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pp (51jp Itllan fcralb. ESTABLISHED 1894. * THE DILLON HERALD. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MOKNI.Vi, AUGUST I. 1918. VOL. Z'2. 87 wms== ?? ALLIES CONTINUE TO PRESS FORWARD OVER HALF OF AISNE-MARNF SALIENT CLEARED. Washington Officials Highly Elated With the Fine Showing by I, American Troops. Washington, July 29.?French and American troops were still pressing forward vigorously today the CamPaiKn Which has Iin tn thla tlrno succeeded in enjecting the enemy: from more than half of the Aisne-!i Marne salient. Belated announce- j ment from Berlin that further with-! drawal hod been in progress since! last Friday night left it greatly in j doubt as to where the German high command plans to make a stand.; The majority opinion among offi-j cers here, however, was that a strong. line could not be set up short of the! Vesle river, and that even there the i Franco - British positions about! Rheims would keep the German left | flank in constant danger. There was 1 a strong feeling that the eventual: line resulting from Gen. Foch's bold : counter blows would be along theI heights of the Aisne. Evacuation Not Completed. As the line stood, according to the 1 last available reports tonight, it appeared certain that the evacuation announced bv the enemv had not been completed. The. salient has been i reduced until it nu longer has any- j thing of the old wedge shape. The! apex lias been driven in so that an! irregular line roughly paralleling the old Soissons-Kheims base has. been created, resting upon the two: Bides of the old salient, reaching! southward from Soissons and Khcims [ respectfully. It was to retain these i flank lines in order to get his | armies out of the depths of the pock-1 et at the Maine that the enemy employes reserves laviBhly. Bitter Figjhting. The most bitter fighting recently reported is along the center of tho irregular line which now forms the front between the flank positions. Franco-American forces were fighting fiercely with enemy roar guards here at last accounts, and a crack di vision 01 jfrussian guarus naa oeen > hurled against the American positions in a counter attack to check: their progress. This suggested to observers here that Gen. Foch was seeking to force a wedge into the very center of the enemy's retreating lines, planning to tdke the strong flank positions in the rear and force an even more precipitate withdrawal. There were I signs that a definite minor pocket' was being created by this thrust, i which promised to crumple up the! German position west of Fere-En-! Tardenois. At the same time ham-j mer blows against enemy positions, south of Soissons indicated the be-: ginning of a pincer movement there as well. Officials are elated at the fine' showing which is being made by j American troops. The report that the Prussian guard division had met: 11 stonewall defense that cave not i an inch to the assault of these picked ' troops added to that feeling. Secretary Baker however, indicated that the War Department has no false conception of the importance of present victories, encouraging as! they are. It is iully realised that the j war is just beginning, so far as the United States is concerned, and that no effort must be spared to speed1 up war preparations. Substantial bains. "The progress of the Allied armies 1 ill the Soissons-likeims salient is continuing," Secretary Baker said today. "Substantial gains wore made on both Saturday and Sunday. "It is fortunate our people-are,, accepting this success with a true measure of its significance. It is, of course a cause for congratulation and rejoicing, but would by no means justify any relaxation of our effort. It means that we must redouble our efforts." In support of this view there are indications that Mr. Baker will discuss with chairmen of the House and Senate committees probably this week his enlarged army project, up-;, on which he has been laboring for J ] some weeks. Mr. Baker said today 11 that his plans were not quite com pleted. The plans include primarily ex-i tension of the age limit for draft liability. Additional appropriations and an army mobilization on an enlarged scale are known to be included. Already six new divisions have, been ordered formed in the United States and others will Le created at an early date to supplement the flow of replacement men through the replacement division machinery. Just how