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? Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $1.50 the Year ABBEVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13,1917. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year BIG ARMY I ON RUSSU Kerensky, at Head of j * C Moir immense x uz irmj Regain Power. FORCES ARE RETREATING TOWARDS THE CAPITAL Forces Loyal to Ex-Premier Defeat Revolutionists in Moscow and Tsarskoe-Selo?Northern Italian Line Stiffens?Germans Let British Alone. Apparently the Bolsheviki uprising in Petrograd is nearing its end and Premier Kerensky may soon 1 again be in power. Late advices from Petrograd are: to the effect that the revolutionists have been defeated in Moscow and at Tsarskoe-Selo and from +.he latter town, which is 15 miles from Petrograd, are retreating a disor- , H^rlv mob toward the capital. |, In Petrograd street fighting has; taken place with the Cossacks and j other loyalists having the better of I, the Bolsheviki element, while Ker- . ensky with 200,000 men is on his , way from Gatchina to reinforce the loyalists. To stay his progress, however, the rails of the Petrograd- ] Gatchina Railway have been torn up ] and Jarge forces of the Bolcheviki 1 are said to have gone out to give brfttie. ] War in Finland. j To add to the troubles of the Ker- j ensky government, a state of war has been proclaimed in Finland ana the governor general dismissed, his ' place having been taken by a sailor. 1 The diet has voted to elect a < - -- i state directorate whicn win nave su- j preme power in the province. | ? On the Italian front the Italian' line in the North has stiffened under the reinforcement it has receiv-!< ed fro mthe British and French.h Even the German official commur.i-i* cation does not mention any further1 retirement by the Italians but on! c the contrary admits that east of; Asiago, where the Austro-Germans j made gains last week, the Italians in strong force attacked the invad-i1 ers and recaptured lost positions.' The Italians took about 100 prison-1' ers. * j1 Along the middle and southern 1 reaches of the Piava the Italians are holding their line tenaciously al-1 though they have been forced to give up the Vidor bridgehead, north; east of Treviso. British Hold Ground Won. The Germans Sunday made no attempts to recapture the ground taken from them by the British Sati urday in the region of Passchendaele, contenting themselves merely with the bombardment of the newly won line. A heavy rainfall prevented the British from extending their gains. . I 995 COMMISSIONS GO 1 TO OGLETHORPE ' : STUDENT OFFICERS t < School Divided Into Three Classes, ] 29 Majorships and 71 Captain- ] cies Being Awarded to Class ( ? A Men. ! ] 1 1 I j Fort Oglethorpe, Nov. 9.?Orders 1 were received Thursday afternoon 1 by Colonel Slocum, commander of ' the officers' training camp, regard-1! ing the forthcoming commissions 1 for the students at the close of the, j camp, November 23. According to ( these orders the camp is to be divid-J ed into three classes. i .< In class A there are to be issued i 995 commissions effective on Dec-l ember 15. That means that these < students will receive commissions I at the close of the camp and then. ' will be given furloughs until Dec-l < ember 15, when they will be called 1 _i.: ? ,1.,*.,. lo acuvc uuiy. I In class A there are to be issued' < commissions for twenty-one infan-j< try majors, eight artillery majors, | J the Busy Reader. Both the big armies are preparing to go into winter quarters. r { The ex-queen of Honolulu is re- s ported to be in a dying condition. | r There is no shortage of food and | coal at the State Hospital says the j Board of Regents. . J * ; S The death sentence of a Belgian r 5py was commutted to life impris-' onment in London. I c , Electric trucks are going to take j the place of man-power since the | j. men have been called to servce. : a The mint in Denver will makeJs nothing but pennies until the* short-jj age is relieved. 600,000 will be^ made each day. J, I. Georgetown held her first County Fair this year. It was a success and plans are being made for another next year. K a Mediator Reed says that drastic p measures will be taken to settle la- f 3or troubles. U. S. seizure of t Phone plants is bound to come. j s 1 ! s In Americus, Ga., a huge turkey! .vas sold for $9.25 which is the larg-; ;st price ever paid for a single ;urkey in that place and perhaps in my other town. ,, v Two more escaped German pris-j >ners have been captured. They!e vere trying to go across the Rio Grande River near Laredo. They nistook the customs Inspector, who ,vas not dressed in uniform, for a 1! :owboy. ! C i]i I b In Washington for the first time ('t n 14 years triplets have been born.' The parents are Italians and they ^ lave named the babies