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4VOL. XXXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1918 N. /,AMERICAN SOLDI[RS HURL GERMANS BACK ENEMY ADVANCED NOT MORE THAN 3 MILES 'ANYWHERE French and Americans Recapture Two Towns and Reestablish Their Lines Dominating the Valley of the Marne-Germans on South Bank ' of, Marne in Grave Danger Germans Unable to Attack Generally Paris, July 16 -At the conclusion of the secend day's fighting, it is safe to state that the 'G ermn,. offensive or the 65 mile frort from Chateau . TIhierry to HasFiges in Champaigne has preved a' .ailure. At no pla.:e has the enemy sue:- eded in advtei:nm more than 3 triles, Already ie has lost hip initial cfash. His efforts row are reduced to lccat atempts. Lace t:.-1 night the war o.1 ice was able to an nounce the recapture by the ?r mch, and Americans of the towns of St. Agnan-la-Chapelle and Monothodon, and the re-establishment of their lines upon the heights dominating the valley of the Marne. This new victory came as a brilliant climax to 2 days of incessant counter thrusts and the fact that the important dominating positions are again in the hands of the. Allies adds heavily to the danger in which the Germans find themselves an the south bank of the Marne. "Dur ing daytime," said General Petain in, A his night bulletin from headquarters, "the Germans, unable to attack gen erally, endeavored to increase their local success." The very use of the word "unable" shows the French high command con siders the foe's major scale effort definitely stopped and is confident the Franco-American forces will continue to pin the invaders down where they are, and ultimately sweep them back. The only tactical advantage gained by the attackers lies in slight gains to the west of Rheims threatening to pinch off the Rheims salient with the famous 12-mile elevation dominating the plane. Expert estimate is that 35 Ger man divisions already have been en gaged. Sixty-five per cent of Luden dorff's total effectives have been brought into action for the most in significant gains. The bloodiest fighting took place Germans tried to break through - to Mourmelon-le-Grand. Later the Ger mans made seven vicious assaults on the Marquises farm, all of which broke down with thd heaviest losses, *the Teutons streaming back, leaving the ground strewn with dead. Hun dreds of corpses were counted on this field of combat. The Boise-de-Nau roy was turned into a veritable char nel house. Late today there were signs of the battle spreading eastwards. It is presumed that the kaiser's heir has been forced to call in reserves from the Bavarian crown prince. In no previous offensives this year have the Germans gained so little i ground on their first (lay or lost so many prisoners. The result is that there is a marked depression of their! morale; some dlispatc:es go so far as' to say that the enemy's spirit ac tually seems broken by the punish ment dealt from the hands of the very tioops whom they thought they could crush like cha f-the "untrained" Americans. Latest advices as to the strength in which the drive was started are that easily half a million troops have been engaged on the first day, with almost as many in the support positions, so that the Americans and French, as well as some Italian units, have suc cessfully met rand checked nearly a million of the kaiser's fighting men. Significant of the effect of ye.ster (lay's stonewall defense is the fact t'e enemy did not attack during the night. Today's assaults, while still powerful and furious, have not near ly the "punch" of the initial on slaught", a fraet that augurs well for the ultimate outcome of this battle. WILL CURTAIL BRICK MAKING No Materials Will Be Used in Marnu fa. tmte I'hat Are Essential to the War - Washington, July 16.-The brick mralaist.urers *x the co 'try have pledg d the War Industries fliardl that lhe. manufacture of brick will be curtailed iit possible and that no ma trorialy will be usedI in the manufactura of brick that are essenadal to the wvar. There are 7,000 or more manufactur ers of the brick in the United. It was found that with the exception of the ztones north of the Potomac, east of the Allegheny Mountains, including N'ew England that the shortage of coal and <I istrifution in deliveries hvve niot becen sufficiently serious to cdis turb manufacturing. In other sections, however, the output was materially reduced during the past foy months on account of the lack of labor. It was decided that the necesnity was appar nt to curtail all uses that would not interfere with the war program of| the government, and to give attention only to those demands of the civilian.' population which are imperative .or essential. The manufacturers haveI agreed to supervise all uses to whichI theiri prodlucts are to be put to guard against its being consumed in any de ferable class. The representatives of the Priorities Board have agreed to give all brick manufacturers favor able consideration in their effors to ship brick for war purpose. RANCH SAY CERMANS FAILED AT START Of NEW DRIVE ven the Most Cautious Critics Exhib. it a Lively Satisfaction Paris, July 16.