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b Hi flrambprg lipralfr to One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1918. Established 1891. NEW GERMAN DRIVE IS ON MEETS WITH LITTLE SUCCESS. AMERICANS DOING WELL. Fierce Battle in Progress Along Front * of More Than Half Hundred ^ Miles.?Began Monday. ^ The expected renewal of the German offensive in France has begun. Fierce battles are in progress on hnth sides of the famous cathedral city of Rheims which since the last offensive along the Marne has stood the apex of a sharp salient into the German line. West of Rheims the Germans with the pressure of large number of troops, the unleashing of which was preceded by a veritable hail of high fc explosives and gas shells, have been B enabled to cross the Marne at several places. East of the city, however, they have been met by tenacious resistance of the defenders of the line. Altogether the two battle fronts aggregate about 65 miles in length. American troops are fighting valiantly on the sectors they have been holding and at two points have met with notable success. At Vaux they not only broke down a violent attack by the enemy but drove him back several hundred yards and only returned to their former positions when the advance of the Germans southeast of Chateau-Thierry across * the Marne made the reoccupation of their trenches of strategetic value. A l/vnty \Toi?no hotwOOn fhp AIV/U5 iUUi UV WVVTTVVU V?V town of Fossy and the River Surmelin, where the Germans crossed the Marne, the Americans in a strong counterattack forced back to the right bank of stream. At other points along the river they used to the greatest advantage their mail chine guns against enemy elements i which were crossing the river on pontoon bridges, killing and wounding many of them. In the counterattack near Fossoy between 1,000 i and 1,500 Germans were made prisoner by the Americans. , The captured contingents includ- ; ^ ' ed a complete brigade staff. The 1 French general in command on the 1 sector sent a congratulatory mes- ' sage to the general in command of j the American troops. The Germans 1 in addition to their tremendous ex- ( penditure of explosives and gas shells used numbers of tanks against 1 the lines of the defenders and also opened with numerous naval guns bombardment of towns and cities far behind the battle line, dropping upon them shells from 10 to 12 inch r pieces. 1 mnnpfc Wa/lnoadav in H irn tpri 1 X iio * vyui I.O l< VUUVUVIMJ that the German drive had been practically halted. The new drive netted the Germans almost nothing. ] C The American, British and French 1 troops are holding all lines, according to the dispatches. Nearly all of j xthe preliminary gains made by the 1 Germans in the first stages of the 1 offensive were retaken by the allied ( troops. In this counter-offensive, the Americans played the stellar role. ! Along the American front, the Ger- * mans crossed the Marne, and ad'vanced a maximum distance of six \ miles. A counter-attack was im- ' mediately staged, the Teutons were ; driven back across the river, with 1 * exceedingly heavy losses. The pon- J toon bridges thrown across by the ; Germans were destroyed by American gunners, and the Germans were drowned in large numbers in trying to retreat across the Marne. Pushing the Huns Back. Hgfc July 14.?Rainy weather in Northern France has caused the thorough soaking of the ground, partipularly in the low lying positions of the bat. . tie front, and not inconceivably has had something to do with the delay of the Germans in renewing their of" fensive. It is a month now since the last offensive died down, swamped by the tide of a French success on the banks of the Matz, north of Com- , piege. Poshing Back Huns. Meanwhile the Allies have been pushing back the German lines little by little at various important points, hardly a day going by without .a French or a British attack. These in the aggregate have gained valuable a . defensive ground and resulted in the taking of thousands of prisoners. ; Meanwhile the German diplomats are again airing their war aims and programmes and engaging in peace discussion among themselves. The German chancellor has touched upon the vital question of Belgium in the relation^ of the status of that nation I % DIES DURING FISTICUFF. Doctor Says Apoplexy Probably Caused Farmer's Death. York, July 12.?James D. Miskelly and Barber Wallace, two farmers who live five miles south of Yorkville, got into an altercation this morning. Miskelly got Wallace down and pummelled him. Suddenly his efforts grew weaker and Wallace turned Miskelly and got on top of him and began pummelling him. A son of Miskelly went to his father's assistance and nulline Wallace off found that the elder Miskelly had apparently fainted. Water was poured on his face and failing to revive him an examination was made and it was found that Miskelly was dead. An inquest was held and the attending physician gave as his opinion that