The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, October 25, 1917, Page Page 7, Image 7
GERMAN INVASION
THING OF HORROR
New York, Oct. 21.?Presdent LyP*
man Powell of Hobart Collcdge, who
has just returned from a tour of
England and France, where he was
sent to investigate conditions as a
representative of the Presidents' As^
sociation of Colleges and Universities
of the United States, in an adjp
dress here today declared French villages
and towns recently evacuated
by German troops have been sacked
beyond description.
"The need of an effective army to
protect America from such atrocious I
conquest as I have just seen in Northern
France and of such air raids as
I have witnessed in and about London
now is the most imperative thing
in the history of this country," he
aid. "The army must go 'over there'
and strike before the army from 'over
there' gets an opportunity to come
Qver here or we are lost."
"If you people here could see half
of what I have been in two months?
if you could see with your own eyes
the terrible conditions?for only a
day?the question in your minds
then would not be how much money
you could spend for Liberty bonds or
contribute to the Red Cross, but how
little you could live on so that you
t- couiu give nil tno rest you have to
these causes."
Dr. Powell describes the fate that
befell the town of Chauny, in the
Aisne department of France. The
little city, he said, was of 10, 000 inhabitants
and almost from the time
of its founding, in 1GG4, had been
a center of glass maunfacture. It
came into the hands of the Teutons
in the course of their invasion, but
last June or July they evacuated it.
"The Germans were not content
with the misery they already had j
caused," lie said. "First they dismantled
the glass factories, then they
herded the young men for service
of one sort or another behind the
* lines.
"Then they lined up the young
women according to rank in beauty.
The highest official chose the fairest
as his servant, the next highest offi
v?is mauc iiiuii ociccbiun ami illicitly
the common soldiers took their pick.
At the time I arrived in Chauny only
300 of the original 10,000 inhapitants
were left and these were old men and
women."
DESERVES A GOLD
MEDAL FOR THIS
Cincinnati authority tells how to dry
up any corn or calluc so it
lifts right off.
^ You corn pestered men and women
neea suner no longer. Wear the shoes
that nearly killed you before, says
this Cincinnati authority, because a
few drops of freezone applied directly
on a tender, aching corn stops
soreness at once and soon loosens so
it can be lifted out, root and all,
without a bit of pain.
A quarter of an ounce of freezone
costs very little at any drug store,
but is sufficient to take off every hard
or soft corn or callus. This should
be tried, as it is inexpensive and is
said not to inflame or even irritate
the surrounding tissue or skin.
If your wife wears high heels she
will be glad to know of this.
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YOUTH IS PRODIGAL. Free
KHOW THE VALUE OF A DOLLi
YOUTH IS NOT EVERLASTIN<
the foundation for their success by
era re young.
If You Hope to A mo
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Start It Today.
The FARMI
WAR ON WESTERN FRONT BEGNS
NEW, MAYBE LAST, PUSH
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FLANDERS, Oct.?The war on the
western front has entered a new
phase?and probably it's last.
The fighting there is as different
now from what it was in 1914 and
1 0 1 it ftq it pnnlrl r*r\ciu? K1 \r Ko
First there was open warfare?
when the Germans swept over Belgium
and France. Second there
came trench fighting, which slowly
developed until the taking of a single
trench was an operation as big
as Waterloo. Now one sees pvfcctically
open country battles with the
enemy engaging in a sort of rear
guard action, which when fully expanded,
will mean a Prussian rout. I
Only the sudden collapse of hostilities
can prevent this curtain on the
kaiser's three-act drama.
Not since the crown prince burned
his eaglet feathers against Verdun
more than a year ago have the German
armies dared a real offensive on
the western front. Since the Sommc,
Hindenburg has been openly on the
defensive, and the present methods
of fighting arc the direct outcome of
that general's gropings to find a
means to hold out.
Hindenbdrg Losing .Hi* Punch.
The Sommc battles were a series
of storming operations?the taking of
trench systems that streched for miles
in veritable mazes of supporting cuts
: and channels. So long as Hindenburg
believed he might still break
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iimuukii hi** nines ime, lie conunueu
this trench warfare. He kept his
front lines full of men. Tens of
thousands of his troops were killed
before he awoke to realization that
he was losing his punch. Hindenburg
dug trenches and dugouts deeper?often
thirty or even fifty feet
below the ground. But his men still
died like rats in traps when British
Tommies threw Mills bombs down
the dugout openings or rolled charges
of high explosives down the almost
perpendicular stairs.
In the fire trenches, where Hindenburg
kept troops standing shou'der
to shoulder to repel attacks, allied
shells tore whole companies to shreds.
While the great German tactician
blundered on. British and French
guns thundered and the superb German
labyrinth of trenches became an
appalling shambles.
At last Hindenburg saw a ligh
The offensive was no lontrnr hia u..
must fight henceforth a defensive
war. The famous retreat on *he
Somme last winter was step No. 1.
lie abandoned his once precious
trenches, now became a hell-hole lit
tered with the putrifying corpses of
German youths.
Hindenburg's next step was observed
during the battle of Arras in
April. His trenches were still there,
but now thinly manned. The bul
of troops were kept in support trenches
hundreds of yards behind.
