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LAUNCH ATTACK
TODAY ON FRONT
OF TWENTY MILES
ATTEMPT TO FINISH WHERE]
(THEY HAVE FAILED.
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Germans Renew Efforts to Separate
British and French In the Amiens
Area Most of Which Is Held
I By the British.
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STRIKE NEAR JUNCTION POINT.
Associated Press Dispatch.
<a London, April 24.— The drive on
'Amiens, the allied base, for which
the Germans plunged desperately
but unsuccessfully this month, was
resumed today.
The attack was launched this morn
' ing on a twenty mile front from the
district north of Albert, northeast of
Amiens, to the Avre river, southeast
of Amiens. Nearly all of this front
• is held by the British.
The attack represents the contin
uation of German efforts to push in
between the British and French, by
striking near their point of junction.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, April 24.—Strong German
attacks last evening in the neighbor
hood of Dranoutre on the Flanders
front were repulsed by the French,
the war office announces.
Heavy infantry attacks are report
ed to be in progress this morning in
*the Albert sector, also between the
Somme and Avre rivers.
French and British artillery in
flicted severe losses on the Germans
in the Flanders attack.
The German attack yesterday
northwest of Albert was repulsed.
NOTED DESIGNER WILL
SPEAK AT BIENNIAL
One of the features of the General
Federation of Women’s Clubs at Hot
Springs next month will be an ad
dress by a man who has a great re
putation throughout the country as a
designer of women’s clothes, M. D. C.
Crawford, design editor pf Woman’s
Wear, New York, who will speak on
! “Art ih Costume” at the clothing
^conference and style show on May 4.
He will discuss costuming as it re
lates to war; the industrial impor
tance of costuming; the relative im
Pif tance of costuming to the general
c“ mercial prosperity; its impor
tance to the nation’s future export
business; the opportunity costuming
offers fo«Y profitable and honorable
careers * . country.
T’ .*• conference and style
si. ys a feature of these
conv and it is said that they
have t\ ed in saner dress for wo
men.
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DIC OFFENSIVE
IEIRIT HAND
The Allies Are Prepared to Meet the
German Onslaught Wherever It
Comes, Says Dispatch.
Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, April 24.—Cannon con
tinues to roar on__fhe battle fronts of
France from the north of Ypres tck.
the south of Verdun, and is especially
active in the region of Albert south
of the Somme and around Noyon.
The British meanwhile are im
proving their positions by local op
erations on the Flanders field- and in
the vicinity of Robecq The British
captured more than 100 prisoners on
the Somme.
Allied commanders are reported to
be ready for the expected German,
onslaught wherever it comes.
British sailors, returning from an
apparently successful attack -on a
German submarine nest at Zeebrugge
and Ostend, report the gate to the
Bruges canal was blown away, letting
water out into the North sea. The
channel also was blocked by the
sinking of concrete laden cruisers and
batteries and munitions on a mole
were destroyed. The French assisted
the British fleet in the gallant enter
prise.
1avo vpnnrfpH
to be near the breaking point. A
Hague dispatch, however, says noth
ing is known there concerning a re
ported German ultimatum theraten
ing occupation of Dutch ports unless
certain demands are yielded.
FORTYTHREE IN
CASUALTY LIST
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Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, April 24.—The casu
alty list today shows six were killed
in action, three died of wounds, elev
en of disease, ten were wounded se
verely and thirteen slightly.
LATE WIRE 6RIEES
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, April 24.—German news
papers received from Zurich say that
two powder factories at Glasenbach,
165 miles southwest of Vienna, have
been destroyed, according to an Ex
change Telegraph dispatch. The
explosion is believed to have been
caused by incendiaries. It is report
ed-that heavy casualties resulted.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, April 24.—The Swiss
government has decided not to press
the claims for Swiss citizenship for
Dr. Karl Muck, formerly leader of
the Boston Symphony Orchestra, now
interned as a dangerous German.
