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British, French and Ameri
cans Welded Into One
Unit Under Foch
FURTHER ADVANCES
THROUGH THE BRITISH
Germans- Push-Forward Their
Northern Front From One
. to Two-Miles-Capturing Six
Villages
i- yieth&-expected counter offen
' riw starts on the West front, Hinden
burg vrni find himself opposed by a
single army the. first , real Allied
army.
The British, Trench -and American
; forces "will have been welded into a
single nnit by General Foch, the mas
ter strategist of the Marne, whose ap
' pointment as Generallssmo, was of
Generals Petain and Pershing and
flcally announced Saturday night.
i Field Marshal Haig will retain their
1 capacity as field commanders but the
strategic struggle will be Foch
against Hlndenbwg.
Sleantime the great German wedge
continued to chip away at the Anglo
French bulwark around Montdidier.
The latest word from the French War
Office, contained in the Saturday com
munique said the enemy had attack
ed violently on a 24 mile front extend
ing from Moreuil, Southward aroundd
Montdidier an Eastward past Lassigny.
The attack began Friday night and
pearly Saturday the French, with the
aid of constantly arriving reserves,
were holding the enemy in check.
The London War Office, however,
admitted Saturday evening that the
Germans on the Northern leg of this
front had puushed forward from a
mile to two miles, ' capturing Autv.
villers, Grevesnes, Cantingy, Mesnil
St. George and Ayencourt. These
villages form an irregular line from
: point six miles Northwest of Mont
iflier to a point one mile South.
Demuin, seven miles North of Aub-
villers, was captured by the Germans j
Saturday morning. Haig reported
Saturday night. Between the Somme
and the Arve, he said, there were in
cessant attacks antl counter-attacks
with the enemy firmly checked.
Haig also reported renewed fighting
in the vicinity of Boiry and Boyelles,
midway oetween Arras and Bapaumc, ;
on the Main highway connecting the
two cities.
The German War Office Saturday
night reported the capture of Ayette,
tx-o miles South of Boiry. Elsewhere
Xorth of the Somme it declared the
"situation is unchange."
A United Press dispatch from Wm.
Phillip Simms, described a heavy
bombardment in the Arras region, on
the German right flank with heavy
infantry engagements there, presage
mother attempt to invest the city.
Ilain continues to fall over the bat
: ground and is having its effect
- air combats and the transportation
:-y-terns.
The fact that King George had vis
i;d the front Thursday was made
Imown after he had returned to Ltfrl
fion. Vturday night.
SHIP COMPANY GOES
TO SOUTH CAROLINA
Columbia, S. C, March 30. Domes
tication papers have been filed in the
office of the Secretary of State by
the C arolina Shipbuilding Corporation,
organized under the laws of Deleware.
The company gives the location of its
South Carolina offices as Charleston.
Lorenzo , Dilks,, of New York, is
President of thecorporation, who has
an authorized canltal of $100,000. The
by-laws of the company give the lo-
f'ation of the principal office as Wil
mington, Deleware and the name of
tne resident agent in (arge thereof
hH the Corporation Trust Company, of
America.
BRITISH LOST SIX
VILLAGES TO HUN
London, March 30. North of the
Sorome the situation was unchanged,
&e War Offirn nnnrmnrprl fhia oveti-
"South of the Somme we maintain
el our positions.
''Further South, during the course
the day, heavy attacks on the West
'rnt enabled the Germans to gain
Jjound West of the Avre and South
Southeast of Montdidier, captur-
L"S Aubviilers, Gouvesnes, Cantigny,
M'esnil-at. George, Lewachel nad Ay
' iJl oiirt.
East of the latter city heavy fight-
V continues. The exact situation
FM
MEAL ALLIED AMY
THE HOUSE VOTES
GREAT BOND BILL
Liberty Loan Authorization
Increased by $4,600,000,
000 Without Roll Call
INTEREST RATE IS
PUT AT 4 1-4 PER CENT
No Greater Interest Can Be
Charged During the War.
Amount Bonds Author
ized $14,000,000,000
Washington, March 30. The great
"Liberty bond bill," increasing au
thorization for Liberty loans by $4,
600,000,000, was passed by the House
tonight unanimously and without a
roll call.
