The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 03, 1917, Image 6
HOLSTEIN BULL
Rd|i?iered
Will bo for service at
Wcmterham Plantation.
Terms $2.00 cash for season.
W. A. RUSH, Manager,
Lugoff, S. C.
Collins Brothers
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Undertaken for Colored People
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T.l.pko.. 41 714 W DcK*lb St.
F. D. CAMPBELL, Jr.
Cotton Buyer
I desire to notify I lie farmers of
Kerslia\v and adjoining counties
tliaf 1 have taken over the interests
of Muyhnuk & C<?., of Charleston,
cotton uierehantN, formerly repre
sented here hy the late .1. It. Steed
man, and will endeavor to serve the
public In the name efficient manner
as <lld my predecessor*
flat form It ear of Kliame Hros. Store
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Camden, S C.
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just as profitably in Georgia, the Carolina* and
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Willi LADCO GROUND LIMESTONE.
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FARM LOANS
We are prepared to nego
tiate loans on improved farm
lands in Kershaw county at
a low rate of interest. Loans
to run for five years.
J. C. MASSEY
I. C. HOUGH
Dr. E. H. KERRISON
Dentist
' >fti over Hruce's Store
Ilroa<l and l>fK:ill? Sts. Phone 185
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SASH, DOORS, BLINDS
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. COLUMBIA, S C.
DR. R E. STEVENSON
DENTIST
Cr?k?'r liuildlng
Camden, 8. C.
Review of Three Years of War
Ending With Big ?vents of 1917
Campaigns and Battle* In the
Cast Beginning With Russia'#
Great Offensive In 1914
and Collapse In 1917
America In the War 1917
Feb. 3.?G#rm?ny'i ambassador
dismissed.
April 2.? President Wilson ask
ed congrose to deolara that "a
state of war exists."
April 6.?Congroes dsclared a
stat% of war against ths Gsr ?
man empire.
May 2.?Two billion dollar "Lib*
erty loan" offered for subscrip
tion.
May 9.?Stara and atripss car
ried in Paris by Amerioan fisld
service dstachmont.
May 10.?Conscription act be
oame a law.
May 16.?Squadron of American
destroyors arrived in Irish wa
ters on patrol duty.
May 10.?Amerioan troops or
dered to France.
May 25.?American flag under
fire in France.
May 28.? Rear Admiral 8ims, U.
8. N.| promoted to vios admi
ral and given command of
American naval operationa In
Europe.
June 5.?Conscription registra
tion. Nearly 10,000,000 men
between twenty-one and thir
ty-one years of age regietered.
June 7.? Major General J. J.
Pershing, U. S. A., reached
England as commander of the
American expeditionary army.
June 13.?American troops sailed
for France.
June 22.?U boats attacked the
Amorican transport fleet.
June 27.?Amorican troops land
ed in France and were assign
ed to General Sibert's camp.
July 16.?National guard mobil
ized for service in Europe.
July 20.?Draft of first army of
687,000 men and fixing of or
der in which remainder of
9,000,000 registrants may be
called.
By Captain GEORGE L. KILMLR.
TIIK >1 ssa ssl liil t loll OH June 28,
11)14. of tlu* Archduke Francis
Ferdinand, Liulr to tin? throne,
quickly resulted In the outbreak of a
world Hiir When Austria-Hungary
pressed her demands upon Servia for
reparation Kiismu championed the lit
tle Slav nation. (Jcrmnny declared
lluit'her AiinIi-o- i I ungarinu ally must
have :i ?"lite hand" in dealing with
Servia, and the storm broke.
The tirst inn \ears of the war. from
August, lid!, to August. 101*1. were
marked l> the subjugation of nearly
nil of Be!, i,:ni. part of northern France,
all of Ser :.i ami t'.ie greater part of
Bus-dan Poland by the German armies
llusvia cotepieced and then lost a large
dice of Austrian tenitorv In < ? n 1>< la.
ty
Following the iuviisloti of Belgium In
August, 101 I. (ire.it Britain and France
entered the >\.n us the allies of Itussla.
