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DAILY
CITY
EDITION
FORTIETH YEAR.
GERMANS LOSE OVER 100.000 FIGHTERS
CROSS RIVER SOMME; THEN DRIVEN BACK
OVER 1,200,000 GERMANS ARE
BEING HELD BY 300,000 BRITISH
OVER FRONT OF SIXTY MILES
45,000 TAKEN
PRISONERS BY
BUN INVADERS
PARIS, March 25.—Several casual
ties resulted from yesterday’s air raid
over Paris, it is officially announced
A number o f enemy airplanes succeed
ed in crossing the battle lines at high
altitudes and attacking the city. These
were all driven off after they had
dropped bombs in the city.
The shells which landed were light
in explosive power and made very
small holes in the ground, bombs from
aeroplanes, heretofore having proved
more effective.
The directors of the bourse late to
day decided to continue trading oper
ations, regardless of the great of
fensh'e and Paris attacks. It was ar
ranged that in the event of heavy air
attacks to use rooms in the basement
of the bourse building.
The first shell fell upon Paris at
6; 25 o’clock this morning and shells
seemed to arrive faster than hereto
fore, although the shelling suddenly
stopped at 9:30.
Cross Somme But Driven Back.
: W LONDON, March 25—German forces
crossed the Somme river south of Pe
renne between that city and Licourt
today, but were driven back to the
east bank by counter attacks, General
Haig reported this afternoon. The first
hostile attacks this morning devel
oped north of Bapaume, while the bat
tle continues with great intensity over
the whole front.
French Helping British,
PARIS March 25.—French troops re
lieved a part of the Allied forces Sat
urday taking over their part of the
struggle against the German invaders,
says a war office statement.
Hard fighting is reported in the Noy
one region. French troops held the
heights of the right bank of the Oose
against important attacks.
feast of Suippes in the Champaigne
region where American troops are
located two enemy raids fell down.
Wilson Deeply Confident.
WASHINGTON D. C. March 25
President Wilson is deeply confident
of Allied success on the western front,
and is keeping in direct and intimate
touch with every development there.
Only Link in Great Offensive.
COPENHAGEN, March 25. The
present German offensive is only a link
in a great offensive against all the
Allied armies, General Auffenurg, head
of the Austrian armies, declared in an
interview published in the newspaper
Azujsag here. It will be a long time
before the final result is reached, says
the Austrian in his interview.
Haig Holding Lines With 27 Divisions.
WASHINGTON D. C., March 25.
General Haig is holding the great Ger
man drive of ninety-seven divisions
with only twenty-seven divisions of
battling Tommies, stated British mil
itary men here today. British officials
estimate the German losses already at
approximately one hundred thousand'
men, including killed, wounded and
captured. These losses are believed to
justify optimism in the belief that the
Germans are defeating themselves by
losses sustained.
Sharpe Tells" of Bombardment.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25.
Ambassador Sharpe today communi
cated to the state department the text
of a newspaper account published in
Paris Saturday announcing that bombs
the size of the long-distance gun were
dropped there from airplanes. Am
bassador Sharpe added that German
airplanes were observed at a great
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
"LI VEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA."
LOCAL board 18
PUT FIWS IN
OEM GUBS
NOT NECESSARY FOR THOSE IN
( LASS ONE ON FARM TO COME
HERE PERSONALLY ORDERS
RECEIVED TODAY.
All men in Sumter county who are
farmers, or farm laborers, and are in
Class One. will now be put in a de
ferred class, so they can stay on the
farms until after the crops.
It will not be necessary for them to
come to the local exemption board at
all, as they will be taken care of in
that respect. Neither are their em
ployers required to appear here.
The local board today received or
ders, part of which read as follows:
“The situation arising from the
scarcity arising from the scarcity of
farm labor demands that the call t,o
the colors of men actively, complete
ly and assiduously engaged in the
planting or cultivation of a crop, but
who are in Class One and within the
new quota, should be deferred until
the end of the new quota. Please in
struct your local boards, therefore,
that the president directs that, in fill
ing this emergency call, they shall
pass the order numbers of such men
and defer their call for the present.
It must be borne in mind that this
step is taken isolely in the need of the
nation, and not for the benefit of any
individual. Therefore, while boards
should consider it a grave duty to ex
ercise this power to conserve and aug
ment the agricultural production, they
should observe closely the conduct of
tohse deferred and immediately upon
becoming convinced that any person, so
de'erred is not giving his entire time
and earnest attention to agricultural
duty, or that he is trifling with the
deferment thus granted him, the board
should forthwith call him to the col
ors. All citizens should assist in mak
ing this expedient effective, and in
bringing to the attention of the boards
cases meriting deferment, as well as
cases in which deferment is being
abused.”
