KINGS MOUNTAIN N. 0., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1918
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
RAID IDE
HNS
PERMISSION NOT GIVEN TO PUB
LISH THE NUMBER OF
CASUALTIES.
GEN. SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON
APPAREN1LY AFTER PRISONERS
Purpose of Raid Wat Quickly. Accom
plished: Wat After Information
from Captured Americans.
After a terrific arti..ery preparation
large numbers uf the enmity crossed
No-man's-Land on the extreme rlgh
of the American sector, northwes'. of
Tout. Appurently the purpose of the
raid wan (illicitly -accomplished and
only a comparatively small number
ftntered our lines. Permission has not
been given to mention the number of
casualties.
This raid, like most of the others
carried out all the way, from the sea
to Switzerland, was designed to gather
Information by means of taking pris
oners.
Bast of Lunevllle our patrols have
explored part of the German trench
which our artillery forced the enemy
to abandon. Patrols proceeded later
ally until they established contact
with the Germans. Our reconnais
sance and wire patrols found snipers'
posts, listening and nests from which
machine guns had been tiring on our
lines. The artillery attended to all
these posts. The German positions
have been so uncomfortable at sev
eral places tbat they now are trying
to regain a foothold by connection
shell holes. Our troops have been
Rubject to an extraord nary heavy ar
tillery Are. More than 240 shells,
which make craters 20 feet deep and
30 feet in diameter, fell In one sec
tion of the line. In another section
btatcries have been shelled heavily.
More gas Bhells have fallen In both
i
3p
iHJ.; I Wdlttn Ne)WBpaprr I nlcm V
HAVE PEACE TERMS
E TO
LORD CECIL SAYS THAT NO SUCH
PROPOSALS ARE BEING
"CONSIDERED."
PEACE IS OFFERED SERBIA
Gen. Sir William Robertson, who re
algnad at chief of the British general
staff, hat been given the rather unim
portant command of the eastern part
of England.
PLANES HAVE LIBERTY MOTOR
FIRST. ONE8 THU8 EQUIPPER ARE
TRIED OUT AND ACCEPTED
BY DEPARTMENT.
600 ARMY HORSES OUT OF
726 WERE POISONED
Advance Guard of New Craft Being De
livered or Use in Submarine
Hunting.
Washington. America's first fighV
Ing seaplane equipped with Liberty
motors has been tried out and accept
ed, it was learned, and a number of
the Toul and Lunevllle sectors, but ' "r . f e " ne"vt,rc1 Ior
the larger number In the former. 'he use of the naval air service.
They are the advance guard of a big
: flwt which will be added to.the forces
engaged In submarine buntlnc. in the
war zone.
A second type of fighting plane for
the American army known as "the
Bristol model" also has now reached I
the production' stage and. a consid
erable number will become available
during the present month. Still an.
other type, a two-seated machine, also
Is being manufactured..
Construction details of these plsnes
have never been .published. It is
known, however, that the seaplanes
are substantially similar to the Brit
ish frying boats and are equipped with
two Liberty motors, which provide ap
proximately 700 horsepower to drive
the ship. This is understood to be
much In excess of the power used In
similar British craft and their per
formance is expected to be propor
tionately better.
In this connection. It was learned
that engineers of the aircraft board
now have overcome the last minor
defect of the Liberty motors, having
to do with the lubricating system. A
number of motors taken haphazard
from the quantity production supply
have been operated continuously' for
many Hours without any trouble de
veloping.
Officials in close touch with prog
ress- being made on production of
fighting planes In this country are still
satisfied that the output will lax ship
ping facilities before July.
SERGT. MA J. FLORA SAN0ES
f bs 1
a'?. 1 ft I
VESSELS TO BE TAKEN OVER
MONDAY, MARCH 18. UNDER
INTERNATIONAL LAW.
OVER THE LAND OF
THE L0NG1EAF PINE
mom o i i:s or im i hi si m
. tlMH.IMWH
The pnshifTirr ai Pulling 'i,k. t h is
Siatr, hns hern aliaiHlnnwl '.pen rer
mnmLtt ion (if t hp Mi-tMi;.i'r
Tim now In
HOLLAND MAY ACQUIESCE :::;:::,:
less hmiM ai ( amp
was opened wirh
-s ami nil .ufit i
Serai MaJ. Flora Sandes, who was
wounded while fighting In the Serbian
army, receiving therefor the 8erblan
V, C. medal, photographed while cell
ing program at the war exhibition at
Burlington house, London, In aid of
the Brltleh Red Croat.
