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VOL. 23. NO. 45. SEMI-WEE
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CONFIDENCE THAI
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GREATEST BATTLE |~~
r - OF HISTORY BEING ;
FOUGHT IN FRANCE ?
British- Fivhtinor T1ni.'nor>i Inln F
, ? B ^v^pvtuivlj >
Every Inch of Ground, Are
Thrown Back.
TREMENDOUS LOSSES
INFLICTED ON ENEMY
Germans Capture Some Small
Towns and Claim 30,000 Prisoners
and 600 Guns, Crossing
River Somme to Pcroune and
Ham?It's the Great Offensive
London, March 25.?"Fighting of
the most severe description has been
taking place all day on wide fronts
south of Peronne and south and
north of Banaump-" s?v? ffioiii Mor_ ?
shal Halg's report from British i
headquarters in France tonight.
"In both sectors the enemy has
attacked our positions iu great f
strength with fresh forces, and, in
epite of the gallant resistance of ou
troops, has forced us to give ground, in th
"Gofman troops are in Nesle and and
Bapaunie. Heavy fighting continue-n"
bom
% va,s.
v. ith
HCAHCKLV A l.l'bh AND NO The
ABATEMENT IN THE BATTLE rot
London, March 25.?Itouter's poin
y headquarters correspondent senif. tant
the following on the great battle in tillc
France: viou
"With scacely a lull and no abate- that
ment In Intensity the titanic strug- aeri
gle continues. The enemy artillery Iron
shows a tendency to decrease In vol T
ume, doubtless owing to the increas- the
ing difficulty of bringing guns fo - regl
ward." The manner in which our fore
guns, tanks and transports have been fens
withdrawn behind the obstinately re- Brit
tiring line amounts to a marvelous with
feat. Gen
"After falling back across th^ sprii
Somnio, we cleared all the bridges !
except one. which was so command- T
od by our gunfire that it was more atta
advantageous to leave it standing, disp
The enemy casualties in etTorts to in t
get across this narrow strip of water lng
have been prodigious." ty o
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ALLIKD MILITARY KXPKflTrf Gerl
CONFIDENT HUNH Wlbb FAIL
Washington, March 25.?Allied A
military experts are unanimous in to c
their confidence that the German of cast
tensive will fail and that the enemy put
will not be able to break through the the
line. MnJ. Gen. Leonard Wood. who thro
has Just returned from the European .Lc
hattlefront today told the mllltvry the
committee and many other senato-s ing
who listened In an executive session F
to a statement from the general. whil
? a re
TJMI'KKOR WILLIAM IH IN tion
COMMAND ON WKMT FRONT Rres
iiernn, via i^onnon, iwarcn zo.? aboi
The official statement from general char
headquarters this evening says: ft
y "The first stage of the great bat- {.on,
tie In F'rance (s ended. We have C|f.fi
von the engagements near Monchy, Brit
C.ambrat, 8t. Quentfn and La Fere j,?t
A considerable pert of the Kngl'ah the
y army Is beaten. ?arr
j '"'We are fighting approximately ha(j
I rb a line northwest of Bapaume T!
I'eronne and Ham." . hy i
The great German offensive on thf tlon<
western fro tt has developed as Itr nrjt
sr.ll^rt feature an apparent desper- Rrit
ate effort to break Into thft south- heai
west of 8t. Quentln. drive a wedge (nK
between the British and the French 400
and push on across the Soirmie cai^al r
n ' uj:1 "JWWW!"./'.p *
IE LANC
JKLY. LANCASTER, !
IL MKL
' THE HUNS WILL NOT B.
C THROUGH THE LINE A
Y ALLIED MILITARY EX
SOME OF WAR'S RIG DRIVES AND RESU
Here are the dates and figures showing some of the att
ides have previously made and failed to break through c
ront:
February, 1915?British at Nueve Chapelle; advance*
>n two-mile front, then were stopped.
April, 1915?Germans at Ypres; first gas attack; net
ranee of three miles at certain points of the line. Ad
'topped.
May and June. 1915?French in Artoise; they took vlll
lands of prisoners, captured Lorette Heights and aim
t'imy Ridge. Then their advance was stopped.
