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thl pageland Journal VoJ.7 NO. 46 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, 1917 $1.00 per year Britain's New Army London Times. A year ago we were thrilli ng to the first triumphs of our new armies. We had doubts?it can now be confessed?of those armies, not active mistrust, but sufficient misgivings to tinge our hopes. In the course of the year these new armies of ours have taken over 70,000 prisoners, including 800 officers. They have cap tured 450 German guns, with more than 2,000 minor pieces like machine guns and trench mortars. This is the capture of a mighty flrmv on armv nf ton uilinlo ?J , MftKUJ Vfl iVU ?f UVIV German divisions as now consti tuted, with all its equipment These new armies have had against them the whole military strength of the German Empire ?that is to say, of every divis ion in the German armies. It is these new armies which in the course of the year have taken all three ridges?namely the Albert Ridge, the Vimy Ridge, and the Messines Ridge ?on which, from Ypres to the Somme, the Germans had drawn their lines as being the strongesl positions to hold on this front enthroned on which they over looked all our preparations for attack. No fortress in history possessed one tithe of the defen sive strength of any one of these ridges fortified as the Germans had fortified them, and held b> the flower of the German arm> under the strictest orders to fighi to the death and not yield ar inch Of fiTOund. F.arh ridtr? was not a single fortress, but ? mass of clustered forts and 5( single places from Beaumon Hamel to Messines, from Po zieres to La Coulotte, were eacl much more than any Kronstad or Sebastopol. This is what our new armies have done in the course of tin year. Of course, they have wor much ground, a hundred villag es and endless strongholds auc redoubts. But geography is im material. The task set them was not the winning of acres but the breaking the German armies, which, with 40 years o! preparation, had thought them selves invincible and had pro posed to overrun all Europe and constitute themselves dictators of the world. Without preparation and averse from war, the peaceful oeonles of tho Rriticli Empire, inspired by their cause and by virtue of the stuff that is in them, have made themselves into a power which first held a I bay, then made head against, and is now ^wearing down the strength of Germany, and of the manner in which thev have done it it is impossible 10 speak in adequate phrases. Submarines Won't Win the Victory Amsterdam, July 29.?Vice Admiaal Maxmilian Njegovan, commander of the Austrian fleet in an interview given to The Neue Freie Presse, declared he did not believe submarines YirA1?1/1 Krinor ? J tvuuiu ui iu^; uudui vt uecision in the war. He said; "At present the U-boats are much spoken of as making England, Austria's principal enemy, uncomfortable, but thev merely are a means toward victory. It would be a mistake to believe from the experiences of this war that big ships are useless, but for us the essential type is that of light cruisers. "If we had a great fleet, the war with Italy would have been finished long ago. Indeed the war would never have been possible," Severe Inroads on German Army French Front, June 23 (Correspondence of the Associated Press).?Severe inroads have 1 been made on the strength of the German troops holding the line on the Franco-British front during the attack delivered on them in the month of April, May and June. An estimate made on well established averages dem onstrates that these losses must approximate 350,000 men. Before the spring operations of the French and British began, the German front had been divided into two sectors entirely independent of each other. One faced the French between the Oise and the Swiss frontier and , was under command of the Ger man crown prince. The other confronted the British from the , North sea to the Oise and was . commanded Bavarian crown prince. At the beginning of the Fran, co-British offensives the Ger. mans had at their disposal on , the whole front stretching from I the North sea to Switzerland 147 divisions, of which 105 were actually in the front line and 42 in the rear ready any moment their help was needed. These . reserve divisions were about . equally distributed in the north ; ern and southern sectors. The r Russian situation permitted the . Germans to dispatch some of [ their active divisions from and , at the same time they formed ? several new divisions which t they brought to the French front > so that on June 20 the number l of their divisions facing the French and British was 155, in , spite of the fact that they had l replied the active divisions brought to the French front so i that on June 20 the number of ; their divisions tacing the French , and British was J 55, in spite of . the fact that they had replaced [ the active divisions brought from Russia bv units sent from , this side. i Russian Horsemen Fight Like F Heroes Petrograd, July 27.?Accounts of the battles in Galicia which have reached here sajr the cav > alrymen fought like heroes. Cossacks, cooperating with Rus : sian and British motor cars, dei fended the