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{i: iivici*, ?-itn v u I, AMERICAN POSITIONS j, . MAPPED BY GERMANS BEFORE THEY STRUCK. , 5Tap Was Found on Kcdy of Prussian I Captain Who Led the Attack on B the Sector Northwest of . , ToaL 11 ? > p W;th tfc.- A_* e?;;.an ArT?:** in France. 1 I ^Tarch 2\.?(By the Associated Press.) i A plan of attack, including a map of : the American positions, including j - J i Lr every dugout, which was remove i ; - from the body of the Prussian captain i who led the recent assault upon the : sartor notrhwest of Toul, shows how ^ -c^iipletely the Germans prepare their 1 afraid?if in fact, this was but a sim| v\e raid not having as its ultimate ob-:; f jarl^the retention of a portion of the salient. : 1 Te -map goes into such detail as to show every machine gun emplacement. every trench and every depres-j [ sion in the ground within the Ameri- _1 can lines. At the bottom mere ;s simply a line drawn, labeled "our front line." Along this line are five shaded portions, each marked "nest." (: Rehearsals for the Attack. Four rehearsals were held for the' attack and the troops who made it ^were specially picked from new arrivals of fresh troops In the sector I They' were told that the Americans' were in front of them. 0 ' 1 After the artillery had carefully levelled the American positions the Germans started out from their nests.: fc ?ach of which contained forty infan- ; ^ trvmen. one lieutenant, and thre^ pioneer to precede the infantry and five to follow it. The two groups '< upon the American extreme right, ?vent around the flank and the group J upon the extreme left, carried out a ML similar movement there. ! i i The two groups in the center ha^l BlAjaxmed to attack directly, but tho Wpfnerican defense changed all the ;^:flp]ans. When they were met by the I heavy machine gun fire from the Wm American lines they saw it would be imposible to gain a footing there changed their direction, and followed . the other groups around the flank. ; ~ The duty of tbe pioneers preceding j the infantrv was to clean un any wir& , tfrat had not been broken by tbe ar- j tHJerv. which tbp pioneers who fcl- ; 3o^ed carried large quantities of explosives for tbe purpose of cleaning ; up the dugouts. What German Prisoners Say. a Official reports of the interrogation j of the prisoners taken by the Araeri- ! jrats show that all of them did not ; Peve lord ludu.t nuuiu of the men told the intelligence ! er he presumed that the Ameri- J I TO ; 1-V \ '! You wi I most ir I greatly I best se I fertilizi | 2 There is ; iWIFT I cans, like the Germans, did net want to'fight but Iiad to. The officers quickly change:! the German's viewpoint by informing him that all of the troops in the attacked positions were volunteers. One prisoner, whose home is --t German Lorraine, ^aiti he thought tho fatherland wo-."Id iose the war. buf h.e hoped not. Kr> knew nothing a bo1: j the Americans except that they wejc | h t>e vor. the German newspaper not printing much uprn the subject, he said, an 1 being slo-.v in reaching tile ircm lines uecause yi man cua?estion. The prisoner said he was convinced ;hat the recent strikes in Germany <vere caused by a desire for peare, adding that all Germany wanted tha var to end. He was certain that an offensive was coming. but did not be- j 'ieve it would be launched before April 1. Xone of the prisoners had seen any German tanks, they said. All of them added they were glad to have been | taken prisoner, (specially by the) Americans, because they believed they would be well treated. mi- - - ? ~ . I i ne prisoners WLUUUIS snuncu that the sector opposite the American Position was commanded by General Stalzmann. Stories of American Wounded The correspondent talked with flozen of the American wounded in their hospital cots. Every one of them was anxious to tell of some deed of heroism or other performed by hi.