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Poic? 1 if A TATTif V ' T* r *"V ^ I , rv*s * % Ik ^ A (o^nli ' r ' - ' ' r?TRt K1 C * y : r $ * sir < A ^?01,. 23. %0. 60. S HER PASSENGE II Ji J IEMI. WEEKLY. R {ITALIAN FRONT LANfcASTEI IS (GERMANY PLA t, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 17, .NNING 11 ^ Cain JL \i ^ V 1918. '' i, I AT I A MP A OTPD UAL' nAi SUBSCRIPTS ~ n Iottaw ? <* 21 I $2.00 A YEAR /-? & RFPftRTIQ A HAND FREIGHT RA ' f Former Will Be Raised to i t \ Three Cents Per Mile Ur i. f New Plan. TES SCENE Ai Vbout Huns Are Forced to Fi ider Italians Taking Aggressive. CTION A NEW SUB! ight, the Cruiser Submarines the Especially to Mcei of Destroye SCHEME Th The Lancas gone "Over tl ? Designed or allotments I Menace The Lancas rs 13'7] 1.2C 1 r* r m+mm. AJi 11 ^ 1 JU1% 11/10 I/Vi ter Chapter of the American I le Top" in every drive?whet! of work. ter chapter has shipped to he* L5 surgical dressings. >1 hospital garments. <1 fi. w ?4? n , wc , DENIE \ed Cross has her for funds Echo of ] Quarters: Preci?ita Ger im niil Vfltl IVJ ',D IN ENGLAND 1 v 1 i Political Controversy ted By Incident of leral Maurice. |T&rO MEET THE DEI / Rate Experts Are Now at L f on the New Schedules yjf Probably Within Six \ M They Will Become Effect ?rV ? ?ICIT AMERICANS TAKE Work Austrian Naval Base R and Italians and Rig Rati Veeks Destroyed?Heavy ive. Fire in France. PART WILL BE HEAVIL aided By War Against the U leship is Been Effective ai Artillery tion of Allied Shi stantly Falls Off. Jl ,DC Y ARMED 3,3 In addition Lancaster gra -Boats Has 14( id Destruc- 1,40( ipping Con- *'^3( 12S >o Knitted articles. fO Christmas packets, to the above, the Junior Red ided schools has made: ) fracture pillows. ) abdominal bandages. ) gauze compresses. > refugee capes and caps. I property bags. ? _ IS PROMF Cross of the American ' to Re Uj era! Fo< For AIli< >TLY REPUDIATED Troops Will Continue ^ sed in Rattle as Gench Determines Best JS. hV ^Vashlngton, May 16.?Est J by railroad officials in an Sncreaso of at least 5 QSt in freight and passenger ^WTll ^be necessary this "year to . \ Ihe higher costs of fuel, \\Jjpment and other opetatir ymt set at between $600,0i Jci$760,000,000 more tha imate8 Among the rugged pea! idicate Asiago- plateau, east of tl !5 per river, the Italian front rates flamed into violent action, i meet greaaive has been taken b> wages. 'ans. however, and the A ig ex- man forces instead of launc 00,000 ,onK expected assault on t n last 'lne8> have been comneller Its of the Washington, May 1 le lirenta that America and the has again gained the mastery ove The ag- type of submarine, Ger ' the Ital- said to be planning a 1 ustro-Ger- big U-boat cruisers wit htng their hopes to again assume he Italian age in her unrestrictet t tr> ficht I Ut 6.?Realizing Tl)e ? allies have wa"'?1 249, P r the present The pupils many now is P?rt ?.f four, sew series ?f P,iy1hSE; :h which she Ue^..at ???.. ? , T he rural s the advant1 underwater 4k < rt An > cotton paas. f the Central school have colk ounds of magazines for the s of Central school have undert French war orphans at $.16 p jo forwarded clothing for thre chools of Lancaster county ha capes for refugees. icted and foroldiers. Washing* aken the sup- ?m?ers are er year each. reports iron ie others, val- that Amerlcj used until a ve made: American ar in France as * >n, May 1C.?American incl'nod to characterize 1 l^ondon via Ottawa an troops would not bo complete and powerful. flH my had been developed L,n : an echo of tlie political *' . T^econimendation that ?at< H ] fd by approximately thi Af" 'i (ago lias been made to 1)1 I^Veferal McAdoo by his advise A is expected to act within the n< JS weeks, and to put increases ir \ | feet immediately. Shippers w /'permitted to appeal to the Int? hard to maintain the where they have stood sine '8 be vember. s per- Tlie flKhtinK seems to ha Irector p(J Qn the comparatively i rs. He tlon of the battle line betwi ext six Asolone and^ Monte I'ertic ito ef- lwo heights, about three m rill be riBe to an altitude of ab >rstate r?