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being speedily framed by commission
composed of Walter Hume Long. J.
Austen Chamberlain. A. W. Samuels
and George Nicoll Barnes.
the report of the Irish convention, and
1t is reported to be in the form of an
amendment to the Irish government
act which was passed early in the war.
but tho operation Of which was sus-
pended during the period OF the
struggle.
While England apparently is more
interested in the home rule question Ire
land is working
IRELAND plone IN herself into a
popular frenzy
Resist measure. over the conscrip-
ton features of the manpower bill
and now well on the road to enact
ment, it pending in the house of lords
following passage by the commons.
ireland is pretty generally united IN
opposition to the CONSUMPTION measure
and the Ulsterites and Sim Feiners
are laying plans of resistance. The
Catholic clergy of ireland, including
several of the more prominent bishops.
also Cardinal Logue. are openly es-
ment of the conscription measure. This
resistance. however. may be passive
rather than an actual resort to arms.
it being the general idea that the Irish
people should ignore. SO far as possible.
the provisions of the measure. and i'm
pede the CONSUMPTION machinery at
every angle. The ultra-radical Sim
Feiners do not favor passive resistance,
however. and are openly championing
the resort to arms. Strikes in impor-
tant war industries in Ireland also are
proposed in some quarters.
Premier Lloyd George is determined
that the manpower measure shall be
enforced in every particular. and that
ireland shall not be exempted in any
case. Interesting developments may
be expected in the course of the next
several weeks.
According to advices reaching Lon
don. the kaiser is making the most of
the situation in ireland. and doing
everything within his power to foment
trouble for England just as he did
through the fundamentally of Sir
Roger Easement earlier in the war.
Many of the people of Ireland. though
protesting repugnance to British pro-
posals, resent Germanic interference.
but Germany will take active steps in
some way, possibly through the radical
Sim Feiners, who were identified so
closely with the Easement scheme to
stir up an Irish rebellion.
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EARLY Sunday Service for Gardeners.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press.
THE HAGUE, March 1S.-A series of
articles on the Chemical Industries of
the United States" has been appearing,
In the Chemiker Zeitung. The series
closes in the latest number of the re-
view with an outline of measures
which Germany should take to meet
American competition after the war.
particularly In the field of dyes and
organic chemistry. :, -. -
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Early Sunday Service for Gardeners

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 1s.-Many cIergymen
in English towns now hold a special
morning service on Sunday for men who
spend their Sundays in their vegetable
gardens. The service lasts only fifteen
minutes. is held at 3 am. and the work
ers are specifically invited to come In
their working clothes.
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MACEDONIAN FRONT.

What OF the Macedonian front" This
is question which has caused some
pc c ulation
Allies Must Drive in rece
if They Get Results. close follow
ers of the war, owing to the Increased
activities OF allied forces in. that arena
British and Greek troops have crossed
the Struma and are. reported to have
wrested ten Villages from the hands OF
the Bulgars. besides breaking up sew
eral enemy attacks. The chief activi-
ties on this front have been confined
to the Strun,a region. the western sec
ton of that line stretching through
Macedonia. The remainder of the front
has been quiet. though artillery ac-
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been intense at certain points, but they
have not yet assumed a character in
dlcating the great spring offensves
are about to begin.
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Issued Stirring Appeal.

1t was at this moment that Field Mar
shall Sir Douglas Haig issued his stir
ring appeal to the British troops. So;
strangely reminiscent of Joffre's appeal
to the French armies which preceded
the battle of the Marine by a single day.
The British were now. TO use Haigs
words. lighting with their backs to the
wall The German advance was APP
preaching the point at which it must be
held if the northern armies were to.
stay in their positions without the risk
OF the super Sedan. Thus the situations
of March 26 AT the .,omme and before
Amiens was almost exactly reproduced
and for that matter, the situation at
Nerduu on February Is. 1916. at the
moment when the French counter at
tackled and saved the city.
For the second time in less than four
weeks. then. the Germans had produced
the gravest sort of crisis. Their Often
sive in the north has been far less sue
cessful, measured by distance gained.
sby prisoners captured: they claimed
10000 here. where they had claimed
10000 in the same period at the Somme-.
They had been firmly held on both
hanks of the 5th Army. but. as Gen.
Maurice. director OF military operations,
pointed out, the distances in this north
ern section of the front were far more
significant and the ten miles gained in
the north had brought the Germans
within four miles of Hazebrouck the
Key point of the area. while a thirty-fiye
mile advance to the south had only
brought Inc Germans within ten miles
of AmienS, which was hardly as i'm
portant as HaZebrouck
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Burian's Course
Remains in Doubt.

