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f ' ' 0 VOL. 10, NO. 58, SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C., 'IT ESI )AY. APRIL '7 i<n-? ? 1- ' 81.50 A YE.A If. J TERRIBLE FIGHT AT VANTAGE SPOT Heavy Loss of Life at Hill No. 60. AN EXPLOIT OF THE WAR. Capture of Important Point Will (?o Down in History, Says "Eyewitness." London, April 25.?"Trenches, parapets and sand bags disappeared," says the British official "eyewitness," describing British mine explosions which preceded the recent attack and capture by the British of hill \*o. 60. southeast of Yvres. "The whole surface of the i ground," the narrative continues, "assumed strange shapes. Here ii I was torn Into huge craters; there large mounds of fallen debris were seen. "As the reports of the explosions died away, our men, led by their of- i fleers, rushed across the Intervening space of some 4 0 to 00 yards lying between our trenches and the gaping craters before them, the frontier covered by the attack being only some 250 yards in length. "Where the mines actually had exploded nothing was left of the occupants of the hostile line, but in the neighboring trenches our assaulting infantry witnessed an extraordinary scene. Many German soldiers. possibly owing to the fact that they were working, were surprised while in their shirt sleeves and without equipment. Stunned by the ex. plosions and subjected to a rain of hand grenades, they gave way to panic . '.'Cursing and*shouting they were faffing over one another in their hurry to gain exits loading into the communicating trenches. Those in the rear were driving their bayonets into the bodies of their comrades in front of them. I "Of all this, our Infantry had only a momentary glimpse, before they fell upon the enemy with the bayonet, burst the maze of trenches, poured into the craters and pressed on down the communication trenches until at last they were stopped by barricades defended by bomb throwers. FEW MINUTES' WORK. , The first line ot trenches was captured in a few minutes and 15 prisoners fell into our hands, but it was then that the real struggle began for the Germans quickly recovered from their surprise. Soon the German gunners opened fire. Soon our whole position became obscured in the smoke of bursting shells. Meanwhile our batteries had begun to support the attack and a terrific artillery Are was maintained far into the night. The flares from the guns were so nearly continuous that they resembled the effect of musketry fire. Under this fire our men liad to work, throwing up parapets towards the enemy, blocking their commur.i cations and generally rendering their position defensible. "Nor was the euem>'s infantrv idle.* Advancing up the communication trenches they threw hand grenades over the barricades and also Into the mine craters on tho crumb| ling sides of which cur men were I trying to obtain a foo'nohl I ' ' liroughout the o'ght the fightI Ing continued, culmino'mc enrlv in 1 the morning of the IS ."i in two niussI ed attacks by the enemy These I were beaten off. Despite losses I which left tho hillside covered with dead, the enemy continued his pres sure during the whole of Sunday, un. I til we g/adunlly were driven from I the southern edge of the hil< At (1 ^ I p. .reinforcements reached our J 1 frost line and swept the Germans "from the footlicld they had gained. I ' Prior to this the close proximity, I of the contending sides hal led to a I slackening in the bombardment but . I it then broke out afresh and with ffrlracst as great intensity as on tho I preceding evening. Our position, however, was more secure." I LOSS IN YPRE8. I ' The narrative says the bombardtment was maintained Monday, April 19, and that the Oerroans extended Ithelr shelling to the entire Ypres 'area, including the town ttsolf, in which, it is asserted, 15 children GERMANS SEEKING J JOHN BULL'S FLEET f CoiK'iihagen Dispatch States Krjsor's j Warships Are Now Willing to Risk Rattle. I London. April 25.?A Copenhagen 1 dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph says that leading German papers declare that the German fleet is willing j now to accept battle In the North Sea. The entire fleet, the papers declare, several times has cruised over < the NQrth Sea vainly seeking the British fleet. The Vossische Zeltung says the Norwegian steamer Foedln met the German fleet last Sunday off Helgo- i a land. The German commander t told the captain of the Foadiu thai the German fleet had one desire 1 only, tc engage the ISritish fleet, and ( he hoped the British fleet might be j found. c ; > llitill Honor Conferred. I Amsterdam .via London, April 2 !