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i ' i ' " ' ; * ! -V'm s / . . -/ Abbeville Press and Banner*! ' ; / > Established 1844. $1.50 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, March 19,1918 Single Copies, Five Cento. 75th Yea^Pltl AMERICA I ANSWERO Reply From The Hague to Allies' Expected in Washington ' FIGHT FOR FREEDOM WILL NOT BE LATER THAN TODAY t If Holland Answers Unfavorably Stars aid Stripes Will Be Raised Orel* 1,000,000, Tons Shipping. : , \ TTr--1-: ? ftf ??.t, 1 7 Wnl. TV ttSJMllgbUllf moivu | > land's reply to the American and British demand that a voluntary shipping agreement be put into effect despite Germany's opposition, in default of which the Dutch vessels 1 in American , and British waters would be seized under ancient law, will be awaited before further action is taken by the United States # Government. Dispatches from The Hague tonight indicated that the reply was en route, but probably would not reach Washington before noon tomorrow, when the time limit set exnires. As it is believed now, Hoi ??- _ . | land will assent to the Allied proposals, officials here desire to delay action so that transfer by agreement may be substituted for seizure, although in either case they would be entirely within their rights under international law. -Tuesday the Limit. At any rate the addition of 1,000,' 000 tons of shipping to the resour ces engaged in the fight for world freedom will not be delayed beyond Tuesday. i Ti e American flag will be raised over the 700,000 tons in American waters as soon as the transfer is m&de and the vessels will be put into the food transport service. It was stated officially tonight that there has been no change in the terms of the American ultima. turn, which offered Holland ample food supplies and sufficient tonnage. Whether or not assent is giyen to the terms, *the ships will be acquired by the Allies tomorrow or Tuesday. Concessions to be made by Holland to Germany in the matter of barges for internal commerce \ were not discussed by officials. DEATH OF MIKE CASSIDY. News was received here yesterI day of the death of Mr. Mike Cassidy at the hospitl in Chester. He went over to Dr. Pryor's several weeks ago for an operation from which he seemed to recover until about two weeks ago he began to decline. His body fwill be taken to the home of his niece, Mrs. W. E. Ward, in Fernandina, Fla., for burial. Mr. Cassidy's age is not known,l but he is about sixty years old. He ??? flfTA AW came nere avvut mciaj-mc v? ty years ago and ran a store foj; several years. For the past twenty years he has had charge of the store house at the Seaboard Shops. He was a typical Irishman as is evidenced by the name he gave his home out on Blue Hill. He called i it "Ireland." He was never married but lived a life of seclusion. His niece, Mrs. Ward, is the only relative that is known to the people! of our city. She visited him on dif-j ferent occasions being here to take him to Chester. Mr. Cassidy^was a member of Clinton Lodge No. 3 A. F. M. LIEUT. NEUFFER. Lieut. Gottlob A. Neuffer, Jr., of Camp Sevier, came down and spent Saturday night with his home people. He 8' looking well and seems to be enjoying camp life as well as ever. He says he is "rearing" to go oyer there. ' V 1 lwahs fholland 150 Japanese Are Slain By Bolsheviki WILSON TO GIVE THE UNITED STATES VIEW ON RUSSIA SHORTLY. I i Tokio, March 16.?One hundred and fifty Japanese have been slain at Blagovieschtensk, the capital of the province of Amur in Asiatic Russia, by Russian maximalists, ac- ( cording ot newspaper advices received here today. No details were giv- ( en in the dispatches. Blagovies- ( chtensk lies near the Manchurian . frontier. 1 ' I Washington, March ' 16.?Ad- ( ministration circles today let it be known that President Wilson will ( shortly Issue a statement which will ( define the attitude of the United States towards Russia and towards , the plans of the Entente Powers to , have Japan send an expedition into . Siberia. x i No details were furnished as to ] when the announcement will be made or the form it will take. It is i known, however, that the President i has felt for several weeks the people i >of the United States were entitled to i know the exact positionwhich this 1 Government has taken toward the : proposed Japanese-Chinese military i expedition into Siberia. ] He had planned to appear before : Congress and address a joint session of that body on the entire Russian 1 problem and at that time to make it ( plain that the United States woujd < insist at all times that the territor- , ial integrity of Russia be maintain- .] ed. i Situation la Chan fed. Events that have followed the action of Germany in