Bain Wednesday; Thursday fair and warmer. VOLISWE II. ttlttt Loral Cotton.8 ;-8c ANDERSON, S. C. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1915. NUMBER 121. ILS. WU GERMAT WHAT SHE 1 PRESIDENT NOW PREPARING NOTE TO BE SENT THIS WEEK GERMAN REPLY UNRESPONSIVE Cabinet Thinks Good WU1 of U. S. Was Disregarded by Germany. Washington, June 1.-President Wilson determined today that the United States must ascertain definitely and promptly from Germany whether that country intends in the future to be guided by the accepted principles of . International law and rights of neutrals, or to follow it's own rules of maritime warfare. v .. The president listed the varied exr Sressions of opinion at a meeting' of ie cabinet, taking little part in the discussion himself. Later ho began the* preparation of a note to be dis patched before the end of the week, embodyin ; his own ideas and what seemed to him to be the concensus o' hlo official family. The verdict of the majority of the cabinet was that Germany's reply to the Lusitania note was unresponsive, and unsatisfactory, disregarding the 1 good will of the United States, doubt ing- tts facts ^-*ntt'~ tnsc?lmtug' ' alt blame for the destruction of mer - chantmen with American lives. The question of the facts raised by Germany is regarded as irreveiant at this time. It was the trend of opinion that the United States must learn whether Germany Intends to recog nize the hitherto accepted principle that neutrals may travel anywhere on the high seas on unarmed mer chantmen, even if they xarry contra bond and that merchantmen not re stating capture must be visited, and searched and crew transferred to a place o' safety before the vessel is destroyed. An unfavorable answer to this Inquiry would lead, lt was pre dicted In official quarters, to a sever ence of diplomatic relations on the ground that the United States could not continue intercourse with a gov ernment which repudiated these prin ciples. Count von Bernstorff. the German ambassador, who will see tho presi dent tomorrow declined tonight to Bsy what he proposed to discuss. The ambassador sought the Interview. No announcements were made after the cabinet adjourned. Expressions ot confidence In the president came In telegrams from all parts of the country today. Officials reiterated the United States bas absolute" proof that the Lusitania was unarmed. Washington, June 1.-Preparations of a second note to German begun and a warning statement to factions in Mexico were completed after more than two hours' discussion by Presi dent Wilson and cabinet today over, international problems confronting nie United States. No announcement was made nt the close of the meeting ft-vt her than the president's statement warning Mex ican leaders to improve conditions will be made public tomorrow morn ing. Al the cabinet officers are espe cially reserved over What haa been esJd about Germany's reply to tho Lusitania note. It ls generally un derstood, however, that while do final conclusion was reached the govern ment's course will be shaped by to night or tomorrow. . The prevailing helfet, after the meeting, was -that the note probably would be very brief, will be dispatch ed to Germany asking whether the Imperial government intends by tts note to disregard '.the fundemental principles ofi international law. It Germany's answer to that indicates unwillingness to recognise what has been hitherto regarded universally as accepted principles of based customs. and the laws of humanity, the United States probably will sever diplomatic relations with Germany Unless Count. Bernstorff, German ambassador, who sees the president tomorrow, brings some new proposal, differing from the German note, it I? believed tn -well informed quarters tbst his visit will not affect the char acter of the ncie American note. Riot* te Mexico. Washington. June 1.-Bread riots continue tn Mosteo City and the sit uation tn growing more desperate ac rordtsc to foreigners reaching Vera Crus from tho capital. LL mm WTMUSI RULES C WILL Ol U. C. VETERANS^ FAVOR PEACE PLAHSFOR U S. APPLAUD SPEAKERS WHO EXPRESSED HOPES FOR PEACE PLEDGE SUPPORT TO PRESIDENT In Spite of Rein Crowds Heard Addresses of Welcome by Gov. Stuart and Others. Richmond, June I.