The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, July 19, 1918, Image 1
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VOL. 23. NO. 7* SEMI-W
ALLIEDOFFENSIVE
> IN INITIAL STAGE
MEETING SUCCESS
*
German Lines Penetrated First
Day to a Depth of Six
Miles.
ENEMY CANNOT STOP IT
Four Thousand Prisoners, Thirty
Guns and Much War Material
Has Been Captured By
Allies.
?. From vhe region west of Soissons to
the northwest of Chateau Thierry, 4
American and French armies have I
/ , -b^gun a strong offensive against the
y Germans which possibly may have
a marked influence on the future of
the world war. In its initial stage
^ the movement has been rewarded
I with great success. 1
JT All along the 25 mil?* the French
and American troops L~ve dashed in
bVilliant fashion across positions
"V^^eld by the Germans, killing woundK,v^g
or capturing thousands of the rj
jmy and taking towns, villages
L j A large quantities of guns and oth l
p ar supplies. 1
pV .towhere, according to last accounts
from the front, has the enemy
ue?-n time 10 siay mcgptogress or
their assailants, although counter at.
tacks were resorted to on some iin^
^ortant sectors after the first stages
ftt surprise occasioned by the unex./
pected attack had worn away. '
/' *' To the Americans alone In the re- 1
gion west of Soissons came 4,000 *
prisoners, 30 guns and much war s
material. Additional large numbers 11
of captives and further greater
stores of gans, ammunition ami a
^ other war necessities were taken by
the French. Hefore all the positions A
' o\-the* Americans and -the French it
fthei- guns and machine guns cut to t
pities fleeing hordes'of the enemy or S
bands which endeavored to with- I
i% *
? .? stand the onrush."
V1- More Than 20 Villages Taken. a
V The blow, probably long in its inception
is being aimed at territory <3
vit%wG& the Germans?territory the, \
capt1**+'- of which not alone would ?,
mea SSkhe forced retirement of the j
Ger is from the entire "Salient ex- (
V tea , southeastward across the oc- (
' . ' *c\y r, ^fegion from Soissons to >3
it/ ' Vith Chateau-Thierry its i,
17 sf ^ern apex, bbt* possibly would 'j
L* If ft in tho cnnturn nf Hiaiicq n#la
f' f j^lians operating there, many \
I Sin comprising the best soldiers of c
/foe German emperor's armies.
has the advance progressed ,
that alcpady French and American ,
tro<y>s have reached or are astride ?
ptfthe important roads of supply for
Jfeo ^Jerman armies in the south, f
f*^partMulariy the line running from f
? B-ylsofons to Ghateau-Thierry. It is r
not Improbable by reason of this, ^
^^Lfaet that the inability of the enemy v
J^lnstaftly to remove them that further
largo Aiuantitieg of supplies will
.* m taken.
Advance Four to Six Mile*.
Six miieg apparently was the deep- a
est poln' of penetration made by the ?
allied troops in the first day of ^
lng. This was at Buzancy, south of
Soissons, which they captured and
passed through eastward. At sev- a
oral other points distances of from 1
four to five miles were reached from E
the. original starting line. At Solseons
tne Americans and Frenchmen
came to within a mile of the city, ii
m Altogether more than 20 vlllnges
fell into the hands of the Americans
and French all along the battle c
' front. s
AM along the fronts on both sides
of Rheinris the entente trooDs con- _
- I V
tinned to hold the Germans, whet*- (j
ever they had seen fit to launch at- J j
*Wk8. ^Sast of RhelmR the French'j,
have recaptured Pr'unay, hut south t,
of the Marne In local fighting they
have lost some further ground. Th"
German official communication a*- j
serts that In this region success attended
the German efforts.
