Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-04-05
The war savings campaign made

Senate and house COilcIrcS nave
began work Oh the agricultural ap-
uroprIitIOu bill, with It'll" prospect oi
AN agreement 10 the senate aincnd-
nrnt increasing the government guar
ante. OH wheat from $50 To $50 per
bushcl. II was tentatively agreed To
have the house managers report ais
uyrccincnt On the amendment, and II
the house again rejects 1t. senatc
leaders thought the senate would re-
Ccdc. avoiding IL dcadlOch Oh thc
measure.
drive, IT is probable that til" Saionic;t
front OH which there Is an army OF
800, 800 men will have 10 be abandon
ed. The tax ON Allied shipping III
Keeping their men supplied with arms
and ammunition is something tre-
InendOus. and In addition these vet
Grams can he used To better advantage
m France. The transfer Of the Sa-
lunica army, it Is estimated cannot
call for much more effort than Is re-
quircd to keep II supplied.
The schools Of the state are about
to face Il shortage OF teachers, dc-
curding 10 Il letter sent out by W. IL.
Hand, high school inspector. to the
school bOarus OF the state. Many oi
the men teachers have entered the
service, others have taken uI' other
lines of cndc;tvor Some Of tn" wuln-
cn have abandoned their profession
Tor more lucrative employment ana
others are awaiting the chance |"
take up other work al larger salaries.
The only remedy seen by the hish
school inspector is an increase III th'
salaries of teachers.
- There came Il story Il few days
ago that the White Star liner Celtic
WAS IN trouble. The next day. We'd
ncsday, the dispatches said that the
Celtic was safe IN port. Thcr" were
no particulars: but II Is assumed
that the Celtic WAS struck by Il tor
pcd0 and managed to get 10 port be-
fore sinking. The Celtic is one OF tn"
biggest oi the ocean liners, about IOO
feet long and 10000 tons burden. II
is given out from Washington that II
there were any troops on board Tie
Tact was not known. AS TO where the
Celtic ran into trouble, OF course. Is
not stated.
Alfred J. James Il Richmond cOun-
ty. ia, farmer, was killed one day
last week on the Camp Hancock ar
tillcry range. about twelve miles from
Augusta. Jamess house was about
400 yards from the line of fire.
Guards warned him and his sons, who
were working in Il field OF their dan
ger, and the Sons went elsewhere. MIR.
James went over To the range to IN
vcstigatc the shooting. This was in
the early morning. That afternoon
at about dark, his body was found
within Il short distance of the target,
with Il great hole between the should
crs. He had been struck fairly by
shell and the hole 1t made was about
six inches in diameter. =.
There was u sudden and marked
decrease in the losses to British ship
ping through mine or submarine In
the past week. The admiralty reports
that only six British merchantmen or
1900 tons or over and seven under
that tonnage were sunk i'll the week
ending March 80. Five fishing vessels
also were sent to the bottom. The
admiralty statement continues: "t1f-
teen British merchant vessels were
unsuccessfully attacked by subma-
rines. The large vessels reported sunk
includes one sunk during the week
ending March l6 and the smaller ves-
sells reported sunk includes one during
the week ending March %. The ar
rivals during the week ending March
80 were 2.4l6 and the sailings 2.3I9."
The losses to British merchantmen
through submarines and mines in the
past week are less than one-half the
losses in the previous week, when rs
merchantmen were sunk, l6 OF the
ThA ,irnl
~ report for the preceding week
showed the loss of II vessels, while
for several weeks prior To that the
weekly loss was Is.
Further information regarding the
losses suffered by the Germans In
their offensive and on the German at
titude toward the Alsatians us reveal
ed by secret documents seized on
prisoners is given in an official dis
patch to Washington from France.
The dispatch follows: "On April l
the Germans withdrew from the front
four divisions that had suffered severe
ly. To the depleted divisions mention
ed may be added the following: The
First. the One Hundred and Nine
tcenth whose companies are reduced
to 10 meg: the Fourth, the Sixth, the
Fiftieth. the One Hundred and Ninety
guard. which lost % per cent of its
men. regiment OF the Twelfth Divi-
sion had been reduced to less than 500
men. The Fifth and Forty-fifth Re-
serve Divisions we're reduced more
than half. The Alsatan contingents,
three-Quarters OF which had been until
now used on the Eastern front, appear
to give great concern to the Germans.
according to secret instructions found
ON prisoners 1t Is forbidden to use
Alsatians and Lorrainians in the first
line and in patrol duty. These pre-
cautions show conclusively how little
trust the Germans have in the in
hahitants OF the provinces which they
claim for their own"
A French dispatch received in
Washington on Monday says: After
eleven days offensive. during which
the Germans have recklessly pushed
forward their attacking waves, one
may gather Il fairly accurate estimate
OF their losses. In the first place, 1t
has been possible TO identify nearly 100
uf their divisions since the beginning
OF the offensive, more than ten OF
which were twice engaged. Some d.
visions had TO be relieved at the end
Of the first day. having lost more than
half OF their men: such was the case
oI Tue fOll anu tHS cSlhs hS iobNSi
has been nearly entirely wiped out.
Among those that have suffered the
most are the 5th. 18th. 2Sth and l0Ith
Divisions, as we'll as the I'd (Prus-
sian Guard), the 18th, the 2lst and
26th Divisions Of reserves. In the sec
ond place. an enormous number OF
corpses were found on the battle
field and the prisoners on being uues-
toned acknowledged the extent Of the
losses Of their respective units. To
conceal from the German people the
heavy sacrifices that their offensive
methods required, the Germans are
sending most OF their wounded to Bel
gium. II is not an exaggeration to esti-
mate the total OF their losses at be-
tween 275.000 to 100000 men,"
Under orders cabled to the war
department Secretary Baker has di-
rected that in future all information
concerning American forces in France
will be made public only from the
headquarters Of the expeditionary