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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 342. rTeeUy, E.tabUshed i860; D?fljr, Janis, ?1?. ANDERSON, S. C, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1914. $5.00 PER ANNUM PRICE FIVE CENTS WAR DECLARED BETWEEN TURKEY AND RUSSIA BERLIN CELEBRAI S GERMAN VII A Great Battle is Raging1 perate Fighting is in ments Pouring Into 1 siana-Allies Are < Operations in Belgiu (By Awociated Pr*?.! Berlin ia celebrating news from Po land ot what ia termed "one ot the greatest victories in history." Berlin headquarters announces that the RUB BlanB have neon clearly beatenandthat the Russian offensive against Silesia and Posen has been* broken. A general retreat of the Russians in Poland, with the Germans in pursuit, is claim ed. In contradiction to this the latest official bulletin lBBued in Petrograd declarea that the Russian cavalry and vanguard troops are "chasing ener getically the beaten Germans," in the direction of Mlawa. Both sides claim captures of prisoners, the Germans a large number. iFrom Warsaw comes word that a great battle is In progress 30 miles to tho westward ; that the German wedge has established itself in a strategic position and that desperate fighting is in progreBB, with reinforcements pouring into both Germans and Rus sians. In Belgium and France the Allies are carrying on offensive operations, begun a few days ago, slowly and steadily. Progress Is noted in the French official statement and it ls believed Infantry on the two sides of the western battle front have come to grips at many placea, the niiiaber of wounded indicating the desperate nature of the struggle. Further details from the English coast towns bombarded by the Ger man squadron discloses van increasing number of victims. At the tv?M Hartle pooLs alone the number is now offici ally announced st 82 with 260 wound ed. At Scarborough 17 were " killed and it is thought the full casualty list has not..yet .hean -out, One British light cruiser and a torpedo boat des troyer which engaged the Germans lost five men killed and a, number ot wounded. That the German ships were hit several times by the English coast batteries is announced officially at Lerlin but lt ls as?-?rted that the dam age was slight Austria follows up the German an nouncement, of a victory in Poland by the statement that the Russians are retiring along the whole front in hot h Galicia and Poland, and it is possible this may mean the withdrawal of the investing army of Russia from Prre mysl. Egypt has been proclaimed a Brit ish protectorate and Lieutenant Col onel Sir Arthur Henry McMahon has been appointed high commissioner. The German field marshal, Von Der Goltz, according to late dispatches, has been appointed military governor ot Constantinople and acting minister of war. A German admiral is said to hava taken over the ministry of ma rine. The former imperial German chan cellor, Prince von Buelow, now am bassador to Italy, referring to the German bombardment of the English coast towns, says: "This is simply Oie prelude of what tho German fleet, is soon to undertake,, which may astonish the world," . LONDON, Dec 17.-"The Russisns are retiring along the entire front In Galicia and Poland." This statement, officially issued at Vienna, is the outstanding feature of tonight's news from the battle fronts. While there ia no confirmation from other sources, auch a move on the part of the Russians would be tn Une with the announcements in Petrograd dispatches that the Russians, threat ened on both flanks, had decided to take up new positions ' where they could better meet the Austro-German onslaughts from Ute Carpathaing to the East Prussian frontier. Should the Austro-Cerman armies, as on previous occasions, follow the Russians in Poland, rf tot her big bat tle will soon be, tn progress, which may decide whether tho Germans are to get to Warsaw cr whether the Rus sisas are again to threaten aa Inva sion of Germany. The Russian delay in fulfilling ex pectations that they would prove a serious menace te German territory ls disappointing the peoples of the ?Hied <**s??tr!es, tut military mm express the view that it is better for Russia to wghfc in her own te rr ?tory, where means of commnnicatlotic would be more on an equality. The German and French official communications do not disclose much ot what I? going aa ta the west, but it fe apparent the Allies are still on the offensive from the coast to La Bastee and at other points. While no marked advances are reported, the French claim progress, and to have organ ired the ground Uley gained daring the preceding days. The Germana, .ia the other hand, assert that ?he Allies' at tack? hara, been repulsed. From the number of wounded reach ing the hosp! ts ls of both tho Germana rVest of Warsaw and Des? Progress With Reinforce Both Germans and Rus Carrying on Offensive m and France and the Allies it 1B evident that the lighting in Flanders today was more severe than shown in thc officiai ; tute monts. Correspondents report that the hospitals again are tilling, NV iii lo along the Dutch border continuous tir ing can be heard. The long expected proclamation bringing an end to Turkish Suzerain ty over Egypt and the eatabllsbm^nt of a British protectorate waa officially issued tonight The laat straw doubt less was tlie action of thc Khedive, who was the sultan's representative in Egypt, but with ll lt to or no power, In taking aldea with Turkey against Great Britain. