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VOL. XXVII. MANNING, S. C., WED'NESDAY, DECEMBER 1,, 1915. W'OULD HE FRIEND.LYISI 0" U. S. WANTS 00D FELLOWShIP T OF FOREIGN OVERNMENTS TO TAKE BROAD GROUNDS e l .ag Lansing and His Assistants aAim to T cu Decide All Problems in a Line riu With General Friendship-Ques- d tion of Diplomats to be Handled in Pe Regard to Public Policy. Lo All questions affecting the status mt of diplomatic consular representa- th4 tives of belligerent governments in op the United States will be determined br by the state department on broad fet grounds of policy, with especial ref- an erence to the maintenance of friend- act ly re: ions with foreign govern ments. Fi This has been made known by Sec retary Lansing, when his attention HE was drawn to testimony given in the wh federal court at New York that Capt. trc Boy-Ed, the German naval attache, Sa turnished funds for an alleged con- un, spiracy conducted by agents of the Da Hamburg-American Steamship line to ba. supply German warships at sea. , an ' The secretary made it clear that, e though he had full knowledge of th the evidence on which the cases were be- be ing prosecuted in New York, the ga state department had not given - its di approval or disapproval to Assistant dir District Attorney Wood's charges against Capt. Boy-Ed made in his col opening statement to the court. for Officials at both the 'departments t o' state and justice explained, how- K0 ever, that there was no controversy all over jurisdiction between the two Bel branches of the government. At the Au department of justice it was made wit clear that all the evidence In Its pos- cia session had been brought to the at tention of the state department as int, rapidly as gathered, but that action add affecing diplomatic officers immune , . from prosecution lay naturally with- we in the province of the state depart- be ment. -b TI e position of Secretary Lansing per is that diplomatic representatives not t, only ar?.immune from criminal pros- abs ecution, but that nothing that may be ter done by the department of justice in d the development of other cases binds me, the state department to ask for with- ggi drawal of any diplomatic officers. one In the case of consul generals and des other accredited agents of foreign Gu governments, even though they do rn not enjoy diplomatic immunity, the of I attitude of the state' department Is Ger that there are important questions of hav policy involved which will guide it in our deciding whether a recall should be dis' asked for. In the case of Capt. Boy-Ed, See rotary Lansing's view is that so far as he Is able to judge from the informa tion in his possession, the Qerman naval attache did not violate any law in supplying funds to .obtain coal .and provisions for belligerent - ships -at __ sea since- this in: itself is not as criml -na offence. The secretary declined however, to Indicate what might be the attitude of the department if it - had-been proved that Capt. Boy-Ed had knowledge of or directed the al leged falsinication of manifests and stri clearance papers. and - Legal-proof, however, it was point- sh ed out at the state department.. is notHa necessgry In deciding whether the abo -personal acceptability of a foreign Mc diplomatin officer is terminated. Ac- re tion, it was stated, could be just as hea well based on presumption. Ques- ~ tions of -policy must be given consid- the eration, however, officials said, be- me' cause fi endeavoring to supply Ger- abo man warships at sea Capt. Boy-Ed aim would have been acting in compil- out ance with the expressed views of his enc government to the United States. At con .the time the alleged offences occur-do red no penalty had been provided ye against- the provisioning of belliger- Mel ont warships and only -in the closing , hours of the last session of congresse was such a measure enacted. wh( Previously the question, was 'a Sat mooted point between the United hin States and Germany. The German as government served notice through stai Cdunt von. Bernstorff in a note dated ed - December 15, 1914, that: ter3 - The position taken by the govern- 3 ment of the United States as to the Car delivery of coal and -other necessaries saic to warships of the belligerent sta''s ing constituting a violation of neutrality The is, in the opinion of the Imperial Ger- arm man government, untenable in inter- Oli -national law.. . . Only when con- Hai traband trade would turn the ports I into bases of German military opera- sist tdons would the stoppage of the trade cau of those vessels become a duty. Such Lee perhaps would be the case if the Ger- hiD mans kept depots in the port, or if the the vessels csiled at the port in regu- had lar voyages on the way to German wha naval forces, but It stands to reason El that one vessel occasionally sailing tho with coal or supplies for German in1 warships does not turn a neutral port into a German point of support con trary to neutrality." In answer to this the secretary o' state denied that any vessels had Te been refused clearance, as complain ed by th'e German ambassador, al though certain detentions had been made to investigate the bona flde h character of destinatIon and inten- the tions of certain vessels leaving portOh He adde I that the essential idea of neutral territory becoming a base for m naval operations by a belligerent is N in the- opinion of this government. c "a repeated departure from such ter ritory of vessels laden with fuel or Har supplies for belligerent warships at H sIn commenting on the position offl the United States, Secretary Lansing B a said he had no knowledge that the m vessels concerned in the New York cbe cases had repeatedly left American ,O ports