
poined by Count Czernin, the Austro
Hungarian minister. The will travel
together to Bucharest, where they will
open discussions of peace terms with
General Fofoza Avenesco, the Ruma
nian premier and commander of the
Rumanian forces in Dobrudja. "
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NO. 30.
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PLEADS FOR PEIiOji
BETWEEN PARTI
PERMIT PARTIES TO SHARE IN
OFFICES ACCORDING TO
THEIR STRENGTH.
IN ADDRESS AT GOLDBC
Has No Stomach to Stump State on
Differences Between Democrats ar"
Republicans. ' "
Goldsboro. "What will it pro
man to be elected unless we win
war?" was the question propounded
Governor T. W. Bickett as he outfit!
a program of patriotism which w
banish political bickerings throu;
out the state this year. Governor Bit;
ett spoke before a joint conference of '
Red Cross and War Savings Workei.
of Goldsboro and Wayne county, when.
he expressed hia fervent hope th&?'v
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triotitsm and that ways may be foung
to give each party its far proport
o fthe offices according to its pre?'
strength. "
The governor spoke about the
War Savings Stamps and Red Cr
but his appeal for the peace of pa.t
aroused his hearers as no recent
ance has done to a Goldsboro a."'
ence.
"The gigantic task of the year
the winning of the war." he decla
Standing in the shadow of this ta?
have no stomach for stumping
state on the difference between ' :
Democrat and a Republican. The s
of the Republican and the eon of
Democrat are going over the top
will fall side by side in the great
venture. Shall we snarl over pey
offices while they die together fo
common cause? The boys over the
our country, the civilization of J
world, the destiny of the race all i
to the men,, women, the children'
North Carolina to make one supre.
effort, put forty-eight million dolli,
over the top and hurl it as a livi
thunder bolt against the foe. TV'
forty-eight mllion dollars will be V
more in the winning of th ymj"
in the salvation of the stated tv'f
war than all the offices invof .
the next election. Can we put it
We can, but not with a, divided of '
We can rise to the greatness and'21
of the task, but we must be on.,
purpose, one in action and one in-" . ,
T obicker is to fali, and to fail
perish from the earth. I earn
hope that this year all North
Una partisanship will be buried inV .
troktism, and just and wis ways may T
be found to give to each party its fair-
proportion of the offices according to
its present strength, that each party
will then seltc its strongest men, men
who have shown the greatest willing
ness and the greatest capacity to work....
for the winning of the war, and then,
instead of scrambling for offices over
the dead bodies of our sons, let's ;b
in a glorious joint campaign to r&
these forty-eight millions of doll
This may not be politics, but it is
triotism, it is statesmanship, it is u;.
mate salvation, for, after all. wh'
will it profit a man to be elected
less we shall win the war."
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For N. C. Inland Waterways, j
Special from Washington. The .
ers and harbors bill carries "the foil1
ing items for North Carolina:
Inland waterway from Norfolk, V
to Beaufort inlet, maintenance:
further improvement, $500,000.
Wilmington district, Pamlico J
Tar rivers, $9,000.
Neuse river, $9,000 . '
Contentnea creek, $12,000.
Beaufort harbor, $4,000. -
Waterway connecting Coxe"
and Beaufort harbor, $2,000. .J
Waterway between Be -'
bor and New river (i. ......
tween Beaufort and Swa- ,
500. '
Morehead City harbor, $2,E00."' ;-'. -fi1?'
Cape Fear river at and below Wil
mington, $30,000. a J
Cape Fear river, above Wilmington,
locks and dams. $12,000.
For further improvement, $40,000.
Two Clerygmen to Army.
Southern Pines. Southern Pine
loses two of its clergymen, Rev. Sam
uel Holden nad Rev. H. O. Nash, who
are going to the army. Mr. Nash haa
gone to Camp Greene, and Mr. Holden
levaes for New York to sail for
France, both in Y. M. C. A. work. Mrs.
Holden has two brothers in the Aua
trlan army, and Mr. Holden has many
relatives in the British and French
service, but Mrs. Holden is an enthu
siastic, loyal ally, in spite of hr Aus
trian ancestry.