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VOL, XXXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1918No2 ALIl[S ARE HOLDING - NUNS AT E[VERY POINT ALONG BATLE FRONT I'eutons Unable to Cross Piave River in Sufficient Numbers to Push Back Italiuns 'Blocking Path AUSTRIAN LOSSES HEAVY 'Fierce Fighting Continues All Along the Piace River From the Moun tain Passes to the Plains The Austrian pincrs are not clos ing up on Italy with the precision of last October when they forced back the Italian armies ., Gen. Cadorna from the Julian Alps to the Piave riv er and from 'the northern Italian re gions almost to the plains of Vene tia. In fact they do not seem to be closing at all. The upper jaw in the Venetian Alps is stalled under the resistance of the British, French and Italian forces, and the other seems to lack the force 8 necessary to bring it across the Piave river and push back the Italian troops which are clogging the path. Invaders Repulsed In the Alps the Austrians have been unable further to advance their lines since their initial onslaught last week. Everywhere from the Asiago plateau sector eastward to the Piave river the attacks have been quickly . repu sed. Allied troops have' counter-attacked, c regained lost terrain, inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy and taken a considerable number of prisoners. All along the Piave 'river, from the mountain passes through which the torrent wends its way southward on. its race to the Adriatic, fierce fighting is going on, especially on the Montello plateau, in the region of the famous Zenson loop. Crucial Sector The -Itialian war ot'flee announces that the enemy everywhere is being -held along the Piave. On the crucial sector of the Montello plateau, which bars the way from the northeast to the Venetian plains, the Italians have strengthened their positions on the northern edge of the plateau and re pulsed two enemy attacks to advance on- the northern border. Likewise to the south near "Maserada -and Can delu,'attempts by ,the Austrians to ef fect new crossings of the Piave were frustrated with heavy losses. Vienna Report Varies From Vienna comes a variant re port. It does not concede to the Al lies any gains of ground in the moun tain region, saying that all their coun ter attacks were repulsed. Concerning the fighting along the Piave, it as serts that the Austrians have gained ground at numerous points and that the battle is following its intended course. Consolidations of the gains on the southern wing, which runs from Fossalta to Mestre are claimed. In 'addition, the Austrian war office says the number of prisoners in the fighting has increased to 30,000 and that 120 guns have been captured. The prisoners taken by the Italians Mon day at one point amounted to 1,350, which would bring their total and those of the Allies well in the neigh borhood of 6,000. Unofficial advices are to the effect that the Austrians have thrown four teen bridges across the Piave along a front of about 14 1-2 miles between the Zenson loop and the Coneglianio railroad bridge, but the pontoons are under the gunfire of the Italians. The infantry operations on the bat tle front in France continue virtually at a 5tandstjll, but the Alied and Ger man guns are roaring on various see tors and it is not improbable that fighting on a large scale will be re sumed somewhere shortly. Along the Ancre, south of Albert and west of *Serre the British and Germans are en gaged in mighty artihtey duels, while spuited activity is noticeable along' the French sectors near Montdidier and the Aisne. The French continue daily to regain ground taken from .them in the recent German offensive south of the Aisne and also to take prisoners in their enterprises. Several attempts by the Germans to penetrate the American line in the Marne sector have been smashed by the American machine gun fire. TREATMENT OF AMERICANS Herlin Dispatch Declares Our Men Not Mistreated Amsterdam, June 17.-American war prisonera are not being ill treated in Germany, says a dispateh tele graphed to Amsterdam by the semi official Wolff bureau, of Berlin. Tfhe prisopers, it is declared, are not uisea as shbw objects to the German public, anid are not subjected to insults and the throwing of stones, which is "for eign 'to the calm-tempered German mind, which does not excite itself anyhow over a few Americains in the midst of so many thousands of war prisoners o~f all nationn'itici. Adequate food "on a scale corre sponding to the present conditions in Germany"s is not lacking in the camps whore American prisoners are quar teredl. 