to supply belligerent cruisers or A commerce raiders. Ad Hil to Assist in Isenhower Trial. m At the request of Solicitor Henry Ad of Chester Governor Manning has ap pointed Solicitor Hill of Spartanburg to assist in the prosecution of the Isenhowers whose trial comes off next week. Atl Foodstuffs Go Into Germany. Amesterdamn says the first ship ment of foodstuffs into Germany kil from the Balkans has been made. A sej Constantinople dispatch says regular se: shipments will henceforth be dis- dra patched. bei i e 1 --ha Tornado Kills Twelve. w ~Twelve persons are known to have th been killed and about thirty injured th in a tornado which swept through a s thickly settled farming section about sh a mile east of Hot Springs, Ark. late'w ,,,rsy ~' th RBIAN CAMPAIGN OVER IS GERMAN ANNOUNCEMENT utons Pay Tribute to Serbs Who Fought Bravely-Over 100, 00W Were Captured. Berlin reports: "The number of bian prisoners taken by the Ger n, Austro-Hungarian and Bulga n troops," says the Overseas News ency, "is 101,000 officers and men. e invading forces also have res d two thousand Austro-Hunga ns who had been mado prisoner the Serbians, but later abandoned ring the hasty retreat of King ter's forces.' A dispatch sept out Sunday via ndon says: "With the flight of the scanty re dns of the Serbian artillery into ) Albanian mountains our great erations against the same are yught to a close, our object of ef ting communication with Bulgaria I the Turkish empiro having been omplished. "The movements of the army of ld Marshal von Mackonsen: "The operations of the Austro ngarian army under Gen. Goevess ich was. reinforced by German ops, against the Drina and the re; the operations of the army ler Gen. von Gallwitz against the nube near Semendria and Ram das were commenced on October 6 the advance of the army under 2. Bayodjieff (Bulgarian) agairst i Negotin-Pierot line bogan Octo - 14. Tho same day a second Bul an army .under Gen. Theodorow D commenced operations in the ection of Skopje and Veles. 'Since then our troops have ac aplished quickly and smoothly the midable undertaking of crossing , Danube in the face of the enemy, eded moreover by the ultimately ssovo assault and have captured the enemy frontier fortresses, at grade at the taking of which the 3tro-Hungarian eighth army corps h the Brandenburg reserves espe lly - distinguished themselves. 'Zajecar, Kajzevac and Pierot fell the hands of the Bulg:.rlanz. In lition to this our troops have -:om ely broken tho tough rcsistance the enemy, which in addition, to ag supported by the -nature of the ntry fought bravely. Neither Im etrable roads, impassable moun is, thickly snow clad, north the ence of reinforcements and shel were able 'to check our advance. 'More than one hundred thousand , almost half ,the entire Serbian ting forces, liave been taken pris rs. Their losses in battle and by ertilons can not be : ostimated. is, including heavy artillery, and incalculablo quantity of material 11 kinds, have been captured. The man' losses, however deplorable, e been extremely modemate and troops h.-ve not -suffered from o CTZENS KLLED BY OLANTA POLICEMEN tows- Shooting Affray Develops Over Arrest of H. B. Lee Trouble Two Years Old. ,s a result of a clash on the Main et of Olanta Saturday afternoon our o'clock, Sam Lee was killed his son, OlIn, perhaps fatally t through the left lung. George n, policeman, was severely cut ut the neck and face and Charlie Elveen, another policeman, re ved a bloir on the back of his d with his own club. am Lee was shot three times-in leg, in the groin and in the abdo i Olin Lee was :hot immediately ve the left nipple, the ball going ost straight through and coming at the back. A physician of Flor a was called in Saturday night for sultatin but no'hlng could be e. Physicians think that Olin will die. Policemen Ham and Ellveen are not seriously wounded. 'e occasion of the trouble Is ught to date back two years ago. mn Policemani Welch in arresting i Lee found It necessary to give Sa severe thrashing. The affair brought out at the Inquest was -ted when Policeman Ham arrest Dr. H. B. Leo on a charge of adul a nd placed him in jail. wen Ha returned to Main street son Lee, son of the dead man, is I to have walked up to Ham, say -"Why don't you arrest me reupon Ham caught him by the i, and then both Carson Lee and Lee are said to have caught n and begun cutting him. >olceman McElveeni came to as Ham and is sa~id to have been ght by Sam Lee and others. Sam wrenched McElveen's club from and- struck him on the back of hed. Sam Lee is said to have his hand on McElveen's pistol n the latter began shooting. Mc e shot Sam Lee and It is ught that Sam Lee shot Olin Lee the scuffle. PSSHIPS GO TO CHARLESTON SGray Battleships Sail From New York Monday Morning. 'be ten big, gray battleships of Atantic fleet which will come te irlezton within th-> next few days a feature of the Scuthernl Comn rcial Congress lifted anchor Inl eth river, New Cork, Monday rning, where they have been an red during the Thanksgiving sea A bricL stop will be made at nptn Roads in making the jour South. From Charleston the tt will advance to Guantanama ruCba. where target practice and noeuvres in battle offlicncy will ordered. Vice Admiral Mdayo is in ['he vessels are the Virginia, Rear; miral Coffin's flagship; -New Jer RhRode Island, Georgia, Louis a. Texas. Minnesota, New Y'ork, ith arolina and the Arkansas, miral Mayo's flagship. SIOOTS WIFE AND SELF Lanta Man Slays Woman Who Left Him Three Weeks Ago. D. F. Waldrop, a waiter, shot and led his wife from whom he was ,arated, and fatally wounded him f at Atlanta Thursday night. Wal >p died shortly after. They had en separated three weeks but he d induced her to go to a theatre