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IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
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THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South
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European.
Detained in New York City three
months because no ships have sailed
from the United States to Holland,
three hundred Holland subjects, near
ly half of them women and children,
have petitioned the president of the
United States to assist them in re
turning to their native land.
Singularly reticent is the German
war office in its latest official com
munication with regard to the opera
tion of the German naval forces oper
ating against the Russian squadron
which has been reported to be bottled
up in Moon sound, merely dealing
with naval battle which resulted in
the sinking of the Russian battleship
Slava.
The most recent communication
from Petrograd gives but few details
of the situation in the Gulf of Riga.
Petrograd admits that the Germans
have been landing troops on Dago
island, after a bombardment, and that
the German naval units engaged in
the conquest of the three islands com
prise at least ten of the newest dread
naughts, ten cruisers, fifty torpedo
boat destroyers and between eight and
ten submarines.
Two German torpedo boats were de
stroyed while running through the
mined fields in Moon sound, according
to a dispatch from Petrograd.
Reports are to the effect that the
Russian government will be moved to
the ancient capital, Moscow, in the
very near future, anticipatory of a
German movement towards Petrograd.
Important papers were sent there sev
eral months ago.
The civil population has evacuated
' Reval, one of the principal Russian
ports on the Gulf of Finland.
The organizing committee of Stock
holm, Sweden, has drawn up a mani
festo which sets out, in plain language,
that the war so far is a “dog fall,”
and holds out no hope for peace either
in 1917 or in 1918.
A Copenhagen dispatch says that
Bulgarian agents have been endeavor
ing to get in touch with the entente
powers on the subject of peace and
subsequent relations.
Notwithstanding Bulgarian peace
talk King Ferdinand and Emperor
William have been exchanging assur
ances of unshakable loyalty to each
/other.
A Russian aviator is reported to
have made a flight of ten hours from
Tiflis across the Caucasus mountains.
The road is about sixty miles long
and the highest point is 16,546 feet.
British casualties reported in the
last week amounted to 14,096, divided
as follows: Killed or died of wounds—
~~olfu:wa~277; men, 2,509; wounded or
missing—officers Sl)7,
Domestic.
Food Administrator Hoover has
given notice to the public that "the
corner has been turned’’ in high food
prices and that most of the essential
commodities should continue to show
reductions between now and the end
of the year. But, at the same time,
he stated that retail prices are not
going down in accord with wholesale
reductions, and advises consumers to
get behind retail dealers and coerce
them into reducing prices.
To aid the public in dealing with re
tailers who continue (o extort war
profits, on specious grounds, the food
administralion is collecting wholesale
prices of all staples in 700 cities and
will publish them weekly for compar
ison with retail figures.
Housewives are advised by the food
administration that BVfe cents a pound
for sugar is the very highest price
they should pay, because the retailer,
at that price, is making a splendid
profit.
A Kansas City dispatch says that re
ports that the fire which destroyed a
large portion of the Kansas City
stock yards and resulted in the death
of approximately eleven thousand cat
tle and thirty-three hundred hogs was
of incendiary origin, is persistent.
What a different world of trade this
will be after the war was pictured to
the Southern Commercial congress
in New York City by Secretary Red
field in an address telling of the cut
ting of the threads of Germany’s for
eign commerce by her own act, and
of the awakening of America and her
allies to the danger of having their
industries dependent upon foreign and
possibly unfriendly sources of sup
ply.
Some of the retailers claim that
they should be permitted to sell the
stocks they bought at a higher price
than the stocks they are now buying
at the reductM rates, but the food ad
ministration points out that they have
no- hesitancy in following quotations
and raising prices on stocks they
bought at reduced prices. It’s a poor
rule which doesn't work both ways*
Powerful influences appear to be
drawing back to the southwestern
part of the state of Georgia hundreds
of negroes who left during the spring
and early summer to seek their for
tunes in the Northern and Middle
Western states. One is the approach
of winter and the other is the un
precedented prosperity of Georgia
farmers, both white and black
Helaire Carriere was hanged in the
Louisiana state penitentiary at Bat
on Rouge for the murder, in July, 1916,
of Marion L. Swords, sheriff of St.
