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* #. SAWS MAKF PFArF AMERICAN Bl’ILT PLANES UAL! (I iH/UlL iLAllLL SOON TO PROTECT TROOPS RUSSIA BOWS TO THE HUNS ACCEPTING HARD TERMS iend reply to .wilson Alrcruft l*i«»Knun l> Sixty Dayti •» t* M • • hind—Republican l*r«i>es VlWkly ronforwces. , Americap-butlt battle planes will be ip France by July in sufflcent quantities to assure adequate air pro tection of the sectors held by Amer ican troops. This statement rests on the highest authority and was made with full recognization of all failures and disappointments that have hanr- pered the development of the air program. Figures of the aviation situation as well as facts and figures on every other branch of the government’s war preparations were laid before vir tually the full membership of the House military committee as they were disclosed to the Senate com mittee. Acting Secretary Crowell again presided at the session at the War Department, where the new pol icy of taking Congress directly into the confidence* of the executive branches of the government was launched. , The comment of - Representative Kahn, of California, ranking Repub lican member of the House commit tee, expressed the sentiment of the House members on' the new policy. He said it means team-work by the NO PEACE IN SIGHT CENTRAL POWERS COMPLETED IN HANDS OF JUNKERS ; • f—4r-^ • ■ • RIOT OFmiTARISM Attitude of Entente Rased l'i>on Changed Tone of Gorman and Aus trians, Who Fall Behind Military lieaders. After Seeing Victory in the Fast—Hihdenburg and liuden- dorff Expect Decision. No (ierman peace offer, no Ger man |>eace hint has reached the I'nited States. Had it ben received it would have been spurned. Pan- Germanism, militarism/ami auto- tpcracy, the forces against which the United States. Had it been received . riot of triumph in Berlin. Their at titude toward Russia and Kouma- nia make a peace, at this time less possible at any time since the war cloud broke in 1014. ed the* lamentable events which mafked the beglnnllv* of the autumn of 1914. Vlt is to he. noted that perman opinion does not realize the exact extent of the success obtained in the east because the people are looking' today towards the west. Hlndenburg said. regarding this: fi ‘Things are * always the same, people never appreciate at their Just value the results^already obtained.' “With the insolence of a fteeman trooper, the commander of The Ger man armies, who, since the battle of the Marne, has met with defeat in every eh counter with the French, said:'‘France has dug her own grave. She is -entirely under the rule of England.’ , “Ludendorff added: ‘We can now pass to the offensive in the west. If this offensive is made it will be very severe. It must be taken into ac count that the enemy has at his disposal a strong reserve of many di visions and that it possesses a fine network or railways for transporting reserves at a point where they, are considered necessary. We are full of confidence" and we remain persuad ed that the fight in which we are to engage Svill end happily for us.’ “Ludendorff said it was of inesti mable value to Germany to possess such » general as Hindenburg. The marshal interrupted him and observ- ! ed: ‘What is essential is the good mo- rethmann-hollwegasked; |l|C«U fiFRIIAN ARMY FOR TWO FRENCH FORTS 11 «LH!HA1! /MUM Lenine Receives Ovations—Bolshe- vikl Leaders Make Peace With War in Their Hearts—To Use Un just Peace as a Weapon Against Bourgeois Nations, Especially Aus- . i , ... tria-Hungary. Russia has bowed to the central empires.. The hard terms of the peace treaty submitted by the Ger mans' at Brest-Litovsk have been * .*• agreed to ^y the all Russian congress of soviets, in session at Moscow, in spite of the opposition of an impor tant element of th& Russian people. There was a faction, however, that registered its disapproval of the trea ty, but the presence of Nikolai Len- ine, the Bolshevik! premier, proba bly, united his followers and ena bled them to roll up a large majori ty in favor of accepting the provis ions of the German peace treaty. President Wilson’s message of sympathy to the Russian people was received with marked applause when It was read at the opening session of the All-Russian C’ongress of Sov- l!d‘pt..i r S%.wC*o”of JppTw-u'loIr i K.hnpredlrtH th.t | iy~m, ir ,. 'th.n half ofthe d ' 0 '«*t.