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Tl * * **" ? t * VOL. 23. NO. 87. SEMI-W DRIVE OF THE AL k MATERIALLY * ; FRENCH, HOWEVER, |f MAKE SOME GAINS ? % More Villages Are Captured and Enemy is Driven Back on All Sides. ? FLANDERS SECTOR QUIET 7 Roye is Placed in Greater Jeop- j \ ardy By British Drawing tl Nearer Chaulnes-Roy-Road? " , Outtersteen Captured. T A ,. ? ? Nf (Sunday.) wKF* Gradually the famous Lys salient p %J in the region west of Armentleres is ^ / giving way under the pressure of the 1 \ British. Again Field Marshal Halg's ' j forces have compelled the enemy to . seek ground to the eastward whore he will be more secure from the 4. 6hells of the big guns that for several weeks have lvA?n firing criss- J cross over the entire salient, work- ^ ing havoc among the defenders of , the insecure line. Likewise the Germans are being ~ g given no rest by the Franco-British fnr^Da nn#l ....... v. -- * 11 vwo uv* VII auu OWUlll UL lilt? Somme, and the French and Americans along the Vesle and Americans in Lorraine, also are harassing them ty artillery fire ?*?d local attacks. Nowhere has the enemy had the bet11 ter of any encounter. ^ "IS Over a front of four miles between ^ Baillelu and Vteux Rerquin on the ^ Lys sector, the British have forced a back the Germans to a depth rang- ^ "V ing from 1,000 to 2,000 yards, tak- n Ing in the maneuver the village of Outtersteen "and 400 prisoners. A little to the south along the Lys river ^ fyf^Hfefinnr Merville the British also have n t*j^Kadvanced their line and still farther ^ couth, between Arras and Albert, the W Germans have been relieved, under s pressure, of further terrain near M Bucquoy. 1 A While, as a whole, the German j m line between the Soome and the Oise A rivers are still holding, notwith? standing the terrific pounding it is receiving from the allied guns, the .1 British have drawn nearer the road leading from Chaulnes to Iloye be-! tween Chilly and Fransart, placing A Roye in greater Jeopardy by attack ft from the north. At the same timt| to the south of Roye, over the four- f( \ ^ mile front between Beuvalgnes and U Jlfltny-Sur-Matz, a violent artillery ^^^grmuel is raging between the French v ,a /ratid Germans. It is in this region ' u Mf.? that the French are endeavoring?:b and In their initial efforts they have ti Itfi'l met with considerable success?to r> port'V f Armq ??/1 tVinlv 11-^4^1-1 ? ? t". ?u.u H.Vil IW WMIIU > . "v of outflanking both Rove anil Las- 11 J aigny by a drive eastward In the di- o ' rection of the road leading south- tl eastward from Rove to N'oyon. a Along the Veslo river front, o where the Americans and French o are holding the line against the Her- d mans, there has been considerable reciprocal artillery shelling but with j, the weight of gunpowder and of a shells resting with the allied troops tl They gave the enemy two shells for t| one. An indication that the Oerman jr line Immediately In front of the j, French and Americans Is thinly held Is the fact that American patrols at d various points have penetrated sec- "i tors to the enemy's barbed wire nnd p trenches without encountering infantrymen. ! In Lorraine where the Americans tl captured the village of Frapelle. r near St. Die. Saturday morning, they hnve pressed on and gained more r ' Kround notwithstanding a heavy y , bombardment by the < riemy. m MK (Saturday.) II Marshal Fixh has at last ib-Unite ir ly count ' I > batt'et of the e v Alsne and the Sommo. Announce- p "w ment is made that by a local attack 15 19* (the plateau north of Autreche* about Mil) miles northwest of 8o'ssons, has si (been carried by the French and that '^%fcetr success vivos them a posltioh ^ knlnittinR the region extending JHprMi ward toward the Oise rive . <1 Jtf&k ft'-" 1 ^ MJji if watt 1<K mu8J^rojL hrtd plenty J hwtnd t nn^Parpr the French I ^^tnes ** far gOLtndteatedylnwd |ttk? diapuf'-h *UU^, luoi^gt. i he Lai EEKLY. LANC LIED FORCES CANDIl SLOWED DOWN MEI To MEN OF 21 YEARS. Saturday vyjit" ci Washington, Aug. 19.?The provost marshal general announces: All male persons who have AN OVA! reached their twenty-first birthday since June 5, 1918, and on or before August 24, 1918, must School register on August 24, 1918. Come il These men should consult with Candida local draft boards as to how and . when they should register. plain In The coun 'he French line from the Aisne to (he i,ancas( lie Oi8e has been inactive since early after?oon tc l July and at last reports ran much inten hrough Autreches *to Moullnsous- j,an(j