North Carolina Newspapers

VOL 7 FJkin, N. C, Thursday, June 13, 1018 No.n ruuR ToRrrn )!:; j ail to fink ih:i. I A8T sun l.rmdoll, June ',) -A Ih'lfast steamer, torpedoed by a ( rin n n submarine w I ) i 1 1 1) tmiil f r n in Imgland, lias rea Led an Irish pin t, badly d -imaged. Tlin o of tin- rri'W wi'ivi,i!!i'i by tin ex plosion of Ihe torpedo. N'o few er than four torpodui"! were di-i i barged liy tli' mi: 1iri nine 'I'll 1 Vl'hSi'l WHS 1 1 1 a I It U let eel so adroit I.V, however, Ilia!, til of tlifiii llliMsctl lln-ir mark. Tin" lltlack Will lit night. At d.ibte.ik I In Vessel was r.lill alhitt, hill weli ihnVli by lh.- In. 1. 1. 'I i . eteiv w bich had ah indole il I he hi, i, Went hark nil board :i I : hough the forward ileek was ii' a -di, ileleiftt im-il Ui tikoh'-r t'i port Tin' int'ii Kurci'i-ih-il in petting Ih" disabled Mlleiess p! Hi! Iip'i up i-ral inn a;.;. on, ;ir.J I! i-.lp. il an Ul;'i-iit call bit ;isi!;ii i'". Tlu'.V wiiM pmvi'i !-, a-. Ihi- ship was uum.tnage.ihl' an. I wmiH have Imh-ii easy prey for a Mihmai iue II one h i l been in thi' icinity. Two tugs came up and lowed tin' steamship safely to pint. Tho submarine, which was fasti' r than tin' te unship, r.m ahead of I it-1 in tin- darkness iiini lay ill Wait Until sin' eame ii'mit,' hide. Till.' I X plosinll of tin' tup pedo, which was llii-.l ill rinse lunge, ton a itiv.it ho!i' iii tin starhoatd side. Tin' tf:iiiiNlti Immediately began to liit. The I7 surviving members i.f CleW look to thi' hulls. Tilt' three tili'll killed weio litelii"l. two u. 8. di:stkoyi:rs towing "SUBMARINL?" Nor fu'U. Ya , .luiio'.' - ll- jxirts that two . iiM'lif.t'i destroyers Il til hi'i-ll si-i-ll Willi ii'i Himbist I Ih'il i aft in tmv, ie.iev.tl to he it huln'ii.iriiu', tint aviitur.s pitiotl I iilf tlii i n ist .hn in-.; th" pist ItoUIS, tsi-ltlt'tl I An Ml'lM.'-l sihii s off tint Yiigiiih u in I M 1 1 ! it.il coasts, and f.itlhcr stories died as confirming tin' Si'.ti'il ty re mh t of a brush between destroy ers and a l' boat tT th.' Virginia caes, were ou'sl andm;; features id thi' sublll II IIH' situ i'.Iuii today. Asked fur a continuation of tin rt'lurl that ili-sti o cri ha. I a sub marine in tow, naval oftii its de clined to 1.!k. Th" ivhuI was brought to th-1 city hy olVicei on merchant t-raft in lam Haven roads and the bay. Aviator landing on tin roast aiesnldto line MghP d two I' hunts during tod ly, hut they im imtliaUily htihiiii-nti'il on M-tht-lnj( tlii' airships an.l ilisaps'.-in-ij. Tln'y ui ail rt'pH tsof sihliiijt wrtT. That a lU'stmyt r I 'l i.lay oiT tin' coast Ini'l a hru-li with a suhm.t rinH was cut. tiriin'il hy .t.hiilioii.ii r'siits, hut naval cHuri re inami'il ti cut. 1 1 is utulct slmwl that tin' refusal ti ili'ny or con firm tint reports is duo to the fart tin' iiuWi'i aro utucrUiii ;i U) tAlii'tlnT or not tin' nuhint'i'si hlo wui hit, ainl hut :il"pt.'( th lull' not ti) rrMit such inrih-nts unhtss they havf uin -onlruvci li lih' oviili'tici' lh it tin -1 1 1 1 1 y was nunk. t New Vice President of i Emergency Fleet Body : v i y ll.iu.l:. t'.HHi'i) ii, I '.. ( . -il lie I..-.-II U I'l'ol II l-'l lire m .-'.I'l-hl i l III.- Pim.t fliry H-ot ni;'i'nll. ii. II v. Ill !n'..i pvor tllf ll'ltlll, IIii.im. I l!. Mil I l Ihi't 'li vIhIi.ii iii Hut I'd u! , i:. i !!.. i ce prt$',ifta, m.i i nil- h;, .,;' u Itrvijr lu ttiittiri tiiiluiii),' iliroi i'f I tllllulMliij. 