The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, March 29, 1918, Image 1
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f VOL. 23. NO. 46. SEMICERMANS
BEATEN
' OFF BY BRITISH
All-Day Battle on Both Sides
River Scarpe Cbst Huns
Heavily.
ARRAS IS CHIEF CENTER
Germans Enter Dermancourt fo:
Second Time and for Second
Time are Driven Out?Heavy
Fighting Continues.
I-rondon, March 28.?After an all
day battle north and south of the
Scarpe, with Arras as the chief center,
the British forces have beaten
j < ft the Germans, with heavy losses to
the enemy, according to the report
from Field Marshal Haig tonight.
The text of the statement says:
"Heavy fighting occurred during
the day along the whole British line,
from southeast of the Somme tc
northeast of Arras, a battle front of
some 55 miles.
"This morning, after an intense
enemy bombardment and covered by
a cloud of smoke, the enemy opened
a fresh attack in great strength on a
wide front south and north of the
Scarpe. At the same time a series of
partial attacks was delivered by him
filnnr nnr 1 in a cojH hu-o rd 1 a t V*
Somme.
"In the new sector of battle, east
of Arras, the enemy succeeded Ir
forcing his way through our outpost
line, and hard fighting has been proceeding
all day in our battle positions
Here, all the enemy's assaults
have been repulsed with heavy loss
to him.
"Fierce fighting is still taking
place south of the Scarpe.
"At Boyelles, Moyenneville. Ab
laluzeville, Bucquoy and Puisieus
our troops also have been repeatedly
attacked and have beaten off a number
of determined assaults. At l)ernancourt
the enemy succeeded in
forcing his way for the second time
into the village, but was driven' out
once more by our counter attack,
with the loss of many killed or taken
^ prisoner.
"South of the Somme. our troops
have been fiercely engaged all day in
the neighborhood of Arvillers, Vrely
and Harael. Different localties have
^ changed hands frequently in bitter
fighting, but our'positions have been
maintained. Heavy fighting continues
in thiH sector also."
GERMANS MARt'HKD FOR
SIX roNSKFlTIVK NIGHTt
Amsterdam, March 28.?German
troops, going forward to the attack
on the front in France detrained far
behind the line$, even behind th
Belgian frontier, according to the
correspondent at the front of th<
Rheinisclie Westfaelische Zeitung.
These forces marched for six con
eecutive nights, no columns showing
themselves on the roads in the day
4 i m t>
Serious Disorder in Que bee.
Quebec, March 28.?Serious disorders
occurred here tonight when a
squad of dominion police engaged in
apprehending deserters under the
provisions of the militaiy service act.
was attacked by a crowd of civilians.
The disturbance rapidly assumed
alarming proportions and at a late
hour tonight were still in progress.
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SUBMARINES INCREASE
WEEKLY TOLL SHIPPING
During the Pa*t Week U-Bdnt* Ac
counted for 28 British Mrrchant ?.-n
in a,'? i ?no -r
London, Match 28.?^ubmartDPj
and mines have Increased their
^ weekly toll of British shipping. The
admiralty's report show* that in the
last week 28 merchantmen were
sunk, 16 of the vessels being 1,600
tons or over, and 12 under that ton*
nage. One fishing vessel was lost.
Nineteen merchantmen were unsuccessfully
attacked. The arrivals
at ports in the United Kingdom numbered
2,471; sailings, 2,488.
(The admiralty report for the previous
week showed the lone of 17
Brltinh merchantmen by mine or submarine,
white for never*) weeka preceding
that the weekly loss was 18.)
Bjgafcmtiuu.. 'dim
HE IL
WEEKLY.
AMERICANS,FRENCH ll
AND BRITISH FIGHT
i They're ShouIder-to-ShouIder in
Battle With Huns on Western
Front.
; ENEMY HAS BEEN CHECKED
Towns of Rove and Noyon Were
[ Taken by Germans But in En
garments North of Somme
They Met Reverses.
(Tuesday.)
i London, March 2 6.?The war office
tonight announced that the Germans
took Hoye at 10:30 o'clock
this morning.
The enemy had been checked west
of Roye and Noyon, the announcement
adds.
