Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TU: ftUMTKR WATCH RAX, Eatan Oousolidated Au*. 2,1 BATTLE NOT OVER. \\ \sii!N(;t<>n mmiks kok ax OTHER (.fkman ASSAtl.T. Offensive Mm? Powerful Thun Auy Heretofore 1 hiiih lud Against AI Ifctl Une* Expcetc?! by strategists ol War IH'partmcnt?Knormoiw KiierlflwH of Enemy Without Re MiltM Sought. Washington. April . 21.?Another C? nan thrust at the ' allied lines. More powerful than those that have . ,,i * looked : or WN the wa i department's strategists If the pres? ent drive at the channel ports falls The departments weekly review to nlfht soys the endmy'a enormous earlftces hove heen ? barred of pri maty results, bu^tf adds:. i looked .it from a iSroad stand "plilr .t of the general military situation In the West It can not. however, be said that the battle now raging in this ealiont is tp'i gru^l bor even the, most determined onslaught of tn*.feflr*jO I here are indications thaJJSpKtidd the offensive here *l*aBj|lI to land to ?oiiio definite result^fl Btenernj.1 "ma\ undertaken u furtqgjtf rfcajven more powerful thrust."' The review mony of action^ obtal appointment of On JtFi inander in chief of^BCatlied tfrmie^ In the West. \\ teile j|^ncreased ac^ tivlty alorg *the sectors held by American troops, and discloses that recently a numberJpfc.-Amejrleans who hid been captured arm were being conducted through No Man'Sf-Lxind to the Herman lines turned Up$n their captors, escaped and made their way buck to their own trenches. No de? tail! of the incident are given. "In what hus hitherto been held the principal scene of operations, the salient stretching from north of Ar? ras to south of the Olse Canal, with Its apex In front of Amiens, says the revlaw, ihft\w> haV- r/cen^o impoj - aut change .f^ng^Lhe in po?:iordr or ^MsHenotfig forces. An apparent slackening of host! pressure north and south df* t1w Komme Is recorded, though it would he premature to assert that the Amiens objective has been abandon i sd. Vlong tie front from the Avre td Noyon, Fmich counter thruats net? ted local advantages. Northwest of Moreuit. the French launched a'strong assault which re 1 suited In the capture of 300 prisoners. A second attack In this vicinity gain? ed some 750 prisoners and enabled the French to advance their line in the neighborhood of Castel. "In the secondary theater of t In? offensive, the new salient formed by the pressing back of the British be? tween Merkem and the I?n Hassee Ca? nal, desperate lighting continued throughout the week. Here the ene? my was able to win terrain of disten t tactical value and l>y occupying part of the Messt nea Itidge exerted such a th-e..f upon the Kritiah forces in th Old Ypies salient posted beyond Pns achehdaele and the Ypres-Mcnin Road as to force their withdrawal along a line running east of Ypres. "With the combat situation still in flue'nation p gpfSjgf no purpose to dis cuss In detail the tactic gl ph ises of the operations taking place. 1 MTulvershem. N'euve Fglise. Mete ren ami the ai.-i stretching to the Lga was the scene of some of the blood h at encounter h of the w ar. 'The righting in the area centering arm SS M< gvSSSnaSjl continues with iMpaggggg hltensitv. The key posi tmn lemains in British hands, though ihn enemy gained a footing along its southern slopes. ? In' ? haVS hi ? ii aide to gain a local ndvant igS in Flanders, yet surveying the combat situation as a whole it sag be affirmatively stated thut their enormous sacrifices and hi ? pad i sau i it iss ii<'. i hit harte boon l.uien Of primary result. The enemy while pushing with vigor towards the channel ports and Increasing his pressure to a maximum has hern umible to force even a strategic retirement upon the allies much less disur* mi/.e their order of battle. ' i nity or command has material? ly facilitated strategic proMems with which the allies are confronted. The official selection of QantffSil Foeh as commander In chief of the al lud aimies me.ihm ih.it h<- now has Sttat'gic eontiol or the helligerenf strength of all of the allies in the West 'The complete h.irmonv of allied operations |h Illustrated hv the heftig? big Up of a large hodv or traile d Italian units to tile part in the bat tie In ||M Went "Along the aeeton ..t ih?j fiont in m*a* April, 1850. "Ba Chi* *i 881. B SIODM TROOPS WHIPPED. \t ii:\iiKr or QKRMAlffl to take america* trenches failkr. of^Twelvt^' Hundred Wai k on Lines In Picked Force ? Make Sudden * Lorraine Sector?Driven Back With Heavy boss. With American Army in France, April 10 (fly the Associated Press). ?Twelvo hundred (Jerman storm I >ops, the largest number ever eon :?