The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 10, 1917, Image 1
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IN BKILLIANI URIVt
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Continue Their Advance Toward
FoiHmss of Laon, Mak4)
. ing Many Prisoners
BRITISH MAINTAIN
MOST GROUND WON
Bullecourt Remains Center of
Intense Fighting With
. Varying Fortunes.
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With the strong fortress of Laon
U/ icir objective, the French continu
? their brilliant a<lvance towards
the Ailettc river from the heights
above the Aisne, northeast of Soissons.
The angle in the . French line in
front of La Faux has been straightened
out by an advance along a front
of nearly four miles on the road from
Soissons to l-aon. Further east all
the high land between Corny and
Caronne, a distance of six miles, and
the hills dominating the valley of the
Ailette are in the possession of Gen.
Nivclle's men.
The German resistance is declared i
to have been of a desperate character
but the French maintained their ^
advance and in addition to inflicting'
heavy losses on the Germans took
more than 4,MOO prisoners on Satur- J
day. The total of prisoners taken dur J
ing the operations in the same territory
on Friday was 1,000, making tl?
total for the tv/o days' offensive
more than 5,M00. j
In the operations about LaFaux the
French carried a salient in the Hin- '
dcnburg line, of which Laon, 12 miles
to the northeast, is the strongest
point.
The French offensive north of the
Aisne began on April 10, and after J
days of desperate fighting and an ad-'
vance of from two to five miles
against strong German resistance the
French reached the line of the Che
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nun aes uames unci captured more 5
than 23,000 prisoners. The German!
losses in The first week of the French ;
offensive on the Aisne and Cham-1
pagne fronts were estimated at 220,-i
D00 killed, wounded and prisoners.
The advance? on Friday and Saturday
continue the work begun in midApril
and give the French a grip on
the Siegfried positions of the Hinden
1^-g line in the Laon region.
he British troops are holding the
majority of the positions they, gained
in desperate fighting of the last week
and are making some small progress
* in the face of desperate resistance.
Some of the German attacks were
broken up by artillery and others
were driven off after hand to hand
infanrty fighting. Bullecourt continues
to be a centre of most intense
battle with alternate advapce and
retirement on both sides. South of
that point the British have bombed
their way into German trenches of
Hindenburg switch in the direction
of Queant. This penetration is
regarded of great tactical signifies
nee.
Artillery fighting is intensive
along the Aisne front.
The outcome of the contradictory
situation in Russia where mobs have
<k nounced members of the provisional
government remains puzzling.
Chief developments in Petrograd Saturday
were the adoption by the council
of workmen's and soldiers' dele
gates of a vote of confidence in the
government and the forbidding by
that council of all meetings or armed
I demonstrations for two days. The
t\ ops in Petrograd were ordered to
WTimuin in their barracks. Premier
Lvoff and Foreign Secretary Milukoff
have dec'ared that the government
will resign rather than recall
the note sent on May day to the
entente governments assuring the*i
that Russia would vigorously Jmwe,
mite the war.
The German chancellor, Dr. Bethmann-Hollweg,
will make within i
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TOLL OF SUBMARINES
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ALAKMS UNITED STATE!
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Very Existence of Britain ani
France Threatened by
Undersea Craft.
Washington.?Secretary Lane tol
the governors conferring here wit
the Council of Naiionul Defense o
the part of State governments wh
will take in the war that the federc
government had heard 400,000 tons c
shipping had been sunk in the las
week by Germun submarines.
The destruction, Secretary Lan
said, was not only threatening th
existence of England and France, bu
was alarming the United State!
Study of inventions to coir.at the sub
marine menace is being diligentl
pursued in the interior department
he said.
The United States must build ship
as rapidly as possible, ho told th
delegates.
"If we don't fight the war on th
otherside," he said, "we shall have t
fight it on this side of the Atlantic.
GALLSON WOMEN
TO AVOID WASTI
Washington, May 5.?In an appei
today "to tlie women of the Unite
States" Secretary Houston declare
thut they can do their "hit" mos
effectually in the national emergenc
b> practicing effective thrift in thei
households.
The appeal was prompted by man
requests for a statement as to th
service women ian render the natio
in the direction of producing and cor
serving ogricu't'.'V'd products,
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clearedWgharge
IN MAGISTRATE GAS
George Capps, one of the publ
I school teachers of this county, ws
tried before Magistrate W. H.'Ches
nut last Thursday on a charge <
cruelly whipping Daniel Skipper,
son of A. C. Skipper, while the Ik
was a pupil of his at the Cedar Groi
school, the latter part of 191(5.
