VOLUME IV. NEWPORT. ARKANSAS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1914. NUMBER 144.
NINTH DAY OF BATTLE STILL INDECISIVE
Germans Seek
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To Pierce Center
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A' While Allies Are Trying To Outflank Ger
man Right And Have Captured Lossigny
Heights West of Noyon—Bombard
ment of Rheims Continues.
CATHEDRAL CRUMBLES TO RUINS
French General Declares Germans Are Intentionally Destroying
French City—German Reports State Their Armies Are on
Offensive all Along the Line cwf Battle.
United Press-Dispatch. „
Paris, Sept. 21.—The battle of the Aisne is continued for
the ninth day with the German bombardment of the ancient
city of Rheims unabated. All the important buildings of the city,
including the noted French Cathedral have been razed. General
Gallieni declares that the Germans are intentionally destroying
the city.
Two movements eclipse all others in today’s fighting. The
French left is trying to outflank General Von Kluck and Gener
al Von Buelow at the right center, is trying to pierce the Allies’
lines near Craonne. The French left is reported to have ad
^ vanced but there is nothing decisive’yet- Von Buelow’s forces
‘ in desperate charges were repulsed in fierce bayonet fighting.
The official statement says: “The French advanced to Lassigny
Heights, west of Noyon and the enemy have been repulsed at all
other points east of the Oise.” Ah'eavy German bombardment of
^ Rheims continues.
GERMAN WAR BONDS AKL ruruLAK.
United Press Dispatch.
Berlin, Sept. 21.—The plan to raise a war loan by subscrip
tion to the Imperial bonds and treasury certificates has been
successful. $1,050,000,000 has been raised to date. The terms
o£ payment will be announced in December.
It is officially reported that the Aisne army is on the offen
v sive everywhere but that the enemy are strongly entrenched- It
was decided in Bucharest Saturday that Roumania would re
main neutral according to information received here.
LONDON SAYS SITUATION FAVORABLE.
United Press Dispatch.
London, Sept. 21—There is much anxiety here over the fail
ure of the Allies to advance and a realization of the horrible
cost that is being paid for every advantage.
The weather continues rainy and the trenches are half
1 filled with water. The war office says the situation is favora
ble.
PRZEMYSL ATTACKED ON THREE SIDES.
United Press Dispatch.
x Petrograd, Sept. 21.—The war office announces Russian ad
/ vances. The Austrians have been overwhelmed at Dubick or
the San River and thousands captured; also twenty guns and
much supplies.
Przemysl is being attacked upon three sides, from Gredek,
occupied on the east, from the Samber on the south and now
y from Dubieck on the west. The Austrians burned Jaraslav be
fore evacuating the city.
It is denied that General Martes the Russian General, re
cently captured and court martialed by the Germans, charged
with ordering the annihilation of all males in East Prussia, made
such an order and stern reprisals upon the Austrian and Ger
man captives are promised in the event of the execution oi
General Martes by his German captors.
With two milion men in combat, the third Galician engage
^ ment progressed today for the possession of Przemysl. Tht
front extends from Cracow to Przemysl and the Russians art
forcing General Dankl to fall back. Russian siege guns art
now dropping shells into Przemysl with heavy casualties for tht
Austrians.
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* United Press Dispatch. v
«< Vienna, Sept. 21.—The evacuation of Jq/aslav by the Aus
trians is merely a move to concentrate our forces for the de
fense of Przemysl, according to the War office statement. Tht
Gallician defenses are now stronger than ever, fighting alonj
V. the line from Przemysl to Cracow. Our lines have been slightlj
withdrawn for strategic reason s. The retreat of General Dankl’s
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army is explained as a strategic maneuver. This however, is the
government’s first admission that General Dankl is not pressing
forward to Galicia.
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GERMANS CLAIM RIGHT PROGRESSING.
United Press Dispatch.
Berlin, Sept. 21—“Our attack against the British and
French is progressing,” by war office statement. “Our troops
have gone forward at several points since the improvement of the
weather conditions, which had forced us to withhold attacks’*.
The statement regrets the bombardment of Rheims. Fresh
troops are reinforcing the Germans, permitting those who par
ticipated in the Marne fight to get needed rest.
FARMERS URGED
TO HOLD COTTON
And Cut Cotton Average Fifty
Per Cent by Planting Wheat
and Other Grains—Buy
a Bale Also Urged.
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A large and representative au
dience of Jackson county farm
ers responded to the call of
Judge C. B. Coe for a county
convention Saturday heard the
cotton situation and remedial
^suggestions discussed and a
jdopted resolutions calling for a
(general holding of cotton, the
( reduction of cotton acreage 50
.per cent, the planting of wheat
(and other grains, the investiga
tion of the cotton seed situation
to determine why prices are not
better and the enlistment of
all citizens able to do so in the
buy a bale movement.
By courtesy of Mrs. Hocking,
the opera house was offered for
,the meeting, which was called to
order by Judge C. B. Coe and
John C- Henderson and W. N.
