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Thi ' . r " * ' ? VOL. 23. NO. 92. SEMI-WEEKLY, ENEMY GIVES WAY ' YPRES TO RHEIMS Hurl* t Along This Whole Line Foe is ^ ^ ^ Carrying Out Retrograde lookout of Movement. service, rei s tlgkn that * east of Cre HUGE FIRES ARE BURNING canlc activ Accordln \ From Perronne to Ypres Feild the exPlosi rocks and Marshal Haig's Forces Are lnto the al Keeping Hard After the The sm< _ covered a I observer ri jjL PreBton , The Germans are now giving The Orle L yWvejtPOUDd over the entire 150-mile bat- one> from tie front from Ypres to Rhelms. actual erui Seemingly the question whether tbe great c tho Germans will be able to hold had becomi p-jk even relatively their present line eruption w y from Flanders to Campagne Is being dlately rail I mnawered. And the answer appar.^ ntly is in the negative. Vsual i V < The strategy of General Foch Maro I "Which imposed upon the Germans "While th< yA % the necessity of falling back in Flan- ern Califoi ^ * ders, Artois and Plcardy, now like- time and a wise is compelling tho enemy to rome activ withdraw from the Vesle river be- likely in th tween Soissons and Rheims, north- said Prof, ward toward the Aisne in order to Mare Isli "'"A avert disaster. when infor Outflanked on all defensive works, outburst o ^i>^alone the western nnrt r?f ?v>? hattio jjySjS^Hne and in great danger of a turn- MURDEF ing movement eastward from the re- SOLV *55 jrions of Noyon and Soissons, the **. German high command at last has Jimmto Mi been forced to begin the retrograde Wan movement in the Solssona-Rheims sector which the military experts long had predicted would be neces- Columbii itated through the successes of the mystery su r.v British, French and American ar- jimmie M< * mles. dered at 1 The c,,max to the Qerman ma_ the night *'} ^JS'neuvers along the Vesle culminated ently was jffr when the French virtually swept Wiggins, a ft' . away the last remaining portion of held at th the old salient in the region of No- principal i ^^^ayon and the French and Americans made a wr ? north of Soissons and along the killed Mel. [' Vesle reached positions dominating terbury. Ci the Alsne and the Chemin Des aerie for Dames and crossed to the north side death, of the Vesle on a front of nearly 20 The con I miles. ry W. Des] j All behind the front toward the county, in Alsne. huge fires are to be seen. Gray, ano where the enemy is making his way {was repeat as fast as possible northward, in all Cobb, of ( probability harassed by outposts of fifth Judlci B French and American troops and by The con artillery Are and the machine guns erf the evii and bombs of the allied aviators. | with the ci I While the debacle In the south i at the coui seems complete, in the north the! tried at th> ^ Germans also are facing a crisis. I court. Everywhere from Poronne to Ypres.j The alle mys ITielfl Marshal Haig's men are keep- pro radical wV ing hard after the enemy, whose line ticulars ft 1? dally being bent back further east- ances surr jgl ward, giving the British better the body ( jffir? -points of vantage from which to on the mo work In their task of regaining as Wiggins their first objectives St. Quentin, name of J jr.- .Cambral. Lille and Armentleres. in the cour P: From Ypres to Lens additional towns ed with ha I have been recaptured and the old sa- of R. J. B; , lient more nearly reclaimed. Lens, the city of the famous coal city. Is said to have identified 1 if been entirely evacuated by the Gor-iher of the > mans, and the British are only await- negro who ing the dissipation of the noxious hatchet on / passes and the rendering of the cltj^,the head. safe ffom the possibility of the do- to have ai tonation of mines in the subter- having ser ranean coal chambers to enter it. and G^eri From Arras sotUhward-jA to Per- which hfe c \ . ronne, English, ^c<jtcji^ .Welsh, Ca ^ . nadlans and Australian, troops every- Flft< s " where a^e harassing the enemy. Ten "liir > mooting his Violent machine gun fire trained for I with Such irresistible proesure that Ga.. yesteri / the enemy has^-heen vlrtpally non- Harper, W pi used and has retired, at somo ther M. F 1, points almost precipitately f- Karl Bath Eastward of thg old Ihrocourt- Claude M. Queant line the enemy has been Doctor D. k?. pushed Wroso to the east bank of ler. Six r Vlis Canal du Nord, where at last! also entral accounts he was endeavoring to pre-J Jackson. 