September, 1915?British and French in Artoise and C
French advanced over 18-mile front, took 25,000 prisone
;uns; checked at third line. British at Loos lost 50,000
d a few square miles of devastated territory, then were
February, 1916?Germans at Verdun. Gained nearly
n six days; advanced little over one mile in sueeeedincr s
lion were swept back; lost 500,000 men. Front of attac
>ix miles.
July, 1916?British and French on the Somme. A<1
r.iles in six months; British lost 50,000 in killed on first c
lult. release of 1,000 square miles of French soil; Gern
:o retreat from Arras and Noyon.
April. 1917?French and British, above Aisne and at
ipectively; French made local gains, British were stoppei
'rom starting point.
Summer, 1917?British at Ypres; gained six miles in fo
viped out Ypres salient, won most of Pasehenduele ridge
itopped.
November, 1917?British troops under Lieut. Gen, Byr
arks, smashed the Hindenburg line on a 30-mile froi
\rras and St. Quentin, opposite Cambrai, to a depth of
niles; taking 13 villages, 100 big guns and 9,000 prison*
lays later the Germans retook a considerable portion of t
March 21, 1918?Germans on west front. Will histoi
lives repeat itself?
ie general direction of Compiegne command of the G*
Paris. fighting this battle,
multaneously Paris has been previously declared w<
barded at quarter-hour inter- clsive one of the yea
, beginning Saturday forenoon commentators credit
shells of about 9-inch caliber, suming this post with
source of the bombardment has Ing down in history a
been revealed. The nearest the greatest conflict
t on the front is 62 miles dis- history should the Ge
, more than twice as far as ar- their leaders have
ry fire has ever reached pre- would,
islv. One theory suggested is Despite the advance
the Germans have develoned an n
----- ? vnruians no loss or co:
al torpedo which can be fired }lllied glde jn ,he uU
i a long distance. ,H appnrent. -serious
here was au admitted bre.ik in inf, " the view ,A)nd
British line in the St. Quentln KitUation. Attention
on late yesterday, the Germans tered now on thp gt
ing their way through the de- a.,d fhe next biR dp)
ive system and compelling a expected to come from
ish retreat to prepared trenches .....
.. . . . British Suc c ess in
i the area devastated by the
nans in their retreat in the 'battle ir
ng of 1917. rrtnsed all other newt
Supreme Effort to Cut Line. m,nor Importance *>
his new line also is now being 1 r?ofliderahle inter
ekerl by the Germans, and n *ws announcement of
atrhes filed from the front ate '8^ aucoeBS in Palestii
he day indicated that the fight- cra' Allenby s troops
already was heavy In the vlcini- cro3S'nK of the Itiver ,
f Ham, which represents a pen- Acting their way e
tion of some nine miles from the xarcessfully bridging
nans. Ham is approximately 11 Resides the myster
s southwest of St. Quentln. moot of Paris, the clt>
supreme effort by the Germans to its first daylight a
ut the line In this region is fore t shortly after 8 o'
in the dispatches. They h.tv* morning. Bombs we
cavalry In the field to follow up several points by the
infantry and evidently intend to flying at an extremely
iw the Phlans Into the fray when which succeeded* ii
int'.:,.:try oluinna open the breach over the city. A numb*
German high command is count- resulted.
upon.
urther north the British lines. GHRMAJW IjAI'NCII
le tbey have been drawn back. ATTACK AG A INS'
hold'nsh well in ther new posi- With the A merle
s. The maximum Britsh retro- France, Friday, Ma
sion there Beems to have been Germans launched a
it four in lies, at Mory, which has tock against a certaii
iged hands several times. lines northwest of T
f*ports that the French have he- No wind was blowing
e Involved in the struggle seem of mustard gas from 1
table, an the recession of the low ovor the lines for
Ish right llank, which was rest- The batteries firing t
approximately upon La Fere, at located to the right
Hivor Oise, would inevitably and our artillery wan
y with It the French left, which ing with retaliatory f
rented upon the Oise.
