The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 31, 1918, Page 7, Image 7
FREED FORTV-FIVE TOWNS.
AMERICAN ADVANCE MADE IN
FACE OF GREAT DIFFICULTY.
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French Drive Ahead on Forty-Mile
Front.?Italians, Repulsing AusI
rians, Continue Adavance.
With the American Army Northwest
of Verdun.?In its first major
operations against the Germans, considqring
the clearing out of St. Mihiel
B salient as a local affair, the AmeriW
c5n army in a few days less than a
I month has liberated more than 45
f villages and advanced to an average
k depth of ten .miles, freeing 165
5" square,miles of territory. In the offensive
the Americans have captured
mrvrp than 3d.000 nrisoners.
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The Americans attacked on a front
of twenty miles from the Argonne to
the Meuse and the advance has been
made in the face of almost insur- ,
mountable difficulty, due particularly
to the nature of the ground which is
covered with hills, deep ravines and
woods. In addition the Americans
had fronting them four organized
systems of trenches?the Hindenburg
line, the Hagen position, the Velker
position and the Kriemhilde position.
They have forced their way through
all these lines. Ahead of them lies
the Freya position, which has been
-reached at one point in the region of
the Bantheville wood. The advance
has been particularly difficult because
the Germans have stubbornly
resisted every foot of the way and
have used more than 33 divisions on
the" twenty mile front. The enemy
continues to make a formidable effort
to hold this front in order to protect
.riis great general line of communi-cation
running through Hirson,
Mezieres, Sedan, Montmedy and
Longuyon. This line already is threatL
eHed and should the Germans lose it,
A they will lose their main line of com^
ft munication from Germany into occupied
France. r
... In addition to prisoners, General
Fershing's men have taken more than
~ 137 guns of large calibre, numerous
machine guns and anti-tank guns, a
great store of ammunition and much
war ihaterjal, including- locomotives
add railway cars.
Since September 26, the Americans
\ have fired more than 2,500,000
V - - -shells, the number of times reaching
x as high as 150,000 daily. The guns
. used include a great number of heavy
^ ^ ones, also some cdptured from the
y' enemy.
v American aviators and anti-aircraft
guns In the period since September
27, have, brought down 230 enemy
> machines and 23 enemy balloons, dej
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spite: bad flying conditions and bad
weather at times. Bombing planes
dropped more than 40,000 kilograms
' of explosives on railroad centres,
troop concentrations and other points
behind the enemy lines.
From the view of the engineer the
; most difficult task" faced has been the
repairing of roads and the movement
, OI Supplies, LUC Ll, auiuiuuiuuu auu
t food to the front. More than 40,000
engineer troops are employed night
. * and day rebuilding shell battered
roads, using where possible, crushed
rock from the villages destroyed by
the German shells.
In the Argon'he hundreds of yards
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of German barbed wire entanglements
fastened from tree to tree at
various heights had to be bridged, as
it was impossible to cut ^them. In
addition many roads in the Argonne
were of black loam, which became
a morass in rainy weather. The engineers
were compelled to virtually
^ ' build, bridges over many miles of
these roads.
The crossing of Forges brook was
accomplished in, the first day of the
advance under a heavy fire. The
brook runs through marshy lands
and in order to bridge it the engineers
? had to lay bundles of faggots on both
sides of the stream. The crossing
was made in record time and then
began the battle of the Argonne,
which lasted for more than two
weeks.
Compilations made by army officers
show that of the more than 165
v square miles taken from the enemy
since September 26 almost one-half
M "were heavily wooded and machine
V gun-Infested. The Americans had to
f take: by storm 159 hills and high
* crests, most of which were heavily
, f wooded and defended by strong machine
gun detachments,
f. Of the hills 141 were west of the
Meuse and 18 east of the river. The
f Germans also had to be driven from
430 ravines all defended by machine
| guns and nearly as hard to take as
the hills.
\ General Pershing's men have had
to advance against the pick of the
P German army fighting deperately to
hold this important front. Their
difficulties are understood more easily
when the number of hills, woods and
ravines they ha^ had to take is considered.
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A bridge over the river Dee in
England that was built in 1280 still
i is in use.
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war work, all bring to us the 4 same mes- IaI
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World news is all right, but OUR BOYS
want NEWS OF THIS TOWN. They want
the home newspaper. Publishers are prevented
from sending their papers free to anyone, even
boys in the service. Consequently a national
movement has been started by Col. William
Boyce Thompson of New York, who is acting
as President of the Home Paper Service of
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The treasurer's office will be open
for the collection of State, county,
school and all other taxes from the
15th day of October, 191S, until the
loth day of .March, 1919, inclusive.
From the first day of January.
1919, until the 31st day of January,
1919, a penalty of one per cent, will
be added to all unpaid taxes. From
the 1st day of February, 1919, a
penalty of two per cent, will be added
to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st
day of March, 1919, until the loth
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per cent, will be added to all unpaid
taxes.
THE LEVY.
For State purposes 8% mills
For county purposes 6% mills
Constitutional schocl tax....3 mills
18 mills
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES.
Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills
Midway, No. 2 2 mills
Hampton, No. 3 2 mills
. Three Mile, No. 4 ......2 mills
Fish Pond, No. 5 2 mills
Hutto, No. 6 2 mills
Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills
Olar, No. 8 ...9 mills
Salem, No. 9 .-...4 mills
St. John's, No. 10 2 mills
Govan, No. 11 J 8 mills
Binnaker's, No. 12 3 mills
Lemon Swamp, No. 13 4 mills
Bamberg, No. 14 11 mills
Oakland, No. 15 8 mills
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 8 mills
Colston, No. 18 4 mills
Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills
Oak Grove, No. 20 4 mills
Denmark, No. 21 6% mills
Ehrhardt, No. 22 13 mills
Lees, No. 23 4 mills
Hey ward, No. 24 2 mills
All persons between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years of age.
except Confederate veterans and sailors,
who are exempt at 50 years of
age, are liable to a poll tax of one
dollar.
Capitation dog tax, 50 cents.
All persons who were 21 years of
age on or before the 1st day of January,
1918, are liable to a poll tax
of one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the auditor are requested
to do so on or before the
1st day of January, 1919.
I will receive the commutation
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the 15th day of October, 1918, until
the 1st day of March, 1919.
G. A. JENNINGS,
Treasurer Bamberg County.
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