; In the Roye area, British, French
and American troops are fighting
i shoulder to shoulder, the official an'
nouncement states.
French reinforcements are rapid,
ly coming up.
"The enemy made no further attacks
during the night of March 2526
on our front north of the Somrae"
, the announcement says. "During the
afternoon there have been local engagements
on this part of the battle
, front in which the enemy has been
repulsed, but he has attempted no
serious attack."
"The line north of the Somme now
runs:
"Bray. Albert. Beaumont, Hamel,
Pueissex, Ayette, Boiry, Henin, Wancourt,
just west of Monchy to the
Scarpe, and thence along our original
front.
"The Germans have been attacking
heavily south of the Somme this
morning and took Roye at 10:30
a. m.
"The line there appears to run
from Mericout on the Somme.
through Rosieres, west of Roye and
west of Noyon. Fresh German di,
visions have been identified in this
area, including two guard and two
Brandenburg divisions.
"On this part of the hattlefied. the
British. French and American troops
are fighting shoulder to shoulder and
French reinforcements are rapidly
, coming up. ' The enemy has been
, checked west of Roye and Noyon."
AMERICANS ARE GIVING
, (iKHMANS PLKXTV OF GAS
With the American Army in
France. March 116. The American
artillery continues to heavily shell
towns held hv the Germans and German
batteries opposite the Toul sec1
tor with pas. The Germans themselves
have reciprocated in kind, but
the dose of pas sent against them by
the Americans have been twice as
larpe as they have received. The
town of Richecourt, north of Xivray
one of the tarpets of the Americans,
has been abandoned so far as American
patrols which reconnoitered near
the towns were able to determine.
The American artillery also is
keepinp up a stream of other shells
on enemy positions in this region.
St. Baussant. northeast of Richecourt.
has been heavily shelled with
high explosive projectiles, while Geri
man first line trenches repeatedly
have been hit and levelled and enemy
dugouts and snipers' posts completely
silenced.
CKItMWS CI>AIM CAPTURE
1MiH Cil'XS AND 100 TANKS
Berlin. March 26. (via London!.?
The number of puns captured by th?Germans
in the battle now in progress
has increased to 963. army
headquarters announced today
Biarhes, Barleux and Etalon have
been captured by the German forces.
More than 100 tanks were lyinp In
captured positions, It is added.
British troops Just broupbt for
ward attacked the German lines violently
from the direction of Albert.
They were driven back, the reports
state after a bitter strupgle.
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STEEL COIIPOfiiATION SHOWS
BIG INCREASE IN BUSINGS?
New York, March 28.?Coincident
with an announcement of an increase
of 15 per cent in the wages of its
employes, making a total advance of
65 per cent since 1915, the United
States Steel corporation today madnubile
it* annual reiwiri lain
This showed a tremendous increase
:n the volume of business, but a deciease
In earnings.
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LANCASTER, S. C., FRIDj
BRITISH RECAPTURE ||
THE VILLAGES LOST
Deliver Counter Attack Between
Ancre and Somme and Take
Two Towns.
1
OFFENSIVE DIMINISHING
Germans Capture Town of AI- 1
bert But Power of the Enemy
Begins to Wane and is Greatl>
Impaired.
i
(Uwlnesday.) j
The strength of the great German ,
offensive in France apparently is fast (
diminishing. On the seventh day of ,
the titanic battle there were strong ,
indications that the enemy was feeling
materially the strain he had un- .
dergone and that his power had been greatly
imnairod . v. ?i. >
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age. .
While the town of Albert had been ,
captured from the British and west ,
ol Roye the French have been compelled
to give ground in the face of |
gi**atly superior numbers, the British
have repulsed heavy attacks, both (
north and south of the Somme and ,
also driven back across the Ancre
river the Germans who forded the ]
stream Wednesday. The fighting still
continues of a sanguinary character .
on all these sectors, but everywhere ,
the British and French are holding .
the enemy. Especially severe has ,
been the fighting west of Albert,
where the Germans, in an endeavor
to debouch westward were repulsed
by Field Marshal llaig's men with
the heaviest casualties.