Ten Thouiand People Join in Remark
able Demonttration.
Covington, Ky. A crowd estimated
at 10,000, which Included men. women
and children here, participated in a,
markable demonstration of patriotic
protest against what Is believed to be
pro-German propaganda In Covington
aa exemplified by the poisoning of 600
of 720 government - artillery horses
shipped from Camp Grant. Illinois for
an Atlantic seaport.
Ten thousand others were unable
. to get near the field outside of the
"lockade of the Covington stockyards
vhere lay the carcasses of hundreds
f anlmala and the steadily diminish
ing number of survivors of the poison
plot.
Emotions of the throng had been
aroused to a high pitch of patriotic
fervor when ah interruption from a
man giving the name of Richard
Schmidt, 2,1 years old, nearly brought
about his lynching. As It was, he
was severly beaten before police lock
ed him Up. The mass meeting of pro
test was held undertthe auspices of the
Citizens' Patriotic League of Coving
ton. The meeting decided to send a
memorial to congress calling upon the
congressional law-makers to enact a
Inw'lnternlng every enemy alien with
in the borders of the United States and
making more stringent the laws gov
erning all seditious , and traitorous
acta.'
i An Investigation of the poisoning of
the horses is being;, conducted by fed
eral agents.
Holland in "Perilous" Situation, on
Account of Allied Nations Taking
Over Her Ships.
That issnce terms have been offered
Great Brituin by Germany may possi
bly be inferred from several signifi
cant statements given out.
Lord Kobert Cecil, British minister
of blockade, when asked If proposals
"had been received for a peace at the
expense of Russia" answered that "no
such proposals are being considered
or will be considered."
A little earlier an Amsterdam dis
patch quoted Field Marshal yon Hln
denburg as saying that "the entente
has shown an unresponsive altitude
toward Germany's peace intentions
and the great German offensive must
therefore go on."
Later General von Ludendorff, the
German quartermaster general, was
reported as saying: "Since the enemy
is not Inclined to make peace, we will
have to fight, and this fight will, of
course, be the most tremendous of the
whole war."
Ludendorff Boasts Strength.
General von Ludendorff continued:
"We are stronger than the enemy as
regards men, material, aerial forces.
tanks. Everything. In fact, of which
he bqasted Is standing in readiness
on our side In the greatest abund
ance. The treaty of peace submitted by
Germany to Russia at Brest-Litovsk.
which makes Rub's la an outpost' of
The Central -empires, has either been
ratified by (he all-Russian congress
of Rovlets or Its ratification apparently
Is imminent.
Reports from Moscow, are not clear
on the rltuatlon. but it seems certain
that the bolshevik element has voted
by a large majority to affirm the
treaty. As this element dominates the
congress, the hard1 terms will-'doubtless
be accepted, notwithstanding re-
pert that Leon Trotzky, the mouth- ! thousand will be men of Hie first draft
mere of the bolstevikl,' Iff opposed to of 687,000 not. yet summoned Into serv
their provisions and is willing to try,! ice.
to reorganize the Russian army to j Details of how the second draft it
fight the German Invaders. to be applied will be made nubile
LAST OF FIRST DRAFT TO 60
95,000 WILL BE CALLED IN FIVE
DAY PERIOD BEGINNING
MARCH 29TH.
First Purpose of the War Department
It to Complete First Field
Army In France,
Washington. March. 12. Eight hun
dred thousand men are to be called to
the colors gradually during the pres
ent year under the second army draft,
which begins March 29.
An announcement by Provost Mar
shal General Crowder of the number
as ioiio.weu closely oy an order for tons of Dutch ships, now held in ports
the mobilization of 95.000 men dnrlngithe world over, through Holland's fear
the flve day period beginning March of Germany's threat to sink them if
29, some 16.000 of them to be astern-1 they venture out. will be brought Into
bled under the s cond draft. Eighty the service of the United States and
ureat Britain on March 18.
