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VOL. XXXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5,1918 N. 22 AME AMERICAN SHIPS ON TH[ TRAIL OF TH1 UHOA1 Important Information Established I to the Effect. that U-bo..t that Sank American Ships is of Cruiser Type and at. Least 225 Feet in Length Washington, June 4.-The Germa man U-boats which have taken a to of eleven American ships off the Ne' York and New Jersey coast within tei last ten days are either successfull Nding, ready to strike at the nex safe target, or streaking away for secret base of refuge and new sup plies. No officer of the United tates nay has yet had a look at the prowlin raiders. The evidence that they hav been in American waters exists onl in the known record of destruction an statements of the hapless civilian sail ors, some of whom were prisoners fo many days. The facts relating to ships dt stroyed are irrefutable, but it has no been established definitely that mor than one U-boat has penetrate American home waters. There is noth ing in the official reports to verif the statement that five enemy sub marines have been seen off the Vi! gima capes. Probably a Decoy Navy officials consider it highl probable that the object repotcj as companion to the raide. w)l san the schooner Edward M. Ile, of Barnegat, N. J., or. Sunday, was noth ing more than a decoy. This is a summaryi f the repor Secretar' of the Navy Josephus Dan iels is understood to have made at to day's meeting of the tabinet at th White House. The president is said to have bee informed that every available nay ship in home waters is being employe, in the search for the enemy vessel o vessels. Tlhe: important information whic1 has been established, according t Secretary Daniels, is that the U-boa which carried out the operation against American shipping was of th cruiser type and at least 225 feet i length. The reported statement of the Ger man commander that he had bee away from his home base for approx imately two months is by no mean regarded as an impossibility. Th embarrassing question is where ha the raider been in the time intervein ing before the date of the first sink ing off the Atlantic coast, which wit about May 25. If this could be explained the mat ter of a secret German base on tli American continent could be mor easily solved. There w"ould also b less apprehension concerning th number of mines scattered in th lanes of coastwise ocean traffic. Replenishing Food Supplies Even if there is no base, there i official basis for the opinion that th raider has been able to replenisi stores of both food and fuel from th vessels known to have been destroyed Under such favorable conditions, i is asserted the U-boat may have beei in the vicinity of the United State. for many weeks an<% still continue it depredations, if successful in dodgini the fleet now taking part in the see hunt. Apparently the German pirate skip per did not idle away his time alonj the Atlantic coast when there wer< abhips in sight which he dared attack Mmins are thought to have been plant ed in several districts. Discovery o one of these mines off the Delawar capes was anniounced by the navy de partment in the following statement "The navy department has receive< a report from the commandant of th fourth naval dlistrict that at 11 o'cloel today a naval mine sweeper operat mag' off the Delaware capes picked ui one mine. ."This is the same general locatioi mn which the tnaker Pratt was suni yesterday afternoon. "The movements of' shipping are be ing carefully regulated, andl the mim sweeping is, of course en o tinued."se ben co It is stated authoritatively that th mine, which was of German manu t acture, had been anchored slighth below the surface of the water, in or der to avoid detection. --- W-S-S RtEPORT'S U-BOAT OFF CAROLINAE Mallory Liner Meets Sub Bletweei: Charleston and Fryingpan, An Atlantic Port, June 4.-Th< Mallory liner Sabine, from Tampa t< New York, with forty passengers came in here this morning and re. portedl that she met with a snbmarint yesterday between Charleston and Fr ying Pan Shoals lightship. A see. ond vessel, the identity of which ii unknown came to the rescue of th< liner and chased the submarine oui to sea. The Merchants and Miners steam or, Nantucket, Jacksonville to New York, also arrived here this morning having been warned by ena unknow, vessel that enemy submarines were ii the vicinity of Frying Pan shoali lightship. RICA] NURSES WILL NOT FALTER Bombing of Hospitals Will Not De ter Them Washington, June 3.