1 It appeared that the boy had be<
whipped as a punishment for figh
ing and the use of profane languaj
on the school grounds. The pros
ecution was brought by one of t!
trustees, Mr. H. L. B. Jordan and n
by the father of the pupil. The tv
remaining trustees, Messrs. J. 1
Hendricks and Walker Hughes we
in court as witnesses for the defens
i The jury found a verdict of n
guilty after remaining out only a fc
minutes. A number of people we
in Conway on Thursday to hear t
trial of this case which had creat
considerable interest in that coi
munity since the warrant was tak
out in the early part of this year.
fortnight a nlainer rieclnvnfirm
Germany's peace conditions, accoi
ing to an announcement by Dr. K;
Helfferich, the German vice cha
rellor.
Belief that the problem of deali
with the menace of German subn
! rir.es has been solved was aannounc
K0J ft 9 U? UAU I l\tC 1 ^ f tlli
" man of the naval consulting hot
of the United States, who declai
that the plan tested by that bot
i jhad been forwarded to Washington
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HORRY COUNTY AND HER PEO I'L
CONWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY
DISQUIETING NEWS
5 FROM DUAL EMPIRE
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d Tisza and Reactionaries Determined
to Crush Party
of Democracy
'i PENDING REFORMS
n QUIET THE GERMANS
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The Provisional Authorities in
it
Russia Seem Safe for
e
Present.
c
It
s.
?- The developments on the battlefield
y are chiefly important for the possit,
bilities they open up, and the same
may be said to be true of events be1-S
hind the firing line. In Germany,
c there is much talk of political reform,
and several proposals have been put
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f\ i ui vv 111 VI ill V-'IC IV^U'IlAlU^ ID cil ricll 1
o the power of the emperor and make
? th?_ ministry responsible to parliament.
Apparently the putting forward
of the mooted reforms has served
to check the rising tide of popular
E discontent, but the extraordinary
measures adopted by the government
to prevent the outside world learning
tlu true situation make adequate
u judgement impossible.
;i Startling reports come fiom AusvS
tria-Hungary in regard to the condit
tions in tlie dual monarchy, and ap?
parently Count Tisza, Hungarian
y
premier, and his fellow reactionaries
11 j have the upper had are determined
to crush the party of the democracy
y with the same ruthlessr.ess as hereie
tofore. There are rumors of martial
>n law in Hungary and Bohemia, .and
i? the suppression of newspapers, ./ but
for a month or more no reliable news
h -.s reached the cuter world as co-1
dltions in the Austrian empire.
The Russian liddle remains unsolved
but for the time being at least,
th" provisional authorities seem to be
safe. R ports of demoralization in
, the Russian army receive uncomfortjable
confirmation bv a proclamation
i
i oI* (Jendral Gurko, commander on the
eastern front ordering the soldiers tc
stop fraternizing with the German
I troops. Gen. Gurko declares that
such fraternizing has become a comJ
mon practice and that the lull on the
Russian front has permitted the Germans
to concentrate troops against
, the English and Erench.
j In spite of the peacable ending U
E: the May day demonstration in Sweden,
the internal troubles in that
| country seem to he rising rather that
. ebbing. Kiots and food demonstra.
tions are reported from various
^ points and judging from such partia
" reports as are received the authori
k) I
ties are confronting an ugly situa.
tl tion.
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We are too prone to disregard th<
little things of life, forgetting tha
n .everything is composed of the small
est atoms, some of them too smal
2,1 'for the naked eye to see.
Stakes charge of
i;| submarine warfare
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| Washington?President Wilson wil
*w|be given a free hand in dealing witl
r0 Germany's submarine warfare. Leg
b?iislation drafted by the shipping boar
0fljis expected to be introduced in con
n" I gross today. The Navy Departmen
onlis taking measures to deal with th
|situation, but their plans cannot b
; disclosed. But it is likely that th
of i plans will cost Germany submarin
*d- after submarine to discover th
irl navy's secret.
m- The bills to be introduced in corr
gross will give President Wilson at
ng thority to commandeer the shij
ia- yards of the nation, with all shk
red building and laid either for domset
ii- or foreign contract. They will ah
ird provide that no steel shall be emploj
red ed in constructing bridges, buildinj
ird or other structural work wthout o
ficial sanction.
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E. FIRST, LAST, NOW AND FORE'
r, MAY 10, 1917.
NEWSPAPERS AGAIN
! LEAVING GERMANS
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Little News Yet, However, ol
What Happened in Empire
During Week
HOLLWEG ASKED TO
GIVE PEACE VIEWS
Junkers Alarmed by Appar
ent Dominance of Socialist
Party.