*urated ugninst the American troops for un offensive operation, WSrs hurled against the*Amerlcan positions OftAfl one mile front west of ken nercs Forest, northwest of Toul, to dftjft after a Aerrlflc bombardment of gas and high ekptya|e-c shells.^ The enemy succeeded Tn penetrat? ing^ the front line trenches Ad dak-. InjTthe village of SfltftuSbptrey, ills h;i;idvl Gfcrma a ?rpl.v;iej attempted't fighting^nen ^^tora'were hro Ahe^^kis driven off. ThSHLrmans suffe ltiJSSrul the A rtually. rmnnT?? flrc^tat but th lay a hringin prisoner^ ptur< chmc tre came in took the enemy era All Ircrj rlct own Utfd es and dlspdrsing the oth AnWrt^an airmen return *'t ? ? *? ? %^4t?^inK rtti*?ps carried rations ' ^re^hing^\o*ls< indicating that they intended*.*tb .^Occupy the American positions f^or a long period. ng the sector n, but later there e. The American ^ ^ variant work, the (men dn^nSny' rflPthe batteries Soar? ing gas masks. The enemy's casual? ties are believed to have been the heaviest sustained by them thus far in any operation against American troops. Numbers of German dead are lying in No Man's Land in front of the American trenches. CHAMBERLAIN HILL UNCONSTI? TUTIONAL. Cannot Try Violators of Sedition Lu?\ By Court Martial. Washington, April 22.?President Wilson In a letter to Senator Over? man today declared that he believed the Chambe rlain bill, which would try violations of the sedition law by court martial would be unconstitu- , tionaf. WEST VIRGINIA'S DEBT. Washington. April 22.?The Su? preme Court today ordered a rcurgu aunt hi the proceedings brought by Virginia to compel West Virginia to pay a Judgment of more titan twelve million dollars resulting from the suit I to collect Virginia's Civil War debts, i l arnegat City. N. J? April 22.? Norwegian steamship Vindal, with 15,000 bugs of coffee on board, came ashore during a heavy fog early to? day. The possibilities are that she will be saved. The crew of fifteen have landed. which our own troops are in action there w;is ? relatively greater actlv it>. "In the Meuso ana the enemy broke into our lines but was promptly driven out with severe losses. "Increased sniping and machine fcun hie w.is noted both along the Mouse and north Of Toul. Our coun? ter battery work showed Itself etli cient in keeping down hostile sholllni which burst In greater volume ami in tenalty |n restricted areas. "The first tWO enemy airplanes brought down i>\ our aviators were hot down behind our lines north ol Toul. "No operations of Importance took place In the Italian theater aside intermittent artillery bom* be rdmenta, "in the Baal Ihe enemy continue* idvunce practically without oppo silton along the main highways lead ing to Objectives of certain eeononiie Impot lance, pat tleularly In the I '< mine "in the Ralknna Greek and MrltHh Iroepa Rctlnit in cooperation crosseH the Htruma ami captured a numbei ot vlllagi rjd Fear not?Dot nil rJbe ends Thon Ata UMTER, S. C, WEDNE COTTON MARKET. Buyers DawIMerefi by Contradicting Advices Affecting Trade?-One Fall liars, New York, April 18.-^The New York Cotton Exchange was the scene today of some of the most spectacular price fluctuations in its history. Con? tradicting advices affecting the trade bewildered the traders and furiojas buying or selling caused sudden cor? responding advances and declines, one sensational break extending more than $*J a bale. One chief facjajjn the trading was the report Washington received during trading that a bill had been ip\fQ duced into the house to fix the' pride of cotton at 20 ce?nts, a pound. There were^oj^EjAg advances of"l about 33 Wbk>n lad been, n id spot ? Bjut iu? royefnm wej^e buy. Jy HUlJpbed. The Washington news <vas followed by a break of fully a cent a pound within five minutes. July contracts, for instance, sold off from 29 to 28 duts. making a decline of 147'points h the closing price of Wednesday a break of more than %'J a bale iom tshe high level of the morning. Tha close was .'25 to 50 points up frottf the lowest on covering, but showed ne^t losses of .107 to 115 points for the day. There,was, a feebnsj around the- ring/here that the blflj to fix the price of raw cotton at 20 cents had little chance of passage. Tho prospect for government action of, some sort In the goods market, how? ever, was considered more seriously. J SEVENTY. ON i^4?