11X3 Ymr ki Advimot
FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
vol. xxvra.
PLYMOUTH, H. 0., KUDAY, MAY 3, 1918
HO. 39.
STRIKE HARD BLOW
IN IYPRES SECTION
ALLIED LINE IS STILL INTACT
ENEMY'S LOSSES MOUNT
ING HIGHER.
LINES ARE VERY STRONG
Germany Has Presented Virtual Ulti
matum to Russia, Threatening
to Take Petrograd.
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Germany's armies are hurling them
selves against a granite wall on three
sides of Jthe ruined city of Ypres. Aft
er fighting of the most terrific nature,
the British and French lines are still
intact and the enemy has lost terribly
in his repeated assaults against the
Iine,s where the allies stand at bay.
The objective of the fighting that
now is going on Is the capture of
Ypres, where since 1914 the British
have held their positions. Two-years
ago the allied lines were carried, for
ward and the salient in front of the
city was wiped out, but from these
positions the British retired a week
ago to the trenches -where thy stood
during the terrific fighting in the
spring of 1915, when they stopped the
Germans In their first drive for the
channel ports.
The present battle opened with a
bombardment of the British and
French lines from Meteren and Voor
mezeele, a distance of 12 miles. Then
came reports of a spread of the fight
ing around the curve in the line in
front of Ypres until the Belgian ar
mies, north of the city were Involved.
Field Marshal Haig's official report,
anxiously awaited, brought the news
that the utmost efforts of the Germans
had been fruitless all along the line.
The field marshal's statement' said
that the Teutons had paid a great
price and had gained virtually noth
ing. The battle still continues along the
front, but there is little indication that
an immediate withdrawal from Ypres
is contemplated by the allies, at least
until they have exacted from the en
emy a great sacrifice of human lives.
The only point at which the Ger
mans made any gains was on the hilly
sector of the front back of Kemmel
hill, where the French are standing.
At some points the enemy was able
to occupy portions of the line, but
from the greater part of these they
were driven out by the French who
re-established their defenses.'
Frontal attacks on Ypres would
seem to indicate that there is little
confidence in the German general
staff that the Ypres positions can be
outflanked from the south. ' The lines
as they 'Stand -today are-very strong
and withstood the onset of the Ger
mans in 1914 when the Teuton em
peror's army was a much different
machine thaij it is today.
Repulse Means Much.
The bloody repulse of the Germans
In their great plunge, forward will
mean much In further operations in
that sector of . the . battle line.
While the struggle was going on
before Ypres, the British positions
from LaBasse to Houtholst wood, and
from Lens to Vimy were deluged with
shells, but so far there has been no
infantry fighting reported from that
part of the front. An attack on this
salient in the German lines is expect
ed soon, however, for it stands as a
constant menace to a further advance
by the enemy.
Along the front in the Somme sec
tor, part of which is being held by
Americans, there has been little fight
ing of note. Further south there have
been only patrol encounters.
Germany has presented a virtual
ultimatum to Russia, demanding that
able-bodied German prisoners of war
be sent home at once, .proposing, in
return, that only sick and incapacitat
ed Russians held in German prison
camps shall be turned over in ex
change. If the Russian government
i does not bow to the demand, Germany
has threatened to take Petrograd. A
committee of 11 Germans has been
appointed to go to the Russian capital
to present the demand.
EDITOR OF GERMAN PAPER
GETS FIVE-YEAR TERM
Kansas City, Mo. Carl Gleeser, pub
lisher of The Missouri States Zeitung,
pleaded guilty in federal court before
Judge A. S. Van Valkenburgh, to a
charge of violating the espionage act.
He was sentenced to five years in the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth.
With Jacob Frohwerk Gleeser was
indicted by a federal jury as a result
of articles appearing in the publica
tion attackine the administration.
OTTO EIDLITZ
Ott) Eldlltr, New York architect and
builder, has been named director of
housing. Mr. Eldllt? will be In charge
of the government's activities In pro
viding living facilities for Industrial
workers other than those employed in
the shipyards. He was president of
the Mason Builders' association In New
York from 1900 to 1904 and organized
the Building Trade Employers' asso
ciation. AMERICANS IN THICK OF IT
TIDE OF BATTLE SURGES TO AND
FRO WITH DECISION STILL
IN' THE BALANCE.