Landry parish. He died protesting his
innocence, claiming the shot which
killed the sheriff was fired by one of
his deputies. Carriere was one of the
most desperate characters of recent
years in the Southern states.
Chains of lakes hitherto unmapped,
and rivers equally unknown, were tra
versed in the interior of Labrador by
the exploring parties of representa
tives of the National Geographical so
ciety and the Carnegie museum of
Pittsburg which has arrived at St.
Johns, New Foundland.
A passenger train on the Chicago,
Memphis and Gulf railroad was held
up at Miston, Tenn., about ten miles
from Dyersburg. The safe in the ex
press car was opened and the rob
bers secured between SIO,OOO and $12,-
000 and escaped. When the train
stopped at Miston for water the two
bandits, white, men, boarded it. The
robbers got away.
Dr. Frederick Cook, the Arctic “ex
plorer,” and a crew of 19 sailors, were
among those marked for assassination
by the leaders directing the alleged
plot to foment a revolution in India
to embarrass Great Britain during the
war, according to testimony of a Hin
du priest in Judge Landis court at
Chicago.
Authority for the purchase and sale
to the people of food and fuel by the
city government has been asked of the
New York state food commission by
the mayor of the city of New York.
He asserts that an emergency exists
and only the sale of necessities by the
city can avert a. calamity or at least
intense suffering. The head of the city
food commission inspired the mayor's
request.
Adolph Germer of Chicago, executive
secretary of the National Socialist par
ty, and ten other persons have been
acquitted in the United States district
court at Grand Rapids, Mich., of the
charges of conspiracy against the se
lective draft. All the men were So
cialists, and it seems that not a scin
tilla ef real evidence was. presented.
Theodore Bilbo, at the Mississippi-
Alabama fair at Meridian, Miss., made
the statement that Mississippi was a
hotbed of German spies, who were
there looking to the destruction of
shipbuilding on the coast.
Two masked bandits entered the Cal
houn (Minn.) State bank during the
noon hour, drove the cashier and two
bookkeepers into a rear room, gathered
up $5,000 in the cages and escaped in
an automobile.
Washington.
The American army transport Antil
les, homeward bound under convoy,
was torpedoed and sunk by a German
submarine in the war zone. About
seventy men are missing and prob
ably lost.
The tragedy of the sea, the sinking
of the Antilles, under convoy of seve
ral American patrol vessels, is the
first in which an American ship en
gaged in war duty has been lost.
The loss of the Antilles brings home
to the people of the United States
the terrible rigors of the war in which
they have engaged against Germany.
It carries the largest casualty list of
the war so far of American lives and
marks the first success of German
submarine attacks on American trans
ports.
The government has set in motion
the machinery to apprehend and pun
ish pro-German workers whot have
started an organized campaign in
more than a dozen states to defeat
the Liberty Loan.
An American destroyer on patrol
duty in the war zone was torpedoed
by an enemy submarine and had one
man killed and five wounded. She
managed to make port in spite of se
vere damage.
Loans of fifty million to Russia,
twenty-five million to Great Britain,
twenty million to France and three
million dollars to Belgium bring the
total credits of the United States to
allied nations to $2,711,400,000.
With no more Ilian two millions of
American manhood enlisted, the total
military strength of the allies is thir
ly-three million men against a total
of twenty million men of the central
powers.
A record crop of wheat in East In
dia is reported in a dispatch to the
department of agriculture.
THE NORTH GEORGIAN, CUMMING, GEORGIA.
PEACE BY RIGHT
DESIRE OF RUSSIA
RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT OPENS IN
PETROGRAD IN MOST MO
MENTOUS SESSION
TO FIGHT TOJAVE COUNTRY
Premier Kerensky Says That Slav Na
tion Will Never Bow
To Force
Petrograd.—Premier Kerensky, on
opening the Russian parliament in the
Marinsky palace, made a ringing
speech, in which he said:
“Russia wants peace by right, but
we never will how to force.”
This declaration was warmly ap
plauded by members of all political
factions. The premier, who has just
recovered from his recent illness and
was slightly pale, confined his address
largely to an explanation of the mili
tary situation and a declaration as to
the necessity of saving the country.
He said:
“We must fight only to save the
country.”
