The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 03, 1916, Image 7
UKKATK8T I1ATTLK OF WAK
A |i? u?K Www! For Capture of *\>r
IWUhI City of Verdun.
?r?>.>j?s l???lonuflnu to seven army corps
I,. i Crowu Priuce Frederick Wll
,1. !IIV aloiiK a twenty tlve
front? north of Verdnn in a dex
ale clVort to drive hack the French
WuHiii? forces, probably nn Itli ( li?>
ipire of the great fortress of Voir.
, In ylew.
;inTi> ha<l boon very heavy (Ik h ting
n considerable period in this dls
?i of I lie French war zone, hnt wlth
i lie last few days the attacks of the
mains have taken on adde<l strength
Iiiiltle line has been extended and
^ reaches from Malaneourt, on the
s|, |(? I 'tain, on the east, with Vcr
, in Hie centre, only a few miles
illiward.
'lie (icrmans claim to have made im
t.int advance's, and , to some extent
Ke'aro itdmlted by the French war
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istridge & Hinson
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oMUv. which (tescrthOH the bade as
'?lic of Increasing Intensity.
The Genua U preparations w;ere ex
?enslve and tho bombardment of ttto
French i?osUlons with thousand* of
shells was lutorrupted. As t li?* French
had foresetm the battle all their avail
uldo mms Wert) culled into action and
responded to tho heavy shelling t?f (ho
Germans.
While ut some iKuuts the French
?vore unahlo r<? resist tUu onslaught of
tho attacking forces, along much of
(ho front, according to tho l?arls com
munication, tho attacks were well sus
(allied and very heavy b isses \\ i? r** In
flleled on the Germans.
Attack has followed attack against
tho French lino after bombardments
Incessant and torltlle, continuing for
several days.
W'Ullo tin* Germans have not boon
lido, despite the rain < ?f shells and
furious onslaughts by tho infantry, to
break the French lino, nevertheless the
French on their right and loft wlugs
have boon compelled to withdraw their
linos, respectively to the south of
ornes and behind tho town of Sam
ogheux, six miles north of the fortress.
Only between Malancourt and the
left bank of the Mouse has there been
any diminution in the Intensity of the
artillery lire. With Brabant, Ilau
inont and SainogneuX and the wooded
sections, north and northeast of Beau?
111011 1 In their possession, tho Germans
from the Mouse eastward to Fromezey
are forcing the lighting seemingly re
gardless of tlve <*ost of life.
The French guns have answered the
Gorman guns shell for shell, and cas
ualties on both sides are very great.
The French official report describes the
battlefield between the Meuse and
Ornes as plied with German dead.
In Champagne at several points and
In the Argonne forest; Gorman works
have been pounded by thO concentrated
fire of the French guns, while In Lor
raine the French repulsed German re
eomiolterlng party which attempted to
capture a French post north of St.
Martin.
On their end of the line, near Pul
luoh, the Hrltlsh exploded a. mine and
occupied the crater, and also bom
barded German trenches nWir Frellng
hein and Boeslnghe.
On the Russian front, from the Riga
region to East Galacla, there have' been
engagements at various points, but no
great results have been attained by
either side.
In the Caucasus Petrograd reports
that the Russians continue successful
ly to press back the turks.
Tho usual activities by the A us
trlans and Italians on the Au*tro-Ital
tnn front continue.
The grenf battle raging around Ver
dun, in which a half-million men are
engaged, still is being fought at some
points with the same fury as charac
terized It several days ago. Cliamp
liou v tiler* f<> t lie west, and the fortified
works of Hardaumont, to the east of
Fort -Doucaumont, have been captured
by the Germans. Berlin also claims to
have captured the Qote de Talou, to the
west of Douaumont, hut, atvordiug to
tUe l'ruuoh statement, the ar
tUlery liro coming fr^nu both sides has
rendered this |to*lUou untenable for
either French or Hermans,
The I 'rench arc hurling attack after
i attack upon the Ooutiumont positions
held by the Germans, who are declared
to tie maintaining themselves there
with ditllculty, hut In the \V(M^vre re
gion, to the east of Verdun, the
Vreueh advanced posts have been
withdrawn.
