The Greensboro patriot [March 7, 1918]

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'•..spent today on the Amerl-northwest
of Toutt deco-
■eutenants, two sergeants
front
":r«».' Privates with the Croix
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,,..;., Army In London. March 5.—The British,
,Ue ' __Premier Clemen- French. Italian ambassadors In To-klo
intended yesterday or today
jointly to ask Ja'pan to take the nec-essary
-steps to safeguard allied Inter-est*
in Siberia, according to the Dally
Mall.
The newspaper adds that the
American ambassador is not expect-ed
to joint the request, but that no
disturbing icon-elusions are to be
drawn troii this, fact, as no Ameri-can
opposition Is expected.
American Army
with the
ithey
de
Palm for heroism
displayed in the recent
1:,n raid in this sector.
Z ■ of Mie lieutenants comes from
" uni and the other from Ch*r-
1 „'* C Both men went out in-
!"£'£«. Und in broad daylight
aj got a German prisoner.
r, i.lay's Casualties.
Vashlngt0H. March 4—Oener.l
r,;sllill? reported to the war depart-
_. Iu,ay the names of one heuten-
., ,nd nine privates killed in ac-
'n March 1. the day of the Ger-
;..u attack on an American trench
.'.'"tor near Toul. The names of one
• tenant and four men killed in ac-
.... the same day were reported,
bringing the total to fifteen. Those
«iied today were:
"first Lieut. Stewart W. Hoover,
■n-antrv. Blackfoot, Idaho.
'■Privates: William Farr, Milan.
p.". Fred Card. Crosby, N. D.; Rus-s,"\
X. Murrel. Xapa. Cal.; Edward
V McNulty. St. Louis; Chris Busch,
sipa Cal.; Mathews D. Souza, Sato,
V.nas. Azores Islands; Claude W.
K-*ler. Glcnburn, N, D.; Lloyd S.
>nier. Commerce. Mo.; Frank Mi-
-k, priedy. and John J. Davis, Mt-i;.-.
X. D-orporai
Homes J. Wheaton, Syra-
..jse. X. V.. and Private Lawrence A.
Ueiisse, Wobum. Mass.. were killed
F.bruary -$•
Among the deaths reported were
•..; following; Private Will Bush,
.-. ,or quartermaster corps, pneumo-
::U. March 1, Ellenton, S. C.
Private Henry E. Orange, Gordon-vi-
le. Tenn.
Private Shelley Moxley, infantry,
L.urel Springs. N. C was reported
*1gntlv wounded.
Additional Casualties.
Aa.-luneton, March 5.—General
Pushing today cabled the war de-p..:
tmenl the names of another lieu-
- aaut and three more enlisted men
s..••■«! and five additional men se-v.-
ely wounded March 1, .the day of
• Uerinan assault on an American
i.e.] near Toul. This brought the
:<.:al casualties of that date thus far
i'>.-v I to t'.io department to three
uenants and seventeen men dead,
as captain, one lieutenant and six-
:i men severely wounded and ten
... :\ !iec*.l> wounded.
I:: :.i :■ reported today as killed
•• re:
■First Lieut. David K. Summer,
Joaesboro. Ga.. and Privates Knute
.:'-■•::. Soughtou, Wash., and Bruno
s: ckowski'. Jollet, 111., and L'loyd W.
?;riz, l;isni.' i ?k. North Dakota.
j lii.-ral Pershtug also reported j
a' Second Lieutenant John Flen-
B:JKII Lynn, Mass.. was killed in ac-
'■ in February 27, and that three pri-
'■■•' •■- of a machine gun battalion
r- severely wounded February 28.
I" names of .eight men who have
►res sligfetty wounded in action also
' '!'■ reported.
. ad«t George Phillipoteaux, New
-■!» city, died February 25, as the
- - ' nf an airplane accident, the
' -r apartment was also advised.
Six deaths from natural causes al-
*: V'.:T reported.
Washington, March 5.—Military
ration by Japan in Eastern Siberia
to check German influence and pro-)
tect war stores at Vladivostok is be-lieved
here to be Imminent. The
United States has "not yet expressed
its views on the .proposed step, but
it was said in diplomatic quarters
tonight that the Japanese probably
would move quickly to meet emer-gency
conditions, leaving to the
pending diplomatic exchanges devel-opment
of an understanding with
America and all the allies upon the
scope and purposes of the enterprise.
. Occupation of Finland a Spur.
