North Carolina Newspapers

KEEP YOUR EYES ONr&KlN—THE BEST LITTLE T^WTIN NORTHTa^OLINA. — ^ - v”- [TCft^HERiSROWI THE ELKIN TRIBUNE EiUn, N. C., Thursatjr, Nov. 1,1917 AKCRICAN PEOPLE ARE LOYAL BRYAK ASSERTS SjwrtanburK. S, C , Y’l. — Spf'akintr tonijilit tnnu nmlit'no** vviilch iMWkotl Wjf> Lie army Y. •M. C', A. l(*Ht it) Camp Wads- wiiriL. \Vili:.am .lonninss Uryaii (IwUrivI tlml llu’ i>ftiiplp pf tl"' l•nuntl■J' woul-i aLantl iH'Uiiul li'‘ Cresutcntainl Cimurovs nmJ m>i»- imrt UiPiii in aiipiioi tine Hip ar my. 'Thp nation Inis eim' war-fi-oni a kotbp of i-ieliL' said, "iiud wplinvft im spltlsli i-n'ls to Kflin; \vf! an* ontli-av ilpra.sprvli'n U> Vim world. No IKHjplo ever roueiit for su li liieli idealn an Uip )>eoplo of ilioUniU'il SiatPB me. (tEhline tor Lslay. and no (teople wore ever moro nnitisl in any (■■uac.” ■'No La.x upon prosix-rity or in oomes can ciual tlio tax nisin hn man livoa," he continued, “and the AOldiera in the army an' of ferlnR that U\\. T'le ivnple -ii'i .nro not In the army will mi eoin- plain at any tax nee'N>ar,v to !U|)|>oii the army. 'I’lie army must tie supjvirted ami lla' .Xm- erican (teople will siiii|ni'1 it wholeheartedly,” • Hut while the tioverniiient is supporting the army. Ii" said, the ixtoplo must supitori tlie Uod Cross, tire Army's V. .\l. C. and the Kniehts of Colum ms which are endoavorini; to safe Kuard the moral and reliitiour welfare of the men in the army These organizations are Ireinu supported by voluntary eonlrihu lion.s, and the resixiii.«e-i that have I>cen made show I l>oople feci about the war. The country has Ktven more than h.as been asked for by either the Ued Cross orY. M. C. A. and the rc- ’ siwr.ses will be just as lihoral when another call is made, n.s it doubtless will be. This snows how the i>co|)le feeJ alxmt liii victinn that Russia would com-' l>ose her mternal troubles, .and would build a ^reai and .--trimf;. republic and u.-. such e.venise Croat influence uiwm tin* allairs -of the world. The remainder of Mr. ilryau’s ai>eech was devoted toui ^linc up- ^ on soldiers the imixirtaoce of: richt living while in camp. Ev ery younu man who survives the war will Ro out of the army eitn- or better or worse than when ho , entered it. and much of ihe re- ai>on.sibility will rest >iji>ii the of- Hcers. The Rovernmem holds , the oQleers re-sponsibU- for Hie moral and reliRious welfare ■ I their men. Tlio ofliceis hav.- a roaponslbility in this resis'ci • quite as Rreatas their responsi bility on the brltletitlil. Mr. Bryan came hero this af- ■ lernoon from his home at .Xshy villa with Mrs. Rryau and they loft at mIdniRht fnr New Or leans. II.1SO American Flotilla in Urlt- jsli Waters, Sept. 30.—Free trav el warrmils. Root! to any part of llu' Hrltish Isles are now lieinR issued lli! American oflicersand 11)011 as Hie result of an arruiiRO iminl between the BriHsli and .Aiiieric.in Rovernmonts. This fice tninsportalion enables the Ainerican.sto travel i.y j-alt uiid v.Mier fi'om their base, liere lltru Iroland over to ICurIuiuI and Srollaiul luid back nRaiii llieir alloterl linienf le.ave, iisiiahy IPiliiys. It is oxteiidinR io Hu- Americans a iiriviloRe Iohr since enjoyeil by the British soldiers ami siiiloi This free transportation will prove a Rrr'at biHin to the Anicri- can iiluej.iclcet with his love lor travel, and it will not be many days before lie will be seu*' in all part.' of ihc! United KinRdoin. Men from the destroyers that li.ive touched at KurIIsIi |x)rts: for relit have already boon Riaiii i-d le.ave to visit I>oiulon and otlie places of interest. While l.ondon is the objective of nearly all officers and men, many ro to