largo an army it is proposed to build up on this side of the ocean is not known. Crowder Well Informed. A careful review of the man power situation has been made by Pro-1 < vost Marshal Gen. Crowder as the' \ I FIRST WHITE BOY. Youth Who Accompanied Columbus' Expedition in 1842. Many phases of the life of .Columbus offer mysteries that the historians have never been able to clear away, and one student of the life of the great explorer has come across an incidental myste^* that has an appealing interest. It relates to a boy who accompanied the expedition of 1492?the only boy among its members, and consequently the first white boy to set foot in America. The contemporary accounts of the first expedition of Columbus mention the boy in question only once and that briefly. They indicate that he was the only boy in 4 he expedition and they place on his young shoulders the blame for the great catastrophe that befell "when the Santa Maria was wrecked on the coast of Hayti. To be sure the story of the wreck shows that the boy was less to blame than his elders, but it was easy enough to make him the scapegoat. It was the night before Christmas, 149 2, ten weeks after tho discovery of the land, and Columbus was pushing his search for gold among, the West Indies. The flag ship, the Santa Maria, wis skirting the coast of Hayti, and late at night, as the wind was light and the ship barely moving, Columbus went to his cabin for rest. He passed the helm over to the captain. He, too, soon felt the need of sleep and went below. His successor at the tiller was a sailor and he shortly followed the example of the admiral and the master. Before he went he awakened tl.e lad in question and told him to mind the helm. The boy did not go tp sleep. He was doubtless a live lad ^nd he felt the importance of being trusted to steer ship. But he was in strange waters and the currents were treacherous near that coast, says an exchange. The ship struck a reef. The admiral and crew rushed on deck in terror. Of course they blamed the boy. That was the way of the world before 1492 and the fashion has never changed. That was the end of the Santa Maria. Tho crew reached the shore in safety and made a fort from the timbers of the wreck. In that fort, which they called La Navidad in honor of the day, about forty of the crew remained while their companions went homo to Spain on the Pinta and the Nina. One historian mentions a tradition that the boy rAmo ino/1 wWV* 1 * *~ .vu.uiMvu nuu kuia li u 111UCI f UUl It la only a tradition. The fate of the forty is a mystery, for when the second expedition of Columbus reached that island a year later there were only a few charred timbers and bone to be found. His name has not even come down to us, but the brief glimpse that we have of him is a inscinating one. There is something to stimulate the imagination in that fleeting picture of the boy who stuck to his post while his superiors sl??pt. \moke soldiers sent off. List of Those Sent to Camp Wadsworht Near Spartanburg Tuesday Morning. ^ pPCt Putro Arthur Frierson. Son Hayes. Raymond Harry Mclellan. William Timothy DuPree. John Wiggins. Solumon Hall. Wayman Brown. Peter Bethea. Richard Davis. Loftin Campbell. Lacy Bridgers. George Washington Davis. Archie Page. Alex Healey. Jerman Inman. Charlie McWillie. Dorsey Thomas. Hector Alford. Dan Breeden. Sylvester Townsend. John Odom. Adam Glover. Jule Hurley. Karle Bethea. Frank Abraham. Ledger leaves, loo&3 leaf ledger statements, second sheets and all Lrin/lcs r\f Iaaoo Innf 1 *-wl ? ? 1: v/i *vrwe>v; icai ICUfefl SUlJ>piH?S, made to fit any size lodger, at The Hot aid office*?7-25-tf. basis of the recommendation4 on draft age changes Mr. Baker will make. Gen. Crowder is credited with believing that all men between eighteen and forty-five years should be brought within the draft, but it uproars probable that the formal plans [>f the War Department will not go iiuite to that lirn^t in either direction. The age limits most generally 3et by those endeavoring to determine in advance Mr. Boker's attitude are nineteen to thirty-six, inclusive. Lowering the d aft age is expected to mcot with opposition in Congress although raising of the age is said to be generally favored. 1HE GAME OF WAR DOESN'ISUII TURKEY REPORTED THAT SHE IS READY TO LAY DOWN ARMS. Probably Sees Handwriting on tlie Wall and Want* to O11'* liefore All is Lost. London. July 29.?"The relations between Germany and Turkey have VkAAVl J ' ' ? ? ? ? 