Southwest of Vlllors Hretonneux, n
' J. In the Amiens sector, the Australians B
again have smashed Into the Ger.
man line, this time on a front exL
ceedlflg a mile in length, capturing n
^ gw 'sand prisoners. Ksst of Hehii\
tf 4he Itrltlsh also Improved their
jlfV . -itlons. The Germans ar?' , , n f
F?' tjnulng thr! Nominardinenta bf various
L ^fttors held by the British In France
S - ^1 J
he Lan
EEKLY. LANCASTER,
FORM Kit HX( \STEH HOY LEWIS MAY I
A PlilSONKK IN (IKIt.UANY
Washington, July 18.?Aviator* TEIF.CRJ
I could operate the wi
nnia, 1,100, Camp Shelby, Miss., j gj saving to the
leorgia, 500, Camp Greenleaf. Fort conipante8. If Mr. 1
>clethorpe, Ca.; Florida, 100, Camn ;i(,tivo chargo Df ti,e >
ihelby; Louisiana, 300, < amp Shel- companies may expe<
y; Mississippi. 1.000. Camp Slmlhy: a,onR (ho ,ine'
ennessoe, 1.100, Camp Shelby; jjOWja began
exits. 1,800, < .imp < ody, N. M miner. He came to
Other assignments to southern wa? (.hainnan Qf tin
amps are: labor when be enter
At Camp Shelby, Miss., 1,000 from contest in Maryland
trkansas: at Camp Wadsworth, S. c,j. Shortly thereafi
'., 100 from Delaware; at Camp pointed by President
ihelby, 50 from District of Colum- member of the tariff
la; at Camp Shelby. 550 from Wis- position he now holds
onsin; at Camp Wadsworth, 700 \fr Lewis' investi
rom Maryland; at Camp (Ireenleaf, munication by wire
!a., 2.500 from New York; at Camp countries of the worh
Vadsworth, 5,000 from Pennsyl
r?~I cn^irmiUIC II
an'a- recommendations of
" general that the wire
PERSONALS. kon over- This wa* r
Misses LiUVe and Mildred Green of pRace but war pr<
re entertaining their cousins. Misses ,he two un ?PP?rtul
Mlzabeth and Lalla Lee Lucius, of their theories about
Jlliotts. erations.
W. T, Gregory, Mrs. Stoney Drake
hd family and Mrs. J. P. Smith have p
e|urned from a camping trip to EtTlYOlllfl tl\
larium Springs, N. C.
-o? The follow
Mlaa Kathleen Strait, of Columbia. i> +
, visiting Dr. T. J. Strait. * *>*?*??
__o~ La i icast
Hoyt Cook atfd Miss Mllita Cook. Primary C
if Kershaw, are visiting friends here bonks be . .OS
??? last Tuesdav
H. H. Scott, the newly elected su- v 1 . mi, '
? ? . . .w" ? . books. 1 nor
erintendent of the Lancaster gra- ?
led school and Mrs. Scott, arrived evei*\ effort
ast week and hegan housekeeping COllllty.
n the Steele cottage on South <'aawba
street.
Ned Gregory has returned from
larium Sprigs. N^C. T)u, ])rjln<e
Mrs. Rodde/aeeA. of Rock Hill, . Nieilt books t
pent Sunday with Mrs. Leslie Robin- TOUl'tll 1 UOSt
on. / . published b<
?o? ' name on the
Miss Madge Givan is the guest of aiHieai'S fl'oll
ifrV t.erov Snrln aa
^~o? * ,
Jpfferao^ Mosier was In town yes- _
erday. '
. /
Tfoe Ueufl.-tH district enrollment
oolf Islit J. Y. Chambers.
; ?.'**** 'jjM
f ? T*. * ..
CASTER 1
S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1918.