the most obscure lit tle hamlets. Still others profit liy their (iresonce in the Briti.sli Isles to visit relatives ai:d friends they never ux))ected to see. example the hiRh twreentage uf i rish ancc.siry in the American navy has brought bluejackets to the homos uf their Rraodfathers and Ri’andmothcrs in almost ry section of the Emerald Isle. These arc found in the biR cities of Dublin, Bcifast and Cork as the smaller places, like Limerick, un the River Shannon, Tipperary, ilalwjy and ascoreof otlier.s more or less well known to the American reader. io lllarney Castle and tho^^tea Tl fiuuiirratTRjr'ft^illtAn^ ^ve jP *5!^ ready proved favorite points of I^ondon, Oct. 2'.- News Hi the American troops have tired their first shot of the war > western front took the place of honor it the Sunday paivcrs with the Erst American official state ment from Paris. The announce, ment was received with meat entliusiasm by the American congressman who are They said It would carry pro found satisfaction to the |>eople of America. TellinR of thcevcni the Weekly Dispatch says; ‘The allii's are extremely for tunate in havinR American iroop.^ take a place In the line at a com pantivety quiet time of the year During the winter they will have ample opimrtunity of mastcrini; the intricacies ul trench warfare which never can be tnuRht satis factorily behind the lines: within four or five months they should become seasoned troops and the fl«r> U. a. TROOPS TAKE UP FRONT LINE POSTS UNKNOWN TO HUNS. With the American Army in France. October 27. —Atnericun troopsarein the tirsllinctrcnclies on the French front. Thu ar tillery tired the tirst shiit-of the war at six o'clock on the inorninR of a recent day ataUerman work- inR party. There has been in- 'nniltentarlillory liRiiting since. The hoimotod infantry innridt- ed in without the kimwlodge of the enemy, on the same night hru rain and mud. The French soldiers In tlio trenches weloom- them enthusiastically. The nearest enemy trench is several hundred yards The sectorJ^oncjj^ interest U) the travel-lovinR blue jackets. Hundreds of them have kis.scd the Blarney Stone. Sus- l>Qii3iun in mid-air by a roi>c from anioseour-* battlement 130 feet high 1ms no terrors for a sailor. There are no other tourists now adays, When he visits Kiliarney and Roe.s through the famous Gap of Dunloe tlic sailor gives the old ponies u surprise by making them gallop along i. Trtiw moun tain trails .at a pace that a-ston- ishos the natives, He also buys liberally of souvenirs and proves himself a god-send to coinmuni- only supimrthas been thcbiurist traffic so lone cut olT by the war. When a sailor goes to Ixnulun, he does nots))cnd all his time in frivolity, but usually arms him- ir with a guide book and starU l to see the beauties of bt. uls and Westminster, and ifho luis time, places of lesserhistoric lueresi. Some haveeven looked around Sirattord-on-Avon, i)x- ford and the Koglish lakes, while lot a few have managed to ‘•[uceze into their leave period a day in Glasgow and Edinburgh. }r expected to see so much of Hie world,’’ explained one bluejacket who made a methodi cal tour of the British Isles. The censor's rule barring the sending home of pictoral fvost- cards has been a big disapiroint- ment to the saiiorman who would like to liave the folks back borne visit in spirit the places be has seen. Hut he does the next best Hiing nud writes long letters. HOOVER WARNS OF PLOT Richmond, Va,. Oct. 27.