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f '" ? ; yy ' ; 0 r "- . < ; - - . - .? ' - . . > -v V , - ... ....... .. r ' : , ' \ : ? . Abbeville Press and Banner | Established 1844. $1.50 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, June 18, 1918. Single Copies, Five Cents.. 75th Year. || AUSTRIA! FA W Heroic Italians and Allies Repel Austrian Attack. BATTLE ON 100-MILE FRONT Italians Take 3,000 Prisoners?Vienna Claims to Have Taken 10,000 Prisoners and Many Big Guns. The Italian and Allied armies are "bravely sustaining" the weight of the Austrian forces which are attacking along the front of the Italian theater, from the northwest of the Asiago plateau eastward to the Piave river and thence along that stream to where it joins the head waters of the Adriatic sea, a front of nearly I> 100 miles. s ? The Austrians, having made extensive preparations for the drive by .bringing up strong reinforcements -in men and guns, are using them ?*?&i^iout stint in the effort .to debouch from the mountain passes and >troa$yihe- Piave river and gain the ' Venetian plains. Extremely Sanguinary. Ev<tf|where the fighting is of an . extremely sanguinary character, es .' pecially in the Brenta valley and on "Monte Grappa. In the initial strug ffio tlm unomv succeeded in captur I ing rarteal front line positions in the jBouatain region from fche Britv -i8h andr^jdso in crossing the Piave. ^Counter-attacks, however, have restored all the positions in the mountains. fHolding the Enemy. At last accounts the Allied troops everywhere were strongly holding the enemy and were gallantly striving to throw back the invaders across the Piave. The Italians have taken more than 3,000 Austrian t>ri?oners, among them 89 officers. I Americans Beat Huns. In the famous St. Mihiel sector, & * # , where the Americans took over their > first sector of the battle front, the Germans have delivered a stroke and were rewarded by being able to gain the village. Soon afterward, 1 however, they were expelled and the j position regained. Prisoners were taken from the Germans. Probably having in mind President Wilson's promise that the war should not be ended until the wrongs of Alsace-Lorraine are right I frtrcp? nf American troons now I are occupying sectors in the picturesque territory of Alsace. They have been there since May 21. In Macedonia the operations daily increase in importance. Along the greater part of the front there have been heavy reciprocal bombardments and Bulgarian troops several times have endeavored to pentrate the Allied lines. All their efforts, however, were unsuccessful. BfoB LINK AND THE BULL FROG Young Bob Link has finished a successful session at school and with the coming of vacation has begun ,to back up the government by going to work. He is delivering packages for the Rosenberg Mercantile Co., and when he came to our house last Friday told us that he delivered " ?-- i ? J- o /loir Iinree tram iimus ui g-iutcwco ? That Mr. Tom Klugh, in Fort Pickens, ordered more groceries than anybody, that last Saturday he went there three times and the last time was eleven o'clock at niarht and that HQHwhen he "crossed the bridge over fiffHthe brang a big bull frog hollowed" All the soldiers are not in thQ Hjfi^nrmy it seems, and we agree with BraHsob, that a man who lives a mile Kn^Hfrom the square should not order H|^H^roceries at night. HHHfl Miss Sarah Haskell is spending RH^Hhis week in Greenville with friends. SoHSH . n * *r *r<-v V rl; v V- ' *.*> -u< [ASH THROUGH Troops To Be Sent Overseas Rapidly! THREE MILLIONS IN SERVICE! BY AUGUST 1ST, IT IS PLANNED. ! Washington, June 15.?The Am-j erican program contemplates 3,000,-j 000 men under arms by August 1,1 | General Crowder, provost marshal | general, told the Senate military affairs committee this afternoon. Of this number, approximately 2,000,000 men would be draft troops, while the remaining million would be volunteers. General Crowder also informed! the committee that Class 1 of the draft would be* exhausted next year, and that it would be necessary .to take men from Class 2 unless the draft age limit was extended. The situation on the . western 1 front is more favorable to the allied armies than at any time since the great German offensive was launched in March. This statement was made by General March to members j of the Senate military affairs com-i mittee at their weekly conference: with the war council. Allies Gaining Strength. The Allies are gradually gaining