The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 10, 1918, Image 2
ZKFPELIN DESTROYED.
Air Raid on England Last Night Re
sults, in Detraction of Zeppelin,
and Damage to Another Hun Ship.
London, Aug; 6.?In last night's
air raid on England by German air
ships, an enemy Zeppelin* was brought I
down, it is officially announced. An
other German airship was damaged
but probably succeeded in reaching its
base.
HiJXS. FIERCENLY RESISTING
FRENCH ADVANCE.
Hold the Heights Commanding River
Crossings.
Paris, Aug. S.?German resistance
north of Vesle is being continued.
The enemy rear guards are standing
determinedly along the heights com
manding the river crossings where
the French light elements which have
fassed beyond the river are entering
them, says the Havas Agency revie.v
tvday.
CONTINUED SUCCESS OF ALLIES.
Germans Repulsed North of The
Vesle?Frehch Advance to A vre.
Paris, Aug. 6.?North of the Vesle
the Germans have been repulsed in an
effort to dislodge the French and
American units which crossed from
the South bank. An official statement
also reports the French advance to
Avre, north of Montdidier.
GERMAN ATTACKS FAIL.
Allies Hold Fast to Positions on Vesle
Front.
Paris, Aug. 6.?The determined at
tacks which the Germans have been
delivering\against the. Allied advanc
ed guards north of the Vesle have
failed to disturb the temporary stabil
ization of the Vesle front. The Allied
commandant is retaining the initia
tive in these operations.
ALLIED FORCES LAND AT ARCH
ANGEL.
Enthusiastic Welcome Given by Rus
sians.
London^ Aug. 6.?Official announce
ment was'made today of the landing
of Allied forces of the naval military
at Archangel on August 2nd. The
landing was in concurrence with the
wishes of the Russian population, and
it is stated, caused general enthusiasm
W. T. DERIEUX DEAD.
Columbian Killed at Camp Wads
i worth.
Spartanburg, Aug. 5.?William T.
DerieUx, Company C, Sixty-first Pion
eer Infantry, son of Dr. and Mrs. W.
T. Derieux of Columbia, who was ac
cidentally shot Sunday afternoon, died
this afternoon at the base hospital at
Camp Wadsworth. His body will be
taken to Columbia for "burial. Mr.
Derieux had been* in camp a short time
only but had made many friends in
his company and regiment;' His fam
ily is well known, his father, the Rev.
W. T. Derieux, D. D., prominent as a
Baptist minister, having lived in
Spartanburg for several years, after
ward; resided .-La Greenville and being
widely "known throughout the State.
The accident occurred when several
soldiers were examining a rifle and
studying its operation. The. ball pass
ed through Mr. Derieux's arm and
body.
PURXIC HEALTH MEETINGS.
Schedule of Meetings Still to be Held
in -Sunxter County.
The following communities remain
to be visited for the community and
piibiic health meetings. As will be
observed there is going to be some
very pleasant events, especially in the
culinary departments.
Concord, Mayesville and Providence
schools have held their meetings. The
United State.? government is appealing
to the patriotic people* of the rural j
districts to get together in these
community meetings to organize for.
intensive war work, and to start a
movement of conservation of the
public health to increase the effi
ciency?that is the physical, mental
and moral efficiency of?our people in
productiveness to win the war.
Schedule of community meetings:
August 7th?Bethel, 4 p. m.
August 12th?Hagood, afternoon,
picnic.
August 13th?Salem. 4 p. m.
August 14th?Gen. Sumter Memo
rial School, all day picnic.
August 3 5th?Oswego, 4 p. m.
August 16th?Shiloh. all day picnic.
August 19th?Daizell, 4 p. m., aft
ernoon picnic.
August 20th?Wedged eld, 4 p. m.,
afternoon picnic.
August 21st?Baker School, all day
picnic.
August 2 2d ? Pleasant Grove
School, all day picnic.
August 22rd?Graham School, 4 p.
m.
August 26th?Norwood School, all
day picnic.
August 27th?StateDurg No. 10. 4 p.
m.
August 2Sth?DuLose School, 4 p.
m.
August 29th.?Reed School, 4 p. m.
August 20th?Rembert. 4 p. m. af
ternoon picnic.
CROWN PRINCE REORGANIZLXG
DIVISIONS.
Using Remainder of 1919 Recruits?
Divisions Fearfully Reduced.
With French Army. France, Morn
ing, Aug. C.?The Gorman crown
T'rinco is now engaged in reconstruct
ing his shattered divisions behind the
lines with the remainder of the 1911?
recruits, in the opinion of General
Mangin. Some of the German divis
ions in battle had their company
strength reduced to less than fifty
men. while some were still further
depleted.
