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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.'O.: .'A.- :-'-,y;. J' .Vs. :w'W t 1-. V- AIRSHIPS RAID E TEUTONIC AIR FLEETS KILL SIX TEEN AND INJURED ONE HUNDRED. BOMBS WREAK DESTRUCTION Spread Out on Scottish and Northern and Southern Coaata of England and Play Havoc. London. The coast of Scotland an the northern and southeastern coun ties of England were attacked by Zep pelins Sunday night, according to an official announcement by the aecretary of war. The announcement says: "A Zep pelin raid took place Sunday night when the coast of Scotland and the northern and southeaster counties of England were attacked." London. At least 16 persons were killed and about 100 others Injured by the explosion of bombs dropped In another raid of Zeppelin dirigible bal 1 loons OTer the northeast coast of Eng land Saturday night. The official version of the raid : pays: " "Two airships approached the ' northeast coast Saturday nlgbt, Only one crossed the coast. The other turn ed back, v . "For the present we know that 16 persona were killed and about 100 In jured. "Eight dwelling houses were de molished and a serious Are was caus-J ; ed In a French polishing shop. SEARCH MOUNTAINS FOR VILLA. : Nothing Has Been Heard of Hla Opera tions Since Battle. San Antonio, Texas. Unless Fran Cisco Villa Is definitely located within the next day or two. It Is believed here that General Pershing will begin search of the mountains west and south of Ouerrero. Since the defeat of Villa's forges March 29 In and near Guerrero, lightly equipped detach stents of cavalry have been sweeping In whirlwind fashion through the dis trict about head waters of the Santa Maria River trying to locate the elus ive bandit, reported to have gone In that direction after being desperately wounded. . General Pershing did not get a re port through to General Funston dur Jng the day, but his chief of staff did Indicating that the line of communica tion was maintained. No mention of news of Villa was made. There Is in creasing belief that General Pershing may have been deceived as to the di rection taken by Villa and even con. cernlng hla Injuries. GEN. FRANCISCO VILLA Villa la badly wounded and hla man routed, barely escapee from Colonel Dodd'a man. Hla capture la moment arily espeeted. GRANTS USE OF RAILROAD FIRST CLASH Ml BANDITS COLONEL DODO AND FOUR HUN DRED TROOPERS ROUT VILLA. VILLA WOUNDED, 31 KILLED PROMPTLY GIVES HIS PERMIS SION UPON RENEWED RE QUEST OF U. 8. Qarard Will Stick Through War. Berlin, via London. James W. Ga- rard, the American ambassador, has Issued a statement through the Wolff Bureau regarding the report telegraph ed here from the United States that he Intends t& resign, return to America and become a -candidate for governor of New York. The statement says: "The ambassador regards it his duty not to leave the Important post at Berlin during the war, especially as any possible successor would not east ly work Into the difficult and often complicated matter of British Inter ests entrusted, such as those of civil and military prisoners. He hopes to : remain In Berlin at least until the "end of the great war." . Germane Take Thousand Yards. , Berlin, via London. The Germans' official statement announces that Teu- . ton troops have cleared 1,000 yards of French trenches northeast of Harcourt In addition to the positions taken March 30. Enraged Mob Storms Jail. Petersburg, Va. A mob of 1,000 peo ple, made up largely of enraged cltl- tens from Nottoway and Dinwiddle counties, surrounded the Petersburg jail In which Is confined John Wll . Hams, a negro, who waa arrested for an alleged 'criminal assault on a young ; women, 19, at her home near Black none. ' ..- i " Asks Wilson to Demand Reparation. ,., Paris. Prof. , James Mark Bald ' win of Baltimore whose daughter was seriously Injured In the explosion of . the cross channel steamer Sussex, gave out a copy of a cablegram de- ' (patched to Prelsdent Wilson. It reads:- ,- 'A woman traveling where her right . waa, carrying an 'American passport, stricken on the Sussex, hovering be tween life and death, demands that - reparation for assault on American life and liberty be exacted. ., (Signed) . "Mark Baldwin." U.S. Marinea Land In China. "X Peking. Marinea from the United . States gunboat Wilmington' - went '"shore at Swatow.