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^ . ^ . . . ... -r-.A :' 5' ' ; . *. ,. . ' ' ' - . \ A ' j t ^ in mind that all sub^ /yj&\yT\ scriptions to The Her1 > ** Jmust now be paid : A .< __ iff/Vjy in advance. This is the ^ ^ the law, and we will . fBi3gl ?hf $ambmj l^ralii kaigas $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1918. Established in 1891. OTTOMAN EMPIRE QUITS TURKEY'S PROPOSALS MEAN UN" CONDITIONAL SURRENDER. T Terms Include Free Passage of the Dardanelles to the Allied Fleet. ? Paris, Oct. 13.?The armistice between the Allies and Turkey was signed today at Mudros, on the Island * * - ' A ?AO if TTTQO oi Liemnos, in iuo Aegean. oca, officially announced. / * ? London, Oct. 31-.?Reuter's Agency has been informed that Great Britain has officially received definite ' peace proposals from Turkey which are regarded as tantamount to unconditional surrender. v Armistice Granted. > A.' , ' . \ London, Oct. 31.?The Turkish armistice took effect at noon today. It is impossible as yet to publish the full terms of the armistice, but they include the fre$ passage of the Allied fleets through the Bosphorus to the Black sea, the occupation of forts on the Dardanelles and in the Bosphorus . .necessary to sechre the passage of the ships, and the immediate repara.< tion of Allied prisoners of war. The terms of the Turkish armistice, which now are in operation, in* 'elude the free passage of the Dardanelles to the Allied fleet, Sir George , Cave, the home secretary, announced in the House of Commons today, i V Reparation of British. Another condition is the immedi' ate reparation of British war prison.'*> era. . > Other terms, it is learned, comprise the occupation' of the forts of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus necessary to secure passage of the Allied warships through the Bosphorus to the - r Black sea. % ffinjlar to Bulgaria's. ,V It is expected, however, the terms wHl be much on the line of those igiven Bulgaria, which amounted to unconditional surrender, leaving territorial questions to the peace conference. Some uneasiness is depressed by the newspapers over a report that the Allies are prepared to make^a bar, sain with Turkey by which she would be left in possession of Armenia in res turn for a tree passage of the Dardanelles to enablp the Allies to deal with the German controlled Black seft fleet. However, it is most proD able that free passage of the straits will be demanded unconditionally. ' A reply was sent that if the Turkish government sent fully accredited plenipotentiaries, Vice Admiral Calthrope, the British cofhmander, was. empowered to inform them of the conditions upon which the Allies would agree to stop hostilities and could sign an armistice on the conditions in their behalf. The "Turkish plenipotentiaries ar*0; rived at Mudros Island, off Lpmnos, e&rly this week and an armistice was signed by Admiral Calthorpe on behalf of the Allied governments last night, which will come into opera?' - tton at noon today. TO ENTER THE ARMY. Senator Benet Offers for Chemical Warfare Service. Washington, uct. 31.?senator Christie Benet today filed his* application to enter the chemical warfare service of the United States army and took the physical examina tion. It will probably be some days before, he hears the result of his application. The junior senator from South Carolina had made his arrangements ^ for entering the army and had all but completed the filing of his appli* cation, when he was appointed to his , present'position. What he is doing now is merely carrying out his origi\ nal intention. 362,355 PRISONERS TAKEN. t Result of Great Allied Offensive on Western Front. g- \ * Paris, Nov. 3.?Since the great offensive began on the wester^ front, on July 15 last, the Allied armies have captured 362,355 prisoners, including 7,990 officers, as well as 6,217 cannons, 38,622 machine guns ^nd 3,907 mine throwers. The Allies during the month of October captured 108,343 prisoners, including 2,472 officers, as ^ell as 2,064 cannon, 13,639 machine guns and 1,193 mine-throwers. i ^ <e> mm Automobile batteries recharged by Delco-Light at-Brickie's Garage, adv. $?' ' *' 15' '* / & . FIVE SCORE LIVES LOST. On? Hundred Bodies Taken From "Tunnel." New York, Nov. 1.?Eightydive bodies had been taken late tonight from what is known as the Malbone street "tunnel" on the Brighton Beach line of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, where a five car train running at high speed jumped the track on a curve and struck the side wall with such terrific force that the first car was demolished and the others "buckled" until they were jammed against the roof of the tun nel. . The crash occurred when the train ahead, said to have been in charge of a "green" motorman, jumped the track at a switch and another train running in the same direction plunged into the rear cars. The tragedy marked the first day of a strike called by the company's