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VWUUUUI VO.4)VI MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1,1918 GERMAN PRISONERS WILL HAVE TO EARN THEIR OWN LIVING IN FUTURE Officers of Prison Camp Instructed to Utilize Labor of 1,370 Inmates WAGE RATE TO BE FIXED Proposal to Make Interned Aliens Work Has Been Taken Under Consideration Washington, April 1G.-The War Departme t has decided to make the German piisoners of war now held in this country earn their keep. Orders were sent today to the army officers commanding the enemy prison camps at Forts McPherson and Oglethorpe, Ga., authorizing them to utilize the labor of the 1,370 inmates in complet ing a new system of roads about the post. Prisoners who were taken from the German raiders Cormoran, Prinz Eitel , Friedrich and Seadler wee members of the imperial naval reserves. Thir ty-eight others, taken from the U-58 by the destroyer Faning, are now on their way to this country. They are expected to arrive next week and will be sent immediately to Fort McPher son. Under the regulations for the con trol of prisoners of war, promulgated by the Secretary of War, the adjutant general of the army is given authority to establish the rate of wages to be' paid for the labor of prisoners. It is expected that a sum representing twenty-five or thirty cents a day over and above the maintenance of each prisoner will be fixed. Each man's earnings wil The placed to his credit at the camp exchange, to be used in purchasing necessities not included in the equipment furnished by the gov ernment. Prisoners are forbidden to have the actual cash in their posses sion. The proposal that interned aliens including crews of interned ships, also be put to work, has been taken under consideration. Under international law they cannot be forced to work except at such labor as is necessary to keep their place of internment in a sani. tary condition. It is expected that these prisoners will be given an op portunity to volunteer for other work at a fair rate of compensation. -W-S-S SUSPENI)ED FROM FACULTY University Ousts Prof. Thomas Pend ing Investigation Chicago, April 15.-Prof. William 1. Thomas, sociologist, was suspended today from the University of Chicago faculty, pending an investigation of charges that he had violated the con ventional moral code in his relations with Mrs. R. M. Granger, wife of an army officer now serving in France. A telegram from Dr. Harry Pratt Judson] president of the University, who is now in Washington, directed the issuance of the suspension order pending the inquiry into the arrest of the professor and Mrs. Granger at a downtown hotel last week. Prof. Thomas, who has been called a "silly boy" by his wife and "daddy" by Mrs. Granger, appeared in morals court today in answer to a charge of disorderly conduct, but the case was continued until Friday. Mrs. Granger, who faces a similar charge, was too ill to appear in court, and was being nursed back to health by Prof. Thomas' wife, by whom she was given refuge. WIN THlE WAR FIRST Irishmen Urged to Lay Aside Other Questions Chattano.oga, Tenn., April 14.--At a mass meeting of Irishmen and citizens of Irish lineage heer today a resolu-' tionl protesting against the attitude of the Nationalist leaders in Irelandi to Wvard conscription was passedl andl a copy cabled to ,John Dillon, Nationalist leader in Parliament. SENATOR S' PAS Washington, A pril 14.--Senator William J. Stone, of Missouri, chair man of the Senate foreign relations1 committee and for many years promi nent among Democratic l eaders, died here today after a stroke of paralysis suffered last Wednesday. Senator Stone sufferedl the stroke while on a street car on his way to the Senate office buliding. A slight cerebral hemorrhage affected his left side rendering him helpless, but he did not lose consciousness and a few hours later rallied and began to talk about getting up. His tamily andI friends were very hopeful until yes terday when there was a decided turn for the worse. Second Hemorrhage Today there was a second cerebral I .hqpiorrh age and the Senator fell into'i a 'state'of coma. Death came at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon, but the phy- 1 sid an m'adle no announnement until an1 HOLESAL[E BOTHERING OF ARMENIANS BY THE TURKS Russia Follows Her Protest to Ger many with Protest from Armenian Council LAND FLOWS WITH BLOOD Turk Army Advancing Toward Kars and Killing the Christian Population London, , April 15.