Wilson, Taft md Roosevelt, for the three living nen who have been President. in i /ON PAPEN MADE j* VICE CHANCELLOR i a Amsterdam, Nov. 10.?Friederich /on Papen, progressive leader, has (] jeen designated as German vice a . hancellor, according to semi-official ;elegrams from Berlin. The ap-! i i - r tt n...' - 11 1 1 ? joinxment 01 nerr rneuuerg, i?au- ^ jr of the national liberals, as vice , ; d president of the Prussian state mini v stry is considered probable. j forty infantry captains and thirty-1 ive artillery captains, 701 first lieu- s :enants in the infantry service and t 190 in the field artillery. ,e Those in Class B are to be select- o ;d eventually as vacancies occur as provisional lieutenants of the regu- ^ lar army in accordance with their n iradinp, from 79 to 50. These * positions are regarded as more de- v drable than tha commissions in the * national army, but the students c who stand for commissions in the a national army are advised not to c surrender them for the provisional! e positions as it may be a year ber fore any of the class B men are , :alled. | a From class C are to be selected .( second lieutenants, 100 for the in-'/ fantry twenty-five for cavalry and fifty for the field artillery. All jthers are to be graded according v Lo merit and recommendation.; n rhose eligible are to be commission-! -.1 + Uvficnvro cnvne nml spnt. t JU III HIV i. wo w ? W* % w, lome to await calls. Those not eligible are to be list-j . id according to merit for future 11 :ommissions in the national army * for staff department positions. I F MARCHING f iN CAPITAL, |J * A GLANCE OVER THE COUNTRY: I News in a Condensed j Form to Be Read By j1 SHORTAGE OF SHELLS IN ITALIAN ARMYS Italian Army Expert Analyzes German Advance. 5AYS WHOLE OF ITALY IS HONEYCOMBED WITH SPIES declares That Foe Will Be Driven Back From Country, German Account of Prisoners Inaccurate Washington, Nov. 11.?Gernany's offensive against Italy, reluced to military essentials and itripped of its possible political siglificance, is an attempt to repeat he Dunajec drive of 1915, which )lasted Russia out of Galicia and 5oland, and the Serbian drive of the ?I-:_L ui_? +V.o lame year, which uiew upcu u? oad to Constantinople. General Mackensen, the commanler who carried out the big smashis of 1915 and who is again headng the Germans, is the "pinch litter" of the Prussian war machine The Germans believe the Italians ire caught in the same relative poitions as the Russians and Serbs in 915. The Russians had run out of nunitions. The Serbs had little arillery. In both campaigns Mackenen literally blasted his way by rum fire. Italy has plenty of guns, and her nunitions and supply departments re alert, but the submarine camiaign and ship shortage which have ailed to cripple France and Briain, have reduced Italy's munitions upplies far below the danger line, 'he Italian offensive of the early ummer consumed most of her reerve munitions. Italy has neither oal or iron and must get both by ea. For five months the Italian lilitary commission in Washington as been struggling for American 'heat, steel and coal. That the Italian army is hamperd by a serious shortage of shells i the face of the big German ofensive is freely admitted by Italin officers in the United States, laptain Count Lucerna de Qampegoni, who arrived here only recent /, says the whole thing nangs on Munitions, Munitions, Munitions," araphrasing Lloyd George's "Ships hips, Ships," with real Latin insnsity. The count, attached to the Italian military mission, says there is no eason to mince words about somehing the Germans knew all about ;hen they decided to launch their ttack. "Then they know about the conitions in the Italian army?" he was sked. "Certainly, German spies are on very street corner in Italy, or in lurope for that matter. We have one our best to catch them, but ,-here one is caught, others take his lace." Thp ennnt savs the German offen ive has been expected for someime?in fact, it has been inevitable ver since the Russian army's disrganization in July. The first blow was expected on he Bainsizza plateau, where it fell, 'he next stroke on the upper Isonzo .ras not so clearly anticipated when he count left Italy, because the omplete demoralization of Russia nd the safety with which Germany an withdraw troops from the eastrn front was not then so apparent. Asked whether the railroad facili ies between France and Italy would llow the transfer of French, Britsh and American troops to stem a ierman offensive on the Italian ront, the count said the railroads ,'ere available, but that there was o need of allied infantry. Italy has plenty of men?also o handle the guns. The Italian shell shortage made tself felt long before the end of he recent Italian offensive, and the resence of ten British batteries on UNREPORTED