Dunaway elected chairman and
secretary, respectively.
Judge Coe, in announcing the
purpose of the meeting, told of
the present conditions, the pros
pect of a 15,000,000 bale crop,
sthe European war in progress,
cutting off foreign demand for
cotton and showing that with an
increased home and Japanese
tdemand, there wrould still be a
bout a 5,000,000 bale surplus, in
the face of which it would be
suicidal to raise another big
firop. The reduction of next
year’s crop was as vital as the
j holding of the present cfop and
jail citizens should join in the
holding movement.
J. W. Howard said that he was
having the tenants on his farm
c and hold their cottofi, ad
vancing them money for the
picking. Together he -and his
men would hold their crop and
every landlord should help his
renters that wray.
1 John C. Henderson stated that
all his land had been rented, bu
to help his tenants he was ac
cepting cotton at 10 cents per
pound for all rents. Next year,
he proposed to sow much of
his land in grasses, raising stock
and reduce his cotton acreage at
least 40 per cent.
C. R. Pate read a well prepared
paper, showing the crisis we are
passing and how it should lead
to crop diversification as the
only permanent solution of the
problem. The planting of whea'
was recommended and shown to
be practical.
Marvin Hare expressed more
anxiety for the condition of the
country next year than for the
; current year. He questioned
the practicability of wheat rais
ing because the cotton could not
be gathered in time for sowing
wheat upon such larid this fall,
and the corn and pea ground
was worth about $5.00 or $6.00
per acre this winter for pastur
age and the farmer could hard
ly afford to turn it under for an
experiment with wheat.
I Gustave Jones made a good
j talk, which he emphasized with
severai appropriate stories. He
said the South had never shown
its ability to handle the God
given monopoly of cotton rais
ing, and that the people would
be almost justified in following
the plan of the Kentucky tobac
co growers, through organiza
tion to compel the reduction of
acreage.
About the only legal way to
secure this end, wTould be
through revenue acts of the va
rious legislatures of the South
ern states, taxing the lands a
bove 60 per cent of present acre
age planted to cotton.
In closing, he urged the pray
ers of all our people in response
to the President’s proclamation
of a day of prayer for the ces
Jsation of the present war.
| Judge O. W. Scarborough ex
pressed the idea that just as the
present war was one of sacrifice,
so it must be to us in that we
must subordinate temporary ad
vantage to future welfare, and
that it is our duty to commence
diversification now regardless of
initial hardships and losses.
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j Ex-Senator John H. Keei stat
'ed that he had the best crop of
cotton that he ever had and
proposed to hold his cotton. He
paid an eloquent tribute to the
Anglo-Saxon and expressed the
I opinion that the war would be
over in 60 days and Germany
thoroughly whipped and a great
republic established. With the
war over, there would be no
jcheap*cotton here and the pres
ent situation would be solved.
Relative to the cottonseed sit
j uation, upon which someone ask
ed information, Gustave Jones
| and Marvin Hare expressed the
belief that seed should be bring
ing far more than $14 per ton,
; the former quoting cotton oil
at 45 cents per gallon and meal
at $28 per ton. With the by
products selling high, both ex
pressed the view that seed
! should be bringing more, the ef
fect of the war being to raise
[this product, rather than to re
duce it.
A committee was appointed,
consisting of Marvin Hare, C.
B. Coe and C R. Pate, to confer
with the Prosecuting Attorney
and Attorney General, seeking
an inquiry as to whether the oil
mill companies had not limited
competition and fixed the price
of seed.
After expressing the sense of
the meeting in resolutions unan
imously adopted, the meeting
'was adjourned to convene again
in sixty days. <
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DESTRUCTION OF
RHEIMS CATHEDRAL
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Rouses French Protest* To All
Neutral Nations Against Ger
man Bombardment of An
cient Cathedral.
United Press Dispatch.
Bordeaux,Sept- 21.—President
Poincaire has directed a formal
protest to all neutral powers a
gainst the destruction of the Ca
thedral of Rheims- The protest
says: “The Germans without
any military necessity, but for
the sole pleasure of destroying
subjected the Rheims Cathedral
to a systematic and furious bom
bardment. The noted cathedral
is now a mass of ruins.”
GERMANS SAY BOMBARD
MENT NECESSARY.
United Press Dispatch.
Berlin, Sept. 21-.—The Rheims
bombardment was necessary
because of a heavy French fire
from the city, according to a war
office statement. It is declared,
however, that orders were given
to spare the cathedral.
The Aisne battle continues
unchanged, but the Germans are
now on the offensive -at some (
points. The Germans took Bri- j
ment Heights, near Rheims, in !
an assault in which many Allies
iwere slaughtered.
French Navy’s Whereabouts
Given
United Press Dispatch.
Bordeaux, Sept. 21.—The min
ister of marine today stated that
the French navy, the location of
which has hitherto been a mys
tery, is divided between the m* ii
iterranean and the North Sea
and Adriatic Sea. The war
ships of the Allies are blockad
ing the German Austrian coasts.
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