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.-.is . r'tll ' ' W Abbeville Press and Banner I ? : =____ v||j Established 1844. $1.50 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1918. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. M CAROLINA IADS ' PRAISED AGAIN ' Haig Now Commends f "Old Hickory" Div- | ision. c s Take Part With Great Gallantry and! \ Success in Three Major Of- t fensives. t London, Oct. 20.?A resume by Field Marshal Haig of the operations c of the American troops fighting on j, the British front given out here last night says: , I "In the course of the past three a weeks the Twenty-seventh and Thir- f tieth Divisions of the Second Ameri- f can corps, operating with the Fourth ; British Army have taken part with f great gallantry and success in three I major offensive operations, besides; a being engaged in a number of les- [ J ser attacks. In the course of this fighting' they displayed soldierly; qualities of a high order and have! g materially assisted in the success of . t i ^ our attacks. ! ^ "Havine foueht with the utmost t dash and bravery in the great attack ]\ of September 29. in which the Hin-j denburg line was broken, and having j ? on this occasion captured the villages! a of Bellincourt and Nauroy, with a' F large number of prisoners on October, t 8 the troops of the Second American e army corps again attacked in the f neighborhood of Montbrehain. ! r "In three days of successful fight- j t ing, they completed an advance of G ten miles from Montbrehain to St. E Souplet, overcoming determined resistance and captured several strong- f ly defended villages and woods, e Throughout the past three days the 0 two American divisions have again ? 1.2. 1 1 J '1 1 1_ /? utuu;&.eu uany ana on eacn occasion | v with complete success, though the ^ enemy's resistance was most obsti- 1! nate. ^ "Fighting their way forward from; St. Souplet to the high ground west: ^ of the Sambre canal they have bro- 6 ^ ken the enemy's resistance at all ^ points, beating off many counterattacks and realizing an advance of nearly five miles. Over 5,000 prisoners and many guns have been taken by the two American divisions in these several operations." THE EPIDEMIC. a o There is little if any let up in the ^ r attack of Spanish Influenza in this j city. J On last Friday morning 62 new ] v cases were reported with 6 cases of |* I f pneumonia. 11 On Saturday morning 40 newjc cases were reported with 2 cases of j * pneumonia. k j On Sunday morning 37 new cases i" were reported with 3 cases of pneu- J v monia. I 1 On Monday morning 34 new cases n were reported with 3 cases of pneu-1 * i G monia. |c Three deaths occurred in the Cot- j ton Mill village Monday morning inj less than an hour from pneumonia j11 following the disease. Pneumonia, j n always a dread disease, is peculiarly :1" fatal following the influenza. I u Webber Wilson, who was seriously, a sick Saturday night and Sunday is j improving. i c HELPING OUT. ! a I1 Among the women who are helping t out during the epidemic and the gen-| i: eral shortage of help, Mrs. Frank; c Welsh has come to the assistance of, s her father, W. D. Barksdale, and is' p helping in the delivery of his large trade. Mrs. Welsh is an expert driv-{ er and her three bright children show a willingness to ride all day long. j | t DUE WEST FAIR CALLED OFF. j \ The Community Fair which was to, C hare been held at Due West, has^n bee* called off on account of the f prevalence of Influenza in the coun- J Casualties to Be Made Public Immediately JNITED STATES CASUALTY LISTS TO BE RUSHED BY GEN. MARCH. Washington, Oct. 20.?More than 5,000,000 American soldeirs are now imbarked overseas, or on French or >ther foreign soil, members of the Senate military affairs committee vere informed at a conference yeserday with War Department officials While the conference was on, a elegram from General Pershing was ead, stating that the entire Belgian :oast from Bruges to Holland had >een cleared of German troops. The retreat of the Germans still s in progress, General P. C. March mnounced yesterday. The