enforcing ruin- : ous neace terms on Russia and Rou- 1 mania jaave somewhat changed the .situation. But the President still is determined, officials close to him! assert, that there shall be no ex- 1 ploitation of defeated Russia for the 1 benefit of any other nation. It is believed the action of the President will precede any action by ' Japan in Siberia. The debate in the British House of Commons already has shown that Great Britain believes Japan must intervene to save Russia from Germany. France is unalterably committed to such a plan. That the Bolsheviki ' may have overreached itself when it forcibly ni.n.imo/4 nf fhfi SnVlftt flnTI-I OOOUIU^U UllV^UVlt VA V**V vv.. gress at Moscow was a belief gaining ground here today. The dispatches reaching Washington dealing with the situation were decidedly conflicting. They seemed to indicate that the reported overwhelming vote by which the Soviets ratified the German peace terms was an expression only of the Bolsheviki element. The Social Democrats and other delegates are declared to have broken away and to have refused to ratify the treaty. TO WAYNESVILLE. Bob Cochran spent Sunday and Monday here with his home people. He has been spending the winter in Savannah where he had charge of the Odeon Theatre, but he is re turning to Way?esvme, in. io: get ready for the tourist season, where he will again have charge of the Motion Picture Theatre. TO CHATTANOOGA. Mrs. Elizabeth Shillito left Sunday night for Chattanooga, where she has gone to make her home with her grandson and family, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. DuPre. ^ This is quite ' a long way from her home surroundings and she will be greatly missed by all of her neighbors and friends. ' v'V. 7 . . . RED CROSS PLANS" MORE SOLDIERS All New Organization Ha Been Formed For Fighting Forces GIVES SERVICE OF HOME Bureau, Divided Into Four Soctioni to Keep Man m Touch With Familie*. Paris, Thursday, March 14.?Tb American Red Cross has formed a organization called "The Service c Home Communication" to tak charge of activities which will touc every American camp, every soldie A?TAW mnonnor fflVo in a iiuapiwii, ctci; ynovuv* ?^*?v by the Germans, every America ?rave in France and the home c every soldier in America. Henry , Allen of Kansas, has been placed i charge of the bureau which is divic ed into four sections. The section concerning , missin men and prisoners is required t 3earch for the men, whether the fall in No Man's Land, disappear i bombing operations or are take prisoners. The section for the sick, wounde and dead has for its purpose th sending home of information relai : a*a nnoKlo In Txrrnf lllg tu U1CI1 TT41V <UC UUUU4V vv w.... for themselves. Sensible, sympatic tic women, who not only will searc for information but will write lei ters from bedsides to the next kin in America, have been selecte for this work. ' The army has turndd over to th third section of the bureau the wor of phottfgraphlhg- * Atreffm will be made to send a photograp of each burial place to the next c kin in America. Jt is likely the Re Cross will place a small enami marker over each grave as soon a it is registered by the army unt such time as the government ca place a permanent marker. The section on emergency we fare is destined to form a connec ing bond between the American so dier in France and his home in An erica. If a soldier in camp or ho: pital looses touch with home or i worried about the welfare of h family, the Red Cross will take u his case with the home service d< partment chapter in the communit in which he lives and the local chaj ter will be pledged to care for h: family in eemrgency. SAMMY STALKS GERMAN SNIPER AND "PLUGS" HI1 With the American Army i France, March 16.?A certain sej geant, an old-timer, wfto iormerj was in the cavalry, has long bee annoyed by a certain German snipe He finally decidel to "get" him. Creeping out into No Man's Lan in the night, he located the Germa in a tree. He waited till dayligh and then drew a bead on the Gei man. He fired just once, and th German toppled out of the tree. "He didn't need the shot to ki him," the sergeant said after he ha ceipt back to his own lines, "the fa alone would have done it." HERE FROM* DUE WEST. Prof. Edgar Long filled the pulp at the Associate Reformed Presb] terian church Sabbath morning an preached an excellent sermon 1 the congregation, who were delighte to have him here. Prof. Long is a young man c pleasing personality and has a brig} future before him. He stands hig in the councils of the A. R. 1 church. vvuvvvvvvvvvvv V COTTON MARKET V Cotton 33 3-4c. V Seed $1,06 1-2 ' ' ' J . ' TEUTONS MAKE RAID ) ON AMERICAN LINES I s Move Designed to Gel Information