Largo reinforcements are heing
brought up, hrohahly hy both French
and Gorman*. and It is reported that
the Hlltish lines art' being extended In
.Belgium and France in order that
I'Vein h troops may he released fyr lln*
Verdun battle.
In the Vosges Mountains the tier
mans also started a lienvv offensive
southeast of Cellos, hut it was com
pletely checked hy the French, On the
other extreme chd of the line around
Vpres a British attack was repulsed hy
the Hermans.
Hot ween SoIhboiik and Hhclms a -vljjt
orous homhanlinent has been earned
out against the German positions.
'J>n Men to ;* Foot.
Paris, Feb. 21.? -The Temps est I
mates that the Germans are employ -
Inn on the average ten Infantrymen to
every three feet of front where the
attack is fiercest north of erdun?
that is over a line eight miles in
length between Krahant and Ornes.
The reviewer maintains that the
operations are not necessarily pre
liminary in an attempt to besiege Ver
dun, but comprise an attack on a wide
part of the front of which Verdun
forms a part of the rear support. The
attacks, he declares, are Ktlll held
within the tirst line works, while there
are three other lines r' strategic In
tervals behind the first.
Fighters Who See No Itatle.
During a sea light the engine room
men tend the great engines of a bat
tleship with all the care that they
would bestow upon the same delicate
yet mighty mechanism In time of peace,
roaming listlesly yet with a definite
purpose, around the engine room with
oil cans In hand, bestowing drops of
lubricant here and there as required.
Theirs and the stokers' Is almost ? not
quite-1? the hardest part of the whole
grim drama of a naval battle, for
they are absolutely cut off from the
light, and are only cognizant of It by
the quivering of their ship as the
groat turrets over their heads tire or
as the enemy's shells thujl against the
-armor or when some stray shot find?
Its way through the steel wall and the
bunkers to the boilers. Such an event
blends a whole stokehold in one from
zled orgy of death ? death by explod
Ing shell and scattering fragments of
steel : death by awful wounds from
flying, burning coals, or death by scald
ing, hissing, blinding steain as the
water tubes burst all around them. ?
Tit- Bits.
Julian II. L6vy, for nearly a quar
ter of a century one of the leading
Hebrew merchants of Sumter, died in
that city Sunday afternoon. He was
73 years of age and a Confederate
veteran.
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AN ANCIKNT ItyTTMg (.KOl'M).
Britain ami Turkey Struggling For
hwMtMtiMi of llbtorir I ami Koule,
1 ' ' ,f \
riir most picturesque part of the
world war Is t li*> present campaign In
Me '<i>poiiii(ilu. If there were n.>t mi
Hill' tt '(.III;' Mil III Knrope. III :( oh
st*u r*? enterprise would rppe.'tl power
fully to the Imagination
Tlii r?? are really I n* Issues ai (at e
in luiii distant mVoh of Turkey 'n
\-''i The , British and German
hi.u llliu^ ami Turkish 'to.ip.s
arc struggling' for po> -csslon of the
historic land route from Fairope to
lii'lia In tlnit direction lies Ccr
nuiii.v's liojntl for "I'Uoe In the Sun."
She has sought to establish direct
raiiw:i,\ communication from Ifc-rlln
to Ihigdad. and Ihciue, perhaps, to
Bombay. That would provide quicker
access to India than Cuglaiid has
through the Xuo? Canal and the Red
Sea
Tli.' Kritlsh exiHslltlonary force has
draggled up the Tigris valley through
!(>? miles of desert country, bringing
its sH|. piles from oversea. The Turks
have had to bring supplies all the
wa\ 'from Constantinople, hy wagon
over the Taurus mountains and f>(H?
miles through the desert hy caravan
The historic pictures conjured up
hy the events of the campaign are
, unequalled anywhere else In the war
zone. The British, with their brown j
Sikhs ami Ghurkas and Bengal}*, al
[most took Hagdad, the famous old city
, >f llnrotin al-Raschld 41ml the Thou
sand and One Nights. They have en
cn 111 1 ?ed near the traditional site of
the iiarden of ICden.' They have seen
the l'r of the Chaldees, Abraham's
original home, and the ruins of
?indent Babylon ajul Nlnevah. The
are fighting for the possession <?f the
eft ra van route, thousands of years old.
along the world-conquerors Assur
hanlpal and Cyrus and Darius and Al
exander the Great ftnd Mohamet and
Tamerlane.