‘.JTh , jyl<nowth.lon th. R«u.l«n moblllotion but lUo to * r *»‘ re»ult» could be looked for | Mpect.d to utlcnd the Coq*™** were •'•IJ ^ Kr»n< c The RuMO-Prcnch •HI-1 Cta»mp»«** end Verdun r.elon. from now on if the weekly confer- reported as voting also caKed com- * democracies of the tnre h|uJ mfcoWB by the whlle^rbrecht** started in the Stml* legislative committees ment. * * 1 ^""i*** 1 * ■ Former Imperial Chancellor Admits Truth of Instructions IMsclosed by i '' *. /. • - ' Fnuich Premier. ' ' i. In an interview published in The Neuste Nachrichten of Berlin.Dr. von Bethniann-weg admits the Truth of the statement made recently by Step hen Pinchon, French foreign minis ter, respecting Germany’s attitude to wards France at the time of the out break of the war. i (M. Pichon said that on July .31, 19H, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg. then German chancellor, Instructed Qaron von Schoen, then German am bassador at Paris, to demand that France, if she desired to remain neu tral in the war between Russia and Germany, should hand over to Ger many, as a guarantee of neutrality, the fortress of Tout and Verdun to be occupied until after the war.) Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg says: “The Russian general mobilization furnished .indisputable proof that those factors which wielded power in Russia over the head of the em peror desired war in all ctrcum stances. My instructions to Baron TEUTON TRENCH SEIZE# The resolution reads: von Schoen on July 31, 1914, have Officials in Washington'dfo not I rate ot.-th^. German soldier’s. It is: been brought to light. But what confess to know to what extent Ger- them that we owe our victory, j bave these instructions to do with many plans to use her. forces in | I am convinced that this morale is Russian mobilization and the attitude whole government on the enormous i policing the provinces Russia is com- j found throughout all Germany.’ ’’ j n f prance? Russian regiments were problems Jhat face It. The figures re- pelled to. relinquish, or how muci The dispatch concludes with the on the march before these instruc vealed to the committee; the imme-J farther German troops may penetrate, following French comment: * I tlons were written. The French gov diate current demands of the war Russia itself. They were deep’y In-. “Thus do those express themselves emment simply declared It would do program and the progress being made J terested in a dispatch from Moscow * Hr * at present moment the what the interests of France demand in meeting them, he added, made it (which said the Russian factions were J'f® 1 **®* ( * B of th ° German nation, ed, • ’1 v i ou -i v h „._._ n th* Hear that the country wa. still un.- deilarln g freely that peece will be Beneath apparent confidence their ' 0 n. could .erlou.ly doubt that I m/n/wn p r | n 7, and0^andIK,Ve wakened to the enormity of the un- j temporary. The fact that only slight- *^ds can we had not only to fight against the | Albrecht of Wurtternburg The i o * w.i.—a. Crown Prince's included the AUne. FRESH TROOPS FACE AMERICAN TRENCHES IN FRANCE American Troops t’ontlnae Ttioir Ac- 4 ^ * tlvity and Snipers Mre So Accur- a « ately That German Soldiers Soon (‘ease Looking Over the Trenches —Artillery Is Active. Interesting possibilities are sug gested by the revelation in Satur- < day’s German official statement that a new German group has been created on the front in Not them France. It is under command of Gen. von Gallwitz, an officer previously prominent in the Russian and Ser bian campaigns, and apparently transferred to the western front last year and put in command of the Ver dun sector Included within the front occupied by the German Crown Prince’s army group. The German statement is so word ed that the boundtries of the dis trict under Gen. von Gallwltz’s com mand can not be determined even ap proximately. That part of the front running east and southeast to the Swiss border from about the vicinity of Laoo on the Aisn# front had pre- The All-Russian Congress of So- 1 ences with the legisla vlets expresses Its appreciation to the people of America and first of Jill to the laboring and exploited isses In the United States for the ment. I ""H’’ attitude adopted by both countries I hie) region and extended to the end are continued. The attitude of the American Oov- . ' * , . during decades that any war would 0 f the line The new von Gallwitz It disclosed to the committee mem- ernment towards any Uerm&n move ^ »." la,er * n ^ f° r on two fronts and groun Is indicate,i as resting hetwi b«r» that th* itUIIoo program li f»r| tovaid . ,. uer.. pe.c. «h. «• TXr* Un.