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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
BRITISH MAKE GAINS.
Local Operations on Principal Battle
Fronts Successful.

London, April 22.-The British ad-
vanced their lines slightly last night
in local operations on both of the
principal battle fronts, the war office
announces. Gains were made at Viii
iers-BretonneuX and Albert on the
or the Flanders salient. A strong To-
cal attack by the Germans north OF
Albert was repulsed after the enemy
had captured one advance British od-
vanced post
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
NEW CASUALTY LISTS.
secretary Baker Says Question Of
Shange Of Policy Will be Consider
ed Soon.

washington April r18.-Secretary
haker said today the proposal that
the home addresses of men named be
restored to casualty lists will be taken
up soon and that the prevailing opin..
ION Of his military advisers will de-
termine the decision. He said the
practice of many newspapers in re-
questing relatives of soldiers named in
the list to communicate THEIR ad-
dresses, would have the effect of de-
stroying the object of the present sys-
tenn, the concealment Of important
information from the enemy.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
PRICE OF WHEAT FIXED.

Washington, April 1S.-Proposed
increase OF the government guaran-
teed price Of wheat to $3.50 was de-
feated tonight in the house, which re.
Jocted by vote Of 1877 to SO the SEN
ate amendment to the agricultural an
preparation bill making the change.
This action sends the question back
10 conference and the senate is ex-
pected to recede so as not to hold IN
the appropriation bill
Under the food control act the
price OF 1918 wheat was fixed at 50 a
bushel. but by proclamation last Feo-
ruary President Wilson fixed a mini
mum guarantee of $2.2O bushel at
the principal interior primary mar
kets. Under senate rider to the ap-
preparation bill the price would be
increased to $3.50 a bushel and the
farmers local elevators made the ba-
sic market.
Representative Lever, chairman Of
the agriculture committee, led the
nght against adoption to the amend
ment declaring the proposed guaran-
tee would not increase the spring
Wheat production and denying that
the present guarantee is Inadequate.
Ihe vote was preceded by four
hours of general debate.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
KORINLOFFsS ARMY ACTIVE.
Hostilities Resumed Between Cossack,
and SOviets.

Petrograd. Tuesday, April 16.-(By
the Associated Press) .-Hostilities
nave been renewed between the troops
of Gen. Korniloff and those of the 60.
viets. Rostof- On-Don is in the hands
or the anarchists. At Kherson, after
the Germans left, massacres of OFF,
GERS and Bourgeois by soldiers oc-
Cured.
Criminals at Novo-T -Tcherkask, who
began to indulge in excesses, were
dispersed by machine guns.
The Turkish cruiser Handles and
two torpedo boats are reported to
have arrived at Odessa.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24

which our own troops are in action
there was relatively greater activ-
ity.
I'm the Mouse area the enemy
broke into our lines but was promptly
driven out with severe losses.
Increased sniping and machine
gun ilre was noted both along the
Meuse and north of Toul. Our coun-
ter battery work showed itself eff
cient in keeping down hostile shelling
which burst in greater volume and in
tcnsity in restricted areas.
rhe first two enemy airpIanes
brought down by our aviators were
shot down behind our lines north of
Toul.
NO operations Of Importance took
place i'm the Italian theater aside
from intermittent artillery bonn
bardments.
I'm the East the enemy continues
to advance practically without oppo-
sltion along the main highways lead
ing To detectives OF certain economic
importance, particularly i'm the Uk-
raine.
In the Balkans. Greek and British
troops acting in cooperation crossed
Tho Struna and captured number
Of villages"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24

London, April 19.-The leaders of
the Nationalists i'm Ireland. including
'he Hedmondites, who now are led bv
John Dillon the Sim Feiners.
oBrNanites. LabOrites and CIericaIs
are united In their determination to
resist conscription ''by the most ef
''c''Ve means at our disposal" which
~ the wording OF resolution passed
at meeting OF bishops at Maynooth
yesterday.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
NEGROES CAN RENDER SERVICE.
Growing Greater Food Crops and
Economizing Urged Upon Race.