!ie advance is being accompanied Ol'NS IN FRANCE H
i terrible slaughter of the Ger* DIHTlNCTIi
is, who, in their massed forma* London, March 23.
s, are being cut to plecea by France are distinctly
leh guns of all calibers. The don tonight. Partlci
Ish casualties, too, have been p'accs there Is a con
ty, and Berlin claims the tak- t>ing. Many persons
of 25,000 British prisoners and the house tops to list
guns.
mperor William himself is in (Continued on
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;as
S. C., TUESDAY, MA
1GG1
E BIG Gl
JOW IS 7
PERTS
"Monster
barde
LTS.
empts both WITHDB
?n the weBt
j one mne j British F
Ago in
result, advance
then tackinj
Were I
ages, thouost
cleared
Paris, ^
Champagne. "monster
rs and 100 bomhardln
men, gain- 'n f?r<
stopped. Kaon, and
five miles (approxim
;ix months; Paris city
k less than Paris duri
Sunday.
Ivanced six The day
lay; net re- explosions
lans forced ami inirmcover
was
Arras, re- at 6:55 o'<
1 five miles sought sh?
of them a
ur months; their way
, then were were a lino
| The wome
ig, aided by i Palm Sum
it, between ness.
one to five At first
ers. A few intervals <
his around. tonatlons s
ry of ofTon- urday. T
equanimity
ever, seen
i - mir to be
erman armies (iU-N habits
which he had ' or '
luld he the de- ,he pnp,,U
r, and London be!iev? ,hi
him with as trough ti
the aim of go- ,np ,>aris
s tlie vcitor ir> ssm
in the world's ,be ('aytrr.ians
win, us ,lu'a'nst be
boasted they
SATl'MM
, , , i lit
s made by the
afidence on the
. In a b;
iniate outcome .
. . . , ferocity an
but not alarm- .
. , 4 . i)iK three
on takes of the f
, , , fare, the I
is largely cen .
f. .. . have with
Quentin thrust ,
fensive in
relopments are
.. some pr;ir?i
i that sector. , ...
bent back
i lalestine. . fieen expei
i the west has acquainted
\ to become of i mans had
y comparison J of the gui
est attaches to hind the I
a further Brit I As the
ne. where Gen- that part
have forced a Cambrai, <
Jordan and are< earently h
astward after i now'here b
the stream. shnl Ilai
ions bombard- j ftlKhtful c
' was subjected I Claim
ir raid, carried nn 'r
clock Saturday of
.1 i .. foreien nff
<ul.,nrt 200
few machines. may
. high altitude. iog3e^
n penetrating on
er of casua t is g oOO men
turnd.
! The firs
HEA\A < V , Were i
r amkuk ans the par, c
an Army in sedges In
reh 22.?Thtf hral ?alt<
heavy gas at- trnopS far
a town in our |j|ndenbor
oul last night j wprp driv<
and the fumes t>y Qener
.he shells hung suhsequen
several hours (his v
he shells were QerTnan g<
of Rleheeourt on the res
busy all morn- hut a side
vhelling. slaught a?
l.agn'courl
EAflf> basis of th
V IN IX>NDOV There If
The guns I qeeaible t(
heard In l?on ra'ncd by
ularly in h gh but nnme<
itinuous throb- m'es were
have gone to that on th
en. the
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RCH 26, 1918.
IE CON
IN LOCATED; BRITISH
6 MILES AWAY FRENCH
i.
Cannon in Forest Hon.
, n . .. , . ? UO.OOO Prisoners anil (l(l<
d Paris Nearly All ....
(iuiis Taken l?y 1
Day Sunday. London, March 2 5.
thousand prisoners and t!
... onnpni vr were captured by the Get
.AWAI. IS ORDERLY ,h<> battle, or ThurwUy. .
j to a German official com
orces Made Plans Long! tion ret;eivt'd wlrelee
text of the cotnmunica
Event of Germans At- lows:
? in Great Force and "The success in the
p _ tween Arras and La Fere
repare . tended in the continuatioi
I attack.
larch 2 4.?The German "Thirty thousand j
cannon" which has been an(1 600 puns so far have
g Paris has been located *>orted captured. Before
ist of St. Quentin. west of the <lucl continue
exactly 122 kilometers other th?*,res ?? the w
ately 76 miles) from | ls nothing new to report.
hall. The gun bombarded
ng the greater part of ?
