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f VOLUME 1, NUMBER 212 Weaklr, ErtaUIikei 1M0| DmDy, Jaa.lt, Itu, ANDERSON, S. C., SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1914 PRICE FIVE CENTS 85.00 PER ANNUM ALLIES MAKING PROGRESS; GERMANS OCCUPY OSTEND Both Sides Claim to Have Gained Advantages in Preliminary Fighting, Bot This Can ? Un.,/. I ???IA UM_i_f-_I ??_1A. -1 nave liiiuc onec? uu ueuerdi nesiiii 01 Battle in Which Nearly 5,000,000 Men Are Engaged. GERMANS SENDING REINFORCEMENTS IO ENABLE THEM TO RESUME OFFENSIVE Fight Continues Vigorously in Allie's Favor in the We?t-fiPrman Pnliimn I4???l^#1 RT?!, W/Jt-1, -- --?yiwimi m mmmm aw i?< Heavy Casualties in the Vosges-No Reports of Fighting South of Bruges-Ghent Line. Battle on East Prussian Frontier Has Ceased. Ostend, thc famous Belgian resort on the North Sea, was. oc cupied by the troops of Emperor William last Thursday, according to a German official report arriving from Berlin by way of London. If (his report is true the Germans have reached the goal for which ihey aimed immediately after they captured Antwerp, i Their forces! now are only 65 miles across thie sea from Dover and 1 i S miles from London. On their way to" Ostend the Germans also took Bruges, which previously was reported to have been deserted and where?no resistance was expected. The latest French official report does not touch upon the move ments of the Germans and the Allies near the Belgian coast line, where the one army has been trying to gain a firmer foothold and the other to throw back the advance. Of the hostilities in the west it merely says that the fighting continues vigorously and that in the i vicinity of Lille ground has been gained by the Allies. Farther to the east,.along the battle line that now stretches from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier, a repulse of the Germans near Malancourt is chronicled. A newspaper dispatch declares that a German column has! l een hurled back with heavy casualties by the Allies in thc Vosges. Another newspaper report has it that th? Germans have been driven from Lille. J Fighting is still going on between the Austro-German and Rus sian armies near Warsaw and the Galician fortress of Przsmysl con tinues to hold out against ine attacks of .the Russians. * In the South, the Servian .and Montenegrin troops'claim a vic tory at Glasinatz, Bosnia, over the Austrians. Commandants re [ resenting all the Congo Free State north of Bloemfontain have placed their services at the disposal of General Botha, command-1 er-in-chief of the forces of the Union of South Africa. The Marquis Di San Giuliano, Italian minister of foreign af ! airs, is dead. The marquis was said to have been friendly to Ger many. He was reported to be opposed to the sympathy in Italy for/he Allies and the hostility toward Austria. The Italian premier; Signor Saundra, will take temporarily the portfolio of foreign af fairs. lt is said that the death of the Marquis Di San Giuliano will not effect Italy's foreign policy. (By Aaaodftted Press.) LO?DON, Oct 16.-The official com munication issued tod? y by the French war office confirms th' progress of tho Allies reported yesterday. It is not h.Heated in the communi cation at what part of the coast the Allies' fighting line reaches the sea, but U)u nearest point ls 22 miles from Ypres and ls clo?e to the Fran co-Prus sian frontier. This, however, ls much nearer Dunkirk than Ostend, which the Germans are reported to have oc cupied today and the presumption, baa ed on knowledge ot the German move ments, is that the Une ot the Allies is in a more northerly direction and consequently 1? nearer thirty! than -J-?->.- ?- >- - ~.v. ?m.? ll.. MHM knout; ui??*7? tu *?r.1 **. *?.%.- .?-.- ~ seem to be a bar to an advance by the Germane along the coast, which doubtless waa their plan when their cavalry made a dash toward Calais. With both the belligerent lines reaching to the Bea there now can be no attempts at outflanking by either army. To wir success one or the oth er of the opponents must break through the line and th? anny hav ing the greatest number ot men and the ability to move them to a chosen point seemingly has the. better chance to succeed Li this attempt. Tho Germans, lt is believed here, ara certain to try to make a breach in the Allies line, bot just where ls known only to themselves and to the French and British commanders who ara receiving report* from their aer-. iel scouts of any movement