motormen to enforce the reinstatement of 2 discharged members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers as ordered by the national labor board. Officials of the com* pany professed three hours after the accident to have no definite information as to its cause. They said no reports had been made to them by members of the train crew. District Attorney Lewis, of Kings county, declared all the officials of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and every person connected in any way with the accident had been or\ dered placed under arrest. He asserted that the company was withVinM<n(r namo r?f thp mntnrmwn. High Rate of Speed. "There is no doubt," Mr. Lewis said, "that the motorman of the leading train was going at a high rate of speed when he made the turn into the cut. The front car jumped the track and buckled. The train following ran into the stalled car." According to survivors of the wreck the motorman evidently was unused to the road, as he was compelled to bach up at one point when he had taken the wrong switch. Both trains were jammed with passengers as the strike had resulted in a material reduction in service and consequently delay. Immediately aftef the crash the wrecked cars burst into flames, adding to the terror of those who had escaped .injury and increasing the peril of those pinned in the wreckage. Police reserves from a dozen stations were rushed to the scene of the accident and they immediately sent in calls for all the ambulances in Brooklyn, while Manhattan hospitals were asked for assistance. The fire department was called upon to aid the injured and remove the dead. Rescue work was retarded by the fact that the crash occurred in a deep cut. It was difficult for relief workers or survivors to labor up and down the steep concrete walls of what is - known as the Malbone street "tunnel." BRUTALITY OF HUNS SHOWN. Documents Signed by German Commanders Direct Destruction. Washington, Oct. 30.?Documents quoting .orders isued by German commanders for the methodical destruction of property and for the poisoning of wells during the recent evacuation of Belgian and French territory have reached Washington. 'Among them is an order taken from a prisoner, issued by the commander of the One Hundred and Eighth Infantry Brigade of the German army on September 5, directing specifically that certain villages be destroyed by the rear guard. Designated units are assigned to the destruction of the villages named and in addition the order states "it is the duty of every one to participate in these destructions," which "are to be carried with method and haste." The order, which is signed "Week," presumably either the brigade commander or his chief of staff, says "it is recalled that wells are to be confaminafoH " VMiUlUObVUf President Sends Cable. Washington, Nov. 4.?President Wilson today sent the following message by cable to the king of Italy: "May I not say how deeply and sincerely the people of the United States rejoice that the soil of Italy is delivered from her enemies? In her name I send your majesty and the great Italian people the most enthusiastic congratulations. (Signed) "WOODROW WILSON." Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. / [PRIVATE R. P. BELLI! FRANCE AND HIS j Headquarters Convalescent Camp, Hospital Center, APO 780. Somewhere in France, Oct. 1st, 1918. Editor of The Herald:?If you remember, as I was leaving home to don the khaki you asked me to write The Herald a letter occasionally. I have thought many times of doing so, but the strict rules of censorship which prevail heretofore deterred me from complying with your request, and even now there are many things which ordinarily I should like I to say, but are not permissible. 1 am feeling fine and dandy and enjoying the best of health. I am approximately 5,000 miles from home and have exactly thirty-six cents to get back on. Perhaps your readers would be glad to know something of the country in which I am now located, France, our great sister republic and ally, the country of the almost sacred heroine, Joan of Arc, and the birthplace of one of the great heroes of the American war for independence, Marquis de * Lafayette; indeed, the land of light wines, yellow jackets and milk cows. You possibly have also heard it dubbed the country of beautiful women, but those folks who termed it that had never been to South Carolina. While there are quite a few rather pretty girls, still, I haven't found any growing on trees ripe and ready to be. picked yet, and if the country numbered as many good looking women as it does yel low jackets and milk cows France would be far more interesting to a young bachelor. And permit me to say right here that my observations thus far do not bear out the general American idea of the low standard of morals of France. ^ I first set foot upon the soil of Europe's apostle of liberty early on Tuesday morning, July 23rd, and with a seventy-five-pound