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I -''" : """U" ' ':, ' ' .' , :.'- ? -t- -'"it'--4 POLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYON, N. C. r 1 ' f ' .1 i t 4 .1 J I!: IN REGISTERED TOTAL 23,456,021 HOW THOSE LISTED UNDER THE DRAFT LAW ARE DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE STATES. AIRPLANE HELPS FIGHT FIRE Good Work of Army Observers at the Morgan Disaster Ordnance Depart ment Tells of Production of Small Arms Ammunition. (From Committee ou Public Information.) Washington. Complete returns from 48 states show that a total of lLiG6, 594 men between the ages of eighteen and twenty, inclusive, and' thirty-two and forty-five, inel isive, registered on September 12, 1918, In accordance with the latest selective service act. This figure, however, does not include reg istrations which local boards have re ceived by mail since September 12, nor the enrollment of men who were ab sent from the country on that day. Further additions to this total will be made by the registrations in Alaska, Porto Rico and Hawaii to be conduct ed on later dates to be fixed by the president. The registration on Sep tember 12 exceeded by 187,730 the provost marshal's preliminary esti mates. It is expected that the aggre gate registration of men between the age of eighteen and twenty and thirty-two and forty-five will aggregate, above 13,000,000. The total registrations under the se lective draft since the outbreak of the war is 28.456,021. Registrations on Jane 5, 1917, were 9,586,50S; those on June 5, 1918. were 744,865: those on August 24, 1918, were 158.054, and those on September 12, 1918, were 12,9667)94. The subjoined table shows the total number of men registered in each of the states on September 12. 1918, and the total of all men enrolled in the four registrations: r . a A Sept. 12, States, 1918. Total. Alabama 235.733 437,124 Arizona 52,870 92.255 Arkansas 193.569 358,071 California 478.410 8W,15f Colorado 122 244 214.64S Connecticut 197.426 370,048 Delaware . 30.033 64.001 District of Columbia .... 52.751 8S.355 Flor4da 11.05S 202.915 Georgia 2S5.475 638,418 Idaho 58.169 103,168 Illinois ; S52.131 1.551,706 Indiana 2K.S52 630. S3J Jotra ....rivitr::.: So.aM 5i8,on kansas .. 210.924 377,033 Kentucky 267.905 Louisiana :7?r.r!.f...."..r. 209.129 is., 122 Maine 87,687 154.593 I trv 13 ; " ULUiS 3n 81 Jj sachTisefts 4;5!o5) JS.C2:1 ?higan 452.7?t 858.065 Minnesota . 286.243 5?5,?17 Mis.Sl5h?pi 185.105 339,457 Missouri .....V. 421.056 749,461 Montana 100.7S4 194.16S Nebraska 152,630 282.74J Nevada 17.0& 29,797 New Hampshire .". 52.603 93.49S New Jersey 425.136 754.710 New Mexico 43.326 78,962 New York 1,357.044 2.451.033 North Carolina 251.644 469.701 North Dakota 85,728 157.954 Ohio 7(12.74 1 1 369.93.1 Oklahoma 23S.74S 429,421 Oregon 106 883 175.850 Pennsylvania 1,149.322 2.042.224 Rhode Island 73.5.13 131.726 Soufh Carolina 157.877 299.204 South Dakota 78.471 142.654 Tennessee 257.609 4fS,5lS- Texas 521 474 972.807 Utah 53.224 101 063 Vermont 40,887 71.016 Virginia .' 251.053 451.702 Washington 192.573 312.133 - West Virginia 179.085 319.03. "ju "Wisconsin 30S STi 578.655 jV"vVyoming 34.357 59,360 U Total 12,966,591 23,456,021 Including registrations June 5 1917. June 5, 1918, August 24, 1918, September 12, 1918. Consumption of beans by the United States army averages 62 tons a day. Dried beans are a popular dish among Uncle Sam's soldiers, and they receive the best that can be furnished. Beans have a high value as food and are especially suitable for men under in tensive training, experts of the war department have found. All the beans required by the United States and the allies for the coming yar will be obtained through one pur chaser, the food administration grain corporation, which has made arrange ments to inspect and pay cash for beans in the producing fields. This will eliminate delay in payments and Insure the purchase of beans at a lower figure. Two hundred men employed in the field artillery erecting department of the Rock Island arsenal, Rock Island, 111., have volunteered not only to fore go their customary Thanksgiving holi day in order that they might donate a full day's production to the army," but have also proposed to give their wages for that day to the American Red Cross. As they will be paid at the rate of "double time," their con tribution to the Red Cross will be a considerable sum. Brig. Gen. John T. Thompson, direc tor of arsenals, on learning of the men's action, sent' them a letter of ap preciation. Checks for allotments which are made by American soldiers through the quartermaster corps of the army are sent to practically every part of the world, the principal exceptions be ing the central powers and Turkey. Two are sent to Bulgaria. In Septem ber, which Is the last month for which a report Is available, the finance divi sion of the quartermaster corps for warded ,12.921 allotment hecks to al lottees reBiding in foreign countries of U!??J, Ca' As,a' suth America, , U?tr!la Central . Amerlca:. aQd An American and an English office; soaring In an airplane above the Mor gan (N. J.) shell-loading plant, which exploded and went afire recently, di rected the battle against the conflagra