>. s ?Dispatches from Berlin say that j c Kmperor William yesterday sent the following telegram to Admiral von t Tirpitz, minister of marine, and ad- ' miral of the fleet: 11 "On today's fiftieth anniversary * of your entering the naval service, I ? express to you my heartiest congrat_ ] 1 illations, also my pleasure that, with f God's help, it was granted you to 1 celebrate this day still in active ser e and full vigor. I readily emi brace this opportunity to assure you of my warmest gratitude for your < I great services rendered to the i Fatherland by the successful exten- ' < 1 sion of the navy. With Justified I ' I pride, you can look today on this. | your life work, the importance of ' which the present war has strikingly i< I shown. I 1 "As a sign of my gratitude I con- 1 ' i fcr on you the Grand Commander of t i the Royal House, Order of the Houss < ! of Hohenzollern." < 1 Miss l.illic Norwood Meets Death by J Train at McBee. i i McBee Special to The State, April j ; 24.?Miss Lillie Norwood of this i I place was accidentally run over and j I instantly killed here this afternoon ; at G o'clock by the Seaboard Air | | Line train No. 18. I 1 were killed. Toward eving the Qer- 1 mans again attacked hill No. 60, but ' the "eyewitness" asserts "again did j ' our machine guns do tremendous ! execution and the attack was beaten off." ! "Another attack at 8 o'clock in the evening." the narrative continues, "suffered the same fate. Still ; the Germans would not admit defeat ! and all night long parties armed I with hand grenades made repeated ' efforts to drive us off the hill, their attacks alternating .with bombardments from artillery of all kinds and also trench mortars." By Wednesday, the "eyewitiness" says, the British had firmly established themselves. The attack upon i and the defense of hill No. 60, the ! j narrative declares, "will go down in ! history as one of the finest exploits of the British troops during the war. ( "What ou-* troops withstood can i be realized if it is remembered that ' ' and one-half days was only about an done-half days was only about 250 yards in length by about 200 yards in depth. "Upon that small area the enemy for hours hurled tons of metal and high explosives and at times the hilltop was wreathed In clouds of poisonous fumes, and yet our gallant infantry#did not give way. They stood firm under a fire which swept away ! whole sections at a time, filled the . trenches with dead -bodies and so | cumbered the approach to the front line that reinforcements could not reach it without having to climb over the prostrate forms of their fallen comrades. "Our losses naturally were heavy. Nevertheless they have not depressed the men, all of whom, Including the wounded, are Extremely cheerful, for they know that the fight for hill No. ? has cost the Germans far more than it has cost us." The desperate efforts of the Germans to recapture the hill, the "eyewitness" says, "probably were due. not only to the intrinsic value of the position, hut the fear of personal ; | consequences to the generals concerned if they failed to hold it." 1 1LTITUDE RECORD I BY^ACAROUNIAN Jeut. Bellinger of Cheraw Reaches 10,000 Feet. 'LIES AT PENSACOLA. . I 'limb Requires Hour iiml Twenty j 1 Minutes, Hut Sixteen Minutes Suffices for Descent. I.ieut. P. N. L. llellinger, U. S. N.,; k natve of Cheraw, made Friday at i ' he naval aeronautic station at Pen- ' acola what is believed to be a new ! ' vorld's record for altitude in a j lydro.neroplane. He attained a j leight of 10.000 feet. The :isro?it onsumed an hour and 20 minutes. iVlien his instruments reached tinlighest reading he could attain, ho illut oft' his motor and glided to arth, descending in 16 minutes. Lieut. Bellinger has been some ime in the navy flying corps, but irst came into public notice as an iviator by his extensive reconnaisance flights at Vera Cruz. He is mid to have gone aloft more often j mil to have flown further in that ampaign than any other of the air-' nen who were rushed to Mexico folowing the Tnmpico incident. Richard Harding I?avis, the fa- j nous war correspondent, end writer if adventure stories, saw Bellinger i n action at Vera Cruz and in his orrespondence from that port at the ime mentioned