The renewed fury into which tlv
great battle of Arras has flamed ha;
diverted attention from the possibl;
more significant events which an
shaping behind the battle front. Tlv
German censorship has lifted so fa
as to allow newspapers and mail
from Germans once more to read
the outer world, but there is little in
formation as yet to what has trans
pirod within tne borders of the Ger
man empire during the last week,
j The German chancellor is one
more reported to be about to mak'
a pronouncement on peace before tlv
Reichstag, and his hand has apparen
ly been forced by the junkers. Thos<
I reactionaries, charged and alarme*
by the apparent dominance of tlv
Socialist party, with its program o
'peace without annexations of indem
nities, have presented an intorpella
tion to the chancellor in the Reichs
tag demanding that he clarify hi
position.
[ The junkers still are clamoring fo
the annexation of Belgium, and al
reports indicate that the governmen
must very, shortly take a definit
, stand both on the question of wa
'aims and internal reforms,
Interpellate Chancellor.
Amsterdam.?A Berlin dispatcl
; says that the conservatives in tli
i Reichstag have offered the followini
. interpellation to Chancellor von Betl
i mann-Hollwcg.
; "The Socialist party, dcmandinj
> peace without annexation or indom
i nity has created uneasiness anion]
; tlu* German people owing to the lacl
. of a clear pronouncement by the clia
? cellor on the subject. While such
. peace suits international principle.*
, it does not suit the needs of the lit'
; of the German people. Is the chan
> cellor prepared to declare his atti
. tude on this question?"
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i Strikes I'nder Control.
Copenhagen.? Full newspaper an
; postal service from Germany was rc
1 sumed last night. This indicates tlia
- the necessity for especial secrecy fc
. military reasons or in view of th
labor situation has passed.
As far as can be learned from th
2 German newspapers which now hav
t been permitted to reach here, tli
" reports of the failure of the May da
' strike movement in Germany wer
correct in the main.
The papers indicate, however, tlu
strikes took place in some place
'One report declares that work in tli
war factories proceeded "almost i
u general" and strikes took place onl
in the individual smaller factories.
1 Tlie opposition papers admit tlu
h the Socialist and union leaders wit
_ the assistance of Field Marshal vo
,1 Hindenburg and General Groene
had the situation well in hand an
I kept the workmen at their tasks. T1
P reasons for the embargo on newspi
0 pers do not appear from a surfa<
0 reading and the papers do not coi
e tain any military information of s
0 exceptional character.
i- Peace Delegates.
i- The German Socialists have sei
>- imposing delegation to the intern;
t l/>n01 nt Ql A/?l/*U a! L>\\ \
rv? viwiiui vwiiiui tuvr ai utm. (\iii/iujt t hi
ic lip Schiedemann and Elbert Muoll
?o represent the party executive ai
s- deputies David, Noske and Gra
fs neur the Reichstag deputation. T
f- amalgamated labor unions sent t\
majority Socialist representativ<
m%A
VER."
RELIEF STEAMER
IS CONFISCATED
f Prize Crew Took Cargo to
German Port, Says Danish
Sailor.
London.?Confiscation by the Germans
of the Belgian relief steamer
? Carmetta is reported in a Central
News dispatch from Copenhagen. A
Danish leave is authority for the report.
He says the Germans ordered
the crew to leave the ship and placed
a prize crew on board to take it to ;i
German port. The men from the
Carmetta in two small boats, askec!
for provisions but the Germans refused.
After six days terrible suffering
the men in one of the boats
reached the Norwegian coast.
' MANY OPERATORS'
: WANTED AT FACTORY
It Charleston, S. C., May 5, 1917
- To the Editor The Herald,
Conway, S. C.
- Dear Sir:?
The United States Naval Clothing
r* Factory, at the Navy Yard, Charlese
ton, S. C., inquires imnuMliatcly five
i' hundred young ladies, as operators ol
t power driven sewing machines. Ii
i is hoped that you will give the Clovi
ernment's need, in this respect, such
r prominence in the next edition oi
f your newspaper as will insure the
- attention of all those in your com
munity, who may be interested. Tnc
- plant is operating two shifts of ter
s hours each. The entrance pay o!
those without previous experience ii
r $1.04 per diem for eight hours work
I! Operators who have had a years' e.<<
t perience, or more, will be taken on al
e $2.24 per diem, for eight hour's worle
V subject to ability demonstrated. Time
and a half is paid for all overtime
and two hours' overtime can be pu'
in, daily, by those who adapt then;
h selves readily,' and arc willing u
e work. The maximum earnings maj
U thus be increased to $3.08 per diem
h No advance application need be made
as those who apply up to the numbei
lt stated can be immediately aecomo
dated at the Navy Yard, and can fil
i>' out the necessary papers, take modik
eal examination, etc., after they have
n entered on their duties. The applii\
cants must be citizens of the Uniter
>, States, in good health, and of a re.
e liable character. The medical exam
- ination will be given without pay b\
- a naval Surgeon at the Yard. The
applicant will he required to name
five persons, who will vouch for he
good repute in the community i?