tion so as to check the flames and probably prevent further loss of life and property and to save from destruc tion 8,000.000 pounds of TNT which was threatened. The plane psed came from the radio experimental laboratory at Camp Al fred Vail, further down on the Jersey coast. Lieut. Cyrus F. Smythe was tin! pilot and Maj. II. L. Armstrong of the British army, stationed at the plant, was the observer, nymg qer w j wrecked works at an altitude of 1,000 feet, Lieutenant Smythe so maneu vered his plane that Major Armstrong was able to see the flames progressing toward warehouses containing thou sands of tons of TNT and to make out openings in the fire and wreckage through which men could be sent to combat the blaze and save property. While the plane was hovering over the burning plant several terrific explo sions hurled molten steel and blazing debris dangerously near it and caused concussions that rocked the ship per ilously. Two attempts were made by air planes to get photographs of the fire and explosions, but though a number of exposures were made at different elevations between f0 and 2.000 feet above the plant, the films were worth less, doubtless through accidents to the trigger and shutter caused by the intense heat. Violation of sugar regulations and falsification of reports by a concern which operates sixty retail stores in Boston and vicinity has resulted in a contribution of $20,000 to the United war work campaign. In addition to the payment of this large sum each of the company's stores will be re quired to display for 30 days a sign declaring that it has violated the United States food administration reg ulations and pledging compliance with its rulings in future. None of the stores was closed be cause the food administration realized that many people would be Inconven ienced If they were even temporarily put out of business. An Investigation by the food administration disclosed that the company had been knowingly obtaining sugar which tt was not en titled to receive under the system of allotment. Officials of the company, it was testified, had submitted erro neous reports to the food administra tion' In Its applications for excessive amounts of sugar certificates. The president of the company offered to contribute $20,000 to the United States war work campaign In lieu of further action, and to show that the firm re gretted violations by subordinate of ficials. Announcement Is made by the war department that dependents and bene ficiaries of officers and men having claims under the war risk insurance act do not need outside assistance In collecting allowances, allotments, com pensation or insurance. The bureau of war risk insurance of the treasury department, it is stated, arranges all such matters and settles all claims without charge. The war department points out that agents who Impose upon claimants are liable to severe punishment. The war department is co-operating with the treasury department to pro tect the beneficiaries of officers and men who have died or been killed against the activities of certain claim agents who seek to defraud the wives, mothers and dependents of these heroes. Production of small-arms ammuni tion (cartridges for machine guns, rifles, revolvers and pistols) has passed the three-billion mark, the ordnance department announces. A grand total of 3,054.100,110 cartridges had been accepted by inspectors of that depart ment up to October 11. Of this number 2,510,628,510 are service ball cartridges for machine guns and rifles, and 275,524,200 are for revolvers and pistols of .45 caliber. The remainder are miscellaneous car tridges, many of them types specially adapted for use in airplanes (such as tracer, incendiary and armor-piercing cartridges) and a limited number are for training purposes. Officials of the United States food administration estimate that 9,000,000 persons eat daily in hotels, restau rants, dining cars and other eating places which are affected by the regu lations about to be enforced to save food. One of the new rules Is that an allowance of two pounds of sugar for each 90 meals served Is to be the limit for such establishments. In addition to economizing food the rules have for their object the simpli fication of service. Meat and vege tableB are to be served onone plate, thus obviating side dishes. There will be a lesser number of articles of food and a reduction In the number and sizes of menu cards. These regula tions are expected te save labor and esswitial materials. . I v ' im 1 1 c id jaujiwwwwtf'W WfeW. .jv tmm tmviANb UNABLE r-.-Y MmSKXm-- JtM check i I 'j ; lAerial torpedo, weighing 250 pounds, used on the U-type dirigible of the American navy. 2 Graves of some of the American soldiers who fell in the victorious fight in the St. Mihlel salient. 