1 ! fj 1.1 Ml V'. t S A. j AX . it- I r v J I KLNCll I'lNAt.t.Y I'UrtK ADVANLK ON TWO WINGS. Paris, .In ui' '.I In a tunv thrust, iliii'i ti'il at Uin Mi-c tor hi' ti-n Mninl;litr ami Noyon, the (h-rinans havi' Hiii-ci-i'ih'il injtain in I.' roil ml- alum; ahnut 'JO mile, front lo a ih-plh of itbotit two ami a half mill's tit ivrtaiit points, sc. ronliiut ti lh"' war ofliri' tin- III ill IM't'ttn'i! t loiiiht. Tin1 li;.'litintt was very heavy, .mil tin' Kri-tii lt t lTi'i-i'il a mw'f fill re isiai.ro to th' miiltiplii'il rlT'irts of tln enemy anil lin'il!y -.ui-ci-i(Ih. in cherkimt thi' .'ol i.iii'-e, pai t i - ti l.i i ly on tin- two ini.'s, Tli- lrt of tin' slalinn-iil r Is' "A iii'w iiit'-nsive hi'iut litis milt ii iio by tin- ( Ii't inait a nny h' -.I "pe l it!i Mislaiii'-il viuli'tu e hi a liotit uf ;'.r liliini'i'i s tp pliAin atily 'JI s ' Hi th's.) In'tn ei'li Muii'li'licr atel the Uiso. Tin' 1-inMi.y in itn-al force niuMiplieil his i-ffut t-i t iliive throiili our linos, hut ou r troops every w here siist uni-il the hhiN'U a I' ii 1 1.' the en tire bailie line. Stubbo'ii en Itaiti'tiienls sloppi'il or si-riuilsly ii-tanii'il tin1 ctn-iny thrust, ' To tin h-f l tin' (Ii'i ni iiu Jul not sin ceeil in 'rossinit our cov erinj zone ami were lronKly hi-l i by our troops on ihe line of IJubi-Kcoui t, ! I'Yetuy anil Mor- U-mer, whli II Ihey icu heil. "Oil the center the progress of the i-it.'iity w as more appreciable. AfU-r sui-ci ssive attacks, wliiih were murderous fur their troop, the (Ii'i iiKins ueceeileil in taking f'Hit in the villages of U'-ssons-SurMatz aril Mareuil, wbero ourittiits of the first lin. s cm;-liniu-ii tu oiler ih f.-n.si', fool by fut "On the i iitht the enemy met with resistance nut h-ss etier ;eti. an. I liotw il lisl. Hiding his ivpi-a'ci! cilurts w e he'il htui on tin f lui.t cumpriijujt Ifelvrl. Can necl.iii. ourl ai)l Vi!le." I'.iris, June '.i Tie' (o-riii uis beijiti an attack in force at 4.11(1 ii'i !i U lh:s liioriiii: to the west of the scene uf the recent fiitlit invt, in the region between Mont- It. Iter attil Noyon. 'Ihe oilieial si ilement of this afternoon says the I'Vencli resisted with valor in the covering z me, nnd that the h tit e is couliiiuir.i;. Hetueen the Oisne and the Marnennd Smith of tie? Ourci ihel-'tcncli made ni".s, captur ititf twn wimhIs, d living out (Jer mani who bad penetrated tln ir hues and lukin two hundred prisoners. A German attack west of Uhehus failed. The ani.uUiii cii.ent f.,!!tws: "Tlie (lertiians bcan ul mid ni;ht a ioUi.t preparatory ar tillery tire fru::i the rriuii north uf M int didier as far as to the easi uf ihe oise. The I'rencl) batteries immeili.iU lv intriisilied their lite in counter preparation. "At 4 -tithe Herman infantry made an uil.u k on the I'rencli x Ritions between Montdnlier and Noyon. Our troops are resist iiijt with inau'iiilieent valor In the piotecled ?..me. Tim battle Is i ontmuintt. Itetween thi? Oisn ami the Aisne the I'rem this imirnii'it cal l led out a IihmI ojs-i aliuti east of Itautcbravc and gained urnund t t'linit f'O pi is.inct s. "S. uUi of the Oan. tho l-'iet.i h imprev"d their punitionn oast tf t'hezv. The (iertnans w hn sueceeded at 10 u el, ok last nil h. in jHMictraliuj the I Vem h lines near Vin'.ey, wiie thrown out completely hy a French coun ter attack. At the Hamo hour the French captured KUnip wismI ami this iiiuininit tint woud di redly houiIi of llusslari'M. In these operations w took L'OO prisoners, includinit tivo o!Vicei8 ''West of KheiniH after a pir ited bombardincnt, tho (Jerinann attacked In the region of Vripny They MUfTcrei! etloU!i Iohsi without obtaining nny results. "On the remainder of th front thari) ii nothing to report." UNCLE SAM'S wr. ii , r ih,. Tl.iiu suiinti Jatiiiili m. I I . BU'I New Ymk. ii ml nrc likely to be Inlrixlucnl Id ulln-r arta of g'KKl rruln im uKi uln f"f Idf Thrift Sliiniis. TIIRIT. TOWNS CAPTURTD II Y AMER ICAN AND rsrMCH JiOl.Dlt.RS !y the Assis i iled I'ress. 