> fellows, ."but displayed o-reat mociesry regarding: his own exploits. One youth whose hone is near Savannah, Ga.,; and who looked to be not more than i IS years old, told this story: "I was in the front line when 't seemed like every sheTi in the world 1 started coming our way. Where th-~ Germans got them is more than I * r 1. J 4-U^4 Know. 4 never Dciictcu mai aia.t.i : existed. One burst near where I was. ' ' j "A piece hit a fellow on the other J side of men who came from Texas The corporal picked him up in his arms and started with him for a first aid station in the midst of a perfect ' shower of dirt and mud which was j being kicked up. I don't know whether he ever got there or no:. "By that time T got into a machine ' gun emplacement with another cor- j poral, whose home is in Missouri, ; leaving my rifle outside. Things got j so hot we decided to try to get to a steel shelter at the end of a trench. I "The corporal went first, but a few | feet away a shell exploded almost en him and killed him. I stepped out j and saw that my rifle had been blown to pieces. This left me ctetenseiess. >u Are c ill make every i food crops, c needed by on rve your cou ng each acre 1 Tf&RED STI 0 BRAN I "IT PAYS 11 a national car and labo S] SWIFT & Hg I ATLANTA, Factories: Atlant W1LMK f J CH? n% Summe? so I started m another direction hoping to find a rifle or a pistol, be - j cause I knew the Germans would be around soon. About the same time a p:ece of shell hit me on the left si <10 and dov/n ( went. A sergeant yelled order for me to go to a first aid station. "I was just approaching the station :i the renr of two stretcher-bearing o-r- who were proceeding bent ov*>r . Qei-'-.-yp. if possible, the flying pieces of shell, when a shell plumped down on top of the station, exploded, and wiped it out. A piece of rock hit 1119 in tho head. "When I woke up some stretcher-bearer had me. hauling me over the shell holes. l'rsiise for Red Cross Workers. "I've sure go* to hand it to those j men with the red cross on their arms, j "hoy all worked like (:01s in that he!! j out there They seemed to- have 1v.it ( nne idea?to do their duty?and ap_ ; ^arentlv rared nothing for their own lives while doing it. They were gams , nght to the core." j Tn this connection it. may be said fhat there are a certain number of men who wear the Red Cross whose names are on the casualty list. A? ^ i'11 A^vnion frAm NTf>\< .TorSPV .-II <*.1 111 ^1 .* nvrn. ? ( f1 escribed what, happened in the gun pits. "T was asloeo !n the dugout when the fr'n began." he said. "We ran out \ to the ?vn. The shells were raining : down all around. Then came the or-; der for a barrage, and we let them l fx ~-U-11 1.,** + V, ^ r\n'f i Pave li. lyTie SUCH mi mc i-i?- | md loosened the logs overhead. A?- j fer tbnt everv time we fired the ccn- ' t ^Mission brought down one or two log?, i \Tud, stores and pieces of shell cams j in at the front. Five snokes were i knocked from one wneeT of the car- ' ria.^e'and the sun muzzle was nicked. Two or three men were slight!? h;t 3r?d laid away at the <>ud of the nit whilp the rest of us kent On firing. "Suddenly a nie^e nf crt^el came throreh t^e srun shield which T was behind and hit me in the shoulder. About that time ^*e were all carried to tb? tfressinsr station, and Here T am T don't mind tb's wound, hut I hope tr> the T.ori i* ee*s w?ll soon, so that T can pet back with my outfit." Praise for Dead Ir. S. Captain. i All the infantrymen asked questions regarding tfie fate of their comrades Keen distress was displayed by all the men of the compenv commanded fry the captain who was killed. One of them said: "He was a fine officer, and. beliere me. he took care of his men. Any ono of the company 'would have gone h^oueh hell at his order. We will cav Fritz for that if we haven't al i r t i Patrio tier! acre nroducc otton and tobi ir country. Y ntry and youi