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BAY NOT USE AMERICANS TILL ARMY IS COMPLETE AM) POWERFUL FORCE. Summary of Situation Says Huns Have Drained Country to Force Decision Ere it is Too Late. * At********** *. London, May 13.?The Asso- * * ciated Press was officially noti- * * fied tonight that the statement * * sent out from Ottawa last night * * attributing to the war eommuiee * of the British cabinet, announce- * * ment that it had been decided * * not to use the American army * * on the western front until it * * became a complete and powerful * * force was due to an error, which * * has now been discovered. * ************ Ottawa, May 12.?So confident is the Entente of its ability to withstand any drive the Germans can launch that it has been decided not to use the American army until it becomes a complete and powerful force, according to cable summary of operations on the western front received here tonight from the war commit^ tee of the British cabinet. "The position now is," according to the summary, "that the Germans are draining their country dry to force a decision before it is too late, whil^ the Entente are so confident that, having been given the choice of a small immediate American army for defence, or waiting till they are reinforced by a complete self-supporting American army, they have ehosen the latter. Allied Strategy. "To the sledge-hammer use of masses.of men by the enemyvthe Allies are opposing the strategy of meeting the blow with the smallest force capable of standing up to the shock while keeping the strongest preserve possible. Troops on the * wings are permitted to give ground within limits whenever the enemy has been made to pay a greater price than the ground is worth. "In the present operations the British army has withstood many times its own weight of enemy masses. It has retired slowly, exacting the fullest price.. Meanwhile, Foch holds the bulk of the French in re. serve, sending units only to points hard pressed. This strategy has justified itself in that three weeks it has seen the enemy brought to a standstill without a single strategic objective being fulfilled and with losses so immense that his reserve is in danger of proving inadequate. Has Seen Failure. t "The German commander seeing ' how nearly he is delivering himself to the Allied reserve has been compelled to accept temporary failure and call a halt. His position is tactically exposed in two dangerous salients on water-logged ground. His countrymen are dangerously dissatisfied at the immediate price paid for his failure to terminate their suffering. His Allies are on the verge of quarreling and daily exhibit their growing dislike and distrust of the master who robs them of their lives and food. v His Defeat Inevitable. "His reserves have nearly reached complete exhaustion. Those of the Franco-British are still intact, while the American preparations develop. The time draws closer when defeat is inevitable. Therefore, he must renew the offensive. His preparations proceed feverishly, but it takes months to properly organize such an i offensive. He must be satisfied with what he can do in weeks. We may therefore expect a renewed, furious onslaught before long. Victory Deferred. "The Allies may have complete confidence in the reserve. For the enemy the issue is a desperate endeavor to avoid defeat; for the Allies the issue is only that of victory aeierrea. rne coming oame may ue a repetition of Verdun on a large scale and if both sides should be exhausted the Allies have vast powers of recuperation while Germany has c drained her resources already." An Editorial Dilemma. We begin the publication of the Rocky Mountain Cyclone with some phew diphiculties in the way. The type phounder phrom whom we bought our outphit phor this printing ophice phailed to supply us with any ephs or cays, and it will be phour or phive weex bephore we can get any. We have ordered the missing letters and will have to get along without them 'till they come. We don't lique the loox ov this variety ov spelling any better than our readers, but mistaix will happen in the best ov regulated phamilies, and iph the eph's and 's and x's and q's hold out, we shall ceep (sound the c hard) the Cyclone whirling aphter a phasion 'till the sorts arrive. It is no joque to us: it's a serious aphair.?Rocky Mountain Cyclone. \ OVER THE TOP. (Continued from page 3, column 3.) J . war. From that time on diplomatic re- i lations were severed. Returning to Tommy, I think bis! spirit is best shown in the questions he asks. It is never "who is going to win" but always "how long will it take?" CHAPTER XX. "Chats With Fritz." We were swimming in money, from the receipts of our theatrical venture, and had forgotten all about the war, when an order came through that our brigade would again tal^e over their sector of the line. The day that these orders were issued, our captain assembled the company and asked for volunteers to go to the Machine Gun school at St. Omar. I volunteered and was accepted. Sixteen men from our brigade left for the course in machine gunnery. This course lasted two weeks and we rejoined our unit and were assigned to the brigade machine gun company. It almost broke my heart to leave my company mates. The gun we used was the Vickers, Light .303, water cooled. I was still a member of the Suicide club, having jumped from the frying pan into the fire. I was assigned to section 1, gun No. 2, and the first time "in" took position in the front-line trench. During the day our gun would be dismounted on the fire step ready for instant use. We shared a dugout with the Lewis gunners. At "stand to" we would mount our gun on the parapet and go on watch beside it until "stand down" in the morning. Then the gun would be dismounted and again placed in readiness on the fhjp step. We did eight days in the front-line trench without anything unusual hap? - ? * ? ?