-Thousands of veterans, attending thc twenty-fifth annual reunion, of United Confed?rate Veterans v;hlch opened here today, cheered thc hope expressed by their leaders that thc peace In . America will not bo disturbed by Ute European war* " JEbey_jeititratr,rt. t liftlr loyalty, to the nation, and pledges of support to the president in any crisis. Frequent references to thn European war were made at the convention ot United Sons of Confederate Veterans, which pledged support to nresident in upholding the nation's honor. The widow or General U. S. Stuart, who attended, waa given an ovation. General George P. Harrison, of Ala bama. presided In the absence of Com mander-in-Chief Rennett H. Young, who is ill. It was reported to'iJght that (fen. Young will bo re-eioctei. Governor Stuart of Virginia and oth ers welcomed the veterans. There was heavy rain today, but promises of fair skies tomorrow. Richmond, June 1.-The United Confederate Veterana began their twenty-fifth annual, convention here this morning. They were welcomed by Governor Stuart and Mayor Gooree Ainslee. The ceremonies will robra a climax Thursday with the laying of tho cornerstone of teh monument to Gen. Stonewall Jackson. Gen. J. T. Brown, commanding the Virginia di vision, made- the opening address to day. Judge D. G. Tyler also spioke. The convention was then turned over to Cen. Geo. P. Harrison of Alabama, designated to preside tn the absence of Commander-in-Chief Bennet II. Young, who ls sick. Judge G. L. Christian of Richmond, read Gen. Young's annual address, which tho veterans cheered. LAKE IO GULF ROUTE PROPOSED 8Y SHELDON President University of Georgia Says Railroad? Have Ad vantage. Chlcsgo. June 1.-Walter I. Flsh-t er, former secretary of thc interior. Governor Dunne of Ulllnotn. and Wil liam A. Shelton of the University of Georgia, were speakers tonlgh. at a conference of the Western Economic Society regarding the proposed Lake to Gulf waterway for which tho Illi nois legislature appropriated five mil lie ft dollars for ari eight foot channel fro.,1 Lockport to Utica, Illinois. Shelton took the position that the proposed watorway would be nothing but a wasteful failure. He declared that river traffic cannot compete with rall traffic, which, he said, was de monstrated by tho way railroads have driven freight off tho Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Efforts have been made from time to time to revjve the sid water routes. Shelton aaid, but each attempt proved a financial failure, Austrian Lessee. j Genoa, June 1.-Austrian losses-In the first week of the war with Italy wore 5,800 In killed, wounded and cap tured, according to The Trlbusa. These are enumerated aa 1,8000 killed, 8,000 wounded and 1,000 captured. WP DEF TELL >F WAR ZSERVE ZEPPELINS MAKE RAID ON LONDON; LITILEJAHIAGE NINETY BOMBS DROPPED BY AIRMEN WHILE POPU LACE SLEPT ?* SEVERAL FIRES WERE REPORTED No Evidence to Show Fire? Were Caused by Bombs-People Were Warned. London.' June 1.-Ninety bomb9 were dropped in a raid on London last night by Zeppelins as a result or which - four persona were killed and a Tew injured: No public huild ings were daipaged. ? This- infornm tion xwas officially announced todny. : The .geppplin raid on..Ix?u^n..la?t night resulted in recrudesence on Rnti-Oerman demonstrations today. Crowds attacked German shops. Spc-' city constables were called out. London, June 1.-Zeppelin air ships, long expected, reached London last night, but thc city's several mil lion inhabitants slept peacefully through the raid and all they kuow today of thc visit are brief facts contained in the admiralty statement. Official announcement says the raid ers flew over certain outlying ?cc tlons of city, and makes mention also of numerous fires, which they say, may not have been connected with the raid. The Austrian city of Rovereto. whose elaborate defenses are relied on to check Italian troops tvom ad vancing up the Adige river valley, besieging Trent, are now threatened by invaders. Kovereto Hes thirteen miles south of Trent, tho .capture of which is one of Italy's great ob jectives. Officiais at Home's state mnnt says thc Italians have occupied the important height of Zugnj., wheih dominates Rovereto. Other import ant Italian moves across tho eastern border, which have the capture of Tries! as the apparent objective, havo been slowed up by swollen riv ers, but the official statement says progress is being made. Notwithstanding lack ot complete reports, it is apparent fighting he tween Rosiens and Austro-Gcrmans Is still