While the British are struggling for
Btfgdnd, the (Jrand Duke Nicholas
former commander in chief of the
Russian armies, is pressing down
from the Caucasus mountains, be
tween the Black and Caspian Seas
with the ultimate Intention, appar
ently. of effecting a Junction with the
British forces. The two allies, If the*
succeed in this great adventure, wlP
not only effectively bar the German*'
ami Turks from attacking India, but
?vlll take them in the rear, and i>os
dbly move against Constantinople
from the east.
These ot*erations will not decide the
var, hut If they succeed they may be
'he decisive factor in settling Tur
iev's fate. ? Anderson Intelligencer.
Thomas Lorlng and Ralph Rrlttln
vhlte men,- were arrested In Murfees
Soro, Tenn., last week charged with
tea ling a hulck touring car, the prop
?rty of \V. R. Ilarbcck, In Columbia
'wo weeks ago.
ONIONS FORM SETS.
More Satisfactory to Use Sets Than
Seeds in Spring.
Ciemson College, March 1. ? In
olantlng onions Iti spring on a small
scale, it will bo found more satisfac
tory to use sets than seed, accord
ing to the Horticultural Division of
Ciemson College. Seed planted in
cry early spring will under favora
ble conditions, make good onions, hut
this is not the host time for planting
<eed. * Sets, on the other hand, plant
ed in early spring will do well.
Plant sots from February 15 to A
pril 1,. using very sandy loam. Pre
'tare the land with deep plowing and
related harrowing, tlion apply ferti
lizer and manure broadcast and har
row it into the first three or four
Inches of sol! thoroughly. Use- 1-i
'tounds of fertilizer for each hundred
feet of row. Plant the sets three to
four inches apart In rows fifteen Inches
apart.
White Pearl, Prize Taker, and Yel
low Multiplier are varieties recom- ,
mended for this region. Two quarts
>f onion sets are enough to plant to
lo"4?Feh;( t fbr shrdlu shrdluiiuu
supply a family of six.
THE POWER OF THE PRESS.
An Unfair Tendency to Belittle The
Modern Newspaper.
The man in the street, on the train
at the club, after dinner, is fond of his
cheap and easy fling at what he stvles
the waning influence of ,the press.
Amid Impressive silence to some socio
llterary assemblage he announces over
the top of his collar that the old days
of inflexible integrity and personal ac
countability in journalism are forever
at an end. The newspapers are cor
rupt and venal. You cannot trust a
line. They are under the advertisers
golden thumb. They are rap Just to
make money for a proprietor whose
eHcutcbeon is the dollar sign. They
have no conscience, no ideals, no
ethics. The highest bidder can pervert
or prevent the news and taint the edi
torials and command the policies; and
every editor has his price, and each
reporter is ready to be suborned.
