The Greensboro patriot [November 7, 1918]

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GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 191S. VOL. 97---NO. 89
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Si KNROUTE LAST GERMAN STRONGHOLD
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Nov. 6.—President
l0 the German govern-
: Berlin to-day. Offi-
.if Hi is was made
capital and it was
text of the note
shed this evening.
„, NOT. 6.—Armistice
1 for Germany by the
i: council soon will be in
_ of Herman emissaries now
from Berlin to the
but the time that
ire there is a deeis-r
acceptance or rejec-
, ill depend largely
i rs with which the
a has been cloth-
CAPTURED BY AMERICANS
FIVE THOUSAND PRISONERS
AM) FORTY VILLAGES
TAKEN.
With the American Army on the
Sedan Front, Nov. 4.—In the face of
stubborn opposition, the Americans
took and held firmly the wooded
heights south of Beumont, the last
German stronghold west of the
Meuse. The advance carried the
line forward for an average gain of
five kilometres.
The forces on the heights are now
only about seven and one-half miles
from Carignan on the Mezieres-Metz
railroad and about nine miles from
Sedan, bringing both places within
range of the allied shellflre.
The day's work may be said to
have been complete. It was the
principal phase of the American op-eration
since the neck of the Ger-man
lateral communications between
the armies to the north and west was
narrowed to the strangling point.
The attacking forces to the right
and left advanced with less speed
representatives of | „lan at U|e centel._ where an Ameri-h
\.c They Clothed?
ling here to indicate
ity has been con-rnment.
The offi-1
nl from Berlin via
said. "A German
include an armistice
eace negotiations has
stern front." but the
yed may or may not
• it "High Command."
have assumed that
presentaflves, after
can division crashed through despite
the most stubborn opposition offered
by the Germans since the beginning
of the offensive. The apex of the
line ws driven to the heights, which
are vital, affording dominating posi-tions
for the artillery. Patrols went
into and beyond the town itself, but
its possession is unnecessary as long
as the hills are held by the Ameri-cans.
The Germans cannot fight
over the terrain northeast because of
ENTENTE PEACE TERMS ,
DELIVERED TO GERMANY
MARSHAL KOCH HAS THE TERMS
AND AWAITS GERMANY'S
APPLICATION FOR THEM.
rms from Marshal
• -mil them by tele- the lack of communication lines
there. They must fall back as soon
as the American artillery breaks up
the remaining railroads, even if the
main lines from Sedan to Metz are
them personally to
:li command in the
- understood to be the
present case, as was!
ria. Bulgaria and i not smashed first.
with the armistic as' The military
• iy measure between
Dmmands.
Why the Delay.
- pro.edure be follow-iviled
here as probable!
days may elapse while
delegation, now nomi-ist,
subordinate to the
rnment, can consi• d>e._r *thve„ PersuinCS Tr.o. ops Capture 5,000
I down and reach a de-
With the American Army on the
Persh-
Washington, Nov. 3.—Marshal
Foch has the terms of armistice for
Germany and awaits application'for
them by the German military com-mand
in the field.
The government at Berlin is so in-formed
in a .note which Secretary
Lansing handed to Minister Sulzer.
of Switzerland, to-night, announcing
that the allies have declared their
willingness to make peace on the
principles enunciated by Presiden',
Wilson. The note now; is on the
cables. In 24 hours it should be in
the hands of the Germans; in 48
hoars the world may know whether
an immediate end of the war is at
hand.
Publication of details of the ar-mistice
terms still is withheld. They
may not be made Known until the
Germans have accepted or rejected
them, the course followed by the al-lies
in dealing with Bulgaria. Turkey
and Austria. Only the details are in
doubt, however, and no one qne/
tions that acceptance means abject
surrender.
President's Terms Accepted.
The statement has been author-ized
that the drastic conditions un-der
which Austria passed out of the
war have been followed closely, and
in answer to queries for furtlier_tB-formation.
officials said to-night the
statement of Premier Clemenceau.
cabled from Paris by the Associated
Press, told the story:
"The terms." said M. Clemenceau.