The measure fixes the interest rate
;at 4 1-4 per cent
The bill will be rushed through the
Senate early next week, as it is es
sential to third loan campaign start
ing next Saturday.
The outstanding features of the bill
are:
Increases Liberty bond authoriza
tions $4,600,000,00,0, making total . au
thorized $14,000,000,000, -.
Fixes Liberty loan interest "rate at
4 1-4 per cent, for rest of war.
Increases authorization of short
time certificates by $4,000,000,000 or
to $8,000,000,000, since America en
tered the war.
Creates a fund of five per cent of
eacn issue to protect the Liberty loan
market, the Secretary of the Treas
ury being authorized to buy up bonds
when he considers necesasry.
Makes future issues, including the
next loan, non-convertible, but allows
bonds of first two issues to be ex
changed for those of the third issue.
fi tiin. than nv Drevioilg imDOrtant
measure. ' But there was some under
current of sentiment against it de
spite this.
Warning that future bond authori
zations will be opposed on the ground
that the war should be financed on a
fifty-fifty basis half tax and half
bonds was made by several mem
bers today, notably Representative
Keating, of Colorado, and Huddleston,
of Alabama. Both advocated greater
taxes on excess war profits.
"When the.Uriitdd States Steel Cor
poration, after paying all the present
taxes, can make a profit five times
that of normal years there could be
no serious hardship caused by the
government's taking more of the ex
cess profits," Representative Keating
said. "It would not take a very ..high
percentage excess profits tax to put
the revenue system on the fifty fifty
basis proposed as we entered the
war.
Plants engaged in war work are I
making $5,600,000,000 more than their
normal profits, Representative Hud
dleston charged.
BURY THE HATCHET.
- Washington, Marph 30. Plans
for putting capital and labor on a
war basis have been completed
and laid before Secretary of Labor
Wilson, it was officially announced
tonight.
Workers and employers agree
to bury the hatchet in common
cause until the war is won. Striken
are rendered virtually impossible.
there is not known.
'"Heavy rain has broken over
battlefield."
the
Most of the cities mentioned in the
above dispatch are West rather than
East of Montdidier.
Aubviilers is five miles Northwest
ot Montdidier; Gresvesnes is four
miles North and West; Cantigny is
two and one-half miles East and
North; Mesnil-St. George is one mile
West and Ayencourt is one mile
South. v
The ereatest sain by the Germans
in this advance was about a mile and
a half.
UNANIMOUSLY
FOR
fDiST
E
HAS NOT PAID FOR
Casualties Estimated at -Twice
Number of Americans
in France
ALLIED LINE STILL
PRACTICALLY INTACT
Hindenburg in a Serious Posi
tion Unless He Does Some
thing to Offset His
Heavy Sacrifices
New York, March 30. Having lost
probably twice as many troops in a
week as the United States now has
in Franve, von Hindenburg has been
compelled to ' check his drive without
forcing the Western combat to a de
cision. The British and French arm
ies remain intact. The most reckless
onslaught and the most ruthless sac
rifice of a nation's man power in
modern history has not given to the
German war lords a territorial gain
at all commensurate to their casual
ties, provided they now fail to bring
the war to a quick conclusion. Von
Hindenburg at the end of the week
is in a highly serious quandary. To
pursue-the fjphantom -of -an early vic
tory can be done only at a continu
ation of the frightful slaughter of
Germans that already is beginning to
startle the Hohenzollern empire.
To halt permanently along the
new front is to confess the previous
slaughter has been in vain. The
chief business of the Allies in the
present stage of the war is to kill
Germans. Von Hindenburg has as
sisted powerfully in this grim duty
during the past 1Q days. Nobody in
Germany believes the fresh territory
occupied by the German troops will
be taken from France at the end of
the war. It has been selected as a
battleground by von Hindenburg be
cause Germany wants the war to end
quickly. Without this termination
von Hindenburg now stands in a dif
ficult position.
The new German front is 35 miles
longer than was the Hindenburg line
to which the Germans voluntarily re
tired last March. The retirement was
made to save Germany's man power
by shortening the trench mileage. In
the past 10 days von Hindenburg has
undone all the beneficial effects of
that policy. Given some fresh divi
sions from the Eastern front the fe
rocity of the German militaristic
spirit has shown itself in the quick
slaughter of these unfortunate men
at the West front.