th him Thursday night. Just as my rached the Y. W. C. A., where yoong woman had been living Cce the separation, he fired two ots into her body and turned thbe >apon upon hmself. He was twenty reevn asold. MORE TAXES NEEDIED M'AD00 ISSUES STATEMENT 0 NEW DEFENCE PROGRAM PEOPLE WILL STAND IT Secretary Suggests Changes in Ex. isting Laws and Recommends That Sugar Duty be Retained and Ad vocates Retention of Emergency Taxes-Figures Given in Detail. Increase In internal taxation rath er than issue of bonds to meet the first year's expenses of the adminis tration's defense program are advo cated by Secretary McAdoo of the treasury in a formal statement giving an estimate of the federal govern ment's revenues and expenditures up to the end of the fiscal year begin ning next July. Assuming that congress will con tinue in effect the present emergency tax law and customs duty on sugar, the secretary estimates that $112, 806,394 in additional revenue will be needed for the expenditures for 1917, including $98,800,000 for new meas ures for national defense. "This amount," says the statement, "can easily be raised by internal taxation without appreciable burdens upon the American people."* Mr. McAdoo suggests a reduction in the income tax law exemption on single persons from $3,000 to $2,000 and on married persons from $4,000 to $3,000; changes in the surtax Im posed on incomes above a certain fig tre, and new taxes on gasoline, crude and refined oil, horse power of auto mobile and other internal combustion engines and various other things. The statement follows: "In view of the many inaccurate and misleading statements which'are ;eing made deliberately or ignorant ly about the condition of the treasury finances of the government with re spect to the, current fiscal year and fiscal year 1917, I feel that a true and accurate analysis of the situation may be of service to the public. "The question of the national finances is so intimately related to other vital problems which must -be settled in the interest of the Amqri an people that every right-minded itizen should want the truth in or er that he may help form that in telligent public opinion out of which 3lone can arise sound and just con clusions. With this in mind, I de ire to submit to the public the fol [owing information: "We begin the fiscal year 1916 (July 1, 1915) with a general fund balance, not including amounts to the credit of disbursing officers of 104,170,105.78. Compared with the balance shown in the daily treasury tatement of June 30, 1915, this is omposed of the following: "Balance in general fund June 30, 1915, as per treasury daily state nent, $82,025,716.03. "Add natiohal bank note redemp lon fund, which, by law, is a part of he public debt and not to be set up s a liability of the general fund, 19,390,345.50. "Add cash deposits during the year 915, and included in the revised totals, advices of which were receiv d at the treasury after June 30, 1915, $2,754,044.25. "Balance in general fund June 30, 1915 (revised basis), $104,170, 105.78. "Under existing law the present luty of 1 cent per pound on ,raw sugar ceases May 1, 1916, and the present emergency revenue law ex ~ires on December 31, 1915. Assum g that these two sources of reve iue are eliminated, the following results may be expected for the fiscal rear 1916: "General fund balance in the treas iry July 1, 1915, as already shown, $104,170,0.78. "The estimated total receipts for 1916 are $670,365,500. "Total, $774,535,605.78. "Total estimated disbasemenits for 1916, excl'uding Panama canal pay ents, $716,891,000. "Surplus or balance Juno 30, 1916, $57,644,605.78. "The duty on sugar and the emer ~ency revenue taxes ought to be con tinued. If this Is done, the addi tional receipts from the:,a sources tor the fiscal year 1916 should be $41,000,000 from emergency taxes and $15,000,000 from sugar-$56, 00O,000. "Balance, $113,644,605.78. "It may be assumed that there will be appropriated' by the congress or supplemental estimates and de ciencies for the fiscnl year 1916 a total of $12,000,000. "Surplus for fiscal year 1916 (as suming that emergency taxes and sugar duties are continued) $101, 644,6 05.78. "Panama canal payments for 1916 are estimated at $25,000,000. These, under existing law, may be paid by sale of bonds. If paid, however, out f current revenue we must deduct $25,000,000. On this basis, avail able balance at end of fiocal year 916 swould be $76,644,605.78. "Now let us consider the fiscal year 1917, which we begin with a balance of $76,644,605.78. Total esti mated receipts, on the assumption that present emergency revenues, taxes and duties on raw sugar pro ducts are continued, $730,500,000. Total for 1917. $807,144,605.78. "Total disbursements, including $93,800,000 new or additional ex penditures for greater national de Tense or preparedness and excluding Panama canal. payments, $832,851, "Defciency 1917, $25,806,394.22. "Estimated deficiencies and sup plemental appropriations for 1917, $12,000,000. "Add for working balance in seas ury to begin fiscal yetcr 1918, $50, )000,000. "Panama canal payments for 1917 re estimated at $25,000,000. "If paid out of revenues and not from sale of bonds, adid $25,000,000. "On this basis the total new reve nue to be raised for fiscal year 1917 is $112,806,394.22. "If. however, the Panama canal payments for the years 1916 and 1.917, amounting t'o a total of $50, 000,000, should be paid from the proceeds of bond sc.les, then the amount of additional revenue which must be raised for the fiscal year 1917 is estimated to be $02,802. 