him in these terms: j "He has a very young face, tanned 0 the color of a McClellan army sad- | lie, his heir is yellow, .eyes blue and ilways smiling. lie is the picture of! lealth. Clean living, clean thinking uid the daily exercise of taking a sbanoe with death have given him the look of a (Ireek god or one of Leyendccker's captains. He is much too good to lose. Were he my son, md he is young enough, I would ?ive hint a good talking to for tak-' ng such risks and in order to keep fim out of danger would make him 1 paymaster or an admiral." Lieut. Bellinger was born October 8, 1885, in Cheraw. He was appointed to the Naval Academy in 1903. Since his graduation he has seen over six years of sea service. He lias been attached for some time to the naval aeronautical station at Pensacola.?The State. SCOTT TO BE MAJOR GENERAL.} Strong Promoted to ltank Made Vacant by Elevation of Chief of Staff. Washington, April 24.?Brig. j Gen. Scott, chief of staff of the army, will be advanced to the grade i of major general next Thursday upon the retirement for age of MaJ. I Gen. Arthur Murray, commanding; the western department at San ' Francisco. Col. Frederick S. Strong of the coast artillery at Charleston, S. C., j will be advanced to the brigadier i generalship made vacant by Gen. ! Scott's promotion and will be assigned later. Although General Murray retires next Thursday he will perform his j nresent duties until the close of the Panama-Pacific Exposition. JURY FOIl EDUCATION. Recommendation Made for Every Spartanburg Diatrtot. Spartanburg Special to The State. April 25.?The Spartanburg grand Jury in its presentment to the court , of general sessions today reeom- ! mended the adoption of the compulsory school attendance law in every district in the county ajid urged the enforcement of the law in the dis- I tricts that have adopted it. Appre- | elation of the work of those who made the county school fair such a success was also received in the pr<sentment. Strong recommendations for a road improvement system were i also made. Had Death of an Infant. Sarah, the yoar-o^d daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bailey, died at their home on Cntawba street yesterday evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have the sympathy of their many friends in this sad bereavement. The remains will be interred In the cemetery at Heath | Springs this afternoon. [LOPING COUPLE ARE HELD JN CHARLOTTE Voiing Lancaster County Girl Carried Away by Syrian. JOHN HINSON'S DAUGHTER Miss <)li? Hinson, (lie Would-lle Itride, is Ktstoml to Her Father l?y the Police. The Charlotte Observer of Monday lias the following account of an plopenient, which is of interest to the people of Lancaster county: Intercepted on what they hud planned should be a joyous honeymoon, George Mike, a Syrian, and Miss Ola Hinson, a 16-year-old girl of Elgin, S. <\, were arrested here by the police yesterday and held until the arrival of the young woman's father. John Hinson. He came last night at 10:30 o'clock and will accompany his daughter home today. According to the young woman'? narrative to Chief of Police Moor yesterday, she left the home of her parents Saturday night to spend the night with a neighbor, and did so. Yesterday morning about 8:30 o'clock she left the residence of the neighbor ostensibly to return home, but by prearrnngement met Mike. They boarded the northbound train for Charlotte and reached this city a few minutes after noon. But alas and alackaday for all their fond imaginings. Hardly had the train been brought to a full stop before they found themselves interrogated and detained by two minions of the law, to-wit: Olllcers Walter Orr and Wilson. The conductor of the train had become suspicious owing to the apparent youth of the girl and telegraphed the Charlotte stationmaster, suggesting that he notify the police. Chief Moore got in communication by telephone with a Mr. Gregory at Lancaster, S. C., near Elgin. John Hinson lives on Gregory's farm. It developed that the alarm had been given and numbers of the girl's relatives and the friends of the family were engaged in the search for her, including Mr. Gregory. Mike is a pedler, who had been working the territory about Elgin for some time and had visited Miss Hinson's hnmp innro than on/>t? whereupon they berarne enamoured of each other and decided to elope. In former years all the elopements were from the Old North State to