Unlet the Netherlands government
braver the menace of Germany's
pressure and voluntarily accepts an
But Her Pita o( Germany's Menace
No Longer Will Prevail Deci
sion is Final,
One million tons of Dutch shipping
which will be used in sending supplies
lo the armies of the allies or In trans
porting troops -to the war zones, will
be taken over by the I'nlted Slates
and Great Britain Monday. March IV
jihus relieving In gnat measure a dire
.need of the countries at war with the
'Tenlnnle ullia
Holland's hesitancy to come Into an
agreement with the I'nlted States and
Great Britain which would permit of
the use of ships flying her flag, many
of which are now lying in American
and allied pons, no longer is to bo
tolerated, and next Monday, whether
she be willing or not, the vessel will
be taken over under the provisions of '
international lanw and put Into uses '
which are highly essential to the sue
cess of the allied cause
Holland yet has time to acquiesce
In the demands of the I'nlted States
and Great Britain and sanction the
use of her shipping, but her plea of
Germany's menace no ' longer will
avail, and there is to be no modifica
tion in the decision of the I'nlted
States and the allies to seize all Dutch
vessels in their respective ports
throughout the world and use them.
Liberal compensation is to be awarded
owners of the vessels and all their
rights will be safeguarded. In addl- ,
Hon the export of foodstuffs to Hoi
land will be permitted and coal by
which Holland may resume her inter
rupted trade with her colonies will he
guaranteed.
Washington, March 14. A million
by .Mrs T W Hi, kett
Karle N'cville. who was coiivicmI ot
assault upon a white woman at Ra
leigh, went to his 'deiith in ill.. . Ic trlr.
chair, calmly protesting hi innc. i nee
Ixiwc anil Iter, I.
hern awarded till
ing a fL'iiii.Miii liriii
nessee' river al Sli
ot I'tlMlloMr. hat-
rontno t for litiild
Ke li. n the Tcn-'flii-hl.
Ala.
Holland stands In a perilous sltua
Hon. according to the German news-.
papers.1 which are printing editorials, '
evidently inspired, on the taking over
of Dutch ships by the United States
and Great Britain.-"Drastic measures'.; istrants in .Class 1
are advocated if Holland "gives way
fa fhe allies. i .1 . ' !
FIFTY HORSES ARE DEAD; .
RESULT OF GERMAN HAND
later, after Congress has acted upon
proposed legislation providing for the
registration of youths attaining ' the
age of 21 years and for basing state
district quotas orf the number of reg-
In his first official
statement on the subject, however,
General Crowder.nssures the country
that no sweeping withdrawn! ot large
numbers of men af one time is con
templated, and that care will he inbo-.
I to avoid Interference with harvesting,
are 95,000 Needed at Once.
The 95,000 men now called, it la
Miss Annie Marvin died -u-lrp i,ly In
Slatesville at Slierer nnlsli hall, im
mediately after her arrival lo wlness
a play that was given there
Kinston for Hie first time was quite
a fur market the past season The
business here during the three cold
month" amounted in many thousand
dollars.
Kmployes of the two big tohacco fac
tories of Durham have organized a lo
cal branch of the Tobacco Workers'
union, and are actively affiliated with
the Am.-iican Federation of Labor.
Jesse Bowden, a Craven county ni
gr. must die in the electric chair for
the crime of first degree burglary, the
Supreme court handing down a deci
sion affirming his conviction In the
Superior unit of Craven county.
The Asheville school for pastors and
workers, which has been In session for
the past five day at Hie Klrt Baptist
chinch, came to a successful close
when ail the students of the school
who have sip . essfiilly completed the
course of instructions were given di
plomas
The leaf market of Winston-Salem
clos.ed the -tobacco year after having
sold nearly 29 nnn pound of the weed,
this being the largest uinoinit in the
history of the market in tfi vearv it
' brought. SMMMHW.zw, an average of
$.')2.B! per hundred. One warehouse
sold 24 pounds of leaf tobacco that
came from Stokes county liv parcel
post.
In a aic..,.. ... . . ' . .
agreement .under which the ships i M, n, . J""" ".
would be put in trade, the United I Z " "ll " !?r"n.', ,rM,'f"' ni
i : ""'I Mm n.-oi'iiiiiirsi. a
i negro, which occurred a: me Lillet's
Mates and Great Britain will take
them over under international law.
availing themselves of a sovereign
right which Germany herself haslilth
erto exercised under the same author
ity. '. . ,
store in the suburbs of the town here
tnis morning, the negro was almost In
Rtantly killed, dying In live minutes
after his throat was gaslie.) by Bell.
