Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The.14la l- Im1, ai. t)4h J44I 44434nt an4 i 3.4 nato lP rdwick%' "4441 riz i t his f o . cedure (a., "hnr f niiy'ie lie dwi 4c objeci to man. 1) h~o. fin h fo h to tke suc (J:inIy.1 f tht w~:art t-rarinnt camps whould trai e-ar lisd fo wht nd beive objectionr sh knwil.m frmThe Thouthsg.iWatsnon ati-rain m eet i rclled forii i acn , i Ga.,4 h4'at ben favord off badin aIr.t tWal ts' tfamiar ale hel has rfeied higmany trateniOng watrs itni iwoule tnar rtolveine faiyJ for1 hil II toakenauc oa thae hi weik lif edbt.S atreonato iafkhad of,11~ Alabamai oons tanr saidt taining campa o thton beehabliheidrf 1for! wit ad nwgro troongssto draya ho~ riehe fro the naton. gla egotann camps, iohnrs arte Noepit are WIgideusprotsntimng agint the ente lin theo ofadding t he totalW. of1 thei wareeaxnbis beimpoeinabhigher frailin nnoacernta andn, oetae Aeee onon tmelra wjays that anp oftih thury weak ofpie the bat.rit tn Jawo hen caliwarnta, f noun vg. orolls e man, ht and lld o thenaionha ben wasfeed; et was thatthehadaation, Laboruins in th No-ws r in heiado tjI.m.I.,an T Thin i.4 s aamLe it how to + send mafl to Uaired ta.ts asr + d:er: * FPP. -A T1 JOHN JON7.. + A -: :?: Infaatry, fF; g+. 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Italy'.u victorious army is rushing ri toTres. t is hraorted t.heynae ak sn 20,500 worinter po of o ew0 ro: Austrlvianityandlleuingth .ta l reos thatl she ha heo or ''ned r saeialft t hat(o''t setey Itw ly over~no thTutcarmie rshang h5 op bombsn t it the reaorof the fght ag k-ines,5O whiheo plc honmy b00 we A twnaoffiers. IThet rertn t V ssihe hZeiun an.or ne s tdhat Peria fhs tat tlet ren t)o11Gl)rnny theure of9 thambugh. Zioli r wich, place thnaes eno the I w' ~ to eruinal.e Trl-Iheti inh Zeing i s ays that, in view f'.~ threatenings. tne-R oft Pertiu' tt . t e'l' uuerl er rnan> th ancelluorus jiI/for (etinal ajdicationt~.: It) i ap Iar' n at. Germs Is'san hs made al ii'thi *hr decisive, * blo~se* have gied oato mlns on ah frontf saye that lvi Vie, extendienifro thne Aofcour9 wood eastward acrosl Oethea (tiver-Meus an it the osd C-anhum(e.ilnr ThetUe' etlians, ~l~l afte acomb-Iatrdmen I iece itht heauteru ae iLld th( Austrin defnsie, blossaed gaied Al ate dencly)risith~l the enby heon ianna front of t thavn milee. inthje eding fro the vtcrnrn wohearestweprn acowth ande et atdeInt tahe 1gun (nto hne.rnk the Germansae adi fihing indthe a ofevn inteniy neer efre elyer hurldin hadtngt therhae levoundt Ausriitankdfese crd anojthe trlum and the catre of imvortand nowma aot.iadl gi w the neighoroo aonit aYfron-Poofcaboueliroadnort of ile frenchtarmo arfinish. aiynili Nteritve thou~sndr pronei he ben coung low thel Fench n'.i theian mahne dounsto tis rnumb, thetaermanf andh fighting l ath had "hvcwtth German ecirsuachnc eemn poswIchonsn freiythene hnurling h(I the atr the groencha anBre rtish rs s ev totlen, hicni iwere cmlt relyfn de te ant frce toslan inid the Teutonic lines ofad) Brt-ishstach oinsh.iedt etr iJbsge t ev hu nt pioe 11 T:rirs lined up n th - -("..rral Chr t(odoulo, ",;.. l2-lnch dI-appearing un -"r ;n bui cauns. l./ NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEED British, French and Italans Crush Teuton Legions at the Same Time. FIERCEST FIGHTING OF WAR Russia's Military, Economic and Po litical Troubles Are Disturbing Pope's Peace Proposals Discussed -President Wilson Regulates the Prices of Coal in America. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. (ivllians far from the seat of war w(rI-r(ed w'hy the all (s (11(1 not deliver ti-ir smaishing blows at the kaiser at the stame II me, givi rg him no oppor unilty to shift hits troops from one front to another, instead of taking turns in hitthig hiam. 'I'hat is just what they did lnst week, for British, French rand Italians all began offensives that developed Into the most furious lat ties of the war so far. 