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Abbeville Press and BalBBeil Established 1844. $1.50 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, March 26, 1918 Single Copies, Five Cento. 75th Year, ll SLAUGHTER HAS 61 Fighting of Desperate Nature - Continues?Allies Optimistic BRITISH ANNALS RECORD NO MORE GALLANT ACTION With Germans It Is Case of Break ' , I Desperate Fighting Fighting of a most desperate nature has been continual since the initial attack but so far the British have used few troops other than those which were holding the front line. Those shock troops have been making so gallant a defense as was ever recorded in the annals of the ''i British army, and as a result they have enabled the main body of the forces* to .fell back deliberately and withotrt confusion. Dreadful Slaughter. More than fifty German divisions y- i already have been identified by actual contact, and many of these -? . *. men were simply given two - days' iron rations and sent over the top into ihe frightful maelstrom made by thet Allied artillery, machine /. guns atod rifles. The slaughter* of the en?ny infantry as it advanced in close1, formation over the open has been appalling. A CALL MEETING - AT COURT HOUSE ______ After conferring with the business men of Abbeville who are interested in a good roads club, and v with Mr. C. W. Cofield, secretary and general manager of South Carolina State Automobile Association, a call has been issued by Mr. J. J. Enloe, field secretary, to all the men in Abbeville and Abbeville County who are interested in good roads to meet at the Court House Tuesday evening, March 26th, at eight o'clock tc hear Mr. CofteM. Mr. Cofield was instrumental ih getting Georgia organized and is recognized as one of the leading good roads advocate in the south Mr- Enloe states that he is very much encouraged over the outlook . here and hopes to be able to per feet the local elob at this meeting. All business men who are interested are not only incited but are urged to attend. RED CROSS EXCHANGE. The ladies of the 6ed Cross wHl hold their exchange On Saturday. The chairmen have not been nam*! v v?t TO DETROIT. Mr. E. H. Longshore, accompan' ied by the following young men left Saturday for Detroit^ where they have gone to bring home a number of cars through the country on account of the embargoes placed on the cars being shipped by freight: Jas. H. Sherard, William Hughes,1 Pratt Clinkscales, Marshall Clinkscale*, and Tom Culbreath. They were joined in Greenwood by a crowd and they all went together. v - - / i ... * - , ' . ? .,. ' . Through or Admit Defeat?Battle to Satisfy People. With the British Army in France, March 24.?The British and French who hold the lines at th?, junction of the two armies, were viewing the trend of the German offensive with optimistic eyes this moraine. Hard fighting was in progress but the latest reports showed little or no change in the situation in favor of the enemy since yesterday, while on the other hand the defenders had pushed / the attacking - forces j back after a bitter struggle and! were holding strongly along the! whole new front to which they hadj withdrawn. i OFHONS IN HEAVY Work on Congress Planned For Week \ LlbERTY LOAN1 LEGISLATION f TO BE CONSIDERED?TO CALL OVERMAN BILL. Washington, March 24.?Liberty loan legislation and the controversy over war machinery reorganization are the engrossing topics before congress this week. Announcement tomorrow by Secretary McAdoo of the size and terms of the billions . of new war bonds is to be followed by house consideration of the bill whose pas sage is desired with the fortnight intervening before the new Liberty loan campaign. The fight over war organization promises to open in the senate early1 this week. Senator Overman of North Carolina, author of the measure to give the president wide powers for .reorganization, has given notice that he will call it up immediately after disposal of the Indian appropriation bill. TO FORT SILL. . . } { Lieut. H. Owen Speed was at la?t. week on several davs leave from Camp Jackson. He will leave about "Wednesday for Port Sill, Oklahoma, where he will enter the Artillery School of Fir$. DEATH OF PRIVATE HARKNESS - ' ; :v /Private Sam Hafkness, age 25,' one of the colored men that was ' sent to Caipp Jackson on Feb. 25th, is dead. He was out drilling and when he returned to his quarters ' he felt sick. He developed a case of spinal meningitis which caused his death three days later. His body ! was prepared and sent home.... for 11 burial* with instructions that the ; coffin was not to be opened. The " interment was at * latrock ceme- j tery near AntreviUe. ,-v r ; ^ DANIELS IGNORANT OF SHIPPING PURCHASE ' ' ^ 1 .. Washington, March '23.?"We hope it is true," was all the comment Secretary of the Navy Daniels would make today of the London j Daily Mail's dispatch from Tokioj quoting the newspaper "Komumin j, Shimbun as stating that Admiral Austin M. Knight, commander of j the Asiatic fleet, has purchased all j the shipping on the Russian Pacific coast. 