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VOL.XXVII- MANNING, S, C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1914 CLAM A VICTORY laws SAT lUSoiAn's RE TIENNT IS CIU1ETE ERIN IS EJOILING GWrmans Seem to Place Credence 1 Reported Victory Which is Herald ed as the Greatest of the War Bih Fleet Bombards Gernm Toops Along Coast of Flanders Visena. reports ofcially: "Th4 atest news permits of no furthe doubt that the resistance of the Rue sian main force has been shattered After the defeat of the souther wing In the battle of Limanovo which lasted several days, our :ullie also gained a victory near Lodz. "The Russians now are comploteb I routed on. the River BEura. "Tbreatened by our advance across the Cvreiothans from the south, the enemy bpgan a general retreat, which the are.trying to cover by stubbori fghting in the regions before the Car "Our troops are attacking on the line of Grodno Zakliczyu. ."Along the other parts of the front tBe pursuit has begun." 'Londom ieports no confirmation of a,. statement from Vienna that "the Russiana are retiring along the entire front in Galicia and Poland," but -an such a move on the part of the Russians would be in line with the announcements in Petrograd .ds *atches that the Russians, threeten ed on both' fnks, had decided to take up new positions where they could better meet the Austro-German onslaughts from the Carpathians to the East Prussian frontier. . The Russian delay in fulfilling ex piectations that they would prove a setious menace to Germcn. territory As disappbiting the peoples of the aled countries,'but military men ex precs the view that it is better for Russia to fght in her own territory, where means of communication would 1 more on an equality. Beinu,,.according to its dispatch, wa aroused with enthusiasm Thurs day with the announcement of a egrst German-Austrian victory :over the Russians in Poland. An oicial buletin announcing this was issued -abortlr after noon. Within half an dUer etia editions of the papers. ap peared and the whole city literay Sashed Into bunting. American visitors, who a few.days ago commented on the non-display of -Sags, scarcely recognized the streets, which everywhere were ga with Qenan.and Austrian colors, at many 2AheRichstag where a Red -- - smeeting was in session, -word as received from the palace that the - greatest victory of the war hadbeen won. The schtols closed Friday that the children may assemble to cele brat. the event. The -first Intimation of the nature and extent of the Russian defeat was received Thursday. night and circu - sted in official quarters, but nothing as known of it generally until the omelel :bulletin swes publshed. It hadt beeui understood that the Rus sians were in a precarious position, but It was not hinted that a decisive reault was at hand. The official bul I. etfli Issued Thursday reported that operetlons were "proceeding normal )y,'* wich phrase- is the usual ter mdnation of' official reports. It Is - niown now that thousands of Rus sians have been taken prisoners. Petrograd reports Thursday night: Sa the direction of'Miawa our van guard and caualry troops are chasing -energetically the beaten Germans. "Several of their corps already have crossed the frontier. "During the chase we have cap tured prisoners, guns and war mate "On the left bank of the Visitula end in Eastern Galicla on December 16 no important fighting took place. "During the past week the garri son at Praemysi has attempted sov eral sorties, all of which were repuls ed, Inflecting heavy losses on the ene "During one of these sorties we captured several. hundred prisoners and some machine guns." fondon reports: In Poland pre parations are being made for a new -batte or series of battles. The Ru ulans, according to a former member of the cabinet at Petrograd, have de cided, despite the disappointment it must cause, to withdraw the left -wing at least and -form a new li1e back in their own territory. This will relieve Cracow, but will compel the Austro-German forces to fight farther away from the strategic rail ways from which they have moved troops quickly to desired points. This plan doubtless will affect the rest of the battle front ,ezcept in North Poland, where the German col umn have been driven back by a superior usslan force. Along the coast of Flander s, where the Allies are trying to push theor lines forward from Nieuport, they have the assistance of the .British fleet, which has violently bombard - ed West End, one of the many little greatly since the commercement of the war. This attack. Berlin says, was without effect and the Ales were repulsed. Further inland the French alsc claim to have gained ground although in a less marked degree than an pre vlous days. In the Argonne there ap parently has been a lull, but both it the Woevre and in Alsace, the twc other regions whore severe fighting has been inprogress for rome time, the Germans appear to have deliver ed counter-attacks. .The long-expected proclamatlor bringing an end to Turkish suverain ty over Egypt and the establishmeni of a British protectorate was official. ly issued Thursday night. The lasi straw doubtless was the action of the Khedive, who was the Sultan's rep. resentative in Egypt, but with little or no power, In taking sides witi Turkey against Great Britain. Chaing the Dresden. News disnatches from Punta Are nas state that the German cruise1 Dresden