„ p.b-1 iZVr'olTXZT Tj" A^h, short of what had been hoped for. pense of Russia la dtreetly in ivlet republic la Ivlag through most difficult trials. “Tb# Russian Government uses the occasion of the message from President Wilson to etproaa to all peoples who are dvlag and suffer ing from the borroru of Ibis tm- gerfullstlc war lit warm svmpaiby and firm ronvtrfIsa that (be bap- py lime la bear when Ibe laboring masses in ill Bourgeois countries will throw off the mnltaltet yoke and establish a BoHalisi stale of ■nrlsty which tat the only one cap able nf aasartag a permanent and Inst pence as well as and well being nf alt wbn loll 4 *Our front In the east Is now taken any ip- preelsble part nf Albrecht's sector It I follows that of Ibe Americans In Ibe • I aywlf VM MX is Ik* •Hcbtaat I facto* BonbwMl of Tool, al doubt regarding this stale of affairs I AB <| probably those on tbs lias of when tbs Instructions were seal tolLuaesllls are facing Ibe troops un it a rog von Acboea. but pre* laaly furthermore our enemies* own pub- — II l-J — —. i ^ — — ( 7* »T V-Ilcatlons regarding the events of July I groans •*afe sent by President Wilson Figures e*tfmatlng that deficiency In with the expression of Lord Robert ln lh s 1 ** No k " _ 1tl4. also testify that Rassla her- ifVoa Gallwlti has o th* Uongrestt of fU,vlets la tht. percentage that have been quoted. | rscl, la tbs House of Uomuous. The general said the eaomv was wqLI^V"* France, a. Lriitahl" 2!" of aiw when the Ruislan Rorlalisl | however, were shown to be wrong (that, even If such a proposal came rom# lo ottnru and would find uor- The actual delay can be figured only f roIB Germany It would not be con • ,l< * ,h * ! ■ 0, In point of time The airplane pro- ,idered Inclined to make pe.re he aould have ductlon program Is sixty days behind War Itepartment officials are not ,0 what had been hoi»eii for by the most convinced that the German* are sanguine officials The, foreign con- ready t» undertake . big offensive on tract* which eas to have provided m* wsoUm frost despite advance ths laitlal fighting equipment for notice* sent out from Germanr Gen Pershing's air forces are still \\ hate%er Germany • program how further behind There is every pros r *#r. America and the Allies. It was pert however, that tome of the de- reiterated, are la the aar to w|a lay will be made up and their stand against premature Bvoa should the sixty days’ Inal pence Is as atmag as It baa boon I***"*. **!.* ** m9 99f0 gooply engaged In Ibo Irbn^&nSLm Mrtae la whteh lime staad and eve. tbongb I be re ^y lime i. ibe past ^ Knot fall npo. should be no deliveries on ibe Bam- Tbl* is as arc urate reflection of •*•*****••?• - ** banal- j ~| g 0 not need to point out In wbnl I need let I bean coat met a Oen Perablng will re-, admlaletratloa seatimeai made svaiV J* stand InglU readiaess an our # drspemie position we show Id have I wg # , ^, cetse a coastdeiable aumber of Amer #Wp ,* Wasblagton h * was tb# std# in tb# greatest abwadaacc ^eea placed In sorb a contingency I ^. wan bnllt planes by July Estimates r „ mm +nt with which certain eg.* If tbe enemy wlsbee to attack only a nenimllty which wae aorurely fnr tbe effart men material, aerial foce*. laali*. evervtbiag ia fact. < rd l« staadiag is side ia the greatest If the sue my wl*l • f 'hr i mr required to get n r..m r*rpi» from the German press ef re- new M him 4# an He will find a* The congress le being held la the p - ed battle plane frem ibe factnry , r# nt dale were made available ' 'ready If tbe enemy does net want splendid banquet ball nf ibe N«.biii ^ m ibe Untied States in ibe Imat have | B odd Mien |n tbe eipr«--- <>aa nf bmee be wilt have to fight and Ibis If Club, where former emnemrs of- been placed at ninety days. Tb# War ,be German prsea offiriala paint to fight will, nf mane be Ibe mam ten were entertained Soldiers anil- Department la new concent ml lag Na f mr more slenifFaat detcirp tremendnns nf Ibe whale war. with ts of arihtal Germaa *.