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur Henry McMahon, who has been .ap pointed high commissioner, although a aoldier by profession, baa bad long and varied experience BB a political officer in India and other parts of the east. He has been foreign secretary in India since 1911. Andrew A. Manning Receives Appointment 3p#cial to Thc Intelligent?!-. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Andrew A. Manning of Spartanburg has been appointed to a position under the ag ilcultural department with headquar ters at Walhalla. He will have charge ot tho examination of land titled in volved in the Appalachian forest re serve area. He la a nephew of Gov crnor-elec Manning of Sumter. COLUMBIA MAN MADE TREASURER Annual Convention of Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association Closes. . (Dy Associated Pre?.) ASHEVILLE, N. C.. Dec. 17.-Thc twenty-seventh annual convention of the Southern Surgical and Gynecolo iiicui Association came to a close this afternoon with the selection of Cin cinnati aa the place of holding the next annual meeting and the election of the following officers: President, Dr. Bacon Saunders of Ft. Worth; first vice president. Dr. Thomas S. Cullen of Baltimore; second vice president, Dr. S. M. D. Clark of New Orleans: secretary. Dr. W. D. Haggard o.vNaeh vltle; treasurer. Dr. LeGrand Guerry of Columbia, S. C. Dr. Haggard and Dr. Guerry were reelected. Dr. C. A. L. Reed of Cin cinnati, was mur.od aa chairman of the committee on arrangements for the next annual meeting. Mr. Joseph Taber Johnson of Wash ington, D. C., and Dr. N. Shilling of Cedar Bayon,. Texas, wore nxmed aa honorary fellows. Mr. John Wesley Long of Greensboro, N. C/ who haa served as president for the past year, becomes a member of thc council, the governing body of the organiration which ls compos .4 o' the former presidents of the association. Two More Pardons v a _. ' Granted by Governor -. ? ; Special to Thc iAUUigeneer. COLUMBIA, Dec 17.-George W. ; Long of Greenwood, sentenced to three years? for manslaughter and paroled ' one year ago waa pardoned thia after noon by the governor. .-: t A pardon was also given John J. i Jones, tho Orangeburg County iawyer who killed Abe Pearlstine, at Branch ville and who was paroled on cond? tlon that he leave the State last March after serving part of a ten year sentence in the penitentiary. Berlin Aroused to AtinAntishAttiAti? ii luratrfwvvraTOii ti Within Half aa Hour After Greet Russians in Poland waa Afanes para Appeared and tho Wa Into Ba (Rf AaMK&ted Pru?.) j BERLIK, via London. Dec. 17.- i 11:10 p. ra.)-Berlin was aroused to t enthusiasm today by the announce- I meat ot a great Aestro-German vic tory over the Resalaos tn Pound. Aa . oficial bulletin announcing 'Wa eras German ? ' ' ' I i NUFJN The German cruiser N?rnberg was the fourth vtessel to be sunk in the great naval battle off the coast of Ar gentina. The Germans Bravely Story of Great Naval Battle Off C .German Vessels Were Sunk eengere Aboard (By Associated Pr*??.) BUENOS AYRES. Argentine, Dec. 17.-The German erasers ,sunk off the Falkland Islands December 8 appar ently were taken unawares by the Blrltish at a time when neither side was expecting an encounter. First de tailed accounts of the battle, which reached here today from Puerto Gal legos, Patagonia, says the Germans were on their way to seize the Falk land Islands, British possessions, when they came unexpectedly upon a lone BrlUsh warship. Othei mem bers of the British fleet, which were taking on supplies from islands, quickly closed In and the fate of Ad miral ron Spec's squadron soon was sealed. Tho story of the battle was told by passengers on the? British steamer Orlssa. which arrived at Punta Amas from Callao, Chile. They say that the Germans fought bravely to the. end, even the colliers refusing to surren der. Losses of the British were piec ed at eight men. It was a formidable British squad ron which faced the Germans. Includ ed in it were the battleship Canopus, the battle cruisers Invincible and In- j flexible and the cruisers. Cornwall. CarnaraVon. Bristol and Glasgow. The German squadron consisted' of the | five cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisensu; Leipzig, N?rnberg acd Dresden. The British squadron arrived at Port Stanley,' Falkland Islands, December 7 to take on supplies. The next morn ing the Canopus, guarding the en trance to the port, sighted a hostile warship. Four others quickly came into view and were recognized as the squadron of Admiral von Spee. The German warships had left the Chil ean islands of Juan Fernandez No vember IS to take possession of the1 Demonstrates Progress (By A*Md?t?d Pim.) PARIS. Dec. 17.