^MP^ Twelve American? Killed In Action. Washington, April 18.?The casual? ty list today contained 72 names di? vided as follows: Killed in action, 12; died of wounds, 3; died of disease, 5; wound? ed severely, 7; wounded slightly, 4 5. Tiie list named four officers. Capt. James E. Miller was killed in action. Lieut. Arthur B. Warren died of disease; Lieut. Jumes E. O'Toole was wounded severely and Capt. Nathan? iel P. Brooks was wounded slightly. Killed In action: Capt. James E. Miller. Corporals Henry L. Damon, Russell A. Hoyt, Henry Q, Maxted, Mechanic Ralph J. Spooner, Privates Joseph K. Blair, Michael Merzersky, Donald O. Neilson, Win. J. Nobles. Edward J. O'Blian, Frank Zolt, Basil A. Timmons. Died of wounds: Privates Roland B, Coles, Oscar Johnson, William Weiss. Died or disease: Lieut. Arthur B. Warren, Bergt, Ambrose Xavler Buy atte, Privates Robert L. Candage, OrnlS Nichols, Barry Smith. Wounded severely: Lieut. James E. O'Toole; Privates Edward Britton, William Davis, C.corge J. Duto. Michael Fangorl, Victor C. Fierse. Vagnas PSrsdhsa. Wounded slightly: Capt. Nathaniel P. Brooks, BergtS Martin H. McKcn na, John M. Serber, Coprs. Walter J. Brennen, Alfred p. Qormat?, William j. McKaron, Orson 11, Rathburn; Pri-i vates J. B, Barry, Murray W. Bar-] tlstt, Purley J, Batsman, Joseph Be-1 ?Inskl, Joseph A. Bedard, Wilson IE. Balckwell, John D. Cooner, Leo Cre teau, Arlington C. Cullen, Ralph B. Edmunds, Ula R. Farmer, Joseph J Cannon. Arthur P, Gorman, Joseph Oranger, Gustav Helpa, James B. Hitchcock, Edwin U Ilollis, How? ard L. Jardlne, Bill Jures, Joseph J.I Kane, Arthur L. Lyons, Charles New? ton. Clarence E. Newton. Cornelius Orourke, Nloollno Patlsrno, Arthur O. Peterson, Walter F. Qulnn, Charles If.. Robinson, Edgar B. Robinson. Charles C. Resbaek, Joseph L. Sher Idan, Harold R, Bleeper, Jerry C. Stewart, Harry R. Button, Elmer ll rarbOX, James P, Troy. Frank gf. Venues. Ralph Wlranls. London. April 19.?-Thi leaders of he Nationalists in Ireland, Including he Redmondites, who now are led by John Dillon, the Blnn Felners, D'Bryonltes, Laborltes and Clericale ire united In their determination to ? sist conscription "by the most of* ectlve means at our disposal.'' which H the wording Of n resolution passed it a meeting of bishops at Maynooth si t.-i day, Ml K be Stay ?ounirj'i, Thy God's ? SDAT, APRIL 24, 1918 NEW C ASUALTY LISTS. i Secretary Baker Says Question of Change of Policy Will be Consider? ed Soon. Washington April 18.?Secretary Eaker said today the proposal that thfe home addresses of men named be restored to casualty lists will be taken up soon and that the prevailing opin ? ion of his military advisers will de? termine the decision. He said the practice of many newspapers in re? questing relatives of soldiers named in iho list to communicate thieir ad? dresses, would have the effect of de? stroying the object of the present sys? tem, tho concealment of important information from the enemy. NEGROES CAN RENDER SERVICE. Growing Greater Food Crops and Economizing Urged Upon Race. Columbia, April 21.?An appeal is made to the 12,000,000 negroes of the United States by Herbert Hoover, |united States Food Administrator, fdr patriotic service in the present world crisis through greater conser vation and increased production of food. Mr. Hoover says: > ^?"Our nation is engaged in a war |s?r its very existence. To win this war we must save food, groW great crops of foodstuffs and substitute oth? er foods for those most easily shipped to our associates in this war and our own soldiers In France, thousands of whom are men of your own race. The food administration realizes that the negro people of this nation can be of the utmost help in food conservation and food production. Every negro man, woman and child, can render a definite service by responding to the appeal and instructions of the food administration and its representatives. *jmo negroes have shown themselves fwal and responsive in every nation crisis. Their greatest opportunity ^Hfthe present day, to exercise this Hftlty, is to help save and grow food. I -jim conhdent that they will respond ??the suggestions of the food admin patriotism for the winning of this war." KORINLOFFTS ARMY ACTIVE. Hostilities Resumed Between Cossacks and Soviets. Petrograd, Tuesday, April 16.?