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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-10-02
/ PlEl FOR MlcE
BULGARIA ASKS VICTORIOUS ALs
LIES FOR AN NARMISTICE.
General d'Esperey, Commanding AZ
lied Armies in Macedonia, answers
Request by Saying That Fightlng
VIII go on But Discussion OF Peace
May be Started.

Paris, Sept. Gen renehett
d'Esperey, commanding the allied ar
mics in Macedonia, has telegrapheds
to the French government that az
high Bulgarian officer has presented
himself in behalf Of General ToroSs
dow, commanding the bulgarian
army, asking the suspension Of arms
for 4S hours to permit the arrival Of
two authorized delegates from the
Bulgarian government 49,
The minister Of finance, Ldaptchefi.
and General Loukoff, commanding the
Bulgarian second army, are on thetrg
way to the French headquarters WIfn
the assent Of King F'ernidand to ar.
range the conditions Of the afnnistice3
and eventually the terms OF peace.
The French commander reports
that the Bulgarian request reached
l,im through an intermediary, the
general commanding the British army
! in the east, forming a part OF the Ak
| lied command. General d Esperey,ss
reply, therefore, asked the Buigar-:
ian delegates to present themselves
Ito the British lines.
1GuSrdl acSp(ASy say
Bulgarian request might be a niIll;-s.
| tary rrse to allow the regroup1ng of:
forces anG the arrival of reinforce
ments, he made a reply declining TO
tgrant an armistice, but promlsIngSsto
receive duly qualified goyernna ent
delegates.
The text Of the French command
! er's reply to a letter brought by the
Bulgarian officer said:
! "My response. that I send through
the Bulgarian officer bearing the let
i ter in question, can not be, by reason
of the military situation, other than
the following: I can accord neither
an armistice nor a suspension Of hos
tilities tending to. interrupt the op-
erations in course On the other
hand, I will receive with all due
courtesy the delegates, duly qualified
of the royal Bulgarian government,
to which your exceliency aIludes IN
, the letter. These delegates to pre-
sent themselves in the British lines,
accompanied by a parliamentary.
(signed) ''Frenchett d'Esperey.' &
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/ week OF TRIUMPH.
VICTORY FOR ALLIES ON ALL
WAR FRONTS.
Prisoners Taken During Last Week
in Excess of Hundred Thousand
Americans, French, British and
Belgians Continue to Smash Enc
rny-BuIgarians Routed in Serbia
Turks In Palestine Crushed.

London, Sept. 29 British Wireless
Service>.-The past week has been
the most amazing Of the war. The
allies are advancing VIGOROUSLY on
practically every front During the
week they have taken prisoners far III
excess Of 100000, of whom nearly 40,-
900 were captured in the last three
days on the Western front and So
900 in Palestine. They also have TAX
en- more than 900 guns.
Sir Douglas Haig reports further
successes. The town of Cambrai is
now under British guns. Here the
main Hindenburg line has been pierc-
ed and the allied troops are shelter
ed in commodious German dugouts.
The battle is continuing in favor c.:
the allies and the Germans are in the
midst of confused retirements Gou-
'zeaucourt and Marcoing are in allied
hands. A new offensive was COM
menced Saturday in Flanders, where
Belgians, in conjunction with the Sec
ond British army, attacked on the
front between Ypres and Dixmude
Pcelcapelle has been captured a
well as most of the forest OF Rou-
thulst. Sunday morning the Brit
ish and American troops launched a
new attack northwest of st. Quentin
and the battle is proceeding fierceiy
on the whole front from st. Quentin
TO the Scarpe. Further progress IS
reported on points included in the
previous attacks and the number OF
prisoners taken by the British since
Friday morning exceeds $1,000.
North of the Aisne the French pun
suit continues. On the Champagne
front they have taken possession q
The heights of Bellevue.
The Serbia the rout Of the Bulgar-
ians is complete. The Serbians are
racing for Uskub to cut off the enc
my's communication, while On the
-fianks, British, French, Greek ano
italian troops are advancing as fas,
as possible. The number Of prisoners
taken and war booty are enormous.
In Siberia the Japanese have mad
great progres in capturing points o:
vantage ON the railway system north
of lagovieshtchensk-
In Palestine the Turkish armies
have ceased to exist as fighting forces
The result Of the allied successes
in Macedonia already are becoming
apparent. According to a dispatch
from Geneva information has reach
ed Switzerland to the effect that the
Germans have already begun to with.
draw occupation troops from Rou
mania.
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CITADEL ACADEMY CLOSES.
Exercises Set for Tomorrow Definite
ly Postponed.