- _?. warrare. positions e last No- Announcement of the scheme is made by Gee ve center- the Fronch minister of short sec- ,ntervlew received here cen Monte 'lisPatch from France, a. These regarding ^the new U iles apart, K,ven h>' M- I'Oygues, hi out 5,000 mnt'on from other soun .iUU new German >rge Leygues, ^ marine, in an in an official The Lancas No details head expense -boats were material for < it from informs it appears property bags. hat Lancaster Has NOT DON iter chapter has not spent one . Every dollar contributed go nvilian and military relief. v *'iui \>> ci ay by the ineid They could i since the sta F 13i# "war co in mi cent for over- cabinet was es into actual I'ortl Readii here, and lai Raker in a at absolute pi ecipnuieu in r.ngiantr*ir " ent ol" General Maurice, see no other explanation .tement attributed to the ttee" of the British war promptly repudiated by tig. British ambassador tor declared by .->ccretar' formal statement variance with iho Mi Commerce commission unde '(t railroads act. and final declslo I be with the President. Such an increase as is pn I. would be the biggest in the 1 I' of American railways, as th f rentage Is larger than any i sought by the railways unde ( vate management, and would wnue oetweeti ttiem 1 r the sort Gf "saddle" on which n wi" tonic forces have taken i positions. Both the VI jposed Rome official statements ilstory bitter fighting on this e per- front, the latter stating ever Italian soldiers have enti r prl- trian trenches on Monte / apply two places. there is a in!l1 ine cruiser suhma the Teu- heavily armed and arm. up strong be designed especially ienna and menp.ce of the torpedo telling of ers which have proved s particular hunting down the small that the now in operation, ered Aus- M. Leyguee declared 1 isolone in are ready to meet Ge i .?_ lilies will he ? ? ored and will WINNERS AN IN to meet the F0R SH boat destroy10 effective in ler submarine Ten Ladies Will < From This Cc that the allies irmany's new June il [OUNCE!) (OVERWHELl ORT COURSE FOR ME Jo to Winthroiv Southern Chur* lunty From e?I to <Ji to 15. I,u< . r.s known he VIIN<; VOTE Lord Reai HODIST WOMEN was confider had been is? of Premier l? Discipline Amend- that the vie ,, exactly oppe ve Tliem Full said Anieric V Status. jnp, dsed in ;re. rl?r?K*s statement sai it no such announcenoNS iued with the kno~~ Lloyd George. a< ' 'ws of the British >site. Secretary Baker / an troops were now bebattle and would eon fa to the entire couhtry. i and commodity schedules ffected. ate experts" of the Intt imerce commission and ro inlstrktiom, now are at wo l|chedul?s. Any increases ired will be arranged in a to preserve rate relationshi Hoth The fact that the Italii would have taken the Initiative in ing would seem to indicate jrstato have sought to carry the flj lilroad enemy In such a way as to vrk on any arrangements for the to be of a strong Teutonic assa man- has many precedents in tl ips be- war. a strong offensive at cuuriB hdu mai mey in armies upon the "fine results the fight- the past, that they "We shall not stop,'' ght to the til we have cleaned u break up one cleans up a trench launching Construction Tops ult. This Just how effective 1 le present war against the U-boati a threat- ficures on r win not rest obtained" in The assistant emi monstration agent he said, "un- Craig, announces t p the sea as women and girls o winners of the shor Sinkings. ships given at Wintl has been the June the 6th to 15t i is shown by The women are: vf nlllo.1 ' *** jrgency home rie- Atlanta, Ga? Miss Annette years of effort, he following ten f this county as dist Episcopal t course scholar- granted by act! tirop college from conference, full h" church. Miss Anna Ben- _ , . ParflcrnnhQ 11 tinue to be -v commander, May 16.?After 4 0 . best. women of the Metho- . Inquiry al church. South, w.ere the war dep, on of the general expedited i membership in the fiance is pi ter the anno ,, , ,, . units would used as the supreme/ General Foch. deemed . the various bureaus of \ artnient showed that the % novement of men to J oeeeding as planned afuneemcnt that American be brigaded with France \ f communities and region said, bo that Industrie erclal interests will be a 5 same degree of rate co i? at present, isenger fares would be the plan suggested to cents a mile, from the e: al rate of a little less tha s, offl- ene(l Point being considers is