GAS PROJECTILES ARE
BOLSHEVIKI CREW IS
MEN-ACE TO VES
;el
Norfolk, .Va. Bolshevikism struck
Norfolk in the shape of the crew of
the Russian steamship Omsk and It
raged with more or less Intensity from
11 o'clock In the morning in' and out of
federal offices back and forth from
ship lo shore until finally at a late
.Acquire Egyptian Cotton.
Y 1 T, 1. TI4I1. J T.- .!..
Miuiaia."-1 lie Driu&ii nnu jukuuhii ,. v. , , .
. ' . . . . . . . ', hour the whole crowd of malcontents,
governments have decided jointly to I the Bumtar rf
acquire the entire Egyptian cotton
crop beginning next August. A com
mission hat been appointed to take
control of the regulations.
MEMAQE CABLED FROM
V- '' THE HAGUE TO LONDON.
The Hague. After a cabinet coun
cil lasting Into the night, the govern
ment cable) to London a message
which, according to reliable Informa
tion, ..probably will lead to s satisfac
tory conclusion of the shipping diffi
culty. An Amsterdam dispatch said
It hki heen learned on excellent auth
ority 4ba the Dutch government had
accepted the demand of the entente
allies relating to the use of Dutch
ahlpt la the danger lone.
taken into
custody by a force of 85 Norfolk .po
lice acting under the personal direction
of Major Ford and marched from the
steamer to police- headquarters where
they were locked up. '
Covington. Ky. Fifty horses
dead of poisoning in Covington and
many more are expected to die out of - understood, are needed at once to fill
a government shipment of 726 horses j up divisions and other units scheduled
from ramp Grant. Rockford, 111., con ; for early departure or to take the
signed to Newport- News, Va. Dr. L. (place of men transferred from other
E. Crlsler. veterinary surgeon, Cov- j division to make up sucJY -deficiencies,
ington, prpnounced..'the. death of the I Newly organized regular divisions are
animals to be due to belladona and j particularly short of men and heavy
croton oil pbls'onTng. ' - - - drafts on national army divisions to
The consignment of horses reached I make these good have been necessary
Covington in charge of Lieut. Frank j seriously Interfering with the training
Lllley and 16 soldiers. Doctor, Crtoler : work of the national army divisions
said he jeleved tie poison ha.d been drawn upon. The . call for new men
placed in water given to the horses makes it probable that no further
in Covington. Government author!- transfers will be necessary,
ties were notified. An. ittgent of the The 800,000 men' to be 'summoned
department of justice a'egan an lines-) this year represent the number neces-
tigstion. Deaths of the horses gen-1 sary to fill up all existing divisions. o
eraily are said to be ramifications ofierente all the army corps and field
German plots. army troops' to fill out the war ma-
V !, -. .,. '' ' f ! chine for which the framework ah
Bow to 'Germany's' Will. j ready exists, and to provide a quarter
Washington. The decision of the 1 of a million replacement tn
allRuBslan congress; ofsbyievs at M'..-.. J When they have been mobilized.
cow to ratiry tne Herman peace terrks
announced In press cables was reach
ed after receipt of President Wilson's
message to the Russian people assur
ing them that America would take :he
first opportunity to help 'them regain
their, complete .sovereignty and inde
pendence, i si
The l ulled States employment serv
Ice announced thai it ha.i ..i-i.u.i.. i
BLOWN TO PIECES 2fi ew employment offices. Six were
, opened in Chicago, giving that cliv
American Artillery Upsets Germtny'e even The others were distributed
Plant Tor Attack. among nine Slates. Among them are
Four groups of German gat projectors H0""1VP- Washington and New Bern.
BALLOON FALLS 3,200
FEETi THREE INJURED
Temple,.. Texat.Capt, B. H. Four
nier, of San Antonio, suffered a severe
calp wound, Cadet G. W. Adamt, re
ceived a broken leg and Cadet E. M.
