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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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