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/ I The pageeand jiournal Vol. 5 NO. 35 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDA^ MORNING, MAY 12. 1915 $1.00 per year Hundreds DroWned When Giant 1 Steamer ift Torpedoed fby German Submarine London, May 8.?The Cunard ] liner Lusitunia, which sailed out of New York last Saturday with ( more than 2,000 souls aboard, , lies at the bottom of the ocean ( off the Irish coast. She was sunk by a German submarine, which sent two torpedoes crashing into her side while the passengers were having lunch- < eon. How many of the Lusitania's passengers and crew were rescued can not be told, but the official statements from the ? * . - - tfriusn admiralty up to midnight accounted for more than 650. < A ship's steward, who landed j With others at Queenstown, , gave it as his opinion that 900 persons were lost; There were dead and wounded among those brought ashore; tome since have died. But not a name of rescued or lost of dead or injured, has been listed. The Lusitania was steaming along about 10 miles off Old Head, Kinsale, on the.last leg of 1 her voyage to Liverpool when about 2 o'clock in the afternoon a Slthmarinp CIlHHotlUr nnnanrar) ww??aMa*uv WUUUVUIJ UJfFVUI VU and so far as.all reports go, fired two torpedoes without warning at the steamer. One struck her near the bows and the other in the engine room. The powerful agents of destruction tore through the vessel's causing terrific explosions. Almost immediately great volumes of water poured through the openings and the Lusitania listed. The boats, which were already less call for help was sent out, and immediately rescue boats of all kinds were sent out both from the neighboring points along the coast and Queenstown. But within 15 minutes, as one survivor estimated, and certainly within half an hour,' the Lusitania had disappeared. Old Head, Kinsale, where Great Britain's fastest merchant vessel went down, is a landmark that has brought joy to manv travelers, as it always has stood as the sign from shore that the perils of the voyage across the Atlantic were at an end. The Cunard line, whose boast is that it has never lost a passenger in the Atlantic service, has lost the ship that dodged the lurking enemy off Nan tucket light the day after wai was declared, and later startled the world bv flying the Stars and Stripes. The report that the Lusitania was torpedoed without warning created a profound sensation for it was the first case in whict this threatened procedure ha; been carried out with Ameri cans on board a belligeren vessel. Aside from the dipl< matic phases of the case, whicl were widely discussed in th< capital tonight, the sinking o repeated threats and warning i 1 i 1 u:~u - / -WHICH H'dVC IUUCUCU 111^11 Ul ficials for several days past of i plan by the German admiralp to sink the Lusitania for th< psychological effect it \voul< have on Great Britain and thi terror it might spread amocj ocean travelers generally. Information gathered amonj officials of the government an< in diplomatic qnarters confirm the belief that plans for th destruction of the Lusitani: were made several weeks age First, the German embassy wa instructed to advertise in tb leading; newspapers of the United States warning: passengers against traveling on belligerent ships. Anonymous warnings then were sent to in dividuals who proposed sailing on the Lusitania. Most significant of all were letters received here from officials in Germany by private persons stating that the Lusitania surely would be destroyed. From the day the ship sailed from New York, officials here have received inquires from many sources almost dnih as to fh d cafofv tlio iraccol Onn tuv V7U1VIJ VI HIV V VOOVIi V/ II official was told with much positiveness earl}' todpy that this was the day selected for the destruction of the vessel. The naval radio station at Arlington has been on the alert for news and from time to time has been reported as having picked up messages saying the vessel was sunk. Inquiries at the navy department each time failed to confirm the reports, and they were not circulated because it was feared they would spread unnecessary alarm. At the German embassy here, while no comment was made as to whether it was known there that the vessel was to be destroyed, it was said the embassy knew the Lusitania carried arms and ammunition and, being%advised of the resolution of the German admiralty to attack ships that carried such contraband, officials had believed she would be attacked. At the embassy and among diplomatists friendly to the Germatic allies thprp urac a aonornl cat?cfas>t?