Yet every man who seeks a place in
the sun of publicity comes and tries to
shout for it a little louder than the
rest in the newspaper's ear. Tie sere
nade* the sanctum with every trivial
detail and wants it nil f<> |(f In, The
remainder of the | M |H'i' Is mere spare
(Uitlill juuk, It AoeMft ; this man's dar
linu enterprise I* of transcendent 1 in
porta mv, Perhaps he brings you a
letter (hat must see light. I^uvo out
a word, or a 1 1 no, or a few linos, i >f
his incalculably precious present at Ion,
or make a single misprint anywhere,
<>r a minute misstatement of facts. and
I'U'ii thouwh tils purpose may have
been completely accomplished b(\ tho
publication, ho hi aggrieved. ami seems
t<> fool that t )io * debt ?>f gratitude Is
\ holly cancelled hi any case. sub
c<pient thanks to iho newspaper U the
last thltii; thought of, though before,
haiul thoro was no stone loft unturned
to oh t alp tho favor
Why ?lo t hose who lm\ e every thin;:
to gain from a newspaper selssc evor>
t opportunity to roh It of Its good nauio,
to disparage and doory it. to make It
i lafgel 'of v illltlrat Ion V \\ h\ do they
I Continue to impute tho lowest and u'loxt
' ordld motives to Its promoters? Why
do they not aeeord a clean and dignl
lied newspaper, as a valuable asset
Hill ornament of tin* eonwnuhitv Ihej
same right t<> respect and cha.rltx |
would give to an honorably conducted
niereantlle establishment or a trust
worthy lawyer, <>r a faithful doctor. or
a consecrated pulpit ministry V
Newspapers are fallible because' they
are put together h,\ fallible agencies
They are human, and It Is human to
?mt. Tiie reporters have neither the
hamls of Hrlareus nor tho winged
sandals of Mercury; they are not om
niscient. omnipresent. Kdltors are of
Mke passions with other mortals, and
?re sensitive 'to abuse by letter and by
telephone. They are not quite blind to
? he fact that the criticism leveled at
the form of What Uu'y write Is fre
quently Illiterate; and "rot!" Is' a
veak answer to a carefully wrought
expository argument. Kditors resent,
as any other man, an asj>ers|on on
|K?rsonal honor,
The newspaper merely asks the same
recognition of the rluht to II v?v and
let live that It freely concede*, to every
one of Its readers. It does not seek
to take their <lally bread out of their
moot lis, to rob them of a good name,
to deprive their lives of happiness and
II?bt It \voul<) 1 1 k?* friends, but fur
the truth's Hftko Jt mUHt tncur o?inith*s
now ami then. Iii Hiking Hides mi tm
p. riant (atl'li. ?|M?siioiiN it nuisi lue\
it iU\ run roiuii.M mi iIiiion (?> llu> l.?>
lief* am) t lit* w Islie* of those with
whom It Is pain to disagree, Hut a
iH>\vsimj?or has a duty to Its loaders
that is a hove' ptjr^oiuilltleH, or parti
saushlpf or any Hellish consideration,
a in! that duly to the roudi\r is um?
am) tlu> sumo thing with the ohllga
(Ion ti> he fearless and to ho true, tu
Millie hi) ril when Justice anil right re
quire,, no mutter who is wounded- ot>
what powerful interest complains.
There tfci- iu?\\ <|?apoi'w whose hlooil
runs pali> and thin with a cowardly
opportunism tind a . contempt ihle syco
phanr\ , . I uk in en who conduct or
write for an honorable Journal would
a ?. hiooir si^'u away thelv souls to the
devil as >rl I their poll* or slUto the
\olee >v It'll In Philadelphia l,edgei\
The '4riu1.1l Jury at I'ulon lias return
ed a "no hill" lu the ease of l>r. Then
(lore MaddOx, recently charged with
mauslrtUjk'htor 'for alleged failure lo
properly attend young Hurley Stoddard,
a l>o\ accident ally shot by a t-oiupatihm.
MO N-1CY TO liOAN
ON UtOAL K9TATE - WAST
TERMS
. , , , K. C. vuul'n)tmki>M.
TO FARMERS!
What About Your Planting Seed? Be Sensib'e.
Don't work all year on top of ordinary, poor seed and
expect results.
Last year I bought Webber No. 82 pedigreed seed.
I ginned all my cotton on a water driven gin ? slowly,
carefully. I have taken care of my seed and offer a few
bushels at $2.00 per bushel.
Send me your orders.
A. A. STRAUSS SUMTER. S. C.
You will find every kind at this store. See our scienti
fically constructed eye-glasses which enable you to see as
well at a distance as close at hand ? bifocal glasses.
Don't ruin your eyes ? beware of cheap glasses. Come
in and have a confidential talk ? it will cost you nothing.
G. L. BLACKWELL
Jeweler and Optician Camden, S. C.
GROCERIES for ANY MEAL
We have a large variety of Groceries to help you out
?:in filling: your wants for any meal. The best line of
canned goods to be found anywhere. In fact most any
thing to be found in the Grocery line, and a drawing card
in trading at this store is the fact that you can buy cheaper
here than elsewhere, because we sell strictly for cash to
everyone, thereby enabling us to give you a better price
than other houses.
LEWIS & CHRISTMAS
THE STRICTLY CASH STORE.
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Phone 180 pftmdfD, S. C.