"ure what President Wilson himself
BX DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY I RANDOLPH COUNTY BOYS
ROLLED UP TUESDAY! HAYE SUFFERED HEAYILY
DEMOCRATS HEAT COUNTY RE-PUBLICAN
NOMINEES BY
■ OVERWHELMING VOTE.
authorities were
overjoyed with the results of the
days fighting, declaring that It may
even spell the end of the present op-eration,
and that any others to the
j north, westward or directly eastward
would constitute entirely new opera-tions.
■ion. ! ran be no argument
. DO matter how harsh [Sedan Front, Nov. 4.—Gen.
ppear to the Germans.
left to Germany is
r them. Meantime
i xpected to continue
the teutonic armies,
itens their safety
• front.
So Publicity Vet.
•n has yet been
terms o; the armistic
iblic. Their publiei-a
ilj will be delayed
has reached a decis-
■1 to their acceptance
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Guilford county gave an old-fash-ioned
Democratic majority in Tues-day's
election. Majorities will range
all the way from 1,250 to 1,375.
Senator Simmons and Congressman
Stedman each had majorities more
than 1.300. Greensboro turned out
a good vote and gave a big majority,
while High Point township is again
In the Democratic column. Both
Proximity and White Oak went
Democratic, each giving majorities
of 25 votes, as compared With larger
Republican majorities two years ago.
Jefferson and Clay townships went
Republican by small majorities. In
all other rural precincts the Demo-crats
held their own and made
gains. Deep River was the only pre-cinct
to give a big Republican ma-jority.
Jamestown gave a reduced
majority to the Republicans. Sum-ner
township, long a strong Repub-lican
precinct, pave the party can-didates
only two or three majority.
South Monroe went Democratic for
the first time in a long while.
Congressman Siedman was re-elected
by a majority of nearly 5,-
000. lie carried Guilford. Forsyth,
Rocklngham, Caswell, Alamanee,
Durham and Granville counties.
Person and Orange were close, while
Stekes end Surry gave Kurfees ma-jorities.
Solicitor Bower, of Lexington,
was re-elected by a majority of
nearly 1.000. His district embraces
Guilford, Davidson and Stokes coun-ties,
lie carried Guilford bv more
OF THE 208 WHO WENT INTO
BATTLE SEPTEMBER 29 ONLY
«7 CAME BACK.
HEAVY TOLL OF AUSTRIAN
PRISONERS BY ITALIANS
Asheboro, Nov. 3.—-The loss to
the members of Company K, of Ran-dolph
county, formerly national
NEWS OF AN ARMISTICE BE*
CEIVHD WITH GREAT JOY IV
ALL PARTS OK ITALY.
Washington. Nov. 4.—Three hun-dred
thousand Austrian soldiers and
not less than 5.000 guns had been
guardsmen of the 120th infantry (captured by the victorious Italian
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I MBER MEN WNTED
FOR LIMITED SERVICE.
ing's forces continue to take their
toll of prisoners to-day in the wake j
of the retreating Germans. The j
number captured early to-day was
well above 5.000.
Almost forty villages were occu-1
pied by the Americans in the terri-tory
reconquered from the Germans. I
There were indications at the be-f
ginning of the pursuit this morning
that the Germans would be unable
to make an effe'.tive stand, at least
to-day.
STATESVILLE PHYSICIAN
KILLED IN AUTO WRECK.
Statesville, Nov. 7.—Dr. W. J.
Hill, of Statesville, one of the coun-ty's
leading physicians, was instantly
4.—A drive to ' killed shortly after nonn to-day near
■ volunteers from lim- Cleveland, 10 miles east of here,
en. urgently needed to l when the Dodge roadster he was
;ts in the army, was .driving overturned pinning him un-the
war department, derneath it.
intei. for duty in this Dr. Hill had started to Cleveland
I vili be used to release . to answer a call and when about a
recommended to us for the security tnan 1-300. and lost Davidson and
of our troops, the maintenance of i Stokes to L. Heroin, of this city, by
our superiority, and the disarms-1 about 200 p":!'-
taenl of the enemy insofar as that Is ; Randolph county elected its Re-necessary
to prevent a resumption of (Publican ticket by about 200 major-hostilities."
ity. Forsyth is Democratic by more
than 1.100 votes. Rocklngham gave
Democratic majorities of about 200
to 250. Alamanee elected a Demo-cratic
ticket by about 200 majority.