Sereth line as long as ' the least hope remained. It is i reported that artillerymen on ? their knees implored the infantry to save their guns, but that , the infantry did not heed them. General Korniloff's orders to shoot traitors and marauders are being curried out. The commander of a grenadier division has been removed for refusing to fire on deserters. The Fifth Cyclist Battalion fought most bravely. It kept off three German regiments with its machine guns and carbines and made several bayonet charges afoot. In one attack the men rode their bicycles. Some sections of the battalion lost 80 per cent, of their officers. A member of the Duma who has returned from the Dvnisk front states that after Russian shock battalions had captured very important German position it was discovered in several instances that signaling to the Germans was going on from the Kussian rear. Belgian artillerymen and me chanical experts in Petrograd, man of whom were wounded on the Yser or at Ypres, are formiLg a battalion of death" to give an example of military valor on the Kussian front. Indictment for Felony Against Texas Governor Austin, Texas,July 27.?James] E. Ferguson, governor of Texas, was indicted on nine charts of felony by the grand jury of Trav- j is County late today. The in- j dictments were not made public tonight when Sheriff George S. Matthews notified the governor. Seven of the indictments charge misapplication of public funds, one diversion of public funds and one embezzlement. Churchill J. Bartlett, secretary of state, was indicted on six counts, charging misapplication of funds; C. O. Austin, commissioner of insurance and banking on four counts on the same charge and C. L. Stowe, State superintendent of bui'dings and grounds, one count charging misapplication. The speaker of the Texas house of representatives called a special session for August 1 to consider whether articles of im ] peachment should be presented agains the governor. Military Training at University An excellent course in militare naming unuer compeieni in struclors will be offered at the University of South Carolina next session. This course will be compulsory for Freshmen and Sopomores, and voluntary for all other students. Guns and accoutrements have been furnished by the United States dov ernment, and an army officer will be detailed for service at the University as soon as such an officer is available. The war Department promises that when this officer has been appointed a Reserve Officers Training Corps will be established at the University. In the meantime, students must furnish their own uniforms. These are less expensive and more durable than ordinary citizens clothes, and will therefore be more economical W. S. CURRELL, Pres. University of South Carolina. A perplexed and wearied wife said to her husband one evening. after having put their eight year old hopeful to bed: "My dear, vou will have to help me with that boy. His inquiring mind knows no bounds. Suppose vou take your turn in ans wering some of his questions." "Most assuredly," briskly ans j wered the hnshnnd "Th it'?i! easy enough, my dear, lust what questions is he asking?" "Well," replied the weary wife, with a twinkle in her eve, "he asked, for instance, 'Why don't women wear suspenders?* 'How far can a cat spit?' and 'What does God eat?"' "James," said Mrs. Mellow to the manservant, "can vou find out whether the tinned salmon was all eaten last night? I don't want to ask the new cook, be cause she ma> have eaten it, and then she would feel uncomfortable." "Please, ma'am," replied James, "the new cook ate all the salmon, an' no matter what you was to say to her you couldn't make her more uncomfortable than she is now." HOW It 8 British Weekly. "Messed are the meek, quoted the deacon, in renrovinir the backslider, for they shall inherit the earth. , "They shall inherit all ri^ht, deacon, said the irreverent one, but somehow or other they never seem to set possession." Refuses to Give News to Ger many Washington, July 29.?Th< movement of American troop; to France will be carried on ab solutely without publicity if th< present policy of the war de partment remains unaltered. Secretary Baker and some o his military advisers believe tha no word should be published o: the arrival of troops abroad an< it is probable that this will bi made clear to all newspaper and press associations in forth coming regulations under thi voluntary cencorship to whicl the press of the country has sub jected itself. Assurances have been givei both by navy and army official that disasters will not be hiddei under the veil of this censorship and presumable under the nev regulations also the Americai people will be expected to un derstand that no news is goo< news in this respect. No official explanation ha been made of the reason itnHor lying the decision to withhoh for publication announcemen of the arrival of troops. Mt. Croghan News Misses Sarah Moore and Mil dred Lanev of Chesterfield wen guests of Mrs. Therrell one even ing last week. Mr. and Mrs. Theirell went t< Rock Hill Sunday, in their cai carrying Mr. Therrell's brother who was on leave from hi Company at Columbia. Miss Ethel Atkinson and Mi Joyce Baker