-All news from the attle front indicates that the element i f surprise, a favorite German weap- I n, was p total failure Monday. The t ewspapers point out the importance I f that fact. The French military chiefs, says Maurice Barres in The Echo de Paris,' oresaw with wonderful ap proxima- I ,ion the date and locality of the Ger nan effort, and Gen. Foch made all l lispositions so that the attack was be ,un under conditions favorable to the llies. The Matin Gciares that the ?rench command was informed per ectly of the German preparation and cnew on Sunday morning that the Berman troops had begun to use their 1 -eserve food supplies. This enabled he French artillery to deliver an in-. ense fire against the Germans with - he result that the attackers were bad y battered. That the Germans failed at the start s the common view of all French Military critics, and even the most ~autious are unable to conceal their! satisfatcion over the results of Mon lay's fighting. "It would be silly," says Col. . D. rhomasson, "to prophesy after one - lay's fighting that one can certainly ;ay that the beginning was altogether mncouraging for us. Nowhere have ;he Germans made any particular ad rance. "East of Rheims they lost heavily and' made practically no progress. West of Dormons they crossed the NIarne, but we hold the- bridgehead and mean to defend it from the left aank. Thy, however, soon lost th'. few wiles gained south of the river. There, bside our men, were tmerican r' rnnts who bore themselves so that German newspaper men can hardly :ontinue the usual twaddle abont their, ew adversary." Writing in the same tone, Henri Bidou, of The Journar des de Bats, says: "Whatever local advantages the Germans may have gained, one ul ready has the feeling that the first ;hock, so redoubtable in an affair of this sort, and in which lies the best rhances for the assailant, .has beer .arried aind one has the right to look ahead with confidence." -W-S--S FACTORY BLOWS UP AT JACKSONVILLE Fertilizer Plant of A. A. Chem. Co. is Completely Destroyed by Fire Jacksonville, Fla., July 1.-A fire caused by the explosion of nitrate early this morning completely de- I stroyed the fertilizer plant of the' American Agricultural Chemical Comn pany near here, entailing a loss of a million andl a quarter dlollars. The fire is believed to have been' paused from spontaneous combustion, resulting in a series of mighty explo dions of nitrate, which could be heard for miles around. Debris and wreck age was thrown hundreds of feet in the air, but because of the early hour of the fire few employes were on the 1round, and no one was killed or in jured. According to officers of the com pany many thousands of tons of fer tilizers and many tons of nitrate were I lestroyed. It is estimated that. the loss of materials and finished product amounted to $1,000,000, and that the loss to the plant and property was $250,000. A bout forty box cars Standing in the yards were consumed by the blaze. Because of the terr;c heat caused by the highly inflamable material, firemen found it difficult to get near enough to the scene to prevent the :omplete destruction of the plant. Most of the loss is coveredl by insur ince officials declared. PARIS IEARS GUNS OF GREAT HATT'LF Paris. .July 16.-Violent artillery Fre cent inued last night on the fight ng tro'nt. Residents ->f Paris ag-iin weard the roar and saw the flashes of , he ;'ur There wvas a dim fl'ekering mn the sky resembling summer light ling, variedl now and then by a re'l, rlash reflected from the low clouds. The reports of the guns were more Enint than Sunday night, and Mcuiday, mdwere felt rather than heard. An intermittent (lull muttering, punctu itedl by occasional heavier thuds from the French heavies, kept up during he night. Hlouses in the suburbs were shaken dightly, but in some places the rock ne of the carth was sufficient to .lis ')lace pic ires ron the walls. GERMANS IfAVE NEARLY A MILLION IN D)RIVE Paris, July 16.-The Germans appar.. mntly have from sixty to seveory dIi nisiens in position for the present of rnesive, of .vhich sorAe forty have ilready been engaged. (This would mean a potential force of approxi mately 950,000, with 540,000 en tagedl.) Eating Up Reserves With the French Army in France, luly 16.