Charleston. Sept. S0.-Official an
nouDcement was made last night tina;
the Citadel has closed until further
notice and that the cadets will all
be furloughed. The action is taken
on the advice of medical authorizes
as precautionary measure asaihs'
Spanish influenza.
Exercises in ce,ebration of the es-
tablishment of student army training
corps units at the Citadel, the College
of Charleston and the Medical College
Of the State of South Carolina nave
been postponed until a daRe to be an
nounced later. These exercises were
to be held tomorrow at noon at the
Citadel
The Citadel has just opened with
the largest enrolment in its long anc
useful history. A total of 375 cadets
has matriculated. The routine OF
this military college was to begin this
morning. Official entrance Of cadets
into the S. A. r. c. was scheduled fo>
tomorrow and the exercises here were
to be Identical in character and syn
chronous with exercises at 500 col
leges over the length and breadth o.
the United States.
Col. O. j. Bond, superintendent o.
fae Citadel, said last night that there
WIS no occasion for alarm, as tn,
a action was taken as Il precautionary:
maasure after advice by medical au-
th8rities AS soon as it is felt that AZ.
reaSonable danger is past the cadets
will Ns> recalled from their furlough
and the ollege routine at once fol-
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BRITISH SUFFER REVERSE.
TEMPORARILY CHECKED IN THE
VICINITY OF DOUA1.
AT Other Points Allied Forces Push
Forward In Face OF Seyerest Re-
Sistance.

London, Sept. 30.-British, Ameri-
can and Australian forces pushed
forward last night on the front oe-
tween Bellicourt and Gonnelieu IL
the face Of the severest opposition,
Gen. Eaig announced today.
On the front northwest Of la Cate
let desperate German attacks pressed
the British back to the outskirts o.
.Nillers-Guislain while southwest OF
Le Catelet similar pressure sent Gen
Haig,s troops back to the edge OF the
village of Beny.
On the front southeast of Douai
the British have withdrawn from
Ableux and Aubencheul-.Au-Bae
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aT5N m esaEIaNGEILo oR KEsIGNsI &:
81 Hertlin Said to Have Qui
the Cabinet. ~
5 DADaIINIsTRATloN Notes.


