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ARTILLERY
RANGING!
UllllCr UlUC v i^ApwfcVM
to Take Offensive at
Any Moment
ALLIES, AFTER RESPITE,
I I EAGER FOR BATTLE
* The French War Office Reports
More Than Thirteen Tons of
Bombs Dropped on German.
Positions.
Although
the fighting activity
along the entire front of/ the new
' Somme offensive t remains slight,
there still prevails! ftie feeling that
soon again battles on a large scale
will begin, and with the Allied
troops, after the respite of several
days, strongly arrayed in battle
formation and eager to test their
strength against that of the foe.
"Prom the somme to the Oise river
along that portion of the battle line
which bulges out toward Amiens,
Ailly and Breteuil, the big guns of
the opposing sides have opened in
duels of great proportions, and it
is apparently not unreasonable to
assume that either side at any moment
may take the offensive with
their infintry in resumption of a
I battle, which ranks among the great
est the world has ever seen.
No Marked Change.
i
' Since the beginning of the present
week there has been no marked
, change in the alignment of the opposing
sides from Arras southward
to Channy. The fighting has Jacked
the sanguinary character of the
previous days owing in part, no
doubt, to the extremely bad weather
conditions. Neither the Germans
nor the Allies have been idle,
however, for daily there has been
I. going on a reinforcement of strate'
gic positions, both in men and gun
j power.
In the vicinity of Lens artillery
duels of intensity have been revived
on some sectors, and in Belgium at
'various points reciprocal shelling
continues. An American sector has
; been heavily attacked with gas.
VP11FC AP ADIIV TC
Incno yjr nivm i ij
LEFT TO PERSHING
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Washington, April 2.?The War
Department will not in the future
give out any news of the operations
of American troops abroad, it was
announced late this afternoon. All
such news will be given out from
Gen. Pershing's headquarters. The
establishment of the new system
.was announced by Chief of Staff
March. News of the forces at home
will be given out by the War Department.
The official memorandv\m
prepared by General March said:
"The War Department been
notified by cable that Secretary Baker
has prescribed the following
I rules for handling publicity of matters
pertaining to troops and operations:
"1. All matter pertaining to
events, persons, policies or operations
hereafter will only be officially
given out from the headquarters of
the American expeditionary forces
in France.
"2. Similar matters, affecting the
forces at home, will begiven out by
the War Department."
THOS. P. THOMSON, MASTER.
Governor Manning has appointed
Mr. Thomas P. Thomson, Master
I lor ADDevine county to taKe tne
place made vacant by the death of
Judge R. ?. Hill.
Mr. Thomson will take charge of
the office in a few days. He is a
man of trained legal mind and will
fill the office most acceptably.
lEs
IN PICARDY
I
The Dixie Highway
For Abbeville
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN BY
THE BUSINESS MEN OF THE
CITY AT MEETING.
i -
A meeting was held in the Court
House Tuesday evening at eight
o'clock to boost the Dixie.Highway.
This meeting was called by the committer
of men representing the city
and the county who attended the
, meeting in Asheville recently. The
; business men of the city attended
: well and much interest and enthu
isiasm was sftown. Mr. T. U. White
\
i was elected chairman and Mr. J. S.
| Morse, secretary".
1 Reports were made by Dr. C. C.
Gambrell, Dr. C. H. McMurray, Mr.
Wm. M. Barnwell, Mr. W. A. Stev'
enson and Hon. J. M. Nickles, of
' the Asheville meeting which were
heard with interest. It was decided
1 to have the chairman appoint a
;j committee of five men to look into
1 j the most advisable plan to raise
I from twenty to thirty thousand dol1
lars, which will be added to $19,500
' which this county will be due from
the Federal government after the
completion of the road. This .will
make an approximate total of
, $50,000 for 26 or 28 miles of jjoad.