--The Allied resistance to the sermians im the present offensive has been so great, and the Grman losses ~onsequently so heavy that enmy di visions which th German staff had mot intended to utilize until tomorrow sad to be hrown into the line by noon imaterday. EAS[ AT MANNING SENATORIAL MEETING y J. K. Aull. Manning, July 15.- At the first egularly attended senatorial can aign meeting which he has yet at ended in regular order held here to lay Former Governor Blease, Reform andidate for the United States sen te threw out this challenge to the andidates against him: "I am a Democrat, and I am an nierican, and any man who says that have ever said a disloyal word igainst this country or that I have ver done a disloyal act against this ountry, is a contemptible liar." In his speech Mr. Dial disclaimed esponsibility for any such charge in hese words: "The \remarks Wvhiclh ave been used do not apply to me.' have said behind his back whatever have had to say today," and he vent on to say that he was not in lulging in personalities and intended )nly to present the issues to the peo le. Compared to the Blease reform neetings which have been held in south Carolina during the past sev 3ral weeks there were very few peo ple here today. The crowd could be ounted by hundreds instead of by housands as heretofore. The death of Senator Tillman brought Mr. Blease into the regular ampaign today. It was- the first time ) the regular schedule that Mr. Blease had faced his opponents for the sole purpose of a regular campaign Address. He sin ply ielterated his Wagener and Little Mountain speech as and the real feature of the meeting was that the other candidates in the race of his challenge did not today, at the first meeting, which they had at tended, renew their charges against im in regard to his position upon the war. It was another Blease-Reform crowd. as all the real crowds have been throughout the state during this ampaign. Mr. Blease reiterated his position upon the war in the same terms which he used at Wagener, as follows: "Whatever I may have said, or whatever I may have done, the peo le of South Carolina know that I mave never made them a promise that I have not fulfilled. I have never said that I would do a thing that I did not to it; I have never said that I would not do a thing and then go on and do it. That everybody knows. "And I want to say this: That when I am elected to the United States sen ate I am going to President Wilson And tell him that here is an American senator, and whatever is necessary to win this war, I am with him to the minish. "If it be necessary, in order to win the war, to break the precedent set )y President Washington, in reference to a third term, I will support him for third term, and make speecues for him in any part of the Ar.merican continent to which he may wish to go. "I go yet still further, and will say to him, that I will raise a regi rent now, or at any, time in the fu ture, if he deem it necessary, of as true South Carolinians as ever went rn a field of battle, and resign my ,eat in the senate and lead that regi ment for the fight of the American people. He paid a fine tribute to the late Representative Lesesne, member of the legislatur-e flrom tiris county, and to the late Senator Appelt. The meeting here today was a real comparative :est of strength, and it all nar-ows town to this, that at his own meetings Mdr. Blease draws the crowds and that he people are paying no attention to he other meetings. Messrs. Dial and Rice made their isual addresses with the exception of he elimination of the attack upon Mr. Blease. AM ERICA.NS HAVE SET UP1 A MOD)EL Londton, .July 17 (By Wireless) 3eneral Pershing has issuedt an ordter o the American troops in France con tratulating them on the successes wvhich have marked theIr brilliant deC )ut on the fighting arena. "These dtivisionis subjected for the irst time to all the most painful or teals of modern warfare have invari ibly behaved with the greatest cour ige," says the ordter. Their coopera ion with their brothers in arms under he unified com~mandt was prompt and ffective and their allied comradles peak mn praise of them. "The conduct of these brave sol.. liers amnd of their comrades who have nadte the supreme sacrifice by fall ng on the field( of honor has estalilish d( a,.mod(el which e'ach unit of the merican expeditionary corps wvill itrive to follow." R EGiITER YOUR IRTHIS The allotment in money, for each hild, from the Unitedt States Gov rnment, undler the Draft Act will not >e paid unless a birth certificate is )ioduced as proof of birth. sAYS WILSON MAY VISIT FRANCE [ondlon, July 16.