pack on my-back and a Springfield rifle on my shoulder marched through the streets of a city of 100,000 inhabitants. That's the day I whispered to myself: "Lord, practicing law was never like this." Here, as in all other European cities of France, England and Scotland which I have visited, there was a noticeable, even marked lack of the American business hustle and enterprise. The next! afternoon I boarded a train for a ride of two nights and a day to the little town in which we were to tie quartered until sent into the imes. French railway cars are not very similar to those of America; they do not have doors at each end, but are partitioned into sections, with about five sections to the car, each section accommodating ten people and having a separate entrance. The passengers do not have individual or double chairs or seats but all sit together. There is a passageway at the side in the interior of the car which extends from one end to the other, and on the outside there are running boards from door to door somewhat like those seen on some American electric street railway cars. The wheels are not solid, but are constructed like cart wheels. Sometimes if the roadbed is direct and the engineer feeling well the train might make as much as eight or even ten miles per hour for a short distance. \ \ The little town to which I went is situated in a broad rolling section - with steep green hills rising almost to the extent of mountains and broad fertile valleys, all of which afford beautiful surrounding scenery. The town is nearly as big as Olar; yet there is not a single store or place of business in it save a cafe, or what we in the States would term a bar room. Incidentally it is operated by and your drinks would be served by a woman. Mark you, I said "your drinks," not mine. -Towns nearly as large as Bamberg have only two or three stores and those Slightly smaller have none at all. But they all have their saloons. I have been ? to quite a number of these villages and one is typical of them all. The peo pie get their necessities rrom wagons which come through. When one does find a store it is usually a little dinky place about ten feet sq.uare in a front room of the proprietor's home. He does not stay in it for business, but a bell is attached to the door and as one enters it signals to someone in the house that there is a customer and out he comes to wait on you. All of which is an indication. of a strong sense of French honesty and faith and confidence in IGER WRITES OF EXPERIENCES THERE human nature, for if the customer should be inclined to do so he could of course get what he wished and make his getaway before the storekeeper?I shall not say merchant? ever arrived on the scene of action. Places which sell anything at all usually keep wines and liquors with their other scant lines. Nearly all buildings are low hutty affairs, generally one or two stories, scarcely ever more than three, and there are no skyscrapers even in the larger cities. The buildings are all built of stone and apparently have been standing here for centuries just as 'the are now. I found the people in the little town clever and cordial, the girls friendly and congenial. And singular enough I dined several times in French' homes and immensely enjoyed the occasions. Water is not served with the meals, but one may have it upon request. Wine is always the substitute, and even the tiny tots nine or ten years old imbibe freely. I quickly learned to speak a few French words and expressions and managed to make my wants known usually, and with the aid of signs could understand the people fairly well, although I should not dare try to rattle it Off as fast as they for fear of tying my tongue in a knot and contracting lock jaw. The crops, principally wheat, oats, grapes and truck, are abundant. All farming is done with horses and one never sees a mule. But a family must be extremely poverty stricken not >to possess a herd of from four j to a dozen mjlk cows. That may sound unreasonable, but they nearly all have them just the same. I know you wonder how big families get to be 4?t DtlAMAA 4 ihl-lTT A ^ ill rxauuc) uut tuw die jliuc ui#catcptional siae or numbers. And yellow jackets are thicker than the Germans on the Hindenburg line and nearly as big nuisance. Farm labor as well as all other business continues on Sunday just the same as'in the week. All through France the roads are simply marvelous, absolutely perfect. And yet there is apparently slight need for them, as one scarcely ever sees an automobile except American. army cars; there are no (buggies, carriages or stages, and j aside from an occasional cart or wagon, bicycles are the only other vehicles seen on the magnificent highways. The cycles are quite common, people riding them about from town to town. There are no farm houses whatever, but everybody lives in the villages. This custom was begun hundreds of years ago before France progressed from an