The plan proposed at the meet,
ing was to get two-thirds or all of
the free holders iii the school districts
along the route to sign a pe>
tition of bond issue of between
i $20,000 to $30,000. One hundred
. men will be asked to -stand as guar.
antee for this amount until, the
bonds have actually been voted.
t This will be done so that thecom,
mittee that attends the Knoxville
t meeting will have something definite
to say.
There are two routes that will
[ take the Highway through this county.
The first is from Greenville by
, way of Donalds, Due West, through
Abbeville on to McCormick and Augusta,
the other $3 from Greenville
by Anderson, Antreville and
through Abbeville to McCormick on
to Augusta. The'first is twenty-six
miles and the second is twenty-eight
miles.
a delegation ot tourteen men
; from McCormick attend.ed the meet1
ing- -V
It has been said that a highwaylike
the Dixie Highway is as much
! to a town as one of the truck line
i railroads is to a city.
. DISTRICT CONFERENCE U. D. C.
The Piedmont District Conferi
ence of the United Daughters of
| the Confederacy will hold its
Spring Session for 1918 in the city
of Abbeville next week. Represen1
tatives from all counties in the
.'piedmont section of South Carolina
| will arrive on Wednesday, April
j 10th, and will be entertained in
' our homes. On Wednesday evening
; a reception will be given to afford
,J the members of the Abbeville Chap|
ter of the U. D. C. to meet and
j become acquainted with the reprej
sentatives from the other chapters
'I 4.1.
in Liua
Thursday, April 11, will be given
to the regular business routine of
the Conference, followed by an automobile
ride.
Mrs. Frank Palmer of Central,
spent yesterday in the city shopping.
purpose of the conference. It then
was proposed that the conference
obtain special congressional hearings
for the presentation to congress of
a program calculated to improve
educational conditions of the ation's
large foreign born population.
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Abbeville County
First Anniversary Unit<
Into War With Gerir
1917-19
PROGRAM
12 O'clo
GRAND PARADE FORM
SCHOOL, UPPER M
ORDER OF P
118th Infantry Band From
Abbeville County Boys fr<
Camp Jackson.
Liberty Loan Girls.
Abbeville County Township
Liberty Loan.
Dumb Animals in the War.
Red Cross Surgical Dressin
Cross Chapter.
. The American Indian.
ABBEVILLE COUNTY S(
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Abbeville Township I
Due West^ I
Donalds I
Magnolia . S
Garden Clubs.
Army Mule.
German Atrocities.
Senior Class Woman's Ctfll
Erskine College.
Patriotic Representations o
Decorated Automobiles.
The Star Spangled Banner.
(Whap The Star Spangled Banner
remove his hat, place it over his
tention. Every woman should st
i each side.)
.
12:30
EXERCISES IN THE
PROGRAM
Introduction?Mayor C. C.
Address?Hon. R. A. Coop*
Prayer of Consecration.
My Country 'Tis of Thee.
3:00 P.
BAND CON<
ROOM IN AMERICA LI
! ONLY FOR LOYAL
i
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j The Foreign Language V
| Press Should Be Sup- ?
pressed
{ PATRIOTIC MEN CONFER *
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! Meeting in Washington for Cam- Th
i paign Against: Illiteracy > Results
in Amazing Revelations.
i Washington, April 3.?Represen- '
! tatives of every State, including ba
, more than a dozen governors, met sta
j here today at an Americanization lea
| conference called ;by Secretary | th?
| Lane of the interior department to | tai
j draft recommendations to congress pu
| for legislation providing for a na- gn
j tional campaign against illiteracy, j elc
The opening session was given j of
over largely to denunciations of the j rul
foreign language press and the j pa:
teaching of enemy tongues in the ed,
I elementary schools. of
Resolutions of Levy Mayer of ing
Chicago urging congress to suppress he
tne ioreign language newapajjera
during the war and to require all ev<
aliens to take out first citizenship the
papers by July 1 were withdrawn rei
after Secretary Lane cautioned the or
conference that those matters lay set
outside the field contemplated * by tic;
the gathering. * gu:
Secretary Lane opened the con- ]
ference with an address explaining the
the urgent need of dealing with the by
illiteracy problem and outlining the er
7 Celebration
jd States Entrance
lany, April 6th,
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IRE WAR NEWS!