394.22. It would not be an unusual thing to finance the Panama canai payments by the sale of government bonds: in fact $1 38.600,869.92 of Panama canal payments have been met by the sale of such bonds as fol lows: Serics of 1906, administration of Prmet Roosevelt, 2 per cent.. STUNNED MAN WITJI STIJCK AND BURIED MiM ALIVE Strange Confession is Made to Dis trict Attorney of New York Wife of. Victim Tells. Lugi Matroni was buried alive in the cellar of his home near Corfu in May, 1914, his body bein- trampled into a newly made grave while -he still begged for meicy, according to a story told by his widow to District Attorney Coo.i at Batavia, N. Y. Monday. Antonio Boliva, the alleged murderer, pointed out Monday the spot where the crime took place and a. body was found which Mrs. Mat roni identified as that of her hus band. Boliva has confessed, the dis trict attorney said. Boliva, who is Mrs. Matroni's son in-law, is serving a six months' pri son term for stabbing. Mrs. Matront went to Batavia, N. Y., from Syracuse to tell the story of the murder, which she declared she and her young son, Charles, had witnessed. Her long silence, she raid, w-.s due to fear of Boliva, who had threatened her and her son. When she learned he was in prison she felt safe to tell. Mrs. Matroni said that her hus band was felled by a blow from a pickaxe handle wielded by Boliva. He was knocked unconscious but revived before the grave had been dug in the cellar. He r' :ded with Boliva for mercy just before he was thrown into the pit and trampled under the ground, she declared. After hearing the woman's story Coon and Sheriff Edgerton took Bol Iva to the farm where the Matronis formerly lived. Boliva at first deaed knowledge of the murder but later confessed and told the-men where to dig. They found the body-under nine feet of earth, the house having been torn down and the cellar filled in after the Matronic moved away. Boliva killed Matroni, he told the district attorney, because after his marriage to Matroni's stepdaughter, she told him that Matroni attackid her the day before the wedding. MANNINO DECLINES TO GO Telegraphs Henry Ford That Busi ness Prevents: His Leaving. Gov. Manning Friday telegraphed Henry Ford as follows: - 4 "Columbia, S. C., Nov. 26, 1915. "Henry Ford, Biltmore Hotel, New York City. . "I have your courteous, generous and patriotic invitation to join your party to visit Europe for the purpose of negotiating just'settlement of the f war. South Carolina . legislature meets soon. .This with other imper ative-official duties renders it impos sible. for me to accept. I?,:ealize the dreadful effects of this war and its far-reaching influences on us in this country. We will welcome a restora tion of peace and trust that kome means for honorable settlement can be found. - - 1 "Richard :I. Manning; "Governor." principal of bonds, $54,631,980; pre mium received,- $1,946,606. -Series of 1908, administration of Presidenf Roosevelt, 2 per - cent., principal of bonds, $20,000,000; premium receiv ed, $731,008.21. Series of 1911, ad ministration' of President Taft, 3 per cent., principal of bonds, $50,000, 000; premium received, $1,-291, 274.19. "Total of principal of bonds, $134,631,980; total of premium re ceived, $9,968,889.02.e "Total realized, $138,600,869.02.I "Under the present admnistrationC all payments for the Panamna canal have been made out of current reve- I nues amounting since March 4, 1913, I to date to $87,036,818.20. There is no necessity, in my opinion, for thet issuance of bonds notwithstanding the European war and its inevitable effects upon the revenue. I believe I that it will be far more preferable to I continue to pay the expenditures for I the Panama canal out of current rev enues, especially since the canal is 1 almost competed and It is likely that 1 the demand upon the treasury fromC that source will largely decrease In the near future. "If the policy is adopted of provid ing sufficient revenue to cover the Panama canal payments L:. well as all other demands upon the treasury it will probably be broad enough to take care of any ordinary fluctua tions in the revenues and expendi-1 tues of the government in the fu ture. Therefore If bonds are not issued for Panama canal payments the total amount of new revenue re quired for the fiscal year 1917, as suming, as before stated, that the present duty on sugar and the pres ent emergency revenue-taxes are con tinues, is $112,806,394.22, in which is included the sum of $93,800,000 for preparedness or new measures for the national defense. "This amount can easily be raised by internal taxation without appre ciable burdens upon the Americant people. The resources and wealth ofi the country are so great and increas g so rapidly that the needs of the government for Its normally grow ing expenditures and for the carrying out of the larger program for na tional defense can readily be met. Merely as suggestions, we would say that consideration may well be given to increasing the rates of taxation on individual and corporate incomes and I of reducing the exemption under the present law of $3,000 for single and $4,000 for married persons to $2,000 and $3,000, respectively. "The surtax would begin at $10, 000 or $15,000 instead of $20,000, as provided at present. "In addition to any increase that may be made in corporation and in dividual income tax, a tax could be imposed on such products as gaso line, crude and refined oils, horse power of internal combuztible en gines and several other articles not necessary to mention. These taxes would be widely diffused and scarce ly felt. "If the nation wishes to do so it can raise by taxation the amount needed for such vital purpose as na tional preparedness and defense. ~It Is of course the function of the congress to determine what revenues shall be raised and how, e~nd these vies must not be consIdered as a program but merely as suggestions for discussion." Has no Single Head. Premier Asrquith told the House of Commons Thursday it had not been considered advisable to plasce all the land forces on the western front un der one command. 