'here h is Im'i'ii tin let up ill the llinsive of Ihe Ameticail ami 'teiich tioops aitainst the (ler- mans in the region iif Chateau hierry. where in the past two ajs severe defeats have been in-it-ted on the enemy at d Ameri- an inaiines nave won peai piaise for their va iant tinhtintf. Ibilllini; nhouider lo hhoulder over a Iroiil or mx miles iroin 'inly, which lies just to the rmithv.est of Vtuilly Iluterie, o Ituuri'M l es, the Americans and French hue captured the iwns of Veuilly lVtcrit! and iiiuresches ami also made prog ress all aliic.it the front. Pre- UiHisiV Tuicv had fallen into the amis of the An ericaim. Nowhere on this battle line l ive the (Ii-iiiiins been able to stay the cffntU of the allied troops, although they have fought with ireat tenacity. The marines every w here have declined to take a backward step, Koiint forward against tho ene my, even when he had suoriori- in nuinbets. Close pressed tho marines have (jlven the (ier tnans a taste of cold steel, even in the face of machine, nunfi re; surrounded they have fought their w ay throuli the jrray roat- h! lines with their bayonets. 'roin all accounts there has be-n no part of the itaine of modern warfare in which the men from overseas line imt exielleil Ihe nemy. The losses tu the memy thus far are ileclaied tn have been ex tremely h'-avy and tho terrain they have lo.sl is considered of high utrati'ie value inasmuch as it is on that part of the battle front through which the Cer mans had hoped to crush their way forward ami attain an oh'u road to Paris. The casualties of theeticuiy were pat licularly vereihitini Ihe street tithtir. el Ihiiii esi hes, w here the Amer icans pushed Jinn back ttep by lep The plans of the American command did nut intitule ihe cap- lure of Totcy. lull w hen the ma- tines re.uheil he i.l.j.-elfve ns Rlgued to tin-in their atdui' f-H' lattle cou'd not he restrained and they kept on until thevillaue was in their hands. Twenty live of the marines drove mil two hundred Hermans fr. in Tnicy. Haul held on Hie oth r hectors from Soissons U Chateau Thier ry, tho (Jermans after very heavy iMjiiii-irdments, have essayed at tacks on the Marne front near Uheims. These attacks were hi atal red and the enemy had to ac cept defeat. A French attack at Illinny resulted in that village falling into their hands in its en tirety. On thu remainder of tho battle front there Is still alight activity aside from artillery limnbard menU and patrol eucouuters. THRIFT STAP.1P CAR GETS RESULTS x ... - . - lliiHnr mm j ffr ciirs. iiiiiiin-'l nil. wlill" mi'l l.luc, llml urn LETTER FROM FRANCE. The fiillowinit letter was re ceived by Mr. and Mrs. I'. II. Fmlenvood. of .lone.-tville, from Un-irson, lMt, who is with the American Fxpeditionary foices in France: i i'Jn:ini-i' I),-lai-!iini-iil. 2tli Inf. Franc, April -". I''s. Dear Mother ami All. I ilun'l know very much to write today, only it is a huh? cold and unpleasant hero now. It snowed about all day on the I'.Hh of this month, and it has been a little chilly ever Mince. Kvery thine; k-oks very favor ibl" over here now. We boys can't tfet much news from homo over h re, and of co'ii se that mnk"s it just a little uncomfortable, hut never theless overylxxly seems in Im happy. All we '.vant in a chance to net some of the ('..