The British gains between the
Somme and Ancre regions are represented
by the recapture of the town
of Morlancourt and Chipilly. South
of the Somme they have advanced to
Proyart, which lies to the south of
Bray.
('oun try side KcdcvuMated.
All
.... a.uiiK mi* au-miie front, from
the region of Arras to the south of
the Oise, near Noyon. the effects of '
what was to have been the final
stroke to end the war in a victory '
for the Teutons are only too plainly
evident in the redevastation and the
countryside and the wreck and ruin '
of the towns, villages and hamlets
through which the armies have
passed.
Westward from where the old battle
line reared itself the Germans
everywhere have pushed forward for
material pains, but with foes before
them who fought with the greaest
bravery and stubborness and ceded
r.o ground unless recompensed at 1
usurious rates in men killed, wounded
or made prisoner. It is estimated '
that in the great attacks delivered in
mass formation more than 400,000
of the nearly a million men the Germans
threw into the fray are d'-ad.
wounded or in the hands of their
foes.
HitITISH ItKTAKK VII.IAGFS
(MPTI'HJCD BV (iKBMAXS
London, March 2 7.?The British
delivered a counter attack between
the angle of the Anere and the
Somrue and recaptured Morlancourt >
and Chipilly, the war office announe- .
ed this evening. 1
The French have been heavily en- <
gaged west of Roye and were forced 1
to give ground, the announcement
states. Reinforcements for them are 1
arriving. i
An enemy attack in the neighbor- i
hood of Bucquoy has so far made no t
impression upon the British line.
A number of other heavy attacks
both north and south of the Somnie ?
were repulsed with heavy loss to the ?
Germans. The enemy's troops are in <
Albert. 1
The Germans crossed the Ancre
yesterday afternoon but were coun- I
ter attacked and driven ha/>u ?/> ??? ?
the river. <
The British have again advanced '
their line south of the Sourme to <
Proyott.
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F,XA< TI>G ORB AT TOhl/4 OK i
IJKK FROM THK K\KM\ a
With the British Army in France
March 27.?The faith,of the men In J
their ability to cope with the hardhitting
Germans has never flagged
from the start, and those troops 1
which are coming back from the J
fierce battles of the past few days. *
.n which they fought as they prob- '
1
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STER
\Y, MARCH 29, 1918.
GERM;
?SKeJ
SEARLY TWO-THIRDS OF
HUN RESERVE ENGAGE
Bighty-Kive Divisions, or I.27.VM
Men, Out of Total of
On the Front.
Ivondon. March 28.?The cortf
londent of the Daily Mail at Briti
leadquaurters in France, says th
learly two-thirds of the entire str
egic reserve of the German arn
low has been thrown into the her
ind vigorously continued attack
"This German reserve," he adc
"consisted of 85 divisions, totallii
1.275,000 men, out of a total nui
ber now reaching not far short
200 divisions, or possibly 3,000.0'
men, which they have upon the w?
tern front. After the first day 33
these divisions were put into t
battle. On the third day another
ire known to have taken part. Sin
then they must have drawn upon t
reserve for a few more divisions.
"It is, therefore, clear that 1
have been struggling with the whc
available strength of the Germ;
army, and the marvel is that o
soldiers have held out so obstinate
and steadily against odds so heavi
against them."
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BRITISH LINE IS BENT
BUT IT IS NOT BROKE
London Paper Says German Chan<
for Success (iron U-ss With Kverj
Hour That Passes.
London. March 28.?The Lond
evening papers tase consolation
the fact that the Germans thus t
have failed to hreak the British lin
nr force a wedge between the Br
ish and French armies and in t
news front France that the gaps ha
been tilled with local reserves. \vh
the strategical reserves remain
tact for their own special purpose.
The Standard says:
"After five days of fighting t
British line has gone back almost
the limits of the Somme battlefie
but. though it is elastic, it is r
brittle, it is lent, but not broken."