84 IN IhUN PRISON CAMtPS Washington, June 18.-An adlitional list of eighty-fo'er Americans reported in German prison camps by the Amer lican Red Cross was announced to *ilght by the War Department. Most of the men named previously had boen reported an missing by Gen. Pershingr. SAY SU WAS SUNK Oft TH[ VA. CAPES 'assengers Claim Story Was Told by Victorious Crew WORK OF AMERICAN SUB 3rew of American Ship Reports Sink ing of U-Boat by Gunfire An Atlantic Port, June 18.-A Ger nan submarire and its entire crew vas detroyed by an* Americn sub nersible off the'Virginia coast several lays ago, according to a report irought here today by passengers board an American steamship. Officials of the vessel claim to have een told the story of the submarine 'ombat by members of the victorious merican undersea boat's crew. The Amiericnn liner had put nio he mouth of Chesapeake Bay for varnings and there anchored near an kmerican submarine tender along ide which was moored the undersea raft which was taking on provisions md fuel,.officers of the vessel stated. n interchange of wireless messages ollowed in which the submarine crew s reported to have told of its victory. The U-boat was sighted while the kmerican craft was patrolling with mnly her periscope visible, 'according o the story the American skipper is illeged to have told. When within -age a torpedo was released and ,wenty seconds later mierophones re orded a terrific explosion, he was uoted as saying. Rising to the sur ace, the American submarine cir -led about, on the lookout for su-rviv ire, but oil coming to the surface was he only trace found of the vanquished -aider, narrators of the story said .hey had been told. Another by Gunfire An Atlantic Port, June 18.--Merm yers of the crew of an American ship irriving here tolay report an en ;agement with a German submarir >ff the Virginia capes yesterday. ;n which the gunners were victors. The -eport states that the American crew nade t. clean hit and either sunk -the mder-water craft or disabled her. The hip was not damaged. Navy Hasn't. Heard Washington, June 18.-No word had -eached the Navy Department today >f the destruction of an enemy U-boat )y,an Ameiean submarine, asra ia 'by passengers arriving on a steam rr at an Atlantic port. Constant firing >f patrol boats and armed merchant nen at any auspicious object on the water has given rise to many such eports during the past three weeks. --W-S-S-. I I.TTER TO Mit. ERVIN Hr. F. P. Ervin, Superintendent Mannin- W:ater Works, Manning, S. C. Dear Sir: When I wrote you yestera&,g re ,arding analysis of water sample re :eived fropi you on June 8th, I was ao in receipt of your letter of June 1 which has just been delivered this Horning. Your letter probably exphains the :hanges in quality which have taken .lace since our last analysis of some me ago, and the presence of Nitrites which was notedi in my letter cf yes erday. With regard to c.'r in water, we hink it probable that this odor is due o the growth of algae in your pres me tank. Such growths frequently >ccur in warm weather, and whereas he algae do not produce any disease, hey impart frequently disagreeable olors, odors and tastes to the water. rhe algae may be removed by treat 'nent with copper sulphate. If you will send us a quart sample of 'the water which has odor and water from tour pressure tank, we shall examine rame for algae and advise you as to ;he proper treatment for same. With revrrd to cases of typhoid fe ,er, from the history that you give, it sppears that the typhoid fever is like y to be caused more from flies or From water supp~lies other than your uity water supply, as the recent bat ~erial analysis of your city water sup ~ly does not show any indications of he presence of typhoi, organisms. O'r report shows that your well is 185 feet deep, whereas it is not likely ~or a well of this depth to become con aminated at its source, they have oc asionally become contaminated thru imperfections in the casings. One 1,800 ft. artesian wvell in Charleston was contaminated through breaks in ~he city mains or from new sections oif pine. The latter causes of contamn ina ion, though infreqiuent, dlo arise unu 'ier certain pecubiar conditions and 'ire faritors to be taken into consid iderpiion. As soon as we hear from you fur her regardling odors in water we can nyve you more definite information as to treatment. Very ,truly yours, . ) MICRCHANT CRUISER SUNK sixteen Men Missing From Torpedoed British Vessel London, Junne 17.