(By the Associated Press).?Hostilities have been renewed between the troops of den. Korniloff and those of the So? viets. Rostof-On-Don is in the hands of the anarchists. At Kherson, after the Germans left, massacres of offi? cers and Bourgeois by soldiers oc? curred. Criminals at Novo-Tcherkask, who began to indulge in excesses, were dispersed by machine guns. The Turkish cruiser Hamldies and two torpedo boats are reported to have arrived at Odessa. __ PRICE OF WHEAT FIXED. Washington. April 18.?Proposed Increase of the government guaran? teed price of wheat to $2.50 was de? feated tonight in the house, which re? jected by a vote of 167 to 98 the sei ate amendment to the agricultural ap? propriation bill making the change. This action spnds the question back to conference and the senate is ex? pected to recede so as not to hold uo the appropriation bill. Under the food control act the price of 1918 wheat was fixed at $2 a bushel, but by proclamation last Feb? ruary President Wilson fixed a mini? mum guarantee of $2.20 a bushel at the principal interior primary mar? kets. Under senate rider to the ap? propriation bill the price would be increased to $2.50 a bushel and the farmers' local elevators made the ba? sic market. Representaive Lever, chairman of the agriculture committee. led the ight against adoption to the amend? ment declaring the proposed guaran? tee would not Increase the spring wheat production and denying that he present guarantee is inadequate. The vote was preceded by four lours of general debate. Washington, April 22.?Food ship nenta to civilian populations of the tilled countries win be suspended tot? en days to move three million bmh ds of grain to ibe Belgians who are leeiared to be it? deaperate straits Greenville, April 22.?Vivian M d inning is the seventh son of Gov, donning to oiler his services to the ountry. He will shortly sell bis bus ness lure and enter fbe army as b private, he announced today. EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA. ALL LOWEil SECTION OF STATE I> I ST Fit BED BY SHOCK. Thirty Buildings Destroyed at Hemm ?One Man Killed, Several Persons Hurt. Los Angeles, April 21.?All of southern California and part of wes? tern Arizona and Utah were shaken today at 3.25 p. m. by an earthquake which wrecked virtually all buildings and residences in Hemet and San Jacinto, two inland towns 4 5 miles southeast of Riverside, Cal., and caus? ed minor property damage in practi? cally every town and city. One man, Frank E. Darnell, of this city, was killed when he fell oil* a pier at Santa Monica. A woman was injured by falling from a second story window at San Jacinto and a number of persons were injured there and elsewhere, none seriously. Three men entombed in a maga? zine mine tunnel near Hemet probab? ly were saved by fellow workers who drove an air shaft to them. The severity of the shock seemed greatest inland but it was distinctly apparent at nearly every point over California south from a line from ! Darstow to the coast and some parts of Arizona. In Los Angeles and vicinity the damage was apparent mainly in brok? en windows. Homes all over southern California were shaken, dishes rattled, furni? ture moved and in many places the shock was such as to cause the occu? pants to vacate hastily. At San Bernardino the quake was said by old residents to be the worst of years. Scores of plate glass win? dows were broken. Riverside suffered a shock of simi? lar Intensity. Ornaments were shaken from the court house cornice and windows smashed. The tremor was first reported from Barstow at 3.30 p. m. and apparently moved east and south from that point. It became most severe in the ?mmt it,,*.,.? .Mi IHM Mftl farther north about San Bernardino. Coming on toward the coast, the I tremor did slight damage at Whittier (and other intervening points and then I struck Los Angeles at 3.22 p. m., there being two shocks. In the city the earthquake broke a nurhber of large plate glass windows in office buildings. There was almqst a panic in numerous theaters and pic? ture houses. The citv hall stands two inches ? from an adjacent building. The tremor swayed them together and crushed off brick and stone dust, as well as grinding an outside pipe into the walls. At the city jail, there was a panic among the prisoners when glass crashed. At Santa Monica, a seaside town near here, a crowd was on the muni? cipal pier, which swayed perilously, and in the rush to escape, Frank E. Darbella a retired manufacturer, was killed when he fell off a pier. The bath house at Santa Monica Canyon was also the scene of a panic when the building swayed and creak? ed. Feminine patrons, some of them unclothed, scrambled from the dress? ing rooms and rushed back to shelter At Long Beach several large office buildings were severely shaken and numerous windows were broken. The earthquake apparently was not serious very far south as reports from Imperial Valley points said it had not damaged any of the towns in that part of the State. BRITISH MAKE GAINS. Local Operations on Principal Battle Fronts Successful. London. April 22.?The British ad? vanced their lines slightly last night In local operations on both of the principal battle fronts, the war office announces. (Jains were made at Vil lers-l'ri'tonneuN and Albert on the Somme fronl