-The deliber ate bombing of hospitals by Germa fliers will not deter American nurse s from seeking service in France, sai Miss Jane A. Delano, director of th department of nursing of the Re Cross, in a statement today. "The persistent bombing of Re Cross hospitals just as our drive t obtain enrollment of military nurse n begins, may be a coincidence," sai i1 Miss Delano. "If, however, the Ger v mans believe that such methods wil e have any effect in deterrring Ameri g can nurses from volunteering for hos t pital' work, they are badly mistaken. a "Tactics of frightfulness will mere ly send more and more of them t back up our men. If it is the Germai y intention of frightening our wome1 y they will find that American womei e do not know how to retreat any mor y than do our boys in Picardy. The en d rollment of nurses will be Americas - womanhood's answer." r -W-S-S 26 .'ISSING ON TRANSPORT t Three Officers and Twenty-three En listed Men - Washington, June 3.-Three offi cers and twenty-three enlisted me: of the navy were reported missing to day from the torpedoed Americal transport President Lincoln. One of ficer was captured by the submarines y Among the enlisted men reporte< a missing are: G. B. Johnson, Decatur k Tenn.; George B. Hoffman, Ridle f Park, Va.: Frederick W. Wilson, Jr - Denison, Texas; Arthur T. Jefferson Jacksonville. Fla., and Robert s t Walker, Chattanooga, Tenn. - None of the survivors was sCx:i1,sl - in.jured. The transport was attacked a e 9:53 a. m. May 31. Three torpedoe: were discharged, sinking the ship h n eighteen minutes. The submarine wa: not sighted until after the torpedue: 1 were shot. r American destroyers, returning t< port with survivors sighted a subma h rine at noon on Saturday and attacke< o it. The dispatches to the navy do no t report the result. -W-S-S ~ FOR RIVER NAVIGATION Washington, June 3 -Presiden Wilson was asked today by a commit tee of Congressmen to sarction u.m o a part of the $500,000.000 appropriat e ed for the railroad ad.iinistration ?co sie stim.>ltion of n rtgation on the . lower MiIeissippi, 'la .k WVirrror an other S-,.thern river., by :ouippxr, them v ib brats ann barges. The con mittee, which called at the Whit House, consisted of Senators Rans e dell, Bankhead, Fletcher and Nelsoi U and Representatives Small, Oliver an, e Dupress. e President Wilson was told that no e "'ore than $20,000,000 would be re quired, which would tacilitate ship luents of fuel, oil and other commodi ties needed, particularly by vevne', leaing Southern prots. --W-S-S 'TOBACCO A NECESSiTT t Producers Will he Given Preferentir Fuel Supply B Washington, June 3.-Tobacco ha! been classed by the government as necessity and, producers will be giver preferential fuel supplies. Senator Swanson, of' Virginia, was informer by the War Industries Board todlas xnm response to an inquiry that thi .board was working out with the ie adIministration a plan for suipplyinr. f the industry with coal. 1his is the P AlLoyalAnm 14th to June Signature.......,, . Poet Offie......... sTO THE SECRETARN L, the above signle4 In addition to those 1 agree to buy War Say as shown in margin aci I PURTHERl~ PLEDG1 SAVE AND EOONOMI WIN THE WAIL Tota War U We...................... Stampa may be bong .4S PU HURL GERMAN H BACK Fighting Shoulder to Shoulder With e French, Uncle Sam's Soldiers, Bar Road to Paris Against Huns ( INVASION ABOUT HALTED i Only Gains Recorded by Germans Yesterday Were Slight Gains: Be tween the Aisne and the Ourcq The Americans on the sectors where they are alone or brigaded with Allied troops e-eiywhere are fightin-r with j a spirit that places them right with the category of veterans. Near the 1 Neuilly wood, which lies northwest of r Chateau-Thierry and at the point i where the drive has brought the en- i emy nearest Paris, the Americans s have beaten off a strong German at- n tack and on the Marne at .Jaulgonne, s i northeast of Chateau-Thierry, fight- f ing shouldbr to shoulder with the f French, they have aided in forcing o the first contingent or the enemy to v - cross the Marne again. In this last h I engagement the Germans suffered severe casualties and also left 100 it - prisoners. Invaders About Halted ', - From drives on wdie fronts the Ger- t1 man offensive in France has deterior- r - ated into isolated attacks along the c area from Soissons and Chateau- t I Thierry and eastward to the Marne c. in the general direction of Rheims. A Although in these attacks the ene my still is using