substantial numerical superiority over the Teutonic forces in France. I This is due to the rapidity in which American troops are being sent across the Atlantic. General March told the commit- j tee that already the United States p | has sent sufficient troops to make j good the wastage of man power on! the allied side since the German of- J j fensive began in March. Meanwhile, j the Germans, having drained their p man power to the utmost, have been'. I unable to replenish tneir losses. j The American troop movement: | ! improved during the past week and j ] ! there is every indication that the!, rapid pace set in May will be dupli-j f ' cated in June. Additional Ameri-, ' can troops are being thrown into! the front-line trenches every day| and gradual additions are being made to the sectors being held by, the Americans. | ] There are more than 800,000 Am-:'; erican soldiers overseas. HELPING THE RED CROSS. ^ In publishing the list of the Red J Cross subscribers several weeks rgo,| the names of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. j Cannon were left off. Mr. and Mrsj Cannon gave a liberal amount toj the committee from Ward 1. They: 11 | have the interest of our soldiers at: J heart and are supporting the. gov-j ernment in all its calls. WILLING WORKERS. The young boys around town are: filling up the gap made by so many! men being taken into the ramy.'1 . 1-, -"-I. t> T?V.r, i JLast wees xtenvvicn. uiauicj, Klugh, Hal Moore, Connie Starnes, i Jim Cox and Jack Bradley spent1 three days in Donalds raking up | clover seed on the Cothran-Link j farms. The boys say they worked i: J mighty hard but that they made a | "heap of money." . HONORING THEIR BOYS. j I *** * -i. ivr^r'/N,. i rne Jtsapusx cnurcn at mick has fourteen young: men in the service of their country and a handsome service flag was unveiled, in their honor at the church last, Tuesday. Interesting patriotic ser. vices were held. BUSINESS CLOSED. j The business houses of the city are closing one hour each morning this week during the services at the1 Methodist church. t THOUGHT OF HOME SPEEDS WAR WORK Congress Hurries for Mid-Summer Recess MANY . MEASURES UP Budgets Carrying Unprecedented Sums for Pushing Conflict to Be Considered During Week. Washington, June 16.?With the end of this fisaal year only two weeks distant, congress planned this week to speed consideration of huge war appropriations needed by July 1. With these measures out of the way, members hoped to be able to have a midsummer recess while the nouse ways aim means cuimiiibtee drafts the war revenue bill, hearings on which were expected to end Thursday. A mass of warbudgets carrying unprecedented sums is before the senate and house. The $3,000,000,000 sundry civil bill was expected to be transmitted to the senate tomorrow by the house, while the two principal war bills, the $12,000,000000 army supply measure, and the $7,000,000,000 fortification bill, were expected to be reported during the week. The former is before the senate military committee and the latter before the house appropriations committee. - -- - - ' - - ?/ !?* J 4a ?rrv4-s* ine nouse its KA^ecicu iu vutc early this week on important senate amendments to the $1,600,000,000 naval appropriation bill, including that increasing the naval personnel from 87,000 to 131,485, which is strongly urged by Secretary Daniels. Nation-wide prohibition will be agitated before the senate agriculture committee which begins hearings tomorrow on an amendment to the $11,000,000 emergency food bill which would prohibit the use of any foodstuffs in the manufacture of beer and wines during the war and bar the use of distilled spirits for leverages. VISITORS FROM THE WEST. Mrs. Charlie West, of Oklahortia, City, is in the city for a visit to her brother, Mr. L. C. Haskell. As Miss Sophia Haskell, Mrs. West is well remembered in Abbeville and old friends and acquaintances are ?lad to have her come back. Mrs. West is accompanied by her four Hauphters. Misses Jean, Lovel, Evaline and Mary Cheves, all bright pretty girls. Mrs. West comes from San Antonia, where Mr. West is in Camp, having enlisted in the service of his country at the beginning of the war. COL. BANKS. Col. William Banks has severed his connection with the Columbia Record and will assume the editor ship of the Carolina Stockman and Farmer, a paper recently launched by J. Rudledge McGee. Mr. Banks has made the Record a good paper and we regret that he ffives it up. Everyone