-Presidlent Wil-. ion may visit France andl England luring the recess of the United States 'ongress, it is rumored again in offi nial circles, accordling to the Evening NJews. The paper prints the news of the rumor in its gossip column toa. NEWSY HAPPENINGS FROM PAXVILL The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will hold the regular monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. B. W. Cutler on Tuesday afternoon, July 23, at 5 o'clock. Any one wishing to at tend whether a member or not will be welcome. Miss Ira Jed'1ngs entertained with a house party last week these young ladies: Miss Alfreda Cunningham, of Rock Hill, EiizaLeth Griffin of Pine wcod, and ;almeda Weldon of Spring hill. Soldier F. S. Geddings, of Camp Jackson ,-pent Sunday with his pa rents. Miss Laura Condon, of George town, is a guest of Miss Jessie Curtis for a few days. The members of the missionary so ciety of the Methodist church were de lightfully entertained by the Pine wood society on last Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. R. Griffin. Miss Hattie Herlong left Wednes day to teach a summer school at Bas combeville. Mr. and Mirs. Robbie Barwick of Charleston recently visited at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Barwick. On Tuesday, July 23rd, Miss Cath erine Richardson will hold an all day demonstration at the school-building, beginning at 10 o'clock. She desires a full attendance of the club members'1 and every woman and girl of the com munity is urged to attend. Every body is expected to bring a light lunch, watermelons, fruits, etc. Mr. Manly Geddings left on Sun (lay for service at Camp Jackson. Mr. i. Cain has resigned his posi tion here as railroad and telegraph agent to accept a similar position at Summerton. He will move his family I there as soon as a residence can be secured. The place here is being ten porarily filled by Mr. P. C. Geddings. Cards have been received here an nouncing the marriage of Miss Etta Corbett andl Mr. B. HI. Holladay, at the Sumter Salem Baptist parsonage f on last Wednesday evening. They will' reside in Sumter. lr. Howard Tisdale left in company with the Misses Kelly on Saturday for an automobile trip to Washington and, other northern points. -W-S-S FARM HELP FOR1 SOUTHERN ST rES Washington .uly 1("..--Federal fare help spe-ialists frcm all the south-rn st'ites, with representatives of the United States Department of Agriculture and the state agricultural colleges are i o meet .July 18 and 19 mi Birmingham, Ala. , to consider ways of i'.sewring sufficent labor for 1 the harvt t'ng of the south's great crop of cot.on. In some i tates plans to assure labor already have been made. Reports from the states will be received by the fa-i help specialists and arrangments wi' be m.de to a'lopt their ):ans in ot.he ; stat so far vs possible. The cotton irop, one of the largest the south has (ver grown, will begin to be generally harvested about A uy I utt 15.-It reesa,'ts a problem of pat - tculari unpi tance, accordIing to of ficials of the United States Depart ( ret of Agric'lcure. Prof. G. I. Christie, of Purdue uni versity, in Indiana, who, as assistant to the Sceretary of Agriculture ,in farim labor matters, is to present the farm labor policy of the depart 'ment. Dr. E. V. Wilcox, of the office management, also is to attend the leet img. -W.-S--_S_ WANTS BRES'l' TREATY REVISED C'openhiagen, .July I16.- George Bernhard, wvriting in the Vossischeit Zeitung, (leman~da the revision of the 1 treaty of Brest-Litovsk., saying it b "must be the foremost aim of German "olitices to destroy the belief of the(i Russians that the treaty can lbe re- 1 vised only through Englandl," Ile con "hspact is prolonging the war. 1.ngland is forming ne'w theatres o)f .t operations in the east. Is there any~one foolish enough to suppose that the Germans can fight on any fresh the atro of war." 7,000 D)it A FT ED F'OR SP'ECIA I, TIRAINING; Washington, .1 uly 1 6.-. Fifteen States were called upon by P'rovost Mlarshal G;enerl'I Crowder today for 7,000 draft registrants fit for general military servic'e to be sent to schools for spec'ial trla iniing. TeJI( mlovemlenit wvill be betwveen August 1 andl 15. Registrants fnay be voluntarily in-. (ducted for service until JIuly 22. A spe-. cial call also wvas issued for 399 draft men qualified as cooks, to move Au gust I, and to be neceptedl as volun teers until July 23. California is ask ed for 128 cooks; Louisiana for 36, 11 and New York for 235. .The allotment for the school call mecludes: District of Columbia, 100, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Ken tucky 210, Alabama Polytechnic In stitute, LouisIana 200, Alabama Poly tecnic Institute, North