<~vn Nvhen the early incorrect reports came that no lives were lost. There was a disposition on the part of the Germans to inquire also whether the Lusitania carried any Runs or her decks which might place her in the class of a warship and make unnecessary, according to the rules of international law, the giving of warning. A Modern Inconvenience. The unfortunate French-Can adian who wrote the following amusing letter must have beer puzzled to know why a tele phone should be called a labor saving contrivance. The reade i cannot help wondering whethe i the "agint" was "able for tol< him" why it is generally so con . sidered. "Chicopee Fall, Mass. Aug. 1st, 191 1 "Mr. Agint Telefone Co. ? "Dear Mr. Agint. 1 spose yoi don't forget rnak som contrac i wid me for telefone on m; : houses residence. You tole m , if I get som of you telefone _* ? ? ? i sne s goin neip my bi/nesi 5 Dose telefone is de onlv one - aroun my houses and mos all d t nabor lak for use heem. S ) many peoples call up for ax m 1 for go tole someboddy he war e for spoke to it, I don't was hav f no times fordo sometin else. s have so many erran for do sine get dose telefone I dont lam f< a ten my own bi/.ness. De nodd< V nite de telefone was ring an e someboddies was say for go to d Mr. Brown for come spoke c e telefone. I start for hunt M 2 Brown an I fall downstair, broh my legs, an brake it out de froi K doors glass. My axident and i d front door damage is add n s $123 and 67 cent. If you can f< e tole me how much dose telefor a is help me I keep dose contrac >. If you dont be able to tole m s I goin broke de contract, e M ans, LaCroix Fecto." No Action by United States As Yet ' > Washington, May 9:^-Wliat action the United States Government will ta^JHfSa result of the sinking--^)f the British . liner Xusitania with a loss of more than a hundred American lives is tonight an undetermined question. President Wilson, during the last 24 hours, has been studying everv nhnsn of tln? mso from its legal and humanitarian aspects, j That he feels deeply distressed over the incident and realizes the people of the United States expect him to express in seme pronounced fashion their indina tion was indicated by the statement issued from the White House last night. Nothing more was added today to the few significant sentences of this utterance? that the President was "considered very earnestly, but very | calmly, the right course of action to pursue," and that "he knows the people of the country wish and expect him to act with deliberation as well as with firmness." Uutil all the official reports are received from Ambassadors Gerard and Page at Berlin and London respectively, it was not expected that any action be taken. Queenstown, Mav 9.?A smear ot flotsam on the face of caltii sea 23 miles from this port marks the grave of the Cunard er Lusitania, victim of a Ger man submarine. One hundred and forty nine* of the 1,200 persons who perished with the liner lie in impro vised morgues in old building? that line the Queenstown harlanding. The 645 survivors of [ disaster here are quartered in | hotels, residence and hospitals, some too badly hurt to be moved. Two groups left Sat urday afternoon and evening clad in misfit clothing for Dublin by rail and thence by boat to Holy Head. The injuries of some are so serious that additional deaths are expected and nearly all are too dated to " undestand fully what has hap? pened. 1 The survivors do not agree as 1s\ ltrlintViiir tlui ciilttnorino firnr^ ivy >v n^uiui iiiv auuuiaiiuv in vu ' one or two torpedoes. A few r say they saw the periscope and r many attest to tracing the wake L' of foam as a projectile raced " toward the vessel. The only points in which all concur is that the torpedo struck I the vessel a vital bloffi amid ships, causing her to list almost II immediately to the starboard 1 In this careening fashion slit y plowed some distance, smash e ing the life boats' davits as sin did so and making the launch s* ing the boats well nigh impos !S sible until headway had ceased e Mow far the Lusitania slrug ? gled forward after being slrucl e and how long it was before shi disappeared beneath the wave e are points on which few, pas ' sengers agree, estimates varyinj ' from eight to twenty minutes. )r New York, May 9.?Th -r Cunard Steamship Compan l(* tonight announced the receip 'e of the following cablegram fror 'n Liverpool: | r* "Up to midnight Queenstow Le advise total number of surv vors 761, including 462 patser e gers anil 302 crew. 