-rmans. I w ill tell you a little of my ox Mrience some three or four weeks apo. Just after I was transferred to the Ordnance De partment I was up on the lines me. day, myself and two more boys in tho Ordnance, repairing an artillery nun that h el not out of roiniiiission and we h id been at work on it two days and ah i'f. A bttle while after dinner a (lor man battery of artillery liear. to shell one of our batteries, and it hapM"ned to b' th.' one we were working on. We heard a shell cominit from the enemy's line and the llrst tiling we knew it btirsted in the nun we hid hi en wot klnu o, and tote il to pieces, a. id r..-ver l ':t a t i f us fur we were just in front of it. I n'-ii's" Ji'U have heard run h about the shells b'inn so bad wlsen they burst. WcH, they are bad enounh, but I have had them to burst within twenty steps of me and they never hurt mo one bit. Of course they shock you a little but w hat of that? You can not a shock from fallmn down. The thinn I dread must in this war is the na-i and machine nun. I read in tho paper a while back where tho (Jei mans ti oil a new trick on the Americans by drop pinn Kirn' rubber balls from an airplane and they were liiled with n-is, hut Iharks lo the it'! w arn inn we have receivej from the allied armies to let all little sou venits hke that alone befme we knew what they v ere. It is rather sad to see some of the towns and oiti-'s where some of the tinhtinjt his lieen dotio, Once Ihey were pretty little vil lanes, but now they are iiothtnn but a heap of rocks and brick Mother, America has not suffer ed very much from this war hist think of tho vnr people w ho once had a happy home, and now they have nothinn only what they have on their hacks. The world knows how brutal theOer mans were at the l'ginnlng of tho war and have been all the time. They out o!T little chil drcn's hands ami left them to do the best they could. I have st-en a number of little children since I came to France with only one hand and the Germans tut the other one olT. I could never bulievo what thu .. ., i "lTTf-sX tf 10 - -.. ' .r.' ii " fW(-f I'l ln-liik ii iutiil en tl' !ni" Im Iivim ii tli counlrj. Tl.i. (i.ii.Iii. ..rs ur Kiltliii pipers said about all the Her mans did throunh this war until I came to Franco. Now I don't believe that there is anything too mean for them to do. They have robbed mothers of their babies, and they have ruined their homes. It is enough to make any man that is a man w ant to take up arms against them for the way they have treated the poor women and children of France and Helniuin. And that is not all. They would do the same thin;,' to our omi mothers and sisters in America if they could oi.ly n' t there. I nut .s.s that you have read in the papers where tho Germans are tryinn to make a hi,: drive on tho Western front. Well, I think they will fail, Htui if they Jo we will have iH-ace before lon(f. Ihlnns look more prosjerous now than they have at any time since I came to France, since they n"t the Itelniuui channel blocked, so let us hope they will keep it blin ked. Kvery Ameri can and 1'ritish and French sol dier is in the best of spirit and none of them out of heart. They are all w aitinn h'f the time to come to m ike our counter often ivo and hope it won't b loitjj be fore it comes. Well, mother, I have written aUiul a, I I know that would bo interestinn to you, so I will close Give my live lu all the i'up!e then', and tell them lo keep in nmn spirit, lor we nie ninn to win the war and that before long. Your loving sun, Dett. I'tiderwnod. NO rUND FOR rt'NLHAL STATU BOARD CLTS BODY. Kichmoud, Va., June 7. lie cause members of his family said they had no funds to defray tho cost of burial, tho body of Harry F. Ft ley, 'Jll years old member of the ITlh company Fifth training battalion, Camp lye, w ho committed suicide in a I ml ice- station here last