-Rusaia has fol lowed her protest to Germany against the Turkish operations in the Cau casus, which have resulted in whole sale murders of the Armenian popula tion, by forwarding a similar protest by the Armenian national council addressed to the German ministry of foreign affairs and the president of the Reichstag. This protest, received from the Russian wireless system and given out by the British admiralty, through the wireless press, reads: "The Armenian national council is addressing you in connection with the tragic state of things in Armenia. Armenia is flooded with blood and only recently saved from centuries of slavery, is again condemned to fresh sufferings. Following upon the with drawal of the Russian troops, Turkish troops have already invaded the un defended country and are not only killing every Turkish-Armenian, but also every Russian in Armenia. "In spite of the terms of the peace treaty to be used by the German self-determination for these caucasus regions the Turkish army is advanc ing toward Kars and Ardahan country, and killing the Christian population. The responsibility for the future des tiny of the Armenians lies entirely with Germany. "It is hard to believe that a civilized State like Germany, which has the means of preventing these excesses of her ally, will permit the Brest-Li tovsk treaty to be used by the Ger man people, who have been involved in war against their good will, as a means for the creation of incalculable sufferings." --W-S-S JOHN S. O'BRIEN RESIGNS Has Been Chief Clerk to Comptroller Since 1915 Columbia, April 15.-John S. O'Bri en has resigned as chief clerk to Comptroller General Sawyer to ac cept a more lucrative position with the firm of Lorick & Lowrance, Inc. Mr. O'Brien has been in the comptrol ler's office since Mr. Sawyer assumed charge in 1915 and the latter regrets that the pay does not warrant his re taining the services of Mr. O'Brien, who is a certified publhc accountant. Comptroller Sawyer announces the following changes to take place on May 1: R. L. Osborne, from auditing clerk to chief clerk; W. A. Harrison from pension clerk to auditing clerk; H. F. Jackson, of White Pond, Aiken County, has been appointed pension clerk to succeed Mr. Harrison. 1. F. Jackson, the new appointee, is an experienced bookkeeper, an dis now with A. M. Law & Co., of Spar tanburg. -_W-S-S AERIAL OFFICER KILLED Lieut. Markham Meets Death on Kelly Field, Texas San Antonio, Tex., April 15-Lieut. E. B. Markham, a flying instructor at Kelly field, an American aviation :-am p, was instantly kileld today in an airplane fall. A cadet who accompan ed him and whose name was not given )ut was not seriously hurt. Lieut. Mvarkham's home was in Turni, N. Y. T'he machine fell 200 feet. Two Deserters Sentenced Greenville, A pril 16.-Two brothers mn the 119th infantry, Corporal Trhom Is J. Trhornie, and .Private .Jesse TPhorne, were today given long sen Lences for dlesertion. The former was given twenty years at hard labor and the latter- fifteen years. Both to serve at Fort Jay, N. Y. 'The brothers were from North Carolina, and were applre )endled in that state. I'ONE SES AWAY 1our Inter, because twice before the patient's pulse had become so weak Lhat the family thought the endl had :ome. At the bedside were Mrs. Stone andl ~heir children, Federal Judge Kimbro stone, of Kansas City; Mrs. John W. [ arkinsonj, of St. Joseph, Mo., and Milss Mabel Stone and niece, Miss M4argaret Winston, of St. Louis. Trhe hody will rest in state in the Mvissouri State Capitol Wednesday. I'hat evening the body will be taken to ~evadla, Missouri, Senator Stone's old1 ome, for burial there Thursday, by ~he Nevada Masonic Lodge.4 A successor to Senator Stone to* 1.old office until the next general elee ion in November will be appointed y Governor Gardnor, of Miosouri, who a a Democrat. Senator Hitchcock, of RIebraska, ranking Democrat of the ] roreign relations committee is ex- I )ected to suceedn to the cai.,ma.,.i:. SEVERAL AND PART OF MESSINES RIDGE British Fighting Desperately Ottawa, April 18.