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"Vol. ie. no. 48
A (Elf anCoral Kftnupappr 3For All gftf Jamtlq
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, M8
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
AL0NZ0 E. TAYLOR
IN Pi
IN ESTIMATES Or CAPTURED ARE ,
1.000 OFFICERS FROM GEN- '
ERAL TO CORPORAL. j
OVER 500 CANNON IN SPOIL
inemy Resistance It Stiffening
Against Advance of Allies ; Ota
peratc Stand Expected..
The number of prisoners taken so
far in the allied offensive in Picurdy
la now eitimated at 36,000, Including
more than 1.0U0 officers. More than
600 Kins have been captured, accord
ing to the latest adviccB.
The pivot of the Gorman resistance
at this stage of the battle. It now ap
pourb, Is the towu of N'oyon, about
midway between Montdidler and Sois
sons. The enemy is throwing in re
serves from this base In an effort to
prevent, regardless of cost, the allies
from gaining control of the Noyon
Ilam road, which Is choked with ma
terial, guns and troops.
The Germans are expected to make
A desperate stand on tho Roye-Noyon
to permit the columns which are re
treating in the direction of Nesle und
Ham to reach safety.
The resistance of the Germans
stiffening against the fourth British
urmy under General Itawllnson They
me reacting violently in the region of
l.ihons, which changed hands twice
during the night but which was firmly
held by the British. j
All the bridges across the Somme
between Peronne and Ham, a stretch
of about 15 miles, have been destroy
ed by allied aviators. The Germans
have been attempting to throw tem
porary bridges across the stream and
the allied airmen are now systematic
ally bombing these Improvised struc
tures. All morning reports show extreme
confusion among the enemy forces '
In ihelr precipitate relreat.
Among the prisoners taken are gen
erals, colonels and officers of all other
grades. Eleven divisions of Generals .
yon Hutles and von Marwlts hav
been Identified by prisoners taken. I
STILL SWEPT BACK
TANKS, CARS, CAVALRY AND
INFANTRY ALL COMBINE TO
OVERWHELM FOE.
GREAT NUMBER OF PRISONERS
Allies Capture 17,000 Prisoners, Mora)
Than Two Hundred Cannon and
Other War Munitions.
MISS MARION DAVIES
A new photograph of Dr. Alonzo E.
Taylor, a member of the war trade
board and also of the House mis
sion to Europe. He was in charge
of the feeding of French and English
In Germany before the United States
entered the war. In private life ha
ranks as one of the leading food chem
ists and bioloolsts In the world.
IS PRAISED BY LLOYD-GEORGE !
ALL POSITIONS PREVIOUSLY
GAINED STEADILY HELD
BY STIFF FIGHTING.
GERMANS DIGGING IN
AONG THE VESLE RIVER
With tho American Army on the
Vesle. Allied aviators have reported
that the Germans are digging In oppo-!
site the Franco-American line along '
the Vesle. The observej-s also have re
ported that the enemy Is stringing
barbed wire along the hills northwest ,
of Flames. Allied officers express the I
belief that the Germans will not give
ground here unless they are deliber
iitely pushed off the plateaus.
The Americans learned from Ger
man prlsonera that the enemy was
using an old rock quarry cave In the
region of Longuval, large enough to
conceal two regiments. He employed
It as a refuge for troops to rest. The
Franco-American heavy artillery shell-
ed the cave all day and the Germans
wcie Anally compelled to abandon It
as a hiding place.
The guns of the Franco-Americans
got the range of the entrance to the
cave and kept up a continuous fire
11 'lay. Observers reported that the
-cave had been considerably damaged
and was rendered very untenable.
-The Germans are digging trenches
-along the line west and east of Longu
val and a'so In the valley of the
jPerles.
COAL SHORTAGE 13
SOURCE OF DANGER
Washington. rboal miners and oper
ators were called upon In a proclama
tion by Prest'-ut Wilson to give their
maximum t,A to the production ol
,coal to the' end that the threatened
.shortage next winter may be averted.
.The president asked miners particu
larly to work full time and urged those
.who are essential to the Industry to
accept deferred classification In th
draft. -.
SEVERAL VILLAGES TAKEN
BY THE FRENCH TROOP8
Parli. Notwithstanding res'itance
j)t Germans, French troops gained
further ground between the Wr and
the Olse rivers, taking several villages
from the west and south of Roye to
the Olse. Further sooth on the line,
the French have penetrated the wood
,ed area between the Rivers Matx and
Olse, reaching In this region the envi
rons of LaBerllere and (Jury, Montui!