left that port Sunday and that British cruisers pasred Monday Yeggmen Make Haul. Five men blew open the safe of thi Bank of Morton, at Morton, Miss. early Thursday. obtained about $8, ea en eue ENGLAND IS ASTIR BOMBA RDMENT OF COAST ROUSE LION TO ACTION. ts Being Made to Guard Against Another Attack-List of Dead Not Yet Complete. Crippling of telephone and tele graph wires by the bombarded Mon day of Scarborough, the Hartlepools and Whitby, on the east coast of England, by German cruisers, togeth er with military precautions thrown about those towns, made it Impos sible even Tuesday to obtain more than an approximate estimate of the civilian dead and wounded. Bristling with wrath and resent ment at the attack on unfortified towns, E gland was astir as never before since war was declared. An other raid Is confidently expected and theentire machinery of home defense 'has been put into motion. On the east and the southeast coast emer gency committees are at work, while In London plans to organize a na tional guard of men too old for mili tary service are under way. Although to the British mind a raid on London seer. remote, Mon day's episode drove home the reali ties of war as nothing else could. Arrangements have been made at Deal and Dover to expedite the re moval of the civilian population in case of an attack. Those measures are primarily to forestall any panic or traffc congestion which might im pede military mov.ments. Berlin promptly heard of the out come of the raiu through wireless and Tuesday morning a wireless mes sage from the German capital repeat ed details of the attack as printed by British newspapers Monday. Noth Ing has been added from German offi cial sources. Steaming at high speed, the Ger man raiders, barring mishap, should have reached their advance naval base off Helgoland some time after midnight, their trip requiring about 1-5 hours. Thirty hours out of port on such a venture in mine-laden waters is a feat English papers do not belittle, and In his heart every EUlishnan hopes that it will be- es sayed again andf necessary again until the call is paid once too often. It is presumed that behind them the German cruiser strewed mines, so a fleet of trawlers is now out en gaged in the precarious task of sweeping. The towns attacked had resumed much of their normal ap pearance except in the bereaved homnes and in the hospitals. Belief is general that the Germans had the able .adistance of spies. The remarkable secrecy with which the raid was executed is shown by the fact that not a single incoming ves sel at any coast port saw the Ger man ships prior to -their sudded a0 pearance. The nearest parallel to Monday's vis* Is found in the activities of John Paul Jones, terror of English ship ping, who menaced English coast towns in 1779. DIVED UNDER MINES. British Submarines Sink Turkish Bat tieships in Mesaudch. The first serious blow inflicted on the Turkish nravy in the European war-the torpedoing of the battle ship Messudch by a British subma rinle in the Dardanelles-was the only striking occurrence reported Tuesday' on land or sea. -The official bureau's statement is as follows: "Yestegday submarine B-11, In charge of Lieut. Corn. Nor man B. Helbrook, of the royal navy, entered the Dardanelles in spito of the difficult current, dived under five rows of mines and torpedoed the Turkish Messudch, which was guard ing the mine fields. Although pur sued by gunfire and torpedo boats theB-11 returned safely after being submerged, on one occasion, for nine hours. "When last seen the Messudch was sinking by the stern." TI.e Messudch was a very old boat, having been built at Blackwell, Eng land, in 1574, and reconctructfd at Genoa In 1903. She was 332 feet long, 59 feet beam and of about ten thousand tons burden. She had a speed- of 17 1-2 knots and her main battery consiste'd of two 9.2-inch guns in turrets and twelve 6-Inch guns In battery. In the war with Greece In 1912 the Mossudch was reported bad ly damaged in a naval battle In the Dardanelles. She carried a crew of 600 men. MEXICANS EXECU'TED. Daily Executions Seem to be all the Rage in Mexico City. Between 100 and 150 Mexicans, many of them once prominent offi cially, have been secre-ly executed in 'he City of Mexico within the last few days, according to an official report which reached the United States gov ernment Tuesday from ode of its agents there. Just who ords'ed the executions, has not been disclosed, nor are the names of any of those put to death known. Except for these executions, which are understood, accor-ting to the re nort. to be occurring dily, conditions in the city aro Quiet and President Gulterrez, with the allied Villa and Zapata forces is maintaining order. No foreigners have been iniured or intimater and business conditions are described as improving Indicted for "Stealing News." Three men yere indicted in New York Friday for stealing news from the Associated Press and serving It -out to their patrons. Car Crashes Through Railing. Walter Lamar and his negro chauf feur of Macon. Ga., were killed Tues day night when their car crashed through a bridge and somersaulted below. Cotton Steamer Wrecked. The Norwegian steamer Nygard. loaded with cottor, and bound for Denmark from Pensacola. broke in half off Esblberg. Denmark, and the cotton was washed ashore. Mine Sinks Turkish Gunboat. ,A Turkish gunboat was sunk by a .mine near the entranoe to