GIVES BIG AMOUNT
r was ushered in by loud TO COKER C<
from the - 10-incli shells,
diately the alarm to take
sounded. This occurred Major ( oker Adds llundr
clock and many persons sand to Fndowinent am
>lter. but greater numbers a
, . .. , From Outside,
ppeared in the streets on
to the churches, which ______
st as well tilled as usual. Hartsville, March 25.?
n who sell palm leaves on duy was celebrated at Cok?
lays, did their usual busi- Friday The Iea,i|nR a(|(i
made by Major PUern of tl
shells began ai riving at aj-my, whose address was
if 20 minutes and the de- presentation of what Fr
teemed louder than on Sat- done durln|? the war. 1Ie
heir power to disturb the ed hjj;h,y thp preparatioil
V of the populate, how- ^aa niade onter the stri
led less, the people refus- At ,hp p,oap of ,hp pxprci
distracted from their Sun- .,nnouneed that the general
' board of New York has
beneiit of that portion of Rjvp Cokor College $4 0.00
ire which had been led to (|jtif>n that the truestees ra
it the Germans had broken om) more The freasurer ,
le line and were bombard- ,pop announced that \
from nearby positions, a u eolcer. the founder of tl
il note was issued during h;M, just R,ven jlrto,000. T
They warned the people only $10.000 to be raised 1
lieving pessimistic reports. Thp OI1(iro $150,000 is t<
us a permanent endowm
A S STOl?\ OF rilh This makes the endowment
SI STAC.hS <>! BAH IJj College over $400,00n,
?
ittle that has rivalled ir. EFE0RT TO ROUND
iy that has preceded it durum!
a half years of war DIV ISION S DLS
tritish, on a 50-mile front.
stood a great German of........
,. Chiiiii Sex ier Authorities
its initial stages. At 1
ts the Hritish line has heon Apprehend Soldiers \V1>
, but not as much as had ,{||n \xxny
cted by military expert?
1 w'th the forces the Gerbrought
up and the power Camp Sevier. Greenvill
as they had upon and be- ->5. A drive to round ii|
line. ntelv all deserters from the
result of the struggle on Division has been common
of the front just west of j,y counties of all desert
where the fighting was ap- the'r organizations, toget
ottest the Hritish line hn* personal description, will
een broken and Field Mar- ,iy Pommanding officers
g's men have inflicted warderl to sheriffs, chiefs
asualties on the enemy. postmaster?. magistrates i
Hi.OOO Men < aptured. papers. It is hoped that t
idteatlon of the sanguinnrx city, together with the in
the fighting, the Herlin tj,p jjq reward that is g
lee states that 16,000 men rpsU|t |n bringing all deset
guns have been captured dJ)y jn(0 pamp
be compared to the Hritish ^
the German counter of <;|vpi| I>puK |irpn.
i December 4. 1017, when F.orpn(.e, March 25.?1
, and 100 guns were cap- jpin? boan, Qf |hp Stft(e ,,
Heal association, which ha
t reports of infantiy fight- <pssjon here, adjourned F
ndicative of an attempt on tprnoon Tt>p visifors WP,
,t the Germans to drive ^ ^ ^ pint,wood rlub
to both sides of the Cam- takpn for an automobile
ent. Isolate the British (h^ pUy T,VPn(v.,?Ven y
ther east and regain the |<jf ){ ^ examinatlon for (
g line, from which they o, Dharmacv.
n on i>ovemocr &z, iwi7, "
al Hyng's sudden blow.
t dispatches have proved Nurse Takes Disci
ras, Indeed, the plan of the ^arlraton. March 25.eneral
staff. The fighting nurse who waH carInK for
t of the 50-mile front was leryman wUh meningitis
? issue to the terrifflc on- Mo?,fr,? ^as been strioke
med at Gauche wood and annoui'c<,<l a< the post hos
t, th(? south and north quarantine at the fort af
e salient. the two Parents and the n
i no data upon which It Is nre att?nding them.