are visiting Mis Mary and Mr. Bruce Gale a Polkton, N. C. Mr. I. O. Taylor motored t< Monroe Sunday and returner Mondav. Mrs. C. H. Gibson was rea sick for a couple of days las week. She is up now. Messrs. Bryan Huntley an< Paul Baker left Sunday fo Charlotte to do some specia work for Uncle Sam out at th< Camp. The farmers are about througl working their crops and are liav ing a good time with melons Crops are just fine around Ml Croghan. Glad to see Mr. Ernest Moon in our town Saturday. Messrs. Hendrtrlc nrwt Hnm who were in an auto wreck th< other Sundav are improving an< able to come to town. This scribe is under the im pression that cars should not bi run during Sunday school anc preaching hours. If you folks will leave ani news of a local nature with tin Druggist he will report it to th< Journal every Monday, provi dence permitting. Messrs. Will Jackson and Jo< Hendricks motored to Higl Point and other western town: last week- They are interestec in the Furniture harness. Cow Hooked the Auto Monroe Journal. If you had heard that a mult had kicked the paint off an au tomobile you would have thought nothing of it, but the fact that a Monroe cow flew intc a new car and skinned it up con siderable is some news. Mr. R A. Morrow has a new car or which the varnish is so good tha itmak*>sa first class mirror. The car was standing in the yard the other day when Mr. Morrow's cow perceived herself in the looking glass. Not knowing the ways of looking glasses she thought another cow had come upon her preserves and proceeded to do up that other cow with her horns. She was butting anc sci aping furiously when discovered aad stopped. - Belgian Horsemen Seized Submarine 2 Paris, July 28.?The German 1 submarine that ran ashore on the French coast west of Calais 2 on Thursday was not destroyed - when its crew set fire to the gasoline tank, but was captured by * a troop of Belgian cavalry, re? calling the exploit of the French j Hussars who 1794 captured an a icebound Dutch fleet, according ~ to a dispatch from Calais todav. The stranded submarine was a first sighted by a customs officer. " He called upon some Belgian horsemen who were exercising nearby to come to his help. 5 They rode down the beach, the message reports, surrounded the 3 u boat and made prisoners of the crew while the astonished ' countryside watched accomi plishment of the feat. . Swink-Campbell Patrick, July 26.?Miss Irene s Swink and Quincy H. Campbell - were married at the bride's home i Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, t the Rev. W. V. Jerman officiating. Only a few relatives and close friends were present. The bridegroom is a member of the grocery firm of Campbell Bro thers. The bnde is one of Patrick's most popular young ladies. ^ Report of County Super nlng April A s Sarah Brown, outside aid Isabella Johnson, outside aid C. D. Boan, outside aid s W. H. Smith, outside aid t Catharin Baker, outside aid Cynthia Catoe, outside aid 5 John Goodwin, outside aid j W. N. Brantley, outside aid V. A. Purvis, outside aid 1 Caroline Patrick, outside aid I Nancy Sullivan, outside aid W. E. Johnson, outside aid i William Miles, outside aid r Eliza Axum, outside aid 1 Louisa Melton, outside aid e M. J. Davis, outside aid Allici Heggins, outside aid 1 L. D. Robeson, outside aid Eliza Ann Brown, outside aid Elmira Welsh, outside aid Amanda Sutton, outside aid Hulda Rodgers, outside aid a Mary Jackson, outside aid Randall Hammons, outside aic Mary Brown, outside aid 2 Hannah Grant, outside aid i Rilla Melton, outside aid Massey Jordon, outside aid Harriet Stanley, outside aid a Henry Steen, outside aid j _ Thursday Brewer, outside aid Nancy McFarland, outside aid / Nancy uassidy, outside aid i Nelson Johnson, outside aid ? Charles Levatt, outside aid M. J. Tucker, outside aid Sophia Sellers, outside aid Carena Streater, outside aid 3 Chas. Evans, outside aid 1 (Continued < gmmmmmmnnn 1 Satis! - H It is a satisfaction 3 W when you want it. Yoi ] u them to me. I will s< - H Sanitary Steam Pressing U get same back on Thurs< t H I ask you for a ti ? M quality of work will assu u woi^* j H Charge for suit 50c ; H One piece 30c I B. B. Ei 1 M i Mnnnnnnmrnnrnr More American Troops Lai d Safely in Europe A European Port, July 28.- Another American continue: t has safely arrived and disembarked. The American troops arrived by the same steamer whereupon Kermit Roosevelt, his wife and child traveled. When tenders went alongside the vessel Frida the men were in high spirits and frequently shouted: "Are we down-hearted?" The question was answered with a roaring "No!" given with great enthusi asm. Representatives of the general staff watched the disembarkation. There was no civic de monstration. Only a few spec tatofs knew of the landing. These cheered and the troops cheered back. The men en trained quickly and left for their new quarters. A signal company remained at the pore for some hours and these were the only representatives of the contingent which the public saw Notice to Woodmen Ypstprdnv was thn last rla\r nf v 1MW? vr*. July. Have you paid your dues? If not pav today. Do not delay, it is dangerous. J. W. 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