1 '*he use of innumerable ma-| Thomas J pm cm. rfUiis, a British advande over! Robert L. ditch. son, John " 53 . / - -~ . ! jovernment Rating Affectin Hjjrhe War Industrie* Roerd has lasuod a nu U^^ond thcylr to J he method Q( -ducting the clrculatto ^ ftnn whlclKfl . k . ' 'v*Ve already been p >SLd on th#^ V ... - a J \ effective October Idynaatle Idea and bow 6 ?- 2&?r~ > , "1 * , 9 v ^ S* i Lan< LANCASTER, V PEAK BURSTS CflllD DCDC| VOLCANIC ACTIVITY rUUH iLIVM ays the Explosion Was ITII I hH 7' looks and Livu Helng RILLLI/ I ? hI Hundreds of Feet. Federal Buildinj :al.. SoDt. 5.?The Orleans "v ,,T?ro ,n tor of the outrage. IIIn Room. "This outrage, in a. S. C.. Sept. 5?The inevitabl? a8 a" apt irroundtng the death of part of the L W- V :Loughlin, who was mur- clared after a huri he Ragles' aerie here on "foI,ow,n* the ???' of Mav 10. 1918, appar- 100 of thelr memb< cleared up When Lewis ta,n that the 1 W 1 negro of many aliases. deftd' 1 belleve th e county jail, the alleged of nitro n several other crimes, eral arrests have b' itten confession to having <lr,> ""est'on'nS the -oughlin, a native of Wa- a8 we can* onn., and steward for the The court room several years up to his K. M. Landis. wh< leaders were recenl fession was made to liar- sentenced to prisoi Portes, jailer for Richland ,be Rovernment's wi the presence, of Sherman ^bo s'*th door of th ther negro prisoner, and "am H. Haywood, i ed to Wade Hampton treasurer of the I. "olnmbia. solicitor of the those sentenced to lal circuit. on for hfs Part in mnr's jury, which review- w as on the eight fl dence, charged Wiggins '"t with his lawye rime, and he is being held n'nR to seek a wri nty Jail on warrant, to be ,)fihalf when the e> e coming term of criminal "e deplored the o emphatically denyin ged confession of the no- mPn b:,d committer difTers in essential par- ,pd that h ebelievi m the physical appear- wo"ld be blamed, t nding the crime, when The so-called " jf Mclaughlin was found of the I W. W. plai rntng of May 11. tremble with t was arrested under the 'be bomb and hear ohn Williams and placed 'n the dome of the lty Jail on June 20. chars- Ties of the Injure ving burglarized the store calm and did not ynum, on the outskirts of marshal's office. Columbia. He was also "It is unfortunat t>y George Mack, a mem- happened at this til Syrian colony here, as the Ingly. "I know th assaulted him with a will be blamed, bul i June 9, hitting him In in my own Heart th The negro Is understood organization was in i exceedingly bad record, nected with this rc ved time In the Alabama he Insane for an I. gia penitentiaries, from such an act at this i tscaped. The bomb, which + have consisted of at p<en Left Yesterday. wrapped steel oylinr ilted service" men en- high explosives, was Camp Qreenleaf, Lytle, ^dams street entra lay: They were Clyde P. inp during one of t 111 la m D Jones. Jr., Lu- rlods Gf the day. 'underburk, Joe Gandy, flllit case with a tlm i?y, Lawrence N. Perry, Was deposited behir Hancock, S. Roy Parks. not|ced by the Ogburn. David Huffstlck- Nearly a hundred legroes from this county the corridor at t npH VPofflpHou frvv ? , .?? afnmp windows, wi rhey were Otha Taylor, ietter registry divU dobley, Willie Walker, explosion rai Crawford. Willie Patter- Jn the d(>me q( th( M Clyburn. ?;tft 0.ci0ck Thin - that hour every d . change of clerks. q I blast tore the radla OUDSCTW YS tenlngs and hurled the street, whore it Biber of rulings apidy- smashed in department of nows?tit In operation, and a great slabs of marbl 1, 1918, requires that end ground the splinters. Flying irotlon <mb?crli>tlnn ihrodi. ?ev<",wjlw?r ? MSf* tfc*' the United States forest Where I. W. W ported to Supervisor Car- IS Blowi Preston Peak, 3 5 miles scent City, burst into volity. NINE MEN AR g to the Orleans lookout, on wan violent and hurled |tomb Was p|ac<, lava several hundred feet r. Behind Radia >ke cloud front the peak Bu,win Was radius of five miles, the _ . ? sported. People. Peak is 7.365 feet hieh. ans observer was the only Chicago, Sept. 5. whom any report of an were killed and moi ption had come. Whether injured by the expl louds of forest fire smoke in a crowded entrar B confused with an actual building at 3:10 'as the question imme- afternoon, sed here. Tpe explosion, wrecked the entrar lly Active in Spring. inc. but shattered 1 sland, Cal., Sept. . 