-The British arm ad mercantile cruiser Patia (6,103 bons) was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on June 13. ac sordnig to an announcement made by ' rA ity tonight. One >fficer and fiftteen nmen arie presumed to have been drowned WILL BOO1 SAVI Tne organization of the committees that will push the sale of War Sav ings Stamps in the county for the next two weeks is completed and the workers are beginning to send in en couraging reports from different farts of the county. This county has been assessed $260,000 to be raised within the next two weeks, and it is going to require hard work on the part of the committees un generous co operation from all the people of the county for the allotment to be sold. The fact that no one person can buy more than a thousand (rollars worth of these stamps will make it necessary for each person to do his share in or d'r to sell the desired amount. Ilow ever, Clarendon has responded to every call that has been made aind the workers are not rfriid of the out.-o~ in this case. The county has leen orgai--el ac cording to townships, each town.Jm:: having a chairman, ha has in t'r: ip o;inted the members of his commit tee. Following are the chairmten: Santee, E. G. Stukes, R. W. Chew ring, H. C. Cousa:. St. Paul, C M. Mason. Friendship, W. D. AlIen St .James, Jeff M. Da i . rarning, Charlton DuRant. Sarorny Swamp, .1. McD. McFaddin. FJOWNEY TO UNIFY SYSTEM Appointed as Director of Quartermas ter 'Purchases Washineton. June 18.-Appoint nent of Col. George F. Downey as di rector of quartermaster purchases with supervision over methods an:1 policies of purchasing, was announced today by Brig. Gen. R. E. Wood, act ing quartermaster general. Col. Dowp ey, who has been depot quarternas ter here ,will direct the twelve pur chasing and distributing zone offices and supply depots recently and board by the War Department. The purpose of creating' the newof fice, the announcement said, is to es tablish a uniformity of system in the purchasing and supply zone offices that. will balance with the war pro gram and the activities of the war in dustries board. "This coordination," Gen. Wood said "is expected to utilize to the best ladvantage the produclion of the coun t'ty." --W-S-S F'AVORS VOTES FOR WOMEN aton Rouge, La., June 18.-The !L].ouisiana, subiect t.i ratification by the voters at the election next fall. The vote was twenty-nine to eleven, oae more than the constitutional two thirds majority. The amendment passed the House June 11 by a vote of eighty to twenty-two. The campaign for adoption of the amendment was fetured by a message from President Wilson to leaders of both houses of the Legislature in which he stated he "could not help re garding the settlement of this ques tio.n as of world-wide significance rnd as affording a standard by which to judge our present interest in th complete establishment of democ racy." age of the State amendment presaged defat of the federal suffrage amend rent pending in the Legislature, anl was a victory for State rights. -W-S--S 'MRS'. hI)A CAVELL DIES IN ENGLANI) Londlon. via Ottawa, JTune 1 8.-Mrs. Ida Cavell, mother of the heroic nurse, Edith Cavell, executed by the G;er mans in Belgium, has dlied at her h eHenley-onathe-Thames, ' at the ag f81. She had been in failing health since the dleath of her dlaugh ter. Government South Caro. Senators Shouhl Use Their Efforts to This End "M~ir. E. I. Rearlon, secretary, Sumter Chamber of Commerce, Sumter, S. C'. Dear Sir: With refetrenlce to my conversation wi~th you ,relative to marketing the excess grain prod~ucedl in this County, I feel that this is a matter of vital importance to every farmer who has comnpliedl with the request oif the Food Administrators anid the Council of Defense, and in consequence of same heavily increasedl their acreages in corn andl oats. I have today four earloads of threshed oats, put up in stndarnd bags andl ready for immedliate shipment; 1also four carloads of baled oat-straw. I have written to each of the three CJamps in the State, and to the Camp ,at Augusta; also to the Chiefs of the Forage Departments at Kansas City and Chicago. They a;l advise that they are not in the market for any oats at this time. I undlerstandl that you have written to those oficials also. I do not think it exactly right for teAdministration to urge us to plant I WAR NG STAMPS 1 "ttn, W. I). Ep v . I lit Zion, W. II. H aliaday. Brewington. W. 