in strength. it ta i:siicT5i, however. tbafcjfcjjft thia war. Ut* amita* fight tes* tor po sition* thadf for lines of communica tion, the Gormans are striking for. the outer railway system, now in French banda, which runa from Paris through Amiens and Arras to Hazebrouck Junction and thence to Calala arid to the coast. Thus fdr, according to the French reports, the Allies have repul sed every attempt of the Germana to achieve this object and now have : them well pressed from the threaten ed raliway. Thp Germans are aaid to be sending j further reinforcements, from Germany : to stiffen their lines and enable them ? to resume the offensive. The French are reported to have offered success ful resistance to effectual use by the Germans by thc advance they made to the River Meuse at St Mihlel. All this is drawn from French sour ces, the Germans having boen more reticent than usual with regard to the operations in the Weat. There have been no reports of fight ing south ot the Burges^Ohent line, which ia taken to mean that the for ces which opposed the Germans around Ghent have been drawn south wr??d to Join their main body.' Any allied force fighting on the , coast will have Gie assistance of Brit-1 lab warships, but lt is unlikely that these vessels will bombard German force* occupying Ostend or other .coast town*, for it would mesa the destino- ; (ion of the towns without falnlnV any ' military advantages. Basel, Switzerland, again rcrorts a defeat of the German? la the Vosges. ' There is no mention ot tai? rumor . ?LJlg^-??v~ "gfera.uPA~*tiona, ?h i {Contluued oa Page *.) SINKIN This photograph, taken from a Ur gagement off Helgoland. lier two fu GERMAN VICTORY W< DEATH OF DEI Manifesto Issued by Leaders of Lt With Action of British Gove . (Ev Associated PTCBS.) WASHINGTON. Oct. 16.-Dis patches to the British embassy today gave abstracts of a manifesto issued by leaders of the labor party declar ing their sympathy with tho action of the British government in the present war. Tho labor leaders urged that German victory "Would mean the death of democracy in Europe. The statement follows: "Manifesto issued entitled,' British Labor Movement and <Va;\ signed by labor members and leaders of l?bor movement declared false - the state men ts ni ede tft various countries re garding the attitude of labor to war. They always hoped for peace,? but ?hope was destroyed by the Kaiser. It MANY MILLION I I ADC I ACT IN OPERATION OF CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACI FIC RAILWAY. DISCLOSURE MADE At Hearing of Interstate Com merce CommL-ion's Inves gabion. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Oct 16.-An appar ent loss of $7,500,000 in one bond transaction, losses indefinite in amout but aggregating many millios in the acquisition of the Frisco Lines and the Chicago ft Alton road and a loss of $750,000 on the stock and bonds of the Deering Coal Company, were dis closed today at the hearing of the In terstate Commerce Commission's in vestigation of the financial operations of the Chicago, Rock Island ft Pacific Railroad. Only two witnesses were ex amined. Frederick C. Sherwood, an examin er of accounts for the commission, gave in detail the results of bis inves tigation of tho books of the system, consisting of the operating company and the" two holding companies. Hr. Sherwood testified as to the sal aries received by various officers. As chairman of the board, R. R. Cable re ceived annually from $84/K)0 to $32. 000; W. B. Leeds, as president, receiv ed also $24,000 for a time and later $32,000 a year. B. L. -Winchell, as third vice ?resident, was paid $25,000 a year and as president $40.000; B. F. Voak ura, as chairman of the board, was paid $30,000 a va ar. and T. v Lc*, received $317,000. A voucher for $25.000, the proceeds of which wore pa kl to Robert Mather, counsel for the railway company, was offered in -vldenco. Th? Index shows that the amount *[*? t*M tor campaign purposes, said the witness, "but I was unabie to find the corracpondence file respecting the ttatt^./Tho f?e had disappeared." Two other vouchers for $10,000 each also were offered In evidence. No in formation was obtalnalfe as to the use to Which that money had been put. Sherwood said. Describing the acquisition of the St , Louis, Kansas City ft Colorado road by ? tba Rook .Island in 1002, Shsrood said, ' David it Francis and John Scullion, of St LOVJB gave $2,000,000 In Rock Is land stock for $3,030,000 in St Louis, Kansas City hoads and that the Rock leteftftuyfto assumeq an indebtedness (Continued on Fage 5.) G THE GERMAN CRUISE! itish emisor, shows the German cruiser anels and two of ber masts had been st 3ULD MEAN vlOCRACY IN EUROPE thor Party Declaring Sympathy roment in the Present War. condemns Germany's wanton violation i ( bf Belgium's neutrality and recognizes f tout Hritnin after exhausting the re sources of peaceful diplomacy was j bound In honor, as by treaty, to re sist Germany's aggression. The vic tory of Germany would mean the death of democracy in Kurope. conse quently thc labor party supports thc government. Until Germany is beaten theer can be no peace. 