-4 . aid we will nbtnl. a German nf tba ia the »♦• farmed a maloniy offarts nf red nr lag that period with deicssies pcesent M bright pmaperis »f ratting H In half Speeding up efforts are belag di rected also at even other in Ibr aircraft program it ml ore sad pea*< of the 1.144 Beardloff chairman nf tba esamtlve rammltte# nf tb# congress presided Tbe Bnlsbevibl member somber Tit and there am thirty eight Snrinl RsvnBHIanieta nf tbe left Premier Ionise made tbe prin* npaI seeerb bad received g grant eea* lion He reviewed the bieterv nf Ibe revetnttna sad smpbaetred tbe hares ’ * site nf signing • aagre treaty M Trhitrberta tbe a<Hac fr»r**lga mle lstar reed the pence terms It was derided that pence should be raneld pence, net a doubtful TO FMRT FOR CHARLESTON JOFFRE SEES BAKER 1 la ibe last feu ueebs |l ua* roust ('semis It Is point* ed oat. ubo made lb# peace through ubicb Rumsala uaa t broil led The man eio apparently came closer to , edmilMSg (be possibility of a Just peace ibaa any other st*t *maa promptly tamed around and made ubat has bees rbafactertted as tbe most ruthless application of German pouer ubicb has yet been seen # ^ _ Ryan ibe moderate llbemls oj tier- mwmm Marshal Joffre called an Becre- many have been carried nngy by tbe be bad given blmeelf fur ibe dam- Baber Monday aad tbe ear re- •mrreua of the German arm. accord- iiu. nf b>e trip In Trenton * to doa through rs<ev irated aniHury fire in %i Bess tor Ttllmaa wga buck In ble aft tee at Washington Batarday bnv-, * lag returned anwner than the limit afford us prater i American ti aa went unlity. I ^nor bare I would alan Hbu to remind the I mg |BbSmssm*. fUOJ tit BMIkar tor* al ff***•#!** 10*rm,M 1* ,l for France a neutmlity not in any I mid. and Posy connected wiih tbe unfulfilled I Th« ti taatructlons We sipreealy declared Ld ollb earn that dnrlnmtlnn nf Fmneea neat ml I TkH t bough g small |Nf HUf m >—>>*«■ Mrart —***,,*,. m*r%a tka StM feyjfggBtBgjgBd^jr^gggig^gg^W—lMi gjpgMB Ir ^g MM RAIDS CAUSE PANK (—fj-*-**. ground than The German* made only tempts to retake the poe •o At tn .>4 Bfi*r Itoi i.rr lai*r r««r**4 Ik* «»ll •< >k*|Ug o UUranu* r**rk!M Ik* Sal* •fe*«r'ik*~bUbiim *1 kto HIt* 1 ^ |h# c#|fc .! ^ ,. rfc . lr f the capita! fmm Fetm-jamrshar. headquarter* The aerre- ibe election nf g new MB-1 tnry nlan efailed Get Tanhae li gHtn ggmmlftee. BHgg, Ametimn representative on tbe j anpreme war roanctl at Versailles. •• r ooi yet nnd etparted to see President. Poin care this e«anlng Mr, Baker * party leaves for a seaport town from which a rill be made along removal emd and tml e»ec ntlve committee ‘Peer* with Ibe rent ml pouers Is ratified but our real bonus With this slngaa tbe bolshevik 1st government, emerging from tbe All* Rnseian euviet r eagre m etpenger i trig gf i then ever because H pat through the {.* lines «>f comm unice lion t# tbe mtlflcatlon bv an overwhelming vote j Adierireu headquarters it Report* from Germany say that ■ panics have been brought about by - k.B-k. , * ' tBw Brit lab aerial attacks nn German | By the oik party, wblrb wan on Inclined far man nf tbe neest committee nn hie, towns At UoMcati. gcvordlng tn a peace tbrugb understanding where side of the capital, be oould try to (Usui dlspatcbou. there wem the pope made bis last plea Is re- k#og m the naval appropriation Mil g| on (breaks nf Dm In Ibe ported to have gone aver almost t# j anything far tbe Charleston yard j era portion nf Me town end i ,hr Mtent of half Ha membersk p to,that came over fmm lb# House, nnd altion factory was blow, na Tb#l'° •kal k* ...14 ■■4*rtak* I. *Bt Ik* r.ll.., “ PHte.r. ... ••« Charlestoa dock la tke bill whether a gala badly damaged Swiss travelers provisioa for the 4e-foot eban- satpora bars bona vary both tact oca Boat of Lane enemy snipers were aUaomd ns On tbe Tool front talking and eenn sing rae boned within tbe enemy Beveml times tbe eel tn wnrb after momentous sesalon ontllngtne Jbe mmpnlgn of Russia* tbe Imperialists Rvea tbe voice of Bcboidemaaa. tbe anriallat leader, baa ant been raised convincingly against tbe an nexations and armgmnma nf tb# Rua- wbat tbe In a talk wttk newspaper rorres- «u n and Rumaalaa peace terms ^ pobdeata Mr. Baker said be was im-1 The Pan-Germans and officials nn- Bii4lk*«orl4._*roJ*Urt«l pr*Mrf with tk* ror4l»litr °l th* r*- p*n op*alv bo«.l (kal tkro,(k tk* r y- ' ta.