3annng Wants Governors to 3Meet. Governor Manning has invited all the governors of the South to meet him at Charleston during the South S-enommia Congress. ,ETURKS. SAVED MAN' C LADY TELLS HOW OTTOMA SUB RESCUED PASSENURS 125 BROWN IN MAD PANI 1 d Steamer Approached by Submarine n Passengers and Crew Rush I Boats and Leap Overboard-Si a Crew Rescue Many by Use of Lif :e boat and Assist in Work for Fli d Hours. d A Turkish submarine stopped the British passenger ship Baru los in the Mediterraneau after t twenty-five passengers had been drowned and helped rescue many of the two hundred and fifty pas sengers who had gone overboard, a according to Eleanor Franklin Egan, an eye-witness, who arrived in New York Sunday on the steam ship New York. The Barulos, according to Mr, Egan, who is t write rreturning froi F a six months' trip through souther Europe, left Piareus for Alexandri October 2. The ship flew the Bril . ish flag but her crew was Greel! The passengers, mostly third clas, . were chiefly Greeks and Orientals. f Whcn about five hours south c Crete, the ship picked up two boat containing the crew of the Britis: . steamship Sailor Prince, which ha, been sunk by a subm:z-ine. . The Barulos, Mrs. Egan said, cai ried only four lifeboats, each with capacity for thirty persons. Excite - ment following the picking up of th - crew of the Sailor Prince -was : - fever .heat when suddenly a subma rine cam-e to the surface about tw miles distant and fired a shot ovo - the Barulos. 3 "Instantly a wild panic brok a loose," said Mrs. Egan. ."Led by th crew and the gre room force, th - passengers rushed for the boats; wo men, unable to get to the boats threw their children into the sea ano . jumped after them. Frightened sail ors cut the ropes holding the smal boats,. and when the boats crashe4 Linto the water three of the six wer . swamped and emptied of their huma t loads. 1 was at the r'al when the sub marine appeared and I started bac toward the stairs leading below an< t was caught in the rush ard literall forced over the side into the sea. had a hard time to keep above th water, fny difficulties being aggra vated by the struggles of others. t "It seemed that I h-d no soone struck the water than the submarin I appeared under (he bows of ou: ship. On her deck I saw a numbo of men with an officer whom I tool to be an Austrian. The submersibl had her collapsible lifeboat ont, ani the submarine crew were pulling peo ple out of the water onto her decks The officer was holding up his hald: shouting to the people in the water U bb calm. I heard him in perfec t English: 'For God's sake go back U your ship. . We are not -murderers. By this time I worked my .way som< distance from the ship and was pick ed up by one of the life boats. "The first of the panic over w( rowed beck to the Barulos. and wor taken aboard. - Women and children many in a half downed state, wer crowding the deck of the submarinc which remained alongside. When al: the rescued were returnsd to thi Birulos a tell showed that twenty five~ were missing, fourteen childrcn seven -women and four mc:. Two o: the latter were British sailors fron the Sailor Prince, who lost their liver diving overboard rezcing children "In addtilon to the twenty-fivy drowned many were wounded. Sev eral were taken into the submarin' and treated by our ship doctor, wh< went aboard at the invitation of th< submrsrine commander." Mrs. Egan said she witnesset many heartrending scene.. "On woman," she said, "we had lost hel three children by throwing then overboard, -went stark mad. In th< steerage was a troop of Japanes< acrobats. One of them, a woman with an infarit, -was scon almost ex hausted trying to cling to the sides of the ship. A rope was thrown int< her hands, but looking -up, she ex claimed in English: 'Don't mind me I belong to no one, and have no ont to care for me. Help some one'else. "With these words she passed th< rope to another wo.man rand, wit] her babe in her :.rmsi, sank. "The rescued Britiet sailcrs prev ed heroes. They not only tried t< quell the panic but rescued man: persons. "Only -one shot was fired by th< submarine. She remai.ned alongsid< for five hours or until all possibl< rescues had been made and th< wounded had been attended. Sh< then disappeared undcr the watei and we -proceeded to Alexandric without further incident.. "I did not learn her name or des Ignating number but she was one o: te largest boats of her kind I hayt ever seen. The captain of the Sailo: Prince told me that he recognize< h& as the one that had sunk his ship some hours previous, althoug] at that time, he said, she flew the Austrian colors. Her deck armamen consisted of two twelve-pounders whch were In plain sight. The Sail or Prince, her captain said, was give: -twenty minutes to get her crew int< the boats before she was sunk b nine shots fired Into her hold." Available shipping records do no contain the name Barulos. Ths ma, be due to frequent changing of name and renaming of ships captured I; the war zone. FRIAUENLOB NOT SUNK Berlin Disputes Allied Claimn-Sub marines Work In Mediterranean. Berlin reports: "The foreign pros has stated, according to advices frou 1 Petrograd, that the small cruise Fraunlob was sung by an allied sub 1 marine. This is pure Invention, a was the news regarding the sinkini - of a three thousand ton cruiser b: Russian torpedo boats. "In the Entente press much ha been said lately regarding the suc cess r'f English submarino warfare 1: - the Taltic, while the