It was estimated that the majority
of the Democratic ticket in the state,
headed by Senior Simmons, will ex-ceed
40.000. All ten Democartic
candidates for Congress were electi
ed. The state legislature will be
! overwhelmingly Democratic. All
Democratic candidates for place on
the Supreme and Superior court
were elected.
Following is the legislative and
county ticket elected Tuesday:
State Senator—Alfred M. Scales.
House of Representatives—Thom-
P3 J. Gold. W. A. Bowman and Clem
G. Wright.
Clerk of Court—Mason W. Cant.
Sheriff--!). B. Stafford.
Register of Deeds—W. II .Rankin.
Treasurer—G. H. MeKinney.
Surveyor—J. R. Edmunds.
Coroner—G. L. Stansbury.
County Commissioners—L. T.
W. C,
regiment, of the 80th division in the
fearful battle of Cambrai, Septem-ber
29, 1918, when the 30th division
first broke the Hindenburg line was
fearful. Of the 208 members of
Company K who went into battle,
only 67 came back after 'going over
the top.
Some of those killed were: Capt.
B. F. Dixon, who, after being wound-ed
three times and after being shot
through the head crawled with his
men, rallying them at every step. His
first lieutenant. II. W. Walker, was
severely wounded and gassed later in
the day at head of another spuad
or platoon of men. and is now in a
London hospital. Top Sergeant Ton)
McDowell) also of Asheboro, was
killed soon after Capt. Dixon at tho
head of his men. Sergear.t Ernest
Bunting, of Asheboro, was wounded
While corporal Jake Brown was kill-ed,
as were also Sergeants William
Forrester, of Ramseur, and Hal
Richardson, of Starr, and Private
John Kivett, of Asneooro. Sergeant
Rufus Routh, of Worthville, is in a
Portsmouth hospital with botn arms
and one leg broken, while many
others have not been heard from.
Sergeant Frank Steed writes on Oc-tober
6. that he, Dallas Langley and
Colon Bunting are all that came
back of those who were with him.
He tells how he captured eight Ger-mans
alone and without aid, as the
battle was closing.
Sergeant James' O. Walker was
one who came out without a
Marshal Foch H::s Terms.
Washington. Nov. 5.—Marshal
Foch has been authorized by the
United States and the aKTes to re-ceive
representatives of the German
government and to communicate to
them the terms of an armistice.
The German government Is so in-formed
in a note handed to the Swiss
minister here to-day by Secretary
Lansing.
The iext of Secretary Lansing's
'note follows:
"I have the honor to request you i
! to transmit the following communi-cation
to the German government:
" 'In my note of October 23. 1918.
; I advised you that the President had
i transmitted his correspondence with
I the German authorities to the gov-jernments
with which the govern-
I ment of the United States is asso-ciated
as a belligerent, with the sug-
'gestion that if those governments
were disposed to accept peace upon
the terms and principles indicated,
their military advisers and the mill-1Barber, J. Al Rankin and
! Tucker.
i for service over-tary
advisers of the United Slates be
asked to submit to the governments
associated ag-i'nsf Germany the nec-essary
terms of suc< an armistice as
would fully protect the interests of
the people; involved and insure to
the associated governments the un-retricted
power ti sifesuard and en-!
force the details of the peace to
w,h_i.ch, t.,h.e G„ erman government» h, a„d,, ji .opposite Stenay.
agreed, provided they deem such an I
armies before the armistice went in-to
effect at 3 o'clock this afternoon,
said an official dispatch tonight from
Rome. This included all captures
since the offensive began October 24*
The soldiers of the once powerful
Austrian army, the dispatch said,
continued to flee in disorder. Sinj-.
the offensive started, sixty-three
Austro-Hungarian divisions was put
out of combat by fifty-one Italian
divisions, three British and two
French divisions with Czecho-Slovak
units, and an American regiment.
"The war against Austria-Hun-gary,
which was conducted under the
high command of his majesty, th«»
king of Italy, with an army inferior
in number and with still inferior
means the 24th of May. 1015, has
come to an end." said the dispatch.
"With unshakeable faith and in-domitable
valor the Italian army
waged a continuous and hard war
for a period of forty-one months
and won the stupendous battle be-gun
the 24th of October and in
which were engaged in their entire-ty
all the resources of the enemy.