Hawley sustained a sprained back'
when the balloon In which they were
making a trial flight from San Antonio
fell from tn'altitnde of H.200 feet near
Kllleen, this county. Something went
wrong with the valve In the top of
the bag, It was aald.
TROOPS ENJOY SUNSHINE
AFTER WEEKS OF RAIN'
After weekt of rain, snow, wind and
murky "weather there came to the
American front lt first bath of gen'al
spring sunshine. The skies were
cloudless, and In the moderate tempar
ature that prevai.Jedf 'sweaters were
discarded by the men for the first time
since last summer, while In the vil
lages where ifca arwJUHeted, and in
the cantonments in the training area
the camps were decorated wltn rolls
ot bedding being given an airing.
which will not be completed before
the first of next year, .there will be
more than 40 fuir infantry divisions of
27,700 meh each and all the additiona
al units necessary. No additional di
visions of the national army or na
tional guard will be credited this year,
in addition to the group of 200 project
ors already discovered and likewise
blown to pieces by the American artil
lery. Probable German plans for gas
attack on a comparatively large scale
against the American positions north
west of Toul have thus beep upsat.
The. new group of projectors were
discovered from aerial photographs
taken by American observers in
French airplanes.. The effective action
taken against them was due lo the
quick work of the olisorvers. the intel
ligence officers and the artillerists In
turn.
The American .artillery on this
front has been more active than ever
in the past 15 hours', and Its shells alto
found lodgment in a number of am
munition dumps, which were blown
up. Many extensive explosions ' are
reported. The correspondent, stand
ing on a hill, witnessed one dump sit-
in North Carolina.
A service (lag bearing f,4 stars was
presented to the Donaldson Military
School. Fayeiteville. with impressive
r-eremnnies as a testimonial of the
part Its alumni are playing in the
world war. The flag is Rif, , ,he
school from the superintendent. Col.
John M. McFali. .
"Make county school, commence
ments war commencements and give
war savings stamps Instead of monev
prizes snd ordinary medals." is the re
quest that Dr. J. V. Joyner is making
of the superintendents and teachers
of the state, which request has the
hearty endorsement of ColF.i H
Fries, state 'director of war savings
Quite an epidemic of hog cholera is.
reported In Franxlin. County Demon.,
strator, C, H. Slants, aceopipanied hv
Drs. F. D. Owen and 3 r. Katiu.i..
Hated in A Wnnri bii nn n a Hnii
flash and a great puff of whitish I Ralfiin- connected with tne federal do
smoke, a tremendous report following nartmP1" "imal industry, are con
a few seconds later, Explosions and ; '"'"n" educational campaign on
fires also were caused by our shells ! subject throughout the countv and
.'l- -.111 - , , .. . flOlnr finite a onnA ,lnl '
although the nrom-rin, for .h. ".V"" "u " nunHwr ,n lne WOOM : . I - - ' ".""" vaccinating
i haniiiM ,k - Hxai ki ine nrenn niaai.n
.j, ,.u,,vuncu ui cigiu iiuuiliry
and one cavalry division, may be en
larged..
AIRPLANE 'FACTORY TO
' BE -BUILT AT RALEIGH
:
Raleigh. Harry N. Atwood. well
known American aviator who alighted
on -the white house grounds several
yeart ago,- has - begun plans for the
erection of an airplane manufacturing
ptan in this city, it was announced
here at a meeting of citizens. Mia
ANNOUNCEMENT AS TO
SIBERIA EXPECTED SOON
i Washington. Japan's avowal of her
Intention to Intervene in Siberal and
the announcement of the courses to be
taken by the United States and other
governments aligned against the cen
tral powers " are expected to follow
closely upon the adjournment of the
Russian congress of Soviets called to
meef at Moscow. - Official Washington
plant will be financed by New York Z " "LR . """.".'
and local capital. i , wrr,B cuona oi nut-
T. S i Noles. a young man of Indian
Trail In Union county,: has Invented
what he claims is an Improved ma
chine gun sight. He has been working
on It for the past 18 months. This Im
proved sight as planned by him will
enable the man who is firing the gun
to do his own sighting.
J. N. Ledford. aged 45. living in the
northern part of Rowan county and
manager of the Irvln Mill Company's
large atore at Cooleemee. committed
tulride by drowning in the mill race
at Cooleemee.'.
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