the Dar dannae 5aueurwa WARSHIP ESCAPE BRITISH ADMIT RAIDING BIT TLESHIPS GOT AWAY FAST CRUISERS ARE USEI German Attack on Northeast Coas . of England Gives People Great Sur prse-Over 100 People Killed Scarborough, Whitby and Hartle pool Buildings Seriously Damaged The Germ;Ln attack upon the coas of Northern England is the boldes yet attempted by the Germans. Thi German naval men showed exception al seamanship in getting by the guar dian. British fleet, a feat which tho fleets of Napoleon were unable to ac complish. It w'as surmised that the Germani had felt their way across the Norti Sea during the darkness, with all th< lights in their. ships extinguished The route giving them the most safe ty under the circumstances would b one due north from the western en trance of the Kiel Canal, past Den. mark to a point off the southert coast of Norway, thence a straight away dash westward to the Englisl coast The carrying out of the long ex pected German attack was the firsi time that the British coast had beeu attacked since the American Revo ution, when John 'Paul Jones con ducted successful forays into Eng ish waters. Hartlepool lies in Durham, be tween 220 and 225 miles -north of London, just north of the mouth of the River Tess. Scarborough lies in Yorkshire, about 45 miles down the coast in a southeasterly direction from Hartlepool. The point of attack lies approxi mately 400 miles from the Kiel Canal, where the German fleet was oncentrated at the outbreak of the war. It was necessary for the Ger man ships to steam clear across the Korth Sea, passing through mine Melds and evading the powerful Brit Ish patrol fleets all the way down the east coast of England. A dispatch. from York says that the residents of Scarborough were thrown into panic by the bombard ment, hundreds of them rushing to the railway station, where they rowded aboard trains just leaving or Hull and other cities. This tele ;ram said that the cannonade begal t 7:56 o'clock. The morning-was hazy, but despite the fdg, the. Ger man gunners had no difficulty in lo. ating thii 'anges. itndon reports: . Hartlepool suf rered most. There two battle cruis wrs and an armored cruiser were en ;aged. The British war office fixes the number of dead at Hartlepool as seven soldiers and twenty-two civil ans and the wounded at fourteen soldiers and fifty civilians. At Scarborough, shelled by a bat tle cruiser and an armored cruiser, thirteen casualties are reported, while at Whitby two were killed and two wounded. The following is the official press bureau's statement on the Germans attack on the English coast: "This morning a Germani cruisei force made a deionstrtioki upon the Yorkshire coast, in. the ndtiiss of which the-y shelled Hartlepool, Whit by aha Scarborough. "A number of their fastest ship. were employed for this purpose and they remained about an hour on the coast. "They were engaged by patrol yes els on the spot. As soon as the presence of the enemy was reported a British patrolling squadron en deavored to cut them off. On being sighted by the British vessels, the Germans retired at full speed, and favored by the mist, made their es cape. A wave of Intense ancor has spread over England because of the attack Bitter denunciation is heard 'every where of a policy which permiti shelling of undefended towns. The Germans choose a night w;her a thick mist prevailed and must havi left their base at least two hottrs be fore dark. As they started to returr about 9 o'clock there remained abou seven hours of daylight for the pur suit, which, however, was - rendere4 almost Impossible by the fog. How the Germans evaded all the minel and patrols remains a mystery. The booming of heavy guns off th< three towns drew hundreds to thi beaches. They had no thought of German raid, but when shells cami crashing over their heads and int< the quiet streets, they dashed fo: shelter. Off shore the German gun: did rapid work, the flashes comini incessantly and the shells finding mark among the buildings. Man: residents took refuge in cellars; oth era rushed from their houses, amoni them women end children In thei: night clothes, and not a few sough the railway stations, leaving on thi first trains. Various rumors were heard. On was that two German cruisers ha' been sunk. Many thought the lon, expected general naval engagemen between the British and Germal fleets was progressing and that th shelling of the coast towns was mere ly incidental. The admiralty's report issued a 9:30, giving the news that the Ger man ships had eluded pursuit an< were returning safely to their hom waters, caused keen disappointmenl Naval writers express the opinio1 that six or eight ships were engaged The Germans have available for suc1 an attack the armored cruiser Blucher, Room, Prinz Adalbert, Prin Heinrich and Primz Frederich Kar and more than twenty cruisers of smaller class. To Join Belgian Felief. South and North Carolina an Georgia will join in sending a carg of foodstuffs to the .Belgians. Tb ship will sail from Charleston. Negro is Killed. Officers of Fort Gaines, Georgia shot and killed a negro, Jim Pink, negro, wanted for the murder of white planter. Killed by Burglar. C. Bs Reynolds, one of Atlanta' leading lawyers, was shot and kille earl Tuesday morning By a burelai NEWS FROM MEXICO DANIELS SENDS CRUISER TO EN FORCE NEUTRALITY LEWS. General Bliss Sends His Report of Diplomatic Relations Concerning Firing