'T. P. Sprott. St. Marks, Henry II Stukes Plowden's Mill, P it. Alderaina. 11. C. Vadford. M away. Wm. Johnsoal. 1'cuglar.. D. E. Turb~evillen. Sandy Grove, Johnl it llnker. :tim < i y, E. 13. Tn'li. '. l HIu,: nal Calvary, E. C. Geddings, W. \ F). liott. Concord, It. A. Rienbo urg. New Zion, J. H. I)utlose". W E. Flemmng The can'paign will be so coniuctt.e that no one will be overlooked. the committees in the !arious townships heving planned to have every bus iwss house and every hore . 'a their terri tory visited At a m tii:r in Smr merton Monday night IIon. Charlto- 1 I)uRant and Mr P. M. Rea, vice direct or of the State, spoke and :otused a great deal of enthusiasm l i.St en couraging reports have -mie ih from 1 Summerton. At Alcolu the quota has ' already been reached -ad w-orkers I there are now trying to d'oubl their 1 allotment. A big open air lmeeting will be held at Paxville !'ridlav night, and meetings are being planne-i for other sections of the cou nty 'lurinyi the campaign. TIlREE PRISONERS ESCAPE Break Through Floor of Comm isary at Penitentiary Columbia, .J1une I8.--Three pri-on prs, two white and one colored. es Ciped about noon today from the State Penitentiary. They are: Frank Griffith, sent up from Lox angton County, April 23, 1910, for life for the murder of a Mr. Roof on th .Griffith arm. Clarence Davis, sent up from Charleston County on June 11, 1914, for 30 years for assault and battery with intent to ravish. His sentence vas later commuted to 10 years. James Monroe, colored, sent up from Dillon County, February 28, 1918, for fifteen months for larceny. The men were at work in the com missary department and did not have on the regulation priaon stripes. They escaped by sawing a hole in the loor of the commissary anci getting down into thc basement, where they broke sary treasurer was out of the commis a window and escaped. The commis sary treasurer was out of the commis sary for a while about the noon hour, and it was during his absence that they sawed the hole through the plank floor. An alarm was immcdiately turned in by the treasurer upon his return to the com mis ;.ry and the police and veounty officials r.otified immediate ly. Waning:; were also sent all ovw the State, and a vigorous search for ithe men instituted immediately. Frank Griffith w-as convicted of the nturlder of a nmina named roof. The case was i ver. sensational one and ,very great in1.e-e;. ' entered in it be cause o the prominence of Griffith who is a brother of the former super 'intendent o the penitentiary. News that he had edcaped today create,l somewhat of a 1 ensation :n Lexington County, vIhe -e he wv part icularlv well know.. -W--S-S TRtOOl' TRAIN WRECKEDI Waco, Texas, June 18.-Thirty-four soldiers were injured, five probably fatally ,near Selby, Texas, about fif teen miles east of Waco, today when a St. Louis and Southwestern Railroad train oultwardl bound from Camp Me Arhrws wrrecked while paing over a wooden bridge. The engineer and two firemen also were probably fatally injured. The irn juredl soldiers' names are being with held by military authorities. SholdBuy tina Pout heavily in graiin unless they 'are will ing L)n operate with us in the moar keting of .<ane(. If youz wvill compare the difference in the amount (of equipment and freight charges necessary to tranrs port the grain for the four Camps ab~ove referred to from the West, a. eempared with that nec-essary' tosup a mne ftrm South Carolina, you will readily recognize the e*nonrmonus~ saving in eqinptlment anid freight to the Government. In Sumter County alone we have over 100.000 bushels of oats and corn for wvhicht there is nto imarket. I have also written to all of the grain dealers in the S! tr, but cannot get an offer from tiny of them.' I woulId be glad if you would take this matter utp in the most vigotouts manner p~osisble wvith the proper au thorities at Washington and see if you can not succeed in perfecting some arrangement by which our surplus p rain can be marketed at the campsl) int this State. Please push this mat tr vigorously andn advise me at your ear l:etst convenience the results of your of forts. Yours truly, (Signed) IH. J. McLAURIN, JR. MERICAN BARRAGE S[IAUGHI ERED iUNS icked German Troops to Attack Xiv ray Surprised AMERICANS TOO WATCHFUL risoners State Huns Had Been Re hearsing Behind Lines for the Attack With the American Army in France, unday, June 16.