Columbia, April 21.--An appeal is
made to the 100000 negroes of the
United States by Herbert Hoover,
United States Food Administrators
for patriotic service in the present
world crisis through greater conser-
vation and increased production of
food. Mr.. Hoover says:
- Our nation is engaged in q war
Or Its very existence. To win this
war we must save food, grow great
crops Of foodstuffs and substitute 9TH
er foods for those most easily shipped
to our associates in this war and our
own soldiers in France, thousands of
whom are men of your own race. The
rood administration realizes that the
negro people Of this nation can be OF
the utmost help in food conservation
and food production. Every negro
man, woman and child, can render a
dehnite service by responding to the
appeal and instructions Of the food
ADMINISTRATION and it's representatives.
THe negroes have shown themselves
loyal and responsive in every nation
a. crisis. Their greatest opportunity
1f the present day, to exercise this
3e{alty. is to help save and grow food.
IN confident that they will respond
the suggestions of the food admin
as)ffaz MN ~ ~, sssss
patriotism for the winning of this
war;" .t'~r rs
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
Killed Back OF Lines.

With British Army in France. April
22-Baror Rychthofen, the famous
German aviator, was shot down and
killed last night back of the Rr;tish
lines along; the Somme front. He was
buried with military honors near the
spot where he fell.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24

oh the report issued from the Office
OF Director of War Savings i'm Char
leston, Sumter county shows sales for
the week ending April 13 at s57s.50
This puts the county 39th i'm sales for
'he week and drops her to 18th place
I'm standing i'm sales to date A counla
Oh weeks ago Sumter had worked up
TO 10th place.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
CHAMBERLAIN BILL UNCONSTI.
TUTIONAL.
Cannot Try ViOlators Of Sedition Law
BY Court Martial.

washington. April 22.-President
Wilson In a letter to Senator Over
man today declared that he believed
the Chamberlain bill, which would
try violations Of the sedition law by
court martial would be unconstitu-
tionaE
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA.
ALL LOWER SECTION OF STATE
DISTURBED BY SHOCK.
Thirty Buildings Destroyed at Hemct
One Man Killed, Several Persons
Hurt.

LOS Angeles, April 21.-Al of
southern California and part Of wes-
tern Arizona and Utah were shaken
today at 1925 p. m. by an earthquake
which wrecked virtually all buildings
and residences in Hemet and San
Jacinto, two inland towns As miles
southeast of Riverside, Cal, and caus
ed minor property damage in practi-
cally every town and city.
One man, Frank e. Darnell, of
this city, was killed when he fell OF
pier at Santa Monica. A woman
was injured by falling from a second
story window at San Jacinto and a
number Of persons were injured there
and elsewhere, none seriously.
Three men entombed in a maga-
zine mine tunnel near Hemet probab-
ly were saved by fellow workers who
drove an air shaft to them.
The severity of the shock seemed
greatest inland but it was distinctly
apparent at nearly every point over
California south from a line from
Barstow to the coast and some parts
OF Arizona.
In Los Angeles and vicinity the
damage was apparent mainly in brok
en- windows.
Homes all over southern California
were shaken, dishes ratified, furni-
ture moved and in many places the
shock was such as to cause the occu-
pants to vacate hastily.
AT San Bernardino the quake was
said by, old residents to be the worst
OF years Scores of plate glass win
dows were broken.
Riverside suffered shock Of SINH
lar intensity. Ornaments were shaken
from the court house cornice and
windows smashed
The tremor was first reported from
Barstow at $50 p. m. and apparently
moved east and south from that
point. 1t became most severe in the
sI1u1ninls66
farther north about San Bernardino. !.
Coming on toward the coast. the
tremor did slight damage at Whittier
and other intervening points and then
struck Los Angeles at 1922 %. m.,
there being two shocks.
In the city the earthquake broke a
number of large plate glass windows
in office buildings. There was almost
a panic in numerous theaters and pic
ture houses.
The city hall stands two, inches
from an adjacent building. The
tremor swayed them together and
crushed off brick and stone dust. as
well as grinding an outside pipe into
the walls.
At the city Jail, there was a panic
among the prisoners when glass
crashed.
At Santa Monica, a seaside town
near here, a crowd was on the muni-
cipal pier, which swayed perilously.
and in the rush to escape, Frank E.
Darbell, a retired manufacturer, was
Killed when he fell off q pier.
The bath house at Santa Monica
canyon was also the scene of a panic
when the building swayed and creak-
ed. Feminine patrons some of then,
unclothed, scrambled from the dress
ing rooms and rushed back to shelter
AT Long Beach several large office
buildings were severely shaken and
numerous windows were broken.
The earthquake apparently was
not serious very far south as reports
from Imperial Valley points said il
had not damaged any of the towns in
that part of the State.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24

barnegat City. N. j.. April 22.--
Norwegian steamship Vindal, with
io'ooo bags of coffee on board, came
ashore during d heavy fog early to-
day. The possibilities are that she
will be saved. The crew of dfteen
have landed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24