In some quarters he is considered a
friend of separate peace. Most certainly
did he show the kindliest feeling toward
America during the Ancona incident.
his stand causing officials in Washing
ton to interpret his expressions as
rejecting an extreme desire for peace
Though Burian during his two-year
term as foreign minister aroused an
tagonism in certain quarters in Aus
tria and Hungary. the ahtagonism of
the Czechs and Slovacs is not as great
toward him as it is toward Czernin
whether Burian will carry out the
nolicies most desired by Berlin or
whether he will continue to espouse
the cause of peace and set in motion
efforts for international agreements re-
Charles is keenly DESTROYS of ending
the struggle. Notwithstanding his
flaming philippe against the allies in
the Prince Sixtus incident, is an opin-
in reality still leans toward an early
peace this opinion naturally is at once
given greater weight
The resignation of Premier Wekerle
undoubtedly is the outgrowth of the
bitter clashes between the various
racial elements of Hungary over the
question of franchise and other in
ternal reforms. which are demanded by
the CZechs and SiaFS as price Tor
their further unflinching continuance
in the war. The pro-German inf1u-
ences at work in Hungary have SO far
successfully prevented the progress of
the franchise and other reform meas
ures. 'The selection of Count Tisza. a
pronounced Germanophfle. lends color
to the report Germany is trying to get
a strangIe hold on the internal affairs
Of tho dual monarchy. II may also ii,-
dicate a swing of the Austro-German
government to war to the finish
policy.
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HUNS FAIL IN DESPERATE EFFORT I 7
BEFORE ARRAS, AS WELL AS UPON
THE SIDES OF ANIENS SALIENT

/, ready reached a point which made the
stay of the British in the Ypres salient
dangerous
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Old Story Being Repeated.

Apparently the old story Of the offensive
is being repeated once more After lie
first swift rush the energies and resources
of the attacking party are worn out be-
fore a real success has been achieved
The moment that such an offensive begins
to slow down r1~r nvr>~-sn~~ '>''r~-e,
that its real menace is over. On Monday
April 10. tne German U1ieiisivs II A-,iIs.--
there's was slowing down-had been.
pra ctically checked for three days.
The British had had time to bring up
reserves: there was almost time enough
allowed to the French to send reserves.
if necessary. There was still mani
fest peril of a disaster which might
grow out of the collapse of some over
strained units. but, barring accidents,
lit seemed as il the second great Ger
man effort. which had employed all the
remaining fresh divisions. had been
parried. with only local gains, well
eastward of the vital communication.
There remained still the great ques-
ton as to whether Germany would
gather up such resources were left
to her of partially used divisions and
seek to batter in the breach she had
made in the north. or return to a new
alta elk in the south. There was the
further possibility that she might seek
to deliver one more blow on the new
front-possibly the front north of
Ypres. where the Belgian and British
armies meet. A slight advance here on
the north side of the Ypres salient, in
view of the great advance to the
south. would probably lead to a British
and Belgian retirement upon the line
of Dunkirk, Hazebrouck. Be;hune and
Givenchy.
But at least it seemed certain that
not more than one blow more was left
to the German. So far he has failed
to destroy the British armies, to win
decisive victory, and there was still
the French army of maneuver to deal
with, which had not yet appeared
In spite of all his manifest local
gains and successes, far surprising all
allied expectation and past precedent,
his supreme victory was still to be won,
while the crest of his wave was mani-
testify passed.
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Distinct slackening of Pace.