IE AD brakes were vigorous^
PH the allies to german
Nowhere Has the Enemy Found It Po:
leson Will Be Through as in Days Gone By?Instea
ctor But They May Be Reckoned Almost
*ve* Admits That German Armies Hi
SPECIALIST o
The German offensive east and thousam
, . west of Rheims has had the brakes that the
oal Miner to vigorously applied to it by the oner of
nrl Hie Minil : ? -' *
, .?o.mu.ae ui uih American, uermaiif
f~, French and Italian armies. cans, Fi
s and Econo- , , ,, t
Nowhere has the enemy found It ""viea ?
possible, as in days gone by. to press by the a
~ forward and tear his way through <"hine >di
18.?The Presi- opposing positions to points of vant- Althoi
joint resolution age chosen as early objectives. ingly ha
ng him to take True, some gains have been made Qernian}
a telegraph andjby (be Qermans hut they are intinit- berR
I co-incidently, esima| when compared with those of _)rp kn(
hv reports that oth??r attacks. Instead of in miles thosp nj(
ive David J. (hey jnay be reckoned almost in ia]Iv
will be the act- yar(js And from some of the posi>f
the wire sys- Uons captured the enemy has been mlnor 0]
ent control. ejected summarily under vicious v*iri(
Itlon as chief of counter attacks delivered by the n
municatlon by American troops fighting alone as a (hp Gerj
that Postmaster ,,n|t and Americans fighting shoul-|ed l)(')inl,
11 be the nom-'.ier to shoulder with their French fm.Prunr
of the telegraph | comrades in arms. tacks
ns. Indications Tacit admission that the enemvj ^
r. Lewis will be hordes have been retarded in their. cJRitMA
eneral and will ns8aui(a> jf not halted, seemingly is j HY
tplete authority, contained in the latest German nffl-1 With
cial communication, which, in deal-'July 18.
member of the |ng with the fighting of Tuesday, as-j the (lerr
ommission with serts that the allied troops on the has boei
iff situation has Marne front have delivered "violent losses c<
war. He would counter attacks" and that to the east I enemy (
a*d telegraph 0f Rhelms "the situation is un- stafT hac
else and is re- changed." "5T to be thi
n as the logical The claims made to any success Germs
) of the govern- ],y (he Germans is that there were north ol
"some local successes to the south-ltle, suff<
Ills Specialty, west of Rhelms." j artillery
Lewis has ape- The successes of the Americans stroyed.
communication and French give back to them points; In a
K been an advo- of strategic value on the heightseast of
owwnershlp of dominating the Marne valley.^ ThC|\*js bro
hone lines and Americans alone re-captured Fossoy i point wl
e Maryland re- and Crezaney, ea^t \of Chateau made w
? acknowledged Thierry and at one point near Fos- pocket
utters. He was soy drove back the enemy across the punched
arcel post rates river and took a number of prison- however
r of the parcel ers. Aided by the French, the re
f.ii.iure ..f Ct. Agnar.. hHl ?0,? pflMn
lind which runs I?a Fhapello-Monthodon, south of inoludin
and the op- DormansJ^^.s accomplished. and oth
iiitie*.. He lias Throuk region lying to these w<
the government Mie \yest 01 especially south French
re systems at a of the Maine. ?* Germans made des- emy pie
public and the perate attempts <>iV various sectors to and nili
Lewis is put in increase their penet ration. jQL'tfeo al- hy the a
vire systems the lied front, but where they wt^Psji^L tion. V
t economies al! to gain any advantage it was only a|V\enrh
foot at a time, the French meeting Germarii
life as a coal their onslaughts with the greatest their he
the house and bravery and making the enemy pay'pression
s committee on dearly for every inch of ground he about P
ed a senatorial took. j This
and was defeat- /Eastward from llheims hard tight- nature <
ter he was ap- ing is still going on almost to the very fai
Wilson as a western fringes of the Argonne for- while tti
' commission, a est, but apparently the enemy here portion
t also is meeting with ill success. At^ the full
gat ion of com- tacks attempted near Prunay and their at
in the various Sulppes came to naught under the will me
1 is regarded as French tire, while further oast, near flying 01
or the repeated Orosnes and Tehure. efforts to break / that the
the postmaster the French line were repulsed withitor are
> system** be ta- heavy losses.