- where the Chinese :- troops have declared, their independ ' ence of the central government. The detachment reconnoitered and found city quiet. A Chinese gunboat also Is anchored off Swstow, which " la a seaport of Kwang Tung. province, 120 - miles south of Amoy. Chang Chow-Fu. i a city of about 900,000 Inhabitants, am one of the largeat In China, bar de clared' Its independence of the; gov ernment of Ynan Shi Ka. . " Mexican Northwestern Railway .Re moves the Necessity of Maintain ing 200 Mile Motor Line. Washington. One of the army s most serious problems in hunting Villa was solved when General Car- ransa promptly granted the renewed request of the state department for permission to use the Mexican North western railroad In carrying out the pursuit. : General Carranza received the new request In the morning; bla answer was In Washington before dark. It waa contained in a brief message from John L. Rodgers, special agent of the United Statea at Queretaro, saying the head of the de facto gov ernment agreed to the commercial use of the line. Officials here assum ed he would be equally prompt In notifying his officers on the border and that General Funston might be gin shipment at once. Although the army will proceed to use the railroad on a commercial basis, which is construed here as meaning that all service shall be paid for at regular rates, the state depa: -ment will negotiate further with Car- ransa to bring about a more definite understanding. The response Is re garded as being satisfactory In a measure, but In order to assure the delivery of supplies along the line peneral Funston will desire to place guards on the trains. . War department officials were greatly relieved by the removal of the necessity for maintaining a 'motor truck supply line over desert roads for a distance of more than 200 miles. A cloudburst or great storm might render the roads Impassable for a considerable time, cutting off the troops from their source of supplies at the border. While the physical condition of the Mexican Northwestern la not good, many bridges having been destroyed during the years of revolution In Mexico, army engineers should have little difficulty In keeping It open. Other details of the protocol sug gested by General Carranza, state de partment officials indicated, may not be completed until the expedition has accomplished Its purpose and return ed. It -will serve, however, as the legal basis for the adjustment of all claims arising out of the use of American troops to pursue Villa. Col. Dodd'a Men Rode All Night and Took Bandits by Surprise. Think ' Chase Near End. El Paso, Texas. Four hundred American cavalrymen under the com mand of Col. George A. Dodd, gallop ing down from the granite slopes of the great continental divide, have fal len on the main body of Francisco Villa's bandits at the San Geronlmo ranch, scattering them In many direc tions and driving the bandit chief, wounded and crippled to seek a hiding place In the mountains, Villa was hurried from danger In a carriage. The battle opened at 6 o'clock In the morning of March 29 and continued for several hours. The news of the exploit w flashed Into Juarei and sent a thrill along the border. For 17 hours the veteran Colonel with his picked troopers of the Seventh and Tenth Cavalry, drove down the valley of the Santa Maria river. At the end of the 56-mlle ride they tell upon the unsuspecting Villa camp where 500 bandits were cele brating the massacre of 172 Carranza soldiers two days previously at Guer rero. Villa, shot through the leg and with one hip shattered, waa hurried from the scene barely in time to es cape the onslaught of the Americana. The bandits made a brief but hopeless stand before a charge of Colonel Dodd and his troopers. Then they broke and fled leaving 31 dead on the Held Including their commander General Eliseo Hernandei. Two machine guns, a number of hors es, rifles, ammunition, and equipment fell into the hands of the Americans. Among the known wounded is Pab lo Lopes, Villa's lieutenant In the Co lumbus raid. The American casual ties were four privates wounded. The American soldiers did not lin ger on the field of victory. For five hours they drove the enemy before them Into the wilderness of mountain peak, desert and conyon, where roads or even trails are unknown and where mis-step meana death to. horse and rider. - They halted only after the chase had led them 10 miles and the fugutlves were scattered Into little bands of half a dozen men each. Villa's career has ended; his. power has been broken. His death' or cap ture Is only a question of days, per haps only hours. Such Is the Inevit able conclusion reached here aa little by little the details of "Dodd's ride" reach the border. It seems Impossi ble that the crippled bandit can long remain hidden, even In the mountain ous wastes In which he has sought refuge. .'' 