Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-27
Straps and fats.

SireS the country 10 UNDERSTAND tHdl
any impression that the president is
pushing the fight in person Is a mis-
take.
A dispatch from Newport News
said that the German steamer kron-
prinz Wilhelm was on last Saturday
moved from the dry dock where 1t
has been undergoing a cleaning, to q
position out in the stream, where 1t
was anchored. The captain Of this
vessel said on his arrival that he
would certainly not intern; but would
make Il run for 1t. The captain OF the
Prince Eitel had said the same thing;
but when he afterward interned, II
was understood that he had only been
putting up a bluff to keep the ships
that were guarding on the side In sus-
pense. The captain Of the Kronprinz
may be doing the same thing. 1t is
understood h a there are seVeral
british and French vessels waiting Tor
him, and it will be only by a lucky
chance if he gets away. Under the
ruies, the enemy on the outside does
not know when the Kronprinz will be
obliged to sail. AS soon, however, as
the time limit is up the fact must be
made public.
The latest report on mortality In
lno 6klSlIdllOu dlCd Va IAN SAS
States, relating to the calendar year
1918, recently issued by the bureau OF
the census, department Of commerce,
contains some interesting and signl-
icant figures with reference to the
principal causes Of death in this
country. More than one-half or all
the deaths in the registration area
which in 1913, contained about 65 per
cent Of the total population OF the
United States-were u to nine caus-
es: tuberculosis, heart disease, pneu-
monia, Bright's disease and nephritis,
diarrhea and entertitis, cancer, ap-
opiexy, diphtheria and Group, and
typhoid fever. The first three OF these
maladies alone were responsible for
more than 80 per cent Of the total
mortality reported for that year. The
death rate from these nine causes
combined in 1913, was S10.4 per 1O0,.
600 population. This is a material
decrease from the corresponding rate
in 1s1O-s37.4 per 100, 000-when the
census bureau made its first annual
collection of mortality statistics. The
number Of deaths resulting from these
causes, however, formed a somewhat
greater proportion Of the total report
ed mortality in 1918 than in 1900-57
per cent in the latter year as COM
pared with So per cent in the earlier.
Although spring a failed to
bring the long-expected big enor
Of the allies against the German lines
in France and Belgium, 1t has fur-
nished three Of the most desperate
engagements Of the The first
was at Nueve Chapelle. where In
three days fighting combined losses
numbered 10000 or more, with victory
resting with the British arms. The
second was southeast Of Ypres, when
the British captured Hill No. 60. This
involved the most furious kind OF
fighting and after the hill was taken,
a b~ombardment by the Germans for
several days. Then bringing up
heavy achievements the Germans
began an attack around Ypres, which
is described as m Of the fiercest OF
the war. This movement was partly
in the nature Of a surprise N the
allies lines were pushed back for a
considerable distance, estimated in
some quarters as several miles. Some
of this ground has been regained,
and according to Paris, h Germans
nd only have been checked, but
Belgians, British and French, by de-
termined cou~nter-attacks, continue to
force their adversaries back. The
Germans are reported still to be en-
ploying bombs containing gas-forming
chemicals, and their use is admitted
and justified by the Berlin press, one
BS6Hn newspaper asserting thar
bombs Of a similar nature have beer
employed by the French and British.
The full force Of the German at
tack is being directed against the
British front from several directions
and the Canadian troops, who already
had distinguished themselves by bril-
liant counter-a attacks when the Ger
mains swept the French line, are bear
ing the brunt Of battle. With $780,
600 men on the continent, as announc-
ed recently by the British chancellor
Of the. e%Xchequer, endorsements.
doubtless have been hurried forward
to fill the gaps in the British lines. IN
. one Of it's infrequent bulletins, the
Belgian legation at London, announces
Ypres canal, which was captured by
the Germans Friday night, has been
retaken by the French and Belgian
troops and that the Belgian artillery
has been engaged in a duel with the
German batteries the whole length OF
the Belgian front. The Carpathian
situation remains with no notable
change. German newspapers insist
that the German fleet has been cruis-
ing in the North sea. According to
these published reports, the German
fleet has been vainly seeking the Brit
ish fleet. The position Of Italy with
respect to the war, remains as 1t has
from the beginning-one Of ARMED
and watchful waiting" There is much
talk of negotiations looking to a
Austria-Habian agreement but so faI
as is known, no tangible results have
been realized.
Trenches and sand bags disap-
peared," says the British official EYE
Witness" describing British mine eX-
plosions which preceded the recent
attack and capture by the British OF
Hill No. 60, southeast Of Ypres, says
a London cable Of April 25. THE
whole surface Of the ground the
narrative continues, assumed strange
shapes. Here it vas torn into huge
craters; there large mounds OF faller
debris were seen. AS the the reports
Of the explosion died away, our men
led by their officers. rushed across
the intervening space or some forty &c
sixty yards lying between our trench
es and the gaping craters before them
the frontier covered by the attack be-
ing only some $50 yards in length
Where the mines actually had eX
ploded, nothing was left Of the occu-
pants of the hostile line, but in the
neighboring trenches our assaultine
infantry witnessed an extraordinary
scene. Many German soldiers, posi-
bly, owing to the fact that they were
working, were surprised while in theil
shirt sleeves and without equipment
Stunned by the explosions and sub
jected to a rain Of hand grenades they
gave way to panic. Cursing anc
shouting they were falling over on
another in their hurry to gain exits
leading into the communication
trenches. Some of those in the real
were driving their bayonets into thu
bodies Of their comrades in front o.
them. OF all this. our infantry haC
only a momentary glimpse before the!
fell upon the enemy with the bayonet
burst through the maze of trenches
poured into the craters and pressed
on down the communication trenche
until at last they were stopped by bar
ricades defended by bomb throwers
The first line of trenches was cap
tured in a few minutes and ffteer
prisoners fell into our hands, but l
was then that the real struggle bega1
for the Germans quickly recovered