Report Says From Four to Six German
Divisions Have Been Hurled
at Ypres Salient.
The great double German drive, in
the Somme and Armentleres sectors,
has developed Into a terrific struggle.
The tide of battle has surged to anj
fro during the last two days, with the
decision still In the balance. The Brit
ish, having been forced back out of
Villers-Bretonneux, launched a counter-attack,
and swept the Germans
back almost to the lines which were
held before the present fighting began.
The French have been driven back out
of Hangard-En-Santerre, but are hold
ing their positions close by, while on
the line southwest of Ypres, the Brit
ish have been compelled to withdraw
slightly before furious attacks along
the Meteren-Bailleul-Wytschaete line.
Wounded Americans are arriving at
a hospital behind the French lines in
the Somme sector, showing that Gen
eral Pershing's men are bearing their
share of the burden of the great bat
tle. Notwithstanding the frantic prep
arations made by the Germans for a
continuance of their drive toward
Amiens, and the extreme violence of
the fighting, their guns thus far in
that region have been very small.
Along the line from Albert south to
Castel, except at Hangard-En-Santerre,
the German assaults have been
hurled back by the allied forces, which
are strongly posted on the higher
ground to which they retired during
the last days of the German drive in
Picardy.
Germans In Desperate Effort.
It is unofficially reported that four
to six German divisions, or from 48,
000 to 72,000 men, have been hurled
at the British in this sector must have
been small, for there are no great
gains reported by Berlin so far. It
was rumored Thursday that Munt
Kemmel, a dominating height north
of Wulverghem, had been taken by
the"enemy, but this has not been con
firmed. That only slight gains have been
made anywhere along the two fronts
have been subjected to attack Is proof
that the allies are prepared to defend
their positions. In the last three
weeks, the Germans have hurried up
heavy cannon to the old Somme bat
tle ground and have marched many
fresh divisions to the points where
they have been held for the moment
of attack.
WOUNDED AMERICAN SOLDIERS
ARRIVING AT, HOSPITALS
Paris. American soldiers wounded
in the great battle which now Is being
waged are already arriving at the
rear. American wounded and sick
to the number of 128 have reached
hospital No. 25. The are from unit3
engaged in fighting side by side with
French and British in stemming-the
German advance.
Hospital No. 25 is one of the new in
stitutions established behind the line
as it stood after the allies stopped the
recent German drive in Picardy. Few
of the Americans remained at the
hospital very long, being taken farther
IS TAKEN
HflJY JAPAN?
HAS AGREED TO HARD DEMANDS
FROM TOKIO.SAYS EDITOR.
FEELING HIGH.
TROOPS HAVE JAP OFFICERS
Shanghai Paper Says Country Hat
Been Turned Over to the
Japanese.
Shanghai. The statement is made
in the first issue of The Shanghai
Gazette, which has made its appear
ance under the editorship of Eugene
Chen, that the Chinese government
has agreed to new demands made by
Japan which are of such a nature
that the country has virtually been
turned over to the Japanese. The
Gazette asserts it has been informed
by a high official at Peking that the
Japanese demands are far more se
rious than those in Group V, of the
famous 21 demands made by Japan in
1915.
"Notwithstanding the fact that the
utmost secrecy is being observed,"
says The Gazette, "it may be stated
safely that the following is not far
from the true terms of the agreement:
"Chinese expeditionary forces sent
to Siberia shall be commanded by a
Japanese.
"Chinese police shall be organized
by Japanese officers.
"Japan shall control all of China's
arsenals and dockyards.
Japan shall have the privilege of
working mines in all parts of China.
"Special privileges shall be granted
to Japan in outer and inner Mongolia
and the whole of Manchuria.
A dispatch filed in Peking April 4
said it was reported there that Japan
hada submitted a new series of de
mands to China, including complete
control of China's finances, the pur
chase of 50 per cent of China's am
munition in Japan, operation of Chi
nese iron mines and dockyards under
Japanese control and recognition of
special Japanese interests in Mongo
lia, as in Manchuria.
