Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-02-05

-.Cn!na. whtch has had '.HaGred
,.,.usa!.d labOrcrs III France :or !aorc
t.:au =: car. - now scriinS i lo:-
i!lnhi: .,riLy ~ rght!rs :.i -. JH>'
h,,y. fTaay men the. ~" IN ti.- arm.
=. no SHci. !OI rni! t.r, ''its"i'-
IE.f, ~ r'aS'i W ~. e. however
't IL. Ghlu.se force ~ quite con-
siderable.
Columbia special Of February l To
Charleston American: For the second
time during this general assembly the
Columbia State has been attacked on
the floor OF the house for unfairness
Arising 10 q question OF personal
privilege this afternoon. Mr.. r.. Z. sum
Iners, OF Anderson. denounced a report
IA this mornings issue OF the State IN
regard 10 the action OF the house In
killing AN appropriation for Governor
MannIng's su-callcd law enforce
In"nt" fund. Mr.. Summers made ],
pl:iin that hc and the other members OF
the house were as much In taVor ol
law enforcement" az anybody, but tha'
they did not want to be classed as law
violatOrs simply because they refused
10 place in the hands OF Manning
campaign fund raised by the taxpayers
ui South Carolina.
Officials on the American front
haI.. recently come into possession ol
documents said to have been taken
from Germans opposite their position
which documents deal with the treat
mcnt of prisoners. The documents say
tina, all prisoners. including commits
stoned and non commissioned oinc"rs
after having being captured ar" kept IN
cages ioI four days without food and
COMPELLED Ia stand all the time. ~ the
.,,I Il ,I.,, f.trlnI only Small
qrEnuilti"S Oi food ar" TO b" given. Al
though d"iinIt" information on the point
T. la,kIng som" American officers "X-
i,r, SS.d the belief that tn" order re-
suited from III" difficulties the Ger
mans probably experienced in extract
III" information from tn" first Arncri
can prisoners captured III November
such treatment "f i'riSOn"rS. II IL felt
could l." designed only to make them
HIv" military information.
\ hattie with water and Ic" such
~ never has been experienced before
IN tn" history Of the mississippi river
~ being wag-d 10y river men. shipping
worth millions -! dollars Is "ndangcr-
ed. Already NOR" than Il score Of big
steamers and smaller craft have gon,
Z" tho bottom. For Il distance Of 800
miles. extending from Cairo. H.. "a
IN IC" TN" most serious situation cx-
ists al Richardson's Landing. 80 miles
:ihUV" Memphis where Il great ice
.:or;:" broke last Saturday night. send
Inc hui:'. Hoes tearing down the stream
threatening everything before them
Hardly had tn. rIN'n men met this
when word cam" that another gorg,
VAS forming at Richardson's Landing
Mountains al ice from tn" Columbus
gorge, which three days ago near Cairo
wrecked many steamers. and Is piline
up at Richardson's Landing. The new
gor:;" is more mrnacing than was the
old un", Nor" than iifty steamboats,
and hargcS. som" of them already
sunk"n ana dragging the bottom of tho
river. ar" "nCaScd in this gorge. Scvcra
ui these craft cam" out of the Ohio
river when 81 g"r@;r gay" way neal
lHduCHh.
lnSiS,rnt recommendations thai
general officers. cOlOnclS and other lin,
officers at high rank br held dircctl!
rrSponSIb" for the training Ot the Of
hc"rS under them are contained In cN'
tracts of reports from General Pcrshinl
published IN Washington last Satur.
dai. Their" is unillnChing criticism o
III" lack OF military knowledge on scv'
"r;,l vital points displayed by such of.
nCCrS. presumably of the regular army
on their arrival in France. Genera
lrrshinS notes an almost total failur,
To Civ" instructions in principles o.
minor tactics and their practical appli
cation Ia war conditions. Officers from
COlon"lS down. and including some gen
rral officers. are found ignorant OF tn,
handling of units in open warfare, in
chding principles of reconnaissance
uutpoStS. advance guard. solution o
practical problems and formation o
attack. No training whatever has beer
given in muSkctry efficiency as distin
guishcd from individual target practic,
nn tho ,n