Immediate major counter efforts by
the Allies are not absolutely neces
sary to bring about the undoing of
this primitive strategy of slaughter.
To hold von Hindenburg fast along
his screatly lengthened line and to
pursue a policy of incessant local as-
saults would eventually compel a
shortening of the German line, per
haps back to the starting place of
the present drive.
I The reported appointment of Gen
! eral Foch, the French chief of staff, to"
J the supreme command of the Allied
I force in France, suggests that a coun
j ter offensive is in process of develop
j ment under his direction. Its magni
I tude. however, cannot be foretold. To
; force back von Hindenburg at the
; point of the bayonet might be as
! costly to the Allies as the original
j drive has be'en to the Germans. It
! is possible General Foch will prefer
1 to postpone his advance until he can
i accomplish a double objective. By
I developing a major offensive along
i the Alsace-Lorraine border, Foch
i could porbably invade German terri
tory and at the same time compel
j von Hindenburg to retire from West
ern France to protect the Rhine.
An offensive of this magr;ide,
however .probably would need the as
sistance of a great many more Amer
ican troops than are in France.
Whether to wait for a vast increasing
strength or whether to advance now,
before American help has reached
maior proportions, is the chief' probf
lem General Foch musut meet ih his
new position
KING GEORGE VISITS FRONT.
London, March 30. King George
visited the battle fields in France
on Thursday, it was officially an
nouncedon his return to London
tonight.
GERMAN
ADVAN
MAN POWER OST
Marhc 21 Tho Germans began
their long expected West front of
fensive. Berlin claimed to hav
penetrated portions of the British
positions between Cambrai and
Lafere. London . admitted some,
ground lost, but emphasized the
enemy's heavy losses.
March 22. Hindenburg continu
ed to push forward at some points
whlre the British counter-attacked
and took Doiglnes, eight miles
East and North of Bapaume, on
the Bapaume-Cambrai highway.
Haig announced the Germans
threw forty divisions (400,000
men) into battle" on the first day,
and . asserted the enemy losses
were terrific.
March 23. The enemy advanc- .
ed to Roupy, North of the Somme,
about 4 miles. Southwest" of St.
Quentin, and tod ussy, South of the
Somme, about JfTmlles West of the
former line. The Germans darn
ed to have taken 25,000 prisoners,
44 cannon and 300 machine guns.
March 24. The offensive gath
ered momentum and swept .for
ward to a depth of 15 miles. Per
ronne, Ham and Bethencourt. fell.
Berlin claimed . 30,000 prisoners
and 600 cannon. The Germans
had now retaken. about a third of
the territory they lost in the spring
of 1917.
March 25. Bapaume, . Nesle,
Guiscard and Chauny were sst by
the Franco-British. Thei heav
iest fighting had shifted South of
the Somme, where the enemy
pushed forward an additional five
miles. This marked the first ap
pearance of the French in the" ma
jor fighting arid announcement
was made that American engineer
regiments were engaged. Berlin
now claimed' a total of 45,000 pris
oners. The Germans continued
to lose men at a staggering rate.
March 26.Roye Noyon and
Lihons fell. The .Germans made
their greatest effort to date North
of the-Somme and' pushed forward
to the. outskirts -.of Albert, mak
ing a total advance of 14 miles in
that region. Berlin announced
that cannon captured totalled 963,
besides 100 tanktjT-he . German
losses so far were unofficially esti-
SITUATION IS
BETTER SAYS MARCH
General Pelshing's Latest Mes
sage Reports Improved
Conditions
Washington, March 30, "The situ
ation is improved."
This was the summary of a cabled
report on the West front battle from
General Pershing reaching ths War
Department tonight and given out by
Chief of Staff March. March added,
"the situation looks a great deal bet
ter." Pershing's dispatch covering the ,
fighting up to the end of March 29, !
follows: j
"The battle line on the eveningof.
March 29 was tho same as reported !
yesterday except South of the Somme, I
that runs through Warfusee, Aben-
court, Demuin, Mezieres, Laneuville, j
thence on the line of March 28, except
that the French took Lemonchel,
Southeast of Mondidier by assault.