^ ^ AU/v peuing UUiSlUe UJL LUC uiumaijr ucuv.11 routine. On the night that we were to "carry out," a bombing raid against the German lines was pulled off. This raiding party consisted of sixty company men, sixteen bombers, and four Lewis machine guns with their crews. The raid took the Boches by surprise and was a complete success, the party bringing back twenty-one prisoners. The Germans must have been awfully sore, because they turned loose a barrage of shrapnel, with a few "Minnies" and "whizz bangs" intermixed. The shells were dropping into our front line like hailstones. To get even, we could have left the prisoners in the fire trench, in charge of the men on guard and let them click Fritz's strafeing but Tommy does not treat prisoners that way. Five of them were brought Into my dugout and turned over to me so that they would be safe from the German fire. In the candlelight, they looked very much shaken, nerves gone and chalky faces, with the exception of one, a great big fellow. He looked very much at ease. I liked him from the start. I got out the rum lar and gave each a nip and passed around some fags, the old reliable Woodbines. The other prisoners looked their gratitude, but the big fellow said in English, "Thank you, sir, the rum is excellent and I appreciate it, also your kindness." He told me his name was Carl Schmidt, of the Sixty-sixth Bavarian Light infantry; that he had lived six years in New York (knew the city better than I did), had been to Coney island and many of our ball games. He was a regular fan. I couldn't make him believe that Hans Wagner wasn't the best ball player in the world. From New York he had gone to London, where he worked as a waiter in the Hotel Russell. Just before the war he went home to Germany to see his parents, the war came and he was conscripted. He told me he was very sorry to hear that London was in ruins from the Zeppelin raids. I could not con1 vince him otherwise, for hadn't he seen moving pictures in one of the German cities of St. Paul's cathedral in ruins. I changed the subject because he I was so stubborn in his belief. It was my intention to try and pump him for information as to the methods of the German snipers, who had been causing' us trouble in the last few days. I broached the subject and he shut up like a clam. After a few minutes he very innocently said: "German snipers get paid rewards for killing the English." > I eagerly asked, "What are they?" He answered: "For killing or wounding an English private, the sniper gets one mark. For J. __ n _ m Killing or wounding an mngnsn omcer he gets five marks, but if he kills a Red Cap or English general, the sniper gets twenty-one days tied to the wheel of a limber as punishment for his carelessness." Then he paused, waiting for me to bite, I suppose. I bit all right and asked him why the sniper was punished for killing an English general. With a smile he replied: "Well, you see, if all the English generals were killed, there wonld be no one left to make costly mistakes." I shut him up, he was getting too fresh for a prisoner. After a while he winked at me and I winked back, then the escort came to take the prisoners to the rear. I shook hands and wished him "Thp best of lnrk And a Rflfp lour I ney to Blighty." I liked that prisoner, be was a fine ; fellow, had an Iron Cross, too. I advised him to keep it ont of sight, or some Tommy would be sending it home to his girl in Blighty as a souvenir. One dark and rainy night while on guard we were looking over the top the fire sten at our ?nm?41ne W i <TT I Take What's Needed. 'g , Some 175 million bushels of the p 1917 wheat crop are being held back z f and, if not marketed by May 15, will fi be confiscated by the government ? under authority of military necessity, say Washington Press Associated dispatches. Tf tlie government can connscate ai0 farmer's wheat, why cannot it confis-j c cate any other sort of his property, or! T any other man's? c Must there be a special authoriza-| i: tion or law as to wheat, and other n special enactments as to pigs, horses | v lumber, etc., down the whole list of it property? . | u There is much roaring by certain of j a oi;r statesmen over the granting of r autocratic powers to the administration an<i, in several instances, the administration itself has seemed to hesitate to act until more definate and formal authority was granted. Congress does not realize and, per- r haps the administration does not fully appreciate the extent to which the country feels that all that it has, in t particular and in general, is war pro- i perty, to be taken and used by the r trench, when we heard a noise Imme- ^ diately In front of our barbed wire. The sentry next to me challenged. "Halt, who comes there?" and