furn|s ouvent and thence horthwesterly rasjon an(j tirough the Carlepont and Ourscamp meet|nK Qf arests to the Olse. If the whole ^and j>|ie lateau north of Autreches has been ^ates were iken from the Germans the French Ina(i0 at ot ave advanced upwards ot a mile in )ast tiat region. farmers ha( When the Germans halted their jarKejy the etreat from the Marne salient and nieG(|nK net inde a stand on the Aisne it was nien amj t ssumed that a blow northwest of j sonie jns oissons would be struck sooner or meet tjie e3 iter as a success there would out- The meet ank the Germans and compel their n0j),,rt etreat to their old line north of the (jie 'hemin-des-Dames, which runs jom>s canr long the ridge north or the Aisne. ^ane Creek Then the I'icardy offensive begai Jones ( nd the eyes of the world were fixed ,|i(ja(e fH,. , pon the allied progress east of Avro ^a8j(ev an,t nd Aisne. for mapjstri This drive has recently been al- sh)p xhef "loot at a stsr.d?"11 On 1V lr?r>nl ac. considerate ions uttVd been fought for tb? past .. paneutB an [)ur days along the line established lonKer than y the Germans west of the Somme. ome of the progress, especially Jacl long the southern sector of the line Irvin Jac aa been important, though hardly bate Judge, otlceable on a map but the Qer- wben he wt ians are desperately defending ev- speaker, an ry inch of the high ground south- handsome t est of Noyon and south of Lassig- by ladies < y, as well as the area around Roye. Jackson hai "he allied pressure Is continuous Rn(* be is nd heavy, however, and may event- people. Ju ponent and (Continued or. Page 8.) present win but appeale ,ANCASTER HOY BUSY the voters in office am PICKINO OFF COOTIES linrio.3 con Th.i caml ether Falle Writes of Life in "No intendent o Man's land"?Other latncus- A. ('. Rowel ter Boys There. spoke of t school worl term and si The following letter has been re udvttncemen eived by Mrs. J no. R. Falle: |<fflce 8eyfin ear Mother: prlation for Sorry 1 have been so long in OOO, wherea riting to you but have been pushed saj(i that if p for the last few weeks. We have j,e in I.anca een to the real place, the first line ,j,o office tv -enches, which Is not such a bad r.n,j t|iat if lace. We saw all the things that every day i ou read about in the papers, the visiting schi lost exciting is when Fritz sends y \ \S ver a barrage which is a little more perintentfwit ian exciting. It makes you think ,|1(. pas( pV( bout home. Just before we came willing for ut (for a rest) he sent over one on years to go ur sector, but I was not excited. I opponent fo on't feel like he can hit nie now years and i We spend a lot of the time up that when I ere watching the airflights. I got were seven letter from Theudas while up county not icre. Lewis Adams and I were in now there I name uukoui ana as i was read- road a recc if; tho letter Lewis was inside pick- Superintend ig cooties. which spok> If you want to read about how we work, o up here Just get that hook, Candid, Over the Top;'' which Rives you a The and retty Rood idea of how it is. looking for I have been over four different jU8t as Mr ountries and haven't seen any- some ling to compare with ttie I". S. yet, r0ie L. lit* ipeeially South Carolina. Morton was I am putting a small flower in the speaker th tter which I plucked from No ,hout the sc lan's Land which I thought you Morton ext light like to keep. against the Hope you are all well. I am war and hi [aven't been sick since I have been ju,,| th: ver. ed to win I I am in Lieutenant McLeiufs .,t them w latoon and 1 am with Sergeant were allowe arr. rtuestion bu (live my love to all a id answer t0 Hect yo r>on. the end of Sergeant Jother Faile, seemed to li Co. M. 118th'Infantry. ing with tl P. S- If ! don't write again soon The next on't think that anything is wrong. Clybura. wl r>r it is rathw %!lfficult to write to tie houi rom here sometimes. Pv the way.lapoke of tl .saw Frank Mungo and Kft.j h\.Jlico and i iregory ydkt^yday. They ^ V 7 . X: A LIVE PAPER IN A LIVE TOWN ASTER, S. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, )ATES HAVE I NOW IS THF. iTINGATMILL KEEPENEM' Afternoon Speaking General March Says picy at Times and ent Advantage S Interesting. Pressed to U1 "ION FOR JACKSON HAVE GERMANS Improvement Bonds Chief of Staff Sa: i For Argument and Advantage Has H tes Are Asked to Ex- of Allies From I eir Attitude. Offensive. ty candidates spoke at Washington, Aug. or cotton mill Saturday the time for the great ? a crowd of fair size and keep the enemy runnin jst. The cotton mill General March, chief hed music for the oc- marlzed thus to newsp; it was the first political situation in France, the year attended by a fore the great military speeches of the candl- war department that much the same as those where the German is her places in the county hack, he pointed out t except for the fact that battle front was ri 1 heretofore composed straightened out from 1 audience, while at this sea. irly all were cotton mill "They have not y? he "line of argument," "gotten hack to the ori tances was changed to fcurg line, where the C cigences of the occasion, his advances this yea ing was presided over by have some territory to Craig and he introduced statements appear thai t speaker, Robert M. war is over at this p lidate for magistrate in age it. township. Following "This is the time fo ;ame P. 11. Morton, can- effort, to keep the en the same office; John I.. That is the reason H. M. Gulp, candidates States is being called ate in Gill's Creek town- creased man-power, thi le candidates were very son we want the nee 1 of th? n??onl?'q time and I draft lowered and raise d no one of them snokelrnen two minutes. '"The greatest ndvai [son <Jet.s Ovation. whole thing has been 1 kson, candidate for pro- tbe allies from the del was given an ovation ?"en8'v?. which Is a i is announced as the next aB8etd when he finished, two "We have the eneraj Kjquets were sent to him Instead of gussing 01 )f the community. Mr. From a confidential n a position at the mill eral March read the a favorite with the mill count of the situation c dge Stewman, his op- French front south ol the incumbent, was not "Allied troops foun en his name was called sltion and have captur (I later and addressed onprs than it is possihl speaking of his record handle, including a Of ;1 thanking them for the an<j staff, showinf letted upon him. surprise attack, itritis idates for county super- pria-n campa ba(,k ()f ; f education spoke next, that it is impossible I 1 being first. Mr. Howell fbo allies have captur he advancement in the tillery In this sector." ? during his opponent's .. ... .. ? ,, t Describing the effect tid there was reason for ,, ... operations. General Mj t; that when he held the il years ago the appro- "Surveying the hattl schools was oniv $00,- ,v- >'?? s,ie ,hat ,hor? s now it is $504,000. He P1""58 wh' elected his office would ,HM'n n,bb,in* alo"P ,h ster and he would he in front' quiring a foo vo days in each week, northern bank, but hm ' the salary was raised. up the n the week except when nor,h sif,p wb"ro r'orT ^ ments are supposed t ' , . . part of the line has ] K le, present county su* t, reviewed his work for *'onai>e years and said he was "As the line has he the record of that five nry> Poch has kept up against the record nf Viiulon the enemv wnrkim r his full term?eight feetly sound principle, t seven months. He said L,'t an enP|,|y going, > le went into office there roing: never give him schools in Lancaster recuperate or think it receiving state aid and hitting him. Is only one. Mr. Ltngle "On August 8. a com >mmendation from State and French force, n ent J. K. Swearingen, Field Marshal Haig, al e very favorably of his front of 20 miles, oaf This terrian Is flat, aim i?fen for the House. while some time ago lence apparently was smalt clumps of woods sofhething exciting and undoubtedly had been . Lingle finished speak- n^? hV artillery Are. so one yelled "Hurrah for country as practical!; ffase," and when H. H. v,'rV little natural imp< announced as the next advance. There are ey asked him: "How j perpendicular to the fr< hool house bonds?" Mr. | vanning armies instea >lalned that he voted *? so thnt the adva bonds because ,?f the can go right through scause President Wilson "The enemy were f ?t every dollar was need- ken by surprise and m 'he war. He came back tial opposition in the > Ifh the assertion: "You ing their strong resist d to vote on the bond flanks. Hitting ttra-^ii; t you are not.permitted J3-mi]e front we pitshe ur school trustees." At erage of.e1ght ttt'les, a his address, Mr Horton niroui *rfn outer*.! Kent t tave a better understand- lient conesponajng" to te audience. lient and the or speaker was C\ Frank position. A^advauci tio stands for 're-election :sh and te of representatives. He up so that thef?pn|fe?>t ?o responslbilities of the trol, or threlit* iMpA. laid that A. nPtt man It - I linn of Al ....... ,?