JMott hai been captured. . '
British Premier Praises Part Taken
In Present Offensive by the
American Troopa.
The allied armies have obtained
.urther successes over the Germans
In fighting in the Solsaons-Rheims
sector and to the north in the "Slonf
dldler region and still further north
in Flanders between the Laws and
Clarence rivers.
East of the town of Braisne on the
Vesle River, midway between Sols
sons and Rheims, American and
French troops after the stiffest kind
of lighting lave crossed the river and
hold all the positions gained. In ad
dition all the positions previously
gained by the allied troops through
out the entire Rhelms-Soissons salient
have been solidly held, notwithstand
ing counter-atacks and the heavy ar
tillery fire the enemy has poured
down from the heights north of the
Vesle upon their antagonists. Near
where the Vesle enters the Aisne
east of Soissons the French have over
come the resistance of the enemy and
taken the village of Ciry-Salsogne.
In the Montdidier sector the French
south and southeast of the town have
further advanced their line on this
important sector which represents the
junction point of the armies of the
German crown prince and of Crown
Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria.
It remained for the Brltsh, how
ever to deliver- the hardest blow
against the Germans. Following up
a prevlons advance In the famous Lys
sector northwest of LaBasse, Field
Marshal Halg'l men pushed forward
their line over a fiont of nearly five
miles to a depth of a thousand yards.
David Lloyd-George, the Brltslh
prime minister, addressing the house
of commons, spoke optimistically of
the status of the war from the allied
standoolnt. Ho characterized the
present offensive on the Aisne-Marne
front as the most brilliant in the an
nals of the war and praised the part
taken in It by the American troops.
Over a curving front of more than
20 miles the British und French
troops are continuing to sweep back
the Germans eastward across the
north uf the Somme east of Morlan
court to the eastern bank of the Avre
northwest of Montdidier.
As on the first day of the offensive,
material progress was made over the
entire battle front. Many additional
villages were captured; Ihe hag of
prisoners was largely Increased; nil
merous guns and great quantities of i varloua articles.
war stores were taken, and heavy
casualties wore Inflicted on the enemy
by tanks, armored motor cars, the
cavalrymen and the infantry. The
losses sustained bv Ihe Anglo-French
forces are declared to be relatively
small.
To the allied forces there have
fallen 17.000 German prisoners and
between 200 and 300 guns, many of
them of heavy caliber and Innumer
able machine guns, trench mortars
rnd kindred smal weapons.
Already having penetrated the
Pl.-urdy salient to a depth of nearly
13 miles In the center toward the
vicinity of Ihe Important railroad
Junction of Chaulnes, and aT other
points along the are, pushed forward
betwen five and seven miles, the
northern and southern flunk of the
battle front where th Germans had
l-ectb resisting despe-ate,y, gave wayi
before th pressure respectively of'
the British and French.
-S'K' f t
SURPRISE AT1ACK
RENEWS RETREAT
FOCH'S NEW OFFENSIVE GIVES
PROMISE OF SERIOUS MEN.
ACE TO GERMAN FRONT.
OVER THE LAND OF
THE L0NGLEAF PINE
'IIOH I NO 1 1 X OK IN I I 111 S I I O
:i:oi.iivYi
Ashevjlle Hani
did perhaps f;i!uH
Arnold I'tuiii in
CHANNEL PORTS NOW SAFE
Evident That Rupprecht Must Defer
Campaign to Cut Off the Cross
Channel Service.
tVllM Marlon L. Davies, a graduatt
of the Unlventty of Wisconsin, Ic ora
of th first women to. be appointed ex
amlner under the federal trade com
mission. She la doing research work
In the congressional library, invest!-
I natina facts about tha manufacture a
GERMAN LOSSES ARE HEAVY
ALONG BATTLE FRONT CONDI
TIONS UNCHANGED BUT AN
TICIPATION RUNS RIOT.
Thirty-Five Thousand Prisoners In
Addition to Supplies and 700 Can
non Fall to Allies.
A CORRESPONDENT SAYS
GERMANY IS SCARED WHITE
London. England. Germany Is scar
ed while.
She's scared, first of' all, over the
turn of things on the west front; over
the thousands of Americans regularly
outfighting her: over the hundreds Of
thousands of Americans waiting to
fot into line; over the millions of
o'her Americans "on the way,"
This Information comes from an al
lied source whose business It Is to
Conditions on the battlefront along
the Vesle river betwen SoisBons and
Rheims remain unchanged, and, rela
tively speaking, there have been no
developments of outstanding Import
ance on the line running from the re
gion of Montdidier toward the Eng
lish channel. In both regions, how
ever, there Is a tenseness which seems
(o forecast the approaching dawn of
big events.