{ eounty Food rator =;
Iennon has tiiirned over % Char
man I Ds thirty dollars for
he Red cross fund an amount tina.
has been paid by business estab-
lih1aent to the Food Administrat
suIation the food admins
aslea and regulations
snderstoo that some mer-
s.nant are cling sugar for tRelye
cents per pound The maximum
amount snsar may be sold at IS
40 cents per pound and the
e1ainty food administration is now
5ooking ont for some more ready
money for the Red Cross Associa-
ton
genaiizing for violations of feoG
Admffssffafion laws is low the rule
and not the exception The food adj
ministration IS ,organized and has
plenty OF inspectors, and the persons
who are violating It's rules are going
to be caught sooner or later, and the
Red Cross;is going to profit just exact
yssin proportion to tho enormity of
the violationss
Sugar prices as arranged by the
Sumter Price interpreting Board OF
the E'oed Administration {and these
prices have to be compiled with or
rsssons exceeding same will be pen
Allied beyond any doubt are as fol-
lows:
wholesale price. $40 to 1910. Re
nil price $40 to I1.Ao. Only one
cent pound profit can be made on
sugar above the wholesale price.
Rules for Retail Sales of Standard
Wheat Flour.
The $3.50 substitute rule, is su-
perseded by these regulations.
Every sale of standard wheat fou:,
must be accompanied by the sale of
sf least one pound Of approved sub
stitutes for every four pounds Of
wheat -four.
Every retail dealer selling wheat
-four must have in stock either bar
ley four, corn -four or corn meal; he
shall sell one pound Of the substitutes
with every four pounds Of wheat
-four; he shall not force the sale of
any other substitute.
The following substitutes in the
same proportion are permissible if the
purchaser asks for them: Feterita
aours and meals, rice -four, oat -four,
:kamr -four, milo -four, bean -four,
potato -four, sweet potato flour, and
buckwheat -four
Pure rye -four may be sold as sub
gtitute but must be sold in the pro-
portion Of at least two pounds Of rye
to three Of wheat
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HUNS FEAR sHoTGUNs.
Berlin Threatens Reprisais on Amer.
icans-To Kill Prisoners.

Amsterdam. Sept. 2s-Germany..
through the Swiss. legation, has sent
an ultinatum to the government OF
the United States that if no satisfae-
tory answer is forthcoming on Octo-
ber / to the German protest about
the use of shotguns by American sol
diers "reprisals will be taken"
A seni-officia1 telegram from Ber-.
lin gives the following additional de-
tails of the note:
From prisoners captured during a
skirrnish between patrols on July II
a repeating shotgun was takT Thss
prisoners, who belonged tYAmerica,
infa1Ty regiment ThrseH Hundred and
81 2f the ..sscsnty-seventh Divi-
fsSFfheir patrol possessed
ID guns, each loaded with six
- Is and each cartridge con-
tained nine shots Of size 90. Anoth-
er shot gun was captured on Septem-
Der IL from the Third Infantry Regi-
nent of the Fifth American Division
."The use Of such weapons is for
,bidden by The Hague convention as
causing unnecessary suffering. The
German government protests ener-
getically and expects from the United
States government that steps will be
taken Immediately to discontinue the
employment of shotguns
1t is pointed out to the government
of the United States that a prisoner
on whom a shotgun or shotgun am
ml1nition is found fOrfeitS his life
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TURKS SUFFER- HEAVY Loss.
0mciaI British Note announces CAPS
ture Of Fifty Thousand With Many
Guns. ~ IL

london, Sept. 20 Prisoners TO
the nusaber Of so ,e8o and s25 guns
had been counted by the British IN
Palestine Friday night, according TO
an Official commur ieation issued to-
night Notwithsta lg Turkish re-
sistance IN the region Of sTiberias. the
British forced further passage OF the
jordan. To the south the British
cavalry drove the enemy norttward
Though Mezerib and joined hands
with the forces Of the king Of the
He'd las
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9 SUMTER, s. G, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER q 1918 Vo
SERBS CAPTURE CHlREVa.
RETREAT OF BULGARIANs CUT
OFF BY TAKING OF STRONG
HOLD.
offensive .in Macedonia Has Not Been
Ealted by Bulgars' Plea for an
Ar7nisticc.

London, Sept. 30.-Charevo,, east
of Veles and six miles from the Bull
:garian border has been captured
by. the Serbians, and retreat OF the
Ruigarians cut off, says the Serbian
official statement of Sunday More
than seven hundred prisoners and
twenty guns were captured.
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HUN PEACE OFFENSIVE.
Austria Makes Another Proposition
for Peace Conference.

Amsterdam, Sept 30.-A proposl-
ton that the presidents and wee
presidents of the parliaments Of bel
ligerent and neutral sttaes be invited
to meet for an unbinding discussion
of the basis of peace has been IN
troduced in the lower house OF tbs
Austrian parliament, a Vienna mes:
sage says. The meeting would oe
held at a place to be agreed upon.
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HUN HOLD BROKEN.
French Soil Being Redeemed Frots!
Hards OF Invader.