U-boat warfar -of the central powors is con;;iderei unworthy of mention. The stat: ment of results from November 1 t 15 follows: -"In the Baltic only the steame a Afsnomi, ten hundred and sixtoc tons, has been sunk while In th t Mediterranean accorfaing to press rc f ports up to date eighteen ships, rej e restting 112,082 tons, wero destro; ~d In same period." WiRMAR WRKS IS SUNK BY AN ALLED SUBMARINE London Says Fraiuenlob Was Sent to Bottom--Announcement Made at Petrograd Friday. London reports Friday: The Ger man protected cruiser Frauenlob has been sunk by a- submarines of the Allies, according to a semi-official announcement made at Petrograd. says a dispatch to the Central News agency. The Frauenlob is repbrted to have been 'sent to the bottom in the same locality wbere.the German protected cruiser Undine, a sister ship e of the Frauenlob, was lost. The Frauenlob was a protected 'e cruiser of two thousand two hundred and seventy-two tons and -was built in 1901. A. dispatch published in the Politiken of Copenhaben on Novem ber 11 said a report had _een receiv ed that the Frauenlob had been sunk off the~i-outh coast of Sweden. Her sister ship, the Undine, was sunk, accoiding to an official an nouncement made in Berlin, by two torpedoes from a submarine on the afternoon of November 7, while pa trolling the south Swedish coast. Nearly the entire crew was saved. The Frauenlob and Undine both ;. carried crews consisting of two hun n dred and seventy-five men each. The n vessels were three hundred and twen a ty-eight feet long, forty and three tenths feet beam and a depth of fif . teen and six-tenths feet. They were s, equipped with two eighteen-inch tor pedo tubes. Both cruisers were cap if able of traveling at a speed of twenty s one knots. d FARMER BRUTALLY SLAIN a Edisto Island Planter Misses Boat to City and Is Found Dead. t A murder that has greatly aroused the people of Edisto Island WC.s D brought to light Wednesdrny at noon r when the body of John McConkey, a prominont farmer of the seasie see e tion of the island, was found at the e stables of his plankation by a servant who had gone to feed the stcck. No - trace of the perpetrator of the crime has been found, an-. - bloodhounds may be brought to assist in appre - hending., the guilty person or per 1 sons. Robbery was the motive of the C a crime, which was'apparently commit- f 1 ted about eleven o'clock Monday , night, after Mr. MeConkey hzd miss- c ed a steamer to Charle-:.on at the i boat landing some distance from his home, and had driven, back to his - stables and put up the mule he was driving. -' t . The murdered man was known to , -. have carried considerable money on his poison and to have intended a triy to Charleston. He drove to the boat landing in the evening, and after missing his boat, talked a while with 1 Dr. Lea until about nino o'clock, when he began the return trip home. The drive would ordinarily take about two hours and it is believed that he was attacked soon after arriving at t - his stables and putting up his mule. 1 His skull was crushed in with some blunt instrument and his jaw- t bone broken. His fhroat had been cut. Whether before or after the blow on his head is not known.- All t hs' pockets were rifled. A nickle- e plated watch Which he carried was t untouched. - The victim was a man of means e and was about sixty-five years old. He has farmed on the seasfde section of Edisto Island several years, having 0 settled there after coming from Can ada. HFe is survived by a sister anid brother in-Ontario, Canada, who have been notified of his death. The fun eral will be held at four o'clock this afternoon. GERiMANS LOSE CRUISER Sinking of the Frauenlob Features Friday's War News. Sinkiig of the German protected cruiser Frauenlob by a submarine of the Allies is semi-officially announc- ii ed in Petrograd a London dispatch fi states. . The Frauenlob was a vessel p ,of three hundred and twenty-eight c feet in length and two thousand d seven hundred and sixty-two tons, a 'l sister ship'of the cruiser Undine, re- a cently lost. A report that the Frau- C enlob hail been sunk was,received in t Copenhagen on November 11. She d carried a. crew of two .hundred and f seventy-five men.s The Italians are vigorously press- c ing their attack on Gorizia,. the storming of additional trenches on the Calvario Height northeast of the c city being reported by Gen. Cardona. t Austrian counter attacks are declared g to have been repulsed. Progress for i the Italian forces on the Carso pla- e teau is also claimed. TOM WATSON ON TRIAL Ancient Populist Hailed Into Court for Misuse of MJals. S - Thomas E. Watson's demurrer to an indictment charging him' with t Smailing obscene matter in issues, of f certain of his publications was over- 3 ruled by Judge W. W. Lambdin in b Sfederal court at Augusta Friday and y 1 the preliminary work of selecting a 1, jury for trial of the Thomason, Ga., editor was immediately started. I ,Watson, the indictment charged, t -had published and sent through the 1 mails obscene matter in four articles g printcd in his publicatiotis. Three oft the articles referred to were entitled t "The Roman Catholic Hierarchy; the3 Deadlist Menace to Our Civiliza- r Stion"; and the fourth. "Another s Maria Monk Case Comes to Light ins 1 New Jersey a Few Days Ago." The I articles were written in connection with attacks upoii the -Roman Cath-t olic church.d - AGiAINST PREPARATION Anderson Citizens Adopt Protest to ~ sSend to the President. t r Fifteen hundred citizens of Arder-: - son ,attendinlg union Thanksi;imng s services at Anderson, adopted resolu g tions protesting against the propa y gando now being organized for a higher state of preparedness. s The "jingoes"' were