-In their attack on ivray on the Toul sector today the ermans hoped to enter the village nd carry off a large number of pris ners. but the alertness of the Aneri in artillery observer, coipletely verturned the enemy plan. Exam nation of the Germans captured in he fight disclosed that the enemy ilanned the raid a wees in advance Lnd that the 6O special troops who ook part ,in it were rehearsed behind he German lines. The enemy plan way to send for ard a large party without prepara ory artiller; fire. This party was to ake up a position near the Americana )arbed wire and then send up a signal ocket fo ra box barrage to cover Xiv -ay village and the approaching comn nunication trenches while the heavier irtillerv was t'+ bombard the villages n the rear. Hun.' Plans Upset A merican artillery observers saw a arge number of Germans creeping ibout in No Man':. Land and thinking hey composed a large working party he artillery signaled for a barrage. The American artillery and machine runs went into action immediately nd before the enermy barrage could ret started had inflicted heavy cas ialties on the unprotected Germans in No Man's Land and played havoc vith the plans for the raid. The original enemy 1:ran was for the ittacking party to divide into three sect ions and to enter Xivray from :hree different dv'isions. Only-one see Lion actually reached ne outskirts ot the village, but only after it had been :ut upbadly by the American barrage lire. Of these only a small group got into Xivray, where they were quickly surrounded by the Americans and either captured or killed. Eight pris mers, including a lieutenant, rreain .. in the American hands. A merican. Casualties A majority of the American casuai lies, which do not include any missing, resulted from the German artillery fire. Casualties among French civiliars >ccurred when a German shell burst near a church as a pocession of vil lagers was emerging from mass. Many of the French wounded were :-ared for in American hospitals. This afternoon the American artil lery opened a retaliatory fire against the area behind the German lines wvhile the Germans, apparently an ;ered by the failre of the raid, boI barded villages as far as eight miles behind the American lines. The whole foul sector i: now echoing to the heaviest gunfire in many weeks. TURK IAS ACCESS TO HAK t: thence to Turkestan Where Cotton is Stored Moscow, Tuesday, June "1.-Turkey having reached an understanding with he leaders of the trans-Caucasian listrict, there are indications that the f)ttoman troops will not encounter my further 1position in that secti -n and may move freely toward the port f Baku on the (Caspian sea. The trans-Caucasian G;ove~rnmient w'ith which Turkey treated ,fell to pieces after the agreement was reach d but the dismem~berted sections are rriendlly to Turkey. Once iat Haku tne Trs r o pinion of observershehae(is iccess to and acrossth Caia o Turkestan arid could1rahtegc. .otton stores there. "AX ( EA N PI ATlE" IS NOW MOT I10 AT ('AMP Greenville, ,Iune 17.-Azs one feL ture of a conservation caml)pahrin inow in full swine: at Camp Sevier-, omany ofi the regimental units are p~ost inSf ruards beside (-ach garbage canm ambout rrness time. Lheir dunties hein~g to take t note or an 0 marti who em p es go. I boil intot th' par aoe caii, .:t 'to re po rt himt -o I commin0tand i pm oflfice'r. "'A Cleani lamte'" is the mot to of t ini phase of th(- moifvemn'. aind the inwn hirowing away niothinig. Thle conservaition ei nm'aai'n ii mi biac.es the saving of clotini' piec-e.; f .dluipie. and;,e~ otmwr articles wiic 'ti-H or 'c-ilv Ih' t hr< wn waLy. Hot tles, o11ldi ti n -i and S ai bir articles :art being very ca refudy~ aved throng~i-~it theI( c-a' m antd Pae regularly t urned in to the reeln.; tiion denfartmen, wler - a whole sv,'i .. bouse is devotred to the housme'r of the reclaimed article's. Many cast of f tarnments are repairesi, r. errenne and rei ssued. A publicity camnaclgn, to urge the n-ving of food, clothing, etc., has been the distribution of circufars, postin.? >f bulletins, etc. Jam sa D). Grist, for r rly a newsnaner ivan of York, S. 0'., wvho was transferred to the quarter master department from the Thirtieth 'tivisionl. has been put in chage of thin feature of the .unrke ARMY OFFIC[R ARRESTED ON GRAFT CHARGE BY COVERNMENT MEN Government's Pursuit of (ontr ut Profiteers Continues GItEGORY REPORTS ON RAIl. Lieut. Jas. C. Staley, Reserve Officer. Arrested; Other Arrests May Follow Washington. June 18.