-(7-.06 p. m.)-No fewer than 64 per cent of the French wounded returned to the firing Une be fore December 12, according to figures supplied today by the surgical de partment of tho ministry of war. Of ?he remainder 24 per cent, had been given, convalescent leaves, 17 per cent wert still in hospitals and 11-2 per cent had been discharged from tho anny. Three and a half per cent, of the wounded died. '. These statistics demonstrate the re markable advance made in surgery and show a lower percentage ot deaths from wounds than in any preceding war. ' Enthusiasm by ? Germ?n Vider/ ' ?. . # t Attstre^eraian Victory Over ottoed Extra Editions of Pa ola City Latterly Bashed) Btktsj. i issued shortly after noon. Within half in hour extra editions of the popart ippeared ead the whole city literally Sashed into bunting. American visitors, who a few days (Continued on page twelve.) J Warship* Dresden and N BERG. The Dresden got away and report? have aince come from South America that she waa sunk. Other report? have bad lt Chat aho was able to reach the port of Santa Crue. Fought r to the End '.oast of Argentina, in Which Four December 8, Told by Pas British Steamer. Faulkland . Islands and destroy the I wireless station. | Only the Canopus waa visible at I first to the GermanB and they steamed straight at her. The Canopus opened I fire and the other Br lt ly h warships I rushed ta her assistance. The Schornhorat, Gnelaenau and j Leipzig formed in hattie linn .and the N?rnberg and Dresden dropped I back. \ The British concentrated their fire on the Scharnhorst. Admiral von Spec's flagship. When it became evi dent that she was doomed, her crew assembled on the forward deck. The Scharnhorst refused to surrender and after an hour's fighting ploughed be neath the wavea. The crew preserved Ita formation as the ship went down and cheered as the waters closed about them. I The Glasgow engaged the Leipzig and sank her. .The G> elaenau went down 8 miles from Port Stanley. The N?rnberg attempted to escape but af ter a pursuit of two boura was aunk. The Carnarvon pursued the Dresden I but waa not swift enough to overhaul I her. After the battle the Blrltiah picked up 194 Germana, including a few of- 1 fleer?. Of these 100 were from the crews of the two German colliers. An opportunity to surrender was offered the colliers but it waa refused and they were sunk. ; The croiser Cornwall wad damaged slightly below the water line. None of the other British warships was dam aged. ) On December 10 funeral services I were held by the aquadron for the . [eight British sailors killed. The British admiral ity report of the I battle stated that only seven of the ?British aquadron loot their lives. Defeated Instead of Winning a Victory DOUGLAS, Aria.. Dec. 17.-Instead ot Vinning a victory, aa claimed last night, the Carranza force operating between Cahuta and Cima, Sonora, waa defeated by a Maytorena detach ment, according to report received today. Of two hundred and fifty Carranza troops sent south, less than 75 returned to Agua Prieta. The Maytorena troops are report ed awaiting the reinforcements at Fronteras before attacking Agua Prie ta. Maytorena now Has control of eas tern sonora south of Agua Prieta ex cept Naco. Shot to Death in a Public Rest, Room ASHEVILLE, N. C., Dec. 1?.-Her bert Smith was shot and instantly ailed In a public rest room adjoining police headquarters tonight and Wil liam Bailey ia being held without bail charged with the zhootlng, Th? prisoner maintains that the death of his companion was the reanlt of the accidental discharge of a pistol and tn this claim he ia substantiated by the only eye witness of the tragedy. Both young men- were residents of West Asheville and hate boon play mates aince childhood. Neither Is ont of-his teena. Bashing Troops te the Wea?. THE HAGUE. Dec. 17.-According to afternoon newspapers, the Germans rushing large forcea through Bel towarde the weet. It ls the tei lhat Ute new troops are vol iteer forces, as lt is declared most h of thoa are fran 17 to I? years old. ' l< gHH&fSflE^BfifflBfflL?U DRESDEN. Notorious Automobile Bandit Shot to Death Frank G. Hohl Killed by Cincinnati Polfceesss After a Sensational Turee Hours Crime Including Daylight Robben? of Two Banka ead Fatally Wounding One Officer. (By AuodaWd Praia.) CINCINNATI, Dec. 17.