Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-09-20

on doing.
The United States. as was fully eX-
prctrd, has unconditionally rcJectth
Germany's peace fecler. In dong so
the government has spoken FOR all the
cobelligcrents. Almost immediately
after receiving the Austrian govern
ment's note from the minister from
Sweden. Mr.. Ekengrcn. Secretary Ian.
sing issued this formal statement
am authorized by the president TO state
that tho. following will bc the reply oil
this government To the AuStro-H Hun :
garian note proposing an unoIHciai
conference of brllIgcrents: The gov
ernmcnt OF the United States feels that
there is only one reply which II car,
make to the suggestion OF the imIeTiai
AustrO- Hungarian government. IL mas
repeatedly and with entire candor stat
ed the terms which the United states
woIld consider and can and will enter
tain no proposal for a conference upon
n matter concerning which II has inad"
it's pOsitiOn and purpose so plain.
German troops sent to the Mace
,onian front to aid the hard pressed
bulgarian forces have been put To
flight along with the Bulgarians, says
a Servian official statement on
Wednesdays operations received AZ tne
Servian legation in Washington Wed :
nesday night. The statement was sent
from Siloniki by Colonel Peshitch, as.
sistant chief OF the SerVian genera, genera,
staff. Ii follows: We have repulsed
a number of violent counterattacks in
the Kodak region. The German troops
which were sent To the AID OF
the Bulgarians have been put TO hight
with the latter. We continue 10 al :
vance along the whole front. The VII
lage OF GradeshnitZa is in our hands.
The Allied troops have taken the VII
lage OF Starovina. The number OF prl-
soncrs exceeded 1000. tn" hummer OF
caDtured guns exceeds so. The enemy
has also abandoned enormous guam
titles of war materials.
Postmaster General Burleson cx:
presses the view in a statement Issued
last Monday through Solicitor Lamar
of the postoffice department that II
will be better for the newspapers OF
the future TO avoid literal treatment
of seditiOus utteranceS IN cases III
which the speakers or publishers are
under investigation, arrest or indict-
ment, The opinion of the postmaster
general was given after a New fork
newspaper had called attention 10 tne
fact that newspapers by repeating the
literal utterances in describing the
charges would be extending the dis
loyal work OF such speakers or pub
lishers and suggested that the news
papers. in such cases simply say that
an attack was made on the nations
Allied with the United States denounc-
ed the drafts or disparaged the war
The statement issued through Solicitor
Iam;a said that the postmaster gen.
eral now Is considering several articles
in the Issue OF The Nation, New YORK
weekly magazine, which is being is
sued.
Local draft boards were ordered
nv Provost Marshal General Crowder
on Thursday to ut once begin maiiins
our QuestionnaireS to all men between
10 and Sc years of age inclusive, VINO
registered Thursday OF last week ex-
cept British and Canadian SUBJECTS
who have 80 days to voluntarily enter
the British and Canadian armies. Ten
per cent Of the questionnaires are TO De
mailed by each board each day until
the entire group has been sent out.
Provost Marshal General Crowder an
nounced tonight that under the reGu-
lation each registrant is given seven
DAYS TO fill out and return the docu-
ment 1T Is however, the earnest hope
Of this office that the registrants will
not require as much time as this,
General crowder said, and that every
effort will be made To turn the ques-
tionnaires in properly answered as
promptly as possible. Under the max
imum time allowed local boards In
mailing out the forms. and reGistrants
in filling them out and returning them.
the Questionnaires for the entire age
group should be back In the hands OF
local boards within three weeks from
tomorrow. Approximately 6.OOO.OOO
men are in the l9 and 20 and 80 TO 36
years classes to whom Questionnaires
20. Il was said. There arc also some
10000 additional men between Il and
81 years OF age. who had added to the
draft rolls Thursday registered for the
first time. and these also will be classi-
fled. The date for drawing that will
in measure. determine the order Of
calling the men into service will be an
nounccd soon.
- Information reaching the state de-
partment from the neutral country
throws new light on the situation In
Central Russia, where u reign OF terror
conducted by the Bolsheviki has made
the position of the populace tragic in
the extreme and is endangering citi-
zens Of the entente powers who have
been unable to leave the country. De-
claring that the outside world can not
have a true conception of the actual
condition. the dispatches said that
since May the Bolsheviki has made
campaign OF wholesale murder. Many
persons have been shot without trial
for political views which they assert.
The assassination of Moses Uritsky.
head Of the commission against the
counter revolution and the attempt on
the life Of the Premier Lenine were d.
rect results Of this condition Of tyranny.
said the advices. Besides the 500 per-
sons who were shot in connection with
the death Of Uritsky, large number
OF other persons are held for execution
in the event that further attempts are
made on the life Of the Bolsheviki
leaders. A general search Is being
made of the home in Moscow Of the
we'll to do and Of former officers in an
effort to secure any shred OF evidence
upon which to make arrests, said the
dispatches The prisons are filled to
overfiowing and executions continue
daily. In many cases. II Is said. SEN
tences are passed upon the slight
grounds that the accused might be
dangerous to Bolshcviki power. In ad-
dition irresponsible and vengeful gangs
are venting on innocent persons their
desperation over the daily declining
power Of the Bolsheviki. All newspa-
pers in Mocsow except the Bolsheriki
organs have suspended since July l.
the dispatches add.
II saw the ending OF the 81. Mihiel
hattie" said Secretary of War Baker
TO the New York World correspondent
in London last Monday. From an oh
servation point I watched our bar
rage creeping ahead and our boys fol-
lowing in toward the German lines.
The Americans went into business with
superb dash, and at the same time
with all the discipline and aplomb OF
Veterans. II would make every Amer
team proud to have seen them. Every
thing was ordered so we'll that our
casualties were surprisingly small !
visited a large hospital afterward. II
Contained a number Of seriously
,'aaaS u,ho were certainly receiving