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m imn y -? --t. > ^ts - m-?? ???^_. I .^w^rmin? r - - - - g'~'?:r-? - "~T ' ?~ i?ii i-iasr rrm \ The Lancaster News VOI,. 12. NO. 84. SK.MI WKKKIA-. LANCASTKK. S. <).. KUIDAY. SKPT. 14. 1017. v FIGHT GOES AGAINST IREI THE GERMAN U-BOATS: CONVOYS TO MERCHANT- CO: MEN BEAT OFF ATTACK I Six Under-Sea Craft Attack Rej Fleet of Vessels Off Coast ' I of France. i Washington. Sept. 11.?A typo- j V graphical error in transscrihing a ing statement of the press today from posi an official report tfKthe navy depart- mitl ment made it aftpear that six Ger- j Seni nianman submarines probably had ; whi been sunk off the French coAst when sent they attacked a fleet of merchant- ! obtr men, including at least two Ameri- perl can vessels. The facts are, so far! mitt as known tonight, that one subma- j dral rine probably was destroyed, and two | evei of the steamers went down. A cor- 1 arm rected statement was Issued by Secletary Daniels as soon as the error " was discovered. spir The department has only a mea- Dra , gre account of the fight and addi- j port tional details have been asked for the by cable. The report came from the ulat American tanker Westwego, through and Paris. The names and nationality od of the two ships lost were not given. Ger t'nder Naval Convoy, |dist The West w ego was en route tojtion Europe, and from the fact that she all was erasing in company with other I cam merchant crafts, navy officers assumed that the fleet was under eon-j " voy of naval vessels, probably of thai American destroyers. er > The tanker's report is dated Sep. nor tember 8, the fight having occurred tain September 5. just V The Westwego is an armed ves- nec< sel. pro] In preparing for the press in th'1 expi bureau of operations of the navy de- " partment a statement of the con- ing tents of the dispatch it was written P'es that all of the six submarines proba- mitl bly had heen lost. Later, on check- cou! ing over the message and the state- teni ment issued to the press, it was mill found that the word was "one" in are the dispatch. thoj Of Special Interest. "lis Officials were interested in particulars of the fight, since the vessel T were under convoy, and if either of the two steamers "lost were Anieri- **"? can, the first convoyed American merchant craft has fallen victim to ' the submarines. _ the The fact that the submarines at- !)<>n tacked the merchant fleet In such ^to< force led to the conclusion that the has German commander erroneously a''T thought he had to deal with troops. Sou transports or with army supply nar ships. han Daniels* Statement. ('ro1 Secretary Daniels issued the fol- ,*ie lowing statement: "My attention has just been called to a serious error made in. transcribing the report of the attack made on the Westwego and other vessels. I gave the report to the p press this morning exactly as it was ntta presented to me, stating that 'two Oeri of the steamers attacked were sunk yest and probably all of the submarines \'er< were lost." The cablegram, I now Kje find, stated that 'one' of the subma- war rines was probably lost." driv Karller Statement. wen The earlier statement by the navy department read as follows: lean "The navy department has re. very celved a report from Paris which states that the steamer Westween T reports on September 8 that while with cruising with several other ships | Unit they were attacked by a massed! ing force of six submarines off the coast 31 1 of France on September 5. the re- land suit ef this attack being that two Arm of the steamers attacked were sunk for and probably ail of the submarines Ave were lost." Wen It was announced recently that a brou policy of convoying fleets of mer- a b< chant ships across the Atlantic had the been adopted and since the Westwe-,dem go and the other merchant craft |ing which were the objects of the sub- weri marines' attack were bound for Bu-,marl A* rope, it is regarded more than prob-jthat able that American warships guard- of g ed the merchant ships on the way sayii across. ; unti American warships have all been Foui equipped with depth bombs for sent fighting submarines. This weapon weg< has been highly perfected by Amer- of t I PORT DENOUNCES ~ ALLEGES LI HAMCK'S BILL IDE MMITTEE SAYS DRAFT SUFFICIENT iAW CONSTITUTIONAL. WARRANT >ort Says Such Opposition Alleged Evide mpairs Military Efficiency Papers