empire to a republic, and was done with the idea of holding the people together for the sake of protection from outj side tribesmen. The custom has been followed to this day, and therefore the little towns are naturally inrafph vppv rlnsp tn^pthpr. and frnm almost any village a person can get a view of several others nearby. So much for the rural communities; let us now take a little trip to a French city of 30,000 people not very far from this place. A description of it will give ah idea of all the cities of like size, but of course the larger ones are further advanced. There are innumerable hotels. There are no theatres, v no hacks or transfers, no electric trolley cars, no paid organized fire department such as our American cities enjoy, only Catholic churches and scarcely more than a dozen automobiles. The streets are very narrow and remind one a little of Charleston, though not even as wide as those of our own "City by the Sea." A visit to a French barber shop?I think curiosity shop would bd a more appropriate name?is interesting, not to say amusing. There are no reclining chairs, but a patron sits absolutely erect and in the same position for a shave as for a hair cut. Here also one has the exquisite pleasure of washing his own face after a shave, as that is evidently beneath the barber's dignity, so he makes you do it yourself. I purchased a shave, hair cut, shampoo and tonic all for the modest sum of thirty-six cents. A hair cut alone costs twelve cents. But 'tis not so wi^h eatables, even though raany varieties and articles of foodstuffs are apparently plentiful. For instance, with the thousands of milk cows, butter sells for $1.50 a pound. I have seen hundreds upon hundreds of fat sassy looking chickens, but you couldn't buy one with half of Wall Street, and I eggs are a dollar a dozen. One small FATS AND OILS FROM DEAD HUNS Cape. G. A. Blair Confirms in Letter Story of Horrible Practice. Greenville, Nov. 1.?Apparent confirmation of the charge that the Germans "render" the bodies of their dead soldiers in order to secure oils and fats is contained in a letter made public here by Miss Myrtle E. Blair, from her husband, Capt. George A. Blair, of the One Hundred and Seventeenth Infantry (the old Third Tennessee of the Thirtieth Divisioif), which was trained at Camp Sevier and which has been in the thick of the fighting during the past few months in the Cambrai area. After describing some of the fighting, Captain Blair, according to a copy of the letter which Mrs. Blair has permitted to be used by the newsnnnpirs. savs: "I saw something* to day that I had heard of before?but never believed, that was the Boche making grease of their dead. I went into an underground passage way, climbed a winding stair to a long room where there was a long table used for the dismembering and cutting up of the bodies. At one end the bodies were piled high, several layers deep, while on the other side were three huge kettles, with parts of the bodies in them ready to 'render.' I saw a head and different parts of the body in one kettle which had been left in haste. I have seen a lot which is inclined to harden us to the horrors of war, but this to me was the most horrible." PikLMETTO LAD WINS AGAIN. William Palmer, of Bennettsville, Downs Third Plane. With American Army Northwest of Verdun, Thursday, Oct. 31.? Lieut. Jacques Swaab, of New York city, is the newest American "ace." Today he downed his fifth German aviator, who fell within the American lines at Verdun. In an air duel Swaab fired more than 20.0 bullets at the German, the last few of them at a distance of .about 200 feet. v t ? tLieut. William Palmer, 9f Ben- > nettsville, S. C., downed an enemy plane today, making his third. peach is priced at fifteen cents, while a medium sized bar of chocolate > brings forty cents. The price of all labor or service of any kind can be compared or measured proportionately to the, barber prices. And I suppose a lawyer's fee in an important murder case which would probably require a week to try would be around $3.25, while his board for the same period would amount to about fifty dollars. Please don't ask me how the people live?I don't know, except to say that they buy very little and raise practically all necessary provisions and supplies for their own use. My duties here at this place are concerned entirely with the legal matters of the camp, that is the court-martial proceedings, and are therefore pleasant and very interesting to me, and I also think the work will be of vast benefit to me from a professional standpoint after it's all "over over here," and I return to God's own country. I am required to familiarize myself with military criminal law. (censored.) I arrived in Europe on July 17 th,and since that time have not heard a word from back home,, I have moved about so rapidly. However, I was fortunate enough to receive two copies of The Herald, the issue of July 4th and that of the 18th. And