1 " , GERMANS 8HIFT TO EAST. GERMANS MAKE ADVANCE. Gain More Than Mile of Front North of Malancourt London. The Germans to the north west of Verdun In an Infantry attack launched with huge effectiveness have gained additional ground against the French north of Malancourt and have even penetrated the northwest corner of the village. Attempts of the Teutons to carry their advance farther, however, were stopped by the French Are, as also were three counter-attacks against the positions in the Avocourt wood, south of Malancourt, which had pre viously been taken from them by the French Infantry attack. The German official communication says that the advance of the Germane north of Malancourt was over front of more than a milt. ' Thirty Dead In Railroad Wreck. Cleveland, O. With a toll of at least 30 persons dead and 40 or more Injured, fedeial, state and railroad officials began an investigation into the causa that led to one of the most disastrous wrecks in the history of the New York Central system. Three trains, including the Twentieth Cen tury Limited, westbound, known as the New York Central's palatial flyer, and two sections of No. 86, the Chicago-Plttaburg - ."' Limited, - west bound, came together In " collision near. AmhaaraL O Succeeded In Entering French Line of Trenches Driven Out London. Having captured the vil lage of Malancourt, the Germans now have shifted their offensive eastward to the sector around the famous Le Mort Homme. With heavy forces the Teutons have attacked the French line between Hill 295 and Le Mort Homme and succeeded In entering French first line trenches. A vigorous counter-at tack by the French, however, almost Immediately expelled the Invaders and another attack by the Teutons deliv ered a little later Is declared by Paris to have been put down completely. The Germans have made no attempt to debouch from Malancourt since their occupation of the village. MAJ. FRANK.TOMPKINS rr- 7 S GERMAN HELD Uf TOOK POSSESSION OF SHIP MO TOPPO. SHORTLY AFTER LEAVING NEW YORK. Mai. Frank Tompklna of the Thir teenth United Statea cavalry la the man who had the first brush with Villa at the- raid on Columbus, N. M, and who with a email force of cavalrymen followed the Mexican bandits aoroas the border, killing ovtr a hundred Mexicans. Major Tompklna waa sta tioned wiin the border patrol at Co lumbus at the time of the raid. $8,61 1,502 TO HUNT VILLA CONGRESS RUSHES THROUGH APPROPRIATION TO CATCH ' VILLA.' Failure to Obtain Use of Railways 8erlously Hampers Troops In Pur suit of Villa. Grand Jury Indicts Walte. New York. The grand Jury return ed an Indictment charging murder In the first degree against Dr. Arthur) Warren Walte, accusing him of poison ing his father-in-law, John E.cPeck, millionaire drug manufacturer of Gran millionaire drug manufacturer of Grand Rapids, Mich, Plot to Rescue Schiller. Lewes, Del. Fearing that attempts would be made to rescue Ernest Schil ler, the young German stowaway who single-handed captured the British steamer Matoppo and terrorized her crew of 56 men on the high seas, de tectives took Schiller from his cell In the town Jail and hurried him by auto mobile to Harrington from where he will be taken by train to New York. The detectives declared that they had received positive information that at tempts would be made to rscue the prisoner. Ex-Governor Smith of S. C. Dead. Baltimore. Former Governor Chas. A.: Smith of South Carolina, died at the- John Hopkins Hospital after -a long Illness, erysipelas developing af ter many months. - Suffering from heart trouble was the direct cause of death. Mr. Smith-had been at. the hoapital two months. He waa about 56 years old. The former governor's home was In Tlmmonsvllle, S. C. . He war president of a Tlmmonsvllle bank and waa prominently known In Bap tist. educational circles. Washington. Diplomatic and do mestic aspects of the Mexican problem overshadowed its military side here, official reports from General Funaton disclosing no change In the situation on the border or In Mexico. Congress rushed through an emergency appro priation of $8,611,602 to pay tor the pursuit of the bandits and the state department prepared to press General Carranza for permission to use Mexi can railways to solve-the troop aupply problem.. Fears expressed In press reports from the border that failure to ob tain use of the railways might se riously hamper the pursuit of Villa were not reflected at either the state war departments. Senator Gal- linger, republican leader In the sen ate, presented to Secretary Baker a telegram from Senator Fall at El Paso dealing with the railway and border questions. It declared ship menu of gasoline Intended for the American, forces In Mexico were be ing held up by Carranza officials. The communication to General Car ranza will be made through "Special Representative" Rodgers, at Quere taro, to whom Instructions were for warded. State department official! said there was no question but that the expedition after Villa would press on and that a sufficient amount of sup plies could be furnished to the troops by motor-truck eralns, but general use of the rail lines would greatly simplify tmatters. .