--The trail of the government's pursuit of illegal profiteers On war contracts today led to the arrest in New York of Lieut. .lames C. Staly, a reserve army of; ceer, on a charge of accepting money from the Truefit. Raincoat Company, o New York, for a contract which he promised to secure. The arest was made by Department of Justice agents who had followed the officer during his inspection of the plant of the raincoat company, whose proprietors acted in cooperation with the government to detect the fraud. The secret agent arested him im mediately after he was said to have received a sum of money from Joshua Rosenthal and Louis Werner, proprie tors of the plant. It was charged that he had told them that he would ex pect more money as soon as they got the contracts which they sought for 50,400 raincoats, costing nearly $250, 000. This was the first arrest of an army (officer since the Department of Just ice started its investigation into the system by which contingent fee agerts have made n iions by obtain ing contracts for manufacturers who were charged a commission. Other arrests may follow soon. Lieut. Staley is about 50 years cid. le entered a training camp last sum 'mer and was commissioned in August. Last December 11 he was appointed an inspector in the quartermaster's department. le has been stationed in New York most of the time since A fter being arested today Lieut. Staley made a complete confession of his part in the transaction, Depart ment of Justice officials said, and gave much valuable information which I may lead to the detection of other cases of fraud. Ile will be tried by: a courtmartial. The shadow of complicity in the extensive scheme by which comn:, sion agents made millions out of gcv-. ernment war orders by acting as mid dIe men in obtaining contracts 'r manufacturers, today extended an scores of business mi-n and attorneys in Washington, New York and Boston and other cities, and even to a ft-c secretaries of members of Congress. These men, many of whom were ama teurs in the game of soliciting war .contracts, promised to use their influ ence with government officials, arri ,officers or members of Congress 'o assure the awarding of contracts to special concerns, and in turn were to receive compensation if the contriit. were landed. A large proportion of these ca .were not prompted by sinister motiw, officials believe, and prosecutions w ill not follow. Many others, however, pear the result of carefully planrsd plots to squeeze millions from er tractors. Officials intimated that other r -sts may be made soon in connect;n with the charges on which four in are now under indictment here---c".c n-Piracv to violate federal laws for, ding the subletting of contracts a payment of contingent fees. ALgints of the Department of J. ice, Treasury and War and Navy Pc partments we-re at work todhv on new phases of the disclosures in Washimg torn and elsewvhere, while a corps of investigators, dIig-sted the ev idere contained in the dotcumecnts. Repiort to Cabinet AtoreyGeneratl Gregory took m:. Iatest inforimat ion inn tne raids too Cabiinet meetinrg andt 'ainet mn biers aind heads of all (xecut ive' depasn mrents. miaking tontr acts rece-ivedi t& A ttoire Gecn-iral's recommnendlat icr. appr-oved by P'resident WilIso n, forn sorting in futur co tntract s of a c-lau idnding the conitracttor not to pay con tingent fees nor emloly iddittle mm' in negoitirating a war tirder. A na lyzinig thIe reupt s on vest u. day's raids, proivide a task which w t take mOtre thani a wee(k, paritiularnl si nce somie of t hi- evi-ence was ga t i'r-d as far wi-st as Sari Franciscco. No nialij of e it her manufi ac-tur-i: ctincernis tor sspecd com amiss a r'nts were- g i ve-i t ;. SOne of the rinicipal arari~n-m a f the inrqu iry' inow is tdirectedtI toi lir ing wvhether an ar-my or navy ioffi-er v-as sublje-ct toc sin ist 'ri iniflutnceu of I I are n ts. ucth to Assist Bernardl Baruch, c-ha irman of the t'war industries board, promniisedi his co tiperationl todlay ini tferret ingi out any C ses of frad r timprope~-~~tr ctnducet by r'lyv officers in his dlepraitriet hav-intg (-h1arge- of arr-anig ing contracts hi tween the Wai- antd Nav~y D eplartment and prodlucei-s. All day today letter-s and telehgrams; pordct intoi the D~epart mint of . instice ,from~ nmanufactur-ers who hatd been so licited by commission agents. Some manufacturers gave v'aluable infor ,ation. TIhese letters constitute! linly one of the elements leading officials to be lieve they have uncovered an even .more extensive systemi of fraud andi impropriety connected with war or iers thn they and imagined.