Troop* Are Scattered.
But his plan was still faulty and
later, at Messines, in June, German
troops were most widely scattered.
Machine guns were no longer fired
from trenches, but from special isoln(
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specially trained counter troops were
held in readiness to charge the tired
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British as soun as objectves ha<l beer
won.
But the British ^ot on just Mn
same, and Hindenbun; bejjan to lost
faith in trenches. July 31, beurinninc
the battle of Flanders, found t.ht
Germans still differently disposed.
They were occupying? not trenche.
so much as concrete shell holes, f\v?
or three linked together with sh<>
tunnels. "Pill boxes"?steel nn?
concrete turrets whose mud-covoro?
tops were jusx. anove me ground ?
made their dubut and from their narrow
slits machine puns spat death
over the Flemish quagmires. Thesi
shell-hole positions and pill boxes
with scraps of trenches a few yard:
long, plus patches of barbed win
entanglements here and there, cov
ered anything, as a fire trench ha<
ceased to exist.
The idea, of course, as British ofli
cers explained it, was to make i
necessary for the British to fire a mil
lion rounds of shells to kill a dozer
men. The shell holes and pill bo:
tops were well nigh invisible from th<
air, and only direct hit sufficed to pu
them entirely out of commission
Then when Tommies advanced the;
would come across an unsuspecter
bit of barbed wire enfiladed by ma
chine gun fire. Finally, after cross
ing such a zone as this, they woulr
meet fresh troops in a terrific count
er attack.
The plan worker! only partially
Then came the battle of Menin roa<
when the unheard of creeping bar
I' rage used by the British took th?
fight out of even the pill boxes. 1 h?
rain of shells flattened everything
nM'wiiic irn' same xerrinie cunair
of fire often wiped out German count
er-attackinft troops before they k<>i
started.
Such is the fi^htin^ today. It i.<
now Hindenuhurg's move.
New York, Monday.?The Rev.
Newell Dwight Ilillis saut yesterday,
in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn:
"The three tests of the traitor in
this country are: First, he tries to
lind something he can criticise in
Great Britain, so as to justify German
atrocities; second, he never will
utter a word of criticism of these
atrocities, but hates anybody who
can prove the German cruelty; third,
he never tires of insisting that Germany
is fi^htinK for the freedom of
the seas, when, in his wicked henrt,
he knows that in n half a century
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uitir una nut uft'ii uric uin^ie r^nKlish
port in the world that has not
boon as open and free to a German
tliip as to a British ship."
I This Test
The course was from I
to Camp Curry in the Y
Park?a distance of 37C
inft mountain routes anc
summer sun.
Fourteen makes of cars
boasting unusually ecoi
?AND THE DORT BI
BY A COMFORTABI
/or
n?er The record of this cup-wim
ys standard car?was 25.96
r gasoline?nearly 26 miles p<
5 Not only pin-money cos
unusually &ood looks, comf
sturdiness and lon& life, cha
Z LUCAS AUi
CHESTERFIELD, SO
DEALE
i SOCIETY TEACHES
NAVY COOKS TO COOK
Many prominent society women,
led by Mrs. Adrain Iselin, bave given
up social activities in order to teach
sailors how to cook. Mrs. Iseln, writing
in the November issue of Harper's |
I Bazar, tells how, through her New
1 York Cooking School these women
are training able seamen to prepare
food properly and are rapidly lessening
the shortage of capable chefs in
( the navy. Rear-Admiral Usher, 1J.
; S. N., has co-operated with Mrs. Jse'
lin and has indorsed her work,
j The men have learned very quickly.
In fact, Admiral Usher says: "With.
out this aid, it would have been a
i difficult matter for us to supply a
. sufficient number of competent cooks
, to the small vessels in the district,
< and to the large Clerman liners which
i, were recently taken over by the govt
eminent."
: Taxi
Notice is hereby tfiven that the ta>
' of taxes from October 15th to Dec. 31
The levy is as follows:
State
1 Ordinary county
Constitutional school
Roads
Total
1 Special taxes as follows:
Cheraw Graded school, local . . .
Cheraw Graded School bonds . .
Cheraw Township Road Bonds . . .
.Jefferson Township Road Bonds .
Alligator Township Road Bonds .
Special, Local and itonu* n
2, 3, 4, 6, 34
1, 17, 37, 41, 42
7, 10, 20, 21, 22, 21, 25, 27, 35, 51
12, 14, 31, 32, 36, 40, 45 46, 4H.
13
5, H, 15, 16, 23, 30, 33, 49
IU, ZU, 4 1, .r?U
38
11
18
9, 28
39
43
29
Poll tax between 21 and CO
at tha Mtma Um?.
Cou
| Tkia Mk, 1917.
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Talks I .
,os An&cles, CalM 5c 4
osemite National
) miles over &rill- !
1 under q burning j|4
; competed?each
lomical operation ?3
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ling Dort?a regular
miles per fcsllon of
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racterize the Dort. mC i
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LOT AND BUILDING FOR SALE
Woodman Camp 249 will sell at
public auction at Patrick, October
30th, 1917 for cash, one lot with
shop building on same, to higher!
bidder; 30 feet front, 103 feet back,
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laty Treasurer, Chesterfield County