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u wmcn sne resiaes. suitable Doafdinf
places can be secured in Charleston
X through the Young Women's Chris
r tian Association, 79 Wentwortl
e Street, for from $4.00 to $4.50, week
ly. The work consists of makinj
c cotton uniforms for the Navy's per
0 sonnel, and the surroundings are o
c the best, the factory being under di
v rect control of the Navy.
c Thanking you in advance for you
co-operation.
^ Very truly yours,
s J. .1. GAFKNKY,
0 By direction of the Commandant.
: KEW BRtCKBUILDINO
1 ON JENKINS CORNEI
n
r? Last week, the contractor H. 1
1(' | Little, began the erection of a ne\
10 brick building for (i. B. Jenkins, o
u the vacant corner of Iiaurol Strec
>c and Mrd Avenue, in the same spc
where the livery stables were destro
m ed by fire a number of years ago.
It is stated that the new buildin
will be used for offices and sho^
rooms in connection with the larg
lit live stock and vehicle business cor
a- ducted by Mr. Jenkins.
il
er Carl Rudolph I.egien, president <
id the German Federation of Trade
d- Unions rfrid Deputy Bauer. The s<
he ceding Socialist labor group is rej
vo resented by radicals Haaz Lcdenboi
?s and Bernstein.
w Mm.
NO. 3. j
WOULD GUT OFF
HOLLWEG'S HEAD
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[Certain Classes in Germany
Backed by Press, Hot After
Imperial Chancellor
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I CHARGE HIM WITH
i GERMAN DEFEATS
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[ Say He is Responsible for Loss
of Battle of Marne and Also
1 the Second Chance.
Copenhagen, May S.?Conservative
and Pun Germans have begun an agitation
in the Press and Parliament
for the down fall of Chancellor von
Hethmann-Holhveg. The Conservar
,
tive newspaper, "Deutsche Tages
Zeitung declares the days delays in
the German mobilization which was
due to Chancellor's hesitancy, caused
| the loss of the battle of the Marne.
jit declares that he threw away a
second chance of winning the war by
opposing the ruthless submarine war
campaign.
BIG FALLING OFF
IN EXPRESS BUSINESS
?
j The agent of the Southern Expres*
I Company at Conway has had much
. less business to attend to since the
passing of the "gallon a month law"
and u few days ago remarked that
[_ the new law under which one quart a
. month may be purchased by obtaining
, a permit from the Judge of Probate,
would not amount to anything in the
, way of business for the express comIpuny,
/*?
. | Judging from reports coming from
.'other towns, the quart a month law
will prove to be unpopular and will
result in a great curtailment in the
? use of intoxicants in this' State.
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: CLERK OF THE COURT
i MADE SEVERAL SALES
Several sales were made in front
' of the court house last Monday by
Mho Cleric, acting- as special master.
? j In the case of Conway National
1 ! Hank, plaintiff, vs. J. W. Dawsey,
1;et al., tract number one consisting of
' several lots in the town of Aynor
' went to S. J. Lewis for $2500.00,
"'while lot number 12 in that town
1 was sold to George J. Holliday for
" $800.00. A tract of land of 100
* acres involved in the same case went
" to George J. Holliday for the sum of
' $000.00, and another of 28 1-2 acres to,
" George J. Holliday for $535.00, and
still another of OS acres, more or
r less, to the same party for the sum
of $1400.00.
A tract of land belonging to the
estate of Robert Boyd, was sold in
partition proceedings to J. It. Allsbrook
for the sum of $50.00.
j There was no other sales made.
I GRAVEST PROBLEM
I UNDER DISCUSSION
V
n j
t Washington.?The foundation for
4 ' an international shipping agreement
y among the nations fighting Germany
was laid at the first formal conferre
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h irnte ui wiu nnusn war commissiOQ
w wi^h American government officials,
e Within a few days the allies will put
i- before this government a definite
programme of their needs in the way
? of supplies and a plan for apportion>f
ing American ships and cargoes. Atready
the shipping board without
&- awaiting a final arrangement has put
>- at the disposal of Krance and Italy
ir two of the German ships seized in
American ports. < u\