On the other hand, grave as was the
situation disclosed in the newspapers
or saturday and Sunday, there was al
ready to be noted distinct slackeniny
OF the German pace. which has never
been AS rapid as to the south. The very
narrowness Of front over which the
Germans had broken through hampered
their efforts to get forward at the CEN
ter. because all their lines of communi-
cation were under the flank fire Of the
BrltlSn at Nytschaete and at Givenchy
And II was against these two pivots
mat the Germans used their strongest
numbers.
, used ninety-seven divisions in the Sec
ond Somme; they were using thirty by
Saturday. April 10. in the battle OF
Armentieres. and the total of German
!. divisions. which had been identified
was stated by Haig on Friday to be Jog
and by later official reports of Satur-
day to be lis. OF fresh divisions known
to be the western front on March
81 there were left seventy five but OF
these at least siNty-fve and probab bly,
seventy were required on other sectors.
Thus ii was calculated that the Ger
mans had not more than ten and per-
haps not-rnore than five fresh divisions
at the moment when the battle of Ar
mehtieres reached its crisis.
Blu: on sunday the German attack to-
ward EazeDrouek had not been checked
and nowhere in allied capitals was
there any effort made to conceal the
gravity of the situation although there
was :. general belief that French re-
serves mus: soGIi arrive in the north,
or that there ould be a French coun-
ter offensive on another front. Sunday.
April IL. was then recognized on all
sides to be 4 critical day on the Lys, a.
March 26 had been at the Somme.
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Had Advanced Ten Miles.

BY Friday April IL FIVE dnvs after
the attack, the Germans had driven at
least ten miles forward. they had taken
Armentieres and were within a mile of
Railleul to the north; they had passed
Estaires and Melville and were far
west of the latitude OF Bailleul in the
center: they were in fact. ar Mn-rie
hardly more than four miles from
HaZebrouck and its vital railroad and
highways feeding Ypres. To the south
they were less than two miles from
Bethune. but they were again outside OF
G!venchy. and in the north the British
chung to white Sheet -idre" althoush
they had lost Messines with it's forward
slopes.
You had then something that looked
like a great big bite taken out of the
allied front this bite was the low
ground. flooded bv the German rush,
but on the high ground all around the
serni-circle the British were holding
out and their artillery was pounding
the Germans in the valley. North and
south the Germans. after the fall of
Armentieres, were being held stiffiy. They
were in an awkward salient. which was
becoming more and more awkward, as
it deepened without widening. but on
the other hand, they were almost at
Baiileul and within easy striking dis
lance of Easebrouck They were ads
vancing astrde the Lys which is the
historic route from the Flemish plain
to the City OF Calais. and they had al
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Held Eastern Banks of Rivers.

The British held the eastern banks
of both the Lys and the Lave. at the
south in Givenchy they faced La
Bassee. few miles distant. and at the
north their line curved Outward around
Armentieres. facing Lille. ard then
turned westward through the famous
"Plugstreet wood" of the Tommy to
Messipes. The Germans were on the
high ground to the east, the Aubers
ridge. which Is the keysto Lille. ana
the Portuguese holding the trenches in
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the low ground east of the Lys. Be
hind the British fiat land extended
westwardin a wide curve, like great
bay. touching the high ground at Mes
sines. a Railleul. at Hazebrouck. which
was the furthest west point of the bay.
and then a: Aire and Eethune, and
finally at Givenchy
If the British line were to be broken
here. it was natural to expect that 1t
would bend backward in a semi-ctrcle,
that is. that the British would ;aily
as soon as their retreat touched the
high ground and they gained the adj
vantage of commanding positions for
their artillery and favorable slopes fer
their machine gun and rife fire. And
this was what did actually take place.
Now, aside from the local consiiera-
tons of the ground there were certain
larger circumstances II the Germans
We're able to break through on this
front. where the British I'd Army
Joined the list before Ypres and made
contact with the Sd Army before
Arras; If they We're able to smash
Hornes I'd Army. as they had
smashed Coughs 5th Army. then a
gap woulG open between the allied
armies in France and those in Bel
GUM. exactly like that which had OPEN
ed between the British and the French
along the Somme two weeks earlier.
Such gap would not only have the
same perils. but they would be more
Immediate
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AUSTRIAN SITUATION.