proceeding along the San river In tho vicinity of Przomvsl. Austria. There has been neither confirmation, nor-danial of reported Russian successes there. Serbia apparently has begun a new campaign. Its army having been re organised during thc long lull since active hosUIitlcs have been under way. An Austrian battalion, dis persed by Serbian artillery, indicates P.at the (Serbians arc activo along the Albanian front. Calling I.nst Reserves. Amsterdam. Holland. June 1. The I-ilchsanzciger ot norlin has puhllnshed an order calling to the color? all flrRt clans members of the Landstrum, or the final reserve forces not previously summoned. This order does not applv to llagarla. Germans in Germany must report betwoen June 8 and June 10, and Germans outside of Germany as soon ar possible. Tennessee Clubs are Dry. Nashville. Tenn., June 1.-At mid night last night, Tennessee's new law which prohibits social or fraternal clubs from dispensing intoxicants br maintaining lockers for storing liq uors became effective. Local clubs generally are preparing tn submit to the new statute, though there has been indefinite rumors of a test of the law somewhere in the State. HTC. Law AncuUTd. Washington; June 1.-The supreme court' todav annulled so far as it ap plies tn into rattan commerc? tho South Carolina law penalising rail road companies $K0 for failure tn par within rorty days claims for loss of shipments. INITE Al I Italy's "Big Fh ^^^^^ GENERAL OANEV/V. RANKING SENEGAL o/" AJSM>f. The attention of the world ?a to- ' ?lay focussed on five dien, the "Big Five." of Italy-Premier Antonio Kal andra; General Conic Luigi Cadornu, ? eh lof of stuff ot the army; Prince! I^uis of Savoy, Puke or the Abruzzl admiral of thc battle fleet. Baron Kid ney Sonnino. minister of foreign af fairs. General ''aneva, commander of the army. It would be hard to find [ive more i interesting personalities than these in whom Italy bas placed her talc in the war against Austria. To the Duke ot thc Ahruz/.i, weil known to the American public because of his romance with Miss- Katherine Elkins, Italy look.s- to rctrievo thc naval disaster on the Adriatic coas; at Lissa in 1986. Then Austria, with . inferior numbera of an ill equipped squadron, struck Italy a crushing' blow which lias left Its mark upon Italian naval prestige up to the present day. General Luigi Cadorna, bead of thc Italian land forces, comes of a, family of soldiers. His father Gen eral Copts Haffaele Cadorna entered Rome with an army In 1S70 at thc confiscation of thc Papal state and the ove-throwal o? the temporal power of the church. The present chief of staff of thc Italian army waa then a lieutenant in it fa lathcr'p army. One brother, ('ario, was once minister of war and a great advocate of tho free church. Another brother is a division general in the army today. Conto Cadorna was born, Sept. 1, ' 1850, at Ballanda, Lake Magglore. tn northern Ital v. His motlier was the Countess Cit mont Ina Soppi, a noted ? beauty of her day. At eighteen tho young Cont? was a lieutenant and i later become colonel of tho famous' REPRISAL FOR BOMBARDMENT Raid Resulted in Renewal of At- I tacks on Germans in Eng land, _:_ ? i London. June 1.-Germana an nounce the Zeppelin r?id over London I last night was a reprisal for tho re cent bombardment by allied aviators 1 of LudwigRhnfen. Tho raid resulted I in a renewal of attacks by mobs on i German business houses in English . towns. ( -:- < Sieks Ie Trieste (?alf. London, Jun?- 1.- A Vienna dis patch received by wlreles strom Ber lin says: "A large foreign ? steamer t ?truck a mine during Hie night In tho t entra?e2 to tho Gulf of Trieste and -t sank." i ie" in the War R l?R* j \ \ DUKE |? ^ 1 //?rABRL'lZl S?L,, I RANKING i Bj / / ^^A* [ffltft^ y^tw vy BARON SONNING) tenth regiment of L'en-.agllorl infan try. Senora] Luigi Cadorna ls noted as a great disciplinarian, lie lias writ ten many books Russian.., dame thc Gorman and Austrian olliclnl .statcinentn tonight asserting Uiat Austro-Gorman troops had boen successful to tho north and, northeast of tho fortress. They idaitn the forts girdling it to thc north have fallen into their hands, while to tho southeast they have wrested Stry from the Russians. The Aust ro-Gormuns HBy campaigns aro running m their favor everywhere In tho eastern zone from I.ihau to tile Bouthornmost tip of the Galicien ^hattie, linea Tt fn n4>narfinft