The Globe says:
"The Germans have failed
thrust so deeply into the Hritish li
as to makf a reunion of the fissu
impossible and to defeat the sepan
rd masses in detail. And with eve
hour the German Chances prow les<
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WOULD SET ASIDE WILL
OF LATE J AMES C. KI>
Kflfort to Gain Probate of Second tl
Gaston Mean- ( laiins to Have
OiMCovered.
t'hicago. March 28. A petition
?t a--.de the f.rst will of *he la
lames C. King has been filed in t
probate court, it became known 1
lay, wherein Marry C. Melvin see
to pain probate of a second w
which Gaston H. Means claims
have discovered. The first will w
made in IbOl and the latter doc
mervt in 1005. Hearing of the pe
ion has been deferred until May 1
An endowment of $2,000,000 w
provided in the first will for t
lames (\ King home for old men ai
? comparatively small sum was t
jueathcd to Mrs. Maude King, t
vldow, whose death near f'oncoi
v. c., led to tt.e trial there of Men
ror -murder. He was acquitted. T
lecond will leaves the bulk of the $:
>00,000 estate to Mrs. Kin* ai
nakes no piovision for the home f
>ld men.
A petition to establish the validi
>f the first will was fi'ed recently
Attorney General of State Hrunda,
ind is awaiting hearing.
XMUGAMiTKI) NOCTKTY OF
FNtilNKKRS ABANDON STllli
London, March 28.?In view
he critical situation at the front t'
Amalgamated Society of Engine*
las abandon* d the strike movemei
t has been long threatening as
jrotest against the governmen
nan power measure.
/'
New
SUBS
K Kt6 I? A. T
rju.
KK THE
0
TWO YOUTHS GUILTY OF |
D ATTEMPTED EXTORTION J
AO Admit Trying to Get SlO.tMKI in
Order to Conduct BoNhevie
Propaganda.
>s- New York, March 2 8.?Isadore
?h Gernstein and Morris Bernstein, at- ?
at rested last night charged with ata
tempting to blackmail L. F. Loree.
ay president of the Delaware and Hudce
son Kailraod company, out of $10,ann
??,
--v, iwicukuiu^ uisciosures co?- j
Is, eerning his fod, Maj. Jam<-8 Talbot
ng Loree, in the United States army at
11- Spartanburg, S. C.. pleaded guilty to ]
of attempted extortion when they were
0?> arraigned late today.
>s- The youths, who were high school
of students, told the court (hat they
he are believers in the doctrines of the
21 Bolsheviki and that they hoped to
ce get the money from Mr. Loree in orhe
der to conduct propaganda in th.e f
country. i
we ?
>l? SOLDIER MUST FIRST <
REQUEST THE ARTICLE !
ly i
'y Nothing fan Be shipped to Soldiers, !
1
in France I nless Requested hy
the Soldier Himself. I
IN
Washington. March 28.?Shipment j
<t>s of any articles to troops in France unless
they have been requested by the .
* soldier himself, was forbidden by j
Major General March, acting thief
of staff.
No explanation of the order was .
on i
Riven in the statement issued by
General March, but it is known that ,
ar , , 1
the purpose is to conserve transput**
. ' tation space. Warning that such
^ action might become necessary un- '
less relatives and friends ot the soldiers
eliminated all unnecessary!
shipments was issued recent!v bv th* ; 1
In* t
postomce department.
: SAMI'KI, H. IIAKDWH K I)IKS
AT HOMK OK HIS UAKiHTKll'
to
l,j ; Montgomery, Ala., March 28.?
lot Samuel H. Hard wick, aged 63, for
many years general passenger agent
i of the Southern Railway, with headquarters
in Washington, died sudne
denly Tuesday, as a result of paralyire
sis at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
a(, Walton Hill. Mr. Hardwick retired
,rv j a few years ago on account of ill,
| health.
* *
IKKAINK A\l? GKItMASY
ii.\ ? r, nr.m?H ?i DIM'l I K '
Ix>ndon, March 28.?A serious dispute
has arisen between the Ukraine '
?nej and Germany over Germany's de- '
j mand that she be given 85 per cent 1
I of the Ukrainian wheat, according 1
| to a telegram received in Petrograd
! from Kiev and forwarded bv Reu- (
to! ter s limited. Germany also de- "
lt(. i manded that she be given a large r
' .percentage of other foodstuffs not *
lo-i needed by the population of the 1
I Ukraine.
ijl The telegram adds that there are r
to dissensions in the Ukrainian cabinet, 1
as which is divided for and against the
u. German demands.
