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ESTABLISHED 1821. GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1918. VOL. 97-NO. 27
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France tonight. 'Local
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POWER OF AMERICA IS THROWN
IX TO BRING THE WAR TO A
CLOSE.
HUN WAR MACHINE HAS UTTER-LY
8PEXT ITSELF IN EFFORT
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. cross the Oise today, and
lst. head permitting of fu-
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, lions succeeded in getting
. aany. but never return-
,. almost entirely annihi-
.:,. remained only about
un-vouaded men. whom
- .ok prisoners,
the bridges crossing the
rt.-en destroyed and the
• strong positions on the
ink. while all possible
ivrvd by artillery.
... north, in '.he region of
... Germans, for the mo-
,--. appear ;o have re-
:• general at:neks ar.d re-
.. ui-tiors. Two of these
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: .• the Somme. They came
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,vho repulsed them af-
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Washington, April 2.—While the
battle in Picardy halted today in a
lull that may only foreshadow the
breaking of a new and more terrible
etorm. American troops were hasten-ed
to join in the fray with their
French and British comrades. For-mal
announcement from London
that these units would be merged
with the allied war machines indi-cated
to officials that losses of the
allies would be immediately made
good with vigorous young Americans
keen for battle, and the stage set
without delay not only ft r ,a counter
offensive, but for aggresoive warfare
without pause until the German in-vader
shall not only be checked, but
hurled-back to ultimate military de-feat.
President Wilson has predicted
that this will be the decisive year of
the war. In the opinion of military
officers here, both American and
French and British, he has now tak-en
the decisive steps to.vard making
his words good. The power of Amer-ican
manhood is to be brought to
bear without delay, not only in the
American expeditionary army itself,
but also in the fighting ranks of the
allied armies. By this means the
effect of American intervention in
the war, it is said, will be doubled
or even trebled and in coming days
of the battle which may last for
months. Americans by the hundreds
of thousands will play their part.
No explanation of the announce-ment
from London was made today
at the war department. Probably
not more than a very few of the
highest officials know precisely what
method is to be adopted to rush ad-ditional
forces to France.
Reviewing the meager information
rlrnt has been avatrable as —to* the
great things that have been accom-plished
since the German drive be-
QUIET ALONG THE WAR FRONT
EXCEPT FOR VIOLENT ARTIL-
- TERY FIGHTING.
With the passing of the 13th day
of the new battle of the Somme there
came increasing evidence that the
great German machine with which
it was intended to crush the allied
line has almost utterly spent itself.
Where previously the Germans
had thrown men into the tray, not
counting the prodigious wastage in
killed or wounded, Tuesday saw
them decline anywhere to give bat-tle.
On the contrary, in what little
fighting occurred', the British and
French troops took the initiative.
Thus it seems apparent, with the
reserve forces of the entente virtu-ally
intact and with the
With the _American Army in
France, May 3.—American troops on
a certain sector other than that in
the region of Toul have oeen subject-ed
to an extraordinarily heavy gas
attack. !
The attack began la3t night and
continued at intervals - until this
morning Mingled with the gas pro-jectiles
sent over by the Germans
were shells of high explosives.
THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
WILL FLOAT OVER THE BATTLE
FIELDS, SIDE BY SIDE WITH
FRENCH AND BRITISH.
Fighting Slows Down.
Paris, April 3.—The war office an-nouncement
tonight says:
"There was no infantry action
added during the course of the day. Quite
BANK OF EVERETT ROBBED
POSSE CAPTURED THE ROBBERS
—SOME PROVE TO BE DE-SERTERS
FROM CAMP.
weight General Pershiiig's troops
will give them the turn in the tide
of the battle is at hand.
While admittedly both the French
and British armies have suffered
rather severe casualties as they stood
valiantly to their task of impeding
the Germans and making them pay
an unheard-of price for every foot
of ground gained, their reserves
;iave been conserved with the utmost
care behind the lines for the fateful
time when the withering fire of the
allied guns and machine guns should
have so blighted the German hordes
as to bring more equality in •strength
to the fighting forces. And. all along
the British and French commanders
have not left outside t'.eir calcula-tions
that staunch band of Ameri-cans,
exceeding 100.00-) men. who
are fully trained and equipped and
anxious to lend their ail in the task
of defeating the German*.
German Losses Frightful.
Dally the German losses in men
killed or wounded continue to aug-ment
as details are obtained from
the Germans made prisoner. Som°
violent artillery fighting was main-tained
in the region north of Mont-did
ier, 'especially between Demuin
and Hangard-en-Santerre. It was
quiet everywhere else."
\ Berlin Report.