While It has no direct bearing up-on
the situation iiw\sla-.:c .Russia the
news which came today to the Swed-ish
legation that Germany has given
notice of her Intention to occupy the
whole of Finland tended to -hasten an
agreement upon Japan's plans. The
..erman explanation to the Swedish
foreign office, which has protested
against the -proceeding, that the oc-cupation
is ito restore order and with-out
intent to take permanent posses-sion,
is regarded as a very clear in-dication
of what the teutons may
undertake in any part, of Russia now
that the Bolsheviki have been forced
to accept their hard peace terns..
Tteerecy Observed, of Course.
Officials and diplomats here pro-fess
ignorance of. what preparations
have been made by Japan for the op-erations
about to be unaertaken. As
a matter of course, secrecy has been
observed and a strict censorship in
regard to the Siberian question is in
force at Toklo. Possibly the next
word to come out of Japan on the
subject will be announcement of
something accomplished.
Mikado Has no War Press Agent.
In this conectfcn it is recalled that
at the beginning of the Russo-Japa-nese
war the Japanese acted without
heralding. Before there was any
such formality as declaration of war,
a Russian fleet had been smashed
! and the war was half won.
Military Action by Japan.
It has been stated In official quar-ters
that it is no concern of the-en-tente
allies nor of America how Ja-pan
goe3 about the task, once the
question of policy is settled. If the
decision is reached to give Japan a
free hand In eastern Siberia, it is
now conceded that no other military
or naval power Is in position to ren-der
her any substantial aid owing to
the lack of available forces. In a dip-lomatic
way the situation has re-mained
unchanged since the middle
of last week. The state department
has not indicated to the Japanese
government what may be its view of
the new situation .created by the
signing of peace articles by the Bol-sheviki.
RUSSIAN PEACE TREATY _
MERELY "A SCRAP OF PAPER.
Casualty List Grows.
A'aohiagtoQ, March 6.—General
r-shing today reported five men
•• i In action, two severely wound-
"1 14 slightly wounded. The
-'■"• arc Private Dyer J. Bird, Rich-
"'•• ').. March 1; Bttee Garber,
1 Oak, Ark., Mardh 1; EVlery A.
-■■'■■ I'Kershaim, Mass., February
I Prank Walczak, Jollet, III., Feb-
' .'• '->, and Wagoner Charles Cav-il.
Medford, Mass., Mairch 3.
list of slightly wounded con-
" name of George Logan, of
Tenn.
'•■ reporting of two privates kill-e-
and one slightly wounded March
1, brings the total casualties on the
day of tiie German alttack on ' an
-.nii-ican trench near Toul to thijee
lieutenants and 19 men killed, one
captain, one lieutenant and 16 men
severely wounded and 11 men slight-
;:-~ wounded. Privates Bird and Gax-n*
r, who were killed, were infantry-
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Petrograd, March 5.—Russians
"here regard the peace treaty with
.Germany, signed alt Brast-Litovek
this afternoon, as only a "scrap of
paper." The highest enthusiasm for
fighting is prevalent throughout Pet-rograd.
The Petrograd pan-execu-tive
council has called an extraordi-nary
session of soldiers, .peasants
and Cossacks for Moscow, March 12,
to decide whether to accept or reject
peaee. As a resullt of the German
advance, this conference may decide
to tear up the treaty and declare a
"holy war." The movement to re*
unite all democratic parties for'fhe
purpose of fighting defensively to the
last is growing.
With the American' In
France, March 4.—Shells have been
falling thick and fast within the
American lilies and upon the enemy's
positions on the Toul sector today.
Aside from a big barrage which the
enemy placed on the American posi-tions
at dayllgbt in ads neighbor,
hood, 2,000 projectiles have been
dropped in the vicinity of the ter-rain
occupied by the Americans,
many of them upon town*. The
American casualties, however, have
been extremely light.
Sunday night the Americans_con-tinued
to shell the enemy and put
down two barrages on his positions.
The infantry activity was confined
solely to patrol parties. The Amer-icans
searched No Man's Land In the
snow for the bodies of enemy killed
in Ithe raiding.
None was found, but the body of
one American was a;scovered In the
American wire in front of a listening
post. The man had on his gas mask.
A bullet had passed through his
head. Only two cartridges remained
in Ms rifle, which was found under
his body, and there were other indi-cations
that he died fighting.
The heavy snow is continuing.
Americans Make n Raid.
Again the Germans in Lorraine
have attacked the American troops
and again they have met with defeat.