—Pol- owing a telegram sent by Food Administrator Hoover to II D. Whix -•fcfiSe-idrfd ecKflipjasioDei:, allies conf'leally look tq ctcai' tvarning the latter of what he be- display when they “go over Hie top." —■)•, fVl. 21S-—1110 first Am- coromusicatlon announc- the preasnee of American ' the trenches on the bat- to which Foreign Min- „ &rthou made rotcrencp night, isprinted prom- ■•■--in all the morning news- today. The newspapera t|!torial articlcr. express joy 'the announceucat. lioved to be a plot to destroy grain wareiiouscs at the stock yards in Virginia, Ute owner grauaries, warehouses, elevators and stock yards have been in structed to guard against incen diaries and dynamiters'. The food commission has also sent warnings to sil trade 'wdies Hiroughout the state, lieved by tbo authorities that the alleged plot to destroy projiarty origlnab-d in Southwest Virginia. l-r«|.1. .MHni.li'-. tiluM.. L.iir.'SIl (rlel.l) uii.l Ml.-hanl-Atifi.. T.'t.*.. {Ji- Iii t.i HuiiiihIou. Eiicimi'l. In m-viii b..ur« hu.I turivi- mlnu(«lC2—.la; •H UII th.- Ib-lKiuii fn.m «h.. nrr timWnK thpiiisrlvi-a »i»i)nriiA4*.' In 'l>c ml'' .worth. 3—Allli'd leen taken over, being under the control of Iroojis under din'-ction of the French. The Americans have shelled German gun posi tions and troops, the enemy send ing back slicll for shell. The first shell daso will lie sent to President Wilson. The case is now in the iwsos- sionoCGcneral Sibert. 'Tlicshot was tired by a red-haired gunner as his cumrnclci. in the ranks and the assembled officers cheered. I>ater a luncheon in the Held was: attended by tho American and Frencli artillorists in celebration of the first American contact with the enemy. The gun used in tiring the tirst shot wa-s one of the famous French "o's. Ou the second day the French shelled a German battery i>csitiuii wbicli was lo- cstod by sound and tbc enemy replied vigorously, i>roiectilcs falling close to the Americans who joined in tbo artillery should cobbles and Us sides lined with gaunt skeletons of sb^l-wrecked houses came tlm xngnd of {be, be 1 tread of many liobi^ilcd ho^s' |^iles) Into Gdvinan front anelt- and ill the darkne# the dim on Dixiniidc and Warneton, o.—'di tlm sallanl is ontoiiable and that the Germans will Imvc to tiro to H new fortified line across the basn of the salient. The writer comforts Ids .read ers with the assurance that this action will bring the British no nearer their objective, namely the capture of Ostend, aiiil says the British and French olicnsive in Flanders, there.fore, will be a catastroplml fsHure. plBcently acee{2. the Idghest German otini'tyt.* o( casualties of|..1l.lrli ■ ' ■ Alt the troops will be relieved after a’certain period by others, Tlius the American cxpeiiilionary forces are getiing the beneHt of actual war condition.s. Standing in a little, almost de serted shell-wrecked village well within hostile gun range and » few kilometres from (hetrenches, the Associated f'ress correspon dent watched the troops march- ug up in adriring rain over roads covered with sticky mud- Tho artillery had been tiring all day and as a result tho impression was given that there was consid erably more activity on this front than there had been for some time, ^ soon after lulls in the firing and the durk that tbc first machine guns hauled by Mis souri mules, tlic drivers swathed in ponchos and with slirapnei helmets over tbeir eyes came up a dark canal. forms of tnai-ching. The cautious flash 6|.m oluctrt^ pocket lamp discIosiKl ihat they wore American infau- \v, pacJts on their hacks, rifle* •♦lung on their shoulders, .rain'gllatcning on their liolmot^ H>e wind whiiiplng the nitlom of their (-oats .around ’heir legs which wore tifoving with inarhine- like precision. The Americans swung down the street spparcntl.v u i>roud as miles irooi the billets where thc.v had