-German troops I have carried Wytschaete and theg greater part of Messines Ridge, ac cording to a dispatch from the Reuter correspondent at British headquarters in France, received here tonight. himself in Spanbrokmolen. The Brit ish are still clinging to the slopes of j Messines Ridge, battling desperately t to repel attacks made upon them by v overwhelming German forces. c The German Report @ 2 Berlin, via London, April 1G.--"Our 1 attacks on the Lys battlefield met : with complete success," says the offi- f cial communication from general h headquarters. "The great mine craters of the Wytschaete battle of 1917 were taken by a surprise attack. After a short spell of fire we stormed Wul verghem in a surprise attack and the enemy's position both sides of the vil lage. "Counter attacks by English corn panics completely broke clown. "From the plain, while scaling the t heights between Neuve Chapelle and t Bailleul, our troops attacked and wrested them from the hands of the a enemy ni a vigorous hand to hand a encounter." e d Haig Reports Losses y London, April 16.-Fielk Marshal 0 Haig in his official report tonight an nounces the occupation by the Ger- 1 t mans of both Wytschaete and Span- t broekmolen. t The report says: b "Severe fighting has been taking t place today on the front from Meteren, t and Wytschaete. This evening the en- 9 emy resumed his attacks in strength t in the neighborhood of Wytschaete ti and Spanbroekmolen. "Supported by a heavy bombard ment, his troops apnroached our nosi-t tions under cover of the mist, and af- t ter a prolonged struggle gained in some localities." r Early French Report g Paris, April 16.-Heavy artillery t fighting occurred last night on th'e main battle front in the neighborhood of Montdidier, the war office an nounces. The French captured a ma chine gun and prisoners near the Oise It Canal. The stateemnt follows: "In the region south of Mondidier e there was heavy artillery fighting. In the sector of Noyon the French made some progress in a local operation. s "French reconnoitering parties were g very active, especially in the region of 0 the Oise canal. A French detach- a ment crossed the canal west of Pierre mande and brought back ten prison THIRD LIBERTY LOAN BY COUNTI[8 Popula- Total Bank 'Total A p- a Lion Resources portionment d 30,000 $ 1,929,000 $ 150,000 1 41,000 3,437,500 241,300 F 75,000 9,962,800 699,400 1 35,000 2,620,300 183,900 18,000 2,422,100 170.000 f 25,000 1,158,00() 125,000 b 25,000 No banks in county 125,000 b 18,000 1 ,438,600) 101 ,000' 95,000 41,537,000 2,915,9100 ir 30,000 2,4169,000) 173,300 30,000 2,917,000 20'4,800) 5' 39,000) 2,354,000 195,000 ft 32,000) 1,747,000 160,000 g 12,000 911,500 64,000 n 36,000 4,079,000 286,400 a 25,000 2,082,000 146,200 . 20,000 1,34 1,000 100,000~ 25,000 2,436,000 171.0001 26,000 1,915,000 134,500J 40,000 6,073,000 426,400 25,000 1,899,000 133,300 70,(000 12,802,000 898,700 40,000 5,525,600 387,900) 28,000 1,111 ,800 14'0,000 25,000 1,180,700 125,000 '4,000 170,000 20,000 30,000 1,581,000 150,000 sI 25,000 2,729,000 191,600 r1 42,000 3,828,800 268,8(00I 30,000 2,111,000 150,000 22,000 2,666)000 186,800 N 22,000 2,662,000 186,800 n 33,000) 3,103,000 217,800 1 0,000 756,000 53,100 l! 30,000 4,375,000 303,100) 27,000 2,477,0001 1 73,9100 0 60,000 8,005,000 562,000 dt 25,000 2,388,000 167,600 st 65,000 25,907,000 1,818,700 25,000 1,349,000 125,0001) 100,000 12,839,000 900,700 s. 45,000 5,954,500 418,000 li 35,000 2,259,000 175,000 tI 39,00 1,482,000 195,000 50,000 6,397,000 4419,100 n 5i95,000 $208,419,000 $14,631,000 th -to iy Cities and Towns of 10,000 or more el; abitants in 65,000 $41,497,000 $2,913,000 ar 40,000 25,825,000 1,812,900 A -. 25,000 10,176,000 712,600 .-25,000 10,736,000 751,900 .. 