2 j *| 'Tho President of the local govern ment board states that fear's of wide spread 1 dislocation of trade have proved unfounded"* and with few ex ceptions unemployment is very much less serious than anticipated. Many districts report that trade IB expe there can be no pf^ce. _ ITALIAN FOREIGN [ MINISTER* DEAD * t ii Will Not Result in Any Alteration j1 of Italy's Aim to Stay Neu t r (By Associated PrcsB.) S ROME, Oct. lGThe Hal ian premier. Signor Salar.(Ira. -.viii assume tempo- t rarlly thc portfolio of minister of for- ti eign affairs made vacant by the death ti today of Marquis Antonio DI San Gul- e llano. This step was decided upon at a council of the ministers late today, b Nothing is known as to the Inten- fl Hons of thc king or the premier re- i? garding a pcrmanent*faecretary to the p office. Marquis Di San Giuliano died today] after suffering for a month with an [ affection of the heart. Almost to the Lt end he directed from his sick room ! a the affairs of his office so far as pos- d tibio. It is reported that the German a ambassador to Italy, when he heard of fi the death of'the marquis, said: "This r is perhaps the greatest misfortune for the central empire since the war be- c gan." n The doctors agree that the war did o not cause the death, of tho foreign a minister, but say tho end certainly t! was hastened by the arduous work to " which ho submitted his already weak ened constitution. Italy Mill Kemala Neutral. r, WASHINGTON. Oct, 16.-Tho death n today bf Marquis Alton!? $M San Glu- q lia?o, the Italian minister for foreign u affairs, will not result in any alters- 0 Hon of Italy's determination to re- ? malu rentrai, in the opinion of offi cials here. The Italian ambassador, 0 Macchi DI Collero, said his country's 0 purpose wa<? not take sides in the European struggle unless her national safety was menaced. Individual chan ITA* in tho mini?t ty. Un ??!<! would not be likely to siter that pol- tl Icy. Reports to the embassy have &< tended to discredit statements to the u effect that the Italian peonle were y eager to Join the Allies, indicating, o; rather, strong popular support of the u governmental policy... - w..t? BRITISH CRUISER HAtt NORTH SEA BY C (B/ Associated Press.) .w LONDON, Oct. 16.-The British crui- C s*r Hawke bas been sunk Ia the North ti Sea hy a German submarine. Out of a crew of 460 men fifty were saved. ol Tho admiralty today gave ont Gie ai following announcement concerning S the loss of the cruiser Hawke: a: "Hts Majesty's ship Thosus. Captain Hugh Kdwards, was attacked by a m submarine In the Northern waters of the North Sea yesterday afternoon but 1! \ MAINZ - rnff* Mainz sinking during tue naval en iot away. BOND ISSUE BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEE DRAFTING RE SOLUTION TO SUBMIT ISSUE TO PEOPLE ro BORROW $100,000 To Meet Expenses of Special Ses sion said Other Departments of State Government (Special 'to Tho Inelligencer.) COLUMBIA, Oct. 16.-Tho pinn to is- | ue bonds to buy the cotton crop ls !ow holding the center of interest In >oth Houses of the General Assembly nd everything is waiting tho report of he special committee which 4s draft cg the joint resolution to submit the end issue to tho people. The Senate iras in session onl ya few minutes this norning adjourning over until Monday light at 8 o'clock, walting on the spe- j tAl bond committee to report., Under he resolution only uncontested local -.muers will be considered at the ses i?n Monday night. Tho wavs and means committee in rodUced in thc House today a bill au horizing tho sinking fund commlslon . D borrow $100,000 if so much be nee-1 seary to meet thc expenses of the I pecial session of the General Assent-Jit ly and certain departments of the" tate government. The bill author ces the sinking fund cnmtnlsion to! fledge the credit of