The Germans have been shelling
heavily the American and French sol
dlera who have made their way across
to the northern bank of the Vesle or
delivering heavy counter-attacks
against them, but everywhere they
have met -with a stonewal of resist
ance that has not permitted them to
counter-balance their losses of ground.
But the Germans have not been
permitted by the allies to have a
nn Hart v.;is -hot
wounded here liy
ihe Ziii'.i:i''niiail
lftllglller house IP West .sieule.
Prultt fired twice, the lirsi hullei strik
en Hall ill 'lie abdomen atnl li.i--i.lli;
tillrely through the body The shot
mused Hurt lo turn, (lie second bullet,
striking linn in (he h;-ck wi :,in an
inch "f Hi.- evil of t lie firs: hullo-
I.iiiiiImm-t.iii Th' pteiiuim h r for
'he annual Itoii.-son county fm, In tie
held In l.uniber!..n October 1.1. It'.. 7
:tnd IS ha just been is-oied The list
ilie iiuinr at'ractiv i-' i.-.- I and
hundreds of dollars a-.- ol1e:-"d for
xhlliits of all kind- nf tarui prodio ".
The historic baltle ground between
Amiens and Montdidier again is the
scene of a n.ighiy coniest. This liine
the llritlhh and French are the ag
gressors and under their 11. -no on- livestock pntiliiy. e
sinuous in the nrst day h battle tiiey
have penetrated deeply Into the tier
man positions over a front of more
than 20 miles, reaching from the re
gion of Krachctt lo the neighborhood
of Mnrlnnrmirt
Kollowinc short but intensive artll-
ry preparation and aid' d by misty
weather, ill" allied nllark look the
Hermans r oiiiiile'ely by surprise and
they fled almost everywhere pell tnel
before the tanks, motor machine gun
batteries, cavalry and Infantry sent
aidain-t them. Al the lijo. lives set for
the Australians, anadians. Knt-'llsh
men fl!:d Frenchmen were attained in
remarkably qitiek time, and 81 last ac
counts the allied f'.r'es were still mak
ing progress. Wherever the enemy
turned to give battle he was decisive
ly defeated.
Thousands of Germans were made
prisoner. Large numbers of guns
were caplured. great quantities of war
materials were taken and a score or
more of villages and hamlets were re
occupled. In addition, heavy casual
ties were inflicted on the enemy.
At Its deepest point the penetration
of the German line was about seven
and a half miles eastward from VII-lers-Flretonneux
to Framervllle, while
from two to five miles were gained
I nil alnnir the front from northwest of
Montilltller to the region around Mnr
Inncourt. The fighting extended north
of Morlancourt to the Albert sector,
but no official details concerning It
have been received.
lib kory - Piof H YV Ciit viM- super
intendent of the lllrkory city school,
has announced the teaching force for
the or.eonilliir session. Hespjte 'he
leniainl for te.oiiers. Superintendent
t arver ha- . sin i essfully obtained
Hickory's required number.
Kinston Uy operating economical
ly the municipality of Kinston will
gel along on aliout SlnD.iM) during thj
next 12 months The niuvor's annual
e'lijget. Mllljei I to it fl'W sllllllt chalices
V' t. lulls for a sum $2il or $".mt short
of Jinn. i. The tax rule will be
reduced It; cents in spite of the fa-1
taut nearly everything else is going
up.
Ttutherfordton. - - Deputy Colleetor
Rhyne and posse made a raid in up
per Rutherford county on Ihe ninli' of
August 2 and discovered nn illicit dis
tillery with full equipment In opera
tion, drover MeDanlel was caplured
at the still and laken before 1'nlted
States Commissioner It IV. Logan,
and upon hearing the evidence. Ccm
nilssloner Iigan bound McDanlel ovr
to the October term of federal court
at Charlotte. Will Lisle has also been
arrested upon warrant ami was tried
before Commissioner Iigan.