15,000 6,517,000 450,300 N ..12,000 5,700,000 399,200 ar ..10,000 9,154,000 221,000 bI -10,000 4,230,000 196,300 th .. 10,000 2,969,000 277,00 te GERMANS TAKE MORE TOWNS FAMOUS Higher Ground Just North of Bailleul, from Which British Can Continue to Conduct a Stern Defensive QUIET ON FRENCH FRONT German Troops in Finland Advancing East of Eelsingfors and Are Meeting Little if Any Resistance Germany's mighty effort on the battlefield of Flanders has won new successes. According to the latest re ports ,the important strategic towns of Bailleul, Wulverghem and Wyts schaete are in German hands and, more important still, the Teutons have carried a large part of Messines Ridge by storm. Probably there has been no more bitter struggle during the war than that waged along the battle line through the towns of Bailleul, Neuve Eglise, Wulverghem and Wytschaete. Neuve Eglise was taken Monday, but Bailleul held out until fresh masses of German troops were hurled into the fray and charged repeatedly on the tired defenders. The same story might be told of Wulverghem and Wyt schaete, while the battle for Messines Ridge must have been frightful in its intensity. The Germans have not attempted to advance their wedge farther into the British lines, for no new attacks on Merville and farther west have been reported. They have devoted their sole attention to the work of widening out the salient and striking at Messines Ridge and the Railroad running about six miles north of Bailleul. Messines Ridge is the key to the Ypres sector. Counter Blow Expected So important are the points won by the Germans that the British must be expected to counter attack immedi ately in an effort to sweep the invad ers back into the low'ands once more. There is higher ground just to the north of Bailleul and Neuve Eglise from which the British can still con duct a stern defense. Merville is still standing firm in spite of terrific at tacks made against it. In the sector before Amiens there have been only artillery duels. Raiding operations in which both sides have taken the initiative are reported from the French front. Conflicting Reports In spite of the reports from the American front that German attacks there have been utter failures, a re port from Berlin via Amsterdam says that the Aemrican positions near St. Mihiel were taken by storm by the Germans, who held them against de termmned counter attacks. It is prob able that the German report deals with the battle in which the Americans ad ministered a sound beating to special shock troops brought up by the Ger mans to take the American positions. The Germans in Finland are advanc ing east of Helsingfors and are meet ing little if any resistance. APPORTIONMENT Of THE STATES Counties Abbeville Aiken .. Anderson - - -- - - - Barnwell----------- ----- Ramberg Beaufort Bekly ----------- --------- Berkeley -- alhoun Cherokee Chester ChesterfieldI ClIarendon-------. Colleton----- -- - - D)arlmngton Dillon. Iudgefield Florence . ~reenville ;ree'nwoodl flampton Florry _ .. - hnsper ..- - K~ershawv Lancaster Laurens Lee---.. --- Mdarion. W'arion---. -- \arlboro VicCormick N4ewherry - - - - )conee )rangeburg Pickens siehlandls spartanbarg sumter-----. --- Jnion .- - - 4'illiamsbur-g m'ork Total...... -------- _----, apportionment of Third Lierty Locan Inh Tharlestonm solumibia ..~ - - Treenville spartanburg inderson-------. umter----.... Florence--------.. sreenwood tock Hill MERICANS TAKE BIG BUNCH Of PRISONERS Illowed Germans to Enter First Lines and Then Engaged Them Furiously MANY DEEI)S OF BRAVERY landsmen Offer for Stretcher- Bear ing Duty-Four Americans Capture 19 Huns With the American Army in France, -Of the 36 prisoners taken by Amer :an troops in the fighting on Friday orthwest of Toul, during which two erman attacks in force were repulsed nith heavy casualties to the enemy, welve have since died of their 'ounds. The A merican troops also aptured two German machine guns esides a quantity of small arms. The prisoners taken belong to the 5th and 65th Landwehr units, the 6th Pioneers and the Uhlans. The risoners said they had had no