Paris, Sept 3o-Progress in break
ing the hold of the German invader
on, French soil is shown by the fact
that no longer. is any French depart
ments wholly occupied by the Ger
mans. This situation was established
by the recapture of four communes o
the department Of Ardennes las;
week
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:NIGEOR10US RaIY CONTINUES
no Press FLEEING

80 ...,T,he ]

London Sept Sd ne Serbian
troors coatinaed during saursday 20
press aTians and
scored fnaper aias and ground,
Serbian Official reports under
Frada late NE sfty and fortress
of Veles one of the most importers
bases of the Bull forces in
sonthern Serbia on He ardars has
been ptured BY the serpians The
Serbs are pushing On rom Wales to-
ward gskab he TROOPS aefending
7Veles were AIKEN Isoness The s
Serbs have also satavista
miles no asd-
yanced q eonsi able distance beyond
Koehana towards the Ba,lsa Dor
The terms laid soHIl which have
Been despatched to Sofa are not ac-
eeptahle allied pogs IS add
ed; have no her 60 ions to pro-
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Miss Mary F. Lathrop, a W known
practicing lawyer of Denver, has the
distinction Of being the first woman
elected to membership in the, Ameri-
can Bar Association.
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sELGIANs DEFEAT GERMANS.
Victory Won Sunday in The MessineS
z Ridge Sector.

Havre, Sunday, Sept. 2e--The Bel
gan and British armies defeated the
Germans today in heavy fighting OF
the Flanders ridge in the Messines-
Nytschaese position, according to the
official Belgian: statement issued to-
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KILLS WIFE AND SELF.
Gwenville Negro, Ready to Enter
Army, Commits Double Crime.

Greenville, Sept. 27.-on the eve Of
the day set for his departure for q
training camp, Cleve Puckett, ne
gro. last night shot and killed his
wife, Carrie Puckett, and then turn
ed the gun on himself and took his
own life. A shotgun was the weapon
used
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GERMAN MINISTER'S RESIGN.
Chancellor Won Hertling and Foreign,
Minister Won Hintze Both Tendc,
designations.

Amsterdam, Sept 30.-Chancello
Won Hertling and Foreign Secretary
Won Hintze have rendered their res
;gnations to the Emperor, the Ber-
lin Vossiche Zeitung says it under
stands.
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FRENCH PUSH FORWARD.
Advance in Champagne Region II
sunled at Daybreak.

sun1ed at Daybreak.
Paris, Sept. 3o.-The French
forces in the Champagne resumed
their attack at daybreaa today, the
war Office announces.
The Germans violently counterat-
tackled last night south of st. Quen-
tin in the Urvillers region in en- at
tempt to recapture Hill So. All o.
their offensive efforts were broken
up by the French.
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BULGARIA. ACCEPTS TERMS.
Hun Ally LAYS down ARMS on
CONDITIONS OF ALLIES
Yhe war in the Balkans Virtually
Ends With Surrender OF Bulgarians
ard Back Door Of Austria is Open
to Allies.


. 1a ~ q -
been concluded between the Allies
and Bulgaria on the Allies own.
terms, according to announcement
made officially today.
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g ..,erican s 3, Z Itrooplsboys from