11 The Secretary said he had re- j ceived no word from Knight to this effect and while the admiral could . take the st?p, it was unlikely he < would go ahead without advising . the department. ' According to the story 650,000 tons is involved. I WILSON IS CHEERED . lY ITALIAN ttirtOtoG i j Rotoe, March J5nthusUltti? 3 cheers for President Wilsdri ] ed the opening of the sanitarium ' for tubercufor tihifdifcft Of Itatikn toldlers at ArtCcia today, Thomie I N. Page, American Ambassador to 1 Italy, took frirt in the cettftt<inl&8. The funds providing for sanitariutt were provided by popular subscription, aided by the American Red Cross. * A bust of President Wilson stands in the center of the institution, which was named for him. ?: TO foEW ORLEANS. Dr. and Mrs. W. D. Simpson and son, Henry, left yesterday for New * Orleans, where they will spend a > month. Dr. Simpson will take a * course in Tropical diseases at Tu- * lane University while there. ' *.: - - ' ' A':-v:v.'. '/".v z NO CONFIRMATION ON GERMAN REPOR1 War Department Deeply Interested in All Reports From Front PRESIDENT SCANS REPORT Associated Press Dispatches Transmitted to Nation's Chief?Long Range Gun Interests. Washington, March 24.?No confirmation of German reports that American troops have participated in the fight on the British front had reached the War Department up to a late hour tonight. Major Gen. March, acting chief of staff, who remained at his office qauch of the day and night, said that no advices A** V ItAi^ knan VAAAitrA/1 tu tins cacwb uau uccxi a ctci* tu. It was recalled that the American railway engineers, in training at the British front, were involved in the German counter-attack on the Cambrai some months ago; but there has been nothing to indicate that any other than engineer or other special units have been employed at any time with the British forces. Officials generally displayed the most eager interest in every item of news as to the German drive. The government may have received some confidential advices from Gen. Pershing on the situation, but Gen. March said nothing was to be given out when he lfeft his office. Long-Range Guns. The annouhcement from Berlin that Paris had been bombared by long-range guns seemed to settle any doubt there lias been as to what , transpired in the French capital yesterday and today. THE CAROLINIAN AND LANIER LITERACY SOCIETIES On Friday night the Cartlinian and Lanier Literary Societies gave a public -entertainment in the Court House which was well attended and very: much enjoyed. All parts were well carried out. The decorations we re of yellow; and white and green and white. After the judges had decided the winners of the debate Mr. J. S. Morse announced their decision which was in favor of, the affiwwofi'trA '* iiiutauT^i . . Subject: Resolved, That Reprisal and Retaliation on the Part of the Allies Against the German Outrages is Justifiable. 1 The program was as follows: [. Address of Welcome_Bruce Fant % [I. Instrumental Duet Mary Greene, Victoria Howie [II. Southern Poets...Helen Haigler tV. The Indian-killer Mary > ' Stevenson V. Uncle Remus Ruby Mann VI. Current EVentfe Jas. Coleman HI. Song by the Societies. VIII. The Littlest Rebel.. Victoria Howie . [X. Sense and Nonsense?George Jones THE DEBATE. Affirmative. . Negative. 