food or two (lays as the American artillery ad prevented their rations from being rougth up to their positions. The aptive Germans quickly devoured the ood given them. Forced to Fight. The enemy front lines had been de troyed by shell fire, and during Fri ay's attack the American temporari ' abandoned their own front line, llowed the Germans to enter it and hen forced them to engage in hand >hand fighting in the open, in which ie American troops greatly excelled. This attack, which was the longest nd largest scale operation conducted gainst the American troops since the ntry of the United States into the ar has developed many deeds of in ividual bravery and heroism. A oung lieutenant, whose home is just utside of Boston, with three enlisted fen attacked 10 Germans who had enetrated into one of the American 'enches. The lieutenant called on ie Germans to surrender. One of em raised his pistol as if to shoot, at the lieutenant shot him through wehead, upon which the others lifted eir hands high in the air and yelled Kamerad." The lieutenant marched 1 ie prisoners into the rear of our nie. Handsmen Lend Hand A small party of bandsmen volun !ered for stretcher bearing duty in is first line and worked until they 'ere nearly exhausted. The chief sur eon ordered them to return for a est but they assisted until the sur eon disappeared and then resumed ieir first aid duties. A nineteen year-old courier who irriedi a message more than two miles nder heavy shell fire fell exhausted fter deliverig his message into the ands of the commander of the unit. .fter a short rest he begged to be llowed to continue his front line :>urier service. Another lieutenant, commanding a Lachine gun unit, just missed being truck by a shell which buried the un, but he ordered his men to dig ut the piece and soon had it firing gain into the German position. -W--S-S-_ H'NS FIGHTING FOR BIIEA D ussian and Rumanian Granaries Prove Only Mirages I Amdon, A pril 15.--"Victory now is synonym for bread in Germany,, iclared Baron Rhondda, food control r, in explaining to the As:ociated re's the bearing of tl'-- German .ood roblem on the effensive in .::e west. "It is a fight not. for P:'ar is, but. for x!," he added. "The' cry of 'give us read' resounds incessanitiv in II ilden .rg's ears and, in my judgment, that y has set ta'e Germn leg~ons mov. "T'lhe .Ka is r iopied to~ st arve us into .bnuission byv the U-boamt warfare. Il(e iledl. .The Russian and th(e Ruman ian ranaries proved to be iiothir-' but a1 iraige. The dlespa iin e 'ner'gi(es ar iv th( heart of this~ fury of ba ttle. EVERYTEN SHIP WIL llobokn,t N. J. Apil 1.-TIhe first P 'onstructedl at the govern men t's quest of thle Uniiited States St eel irporation, will lie launched at ewark, N. J., by the middle of May, id1 the 'orpoiration's tw v~ ards at obile', Ala., and Newark wil'l be' pro tredl to t urn out a coinplet ed ship 'er'y ten days. Albert H. Gary, (h1r-.( an oif the bioiardl, anounicedl here to - ty at the anual meetiing oif the I oc(khiolde'rs. ''We dlid not wish to go into the I Isinelss oif builiing ships,'" Mir. Gar I ie, but we' were appriioachedl by gen - < imenm inerst ed in goverinmenitalI af- o irs to see if we' could( assist in biuildl-y g shipis when they were'( miost. need(- 'I A After' careful study wo decided at we could build ships at. least .x rs, also delivered a splenid addresst 4e. We stamrted two plains (each hav- r gten ways, onie locatedo near Newv k, N. J., and the other at Mobile, a. One Every Ten D~ays' "We started the construction of the ( awvark planit in August of last year I dwe expect to launch the firsh ship 1 the middle of May' and completei e ship betwveen the first andl the fif- e enth of July. The plant at Mobile is 1; BRAVE DEEDS OF OUR SO[DIER BOYS BRING BIG VICTORY OVER GERMANS Though Outnumbered 2 to 1, Samnmies Gave Huns Sound Thrashing at St. Mihiel WORiK OF ONE I''AI IAN Killed One German and Captured Three--Wanted to Go After Others With the American Army in France. -The German attack against the A m'rican positions on the right bank Df the Meuse, north of St. Aihiel