3 General view of Bruges, recaptured from the Huns and established as the capital of Belgium. NEWS REVIEW OF THE GREAT WAR President Wilson Tells Germany That No Peace Will Be Made With the Kaiser. VIEWS OF HIS REPLY VARY Breaking Up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Seems an Assured Fact Huns Cohtlnue Retreat From Belgium Yanks in Fierce Fighting Northwest of Verdun. Twelve large circus tents and" 100 sideshow tents have been purchased by the American Red Cross for ship ment to France and other parrs of Eu rope. The officials of the Red Cross assure the American public that the organization Is not Intending to start circuses but bought the tents for use as temporary warehouses in Prance and elsewhere close to the fighting lines. The tents will protect-immense quantities of supplies In places where warehouse space is not easily obtain able.' " - 1 s By EDWARD W. PICKARD. We are willing to evacuate occu pied territories and arrange an armistice based on the actual standard of power on both sides in the field. Our land and sea forces have not been been guilty of ille gal and Inhumane actions, and we have ordered them not to commit any more. such actions. The Ger man government Is now free from any arbitrary and Irresponsible in fluence and Is supported by the ap proval of an overwhelming major ity of the German people. Ger many's Note to President Wilson. Considering the assurances iven by the German .government, I cannot decline to suggest -to the allied governments the considera tion of an armistice, which, how ever, must leave the United States and its allies in a position to en force the arrangements made anfl to make impossible a renewal of hostilities by Germany. It appears to me that the kaiser and his crew still are In unimpaired control of the empire, and if we must deal i with them, now or later, we must demand, not pence negotiations, but surrender. President Wil son's reply to Germany. The above summarizes briefly but fairly the diplomatic exchanges of the week between Berlin and Washington. Germany's note, evasive, shuffling and altogether unsatisfactory, was received with contempt by the press and people of the United States and the allied countries. The president and his close advisers, It was said, were pleased only with the indication that Berlin was moving step by step toward full acceptance of the allies' terms for an armistice and peace. The Imperial gov ernment's Indignant denial : that its land and sea forces have committed outrages was looked on generally as an insult to the intelligence of a world that knows such outrages have been committed and have not yet ceased. Even while protesting against the charges, the note says orders have been issued to discontinue the inhu mane practices alleged by President Wilson in his former note; and the Huns who are being driven from Bel gium and northern France have not stopped the ruthless pillaging and burning of the places they are forced to evacuate, save in a few instances. If the orders to observe the rules of civilized warfare have been Issued, then there is an end of the Contention of the defenders of the German people as distinguished from the German au tocratic government, namely, that the troops commit outrages only under the orders of the military command. No observing person can longer doubt that we are at war not only with the Ger man government, but with an inconsid erable part-of the German people. It may be that the Germans will over throw the Hohenzollerns and all their gang, but if so, it will be not because of the monstrous crime they have com mitted, but because they have failed of their . criminal purpose. There is not In all Germany one sign of repent ance. There Is 1 only furious disap pointment because the leaders have not been able to "make good." fe . It cannot be aid truthfully that President Wilson's reply to Berlin aroused any wild enthusiasm. Most of us felt as did Senator Ashurst of Ari zona, wha said : "I .would have told Germany to -gd' to helU' Less blunt Titles of the president felt that tfce ohlj reply called for was a demand for unconditional surrender and that Mr. Wilson was losing ground by continu ing the diplomatic discussion with a government with which, he very prop erly declares, the United States cannot negotiate. There was general appro val of the latter part of the note, which pronounced against any peace with the kaiser, and the rest of it was praised by those who saw in it a clever move to alienate the German people from their military leaders. There was no doubt anywhere of the Tightness of the president's aims and intentions, but many public men feared that his very admirable detestation of war and his fondness for writing notes might lead him into an embarassing diplomatic maze. In reassurance, It may be said that no armistice and no peace will be ar ranged that are not entirely to the sat isfaction of Great Britain, France and Italy, as well as the United States, and that these four allies have agreed that Germany must be required to sur render. There will be no cessation of hostilities on the part of the allies un til Germany not only evacuates occu pied territory, but also gives substan tial guarantees that will prevent re sumption of fighting by her; and the entente allies are determined that any discussions concerning an armistice shall take Into full consideration the sea power, in which they are predomi nant. J In his delayed reply to the note from Austria-Hungary President Wilson in formed Vienna that events had made some of his famous fourteen points out of date, notably that concerning the autonomy of the oppressed peoples