brought his rifle to the aim. His challenge was answered in German. A captain in the nov+ /illmhafl rinnn f Vi o conH. UvAt UUT^lOg ^liUiUV-U U^Vll UUV MMUVA bagged parapet to investigate?a brave but foolhardy deed?"Crack" went a bullet and he tumbled back into the trench with a hole through his stomach and died a few minutes later. A lance corporal in the next platoon was so enraged at the captain's death that he chucked a Mills bomb in the direction of the noise with the shouted warning to us: "Duck your nappers, my lucky . lads." A sharp dynamite report, a flare in front of us, and then silence. We immediately sent up two star shells, and in their light could see two dark forms lying on the ground close to our wire. A sergeant and four stretcher-bearers went out In front and soon returned, carrying two limp bodies. Down in the dugout, in the flickering light of three candles, we " saw that they were two German officers, one* a captain and the other an "unteroffizier," a rank one grade higher than a sergeant general, but below the grade of lieutenant. The captain's face had been almost completely torn away by the bomb's explosion. The unteroffizier was alive, breathing with difficulty. In a few minutes he opened his eyes and blinked in Z the glare of the candles. The pair had evidently been drink- } Ing heavily, for the alcohol fumes were ? sickening and completely pervaded the i dugout I turned away in disgust \ hating to see a man cross the Great Di- ^ vide full of booze. c One of our officers could speak Ger- J man and he questioned the dying man. In a faint voice, interrupted by fre- ] quent hiccoughs, the unteroffizier told his story. Thprp hnd hppn ft drinldner bout among the officers in one of the Ger- ' man dugouts, the main beverage being champagne. With a drunken leer he c informed us that champagne was plen- \ tiful on their side and that It did not cost them anything either. About seven . that night the conversation had turned to the "contemptible" English, and the captain had made a wager that he would hang his cap on the English barbed wire to show his contempt for the English sentries. The wager was accepted. At eight o'clock the captain and he had crept out into No Man's Land to carry out this wager. They had gotten about halfway across when the drink took effect and the captain fell 'asleep. After about two hours of vain attempts the unteroffizier had at last succeeded in waking the captain, reminded him of his bet, and warned him that he would be the laughing stock of the officers' mess if he did not accomplish his object, but the captain was trembling all over and An nA+iinninof fL n rinrmQn XUdlStCU UU IClUlUlUg IV IUU VJVJLUJUU lines. In the darkness they lost their bearings and crawled toward the English trenches. They reached the barbed wire and were suddenly challenged by our sentry. Being too drunk to realize that the challenge was in English, the captain refused to crawl back. Finally the unteroffizier convinced his superior that they were in front of the English wire. Realizing this too late, the captain drew his revolver and with a muttered curse fired blindly toward our trench. His bullet no doubt killed our captain. N Then the bomb came over and there he was, dying?and a good Job too, we thoueht. The caDtain dead? Well, his men wouldn't weep at the news. Without giving us any further information the unteroffizier died. We searched the bodies for Identification disks but they had left everything behind before starting on their foolhardy errand. Next afternoon we buried them in our little cemetery apart from the graves of the Tommies. If you ever go into that cemetery you will see two little wooden crosses in the corner of the cemetery set away from the rest They read: Captain German Army Died ? 1916 Unknown It. I. P. j Unteroffizier \r" German Army Vv Died ?1916 Unknown I B.LP, .i v. x(To be continued next week.) :overnment as it sees fit. The country is not worrying about lans, programmes, formal authori-1 ation but about performances. All i ear has oozed out of the terms "con-| iscation" and "commandeering. "! Lnd particularly just now does the ountry feel that time is most pre-1 ious. All the talk about infringing upon j ur demorcracy and about the rights. )f property is twaddle and hypoc-j isy. We're not going to have any. lemocracy or property unless we get! nto the fight for all that's in us,; nighty soon. Confiscate hoarded fheat? Yes, and confiscate everyhing else that's hoarded and needed n the war, with or without any other uthorization than the fact that it's | nilitary necessity.?Augusta Herald.! ^ i>I ^ Help Oust Autocracy?Buy War Savings Stamps. For heating small rooms a gas raliator resembling the usual hot air; adiator has been invented. The total acreage in sugar cane in he 24 sugar parishes of Louisiana n 1918 is estimated at 218,000 aces, as compared with 293,000 in. 917 and 315,000 in 1909. TWA 5. HULStfWQSSlAlfff , iiionnrtn UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Buy Them And Help Win Tlie War FOR SALE EVERYWHERE This Space Patriotically ? Donated By A. RICE BAMBERG, S.[C. J. F. Carter B. D. Carter CARTER & CARTER ATTORNETS-AT-LAW Special attention given to settlement of Estates and investigation of Land Titles. BAMBERG, S. 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