of of Men in Service. Mrs. Kin Washington., Sept. 12.?Denounc- New York, the introduction of such a pro. District Attorne tion the senate military com- charge of the ii Lee today reported adversely to the death of ator Hard wick's resolution at Concord, N. eh would provide that the con- that after an a I of every drafted man must be of papers and lined before he is required to longing to Gast< 'orni foreign service. The com- found suflleient lee, the report says, believes the indictments fo ft law is constitutional and that against one or y man drafted into the national leged lotting of y can be used abroad. . The assistant Serious Situation. had found in M The situation arising out of this upon which ' it of opposition to the selective whereby Means ft Act is serious." says the re- 000 in cash if I t. "and taken in connection with King's husband, unrest amongst the civilian pop- probate, got tli ion growing out of commercial Her llusi industrial conditions, stimulat- Means was b in some cases doubtless by. pro- Mrs. King and man sympathizers and propagan- death on Angus s, places our country in a situa- Mr. Dooling was of extreme peril at a time when criminal court I should he united in a common apartment here se. brother of da? Daw Constitutional. Doitsch. Afton It is the view of the committee der subpoena, ai the Selective Draft Act is neith- fore the grand violative of American tradition Mr. Dooling I of the constitution, and enter- ton Means had ing this view the committee feels come to New ifled in saying that there is no filled with con ssity for such legislation as that pers which was posed, either on the ground of apartment, ediency or necessity. The trunk c< The psychological effect of call- documents, he i in question an act. the princl- showed a great i of which, it seems to the com. had been done 1 tee, have been sustained by the in preparing fo its of the country, is bad. and the the new will, lency of it all is to impair the between lawye Itary efficiency of the men who perts and typew already In the service and of Mr. Doollng sai ic who may be called to serve in to assist In ca time of need." probate of the \i ^ Million 1 '<) MAKE AIRPLANE ROUTE Tho assistar further stated ivcen Points in .HwruCn an:! considerable ev Germany. $1,000,000 of i .ondon, Sept. 9.?A dispatch to been spent. T Exchange Telegraph from Co- of checks drawl hagcn says that reports front name he withh< *kholm state that a committee letters from hr been formed to arrange for an tlonal margin, ilane route front Trelleborg, There was a thern Sweden, to Sassnitz, Ger- lain national b ty. It is added than a Stockholm said, which shn kcr has ordered four million year of $190,0( iter toward the carrying out of ''<***" checked ot project. One of the fir sistant district bringing he pap ('(>UXTK 1UATT.VCTH FAIL , , to telephone tc ."7 I ? . > i panv to have on mans I liable to ItctnUc Posi. , . ,. , . . to examine a p turns uist Saturday. th enew will, oris, Sept. 9.?Violent counter ha? aske(l the r cks were made last night by the' forward to him. mans on the positions taken wa3 a typewrit erday by French troops In the' npartment. dun region. After a hard strug- >tent in which the infantry surged for- Afton Means. (1 again wherever temporarily orimlnal court en back, the French positions mme(j (0 8end 8 left intact. brother at Con * the seizure of t ordnance experts and proves Documents w ' deadly. Means' trunk, Not the First Time. Doolin announci he Westwego had an experience that Mrs. Josei i a German submarine before the widow of the so :ed States entered the war, hav- Senator Forakei been attacked by one January rowed large sun last while off the coast of Kng- Gaston Means a She was proceeding from an "We found In iriean port with a cargo of oil Hooting, "doom Europe when a submarine fired Mrs. Foraker 1 shots at her from astern. The sums of money twego's captain, J. S. Mulcoy, thousands?fro*r ight his vessel to a stop and sent from Mra. King. tat with his papers, whereupon German submarine commander ANOTHER TJ anded a sunnlv nt nil I to sink the ship If his demands Washington. > not complied with. The sub- tropical disturbs Ine commander also demanded appearance over the vessel's $1,000,000 cargo sea in the vlcinit ;asol!ne he thrown overboard, gross north, the ng he would give ('apt, Mulcoy announced toni I the next morning to comply, those