Carolina 150 (colored), Negro Agriculturall andil Technical College, Greensboro, N. C. JIOMIIARDING PARIS Paris, July 16--The long-range. bombardment of Paris was resumed this morning. .. RI WANT WORK Of AMERICANS mericans Hurled Enemy Out of Towns in Dashing Charge RENCH AIRPLANES BOMBED BRIDGES Vorired the Enemy Crossing the Marne-Heavy Losses Inflicted On the French Front in France t was a brilliant operation in which he American troops ejected the en my from the positions he had gained emporarily on the southern side of he Marne. The Americans counter ttacked vigorously this evening with nemarkable dash, throwinfi the Ger nans back across the river near Fos loy. Earlier in the day this part of the ine had been the scene of the most lesperate fighting when the Grmans tarted to throw pontoons across the teram. A few German elements at irst succeeded in getting over in oats, chasing the Allied troops away rom the banks while the German en ineers began to lay the bridges. Six >f these bridges formed a lattice work and rapidly joined the banks mn either side. Two of the bridges were most substantial structures and etween 20 and 30 feet in width. French airplanes played great hav > in the German ranks while the )ridges were under construction. One >ombing squadron flying at a height >f 200 meters, dropped bombs on two >f these bridges while enemy troops vere crossing. The bridges were )roken and the soldiers thrown in he river. The aviators constantly lombed the othcr bridges and did ,reat execution among the Germans ma the tri(4res as well as on the banks vhere the enemy was conentratd in ,rat masss. e When the Germans had crossed the 'iver the fighting, which already was wavy, became terrific. The French 'ld Americans holding the southern ,ide fell back on to their principal embat positions. They fought all the %ay and counter-attacked occasional y, creating confusion in the ranks of he advancing foe. British Praise Americans London, July 16.-The brilliant con ribution of A merican _roops to the Allied defense at Fossoy figures con qpicuously in the battle reports under gig heads and is made the subject of special mention in the editorial col imns of the morning newspapers. "Splendid men," is the description ontained in The Times, while an ther paper calls the American de ense "the most encouraging feature >f the day's fighting. --w--S- s ERMAN LOSES HEAVY; ''W)O ARMIES DRAWN UPON FOR BIG SCALE OFFENSIVE London, July le6.-Advices received n London up to noon said that little ha'ge in the situation had been cre ited by the German offensive. The at - acks which continued throughout esterday wer conducted by the fore :s of Gen. von Below and Gen. von Bohn, who are directing the opera Lions of the two armies on the left ving of the Grman crown prince roup. Great numbers of German corpses ire hanging on the tnagle of barbed vAre in front of the Fernch positions md all the reports state that the osses of the Germans must have been xceedingly heavy. The main attack to the east of heims continued up to 7 o'clock last uight. The fighting was extremely evere in the vicinity of Souain and at 'runay, where Germans captured a vood south of the village. 'I his, how ~ver was an exception, the German at ack elsewhere being re Pulsed with envy losses. The Fr(.-ch lin of re ostance rema ins practically intact verywhere. From a capturedl map11 it is evident hat the Germans' main attack was in endled to be down the Marne valley npto Epernay. 'There is every indicn ion that t he en~emy i nte'nded the at - ack should be a really big one. Thirty livisions so far have been idlent ified. ome of them camne from the army of raown Prinee Rlupprecht of Bavaria, "it is bel ievedl that there is little I' hhohod of(' t he Germans launc-hing mnothe rattack while th is one is oni. rhe French mnil it ary aut horiti''s tuite satisfied and say they have the ituat ion wvell in hand. GW~ YORK MAY HAVE MARESHALIL JlOFF'RE STREET New Yuork, ,1uly It; A su~ggest ioni lhat a street in this city be. n:'iedl ifter Marshal .Joffre was laid before he boar dof aldermen today by .uav n- Hylan. It is believed that the ouggestion wvillI be ca rried out, but ietion cani)not he taken before( D~e 'ember 1, because of the provisions (If he city 'charter governing change (If treet names. - W--S--s tGREE ON EXCHJANGE OF WAR PRISONERS Londlon, July 16.--Germany and :;renit Britain, according to an Ex hange Telegraph dispatch from Am iterdn.m, have, reached an agreement regardmig prisoners exchange. All loncommissioned officers andl men vho have been prisoners for eighteen nonths, says the dlispatch, wvi.l be ex ~hanged as will all civilians. HOARD[RS OF STEEL MUST CIVE UP SURPLUS' Government Expects to Take an lu ventory of All Steel Supplies ini the Country and Determine Amount Needed to Win War -Seel for No other I'ur pose Can Be Had Washington, July :6.