Many a man who couldn't train a
dog decently imagines that he is an
ideal child trainer.
Some people think they are never
Iked about because they never heai
SENATORS AT LEXINGTON.
Noisy Bleaseites Attempt to Heckle
Senate Candidates.
Lexington. Aug. 6.?Candidates for
the United States senate met another
little band of wilful Bleaseites in
Lexington today, who at times turned
loose a deafening clamor in defense
of Cole L. Blease and Thomas H.
Peep/es, when these two "lost, strayed
or stolen candidates" were subjected
to Christie Benet's and W. P. Pollock's
mustard gas attacks. The number of
Bleaseites in the little raiding party
was almost inconsequential, the ratio j
of anti-Bleaseites to Bleaseites being
possibly four or five to one in the
crowd of from SftO to 1,000 people. But
inferiority in numbers was more than
offset in capacity to make noise, many
of the Bleaseites being all mouth and
a yard wide.
Several times it looked as if Mr.
Benet and Mr. Pollock would not be
allowed to proceed. In the turmoil
there were calls to discuss 'the issues'
and "You're not running against
Blease. Talk about Peeples." But
when Peeples was being riddled there
was still a somewhat futile attempt
made to return the fire. Pollock got
in some withering flashes and prac
tically silenced the opposition. One
persistent heckler challenged Mr.
Pollock to "come on" and "go to the
war." Pollock's answer was, "While
you go to France to fight Germans, I
propose to stay here and fight pro
Germans in South Carolina."
Mr. Pollock got a round of applause
when he read a circular advertising a
special meeting for Blease "near Cow
ards," in Florence county, tomorrow.
Mr. Pollock said he preferred to
speak here "near brave men." He
had never been able to get in sight of
Blease and today with the mercury
hovering near the century mark, it
was "too hot to run him down."
There were calls from the audience
for Mr. Peeples when C. M. Efird, the
county chairman, called his name on
the schedule of speakers and hurrahs
also for Blease when his name was
read out. "You can holler as loud as
you want to, Mr. Chairman," Mr.
Benet said, when introduced, "I guar
antee Tom Peeples is not coming here
today."
The speakers today got off particu
larly forceful addresses, the week-end
release having added much vigor to
the presentation of arguments, N. B.
Dial was the first speaker and made
a brief survey of many national is
sues, which would call for the sane
judgment of business men in the
United States senate upon the termi
nation of the war. It may be possi
ble, he said, to utilize the cantonments
as schools for vocational training and
the huge nitrate plants for war mu
nitions can be converted into agricul
tural nitrate plants when munitions
factories shut down. Better market
ing facilities are to be developed and
many measures are to be enacted
which will give agriculture a new vis
ion and range of possibilities through
put the South. Tbe^an "was, either
an ignoramus or a Itar" who had the !
audacity to say that the Laurens coun
ty candidate opposed anything that
meant the progress and welfare of the
people. He had never opposed the
State warehouse system. He had
built the second warehouse in the
State, and the State system was a
movement in the right direction, but
this did not go far enough. '*If you
take all the cotton of South Carolina
off the market, you would not affect
the mar? *t with Georgia and Texas
and other States selling." He strenu
ously advocated a national bonded
warehouse system to take care of the
entire crop.
Senator. Benet is not in favor of fix
ing the price of cotton, but thinks the
government ought to "set up a prop"
or establish a minimum figure below
which cotton will not be allowed to
drop. This would enable farmers to
finance cotton and al3o provide a mar
ket at a reasonable figure for distress
cotton which must soon begin to
move.
Blease's complete face about on the
war issue. Mr. Benet said, had been
brought about by Blease's candidacy.
He was not a candidate when he made
the Pomaria and Filbert speeches and
the people would not stand for such
utterances now. His attitude was that
of the fisherman who rescued the lit
tle negro boy. not because he loved
the boy, but because "he had the bait
in his pocket." Blease would not be
hollering today that the war must be
fought to a successful conclusion and
that he was for a third term for Wil
son and that he was willing to raise a
regiment if it were not to gain the
people's votes.
Mr. Pollock made a powerful ap
peal to the voters to support men
whose loyalty had not been brought
into question and sought to eason
with those who were hurling defiance
back at him. He got volumes of ap
plause during his speech and at its
conclusion ma"ny of the voters crowd
ed to the stand to shake hands with;
the Cheraw candidate.
There is considerable Blease senti
ment in Lexington county, but lead
ers of the opposition are determined
to retain the county in the anti
Blease column and do not expect it
to be a superhuman task at that.