death was probably due to apoplexy as there were no marks on the dead man that would warrant a belief that his death was due to injuries inflicted by Wallace. Young Miskelly's evidence was given before the coroner in an unprejudiced manner and as the facts warranted Wallace was released by Judge Moore with the consent of the solicitor on a bond of $1,000. / Birth Registration Necessary. The only way of keeping an official record of a person's birth is by birth registration. It is probably the most important record in a person's life because it is a proof of his or her letitimacy, his or her descent, his or her right to inherit property belonging to the family, and his or her age for schooling, voting and marrying. It *will not be long before a birth certificate is required for al-! most every kind of service and occu- j pation. It is really not safe to travel in any country without the legal authority of one's citizenship, which is] supplied by a birth certificate. ? < ? ? Kansas City has conductresses on i Its trolley cars. France is importing 12,000 Chinese coolies a month. to peace and has declared that Germany does not intend to retain that country "in any form whatever." She is holding it as a pawn in the negotiations; he asserted, and the German Government finds it expedient to explain this utterance in an official ? -V J statement, in wmcn it is aecmreu that the holder of a pawn does not intend to keep it "if the negotiations bring a satisfactory result." Troubled as to Russia. Germany also is exercised at the situation in Russia if the utterances of her newspapers go for anything. The idea that the Bolsheviki are retaining, power by the veriest thread is reflected in advices to some of the German organs, and the fear that the Bolsheviki regime will fall and with it the elaborate edifice erected in the German interest by the Brest-Litovsk treaty, is openly expressed. Disquietude over the hold the ?Czecho-Slpraks have obtained upon Siberia and at the prospect of an Allied descent j nto interior Russia "from the north," the Murman coast evidently being meant, is likewise voiced. In this connection, it may be noted, it was announced in Washington yesterday that British reinforcements have been . 3 _ x. i-x xu . n sent to sioena 10 assist me nuasjauo and Czecho-Slovaks in protecting the Allied stores at Vladivostok. Peace Feelers. Washington advices reflect the dew there that further and more definite peace feelers may be expected from Germany, which is felt in high quarters to have her eyes turned to the east with the gaining of control in Russia, outweighing in her estimation all that she might have been inclined to make in an effort to retain upon the western front. American military effort meanwhile is growing apace, it being announced by the chief of staff in Washington that the number of troops dispatched to France has grown to 1,100,000, some 90,000 men having left in the past week. The formation of three army corps from the troops in France, each corps comprising from 225,000 to 250,000 men, was also made known. Albanian Campaign. The Albanian campaign, although entirely subsidiary to the operations on the western front, has continued to be the most active theater of war, so far as extensive gains of ground are involved. The advance made mainly by the Italians, with the French on the right flank, has already reached a maximum depth of twenty-two miles on a front of some eighty miles, straightening the Allied line as it runs from the Adriatic and links up with the Macedonian front. SCORE VICTORIES IN AIR FOUR THOUSAND MACHINES DOWNED IN YEAR. Army and Navy Busy.?Royal Air Service Has Had Profitable 12 Months Against Enemy. London, July 13.?In one year on the British Western front the royal air force has accounted for 3,233 enemy airplanes. In the same period the naval airmen shot down 623, a total of 3.856. An official statement dealing with these operations says: "The royal air force during the year beginning July 1, 1917, on the British Western front destroyed 2,150 hostile machines and drove down out of control 1,083. In the same j period the air force units working in ! conjunction with the navy shot down 623 hostile machines. "During this period 1,094 of our machines were missing, 92 of these were working with the navy. "On the Italian front from April to June, 1918, the British destroyed 165 hostile machines and drove down six out of control. Thirteen of ours were missing. "On the Saloniki front between January and June 21 hostile machines were destroyed and 13 were driven down out of control. Four of ours were lost. "From March to June in Egypt and Palestine, 26 hostile airplanes were destroyed and 15 were driven rinwn niit nf pnntrnl. Ten nf mirs I ? " ? - ? -? ? were missing. "In all the theatres of the war the British air superiority and strength progressed rapidly and continuously. From this it is safe to assume that when the new factor of America's output, both aircraft and personnel, enters the situation of the fighting zones, the aerial ascendancy of the entente allies should give them very great advantages." 