FOOD ] FOUND IN GOTHAM Secret Service Agents Discover Immense Stores. ( PROPERTY RUNS INTO MILLIONS ! j , Seven Hundred Bag? of Jute Be-j longing to German Government Among Articles Located. I New York, Nov. 11.?Secret ser-j vice agents have discovered food-i stuffs and other property valued 1 at more than $73,000,000 stored in < warehouses in this city which has 15 never been reported to the govern- t ment as required under the trading 1 with the enemy act, it was learned j i , tonight. This is only a small partj^ of what is expected to be uncovered i ? * J-U- U It I Deiure Uie seim.ii ciius. I Flour, sugar, eggs, butter and i * ! canned goods of various kinds are ^ ! contained in the list of foodstuffs; 3 I compiled by the secret service men. J Large quantities of iron, steel, cop- t I per, cotton and chemicals also have I ! been found, a part of which, it was 11 | announced, is owned by Germans. jc The value of the foodstuffs not'r reported to the government was I placed at $38,496,742 and the me-'f ; tals, cotton and other materials ati I $35,449,028. I It was stated that- one consign-jr ment of 700 bags of jute is known e ! to have been bought witH money de-, c ' posited here by the Deutsches Bank ^ of Berlin, the official government.; 0 About three-quarters of the commodities is said to be held as collateral! c 'for loans made by banks but noth-l* ' ing regarding the nature of the,1 i loans could be learned. j11 I The secret service men made a e > detailed report of the amount of n the goods unearthed and the loca-j" | tion of the places of storage to Her-j n bert Hoover, federal food adminis- t: trator. i t! . Mr. Palmer recently extended un, til December 5, the time within j * which persons or concerns holding ^ or controlling any property for an 0 enemy or ally, including subjects, a shall report such property to the n government. i tl i tl WITHDRAW EXEMPTIONS ja GRANTED TO STRIKERS a j . |f Houston, Tex.?Denouncing as "little short of criminal" a war-j time strike in any industry needed! i; for the successful prosecution ofjt: hostilities and defining the oil in-;<j dustry as "the'absolute heart of our!a 'navy," Dr.* Sidney J. Smkh, chair-j. man of the southern district draft! - - .. . ,._,.,.JC board, said he would immediately ! ask his own board to withdraw ex-i" ; emptions or discharges granted on c industrial grounds to all registrants a i involved in the strike. a i r ; plenty of cannon?but not enough n ' shells. The transfer of E ritish and ii French batteries to the Italian front c | which has been going on for some- n time, is due to the lack not of Ital-id ' | ian cannon or artillerymen, but of p i shells. : T Britain and France have consid-,e i erable reserve stocks of shells and j their supply is being kept up, but p their shells will not fit the Italian |p ii - - n- -1 . ( cannon, to use vne auieu sueus un |j j the Italian front requires allies can-!y not fire them and allied artillery-10 men to handle the guns. t] The Italian shell shortage made e ; itself felt along before the end of ^ ' the lower Isonzo at that time, with' t] 'a large number of French batteries ^ above Gorizza, was due solely to the ^ (necessity of using allied ammuni-'i, I tion. -j That Italy will stop the German tl drive, just as she stopped the Ger-'ti man "'strafe expedition" from the ci I Trentino early last year, is Count Lucerna's confident prediction. He r< .says that the German accounts ofw prisoners taken are altogether un- j p : reliable. i p ITALIANSAI BACK THI SELECTIVE SERVICE BILL President Will Definitely Fix Place of All Registered Men. Washington, Nov. 10.?President iVilson formally put the new ma:hinery for the carrying out of the selective service bill into operation ;onight with the publication of the foreword he has written to the regllations under which the second call vill be made. The regulations them;elves and the questionaires which ,hen 9,000,000 registrants will be equired to fill out are being forvarded to local boards, but have not , i 1. ret oeen nictue puuut. . War department officials estimate hat the whole process can be competed within sixty days. This means I hat no second call will be made up-| m the national army before the niddle of next February, as the leriod of classification will not befin until December 15. The president describes the new ilan of dividing all registered men iot already mobilized into five classis, subject to military service by lasses, as being intended to proluce "a more perfect organization f our man power." "The selective principles must be nrrioH tn its logical conclusion," he president said, and he added hat there must be made a complete nventory of the qualifications of ach registrant in order to deter- j line "the place in the military, in-j ustrial or agricultural ranks of