Strong German attacks near Beuo-
mont Hamel, Mezieres, east of Demu -
in and near Lassigny, were repulsed.
Attacks North and South 'of the
Scarpe river March 28, in which the
enemy suffered serious repulse were
made by ten enemy divisions.
"The situation at the end of March
29 is improved.
(Signed) "PERSHING."
HOTEL MEN TO CUT
OUT USING WHEAT
(Special to The Dispatch. 1
Washington, March 30. Food Ad
ministrator Herbert Hoover today
sent the following heartening tele
gram to Victor Boret. French Minis
ter of Food: Lord Rhonda. British 1 ot merman wounaea irom tne west
Minister of Food, and Signor Crespi, ! ern front are crossing the German
Italian Minister of Food: ! frontier in a continuous stream, ic-
"At a special meeting in Washing-1 cording to a dispatch to The Tele
ton 500 leading hotel men from all'graaf today.
parts of the country today pledged: The correspondent described the
themselves to abolish absolutely the : trains as "dripping with blood" and
use of wheat products in their hotels ' the condition of the wounded as dis
until the next harvest in order that s tressing in the extreme. So numei
through their savings and their ex- ous are the wounded men that freight
ample shipments of wheat, to the Al- j cars are being substituted for hospital
lies may proceed without
lion."
interrup-
JUDGE REFUSES
COOK'S MOTION
Atlanta. 'x Ga., March 30 Declaring
that - there ;was;' no merit to the 44
grounds . set up . by the defendant.
Judge Ben H. Hill, of the Fulton
County Superior Court, today over
ruled the motion for a new trial of
J. AV., Codk,'': convicted with Mrs. H.
H. Hirsch, of attempting to blackmail
Mayor Asa, G. Candler of $500,000.
Cook, who is sentenced to serve 12
months on the chaingang and pay a
fine of $1,000, will carry his case to
the eourt of appeals, it was indicated
by his counsel today.
mated at 400,000.
March 27. Albert was captured
but with Its fall the German West
ward advance from that place
North was practically stopped. The
offensive began to show signs of
exhaustion. The British made
successful counter attacks be
tween the Somme and the Ancre,
re-capturing Morjan-court and
Chippy. South of the Somme, low
ever, Rosieres was invested. At
that point the Germans had ad
vanced about 26 miles from the!'
original battle line.
March 28, The German Crcwn
Prince's sfrmy took Montdidier,
about 35 miles West of LaFere.
This practically marked the high
tide of the offensive, as -the en
emy's efforts to push farther West
ward at this extreme ppoint have
in the main been frustrated. The
enemy extended the battle front
Northward beyond the Scarpe and
entered advanced British position?
East of -Arras. Haig's men held
firmly elsewhere. The French
counter-attacked between Noyon
and Lassigny, re-taking the vil
lages of Mesnil, St. George, Cout
andmache and Assainvillers. Gen
era! Pershing conferred with Gen
eral Foch at the front placing the
entire American expeditionary
force at Foch's disposal.
March 29. Hindenburg's attack
continued to slow up, ostensibly
hindered by the heavy rain which
fell during the night. The Allies
gained some ground South of the
Somme, but the Germans pushed
forward slightly toward Amiens.
Foch's appointment as General
lssmo of all the Allied armies was
semi-officlally announced.
. March 30. The Germans began
to dig themselves In at various
points along the battle front. The
attack .extended Northward again,
this time to the vicinity of Lops.
The heaviest fighting was in the
region of Montdidier, where the
enemy was attacking savagely on
a 24-mile front from Moreuil, south
ward to Montdidier and eastward
to a point beyond Lassigny.
Berlin claimed a further advance
arouno Montdidier, with the cap
ture of six small towns.
msmm
EFFECTIVE LAST
T
! National Time Piece Camou-
i
flaged Overnight Sen
ate Was Early,
Washington, March 30. The na
tional timepiece will be camouflaged
over night and tomorrow America's
first experience in saving daylight
will be on this summer as a war
measure.
At 2 o'clock Sunday morning the
United States Naval Observatory
clocks will be moved up ojie hour;
its time reckoning will be taken from
a newr tnprirtian- thfi national rnil-
roa(js and the government will be on
tne new schedule, and the average
American citizen will be at work one
hour earlier daily by the sun than
heretofore.