'Tihe Anglo lFrenci forces ne'ar the Belgian coast vigorously renewed) the arttricks begun the previous week rd pushed forvardri. 'l' Itrltshii hurled themselves against tIle defenses of Ll-res ad forced tIi eir way further Into the outskirts of that coal cenlt er, repulsing all counter-ait tacks. (-neral Petanin's men attacked along tire Chemnin dies Dames, rand t hent deliveredi a series (if smanshes art the Germans in the Verdunr sector, taking the twin summarits or D~ead Man's hill arnd other strong positlonrs that the crowrr prI ince hrad ib-Id for a year and more. in Aisrnce there was lively fight ing. Ar ah I-San.- rune tihe Itaillans wver-e carryinag 0on a mirinster offensive Iin ast thaei Aurst rian is along the entire Jurliran, lsonz-M uraul Carsor fronts, from a'ant the s*ar. Thie Austrianr defen ses were. l-ve-la by ia terrifle artillery lire, rnw crossings orf the Isonzo were fora'.-.d, anrd Cadronn's troops ad~vanfced ('o'nsiderablyv on their way to Trieste desiteIi tihe di llci uties of thre teraran. Wednresciy the British iagaini at tnack-d tiearceiy in thre Ypr-es region andi~ ftriir a ibloody cormba t succeeded inr takinig imrportarnt ipositionrs arlonag tire Y ires-Nien'ina i'rad. A little frt her nao'r.h tir e bloaod-sanrked L~rangearc rk F-r-s.nrahtjg sectrp t hey hrit thle reemy h aardi lan ef rlfort to trake' the ririge, kinownt as lilli 3i, whe(re- tihe Ir anle a marl lant but losin right athi- week he fore. Germans Resist Storatly. Tihe Geraans haave aassed liarmense Snumbriers ofC t roops ' at thre muoants of rat tack and( are resist inrg dlesplerately rand rta mkig artmrost 'oartiaruaouas count er-art t icks, hm up ai to athe timre of writing lrey hl heena imnahle to regairn any ot a the lost ground. SAll thle alilied armries took greart numn hers of prisoners rand guns and Inflict ed terrlible losses on their haard-fliht. laig opponearts, and they thremnselves -lrasrtaar ny mienr, for the attacks wvere delivered with raither less thanr thei f usualrardru for life. In Flanders arid rlra ete tainka played a large part, ariral on aill fr'onts the avirators were ex t t r-aord inarrily active rand bold(. Thie Itali irans iar ntrldeud one novelty. When b their arssaat lug troops mnovedi forward un e wi-re precededl by a sqadron of 0 res formu ig tire first. liaie rnml t. arsinrg thleir runacine gains on the Aus. t rtriu :a t short ranage. Gearal Pershlng and oitheri Ameri aten a .rli'-rs were prresenrt at tire niew habrttle of Vea'rai.. r Disturbing News From Russia. Th Fie weerk's inws from RussIa wm'a rather uis-quileting. Petrograd present ged to Aimer-lea andl the entente allies statemienit inidicating that tRussita wouih r bie unrabale to cotinueaa in the wvr ar rt less immarediiate, adequate and Continu ht ing asistance weore given. Shue has n< iintention of making separate peace dbut says sire cannot keep tip the fighi 7unless her associates furnIsh her a, SIOnlce with maateris and provisions The Rlussiauns fear they will be detvum \ - r a , aa c o t f rt 4 - i n e r le; / r Volavia within three weeks, i,,Monday the (Gerritnns began o:I'"nive in the Ri.st region that rd the Slavs backmow t how ar atity. .\t th o.ith end of the lin the eRo ::aania s still are making vallant efforts .ir' back the invaders. 'T'here is ao long Ier any (ouilt of the bravery of the Itui'ians or of their desire to keeps on fighting the cotinon enemy of the world, but it seems that they cannot by theimselves surmount the great eco normic obstacles that confront them. The governmental troubles of Rus pia also tire approaching a crisis. Tie' "extraordinay national council" being about to meet in Moscow, the constitu tional i)einocrats. liscontented busi ness men and disiuissed generals, gath ered there ready to demand radical changes. On the other side stand the cabinet and the Socialist left. In ptre Ilminary discussits . Prince Trou betskol, Generals Alexieff and Brus siloff and others attacked the cabinet, excepting only Kerensky, and declared the government