waters s r barrels of , cylinder oil were caution. The to the submarine and the West- further advices > proceeded. She saw no more turbance would he submarine. row. pmwCTwmawwswMMsmwwaew1'1?u-ui'iawwwimM'uii.u' MING OF jN! JONG ESTAIE EVIDENCE TO TI INDICTMENTS nee Found Among rc Gaston Means, g's Manager. Sept. 12.?Assistant y Dooling, who is in avestigatlon here in- jn Mrs. Maude A. King, j,j( C., announced today |1( Ill-night examination j bri correspondence be- j pt, an B. Means, he had ^ evidence to warrant to r grand larceny more persons for al- ^e) the King estate I ?.si I Ull prosecutor said he leans effects a paper J t.]e was an agreement was to receive $050.- ^ the new will of Mrs. which is now up for trough successfully, ness Manager, usiness manager for j was witness of her 1 ne t 2!? by a pistol shot. . * accompanied to the j t milding from Means' j by Afton Means. , ' fol tton, and by Henry 's father-in-law. tin- | nd expected to go bejury today. np further said that Af- ^ told him he had . im York for the trunk , i n u respondence and pa-jr(1 in Gaston Means' .. i,h dit intains among other said, papers which amount of work . by experienced hands j ( r possible contest of being correspondence np is. handwriting ex- . riting experts, whom d had been engaged st) irrying through the j vill. Tl Dollars Spent. f)ll it district attorney that there was also idence showing how ?0 [no i\ing e.siaie nan sh here were packages la] n to a person whose so ?ld anil a nuinbor of pr okers asking addl- m, hank book of a cerank in this city, he nf iwed deposits In one jn 10. all of which had py of st things that the as- an attorney did after ?ers to his office was ca > a typewriter com- su h of its experts readv jn ihotographic copy of as which Mr. Dooling th hlcago authorities to aj He said that there ^o er in the Means' of ag Telegram. th< on arrival at the nii building was per- pe a telegram to his wi cord telling him of inj he papers."" wi ere also found in Assistant Attorney re] ed, which showed t>h R. Foraker, Jr., ha n of the late former ref , of Ohio, had bor- to as of money from, qui nd from Mrs. King, the trunk" said Mr. tents showing thati tad borrowed large tor ?away up In the ha' i Means and also "P " . wo ? doi ROPICAL STORM fje I Sept. 9.?Another uoi mce has made Its Oe the Kast Caribbean unl ly of latitude 15 de- Ppr Weather Bureau ed Ight. Shipping In ma idviaed to exercla'* bureau added that ate regarding the dla-lacl be Issued tomor- *hr fee EGROES PLANNED RIOT OF BLOOD IE TROOPS PLOTTED BREAK FOR DAYS >ard Says Soldiers Went to Slay White People A1 Warning Other Black Houston, Tex., Sept. 11.?5 the Twenty-fourth United fantry had planned a jodshed among the citi >uston two days before t oke out which cost the live ople, according to the re e board of inquiry which r the Houston city council I te report also criticized ? ident of Police Brock for ity to force discipline ami lice and declares "he is no d for the position he hold The committee is of the e riot was precipitated by st of two negro soldiers by e "although sufficient e |iic?t-iiicu ill lilt- ii"1.(I ill}. ill the fact that a serious i ce was intended by some groes before leaving llousl e arrest referred to ought it to a head sooner a ps intensified the crimes llowed." No Negroes Molested. Continuing the committee "The undisputed testimony sses proves that the negroi rth to slay the white poj discriminately, that no nej irt or molested by them, gro home was fired into a e negroes were warned hef iring the riot to stay reels. "The testimony of the eai arge of the fire station a >gan and one of his assis at when the shooting begat gro ramp one of the negro itioned at the fire station i that the troops were p oot up Houston, that tl anned to do so on the pi tesday night but could lite ready. "This testimony and th rtny of numerous other w nvinee us (and our nn a red by ("apt. John L. CI in of the United States an expressed himself to us! I ior conflict with the polii ere incidents of the riot." Defied State I<aw. The report declares that ter the arrival of the negrt Houston there was ma at least some of them a hostility the separation of d negroes in the street cai e negroes while on guard nip Logan were arrogant lting towards white labore g the most trivial circun an excuse to curse am em: that the discipline the camp was grossly lax ii