Notwithstanding the heavy snow and
tire previous repulses they had met
with in their effont to pentrate the
American positions, the enemy Mon-day
night in the Toul sector essayed
a surprise attack in considerable
force. The American gunners and
riflemen were quickly after them,
however, and they were forced to
beat a hasty retreat to their trench-es.
Later, the Americans themselves
In the same region took the initia-tive
into their own hands and, sally-rag
forth as a raiding unit, penetrat-ed
German positions and brooght
back a number of prisoners.
Bad weather generally prevails
along the entire western front, but
nevertheless the Australians have
again raided enemy positions near
Warketon, which lie3 to the south-east
of Yip.res. and taken more pris-oners
and several machine guns. This
was the second venture of the kind
on the part of the Australians in as
many days in which the eftemy losses
have been fairly high.
The Germans, after haying heavily
bombarded the British lines west of
Lens, launched an attack, but the
British easily repulsed It. inflicting
heavy casualties on the teutons and
taking a number of prisoners.
As in -France and Belgium, the
weather conditions on the Austro-
Itallan front also are extremely bad,
with snow storms in the mountains
and heavy rains in the plains. Dur-ing
breaHs la the storm, how ever, pa-trol
parties have beeit active in the
mountain region and artillery duels
of considerable violence ar.io have
taken place on various sectors.
In ltttle Russia the Austro-Hun-garian
forces are still going forward
against the Bolsheviki troops, driv-ing
them hither and thither, with
the purpose of restoring "order" and
security In the Ukraine. In the
north although German official com-munication
previously announced
that hostilities against the Russians
had ceased, an unofficial dispatch
from Petrograd dated Monday, an-nounces
that Narva, 100 miles south-west
of the capital, has been taken
by the Germans, who are reported to
be continuing their advance toward
Petrograd. In addition, a German
airplane is said to have bombed Pet-rograd
Monday afternoon and Zeppe-lins
were seen a short distance out-side
of the city flying toward the cap-ital
but were driven off by anti-air-craft
batteries.
Still further advices from Petro-grad
indicate that the Bolsheviki
council's purpose to use the time in-tervening
between the signing of the
peace treaty with Germany and the.
date set for Its ratification, March 12,
to evacuate the capital, destroying
all stores of provisions and war ma-terials
which cannot be removed, and
possibly to organise a red guard
army to defend the «ountry against
the Invaders.
CIVIL RIGHTS BILL PASSBD
PROTECTS THE FIGHTIXG MAX'S
PROPERTY DURING DURA-TIOX
OF THE WAR.
^jsterdam, Miajrch 4.—The Ger-maffpress
greets thtf-advent of peace
wit*.Russia as a masterstroke/Flags
are' flying everywhere, and the
e .hsbls will have a holiday tomor-row.
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Toe Leipzig Neueste Nachrl'cr.r.en'8
Berlin-correspondent says that nego-tiations-
with Serbia* and Montenegro
are'a matter of a few weeks,,as both,
like Romania, are out ot the war and
must sign peace.
- T|Be.Kolnische Volks Zeitu.ng says:
"Peiice/ln fche^east gives us a free
hand, and we new can turn with all
our strength to the west. Should not
that flake the enemy peoples re-treat*",
GERMAH RAIDHAS BEPOLSED
FRENCH COMMANDER CONCHA*.
CLATEI) AMERICANS ON
THEIR BEHAVIOR.
Russia '-'Ceases Firing."
Petrograd, March 4.—Ensign Kry-lenko,
commander-ln-chiet of the
Russian army, has ordered the field
stat at Mohllev to cease hostilities,
according to an official announce-,
meat today. The troops are instruct-ed
to remain in their present posi-tions.
Russians Flee-From Thotzkyltes.
A Pacific Port, -March 4.—Capt. J,
G. MUler, who has been in Petrograd
as a\nllttary attache to the Ameri-can
embassy, arrived here today on a
liner from the Orient.
He said there is only one passen-ger,
train a week operated on the
Trails-Siberian railroad. Harbin, he
asserted.-is overflowing with wealthy
Russians who have fled from the dis-trict
controlled by the Bolsheviki.
Striking a« Finland.
Scant advices from Petrograd are
conjjng through but those that are
fin4ln».their way out of the turmoil-ridden
capital at Petrograd indicate
that while the Germans have ceased
operations In Great Russia, following
the "signing of the peace Compact
wiih-the Bolsheviki, they row are.