had fallen into the hands of corrupt men of Petrograd, who think only of their own inter ests. ''he Socialist orders that de stroye(d discipline in the army were bitterly criticized. As had been foreseen, the pope's peace proposals were received decently by all the belligerent nations, but with more than an undercurrent of skepti cism by the allies. No definite reply to them has been made at this writing by any government, but representative speakers of the different parties In Ger many all indorsed in general the Vati can plan, and it is believed Berlin may go so far as to offer autonomy to Al sace-Lorraine, which of course would not in any degree satisfy France. Aus tria, too, is was expected, approves the iprop~osals, but insists any settlement must include the abandonment of Great Britain's naval bases at Gibral tar, Malta and the Suez canal. Can one Imagine Great Britain willingly dis mantling these guardian posts of the route to her immense domains in tihe Orient ? The vociferous assertions of the German press that tihe pope's pro Posals were nlot inspired by Germany, anrd the intimations that they really were, diue to British fiuggestions can (only be considered as more "bunk'' and serve to confIlirmu the suspicion that tihe i'la't itat its inspiration in Teutonic German Poison Gas in America. i'on gases emitted by thte pro r in press and all the othler traitor in !Initts in Amerien are not grow nI IItiVy less in amount of viru -'t* but Uncle Sam is beginning to :tiil~v the anitidlote with considlerable "r. lt uuuiny' cities "soap box" or it 'IN arue 1beinlg gttheredl inl by3 federal Ii"'4 it tt several more raidc )ppers have beenit-t dleniedi the use. of t ho mailIs. The. Gerinman-A lnerican press of thle inti'gi ileis is still too clever to subl .lt'tt itse-lf to that penalty, but it it keepts onl its .presenlt course doubtless Somel ma:ns wvill b~e found to suppress it. Itegretfully It must b~e said thatt aI disgr-acecftully large proportion of the Gernmtns in Ameriea-naturahized or not---is piroving disloyal to thte land of their aidoption. .This is shown by such instanices5 as the annual picnic of the Schwabtllenverein in Chicago, where for Several days~t the assembled Germans Occupied themselves in denouncing America's entry into the war, abusing thle president, sneering at our armed forces and making futn of the draft and the National army. The same thing is going On all over thle land, where TIeutons get together, but they are pre Iparing to reapj a haurvest of woe for themuselve's, for I le men of the depart mient of justice are cognizant of their words and( acts, it is comforting to believe that the great mass of German Ame(rieans5 atre truly loyal, buit thtou satnds ofI thet mtoret Ignorant are led Into dlislOyalty by3 the falsehoods of German secret agents anid by the utteranfces of thue 1a i olcettes, the Jieeeds, the Matsons and1( the WVilliam isle Thlomp sons for whom all native-born Amern l1'ormner A mbassador Gerard,'- Secre tarty or Comnmerce Rednfeld, and other p lromninent mna foundi opportunity last week to denounce bitterly the cowatrd iy, treacherous pro-Germanysand pusl lanimoums pacinists, wjao are doing aill thley can to make the world tinsats for jdemoceany. // conjunction , wihtear e.P-od 'p r/ /y~ " e.' navaat traitring (amp near lBos'ton. ronJufiet tor with~ the alies'. 3--Load solditers lit (11111 in France carrying The threat oft the I. W. W. to tie up the induIiistries of the West, including the harvest. if their leaulers were not reh-ased N.is (net promptly by the ar rest of a lot nore of the gang, and the great strike fizzled out miserably. No sooner was this trouble passed than the 1iachinists ail boilermakers, employed in the AtI tlatic (oast shipyards, were called en to quit. This of course would Put a stop to vast amoutits of govern uent naval work, and the United States mediators got busy at once. Sev eral thousand men stopped work, but most of theam either pledged