"So far. the enemy has left in our
hands 300,000 prisoners and not less
than 5.000 guns. The soldiers of
what used to be one of the most
powerful armies in the world are
now fleeing in disorder and without
hope from the valleys which they
had invaded with truculent confi-dence.
"On October 31. after having
Overcome on strongly fortified posi-scratfh.
as did John Brown and Wal- .lions the resistance of a powerful
ter Brown, two of the three Brown j enemy rear guards our troops, con-brothers
over there, all brothers of sisting of 51 Italian divisions, three
.' <uri'ii'iins Advance on Verdun Front
With the American Army North-vest
of Verdun. Nov. 4.—The Amer-ican
troops late this afternoon ad-vanced
their lines both east and
west, occupying Laneuville. directly
and taking Les
mile this side of his destination on? Qrandes Armoises, on the ieft.
of the front wheels of the car gave
away causing the wrecking of the armistice possible from the military CongreM 0. Janllai.v
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all registrant's ccr-
! service will be j car and resulting it his neck being
men volunteering will broken. Dr. Hill was 55 years old
nto the ranks as pri- j and is survived by a wife and one
omotion to higher ;6on, Frank Armfield Hill, who is in,
the United States merchant ma-rines,
an aged father also survives.
pend on ability.
" lines in which limit-are
need and the
' ■ ■ ■ are:
• -.000: chauffeurs, 6,-
1.102; cooks. 700; la-mechanics.
4,450;
'rivers. 1,225: trans-
1.500; and tire re-
One newspaper man
ion picture experts
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to
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American Army North-
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'oj-a&S^igil-dil
Aftnea a-i: in addition.
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of enemy balloonsnv
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Will Help Feed Civilians.
Washington, Nov. 5.—The a'lied
and American governments are to
co-operate with Austria-Hungary,
Bulgaria and Turkey in furnishing
food and supplies for the suffering
civilian populations of those coun-tries.
This decision was reached by
the Versailles confere-s yesterday. |
President Wilson was ad-!Sea *b:jT to GOBIIWroT ^ni|f^_^tr^ajJ|
Col. House.
my North- «•% 1 c.ateW i|'hisStosequpht JTa^sse^
During the * rfU 25 (fcrman Wjf**- «* TM^$( PT\ ft ¥$!W?X*%
irmej¥^"*.Lor|on,^o« £-\*# I**! H4 T t0O*Mjt"f *%
ffijHEff #*■** in 2 JLliM i»,fc*->'th*'*HlbA Si. the.Y*e««hf^tnWla8 *
8, 1918. the
President declared that invaded ter-ritories
must be restored as well ai
evacuated and freed, the allied gov-ernments
feel that no doubt ought
to be allowed to exist as to what this
provision implies. By it. they un-derstand
that compensation will be
made by Germany for all damage
done to the civilian population of
the allies and their property by the
aggression of Germany by land, by
sea and from the air." *
"I am instructed by the President
to say that he is in agreement with
the interpretation set forth in the
last paragraph of the memorandum
the principles of settlement enun* above quoted. 1 am further in-point
of view
" 'The President is now in receipt
of a memorandum of observations
by the allied governments on this
correspondence, which is as fol-lows:
" ' "The allied governments have
given careful consideration to the
correspondence which has passed
between the President of the United
States and the German government.
Subject to the qualifications which
follow, »hey declare their willingness
to make peace with the government
of Germany on the terms of peace
laid down in the President's addresw
Sanibre and the Scheldt have defeat- j open to
e*L in.hhe battle vv,rt:VJb.e2aa*>li3n»1*onie of whi^li thffcfcould not accept?
S%rSri?aF^vlW*W»-tfeK'4tli^fei'e, reserve t<J &fc>rwwt ItWes^W < : •■ n '
sequpht atfa,*«sse4|' -sjlrueted by the President to request
■yeu to notify the German govern-
■ dent that Marshal Foch has been au-itjSorized
by the' government of the
interpretations^ .^hif-eti States and the alrfe'd govern-''
fliente to -receive properly accredited
Edgar Brown, formerly of this coun-ty,
now of Hemp, Moore county.
Lieut. Clarence J. Lovett, son of
Mrs. M. L. Lovett. Asheboro, is also
another who came out without a
scratch, also George and Harris
Birkhead. sons of former Sheriff
B irk head.