In tl? dual kingdom, since the United States had recognised the independ ence of the GrecheS!ovaks and the na tional aspirations of the Jugo-Slavs. Consequent he could not talk peace with those points as a basis. Then followed an Imperial manifesto an nouncing the formation of federal states in Austria-Hungary; the setting up of a state of their own by the Ger mans In Austria ; the creation of a sovereign state by the Slovenes, Croat- ians and Serbs without reference to present political frontiers, and prog ress by the Hungarians toward full In dependence, with reports that they wwe about to apply to the entente goernments for terms for a separate arodijtice and peace. The empire of Chafies was fast breaking up, and there was the greatest depression in Vienna, where famine threatens and the authorities are powerless. Conse quently, according to dispatches, the Austrian government is becoming reconciled to the idea of unconditional capitulation. Ha Again, and yet again, the unduly op timistic must be reminded that, from a military point of view, Germany is still far from being defeated. Though she is being forced to relinquish her grip on Belgium and northern France, she is conducting her retreat in order and much in her own way, and though losing much material and thousands of men, is carrying off most of her heavy guns and a great deal of her supplies, destroying the bulk of those left behind. She still has about 160 divisions on the west front, 30 of them being in reserve, and with these, with the men returned from hospitals and with those coming of military age she probably can hold out for many months on her shortened front. The Huns are falling back to successive lines of de fense, pivoting on the positions north of the Argonne and on the Meuse heights, and with many thousands of machine guns in strong positions are making the advance of the allies as difficult and expensive as possible. The present government of Germany seem ingly doesn't intend to give up the fight without making a desperate fin ish, and toward the end of the week it was said Ludendorff had drafted a proclamation to. the people exhorting them to carry on the war to the utmost, since the allies would not grant them peace without humiliation. te All week long the Germans con tinued their withdrawal from Belgium, sometimes moving rapidly, and at oth ers putting rp a stouter resistance in order to reside some stores or guns. In belflg driviii from the lelgia coast some tft.OOO IVuns were forced, across the Holland border and ,were prompt ly interned by the Dutch Haig's Brit ish forces, ably seconded by the Bel- STRONG RESISTANCE ,s BUT ALLIED ARMIES NOT BE DENIED AMERICAN AIRMEN IN vu gians, the F.-ench and some American divisions, drove forward relentlessly and before the week closed were chas ing the last of the Huus out of Valen ciennes. To the south of that city, in the direction of Maubeuge and Mons, the British made a smashing attack, breaking through the enemy line of de fense on a wide front and threatening to outflank the line of the Scheldt which, further north, had held up the progress of the allies to some extent. By cutting the banks of the Scheldt canal and other waterways the Ger mans flooded the "country. The cap ture of Mens and Maubeuge would be serious to the Germans, for those cities, which are united by a railroad, have been the principal German concentra tion and supply points on the Ardennes front. East of Le Cateau, where the Americans are fighting beside the Brit ish, the allied progress was rather slow. The fall of Ghent in the near future seeming a certainty, the Germans were evacuating It; and the Belgian govern ment decided to establish itself in the recovered city of Bruges. The French in the La on region moved forward somewhat, but the ad vance there was slowed up consider ably during the week. In the Cham pagne the Huns were keeping up the most determined kind of resistance, and the Americans in the valley of the Meuse were bearing the brunt of the severe fighting. It was the hardest kind of work, and at times thi Yanks had to fall back, but always they re turned to the combat and carried their objectives. Powerfully organized ma chine gun positions were encountered everywhere In that region of ravines and hills and forests, and to take these without too much loss it was neces sary to maneuver past them and at tack from the flanks and rear. Farther west, to the north of Grand Pre, the Americans were engaged in equally severe fighting, but there, too, they were slowly overcoming the stubborn resistance of the Huns. In this they were materially aided by the big bomb ing squadrons of the air forces which not only continually harassed the en emy in the fighting lines but made re peated raids on his bases and supply trains. fe One-fourth of Germany's available military strength has been placed in the Champagne and Meuse sectors to hold back the Americans and French there, and the task these allied armies are doing, while not showy, is of tre mendous importance and difficulty. The Huns are trying desperately to save the Mezieres-Luxehiburg railway system, on which depend all their communications in that region. It is a satisfaction to know