The German march tow aril Paris,
through BeL-ium and France, was ef
fc tually ehe? ked at the river Marrie
early in September, 101 4, and in the
weeks following the opposing lines in
France ami Belgium were established
practically where they remained for the
next two years.
Italy entered the war in May, 1015,
and at tacked Austria by land, east and
northeast of Venice, 'l'he first year of
iIn* war saw the fall of Warsaw and
the extension of the (icruiftii front to'
the l>viiia river, midway hot worn War
saw and IVtrograd. In 101H, the sec
ond year of the war. the Germans at
tache,! with great force t.'ie French for
trc*> of Verdtui, but were unable to re
dder it. This event was followed by a
concerted drive by the French and Brit
ish in northern France against the Ger
man lines along the Anere and sAmmo
river-.
Throughout the tirst two years vari
ous local i'Hmpa I'lis were inaugurated
i?y the allies, notably for the capture
of < onstanthioplr (the Turks having
joined the Teuh nic powers late in
101 It. with an expedition In Mesopo
tamia to support it. The more against
the Turkish capital failed, and the
forces were transferred to <5recce ty
operate against the central powers In
the Balkans, where the Bulgarians
were lighting fer Germany.
The greatest naval battle of the war.
foucht oft' Jutland In May. 1017, was
r. draw, and the large vessels have not
taken decisive part In the progress of
the war. In 101."? Germany started a
system of drastic submarine warfare,
primarily intended to blockade the
ports of her foes. Belligerent and neu
tral alike were made to suffer la the
submarine zones throughout lOlfi and
I0H>. and an Indirect result of <ior
many'* 11 a * a I policy wa# the entrainr*
? ' the Fnited States into the war.
Grounds For Allies' Optimism.
Almost jit I he close of I be se?*ond
car of the world war the British
<? r minister, Floyd George, speak
ing for the allies, said. "Victory is
bc-ihminir to flow In our direction."
It had been (lowing in all directions
tvl ,-n \ <v I* r-v.. d at all ujv-fo that
t!m ? So the third year of the ?4f?nfltct
opened w j;!i optimism ruling In the
(amps of tin* allies On the west front
at the end of July. JOlrt, It was as
:;nred that the French would hold on
at Verdun, that the German lino on
the Soninx and the Ancre was not im
Germany's Violations of Neu
tral Right* Draws America
Into Entente Alliance Witli
Sea and Land Power
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pregnable and that the ltuu&iuu drive
headed b.v Rrusllotr In Bukowlna and
eastern Gallcla was proceeding with
irresistible fort-e toward the atokhod
uud tlx* Dniester.
i Hmphutds was given to the hopeful
view by Italian aiicccss on both fronts
lu Austria. Tho great Austrian drive
which begun In April and aimed ?jt the
expulsion of Invading armies from
Trentlno had been cheeked. Tins \v?*
a negative victory because the. Aus
trlan spoils had been heavy uud tho
demand on Italian troops ha<l inter
fered with Italy's aggressive move
ments lu the south, where the objective
of the Italians was Trieste. The for
titled town of Gorltx barm! the way
from tho Iaoazo river toward Trieste,
and ufter a long and costly siege it
fell on Aug. I). Still further progress
of the allied cause In tho southeastern
field laid fresh emphasis to Von 111n
denburg's assertion that the war must
be fought out In tho east. Russia was
making headway In Asia Minor, march
lug from buses hr her home territory,
with her armies backed up by her own
fleet on the Black seu. This wus real
ly a strategic extension of her new
line in Bukowlna and Oallcla.
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Roumania Attacks Qevm&n Hear.