Washington, April 22.-Food shin
fnents TO civilian populations OF the
allied countries will be suspended for
ten days to move three million bus H.
els of grain to the Belgians whu are
declared to be in desperate stats
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
WEST VIRGINIA'S DEBT.

washington. April 22.-The Su-
preme Court today ordered a reargu
ment In the proceedings brought by
virginia to compel West Virginia to
pay Judgment of more than twelve
million dollars resulting from the suit
to collect Virginias Civil War debts
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24

Greenville. April 22.-Vivian NJ
Manning is the seventh son OF Gov.
Manning to offer his services TO the
country. He will shortly sell his bus
mess mere and enter the army as a
private, he announced today.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
HUN AVIATOR KILLED.

London, April 22.-Captain Baron
Won Richthofen. a famous German
aviator has been killed, Reuters cor
respondent at British headquarters re-
ports.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24

Washington, April 22.-The casual
~ list today includes seventy-ono
names. Killed i'm action ten cali pri-
Vates), died of wounds five, died Of
accident one. died of disease four
other causes two. Wounded severely
seven, wounded slightly forty-two.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24

was s~unsettled. - =
The Washington news WAS followed
by break of fully cent a pound,
within five minutes. July contracts,
Tor instance. sold off from 2sSto 2S
sgelpts' making decline of 147spoints
NS2M the closing price Of Wednesday
SHHd break of more than 50 bale
&om hhe high level of the morning.
The close was t25 to so points up
froRa the lowest on covering. but
showed net losses ofs1O7 to 1l5 points
Tor the days. Theregswas, a feel'ng
around the ring, here that the bin to
fix the price of raw cotton. at 20 cents
had little chance Of passage. The
prospect for government action of
some sort in the goods market, hoy
eyer, was considered more seriously
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24

Paris. April 22.-German raids east
Of the Avre river, near Rheims, were
repulsed last night, the war Office
announced today.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24

predssire north and South or the
Somme Is recorded though II would
be premature to assert that the
Amiens objective has been abandon
ed.
Along the front from the Avre TO
Noyon. French counter thrusts net
ted local advantages.
Northwest of Moreuit, the French
launched a'strong assault which re-
suited In the capture of 500 prisoners.
a second attack In this vicinity gain
ed some $50 prisoners and enabled the
French TO advance their line In the
neishborhooa OF Castei
lin the secondary theater OF the
offensive. the new salient formed by
the pressing back OF the British be-
tween Merkem and the La Bassec Ca
nal. desperate fighting continued
throughout the week. Here the enc
my was able to win terrain of distinct
tactical value and by occupying part
OF the Messines Ridge exerted such a
threat upon the British forces in tho
old Ypres salient posted beyond Pas
schendaele and the Ypres-Menin
Road as to force their withdrawal
along line running east OF Ypres.
With the combat situation still I'm
huctuation II serves no purpose to dis
cuss In detail the tactical phases OF
the operations taking place.
"Wulverghem. Neuve Eglise, Mete-
rem and the area stretching to the I.ys
was the scene of some OF the blood
lest encounters OF the war.
'Irhe fighting in the area centering
around Mt. KENNEL continues with
increasing intensity. The key posi-
ton remains I'm British hands though
the enemy gained footing along its
southern slopes.
The Germans have been able To
gain n local advantage In Flanders
YET surveying the combat situation Ms
whole II can he afflrmatively stated
that their enormous sacrifices and
heaped casualties have hitherto been
barren OF primary result.
The enemy while pushing with
vigor towards the channel ports ana
increasing his pressure to u maximum
mas been unable to force even
strategic retirement upon the allies
much less disorganize their order of
battle.
Unity OF command has material
~ Facilitated strategic problems with
which the allies are confronted.
The official selection of General
Foch as commander In chief of the al
lied armies means that he now has
strategic control Of the belligerent
strength of all of the allies in the
West
The complete harmony of allied
operations is illustrated by the bring.
Ing up OF a large body Of trained
Italian units To take part In the bat
tie In the West.
Along the sectors of the front in
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
STORM TROOPS WHIPPED.
OF GERMANS TO TAKE
AMERICAN TRENCHES
FAILED. -
Picked Force of~ Twelve Hundred
|. Make Sudden Attack on Lines in
Lorraine Sector-Driven Back With
Heavy Loss.