British | orces have reached the Holland rontier in the vicinity of Bruges. U1 reports from the western battle ront are increasingly good. General ^och is keeping up the pressure at 11 points along the line from the forth Sea to the Swiss frontier. Retreat on 250-Mile Line. The retreat of the Germans, which! tarted on a 60-mile front between he Oise and the Argonne, has been ncreasing so that now it takes in all erritory between the coast and the feuse, a front of some 250 miles, j The Americans continue in the. hick of the fighting with the Ij'renchj nd the British. American and; 'rench troops have broken through he Kriemhilde line and have reach-' d points on the Hunding line. In j' our days the French and Americans ecovered some 800 square miles of erritory in the vicinity of the St robain forest, along the Chemin-des >ames and in the Argonne forest. TK/J MfivomAnf fli A riftiniwwn J. UV X VbUV Vi guc VICHIlOilD | ' rom La Fere on Thursday left the! ntire Hindenburg line in the hands f the Allies, General March stated. j The entire week has been most exellent from the standpoint of the ] lilies, General March said. The Brit-1 ih, continuing their drive south of ,e Cateau, on Thursday had reached J he east bank of the La Salle River, j 'he Belgian-British drive in Fland-j rs has been radially toward Bruges, I Jhent and Turcoing. , The important captures of the! reek, General March said, included )stend, Zeebrugge, Lille, Roubaix,| >aon and scoresf of smaller places, n the east also the Serbs during the reek had advanced well northward rom Nish toward Belgrade, and now re in possession of some 75 miles f Ri>r1in.r.nnetontinftnlo Poil i , ~ ****""; oad. Otranto List* Lost. General March explained that he j ras making increased efforts to bring! he casualty lists up to date. His eforts are badly hampered. In the ase of the lost transport Otranto, or instance, the muster rolls werej Dst with the vessel. The troops onj oard were casuals and replacement! inits not attached to any division. '; "he result was that the entire list of len on board had to be cabled from he port of embarkation to be check- ( d with the survivors and then the; ist missing will be cabled back here.; From now on all lists of dead and' i dissing will be cabled* at once and nade public immediately after thei elatives are notified. All other cas-' laities will be rushed here by courier! nd also will be made public. Telegrams notifying relatives will >e followed up with letters giving all tossible details of wounds, etc. Then dditional letters will be sent by the led Cross workers who are to aid he department in keeping relatives nformed of the exact nature of all asualties, etc. Letters from wounded oldiers to relatives will also be expedited in every way possible. MORE DISEASES. i Diptheria made its appearance in, Abbeville Sunday when Miss Jense Vhite, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. j J. White, was taken sick. Monday j aorning there was a case of scarlet ever at the home of Mr. Larkin "nth in the Abbeville Cotton Mill! illage. % ACTION NOT TALK S WANT OF AMERICA; Washington Awaits the R German Reply to Wilson. CONFLICTING REPORTS N< ABOUT GERMAN REPLY Conflicting Reports?Officials Disinclined to Believe Anything Concerning Peace Note Until Text Arrives. Washington, Oct. 20.?So many conflicting reports about a German ^ reply to President Wilson have come out of Holland and Switzerland dur- ? ing the past few days that officials . here are disposed to believe nothing ^ on the subject until the text of a note' is received either through official channels or from an unquestioned un- g. i official source. ^ German government organs an- < nounced Wednesday that the reply cj|j i 1 i J: i.