> estimate the success at- ?+
the Germans to the south, * erillct Is Not (Jul
< of towns where the ar- Morganton, N. C., Mar
battling on Friday, show ^fter an hour's deliberatio
ie northern side of the sa- in t*ie rase ?f Garfield ai
Germans bent the British ^Gts, charged with killing
Hennessee, returned a verr
atinued on Page 8) guilty late today.
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ceording
imunica- "Nothing to Worry About," He
8 1 he Savs, "and People Must Retion
foimain
Cool Blooded."
iting be
r'of'our OFFENSIVE WILL FAIL
tiisonns Commanding Officer of French
been reVerdun
Military Mission at Camp
d. From Lreene Sees No Possibility of
nr there ,,
lierman Success.
' (From Today's Charlotte Observer.)
"The British are doing a wonderful
pi? ce of work at the present time
)LLEGE against the Ueiman advance, ar.d I
consider Field Marshal Ilaig's reed
Thou masterly," declared Major
Fdouard Hup u* commanding olli1
More ( t.r 0f the prt M p nilitary mission at
Camp Greene, last night in the second
of a series of interviews he is
giving The Observer on the developFounder's
ments of the great Teutonic ofTen?r
College sive. "This rate of advance of the
ress was German forces cannot be continued
tie French more than a few days longer, for
a forcible each day their problems increase
a nee has greatly. When their picked troops,
commend- the 'shock units," who began the
i America drive, haw worn themselves Glut,
iggle. as they must soon, the burden of the
ises il was fiehtinE will fall unnn valnaiiio
education soldiers, whose achievements will not
offered to be so aastisfactory to the German
0 on con- commanders," added Major Dupont.
tise $110,- All tbrouKh Major Dupont's inter>f
the col- view, the note of full coniidenee in
laj. Jantes the final outcome was prominent,
to college, "Everyone must remain cool blood'his
leaves ed. Just keep in your mind the
>y friends, thought that the Germans cannot
> lie used break the allies' line and that their
enf fund, offensive will fail. The American
L of Coker troops in Prance are confident, the
dispatches say. Your assistant chief
of staff tonight has said that the
UP Ame ican people must be confident
PPTPDC nnd accept General Halg's statement
that a'l will he we1!. If your troops
>n Prance are not worried. I can s-e
VnxiouM to nn r,>nso" v hy the people of those
troops should worry, for your boys
0 llu\o wot- there' have more reason to
worry.
"I would like to say. also, like I
have said at every opportunity I
e, March hav^ had of speaking in public since
) immedi- j came to America, that everybody
1 Thirt'etb must wake up and get busy. The
ced. Lists war will not be won like that," and
ers from snapped his finger. "It will tie
her wit! hard work and a lot of it, but it is
he mad* (>nly a matter of time. But until It
and for- js over, America will not slow up her
of police preparations, but will make even
ind news- ^eater preparations. But right now
his publi- i fnii (o see that there is occasion for
rentive ol any alarm.
iven. w.l "if js necessary for us to place full
tors spec confidence in the ability and in the
plans the commanders of our armies
? have worked out, and we should
*?-. calmly await developments, which
"he exam w-ill come in time, and soon. I am
harmaceu just as confident of an ultimate favs
been i. orable outcome as 1 was Sunday
riday. nf night?in fact, just a little more so,
e given e jf there is anyone in Charlotte, or
and wore au 0f North Carolina, who should he
ride over worried, I am one. for my family
Dung men an,\ a]| jn the world that is dear to
he license nie js at Paris. I am not worried.
Allies' Lines .Still Intact.
"We should recall that when the
?*e. Gorman cavalry was operating in the
-A soldie: |,rst few days of the war a few miles
an artil- beyond Meaux, and only about 16
at Fort miles from Paris, the French people
n, it was were calm. They knew Joffre had a
pital. The p)an, and they knew when the t;me
fects only came, if It did come, he would move
urses who v/ith the best interest of France and
Paris in view. JofTre won the battle
of the Marne, and he was not forced
Ity. to the necessity of abandoning Paris,
ch 25.? though he had determined to do so if
n the jury otherwise ho could not maintain inld
Aaron tact the lines of his armies.
Dr. E. A. "As the continuity of the lines of
lict of not ?
(Continued on Page 5.)