the Palmetto State but now the order has been reversed. The Syrian is about 30 years old. As soon as it was noised abroad that he was in trouble the fellow feeling of his countrymen asserted itself and several prominent local Syrians paid him a visit to proffer assistance and counsel. In any case the dream of an elopement was in vain for it would not have been possible to procure license for the wedding here without the consent of tho girl's parents because of her obvious youthfulness. No warrant had been issued against Mike last night and so it was not known whether the father would attempt to prosecute him on the charge of persuading the young woman to leave home. VICIIT I'MU IOUVUOV*k! CI.MT Candidates for Congress from Fourth District Open CainpuiKii. Spartanburg Special to The State, April 24.?The congressional campaign in the fourth South Carolina district opened last night at Judson mill in Greenville county. The race is for the seat made vacant by the resignation o? Joseph T. Johnson of this city, who has been appointed judge of the newly created district of western South Carolina. At the meeting last night Spartanburg was represented by three candidates for the office, 8. J. Nicholls, R. J. Gantt and J. C. HIackwood. 1$. A. Morgan of Greenville spoke also. So f?#r he is the only candidate from Greenville county. Union county will be represented in the race by W. W. Johnson of Union. The date of the election has not been set. JOHN BUNNY PASSES AWAY Voted "Movie" Comedian Dies at His Homo in Itrnoklyn After Illness of Three Weeks. New York, April 26.?John Bunny, whose antics as a moving picture comedian have made millions laugh, died at his home in Brooklyn today. He had been ill for three weeks from a complication of diseases. Members of his family were with him when he died. For a week he apparently had been on the mend. A strenuous month of work, it is believed, caused the breakdown i which resulted in his death. John Bunny was .12 years old. He had been before the footlights 2 J years before he entered the moving picture field four years ago. lie had 'leading roles with many old-time stars, among them \nnie Russell. He had attained country-wide popularitv ! I si nil nnliin 1... 1-: < . ?. HV.IUI uriuiu lit: UflllCM'U his greatest success on the screen. Mr. Bunny was horn in New York City of English oar vts. was educated in the Brooklyn public scliools, ; and was a clerk in a general store | until he went on the stage at the age of l!t. In the moving picture world i he was regarded for a time as the ; country's leading comedian, and was said to be receiving more salary than | the President of the United States. 1 He will be buried in Brooklyn. TWO NKOKOES KIIXEI). Chester Special to The State, April 20.?At a negro church row Sunday, the Rev. John Colvin, a well-known negro minister of the Baptist denomination. and Sam Sanders, another well-to-do negro, were shot to death by the Rev. Eley Sullivan. They were brought to the city shortI Iv after the shooting, but both died 'in a Chester hospital soon after their arrival. It is said that Sulivan was angered 011 account of the fact that he was | not allowed to preach at Prospect 1 church, where the trouble occurred, Sullivan made his escape ,but it 1 is believed that he will be shortly apprehended by Sheriff Colvin and his deputies. Will Mobley was arrested as an | accessory. Sullivan is said to have stated that he did not mean to kill Colvin. Colvin is said to have been j only a visitor, as his church in the 1 CnPllWPll ue/'tinn u'tto oloooil "?? n/? count of snu'llpox. The Rev. Bynum Parker was doing the preaching at Prospect. FltKDKKICK SFAVAK1) I>KAI>. CldM'ly Associated Willi (iravt Kvents in Nation's History. Montrose, N. Y., April 25.?Fred erick W. Seward, assistant secretary of state in the cabinets of President: I Lincoln, Johnson and Hayes, and sot of the late Secretary of State Wil. liani H. Seward, died here today it his 85th year. Mr. Seward was closely associate! with sonte of the gravest events it l the nation's history. It was he wh< I was sent on the memorable tuissio: 1 from Washington to Philadelphia t< warn President Lincoln that his lif< was in danger if he followed hi: | itinerary through Baltimore. Three years later Seward figure! in another stirring incident. H< i was at his father's bedside whei > n;uc, unc Ul YYlll\?