5.? the first throe floors 5 entire district of north- across the street, \ rnia was volcanic at one the I. W. W. by Ph ny of the peaks might be- charge of the local e, this would be more partment of Justice, le spring than in the fall," Raids on two het Thomas J. J. See. of the j w w Witliln 15 Mid naval observatory, explosion, resulted med as to the reported | j,|uo men. Several f Preston Peak. into custody within ^ ing and a woman t MYSTERY IS I suppressed was am EI) BY CONFESSION building. More tin ments agents and t! IiOUghlin, Columbia Man, jj,.e force was seek * ? an 1,500 govern- or ,he supreme comn he entire city po- >'roat battle, in# the perpetra- T,,e size of the Ame comes increasingly ini my opinion, was ?' ,H? of reprisal on the <he ,V?ry ?en,er of ,h< r." Mr. Barry <le- ,m ,he DouaI-Cambrai ried investigation !,,>parenttenclng of nearly , Fwrh Hm Am?,|e *rs. We are cer- w th? ?pln,on of V. committed this ZZ' th? breakdown < at the bomb was defpn8e ,,np" on th glycerine. Sev- Pr?Ve the enterln* w( sen made and we R"ccesse? nf n sweepin prisoners as fast th* 5ECt that GenPraI my has not yet been li . _ . . e?l is proof that Mart 0 oi oral Judge ample reserves with v -re . \V. W. j,is advantage. tly convicted and , . , 1 for obstructing ,n h,s ? ar program, is on *ewsPaPer oorrespon >e building. Wil- Mar?h rev,ewed briefly general secretary- Uat'?n ?f the ,ast tn"r?? W W . of one of P0""* ^rtlc^ly th 20 years in pris- " the m?8t ,n,P'ess|v< the conspiracies ' ?ast of Arras' oor of the build- WUV aCr?SS ,h? 11 r who was plan- "" el*ht m,,e front t of error in his ?S ,h"ir ob^tiv?- Th :plosion occurred. ^*7? ,h? lit rage and while baUI* f">nt from the K that any of his h* Ha,(1> h;ul bof 1 the act. admit- nnd ov<*rro by the I ?d the I. W W advance of the hist week, when they six miles on a 2 5-m uncrowned kin " Fl?Ble ? nly feu .he build- forcei| ???? th he detonation of n,,r(tl <1 Ihe class crash .. . ... oi .lliy structure and the General March poini d. He appeared indicating the rapidit leave the deputy the battle ig 8hlftin steady drive of the e that this thing that the British had ne," he said feel- 14 miles since they ] at the I. W. W. attack on August 21. t I am convinced Even as General at no man of my word came from the any way con- stating that the ene latter. It would hurled still further hi W. W. to commit j Douai-C'ambral line, i time." the British stood witl is believed to of the Oambrai pivot ti least three wire- defense position. Late lers charged with ^rorn Flanders and on ? carried Into the '? the south, indicated nee of the build-j tlrements were in pro he moat busy po- places, due to the com! Concealed in a British thrust in the ee e fuse, the device eral Mangin'a flanking id a radiator un- wa?"?J the Chemin Pes passing throng, advance of Franco-An persons were in across the Vesle indie he time, at the f??rman line at this er rltlng desks and,*1? front is being force< don. [the Alsne by the press ne Just as a bell i building struck *n all the dispatcher bell Is rung at ulcers here .noted ag ay to mark the '"rations that some ne The force of the tant phase of the battl tor from its fas-|P?cted shortly. There it 20 feet Into expectancy among both struck and killed | semi-official comentato deRks, tore up "urea the Impression e from the walls, I'orh is preparing; for woodwork Into " this the case. It la debris cut Into that the employment o posters and can-! "hint's army may wel across the ' the plans, the OrtjTjr tW'fo' fnrce of 1 jMr^wo i iftp f?W- [AljAw t-h.i / 3ASTE A LIVE PAPER IN A LIVE TOWN S. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1 )NS ARE 1,600,000 AN j INJURED AMERICANS ? in Chicago Foch Believed to 1 . Were Tried New Blow Upon a Up. ing Enen E ARRESTED COMMENT AT WA d in Suit Case If Germans Attemj lor When the Retreat Foch M Crowded With Upon Stroke on Confusion. ?Four persons Washington, Sept. re than 75 others ment by General Ma oslon of a bomb BtafT, that more th ice to the federal troops had been enib o'clock yesterday fronts up to August 3 new measure of the f which not only Foch has at his dispos ice of the build to follow up the vie every window on won on the western frt i of two buildings Included in the A vas attributed to nients are men sent tc illlip J. Harry, in heria, the arrival of office of the ?de- American commander, tok. with nearly 1,4 0 idquarters of the forres dispatched dir minutes after the rnltP(' States having I in the arrest of ed by March, more were taken num,)er of >"en sent e the federal build- to Franrp. however, is whose name was ?00, ,eav,n8 more t jsted in a nearby Amerlcan troops avalla R NEV f 918. I n MORF CONFEDERATE MONEY V ihUIUj circulating in can; ABROAD Some One is Also Offering Coi erate Treasury Certificates I ie Planning Germany, the RetirRiehmond, Va., Sept. 2.? iy. . - - in? une is onering Confeth treasury notes in both Canada lSHin(;ton g crinany is the opinion of state rials who have received lettert cently. Miss Esther Wildes ^ holesdle Dwight, Ontario, wrote dernan light Decide payment on Confederate certifi< \ nt of amountinR to The lettei companying the notes said "1 sending you this set of Confedi notes, amounting to J129, and 5.?Announce- nni8t pay them on <,emaa<l rch chief of these are y?ur own losses and an ' 1.600,000 n,ust be paid" arked for all Some tinie a*? State Troa< 1 furnished a Johnnton received a package orces Marshal Manheim, Germany, from an * al with which of a ra'lroad who had cashed a tories already Confederate bill for a traveler. of the writers have been notified American ship- ,h<> Confederate government i i Italy und Si- n,oreMajor Graves, at Vladivos- ">2k Men Called Since April 1 0 men of the The local board for Lane ect from the county has sent 528 men to < been announc- since April 1; 280 white men The total 24 8 colored. This exclusive of Isewhere than 10 white men and five colored less than 10.- entrained yesterday. There linn 1,500,000 been 27 different calls since Api ble for the use and there are now approxim lander in the 800 Lancaster county men in service, besides those who v< rican force be- teered. portant as the ?o? ish assault at Bnrr, Not Derrick, Quits L. X i German line -pju, stated Tuesday thi front becomes i iri^ -1 ?! ? -j ?. ^v.. 1,11 II?IU it~?iKnt-(i as a^ei his city of the I^ncaster & Ch **SOIX< . . railw?y- This was an error ant array official, I)err)rk ,8 w|(h th# , ) t i .. rm,m jjenry uarr> assistant to Mr. Der s ront may resif;ne(1 his posltion and be allied connected with (he Sowe,, Gn g nature since company and it was thro? h Pershing s ar- facl The News fH, Jnto error argely employthai Foch has 0 rhich to press Bound Over to Court, Lee Helms was hound over tt inference with f?'leral court at Rock Hill ir dents General sum $1.0(10 by I'nited States < the battle sit- missioner Jtihn T. Green Wei i or four days. ''a>' on 'he charge of harboring at the British assisting a deserter. Joe Holm? ? phase of the father, was released of the had smashed charge. The evidence adduced a indenburg line hearing in Mr. Green's office w; with Camhral "10 effect that Henry Helms, st e major enemy and brother of Lee Helms whole 60 mile cently left Camp Wadsworth wii Scarpe to the customary procedure in obta >n encountered leave and was arrested here. Irltlsh and the was being taken hack bv Capt. French troops ''rown and at Spartanburg h gained five or caped from the train. Later, ac lie front in a 'nK to the evidence, he was so irgely to with- company with his brother, e enemy in the Hdnis, driving toward the Carolina line. He is still at la Advance. o tfrl Ollt :ilui III2 UI.?Ln ! ? ??.. ! i. .... .... |> mun' ! itri'P. y with which C. P. Caskoy has taken the g under the tion of night patrolman succo( allied armies, Jack Williams, who resigned t< pressed ahead cept a position with Nesbit & Wi launched their Clayton Roger? driver of the t?vuck and as. 