-pr^: l enino* asserts, baa only begun to , | a n 0 n a exladng between tbe French ^ ael went (Nro .c u or not The Senator does not fancy mak ing tb# provision for tbe dock adgm lately dependent, aa tbe House naval flpbt ‘ land Americana, which bad mnalfast- Thls too was tbe keynote of the ^ itself In several ways since bis resolution adopted by tbe congress In arrival • on*e to President Wilson's men- 9*9 1 While voicing Russia’s appre-j Ion the reply summons the mss- of America and of all other coun- j tries to loin the Russian proletariat TROOPS TO QUELL RIOTINO triumph of tba German armies In | vision for tbe channel the east It has been possible to aban don the peace resolution which tbe relrhstag passed last July AUSTRIANS ACTIVE According to news received in Am- AI/3I WAnj AW I If C sterdam. Field Marshal von Hlndea- • burg has stated in an Interview In Rhm I p Italian Pneitiou—Another Berlin that the Entente had shown report that In tbn principal Rhine of tb# I cities many bosses sad apartments number •re vacant, numbers of persons mov wing to Teutrsl Germany and Bwitser- land. They any opinion la growing against continuation of German air raids PLACES THE BLAME ■. .. ■ _ ... ^, an unresponsive attitude toward Oer- 1n a vast social unheaval to rid the. Between I. \\. H. and (ftizens of many’s peace intentions and that the universe of imperialism. Everyone tn that greet SMsem- hlage In the historic hall of the no bility who enst his vote for peace did so with war to the knife tn his heart: a different sort off war from that fought on the various hat tie- fields today, hut war just yio same—perhaps more .deadly and. more decisive. Out of every speech, from that of Kt. Maries. Idaho. Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray, com manding the Western Army Depart ment, announces that he had order ed troops dispatched to St. Maries. Idaho, where rioting was reported between citizens and members of the I. W. W. Gen. Murray declined to say how many troops were being sent or from what point. great German / offensive therefore must go on. In well informed neutral quarters recently the Associated Press corre spondent w as-told that the Germans were prepared to lose 300,000 men in an offensive operation. The Verdun offensive of the Ger mans. in which they failed to break the French line, has been estimated in conservative quarters as having cost them something like 500.000 Nikolai Lenine down to that of the vengeance as soon as she is ready, men. humblest bolshevlst agitator, rang ( With fair means or foul the bol- An officiul dispatch from France an undying determination to avenge ( sheviki propose to spread over the says: the shame that Russia was today' Teutonic lands the seed of revolt. “Before making their last trip to i -forced to accept unconditionally. But ( Austria-Hungary is to he the imme-I Berlin Hindenburg and Ludendorff j to the outsideWorld. both Russia’s [ diate and special field for bolshe-! made certain statements to the news-i OffeuiMlve Expected The Austrians report that Italian positions on Mount Pasubio, In the mountainous sections of the Italian battle line, have been blown up and that Austrian forces have occupied the ground Mount Pasubio is east of Lake Garda and on the left side of a deep salient in the Italian line. The attack on the positions on the left bank of the Bacchiglione river may indicate the approach of a serious blow at the Italians there in the hope of opening a way into the Bacchi glione valley and turning the flank FlMicittaa IjHklier aad < ondurt<»r Meredith Taaised Wreck That Flagman Harry Lockller. of passenger trqln 19, was primarily re sponsible and that Conductor J. O. Meredith, of the same train, was sec ondarily responsible for the disas trous wreck at Frost, a small station on the Southern Railway six and one-half miles west of Columbia, on February 25, when thirteen persons lost their lives and two score of oth ers were injured In a collision of Southern Railway passenger trains, w‘as the unanimous decision of the members of the South Carolina Rail of the Italian armies guarding thejroad Commission, delivered late Sat- lower Piave. x enemies and friends, the vital thing is this,- that Russia—the great mass of the Ruslan people saturated with class war w fanaticism-—considers overv countrv in the world except "herself ruled by “imperialists,’' every people on the fare of the globe ‘ex ploited” and dreams of and will henceforth work for an archarehistic world upheaval. Lenine epitomized this feeling which has become a national obsces- sion in this war-racked Russian land when he declared in his speech be fore the-soviet: “Our only friend is the proleta riat of all countries.