wishes him success in his new field. The Colonel will soon be raising many fine acres of soy beans, goobers and alfalfa on paper every week while great droves of handsome Holsteins and fat Duroc-Jerseys will roam over his desk daily. A LARGE CORRESPONDENCE. Our cook told us Saturday that Mayor Moore Mars had written to "all the colored +*olks" that they must buy War Savings Stamps. She added that with "our boys going away this war gwine git all our money." SEA WOLVES CLAIM ! TWO MORE VICTIM! Kringsjaa and Samoi Sent to Bottom. < . OFF VIRGINIA COAST. I Sailing Ship and Bark, Both Norwi gian, Prey of Raiders Operating in American Waters. ! Washington, June 16.?Gei ? many's sea wolves have sunk tw ; more neutral ^essels in America i waters. r The latest victims of the raider i which first made their appearanc L I /xflp iViA A AAOpf PATYIO fkrfl ' Uii uic nuanuv tuaou ov/ntu wiuv i weeks ago, are the sailing '-shi ! Kringsjaa and the bark Samoa, bot I Norwegian. The crew of the forir er has geen picked up gy an Amer can war ship and that of the latte was landed tonight at Norfolk, i Both vessels were sunk 90 mile off the Virginia coast. The Samo was sunk by shell fire Friday morr ing, the navy department announce i today, but the time and manner o . the sinking of the Kringsjaa ha i not been reported to the depart , ment late tonight. Its artnounc* ment concerning the Kringsjaa said i "A United States man of war ha i picked up all of the survivors of th bark Kringsjaa, which was. sun about 90 miles oit rne Virginia coas i They are being brought to an A1 ,j lantic port." I Although the report to the dt .partment might indicate some of th crew of. the Kringsjaa had bee i killed, officials believed that as the I had done before, the Germans pel mitted all aboard the sailing ship t jtake to the boats before sinking th ! vessel. The Kringsjaa was of 1,598 ne tons and the Samoa of 1,051 ne | IOI13. THE REVIVAL SERVICE. ; The services in the Methodis I church are being well attended an ! Mr. Danner is doing strong gospf : preaching. Special services for th ! children Tuesday morning, at 1 o'clock. Thursday morning at 11 o'clocl there will be an old folks servic and we want all the old people t be present. Friday morning there will agai be special services, subject: "Horn j Religion." The families who com i are all requested to sit in famil 'groups. All memgers of the famil i will be expected to sit together. ! Come to all these services an j you will be blessed. ivVVVVVVVVVVVVVV j V ' V NOTICE W. S. S. WORKERS < V , ? I \ All school teachers and 1 V other W. S. S. Workers are ' V requested to meet at Abbe! V ville Saturday, June 22nd, at iV 12 o'clock. I V Come if possible, if not V. please send us a report of V your canvass. V F. E. Harrison, V Co. Chairman. , v VVVVVVVx^VV^V' OPEN AIR SERVICES. ; -The Presbyterians are clearin joff the lot back of their church prt paratory to beginning their ope i air service. I IN THE MOVIES. In the Gaumont News, which i ;! shown every week in Greenwooc ij Lieut. Coleman was shown last wee getting his Cross of Honor i France. The picture was kept ov? jfor a day and the young man's pai I ents sent for to see it. Friend | easily recognized the young man. ' AMERICANS BI i PICKE1 a Certificated Cover Vast Indebtedness PROGRAM FOR FINANCING GOV ERNMENT FOR 4 MONTHS BE.. FORE 4TH LIBERTY LOAN. Washington, June 16.?The government's financial program for the r- next four months was disclosed too day by Secretary McAdoo's ann nouncement that in preparation for the fourth Liberty loan, to be floats, ed probably in October, about $6,e 000,000,000 certificates of indebte edness will ge issued. They will be p offered in blocks of $750,000,000 h each, every two weeks, beginning l- June 2^. l" Every national bank and trust T company is asked to assist the government by subscribing 5 per cent. 13 of its gross resources monthly. The a certicates will bear 4 1-2 per cent. l" interest like those preceding the third Liberty loan and will have varying maturity periods, none ex^ ceeding four months. In addition, an undetermined ^ quantity?perhaps $2,000,000,000? of tax certificates will be issued during the summer for use in payk ing taxes a year from now. ? The announcement of this program indicated that the fourth Liberty loan will be for at least $6,000,000,000, the exact amount depende j ing on government expenditures in n! the next few months. The treasury! y: already has estimated these roughly -_J