Berlin, April 3. via London.—
German troops yesterday captured
the heights southwest of Moreuil, on
the Somme front, the German gen-eral
staff announced today. A night
thrust by British troops against
Ayette was repulsed by a counter at-tack.
The British attacked with strong
forces between Marcelcave and the
Luce, the statement adds, but they
were driven back with heavy losses.
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received 6trict orders to
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F.r a moment the French
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the enemy again with
hat the Germans were
he height; leaving 700
hiding 20 officers, in
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Fren :i Army in France.
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advancing German |gan. many officials were convinced
tonight that Mr. Baker had been
sent to Europe by President Wilson
for the purpose of bringing about
just the amalgamation of forces that
has been effected.
There are many who believed that
he crossed the ocean authorized to
make this great sacrifice of pride in
national achievement upon the altar
of world democracy.
Just before Secretary Baker left
for Europe, he had under consider-ation
new plans for establishing
American training centers with the
British forces as well as with the
French. The plan at that time, how-ever,
contemplated only training in
order to hasten the arrival in France
of American forces in sufficient num-bers
to influence the war decisively.
The actual plan adopted apparent-ly
is an outgrowth of this proposal,
but it is far more significant, for it
contemplates not only training but
actual operation in battle of combin-ed
British-American and French-
American forces in addition to Gen-eral
Perehing's own army the up-
PUZZLKD OVER ABSENCE
OF COUNTER ATTACKING.
Washington, April 3.—With the
battle of Picardy brought to a stand-still
fof the time being, at lesst, and
the initial momentum of the Ger-man
drive overcome, military obser-vers
hire were puzzled tonight by
Paris, April 1.—"The French gov-ernment
has decided to accede to the
desire expressed by General Persh-lng
in the name of the United States
government," says an official note is-sued
today dealing with the opera-tion
of American troops with the
French and British.
"The American troops will fight
side by side with the British and
French troops, and the Star Spangled
Banner will float beside the French
and British flags in the plains of
Picardy."
All the American troops have been
turned over to the allies for such use
as they see fit to make of them.
American troops may &oon be flight-ing
side by side with their British
and French allies in the battle which
!s raging in northern France.
It is enough to say that great ac-tivity
of many sorts is in progress in
the entire American zone. Miles of
motor trucks loaded with American
have passed through the towns, some-going
in one direction, some in an-other.
Through a driving rain the
motor trucks ploughed their way
along muddy roads, the Americans
singing. Many of the trucks had
Americans flags fastened to their
tail-boards.
On other r.oads mile after mile of
marching Americans. splashed
through the muu which came over
their ankles. The horses were steam-ing
from the work they had to do.
AH the men are working as hard
as possible. With the realization
that they are to be of service in the
common cause and used in the pres-snt
conflict.
Rocky Mount, April 2.—Three
masked men this afternoon at 8
o'clock held up B. G. Taylor, cashier
of the Bank of Everett, at Everett,
in Martin county, and escaped with
$3,000 in cash and $4,500 in gov-ernment
bonds.
One of the robbers held the cash-ier
at the point of a revolver while
the others secured the money. All
escaped out of the back door and di»-
appeared into the woods nearby The
cashier immediately gave the alarm
and several men who gave ehaae
tired shots at the robbers.
A posse of citizens estimated to
number 400, headed by Sheriff Page,
of Martin county, has surrounded
the woods and believe that the cap-ture
of the robbers will be only a
matter of hours. Bloodhounds have
been sent for and were expected to
be on the scene late this afternoon.
diriaiooa lost a*" high as 70 per sect the faetthat a great WHUHW^si.aulk .WMiv*l>: trained and faAiy -accounted
•riod of the war has the
.; .-o fierce. The German-any
cost to reach and
rairload communication
.netting the north ana
i>. tiie eleventh diy of
' ley find before them a
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! from all directions 1° | building of which is to be pressed
forward with every urgency.
Of the showing American troops
now in this country will make at
the front, British and French offi-cers
here who have studied the can-tonments
and the men probably are
the best judges. They agree that the
American soldiers who have had
from 60 to 90 days instruction here
are fully ready to go to the front,
provided they are surrounded with
veteran troops. There are hundreds
of thousands of men now available
both here and in Europe who are phy-sically
fit and mentally ready for the
battle, they say, and it 'e these men
who are to be used.
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infantry which has stood
'■; up to the present.
War News Summary.