at Naco. Secretary Daniels Wedensday night ordered the cruiser Tacoma to pro t ceed from San Domingo to Colon to guard against violation of the neu trality of the Panama canal. . A destroyer or gunboat may be sent from the west coast of Mexico to the Paciflc entrance of the canal when more information as to condi tions at the waterway is received. A statement issued at the navy de partrjant said: "Secretary Daniels stated that the last news from Colon was that no other violations of neu trality have been committed except that by a British collier whose radio apparatus had been dismantled. The executive order as to the unneutral use of the radio will be primptly and efficiently enforced. Though no oth er violations have been reported, See retary Daniels, acting upon the sug gestion of Col. Goethals, will send a ship to Panama so as to be In a piosi tion to make impossible any violation of the executive order. He has or dered the Tacoma, which is now in San Domingo, to this duty." British Ambassador Spring-Rice called at the state department and stated that some English ships had sailed from their home ports before they were familiar with the presi dent's proclamatio,. He requested that they be given full information. Secretar Daniels then sent the fol lowing telegram to the government radio station at Colon: "So far as practicable- inform.all vessels approaching canal zone of limitations under which they must use their radio while in territorial waters of the zone.'" The ambassador pointed out that the British government not only has no intention of violating rules as to wireless in American waters, .but sub scribes to them and has been vitally interested in having the regulations made forbidding unneutral use of wireless equipments in American waters. Secretary Oai-rison Thursday night give Pi-esident N ilson the latest re ports frotm Brig. Gin. Bliss on the situation at Naco, where the Mexican generals have not yet moved their forces to avoid firing into American territory. The reports showed that the situa tion had undergone no apparent change, although'little firing was in evidence. While the United States is determined, if necessary to op! fire on the two Mexicafn forces . compel them to stop shooting into the State of Arizona, it was learned Thursday night that no decisive ac tion, was planned, pending efforts of Brig. Gen. Hugh Scott, now en route to Naco to influence the two factions to adjust the situation. The general beilef in official quar ters Thursday night was that some satisfactory understanding would be reached. Agents of the Guiterrez govern ment to which Gen. Maytorena ks loyal, claims that he is pfeparing to move his forte down the 'ailrdad south of Naco, -so that he can con tinds to besiege the. Carranza force undei- den. Hill with the American border out af the range of fire. While reports from Gen Bliss to the war department *ere not made pub lic it is believed they indicated that he thought he had persuaded Gen. Maytorena to stop firing across the line. Until there is a definite under standing on the whole situation, It is thought Gen. Bliss has worned Gen. Hill not to take the offensive. which would draw the fire of the Maytorena troops. General Iturbide's friends in Mex ico are fearful for his safety and Secretary Bryan Thursday directed Consul Silliman in the Mexican capi tal to make representation-s in his be half. Iturbide was the civil govern or to whom the City of Mexico was turne dover to when Gen. Bianco withdraw the last of .the Carranza f~rces. He is caid to have been im prisoned. Gen. Bliss Thursday telegraphed Secretary Garrison that reports that he had deliverer an ultimatum to Maytorena were "false in every par ticular." ILATEST FROM THE BORDER. Maytorena Moving d)ut of itange of American Terrtory. Secretary Garrison Thursday ight gave President Wilson the latest re ports from Brig. Glen. Bliss on the -situation at Naco, where the Mexi can generals have not yet moved ,their forces to avoid firing into Amer Ican terrtory. r Thes reports showed that the sit - uation had undergone no apparent ; change, although little firing wa.s la r evidence. ~While the United States is t determined, if necessary, to open fire on the two Mexican forces to compel them to stop shooting into the State of Arizono, it was learned Thursday I night that no decisive action was planned pending efforts of Brig. Glen. tHugh Scott, now en route to Naco, to innluence the two factions to ad 3 just the situation. - Agents of the Guiterrez govern ment, to which Governor Maytorena t is loyal, claim that he is preparing - to move his forces down the railroad south of Naco, so that he can con tinue to besiege the Carranza force .under Gen. Hill, with the American border out of the range of fire. Fleet to Assen'ble.. 5 Twenty-one battleships of the At lantic fleet will assemble off~ the coast of Cuba in January for battle man-a No Truce Arranged. The efforts of the Roman Catholic Pope to arrange a Christmas truce in ~ Europe has fallen through. |Fight to a. Finish. jMyron T. Herrick, returning am bassador from Paris, believes .that the war will be fought until one side or the other Is definitely whipped. Fixing for the Winter. By agreement the Austrian and Russian armies facing each other are s permitting the carrying on straw by i soldiers of etther side in efforts to '.improve their quarters. ASKS FOR DESTROYERS GOE ATHAS