and defense under certain clrci ubject While the fighting has mpeti- nerce of the Brenta, Italian line from Lake Gai raised Piave an<l thence to the ser about marked by patrol eng elating which ^PPear to be Isolate n two but w^,ch he compor of a D1 a n of rnmnnipn in i the best ping grven to the nav imstances. French chambei been very Saturday by Minister L the whole rcveal thst sinkings of da to the hftve faiiP,n ofT to the i has been new construction is e agements, (iC8truction even now \ d actions. j,an yards are in full s> lent parts Rreftt buiiding program U.i.mi lieu, rieUNiini I1JII, al committee H. R. Rlakeney, Anl r of deputies Mrs. J. M. Yoder. .evgues. They Club; Mrs. B. F. Ui merchantmen Club; Mrs. W. W. point where L). Club, ixceeding the The girls are: M >efore Ameri- Osceola Canning ("1 ving on their Griffin, Osceola Can i. Maxine Baker, A ti. u. uiuu; Mrs. tioeh H. I). Club; inK; "u is not Vanvvyck II., I), spirit of our 1; sher, Dixie H. D. members of a g Boyce, Unity H. , . , , . ' is not lawful 1 iss Susie Secrest, s,rwa"'> an,l a lub; Miss Gertie ?'d a superinten ning Club; Miss school, but is ntiooh Canninc ?f ?i in harmony with the | 0pera.tions a iw that womcj be Qucstioi eneral conference; it 1,1 view o is felt that o elect a woman a come from t woman may be elect- known that dent of a Sunday fn whlc it thereby a member j be employed , divisions for immediate ' ? ?-? s well as training. | ii Has Keen liaised. 9 f these developments, I an explanation mu I he British eapital. It some question as to th ~~\eS h an American ald.laSto has been raised in Lon- ' ? I fane-nan cenis. e proposed Increases, it i d, would yield about (00, $700,000,000 in freigl ,000,000 in passenger rev would leave a margin abo lated increase in operatir js eventually, but since th would not go into effect jaar iu hftlf nvor * 1 * ter of the war. Nowhere s ?sti~ Italian lines been reached $900.- lnR parties 0f Austrians. tit and In pjandors and Pica enues. heavy artillery fire has mi ve the flKhtinK during the last da; if? ?*~ joan gunners have been at e new (be gftnerai bombardment until been going on and have havo (ho The mon*hly averagi by attaok- tionB this year, as give Rues, is 315.000. con rdy only more than 500.000 ton arked the *917. In April, of 1? y, Anier- "rRt month of Germany : work in ed submarine warfare, that has Hl>nk was 871.000. In again set >'Par. It had dwindled t a of destruc- flub; Miss Minnie n by M. Ley. Onk Hurst Canning l pa red with (l,ed Sistare, Ri s monthly in Club, est year, the These ladies are 'a unrestrict- lated upon winning the tonnage sh'Ps: every expen! April, of this wl" be K?ests of o about 268,- th('-v wil1 hftve the 5 Belle HoRler. ordered strlckoi Club; Miss Mil- jaws versido Poultry I he measure . . . the same whicl to be ron?ratu- .. these scholar- l'? >e Is paid: they ,,1"' < Iho college, :trnI ,' ''f11' ''1' a Vl opportunity of i ^ hlle '' wa! . f hnt thn urtmnn j L'uiwerence, ' were j don, some o i from (he book of the use of Ai ' restricted at passed is practically : American s li was presented by dwelt upon t issionary council at power as th< ference in lit 14 and Since th< ate of 10r? to 171. American ba * practically certain; allied forces ,J I * * m ffloials were feeling that merican troops should be ^ J tljis time in favor of | supplies; while others % I the urgent need of mnn? first consideration, i ^decision to scatter ttalions or regiments ii> was made only because ^Hvould fall several hundred r Wfellara short of meeting the \ JKfrted dej^ftf"this year. .. lS^TwiglUy estimated by ra . JBn^gtration officials that mL '3*,<*fhls yegr will spend hr W^riJ.ooo.oot) 'and $:tr.n.m P more for wage^ than last yea P tween $120,000,000 and S15( J.O..I buildir?8 in Montdidier i nilllon Here aTUi there there have atiticl- troj engagements, but th( have not approached the r llroad Gf a battle at any point. the a daring raid on the Aui itween Val base at Pola has been )0,000 Italian units, and an Ausl r; be- tleship of the 20,000-ton ). 