by Means of Taking Prisoners HEAVY FIRE ON AMERICANS i, More Gu Shells Full in Both th< Toul and this Luaerille Sectors. ,e With the American Army ii n France, March 16.?After a terrifii if artillery preparation this morning 15 large numbers of anemy crossed N< h Man's Land on the extreme right oJ ir the American sector nortwest Toul A i-1 i.1. ? A-P fVlO 11 Apparently me pui yusc ui wiv ?. n was quickkly accomplished. Only i if comparatively small number enterec f. our lines. Permision has not beer n given to mention the number oi 1- casualties. I This raid, like most of the other! g carried out all the way from the set o to Switzerland, was designed to gel y information by means of takinj; n prisoners. n East of Luneville our patrols havi explored part of the German trend d which our artillery forced the enem;; e to abandon. Potral proceeded liter t- ally until they estabished contac ,e with' the Germans. Our reconnoia ?- sance and wire patro found snipera h posts, listening posts and nests fron: |> which machine guns had been fir ?f ing on our lines. The artillery at d tended to all these posts. The Ger man positions have been so uncom ^ faKIa of uvanit nlnrpR that the1 I 1V1MIV1V MV f k now are trying to regain a footholf rt by* connecting shell holes. Off h troops have been subjected to ai ,f extraordinarily heavy artillfery fin d for the last twenty-i'our hours. MORE SOLOIERS. 13 Four Aero Squadrons, the 224th n 225th, 227th and 22:3th passed thn heite yesterday. They were fron K^llyfield Camp nea:r San Antonio ^ They marched up through th< square and gave several "yells" a: l" well as several songs. They wen 5" fine looking. Lieut. Brady was ii 's command. is ix TO NEW YORK. * ^ 1 " w TT ?? I.** .y JJr. ana ivirs. r. Hi. narrwuu icx )- yesterday for New York, where Dr ii3 Harrison goes on business. Thej will spend several days at For Monroe with Lieut. Frank Harrison MEETING IN ASHEVILLE. n At the meeting held in Ashevill* for the Dixie Highway movement n1 great enthusiasm was shown by al delegates. For the purpose of hand 3 ling the proposition in a business like manner an association was form ?r ed. Officers were elected and i board of directors which include: two county or highway officials ^ from each county through which th< ' proposed .highway passes. The Asheville Citizen says: "Dr 16 C. C. Gambrell, mayor of the citj ? of Abbeville, S. C., stated that then II ... ^ was great interest in the proposet jj addition in his city, and that th< I city would co-operate with th< county in meeting tlie requirements Dr. Gambrell stated that his countj hos sufficient money on hand t< it make the necessary repairs and tha no trouble would be met with in hi; id county." BACK HOME* FOR A DAY. ^ Rev. Louis J. Bristow came u] ^ from Columbia last Saturday anc , filled the pulpit at the Baptis y church Sunday both morning an< evening. The Baptist congregtioi and his many friends in town weri V. delighted to have him back and t< V see him looking well after his re V cent illness. During his stay hi VI was $he guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ott< V' Bristow. FIGHTING I ON WEST t w V1 , U. S. To Curb Use Of Dixie Wheat * 5 FOOD ApMINSTRATOR FOR TEXAS IS DIRECTED TO ISSUE ' FIRST ORDER. Washington, March 16.?Steps were taken today by the ^United i States food administration to curb ; the use of wheat in the South. , E. K. Peden, food administrator > for Texas, was directed to issue orP ders restricting the use of wheat. . No definite plan was ordered. Notice 1 was given that the order might Jai ter be extended throughout the 1 QrvnfVioTn Sfotoa i Food administration officials , def clare the substitutes for wheat are more popular throughout the South 3 than Elsewhere. At the same time, i however, the "fifty-fifty" order, fc whitft provides for the purchase of t wheat and substitutes in equal quantities, has created an increased ? demand for wheat. ij It is expected the Texas food adj ministrator will be able to work out . some scheme whereby the wheat may t be conserved and the full demand . for substitutes met without an ac* companying demand for wheat. i A GOOD ROADS CLUB. 1 < Mr. J. J. Enloe, field secretary of - South Carolina State Automobile j Association, is here to co-operate I with the automobijjists, of Abbeville E for a_Good Row^Automobik -Hub i for this county. A keen interest * has already been shown by some local representative business men of Abbeville who attended a Good Roads' meeting in Asheville and Greenville last week. | The individual car owners through( out South Carolina have gotten together and organized a State Au, tomobile Association, and it in turn } is sending forth its apostles of , Good Road Clubs to perfect like 1 organizations in every town, city, j and county. Mr. Enloe comes highly recom| mended by Mr. C. W. Cofield, State ! rescretary and general manager, t and by others who knew him as a . popular and ardent Y. M. C. A. secretary of the two Carolinas. t . Individuals cannot accomplish . much, but with a strong organization of intelligent business men, all I working together and for definite j purposes a great deal can be obtain:l ed, "for in unity there is strength." ' j Therefore, all Good Road advocates 1 land interested parties are urged by "! Mr. Enloe to come forward and give the movement their loyal and undivided support. 