REQUESTS WARSHIPS - FOR CANAL ZONE. Activity of Beligerent Warships and Colliers Around Isthmian Water ways Causes Concern. Col. George W. Goethals, governor of the canal zone, announced Sun day .that his request that two swift American torpedo boat destroyers be stationed at the entrance of the Pan ama canal was prompted by recent activity of belligerent warships and colliers in the vicinity of the Isth mian waterway. The action of the Australian col Her Mallina in leaving Balboa with otu clearance papers, -and the fact that other colliers have shown a dis position to disregard canal zone ship ping laws, convinced Col. Goethals that decisive measures should be taken to preserve the neutrality of the canal. Nearly all the colliers In canal waters arrived without health certifi cates and in scveral instances sailed without clearance papers. It is pre sumed the steamers met and coaled the Australian and English fleet which concentrated recently in the vicinity of the Pearl Islands, sixty miles southeast of Panama City. The torpedo destroyers requested by the governor are expected to do patrol duty and overhaul belligerent craft attempting to disregard the canal regulations. ' Alleged violations ot the canal shipping laws have, it is said, been the subject of complaint to Sir Claude C. Mallett, Britibh minister to Pan ama, and also have resulted in orders that the fortifications prevent unneu tral colliert remaining in ports on the zonie in disregard of the orders of anal authorities. In the case of the collier Mallina it is stated that she arrived without learance papers or a health certifi cate and with no coal or supplies. She attempted to buy $3,000 worth f supplies, consisting largely of arti cles intended for a Christmas dinner for a large force. She was refused the supplies and was ordered to de part because she refused to state her estination, as-required by the canal mi laws. The collier Protesilaus is potuted to as as a similar case. -t is stated that there has been much wireless interference -in canal waters on tha paA of eight colliers, which recently were in the vicinity of the eanal and also by large warship fleets, reported to be within twenty ve miles of both ends of the canal. Col. Goethals' request for two tor pedo boat destroyers came as a sur prise to 6iefal at Washingtonwho ad received no previous Intimation htl neutrality *as being violated in the vicinity of the cdnal. Secretary D niels prepared to order destroyers rom Charleston or from the west Uoast of Mexico. WULpE UNFRIENDLY. arranza Says U. s. should Not Use Armed Force. "If the United States employs force to stQp the firing by Melicans across the international boundary line at Nico, it will be 6onsidered an un riendly det, notthsta,;ding the riendly motive cloaking the n-ot." In this manner Carranza. made an ~wir in a statement to the Associated Press to the formial notice served by he United States on both Provisional President Gutierrez and Gen. Car ranza that unless such firing ceased, force would bo employed to protect American territory. Carranza's reply to the American ote will repudiate responsibility for shots that have crossed the line and learly set forth that he and his gov rnment agill regard intervention at taco as a hostile act. At no time since the receipt of Secretary Bryan's note calling atten tin to the repeated wounding and lilling of resdeuts of the American own has Gen. Carranza aypeared per-. turbed, but he has had long confer ences with those close to him, and, in framng his i-eply it Is said he has been careful not to let himself stand in any uncertain light. "Gen. Hill, Constitutionalist com mander of the forces at Naco, is on the defensive," continued Gen. Car ranzo, "and, since his back was to the line, it is dif~cult to see how he could be responsible for the firing. The Fact is that Maytorena's men have been attacking and therefore It abpar reasonably clear that they, and only they, could have been to blame. "As a matter of fact I do not know that the rights of American citizens have been violated. It seems to me that it would be well for the state department to investigate the ques tion In order to fix the responsibility. "I remember similai- intaiceis at 21 Paso, wheb the idadero forces were attacking there. In that case those shots were for the most part the im prudent and curious individuals who locked to witness the flgthing as If it had been a spectacular -show staged for their benenit. "As to the use of force( of which Mr. Bryan talks, that is -something the gravity of which I fear he does nt fully apreciate. He says it would not mean an invasion cf our territory or a violation of our national sover eignty. It would. And moreover it would certainly be an act directly against the Constitutionalists who now hold the town, and If in favor of the Villaists, who would be left free to continue their operations. It would be simply tying Gen. Hill's hands and leaving Maytorena fi-ee. "I sincerely hope that the good friendship of the American people to ward the Mexican people will prevent the consummation of Secretary Bry an's threat.'' Bussiaps Out of Hungary. According to Berlin nc-wspapers the Russians have been driven out of Hungary. The invaders had to send most of their troops to West Galicla to stem the Germanic advance there. Submarines at Firth of Forth. German submarines Wednesday made an attack on shipping around