0 0 0hoon T *" l n flames. """ tons, been pa- the other hand, th ese fights of submarines Is exeeedi nagnitude struction hy the enemy gin is'expected to incn strlan na- tional American destr made by now are being turned trian bat- ?take their place with type has operating in the war zi neartng splendid le ie destruction over the rountr-vIng their conand the mar- ELECTED DR. ! ease as addi- HEAD OF oyers which out rapidly, the warcraft r?,,eKp Trustees < f)n<1- Professor uo 8 eturers from all " w as expressed t overwhelmingly SEEC.ERS j-.ast minute 1 NEWBERRY b>; Jud of Atlanta, lost t Bishop E, D. \ 'boose Seminary to 8ustaln a pop ? ;a technicality. , uccesMor to , . . . k I \n#A t.ilfpn Kv O wuuiu win, surprise or me cry i hat the vote was so the British ? large. when the Ge erforts to block the terinK the I Re John S. Candler, rMcardy, om. hrough the ruling of to fin(1 the t< louzon, who refused now attribu nt of order based on distasteful. \n effort to have the Program in 1 ? t n r/i1 or manpower from boih ind French government rman onslaught was bat- #' lines in Flanders an\ ? I W // x rials here were inclined, t >ne of the announcement i ted to the war cabinet The whole American France has been subject * 060 more for coal, and be $180,000,000 and $2B0,0I more foi^cars, locomotives, 1 for inland waterways and othe pliaa jU|d equipment. These 1 la'er de !*?' le<J*ft?o Wluatinaeronqly ^kre In to believe that they' more i_. r MWVU UVOll U/CU. 1 IIC J-ltll itween forces wore aided in their < 50,000 by the co-operation of a barges squadron. r sup- It has been announc Igures Washington that an oflh (Telop- ifas been issued by the sc stud- Srnment of Russia, callinj clined formation of an army that likely for the security of the Ri inn navai 1 nirs <inin inrti >perations The total of allied n aeria' stroyed In the first foi 1918 was placed by J ed from guos at 1,262,345 tons ilal order the submarines are abl( ivlet gov- this rate, which official I for the year's total would b< will fight Hke 3,700,000 tons, or issian re- OfitlmntoH onmnnt rxt e iratftl. shipping do- Harm ir months of Minister Ley- Newberry. May 1< and even if of 'he board of trus 5 to maintain eoile^e here, the Fte Is doubt, the D. !>., professor of p s something 'he Lutheran Th less than the ary, Columbia, was rtf t Hn / nllotrr. i r\ 1,11/ ? "vw "J is. . laymen separate ? Mo^t of the 5.?At a meeting thP efforts to se< tees of Newberry c,al rcP^sentati v. J. C. Seegers, mi8sions- The < raotical theology ?"?tainoci the oo eological Semin- lon that vomen elected president Undod "la,ly ri? .u? t> , really be placed n.^13, picmners and ly, also failed. ,on> the ofTe debate centered on as'de nation "ure for women spe- t'onf? of An on on the hoard of rar>k In ord< conference, however, aid- Such s mmittee in its opin- ed J'Khtly. it should not be ex- or rejectee hts plus" but should mont In Lon on the unnio fnntin.. M vsterv jj i enauil <?l I nai (IPflSct of which was to set V al pride and the ambi- / lerican ofrtcers of high W ?r to furnish immediate I ^ } acrifioes were not viewis held, or to he accept- \ il at the whim of the mo- ^ don or elsewhere. . sr nf n<MWWt V ( ifurln to ko higher. The estimate of Increased Wji based on the probability that t rector general will approve a k Cakheme of higher pay.fbr woi n aceordahce with the railroad fe<MUiB|^8foh'8 ii^commendi which called for an addition of 000,000 to the $2.000,000,00C public, which has bean mf ij?o? is the anKiession of the Gerr He di eneral DODGERS OF SERVIC rkineu AGREE TO SlIRR wage ... ttions, >|en Hiding in North Caroll tains Descendants of De< naced by the shipping board beli nans. wjjj produce during the Adding to American !E the output in Great Br ENDER and Japan, the allies \v< the year something li na Moun- tons of chartered Japan ierters wegian ships and Dutch vessels. 'llll W lliril | vt v,,v * i?' nuv eves America Henry Harms, p. 1 > year. resigned. A cnmm i production board of trustees w itain, France bia to tender the p i>uld sain for R^rs, and tender his ke 2,000,000 JDr. Seegers is or ese and Nor- ministers of the Lu requisitioned the South. Four yi called to the chair * rcw Uir i\t:v. J. 3.. who recently ns mcn" Tho m Ittee from the p?8ed of 10 prf ill ro to Colum- men- Thc won lace to Dr. See- ' "ow m acceptance. tho hoa,d ie of th? ablest Fle,'h?r siteran church in Keneral 8eCretar: war work counc Mrs afro no was of nr?cti i t,h?. A- addressed ission hoard Is com- Just how i achers and 2rt lay- ,,lft recent pi >en claim the term ^merioan of ill include them on ,() S'AV- Th? that English Brockman, associate mystery, ho\ y of the national British pov 'il of the Y. M. C. Promptly an; the conference bv may be abou his report may relate to 1 ililical crisis in England ' fleers do not undertake y have a strong feeling politics is behind the vever, and look to the ernnient to correct ^ V misapprehension Uiero \ /' t the need for Amffican *''.