With American Army in France,
April 20 (By the Associated Press)
Twelve hundred German storm
troops. the largest number ever con-
cehtrated against the American troops
for an offensive operation. were
hurled against the american positions
onta one mile front west of Rem
neres Forest. northwest OF Toul, to-
day after, a terrific bomb&sdnent of
gag and high 'expl9ste shei7s :,
The enemy succeeded In penetsat-
ina the front line trenches .hd tax !
ing',h village or sXeheptrey, 4 az
ter CURIOUS hanas$spand ns lhg,
vh% sI'S%A q n. nigh sili'
WING 81 neund lUk n
~ ;iyFss Gefma3 lptursAuuii
si4 anrpianss ra%sS
sastempted' TO an
pn fshtingimen .
|4Sys TORS. were brou| |Is!ssI
the rs driven off.
Tn rmans suffer III cas-
5aitis MID the Az Iffrias re
fsi krtually sq1 - f!t!
$ks krmam7ai, bures, ~ ma
ehxs u nre$intd ASSI|
treh but thea;II a.! aircral =
came inf play am y ericds - !
took the bringing hown two Of the
enemy pHes ana dispensing the 9th!
srss an A. American airmen return
sx6S ,ssta9king3 3stbsps carried rations
fkds hfreHchinss so6is,y indicating
flat they fihssnde6i to l&occupy the
AMERICAN positions for long period.
Asf0 Ge q2sf5 dng the sector
br Auna he. The American
II llsr1RaDk did valiant work, the
men On many o. the batteries 4 Gar.
ing gas masks. The (enemy's casual
ties are believed to have been the
heaviest sustained by them thus far in
any operation against American
troops. Numbers of German dead are
lying in No Mans Land in front of
the American trenches.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
THE AMERICAN SPIRIT.
AUSTRALIAN OBSERVER SAYS
HUNS WILL BE SURPRISED.
III They Arc Sincere i'm DiscOuntiny
American Troops They Will Have
Rude Awakening When They
Meet Them in Battle.

Behind the British Lines in
France, March 0-(Correspondence
of The Associated Press)-The Ger
mans are in for a rude awakening if
they are sincere in discounting the
American army in France. in the
opinion of r. M. Cutlack, assistant Of
ficial correspondent with the Austral-
ian Imperial Force here.
THE Americans" he asserted,
have spirit for which the Kaiser
would sacrifice a good half of his
numbers if he could get it into his
troops today" Returning from a visit
to the American forces Mr.. Cutlack
wrote:
THE dominant fact in the arrival
of the United States army is the huge
bigness Of it. 1t is new-new as
paint--and keen as racehorse in
training-or rather a whole paddock
full Of race horses. The world will
probably not have the chance again
OF seeing such spectacle of amateur
warlike earnestness, for the Ameri-
cans are learning very fast.
1T saw something of the same
sort when the Australian War Army
began long ago in 1914-the same
light-hearted enthusiasm the same
rich raw quality all unframed and in
experienced the same outpouring Of
the very best Of a. whole country in
an emotion of national pride. count
ing neither cost nor returns. The
Americans are not soldiers yet, and
no people realize better than them
selves how much they have still to do
to make themselves soldiers, but they,
will~be "a great and powerful army in
probably shorter time than they reck-
on upon.
Great armies have before this been
raised for great causes. and the Brit
ish empire ,as the best OF reasons for
knowing h5w with the vital spark IN
l,ennxSnS - h. go 81
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
81 SUMTER. 8. G. WEDNESDAY, APRIL "a. 1918
COTTON MARKET.