1 * * * ' uwu ocmcu, uvcuruiiig 10 airci information from Cohstantinople. This announcement is made by the Copenhagen correspondent of the Exchange Telegram Company. The excitement against Germany, the advices further say, has been growing, particularly after last week's events. The Germans demanded the cruiser Hamidieh, the only large ship then in possession of Turkey, as compensation for the Breslau the former German crui-er which was destroyed in the Dardanelles while flying the Turkish 11. g. Despite Turkey's protest the Han: dieh has I departed for Sebastopol with the {German flag flying. How Over Spoils of War. Washington, July 29?While no otficial notice of the breach of relations between Turkey and Germany jor rather the Central Powers?for i without doubt Austria is involved |with Germany in the dispute with Ottoman Government ? has reachled Washington. Officials expressed 'little surprise tonight at tlie Copenhagen dispatch received from London saying that Germany and Turkey had severed relations. In offici. 1 circles here for some time naot it been realized that in her efforts to serve both Turkey and Bulgaria in tko division of spoils resulting from the enforced peace treaty with Rumania, Germany had incurred the ill will of both her Allies. Bone of Contention. After the conclusion of the peace treaty with Rumania at Jassy, both Turkey and Bulgaria laid claim to much of the territory which Rumania had been forced to cede to her enemies. Included in these claims j was the title to the railway running I from Adrianople to Deadeagatch, and This became the source of the greatost pnntPQt hof u*OQ?v f : WMVVWV w V <f VVU IUC IHU U1UCU 'nations. Germany for some time endeavored to induce the two countries to settle this dispute amicably by : suggesting that the nation which failed to obtain the railway should : receive other compensation. impartiality. Says Turk. Belief in Turkey that favoritism was being shown Bulgaria by Ger' many in the negotiations, according : to recent dispatches, received here, raused a rapid growth of the antiGerman feeling in Constantinople. A 'shortage of food, weariness of the w-ur and dissatisfaction with the J Young Turk party because of its submission in Constantinople in food riots and munitions uprising which have been sternly suppressed by the military authorities. Weary of War. That Turkey has become more and more weary of the war was indicated in me failure of the latest Turkish loan in June. According to Swiss dispatches, only 12,000,000 pounds were obtained out of 3 2,000,000 pounds sought. However, there was considerable doubt in the minds of officials here whether severance of relations even if actually brought about would be permanent. It is believed that Germany, calling upon her allies, Bulgaria and Austria, to assist her will undertake to deal sternly with Turkey, and through the thousands of German agents scattered through the country will seek to displace the Young Turk party and install some faction which can be depended upon to obey the mandates of the Central Powers. Officered by Huns. It was also pointed out that the Turkish army is officered almost entirely by Germans, and that while the Turkish diplomatic authorities might sever relations with Germany, the army would remain thoroughly German. Kcliable reports have been received that the Constant! uuiue put ice system is permeated thoroughly with German influence, making possible the continuation of the spread of German propaganda among the Turkish people. MILIJOXAIItK DIES. It. .1. Reynolds Head of the It. J. Reynolds Companies Died Monday. Winston-Sslem, July 29?Richard Joshua Reynolds, head of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, after a year's illness, died at his country home, "Reynolds," today, aged sixty eight years. He was one of the most successful business men in the South. His estate is estimated at ? 