Striking against -PHUMUL And" that In
the south the Austro-HungariaP6 are
making Inroads Into Podolia in ar.
endeavor to drive out tne Bolsheviki
and thus secure an untrammeled
hold on the country upon which so
much confidence has been placed for
feeding of the teutonic allies.
While ostensibly the German oper-ations
in Finland, which are bein;
carried out from bases in tiV Aland
Islands, have as their purpose the
driving of the Finnish revolutionists
and Bolsheviki red guards from
Southern Finland It is probable Ger-many's
ambition in this region have
in view the securing of control of the
southwest Finland to as far as Hel-singfors.
This stretch ot Psrritory
along the northern shores of the Gulf
of Finland, taken" In conjunction
with the holdings of the Germans or.
the southern shore to the region of
Reval, would give the invaders abso-lute
mastery over the western ap-proaches
to the gulf and paralyze
completely the movementof Russian
ships of war or commerce Into the
.Baltic.
Got All They Asked For.
The contents of the peace treaty
between the Germans and the Bol-sheviki
have not yet been made pub-lic,
but there is no room for doubt
that the teuton representatives ex-acted
from the Russians a price in
keeping with their full desires. The
treaty is to be ratified next Thurs-day.
Washington, March 5.—Giving
sweeping protection to Uncle Sam's
ftghtlnf men, the so-caUed soldiers'
and sailors' civB rights bill was ap-proved
Monday by Congress. Presi-dent
Wilson's Signature is expected
within a day or so.
Under the provisions ot the bill,
■fighting men and thetr cependents
are* protected\ against eviction for
non-payment M rent; loss of life in-surance
through delayed premiums;
the execution of mortgages against
their property; loss of homes on
which part pa'jment has been made;
loss of property, through non-pay-ment
of taxes; or loss of a home-stead
through absence, or non-pay-ment
of fees. ^
All this protection is given on the
condition that a man's normal ability
to meet his obligations has been
"materially affected" _by his military
service.
The measure has been before Con-gress
almost since the first of the
war. Difficulties of drafting it. and
the protests of certain insurance,
building company, loan company and
similar interests, delayed Its passage.
With tCe war risk insurance bill. It
is declared by administration leaders
to make U'p the moat-liberal legisla-tion
in protection of a nation's fight-ers
in history. Its final approval was
by unanimous vote.
Its most important features fol-low:
A lawsuit cannot be setttea against,
a man who is unable to appear by-reason
of military service. Courts
must appoint attorneys for such de-fendants.
A lawsuit began by a person who
'ater enters military service may be
postponed until the man in-service is
able to give^it personal attention.
A soldier's wife or family cannot
be evicted from any premises,- rent
for which does not exceed $50 a
month. The court may inquire^ into
all such cases and make "such order
as may be just." An attempt to evict
shall be punishable by a $1,000 fine.
On homes being bought on install-ment
payments, the contract shall"
not be foreclosed for non-payment
unless a court so decides after an in-vestigation.
The court may then
order all payments to date refunded.
The court may stay proceedings aK
together.
Insurance is defined to Include
benefits from fraternal, or benefit so-'
cieties as well as commercial life in-surance.
Non-payments due to mili-tary
service shall hot Invalidate the
policy up to one year after the close
of the war.
Non-payment of taxes cannot re-sult
in. the sale of a fighter's prop-erty.
This includes assessments and
levies of every sort for either na-tional,
state or local governments.
Mine claims, timber claims and
farm claims all are guarded against-foreclosure
by the government,
either for failure to perform work,
absence, non-payment of fees, or
failure to make improvements.
General provisions are made that
courts may enter such judgments ill
all cases as may be "equitable" both
to the debtor and creditor. Makimg
of reasonable arrangements instead
of enforcing the absolute provisions
of the act against either party to
suits under the bill is encouraged.
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Headquarters ot Aunerican Troops
in France. March 6.^—American
troops on still another place on the
French front have been raided by
Germans, who were :t»puised with
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This Is the first time permission Is
given to mention this engagement.
The American forces entered the bat-tle
line in a certain place :n Lorraine.
The French commander congratulat-ed
the Americans on_th?.ir behavior.
Tlte foregoing is confirmation ot
the French official statement ot
March 5, which said that a German
httack on trenches held by American»
forces In Lorraine on the night ot
March 4 was repulsed.
Washington, March 6.—American
troops are now (holding something
over eight miles of tranches on Its
battle front In France, it was learn-ed
today, although in an air Una
their frontage is only aftont four and
a half miles. This JJronjfcge is liable
to extension at any tiime to the reg-ular
trench allotment for an army
corps.