This eliminates danger of complica
tions with Switzerland.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Associated Press Dispatch.
P^is, April 24.—The recent blow
ing up of the American steamer,
Florence H., is believed to have been
due to a bomb placed before it left
the United States, says the Radio
agency.
Glenn Herndon, of Judsonia, has
accepted a position with The First
National Bank as collector.
Mrs. Stuart and Mrs. Eldredge, of
Memphis, who have been guests of
Mrs. Mary A. Neill, at Batesville,
spent today with Mrs. S. R. Phillips
on their return home.
White river stood sixteen feet and
two inches on the local gauge this
morning, and was falling slowly.
J. E. McElwee, R. S. Thomas, Sam
M. Abeles and H. P. Matthis are well
known traveling salesmen here today
interviewing Newport merchants and
report business good all over their
territory.
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WILSON OPPOSES
WAR DECLARATION
Expresses His Opposition to War At
This Time With Bulgaria and
Turkey.
Associated Tress Dispatch.
Washington, April 24.— President
Wilson in a conference this morning
with Senator King, of Utah, indi
cated his definite opposition to a de
claration of war at this time on Bul
garia and Turkey. Senator King an
nounced after the conference that he
would not press his resolution calling
for war with those countries.
Mrs. J. N. Lewis is spending the
week at Batesville with her fathei^
AMERICAN FRONT
SHELLED BY GAS
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Generally Speaking Artillery Fire Is
Lighter With Increase of
Rifle Fire.
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Associated Press Dispatch. ,
With American Army in France, i
Tuesday—Gas shells continue to fall1
on the American front, northwest of i
Toul, but generally speaking, artil- j
lerv fire is lighter with a slight in- '
crease of Germa nrifle and machine I
gun fire.
COKPIMfORSUE.
CONVICTED IHf
Twenty-Nine Persons Charged With
Fomenting Trouble In India Are
Found Guilty.
Associated Press Dispatch.
San Francisco, April 24.—Twenty
nine persons, Hindus, former Ger
man consular officers, and others,
were found guilty this morning in
Federal court of conspiracy to vio
late neutrality through plots to fo
ment a revolution in India. John F.
Craig, one of the original thirty de
fendants, was found not guilty. Two
others, Hindus, were killed in a
shooting affray in the court room
yesterday.
NEW FREIGHTER
CONTRACT LET
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, April 24.— Contracts
for twenty-two steel freighters with
a total of 204,600 tonnage, were let
by the emergency fleet corporation
today.
R. H. Scruggs leave| for Little
Rock tomorrow morning for a two
days' stay at the annual meeting of
Cotton Seed Oil Companies’ mana
gers^__
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SMOKER TONIGHT
AT OUZEL HOTEL
Members of County Liberty Loan As
sociation and Township Salesmen
Will Meet.
Tonight at the Hazel hotel a smok
er will be given for the members of
the county Liberty Loan organiza
tion,, and all the salesmen of Union
township, at 7:30 o’clock when mat
ters pertaining to the campaign will
be discussed. Chairman Hillhouse
urges all members of the organiza
tion to be present, as there will be
important business to transact^
Elsewhere in this issue is a page
advertisement urging that Friday be
observed as a Liberty Loan holiday in
every town in the state. Steps will be
ttaken for the observance of the day
in Newport, further announcement of
which will be made tomorrow.
L. McDOUGALD IS MADE
HOTEL FOOD ADMINIS
TRATOR IN 7 COUNTIES
L. McDougakl, the genial manager
of the Hazel hotel, has been appoint
ed hotel food administrator for the
following seven counties: Jackson,
Tnrlpnpndpncp Tznrd. Sham Fulton.
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Baxter and Marion.
Mr. McDougald says so far as he
has been able to ascertain all the ho
tels in these counties are observing
the food rules, with not a single one
of them serving wheat at any meal.