10,000,000 are more. He is survived by his wife and four children, four brothers and one sister. The funeral services will be held Wednesday morning. KAI8KH HAD STAGED Tltll'MPH. I From Vantage Point (ieraiiin Emperor Watched Our Men ISreak German Onrush. Edwards L. Jones, speci I corros- . pondent of The New York Times, writes vividly of the scenes in and around Chateau-Thiery after the , American and French had captured ' the town. He says in the New York Times, under date of July 23 that the French people who stayed in Chateau-Thierry during its coven weeks' occupation by the Germans say that on June 3 and 4 the Kaiser was j there. i TtlOHO -> - * ?ivwv j/cuj/ic ftiiiu iiiiti me uer- i jman officers later told them the > Kaiser came to Chateau-Thierry on ? the morning of June 3 to watch his 1 | troops from Hill 204 while they mar- t [ched down the Paris Metz road to ward the French capital. In the pre- j loaeding two days the Huns had taken J j Chateau-Thierry and moved ahead *i ' thirty kilmoters, and the German Em l | peror had come to stand at what he ; thought was a milestone on the road * and watch his men go onward to t Paris. The Kaiser never saw his show.-i i For the day before he reached Chat- t eau-Thierry the 2d American Divis- t ion had taken a position on the Paris i Metz near Tholet and in front of 1 Polleau Woods, and from the moment the 5th and 6th Marines and the !)th and 23rd Infantry got there the Germans came no further. , The desperate attacks of the Germans to hurl back the Americans or jjune 3 and 4, perhaps, are now to be (explained by the fact that their ruler waited for them to co on to Paris. It was on July 4, that tho American ] artillery got into action with the F;ench guns and spoiled the Kaiser's triumph. . Yesterday 1 went over the terri- < tory captured by our troops north- < west and north of Chateau-Thierry in their victorious advances. I saw places that had been villages?Belleau, Torcy, Boulresches, and so on. The heavy hand of war has wiped away all sembalance of habitable places and left desolate and dusty ruins of stone and mortar. The village that sheltered 500 to 1,000 souls is now but piles of debris. 1 saw the bodies of Americans who died to save France and civilization from those Germans. Going north from the wreckage of Lucy le Bocage, I could not resist the impulse to go through the Bois de Belleau where I had been during the fighting a month ago, which s prevented much inspection. Across j the field with the shell holes so thick that one could step from one1' to another, I reached the rocky edge v of the woods. Hero, in machine gun positions, twenty Germans had been ; slaughtered. Here and thore was stuck up a rifle and bayonet lock, making a cross marking the grave of some marines. In the middle of the field lay the carcass of a cow, perhaps poacefully grazing when the war had made a t No Man's Land of her pasture. Along t the edge of the woods lay bodies of t horros caught by the German ma- ^ chine guns. It was uncanny to go through 1 those woods which now have a place t in American history. Every other t tree was cut off by shell fire. Not a h square foot of ground but bore! r marks of fighting. German machine i ! guns in cleverly concealed nests i j stood with the bodies of boches lying t across them just where they fell a'c 'month ago. i I Here were the remains of ci kitrli jen which had rorved its last meal; L 'here the ruined dugout through the j i wrecked door of which one could see i five German bodies lying where one e of our 75 shells had get them while t sleeping. Here lay a box of unused t hand grenades; here a pile of am- ? munition which had never killed !marines; there lay a cache of decay- 1 i ing food?here, there and every- a I where, carnage in profusion, where l the Germans had tried in vain to r [halt the Americans. t | Near the northern edge of the wood s was a large rock and scattered about i it lay the remains of a German air- 1 plane, which had hit it squarely after ? I some allied aviator had sent a bullet t | through its pilot. Parts of the sir- r plar.o had been scattered fifty feet in f :eveiy direction. Here la> the body I of ait American, which had not been s found in time to bury. We spread b a shelter half over it, and, sticking s his bayonet in the ground, hung his steel hat on it, so lie would be found ? and given a decent grave \ Leaving the northern end of the i woods, we came on a trench, which I the Germans had tried to hold. The t Geii'ian dead there were so thiek \ that they lay one uj on another in i ghastly array. ( \V?> went on into what had been <1 Belleau. Not one builing was lei t t standing. Americans were busy cleaning up the debris. a To the east lay Bouresches in tho v samo condition. In the ruins of court,c stood a large crucifix, the only thing 1 untouched by shellfire in the whole t village. To the north lay the remains 1 f of Torcy where our barrage had11 COUNTY NEWS " AND HAPPENIN6S" i \i:\VS LKTTKKS BY KF.Cll.AK (; COHKKSPOXDKXTS tl Sews Items of Interest to Herald d Headers, Kl?b and Flow of the s' Human Tide. n ? c< Calvary. o A series of meetings will begin at ([ dt. Calvary church Sunday night, ^ August the fourth conducted by i levs. J. A. Langley and W. D. Sher-; j vood. The hour of worship will be e mnounced Sunday night. The pub- r ic is cordially invited to attend hese services. All members ot Mt. Calvary church ire respectfully asked to be present "n 5unday morning at eleven o'clock, j. This is a special service for the mem-|f| >ers. Please attend this meeting. (, K. P. Wiggins and family spent >unday last in the Pleasant Hill secion. High price tobacco causes antici- j( talions for more barns next year, >ut it seems that v.o must resort to ^ something more than cotton for a uoney crop us some of us fear that s tve are infested with the red spider, j A (iKK.MAN PISTOL. 1 I.lent. Leslie Lane Sends One to His a Brother. Sheriff Lune. s v sheriff L.uae hits in ins possesoiotLj, i tun; sity in the t>..upe of a GeriiiuJ|? [lUv.ol tout to him Ly Ins brother, L L,teui. it. L. Lane, who has been t Willi the lighting forces in France ij since last September. Tire pistol was i &ncused in a substantial leather hoi-,, iter aud on the metal belt buckle, was the following inscription, ^ in German: (God is with Us.) t 1'he pistol is of the magazine type, resembling to some extent the American magazine pistol, but is of ligh-'f ler construction. The magazine ear- t ries eight builets and in a pocket in jthe holster was tound another maga- t iine which held the same number ot a bullets. The magazine is easily de- s inched oy pressing a spring. As an u ?videnuj of German efficiency, a small screw dri\er, found in a little u leather pocket on the flap of the hoi- a iter, having been placed there >o be j, .ised in an emergency. The pistol 0 was taken from the body of a dead ^ soldier. Sheriff Lane will preserve t t as a souvenier of the trreat war ? . . ? ? \\ ctu,,iit Kud killed sj many Germans. J >\v we stood in territory where :!ic Germans were dri\en out on . j i uursday morning.- Back of Torcy end of a field was filled with ^ ,raves where the Germans buried V( lie dead falling behind their lines. h, .n dugouts were tables set for last j. L'liursday mornings breakfast, which a] lie German officers had to leave hot L >n the table. In a corner were three c, >eds and in another a pile of band t, grenades and ammunition. w All along the road were individual e, loles where the Germans had dug in , he hope of holding back our a ruops. In every third or fourth ;ll lole lay a dead German, who did not etreat in time. German war materal lay everywhere. Among the Ger- f nan bodies one saw here and ther^ sj lie brown which told of an Anierian. All these were being buried rap- g, diy- bi Past carnage and mute graves and mdies marking dead German hopes f. n their region, our troops were mov- st ng forward against the retreating jr neniy. Wreckage of human habita- gj ions and war pocked fields told of a] he \igor with which Ameiicans nake war. ?$< While I was in (.deleted) the Ger- {)] nans began artillery preparation for i counter attack, which precipitated a j, litter battle north of Chateau-Thier- ^ y. Where all had teen quiet fif- Sl een minutes before, hundreds of hells began to come screaming over, nteiuled to teat up our advancing ines. From barrages put down just leliind our front line a few kilonie- l; era away, to miles hack, areas were ^ cached by an intense German shell- j' ire. Then our guns which had been irought up, began to reply, their ?' hells whistling back us the Germans,1,1 roam d over. One wondered if those 01 hells ever met in midair. It is a great spectacle, this game 0' XX" AX- ,,,, .. . .. . I U' i war wim 11111110ns 01 dollars' " corth of shells coming over to inter-;'1 upt our advance, other millions of >ottk?d dentil are going the other way' o get tlie German guns shooting our j" vay. In tlie midst of this inferno a( lew kind of explosion was heard. A |hC ' erman bombing machine high up-!*1 Iropped seven bombs near by, hoping 01 n hit a strategic American point. 