Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-07-05
Scraps and facts.

IOOu, anu carried MN W bShSesS
berure rood Administrator josiah
Evans, where he gave bona ioI his al
tr,.r:lncc before Il United states com
missioner ia Columbia, July 10. lac
charge. against Mr. I'usscr ~ thal he
mad a member Uf his family purchase
riuur from five different stores IN ines
tcriieId ON June ;. after having opGi'h-
ed nv. miilers certificates from corn
mil near Chesterfield.
-Grecnyille, July 5: The Officers
training camp which VAS estapilsheu
al Camp Sewer III May IL the time inc
infantry units oi the ElShty y-hlfsl VI
,lsiun anu division headquarters were
transferred 10 that camp from Cafhp
Jackson. will shortly De moved W
Camp Gordon, Georgia, II was olhciaiiJ
stated today. More than Il tnousahu
men are In the camp. Inc preseh'
course or the officers training ea"ip
Will he completed about September l.
Graduates will he eligible Tor coihiiiis-
siuns III second lieutenants as Vacah-
cles occur. The majority ot the men
IN the school are from south Safoiii'a'
North Carolina and Tennessee.
American troops killed Or captur-
ed All but about lUU oil l,oVV Gvilhaus
who were defending Bcllcau Noou'
short distance north oi SolsSohs' ON
night last week. The prisoners NUM-
brrrd 40. The l,JOu Gcrnans III the
wood were defending the village oil Bel
I..,t and the Americans wanted that
village. The hight was one Oi the
LIoodicst in which the Americans
have. been engaged. The Germans
were strongly fortified in numerous
monster gun nests and II was up 10
the. Americans to dIirc thcni Out. IL
took all night TO do the Job ana at
dawn the woods were iuil oi dtau
Germans. Also quite Il number oi
Americans were killed and wounded
but the American losses were not
nearly 50 heavy as were the German
losses.
Taxes Oh incomes and excess prui-
It's for the fiscal year ending last june
80, levied under the war revenue piii
enacted by congress last year. Iotiieu
S2,S2l,34U,SUl, the treasury depart
ment announced Monday night In
making public revenue collections by
states Total revenue collections from
all sources were 1851 .ylS.23t. New
York led the states III income ana ex-
cess profits taxes with Il total ot Soo''-
ylT.O3l, while Pennsylvsnia was sec
und with $4y6,OyI,26l. The collections
from southern states follows: Ala
bama. $23,l14,936; Florida, $i,G39, al :
Georgia, $l6,23O.44Y; louisiana. VII
SOI,34l; North Carolina, $2O.25l, ,iO3;
South Carolina. $7,Ssi7i0; Tenncs-
see, $l4,l67,y7S; Texas. S24,4lo,So4'
Virginia, $2l, l,iOl.5l4.
This statement was issued from inc
Berlin war office Il few days ago. ac
cording To information by way VI Am
sterdam: An official statement lssueu
ut the war office says: After the con-
cIusion Of Investigations 1t has peeh
found that the number OF PRISONERS
passed to the rear through our collect
ing stations since the beginning of our
attacking battles on March II up TO
the present, not including the wound
,.d passed back TO hospital establish
ments. amounts to l9l,i54. VI tEesc
England lost 94,939, including lour
generals and about 3.lOO oflce:s' lhe
French lost S9,O9y, including TWO gem
erals, and about 3,lOO officers. 4he
rest were divided among the Iortu-
guese, Belgian and American forces
Cannons TO the number OF 2,4i6 were
taken and 1924 machine guns were
brought back from the battlehciu 10
the booty collecting stations
Exploits of individual soldiers on
the French front are furnishing mu'h
COPY for war correspondents, one oi
whom tells Of an adventure OF tnie
Americans which occurred 4 l'W
nights ago. Information was received
that a number Of German officers were
holding u meeting behind their lines
Three of the boys asked for and op-
tained perYisGsjeegg. to go hunting ,hsouSh nIp
.thsSm.-~-.s---..-,>xs.ssssan xssa Z any sSs 49,
the grass and woods into the Hun mes.
Passing artillery and machine gun
nosIt,ons they reached q hunting lodge
in 81 clearing three kilometers behind
the lines. Creeping close up, one oi tne
boys mounted to the shoulders OF the
other two to peer through u hish VIII
dow. German officers were h'''lns 4"
feast inside The observer reported W
his companions. A second or TWO iate'
ne was hoisted again. thus time VIII
three grenades in his hand. he threw
these ON to the top OF the panqur'
hnard The bombs exploded, killing
the group. Then the doughboys eS-
copeI. The story of the exploit Is Il
mart OF the official records OF the army
Internal revenue collections for the
fiscal wear which ended Monday. totai.
nd s3.672,OOO,O0O, compared WIN
ss0O 900 900 the year before ard WIN
"a 400 OOU. 90, which IL was estimated
the war revenue measures passed o9
congress last fall would yield. Inter
mai revenue commissioner Roper u,
,nnouncing these figures, estimated
,bet the cost to the government oi
making the collection was sl2,oou,Vvo'
and disclosed that the bureau ioI'S
of 1000 employees had been doupieu
during the year. Nat'onai pay, :,
and solidarity engendered py lne ma'
lnr
cess" said the commissioners SUIT
ment The way in which taxpayers
have generally assisted and co-oper9N-
.J has been a constant SO 'ce OF IN :
Sn;rntion. 1t Is our purpose to equal-
;,e the tax burden by collecting from
every person and industry inc iu''
amoiint Of the tax that Is due the soN
ernment and not one cent more, anu
ON the other hand, to return any eH-
cessive taxes that may have peeh e'i-
lected."
THE German emperor. writes
o,rr,snondent with the American
army on the French front. has dis-
trihn,ed iron crosses galore among the
american forces holding new lines
westward of Hill 20+. The diStripu-
tion. OF course. was not direct. II was
via the chests of soldiers whoih H'I-
mnny considers among Hci 'S'''
ing an iron cross in ones possession
SONS to be n fad among the Ameri-
can forces. for nearly every prisoner
taken has one. \ few Americans
seen today had the medal cherished
by the enemy pinned in the center OF
their shirts-not the left side eitner-
while others pulled their trophies from
their pockets. explaining that theE
considered them the hest souvenirs
obtainable, because they are easily
mailed home. while such things as
machine guns. rifles and trench NOR
tars are likely to become elephantS
ON ones hands. The men said that
some of the crosses had been given
voluntarily by the Germans when theE
were asked for them, but other cross,
es were simply cut of the prisoners
shirts or otherwise removed. one
doughboy. who looked less than ~
wears Of age. stepped up to German
officer who had been taken prisoner
and drew his hayonct to cut on the
cross. The officer thought the Ameri-
can intended TO kill him and he turn
ed and fled, the American soldier
chasing him with the bare shining