yes Lerday was made by four hundred picked troops recently brought there from the Russian front. Although the America ns were outnumbered more than two to one, they completely re pulsed the enemy, driving him back to his own trenches. The known enemy :asualties include 64 dead, many wounded and eleven prisoners besides : number of wounded who were drag zed back to the German lines by their omrades. The Germans attempted to deceive the Americans by appearing in front f the trenches and speaking French ind English, and also by yelling "gas." 1'he deception, however, was soon dis. :overecl and cost the enemy dearly. the American casualties were com paratively slight. One Little Italian Numerous stories of individual brav ary poured into the headquarters to lay. A young Italian, born in a Penn ylvania coal mining town, killed one erman and captured three. lie saw ight Germans walking in a communi ation trench ahead of him and, al .hough alone, he shot and killed one nd ran after the others, capturing :wo and wounding some of those who ?scaped. le then returned to the American line and turned over the )risoners to a non-ctismissioned of. icer and coolly asked for a match. The offic'er jokingly said, "I'll give you a match if you bring in another irisoner." The Italian, who is only hive feet four inches tall, took him at us word and went back over the para pet. Ile returned in less than five minutes, walking with drawn bayonet behind a six-foot German, who was yellng "Kamarad, Kamarad." A few minutes later it was report ed that ten Germans were lying in a machine gun nest in No Man's land. the Italian started for the spot, but he was ordered back by the commander if the unit, who later sent a detach ment of men to rout out the enemy. which they lid. --W-S-S LEYLANI) LINER SUNK An Atlantic Port, A pril I5.----our ivese were lost when the Leyland Line steamship Etonian was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast March 23, according to members of the crew who arirved here today on a British steamer. Two of those killed were American horsemen, the others members of the fire room !rew. The vessel was torpedoed short ly after midnight, but <iid not sink un tit 9 o'clock the following morning. l'he four men were killed by the ex plosion of the torpedo. On the same steamer was the crew >i the American steamship Chattahoo hee, formerly the Gorman Sachsen, orpedoed and sunk March 23. The hip remained afloat for two hours the nen said, and efforts were made to each her but without success. The crw was picked up by British trawl. Serum for Gas Poison Amnst erda m, A pril 1 5.-\ semti-off i ial news agency qutot es Lieit, .o onl Schlijeinmg, surgeon general of he G;erman army, as saying in an in. crvijew that ai serm i againist piison ims gas has recenit ly beeni discovered DAYS ONE* L BE BUILT idupluite of the one it Newarcik. The .wo yardns I ogethler i ll Iturn out a onmplet ed shiip every ten dlays.'' 'l'hie corprat iii hIi r esplonided to *very govern ment request for exten ion to producee st eel, .1 udge. Gary id ~, suggestmig to t he stockholders hat e'xplend it ures on iiew lan~ts est i nated at from $13,000,000u to $4I,000r, 00 lie taken care of out of earnings. Thie govern meiit hais fixed prices hat will elnalelt us to make Ilarge prof. ts to cover these ex pendlit ures and to ray large div idenids temporarily at Past,'" he' explain ed. '[he corporation had iiot beeni guilty f 1.rofiteermng, Mi. (;uary asserted, <.img "if we we're pirofiting we would rile up all these pirofi ts ini suirplus. uit we feel wye are liv'ing up to tihe olicy of th(e President of the United tates which is to fix prices sufficient o pay living wages to men, fair sala ios to officials and for necessary a'l itionls to plants for war wvork."' Mr. Gary said tihe corporation was tudlyiing the war situation car'efully iiot onlly as patriotic' citizens, but in rdei' to look ahead," and to prepare or any, eventuality. "W~e do not know /hiat kind of competition we will run ito afte'r the war," he added, "but wec an protect ourselves as wvell as any ody else."