Oxford Five gallons of whiskey
Was found concealed at the fair
grounds. W. II .Tillotson. Jr.. a
prominent farmer of (Iranville ' oun-
Well out on the plains und press- ty was arres'ed on charge of selling
Ing forward, seemingly with great rap- whiskey and after arrest and prellmi
idlty, the present offensive of the nary trial, was bound -.ver for i.jipear
French and Brllsh elves promise of at,ee kt cr-ort on JS.ncn lend,
seriously menacing the entire Ger-
TO HURL ENTIRE STRENGTH
AMERICAN ARMY ON GERMANS
Washlngon. Dackd by a reservoir
of 5,000,000 American troops. Field
Marshal Foch, supreme comander of
the American and ailed armies, is pre
paring to harl the entire united mili
tary strength of France, Great Brit
ain and the Untied States against the
Germans on the western front in time
to bring the war to a victorious con
clusion In the shortest possible time.
Next tpring will see the terrific con
flict, already in progress on the
Aisne-Marne line. In full swing with
Foch'i armies striking with all their
power.
This waa the impression gained by
members of the senate military com
mittee who heard General March, chief
of mtl, explain lit executive session
the war department's reasons for ask
ing extension of draft age limits to
Include all men betwen 18 and 46
years of age. They learned also that
the definite decision to enlarge the
American military program : to an
army of five million men was reach
ed about July 30 and Is in acordance
with an agrement reched In Paris
shortly before that time).
know conditions in the enemT coun-
trfaa. monopoly of the Initiative. Where
She's frightened about Austria. 8h'W thrown shells against the
doeun't know what moment Austria1 Americans In the Flsmes sector, Amer
may blow up. She knows what is : m'-ssMes have been returned with
known and conceded In official allied ! adaed Interest. This particular sec-
sources that the Austrian economic 1 has been a veritable Inferno. Oas
situation is worse now than It has against the Americans, who,
been since the opening nf the war and
man front from near the sea to
Rheims. If the drive should proceed
I eastward to any great depth It cannot
I hut affect the armies of the German
crown prince now fighting betwen the
Aisne and the Vesle and possibly make
Impracticable a stand by them even
north of the Aisne.
the people are bolder.
She's frightened about Russia. Al
lied warships and American troops
up north have, puffed out her hope
of getting her hands on the hundreds
of thousands of tons of military
tores at Archangel, there since the
revolution; she can't take a step to
ward Petrograd or the northern rail
way lest these allies forces swoop
south; and for all she' knows they
may be going to swoop south without
waiting for thst menace; she can't
spare men from the west front.
GOVERNMENT, NOT DRAFTEE.
WILL DO THE SELECTING
Washington New draft regulations
under which the government would
do the selecting rather than leaving
It to the registrant, are under consid
eration by the war department.
The war secretary made It plain
that he is not satlfied with the pres
ent system under which the regis
trant must claim deferred classifica
tion, as many men with dependents
hesitate for patriotic reasons to make
such a claim. In this connection, Mr.
Baker said, he was Inclined to the
opinion that the marriage rela
tion will In Itself constitute deferred
classification. i
VILLAGE AND PRISONERS
CAPTURED BY AMERICANS
Paris (Havas Agency). American
troops have captured the village of
Flsmet, on the north hank of the
Vesle river, a "short distance north
west of 'Flsmes.
The official communication says the
British and French troops continued
their advance and won new victories.
French troopa took 4,000 prisoners,
besides a Urge) quantity of war mate
rials. -
Ith
their gas masks adjusted, were vir
tually unharmed by the noxious fumes.
A kindly switch In the wind at one
time even turnad back the gas against
the enemy. The French also have an
swered the Germans in kind.
"Thirty-five thousand prisoners and
700 cannon have been captuied," said
the premier, who added that Paris no
longer was in danger, that Soissons
and Chateau-Thierry have been recon
quered and that 200 villages had been
delivered through the formidable
thrust of Foch'a men through the
Solssons-Rhelms alient.
FINE RECORD 18 MADE
BY AMERICAN SHIP BUILDER8
Washington. With the launching of
123 vessels, totaling 631,944 dead
weight tons, and the delivery of 41
others of 335,025 deadweight tons, new
world shipbuilding records were es
tablished In July by American ship
yards, the shipping board announc
ed. The July launchings alone were
greater than those of any single year
in the past.
The launching Included 67 steel
vessels of 43.244 deadweight tons;
53 wood ships of 187,70 deadweight
tons, and three composite ships of
11,000 tons.
FRENCH CROSS AYRE RIVER;
THREATEN GERMAN JUNCTION
A "J-'ei.
The French north of Montdidier
have crossed to the west aide of the
Avre River between Braches and Mori
sel. -Here a fairly deep penetration In
to the German line would become a
direct menace to the junction point of
the armies of the German crown
prince and of Crown Prince Rup.
precht. - On both sides of Amiens,
where the Germans have given ground
they are now heavily shelling British
position!, using quantities of f.s.
