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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
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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
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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
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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
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July. Have you paid your dues?
If not pav today. Do not delay,
it is dangerous.
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visor for Quarter Beginpril
1st, 1917.
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