Iteen sined coming by motor trucks and railway from the in struction centers. As tlic ranks passeil every now and then a sol dier could be he.ird whistling softly to himself, his nearby comrades listening silently to sentimental and t>opulur pieces- Finally from the rearcainc the whistled strain of a tune which all knew, .md from many placos in the ranks whistles and voices joined in. The tune was “Tip- imrary." ft lasted briefly, ns an officer turniog, oi-dere “sUip that noise." As the Germans were nearby much doi>ended upon approach ing the zone qu'etly. Tlie troops turned a corner and disappeared down an ink-black screened road. A major stood and listened as he looked continuously at an alumi num watchdial. Hesaid; "The men from the other direction entering the and then came some infantry rolUne klu,h«n., Bi-lni, oil o s.T- ory odor of warm food. All passed in silcnco. The last gun CArriage had sprawled on it the form of a soldier who had been taken ill and who was being held on by two of his vraik- log comrades. Thro another street paved with trenche.-. 1 have been standing liere waiting to hear if the Ger mans discover the moremont." He pau.sed, .islencd and then con tinued: “There is no firing yet, alHio I exiicct it, for no doubt we are In for a 'StralTo' if iho Boebes know we arc going in."’ No “Straffe” doveloi>ed, altlio the Germans put over a few cus tomary shells—hitting nothing. The troops ontei-ed the trendies safely ”1111 by unit passing quick ly to the places assigned them, 'iuloluess was essential, but the French welcome none the less was heard and was cncour- aged. _ _ CANT WITHSTAHO BRinSH TRIP- HANKER Copenhagen, Oct. 2y.—Major Mornht, military correspondent ,jt tho Berlin Deutsches Tagos Ze'.tong, iu an article Lin that . loTirims bLi!»« “"W':'bkiisf -.■■no H.MTirt inranfpv i tb.* Germans t will be row Dlxtnudu salient beClK^ DIxmudo and tbe Passchena^ riuge. iucluding the fortitii^d Houalbolstwood, against wiiRh the British and French armi nowareliammering. Major Moraht, who often iwssession of correct infon ou German plaus, says ish offensive through monilis of nibbling has bitten Its way so deep (three and three quarter "f though tlie ^rmans themselves count u|ion Yr ])er cent of their inded returning to field scrv Ice. I Major Moraht prepares hi! customary alibi for a reverse or the Aisiic front by attributing to the French tho intention of driv ing beyond Laon and U|>on Mau- bcugo and Brussels, and will claim a German victory when the French slop short of this iinngi narj' goal. Captain von Snizmann, mili tary critic of the Vo.ssi.scho /.cit- ung. of Berlin, wlm is more jwor- ly informed than .Moraht. dis cusses in an article, obviously written in ignorance of the actual situation, tho great imixirtance of the region already lost and tlie strength of the Gorman imsition and oxpiesses the opinion that the French will be iinabtu to rap ture it. . S. ENTRY IN I^Dndon, )ct.2fl Tliecntrance of units of the American army into active service on tho west ern front, ailho overshadowed as a news item by the Austro-Ger- maii invasion of Italy, receives prominent notice in the newspa liersasn inucli more than pic turesque era.it The Daily News says: “It would bo idle presumably to expect Germany in the intoxi cation of hor Italian victory to appreciate its full meaning. This dues not alter the facts, either immediate or pros|>ectivp.. Germany has called in the new world to redress the balance of the old. The balance will be re dressed." Tho Dally Foepross, remarking on American energy, says bodes ill for G‘'rmany and gives added certainty that victory, however long delayed, ia assuaad. It wares that this does not justi fy n relaxation of British ofTorts. Tbe Graphic says: “The descendants of the em battled farmers of Concord have tired a shot which like thst of the Minutemen will be heard around the world.'