te Firth of Forth. Two are report ed sunk by tbg forts. Turks Bombard Batum. Batum, a Russian seaport on :the Black Sea, was bombarded on Sattur Iday by the Turkish fleet Over 9e0( men were kiled. LYNCHED BY MOB HAITON JAIL ATTMKED IN M8DE Of Niar WAS ACCUSED OF ASSAULT Negro's Body Found In the Afternoon of Following Day-Lynching Party Worked In Secrecy and There is Little Informatin as to Where They Came From Allen Seympur, who was accused of attempting to criminally assault a young white girl, was taken from the jail at Hampton Wednesday about 1 o'clock In the morning by a mob of probably 40 or 50 men, and lynched. The bullet riddled body of the man was found lying almost across a by road leading from Hampton to the home of his alleged would-be victim, about two miles from this place, by Sheriff Williams agd his party of searchers, about 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. It is supposed that the mob turned the negro loose and told him to run and then proceeded to shoot him down, literally riddling his body with bullets. None of the people living in the vicinity seems to know anything about the killing of the prisoner. one man stated to the sheriff that he heard shots in the direction of the place where the body was found, but this is the only statement made by any one as yet concerning the killing. Acting Coroner Murdaugh and Dr. . B. Harvey left Hampton after noti ication of the finding of the body, for the purpose of holding an inquest. Seymour was at the" time of the alleged attempted assault, and at the time of his arrest, in the employ of Gypsies travelling In that section. It was suggested that Instead of a lynch ing, the taking the prisoner from the ail might have been a rescue by his friends, but this was rejected by the authorities as hardly probable, be cause it was known that at least one automobile was at the jail at the time. The fact that an attempted crimi nal assault was alleged to have been committed did not become generally known until Wednesday morning, al though the affair that caused the ar rest of Seymour. occurred last Thurs day within four miles of Hampton. The alleged would-be victim Is - 15 years old, the daughter of a white farmer. it seems, from statements made >y relatives of the young lady, that Seymour' was in hiding in a pen near a house in the rear di the residence, which house the young lady had en tered; that. he jumped up from the pit peft and also started toward the house, whi6 the young lady was, when she saw him domfini she ran. The- -man, it. seems, followed hef, running after her, when the screams of the girl attracted the attention of her sister. Upon seeing that he had been ob served and that assistance wo~ild be giver his alleged would-be victim, it is said that Seymour ran off. He was arrested by four white men, rel tives of the girl, and turned over to epty Sheriff Llghtsey and lodged n jail dan a charge df attempted crim nal assault. Se made several statements td the aler and to iNputy Lightsey, the ost important of which was an al eged confession that he was going after the girl, when he sti-tdd to ards the house in which she was. e also made statements, It is said, o the effect that his purpose In go ng to the house where the girl was isiting was to steal clothing. When he man was arrested he did not have ny clothing except a shirt, he stat ing that his employers had taken his ther clothing and that he was freez ng. At 1 o'clock Jailer 3. P. Blewers was awakened by some one In his room who demanded the keys to the jail. Mr. Mowers struck a match to ascertain the Identity of the person,I and as the light flared up the Intrud er saw the keys on the, bureau at the head .of the bed of the jailer, and satching themi ab, he rushed from the room, closed the dor? l.eading to the hall and warned the jailer ict to open the door. Seymour- was tak en by the mob from the second story of the jail and the keys left on a table in the hall of the jail down stairs. Jilei Btiwers states that as the crowd was lesvitig be. opened his room door and saw at. le&st 40 mnen. He heard an automobile stirt and leave. He did pot see whether or not the persons were masked, as it was very dark. He was shut tip in his room and the door was guarded until the purpose for which the crowd came *as accomblished. The sher 1ff, Capt. Ben S. Williams, dnd his deputy, 3. Herman Lightsey, wei'O notified of the taking of Seymour, and they immediately got busy. Wed nesday morning the authorities searched the county for some tangi ble clue to the whereabouts of the prisoner and the Identity of his cap tors. Their activities resulted in the finding of the body, but so far there seems to be no clue to aid in the ap prehension of the lynchers. The alleged attempted assault oc curred about sunset last Thursday, December 10, at Lawton's, or Hall's, mill, about four miles from Hamp ton and two miles from Brunson, where the young girl was visiting relatives, her home being about four miles in the country, toward Crocket ule, from that place. The camp of the Gypsies, for whom Seymour worked, was near the scene. The man stated to the jailer that his home was at Ashton, In Colleton county, which is about twenty miles Ifrom Hampton. He was about 20 Iyears old and weighed about 150 pounds. There were six prisoners in the jail. Only Seymour was taken out. The cells and outer doors of the jail were securely