and at the Robecq tip of the Flanders salient. A strong lo? cal attack by the Hermans north Ol Alberl was repulsed after the enemy had captured one advance British ad? vanced post. Paris, April 22 -?German raids east Of the Avre river, near Rheims, were repulsed last night, the war office announced today. Washington. April 22.?The casual t\ list today Includes seventy-one names. Killed in action ten tall pri? vates), died of wounds live, died of accident one, died of dleeaae four other causes tWO. Wounded SOVerel) even, wounded slightly forty-two. i 80?THR0!?, Bat?' VoLXLVI. No. 20. the mm spirit. ArSTRALI AX OBSERVER SAYS lit'Ns WILL be surprised. If They Art Sincere in Discounting American Troops They Will Have a Rude Awakening When They Meet The n in Battle. Behind t ie British Dines in France, Mi rch 20?(Correspondence of The Associated Press)?The Ger? mans are in for a rude awakening if they are sincere in discounting the American army in France, in the opinion of F. M. Cutlack, assistant of? ficial correspondent with the Austral? ian Imperil I Force here. ?The A' cricans," he asserted, "have a spi it for which the Kaiser would sacrifice a good half of his numbers if he could get it into his troops today." Returning from a visit 40 the Am cican forces Mr. Cutlack wrote: j 'The dominant fact in the arrival I of the Unit d States army is the huge I bigness of it. It is new?new as I paint?and keen as a racehorse In training?or rather a whole paddock I ful of race horses. The world will probably not h?ve the chance again of seeing such a spectacle of amateur warlike ec nestnosa, for the Ameri? cans are Irs firing very fast. "It saw something of the same sort when the Australian War Army began lon? ago in 1914?the same light-hearb; d enthusiasm .the same rich raw Quality all untrained and in experiencec ,the same outpouring of the very bogt of a whole country in 1 an emotioi: of national pride, count? ing neither cost nor returns. The Americans are not soldiers yet, and no people realize better than them? selves how much they have still to do to make themselves soldiers, but they, will be ,a great and powerful army In probably shorter time than they reck? on upon. ' Great armies have before this been I raised for great causes, and the Brlt j ish cmpirt as the beat of reasons for knowing h w with the vital spark in may beeorre a fine army you can read of in history ever marched with a more splendid ardor or faced a great struggle with se rener satisfaction than the American expeditionary force in France. And it is such a mighty army. They will not tell yon how big, and you are dis? couraged from guessing, but we ran through ali a spring day in a huge automobile and still the American host dotted the landscape, drilling, marching, manoeuvring, building camps and roads. "They pre learning the art of lighting from the best soldiers of Fi ance ami Britain, end many of their officers as attaches of one sort or an? other have seen a lot of this war from the Germa.-r and Turkish side as well. We found 1 major who had watched the Qalllpoll campaign from *.he top of the BatMeship Hill and was in the confidence of Liman von Sanders and the Turkish Pashas. He has therefore a particularly warm regard for the Australians, We went up to see the American line in Lorraine. In their khaki and round, tin hats among the Lor? raine bills they look and act very much like our own men; indeed they might be our own fellows. They have the same sturdy, self-reliant look. They spread themselves over country' in the fashion of men accustomed to vast spaces. They walk with the same easy, free limbed carriage. Their discipline, like ours is a thing which force coula never impose or main? tain, but is rather contributed volun? tarily to a common good in violation of temper ifnetlt and upbringing. "Againsr these men, as against the men of the British empiie, the Ger? mans have no chance." HUN WIATOR KILLED. London, April 22.?Captain Baron von Bichlhofen, a famous German aviator ha- been killed, Reuter's cor reapondent at British headquarters re? ports. Kdlcd Rack Of Lines. With British Army in France, April 3 2. Baron Ryehtholen, the famous Oman aviator, was shot down and billed last light back of the British Ines a loop the Somme front. He was air led with military honors near the spot where he fell. On the ieport issued from the SgftOS ? 1 Director Of War Savings in Char eston, Bumter county shows sales for he week ending April IS at $>7V if. Plus puts the count) :iOth in sales for he week and drops her to 1Mb plaeo n Standing In sales to date. A couple >! weeks ago Sumt.'f had wotked Up o 10th place.