Blease lost the county by 735 votes in
1914 and by 410 votes in 191rt.
Rico admitted today he made his
usual speeeh each day. but criticised
the press for saying as much.
FLOUR MILL BURNED.
Ivce County Wheat and Corn Mill De
stroyed, Causing Heavy Loss.
Bishopville, Aug. 6.?Fire today de
stroyed the new plant of the I-ee
County Milling & Trading Company.
The plant is a total loss and with it a
lot of hew wheat grown in Lee county
and a large amount of dour and food
stuffs. The loss is around $35,000 with
$20.00?* to $25,000 insurance. It is pos
sible that the plant will be rebuilt,
but not in time to grind this year's
crop. The plant was modern and
tended to encourage the growing of
wheat and corn for marketing, both
locally and for shipment.
A girl's idea o'" genuine misery is
to have her Eastei bonnet sent home
Saturday night and then have it rain
all day Sunday,
NO IMPR<)VEMENT IX BUYING.!
Sunitcr County is still Lown Down in
Tlie Scale?What Some of The
Other Counties are Doing.
The. bulletin issued from the of
fice of the director of War Savings
for the week ending July 27th shows
in simple figures that Sumter county!
is not holding up her end of the Ik&l
in the buying of War Savings stamps.
At the end of that week for total
sales Sumter stood 21st in the State
with sales of $104,:J74.00 which is a
per capita of $2.45.
In the matter of sales for that par
ticular week there were in this State
only nine counties that had lower per
capita sales than did this county,
while there were thirty-five counties
that had larger per capita sale*.
What some of these counties did fOi*
that week were as follows:
Florence?$21,450.50, per capita of
52c.
Dillon?$7,538.00, per capita of 29c
Horry?$6,431.25, per capita of 22c
Barnwell?$6,136.25, per capita of
18c.
Dorchester?$3,400.75, per capita
of 18c.
Lee?$3,384.50, per capita of 12c.
Marion?$2,801.50, per capita of
12c.
Williamsburg?$2,741.75, per capiti
of 11c.
Beaufort?$2,585.00, per capita of
9c.
Chesterfield?$2,847.50, per capita
of 9c.
Kershaw?$2,182.75, per capita of
7 c.
Orangeburg?$3,687.00, per capita
of 7c.
Sumter's sales that week were $2,
153.50, a per capita of five cents.
The people of this county seem to
be buying all kinds of articles, some
necessities and some for conven
ience and pleasure just as they always
have. The people of the county have
pledged to buy nearly $400,000.00
worth of War Savings stamps. Sev
en-twelfths of the year have gone by
and the buyings amount to $104,000.00
or a little over one-fourth.
WEARY OF WAR.
Depressing Documents Found on
Prisoners.
With the British Army in France,
Aug. 5.?(By the Associated Press).?
Documents of the most significant
character, indicating that recent
events have brought about an ex
tremely marked state lof depression
in the German army have fallen into
the hands of the British. Most sig
nificant of all, perhaps, is an abstract
from a German officers' diary in which
he relates he ha.d been asked by the'
'divisional headquarters whether the
troops in the line favored peace or a
continuation of the war, his answer
being: "Immediate .peace or an imme
diate decisive battle."
This entry was dated before the
German drive for the Marne began".
Hardly less important is a letter
taken from a German prisonerT^Th
was written to him by another Ger
man stationed along the Marne. It
reads:
"You will be in the thick of it now.
Shirk as much as you can. Do not be
stupid. We are risking our lives only
for big victories. Now we are taking
the offensive on the m Marne and we
will never get out of this mess at all.
Our regiment has bpen nearly wiped
out and we have not pushed far. The
war is becoming a greater massacre'
than ever. What is going to happen
I don't know. Germany is slowly
crumbling to pieces."
Another prisoner just captured on
the British front says that the offi
cial figures show that 12,000 of his
comrades were made prisoners in the
Champagne fighting, but that rumors
along this front is that 60,000 Ger
mans and 800 guns were lost.
Adding to the gloom of his division
which realizes that Germany has suf
fered a great defeat, the prisoner said
the food given the men was very poor.
He said that poor rations had been
especially noticeable for the last three
months:' The only time that good
food is served, he said, is before the
Germans are to participate in an of- j
fensive.
To .Salvage Waste Material in The
United States.
The American Givic Association is
starting a campaign for the salvage
of waste material on a scale which
promises to save many millions of
dollars annually to the United States.