1 ^ <?i m Woodrow Wilson. In the newspapers of last Sunday | morning I saw a picture of the Kaiser with his six sons, three on each side of him. Looking at this picture I wonI dered whether in all Germany today there was anoth^f father whose six sons were safe and" sound. I wondered whether in Austria, in Great Britain, or in France there was a father whose home had not been visited by tfye angel of death. As I thought of the suffering the Kaiser of Germany had brought to mankind, I saw another picture of him. I saw him standing behind the lines of his hrmies; standing with blood soaked hands; hands dripping with the blood of the sons of Germany, of the sons; I of France, of the sons of Great Britain, yes, dripping even with the blood of the sons of America. And from! that bloody picture my mind traveled j behind the lines of the allies, where 1 saw another man; a man of peace and not of war; a man who, instead of teaching that war is a holy thing, has tancht fho riivino iVi iiin otinn that "Thou shalt not kill." A man who strode to prevent war, and even since we entered the war has held out the olive branch to the foe across the sea. A man who realizes today, however, that as long as the German Kaiser is at large there can be no peace, and who on last Saturday at Baltimore accepted the challenge of the German Kaiser and said, "From this day on it will be force, force, unstinted force." In response to that battle cry, from every loyal American heart comes the response, "We salute you, Woodrow Wilson! Our cause is just! America must and America will win!" ?Congressman James F. Byrnes in Liberty Bond speech at Aiken. Read The Herald $1.50 the year. VOTERS MUST ENR JULY Attention of State Chairman the fact that the act of the legisl roils to close on the fourth Tue Tuesday" as the rules of the part Immediately he instructed Asl the Executive Committee, to send of the Democratic party in the S law takes precedence over the pa would close on Tuesday, July 23. The wording of-the party rule 3 but the statute says the fourth Ti The matter was brought to t Cobb, who is acting attorney g opinion that the statute undoubb rolls must close next Tuesday, Ji The lack of conformity of the statute is ascribed to the fact th the fourth Tuesday. This year J LETTER FROM AVIATOR. Though Wounded, Spirit is High, and Eager to Return to Ihity. The following letter will be ol! interest to a great many people in Bamberg county as the Bostick family is , well known and have a large connection here. Greenville, S. C.?What is probably the most thrilling letter seen here from a South Carolinian serving at the front comes from Hagood Bostick, of Ridgeland. The letter was 1 written to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. ( J. B. Bostick, and a copy has been received by T. O. Lawton, a relative, of ' Greenville. Young Bostick, though < scarcely 19 years of age, is a full ] fledged pilot in the United States air , service. He tells of a narrow escape while in the air, but declares that he I will pull through all right and i3 1 anxious to get back into the service < to get revenge on the Hun fliers. The ' letter is dated at the Royal Air Forces Ppntrnl Hnsnitiil. Nn n Eaton Place. London, May 24. < "l am rather improved now, and j am writing to keep you buoyed up." says lyoung Bostick to his parents. J "Don't worry about me, you know. I < had a pretty close call of it, of course, < but am getting perfectly all "right j again.- I was at the front with a British squadron of rotary motored 1 scouts and accompanied by another machine of our squadron, was flying t low behind the British lines. "Left, jaw broken, hole left cheek, left eyeball bruised, right cheek rip- 2 ped open and hanging in ribbons, art- 1 ery cut and spurting right cheek, hole c in right foot, knee laid wide open, * wound :in right thigh, muscles of both calves torn and hanging, these were J the principle injuries in combination t with concussion of the brain. s "I was so mixed with the engine jtaiat it took 25 with hack saws and cold chisels to get me out, and then I had almost bled .to death. But don't t let us talk about wounds. They are ( commonplace, but rather ghastly to t you, I suppose. "All this happened on April 11 1 and though I have been getting along t rather slowly, I am fhuch recovered s and will get perfectly alright again. [ My jaw is set perfectly straight, and the awful wounds in my face have e healed up. I}y massage scars will be p practically taken out, and eventually there will "be nothing left but a few whitish marks. ^ Don't worry about me. My principle worry is being out nf thck swim fnr thfi time beiner. I was at the birth of our present' air f service, and I want to see it through to the end when it has outgrown the * signal corps and even the army and becomes a new service on a footing r t tfitn th b army and navy. That is ex- s actly what the English air service has , done. First it has cut free from the Royal Engineers, and then the army, becoming in turn the late Royal Fly- t ing Corps and then the present Royal r | Air force. . "I have given a good bit already and I intend to keep giving and to ad- ^ vance with the service, if possible. At any rate I am going to see the t game through to the very end if God spares me that long. I am going 1 to be one man with a full knowledge a of duty done when this war is over \ if I pull through."