WOO TO BE PAID
SUMTER VETERES
IN OS. _PENSIOIIS
( APT. JOHN A. (’OBB HAS ( ASH IN
HAND AND WILL DISTRIBUTE
( HECKS AS RAPIDLY AS THESE
ARE CALLED FOR.
(’apt. .John A. Cobb, ordinary of Sum
ter county, announces he has received
the necessary funds from State Pen
sion Commissioner John W. Lindsey
ard is now prepared to issue checks
t., Sumter county Confederate pension
ers.
The records of the pension depart
ment show there are a total of only
01 e hundred and three pensioners in
this county and it is anticipated that
all of these will call for and receive
their pensions befoie the end of the
week. There is in hand a total of
eight thousand three hundred dollars
to be paid out to these old veterans
vh o served their state so gallantly in
the war of the sixties.
height over Paris and it is regarded
us certain by newspaper writers as
having beer sent to ascertain the dam
age.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. MONDAY AFTERNOON. MARCH 25, 1918
NO AMERICAN
SOLDIERS IN
GREAT FIGHT
SO FAR THE UNITED STATES
TROOPS IN FRANCE HAVE NOT
BECOME DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN
THE BIG BATTLB.
BY FRED S. FERGUSON
United Press Correspondent With The
American Army in France.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, in
France, March 25. —No American regi
ments have yet participated in the
British meeting the German offensive,
it is authoritatively stated here.
American soldiers on the Toule front
became indignant when the German
official wireless statement regarding
tie defeat of Franco-American reserve
forces was picked up.
The German lines were heavily bom
barded and machine gunned for an
hour this morning during relief
changes by the enemy. Heavy casual
ties are believed to have been inflicted.
UNDERWOOD IS
ON TRIAL FOR
SELLING CIDER
Charles Underwood a local merch
ant, is on trial on the charge of vio
lating his license conditions by sell
ing intoxicating cider.
The trial was started Saturday and
has been continued until three o'clock
tomorrow afternoon. If convicted, his
license will be taken away by the
mayor and council.
FIRST METHODIST
x TO HAVE REVIVAL
A revival will start at the First
Methodist chu.cn next Sunday week,
eonducte t b j Rev. Charles Lane, cf
Macon ass’sted bj the Pastor, Rev.
Paul Ellis
Mr Lane is the well known minister
and humorous lecturer, and is a gifted
talked and evange Ist.
Mr Notesth<e. of Columbiana Ala.
will have charge of the music.
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LIEUT. FRANKLIN
6AYS CAMP SITE
IS THE BEST LET
INI BARGE OF NEWLY ARRIVED
CONSTRUCTION SQUADRON AT
SOUTHER FIELD—Is DELIGHTED
WITH AMERICUS.
Lieut. L. G. Franklin, of Dawson
Springs, Ky., is in charge of the aero
construction squadron at Souther
iFeld. He now has 85 men and expects
the remainder to arrive this week.
All of these men are specially fitted
for construction work- Many of them
are men of technical training who en
listed in preference to being drafted
Lieut. Franklin is the idol of his
men. all of whom swear by him. He
gets out and works with them, with
his coat off just like them, and mixes
with them on a basis of equality that
has made him very popular. At the
same time he enforces a strict dis
ipline, and has their unbounded re
spect He was for 18 years in the
regular army service, and went to the
Philippine Islands five times.
Mrs. Franklin and children are here
and are living at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Perkins, on Harrold av |
enue.
iLeut. Franklin organizes the aero
squadrons for service at the aviation
c; mps. This is t?o fifth he has form
ed already.
“I think this is the most ideal site
for an aviation camp I have yet seen,”
he said today, and added, “if the gov
ernment doesn’t largely increase the
size of the camp here I will be great
ly surprised. I find Americus a most
delightful city, and the people most
hospitable, and I only hope that I can
stap here indefinitely.”
Yesterday morning some of his men
askeel Lieut. Franklin for permission
to attend church services, and he re
leased all except those necessarily re
tained for guard duty and camp du
ties. K
AMERICAN STEAMSHIP
CHATTAHOOCHEE SUNK
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, LONDON, March 25.—The American
steamship Chattahoochee has been
sunk by a submarine off the coast of
England, it is officially announced. The
crew of seventy-eight were all saved.