Many members, including some of
the leading Constitutional Democrats,
were absent. Boxes for the American
and other entente allied ambassadors
were reserved at the left.
Premier Kerensky paid an enthusi
astic tribute to the valor of the Rus
sian sailors, but said he could not say
as much for Russia’s troops on land.
The Russian peace program, as
drawn up by the central executive
committee of the council of work
men's and soldiers’ delegates in the
form of instructions to M. Skobeleff,
ex-minister of labor, its delegates to
the Paris conference, consists of fif
teen articles covering the whole
ground from Panama to Persia. Arti
cle XI demands the “neutralization” of
the Panama canal, and Article IX calls
for restitution of all colonies to Ger
many.
AMERICAN SURVIVORS
ARE LANDED AT
A FRENCH PORT
Men Of Sunken Antilles Cared For By
American Consulate —Many Killed
While In Their Berths
A French Port. —Survivors of the
United States transport Antilles, sunk
by a German submarine, while being
convoyed on her homeward trip by
United States warships, landed here
by auxiliary vessels, and are being
cared for by the American consulate.
Some of the men have been lodged in
local hotels and a few have left for
Paris.
The torpedo struck the ship at a
quarter of seven o’clock in the morn
ing. Many of those on board were kill
ed in their berths, while others were
dressing. The explosion killed the en
gineers, oilers and mechanics and
those of the crew who were in the
bunks below.
All the survivors praise the captain
of the Antilles and the members of the
gun crew, who stuck to their posts
while the officers searched with field
glasses for the submarine until the
waves closed over the ship.
U. S. SENATOR HLISTING
KILLED BY HIS BROTHER
WHILE HUNT'NG DUCKS
Milwaukee, Wis. —United States Sen
ator Paul O. Husting of Wisconsin
died at a farm house near Rush Lake,
Wis., as the results of wounds acci
dentally inflicted upon him with a shot
gun by his brother, Gustave, while out
hunting ducks.
Senator Husting recently returned
to his home at Maryville, after the
close of the extra session of congress,
where he was one of the leading sup
porters of the administration’s war
program.
With his brother, he had gone on a
hunting expedition to Rush Lake, and
the two were in a boat when the acci
dent occurred. He had sighted a flock
of ducks, and called for his brother to
fire, and at the discharge of the shot
gun he rose slightly, receiving the full
charge of the gun in his back. He was
lushed to the farm house, where all
efforts to save his life were unavail
ing.
Five Zeppelins Are Brought To Earth
New York.—Germany suffered little
less than a disaster in the air, Oc
tober 20, when four, and probably
five, Zeppelin airships, believed to be
returning from a raid on England, were
brought down in French territory by
airplane and anti-aircraft gunfire. The
story of Germany's reverse in the air
began with the account of a raid on
England, in which the bombs the Zep
pelins dropped killed twenty-seven and
injured fifty-three people. Reports,
however, were received of Zeppelins
being brought down in France.
STATE ITEMS
CONDENSED
Moultrie.—-The gift of a thousand
dollars to the Moultrie Y. M. C. A.
by L. G. Swift of Chicago has been
announced here.
Pelham.—Having no further use for
the building, the town of Pelham has
rented its guardhouse for $1 a month.
The slump in business is attributed
to the bone dry law.
Thomasville. —Judge W. N. Spence
of Camilla, who has been serving an
appointment for four years as United
States district attorney in Alaska, has
returned home. He has resigned his
position and will not return to Alaska.
Columbus—Hon. L. H. Chappell,
for twelve years mayor of Columbus,
entered the congressional race as a
candidate to succeed Judge Adamson.
He retires from the Columbus mayor
alty race.
Augusta.—Work has begun on the
new $750,000 Hampton Terrace hotel,
which is to be erected on the summit
of the North Augusta Hill, overlooking
the city of Augusta—the same site of
the former hotel, which was destroyed
by fire last December.
Fort Valley.—Fire of unknown ori
gin destroyed the cotton warehouse
of J. M. Houser, Sheppard’s livery
stable next door, and a two-story
brick building belonging to J. L.
Brown. The damgae is estimated at
thirty thousand dollars, half covered
by insurance.