RAILROAD HEAD ARRESTED
UNDER ESPIONAGE ACT
New Orleans. William Edenborn,
president of the Louisiana Railway &
Navigation Co, and . rep.uted many
times a millionaire, was arrested by
department of justice officials at
Shrewsbury, La., near here, on an of
ficial affidvait charging violation of
Section 3 of the espionage act. Eden
born was taken into custody as he
stepped from an L. R. & N. train, and
taken to place the location of which
the authorities refused to divulge.
Assistant District Attorney Nicho
las Callan anounced that Edenbom's
arrest was independent of action taken
at a meeting of the Louisiana division
of the National Security League when
a resolution was adopted, caling for
federal prosecution of the capitalist
for utterances which were declared
seditious. Beyond this statement the
federal authorities declined to com
ment on the arrest. Newspaper men
were warned against making efforts
to discover where Edenborn was be
ing kept.
Edenborn, founder of the American
Steel & Wire Co., no a part of the
United States Steel Corporation, has
been,' referred, to as "father of the
wire t industry in America," having
erected mills and produced wire in
1870, three years after he came to
the United States from his birthplace,
Westphalia, Prussia. He came to
Louisiana in 1903, where he has been
known as a railroad builder and oper
ator. He is 70 years old.
B. P. Waggener Dead.
Afchison, Kan. Bailie P. Waggen
er, general solicitor of the Missouri
Pacific Railway company, and for 44
year connected with its legal depart
ment, died here after a long illness,
aged 70 years. His son, William P.
Waggener, of Atchison, is general at
torney for Kansas for the road. .
EMPRESS ZITA'S MOTHER .
ORDERED OUT OF AUSTRIA
Paris. The Princess Marie Antoin
ette, mother of Empress Zita, has
been ordered to leave Austria within
24 hours and not re-enter that country
until the termination of the war, ac
cording to a dispatch from Geneva.
Empress Zita has been blamed by
the pro-German party in her husband's
empire as being responsible for Em
peror Charles' now famous letter to
Prince Sixtus of Bourbon, his brothcr-
CHINA
DR. AUGUST PHILIPS
jit , f i . , ill
Dr. August Philips, new minister
from Holland to the United States.
NO RETIREMENTS BY ALLIES
MAKE GAINS OF ABOUT ONE MILE
IN VILLERS-BRETONNEUX
SECTION.
Heavy Fighting All Along British
Front South of Somme and North
of Ypres.
After three weeks of preparation in
the Some, during wkhlch time - they
launched an offensive in Flanders,
the Germans have resumed their ham
mering at the front door of Amiens
For days there has been heavy artil
lery firing along the northern sectors
of the Somme salient and finally the
German infantry began their attempts
to advance on the line passing Villers-Bretonneux,
Hangard.s Hallles
and Castel. The first attacks were re
pulsed, but subsequent attacks, cen
tered "about Villers-Bretonneux, have
caused a British withdrawal from this
village, according to a report from
Field Marshal Haig. This marks a
German gain of about a mile.
VUers-Bretonneux is about 11 miles
directly east of Amiens and is on the
northern end of the latest "fighting
front." It is situated between the
Somme . and Luce rivers, and, while
it is flanked on the south by low-lying
ground, it is backed by rolling hills
to the west and northwest.
The fighting on the rest of the
front, where the Germans have re
sumed their drive toward the allied
base of supplies in northern France,
has not, so far as known resulted in
any notable retirements on the part
of the allies. The German official
report Issued on Wednesday was si
lent as to events in this sector of the
front.
An attack on this particular part
of the line in the Somme region had
been expected, and it is probable that
preparations to meet it had been
made. The British lines held firm in
this region during the last days oi
the initial drive, while the Germans
were able to forge ahead further south
until they reached the village of Cas
tel, about three miles, from the rail
road running to Paris from . Amiens.
Recently a French counter-offensive
at Castel won back considerable
ground and it was evident, that unless
the line further north could be ad
vanced materially the German shad
little chance to make important gains
In their operations to the south of
Amiens.