At the close of the day he will have
a longer space of daylight for work,
such as war gardening, or play, than
has hitherto been his portion.
Daylight saving as a war measure
is compulsory.
As it wOrks out, the system merely
! requires that the clocks be set ahead
! and tnen that everybody forget all
about t until October 27 when the
j old system returns
It is estimated the daylight saving
will bring about a cut of $4,000,000 in
the national electric bill in the seven
months, much extra overtime in war
work will probably be secured.
The Senate took time by the fore;
lock, so to speak, and moved its clock
up during the day Instead of waitfgfj
for night.
STREAM OF GERMAN
WOUNDED MOVING
Amsterdam, March 30. Train loads
cars in transporting .hem, the wound
ed men in these car lying on beds of
straw and shavings.
LEGAL ADVISORS NOT
TO GFT COMMISSIONS
(Special to The Dispatch.)
Washington, D. C, March 30 The
lawyers in Nbrth Carolina who have
so generously and patriotically con
tributed their services in an advisory
capacity in the t dministration of the
selective draft law will not be award
ed certificates or be commissioned
by the War Department. Provost
Marshal General E. H. Crowder, in a
letter today to Senator F. M. Sim
mons, ' made known the decision of
jta War Department. .
NIGH
ALk MM MEAJB: Wm
SEVERE FIGHTING
-REPORTED FROM
NEAR MONTDIDIER
Berlin Claims an Advance of
About a Mile From the
Position
FRENCH PUTTING UP
STIFF RESISTANCE
Heavy Concentration of Ger
man Troops Reported on
the Verdun Front. Brit
ish Drive Turks
London, March 30,-pThe heaviest
fighting today continued to center
around Montdidier, the point of the
German wedge, according to both
British and French official day. state
ments. The War Office this evening
said the situation was unchanged.
The Berlin day official statement
claimed a further advance . of about
a mile northwest, west and south ot
Montdidier.
The newest enemy thrust was an at
tack begun last night over a 24-mile
front astride Montdidier. This sector
extended from MoreuiL Southward
around Montdidier and Eastward to
a point beyond Lassigny. The French
war Office reported Fetaln s me
"bWrfifitgdptSistance to the
enemy's powerful assaults."
A continuation of the rainfall in
the Southern part of the battle zone.,
at least, was indicated in the Paris
communicque statement that al
though bad weather, French airmen
carried out extensive bombing at
tacks in the region of Noyon, Guis
card and Ham.
Haig reported a savage Gjprman at
tack at Demuin and Mezieres, ten and
one-half miles North of Montdidier,
where the British were forced to fall
back slightly. At Mezieres, however,
the British took a number of prison
ers in a counter-attack. Haig still
retained possession of Demuin after;
sharp fighting throughout the after-
noon
The correspondent of the Amster
dam Handelsblad, after a visitfto the
Verdun front, reported he saw heavy
German concentrations of German
troops in that sector.
The British continue to drive the
Turks before them in the Mesoopota
mia and Palestine theatres. In the
former region British forces have
captured Ana and Haditha, 83 miles
Northwest of Hit, and are pursuing
the remnants of the Turkish army.
General Allenby has advanced two
miles on an eight-mile front West of
the Jordan, occupying Khummel-Ikba,
Khummel-Bured and Deirsiman.
CHARGED WITH DEATH
OF BROTHER-IN-LAW
Statesboro, Ga., March 30.
Charged with the murder of their
brother-in-law Frank P. Mincey, a
prominent Bulloch county farmer
Walter L. Hendrix, county commis
sioner, ana Jti. roster Henarix are in
the custody of the sheriff here to- censorsnip at present. iNationai Army
night. The two brothers admit kill- j men will soon be in France to aid in
ing Mincey, but claim they did so in I Protection of "frontier of freedom?
self-defense. jan( tne next ew months will see the
The shooting occurred at the home j nation rather well stripped of forces
of Mincey about 15 miles Southeast j rounded up in National Army and
of Statesboro. Immediately after the ! National Guard camps last fall. ;.
two Hendrixs telephoned the sheriff! The army can feed in as many
that they would surrender. j men as there are ships to carry and
The Hendrix boys claim Mincey
was mistreating their sister and that
they went to protect her. After a
brief conversation it is alleged Min
cey went into his house and returned
with a rifle. The brothers then open
ed fire with their pistols, thyee bul
lets taking effect.