iberally with 3 USE THEM" r shortage. Delay is d Manufactured by CO. FERTILIZER , GA. CHARL01 a, Albany, LaGrange, Moultrie IGTON and GREENSBORO STER and COLUMBIA, S. < f FOR SALE BY * Brothers'" C N2iV3Z13l7, S, C. a ready done so." i A Kansas man who was in the fight" paid the last he saw of the captain he was kneeling alongside a spitting marine gnn and bla/ing awav the . Germans with his own aptomatic pistol. '1 saw him fall flat." added the private. j I The captain was killed by a gunshot , wound in the chest. All the American dead now have ' been buried in a little graveyard a few hundred yards from the sp^t ( where they fell. The German bodies . also have been collected and buried nearby. j i The ^larch American 3Ia^zine= j i i Everyone interested in the war, j every father and mother who has a : bov in the service, will be grateful for the message of cheer that is given i I in the March American Magazine bv j Surgeon-General Gorgas and Private Peat. Surgeon-General Gorsas tells ! in an interview what the chances are J of getting hurt or killed in this war, j and his facts are indeed cheering, j Private Peat, the famous soldier-lec- j t"rer. tells in a wonderful article j "Why We Come Smiling Out of Hell." His story is inspiring1 and thrilling. The lecture of Frederick W. Taylor, the father of Sc-ientific Manafremen'". i and the man whose work on steel; alone ha?; been worth between $50,OOO.OOO and $100,000,000 a year to the; machine industry of the country, is j nrinted for the first time in this issne j Tt is called "Xot for The Genius?But | for the Average Man.*' ''How I Cured > ATvcelf of Being Too Sensitive" is the story of a man who almost ruined his j life by having a sensitive nature: j "Why T Believe in Deciding Things Ouieklv" is bv A1 H^ Woods, the theatrical manae^: "Rinlev's Recioe" is an article on T?. P. Rinlev. the famous - > X- <<rri1._ T ~ P ( !,/% rfl'iroan nresinPTH ; iiih .ii;v in iiirr | JobV is an insnirine: art'^ip bv Fdca j F^her about how she work*? how j c-Vp love's to write: an<1 "When Mr I ? ^ov romes" is an anonymous article j hv a fath^ who wants to ^nlist hut j w*>r> is h^M by the approaching I H"th of an heir. The fiction this month contains I stories by William Dudley Peley, Hoi- | 1 worthy Hall. Bruce Barton. Pertha j ! Pich. and other well-known writers. , The Interesting People is fully up ic , ! its usually high standard, and th* Family Money and contest results I hold many things of interest and ! worth. J ! ? i ; Themodern majesty consists in work. "What a man can do is his greatest ornament.?Carlyle. i 5 its ut- I icco, all I OU Will self by I 1 sfP!^ A g pg angerous. 1 ! WORKS II TE, N.C. *, Savannah, Ga? Cnf p ^ Company | ||| When the War Will End. ! An ingenious collection of figures,' so worked out as to demonstrate thai "War Ends 191S?if figures Don't I Fail," has been put out in poster York tobacco and ci-ar concern. Tne form by a New York tobacco and cigar concern. The coincidencies of addition and subtraction all show j that the war will end next year, are j ui:.arkabie. Here they are: PnkS 11 >EXT VV i LSON? Born 1S."6 Took office 1912' Been in office 6 j Age 62 | 3S36 | Divided by 2 191S i PRESIDENT OF FRANCE? i^orn j Took office 1913 j Been in office 5 A?e 5S ^ I 3S35 Divided by 2 1918 KING OF ENGLAND? Born I860 Ascended throne 1910 Has resigned 8 Age 53 3836 rv;..i j ^ 1 1 rw - ? -- jLnvxuen oy z iyi3 KING OF ITALY? Born 1867 j Ascended throne 1900 Has resigned 1? Age 51 j 0 01(< ( ?>ooo ' Divided by 2 1913 CZAR OF RUSSIA? Born 1S6S Ascended throne 1S94 Has resigned 24 Age 50 - ] 3S36 Divided by 2 191S KIXG OF EEGLIUM? Born 1 fi7' ' Ascnded throne 1900 Has resided 1? Age 43 3S36 Divided by 2 1913 EiVTPRROR OP JAP AM? Born / 1870f Ascended throne 1912 Kas resigned 5 Age 40 383 Z Divided by 2 1913 | KTN'Cr OF SERBIA?1 Porn 1844 | Ascended throne 1903 I Ha?? resigned 15 Age ..." 