1I! As we came back twenty minutes ifter the artillery duel had started 01 had to go out of the road, because;01 >f the fresh made shell holes. From ,c >ehind we heard the nasty rat-tatat that told that German machine funs were trying to check the new 1c tttack of the boys in brown." fi 'I< KKI? TROOPS ATTACK AMERICANS. tilt they Were No Match for Our llo,i.s who Repulsed Tlieiu Easily Notwithstanding the fact that the ernians have powerfully strengthend their battle line ruuning across tie Soissons-ltheinis salient with adit ional fresh reserves and have tubbornly disputed further passage orthward to the Entente Allied oops,' the enemy front has been impelled to bend back appreciably n all sides of the salient, except at le anchor points resting immeiately on Soissons and Rheims. South of Soissons more wedges ave been driven eastward into the neniy front down to the Ourcq iver; eastward along the Ourcq rench and American troops have tossed the stream at various points nd advanced their line well to the orthward, while southwest of heinis the Allies have debouched torn the wooded sectors and gained tie plains, nothwithstanding the vionce of the enemy's counter maneuvers. At some points the Germans ucceeded somewhat in checking the arward movement, but nowhere ore they able to bring it to a standtill. The retirement of the Germans till remain orderly, but everywhere he Allied troops, and especially the imericans near Fore-En-Tardenois, re pressing them hard. Purticulary bitter fighting has taken place round Fere-En-Tardenois and at iergy both of which towns now are veil in the hands of the French and Americans. At Sergy the Germans faid the Americans the compliment * reinforcing their battle line with wo divisions of well tried Bavarian roops, mc-n whose courage previousy has been tested when the tide of Kittle was goinii aeainst the nuns. it was an effort either to do ;tro.v tne Americans or to herd th" >aek across the Ourcq. The effort esulted in failing. Guttle hinc Shifts. The battle line shifted buck and orth and Sergy changed hands four imes, but the Americans proved to ye the musters of the picked enemy roops and finally drove them out nd retained the village. Hea\y caualties were inflicted on the Germans. The fighting in the Fcre-En-Tardeois also was of a sanguinary charcter, the opposing forces fighting [i close contact through the streets f the town, but with the Germans eing gradually driven back under lie machine gun and nile fire of he Ftonch and Americans or left "iciiiig in meir oioou noiii contact "ith the cold steel of the Allied baynets. lmmediatel> south ol Soissons on le west edge of the .salient, the erinans strove heroically to hold uck their enemies, in order to preent the further-flanking of Solemn ana ilie possible cutting off of irge lorces of their men fighting long :he Ourcq, south of Oulchye-Chateau. Scottish troops, however iptured positions in the outskirts of le Soissons - Chateau-Thierry road hile further south the French ovvame the resistance imposed S.unst them, crossed the high road ud took Grand llozoy and Cugny \ci the Butte Chalmont. Huns Burning Towns. Southeast of Soissons, well inside ?e salient and at present far outde the immediate battle iione, vaous towns and villages aiong the 3issons-Fisn.es railroad aie said to ? in flames. This seemingly indicatlat the retirement of the Germans oni the big pocket is to proceed ill further northward before they itend to halt it, faco about and ive battle to the Allied troops ong a chosen line. If the retreat on le west is to be <arried beyond the iissons-Fismes line it scorns highly robuble that it is the intention of ic Germans to make their stand 0111 Soissons eastward along the isne to the Yesle river and thence >iit!>?astward to ltheims. Harrassiiig Tactics, iiriiisli troops on various sectors France and Flanders continue leir harassing tactics against the erman front. Near Morlancourt, in :e Amiens sector, the Australians live taken several lines of trenches, iptured a fairly large number of risoners and inflicted' heavy losses t tlie enemy during counter-attacks ear G-avrelle, which lies noriheast : Arras, Canadian cuntigents likeise have carried out a successful tier prise and taken prisoners. Unofficial advices are to the effect tat discoid has arisen between Geiany and Turkey and that relutions stween the two countries have boon :vered. While there is no confirmaor. of the report, rumors have been irrent for some time that bad feelig existed between Turkev on th? \e side and Bulgaria and Germany 11 the other, owing to the cession t the Debrudja region of Rumania ) Bulgaria. o You can get anything you want in >ose leaf ledger supplies at our ofce. Herald Publishing Co.?7-25