WORST BLOWS
YET TO COME
HONS OECLABE
PRISONERS CAPTURED BY THE
ENGLISH SAY THAT THE ENE
MY HAS NOT DELIVERED ITS
HARDEST EFFORTS.
BY WILLIAM P. SIMMS
United Press Correspondent With The
British Armies in France.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES in
France, March 25.—80th British and
Teuton troops are fagged out today,
but continue battling.
Captured German prisoners declare
the heaviest Teuton blow i s yet to
come.
Alter being thrown back tempora-1
rily, the Germans, at heavy cost, pro
gressed across the Somme, but the
British line everywhere is intact.
General Haig’s troops are being
withdrawn in perfect order, while the
enemy continues pressing on almost
without artillery support. No such
targets have ever before been offered
modern guns, and the carnage being
wrought in the German ranks is ter
rible.
STEEL HANGARS
TO BE ERECTED
AT FLYING CAMP
The four additional hangars to be
erected at Souther Field will be steel
structures, the material for which is
already here. This will make sixteen
hangars in all.
It is understood that the govern
ment is also contemplating other ex
tensive improvements at the aviation
camp
STEVE PACE TO
ATTEND MEETING
Representative Steve Pace, a mem
ber of the committee to revise the
banking laws of the state, will attend
a meeting of the committee in At
lanta on Friday of this week. Hon. J.
A. Duncan of Donaldsonville, is chair
man of the commission.
OK 'WHEAIUSS DAYS
mNOßOAnmarißs.
EASTTOf (X BREAKEAST
foods containing frmmTnuß
BIG MTRIOTIC
BALLY WILL BE
HELDJUESOAY
REV. ASHBY JONES, CELEBRATED
SOUTHERN ORATOR, IVILL DE
LIVER STIRRING SPEECH AT
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH.
Rev. Ashby Jones, of Atlanta, one of
the most eloquent speakers of the
state, will be heard here tomorrow af
ternoon at the First Methodist church
at 3:30 o'clock.
He speaks here under the auspices
cf the Sumter County Council of De
fense, which has calle;! the meeting
with the view of arousing a greater
patriotic sentiment in this community.
Rev. Paul Ellis will ask the invo
cation, and Rev. George Brown will
pronounce the benediction.
W. W. Dykes, of the Council of De
fense, will present Dr. Jones.
The mayor and council, county com
. missioners, courthouse officials, school
officials and teachers and members of
the various women’s clubs will attend.
A large attendance of school children
is also expected, and Prof. J. M. Col
lum, of the Aggie school, believes that
every one of his young men and young
lady students will be present. An un
> usually large audience is expected t®
be present.
The various patriotic orders of the
city and the fraternal lodges have all
asked their members to attend.
Dr. Jones will arrive here from At
lanta tomorrow afternoon at 2:10
o’clock, and will return home tomor
row night.
AFFIDAVITS TO
GETPERMITSFOR
FLOUR NECESSARY
COUNTY FOOD ADMINISTRATOB
GETS INSTRUCTIONS TO LIMIT
CONSUMPTION OF FLOUR MUCH
AS POSSIBLE.
County Food Administrator Franc
Mangum announces the new rulings on
I flour sales, as laid down to him by the
i state administration, with particular
regard to the issuance of permits to
■ farmers.
Before any fanner can secure a
permit, that will relieve him of buy
ing an equal amount of other cereal
products, he must make ou natSHR
products he must make out an affidavit
! before a notary, stating the amount
of his monthly flour consumption, the
1 number in his family, the amount of
other cc cal products he has on hand,
the amount of these products he has
eaten during the past thirty days and
the acreage of grain he has planted,
setting forth each grain crop separate
ly. Then upon presenting this, in
proper form, to the food adimnistra
tor he may secure a permit for not
more than 48 pounds.
No person residing in the city may
get over 24 pounds at any one time,
and then must buy an equal amount
of other cereals.
Taking Cattle Census in TerrelL
i DAWSON, Ga.. arch 25.—L. W.
I Fisher, government agent, is now tak
ing a census of the cattle in Terrel!
■ county. This is a part of his work in
! connection with the campaign against
1 cattle tick in the county.
Twelve dipping vats are being con
• structed and will soon be ready for
■ use, and dipping of cattle will begin
errly this spring.
NUMBER 71.