As matters stood then, the third
year opened with u serious outlook for
Germany. Verdun was untaken. and
the ullles hud stormed the third (Jer
mun line on the Sommo frout. Brusi
Joff's Uussian column had Indeed been
checked on the Ntokhod and Dniester,
but its presence that far south, on the
road to Hungary compelled Austria to
keep a strong force north of the Car
pathian mountains. Then came a blow
which lifted the hopes of the allies to
the highest pitch?Koumftnla turned
upon tho Teuton* The situation nt
that tlnse wus us follows: The belliger
ents were nt u deadlock on tho Souune
line, the Italians in Oorltz. the sup
posed !;rv to Trieste, and the allic?l col
umn from Salonlkl niovpig north into
Mmedon'a to strike Bulgaria. In the
i c:;r v. .is maUhi? progress. ''For the
moment It seemed tlif1 allies hjid the
advauta-o in that zone where the de
<-i-!>>n \\ ?ito be rea lied- the near
oa?'i.
Between Two Fires.
It \m.s alleged flmt Roumanla would j
;:(!?! men to the enemies of Gw-j
inanv. Roumnnia's first move scored
a ta' ti'-nl \ i? Tory. Her troops cross
ed the frontier northward into Truu
syhaniii. where they were joined by u
Russian ?'?!u?un. which marched west
wnrd, ?ar off on the southeastern flank
of the 'Germans on t lie T mlester.
Forcing the mountain passes, the
Roumanians ? apturcd Kmnstadt and
Orsova. but the triumph was not for
long. A column of Bulgnrs. Germans
and Turks. l?x<l by Von Mackensen.
? tos^etl the Danube from (lie south
Into Roumanla. taking 2i?."hhi prisoners
In the first blow. Almost simultane
ously Van Falkenhayn's mixed army
of (icriuuus and Austrian* drove down
from the north upon the in \ ad lug Hon
tnanians. captured passes lu their rear
and destroyed their armies. Kron
stadt wus recaptured. By the middle
of October the Roumanians were In
full retreat back over their inirder on
'he north. On the south the Germnas
had captured the main Roumanian
port of Constunzu, forced the enemy to
evacuate Cernavoda, <m the Danube,
and destroyed the bridge.
Collapse of Roumania.
With the exception of a weak sup
port by her nearest ally, Russia. Ron
mania got no direct help. Karl.v In
November the allies launched a new
grand attack on the Somme, and Fran
co-Servians attacked Monastlr, on the
southern front. But neither of these
'diversion* cheeked German progress in
noumanla. The northern column, com
ing down froin'Austria underFai
i kenhayn. moved southeast into Rou
mania and met. a coin|>oslto force of
Rulgars, forks and. Germans which
Von Mackensen was leading north
west. fifty miles west of the Rouman
ian capital. Bnkharest. In vain Russia
began a new drive in the Carpathians.
The Roumanians, strong in numbers,
hut weak In resisting power* were
overcome, and in the last week of
1010 the Teutons were in Hukharest.
America In the War.
Two events of sudden development
in the third year of the war may have
a deciding influence?namely, the en
trance of the United States us an ally
?>f the entente powers and the collapse"
of Russia's n egress! vene** During the
early months of t he year -the submarine
dispute between thl* country and Ger
many <|iiie<?"d down. A {' tv>at brought
the war Into western Atlantic waters
hy sinking neutral ships ofT Nantucket
shoals in Octolttr, but the German
pledge ti> safeguard nemrM "lives'"Wif"'
observed. On Dec. 12 <;?miany and
her allies. Austria, Bulgaria and Tur
key, proposed peace negi.t iations, nam
ing the- raited States as orte of the
intermediaries, pn the 1 St fa President
Wilson s^nr^u wjte to all belllgt'Miits
asking dicin to nnme their, terms.
Meanwhile the nlllea replied to Cfer
inany, doclinuig a conference, and Ger
many replied to Wilson, evading the
question uf term* and putting cuf thft)
discussion of permanent |M>ac? until tbe
end of tbe war.