jot done In time) The German official conimunica- LIEITT
jbahly will give tion in dealing with the fighting of PRO
nity to try out Monday says the Germans took 13,-j
government op- 000 prisoners. The French on their
part are reported to have taken prnl?abl]
to Ca
I Books Close Next Tuesday x?w ,
j i i rp i tin Hook
ins telegram was received luosanv: an neriH
f _ man lin
.... e n "
CI. K~>. Vj. ' " ,,
? of (he G
lection laws require that enrollment I message
ied on fourth Tuesday in July and not father, <
in July, as provided in rules of your coiom
ef?re, close <>n July 23. Please make " [J,**1 hh"
to secure full enrollment in your son-in-ia
Derby, w
Ashley C. Tobias, Jr., Sec. pram wt
"Com
Notice! Q"en,ln.
try election laws require the enroll- . r
0 close on the 23rd day of ?ftdy, the n Y>Vnn
day instead of the last Tuesday asV^ <>f ,h? {
Tetofqre. Evprv Voter must get his :t>aijpn.
club roll oq ur before July 23rd as ,r* 81 11
1 the telegram above. * at noon
rY a ox i. purpose
R. S. Stewart,. wh
Cftuntv Chairman, ?eed mti
T. L. Hilton. ??>en to
{Secretary. * . u
\ 0 <?>tu>n A
? -1?
William Plyler and Clarence Stao- .
ninger are prisoners In Germany, !? , ?
the war department haa been ad- ProbaW? That Bui
vised. Plyler. who Is held at Nominal Dire
Camp Karlsruhe, Is believed to Not Act
be Lieut. William P. Plyler of
Kershaw, S. C. Shonlnger, who ?WIG 1Q .
was slightly wounded, is believed LC<nlo lo J\
from information from unofficial
sources, to be a sergeant In the Grew Up From C
Lafayette eacradrtlte. His harae Congressman ai
address was not given.
Runs to Figure
Lieut Plyler? is behoved to be mics.
the William Plyler who lived In
Lancaster when a small boy, later _ , . _ ,
... . , . . my Washington. July
moving with his parents to Ker- ... , ...
shaw dent has signed the
of congress authorizi
over and operate th<
^dmi/nitd fcciirc a telep,re ,ineSi aml
l/KUff l/tR IJuUlJ A there oame tru8twort
former Kepresentat
NEW CALL FOR MEN
terns under governm
Because of his pos
'orty-Six Thousand Will Re aervice of com
Sent to Camp During Early niaii it is expected i
. . General Burleson wi
Part of August. ,
inal director general
and telephone systeii
MIS STATE'S QUOTA 800 ore. however, that M
the actual director g
have practically con
?hey Will Be All White Men over the lines.
and Will lie Sent to Camp Mr. Lewis is now a
Wadsworth Instead of Camp 1 nite<1 states tariff c
little to do. The tar
Jackson. been all upset by the
relish the telephone
Washington, July 18?Forty-six Job above ev*rything
housand men from all states and the Kar(1(M' 'n Washlngto
listrict of Columbia were called to man to p,It ln charR(
he colors last night by Provost Mai- ment ?>Mtem.
hal General Colder. They are to W,ro
e all white registrants. Movement bor niany years Mr
nto camp will be between August 5 cliillzed lif a study of
nd August 9. bV wire. He has lonj
This is the first general call for r*f? of K?vernment
lugust, during which month the mil- ,0'' K'*Ph ?">d telepl
tarv proginjn provides for the en- vsb''c 'n congress tli
rainment of 300.000 white men. wa?
ipecial calls already issued account "u,hority on 8Uoh In
or 19,941 of this number. * nlso a ?P?c'ali?t in p
~ . ..... ... , and was part autho
Mouuieiii filatOn ,|Uwta ar.u camp
ssignments follow: post law.
Mr Lewis has a n
Virginia. 100, Camp Wadsworth. ?