Buyers Bewildered by COntradicting
Adviccs Affecting T,ade--One Fan
0fllil liars. >
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24

New York, April 18.-AThe New
York Cotton Exchange was the scene
today of some of the most spectacular
price fluctuations in its history. Con
tradicting advices affecting the trade
pewildered the traders and furious
buying or selling caused sudden cor
responding advances and declines, one
sensational break extending more
than SO a bale. One chief factey xjn
the trading was the report "a
Washington received during tHG 1M
trading that bill had been INTRO;
duced into the house to fix the pride
of cotton at 20 cents q pound. ~
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24

may pecone q nne3 soldier But nd
army you can read OF in history ever
marched with more splendid ardor
or raced a great struggle with Sc
rener satisfaction than the American
expeditionary force in France. And
1t is such a mighty army. They will
not tell you how big. and you are dis
couraged from guessing, but We ran
through ali a spring day in a huge
automobile and still the American
host dotted the landscape, drilling.
marching, manoeuvring, building
camps and roads.
They are learning the art of
lighting from the best soldiers OF
France and Britain. and many of their
officers AS attaches of one sort or an
ether have seen lot of this war from
the German and Turkish side as we'll.
we found major who had watched
the Gallipoli campaign from the top
of the Battleship Hill and was in the
confidence OF Liman Won Sanders and
the Turkish Pashas He has therefore
a particularly warm regard for the
Australians.
We went up to see the American
line i'm Lorraine. In their khaki
and round, tin hats among the Lor-
raine hills they look and act very
much like our own men; indeed they
might be our own fellows. They have
the same sturdy. self-reliant look.
They spread themselves over country
in the fashion of men accustomed to
vast spaces. They walk with the same
easy, free-lmhed carriage. Their
discipline. ike ours is thing which
force could never impose or main
tain, but is rather contributed yolun-
tarily to common good in violation
OF temperament and upbringing.
"Agains, these men, as against the
men of the British empire, the Ger
mans have no chance"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-24
BATTLE NOT OVER.
WASHINGTON LOOKS FOR AN
OTHER GERMAN ASSAULT,
Offensive More Powerful Than Any
Heretofore Launched Against Al
Ih'd Lines Expected by Strategists
of War Enormous
Sacrifices OF Enemy Without Re
suits Sought.

Washington. April 2f.--Another
German thrust at the allied lines.
more powerful than those that have
gone before. Is looked for by the war
departments strategists IL the pres
ent drive at the channel ports fails.
The departments weekly review to-
night says the enepy's enormous
sarihces have been .-barred of pri-
mary results. buc adds.
4, Looked at from q broad stand.
Bbirt OF the general military situation
In the West 1t can not. however. be
said that the batue now raging in this
salient is .the 1nei nor even the. most
determined onslaught OF the tt3euy
There are indicatiqns that 6Suld
the offensive here Az IN 'ta tsad to
some definite resuits enemy-in
undertaken a furss sysa more
powerful thrust. y . -: - - =
The review .sGSSlR RssI
mony OF actiodl lobtaihes 3
appointment of eene] sFocH - - -
mardcr in chief of B Jailed armie;s
in the West 1t tells Yncreassd acl
tivity along the sectors held by
American troops. and discloses that
recently number sar Americans who
had been captured ARID were being
conducted through No ManS r4,and to
the German lines turned UPON their
captors. escaped and made their way
back to their own trenches. No de
tails OF the incident are given.
in what has hitherto been held
the principal scene of operations. the
salient stretching from north of Ar
ras to south OF the Disc Canal. with
In apex in front OF Amiens. says the
review. "thste hs been no impox;
ass change Elns fhe u R in 4
poHnonF or e UGtendlus forces.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-17
Y. N. c. A.. FUND
SHORT $4,000
Workers Will Comb City for
Subscribers Tomorrow,

The WORKERS for the Y. NJ. c, A. fund
Will have to secure nearly $4,000 be-
Tore tomorrow noon to reach the goal
Of $4,000 for which they arc striving
Iodays reports aggregated a total OF
$lzB4, bringing the grand total to
S6l,Sj
The Kiwanis club again led the
divisions with $,S04 to is credit and
Tor the third time was awarded the
elephant, emblem oi the highest mark
1he Liors club, and Rotary reported
respectively sos and $500, while the
General division brought in. 81 ,oO9.S so
All the teams OF the Ad club did not
report, reducing the club total to SAILS
and the executive committee made a
showing OF $3.50.
The entire Rotary club was present
; at the noon luncheon TO celebrate lis
victory over the general division which
challenged il for high score today
Tags were mailed this afternoon Ia
all subscribers, and tomorrow the en-
tire city will be combed for those no,
wearing them,