?The State. t Prisoners Reach Camp Sevier. 8 Camp Sevier, Greenville, July 5.? v In accordance with official advices re- * | ceived a few days ago 100 German c prisoners arrived at this camp Tues- 8 day night from the war prison barI racks at Fort McPherson, Ga. The 1 Germans are principally sailors and 1 other members of the crews of vessels taken over by the United States 1 | when war was declared. A special c guard detail consisting of 25 men . ... ... t i came with the prisoners ana win re- ; main here with them. The prisoners 1 i are being temporarily quartered at s 1 the division stockade. They were ^ ! put to work early Wednesday morn- 1 i ing, loading and unloading hay and c i performing other odds and ends of * ! the day's work around the quarter! master depot. It is generally inder, stood at camp that they will ev^ntuj ally be employed on the ?00 acre s I farm now under cultivation at this t j camp. c i ? t DLL BY TUESDAY, i 23. ; Evans was brought Tuesday to ? lature of 1915 requires the club j sday in July, and not "the last . r npnvMa lley C. Tobias, Jr., Secretary to notices to the County Chairmen itate telling them that the State irty rules and that the club rolls lo 12 is: "On the last Tuesday," lesday. ,, he attention of Solicitor W. H. general, and he gave it as his ( sdly governed, and that the club y ily 23. wording of the party rule to the g at the last Tuesday is generally Fuly has five Tuesdays. I \ II. S. FORCES 4RE GROWING THREE FULL ARMY CORPS ORGANIZED IN FRANCE. Two Field Armies Will Follow Soon. Progress Made in Sending Soldiers Overseas. Washington, July 13.?Reduction by half of the time it was originally estimated it would take to put America's first field army in France was disclosed today with the formal announcement by General March that three full army corps had been organized by General Pershing, and :hat the number of soldiers sent overseas now numbered more than 1,100,r>no The 18 divisions composing the jorps, consisting of four regular, nine National Guard and five National krmy divisional units, probably will compose the first army which, with supplemental army troops such as leavy artillery, will total a million nen. Instead of one field army on Janu-j try 1, 1919, originally planned, it iow appears probable that two such irmies will be operating in France )y that date, backed by full Amerian built and maintained supply lines, rhe great project of establishing the American army at the right flank of he battle line will then be within light. Astonishing Rate Made. General March said organization of he first field army had not yet been :ompleted. The formation of the hree corps, however, and his anLomcement that troop movements o France were proceeding at the a ne astonishing rate which has been he rule for the last three months, nade the American military protrogramme clear . Immense Stores Needed. An account of how soldiers are ed at sea is given in the daily newstaper published on a transport: "Outside of providing 210,000 ueals at sea, the mess officer of the hip has very little to do. Very ittle. "He is only called upon to provide, ly the regulations, 180 different vaietles of food. That's all. Ever try o order 180 different things to eat? fet this is the authentic list. "The food needed to feed several kn.ionnll mon Q f COD rfln?PS hpvnn d uv/uoaiiu uivu uw mvm _ he glutton's dreams. You get the mswer in the ship down below the vater line, where 7,200 loaves of >read have beeif baked in one day, md where you stumble over every rariety, from 60,000 pounds of beef o 132,000 eggs, or a compartment if brick ice cream in a 10-degreeibove-zero-vault. "And if this doesn't suit, you can tump along into 49,324 pounds of lotatoes, 7,100 pounds of ham and lacon, 7,800 pounds of butter, 9,200 lounds of sugar, and 61,500 pounds >f flour. "If you can't get a meal out of his you can fall back on 4,600 lounds of sausage, 3,400 pounds of lauerkraut, 26,000 pounds of apples, .9,300 pounds of oranges,-and 4,200 )ounds of onions. And this leaves >ut 1,600 pounds of jam and 9,400 >ounds of lima and navy beans." ^ m ? ? Mexican Labor Can Be Imported. To assist in meeting the present ihortage in unskilled labor restricions have been temporarily removed in the importation of Mexican labor o be used in certain occupations. This step supplements the order by vhich the department of labor has irranged to bring