6 FEARED PLOT TO BLOW
UP THE SPENCER SHOPS
he j
nd 11
,e" Humor K.xploded Willi Discovery of 0
he ri
,(l loo Dynamite t aps Stolen and a
n:- Five Men Under Surveillance.
he 11
J.- 1
ntj Spencer. N. C.. March 2 8.?
or A disturbing rumor that the n
Southern Railway Shops at r,
tv Spencer were threatened with f
being blown up by dynamite a
last night was exploded when a spe- ^
rial officer recovered an even 100 p
dynamite caps stolen from a freight
car here. The explosive? were missIK
ed early in the day. giving rise to the p
of rumor, that the shops were in dan- ?
hej ger. and were found in a piece of i
>rs woods near town, bloodhounds be- ,
it. used by the officers in the search, j
a The officers state that five younp K
fa white men are implicated in the robbery
and are under surveillance.
CRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR
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LINES
;trength of the
offensive is now
fast diminishing
n Fact Has Almost Come to
Halt Though Savage Fighting
Continues.
BATTLE IN A NEW PLACE
Enemy Begins Operations East
of Arras in Apparent Effort
to Widen the Area of Battle
to the Northward.
Slowly assuming the shape of a
riant ploughshare the German drive
n lMcardy has come almost to a halt
xcept at the very tip of the salient
Iriven into the lin?>> of the entente
\llves. As this ea covered by the
Teutonic oflensive stands now, it
uus, on the south. >n an almost
straight line from L&ndricourt, on
he old "Hindenburg line," to Monttidier,
well behind the allied positions
as they stood in lit 10.
Savage fighting has taken place on
I,. V" v- - - "
..*r . icntu pan 01 int line. The Clernan
attempts to advance on the ?>*reme
tip of the salient driven into
he French positions have been fruitess
and they have been driven back
?t the point of the bayonet. The
Flritish on the front north of the
Scarpe also have repulsed the enemy,
but south of this river they have
seen forced to retire. -j
From Montdidier the line to the
northeast runs with a sha:p angle to
iVarvillers and there it turns northward
and passes along the Sommc
iver to above Albe?t, where it again
urns to the northeast until it joins
he old lines h? Id ov the contend.n#f
irmies on the morning of March 21.
Tmi Important Vt-u Features.
Cut of the vc nfusion of the battlo
.r.d the contrarv riaims of the /ov._
estir.g armies, two new features
lard out. The t. M is that the
French. ov? r a I'ont of six miles,
ave <1 liven into *n?- German lines
dor g th<- southern siile of tlie s:nient
established 1 y the Teutonic,
trive. The other is that the Gernar.s
have begun a new operation
o the east o' Arras which may ho
he inception of a widening of tho
ivea of battle t the northward.
At the present moment the allied
vorld is looking anxiously for news
>! the vuccesw of th? French thrust
nto the flank of the German foices.
The fact that the drive progressed
apidly and cut a de? p notch int< the
lertnan-held ground in the region of
voyon may indicate that this movenent
is the counter-offensive which
?..s been expected for the last three
iays. Progress by 'he French for a,
onsiderable distance into the Gernan
forces would cut off the Teutojos
ighting at the vtry tip of tho
'ploughshare" and compel them to
etreat. or at lea^t pause until the
nenace to thcii communications cau
?*' rf-nrnv*-/!
Might Overturn Plan.
A further advance by the Fiench
night easily overturn the whole plan
if the Germans and hiing about a
ew phase of the battle in which the
Hies would strike hard all along, the
ront and compel the Germans to reinquish
their dearly bought eonuests.
The German activity near Arras
nay have for its purpose either a
ew drive at the allies' lineH or a dcensive
operation intended to stop
n English blow from the north concident
with that begun by the
'rench.
Thp British held firm north of the
iPftrTUi. K??4 f/v ?? * *- * 11
?. w in*- MMiiu oi mfi river
lave been driven back. Their line
iow is near that occupied in July,
916, and runs straight from Arlcm,
?orth of Arras, to Boiseleux, on the
ire held by the British on the north
ide of the dent driven into their
(Continued on Fage Four.)
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