8sd$ Gteene. Margaret C6x Gravis Kerr. . Leah Thornton SI. Instrumental Solo Lefts Ferguson HI. Dtdisions of Judges. Klft. Valedictory Alpha Gravis -y ij u FOUR GALLONS. Sheriff Burte and fie'puty Sheriff j r. E. Jones made a raid on Sarin Padgett's place at Monterey last i rhursday. Four gallons of block- , ide whiskey wis found stored away , n the sibok'ehouse. The whiskey , *as purchased in Georgia on last , Konday. , " I AVVVVVVVVVVVVVV , . COTTON MARKET V i i Cotton 34 3-4 Si. , w . Seed $1.06 1-2 V ^ ^VVVVVVVVVVVVVV, ' * s'. .tl.L-^1 b;y-. r;^ NOTHING 10 FEAR IN HUN OFFENSIVE French High Commissioner Speaks of the Situation COMMENTS ON BIG BATTLE Compares British Retirement With French Retirement in the Battle' of Verdun. New York, March 2\?There is nothing in the current news from overseas to warrant any disquietude on the part of the American public or any of the nations allied against Germany, in the opinion of Capt. Andre Tardieu, French high commissioner to the United States. In a statement! issued here today, however, he counselled the hastening of preparations in this country to deal the enemy "blow for blow," and the maintenance by Americans at home of the same "calmn confidence" in the ultimate issue of the war as has been manifested by the nation's troops in France. "Germany's long distance bombardment of Paris can have no significance from a military viewpoint, Capt. Tardieu declared. The British retirement near St Quentin on the western front, the high commissioner believed, was a movement paralleling that of. the li'rench during the first two days of the battle of Verdun. "The German attack," said Capt. Tardieu, "seems to have exceeded in violence by the number of men in 'all prvious attacks. The British r^urement near St Quentin_jrela-; tivefy is not more important than the French retirement was at the heiffinning of the Verdun engagement." ...... v 1 " 'A. H. S. BOYS WIN. The baseball games played Friday afternoon between,- Abbeville High School and Utopia-, was won by the home boys. The score being 5 to 2. . t ^ . Utopia made 4 hits. Abbeville made 10 hits. Abbeville' played well in ?the field. c DR:k Swetenbiirg Wiflirim' Cobb. TO LAY STRESS ON SHAME OF DESERTION Washington, March 22.?In the hope of decreeing the number of army desertions to a minimum, the War. Department today issued a bulletin pointing out that the duty that rests upon all officers, and particularly company commanders, ia to impress upon young soldiers lessons of patriotism and loyalty, the necessity for obedience and military discipline, and, above all, the gravity of the offense of desertion. The importance of reading regularly the articles of war and explaining them so the young soldiers . will realize the difference between , his military and civiliafe status is ' ..a i/UUHrCU VUU Oi Beers are urged to take an in- ' terett in their men outalde of a ' purely military one. j SPECIAL Mr. Wm. P. Greene has been ap- , pointed Special Judfee, and it holding court in Spartanburg this week, j ( UVVVVVVVVVVVVVVj w * 1 Yesterday a number of ru- V < * mors and reports were being V i W circulated on the streets as V to the number of prisoners V W captured by Gen. Pershing V ^ and the Germans, but as we V ^ went to press none had been i t confirmed. V < t V,1 STRUGGLE! ONWESn Honor Roll of the Abbeville City Schools LIST OF HONO^ PUPILS AT THE ' CLOSE OF THE 6TH SCHOOL MONTH. Grade I. Henifr P/bwer, Sam Shiver, Jr., Eleanor DuPre, Mar garet Maxwell, Virginia Starnes.? Miss Coline Phillips, Teacher. Grade I. Mary Chalmers, Sarah P. Smith, Charlotte Reese, Emily Morse, Bernice Wilson, William Thomson, Rivers Mabry.?Misa Bessie Epting, Teacher. Grade II. Adair Aiken, Martha Calvert, Estelle Lyon, Jean Milford, William McCord.?Miss Olive Brock Teacher. Grade II. Charlie Cox, Mabel Bradley, Ruby Brown, Elise Campbell, Susan Minshall, Mary Norwood Perrin, Minnie Ella Swetenburg, Ethel Whaley.?Miss Flora M. Timmons, Teacher. Grade III. John Harrison, Claude Shaw, Elizabeth Qorley, Alma Gaston, Anna Jones.?Miss May Rebertson, Teacher. Grade III. Sara Cowan, Margaret Flynn, Helen Starnes.?Miss A. Richards, Teacher. Grade IV. Julian Ellis, Marion Poliakoff, Annie Belle Greene, Martha Mann, i Mary Stallings.?Miss Sara P. Edwards, Teacher. Grade IV. Bill Greene, James McComb, Happoldt Neuffer, Dick Packer, Henry Simpson, Rose Lee Anderson, RaehelMmshall, -Harriet Swope, Ada Perrin.?Miss Etta Allen, Teacher. ; . 5th Grade. Judith ^ Hill, Jack Thomson, Anthony Tennant?Miad Blanche Tarrant, Teaqher,.. 5.(:h. Grade?Jeannie White, Mary Swetenburg, Frances Gilliam,Mai?y Fast; 'Ralph Bauknight.?Miss Lucille Kennedy, Teacher. . / 6th Grade?Caroline Chaknets Mary ShaW Gilliam, Grace Milford Deborah Owen, Bessie Shaw, Marion Wilson, Bernard Shaw, Ray Swetenburg.! . .7th Grade.- Willie Eakin, Gladys Edwards, Ada Faulkner, Emmie Haigler, Gertrude McMahan, Maria Neuffer, Thelma Seal, Elizabeth Thomson, Francis Glenn. 8th Grade. Elizabeth Gambrell, Helen Milford, Ruth Steele, Mary White. 