PifAriii irn i iri\i
KtutlVtU HtKI
/ashing ton Wonder
at Allies^ Failure to
Strike
IAY BE DEEPER PLAN
louijht Possible That Foch E:
pects to. Continue Fighting
When He Starts.
Washington, April 3.?With tl
ttle of Picardy brought to
mdstill for the time being, 5
st, and the initial momentum c
i German drive overcome, mil
*y observers here were plain]
zzled tonight by the fact that
sat counter assault naa noi aei
>ped. The phychological momer
the counterstroke under th
les of strategy, they think, i
3sing, if it has not already pas;
, ^ithout a recorded movemer
the allies' forces towards throv
\ back the exhausted foe befor
has had time to dig himself in.
Officers here admit frankly, hov
;r, that they do not know wha
\ situation at the front is. If an
>ort has come from General Blis
General Pershing that woul
ve to explain the defensive tac
s of the allies, it is a carefull
arded secret.
[t is possible, it is suggested, tha
i plain of campaign mapped ou
General Foch is of a far gireal
scope than would be involved i
CZERNINU
AUSTRIA
U. S. To Speed
Men Overseas
i . ????
WILL SEND MEN AND MUNI
TIONS TO AID IN HALTING
THE GERMAN DRIVE.
Washington, April ?America
'will strain every nerve to sent
men and munitions to aid in th<
halting of the, German drive ii
Amiens. This was the official wort
coming1* from the White House to
day.
President Wilson has been work
ing prodigiously, for several dayi
laying plans with the Cabinet offi
cers for the rushing of men ant
supplies to Europe. Now he has th<
preliminary work completed.
Today President Wilson called ii
the members of the war council t<
adopt a formal plan for the speed
ing up process. \
"We must strain every nerve,'
President is understood to hav<
told them.
Administration circles ^re highly
optimistic over the prospects o:
A f ?_ i.1 ; 1.1 * Ll. !.
America s cnrowing urn weigut n
the balance of the world's greates
battle. President Wilson's investi
j gations have encouraged him great
ly and it is stated at the Whit<
House that the President "fount
greater possibilities than he though
possible."
| While the shipping problem ha:
worried officials here it was author
itatively stated today that even.th<
* great scarcity of tonnage now seem
to have been partially dissipated
Reports made to the President sho?
that by the most careful utilizatioi
of the available tonnage America]
forces abroad can be greatly aug
mented and that supply ships cai
be furnished for them.
, PENSION MONEY.
Clerk of Court Perrin has r?
ceived the pension money and i
ready to pay it out. There are on
m hundred and fifty-seven pensioner
and in all thirty-nine thousand an
sixty-eight dollars will be paid out.
a #n frt hni4! dnemp f.
Ehis old lines. The German defense
there, which successfully stemmei
the British assault in 1916 are stil
intact and even if the allies wer
S. successful in pushing the Germa:
| lines back over the 20 or 30 mil
j zone he has wrested from them, h
j would face those defenses whei
j their own organization was bad!
r j demoralized by their advance,
i For this reason, some officers wer
I inclined to look elsewhere for th
| aggressive campaign.
Must Have Reserves.
ie| Speeding up of American troo]
aj movements to France is engrossinj
attention here now.