This new drive has been made at
the same time that another blow has
been struck at the British and French
lines northwest of Ypres. Savage
fighting is reported at various points
along the line from Bailleul to Mer-
ville and Berlin claims that heights
to the northeast of Bailleu have been
stormed. Conincident with these at
tacks there have been assauts in the
British forces near Bethune, along the
Lawe river, but these have been re
pulsd. Washington. The government has
decided to take over all raw wool
held in warehouses at the price pre
vailing on July SO. last. If the holders
do not agree to'Veh't at that price
the wool will be corTnuiideered.
GOVERNMENT OPPM0tED
, ' TO DEFERREb PAYMENTS
Washington. The government's op
position to the proposed pian of pro
viding for deferred installment pay
ments of income and excels profits
tax was expressed in statemf its by
Secretary McAdoo and Repres nVative
Kitchin, chairman of the(hou e ways
and means committee. To d ?fer tha
payments until fall, when another Lib
erty loan will have to be issued. Mr.
McAdoo said, will add new cooipllcA-
KEMMEE HILL TAKEN
111 HARD STRUGGLE
MPORTANT POINT CONSIDERED
KEY TO SOUTHERN SIDE OF
YPflES SALIENT.
mm TO. FEME II
Germans Have Made Important Gains
at Other Points Along the Battle ,
Line.
Kemmell hill, a. height which has
been looked upon as- the key to the
southern side of the Ypres salient and
one of the most important strategic
positions on the northern battle front
in France, has been taken by the Ger
mans, after a defense which will be
come of the heroic chapters of the
war. The hill was surrounded and
the French forces entrenched on Its
slopes were overcome.
The loss of the hill, which Is ad
mitted in an official statement by Gen
eral Delma Radcliffe, chief director of
military operations at the British war
office brings to the allies a realiza
tion that the whole Ypres position is
in peril from the German drive north
ward from the lowlands lying to the
west of Armentleres.
The Teutons launched terrific at
tacks along the whole Wytschaete-Bailleul-Meteren
line, apparently for
the purpose of finding a point which
might yield. They evidently .found
that spot in the section of front held
Jointly by the British and French
troops; and against it they hurled
fresh divisions which fought their way
forward all day until at nightfall they
had surrounded Kemmell hill and iso
lated the French troops holding the
position. ;
The loss of Kemmel hill Is serious
for it overlooks milch-of the lowlands
lying back of the allied lines in the
Ypres salient. The hill is 464 feet
in height, rising from lowlands on
the south and east. It s six miles
southwest of Ypres and three miles
west of Wytschaete. This German
success cuts a deep notch in the allied
line to the southwest1 of Ypres and
completely outflanks the British on
the northern slopes of Messines ridge,
to which they were forced two weeks
ago. The line to the southwest, to
ward Bailleul, apparently is in no par
ticular danger at present, although
the village of Dranoutre has been lost
to the enemy.
GERMANY'S LOSSES IN
WAR 2,000,000 MEN
Amsterdam. Germany's losses thus
far in the war have been 2,000,000 men,
according to a statement credited by
The Frankfurter Zeitung as having
been made by General Schulze before
the main committee of the German
heichstag.
Sick and wounded men to the num
ber of 750,000 had been able to re
turn to the front, according to Gen
eral Schulze, while 629.000 had been
discharged as unfit for service, in
cludine 70.000 cripples. Up to date,
the general added, Germany had to
reckon with about 98,000 cripples.
APPOINTMENT DECLINED
BY SPEAKER CLARK
Jefferson City. Judge Walter
Graves, member of the Missouri su
preme court, has been tendered the
appointment of United States senator,
succeeding the late Senator Stone.
Governor Gardiner made public his
proffer after the declination of Sena
tor Clark to accept the appointment.