night by hanging himself, was today turn ed over lo the state analnmiea board by order of Coroner Whit tield. According lo his mother, Mrs Delia Cheek File,), of Petersburg, formerly of ChaH 1 11,11 and Char lotto, L'tlcy declared last winter, before being drafted that ho would kill himself before lie would cross the Atlantic to tight the Germans. He Mas willing enough to light them if they came over here but ho drew tho line at fighting them on Kuropean soi I'tley was arrested for being absent from camp without leave lie tied one end of ids leather belt about his neck and fastened the other lo a bar in his cell. His father, Jasper Ulioy, an. insur unco collector, committed suicide by taking poison eight years ago while living at rKX) West First street in Charlotte, ill health be ing responsible Utley was a na live of Chapel Hill. Ho enlisted in tho navy soon after tils father' death, but his mother took him out because he was under age, ' ,1 L i.ovaltilecr4piii:r!J dont want A STRIKE. Washington, .June H. - Several thousand h lenraphers employed the Western Union Telegraph niipany in Cliicano, Seattle and Spokane w ired President Wilson today that they would not he par ties to nnv movement looking to disruption of tin! country's 'nnmerci.il teleni :iph service lui inn Ihe war. Thev deplored iitatiuit looliinn lo a strike of telegraph o-riilors and pledged their loyally lo the government. S. .J. Konenkainp, president of the commercial Telcitranliers' union announced recently that he would call a strike of members of the union as a result of the re fusal of the Western Union com pany to submit to the jurisdic tion of tho national war labor board which sought to eomos' lilTercncoH between the company and the men glowing out of the lihiharging the operators for joining Hit- union. Some !J,fXX) telegraphers in Chicago told the President they were not represented by any la bor loaders who had threatened to call a strike and that they re sented the inferenco that they might Im? "so base and disloyal", is to support a strike. CREEKS IN TURKEY ARE IN A TER RIBLE PLIGHT. New York, June S. Moham medan prisoner of war in Salon- iki, according toacablo message from Athens to tho Greek lega tion in Washington, wade public tore today by the American com mittee fur Armenian and Syrian relief, say that "the Greeks in urkey are undergoing tho worst blow since tho fall of Constantin ople in li!i3, A. D." The message- states that the Mohammedan captives say H at since the beginning of the war to the end of 1917, more than :tX) Greeks between the ages of 15 and -H, have been d rafted forcibly into the Turkish army and that thousands of these have died as a result of ill treatment, hunger and epidemics. "More than Un),m) Greeks have been deported from Thrace into Asia Minor. One half of the Jeimrtees died from torture and illness." says the cable message. Many were slaughtered and tho survivors aro in a terrible plight. With the exception of Smyrna, Constantinople nd a few other towns all the Greeks In litem underwent terrible suffering, ex ile, torture and starvation. "Women uro Hu!d as slaves, men are forced to become Mo hammedans an.l $:.,tmi.llli) worth i f proiH'rty belonging to tho Greeks lias been confiscated "Tho streets in the larger cities are full of Greek orphans, half naked and begging for bread In spile of Ihe fad that the Turkish authorities have torn them from the bosoms of their parents." I Grand Duke Who May n limn rf CinlinH ug rwuy vi i iinu'iu llmtnl luk AiUiIf Krledrlch of Mfckli-nliurg-Strellt, who, according to report from Stockholm, has hta lcttd king of riulsud. sqp !