Eugene Chisholm. of Ramseur.
brother of John H. Chisholm, Ashe-boro.
writes a very interesting letter
to his brother, extracts of which
follow:
"I am feeling well considering
what I have been through with for
the past two weeks. To tell the
truth I feel lucky to be living. Lots
of the home boys have given, their
lives in the last big battle, but all
died for a good cause. The United
States ought to be proud of them.
Perhaps our greatest loss was Cap-tain
Dixon. He was a father to us
boys. I never expect to find an-other
man who will take the interest
in the boys he took. The place we
took was the strongest place on the
Hindenburg line. The English.
French. Scotch and Canadians had
tried different times to take the
pla,ee. but failed. The place where
we were was over a hundred miles
off and we expected to stay there,
but General Pershing sent us here
to take this strong front. He said he
felt sure we could do it. and we did.
That Hindenburg line is some line.
I wish you could see it.
"Just .before going into battle.
Captain Dixon lined his men up and
talked to them almost an hour and
said. 'We are going to take this place
if there is only one man ieft when
we get there.' He said he had no
hopes of coming out alive and he
made his will and left a note to be
sent to his mother. He only got
about half way and was wounded
three times before he was killed, but
kept right on going until a bullet
went through his head that caused
lm death. The last words he said
were: 'Go on my boys I am with
you.'
"Sergeant Forrester. Sergeant Mc-
Dowell and many others were kill-ed,
you will see account of In the
■>aper long before this reaches you."
°rnment""ana to" communicate" to
ms of an armistice.
sir, the renewed as^ur-highest
consideration.
ROBERT LANSING."
Wilmington Airman's Success.
With the American Army North-west
of Verdun. Nov. V.:—fn"a series.
British and two French divisions
with Czecho-Slovak units and M
American regiment put out of com-bat
63 Austro-Hungarian divisions.
The rapid and most daring advance-of
the 29th army corps to the city
of Trento precluding the retreat of
the defeated enemy troops pressed
from the west by the seventh army
corps and from the east by the first,
sixth and fourth army corps, deter-mined
yesterday the complete
crumbling of the Austrian front.
"From the river Brenta to the
sea the irresistible impetus of the
twelfth, tenth and eighteenth army
corps pressed inexorably the enemy
retreating KOIOM the plain. The
duke of Aosta is advancing rapidly
at the head of his invincible third
army anxious to return to the old
positions which he had once heroi-cally
conquered.
"The Austro-Hungarian army i»
destroyed. It has suffered heavy
losses in the tenacious resistance
during the first day of the offensive
and in the pursuit it lost an enor-mous
quantity of material and wef
tillery.
"In Albania our advance guard*
have occupied Scutari."
MORE THAN THREE TONS
DROPPED ON GERMANS.
With the American Army North-west
of Verdun. Nov. 5.—More than
three tons of bombs were dropped
to-day on Mouzon and Raucourt ae
enemy troops passed through the
villages, bound north. More than
120 bombing and pursuit planes
participated in the attack. Fokker*
attacked the Americans in groups of"
15 to 20.
Fourteen Fokkers were brought
down and three American fliers are
missing. The bombs caused fires in
warehouses and barracks and con-sternation
among the retreating
Germans.
Aerial photographs show 36 shell
and bomb holes in the railway yards
at CoufUns. ! The main line through
Conflans was put out of commission..
at least temporarily, while all tho-tracks
were damaged.
The Conflans railroad has been ,at.
rpgulw'ta-get- for American" bombers'
aTd bl? guns recently, as the Ger-mans
were-usjpg tljjs-.llne to. bring
up troops which had been in the
of aerial combats with Fokkers fuiet sectors a/ound. Metz ..and ^dn
■son. of,fLorfanre. One' phottogrraph sshhoowwss,.aa
down lirfe of "Jraight «Xrs en -a'sMlrrg; hut
Monday. Lieut. Harmon Rob'.
Wilmington,-N./C..''' brought
'"hree; -enemy planes. Lieutenant' no activity. A...week . ago,.. j>hoto-
Robison's. machine was struck ' by)graphs of the same yarda depicted
47 bullets, but, the American man- them as humming with action, with
aged to land within his ow:i lints. I trains coming and going.