*- ut * Hiiiuriun Jilini '' ln,i""' nn * jr. Me 1918. TIMP B0YS IN FRANCB AI II '* READING THE V f ftINf * Wallrr Canthen WiIIcn 111 of tin* Things He licix J hat Pres- ' Tllis ,?uper. hould He I most. The following letter has eeivecl by Mrs. \V. L. Ca PIIPL'OIW this city; GUESSING fv ? My Dear Mother: Just a few lines to let ; fS Greatest I am well and enjoying got !een Change A,though at ,h?' present l i little tired and feel as Jefensive to ought to put just a liti "bunk -fatigue" because I in a very good week dril and now I feel as though This Is ou( some "bunk fatigu est effort; to .... ? . ' will have all dav tomorrow k '' so I presume I am mak of stafT, sum about as valuable progr( aper men the . ... snouui, oecause it has hee Standing be- KOO{1 while since 1 last wro maps at the least it seems so to u show clearly have iaj,i aside other pie being beaten try an(j write a few lines hat the great ^ose whom I think of so apldly being WOnder if (hey are getting theims to the flnp R8 j am Not v,nly think of home so much bu Bt," he said, j iove to write you when ginal Ilinden- 1(.isurP to keep you from iorman began sQ Really I do hope tha r. We still not worry so much about gain, so when oause i am getting along t indicate the enjoy}ng UOod health and oint, discour- work. 1 received three newspa] r the greatest News today and foun emy running. (lPal of interesting news, the I'nited (joorRe parr being in the f upon for in- Hn(, Willie Strait. Well, t it is the rea- nje We a|( enj0y read limits for the even some of the I d to get more <'\vppt" enjoy reading that don't read the ntage of the evenj8?? take it out on th< the change of paper." So you see the lb tensive to the always welcome to us. ;reat military RS we finish with it in oui 1 send it, or rather take h r gussing now Qf the boys who are fron irselves." ter county and let them report Gen- news, following ac- So Dr. Poovey and H ,n the Hritish- have received their comm r Albert: captains in the M. D. s.el d little oppo ^at beats all 1 ever Y ed more pris- Poovey and Dr. Brown e for them to would have thought of the ..man general in 'bis scrap. t elements of I only wish I was per h report their write you just a few lin Vmiens so full trip since I left Sevier, bu to hold more. war. "Kverything is fair ir ed all the ar- war." so 1 guess 1 will hn\ all of that hack and c< r .w with the experiences to c ? ? ' then tell it all at one tin trch said: |>I> 1'Hfrn an' uorest e lino broad- out any n,.ws in th(>m. have boon a (pss you wjU have to K,.t , ore we have ^ to jt alj because I am r e \osle rivoi lny pf,n n^p some folkithold on tho ^ ^ write rather often, ire not yet at- ^ novvs tjiat \ know of arc slope on tbe herau?sp j haven't boon out nan intrench- (n a wPpk amj consequent!: 0 be. That ^ npws aro,,nd here exoop remained sta- ^ |hat ,a 8carpo cious. Anyway. I puess y come station- j,on,p yet about as much o 1 his pressure Itor(nnt news that can bo ; on the per- 80 ym, sPp there is, in fact hat when vow J to wr|te about except I 'ou kpop him fccl'np fine. Hope you a chance to write often, etc. over, keep on How js Kthel getting al her Red Cross work. Jui ibined Rritish hope. Toll her to keep tip ommanded by work because every little (tacked, on a to down those hateful Huns it of Amiens, much earlier, ost level, and Mother 1 must close, al there were hate to, because when I at i, all of these you I am better satisfied, a leveled long wish I could write more we count that censor miirlit put me out y level with of rocks, so I will close sdiment to an I time, (live my best regai a few valleys and write real often to yc ant of our ad- Loving Son, "Hub." d of parallel Sgt. Walter 11. Can inoing troons i i"?uiiuh ners math the valleys. American K. P. ipparentl.v tn- Censored by W. II. Cog ade no essen- Capt. M. (J. U. S. ronter. cKrta- ? anco to thoTr %?.*?:. ^ . .Must T'egiste.' Sa'ur bt salient on a d It tn an av- A" *?"np m"n who hai .nd\ red lire a# enty-one years of aye s o an doner W- R. 1!?18, are required to r the Marne sa- .Saturday, \ugiist 24. Th< temv in ,i d fj0n under the same r r[>f the Iti itpoint comes as P'OV,OUR registration ting into eon- i,ro heavy penalties ? for the railroad 'eglster. It In doubt, 1 is which at -vo,,r local board. Tbo pla ___ istratlon will be the oilic " age t) cleyi of the court. j/ ws x , \ SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR "Us PUNS ARE MADE FOR REGISTRATION Is in Provost Marshal Expects to Get 2,000,000 in Class One Out been reof 13,000,000 Men. uthen, of REGISTER IN SEPTEMBER you know ul health I'rtfent for More Manam just ? Power, Gen. Crowder Says, do " 'more an<* C'ass One Reservoir Must have put Be Quickly Replenished. ling, etc., ^1 "Should Washington, Aug. 19.?Provost ' Marshal General Crowder has announced that plans already have ng just keen made for registering Jiie, 13,ss as 000,000 additional men which he esn a rig it t-mate8 w1jj be brought under the te you, or , .. , . . selective service law when congress k , and I enact8 the pen,unK bill extending the asures to lfhilts to Include men between honu to 45 years. From this number oft?n an. approximately 2,000,000 qualified a ong as jor fuu military service are expect-' Kee because I , , . . ed to be secured. > it because u rt So urgent is the need for add!