Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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iiiS izmMm. THEIR BRAVERY REWARDED FRENCH AND AMERICANS IN GRENADE ATTACK tbelr fliglrt. Armenian refugees ltv'c upon the hope of it. The man who once blacked boots tn New York gos sips secretly about It in the mountains of'Greece. The Chicago eft-waiter whispers, it in dissatisfied Hungary. By ABBIE FARWELL BROWN -The—former—Philadelphia - —feu+4—mer- DIGGING A SAP PAGE TWO LAYING AND TESTING A TRENCH CABLE i*.- J SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA r3S BriMsli Royal engineers are shown laying arable along u trench and'testing it; the photograph was taken on the ‘ 1 First photograph of the ne\V*Lewls machine gun/foe use on American uii’plunos. Afucrican marines con- . French front • , ; ;— cent rated on the-ArPstfroiit for advance to thcMiriiig line, 3—A sturdy Little British so^dipy-bringing in ids T»rlv:fte Him .prisoner; • . , • ' SUBMARINE MENACE IS DWINDLING FAST Listening Devices, Depth Bombs • and Destroyer Fleet Beating . Submarines. CONVOY SYSTEM EFFICIENT Wrecks of Tirpitz' Terrors Strew Bot tom of English Channel and North Ssa Mine Sweepers do Good Work. v London.—The menace of the Ger- luun submarines and mines to the maritime commerce of the allies is be coming less week by week. The Im provement is due chiefly to the devel opment of the listening devices and the depth, bombs carried on tinrswift-njoy^ Ing destroyers. The hydrophone is the| most useful invention that lias been discovered by the 'navy In its antisub marine crusade, and it is being im proved upon all the time. When u U-bout ^spotted from aloft by one of the alert observers in the seaplanes which wing their flight ever the North sen and the. waters around the British Isles, he signals the posi tion to the nearest destroyer. Direct ly he gets this information .her-com mander steams at full speed In the di rection indicated until lie can hear the submarine plugging along under vY^ter The destroyer follows the U-boat hours, if necessary, until the cof mnndcr thinks he has got the enemy in the right position for a hit, and then lets go the bomb. Whli\* the number of enemy umler- sen craft that nre siink or captured each month is not given out for publi cation U is known that It fqnnis the construction of submarines in Ger many. The greatest blow to German hopes of destroying the commerce of the allies.on the ocean lies in the con voy system, which Is rapidly approach es! ng perfection. When the plan of*es corting transports and supply ships right across the Atlantic in large fleets was first tried out there, was eonsld- ernble delay on account of difference In speed of Hie various ships of ^hicli it was composed. At the present time convoys nre all' classified according to speed, and a fast transport can make a round trip In 30 days, while the slower class of supply ships drift across the ocean at * steady .six or seven-knot gait. The number of British''and American 7 ' destroyers hits increased rapidly and is still grnwjng so that there are plenty of these essential watchdogs of the soiy to make the passage of convoys across the A Han tic and North sea secure. The greatest percentage of losses by Su!>- mnrines since January 1 has been in the Mediterranean, and tills Is now be ing reduced by increasing the number .of. destroyers Ln.those waters. No sub marine commander will risk attack on a convoy which Is protected on all four sides by destroyers and frequently ac companied by seaplanes. Naval experts are Confident that when there are sufficient destroyers to escort nil convoys required to trans port troops and munitions from Amer ica to. England and France the subma rine peril will be practically ift an end. This stnge should lie reached by Au gust. At the present tinje the U-boats watch and wait for vessels*which are alone. The sinking of vessels in the Irish sr»n has been due to tlie fact that the' wafi?r-there is muddy and not ton deep, and a Submarine rnn lie on the bottom and come up at night. Quite recently. In two Instances, when steamships were torpedoed in- the -Irish sea, de stroyers blqw one U-boat to pieces with a depth.charge and damaged tlie other one so seriously before she could sub merge that the commander surren dered with ids Crew. Pilots- of seaplanes and airplanes who fly over the waters around the British Isles have reported numbers of submarines which were sunk months ago and are lying on the bottom.of tlie channel and North sea. In addition to destroyers .and patrol pouts which scour the surface in every direction, the^e are nil kinds of traps and obstacles placed under water which make the passage of Dover straits and <*\it from Heligoland bight m-very complicated problem lor a U boat commander to solve. Hundreds of mine sweepers, manned by fisher men and sailors front 7 the .merchant “iltpviee, nrej at work daw and .night making tin* ocean"lanes safe for steam .ships belonging to the allies and neu DISMOUNTED BRITISH CAVALRY HURRY TO HELP INFANTRY TraT nations. Their crews have become adepts In the art of finding and ex ploding German mines -hidden below the surface. During the year ending ln April -more, than 1,000 mines, which cost Sl.OOj) each-to construct, were exploded Or captured by the British mine sweepers. The loss of mine sweepeiA was very small In comparison, Tn.one instance - a mine sweeper found n German mine drifting in the North sea, and towed It over well ill toward the mouth of Elbe under cover of fog. After pumping it up the crew sot the mine 20 feet below the surface, and 12 Hours later’it was struck by a German Steamship bound for Oothenberg from Bremen, and the vessel and her cargo of iron ore went to the bottom. The Increasing hazard against sub marines ever returningjo