condemned In unmistakable terms and representa a tives in congress from this state are e urged to oppose any measure provid d ing for a greater increase In the navy -and army than normal. The presi o dent and co~gress are urged to renew thei refforts for peace in Europe. England Forbids Cotton Exports. e The exportation of cotton wad - ding, cotton wool and iron ore of all - descriptions is prohibited to all des Stinatins by an order in council Thursdy night. REAL MDAN ESCAPES;.: BITES AT MANY PEOPI Pittsburg Policeman Bitten by Vi tim of Rabies, Who Has to be Captured in Streets. -John Bukowa, while sufferiz from rables, became violent ai e caped from a Pittsburg hospit Thursday, running through a crowi ed thoroughfare, scratching and bi ing at people, until a wagon loadc with po!icemen gave chase. After a battle- with Bukowa, I whic. six police officers and patro men were either bitten or scratchel the afflicted man was returned to hospital, where he attacked the si perintendent, the physician in charf and 'an arderly. Bukowa was finally subdued am taken to the hospital, where he die later. All the police involved hai been granted leaves of absence to ui dergo the Pasteur treatment. Bukowa was bitten by a dog abat two months aga, but no attentdo was paid to his wounds until he bi gan to. act strangely Thanksgivin morning.- His escape was made short time after entering the hospita ITALIANS WIN VICTORY Rome Says Trenches Were Taken b Storm on Mountain's Summit. 'An important victory for the Ita: ans was scored Wednesdays, says ome dispatch, when Austrian trer :hes between the fourth summit c Vonte San Mithele: 'and -the Churc: f. San Martino -were taken by stori d held in spite of desperate cour er attacks, say an Italian officis itatement. It reads-. S"During. the night of the 22-23r d the following day, the enem ;ought by surprise and force to re apture some of the important posi ons taken by us. .?Ttese actions, a] ays preceded by in-intense artiller lre, occurred on Cob di Lana In th |agora section and on a height nortb ast of Oslavia. All these attack rere repulsed with -very heavy los or the enemy who left more tha: hree hundred bodies on hill Numbe )ne Hundred and Eighty-eight. "Our ielentless offensive on th, 'arvo plateau was crowned by a bril lant success yesterday. Long dee renches between the north summi f Monte San Michele and the Cliu'rel f San Martino were stormed, the de endrs:surrounded- and a large par f- them taken prisoner. .;The. enem: mmediately deluged the lost positioi rith shells of all calibres and behini curtain of fire passed importan orces for a counter attack east of Sal dartino. While our infantry hell rmly their:positions exposed on al desi.our batteries with rapidity an( preision 'concentrate' a quick, wel irected 6re on.enemy columns ani ispe'rsed tlem. Ffve liundred an< ourteen prisoners, many of them of Lcers, fell into our handstand we cap ured great quantities of provisions crunitions and war materials." ACQUIRES U. S. SECURITIES |ritish Government Collecting Then From the English Public. The chancellor of the British ex hequer, Reginald McKenna, gave I! he House of- Commons Wednesda: he first official confirmation of re orts that the government had begui aegotiations with large holders o: .mercan securias for the purpost f obtaining control of them. Thesi ~egotations, Mr. Mec~enna said, weri nidential but he promised to maki full statement before the genera ~ublc was invited to join the move sent. The British government's intentiox > acquire control of British ownei merican securities occasioned nt urprise in America.n banking circles eports to that effect having reachec Lere from various houses during the ast fortnight. It Is thought that thi :overnment's primary purpose in mo itlizing these securities will be t< se them as collateral for additiona edits in this conntry. For several years before the war I ras estimated that holdings of Amer an securities by banks and othe: istitutions, as well as private indi -iduals in Great Britain, :.,ggregatec ably three billion five hundred mil ion dollars. Since -tho beginning 0: e war this amount probably ha: ieen reduced -by nbout one billiox even hundred and fifty million dol AUTO WRECK KILLS IWO [Ire Explodes as Big -Car Carrie! Party to Thanksgiving Dinner. The bursting of an automobili ire, on a big machine In which arty of young people were motorini Columbus, Ga., for a Thanksgiving is to friends, caused the death o wo persons early Thursday and thi ajury of several others. The dead are Miss Edith Hldreti f Live Oak, Fla., eighteen years old hose neck was broken and her skul rushed, and Henry Lanlor, twenty f Ameicus, who was crushed be eath the steering .wheel and dies our hours later. The machine was speeding aloni he Americus-ColLumbu shighwa: -hen at a point near Doyle a tirn )lew out, causing the car to skid unging into a ditch and turn over h dead and injured were carried tF .mercus, Ga., except. Lanier, whi -as carried to Ellaville, where he ied. The body of Miss Hildreth ho was visiting iMrs. Lee G. -Coun 1l, in Americus, *was sent to he: iome in Live Oak, Fla. GREECE COMES ACROSS Elellenic Kingdom Gives Assurance Desired by the Allies. Greece has met the demands o :he Entente powers and given guar ntees that their requirements wi) e fulfilled. Official announcement has bee: nade in Athens that the reply to th ~ollective note prcsented by the Ec ente ministers has been delivered t hem. The announcement says: "The reply is couched in vor ~riendly terms and gives satisfactio: f the demands of the Entente pow crs and all guarantees considered es ~ential." 