The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-03-15
NEWS


Marshall Jofre has called on Sec Secretary Baker is in France on
ro+orv Rakor in Paris and Secretarv a tour of inspection of the lines of
Baker has returned his call. transportation ports and commune
- cation camps. He is there at the
Acting Chief of Staff Major Gen. request of Gen. Pershing. He will
Marsh is planning to, visit all the make a hurried visit which will take
cantonments in the United States. in Paris and London.
He expects to make an inspection of
I'll OIL Tile Hell oei0fe 'nS & 0e sergt. Welman of Cambridge,
=, Mass, attached to the French esca-
white women in jail who will be U"' 'u s. s
tried in Rock Hill by the Federal plANes VII ~e A"'""' A"' N
authorities this week. This is a "' """"
small number compared with the -
number that were in Jail the first of Mrs. Ford, the author of the song
the winter. The number is large "Keep the Home Fires Burning"
compared with the number that were was killed in London during an air
in Jail before the camp was located raid. Her body and that of her
in tina, CITY. three year old son was taken from
- the wreckage of a building in which
John Johnson, a negro from Abb ten other persons, mostly women
bevie is in Jail for selling liquor and children, we're killed. Mrs.
to a soldier in Columbia. johnson Ford is from Elmra, N. Y.
accosted the soldier o the streets
and asked him if he wanted some - ~ ..,
whskey which the soldier said he u WIS., go ae a-.. csS. ~
did. He agreed to meet him in a 1922 D. rry, .:u;.o. M. n
few minutes. He told the police au- ;, x-
80 Io.. +.n change of venue but that had no eff
ed over al officer came o the
~ May Day, the first day of May is
Trotzky vas dismissed as foreign the time set by the Socialists to call
minister by Premier Lenine after a widespread strikes throughout Ger
quarrel over the German peace many. During peace times that is
terms. Since the departure of the the day when the Socialists become
government commissioners to Mos active and it was usually the occa-|
COW a special military committee of sions for disorders. The German
seven has been formed with Trotzky government through its elaborate
az president. system Of espionage knows the plans
- for the national strike and strong
April 9Th is the anniversary of military measures will be taken.
the day that a State of War vas de- - |
clared against Germany N ihro The Italian Soldiers Club in At
hloert oan 'amp"s" VIII "e lanta wants a photograph for the
on that day. musemen of the soldiers when
- they ar on leave from Camp Cor
Henry foro Is TO erect a"nel don. There re only twenty-five
plant to build U-boat chasers near Italian c;+;zens in Atlantis
Newark, N. J. The completion of
ue PAM Is sNp''NO "A -" Women Laborers have been putt
"""~ to work on the section and coal
shutes O the Central of Georgia in
Lieut. Col. George Alpin, 18th Savannah The ,sbor+aoe If labor
Officers Hussars British Army mao is the reason given for doing this
an interesting address to the omcers as 10 many of the laborers have left
at Camp Sewer Tuesday afternoon. +ba+ cMv for other nlaces m enoape
Col. Alnn has made a tour of the IN w.r activities
camps and his addresses have been
most interesting. Columns have -
been devoted to such parts Of his haoor las gotteh so scarce ha'|
800, +ho+ oorld bo ranroduced. the Sheriff of Barlow County in
Georgia payed the fine of a Fulton
Unfavorable reports ae expected fCounty negro in order to get him
on the unsuitable vessels by the 10 "orh o. 'hen couh roaas
naval experts. Rear Admirable Al 49,. "
bert G. Winterhalter has just COM viz """""' N"p1" -
uleted tests of the former Austrian mS '"es "eie "o' quNNv WI
p.NN -: -L;.h ;. beon the Red Cross after an air raid. Al
equipped with buoyancy boxes de- o'mD was opp' ''
signed to make her unsuitable. Wv N"N" P
Fall River Cotton Mills arr closed on W a"a'ois nA'e d
down on account of a strike. The IwH " oo"Ds Va "e ~" o"
mill has been working day and VIC ."p''u" Vic N~' p
- -. ~ ouaumen con+racts Russia. The town has a population
my meA' s-oman wont N q of $4,000 and does big trade both
strike. ~
-. T., ham con. The American troops m daily
w.ut.1 for deur making raids. They penetrated
.S@N SN....os - how'd labor three hundred yards of the German
-.- - Eor+ low N v trenches unaided, on Tuesday. They
N made a successful surprise attack
Surgeon General Gorgas says the on the trenches south II Rlchecourt'
c.-a, a,o .,re.dv licked hut that where some of the hardest fighting
- nov take Is two O three years that has been done since the war
to convince them of the fact. begun was
,.os firm in Creenviue had a Seven general officers of the army
,;,,on+ If millinery sent bv par. five now commanding the National
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