'P "One hundred and forty-fou >r bodies recovered, of which 8 ie identified and 57 unidentifiet Identified bodies comprise 6 passengers, 22 crew. c? "Number of persons injures Thirty passengers and seventee crew." v ' Tflri?ado Kills and Injures Many in Pee Dee Section' Th?. Columbia Slate, Saturday. fceven persons were killed, at le^st 100 were injured and great property damage was inflicted by a tornado sweeping through a section of the Pee Dee yesterday afternoon. The town of Manning, parts of Marlboro cquntv, Elloree and the Pond Hpllow section of Darlington ctjunty suffered most from the ^ "* , , ftjree of the storm. jjti Manning Miss Clara Baggtjtlt was instantly killed by the idling roof of the store in whch she was employed as sjpeswoman. In the same fc^ock Beasley Davis and a nfero porter lost their lives in the collapse of a store. Miss Inez Tart, 15 years cf age, and her younger brother, Carl Tart, were killed on the; plantation of J. K. Matheson in Marlboro county* Here also an ijifant was killed. A negro initiate of the Marlboro county home was killed. | A part of the business section pf Manning was completely demolished. At least seven persons were injured. The list of injured mav be increased by investigation. i In Marlboro the county home was wrecked, including sections for both white people and peg roes. Eleven were injured. I Elloree suffered much property damage but no loss of life. Two churches and a large Warehouse were blown to the ground. 4 T? Ds-.~t.rl U?11n... i iu iuc l uuu iiuuuw auctiun ui Darlington county, near Harts Ptee fawpaoce Ganqy, when her Muse was bioWn down about ears. Woman and child ere blown 40 yards and both pfverely injured. , Light tenant houses were blown away in scores and many families find themselves without homes. 849 Raid Made By Charleston Poliee. Columbia Record. Governor Manning has re ceived a communication from John P. Grace, mayor oi Charleston, on the campaign being made against lawlessness | in the coast city. The chief o I police reports that 43 parties and places have discontinue* I selling liquor since the syslen . of radis was commenced. Chie Cantwell states that 849 raid j have beert made, and the fol lowing amounts ol intoxicatinj i liefuors have been confiscate* and delivered to the dispensar; j or destroyed: 5,6(>4 bottles o beer, 779 half pints of whiskej 310 quarts of whiskey, 5 quart [ * of wine, 6 gallons of whiskey one half barrel of wine cor c taming 27 gallorrs, ami- 66-keg a of beer, lie also claims that 6 s slot machines have- been'seize ( "all gambling has been supprei K ed*" In addition to the 43 placi discontinuing the sale Of intox v' eating beverage, the chief ( >t police says that all others hav n been "run to cover;" that ch '"hip pocket blind tigers" at n prevalent, and they keep only j. small quantity on hand, the nl/xrvlr 111 j, ucill^ icpiciuaiitu ??in needed from nearby residence r A continual system of raid 7 says Chief Cant well, will eve tually drive them out of bui ness. Because of the campaif j. against lawlessness, Chief Car q well asks for five addition men for the police tfepartmet h f 1 ' % . k Biggest Effort Ever Made By < An Army London, May 6.?The Austrians and Germans are putting ' forth an effort the extent of which never has been approached in the history of war. Throughout, virtually the entire length of the eastern front the Teutonic Allies are engaged with the Russians, while in the west, in addition to their attacks around Ypres the Germans are on the offensive at many, points. At other places they are being attacked by the French, British ana Belgians. Far up in the Russian Baltic provinces, heretofore untouched by the war, the Germans are attempting: to advance toward Libau and Riga; on the East Prussian frontier they are engaged in a series of battles and with a big gun are bombarding i at long range, as they did Dunkirk, the Russian fortress of Grodno; in Central Poland they have had to defend themselves against a Russian attack; in wes tern Galicia they are attempting with all their strength to smash the Russian flank and compel the Russians to abandon the Carpathian passes, which they gained at such cost during the Winter. In this western Galician battle the Germans claim to have made a still greater advance and to have crossed the Wisloka River, well to the east of the Dunajec River which, until a few days ago, formed pait of the Russian front, and to have put tneir nanas tirmiy on L>ukid Pass. In conjunction with this attack from the west the Austrians are ppmT'iTsfim east and with success according to the German accounts. In