.... 'J ne advent of the United States has more than made up for Russia's temporary' weakening. It ahonld bu-e a steadying influence in view of t&e blow at Italy sod ehouid be -recalM'whenever (hero lea ten deuMMaAvard iieasimism." Cairo, Aug. IT..—Otio uf the ‘Hsons for Hn* iwqllof llu* Araii tribes in Asiatic Tor'rfcy ngain.st Turkish rule was the conduct of Ablul K'ader, a Turkish officcrof tin* Arabim forces attache I the Turkish army whose cruelty lowiinl ihi* Avails iiiiulL* his name videly knowni hated as lluit o( ccriain Red Indian chiefs n the colonial days iu America. Kt Kowltab. nil Anihian newspa per pUDlislied hero. gives B» an innUiicfl of his miinner toward his Arab soldiers, tlic following; At 7 o'clock one morning Ab dul-Kador was prowling about the camp wlion he cumc o|Km Arab officer, a tirst lieutenant nsnii'd Mustapha Kflemli, at his morning prayer. He passed ir. front of him, and as he did not re ceive the military salute In* slopp ed luid iHUired out u volume of ciir.scs and shameful abuse In terror the officer inlerruptod his pra.ver, luriioil hi the cominaud- er and said: "Your excellency,■ I was at prayer, and that was llio reason why I foiletl to salute you." "Abdul Kador foamed with rage and said; “You. do you love Godl” The Arabanswered, ‘Yes, sir, I love and worship God and 1 must do my devotion: Him os 1 do my military duties.’ “Abdul retorted, 'Since you love Cod. so inucIi, 1 am (|nito, ready to send you off lo Kiiii,' and drawing Ids revolver tired three shots, kltlihg-nim on si>el. Sp he dlotl, a inarty his devotion to the fuilh, i camp of the Turks, wiio profess to be engaged in a holy war. CERRANY PLANNED AN INV.SRIO! OF BRAZIL tluenos'.^'ifir^^t. 2h — A' so" by the publication of a dispatch from Rio Janeiro asserting H)al| the Brazilian foreign mlhistor has made known that translation of dispatches-sent by Count von Luxburg, through the modium of tho Swedish legation, while the count WHS German minister to Argentina, has revealed ject for a German inva.sion of soirthern Brazil. The newspapers hero demand that tho government publish the Luxburg dispntclies or else au thorize their publicationby a for eign government. (The dispatches were sent to Washington for iranslatlou and the “foreign government'' i-e- ferred to evidently Is the United States.) The Argentine government is being criticised for its silence. [It was reimrted unofficially last February that bands of armed Germans, presumably .sailors interned in Argentina, had crossed the Brazilian border. Carreirade Freitas, a Brazilian ■deputy at that time, denounc ed ojierations carried on in south orn Brazil, where there Is alarge German eteoient-l FORCED TO RETIKL FROM CONFLICT' Ixmdon, Oct. 2S.—A tlerraan tor|>edo-boat destroyer was hit twice by shelLs from Brilisli and French destroyers during an en gagement Saturday afternoon between six entente allied and three C'crman vessels and 17 German airplanes off tho Belgian coast, according to an admiralty statement issued today. The three Germans were forced to seek safety under the laud bat teries. The statement says: "Six Brilisn and French tor pedo boat dostixjyers palroUiug off the Belgian coast Salu rday af ternoon sighted nud attacked three German torjiedo boat de stroyers and 17 nirplane.s. Two direct hits wcioobUinod on one of the enemy's destroyers, which Immediately retired under the protection of their land batteries. "Thu oiriilanc formation was not broken by the tire of tlie au- ll HircraRguna on our destroy ers. Each of thu uirplanes ^dropped tbzBB lumbs in the vi- 'cinity of our vui/sels, which suf- no dagnrge. ivldo from two madHilog wouddod." WINSTON. IS HELD (.’I.Hri..U.