JAP MINISTER
HAS RESIGNED
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, April 24.— Viscount Mo
tono, Japanese minister o fforeign
affairs, has resigned, according to a
Reuter dispatch from Tokio. Baron
Goto succeers Motono.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
ft
J. T. Irwin, a lumberman of Cros
sett, was probably fatally injured,
and his wife and daughter slightly
hurt Tuesday night when the car in
which they were riding was struck
by a locomotive.
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German prisoners employed at an
Atlantic port in the work of loading
and unloading steamers, went on a
strike this week and refused to work,
German officers being responsible for
the rebellion. American military
officers soon hustled the German of
ficers away, and the men promptly
resumed their labors.
—o—
The enormous losses inflicted on
the enemy by the British have caused
General Ludendorff to change his
tactics and he has ordered that no
more mass attacks will be made.
The German claim that the special
shock troops which penetrated into
American and French positions last
Saturday returned to their positions
unobserved after fighting that con
tinued into 'Sunday, is denied in a
B'rench report. The Americans and
French were completely successful,
the enemy being forced to retire.
—o—
More than one million soldiers, in
addition to those who would other
wise be in the field against Germany,
have been called to the colors by the
allies in consequence of the German
offensive.
The navy department has followed
the example set by the war depart
ment in ordering a reduction of the
number of officers assigned to duty
in Washington.
—o—
Fourteen Belgians, including a
priest and a nun, have been shot by
Germans at Antwerp on the charge
of espionage.
—o—
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, wife of
i wealthy New York socialist, has
been arrested at Kansas City on a
charge of being a spy.
DRAFTED MED GO 1
CAMP PIKE FRIDAY
Another Contingent Leaves Next
Monday and Another Will De
part Following Thursday.
Following are the drafted men
from Jackson county who will leave
Friday for Camp Pike to enter mili -
tary service:
Aaron Rosenthal, tamsferred from
Coalgate, Olda., Ulysses Slayfbn,
Jos. L. Kunkel', Chas. A. Lovell,
thur Higginbottom, Claude Franklin
Rutledge, Nathan B. Birchfield, ' ■ ■. ■
vid Louis Barber, Fred Grizzel,
ry Partlow, James Lincoln Hess, 'rod'
Royles, Jim Coinner, Wm. Thos. Vin
sojn, Sidney Judd, Geo. Ira Ando oh,
Elbert L. Johnston, Moses 0. De..
John McDonald.
Another contingent will leave Jack
son county on next Monday, to b*
composed of negroes, who ,will y ■ to .;
Camp Pike. Another contingo: of
white men will leave May 2 : la
ter date for Camp McArth ear
Waco, Texas. 41^
Forty of the drafted ihL :.xv&,
asked for farm furloughs, V*.. de
partment in this county h i aen
placed in the charge of County t rent
G. II. Banks. ^
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HI. I'AULS fil'IStWAlt UiiUKGli
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Thursday, St. Mark’s Day.
There will be Coroporate Commun
ion for the woman’s auxiliary at 10
o’clock. a
' Exhibiting their characteristic ’* :
courage, wounded American soldiers s
in France declined to be sent home,
saying they would rather- itay and
fight it out. An officer Just home ,
from France has highly praised the
American troops, saying they have ;
“pep."
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Claude Watson, a farmer residing
at Wynne wood, Okla., was tarred and '
feathered this week by drafted sol
diers after he had been arrested for f
circulating the “Unfinished Mystery"
and for engaging in seditious activi-'^
ties.
James Hill, a school teacher of Ha
vana, Conway county, fired five shots
at Verlin Burch, a young farmer, one
day this week, but none of the shot
took effect. The trouble was the re
sult of an old grudge, it is said.
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Secretary Baker announced Tues
day that no plans for increasing the
army beyond its present authoriza
tion nor for raising the draft limita
tions are contemplated at the present.
Several German women of New
York are seeking to return to Ger
many since it is required that air
women as well as men register ...
this country.
It is announced Germany will r-v
sume peace negotiations with K i
mania the latter part of this week
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