(fj One immediate step to that en<
j_ I is known to be in contemplation. I
y J has to do with the Calling to th<
a colors of the 800,000 men which i
j. already has been announced will b<
mobilized through the selective ser
ie vice machinery during the year.
is I From now on the proportion o:
3-! fighting troops in General Persh
it ing's army will increase rapidly.
r- Figures reaching here as to th<
e allied losses in the bitter days jusi
j closed in Picardy indicate that Brit
r-\ ish and French casualties have beer
it unexpectedly light in view of th<
y scope of action. One estimate, al
is though its accuracy is open to doufr
d fixes the total including prisoners
!- at between 125,000 and 130,000 foi
y the 12 days of ceaseless battle along
a fifty mile front. This is to be com
it pared, if correct, with French es
it timates of 350,000 to 450,000 Ger
> mans killed, wounded or captured
Q during the same period.
[ED, SAYS
N PREMIER I
Says He Thought End
i of War Was Near at
One Time
TAiLK OF PEAtE IDLE,
SAYS COUNT CZERNIN >||
l Czernin Says Austria Was on th*
i Point of Beginning Negotla- /.
> tions When th* Wind
? Veered.
Paris, April 3.?"Czernin lied."
This is all Premier Clemenceau had ' .
. to say when told today of the state-. ^.?;|||
5 ment of Count Czernin that he had -.-js
. inquired through an intermediary '
j whether Austria-Hungary was rea3
dy to negotiate, and if so, on what ilfl
basis.
1 London, April 3.?Austria-Hun- * ^
) gary was recently "almost on the '
point" of beginning peace negotit
ations with the Entente, Count Czernin,
the Austro-Hungarian foreign v||
minister, declared yesterday in an / -UOT
address to the Vienna municipal v|19
^ council. The wind "suddenly veer- -j;|||
^ ea", ne aaaea, me rini^uu; ucuiuni^ j.
to to await developments in his J$g
country, ^'which caused it to \ope - ^
that the dual monarchy would soon /raj
4 be defenseless."
1 Count Czernin in his address de- }J|
t clared that Premier Clemenceau, of /
France, had asked Austria-Hungary :'J|
? l-noiii alia nmnld nsmtiBtfl
9 UU YYUAV QWli ?uv nvu>(? Am
. peace, according to a dispatch from -vJi
9 The Hague to The Daily Mail. Aas- ' %
s trla replied that the only obstacle ' 'M
j. to peace with France was Alsace- ij
^ Lorraine, and Premier Clemenctara
3 said that it is impossible to negoti- ||g
a ate on that basis.
S Count Czernin declared he did not ; Jjf
a believe that the President in his
recent address really desired . to
cause a seperation between Vienn^
and Berlin, because th? President . r J|
knew that such a thing Wad impds^
s sible. The count added that Presi- *||
B dent Wilson probably saw that Aus- , 'm
e tria-Hungary was more favorable
? toward peace than Germany. .
TELEGRAM TO DR. THOMSON. v||
s Columbia, S. C., April 4, 1918 Jfl
i S. G. Thomson, Abbeville, S. C.
n Wp have heen advised bv Wash-. Sa
e ington that we have in sight about \$1
n half our normal supply of wheat to
e last from now until next harvest ' 'jj
e period. On this account retail dealn
ers in flour are now required to sell
y not more than one-eighths of, a $8
barrel to consumers living in town - -||?
e and not more than one-fourth of a
e barrel to consumers living in the \ .'M
country. Period flour must be sold
and delivered with equal weight of . ,7^
r, flour substitute or presentation of
y miller certificates. Period for the
9 i
present at least. Permission to sell j
flour in quantities in excess of onet
eighth and one quarter barrels has
a been withdrawn. Period dealers
t who have flour in wood are advised
2 to sack in one-eighths and quarter
. barrel lots as needed for their trade.
William Elliott, Food Adm'r.
SOUTH CAROLINA HONOR.
With the American Army in
i France, April 3.?Lieut. G. R. Holmes
of South Carolina and Sergt
- .Tames A. Muiuhv have been award
1 ed the French war cross.' Lieuten:
ant Holmes is the man who recently
captured a German sentry from his
t post. Sergt. Murphy killed a Ger3
man while he was trying to shoot
r an officer. Su
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