the State to sc ore Ute loan and to give a note sign it by c. majority of the corniu.'salon. Advocates of total elimination of I c he cotton crop In 1915 r"?do an "n-|v vailing effort this morning to pre* elay action of the committee conoii Iv creage reduction bill, which was up | c ar third reading after passing second ending Thursday morning by a vote f 78 to 10. The cotton eliminators lalmed. that, there was a disposition j ot to consider seriously the abolition f tho crop now that the committee ? creage reduction bill had gone lirough. They wanted the proposition f eliminating the crop entirely dis usaed before the committee bill was ? eut to the Senate. . ! By a volo of 06 to 23 the House re used to adjourn debate on the com- . ilttee cot "?n acroage reduction bill, 'he voto ol 23 for postponement ii;,an * ldlcatlon ot tho number of members 1 f the House who aro in favor of tr ll elimination. The House adjourned today at 1 'clock to meet Monday night nt 8 'clock. Defective Teeth Cause Destruction BOSTON. Oct 16.-Defective teeth ?use more destruction to the system ian alcohol, according to speakers t the convention of the Northeastern ontal Association today. Dr. W. A. rhlte. of the New York State Board f Health, said 46 per cont or the fail- f ? res among school children were due Y bad teeth. ^ fKE SUNK IN S ?ERM AN SUBMARINE I] Ot ?as missed. His Majesty's ship Hawke di aptain H. I*. T. .E Williams, was af tcked and sunk. r< "The following officers with 60 men p r the crew have been saved: Lieuten- ft at Commander Rosoman ; Boatswain Y ydney Austin; Gunner James Dennis; d< ad acting Gunner' Harry Kvitt. m "The remaining officers and men are tl iisnlng Ti "Th', Hawke waa a cruiser, built in tn m '? 'ol CONGRESS WI BY MIDDL AGREEMENT REACHED TO VOI AMENDMENTS TODAY AND FOR HOUSE SOUTHERN SENATORS VOTES FOR $25( Mississippi Senator Proposes Strikin on Next Year's Crop in Exe? Year's Prc (Hy Associated Press.) I WASHINGTON, Oct.. 16.-Congress 1 tad so nearly completed tts work for ! Hie seBtdon today that adjournment iy the middle of next week seemed ' practically assured. An agreemeont 1 reached in Ui? Senate io vot on tne < war tax bil and all amendments be- i 'ore adjournraen tomorrow night < n ea nr. tho measure will, be ready for < he House Mouday. Administration 1 leaders expect an early conference ?greemont and prompt approval of the 1 report by both houses. Senators from Southern States who ? lave threatened to delay action, agreed . ;o tho proposal to vote tomorrow be- 1 ".m; e lt would record their votes on 1 he amendment providing for the isBUe ? ?f $2riO,0??O,00O in government 4 per i :ent bonds for tho purchase of cotton. I riiey would not concede tonight that > he amendment would bo defeated, but < l>e prevailing impression ls lt will fall I ihort of the necessary votes. All disputed features of the war tax < .ii; was seuied by the Senate today < except the cotton amendment. In :roased tax on tobacco dealers and the ( vine tax as finally agreed to by the < 'inance committee were among soc- < lons agreed to. 1 ?enator Williams, of Mississippi, < iroposed to strike out of the cotton < imendment the sections to provide a 1 ax on next year's crop in excess of < io per cent of this year's production i ind the proposed tax on the 1917 crop i o make good ..ny possible deficit that night accrue to the government from t h? purchase of cotton. Senator West, t if Georgia, surprised bis colleagues i >y opposing the bond proposal. Thc t Latest Mews the Bat l '" 3y Associated Presa.) 'ROB 11*5 BATTLE FRONT, via Par i, Oc\. 16.- (ll :4G p. ni.)-Tile at empt ty the Germans to turn the innk of the Allies and obtain posses ion of the ports of Ostend, Dunkirk nd Calais has tx m unsuccessful, for be Germans came face to face with strong opposing allied army which ompelied them to fall back after Be ere fighting. What ls known as "the marching iring" of the Allies is continually In ontact with the German troops and omptetely covers the approach to the oast towns. When they fought a pitch d battle west of Lille the Germans fere forced to make a marked retira ient from Laventle in the direction ot dlle, their occupation of which last 'uesday by 30,000 men appears dea [ned to be of short duration. The line of the "battle of the north" xtends over thc most historic ground s Flanders where, on "the held of tie cloth of gold," Francis I and Hen y VIII had their celebrated meeting a 1520. Owing' lo the sinuous char MEW YORK BANKERS 1 DISCUSS PROSPECI V. P. G. Harding and Secretary M cuss Details ol Plat (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. OcL 16.