In pursuance of this object the as
| sociation has formed a National Sal
vage Committee, with Mrs. John Al
! Ian Dougherty as chairrnan, and with
' headquarters in Washington. D. C
This National Committee will act as
an advisory board. In each State a
chairman will be appointed who will
choose her own committee, and or
ganized her State as closely and as
quickly as possible. The material^
to be salvaged are such domestic
waste as tin and lead foil; brass, cop
per, and aluminum; old gold; silver
and broken bits of jewelry; paper,
rubber, cotton and woolen rags; glass
fruit jars, tin cans with fitted lids, fur
niture and innumerable other a-rti
i cles. The salvage of domestic ma
terials already has fteen successfully
I tried out in Ivos Angeles. Cal., and in
Kansas City. Mo.
AMERICAN CASUALTY LIST.
j Our Troops Suffer Considerable Loss
in Great Battles,
j Washington, Aug. S.?Army casual
J ties reorted today are 237. Killed in
i action, 131; died of wounds. 16; died
! of airplane accident, 1; wounded se
I verely. 62; wounded, degree undeter
: mined 22. Killed in action. Sergt.
'William S. Henderson, of Converse.
IS. C. Private Luther F. Fields, of
I Kasley; wounded severely. Private
j Charles R. Mann, of Greenville. S. C.
Marines Lose Hundred.
j Washington, Aug. S.?- Marine cas
ualties total one hundred and eight.
? Killed in action. 2: died of wounds.
; 1; wounded severely. 20; wounded
I degree undetermined. 74 ; wounded
! slightly, 1; missing. 10. Wounded, de
I gree undetermined, Lieut. Davis A
j Holliday, of Marion. S. C., Private
I enable* S". Gomez, of Tampa, Fla.
LEITER FROM THE FRONT.
Lieut. David Loring Writes From
Somewhere in Belgium Where He
is Now Serving.
Somewhere in Belgium,
July 15, 19 IS.
My Dear Old Daddy:
Writing is rather a hard proposi
tion over here these days. We are on
the move most or' the time. At pres
ent we are in a biouvac camp
sleeping in our "dog tents." Loring
knows what they are. Have had some
rain lately. Looks like every time
we have to move it is in the rain.
Sometime ago I was up in the front
line for four or five days. Did not|
see al^- one get hurt, but saw one muni
after he got killed by a piece of I
shrapnel. Wished for you, Viola and I
Loring to see some of the fighting.
One night while up there the Allies
sent out a raiding party to take pris
oners at a given hour (called zero
hour). We put a heavy barrage.
Then is when I . wished for you
three. It certainly was beautiful,
but I guess it was hell for the ene
my. Hope it was, for the afternoon
before he shelled the position where
I was and made it pretty hot too. He
dropped big shells all around our
dugout. If one of those eight inch
piercing shells had hit directly over
us it would have been all off for us.
One of them dug a hole big enough
to bury a pair of mules just to one
side of our dugout. It shook us up j
pretty well too. While standing out
in front a shell burst about forty
yards away and threw all sorts of
things alb over us, and small pieces of
corrugated sheet iron missed a guard
that was standing behind me, by his
stepping up along side of me. An
other whole piece fell about 12 feet
away. We had a time that afternoon."
I was glad to see the straffing we gave
them that night. It surely was beau
tiful. We were where we could see
good, probably a half miie from the
place the barrage fell. Our artillery
guns were firing over our heads, and
our M. G.'s were popping away so
you couldn't hear a man yell in your
ear. This was when I went up to the
front line by v myself for a few days
observation, and you might say the
gutst of the company already there.
I shot a M. G. those few nights prob
ably a thousand times. Of course it
was indirect fire, also at night and 1
could not see what results I was get
ting. On the way up there from our
camp, when I got close to the front
line, shells were dropping all along
the'road every now and then. One
dropped as near as fifty yards in the
road exactly opposite from where my
party was walking'along. We could
hear the shrill whistle through the
air, and you should have seen us
"duck." I believe this "hunting"
over here for big game is more fun
than hunting deer in Santee swamp
at home. Wish you could be here
with me and have a good 'stand.'
Had a nice letter from Anna and
Ruth sometime ago telling me about
the records, and how much they like
and play them and wish Viola and I
could be there together to hear them
too. Hope I can be there by next
summer. You remember all the things
I was ordered to supply myself with
before sailing? Well that was all
bosh, for we are cut down to only 50
pounds baggage. Of course we can
carry anything else we want to on I
our backs. Did away with my trunk,
hat. cap, short overcoat and a good
many lesser things. They are all sup
posed to be kept for us at some base,
and returned to us when we start
home, or sent home if anything hap
pens to us over here (hope not). Also
had a nice long letter from Coz Hal
lie sometime back. Received one
from Auntie last week that I much en
joyed too. She told me a lot of the
local news about Sumter. Just wrote
Coz Hallie today. Am sitting on a
box in front of my dog tent waiting
for supper. Am rather hungry too for
r did not eat much dinner today, had
eaten candy just before.