Count Czernin. Austro- Hungarian
foreign minister, is out. Baron Stephan
Burian Won
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Allied Situation Improved.


On Monday morning. April Is. when
this review closes. the situation from
the allied standpoint was very greatly
improved. For the first three days OF
the attack the total German advance at
the deepest point had been over nine
miles. In the following three days the
gain was less than tive. The reports
OF the fighting for Sunday asserted a
Ger pie:e check of the Germans at the
danger point where their troops were
nearest to Hazebrouck and the vital Ypres
road and railroads.
Once more the old Eerdun parallel was
reappearinE. Again the Germans had
broken through. this time on a twenty
mile front instead OF a fifty-n,ile front, al
in Picardy: again they had failed to
shake the southern and northern pivots
Of the allied front represented in Pcardy-
by the French positions at Noyon and the
British positions about Arras in Flanders.
by the high ground at -Givenchy and
Wvtschaete.
thrust themselves into a salient twenty
miles wide at this base, eleven miles deep
and rapidly narrowing to a blunt wedge
not over five miles wide. On both sides OF
this wedge the British held the high
ground from which they were furnishing
the Germans in the plain. wiTile at the
point of the wedge the Germans were,
stopped by British positions in the great
forest Of Neippe Al Verdun the Germans
drove a similar wedge between Dead.
Mans hill and Fort de NauX. BY the time
the wedge was four miles deep it was 80
narrow and the fanking fire was SO.
deadly that they were compelled to halt
in the center and attack the tanks. and
the delay was fatal to the main offensive.
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Taken as whole. it has been a glo-
rious week for British arms. The
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ENGLAND AND IRELAND.

Premier Lloyd George of England
has eXtricated his government from
many exceed
Home Rule Bill insly embar-
Not to Be DELAYED. ~ s,,r;no
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-01-31

mine each doing his bit, no matte
lhow small, your Uncle Samuel ap
lpreciating it. But don't LET public
sentiment catch you nibbling at the
hand that feeds you or there will be
something dong. It starts quick ano
ends bad; don't tempt public senti'
ment. No one is immune, It plays
no favorites; it is q continuous per-
Torrance.
Had it not been for public senti-
ment James G Blaine might have
been President Of the United States;
not by any action or word of his,
hut by another whose anxiety got
the better of his good Judgment and
Blaine lost in the shuttle of public
opinion. Be careful what you say
and how you say it; be careful. TO
whom you express an opinion. Don't
discuss subject relating to the war
Or its attributes unless you are thor
ouehlyssposted on the subject under
The whole thing is a
deep problem. You can only attain
The degree of proficiency that will
enable you to keep in touch with ma
.ional and international affairs by
.eading the newspapers. which are
he best medium for reliable infor
nation. Then and only then will
lou be qualified to talk intelllgently
% the war situation and at the
;ame time keep out of trouble-then
'ou need have no fear of public sen
iment.
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NEWS FROM OLD TRINITY.
(By r. L. ~

Geo. Ellis, recently of New York
is visiting friends in Trinity.
Mrs. Benson Parker, who has been
indisposed for several days, is some
better.
Rev. T. B. johnson went up to
High Point last Wednesday on the
noon train.
DR.. George N. Young of Kentucky,
noted anti-saloon manager, will ad-
dress the people of Trinity the 4th
of February We hope to give him
a full house.
Miss Lily Royal, sister of our towns
man, Lee Royal, has come to reside
in Our town.
Miss Rose johnson and Miss Re-
.becca Parrish went to High Point
last Wednesday on the moon train,
returning on the 2:30.
The Trinity Book Club met with
Miss Effie White at her home last
Thursday and were delightfully."- en-
tertained.
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HIGH POINT ROUTE /.
By Vidi.)