all the Germans claim, to have taken 40,000 Russian prisoners since the offensive was underi taken last Saturday night. The Austrians put the number at - more than 50,000 and express the belief that the whole Russian Third Army will be destroyed. i Woman Work# Novel Trick to Get Morphine Elizabeth Cf*y Independent i A fashionably gowned woman f walked into a drug stofe in a i nearby town the other day. She i appeared excited and embarrasf sed and was clutching her skirt s in a way that indicated that she 1 was about to lose some of her l clothing. She approached the f druggist apologetically and told s him she was about to lose one of - her undergarments and asked i him if she might go back of his ? - * . - * _ f! ? U A prescription counter to nx uei9 self up. The druggist politely i consented and then gallantly \ kept away from the vicinity s while the lady presumably put . her clothes in order. The wo t- man finished her toilet in reasons able time and hurriedly' left the 0 store. (i . About an hour later that drug s- gist had. occasion to look foi some drug in his prescriptior 5S- department and discovered tha i- a bottle containing 1,000 mor >f phine tablets had disappeared e And then he recalled that th< le woman he so graciously oblige* e is addicted to the morphine habi n nnrt hns bud difficulty in obtain ir ing her usual amount of "dope1 in under the new law. is. ' Is, : Mother?I hear that Ham n- Smith is the worst Soy in schoc ii- and 1 want you to keep as fa in from him as possible, it Tommy?I do, ma. *Heis a al ways at the head of pur class.it. Boston Transcript. Germans and Austrian* Crushing the Russians Vienna, May 6.?Via London. The strategic achievement of rolling up a hostile battle front by a flanking attack, of which ?? ?? - vmanceiiorsvuie is one ot tne few successful examples in modern history, is in full progress in West Galicia. Favored by continued good weather, mile after mile after the Russian Carpathian front has been rendered untenable by the steady, unchecked Austro-German advance. The Austrian cavalry and infantry followed the Gorhce turnpike and already have reached the Wisloka River. The supporting artillery dropped. shells on the road from Semigrod to Jaslo one of the principal lines of the retreat for the Russians in the Dukla region. The Russian forces have been in tull retreat since dawn of May 5 and are being closely followed by the Austrian Carpathian army according to official advices reaching here. More than 50,000 prisoners already have been captured by the Austrians in West Galicia. Field Marshal von Hoetxendorf's plan is working out with precise regularity with respect to this section of the front. Head quarters express confidence that the principal portion of the Russian army under General Radko Dimitrieff, which is attempting to defend positions west of Lupkow Pass, cannot make good its retreat. Detachments of this army may i work their way out, but it is de- A clared the hfrlk of the army, with scarcely can avoid capture, in view of Field Marshal Hoetzendorff's rapid advance through the Gorlice breach in the lines. Progress on the northern half of the front is slower. The Russians are holding desperately to Tarnow and Wal Mountain?a a fortified crest 1,500 to 6,000 feet high between the Biala and Dunajec Rivers?to enable them to get quantities of stores accumulated behind Tarnow away and cover the retirement of the armies to the southward. A Clear, Sensible Decision One of the clearest and most sensible decisions in regard to the payment of newspaper subscriptions was that handed down fecently by J udge George Thomas in Columbus. Neb. In this case the court followed the decision made in a similar case by the district court of appeals of Kansas City, Mo., which said; "The preparation and publica tion of a newspaper involves much mental and physical labor, as well as an outlay of money. The common law principle is that when a man receives and ! uses a paper he is bound to pay for it. He benefits and receives a pleasure from such labor and r expenditure of the publisher as i if he had appropriated any other ? i I t product ot another's iaoor, ami - by such act he is held liable for . the subscription price." a 1 Andrew Carnegie, the event ing he addressed the Rockefel ler Bible class at the Aldine " club in New York, had occasion to refer to a cynic. "Oh, he was a great cynic," i declared Mr. Carnegie. "Once, >1 advising me to take a mean ad r vantage of a rival, he said: "'We must profit by other I- people's mistakes?like the min isters do when they marry us you know.'