74 3836 Divided by 2 1913 But the mathematical expert of the American Economist has added to the combination as follows: EMPEROR OF GERMAN? | Born 185ft i Ascended throne 1883 Has resigned 29 Age 58 3834 Divided "by 2 ' 1917 Wreck at Whitmire Years Ago. Greenwood journal. SripaVin? nf riiilrnari wrecks. 2. I ? ~~ ' j Greenwood citizen whose reputation for veracity may be quoted at least near par, said thi;> morning, that he 1 recalled an accident on the Seaboard I I at Whitmire several years ago when J a passenger train ran into an open j switch and one oT the rails flew up |and through the boiler of the en^ln? ! without hurting a soul or bursting ! the boiler . The impact was so terri ; fic, he added, that the tender was ! . , 1 1 1 - ' 1 - C? ~ Arv <vin A O r?<i j KnOOKPfl IOOSC irum c.'it; engine a?... j landed on the other side of the mail j trackI i : ?? I I j S K !w imlfm/?no1 i Zm . *. ? { pN:l ' <" / ... :-;.2S: ^ -. : : : ^ I Impound-makes? fc\?<'.;. v - /.: v .: '<-' > *i ? t t i r tiOlCiS 5 i ! iha! [-there is t! j |v:>fr6m one-thir i I 7 v : - - ! :/' . ; r . r | | i IIFSSIANS THRKATEX TO IXVAI>E PART OF ( HISA. Pecplo of Sin Klein? Are Panic Stricken as Slavs Mass on the Frontier. Pekin. Wednesday. Feb. 27.?The Governor of the province of Sin Kian?? Western China, from which have come reports that Turks and Germans are stirring up the Mohammedans, telegraphs that the Russians are massing on the frontier, evidently intending an invasion of Sin Kiang. The telegram adds that the people are r fhot rif I pel 1)71 niU-S>tZ"IL"^VCll a,iiu aoro cut**. * 4k.vv and ammunition be sent to the governor. KCTfAM.V ACCEPTS TERMS SAYS BERLIN Berlin, via London. March 4.?"The Rumanians have accepted our aYmistice conditions," says a German of ficial communication isued today. NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS/ Owing' to the excessive loss of water through unmetered faucets dur ?? ?viA'n + ^c? or?/3 in viow aF IllU1C v> JiitCl lliUUbiio, &iiu iu ? IV IT the great stii&in upon the present wells to furnish sufficient water for the city's needs. The Commissioners of Public Works, in order to conserve the water supply, have adopted a rule whereby ail flat-rate connections?i.e. unmetered faucets, will be discontinued after July 1st, 1918. No further flat-rate water connections will be made, and all present flat-rate customers will be required to install meters not later than July 1st, 1918. The meters will be installed by the Commissioners of Puolic works at actual cost and may be paid for in easy monthly installments. The terms may be obtained by inquiring at the office of the Commissioners of Public Works. A special discoMnt for cash will be allowed. Water consumers affected by this rule are unred to have meters installed promptly. Signed M. L. Spearman, Harry W. Dominick, C. E. ;Summer.[ j Feb 21st. 1918. |f Keep Well jjj poisons of undigested uKfc jjjL food to accumulate in Jagg j IJ are absorbed into your figg | system. Indigestion, con- "fa j ' st-pation, headache, bad flfltt ' other troubles are bound i to follow. Keep yoiir K&U : system clean, as thous- BpSS 1 VpfgP ands of others do, by ^ragM ymA taking an occasional dose &S3 or the old, reliable, veg- WML j g?p etable, family liver mediffflk Thedford's ||p us. -i- n Li BiacK-uraugni i j Mrs. W. F. Pickle, of ?riI Rising Fawn, Ga., writes: prjl i "We have used Tfced- gwP i j^rJ ford's Black-Draught as i a family medicine. My ?P*| ' BreS mother-in-law could not gU4| take calomcl as it seemed ; 0E& too strong for her, so she fpgj| 8jHj|B used Black-Draught as a eHB ISS^ mild laxative and liver regulator... We use it te||p J&m in the family and believe JpaL * it is the best medicine for gF|S ' I THE HERALD AND NEWS Offl | vjlar ?or Ootly si.se. ???????C??? svc beamed Jfl rv; least vasilll '' ouiicc picccs 3 ' ' * ? - V", ^ ' & ^iiii V;^ V V-'' ; ^ .^, ^ ^ p '-^.^S )