-Irventories of all steel or hand i. the country is being demanded by the government, at once, together with estimates of the amount of steel to be needied during the coming year. The government al so is taking stock cf its own :supplies and necds. On the basis of the shovii.g of these reports, steel schedules of the coming year will be planned by the war in dustries board. It may find it neces I sary to further cut the allotments of the nonessential industries., ask the war finance board for action to stimulate the construction of new mills for the production of additional steel. A part of the fatter develop ment was the granting of $20,000,000 new capital to the Bethlehem Steel Company yesterday. Government requirements of steel this year are running far ahead of es timates. The shipbuilding program is eating up great quantities of steel that earlher schedules had left free for other consumption. Speed in construc tion is pushing two ships down the ways where one was the original plan. The additional steel must be found for these. Nonessentials and new surplus steel must furnish this. Building con struction is to be sharply contracted. No steel will be allotted for this pur pose unless the buildings directly con tribute to the win-the-war program, such as foundries, furnaces, airplane factories, ordnance plants, shipyards or buildings for government offices or to house war workers. Public build ings and big commercial buildings must wait until the war ends. Iloarders of steel are io be forced to give up their surplus. The govern ment's own "cost plus" contracts have nade it possible for contractors in some instances to get steel under pri ority orders in excess of their actual needs. They have resold this, >r have hoarded it. In the latter cte, this I surplus will show on the sworn inven .tories they must now give the govern ment and it will be taken from them. In the former ease, it will show on the inventories of the concerns to whom they have sold it and these pur chasers will be forced to declare whence it came. Such steel profiteers and violators of their agreements with the govern ment are threatened with business ex t.inction by the war industries board. The board has discovered also that certain large manufacturers who use steel in their products and have been buying it under priority orders from the board have been reselling the steel instead of using it in their business. In this way the steel has been falling into the hands of other industries whose supply has been limited. No steel can be bought from any mill in the country without a priority order. from the board. The board warns that it will refuse further pri ority orders to any concern that sells steel purchased under them This would cut off from such concerns any further supplies and automatically shut their doors for the duration of the war. The board later may decide to re fuse priority orders to any concern that may be caught buying steel from another concern, which has secured it on priority brders. Suth an order would close those concerns for the same period. "Steel moving under priority or-. der's can go only to the industry to wvhich the order wvas issued," says J, Leonard Iteplogle, head of the steel division of' the wvar industries board. . Io .permit suc'h purchasers to resel! it wvithout our consent would defeat he (entire purpose of our priorities (ont rol. Whoever violates this order dloes so at his own risk." STlEAMlER LO)ST IN ('OLLISION AT SE: .A n A t lantic Por': -, uly 1(6.-Thb sinking at sea on .July 11 of th A mer'iea m steamship) Ossterd!jk, afte a (coalhison with the A merIic:an steam ship S .n .Jacinto, war. repor'tedl by Swedin~ Steamc h in arriving hen; to djay. TJhw, Osste;'dijk's cr'ew was ta'ke aboairdl the Sn.P Jac'inton wvhich, al tho~uwh bsa'ly damalged, had manogo to reach an Atlant ic po'rt, it was siai tet h vessels5, mann and ofice're ;armay supphes 10. The San .Jacinlto's 0. S. calls brought one Ameirican an two neutral vessels ,wvhich stood uniil her' safe arriv'l at pert was n sured(. T1he collir ion oc'curr5 in nort Atl:-ntie waters. The O)ssterdi jk was a vessel of 8,21 gross tons, builIt in 1913 at West Ha tlepool, E'ngland, an, ownedl by ti llolland-Americat line. She w~as one the Dutch ships recently requisitiona while in an American port. FINLAND) TO BE NEUTRAl, IN WA Copenhagcn, July 16.-Finland tends to remain neutral in thc eve of war like operations on the M' man .coast, according to advicesf Hlelsmngfors, the F:nland capital.