nditions; lewd negro wome them mere children of 12 ? e, being permitted to free p eamp and remain ther iht and that such womt rmitted to bring parrels int thout inspection by sentrlei ? the soldiers liberally s th liquor and other Intox Concerning the chief of po ?ort said: "For Mr. Hrork personj ve the highest regard and lection on his personal oh say that In ouv opinion he alifled for the position he vox h.ixoKNnnurs kk Amsterdam, Sept. 11.?Th< nhurg Chamber of Con ying recorded their rejectl resident "Wilson's presun rds to interfere with Oer nestle affairs," according; rman newspapers, replied: 'As an answer to the pre as words of President Will rman nation has placed Itedly and firmly behind i or and his words and has all foreign Interference i n affairs. 'We must now remain el-hard and determine ileve victory. Thereby w< >rten the war. Let this ling of every German." !T0 CONTROL MEAT H SHED PACKING INDUSTRY OUT- HOOVER ACCEPTS OFFER D 1. OF PACKERS. Forth Production to More Live Stock V 'ter Absolutely Necessary to is. Remedy the Situation. soldiers Washington, Sept. 12.?Govern-! States ment regulation of the meat pack- fc nui ui | ing inuusiry win be be the next] fr zens of move of the food administration, fc he riot1 A voluntary offer of representatives I r> s of I?! of the packers to put their plants, tc port of under a licensing system made to ei eported Herbert Hoover, the food adminis-1 pi Lonight. trator, at a conference here today < Si iuperin- was accepted and a plan of control ei his ina- will be drawn up shortly. hi >ng the The packers numbering about a j ci t quali- score, came to Washington to take'tc s." up with Mr. Hoover tlie threatened ol opinion meat shortage and the subject of tr the ur- rising prices. They are of one tl the po-1 opinion that prices can be broughtlet vidence down little unless a determined ef-,t\ : to re- fort is made to increase the produc-' a disturb- tion of live stock. is of the Incensing System. ni ton and A licensing system for packing s) simply houses was provided in the food find per- control bill. Putting it into ope- 0( > which ration, food administration offic- w ials believe, will go far toward-? elimination of hoarding and specu- ni says: lation and will aid in stabilizing j| of wit- prices. The packers will confer p| es went soon with cattle growers to discuss jj filiation the food administration's plan for jy fro was! removing herds from the West to tt that no better districts in the East and nd that1 South. ti ore and1 Increased production of live stock to! off the is a military necessity. Cqrl Yroo- n | man. assistant Secretary of Agrlcul- tv itain in tare declared in a statement to- p t Camp | nigth, after the packing meeting tants is f nded. j | i ?n the More liive Stock. tl guards! The production of more live stock remark-1 was highly desirable before the y :oinp to war, said Mr. Yrooman, "now it is ley had a national necessity, first because eroding of the terrible dearth of meat ani- \ not set nials not only in this country, but i throughout the world; second, bele testi-1 cause no further waste of feeds itnesses must be permitted, and the only o inion is i thing that can prevent waste on the * hamber- farm is the production of more live n my who ! stock. that the "The fact that keeping of more it ?e were, live stock is a ntilitary necessity t; does not mean that it is any the less w a pood business. The farmer should p shortly not lose this polden opportunity to n "> troops cash in his waste foraee at war n uifested prices. fi feeling! Y ' whites < OXtiRKSS LOOKS b rs; that TO ADJOt'HNMFA'T duty at I) and in- Washington. Sept. 9. Passage of ci rs. seiz- the $2,500,000,000 war tax bill late g tstances tomorrow by the Senate, after a p 1 abuse' month's contention, is the first ma- n existing jor item of an adjournment pro- tl n moral grant being framed by congressional b n. some leaders. a ^ears of The adjournment fever is in the ly visit Jiir. with general acquiescence in a r< e over- speeding up process. Leaders are S m were endeavoring to reconcile the wide- p 0 camp spread desire at the Capitol and the ol i, keep-i White House to close the session d applied tiext Monday with the President's st lcants. legislative program, with the sol- a lice the diers and sailors insurance bill as tl the principal stumbling block. ta illy we Chief features of the program be- tilt is no 'ore congress are: to aracter1 The war bill tax. which will go to 1 is not conference this week and probably w holds." to the President within a fortnight, in The $11,.