* to figures, economics
I. C.; North Carolina. 2,500, Camp r ...
1 cration of public lit
Vadsworth, S. C.; South Carolina. , . . . .. ,
always insisted that
00, Camp Wadsworth S. -? ' : Ala
Mews
am^mmmm^m^=ss==s^gg^^sss=s=sss==sssgsssssssgge=^^z
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR jA
'
ly applied by DISLOYAL FROM THE '
'v* r1c. thrift
IKUWN OF HIS HEAB
r: 'il" "" TO SOLE OF HIS FEET
in Yards?Berlin
!ve Been Halted. I)ial Thus l)enounc<'s I,Iease
His Face at Meeting at ?.
Is of captives and it is known Horence.
Americans have made prls- - - ^
between 1,000 and 1,60b IPEEPLES KEEPS SILENCE?
i. In addition, the Amen
en,., and ...liana have in- Cimdidate for S(.na(e sh j
errible losses on the enemj
ccwracy of their cannon, ma- Term Will Not Announce'
in and rifie fire. Choice of Candidate for the
ugh the allied troops seemive
the situation well in Regular TeiUkk. ,
is not improbable that the , *
\ soon will throw large num- Florence, July 18.?T? hH^pdsh
reserves into tlie fray. Tliey of the senatorial campaign,- f#9*ereri
iwn to have thousands of Impetus here Tuesday' anif^Cole I.,
en behind the battle line, es- HI ease was completely annihilated
north of Uhelms. in the withering blast. Nat H. Diai\ ^
ic other battle fronts only of Laurens, opposing candidate, told "* . '
perations are in progress, but the ex-gove?nor to his teeth that ,Jio
>us sectors held by the Brit- was "disloyal from the crown of Ki?orthern
France and Flanders head to the sole of his feet". .'
nans are carrying out spirit- With the charge from .Dial stlTl
lardments. which may be the ringing in the ears of the audeinc6?; ^
lets of early infantry at- Blease left the hall, refusing to *
speak and giving the excuse that the
crowd was small and the meeting;.
X TANKS IkhKTKOl KI> jia(j not been sufficiently advertised^
Tlfh ALLIKI) AH riLLF.Hl because of a confusion of dates In
the French Army in France, tjlfi published itinerary, although*-*.? \
?The allied resistance to .i._ .. .
; ine court noust was tilled far bevond
nans in the present u.fensive geating oaparl(y and a crowd atoort
i so great and the German about fhe entrance Mr B,ease fira?
msequently so heavy that aent word tQ Rtate senator j. w. Mr/- ,
livisions which the German rowDf CQUnty chalrman> that ^
1 not intended to utilize had would not apeak ,t thp? bppan tQ b<^
rown into the line. !hjn(ed &bout th;U w p po|lopk amt n
in tanks, which attacked senator Renet had drivPn R,paap ()ff ?
Souain during the big bat- the 8(ump on thR opening day of t,
.red heavily from the allied sbo,t term campaign (o" whic,A
, many of them being de- Rieaae*8 non-appearance would leno j
i color particularly when Blease wa '
section of "hampagne lying on thp pround and in consequence
Rheims enemy attack Rlpa8e WftR prpvalled on to make the
ken in Its first stage. The explanatlon aa to hia faUure tf>
lere the farthest advance was sppak Jn nnRWRr tf> Mr
as Prunay, where a small jpharge of dlalovalty wh|rh nia] aaid
2.000 yards in depth was R|pasft conflrmed ' bv hjs sjlpm.p *
;out by the enemy, who. when hp (hp (,ay bpforR a( Manninp
is still northward on the - , . , .... ...
? refused to deny that he made the
r,,a<'' statements in question as published *
v this noint is a hill ^region, . .. . . . ..