Secretary Daniels that they would not quit, or delayed action until a vote could be taken. President Cuts Coal Prices. Having started Mr. Hoover well on the food conservation campaign. Pres ident Wilson last week turned to the almost equally pressing coal problem, which for several weeks had been ex ercising the wits of various state ad ministrations. Having studied the pro duction cost figures supplied him by the trade commission, the president is sued an executive order fixing a tenta tive scale of prices for bituminous coal at the mines in nearly all coal produc ing districts of the country. These prices in some instances are more than $1 a ton below the voluntary prices fixed at the conference last June. The scale is subject to change when a meth od of administering the fuel supplies of the country has been determined and put into operation. Later in the week the president named Dr. Harry Garfield fuel admin istrator, fixed anthracite prices for producers and jobbers and set a limit on profits to be made by bituminous wholesalers. The senate spent most of the week in considleration of the revenue bill. Among other things it increased the finance committee's ineome tax pro visions by a total return to the treas ury of $73,000,000, adopting unanimlouls ly the Gerry amendment, wvhich adds $4i0.000,000 to the returns from in conmes of half a million and over. Japan's Mission in Washington. The imperial JTapanese mission wasl formally received in WVashington1 by3 Secretary Lansing anl d other govern ment oflicials on Wedntesdlay.. Its head, Viscount Ishli, made it clear that the mission has come not on a commercial or political errand, but to dleele on how the two nations can best co-op crate, in bo0th a military and an eco nomic sense, in carrying oin tihe war. The neutral coun tries of Europe--so called, though no country there is any longer realty neutrat-areC st i trying to get around the Americani embargo that is so painful to their pocketb)ooks andt their stomachs ; but the indlica ions are that unless t hey quit supply ing Germany with foodstutffs, their suf fering wili only increase. Switzerland and Holland, which depenld on Ger many for coal, have contracted to lend the kaiser large sums11 in return't for the privilege of continuing to buy their fuel from his country. Hungary took a real step toward democratizaltion aind freedom from Ger man and Austrian influence in the ap pointmient of Dr. Alexander WVekerle as Hlungarian premier, to succeed Es terhasy. The new premier is popular, Democratic, a financial genius and is known to 1)0 no friend of Germany. The new nationalist movement in Hlun gary has attained great strength, and it is said King Charles is in complete har mony with the desires of the nation. Germnani aviators distinguished them selves last week hy another raid on i0nglishm coast towns in wvhich 1i p~er sons were killed, tand by deliberately honmbitng two Frencha hospitats behind the Verdun lines anmd Ithent shooting diown the dioctors tad nurses, who wvere trying to rescue the woundated soldiers from the resulting conllagration. It would seem thnt the chivairy of avi ators is one-sidied. Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth Unaited States infantry, stationied at Houston, TeOx., as gumardsm dutring the construtction of Camp Logan, started a serious race riot, in which a dlozen whmitei civilinns, police officers andl Na tional Guardsmen, and a tnmber of no groes were killed, and more thatn a score wounded. Among the dead was Capt, J. WV. Mattes, flattery A, Second Illnois fieldI artillery, who was tiying to rantore order. SOME NEW RULINGS 2 ON DRAFT MEASURE SHOULD NOT FORCE WIFE TO WORK TO SUPPORT SEL AND CHILDREN. WILSON MODIFIES RULES Clears Up Contested Points.-Orders For Mobilization of First increment Changed and Experienced Men Will Be Taken First. Washington.