locked by the rob after Seymour was removed. There Is no excitement, and every. thing seems to be the same as usual. both at the scene of the alleged at tempted assault and at the home of Ithe would-be victim. Damage Was Slightk Tt in ofiecially renorted from Berlin that the German vessels which born barded Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whtby were hit several times by the coas atteries, but that the damagt WHERE NAVY IS WEAKEST ADMIRAL FISKE POINTS OUT MOST URGENT NEED& Says It Would Take Five Years to Bring it up to Highest Efficiency to Meet Hostile Fleet. Five years would be required to put the United States navy in the highest state of efficiency to meet a hostile fleet, according to a statement Thursday by Rear Admiral Fiske be fore the House naval committee. The Admiral, who is chief of the bureau of operations, member of the general board and a former president of the naval institute, said the navy was de ficient in air craft, mines, scout cruis ers, torpedo boat destroyers, subma rines and and in number of trained officers and men, and had no mine sweepers. Members of the committee were particularly interested in Admiral Fiske's views as to the possibility of foreign air craft droppng bombs on American cities. He expressed the opinion that an attacking fleet might begin sending its airships on bomb dropping flights over New York from a range of 500 or 600 miles off the coast. One foreign navy, which was not named, the -Admiral said, was more efficient than the American fleet in gunnery. This, he declared, how ever, was so only because the Ameri can marksmen had not been given adequate opportunity for 'practice. In speaking of the "highest state of efficiency" the officer explained that he had in mind the state of a certain unnamed power, whose officers and men have inbred the spirit of a mili tary nation. "I doubt if in five years we eould get the navy up to a state of the highest efficiency," he said. "That -is to the officiency that one of the na vies of Europe now has. I have heard some officers say it was doubt ful if it were possible to br_ it up to that efficiency." The German raid on the British coast was referred to. several 'times nd the admiral suggested that if the British had had five or .six fast sub marines in- the vicinity of the attack ed ports the possibility of the bom bardment would have beezi reduced. The officer gaid no enemy could attack the Panama Canal so long as the American navy controlled the sea. With the fleet defeated, howev er, he th.ought there would be no security for this, "the most vulner able part of our possessions." "Couldn't you mine there as well as anywLere else and protect the mouth of the Panama Canal?" he was asked. "Yes." "Could you prevent a hostile fleet from coming into the canal with the defences there now?" "I should say not." The fortifications alone, he ex plained, woufm not be sufficient "be cause, a. hostile fieet could land men a few miles away." The admiitl said the European war would bring dhanges that no one could prophesy, and that among the possibilities for an agreement be tween some of the foreign nations to let one another alone" on certain cnditions, which 'might involve the integrity of the Canal Zone. Representative Gardner of Massa husetts, will be the final witness in the naval hearings. -IS INTERNED German Crniser "Turns In" at Guam and Waits for Peace. Voluntary internment Monday of the German converted cruiser Cora morant and her twenty-two officers and 355 men, at Guam, an American Pacific inshla.r possession, brought what promised to be troublesome questions involving observance of American neutrality to a promrpt ad justment. As soon as the navy department learned that the Cormorant had put into Guam, short of coal, food and water, there was an Immediate dis dussion of the extent to which the. warship could replenish her supplies. In view of Guam's remoteness from any German port, the decision to In tern was expected, but Captain Max well, governor of the far-away nava' statih, was immediately instructed to obesrve sti-idt neutrality in all his dealings with the Germnan command The Cormorant Is a converted cruiser of 5,000 tons displacement. She was acquired by Germany from R"sa. It is supposed the ship has been employed by the Germans as a cnmerce-detroyer in the Pacific. CALLED TOGETHER. Bryan Calls Conference of Pan-Amer ican Governing Board. Secretary Bryan announced Tues day he had called a meeting for Wed nesday of the commission of nine re cently appointed by the governing board of the Pan-American Union to devise plans for a more vigorous assertion of the rights of neutrals in the war. Although the recent naval victory in the South Atlantic has put Eng land in control e f the commercia! situation, diplomats here are contin uing their efforts to have all belliger ent warships excluded from the waters of this hemisphere. Funeral Services in the House. For the first time in fifteen years a formal funeral ceremony took place in the House Sunday whey Sereno E. Payne, a veteran member from New York, was paid the last respects by his friends. Two Negroes Lynched. Two negroes were hanged by a mob of fifty men at Mooringsport. La., Friday after they had confessed to murdering a white man for rob' bery. Negro Burned at Stake. Watkins Lewis burned to death at Sylfester, La., Saturday, made the fifth victim of mob vengeance ii