'ant to Chief, 'larch talked, has taken a posit. at the Lanei battle front cotton mill and is Succeeded on my had been force" by Claude Davis, ack along the ________ ??? and indicating hin Ave miles ? this German iff Hifpi r reports both ^ f f /VI J4 i\ the Vesle, far /l * A that new regress in fgjflah | | dnation of the 0 tW H ttl flj >nter and Gen- ?? movement to- ^ Dames, The J aerican forces #? n /j that the J| UffftU Hi of the bat1 back toward from the ^ i from abroad 111 M ain vleled In- ^FaUVv >w and Impor-j le la to be ex-' ? waa an air ofI |"1 VVrflfV unofficial and m ra which pro-| M that Marshal JLdtMi Mt a new blow. ' Abelieved here *. f General Per11 ..e included tfilT Titfi A ll Jhelnfc to hit VT ? *%? * Aiinciali' hmiscli I ^ a ? i ______ ????? SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR IL POLLOCK ASSURED OF HIS ELECTION n i Candidates for Senate Short Term to Be Voted On That . m Jrate Again Next Tuesday. and 7 X offl- RUNS AGAINST PEEPLES ' i rei, of " ding Denies Report That He Does rates) ?? iti?*~i * v uivtitu aim r act am Says He Wants and Expects irate to Be. you thev Columbia, Sept. 5.?W. P. Pollock-, w ho is a candidate for the" United Burer' States senate for the short term, was from in '*ie Wednesday. He is In tho igenti fce(,oml race with Thomas H. Peoples, |20| attorney general. He was here atAI,! tend in a the State Democratic executhati *'ve committee meeting. Mr. Pols no' stated that his election Is asj sured. as he has been receiving adI vices from every part of the State as ( i to his vote, which he claime will ho large for a second primary. Mr. Polaster |ock issued the following statement V amp t0 the voters of the State, calling the and voters to the colors next Tuesday: ^ thej "Tlie people of South Carolina are who to be congratulated on the winning have the magnificent victory of the polls * in the first primary election?a vicately tory for the Democratic party of the -j* State and the nation, and a victory 'w ilun- for America against Germany. i "Our people have shown in no mis? . takable way that the heart of South : *' Carolina is right, and that they are ? / it G. behind Woodrow Wilson, the greatit in I est of all Democrats, the greatest of * . ester all American statesmen, and the . 3 1 Mr. greatest of all world statesmen n & C. this greatest crisis that Jtas ever conTick. fronted America and the, civilization came of the world. ocerv "1 a in delighted that It has been k this my privilege to play a man's part In this day of our nation's stress?that > i? ..... i ? .. ? ?? wye**- iur in? men who have gone out gladly to do and dare for us-here at home?am! * the so long as there Is an American sol\ th? dier 'over there" I expect to continue ^ om" to fight for them over here. And to ,lnes~ that end I crave the opportunity to w an<1 render whatever of service I am ' his capable of it. the United States sen8ame ate. W * 1,10 "I appreciate more than words can. 118 to express the magnificent vote given >n nf me in the first primary, and I ap'* 'e" peal to my friends throughout the "out state?the friends of administration/ m ining frjen(j8 nf the sailors and solI (|1 diers who are making the supremo R" ( ' sacrifice for us and mine, for us ull, P es~ for humanity and civilization, to go cor(l" back to the polls on next Tuesday.' \ ' n m and complete the victory so well beLee *? gUn ort "Many of my friends have written rRO' me that a report was circulated that. I did not desire to be elected. This, was entirely erroneous. I did want P?R1- and I do want and expect to be elect? >ding ,>d. -Tjf, a worthy ambition and an ao"j opportunity to render real service to Uson. n,y people, my country and tho tire; world, and I ask my friends to seo Orr, to it that the people are advised and astPr po (Q t^e polls, and I know that tho "the (Continued on Page 5.) J jes of ? ^ I A IT both 9 ' *0 inclusive Register IVWtK 12 f elective Draft Inter In oiir year lipnrieonement and no r: ' ' ' ' - ' . r