large effectives and e great numbers of guns, he is being i, held almost everywhere from further a progress and on various sectors com- t pelled to assume the defensive against x vicious blows delivered by the Ameri- I can, French and British troops. ti Slight Hun Gains 'e Between the Aisne and Ourcq rivers i the Germans have captured Pernant tl and to the south of that village the a French have ceded a little terrain. In t: th Ourcq valley they also took the b, Itown of Neuilly La Poterie (Veuilly tl La Poterie) seven and one-half miles si northwest of Chateau-Thierry, in fighig during which the place o changed hands several times. In the d region between the Oise and the f< Aisne the Germans have been unable -to advance anywhere. The losses of T the Germans near Pernant were ex- t< tremely heavy. s On Northern End a There still is only moderate activity tl I along the line held by the British in f: Flanders and Picardy, where patrol c activities and bombarding continue. a Full confidence in the outcome of t: the war has again been expressed by ri the supreme war council of the Allies, e. 1 which has just gone over the entire situation, resulting from the big' Ger- a man offensive, although it was stated that the Allied nations may be still et ADMIT AlL. ) SUCCESS 1. Berlin Reports A. ..ces by 1-'och's Men to North Berlin, Via London, June 4.--"There have been artillery duels of varying i intensity," says the German official f, tcommunication issued today. o "The enemy showed lively reconnoi- i I tering activity atnd made strong ad- 1: I vances at several points of the front. ~I Southwest of Merris (midway be- lii I tween Ypres andl Bethune) he has es- C :tablished himself in small trench sec- iri tors." I atriotic Pledge That Will ericans In South Carolina 28th: .......No................Sre o Ri. F. D).No....... OP THE UNITED STATE8 TREASURY: NumL Icertify that I now own................ ow owned, 1I JUNE inga Stamp. Cost $4.17 each .... right J JULY Cost $4.18 each... AUGUST Coat $4.19 each... I MYSELF' TO SECPTEMBEJR ZEI, TO HELIP Cost $4.20 each... OOTOBE~R Cost $4.21 each... NOVECMBER Coot $4.22 each... DECEOMBE~R Coat $4.23 each... atngs Stamp. Owned and Pledged... Solicitor's Signature bt from Pout Offie.s, Banks and Authorised SH.H ORDES ON THE MARNI xposed to critical (lays. Additional attacks on shipping b: erman submarines off the Atlanti aast have been reported. A major y of the persons aboard vessels sun y the underwater craft have reache here. BIG DRIVE ABOUT ENDED merican Soldiers Played An Import ant Part Washington, June 4.-Virtual ad uission that the third German driv i the west has been brought to a hal ras seen here in tonight's officit tatement from Berlin. The brief an ouncement without claim of advance Lrved to convince officers here tha r the present at least Gen. Foch ha )ught the enemy to a standstill with at the loss of any point of strategi lue, and without serious inroads e is reserves. American troops aided in the fight ig. Presumably they are part o en. Pershing's main units. It ma e, however, that they are a part o ie reinforcements which have beer .shed over since the German hig] )mmand determined to force the wa > a conclusion in the hope that a de sive victory could be won before th< merican army arrived in force. The French, in today's officia .atement, paid tribute to the dasl nid skill of the Americans engaged ii counter-attack where they three c advancing enemy back out c euilly wood, west of Chateu-Tnier The stroke was characterized b: e French commanders as magniff ntly delivered. At another point where the first o i German horde had found its wa' -ross the Marne, Franco-Americal -oops attacked them, threw then ck north of the river and destroy.< ie bridge. Again the enemy wa opped short. Gen. Pershing, in his official repor the incident, made public tonight smissed it briefly. The communiqul allows: "In the fighting west of Chateau hierry our troops broke up an at .mpt of the enemy to advance to the >uth through Neuilly wood and b: counter-attack drove him back t4 ie north of the woeds. On the Marr -ont a German ba'talion which ha, osseCl at Jaulgonne, was counter tacked by French and A merical 0 1ps and forced to retreat to thi viht bank. It sustainsed severe in killed and prisoners. "Patrolling was active in Picar'+ id Lorraine. "In the Woevre we shelled the '-. ny positions, using gas." IEUTI'. HOOPER OF W A LTERIIl(O CITED FOR BRAVE ACTIO. With the American Army in Franc ane 3.