The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-05-30


mcnt explains that the %brigading plan
in operation is temporary, adopted to
meet the emergency in which it IS de
Slrahle to send over as many .Amcri-
cans as possible without waiting for
their arms and ammunition. Later
they will return to the American army
and will be using American equipment.
1t is gratifying to note that General
Pershing now issues daily official com.
muniqucs on the doings of the Ameri-
can forces, following the system of the
other allies.
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The continuous battle for Suprem-
acy In the air ragged With increasing
intensity all through the week and Off
cial reports led to the belief that the
flyers Of the allied armies generally
had the best of it. American %aviatOrs
won severa notable victories. Gener-
al Pershing reported the commissions
ing Of nearly 1000 student aviators.
h French have delivered to his army
5OO battle planes and 900 train lg
planes, and the IIaviland battle pianos
made in America are beginning to ar
rive.
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On Sunday Emperor Charles visited
the kaiser at great headquarters and
made plans for Il renewal of the Aus
tro-German alliance, to last twenty
years. The news of this of course was
received with rejoicing by the pan
Germans of .Austria-Hungary, but,
equally Of course, the treaty is bitterly
opposed by the Slavs and other anti
German elements in Charles realm.
The people there rs a whole are more
and more DESTROYS Of peace and there
is fear that the agreement will Prus-
sianiZe their army and compel even
greater efforts in the war. BY some
the preparations for an offensive in
Italy are ooked on as q direct result
or the conference. According to Co
%penhagcn reports, the two emperors
selected kings for L%ithuania, Courland,
ESthonia and Poland. but the men
chosen were not named.
The meeting sof the rulers was at
tended by the kings of Bavaria and
SaXony. who, though not invited,
sought to maintain the Importance of
their kingdoms as parts of the German
>A't'hh piiu tlpt L luSS10 lIc SOlC
arbiter of German destinics." That
sounds big, but the fact remains that
Prussia is rs much the boss Of the
German empire as ever.
The kaiser is treating Russia Just
rs q thoroughly defeated enemy might
expect to be treated by him. despite
the peace treaty Of BreSt-Litovsk. His
demands are eXorbitant and enforced
by arms, and in an address to the town
council of AiX-le-Chapelle he an
nounces that "Scbastopol has been
captured with a big, richly laden fleet
there More than that, he is prepar-
Ing to call on the Baltic provinces that
were a part of Russia to supply men
for the German armies. No other con-
struction can be placed on his procla-
nation recognizing the independence
of I.ithuania, in which he saws: eve
assume that Lithuania will participate
In the war burdens Of Germany which
secured her libcration.' AS Lithuania
mas neither money nor munitions to
contribute, the kaiser must mean men,
and the Lithuanian national council
says the country will not consent to
nave Its citizens d%ragooncd into the
ranks Of the kaiser.
In the Caucasus the Germans under.
took to gain control of the grain, coal,
OIL and iron districts by the CAPTURE OF
Rostov-on-Don, but they held the city
only one day, when the Russians re-
captured 1t. There are several power.
ful groups of Russians operating in the
Don region, and others all through
south Russia, and Germany has pro-
claimed war at Ekaterinoslav, Odessa
and Poltava and mined the entrance
into the Sea Of Asov. In the Ukraine
the anti-German movement increases
nally, the people being very bitter. In
Europenn Russia, says q dispatch
from Samara, less thar half the arabic
land usually cultivated will be TILED
inns year, owing to the shortage of
seed, horses and implements and the
unsettled condition brought about by
the land division. Well posted Britons
are urging that the allies continue to
rep Russia in the work of reconstruct
tion In order to balk the efforts of Ger
iaahE. 1T is recognized by all that Ger
inhhyS peace hopes now lie wholly in
the cast and that if She is permitted to
rcali%c them she will have won the
war regardless of the conditions i'm
posed on her in the west.
Icnine processes to sec signs Of q
counter-revolution in Russia and on