FRENCH RETAKE GROUND
IN COUNTER-ATTACKS
Paris. Counter-attacks against the
German lines from Villers-Bretonneux
to south of the Luce ere launched by
our troops, who succedeed, despite the
fierce resistance of the enemy, who
had brought up important forces, in
retaking a 'large part of the ground
which had been lost in that region,
says the official statement issued by
the war office.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS
APPEAL TO SHIPPING BOARD
Washington. A delegation of news
paper publishers appealed to the ship
ping board for aid in bringing 63,000
rords of wood pulp from Canada to
this country, to relieve the rapid de
pletion of print paper stocks. The pub
lishers were told that ISO ships which
will be transferred this summer from
the Great Lakes to the Atlantic oce?n
will be allowed to bring out wood pul
'f it Ao?s not interfere with the pro-
IGIRAIIGE BY FAR
GREATEST BE
WORSE THAN DREAD QCRMAN
MENACE, DECLARES LIEUTEN
ANT GOVERNOR GARDNER.
IN ADDRESS TO GRADUATES
Declared It Most Important That
Every Child Be Given Fullest
Educational Advantages.
Cary. Ignorance U a menace great
er than the great German menace
which threatens this country, declar
ed Lieutenant Governor O. Mar Gard
ner In his address to the graduating
class of the Cary High School. The
address stressed the importance of ed
ucating the boys and girls of North
Carolina and the supreme duty of v
ery American citizen to do his part to
win the war. He declared that It was
important that every child should be
given the fullest opportunity for an
education and he declared that every
citizen should sacrifice to the utmost
In order to win the war. Puny indeed
was the soul of the man, he said, who
could not hear the cry of the distress
ed world today.
Possibilities in Boy and Girl.
Mr. Gardner In the course of hia ad
dress said that there was no better
material, in fact there was no other
material, to make a man or woman
than a boy or girl in this connection
he referred to the relationship of the
child and teacher and. the great oppor
tunity and responsibility imposed
upon the latter. He asserted that the
consicentlous teacher was doing a
work unmatched even by the minister
of the gospel.
Mr. Gardner said that the minds of
today were being focused on the prin
ciples Involved in the world war and
the danger of the German menace, but
far greater than this awful menace h
declared was the menace of ignorance
Here he came out strong for giving
every child the fullest chance for an
education and quoted from the memo
rable educational utterances of the
lamented Charles Brantley Aycock,
the great educational governor of the
States.
Tribute to Cary High School.
Then he paid a high tribute to the
Cary High School and asked who
could measure the Influence of the in
stitution? He referred to the fact
that Cary was noted for this splendid
institute when he was a student at
the A. and M. College. He declared
that, it was greater than any cotton
factory or industrial enterprise in the
county. This was a factory taking
boys and girls and turning out men
and women.
Don't thins: oecause you are poor
financially that this world is to be
dreary for you, because, he said, some
of the greatest giants in world affairs' -were
nurtured at the breast of pover
ty, and. some of the greatest men the (
country "has produced were reared ia
log cabins.
War Calls for Team Work.
He then turned hl3 attention to the
war and the part that every one should
take. The situation, he declared, call
ed for team work. America he declar
ed was in the 'greatest game people
ever died for in the preservation of
the liberty of the world. There is
something majestic as well as cruel In
this great conflict, he asserted. Tha
fire1 of war he declared was eliminat
ing the dross of selfishness and has
demonstrated the helplessness of men
and the supremenes of God.
God pity the puny soul of the man,
he said, who did not hear the cry of
the distressed world and did not has
ten to do his part.
In Splendid Shape.
Raleigh. Credit Unions in North
Carolina during March exceeded all
former records according to Mr. W.
R. Camp's report on their condition,
during that month. In March, 1917.
the total amount of deposist was ap
proximately $4,000. In March. 1918,
the total of deposits was approximate-.
ly $12,000. Total resources during thl
year increased from $11,000 to $21,000.
Peculiar Shooting Affair. .
North Wllkesboro. There happen
ed a very peculiar homicide in Ashe
county. Flem Osborn, of Little Hors
Creek, shot Wilson Osborn through
the heart and turned to go. away when
Wilson Osborne rose to his knees and
shot Flem Osborn in the back, tbea
turned over and died Immediately. It
!s thought that Flem Osborn will also
die.
The dead man was sInyV-9
lera Osborn has a considp
:y. Tho trouble was c
nidsre