Moultrie.—Thomas Turner, 17 years
old, died at his home at Sinclair, near
here, as the result of injuries that
he received in a practice game of foot
ball. Y’oung Turner was hurt inter
nally and blood poison developed. He
is the first victim that the game has
claimed this season.
Thomson. —The seed house of the
McDuffie Oil and Fertilizer company,
with about eight hundred tons of seed
was destroyed by lire. The fire is
supposed to have originated from a
spark from a passing train. The loss
is approximated at one hundred thou
sand dollars, partly covered by insur
ance.
Dawson. —The Georgia W. C. T. U.
convention, in session here, voted for
a committee tt> draw up a protest
against the propaganda for raising
funds to send tobacco to our soldiers
in the trenches. Frank Reagan, the
convention reporter; Mrs. R. L. Mil
ler and Mrs. J. A. Thomas were ap
pointed as such committee.
Macon—Nat R. Winship lias receiv
ed word from his son, North Winship,
announcing that he has arrived safe
ly at Milan, Italy, where he goes to
take charge of the United States con
sulate. Mr. Winship was ' formerly
secretary to the American embassy at
Petrograd, but was recently transfer
red to Milan. He has been in the con
sular service for several years and
has received a number of promotions.
Savannah. —The two million dollar
sugar refinery here, which has been
melting about a million pounds of su
gar daily since its completion several
months ago, will close down on ac
count of the exhaustion of-the Cuban
raw sugar stock, it is announced.
There is a general shortage of sugar
all over the country, it is stated, but
there is, however, a certain amount
of raw sugar from last year’s crop
still unsold in Cuba.
Brunswick. —City council, as a com
mittee of the whole, held a special
meeting for the purpose of taking up
the question of giving to anew con
cern a site for a shipbuilding plant.
The property in question, and which
is desired by the company, is located
on the eastern side of the harbor, and
is considered a most valuable site.
While no definite action was taken by
council, it is understood that the site
will be given to the company under
certain considerations.
Macon. —Cook Clayton, clerk of the
United States district court for the
southern district of Georgia, was cited
in a rule nisi signed by Judge Beverly
D. Evans to show cause before him
on October 26 why he should not be
removed from office pending his trial
under indictment, charging the em
bezzlement of government funds to
the amount of $15,000. Since Clay
ton’s indictment, he has continued in
office and claims he will be able to
give a satisfactory answer to the in
dictment against him.
Atlanta.—Hundreds of Georgians
will have their hearts made glad by
the knowledge that their boys have re
ceived a complete outfit from the
American Red Cross and the Navy
League of Augusta. These articles,
consisting of helmet, muffler, sweater,
wristlets and socks, were supplied to
each man at the suggestion of Mrs.
William Lawson Peel, to whom the
officer, Maj. Cooper D. Winn of the
Georgia battalion, and Col. Blanton
Winship, of General Morris’ staff, have
wired that these garments will not
only warm the body but the hearts of
the men who are proud to think they
are remembered by the folks back
home.
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JOFFRE'S VALET DIET H/fti-ET
Amassed Fortune of 25,000 Francs
While on American Tour With
the Noted Marshal.
When Marshal Joffre went to the
United States he took with him a
body servant who was to act as his
valet. The man formerly had served
In the family and there was nothing
said about what pay he was to receive
until the Journey was over, when the
marshal asked him what he owed him.
"X couldn't ask for any pny In view
of the petite fortune that I have
brought back with me.”
“What little fortune?” asked the
marshal. “You haven’t been speculat
ingV”
“Mats non, monsieur de Marechnl,
tint there were times when I could be
of service. People who wanted auto
graphs, und those who wanted to see
(tie chambers occupied by monsieur le
Mareclml, and those who sent notes
and messages—”
“I understand,” said the marshal,
but, If I may ask, how much did you
tiring back?”
“Eli, h’en, Monsieur le Mareclml,
about 25,000 francs.”
It is Mine. Joffre who lias let the
story out. She has told it to some of
her acquaintances in the American
colony in Parts, who repeat her assur
ances that It Is perfectly true.—Brook
lyn Eagle.
And when a man does meet a
woman with genuine blond hair he
always wonders whether it Is gen
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