(. Wj i - If L CHIPPING Af COUNT 01' I I.ICIIT 01' nursi:s Hrnmr bUN invasion Ivmdon. ,Iu ne H. A slriklng instance of what women can en dure at the front Im Ihe following story in the Times, Saturday: A little bund of ltritish nurses with the French musing corps has just passed through Imdon on their way home after a nar row eseape of fnllin-,' into Gor man hands. Quietly slipping out lieforo dawn with patients by an outside door of the hospital in onn little village between Sois sons and Uheims they managed to get away ar; the enemy was in the very ad of ctiterinic the hos pital grounds One party de scribing tho escape said: "We were awakened on the morning of May L'7. by torrllie cannonading and the w histiingof huge shells across the valley in which our hospital was situated. The nurses' staff began sneezing and coughing as though they all had an attack of hay fever and soon we realized the imisonous gases were being given olT from the shells thrown hy the enemy two miles away. For tho rout li hours we experienced terrible nausea. It never ceased one mo ment although that day the wounded picked u; by Ihe road side were brought lo the hospital for lirst dressing to be applied. Our orders wero lo remain at our posts until darkness fell and It was 2 a. m. and brilliant moon light when we were hurriedly told to bo ready. All our pa tients had been safely removed by this time with the exception of walking cases, wc taking thesii With US. Wo 8liiM.d quietly out tho back of the building. The Germans wore shooting at random with riii'-s and revolv ers and the driver of thu cm rot.. tainingallol our vvordlv rrmds was killed as h passed oni of tht? gate A tyclist rushing by 'law lint with one hand slid at tho wheel. We began I n i: march across tho country accom- mnied as wo. comfortably be- icved by an escort of our aero planes, when smlilenly in the bright moonlight we recognised a sinister black cross alove our leads. In the clear light wo were excised to full view, our white caps fluttering signals as we walked along the road. For tunately for ua the wall ran tho whole length of tho tillage and in single tile we p.iss d safely along in the shadow . Hour alter hour we marched until we came lo a little tow n where we wore wel comed, billeted and fed after a long tramp. Wo covered 2 4 Uiilcs the first day ol tho retreat. Some of us slept a little while, though not long for wo wero still under fire. 'Footsore we made an early start at dawn the next morning. The roads wore coiu'estod by Ira Hie. Our progress was slow. That night wo rested with deHit troops en route from the west and slept on straw shako downs along with soldiers, eacefully oblivious to mice playing hide and sock in our hair. "Tho next morning nurses and patient entrained for Paris. In the two days' retreat we covered 41 miles on foot. Paris was the object of an nir raid when they arrived." AKERICAN KCCICALSTArr TRErAR. EDTCR EMERGENCY. Paris, May 15. The entire medical staff of tho American Ued Cross In France has boon mobilized to meet any emergency that may arisoln tho problom of handling medical servico for re fugees and others. Hitherto doctors had volunteered for such work. They have now boon ill tided Into thrco classy: I hose whose work Is of Buch a charac ter that they enn be considered immediately available; thnsft working in Pari nt such impot tant work that thrlr services should not bo called on except In extreme emergency; those at work outnlde Paris. The night telephone ojierutors at headquarters in Paris have the telephone numbers of a erroupof doctors who can be called out at any hour of the day or night.