9th Grade. Helen Eakin, Everett Hughes, Ralph Lyon, Mary Greene, Mary Stevenson, 10th Grade. Margaret Cox, Alpha Graves, Helen Haigler. UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION FOR, SOUTH CAROLINA The Food Administration , announces that they do not approve of the contracts that supply wheat without substitutes, and that t?e promise to buy substitutes should not be accepted, but that they should actually be bought. If there are any sections in the State that are not .supplied with flour, the Food Administration may be able to supply an over-plus of flour where; there is a dearth of it, In the same way communities that are not supplied with Irish potatoes at a reasonable price Cfm be put in touch with wholesale dealers who can supply them at $2.50 to. I2.6O per hundredweight F. 0. Et. Colum* * 2* Vbf't v?v x ifV^. bia, or $3.60 to .$3.75 per bag of one hundred and fifty pounds, upon request. BRITISH CLOCKS SEt &ACK. , London, Mar. 24.?All t&e clocks in the United Kingdom were advan:ed one hour today for tfie beginning of the summer daylight saving period. . ' '* ' ' 1 . ii. . ' u.&r-.-ui*:- ' > : " -- MIMES i ERN FRONT | Withdrawal of British 3 Troops Carried Out Perfectly. APPALLING LOSSES OF GERMAN MASSES j|| Enemy Claims to Have Taken Peronne and Ham and Claims 30,000 - '^5 Prisoner* and 600 Guns. . 'Jsfl On the battle line in France the |h sanguinary struggle is still going on, with the British troops on the most of the sectors apparentlyf hold, ing their own, but with .the Ger- i, ^ , mans at salient points still pressing J : forward. The won of Chauny, southwest of St. Quentin, situated on the road - , r?l to Compiegne, the gateway to Paris, yjjj| nas oeen occupied oy me uermans and, acording to the Berlin official :-$|l communications, everywhere between the Somme and Oise riven the Germans are pressing their ad- -jM vantage. * /ffijSj Throughout Sunday, along the --tm entire fifty-mile battle front, the fighting never ceased for a moment, and where Field Marshal Haig's men ' ) were unable to withstand the terrific onslaught delivered by greatly ^ superior forces ground was given, i but always in orderly fashion, : The withdrawal of the Brit^h ;-?jM ; forces along the battle ,^jont in, v : jp ranee was long ago puuprea jn w . ^ t event Qfrthe Germans 'ii(ttacik^.v^ :||&B r -greet - force; *-Tfeis- annoraeeoumt ' comes from the" British fnxftfe, through the Associated' t^ . CW- y ;?V'' ; respondent, wh? describes the ope*ations of Ihe British army as. a mas-. * ?; terly withdrawal" rtiiJe' jpos^ljie.. by gallant shockr ^Wops lines, 'whip^Oheclafif 'the ' atjvpqce .>o<&?. i.i^pS the Germans,*'T#hilfe aft\lierjr,,.> war- ,%0M chine gun and riflS'flre worked^ ait-.- V;0M palling slaughter among thf *na^#ear.?^ffl of German infantry as sent forward;; -tiftfe enabling^^the*. ?:H*M main body-Of the* Bfifcish to-jfa^l' J.i ||?| baCk deliberately ind ?withQUt fusion. ]' \!:'.\p c r_t._iM.L A . .j -a 'WSaS This army, it is declared, has beea ' conserved, and op to the present,. - V^S very few counter-attacks have been - $3 made against the Germans. Where ?- the British have stormed ' the Ger- v.|Sa man's newly acquired positions they have driven them back. But each /rf-s mile of advance makes the bringing *jf3&5 up of supplies to the German artillery and infantry more and more difficult and 1 unquestionably the British strategy, as demonstrated ? since the beginning of the great attack, is to let the enemy, so far ae he may, wear himself out against a powerful defense. CORPORAL McDORMAN. Corporal John &cj6orman was in the .city yesterday on a visit to .Ms frjenda. He is stationed at 'Ckmp .v?jrheel'er in Macon. Be certainly -jJ looks well and he says that he is enjoying camp lifi < although at tunes he does get inifchty lonesome V ^ for the sig&t' of bis lady friends. . ^ .rT-^dH IN HONOR MISS OWINGS. Miss Martha Owings, of Laurens, who is a student at the Anderson ' * > > - .x m a w l - B College, \jas the prettyc weekend guest of Miss Margaret Perrin. Miss Perrin entertained . in. her honor Saturday by inviting twelve young friends in to spend a social hour. '? puring the afternoon delightful refreshments were served. 'i;j t t *)! ?n . - j ?? .. .-22 54 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED ; _ :M London, March 24.?An oftcial report on the aerial operations says that fifty-fou^ en&iy Airplanes liave Been /brought cibtfn.