-r? OUOlll S UCCOIU plices, pretending to be a messenge: with medicine for Secretary Seward suddenly drew a revolver and bea back Frederick Seward into uncon sciousness. Then, dashing into tin sick room, Payne slashed Secretary Seward many times. Both Sewardi eventually recovered. Later Pay in was captured and executed with oth . ers involved in the Lincoln assussi nation plot. MAJOR DAVIS DKTAt HKl). Washington, April 24.? Because of friction between Capt. William J i Maxwell, governor of Guam and com i mandant of the naval station there ' and MaJ. Henry C. Davis, command ing the marine detachment, Majoi ' Davis has been detached from hii 1 command, and now is at Manih waiting an investigation. The trou jle was reported to the departmen ifter Major Carl Gamborg-Andresei completed an inspection but gave n< details. CANFORCEDARDANELLES ONLY ATAGREATCOST Allies Not Willing to Pay Price, Savs Observer With Fleet. TOO GREAT EXPECTATIONS A Powerful \rniy Would be Needed! the Moment Fleet Passed Into t\vu of Marmora. London, April 2f>.?Too great expectations were raised by the preliminary operations of the allied fleet ill the Dardanelles, according, to a representative of Dritisli newspapers, who is officially accredited to the expedition. "The Dritisli navy i* convinced," the correspondent says, "that the narrows could be forced if occasion justified the loss of ships that would result, but unless there were a powerful army ready to occupy too Gallipoll peninsula the moment the fleet passed into tin- sea of Marmora, the Turks and Germans immediately would close the straits behind it so the warships would find it difficult, j to tight their way out again. "Nothing amazed the British and French gunners more than the resisting powers of the old forts I around the Dardanelles. When | landing parties examined them after i the devastating bombardment, thev j found the material damage done was J comparatively small. Although they were mere shambles, many guns were still intact and onetl-inch piece actually was found loaded. Similar conditions existed in the forts nearer i the Narrows.' The correspondent considers the Turks such poor gunners that the I allies would have hem at Constanti nopie. if there had been only Turkish troops to deal with. He says, however, that praise must he given i German officers for tiieir skillful use of the defenses to meet the ships' fire. "The first great obstacle," the British observer states, "lies in the I constantly renewed mine fields, then j the concealed batteries of heavy i ' howitzers and the direct fire guns . placed in position since the tirst atI tack on the outer forts. Then ther.> , are the movable light batteries . which bombarded the ships from the most unexpected quarters, i "Tim more the task of forcing the t ] straits is examined the nior<- tremendous proportions does it assume. Moreover, we do not know the i strength of tlie enemy's land forces, i but they are entrenched everywhere, ? and the lesson of Flanders brought ( home clearly what is the inevitablo .'cost of assaulting entrenched posir tions." , HUGH WASHINGTON'S WILL. ~ Testament of George Washington's Descendant Set Aside. j Macon, Ga.. April 25.?The will or the late Hugh V. Washington, descendant of George Washington, 1 ; which disposed of an estate of $125,I 000, was set aside by a jury in Su_ t' perior court here today. The jury had been out all night on the case. S Under the will Mrs. E. W. llclI lamy, a sister, was given the use of the estate during her life time, after which the Missouri Historical Soj ciety of St. Louis, was to receive r half of the estate, to he invested in books, and the other half to the Na' tiomil nsiiohtooo "< ? > J ......... .... ..p. t. V. in .#i llic .-A 1II?"I H'HII Revolution nt Washington. Tho cnse will be appealed. ' FAITH FI'Ij SERVANT HI R1KD. j 5 Major and Council of Augusta Attend Janitor's Funeral. Augusta, (Ja., April 25.? Probably the first time in the South, certainly o first time In Augusta .the mayor and city council in a body attended he funeral of a negro servant hero e , today in their official capacity under | ploclamat ion of the mayor. The call was issued hy> Mayor L. C. Hayne yesterday for council to - attend the funeral this afternoon of r "Bob" Young, who has for the past s fifty-one years continuously been * janitor for the mayor's office and * "Ity hall. With few exceptions the t entire councilmanic body, many of i the municipal officers and two ex> mayors attended the old negro's funeral.