Irregularity of the trench lines Is
responsible for their eight miles ot
length. They are laid out so that
flanking fire may be 'obtained along
every part of the front. ' Strong
points containing machine guns just
out for this purpose. The trenches
also follow closely any protective
slope of the country andvwander utp.
and down hill. V
The American sector is understood
to be a divisional frontage; which
means that at lea;t thre; divisions ot
American troops are there to giva
the necessary support i:. depth- fer
Hie front' lines. This fact has
aroused speculation here as to who
will be selected by General Pershin?
to command tha^first corps of his
army. Major General Tunter Lig-gett
is known to have acted In that
capacity, but as yet the expedition*
arjr -earanmider has not mads or
recommendation:
It Is possible that tha French sys-ttm
will be follow ed^n the Ameri-can
army 60 far as the appointment
of corps commanders goes. It is the
custom In France to select any one of
the division commanders in a corps
and to place him at the nead of the
corps. He retains his rank as divis-ion
commander, however, and in the
case of the American army Hhat
would be a major general.
WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS v
ENDORSE WILSON'S POLICY.
Special Food Rules For Tomato Pro-ducts.
Raleigh. March 6.—The following
wire was received from the food ad-ministration
at Washington by State
Administrator H. A. Page:
"Under the president's proclama-tion
of January 10, manufacturers of
tomato- catsup and soups should
have taken out license prior to Feb-ruary
15. Special regulations gov-erning
them have just been promul-gated
and are being mailed to man-ufacturers,
who should inform them-selves
before contracting for raw ma-terials
or making sales. Please give
publicity to trade."
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE
CONVENTION CALLED.
They Must Like Them.
It Is said that the women ot Aus-tralia
cheertuWy pay MM* «orl- ^ ■ ^0|
American made^J^* ™IJ Brttten admirilty, in an address
money stringency there.-Raletea I»
News and Observer.
»to the house of commons, spoke «ptl-timistically
of the successes that are
being achieved by the entente allied
warships, which he said, were de-stroying
underwater boats in increas-ing
numbers.
"For some months," said Sir Eric,
"We believe that we and the Ameri-cans
have been sinking submarines
as fast as they are built."
Raleigh, March 5.—The Demo-cratic
state executive committee,
meeting in the senate chamber here
tonight with Chairman Thomas D.
Warren presiding, fixed April 10 as
the date lor holding the state con-vention
and chose Raleigh as the
convention city. April 6 is fixed as
the date for holding the county con-ventions
and March 30 the precinct
meetings. *
It took less than 30 minutes to <lo
all this including the adoption of the
committee report revising the plan
of organization. >Arl that this body
did was to eliminate all county and
district nomination bodies which
hitherto did the work of the primary.
With this done the committee ad-journed.
Milwaukee, Wis., March 5.—The
following resolutions were adopted'
by the conference of Republicans
here today:
"Resolved that this conference of
loyal Republicans of tlte state of
Wisconsin unreservedly pledges its
undivided and whole-hearted sup-port
in everything looking to the vig-orous
and unrelenting prosecution ot
the war to a successful termination
and to the president and government
of the United States on their efforts
to this end; be it further
"Resolved, that this conference
condemns the course of Senator R.
M. La Follette relative to the con-duct
of the present war and that it
censures him for his failure to sup-port
the government In 'his supreme
crisis of the country.
"Resolved, that we recommend to
the Republicans of the s*ate of Wis-consin
that the candidates who shall
become the choice of this conference
«haH have the ut.ited and" earnest
support of the -party at the primary
to be held March 19, .1918."
U-BOATS GET EIGHTEEN
BRITISH MERCHANTMEN.
Clement Bsley, of the eastern part
of the county, is recovering from a
severe Illness at at. Leo's hospital.
London, March 6.—Eighteen Brit-ish
merchantmen were sunk by mine
or submarine in the last week, ac-cording
to the admiralty report to-night.
Of these, 12 were vessels of
1,600 tons OT over, six being under
that tonnage. No fishing' craft were
sunk. *
Arrivals of British merchantmen
at ports in the United Kingdom,
2,01'5; sailings, 2/209. Merchantmen
unsuccessfully attacked, elxr
The 16ssss to British shipping In
the last week' were the same as In
tbe previous week with respect to
the number of merchantmen sank.
In the previous •week," however. 14
of the 18 vessel* destroyed wsre
more than 1,6J)0 tons.
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