-Ax roii or last year. Jk& Although the question of tl fill prices the railroads are to p 1( coal under Rovernment ope Wj has not been settled, offlct If charge of purchases are said tr decided that it will be necessi pay at least 65 cents more than under contracts now exi ll' D.ll.n.J.' * ? *' <? ? urirs, de ex- Raleigh, N. C., Miy fty for Jackson county deserters 1 ration been hiding out in the r als in bave "ent word to the jMtth ? have charge of the dr>ft law in try to %y th*t they arB willing to a ton anf' come in, according to Mrlng. f'ekett, who has just retur While encouraging, 16.?The phaaize the /act that srhe have do not furnish the mar dountalns that j? necessary and t loHtlea In no relaxing of bulldin the coun- ftny Df the allied cou Surrender America. England's ou Governor this year has not come ned from tations and the America officials era- oloRy at the seminai these flRures he was pastor of Sfc Rln of safety fa.. and ReadinR, Pi here will be he was pastor of St, R efTorts In fa., and for six yea ntrios or in a larRe church in A1 tput this far Dr. Seegers is a i up to expec- bia, his home being n yards have bly street. He wai y. At that time spooi^,, invitati< , John's. -Easton, to,<l of the ro,iKi a. Prior to that ?an Y M C' A' 1 . John s, Easton. Wl1h ,he forcp" rs was pastor of ,hat hun<lreds of bany N. Y unteered for s? native of Colum- but "he 1,61,(1 'OT at 1718 Assam- 2,600 morp 8*rr ? reared in Co- work muM "horl The speaker Rhi. ous work the Amerl- There are R doingNit home and agitating off! abroad. He stated tawa report i niiniatera have vol- *"or one thlr srvlee in war work rers for the more was great as that the Am etaries for overseas rpRrh its hi -ly be recruited. either the Fr .some other Oiiestions "V rials here which the Ot- ? served to brine to light. ? 1 k, American army offl most part are convinced erican army will never chest efficiency under ench or British army Y U?U0 w?i vuiimi Tii?pi lOTl ATT to about 176,000,000 tons a y< The coat of extensions and t ments, particularly at tern now being planned, can be d< ^ lned at this tlhie only In moal I eral terma, but officials poll Y^tfcat the financial burden of S^pail be felt frlthin six month lOUntfl " riiKitKnuirnt ear. county. >etter- 11 ?n Interesting fart I linalfi, t'on w'th the desertions In t derm- tains of Western .North Can t *en- ,n R majority of the cases ,t out who [t",: ,^;,V in not turned out the toi 4P ? pated because of frelgt n ronnee- an<j other causes, and he ramin- fortg are being made allna that thege deficiencies. the men ? spns of ^.-Selectmen for Cani; \k<>\ duf<y f'ump Hevler, QreeWfj (atfijM^ltld Two hitftdrg0||^?jf0| mage antici- lumba and resided 1 it congestion until bis courses in renewed ef- aamlnary had been c< to make up He said he had n? he waa being conside ^ untih called ove^ ^ht p HkwJyri undeqided m im y#'. win do. / here continually WOMAN liAWY college and the r.AME IN ompleted. Greenville, 8. j intimation that flrsl legal ca*e ? ired by the board nian lawyer in ? telephone. Tie tried here today aa to what he who waa ycentl ,, fice la^ in thh defense. ?h , systems. Tli ER ri.KADS officers and SOI'TH CAROLINA thinys peeull C., May IS.?The eannot be tri ?ver plead by a wo- the other. South Carolina was In the opii , Miss James Perry, here, the tim y admitted to prao- when Amerlr I state representing other side wi a won fhft MI?o - - ie relation between the men in each army are ar to each army. They insposed from one to fll ilon of many officers c is fast j^^oachinR an officers ni the 11 be relied upon for the " V '.lM :V|;; ~ .....v.. training or ti ho distortion of bo- ev than veto tan admitted to prac- - Tina. (Contli ^^mencatwTrTnyV rathrana of trench warfare ==