-First Lieut. Edward 13 ooper, of Walterboro, S. C., is cite< r conspicuous courage and coolries leadership wbile engaged with hi! en against a superior force on Apr Also cited in the order is Lieut. Al n C. P'erkinson, Petersburg, V a Jolner~ . courage amil gallantry dur g a h - ile raid against his post or pril 21. be Signed by From June Maturity Value er at $5 each .W.S.S.$..........09 .W.S.S..........09 .W.S.S..........00 .W.S.S..........00 .W.S.S..........00 .W.S.S..........00 ..W................00 .W.S.S..........00 ..W..............00 Agent. inorywheM= UNS I HUNS BUYING FOR FUTURE Pushing Their Economic Control in Central Asia London. June 3.- The Germans steadily pushing the tentacles of - their economic control far into Cen tral Asia, where they are buying up available orders for_ many years e ahead, says The Daily Chronicle. The foundation of these developments is in k the German control of Rumania and the Ukraine. "Control of the Rumanian and Uk rainian harvests would provide Ger Many. not only in this, but in any future war with a complete solution of her food problem." The Chronicle - adds. "She would also, thanks to her l unhmited access to Central Asia, hav, li tle further trouble with any but t pical raw materials. "1er eastern policy can only be un done adequately by the Allies after they have achieved victory, but more attempts ought to be made now to l frustrate present developments." -W-S-S STIL HOPEFUL OF RUSSIAN Konovaloff Relieves Allied Interven tion Will Save Country Tokio. May 28.-Allied interven f tion is ecessary in Russia, in the opinion of Alexander I. Konovaloff, f minister of commerce in the Kerensky 1 Cabinet, who has arrived here on sih 1 way to the United States. He said r the object of his visit to America was - to aid the reconstruction of Russia bv informing Americans of exact condi- I tions there. 1 The former minister declared that I the present regime is destructive and hopeless. He believes Allied inter vention would restore order, create f a responsible government and hasten - the winning of the war by combating , the Germans and Austrians. If intervention is delayed anarchy is inevitable, and there is danger of r the Bourgeoise and the Socialists turning to Germany for help, he said. 1 "Intelligent Russians,",Mr. Konovo loff added, "also would welcome American economic and financial aid, because they know it would be disin terested and not based on political ambition." THE PRESIDENT OBJECTS -To Further Prohibition Till it it Nc t-ssary Washingtorn, June 4.-President W ilson today declared his opposition to further prohibition legislation until the food administration decides it is necessary to conserve foodstuffs. His position was made known in aletter to Senator Sheppard of Texas. At House amendment bill would prevent the expenditure of $6,000,000 unless , he prevents the use of grain in the production of alcoholic liquors. Senator Sheppard said he would not make public the letter at this time. lIe said he conferred with Food Ad ni nistrator hoover today regarding' the sittiation awil was awaiting his reply. Lpon this answer, he said wil depend f uture action. -W--.--S-.. CHAS. WN. 'AIBANKS DEAD Former Vice President. of the United States 'asses Away Indianatpepo'. une 4.-Charles War ren I. airbanks. former Vice-Preiddent h of the Unitedi States, died at his home hi-re tonmyh: at 8:55 o'clock. DeathI was due- to interstitial nephritis, which had, be-en a chironic ailment with him, but not regar-ded as piarticularly ser-i o::nil recently. A11 I membi-rs of his faiuily execpjt Major Richardl Fair banks, who in Francec, were at hise bedlside. F -IREI) tlPON I. S. WVAISIIIgy I American Warship Makes Mistake; Washington. .Jume 4.-A warship -ngaged re-ci-ntly in tar-get Ipract ice ni stook: the bat tletship Louisiana for a tairg-t and1( exploded a shell aboai d her, kiling oe man, the Navy De I~ar'tme(nt announced today. TIhe ae eideint wasii doe to hazy wveather, it was said. 'Thi- man killed was Fireman Moses I,. Morgan, of Gulf Point, Fla. No, fu1rthe-r detailsa werie vin in the na~ivy annitOui~neent. FIIRING (OFF (CAPE MAY; 1,-IEBOATS ARE SIGIITED-:I jt hear-d off C'ape May this afternoon' and .aga in tomight. Small boats con tiaimmg women andI enildren were re ported to have been seen th is a ft er- C. noon several miles off shorec biy an avi- il ator. Thle rep~ort could~ not bet con- ii firmed.v --W-S-S-. MAJ. GEN. SNIAlRPE COMING b Washington, June 4.