:-nr.ing of April, a month
• ?.re written large on the
:'.'-rican history, finds the
• :e United States hasten-
"heir place in the zone of
in?. Tiiere h?.ve been
'oops involved in the
Picardy sine? the morn-
-'?., but Gsneral Persh-idlng
more than 100,-
n. but just how many
■ known, to a point as-m
by General Foch, the
allied forces in France.
may even now be in the
md America awaits news
' 1 tii confidence that they
•■• -.veil with the veterans
»l Great Britain.
from General Pershing to
•'-0.1rtrr.ent States that the
ion? the battle line is im-
■ '■'■ did not give any infor-
' larding the movement of
of their effectives as they charged in
mass formation against the British
and French machine gunners and
riflemen. Companies withdrew from
the fighting with their combative
strength reduced to 40 men.
The latest accounts of the fighting
from the various war chancellories
show no new important change in
the battlefront. Only minor opera-tions
took place on that portion of
the front south of Arra.; held by the
British, and little aside from artil-lery
duels occurred between the
French and the Germans on the low-er
end of the line. The fighting be-tween
the big guns was particularly
heavy between Montdidier and Noy-on,
where the battleline bends east-ward,
and which is a danger spot of
great importance to the Germans,
the breaking through of which by
the French would necessitate a rap-id
withdrawal of the Germans east-ward
from the Amiens sector.
Although the Germans have boen
bomibarding British positions iu Bel-glum,
particularly at Passchendaele.
and along the Goeberg ridge, north-east
of Ypres, there is no Indication
as yet that an infantry attack is con-templated.
Trying to Bomb Paris.
In addition to a continuation of
their bombardment of Paris with a
long range gun, the Germans again
have endeavored to drop bombs on
the French capital from airplanes.
Two squadrons of aircraft early
Tuesday mcrnin? attempted to reach
Paris, but the French barrage held
them off.
100,000 Intensively Trained Ameri-cans
Available.
More than lffO.OOO Americans In-
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had not developed. The psychologi-cal
moment of the counter stroke
under the rules of strategy, they
think, is passing if it has not already
passed, without a recorded move-ment
of the allied forces toward
throwing back the exhausted foe
before he has had time to dig him-self
in.
Officers here admit frankly, how-ever,
that they do not know what
the situation at the front is. If any
report has come from Generals Bliss
or Pershing that would serve to ex-plain
the defensive tact'rs of the al-lies,
it is a carefully guarded secret.
It is possible, it was suggested,
that the plan of campaign mapped
out by General Foch is of far great-er
scope than would be involved in
an effort to hurl the enemy back to
his old lines. The German defenses
there, are still intact and even if th«
allies were successful in rushing the
German lines back over the 20 or 30
mile zone he has wrested from them,
they would face those defenses when
their own organization was badly
demoralized by their advance and
their men showing the wear and tear
of a prolonged offensive.
For this reason some officers were
inclined to look elsewhere for the
aggressive campaign to which they
are pinning their faith. They have
counted upon the creation of a uni-fied
army under General Foch to pro-duce
offensive operations and they
see nothing in the situation at the
present time to warrant the conclu-sion
that the allies have not the nec-essary
reserve forces or supplies.
are available for immediate use In
liding to stem the tide of the Gei^
man hordes, and large numbers of
them, on railroad trains and in mo-tor
trucks, and even afoot, already
are on their way to the battle front,
sager to do their part in defeating
the invaders.
The miserable weather which has
oroken over the country is proving
no deterrent to the Ameiicans as
they push forward from all direc-tions
toward the battle zone.
Robbers Captured.
Williamston, April 2.—Noah Rob-ertson,
a deserter from the United
States army; Church Roberson and
Clyde Bowen, all young men of Mar-tin
county, were captured by a posse
this afternoon after they had held
up, it is alleged, the cashier of the
Bank of Everett, at Everett*, near
here.
In resisting capture, Church Rob-erson
was perhaps fatally wounded,
The o'ther two were placed in jail.
The robbers got $3,000 in cash and
*4.000 in bonds, only part of which
was recovered. They were masked
when they entered the bank and cov-ered
the cashier, V. G. Taylor, with
revolvers.
Noah Roberson deserted from
Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C, laot
November, and it is said, has been
living in a swamp in this section
ever jilace (o,«*ea«e arrest.
GERMANS HURL SHELLS ON
PART OF AMERICAN SECTOR.
TAKE ALL EQUIPMENT
OF DUTCH VESSELS.
Urge Italian Ships Sank.
April 3.—In the week end-
30, teutonic Submarines
r Italian ships of more than
is ar.d destroyed one sailing
more than 100 tons and
■r.g vessels of a tonnage un-
** that figure.
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TAFT -WOULD SHOOT 8PD3S
BUT BY LEGAL PROCESSES,
Muakogee, Okla., April 3.—"Spies
should be court martialed, lined up
and their citizenship ended by bul-lets;
those who express treasonable
sentiments should be tried and pun-ched,
but in all cases law should be
obeyed and mob violence such as
practiced in certain parts of the
United States should be everywhere
condemned that the United States
may not sink to the lawless »"***
of the Germans," former President
Taft declared here toonr »n an ad"
dress before the Chamber of Com-merce.