port is mak ing it difficultfor the German admir alty to get crews to hum them. CRAZY BOAR TREES OWNER Oregon Man Saves His Life by Climb- * ing Up Out. of Reach of En raged Animal. ; —. i Cottage Grove, Ore/—Jasper ratten bad a narrow escape from death when j attacked by a boar pig, which had gone amuck. Only by climbing Into a tree and calling his dogs to his as sistance was he able Wo escape. One of the dogs.was tofu to pieces before the hog was’ hin into ah in- closare. A horse had been attacked by the pig and Mr. Batten was going to the assistance of the horse when he was attacked. came from tife ends () f the earth. ) / f* bums, Greeks, French, Russians, Canadian engineers digging a sap while one of their number keeps watch for enemy airplanes. —r “ Millions entered by tln^ Hospitable j. Gate which America left open to the strangers from all lamis. Millions of j the poor, the friendless, the war- | weary, to .whom-America offered pros perity, friendship and peace. They, Ser- : Ital- | Ians, Armenians, Boles—a hundred | race*/ and more Jostled- over the threshold. We, welcomed them ail—' o readily, some thought, fearing for our “ungufirded gates," . as one poet I- called them. Many had not, as an other poet accused,,sufficient faith in’ the miscalled "scum of the earth.” Mnnv iuf ..tlipsie became citizens, and in turn helped to order the affairs of the great government which line! "opened-f its door (4r them., Some fe- tqained aliens. But all profited by our laws and opportunities. There came war! The worst war which.the world litis ever known, A war of right against. wrong; and pres- ; ently America - was in it. But first bjr thousands our friends went back j through the Hospitable-Gate.. Serbians, Greeks, Russians, French, Italians— Ih+w - inany—tmovV-—ffWnrm'fb bo live countries they had never renounced, to fight for the freedom of small na tions against a tyrant foe who threat ened the very existence, of liberty. Out of our II os {lit able Gate they went, hack to the ends of the earth; carry ing to the' desperately fighting lands "The news of what American democracy means. They bore living witness of I the American idea to file struggling . s-mall nations. In the martyred small i nations they nre spreading the gospel r mm ■ npptv Ini the trenches of Belgium;,in the hideous German prisons where Rus sian. Polish, French, Italian, English prisoners are huddled, there* is secret talk of what America dees for -her friends; -of-her strength, power and generosity. r —' It will not be forgotten. Echoes will be whispered when their poor lips are dnmb. Serbian exiles talk It over ln chant tells of it 1 n the streets of Rome. The one-time rag-picker of Boston sighs for It in the disorderly, streets of Moscow. They have known. They Can tell! • Everywhere the news is spreading; even in muzzled Austria. In Germany Itself, sealed to the truth from outside, there are scared, whis pered xumors. , For Germans and Austrians went home -too, to-tight against their late neighbors. To -tight at last against America, "the hostess who had wel comed them kindly. That was tragic; but Jt was not dishonest. (The dis honesty is in that “Invisible, army” of sneaks npd spies who remained in our midst, undeclared, to stab their adopt ed country Iff tluV intimacy of a Judas TiTcndstflp !) . — - — Yes, ev*en through Germany seeps -the news of democracy, that -went back through the Gate, once so hos- pltable To" all! Those devoted, mis- -guidod soldiers, sacrificed by the hun dred thousand to Prussian ‘ambition echo it In their broken-hearted diaries. Those quieted revolutionists, watching the - starved, children and desperate Women in the empty Austrian market places, will remember it. The wound- ! ed Hungarians will whisper it in tho Red Cross hospitals. Nay, the haughty 'Prussian officers will .meet it at last in the steely eyes of our young■Amerl- | can heroes They will recognize it in their' defeat. v | Bor out of the Hospitable Gate has . gone another vast horde; a dedicated 1 army, a 'etonseernted navy. They are ! straining to the very, frontiers of. an- . tnrraey. tyranny and greed. .With the , . in vlari hie"isword of liberty thev wBl4- enforce the principles which that Hospitable Gate . ized, 'as the entrance to. a Htife haven .... . of democracy. ‘ • ' r So this Is what our Hospitable Gate has meant, both ways. It Is an ave nue for the distribution of the Ameri can Idea. We did not realize that ln_ . the old days, did we? We-aeed net hav^/ekred.! t ()ur free hospltajity waa^paft of the heaven ordered plan. General Gaucher of deeomtifig-afi Americ Frenchmen and Americans are advancing-across No .Man’s Land, soiIYe- Vmcrican soldier fur where fin the front in France. JTticy are moving cautiously, ready to use Uie' C vut bombardment, grenades they nre carrying in the sacks slung over their shoulders. the Frendh army an ofiiccr-aruL an bravery in a re- U. S. ENGINEERS EXTEND TRENCH LINES ACTRESS HELD AS A SPY American engineers are doing splendid work in extending-and perfecting the. trench system in - tiie'~Ainericnn sector in France., Demolished waits and jruTned buildings\*r^-coiw4der«sl eepecia 11 Yirfmrl)lw_fQr. the -qstabHehmenf of IntermedlaTe depots, and fiesta. This American engineer Is convertings tun- uel luto a'postcommand by the quiet methods known to army constructor*. I • . . ’ • Mile. Suzy Ilepsyy ope uf^llua. -iftost lieautiful women on the Parisian atage t • twrw -Irtaitg- Imhi /»«- Ewacruv Wgfty. She Is formally changed with mlilntain* t ing relations with the enemy, lier hu» band, Emil 'GuiUler, former manager, of the American jirize flgYiter Sam Me- Vey, Is also under arrest op an espion age charge. Mile. Depsy became noted Xar her beauty while playing minor roles at the Theatre Surub Bernhardt in Paris. x - T . I r