- News .dispatches from the border Indicating the American troops already were using the railroad Unas in some sections, were read with surprise at the war department, there having been no official advices to that effect. ROBBED OFFICERS AND SAFE Compelled Commander to Land Him In Delaware Breakwater Where He Waa Later Arrested. Lewes, Del. How a lone German stowaway held up the captain and 66 members of the crew of the British steamer Matoppo, compelling them at the point of a revolver to change the course of the vessel and land him at tin Delaware Breakwater after - he had rilled the ahlp's sate and taken their valuables waa told here by Cap tain Bergner, master of the Matoppo. The stowaway who aaya his name is Ernest Schiller and that he had lived In Hoboken, N. J., for the past eight months, la now locked up In the jail here awaiting the arrival of the Unit ed Statea district attorney from Wil mington, Del., and the British Consul General from Philadelphia. The hold-up took place outside the three-mile limit and Federal authori ties say this government probably will have nothing to do with the matter. Schiller, they aay, will be returned to the Matoppo and turned over to British officials at St. Lucia, where the vessel will stop for coal. The Matoppo sailed from New York for Vladivostok with a cargo consisting chiefly of barbed-wire and farm Implements. She passed out of Sandy Hook at 6 o'clock and two hours later, upon entering his cabin, Captain Bergner aays he was con fronted by a young man with a revol ver In each hand. "Hands up and not a sound It you value your life, was the command. The captain waa then bqund hand and foot and locked in nis camn, promising, under pen alty of death, not to raise an alarm. Cautiously making his way to the wireless cabin, the stowaway, who la about ft years old, put the Instru ments out of commission and threw the' ship's guns, consisting of six rifles, overboard. He then returned to the captain's cabin, rifled the aafe and destroy many Important pa pers. He had expected, he told Cap tain Bergner, to And at least 1.000 pounds In English money aboard but ! there waa not a penny In the aafe. Later, however, Schiller compelled the captain and the first officer to haqd over their pocketbooka contain ing a total of about 10 pounds. At 4 o'clock In the morning Schll ler released Captain Bergner and still gripping a revolver In each hand, or dered the steamer headed towards shore. . - BURNETT BILL PASSES. . NOTE OF INQUIRY SENT. Ask Germany Directly About Resent .- v - Disasters. Washington. Secretary Lansing, with the approval of President Wil son, has Instructed Ambassador Gerard to Inquire of Germany whether any of Ita submarines torpedoed the British Channel ateamer Sussex upon which 25 American citizens were traveling, or the British horse ship Englishman, which went oni with, a loss of one American Ufa. The United Statea has no conclusive proof that a submarine attacked either ship, but all evidence at hand Indicates both were torpedoed without warning. Upon the response ot the Berlin For eign office to Mr. - Gerard's inquiry may depend the next step of the American government. It waa made clear that no action has been taken which might be construed as demand, or a protest .---'.' j v President Wilson laid all the state department's reports - on the subject before the cabinet. It waa after the meeting that it became known that Inquiry would be made of the Ger man government. Original Literacy Teat and Aalatlo Exclusion Provisions Unchanged, Washington. The Burnett immigra tion bill with Its literacy test and Astatic exclusion provisions unchang-i ed, passed the house, by a vote of 308 to 87. It now goes to the senate where favorable action 1b regarded as as sured, : , - - . .- The literacy test,' about which ' ; light against the bill has centered, waa sustained, 284 to 107.. This pro vision has been i cause of vetoes of similar immigration bills by Presi dents Cleveland, Taft and Wilson. The house passed the bill over the Cleve land veto, but it-failed In the senate. Motions to over-ride the vetoes of President Taft and Wilson were lost in the house by narrow margins. Representative Burnett, chairman of the immigration committee, predicted that there was sufficient strength to repaaa the bill in the event of another veto. - The president has not Indicated his purpose to the house leaders. Both record votes on the literacy test and on the passage of the bill were without regard to party lines. Majority Leader Kltchin voted for the literacy test and for the bill. Mi nority Leader Mann voted against the literacy test and then for the bill. - Ruaaiana End Offensive. , . Loudon. Fighting la attll going on between the British and .Germans long the British end of the French line, particularly near 8L EloL where German grenade throwers bare suc ceeded