the J ation in which his experience andj raining can best be made to serve1 he common good." The inquiry projected in the quesionnaire will go deep into the qualications of each of nearly 10,000,00 men. The success of the plan nd its completion within the esti-j lated time rests absolutely upon, he whole-hearted support given byi he people, especially by the doctors nd lawyers of each community, nd the president calls upon them or their unstinted aid. The president's foreword follows: "The task of selecting and mobilsing the first contingent of the naional army is nearing completion.; 'he expedition and accuracy of its! ccomplishment were a most grati-J ying demonstration of the eflkien-l y of our democratic institutions, 'he swiftness with which the ma-1 hinery for its execution had to be; ssembled, however, left room for Aincfmont nnrl irrmrnvement. New egulations putting these improvelents into effect are, therefore, beig published today. 'There is on hange in the essential obligation of len subject to selection. The first raft must stand unaffected by the' rovisions of the new regulations.1 "hen can be given no retroactive ffect. "The time has come for a rnorej erfect organization of our man offer. The selective principle must e carried to its logical conclusion.! lre must make a complete inventory f the qualifications of all regis-, rants in order to determine, as to ach man not already selected for uty with the colors, the place in le military, industrial, or agriculjral ranks of the nation in which is experience and training can best! e made to serve the common good.; his project involves an inquiry by ie selection boards into the domesc, industrial and educational quali utions, of nearly ten million men. j "Members of these boards have i sundered a conspicuous service. The ( ork wa sdone without regard to,' ersonal convenience and under a ressure of improvements." ^HOLDING ! TEUTONS Invaders Hurled Back East of Asiago-Bat tie Imminent TEUTONS FORCED TO GIVE GROUND AT ASIAGO Turks Lose in Palestine?British Forces Under Gen. Allenby Continue to Capture Towns, Although Teutons Are Assisting Otomans. On the Italian front the Italian line in the north has stiffened under the reinforcements it has received from the British and French. Even the German official communication does not mention any further retiremen' )y Italians, but on the contrary, admits the east of Asiago, where the Austro-Germans made gains last week, the Italians in I strong force attacked the invaders and recaptured lost positions. The Italians took about 100 prisoners. Along the middle and southern reaches of the Plave and Italians are holding their line tenaciously, although they have been forced to give up the Vidor bridge head, northeast of Trevison. British Unmolested. The Germans Sunday made no attpmnts t.n rerant.ure t.he prnnnH ta ken from them by the British in the ... . region of Passchendaele, contenting themselves merely with the bombardment of the newly won line. A heavy rainfall prevented the British from extending their gain. Bombardments and minor attacks have predominated on the remainder of ? the western front, except near Hartmanns-Weilerkopf in the Vosges mountains, where in a violent battle the French completely repulsed the Germans. Turks Lose in Palestine. In Palestine the British forces under Gen. Allenby continue^ to make progress against the Turks, who are being aided by German and Austrian gunners. During the latter part of last week, several more towns and villages were captured on the 600-square mile battlefield in addition to numerous guns and many prisoners. East of Gaza a large enemy force was defeated after a violent fight and twelve guns, three machine guns and a hundred prisoners were captured. Revolt Nearing End. Apparently the Bolsheviki uprising in Petrograd is nearing its end and Premier Kerensky may soon again be in power. Late advices from Petrograd are to the effect that the revolutionists have been defeated in Moscow and at Tsarkoe-Selo, and from the latter town, which is fifteen miles from Petrograd, are retreating, a disorderly mob, toward the capital. VON TIRPITZ IN POLITICS CAUSES GERMAN PROTEST rnnnnlinffon \Trv\r Q A von Tirpitz, former minister of marine, has been asked by a committee of the Conservative party to stand for election to the reichstag in the vacancy from the district of Bautzen, Kamenz. The Vorwaerts says that the parites of the left will regard such a candidacy as a provocation. It says they undoubtedly will contest the election if von Tirpitz runs despite the political truce agreed upon at the outset of the war binding the various parties not to oppose a candidate 01 tne party in possession if the seat is vacated by death or otherwise during the war. W COTTON MARKET "V Cotton 28 3-8 V V Seed $1.08 V 1