: In Jauuary President VVUmoii revived
interest in tbe subject ?r peace by out
lloltty u plan for u peaeo league. mak
|Q|| "peine without victory." "coiiM-nt
of |hc accrued" and a "world Monroe
doctrine'' ?lit* fundamentals for a world
.peace. While the Whole world was
discussing tills turn of affairs Germany
Informed neutrals on Jan, 31 tbat sub
marine warfare would l?o more ruth
loss than ever. Three days laU*r tbe
German ambassador wan glwn lily
passports, antl the president Informed
^?ongress of the hreak and Its causes.
Ambassador Ucrmd tticciVeil Uta pass
ports at Merlin Feb. B, and on the toth
Germany, through the Swiss govern-,
ment, pro]H?sfd negotiation of the new
dispute. This the Untied States de
clincd unless the new submarine order
was withdrawn,
After Von Bcnistorff sailed ai(d Ge
rard was out of Germany the state de
partment disclosed a German plot to
Involve the United States with Japan
and Mexico. War Measures followed
rapidly. Congress ' expired March 4
without Indorsing the president'*! "arm
ed neutralityf' policy, A special session
of the new congress was summoned to
meet April 2, and meanwhile the pf^fl
Ident ordered armed guards placed ou
our merchant ships voyaging abroad.
On April (1 congress formally d.-'lared
war. Then followed a conscription law
to create armies, loans to the allies
one of $2,000,0(10,000 to the nation by
the people?the dispatch of war vessels
to Kuio)k? under command of Hear Ad
miral Sims; also of Mujor General
rorshiug. to prepare a base for the
American eontingont already represent*,
ed on the tiring line in France by a de
tachment bearing the Stars and Stripes,
on May 25. ? " ~ ' I
The. Russian Setback,
During tho efforts to secure a diplo
matic peace Russia stood linn. The
duuia reject edGermany's proposals, and
the imperial government Indorsed. Wil
son's peace league note. Kusslan sup
port of oltoumania had liever been
strong and. entirely dropped away in
the winter. It seemed that Russia was
powerless. A revolution in which tbe
troops and their generals tlgured depos
it! the czar the middle of March, and
there began a state of military Judecl
sioii and inactivity while factions con
tended for political .control at Petro
grad. 1 v j .
Farly in February the German retro
grade began north of the Somme. Ba
paiime and Peronne, tbe goals of
mouths of blyody struggles, yielded the
middle of March to the allies led by
Nlvelle and Malg. and shortly the Ger
mans turned and began i?> resist vig
orously all along the froot, "Special
reasons" was Berlin's explanation ? of
this great and masterly wfreat.^ Fur*
thcr withdrawal was forced by British
attaehs <'ii the Vpres salient and at
Mc-s'liics in Mav and .June.
Western Entente Powers Pressed
Tin- entrance of I In* Ignited States
~^Tth rift ally led to ittt aiHM)lHK!tUWHt-l)y
Rritish iind French commissionerssent
here for conference. among' then) Mar
sha! .loffre. that the resources of Eng
land. France and Italy in men, money,
food and munitions were at a low ebb,
and Russia must be considered as vir
tually eliminated as an aggressive
force. These frank disclosures caused
surprise and deep anxiety on this side
of the ocean, the more so because the
ruthless U boat operations," which be
gan In February, had been more de
structive than expected by the aHIes,
although their toll had fallen far short
of Germany's estimate?1,000,000 tons
per month. The destruction of freight
ships varied from week to week dur
ing March, April and May, but the to
tal was so great as to forebode disas
ter unless the evil was speedily sup
pressed.
The entente's money problem was
quickly solved by affording heavy cred
its to pay for their supplies brought
here. A commission, headed by Elihu
Root, repaired to Russia to swing the
weight of tlie United States on the
side of the forces In authority who
favor a continuance of the war on
Germany. The response to calls for
troops and iminense war funds and
the successful registry for the draft,
followed by the safe arrival of a large
expeditionary force in France, led to a
reaction during .liine from the misgiv
ings and uncertainties which had pre
vailed for weeks. '
Notable among the closing events of
the third --<uir of war are the renewal
of attacks m>on the.Austrian fronts by j
Italian and Russian armies. The Ital-j
ian movement hegan early In June and ;
had for its object the recovery of posi- '
tlons in the Trent!no, which tho Aus- j
, ? - ? ?? -
U'iau* luuL captured la their grvat
spring Urlvo of 1010. At the close of
Jwi Italians, buffered a . severe
I'lwk. v-?f'' V:,w
July opened with u strong llusalan
offvimly* oil the line of tire frulester,
aimed lit I*eiuherg. This whh u renewal
in |>art of the greut drive led by Gen*
era! nruslloff onu year boforo. Inspir
ed by (lie presence on the tl?*l?l of the
now Itussian war miulster,. Kereusky,
tlio army of General l&ornllolt, In ftont
of Ifallcz, captured tldU i>osltlou on the
10th. crossed the Dniester ami man bed
toward NtryJ, taking Kaluc* ou the
13th auri prisoners which raised the
total captives lu the campaign to about1
30,000 men.
The long bruited cabinet upheaval lu
Germany took place on the 12th and re
sulted In. the resignation of OhaaeeHQf
Hollwcg ami the removal of Fprelgn
Minister Zlminermaun, who fostered the
scheme to embroil the United Btatea
with Mexico and Japan. Hollweg'a suc
cessor la oflice, Michaells, has bwa
ranked as a conservative on Germany's
war policies. Oi> tbe lflth the mobili
sation of the national guard* whfeb
will add 300,000 men to the federal ar
mies, was begun.
Prefers Death to Army.
Savannah. July 28.?James JJ. Na
bors, 20, a traveling salesman for
Armour & Co.. shot ami killed himself
lu a local hotel tonignt, after receiv
ing a summons to appear before the
exemption board at Greensboro. Ala
bama, where he was registered for ex
amination.
Nabor's nunaher in the drawing was
tho first drawn?258. according to the
ottleial 'notileation. which was . found
open beside his body. HIh friends
here said he had brooded, a great deal
over the probability of brink drafted,
but the notice was not" received until
tonight.
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CHrcus Arid Fairs U ?,
The United stm* < N?vy",
Ituvoau, Voiitmainlcr K.
vf N. ofttcer hi charge. ha?
pleted HU arrangement hy vrhu^
tractive display ?>f rmwtrikj
will l>e otftclally mml? ,u
state a?)d county fair* lu uu,
States. More than two ttwm*i
secretaries ami manager* hav?
to tlu? Bureau t\>r pUiih innl n,
I tloua for tlu* erection of a \ttv
ibuanl on their mounds, To *
| these haw been sent ?U*LaUcsl
prepared hy UU architect, a
a completed hoard and three
newest posters Issued l?y tWp [,
A wtttple display hnnnl 1* non
hlhltlon alongside the V. s. n, j
In Union Square. Prior to \\
ruhllelty ltuerau also made g
ments hy which all iv the Htm
parks and pleasure grounds tL
out the oountry wpre similarly'
All of thla has heeu wrrled
an effort to eH|>eelnlly reach th
men of the country who have
ed most rdttdlly to the call of
In this work the Bureau
the cooperation of %'harlwj
Ulngllng. Of Rlngllng Proa., wl
had ail of the hlll-poatera
the country make a JlatrlbtM
Navy posters with their qi
ftrcuses are also carrying
tents whleh art* taken oha
Navy recruiting ottleers whet
shows appear.
Alfred J. Fox wanted In
on the ct\j\rw of eml>o8aUi?g
the funds of the Home NaUowi]
(?f Lexington, of which he.
whs arrested Iri Washiagto
after hetng a runltlvc fro?
October 30, 1016.
A French military
demned to death for
dancer known at Matn
horn 1" the Dutch Indlw
?Dutch nationality
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