-i i J i.i. I * nau ueen uispauciieu, anu since uien jjdl the newspapers of the border neutrals i su| have heard almost hourly that the j bio note was on its way or about to bej 2 sent or would not be sent for several' a(j{ days. They have given varying ac-j i0Sp counts of its contents. A circumstan-j pe{ tial story of how the reply was held j var up at the last moment for further | p^j consideration after a stormy meeting of members of the Berlin government with the military leaders and sever-jtoi eigns of the German States appeared fai to observers here to have the color of j eiij truth, and it is regarded as entirely na{ possible that the same thing happen-' ' ed again later in the week. ' ] Even' version of the probable na-ito t ture of the reply under consideration, an if not adopted indicates that the Ger- rin mans are preparing to come forward j gus with what they at least will expect the acc world to believe is a long step toward, L'l meeting the conditions which Presi-j 1 dent Wilson has said must be met be-! nei fore there can be thought of an ar-Jfor mistice or discussion of peace. What cor ever may be the substance of the note' An it is believed here its form will be ma designed to make it difficult for Pres- bat ident Wilson to avoid further exchanges. I According to one of the reports to-1 j day the Germans will agree to evacu-! ate Belgium and to abandon provis- \ ionally unrestricted warfare but will' dispute the right of foreign powers cor to meddle with German internal fairs. Another says the offer will in- j ^ elude immediate suspension of subsee marine warfare, political guarantees' j CaJ and an armistice, "which the Ameri-; can and German high commands will: arrange on the battlefield." A dispatch from Madrid saying the Span-, ] ish Government had been informed] the that all German submarines had been' in ordered to their bases appeared to tat support suggestions that abandon- Gr ment of the u-boat campaign has of been determined upon. in IP01 BIG MONEY. j sli* I Ve Hon. Wade C. Harrison, of Brad-: ley, a brother of Dr. Harrison, and, well known around Abbeville, has; ^ cnV\e/>r?V?or1 flffoon flimiconfl ^nllarc OUUJUllUtU HXV^Vll VilVWdWIiU hoi to the Fourth Liberty Loan. This is , ' snc what we call big money and we just ^ have enough figures on our Linotype ^ . to make the amount. Everybody is no: proud of a citizen like this and not , to be outdone by Greenwood county we make the claim that Mr. Harrison , hu: once lived in Abbeville and got his . . sm training here. , . I vil RIGHT AG^IN. ];e] , ! Wi S. J. Major has written a com- ^ munication to the Greenwood Index ani in which he upholds Senators Benet jg, and Smith on their vote on the suf- j frage amendment. According to j I Mr. Major no women in South Caro-j lina wants to vote except a few so- i wo ciety women who look like "Maggie" J his in "Bringing1 up Father." j In] AY HUNS AGREE EVACUATEBELGiUM eports State German Note Requires Six Months. )THING OFFICIAL IS GIVEN TO DATE limed It Agrees to Suspend Submarine Warfare and Offer L Guarantees. 9 \ London, Oct. 20.?According to official reports reaching Amsterrn, rthe German reply to President ilson was delivered to the Swiss vernment in Berlin Saturday evLng, says an Exchange Telegraph patch from Amsterdam. [n the note Germany consents to > evacuation of Belgium, bu,t coners that such a withdrawal will :e several months' time. jermany protests against the irges of cruelty in the President's ke, and says she was forced dnto jmarine warfare by the Allied v I jpkade. I*he German Government, it is; led, denies responsibility for the p of women and children on torloed passenger ships, but to ad-j ice peace Germany, is prepared rvisionally to stop unrestricted, ilnarine warfare. Finally the note! j^utes the right of foreign powers meddle with German internal af-( rs and declares Germany should oy the same right of self-determi,icm as other nations. Paris, Oct. 20.?The German reply President Wilson will announce1 immediate suspension of subma-j e warfare and will offer political; irantees, German newspapers say,| :ording to a Geneva dispatch to nformation. 