*.Ocl. 2l'.,-Chris Mil ler, of Wiiiktoii.Salem. w:ifi llptil here tislnj' under Ijoinls tkigro- g.iling r-ix tliuiwaiid ili.lU.-, by lli-nilie* .for iiis ap- it the tmxt ti'”m of Uiiili-il StiiU-s court to .niawer charges in conoeciion with the (lesHi Ilf Corporal Carl .\hinenke, who wn* found deiid in his bed at Camp Gr**eiii' Tuesday night. It is -liiirged in llioindU'tment thsi .MilicrgHvi! .Mni'.unko whUky - vvliilu It visitor III his home that -* later cauw-d ids deiilll. •Miller was brought to (liar- lotto yeslerdity liy Secret Serv ice Agept Hoiii'.v Thomas. - Two wouioii, .Mrs. I’endry ami Mrs. Vickers, also of Winston- Salem, wore bniught licreas wit nesses in tin* c.ases. Miller is supermtondent of u rubber tiro factory at Winston- Salem. FRENCH PRISONERS ESCAPE F.tri.s, Sept. Ul.--Gne of tho most siiectHCulnr (‘Scupcs o t prisoners of war njcenlly. oc curred on the SnIiiDiki front where four French soldiers who had been taken prisonor.s by tlie Bulgarians were carried back to their own lines mi airplanes. Af- ^ ' ter llieir capture il-- t* mca--''' were liglitiy bout^ uij-hur*3ieir caplors f/ghr to search them. D”:iug the night one of tho men succeeded in freeing himself with his iHickct knife and then he libiirated his three comrades. Tho men eluded tlie sentries and lied into the woods. For throe‘s.. weeks the infii; hid thcoiselyes In the woods, living on wild ocrrie.s. Finally they sighted a French airplane and after roi’anitcd sig- >. ' nals succcmlcd in attriicting tho • men were biding. 'T^’i.v ex plained llieir idight and the nvia- tor asked them to wail until hi* returned. A few hours Inter he came with three other machines and all (our prisoners were car ried back to tho French lines. GERMAN BOAT SUNK BY CEKHA.N6 ERE SEIZURE Rio Janeiro, Oct. 27.- Tho Ger mans today set on tire mid sank tho Gcrinsn gunboat Ebor, PHf tuns, which lin-s been lying at the port of Bahia, fearirigscizui’o of tlie gunboat by the Brazilian authorities. Torpctlo boat de stroyers were urderctl yesterday to take full jiossessipn of tho Eber. [Yesterday the Urazlllun chani- ber of depiiiios and senate de clared a stale of war Imtweon Gcrumn.v and Brazil, and Presi dent Bruxsanctioned Hie procla mation of n state of war witii Germany. The gunboat Ebor. wliicb was 20:t foot long, had a complement of 125 men.) Washington, t.ict. 211.—Food pledge week got actively under way today with a half million canvassers thruout the country securing pledges from 22.HOO.OOO homes for tho observance of Un- food administration’s directions and advice iu (nod economy which President Wilson has endorsed. Willi effectivQ enrollment of families to save food thruout tho , tho United States will bo be ab!o to cx|K)rt ail meat, wheat, faU and sugar lo its allies sorely in need to enable them to main tain their lighting strength. Belgian Minister De Cartier, citing the fact .that America for many months has kept Belgium from starvation, said today tho effort in which every nation al lied against Germany is stretch- lug every nerve and exivcnding every last ounce of KtrengUi will succeed or will fait according to whether tho peoples and their armies have tbe food to maintain their strength and their spirit, V i'oru lias broken with Germany and tenders to the :illlos her "moral MnnxirL” Well, the proactiors tell us Dial "uioriU 'suai^n Is tlio greatest force m tbe uciversti.