>00.000,000 war credits hj PLY bill, which will he taken up Tuns- wi ? Wur. by the senate finance committee. wt imerce, The $4.800.000.000 deficiency ap- or Ions of propriatlon bill before the house. h? iptuous The Insurance measure, due to1 tie many's the house this week. da to thei The adhiinistration's trading with be the enemy bill, which has passed the en (sumpt-\ house and is awaiting senate debate w< ion the Tuesday. Itself As usual. the pre-adJournment \: ts em- congestion Is on the senate side. The reject- war tax bill is definitely set for pasn Ger- aage there tomorrow. While it is co in conference. the senate hopes to fln united, | pass the trading with the enemy and nt d to f 11,000.000,000 war credits hills, th e shall leaving the insurance measure and of be the the mammoth appropriation bill as te | the final features. ^ Gi *?* 1 ' T-*v v A Jillll IOOF SHAVINGS A PARTOF HIS DIET >R. BRISTOL LECTURES IN CHERAW. etrinary Surgeon Tells of His Experience in (ierman Prison Camp. Cheraw, Sept. 12.?Dr. Bristol, irmorlv fr^ni Micu/oiri !*?* oni Society Hill this State. and illowing the profession of veteriua_ ' surgeon. spoke last night in the ?wn hall here, giving his experilre as a prisoner in a German rison camp on one of the South ia Islands. He had been in the nploy of a British firm as buyer of orses and mules out West for use a the front, and had made four en successful trips with ship loads f animals, but on bis fifteenth ip his vessel was submarined by le Germans, and he with 1:5'"* etlira, after floating on wreckage for venty-four hours, was picked up by German raider and carried to the land. Here be was kept for seven onths at hard work in the fields, lbsisted partly on hoof shavings ont a blacksmith shop, which tast1 better than the black broth that as given him. Kvery complaint or request was et with punishment of some kind, i chapel he was told to say "God less the Kaiser," but not endorsing ie sentiment, he varied it by sayig. "To hell with the Kaiser." For lis he was hung up by his thumbs sveral days. After suffering torires and experiencing the horrors f f 1 ortnoti i'riohi fnlnnoa on\rnn lonths. he was exchanged and relmed to this country, well-nigh a hysical wreck. An admission was charged, the roreels golrg to the lt<*d Cross for lieir war work. + iann ?n i n Kits aki-: ON ANXIOUS HKNCH timorous Shifts Kxpeclcil in Ileorgnni/ution of the Twentys?'??'nt!> Division. Spartanburg, Sept. 11.?All the ffieers at Camp Wadsworth are nxiously awaiting the announcelent ol the details of the reorganiation of the Twenty-seventh divisjn. It is understood that the deals have been worked out by the 'ar department and may be made ublic at any time. It is feared that any changes and shifts in assignlents will follow and that some offers who have been with the New ork National Guard for years will e sent to other divisions. The Twenty-seventh division now as nine regiments of infantry, but an have only four under the reoranix.ation. This will reave a surlus of regimental officers which lust be taken care of somehow, and ie details of the reorganization are eing awaited with a great deal of nxiety. It is understood that the Seventh ginient started from New York for partanhurg this afternoon and will robably reach here Thursday. The Iher infantry regiments will follow Oselv behind and the main ren^fth of the division will be in imp within a week. It has been ie experience heretofore that it kes about forty-eight hours for a oop train to come from New York, i Spartanburg. Coming with the first contingent 111 he the signal battalion, consistg of a wire compauy. which will indie telegraph and telephones; a Ireless company, which handles the ork that its name implies, and an itpost company, which works with diographs and night signals. The dd bakery, trhich arrived several iys ago. is being set up and will ! ready to turn out bread for the itire division by the end of the sek. ^ tfKRICAN OOIX>R? FIjYINO OVER VERDUN Paris. Sept. 11.?The American dors now fly over Verdun. The ig, which was the gift of a promimt American Ued Cross worker to e city, was hoisted over the rutn the city hall after a ceremony atnded by the sub-perfect. Jean rillon. ?