'German papers declare that the v note will abandon the proposal a mixed commission to discuss! iditions of an armistice which the lerican and German high comnds will arrange on the field of ;tle." GETTING COMMISSIONED. [t is now Lieut. Allen G. King, our! mg friend having successfully^ ssed his examinations at Camp| ncock and having received his nmission as a second Lieutenant. J has many friends who are glad his success and look forward to ;ing him soon in all the glory of ) and handsome puttees. NEWS OF THE WOUNDED. News is beginning to come in of * boys wounded in the big fights, which the 30th Division has been :ing part. News has come to eenville of the serious wounding Mayor G. H. Mahon. He is now a base hospital in London. Corral Mclver, of Greenville, has been ?htly wounded. W. W. Fell, of rdery, has been wounded. DEATH OF MR. BLESSING. Mr. Walter Blessing died at his Tie in Baltimore last week after a >rt illness of pneumonia. He was ried in Baltimore. He was a dge builder and held responsible sitions in his line of work. Several years ago he was happily .rried to Miss Annie Mary Woodrst, of this city, and she with three all children survive him. lurs. blessing nas come to ad Dele and will make her home with L" parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Dodhurst, on South Main Street, e has many friends in Abbeville d in the county who sympathize eply with her in her bereavement. HAROLD LOCKWOOD DEAD. New York,-Oct. 19.?Harold Locked, motion picture actor, died at > home here today from Spanish fluenza. He was 29 years old. \ ? N I Civilian Relief Committees of Red Crosj ORGANIZED COMMITTEES DO ING GOOD WORK IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. The following committees hav< been appointed from the Red Crosi Chapter by the Chairman of the Civ ilian Relief Committee to do reliel work for those families that are st sorely afflicted with Influenza. They are now organized and al work, and any one that knows oi hears of a case in their neighbor hood, should report to one of th< committees for that section, or tc the chairman, and they will receiv( the proper attention as far as w( I are able to render it. | The committees are as follows: i Upper Main Street to Mr. HaigI ler's, Mill Street and Harrisburg? Mrs. W. F.' Nickles and Miss Bessie Lee Cheatham. Upper Main Street from Mr. Haig1 ler's to Baptist Church, Wardlaw Street and vicinity?Miss Mae Robj ertson, Mrs. C. H. McMurray and 1 Mrs. G. A. Neuffer. Upper Main Street from Baptist 1 Church to Public Square, Pinckney and Ellis Streets?Miss Maggie Brooks and Miss Mary E. Hill. Greenville Street and community !:o Mrs. Chapman's?Mrs. T. Gordon White and Mrs. J. A. Hill. Washington Street, through Fort Pickens?Mrs. M. T. Coleman, Miss Lillian Swetenburg and Mrs. Tom Klugh. Church, Pickens and Vienna Sts. and community?Mrs. fc. C. Gambrell and Mrs. J. D. Miller. South Main Street, Jail Street and community?Mrs. R. S. Link, Mrs. J. A. Harris and Mrs. D. A. Rogers. Magazine Street and community? Mrs. J. L. McMillan and Mrs. Otto Bristow. S. A. L. Shops and community? Mrs. J. L. Wisby. Any of these committees are at liberty to call for assistance, from any Red Cross member when needed. These communities have already done some very effective relief work among the sick, and we hope they will keep it up as long as they can give relief to the suffering. DEATH OF MR. GILBERT. Mr. W. A. Gilbert died at his home on the road beyond the Cotton Mill i Friday, Oct. 18th. after a short ill! ness from pneumonia, following influenza. Mr. Gilbert was an indus1 trious workman. He conducted a | blacksmith shop on Washington ! Street and was getting along well with the enterprise. Mr. Gilbert was twice married. By the first marriage he has several children, among them two sons now in : the service of the country. His sec| ond wife was a daughter of Mr. 