that the Amer icans are giving a mighty good ac count of themselves there and that, while their own losses are not small, those of the enemy are vastly larger. Pa ' In the near East matters progressed favorably, the allies driving the Aus trians northward and reaching the Danube on the Roumanian border, thus completing the Isolation of Tur key from the central powers. A fur ther advance to Orsova will open the way for an Invasion of Austria. In Montenegro the process of clearing out the foe went forward rapidly. At Krushevatz, In the Center of Serbia, German forces were strongly resist ing the advent of the Serbs toward Belgrade. Turkey, which is more than ready to make peace, has a, new scheme. Plans are being discussed to make Constantinople a free port and dis mantle the fortifications of the Dar danelles on condition that the allies guarantee the continuance of Constan tinople as the capital of Turkey. It is also proposed to grant autonomy to Arabia, Syria, Armenia and the Jew ish part of Palestine. fe The Germans seem to delight in vio lating the sense of decency of civilized people. The latest example of this propensity is the naming of Baron von der Lancken as head of a commission of neutral residents of Brussels which Is to Investigate, charges of unneces sary devastation during the retreat from Belgium. This baron played a leading role in the murder of Edith Caveil, ignoring the representations of Brand Wltftlock and, refusing to save f the nqrw fromdeath,:.; ; , . . Since Present Opreationj can Forces Have Taken Tw Be9an Thousand Prisoners. enty On the western battle 'ron, British, French .and American t ! have continued to make fmh.r iranan incaicr both Mir- p.h Ttnlijins hsvp cr-.-ri !Q the nisti in Asiatic Turkey the p,ritish captured Alnppo in S.ria and driving ahead on both bank, of .? Tigris and Mesopotamia, wiih? unable to check them. Th.e fa1! ! Aleppo and the continued advanced the Tigris, are moves of such Stra gic value that it is not unlikely ish opposition shortly will be entire! overcome both in the Holy Land h Mesopotamia. The Americans have begun the sec ond monih of their operations in th region of Verdun by keeping up their attacks against rhe German; from thft Meuse to the wooded country north' of Grand Pre. Some further prCpt!f has baen made notwithstanding coa tinued oppostion by German machine gunners from behind the natural for-tikk-ations which abound throughout this district. American airmen ai are continuing their bombing opera tions in the region of Verdun by keep ing up their atacks against the Ger njans from the Meuse to the wooded country north ot Grand Pre. Sow further progress has been made cot withstanding continued opposition bj German machine gunners from behind the natural fortifications which, abound throughout this district. Amer ican airmen also are continuing their toTihing operations behind the Ger man lines, their latest effort in this 1 cspect having been made against the territory around Briquenay, north of Grand Pre, in whic h 140 airplanes took part, 60 of them being bombing zi chines. Since the Americans began their operations northward of Verdun more than 4f villages have been liberal an advance to an average depth cf II miles has been made and more than 20,000 Germans have been made pris oner. HERALD OF ACCEPTANCE OF ALLIES' TERMS OF ARMISTICE London. The resignation of Gen eral Ludendorff is interpreted is her alding Germany's acceptance of tie allies' armistice terms. Whether w internretation is correct the resigna tion of the first quartermaster genera! cannot fail to seriously affect the mo rale of the German army. Unofficial advices report the sta tion in Germany is daily groS worse. There are persistent report nf rints in various narts of the COlWtt conflicts with the police and loss tf life and that lack of raw material seriously interferring with the produc tion of munitions. The socialists George Ledebour. rrUn rnlno-np VolkS ZeitUES as saying in the recihstag: "The baneful influence of the eer must be removed" and advocate the aboliiion of the monarchical s? tm. His speech was greeted by "f socialists with shouts of "Abdicfc- .-T-r n c h C P TO B ... -nsMI tTMDCROR CHAKLH i- r f.cov i immasa 7 cently was asked to form an . cabinet and accepted on condition Austria-Hungary immediately m separate peace with the all ports from Vienna say that Charles declared such a tbini Impossible, saying he had & .. i ,v, Herman em' wora or nonor iu wir never to make a separate pce. rrr- COPHIA STEAMSHIP PRINOtoo - j . ,.,,tu a i I ON BW" Vancouver. B. C-The 26S ers and crew of 7-5 men when the steamship r-""r'' ,urTei HI'-' o.pnrHin(r tn n Juneau irt' ' .n.!f o onna:':u, fmi - otoi arav annniinrPfi. Not a ou t j sace which said the ship jrf was picked up b the ?a!e across Van derbilt reef and pent 4 bottom in the deep ftft other side. Nearly an Alaskans. on EXPRESS COMPANIES 5 ARE SOON 1U intw..- Washington. New expre?-- lt volving average increases o per cent, applied ma nib t hauls, will be initiated sW American ran - r with the approval of ,d McAdoo, to raise 0 to revenue, half of "nKtC&t& AxnrR company to mec wer and i"c r ed wage aay" - tran?poru to the railroads press matter.