Every now and then we are able to
get. some of the famous wives to
cook some eggs and potatoes and have
miik, etc. One meal we had I want
you to see what we had. The major
was the host, and paid the bill. Wish
I could sit down right now to the
same kind of supper. Received a let
ter some time ago addressed to Lieut.
David Loring. Jr. When I opened it
I found it was not for me. It was
from David Loring, Sr., to his son.
Then I noticed on the envelope that!
the original address was the head
quarters Co. 23rd regiment, which
was scratched out, and my address
; added. I wrote the Jr. a letter tel
ling him who I was, etc. The Sr's
address was Terminal City, Van
Couver, B. C. I wonder who they
.are. I toid the young man I thought
maybe you would write his Dad. Dad
the flying machines are as common
as Ford cars at home. Can hardly
find a time during the day when you
can't see from one to fifteen at a time.
Several of us u>de over to a hangar
a couple of Sundays ago to see them
rise and light. Saw a squadron of
nine leave at the same time. When
they light, they just turn the ma
chine any way they want to and run
right to within twenty feet of the
place the blame thing belongs to stay,
siime as you would an automobile.
After we went back to camp one oi*
the planes Hew over our camp, and
did several stunts. Turned over
backwards twice. Did a glide straight
j at our camp and had everybody
trying to duck out of the way. The
blame fool came within twenty feet
of the ground just like he was out of
fix some way. and was out of con
trol. T don't blame anyone for trying
to duck.
Wish I could see you all soon, but
nothing doing. Give my liest love to
all at home, and at Millwood. Write
when you can for I do love to hear
from you. You look out for. and
take care of Viola and make her do
the same for you. I know you both
will. I'.est love in the world for you
both. "Bud."
Tim more extensively it is used toe
better are the results obtained from a
Swedish system for stimulating back
ward children by circulating electric
currents through the air of the rooms
in which they study.
ARTILLERY FIRE HEAVIER.
Germans Offer stiff Resistance to Al
lies.
London, Aug. 5.?Reuters corre-;
spondent at French headquarters in
France in a dispatch dated Monday
afternoon at 2 o'clock says:
"The enemy's artillery fire is very
heavy along the whole line of the
Vesle, and the Germans are opposing
every resistance to the allies. Never- j
theless, French patrols have suc-i
ceeded in crossing the river at several!
points between Hermoise, east of j
Soissons and Fismes, where the Amer
icans cross and between Fismes and
Muiseon.
"The Germans on the bank are
abundantly supplied with machine
guns and bomb throwers. Their avia
tors are busy using machine guns
against our troops and the enemy
resistance everywhere is very stiff.
Between Muizon and Peheims,
where we are firmly established on the
south bank there has been very hard j
fighting. ? j
"There was a hot encounter at the
Vautes farm, close to Muizon, for the
passage of the river. After its' cap
ture the Germany sent across* two
detachments in an attempt to retake
the farm. Both detachments were re
pulsed after a severe tight.
"The artillery is very active on both
sides of this region.
"West of Braisnes the enemy stub
bornly resisted our passage of the riv
er opposite the La Grange farm on the
north bank of the stream.
"On the A vre River, in the Mont
didier section the French have occu
pied the whole of the line of wooded
hills overlooking fhe steep river val
ley from Braches to Mesnil-St.
Georges. It is reported there is fight
ing in Hargicourt on the left bam:
of the river, where the Germans hold
the railroad station. The enemy is
still in Morisel."
DR. J. D. irUGGIXS DF.AD.
Pastor of Denmark Baptist Chuith
Succumbs to Illness.
Denmark, Aug. f>.?The Rev. J. D.
Huggins, pastor of the Denmark Bap
tistxcnurch. died this morning after
a five weeks' illness. The burial and
funeral services will be at Crooked
Run Baptist Church, Richland Coun
ty, tomorrow afternoon.
Mr. Huggins had served acceptab-.
ly as pastor of various Paptist
churches in South Carolina. He was
a n.ember of the Baptist home-mis
sion board and had served, as State
agent of the board a number of years.
He was zealous in the cause of his
church and was highly esteemed both
as an aggressive pastor and on ac
count of his sterling qualities of
manhood. Mr. Huggins was in his
G2d year.
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