--At the direct sugges. tion of President Wilsoni, Provos Marshal General Crowder t-lel ovos o all governors a supplementtal ex planation of regulatoions governing the status of merried men under the draft law. No change in regulation is made, and the purpose of the state ment is to clear up misunderstand Ings.t In a letter to Secretary Baker, Cuoted by General Crowder, President Wilson states his opinion that the regulation directing local boards "to establish the fact of dependents In addition to the fact of marriage ought not to be abrogated." This leaves the regulations as they are and the supplementary statement is designed merely to make the application of the rules uniform. While the statement regarding mar ried men was in preparation orders s were issued changing entirely the mobilization arrangements previously made. Congestion of rail traffic and the necessity of making better pro. vision for. receiving th ' men at the cantonments dictated the changes. Under the new orde:. five per cent of the white men, preferably those with military experience. from each local area, will be started forward to the camps September 5 instead of thirty per cent. They will go in five daily detachments of equal size and form skeleton company organization and set up a-going concern into which the remander of the total quota can be absorbed without confusion as they reach the contonments. The next forty per cent of the quotal will go forward September 19, when the second thirty per cent originally was scheduled to go; a second forty per cent will go forward October 3 instead of the third thirty per cent and the remaining fifteen per cent will be called up as soon thereafter as practicable. Local boards are directed to disre gard order of liability numbers to some extent in selecting the first five per cent as men of experience such as cooks and former soldiers are desired at that time. Warning is given against getting into this levy by reas on o.f his experience, any man who might get otherwise have been includ ed in the first increment of the dis trict at all. GREAT VICTORY CROWNS ITALY'S NEW OFFENSIVE With Austrian Line Broken Italians -Pursue Enemy. The battale along the Isonzo has de veloped further brilliant successes for the Rtalians, who it is now plain are making one of their greatest efforts of the war t'hus far. General Cadorna's men. who at the beginning of the offensive effected a new crossing of the river north of Go rizia, at a poinSt where the Austrians believed such a feat wvas impossible, h'ave won another spectacular victory by scaling Monte Sano, 2,245 feet high and placing their flag there. Farther south, on the Carso, fight ing continues violently end incessant ly. Austrian efforts to win back lost positions were defeated. New gains have beoen made by the French in the Verdun front, rounding out the victory wvon in the offensive begun on Monday. The French ad vanced last night north~ of Hill 304, Paris announces, and captured three fortified forts near Bethincourt, the official German statement however, says French attacks between Malan court and Bethincourt, as well as nlear Hill 304, east of the Meuse, were re pulsed. COULDN'T LOCATE LAND PEARY SAYS HE FOUND. Sydney, N. 5.-Donald B. Mac Millan's Arctic expedition arrived here after four years spent in the polar regions. MacMillan, who was one of Rear Admiral Peary's lieuten ants on his successful dash for the North pole, confirmed dispatches that there was no Crockerland such as has been reported by Poary. Peary's mistake was du6 to a mirage so real that the MacMillan party had been deceived by it for four days. HOSPITALS NEAR VERDUN - BOMBED BY GERMANS. Paris.-Onle of the hospitals be hind Verdun on which German air planes dropped incendiary bombs a week ago' is at Vadelainecourt. The fire caused by the bombs spread rap idly to the whole 'building and the glare showed up more plainly than ever the large red cross painted on the roof. The aviator threw a second bomb, which dem~olished a pavilion in which were three crews of gur geons nerforming operations.