---Major Gen.1 J. Sharpo quartermaster general of the army, but who has been serving 9 on the war councii for some months,c will assume conmmandl of the South eastern Department, with headquar- A ters at Charleston, S. C., next week. Swin -- t-qin his rank as qatr master greneral, qur p SACK STORY OF SUBMARINES TOLD BY SURVIVORS Passengers from Steamer Carolina Reach Shore Exhausted IIAl) EXCITING MOMENTS Survivors Battered About in Open Boat After Submarine Sank Steamer Atlantic City, N. J., .June 4.-Twen ty-eight survivors of the New York and Porto Rico liner Carolina, which was sunk by a German submarine Sunday evening, were recovered here tonight after forty hours in the br. tered boat from which they landed this afternoon. The women were suff 'ring from ex haustion and all had ruffered from hunger and thirst, as they had only a Lttle water and a few bitcuits durit. the time they were at sea. None w. in a serious condition, however. Mrs. P. .1. Hamilton, wife of Ch:, Justice Hamilton, of the Porto Rico Supreme Court, and Miss Charlotte Hamilton, her laughter, were amo : the saved. Completely Exhausted The boat, commanded by Chief F. L'ineer McLaren, landed at the foot of South Carohna avenue. The exhausted passengers were .ifted bodily from their seats and carried to an emerge-_ -y hospital on the sands. W<Vr2en and girls among the su vivors were unable to stand. Some them were attired in rough blue over ills and jumpers borrowed from the -rew. The hair streaked across their faces was plastered down by the mix ture of salt and water used on their Foreheads in an effort to revive them when they fainted. One woman about thirty years old fainted as a life guard lifted her ten 'erly from the yawl. Chief Surgeor Bossert brought her a stimulant. At that moment the r otes of "The Star ipangled Banner" floated into the ent, and the woman, half rising on ier cot, cried hysterically, "We're ;afe, safe, at last!" Then she sa:: igain into unconsciousness. Mrs. C. 11. Westbrook, of New Yor... .vho with a thirteen-year-old girl w; rong the rescued passengers, pad: ugh tribute to Lieut. McLaren ar. he men of his crew. Mrs. Seymour-:. dthough scarcely able to sit up in bey., nsisted on telling of the heroie ce: luct of the crew. "We had just started for dinne:" he said, "when shells screamed a warning across the front of the shi:;.. cannot describe how I felt wh.n he realization. came upon us that we Vere being attacked without warni:: )y a submarine. All Sorts of Fears "All sorts of fears assailed me. I hought of the women and childr:-n if France and Belgium, ar.d it v:-t naddenmig. "Then another shell came Shrapnel. hey said it was. It splintered som, hing forward. "Our ship had no arms and the ca:, ain orderel the engines stopped. something grated along the side. It vas a large boat from the submarine. Phte officer in commanl spoke very ood English. IHe told the captain, wh'. net himin at the top of the ladder, h, could give us time to get off before e- sank the ship. "T'he captain wvatchedl while the oats wvere being filled and lowered. heewere more than 200 passenger., ad more than a liundred in the rtw. Tihe women and (hiId ren,,. oJurse. wvent first. The crew acted plendlidly. "Ten boats were f i lh-d a ndl w. 'ulled away from the ship,. I shal ever see a nyt hing like it again. Yet. utenlsely dramatic rs it was it al (qemed~ uineal. J'very minutes we' hught th* Gemnswr going o .hill us. "W~e had.i gon" aiway possaibly I fu-t ards, whein ther-' wa:s a b'liniij leash. I dlo not knowv wh:.ther thm-... e-i luid. i,'un~bed or t orpedloedl the C a r. runa, lhm shie w(ent do1w?) "In the night w? were separa ri.mi t he other boa ts. I ,ieu t. McI arenm rid Chief Purser Merkt looked aft-r 'wonderfu liy. The(y (took very l itti. 1 thei fiood or water f~om themiselve. GRUO1'NI) G AINFI) By HIIl'IsH ijrht gaiinmed ground slight ly in): a l Il ope'rat ion on the nort hiern side er ii- l'hmders salient, the wari office onounces. Nearlyi 200 prisoners wver. iken. T'he statement follows: "Successful local operations were irried out by oiur troops last n ight t he neigh borhood of Vieux Berquini rid Merris. Our line has ben a incedl slightly ait these points and )3 prisoners and a number of ma ime guns and trench mortars have L'en captured by us. Our casualties eore light. "Successful raids resulting in the ipture of twenty prisoners, three man 11 e guns and a trench mortar wore 1 liedl out by us also southeast of rras ,northwest of Lens, and west of [rville. "A hostile raiding party was re Jlsedl south of Vmm... n ..neuL