' r Charleston \inerican. Ik
g MoronvillierfarJ? 'ormillet t>i_0?_, . > . . >
Illease said lie had already spoken. V?
er well knowiKyneights. On ?. >. . r. "
' at other meetings in answer to Padre
advanced positions of the ? , ,
maria. Filbert, Pickens and Chapftt
armv, liglith* held. The en- , ? ? . , , . ... .. .v.
speeches and had nothing turtner toe
pnrations had been observed,! ...
v. say. He expected to have a meeting
ante precautions were taken /v., . ... , .
ot nts own in Florence i^s he had
iliies to holil the;r main pes'- . iT . A \
been holding in other places. V *
i'hen the attack began, the ..... ?.,, ..
, ,, , ? . , Poopjos Itema-n* Silent. .
fell hack on tlidse. and the . s
3 g ere nnahle even with A equally diverting
at divisions to make anv im-1 po' ,'le was Senator Chris-?
on the d^TeUti*.*, ,?xcept | tle Beliefs and W. P Pollock s metrunay
'V I ciless lashing of Thr *nas H. JVeple? _
small result, considering . ( !pasei?? ^ By his re-?
at the attack. is regarded ' ' ^swor unequivocally PoT~ ?
rorably by the allied staffs. lo' . qeustion as to wheth*_== '
le French army holding this or not he would support Bleat*
of the battle front displays the Prfts?nt campaign. Mr. Pee ^ .
est confidence that any fur- so far 149 ,h? Florence audi
tempt by the Germans here concerned definitely aligned himst. j
et a similar fate. Aviator* jwith ('ole L- Blease, and in^stingtng- y
rer the German lines declare 1 rebuke there were angry caUs to
> German losses in this sec- Thtow him out mingled with at
tremendous. chorus of cries of "Slacker'' and
.? ... "pro-German."
. ROOSEVELT IS Senator Benet, who was the first:
BABLY \ PRISONER short term Candidates to fol W
IN CiFRM AN H \\I)S 'OW ^l?ssrs nial and Rice, said there
M J 1 ' | was to be no "pussy footing" anionic
, Iwinded fnhurt. According ' h,B "They've got to come
to the quilting." he said, and to su??
jessage t?<?i\?<l >> tain his argument he had two quea(
olonel Roosevelt. tions to put.. The first was if either
had been in congress at the time the;^
fork, July 18.?Lieut. Quen- issue was to be determined as u> ,
evelt. reported missing after American participation in the war .
1 engagement over the Ger-' would he have voted with Wilson to* '
es, probably lqnded unhurt the war, the second was did they
iow a prisoner in the hands think the blood American hoys would ^
ermans. according to a cable spill in France will be on the hand*
received tonight by his of Woodrow Wilson. >Pol.
Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Peoples said he would havo i^A
?1 Roosevelt said on his ar- voted for the war as Benet and Pol- f
re tonight from Saratoga, lock would and that the blood of
had just received from his American boys would not be on Wilw.
Surgeon Major Richard son's hands and the war was a righ- ^
rho Is now in Paris, a cable- teous war for a holy
tich read: J When Mr.PolhKk-was introduced^
panlon aviator confident he thanked ?^w"hat one *Dlea^u*t^^
landed unhurt." had professed* rHipion. but every one". ,
> who prolftied relipion did not have
? Discus* Cotton Seed. an(j j,e thought it best to lead Mr.
ihia. July 18.?Dr. Georpo iveples to tfi* altar. He then asked
y of the Cotton Seed section; Senator ltenet to stand up. The
'nited States Food Adtninis-1 query put was whether he would
will ho'd an important meet- j vote for Ulease in this campaipn. Mr.
ie court house, In Columb'a. Henet said Blease was unworthy ot
on JTuesday, July 21, for the the vote of any man and the senator
of conferring with all per- expected to denounce him from every
o are interested In cotton atump In South Carolina.
Iters. The meetinp will he i Defuses to Answer. ,
the public, and it Is expected Mr. Peoples sought to e/,* the
will be largely attended by question by saying he w#*^int rurx*
^ed men from all parts of ?-- - - y ??
"I I ' ontlnued on P/,e 2.)