*’ One thing seemed absolutely cer tain. Russia considers this a make shift peace, a respite enabling her to recuperate, and will wreak her attached to GERMANS ADVANCING vist preachings and propaganda. paper correspondents Here,., .indeed, lies the indirect i great headquarters. *— meaning of surrenders vote: It is a “This interview probablv had a ..... . , ... .. surrender only in phrasd. but in fact double purpose—that of encouraging! 0 11 * 0 ‘ l/A a }i and effect it is a declaration of war. public opinion and of bringing pres- Torts of Russia a w r ar w’hich could not even be be-; sure to bear upon the adversary by i .. the usual Germanic bluff.What is! The Germans have occupied Nok- outstanciing in the declarations—-of olayev, in addition to/Odessa, ac- the two generals, swollen with pride ; cording to a Reuter dispatch from and childish vanity, is that the Ger- Petrograd. man Government is more than ever Nikolayev, which lies about 4 0 urday afternoon. SERBIA UNDAUNTED Continues to Fight Its Foes In Spite .v of liossrs. gun while the Teuton armies were sweeping through Russia. The peace now finally ratified Russia proposes to use as her sharpest weapon: Immediately after the taking of the vote Lenine went Into consulta tion with his chief advisers and de liberated regarding the future. First and foremost on the bolshevlst pro gram is a thorough-going reconstruc tion. The authors of Russia’s chaos have been converted to the truth that chaos has struck Russia the body blow. Through order and reo.rganiza-- tion they mean to revive her. before in the hands of thf military miles northwest of Khersen, on the caste, brutal, narrow and insolent. “Discussing the events in the east Hindenburg declared: “The chain w’hich w’as to bind us is from henceforth broken. We can now employ all our forces in' the west, It is ..absolutely necessary for us to procure security to our fron tiers so that we shall not see repeat- Bug River, oijk the estuary of the Dnieper, has occupied a prominent place In the naval defense of Russia. It has a great navy yard and Is the seat of a military governor who is commander of the Black Sea fleet. The approaches to the city strongly fortified. Its population numbers about lOO.OfiO. r The peace treaties that have been signed by Russia and Rumania have not caused any change in Serbia’s attitude, M. Grultsch, Serbia’s diplo matic representative here, has in formed a Swiss interviewer. All the rumors in regard to a sep arate peace on the part of Serbia are unfounded, he declared. Al though Serbia had lost in the war and during the occupation about 1.- 000,000 of her inhabitants, added are M. Grultsch, there were still the men and the will to perservere In Serbia*! former course. rifle weal la tke ad After several of their ere kit tke At oae place aa Aaiericaa sea try saw a figure sllaklag through tke dark Beta Tke naa halted whea challenged and was found to ba a German prisoner who had escaped and was trying to get back to his own lines. Tbs German waa turn ed over to the French antkorttlea. Tbe place where the German waa captured was not far from where an American one-pounder waa basy firing on a large nest of enemy snip ers. who had been annoying our lines. After several shots the Ger mans withdrew. The American artillery in the Toul sector again battered the German lines and observation posts and caus ed an explosion probably of an am munition dump. Hundreds of shells were sent into three new German trenches where weapons resembling gas projectors had been erected. The visibility was poor, but many air planes were up. It is beHeved certain that the Ger mans have permanently .abandoned trenches to the northeast of Badon- villers. near Lunevllle. The enemy is no# hurling quantities of large shells, some of twelve inches, at our positions there. : WANT 4,000 BOYS South (’arohna Is Asked to Furnish Fanner’s R♦‘serve Quotas of boys which each state is to furnish in the campaign to en list a boys’ working reserve of 2:><>.- 000 for the farmers, was announced by the department of labor Sunday night. It includes: Georgia, Alabama and Virginia. S.Ouu each; North Carolina and Ar kansas, 7,000 each, South Carolina. 4.000; Florida, 2.500; Ketucky, 9,- 500; Oklahoma. 11,000, and Tkxas. 25.000, # • # _ * . » . * * , • / ‘ * end in Your Renewal to People NOW