Louisiana in ten days. Guitterez Orders Cessation. Provisional President Guittere: has ordered a cessation of all hostill ties around Naco, saying the friend shi of America must be retained. SIX LIONS ESCAPE BEASTS CIUSE PANIC IN TUA1U IN M TORI CIT FIiBTENS THE AUENLE Six Trained Beasts Terrify ROW Play House-One Shows Much3' rocky and She D;a nAder Lesdem Hail-e-Policeman Probably Fatal Shot. Six trained lions escaped froMi their cage on the stage of an Eas ' 86th street theatre at New York Thursday and bounding into the auf dience, consisting principally of war men and children, created a panic. One lionness, Alice, largest of -th*e pack, escaped, into a criwded atree Policemen pursued her into the-ha--': way of an apartment house, and 1a shooting at her probably . fatallyc wounded Sergt. Daniel Glenn. Two other officers were -slightly wounded by the claws 4f the beast. in.A battIs at close range. At sight of the lions hundreds of persons in the theatre . fled,.,rem ing, to the eiclts. Scoies fainted ant many sat transfixed in-.their-seats. None of the beasts, exo.ept Als displayed great ferodity. Afew p - sons who got in their path e scratched, but none of them hurt. Five ot the .animals were still at large in the theatre when the last of the audience escaped. In theirArush* to safety spectatorsleft botnd aljf sorts of personal belongings. Mean time the beists roamed over house from gallery to basement. An -. hou- after the last spectator leftt were rounded up in the lobby an4" driven into their shipping box, aU them uniniured Three arrests were made ' charges of criminal Uegligence ing the outcome of injuries to wounded persons. Those in custoay are Labelle Andree, the-llona''trin er; C. A. Turnquist, their keeper,. and George H. Hamilton, meioritof W the attraction. The lions were own ed by Francis Ferari, a showman. The animal act Iad been nild: and a song and -ance- qtartette helM the.stage in front the first drop whe the lions, about to be triasferred from the steel exhibitIon. cage to their.shipping- boxzescaped. Andrea sreamed and Turnquiet,"cracking-a whip, loudly shouted a his charged, Frightened actors, actrese and theatre .attaches . bega- climbig stairways. Suddenly one 9f the lions walked into the wings anid peered at theZI uartette. 'Te'singng IEBa abrutly. As the singers started to retreat Detective Peter Cahill, who'was-in the audience, s w'the lion and shout ed to the entertainers to-goon. O. singer i-eturned and :beganf e;- sole; Suddenly a lion came Into full vew and' all control of the cudience was lost. The first lion ambled' upon ~the stage, then a second, and In, a -min ute more than six,/were clambering into 'stage boxes and out Into the audience. The orchestra kept p - ing until the ions came down into the pit. Then the musicians fed der the stage. Almost everybody in the audlance had a different version of what the animals did after they got among the crowd, but hiearly all accounts agree that they did not live up to the dan-. gerous name of the "King of Beasts. One caught up 'with Mark. McI~er mott while he was hurryingi down an aisle, so he lay down. The gnma clawed him on the head and .his wound appeared to be the most dan grous that any of the beasts inflict. ed. He was taken to a hospital. The last of the audience to leave the theatre were several women. who, cooped up In a second floor dressing room, signalled firemeR... from a nearby engine house and were carried down iadders. A throng bad gathered outside the theatre when Alice emerged, trotted across to a street corner and camly sat down. The crowd began .to shout and ten policemen, .with revolvers drawn, came rushing toward her. She turned and went into an apart ment house. Abraham Glazer, a photographer. was working on the first floor of the building. He opened the door to In vestigate the noise outside and steer ed into the face of the lionness. Slamming the door he shouted for help. The beast turned to a stairway' and bounded up a flight. There two - women peered from a doorway, saw the animal, shrieked and slammed the door. Alice then fled to~ the third floor, where the police found her seeking egress to ,the roof. For more than ten minutes there waged in the narrow hallway a flercis battle between man and beast. Thir ty shots were .nred into the now -en raged lionness. Up and down the stairway she raced, snarling - and striking at her assailants- Finally the leaden hail that rained into her body ended the battle. It was while the firing was at Its height that Glenn was shot through the back. It was thought he would die. Two patrolmen were clawed by the lion, one of whom was taken to a hospital. SAYS IT IS ONLY PRELUDE. Von Buelow Declares German Navy Will Surprise World. On his arrival at Rome Prince 'Ton Buelow, former German chancellor and now ambassador to Italy, was informed of the bombardment of the English coast by German ships, but showed no surprise. He said this accomplishment had been arranged prior to his departure from Berlin. and added: "This Is simply the prelude to what the German fleet is soon to undertake, which may astonish the world." Twenty-five Lives Are Lost. The wreck of the Dutch steamsr Boger, off the Portugese shore, re sulted in the loss of twenty-five lives. To Avoid Extra Session. Congressmen are determined to complete their program before March 4, so as to do away with the necessitT fanothe extra session.