'John ! Smith of the Abbeville Cotton Mills. ' They have several small children. Mrtf. Gilbert has been seriously I sick several days herself from pneu i monia, ana otner members ot tne ! family are also sick. Funeral services were held on Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J, L. Daniel, and the interment was at .Melrose cemetery. GOSSETT GOES TO FRONT. Mr. B. B. Gossett of Anderson, ! | for over a year Fuel Administrator for the' Piedmont District, has severed his connection with this work : and with the different mills of which he has been president and has entered the army. He gets a commission as Captain and is awaiting orders. "HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPER." The moving picture man, as shown | In Abbeville recently, had a terrible 1 time getting his picture in the pa' per, but it is no trouble to John Cal' vert. He joins the army, trains sev! eral months, goes over to France and ; comes back as big as life in Leslie's j as one of the American doughboys many people around town recogniz: ing him in the issue of two weeks ago. As usual he was looking foi something to eat. .MIGHTY BLOWS ] VERY SUCCESSFUL j JI Victory Everywhere | J. Crowns the Allied cj Arms. j ] BRITISH EXPECTING / tj CAPTURE OF GHENT | j ! Foch's Soldier* Advance Thirty Miles J !j Over Thirty-Six Mile Froat?Huns :| Flee Into Holland. 5! Victory crowns the allied arms on i pvprv hn+tlo frr?nf 'MnrfViovn Rolmnm -.a is being rapidly cleared of the ene' my by British and Belgian forces. " Belgians have occupied Zeebrugge 1 ! and Heyst; have crossed the Ghent- : J Bruges canal and on the left have 3 reached the Dutch frontier, where r 15,000 Germans, cut off from their ^ "l retreat by the advance northward j jjj , from Eechloo, are reported to have j withdrawn into Holland, where they v'? >1 were interned. j Ghent, it is predicted from British / \rtj headquarters, will fall at an early , $ ! date, and the Frnech by a swift ' Jj 'j stroke along an extended line have '{i . put their forces within two miles of . Tournai. Thielt is in the hands of the French, despite stubborn enemy ' resistance, as well as the high ground -3 .roundabout. 'SB British Retake Solesmes. British troops have crossed the ] :$? Selle River, have reconquered Soles- % |! mes and have had hard fighting not $ only in the section around that town . -M i but at St Python, to the east. Here "?i ; the British have captured more thaa '' | 2,000 prisoners. J. MARION LATIMER DEAD. . Anderson, Oct. 19.?J. Mariom i Latimer, aged 33 years, died on Fri- k day night in Columbia, his body will ja ; arrive in this city this evening. ' | Mr. Latimer had been ill for the past eigne aays,, witn tne spanisn in- j | fluenza and on Monday he developed > the pneumonia. His condition was reported much improved on Thursday and his death came as a severe shock to his relatives and friends in. ' Anderson. , He was born in Lowndesville and . ;| [ spent his boyhood in that village, he "i Jwas graduated from Wofford college .1 in the class of 1907 and continued ! his studies at a business university "I -Cif tffl| ti in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. For the past' ,1 several years he has been bookkeeper $ :' at the Farmers and Merchants bank, j in this city, but a month ago left for Columbia, to acceDt a Position < J as bookkeeper with the M. C. Heath [jand Company. Mr. Latimer is a nephew of the " J l! late Senator A. C. Latimer, of Belj ton, and of W. A. Latimer, a promi- '$1 | nent banker, of Augusta. Besides his J wife and two children, J. Marion, Jr. ! aged 6 years and Clement Thomas, ' I ,'aged 9 months, he leaves three .Jij I brothers, C. T. Latimer, of WashingJ ton, D. C., E. F. Latimer, of Boonej ville, Miss., and James T. Latimer, .{ of Spartanburg. I Mrs. Latimer left for Columbia o* j Friday afternoon, when his conditio* | was reported to be worse, but did not arrive in Columbia until after her l *! \ husband's death. ' ' Funeral services will be held om : Sunday and interment will be made i in Silver Brook cemetery. t! ERSKINE COLLEGE. Notwithstanding the epidemic of ' influenza, Erskine College has gone i, on with its work without interrup\ * ^ i tion. As soon as the disease came near a quarintine was put on. The < ] ; result has been that only four or five - mild cases have occurred among the ? . . . rq I students. The college has a weH furnished infirmary. At present , only one young man is in the infirmj jq ary, and he is about ready to be res( leased. The quarantine is still, on * and will' be kept on until danger of ^ infection no longer exists.