The dead man was the father of
four small children.
BERLIN ANNOUNCES
A YETTE'S CAPTURE
Berlin (Via London), March 30.
"Ayette has been cleared of the en
emy," the German War Office report
ed tonight.
"North of the Somme the situation
is unchanged."
German troops captured Beaucourt
and Mezieres, the statement said.
French attacks against Montdidier
failed.
Between the Somme and the Avre
Every Available, Ship Bem&
Utilized toCarry Troops?
i Avcross
i
SHIPS TO WIN WAIT
The Output of Vessels is ffci .
Below the Requirements ;
s National Army Men Soptl . i
to Be in France ' ' ': i
Washington, March 30. America" 1
now sending troops to France to ,th$ j .
full capacity of eygry transport' sal j V j!
at her disposal. .-' -1
This was learned officially todajf H
from army and navy sources vbq '
added that it is. up to the Shipbultii. .
ing Corporation to turn out m$ri.
ships if the present Allied appeal :
for further speeding American trobpf :
now is to be met. 1
Practically all the economies Hxj ;
space possible have been accompU$ll-4
ed. The "turn around", has , p$ft
speeded ; dockage facilities in Franca
have been increased; every TSuttcTnc! -
oi shin space is utilized and-wasteful
use of tonnage has been curtailed,'
The transport fleet is bjfeing ajif V
mented by the conversion of a f Jffrt
very few-cargo ships -into ttoop.Tes'
sels, while the Dutch ships will prp -:
vide another very small numoer -qv
extra troop transports. .
The army and navy men said, how
ever, that it is "now virtually impost r
sible to convert further cargo .cr
riers into troop ships and that .
dently the maximum space economje; . ,
have been accomplished. V
The conversion of a. few cargo yes "-,
sels into transports was undertake" S
before Lloyd-George's recent appeal
for more ..Americans and- the V&th'j
shipping, will relieve Virtually T only
the merchant marine situation.
Food shipments, it was stated, caa
not be further curtailed with safety,
though perhaps some additional", dut
in meat could be made.
The United Press informants men
who know the troop transport Qtiesr .
tion thoroughly declared that tha . 1
question as a whole gets back to tha
American-British shipoing output ht ,
that neither of these is now satisfac
tory.
The Shipping Board announced dttr-t
ing the day that 37 vessels had bea
launched in March with a total ded
weight tonnage. of 240,000. This Wad,
12 more launchings than in February,
hllt it was nmnter nut that a launch.
ing does not mean tne vessel is ready' .
for service. Deliveries were 18 ships
of 162,000 tons as against 16 the pre
vious month of a 123,000 dead weighty
tonnage.
This does not begin to keep up
with German submarine sinkings.
In other words, the fundamental ot
the whole problem before American -now
is one of getting more ships, ac-- ,
cording to the experts, and that was?.
what Lloyd-George was apepaling
for in reality when he asked for mora
American ' troops.
It has been pointed out that too :
little is being done to encourage and',
stimulate ship workers to the vital ;
nature of their task and to keep la-.
bor satisfied. JUaDor unrest, tne ex- ,.3
perts say, must be wiped out ' and
labor must be urged to forget it
strife while, at the same time more
forceful administrative work with less
red tape is regarded as necessary
here.
Considering the resources available
the United States is sending across
a sizeable supply of men now. Fig
ures cannot be printed under tha
still have a surplus ot men.
President Wilson apparently is urg
ing on Chairman Hurley of the Ship
ping Board the need for "pepping up"
the shipyard output, while Army and
Navy chiefs are seeking to find any,
new way to shorten the turn around "
and to econom'" on space.
(Continued on Page Nine.)
British and French forces were drtt
en from their forward positions.
The capture of Mezieres previously
was announced by the London Was ,
Office -and staff correspondents. Be&0
court, which is a mile directly East
would necessarily fall with Mezieres.
Ayette is seven miles Northwest of,
Bapaume and 10 miles South of -
ras. Its capture marks an enamy c& '
vance of less than a milfv
r
Al