In reaching a portion of a mine crater held by the British. Near Bols lnghe the British put down an attempt ed attack by the Germane, THE EUROPEAN 7A3 A U YEAR AGO THtS WEEICr , April 8.,19lf German repulsed Fr v st of Le Pretre and we. hauaen. but were eheekad near Lasslgny and In Upper Alsaoe. Russians gained In Carpathians and Auatrlana In Bukowlna. Turka repulsed British landing party at head of Rad soa. Smyrna forts bombarded. British government took control of motor manufacturing plants April 4, 1018. ' . Germane took Drie Graohten from Belglana. French captured - village "of Regnleville. , Austrlana retreated from Beskld region. Germans repulsed Ruaaiana near Augustowo. German aubmarlnea sank British steamer City of Bremen and other vassals. ..'.'.. Three German ateamers aunk by mines In Battle. Turkish orulaar Medjidleh sunk by Rusalan mine. - Qerman taube bombed ehurch near Ypree, killing 12 women and an abbe. April S, IBIS. French captured trenches In For eat of Allly. but were repulsed in Argonne and Le Pretre forests, Raima continuously 'bombarded, Ruaaiana mad steady gain In Carpathians, Bukowlna and North Poland. , . Turkish equadron sank two Rus sian ahlpa. - America's demand en Germany for reparation for alnklng of the Fry made public. April 6, 1615. French made fierce attack on St Mlhlel. French occupied Guaaalnvllla, but were repulsed east of Verdun. Ruaaiana advanced on Rostok pass, but were repulsed In effort to cross the Dniester. Austrlana bombarded Serb towns cn the Danube and Save. Gorman submarine caught In net off Dover.-, April .7, 1915. French made galna In Wcovr district and other points. Austrlana bombarded Belgrade and gained ground x along River Pruth and orosae,d the Dniester. Russians, entered Artvln, Ar menia. ,. ! V-, Prlnx Eltel Frledrlch Interned at Norfolk. Austrian aviator raided Podge rltxa, Montenegro, April 8, 1915. Ruaaiana captured Smolnlk, cast of Lupkow paaa. ; v - Fronch chip Chateaubriand sunk by Gorman, submarine off laic of Wight . One Austrian aeroplane beat three Ruaslan planea In midair. Germany offered reparation for striking of. the Fry, but Justified the act ' Belglana reported west side of Yser canal freed of Germans. - - April 9. 1915.' ' French announced complete oc cupation f Let Epsrges. ., , . Dsaperate:flghtlng cn heights of the Meuac German retook Drl Graohten from Belglana. Great Austro-Gsrmsn" army con fronted Ruaaiana In strongly for tified lines en -eouthem elope of Csrpsthlsns. Uac of alcoholic drinks forbid den In French army of the Vosgaa. Strong forces of Austrlana and Ital-i progress. lana are aligned against each other In the Gorzla sector of the Austro-Itallan front On the heights ot Sella spirit ed fighting Is taking place. British Repulse Attempted Air Raid. ! London. An. attempted - Zeppelin raid on the English coast the nlght-i ot March 19, which It waa Intimated I had been 'repulsed by defending air craft was learned of' through ques tions pnt to Harold J. Tennant, parli amentary under secretary for war,' In the house Of commons. Francis Ben nett Ooldney, Conservative member for Carterbury, asked whether vslr Zeppelins bad appeared on the east coast on the night ot March 19 .and were driven off by British serrminnps. - Underwood Want Nitrogen Plant' Washington-A 'determined fight waa begun In the senate by 'Senator Underwood of Alabama to Incorporate in the army re-organlzatlon bill a pro vision looking to the establishment of a government plant to make nitrogen from the air from the manufacture of explosive. . Efforts to incorporate such legislation in the honse bill were defeated. . ".':-;;'T7 '.'"C . Senator tlndarwood declared no na tional defense program would- be com plete without this provision. CHUNKS OF INFORMATION ' Farming and pig rearing ara the staple Industries of Serbia, v . : In Russia the people are divided Into three "stocks," Great Russians, White Rusalan and Little Ruaaiana, ' British vital statistics show that " there ha been mora marriage and ' ' less births since the war hat been In Apparatus invented b) England for - -preserving fish In carbonic acid gas under pressure U said to keep them perfectly fresh tortJeLt-,lx months. " . . For retail dealera there has--been " Invented a machine that will take tal -from a pile and pour It into ba" ' vV handling at rate of 26 ton sa Two cities in Colombia on lppoglt " 1 aides ot the Andes mountain will be .-'.': connected by a steel ropeway more . than 37 mile long which will trans port both passengers and freight .--. The flrat white woman to be mar- . ried In what' is now th city ot To-. - ' . peka, Kan., and who still lives there at - the age of eighty-eight Is Mrs. Haiti' k. Bunker. , Ebe was a rmtive of Wo bN-n, ATnus., ad w t i , , i. ..'
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