Porto Rican la)<*ers into this country for work on Tovernmej^t contracts. It is estimat>d that 75,000 islanders can b s >rought in while transportation is ivailable. New regulations on the subject of Mexican labor contain rigid provisons to prevent any attempt at exportation on the part of prospective employers. Wage rates current for imilar labor in the localities in which hp ndmittpri alien is to be employed ire assured, as well as good housing md sanitation conditions. Applications for permission to im)ort Mexican labor under the new jrovisions ay bme filed with United States immigration or employment >ervice officials, giving the number )f laborers desired, class of work, vages and place of employment. "Why do you dislike your teacher io, Willie?" asked his mother. "I don't exactly dislike her, mothir," replied Willie, "but it's perfectly )lain to me why she never got marled."?Cincinnati Inquirer. THE FOUR-RING aRCUS. The BleaSe-Auil-BeardJMcLaurin Episode Furnishes Amusement. The revelations in connection with the McLaurin - Blease - Beard - Auli Four-ring Political Circus grow in novelty and interest. Not even the great Phineas T. Barnum, in the gorgeous and full panoply of his glory as an avowed exponent of the doctrine that the people love to be humbugged, was ever more adept in the art of sensational and startling publicity. ' Come now Mr. Victor B. Chessire, editor of the Tribune of Anderson, and, in a letter published this morning in The State, scores a palpable hit by the statement that John K. Aull himself wrote the article for The Tribune, about the little fracas in Columbia, the publication of whichAull afterwards criticised. In the famous Aull letter, which seems to have brought or precipitated, "the little rift within the lute" of the very touching friendship which subsisted between the quartette of Reformers, Aull said, with regard to the Tribune story: "Where you got the information I do not know and I do not care. You have been in the habit of pirating news." And now Mr. Cheshire says that the story "was written by Aull himself and sent to the Tribune for publication." Land sakes! And he says: auii, Deing nosine 10 tne Manning administration, wanted to strike it, but wanted to do so under cover in this particular case in order to keep the other Columbia newspaper men in the dark as to his double crossing, so he sent the story to the Tribune in order to give it publicity, yet save his own pork." Another scoop for The Charleston American's Columbia bureau, so to speak. How ethicaL In the letter to Mr. Cheshire, which appears to have pulled down the centerpole under the "big top" of the Four-Ring Circus, Aull wrote: "Who is writing your editorials any way, and why don't 3'ou write yourself, if you have either the ability or the newspaper acumen?" now cometh Mr. Cheshire and answereth: "Aull uses the office of Former Governor Blease as his Charleston American headquarters. I:a fact he is, and has been since Governor ^ tsiease went our 01 omce, nis stenographer. Governor Blease has from time to time written editorials for The: Tribune. If these editorials met with our approval and we cared to 'daddy' them, we don't see that it was anybody's business but our own. These editorials that were sent us by Governor Blease, were dictated by him and wrote on Governor Blease's typewriter by Aull." That is what we would call the "answer." And while we are on it, some of those articles that, in the old times, added putridity to the already putrid columns of Beard's Scimitar, emanated from Columbia. We wonder where Beard's bureau was. ^ Probably the most entertaining feature of the circus, however, is the profusion of complimentary and en-' dearing terms which these formerly devoted friends and mutual admirers of the Reform Party shower on each other. Blease, in the language of McLaurin, is a "self-seeking demagogue, without scruple or honor;" he is an "arch traitor;" he is a "traitor to his party and outspoken enemy of the government in Washington." McLaurin's statement with regard to Blease's connection with the Beard ticket is branded by Blease as "as black, a lie as has ever been put into print." Aull denies the truth of McLaur iu s> sutiemeiiis v>uu icgaiu iu mm. Beard corroborates McLaurin's statements with regard to Blease's connection with the Beard ticket; says he was "caught between the Charybdis of cowardice and the Sylla of hate," and that Blease deserted him. And now comes Mr. Cheshire, who has been driven into the controversy by the very whirlwind character it has assumed, and says that Aull is "a double-crosser, a liar and a spineless coward and a traitor to his friends." Say, boy, page Ananias! We said the other day that the in dications are that the political sea of South Carolina is going to give up some of its dead. The signs point that way. Some of the rotten effluvium of Reform politics is coming to the surface, at any rate.?Colum- < bia Record. \ : / j -i. . . ~V;-: