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THE WAR LAST WEEK €ERMANY STAKES HER ALL IN ATTACKING VERDUN r LAST DESPERATE VENTURE Kew York Times Reviewer Says After Failure t<» CniHli llus-sla Western Front Was I/>t{ieal Place _ for. an Attack to Try to Win a Decision— TTie Cost. In the struggle at Verdun, still jnnflnished, containing potentialities of disaster up to the first magnitude, the Germans return after sixteen months to their first undertaking, which was to conquer France. GerKiany’s strategy had contem plated the necessity of- crushing her foes swirly one at a time. She would strike the mortal blow at France, as a bolt from the blue, and then turn with her whole strength to receive the heavy-minded, slow-footed Hear. The thought of dealing simultane ously with France, Uelgium,and Hngland on one front, from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier, and with Russia on the ojlher, frOm the lialtic Sea to the Rumanian bdrtler, would have been no doubt as prepos terous to the mind of the German general staff as to the military opin ion of all the non-Teutonic world. Nobody can ever tell for sure. This war has been the ruin of mili tary prescience, a sequence of things Impossible, a narrative of the unex pected. And, as If utterly to humili ate the * probabilities, it has unex pectedly fulfilled expectations long abandoned It has Just now reinstated the -ecstatic and all but absolute theory of Infantry. The in<mt sina/.lng fea ture at the battle of Verdun lias been Ita Uwdmcy to produce pltrhei] Hglit- txxll lag krtwera ra of Infantry. It had been built bp to by all the njerhanlral accessories of modern war, both sides boasting in theory beforehand that In futuiVt offensive* the human material wouldwanted very sparingly, and yet. In tftn heat af It, over and over success turned apoa that which Is called man’s bIork aeb far a ight One body of Or man troops, having stormed an Iron clad fort, became marooned, aa on aa Island, sarrounded by a storm of Are They were the famous lirande burgers, who took Fort Douaumont and bald It whllo the tide of 'battle roee and fell around It. There were three things here- -the general Don* aamoat position, the armored Donau- itioaf fart and tha village of that name, and the reports ware eo oh- ecare that confusion was unavold able The Germans and the French both claimed Fort Douaumont. one aide moaning the fort Itself and the other the environing topographical advantage* The Hraadjnburgera wars a wank laalde of the armored fort before the Oermana had full poa- aeaalao of the general poaitidn. After the battle of the Marae, which the wreck of their Intention to cap- t ure Parta by oaa torribla swoop, the Gormans retreated to the Klver A lane, and la October, 1914, eetab- HAedL, or dag tbemaelvea In on the line which haa been_the ’’western front*’ ever since, with here there only a local change, hardly per- ceptlbte oa the map. The great drive •( the Allies a year later ipoved it aaly a very little In one place. Adopting defensive warfare oa tills line, me Goraiaa general staff turned to Ite served job, namely, the anbja* gstisw of HBasis, and la Russia on a targm- scale was repeated the expert- ’Bos la Fraace. The Ruaaians were •aatea. thrown back, overwhelmed; ha war was carried to them on their <wwk sell, of- which they Tost great reaa; but Russia was not crushed or limlaatad as a foe. She proved un- cnmhable. After having lost Poland and the best part of her Baltic prov inces. aha declined to consider a sop arate peace. So German strategy had failed in both dlrectiona. It had made a draw of It first on the west, aqd then on the east, instead of the decisive re sult so heavily counted upon. Not only had neither enemy hcen dispos ed of, hat either one or both together might he expected at any time to re- ojn-u the ceremonies. So much for the two first great phases. The third was a smaller phase, but la one respect'very, satisfactory. It waa a job that could be finished. It was one thing the German general staff could "clean up” and make sure of. . ThAt was the Balkan campaign, to cat a path through Serbia and open a great corridor from Germany * » Torkey. — " KummIb In early February, followed siieedlly by the capture of Krzerum. could have had pot the slightest hear ing upon the derision of the German general staff to try again for a deri sion on the west—that la, to carry the war a second time Into France. That decision must have been taken months ago, perhaps before the end of the Balkan campaign. It was after all a fairly obvious choice to make. The war could not be won through Asia Minor. If India were captured that would not end the war with England. As for the East, Germany knows very well by this time that Russia cannot be crushed. Victo^es against her make her in one sense stronger; they throw her back upon herself. It Is very doubtful if tlie Germans wish to penetrate much further Into Russia. They probably aim to take Riga, and, perhaps, Llvland province, because German is spoken therer but as for Petrograd, that is probably out of all present reckoning. There was at last only one place where a decision could take placed That was, of course, the western front, where the strength of the enemy Istth in men and munitions was increasing, and where, If tier- many could hope to win a decisive result at all, the sooner site tried the less the odds would t>e against JiMh —,— — The belief had been tending to grow In the world that the cost of forcing a decision on the western front from either side would be pro hibitive. The net results of the allied drive last autumn were disappoint ing, and very dearly bought. The questions whether a decision at any price was possible, and. If so, whether the cost would be such as a civilized people could afford to pay, were left unanswered. At first thought it seems Improb able that the answer would be sought in fresh experiences by the weaker side, that Is, the side with the smaller reserve of men; but on second thought It would appear to be at least plausible that the weaker aide could not afford to wait. It would have much to lose by daring, but all to lose by waiting. That Is now good military conjecture. However, a military commentator who had skid, after the battle of the Marne, that Germany, having failed to crush Russia, would launch what may he called, or may turn out to be, Ihe most desperate offensive of the war at Verdun. In the Febrnary mud. 191 would have been free there after to'say any rraxy thing he liked. He would have had no reputation Sift Did not the very principles of Orqtan strategy preclude the possi bility'of s long war, a war In which two fronts wrnjTd exist at once, a war In which the foes could not be dis patched In safift rotation? They did, of course, but necessity Is the greater part of strategy.^Vv Toward the end of January the Germans began on every fair day to "feel’’ the French and RngJIsh line, thrusting one day against I ho Eng lish at Ypus. another day at the French In Hie Champagne, and one Uy mstrtfilr a great din of artlllerv flrs over tha whole front of ISO miles; and la a general sense It waa known that prodigious preparations had been made for aa “offensive." There had been so much feinting, however, and to many falae scares 'hat Interest was more or lees per- 'unctory until the tide of force be can dangerously to rise at Verdun Even then It waa two or three days before It was fully believed that the sive works at Verdun, the strongest iho French .could devise, the .Ger mans advanced for four days at the rate of a mile a day, and captured at last a key position. Fort Douaumont, an armored fort. It was stormed and taken by infantry under heroic condi tions. The French retook the posi tion, though not the fort, and later .they lost the posltiqn Itself. The assault upon Verdun may be said to have been begun on February 21. It proceeded with terrifically In creasing intensity and uninterrupted ly for at least five days, then with undiminlshed vigor for two or three more, and on the eighth or ninth day—one can not "be very exact— the tension relaxed rather suddenly. There were rumors of a German disaster. Military opinion in Paris and London was divided. Some ex perts thought the attack had failed, but others believed it had only been suspended for secondary prepara tlons. In the meantime activity had increased at other |M>ints, notably on the W'oevre plain, to the southeast of Verdun, and at two (Kdnts on the line wc*t of Verdun. One of these points was at the cor ner of the western front nearest to Paris, rVerdun is 140 miles from Paris. The two minor offensives to the west were 105 and sixty miles from Paris, respectively. After two days of rest tho« frontal attack upon Verdun was ini|>etiiously resumed, the pressure from the southeast at the same time increasing, and first opinions were confirmed. These were that the Germans here had made a fling with fate und could not afford to stop so long as there was any hope of getting through, no matter how great the sacrifice. Whatever be the outcome, it is proved that either side ran smash Its way through the other side’s defense if It is willing to pay the price and has the men to pay It with. No defense appears to be Impregnable, nor is the price of overcoming It necessarily prohibitive. One that might prove prohibitive for Germany, the Allies’ could yet in time afford to pay. On the cost, opinions differ vastly. The French are horrified, not to say scandalized, by the German losses. They are aghast at such sacrifice of human life. The German Correspon dents on tlie other hand agree In say ing that the German losses were less than might have been expected, whereas the French losses were ter rible. . It will take time to learn the truth. The odds in life run heavily against the offensive side. That has been the Invariable experience. The German authorities themselves have estimated that the defense need lose only two or three men to the offen sive side’s fire. Undoubtedly the German losses have been much great er than*those of the French at Vef- dun. but undoubtedly, too, each side tends to exaggerate the other’s loss! That has become a war habit; peo ple expect It and allow for It, so that the truth would be even more mis leading. la atklllioa to accepting the odds which lie against the offensive able, the Germans take a tremendous moral and political risk. If they nil. It will be for lack of the arlnnlifg margin of offensive power; it will have coat them a terrible price In the most precious commodity of all, which la men, and It nrlll end forever the hope fo* Germany of being able to get deiMidoit on the western front. She hsi, already seen that It Is Impossible to get one on the east ern front Therefore, If at the xenltk of her Barred Rocks of quality. Eggs, $1.25 per 15, $2 per 30.. Rockland Poul try Farm, Somerset, Va. Just 91 for 17 Barred Bock eggs. In cubator orders^promptly filled. Miss Rose Edge, Red Hill, Va. Silver Camplnee—The living egg ma chine. Eggs for hatching, $2.50 per 15. B. L. Wall, Knlghtdale, N. C. Mne profile putting up our attractive sign letters on glass. Ellers Supply, 4 75 N. 27th St., East St. Louis, 111. Extra fine Shasta daisy plants, 35c per dozen f. o. b. Woodward, S. C. Mrs. J. F. Coleman, Woodward, S. C. Pure Bred Single Comb Reds and Mottled Ancona eggs, $L25 per-15. Lyles C. Grant, Lowryville, S. 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If use Company Atlanta, Gs. ’.ertnans had undertaken an attack of '•'i* *n this offensive the first Importance, and one from W,n * the only hope there waa of finding It was a brilliant stroke, more belittled in the instant of achieve-’ meat than on secondary reflection. It barst the Iron ring at a most convenient place. It brought not only a new ally, Bulgaria, but en abled Germany to strike hands with the sons of Allah. It intensi fied thp dream of an overland rente to India, across the peninsula of Asia Minor, via the famous Bag dad railroad. Unhappily- for the dream the Rus sians, who had been pushed back ward through Poland and the Baltic provinces, descended through the Caucasus into Asi. Minor, captured Brzerlm from the Turks,,^nd now threaten, by joining hands, with the English rising out of Egypt, to close the ring again. This is still an open effort, with the odds of success'lean- Ing apparently toward the Anglo- Russlap ^forces, who have not yet been once in si'g’trf of each other since the war began. • Since taking Erzerum, the Rus sians have been consolidating their advantages snd pushing steadily in a southerly direction, obviously with the tbenght of meeting the British In Meeopotamls. On Friday. Petro- grad reported the captor* of Bltlla, •boat 119 miles south of Eraerum. Bttils in aaly a boat fifty miles from the Bagdad Railway. — - ‘ * Am* Minor by hich It could not recede without serious, not to say disatrous. mora onsequencee. They had elected t<> put fortune to the touch for once, uxl pay tl»e price to see whether the French Hue could or could not be tmanhed. The shortest road from the Ger man frontier to Paris lies from Mett. in German Lorraine, through Ver dun; and Verdun Is at the head of a line of fortified places standing like great breakwater against the Ger man frontier. When the Teutonic Inundation took place in September, 1914, the ultimate line of French resistance was one that sagged from Verdun to i'aris. If Verdun had given way. exerythlng else might have happened llfferently. But It held, and the In vader Was driven back to his present line,, which falls from Ostend, on the North Sea, straightaway south lirough Flapders and France to a point only sixty miles from Paris urns then to the east over Rheims, md bends sharply in a queer loop iround Verdun. From there It falls iway southeast to the Swiss frontier. All this time Verdun has been In the loop, and the Germans on the intside of It have Iwvn preparing some time, to attack it. They went so far ns to build a system of cotv- peace by military mean*. Failure at Verdun for Germany would be a greaf disaster She rould not dis guise It. She has risked too much. BATTLE OF DOUAUMONT RA6ED FOR WHOLE WEEK Potato Plant*—Nancy Hall and Porto Rlcc^ Express, $1.50 1.0Q0; mall $20c 100. Cssh with .order. 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Manley, Carnesvllle, Ga. cave railroads for that purpose around the top of the loop, in a semi circle of forty or fifty miles. The French- on their side were not idle. They reconstructed the defen sive works of Verdun in the light of new experience, "unclassed’’ the old fortress, put guns In bidden places, tunneled and mined the ground oyer, a large area, built trenches to take advantage of every favor in the topo graphy, and were willing to say at last that Verdun waa impregnable. The Germans could never pass. JiTst here the Germans resolved to pass, and that is not as reckless as it sounds. This is the shortest way to Paris. Vordun is the pivotal point of all that part of the western front which overhangs Paris. Here the powers of offense and defense had come to their nth.power; to smash the line at inch a point would rock it from end to end. and possibly throw the whole campaign in France wide open once more. . In any c«”c. it whuld be dcmonvtratcil, llr^t, whether the power of offense could prevail over the highest achievement in defense; and second, what It would cost. Tbs Germans have dared greatly to demonstrate this, because if they should fall It mould be foe one of two reasons—either that a defense could be made practically Invincible or for lack of a certain definite amount of offensive power. As for German Idea la to Bombard System of Forts Before Attempt ing Awault. The battle of Douaumont has been raging for a week and has j-ost the lives, 't Is estimated, of more than twenty-five thousand men. Thousands more have been founded. In the seven -days of fighting the Germans have practically been held In check at this point, although on other portions of the battle front they have smashed in towards Ver dun. Their total gains as reported com prise something more.(lian four hun dred and fifty-seven square miles of territory, twenty thousand prisoners, one hundred and fifteen guns and one hundred and sixty-one machine guns. The battle has been raging with only one short respite since with February 2z, a matter .of twelve days. According to semi-official informa tion the German strategy contem plates a systematic bombardment of the Verdun positions until, laid In ruins by the heavy howitzers, they will be easy prey fo. smashing, surg ing attacks by great masses of In fantry. Tho Teuton’s tactics aimed for the first time in this .war at the preservation of effectives. Will, It Is believed, result in a battle which is likely to last for another two weeks or more. In pursuance of their pknFthe Ger mans have the entire outer ring of -Verdun forts, extending from the sec tion west of the Meuse, across the northern line and on the entire chain of heights which rise from the Meuse plain, under fire. Tons of steel aje being poured into them at every hour cl the day end night. « ItusinrsN Opportunltire—Be your own boss. Why slave for others? Re sponsible man wanted to operate vending machines under our co-op- eratlvo plan. Small capital; part \trnie-: large profits. Chic Mint Gum Co., Wilmington, Del. Improved Early Strain Toole's Pro lific cotton seed. Especially suited where threatened by boll weevils. Heavy yielder. Early as King. Lints over 42 per cent. As long as they last for $1-50^ bushel. Andrew Thome, Routi T, Lairrtflsr'S^ C. Shipiiers!—Highest rash prices paid for scrap iron and steel. 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Staple uniform, full 1 Inches and sold by \is this season at 1814 cents Yield in seed cotton per ncre equal to short cotton and many planting our seed last year tell us they made more.Webber per aero-than short cotton.., Webber is prolific; Webber fruits closely; Webber is 'iarly ma turing; Webber has the staple; Webber brings the price; Webber makes the money. Our Webber last year brought us an average pre mium of more than $25 per bale— about $3,750—and this more than paid for all fertilizer used on'corn and cotton. Mj\ Farmep, take a chance, plant Webber and get more money for your cotton crop. Rricc, while-they last, $1.25 bushel in bags on cars; check to come with order. Ask for .special price on car lots. This ad will not appear again. Whfkman and Mackey, Crmden, S. C. RENEWS VERDUN ATTACK Germans Assume Offensive- From t Meuse to Woevre. tka The German's Jiave resumed their offensive a.ound Verdun with the French strongly opposing It. While over most of the fron*'. from the east of the Minie to the Woevre region, the German big guns have been ae- tlve. arounl Don Aumont the Ten- toss launched several very violent In fantry attacks These, the French war < fflce decUree, were tat down by the French troops, whose flr.^decl- mated the enemy ranks. Le Morte Homme, the Cote du Polvre and the Dou Aumont sector particularly have suffered -heavy bombardments. Northeast of St. Mihiel the French gfins have been working effectively against thj Gcfinan . positions. In Alsace, In the region of Seppois, a heavy artillery duel has been in pro gress. Dispatches frefm both Berlin and Paris point to the difficulties of a further advance in this region. The French positions, Paris points out. rftretrh r.long the heights,- from Sell Your Hides at Home catchers and Beet Clubs, send me your Hides get Check by return mail at highest inArkat priest, .frlte or telephone to me fur .information. WISLE W- MARTIN, - Tanner and I/eather Dealer, jolumbia. h, n. vance the view that the Teutons pre- whiclv the greond drops abruptly to l-vlou-’y h'**^ shown that similar dis- the Woevre plain with its most clay advantageous conditions could be thousard men having been concen-. trated near Buzy, behind. Fort Vaux. .which is sail to have been destroyed soil.'acrpss which the transport of the,- successfully met. the storming of the i by the German heavy'mortars heaviest ot the-German artillery, on heights just to the south by the Ger- ground away from the high roads, is mans in 1914 when £t. Mihiel was heJd to be almost Impossible, while i captured toing -pointed to in. this attacking troops which have to de-j connection. ploy In the open under the lire of the From Dutch sources come reports' French guns on the heights. . ti, a t (he German drive Is to.Tie- re- Berlin commentators, however, ad- ! turned from the northeast, ninety Italian lUttlewhip Hunk. The Italian battleship Marechinro ..has been sunk in the Adriatic Sea. off the coast of Albania. It is be lieved the veesel struck aa Austrian mine.