'Executes 11 in Turkey. The Turkish embassy at Washini on announced Tuesday the executio of eleven members of an Egyptia secret society organized to -former dissent in Turkey with an idea< -makn it a Britih colony after th hEIIMANY Si'IDlllQN WILL NOT AGREE TO NDEMNI LUSITANIA VICTIMS WANTS IT ARBITRATED Lansing' and Von Bernstorff Can No8 Come to Satisfactory Settlement Germans Say Indemnity Would Ad. mit Guilt-United States Wants Disavowal. Secretary Lansing and Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, aave entered into an agreement that ieither will discuss outside the cop !erence room the important business ;rhich has brought the ambassador to 'he state department on several ocea ions recently; indicating that these ,onferences were of such a nature hat absolute secrecy was essential to heir success. But it.is-admitted in Washington hat the conferences between Secre ary Lansing and Count von Bern torff have failed thus far to bring he United States and Germany near in early settlement of issues which prew out of the sinking of the Lust ania with a loss of more than 100 kmerican lives. Persons In a position to know said 'uesday that the points of view of the wo governments were widely differ nt. State department officials Monday aid that.reports that difficulties had leveloped between Mr. Tansing and ,ount von Bernstorff, in the course if their negotiations over the latter's roposal that the United States hould accept as indemnity $5,000 or every American citizen lost in the ausitania, and all other reports af ecting the conferences, should be re arded as false. In German circles the belief was xpressed that a satisfactory agree aent could not be reached with ar itratipn. Officials f the state de 'artment were more optimistic, how ver, believing that ultimately Ger ainy would agree to the American osition. It is stated on authority that no fier has been made to indemnify the amilies of Americans lost in the dis ster. It had been reported that the. erman government offered to pay an demnity of $5,000 for each life lost, ut it was stated that no figure had een named. The German government claims hat to agree to pay an indemnity rould be an admission of wrongdo ag, and that while in a humanitarian ense it -deeply regretted the loss of merican lives, the. Lusitania' was rpedoed in'reprisal for the estab shment of the British blockade or er, which the United States.,itself olds to be Illegal. Germany, however, is willing to ike the_ whole matter of Indemnity ) The Hague. Germai officials be eve an award there would -Ie in vor of the United States regarding de structure of the tribunal as one kely to favor neutrals. As for future assurances regarding 'ie safety of American citizens tray ling at sea, Germany considers that de assurances given In the settle ient of the Arabic incident fully over the situation. The point of view of the United tates government, according to the utline given and stated preiously, ;that the German government must isavow the sinking of the Lusitanla nid indemnify the families of Ameri an citizens lost In the disaster. The 'nited States is adverse to taking the uestion of indemnity to The Hague. GREECE WILL STAY NEUTRAL ermans Believe Athens Government Will Not Take Definite Stand.. Authoritative expressions of opin-. n upon the Greek position are dif cult to obtain In Germany for comn etent officials generally refrain from amment on the ground 'that their ispatches all are greatly delayed. 'he general belief seems to be, says n Associated Press dispatch, that -reece, standing as she does between wo dangers, will persist in the mid le course of safety and refrain as ir as possible from taking a definite and either for the Entente or the entral powers. An Athens dispatch to the Frank arter Zeitung, filed Saturday, de aring Greece had announced her in etion of disarming and interning erbians crossing the frontier is thus .r unconfirmed and apparen*.iy in orrect. It Is believed, on the con rary, In certain well informed quar ers that bands of Serbs, If they do ot voluntarily abandon the fight, iay be shown the quickest and short st way through Greek territory to .lbania where they can continue the truggle at their own risk without iternational complications. No desire exists to convert Greek arritory into a field of operations by yllowing up any advantage over the erbs or' the Allies if it can possibly e avoided. The same feeling pre ails at Vierna, so far as can be yarned. The chief anxiety manifested is st the Bulgarians, if they score fur rer successes against the Serbs or .llies in the vicinity of the Greek contier, may impetuously pursue air antagonists Into Hellenic terri >ry, thus complicating the situation. 'he exact status of Graeco-Bulgarian elations can not be learned, but per Estent reports continue that the two tates undersand each other formal r regarding the absence of aggres ive plans against Greece or any in antion to annex that part of Mace oni.' where the presenen~ of the Bul ar flag would be considered a men ce to Greece. Whether this understanding is so inding that it would survive In the ace of decisive Bulgarian victories Is .ot known;, but if not, there Is reason a believe Germany would exert dip amatic pressure to make It so. It is not expected that Rumania ,ill be any more likely than Greece o abandon neutrality to join either :roup of belligerents, and sensational eports from Bucharest to the effect hat Rumania is on the brink of war ;enerally are discredited. Treats Only of Defence. President Wilson, It has been earned, has rejected various sugges ions for incorporation in his next mnual address to congress, because )f his desire to devote it primarily to ;he themre of national defense. German Aeronaiuts Frozen. Two German aviators were found rozc to death in Russia Tuesday.