1 Each local club when properly or5 ganized, will be affiliated with the 1 South Carolina State Automobile 21 Association, and with the American | Automobile Association, and also ' the National Association. t e ON APRIL 4th. I - The ladies of the Red Cross are 1 going to have an entertainment on the night of April 4th in the Opera J House. "The Living Pictures" is | } the title. In between the pictures 1 has sufficient money on hand to 3ling. # Miss Wedge of Due West, is I sine-. The Maerill Orchestra will furnish music. This is the first entertainment given by the Abbeville j j Chapter of the Red Cross. * THE CIVIC CLUB. *j The regular meeting of the Civic ^Club will be held Thursday after-, 2 j noon at half past four o'clock at the 1 home of Mrs. W. P. Greene. 2 Mrs. J. M. Morgan and little son| > are spending several days in Chat-[ tanooga with Mrs. H. H. DuPre. - r:.\ ' iStJ. V.i!.' * ' ' NCREASING ERNFRONT , Spring Weather Sees Both Infantry and Artillery More Active GERMANS DISREGARD TREATY WITH RUSSIA Helpless Slavs See Army of Invaders Pressing On Into Richest South- .. era Territory. With the ratification of the treaty of peace with Germany, the soviet , ' congress in Moscow has dissolved. ' < JJI But the Germans have not yet ceas- V \S ed their inroads into Russia's richest territory in the South. Nikolaiev, northeast of Odessa, and /I d headquarters of the high command . - : v of the Russian Black Se^ fleet, ?: i the latest prize that has been wrest- ft ed from the Russians. " Up to the last some of the chief members of the soviet congress oik'- . in posed the hard terms of the Ger^ j; \ j. mans but to no avail. Warning was i :M sounded by several of them of k ;r$ further German attack and of the necessity for amalgamating for re- '7 sistance. Before adjonrnment the ; ^ congress approved the removal of ' : fj the capital from Petrograd to lfos-o. COW. ' 'iV.": No Move by Japan. -r i '?! No change in the situation in Si- ,. $? beria has been noted. As late as vi' Saturday the Japanese, according to <$* Premier Terauchi, had not decided J$ what "SliOuid be done by Japaja: wiUi regard to the menace of the Bolshe- / ^ viki and the German elements who X-Vi|i are aiding them in their reign of terror in Siberia. With the approach of spring each. $ day witnesses an increase in the \'|1 fighting activity. In every theater, except Russia, the infantry and artillery are hard at work. On the American front near Toul - -4 the Americans are ever on th^ alert and frequently open up with their ^ guns against German positions and^ 'A compel the enemy to evaculate the sectors under fire. American Guns Busy. Outposts occupied by snipers and listening posts and nests of machine % gunners recently have been effec tively taken care of by the American gunners. The Germans, however, are not permitting the men ?? 'Ia oil oVlAAfintr I irom overseas i,u uu an ui? ?D, _ for they themselves are at times putting the Americans under an extraordinrily haevy artillery fire in V which explosive shells of large calibre and gas shells are used. In Macedonia there has been a great increase in the military operations. Along almOBt all of , the fronts from Lake Ochrida eastward the big guns on both sides are ham- v ^ mering away at the opposing posi- '"'if tions. The Germans apparently . & are ?till intent on totally destroying the famous town of Monastir and \4 ' wiping out the remaining remnants ' of its civilian population. PROFESSOR A. MASON DUPRE | Headmaster of The Wofford Fitting j School. '^1 Prnfpssor A. Mason DuPre was Headmaster of the Fitting School for a number of years. He was then elected a Professor in Wofford Colj lege. Since the recent death of ' ? Professor Wyche, Professor DuPre has consented to become Head Master of the Fitting School agaia There is no man in South Carolina ; who can do this work any better than Professor DuPre. Parents who | will patronize the Fitting School the .1 coming year will rejoice to know | that he has accepted the work.? N -to v Southern Christian Advocate. .r ' 3s ''-A