-., ua I am at tional man power. General Crowder worrvine , , said, that the draft machinery i?-t-* it you do . , . , . . . .. t. me 1 ')0'nP P'lf >n,? shape for the great task ahead without waiting for final just fine, ... .. action by congress. Men of the new p f nt> o draft will be needed by October t and in order to get them, registrators from .. , . . , , . . . tion day will have to be held not lail a ij i"f*a t ter than September 15 and if possisuch as ble September 5 will be fixed as the irst class. , day. . S When the 13.000.000 men are ening T i? roi|(.dt nearly 25.000,000 will have >ovs lmm jipen registered since the United It ?ind entere.i the war. There were cut rent 10,000.eon enrolled on the unn> registration day, June 5. 1917, Itle paper anotj1Pr gpo ii^o last June 5, and Assoon , _ _ , ,, several hundred more are expected quarters . . . .. ! > to be enrolled August 24. ( i I.ancas- Nw Tilu? to K*" Ix?st. e Mftv see the "Preliminary steps have been ta- ' ken by tbe provost marshal generir. Brown al." said General Crowder's atntAissions as nient. "to provide for the next regisi? Well, j tration of those men who will be afleard. Dr feeted bv the not which congress is I never expected shortly to pass extending m getting *11? age limits of the selective draft. "State headquarters, local boards niitted to and other officials in the various es of my states have been advised to hold it such is themselves in readiness to proceed i love and , r-mmptly with their work as soon as re to hold congress has acted and the Preslamhine it dent, by proclamation, has fixed thew ? nme, and date of registration. "* no, but I "Until the legislation Is actually ^ imp with- passed it cannot be stated with exNevorthe actness. of course, what '*u? A' A I> M accustom- I rnits will be. But. because of the lot trying urgency of the situation, it is essens. even if tla 1 that as much of the preparatory There is work as possible be done at this time tund here in order that the administration of camp niav promptly avail itself of the new v there is law. To that end, now, as in tho t military i Past, the utmost reliance is placed and pre- on the American people to supply on all at 1,10 necessary co-operation and f the im- teamwork. obtained, "The situation is urgent because . nothina ''V October 1, class 1, under the ago am well, limits of the original act, will have are well, been entirely exhausted. Unless there is to be a very serious inteiong with niption in the flow of American ?t fine, 1 troops to the camps and thcnco the good across the seas to France, class 1 hit helps 'ii"ist he replenished at the earliest and that possible moment by available men both below and above the present* thouph I ?Re limits of 21 and 31. There is; "" n wrltinc literally, no ynie to be lost, nd 1 only Must Replenish ('lass One. but the "The bill, which has been in'roon a pile duced in oonpress, at the fcquest of for this war department, would fix the ds to all Pf>w limits at between 18 and >ur t,r> years. That is to say. It would include, in addition to the men withthen. 'n present limits, those between Am. In., *'- an<l to inclusive (fourteen annual classes) and those between 18 swell, Jr., ?n<! inclusive (three annual classes.) * \ __ ' "The limits were suppested to congress by the war department, heda v. ,, cause the military man-power pro/o become trr.,m 0f (j1r, y*nu0(j ?t*,tp<, requires Ince June] that the now nearly depleted reserepistei on voir of class 1 men shall be replenn repistra '"bed by more then 2,000*000 men filiations "" ,uu '""'W MrT"0'>n the basis of actual figures from an<' "" 10 insurance companies, census compufailure tntions and the experience of this nfln<|uire of fjr-e in the previrtm? registration, it ee of reg- ]jns bnen estimated that the requir- s e of the , . i. . t (Continued on Page 5.) v * * IW *..** 4 ' -V