Winston fcalcm - ,Jeui F. Carlton
Cjf the United Slates navy electrical
engineering department was here en
route to North Wilkesboro to spend a,
few days with his parents Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Carlton. Lieutenant Carl,
ton has Just returned from a trip to
France made aboard a transport as!
Under the pressure of the offen-: ai.,s,anl electrical engineer. He savs
slve the menace to the channel ports tne trip ovpr Wtts mai1() !wPiv,
also seems for the moment at least, (,ayJ hnt ,.omin)! ha, i( only seven days
to vanish. Already there have been wer(1 rp,,,,,,,. Every precaution was
signs to the northward from the posl- akpl (1 prole(.t llB bovs on ,hn trIp
Hons where Crown Prince Rpprerht ' arrrae
had formed his men for a drive toward (
the channel that a retrograde move-. . . tv,.-j. t .....
, , . . u High Point. Despondent b 'cause,
ment bv the German was not lmprob- . " '
" . .i. . i, , he had been Informed that he was nf-
able. It Is apparent that Rupprecht . ...
, ' ..... , . , fected w th a dread d aeaes. Albert
will have to defer h s campaign to cut
' ' . . i Kersey, white, aged about 45 vears,
off the cross-chanel serlvce. i . ...
u w.o i m(ll1e a determined effort to end his
life at the home of William Holton,
GOVERNMENT TO TAKE OVER near Jamestown, by slashing his
COLD STORAGE PLANTS, ETC. ' throat and forearm wilh a razor. The
I throat was cut from left ear to iho
Washlngton.Tnvestlgation of the front renter. The blade of the raso.'
packing industry of the country by j penetrated the windpipe. The raior
the federal trade commission culml
nated In an announcement that Ihe
commission had recommended to
President Wilson that the government
commandeer and operate fo- the pub-
was then used on the left forearm
In an effort to severe the artery. ,
Charlotte Of the 8,000 negro sol.
dlers ordered entrained August 23
lie benefit stockyards, cold storage Y-,r Camp Greene 2.7:i"! v ;n be sent, by
plants, warehouses ana rerngerntor ( ,.! ;)nlul, 0f No l. Carolina at;
and cattle cars. j cording to a call received by the lo-
Monopolistic control of the essen-; caj board for Charlotte from the of-
tlal food supply not only of the United ! floe 0f (he adjutant general of North
States and Its army and navy, but also Carolina. Charlotte's quota under this
nf the entente countries was charged ; oan , Mecklenburg county 16 and
by the commission against the five among others are Anson county. 27;
great parking companies Swift. Ar- Gaston county. 8; Iredell county. 9;
monr. Morris. Cndahv and Wilson. The J Union county, 40; Star.ly county, 30;
lr.st nnmed rompnnv. the committee's j Cabarrus county 20; Lincoln count,
report said. Is ront-olled hy three of: 212; New Hanover county. 11; Burke
the' strongest bsnk'ng groups In the . county. 7; Rowan county, 44; Robe
son county, No.1, 59; Robeson county
TTntter1 S's'es Kuhn. l.-oeh & Co.,
Ousrantv Trust Co. and Chase Na
tional bank.
ICE FAHIVF RLAMED ON
NORFOLK MANUFACTURERS
i
Nn'folk. Yn Rear AdmirM Ha'r!t.
rr-ilrmnn of the wsr lndn'rlei eom-i-oti
ef -he nval d'srlct. no
ticed th Nc-f"tv Prr,smo"!h T--t'on
Comnnn" that he would f)ke over
end dlre- the distribution of all e'e.
trie currert In order 1 conserve and
tvMMie be suinly fo' the more Im
portant l'nes of Industry and tnnsoor
tntlon. The step was deeMcd np-n
o-dcr to relieve the present acnie
tfactlon situation. 4
No. 8. 36.
Fayettevllle. Pierre Mallett. son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Mallett. of
Washington, D. L has been decorated
by a French commander with the
Croix de Guerre, for distinguished
conduct In operation in No Man's
Land, according to Information receiv
ed by relatives of Mr. Mallett here.
Mr. Mallett is a member of the Amer
ican Expeditionary Force Both his
parents are North Carolinians. He Is
a great-great-grandson of General Pe
ter Mallett. of the Revolution, and a
grandson of Col. Teter Mallett, of tho
Confederate States army.