Mrs. Jack Boiling, who has been
sick with the grip for several days,
is able to take charge of her class in
the WEIGH school again.
June WiIliard's baby has recov-
cred from a case of pneumonia.
The Welch school children have
had a time of it going and returning
from school, skating and falling and
some of the small children would
fall and roll over, crawl and get up
and try it again.
j. M Hoover had the misfortune
to lose a fine horse last week. Mr..
Hoover was out driving and the
horse fell and was hurt so badly that
they had to kill it,
MIR. and Mrs. j. M. Smith spent
the day Tuesday with Mrs. j. A.
Cutler in Mechanicsville.
Charlie Burns and family spent
Tuesday night and Wednesday in
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LlFE'S JOYS AND HAPPI-
NESS REVEALED
CONTINUED from page u

receiving. No matter how abun
dant the means at our command fOl
the full and righteous qualification
of the hearts earnest and deepest
y desires-hOW near the source. how
great the store-it cannot avail any.
thing or bring us the desired bless
ines unless we. accept the oppOrtuni-
ties offered and make them ours So
often the meas of happiness are
abundantly within our reach. yet to
them all we close our eyes, refusing
TO recognize them till they are gone
forever from our reach.
1t is not always though through
lack of knowledge of where the diff
ferent directions lead that the fatal
mistake is made. The right way is
not always hidden and only the
wrong way lies open and in plain
view before us. There is full knOWl-
edge where each one leads and we
may take the one or the other And
when We deliberately and wilfully
turn from the way that alone can
lead to constant peace and happi-
ness and follow the way that must
inevitably end in sorrow and regret
it is voluntary act and in oppOsi-
ton to our better knowledge and
Judgment. And then we expect in
some vague way 10 escape the con-
sequences Of our choice while yeti
holding on to the wrong There are
ever many seductive pleasures and
to dgaW+us aside into
the ways of wrong direction and by
the sirens song many are led to in
evitable and final destruction.
If our taking the wrong course or
doing the wrong thing were due only
10 errors of judgment there might
be some hope Of many of US some
lime to learn better and so shun
future mistakes. But with many of
IS it is not always ignorance we
nay plead as our excuse. In our
intoxicated eagerness to possess or
hare in som9 pleasure holding out
llluring promises of exalted delight,
lur cons2io 1sness for the nom mt
becomes dulled to inevitable conse- {
[uences by constant and in)rdiDate
nusing, our thou 3hts- affair with {
nagnifi d anticlp ltion, many there (
re who wilfully and deliberately {
urn from their own self-interest and
veil being do violence to their bet h
er iudgm mt and choose the way =
hat can lead only to suffering and
9rroW.
There is always some hing more
eeded than mere knowledge of
God and evil. right en1 wrong t
here must be an incentive, a con- s
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HIGH POINT, ROUTE a.
(By Mary A. Clodfelter.)

:. 1t is learned that Wall Bros: will
have to close their factory at South
mont for awhile due to back OF wa
ter in the Yadkin caused by build
ing a new bridge.
The public school at Shady Grove
will close in March with an exhibit
ton. Mr. Frank Smith is principal
and Miss Morgan primary teacher.
In answer to question in last
weeks Review, would say that fresh
pork at Soc a pound is cheaper than
fat back at 35c per pound.
Thos E. Anderson, who died in
Washington recently, was "a minis
ter of the Friends church for 80
years and died in his 8Oth year.
He served several charges and
pei formed much service for his
Masters kingdom. He was the
father of our mail carrier, Will An
derson
Miss Lou Hill is still suffering
from nervous trouble. She recent
ly returned from a Charlotte SAM.
tarium
Mrs James Collett is getting along
splendidly following an operation at
the High Point hospital.
Let us all do our part by our SOL
diers here and overseas. We can't