-W. P. G. [arding, the Federal Reserve Board tomber most sctlvely connected with ie proposed 9150.000,000 cotton loan ind, left Washington tonight for New Ork. Secretary of the Treasury Mc doo left earlier In the day for the ?me city and lt was believed here mght they expected to discuss de li I s of the plan tomorrow with bank' rs who promised to contribute $50. )0,000 to the fund under certain con itions. Mr. McAdoo went to New York to agister as a v.jter; but may find op ortunlty to tsae up the cotton loan ind plan before his return. The New ork bankers In accepting the plan emended that the fund be loaned to utional currency ascsoclstlons or to ie Fedora! Reserve Banks. The cur mcy associations are not empower I to receive such ioans and members I toe board expert an effort to bo'et rEON WAR TAX BILL AND MEASURE WILL BE READY MONDAY. > WANT TO RECORD ),000,000 BOND ISSUE g Out Amendment Providing Tax CM of 50 Per Cent of This ?duction. Senate appeared read?' to vote, but lt tinally was determined to let debate run for another day. In tho I louee Representative Henry, rf Texas, contended the war revenue bill would not pass that body "with jut the presence of a ituorum," unless some action was taken to relieve the ?otton situation. House leaders insist ed a quorum would he present next week' to transact necessary business. Representativo Mann, of Illinois, Ro i)ubllcau leader, evoked applause from both Republicans and Democrats by lgreeing that Congress ought to be iblo to h?'p the cotton situation. He ?aid the European war had made lt seem the world could not consume tho cotton crop. The market would not ibsorb all of the cotton even if lt were ?iiven away, he said .adding that the situation demanded a remedy, but that ill of the propositions BO far made lad some defect. Representative Glass ,of Virginia, apposed any plan for federal financial lid for cotton growers. "The Secretary o* the Treasury has lone the.limita*' said afr. Glass, "and tome say has gone beyond the limit, tn making deposits, with Southern ian ks. We of the South who have been leclaring for the Jeffersonian doctrine >f equal rights to all and special privt ege to none, oppose this proposition if taxing all the people of the United States for a single commodity of ? sin? (le section." Senator Overman,, of .North Carolina, al ked over the cotton situation with, he President today, but said he did mt expect much executive action la he matter. . ' From tile Grounds icter ot the line of battle the total ength of lt, from the coast line to the Iwlss border, now reaches nearly 860 ailes. Belief in their final success appears 0 have taken a firm hold on the Allies. Ul the mer- display confidence In their ommandcrs, who are doing everything lOBslble to. spare their'iroops. The ai led soldiers are fighting with vigor. *hey often perform marches which eem beyond human power. This bi nade evident often when small de achments are acting apart from the nain ' bodies. French dragoons recently were en? rusted with the task ot covering Gie lassage of a river by artillery. They act a body of German hussars in a lash. Both sides charged simultan ouHly and the melee lasted ten min ies, dorina; which the man slashed nd pierced each other with swords nd lances, whfle the officers' revel ers cracked. Finally the hussars ?roko the ranks and tallowed off, eavjng niany of their men on the _(Continued on Pft^S.) ^nju^ DECLINE TO PS OF COTTON POOL1 IcAdoo Leave New York to Dis* 1 With Bankers. lade to get the New Yorkers to di set loans from the funda to tba banka ithout use of the associations, indi? idual banks assuming th? responsi bly. : Secretary McAdoo again oxprsaead, onficonfldence today that the plan, rill go through. NEW YORK. Oct 16.-In Uta ab-? ence of definite advices regarding ie attitude of power? of the F?d?rai. ?serve Board, local bankers today de nned to discuss the prospects of tho 160,000.000 cotton pooL In a tentativa ray leading banka here have agreed to. a bs crt be an amount equaling oas-? lird ofthe whole, but they will Uko o further action until they receive eflnlte assurances Uiat the plan. If .tried through, will be wholly in the stare of a relief measure. Banker? say they wiii not eouttte anco a plan willoh will allow of an* peculatiye feature? or fixas an Ister it rata; ot mora than 6 per cent, ^