if you feel that it would be a compliment to the paper upon my return I'll recite by heart for you the full contents of both issues. I have not seen one soul whom I knew before my induction into the army, although I have hundreds of former acquaintn?noo nn fhia ciHo nf thp nnn T have only met six men from South Carolina; the last one of these I saw about a month ago. The majority of those with whom I have come in contact or been associated are from the West. Still, I should not say that I am exactly homesick, even though it would be a revelation to once in a while run into somebody from God's chosen spot, and in fact, I have more than once wondered why the world's entire population has not taken advantage of its opportunity and * at least attempt to setle in Bamberg county. When I get an opportunity to "Pace the gates in gay Paree,'.' if you think it's worth reading I shall try to write another letter. With my very kindest regards to you and the other folks back home, I am very sincerely yours, PRIVATE R. P. BELLINGER. i AUSTRIA FOLLOWS TURKEY DUAL MONARCHY MAKES UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. Armistice Became Effective Monday Afternoon.?Italian Troops Occupy Trieste. London, Nov. 3.?Austria is out of the war. At 3 o'clock Monday afternoon the armistice, signed this afternoon, will go into effect. By that time a greater part of "Italia Irredenta" will be occupied by Italian troops. Trieste, Austria's chief seaport and the heart of the whole Irredenta movement, already is in Italian hands. Strong forces were landed by Italian warships. Trent, capital of the Trentino, Italy's "lost province," swarms with Italian troops. Udine, the gate to Venetia, is Italian once more. What Austrians are still on Venetian soil are dead, wounded or prisoners. One hundred thousand captives and 2,200 guns have been counted-by the victors up to late this afternoon. v.'' " Italy refused to grant an armistice as long as the enemy stood upon her soil. That is the reason for letting fully 12 hours elapse before the ar- : / mistice becomes operative.- Those 12 hours will be taken up by a cleaningout process. First news that the armistice was signed was made public here shortly after Premier Lloyd-George had tele- 2 phoned it from Paris. The terms will be published Tuesday. They are understood to amount to unconditional surrender. S. C. MAN CITED. Lieut. E. W. Springs Brings Down German Planes. Lancaster, Oct. 30.?The War Department on October 26, gave out a list of names of American aviators fighting with the British royal flying nA.nn ttt V* A Kmnffht Hnvn AnomV """ J planes from September 9 to 22. -The name of Lieut. Eliott W. Springs is again cited among others for distin- > guiahed bravery in bringing down enemy planes. Col. Leroy Springs has received a letter, dated September 20, from his < son, Lieut. Springs, stating he had brought down nine German planes for which he was officially credited by . the British government, that he thinks he brought down six others over the German lines for which he has not been able to get official confirmation. Lieut. Springs has been fighting actively on the front since the 25th of May, with the exception of the month of July, when he was in a hospital, owing to a smashup of his machine the latter part of June. He wrote that in a short time he would have been in every drome in France. The war department gives Lieut. Springs's address as Lancaster, Pa., and his friends in South Carolina will object to Pennsylvania claiming him, though it is obviously a clerical error that his address is not properly given. Girl Takes Her Life. New York, Oct. 30.?Police reserves guarded house tops and fire escapes in Harlem today to prevent any outbreak of violence among / thousands of persons watching the funeral cortege of 13-year-old Sadie Dellon, who killed serself Saturday because boys had stoned a small Jewish flag which she displayed in honor of her brother serving with the American expeditionary forces. After the flag had been stoned and jeered at and the girl herself had been struck by boys in the street, it is said, the flag was taken down. The girl barricaded herself in her father's store and drank poison. When patrolmen broke into the shop she was found dead and beside her body lay a note reading: "I cannot see my flag insulted. Good bye all." Negro Troops Marooned. Asheville, N. C., Oct. 30.?Efforts were being made at Brevard and Pisgah Forest station today to send food and other supplies to the 2,000 negro soldiers and officers marooned in the "Pink Beds" where they have been getting out timber for use of the . United States training camps. The ? ~ -v G If Mm/4 att oiTTAn^ oTDOtr Illgll Wtttera Ui IVXUlIUaj ana; the railroad and dirt road and a number of the mules used in lumber operations were drowned. The soldiers * will devote the next few days to repairing the dirt road to Pisgah station and the railroad which was destroyed. v -.fig