Washington, April 1.—Formal or-ders
for the taking over of all tackle,
apparel, furniture and equipment,
including bunker coal and stores, be-longing
to the Dutch ships in Amer-ican
ports which have been seized by
the United States, were Issued today
by President Wilson. Some of the
masters, of the vessels removed or
attempted to remove navigating in-struments,
glasses and other equip-ment
when they surrendered posses-sion
of their ships.
The navy was directed to take pos-
Bession of the property, and the ship-ping
board was instructed to make
full compensation to the owners in
accordance with international law.
The order applies to property already
acquired ae well as that atill to be
obtained from the snips' officers.
Farmer Made to Barn Kaiser's Pic-ture.
De Soto. Mo.. April 2.—A mob of
over 100 men yesterday forced Law-rence
Heinz, a 55-year-old farmer of
this place, Xo stand in front of the
postofflce and burn a large picture
of Kaiser Wilhelm and the royal
With the American Army in
France. April 1.—A deluge of gas,
shrapnel and high explosive shells
fell on certain portions of the Amer-ican
sector northwest of Toul for
four hours last night and this morn-rng.
A number of towns, trenches,
and roads were targets for the ene-my,
who began .firing before mid-night.
First one place was "etrafed"
and then another. At one location
alone 4.000 shells, 2,000 of which
were gas projectiles, fell.
Toward the end of the shelling the
Germans let down a barrage in front
of one of the American front iine po-sitions
for good measure. It is sur-prising
what little damage was done,
for the enemy was not only a poor
marksman, but the information up-on
which he was apparently acting
was bad.
The American artillery retaliated
and dropped many shells near a
truck carrying supplies to an ad-vanced
post before the driver aban-doned
it.
ARRESTS FOLLOW SALE
OF CANDY WITH GLASS.
New York, April 3.—After candy
believed to have contained particles
of glass had been sold to a sailor in
Brooklyn today, the police and the
federal authorities arrested Edward
Waller, proprietor of the store, and
his clerk, Henry Williams, both Ger-mans.
They were held ae enemy
aliens, the federal authorities an-nounced,
pending a chemical analy-sis
of the candy.
Waller and Williams the latter
once a steward on a German steam-ship,
have obtained first citizenship
papers, but not the final ones, the
federal authorities say. Their arrest
was brought about by William Lew-is,
of a receiving ship at the New
York navy yard. Lewis said he pur-chased
the candy at Waller's shop
and that fine particles of a foreign
substance in the confection caused
his mouth to bleed. Waller's shop
is not far from the navy yard and is
frequented by sailors.
SUDDEN AND MARKED
DECREASE IN LOSSES.
PRESIDENT WILL OPEN
LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE.
Washington, April 1.—'President
Wilson today accepted an invitation
family which had decorated the walls to open the liberty loan campaign In
Baltimore Saturday,, the first anni-versary
of America's entrance into
the war. While in Baltimore the
of Heinz's home.
Heinz is also accused of making
disloyal utterances. A picture of the
president was placed on his coat and
Heinz was warned not to remove it.
Pope Protests Against Bombardment
of Paris.
Ottawa. April 2.—"Pope Benedict
has lodged a protest with Berlin
against the bombardment of Paris
and especially against the destruc-tion
of churches and the wholesale
massacre of people," says a Renter
dispatch received here from London
tonight.
president also will review 18.000
troops from the national army can-tonment
at Camp Meade.
The occasion of the address is the
liberty loan "cantonment" being held
it Baltimore to stimulate interest in
the loan drive. Secretary Daniels
will speak at the "cantonment" dur-
'ng tomorrow night and during the
next few weeks. The speaking list
will include other cabinet officer*
and diplomatic representatives of
the allied government*.
London, April 3.—There was a
sudden and marked decrease In the
losses to British shipping through
mine or submarine In the past week.
The admiralty reports that only six
British merchantmen of 1,600 tons
or over, and seven under that ton-nage
were sunk in the week ending
March 30.
Five fishing vessels also were sent
to the bottom.
The admiralty statement con-tinues:
"Fifteen British merchant vessels
were unsuccessfully atta.-ked by sub-marines.
"The large vessels reported sunk
Include one sunk during the week
ending March 16 and the smaller
vessels reported sunk include one
during the week ending March 23.
"The arrivals during the week
ending March-30. were 2.416 and the
sailings. 2.379."
Things Going Up in Germany.
Washington, April 2.—Cost of liv-ing
in German has increased from
200 to 300 per cent, while wage* of
the working people have increased
only 00 per cent.
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