4,,6ra has
vest outskirts
-, val division
a7,uirons
aasss, Eere the
forr,Wvard their
800 prisoners.
s., EaesSDam the
Eranchs rave vanced their line for
roilas "a pturing
3 An +1,e famous
l4ss 8 s;a ne and Brit.
~; ,sas.a,s and taken
,,,iiae fron, 41,e North
81 sJia,,nnrr bringing
- ,laea, that
~ y,,,.as 7l,e capture
r,rassad for further
-, s, ;sl1.y;T seriously AFFECT
,,,T,a ri,e bases on the
!. s.sTo,,,,.tE, $40
3 sTt,a ,1 a.I,+ n,,4. a1liad troops every
1.s,n+i i,,,ine to make pro-
tl,e forces of the Teu-
s.,s,., 49, s, l1;aIn.as ~
rloy, krlEC6
a..s5 S1,a,,oa ELo1,a baer made on
:. -, in Serbia the
=, .1so a.,a,-,,, pinodono IS
80 While in Pa1es
4S,e .1,,,s The T,,1.,sisy, armies under the
! a,++acl,s IL General Allenby and the
4ribaenoen Of the King of the Hedjas
b.av,ao. bs,o.71 7y1irtTallv ceased to exist as fight
So ,,n;ts
7s a. aa;+;o,,al laree numbers of the
uuieso. .,al.a baan ,.as nada nrisener and
- 1,.ve heep
-. sast,,,.aa e. 80 = S-e-o
uaan;n nm re,ant1ess1v their yio-
80 IL 81 fso,, ,o., the sea in
-. -, +,,a ,.ao,or nf v.rd,,n the
Ds,e.;o- Ds,s - p.;+;sr d. a,,erican and
tSsass.s 81, +,.oo,e ,.e f.e+ dr;ysro wedges
,;-,a eorc;ne, him to
- sotso+;r ,,;,o IN con.
- .. - ha:,o oc.
euAn aa 4pa ee'ls,, cauans ~ ana .nnarentlv
1ueu .ne ..l''..' 49, ~ a;aoae, IN,
5ei'eit :. o..s - f .,.a a1,iaa h1o1yc
I II p pala;,,ro hetween Dixmpde and
ynras Kine A1bert,s men have press :
ed hack the German front from
four to FIVE miles and taken six thou
sand prisoners. Ground that the en-
=erov had held since the invasion of
Reieium in 1914 has been restored
tn Relgian ownership through the
efforts Of the mixed Belgian and Brit
isb forces. and at last. accounts the
allied forces were well on their way
to the important junction town of
Roulers.
To the south from the region east
Of Arras to st. Quentin the British
with the Americans fighting on their
right, everywhere have penetrate
the German defenses over the 81
mile front. Desperate resistance was
offered by the Germans but the allies
troops refused to be denied and swept
through the remaining positic O..
the Hindenburg line and are sand
ing, accorolng 10 the iatese aepoi's'
virtually on the ooorsteps VI oani-
braL More than lo'ooo prisoners
have been taken IN THIS region since
Friday.
Under the efforts of the British
Americans and French, the Germans
have been cleared out of the entir"
department of the Somme and part
of the department of the Ardennes
now is in French hands for the first
time since 1914.
Tn unison with the attacks to the
north the French along the battle
front north and northeast of Scissors
have delivered fresh attacks, unde,
which the Germans are in re-
treat north of the Aisne towards the
Ailette. Indicating that the enemy
line soon must be readjusted eastward
at least as far as Rheims, if not far
ther. The French now are on the
hanks of the Ailette River at the
western end of the Chenlin-des-
Danes, making it apparent that this
strong defense line soon must be pass
cd by in retreat northward
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BRrIIsH NEA q 20 uAI:

: anothef Is1a stronghold France
Iader Allied
riish Headq qaarter EIan nee, Sept.
ss Reuters1 Gen IFIaig forces to5
iay eaptured u, own of ATleux nye|
nsfles sheas of Donai S::s
HIN GEIANGEIIoH EEsIGNED
Dr Won Hertl ling Said to- Have Qui"
Is the Cabinet - -
London. Sept German
ehancelsr Count von ling has
resigned says message from The
Hague tos the Central News Ageney.
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choice?
Shall there be a common stand
ard of right and privileges for Il!
peoples and nations, or shall the
strong do as they will and the weak
suffer without redress?
shall the assertion of right be
haphazard and by casual alliance Or
shall there be a common concert TO
obl:ge the observance of common
rights ."
Ee added.
NO man, no group Of men. chose
these to be issues of the struggle.
Thcy are the issues of it.
Shortly before the president started
speaking news of the further success
es of American. British and French
offensives on the western front reach
ed the meeting at the Metropolitan
Opera House, and this gave dramatic
point to Mr.. Wilson's peroration--
that peace drives" can be effectively
neutralized and silenced only by
that every victory of the ma
ticns associated against Germany
brings the nations nearer the sort OF
peace which will bring security and
reinsurance to all peoples and make
the recurrence of another such strus-
gle of pitiless force and bloodsheo
forver impossible, and that nothing
else can"
Germany is constartly intimatinG
the terms she viii! accept. and al
ways finds that the world does not
want terms" declared the president
TT wishes the final triumph OF JUS
tice ard fair dealing"
Five thousand persons who fhied
the Metropolitan Opera House to ca
pacity. heard the president speak
live minutes before his arrival
guard of soldiers. sailors and marines
seated at the rear Of the platform.
we're suddenly ordered to attention.
They arose with a smart click OF
rifles. the national colors were al
vanced and the great audience De-
came silent This dramatic quiet was
without interruption until
the president, without other warning
Of his coming, walked on the stage.
escorted by Benjamin Strong, govern
or of the Federal Reserve Bank OF
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81 BURNED
TO DEATH
,cont1nued from Page /,

E .H oES
fame spouting out of the hole in the
0. F.. Jennings side. which all but
enveloped the Britisher. / learned
afterward that SO Of her crew of
about so were on the deck and they
must have been almost instantly in
cinerated.
I'VE idrifted apart and one OF the
destroyers by which we were con-
voyed. managed to get a line on her
and was towing her. toward the beach
when in some manner the burning
ship drafted onto a mine field and she
blew up. The case oil with which she
was loaded took fire and completed
her destruction.
q I'VE had our W safety to look
after. The burning naptha had poured
out onto the sea and it would have
been folly to launch lifeboats.. It was
then that the destroyers showed their
rcsourcef4lness, for they dashed
tfrough the burning oil. bumped
aionsside Of us and we jumped to
their decks in safety. We lost only
n man.. q seaman named Shea, who
was either burned or fell overheard.
The OBJ. Jennings, being a men
ace to other ships, the .destroyers
proceeded to sink her. She probably
is not q total loss.
The accident came at the close of
g rough and exciting voyage which
had set the nerves OF our crew on
edge through the previous unac-
counted for disappearance of several
ships Of our convoy. They may have
.beenf diverted or they may have been
tofpedoed. We never knew further
when I'VE looked for Thorn"
-0 n r xSbn3$Y oaA...- -.fSai
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LOCAL COMPANY
IS TO ERECT
CHEMISTRY HALL
q -
Dakota Construction Com
pany, Gets Contract Nc
Vey Matter UpToday.

The contract for the constructionsof
the new chemical building Of the
state university last night was award
ed by the state board of regents to
the Dakota Construction company of
Grand Forks for an amount slightly
in excess of $4,000.
This morning, the contract for
plumbing. heating and ventilation of
the chemistry building was, awarded
to the Dakota. Plumbing of
this city, and the contract for wiring
was given to f. A. Brascth, cleo
trician. J.
The board will meet tonight. and
expects to finish this months business
at the evening session.
III. -Buy n Liberty Rond
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q Liberty Bon,

Yeomen Mceting-A meeting of the
Yeon1en was held last night. at which
the suggestion was made that they
have one kind of a celebration of
welcome for the grand foreman, who
will be here some time in the early
part of May. 1t was decided thai this
lodge buy $3.50 worth of the third
Liberty Loan bonds, which purchase,
added to those formerly made, brings
the amount invested by the lodge UP
to $3.50,