at about $12,000,000,000,000 be-1 0 i tween July 1 and next January 1. I e GROVER CLE VELA! ID'S SON it1 ENLISTS IN MARINES *| Richard Folsom Cleveland, son of : Grover Cleveland, twice President of I the United States, enlisted Satur-j J day in the marine corps, according ^: to an announcement by Captain S. ;j'A. W. Patterson, officer in charge j of recruiting. Mr. Cleveland, who ^ j is twenty years old, will go to Paris ! Island in a few days. . ! "Dr. Thomas J. Preston, husband V I ? , , f e 1 of the former Mrs. Cleveland, saia 0 j the young man had been anxious to 1 enlist ever since the United States n j entered the war. e: "We uruged him to wait until he e had finished his junior year," said vj Dr. Preston, "and when he did he j ( v received his mother's consent." I . i dj . ATTRACTIVE FRONTS. The show-windows of the stores tj in Abbeville are assuming the style t! and attractiveness in keeping with the best art in this line of display. Suppose somebody offers a prize ^.'fof the best front display for the J season. 1 * I Wj v.j THE SOLDIERS. \! k. Tho mnet numerous and the best; in personnel of the season, was the w squad that marched around the pub^ lis square at noon yesterday, to V the music of their own band. V ^ HOME'FOR THE SUMMER. j ! Miss Ella Haskell came home last week from Oklahoma, where she ^ has been teaching for the past year '" or two. Her friends are delighted n to have her home. A SUMMER VACATION. I Mr. and Mrs. Paul Link and Gil'3j bert and Ellen Nabers left Saturday ^' for Wrightsville Beach, where they ^: will spend a pleasant vacation. n| ir! Mrs. A. W. Clark leaves today for >( Monroe, where she goes for a ten Is! days visit to her daughter, Mrs. j Fairly Tiddy. AT " I ) HUN TROOPS | | Our Soldiers Repulse 1 Heavy Attack In the Toul .Sector. AMERICANS WIN IN ALSACE Our Machine Gunners and Riflemen Repulse Heavy Attack?German* Enter Xivray Village But Are Driven Out. With the American Army in France, June 16.?About 600 German shock troops raided the Ameri- ? j can first line positions at the villa- ' ges of Xivray, in the Toul sector, early this morning. Some of the enemy got into Xivray, but were soon driven out. At other points the Germans were badly beaten."The attack began at 3 a. m., after an extremely violent bombard f, ment of the front line and American batteries and villages far in the rear. The Germans advanced swiftly to the attack, but were met by a heavy fire. Those who penetrated Xivray were forced speedily to withdraw, and elsewhere the enemy was completely repulsed. "According to prisoners the object of the enemy was to take American prisoners. This object failed, . as no American is reported missThe Germans, evidently angered by the failure of the attack, continued an intermittent shelling of villages in the xear-throughout SunThe American troons encaced at close quarters the small German force that entered Xivray. There was severe fighting with bayonets and clubbed rifles. The Germans ! left nine dead in the streets, and six prisoners were taken, two of them ; officers, one of whom was wounded. The prisoners came from the : Thirty-sixth Landwehr. | HENRY FORD WILL RUN FOR SENATE I .* ?8l i Washington, June 13.?Henry I Ford announced here tonight that | at the request of President Wilson ! he had decided to become a candi| date for United Sates senator from Michigan, if the nomination should | be offered him. Neither Mr. Ford ' | nor those in his confidence would ' add to a brief statement making i the announcement issued after the I automobile maker had called at the White House. This statement did i not specify what nomination would J be accepted but the understanding lamong ploitical leaders is that the president hopes to see the Republicans of Michigan accept the invitation of the Democrats to join forces in the election of Mr. Ford, a Republican. ! ALWAYS WELCOME I ?? Dr. J. S. Moffatt came down from j Due West Sabbath and precahed to the Baptist congregation in the morning, Dr. Swope being in Boston. r ' I 9 CASUALTY LIST. ! Carolina casualty list since June 14: Severely wounded: Robert G. Hayes, Monetta, S. C., Boyd Westbrook, Chesnee, S. C., Joseph F. Celv. Easley, S. C., William E. Burns, Greenville, S. C., Moye Hayes, Starr, S. C. ; Miss Hazzie Betts is here from | near Rock Hill on a visit to Mrs. Langdon Wilson. Miss Betts is a graduate of the Woman's College ; at Due West and has been a successful teacher. She comes of a | long line of Seceder ancestors.