- Frank O. Hohl, a notorious automobile bandit, was sbot to death by policemen today after a sensational three hours of crime which included daylight rob beries of two Cincinnati banks, theft of an automobile and a. pistol duel with the police, resulting in wounds to one officer that are expected to provo fatal. Thirteen thousand and one hundred dollars are missing . as the it suit of tbs bank robberies. The police believe that Hob!, in bis wild automobile drives, managed to pass the money along to confederates. Shortly after 10 a. m. Hohl entered the West End branch of the Provi dent Savings Bank and Trust Com pany, at Eighth and Freeman avenue, fired two shots at Cashier Edward Hughes, scooped up $8,000 in cur rency and backed through the door. Jumping into a waiting automobile, which had been stolen, he quickly disappeared. Cashier Hughes fired af ter him but the shots did not take effect. More than an hour later the ban dit entered the Liberty Banking and Savings Company at Liberty and Freenman avenue, three blocks away, fired two shots at Cashier George Winters, took $5,100 in currency, ran to his automobile and again disap peared. The shots were so close to Winters that he was powder-burned, but he was uninjured. . Almost two hours after the second robbery Harry Bockshorn, whose mother conducts an apartment house on West Ninth street, told the police that a man answering to' the descrip tion of the bandit had entered a room there yesterday. Three policemen called at the room. Whea they knock ed, the door suddenly was thrown open end Hohl brushed psst the offi cers, firing ss he ran. Policeman Edward Knoul was probably fatally wounded. Hohl again ran tb his automobile, which was standing at a nearby cor ner, and bade fair to again make good his escape. In rounding a cor ner, however, the machine crashed Into a telegraph pole and wee wreck ed. The bandit jumped out and opened fire on the two officer* who hsd pur sued him. In the battle that followed Hohl fell with four bullet wounds in his body. He died shortly afterward at a hospital. Hohl was well known td the police who claim he shot up an Aitones, Penn., bank on March 3, was arrest ed and while being conveyed to the Pittsburgh Jail, threw a cup of coffee in his guard's face and escaped. He was again captured but subsequently escaped from the Hollldsysburg, Penn.. Jail. He was wanted, authori ties declare, for a diamond robbery in Kansas City more than a year ago, where he had assumed the n?tne of Howe. The police say Hohl usually had a woman confederate and searcn ls being msde for her. Mis. Lulu Hohl, who says she is the wife ot the bandit, was arrested tonight but the police were unable to find any traces of the money taken by the. robber. Robbed Beak la Pennsylvania. ALTOONA. Penn., Dec 17.-Meth ods pursued by Frank G. Hohl when he robbed the Union Bank of Akoona on March 23 last, were almost identl cal with those that cost him his life at Cincinnati today. Driving np to the bank in a stolen '.ax I rab the ban dit forced the paying teller from his csge and wounded the cashier. He took nearly $3,000 in bills from, the safe, wounding s depositor he met at the door aa he lett. Scattering the crowd on the street with a fusillade of snots, he disappeared in the taxi cab. The machine was found aboan doned several hours later. Hohl was .arrested at Salem, Ohio, April .4 He made a desperate attempt to escape In Pittsburg while being conveyed here. Hohl escaped from th? Hollidays burg jail in a sensational manner April 12. Making a rope from the mat tress cover In his coll, he removed his clothing and slipped through the bars of rn window eight feet above the floor. The bars, which he had covered with soap, were less than six Inches spart. He then drew himself up to the roof and lowered himself to the ground with the improvised rope st teched to a chimney. (Hohl began hts career of crime tn Harrisburg, his home town, uhen a boy. Question of Cetin Shipments to Germany ?p io United States Wfllingness ead Ability ol American Govearunent to Protect Ship ments on Seas is AH That Must Be Determined to Restore et Least Two-Thhds of the Export f (By Aaaadtftad XVwaO WASHINGTON^ Deo 17.-Wllli?g ness and sblllty of the United SteSti to protect cotton shipments on Ute tess is all Out must be determined to restore at least two-thirds of the txport business wUh Germany, ia the opinion expressed by German spin narai Writing in answer to Inquiries of Senator Smith, of South Carolina, es to cotton trade conditions te Ger many, Add ix and Cordes, of Bremen. (Continued on page twelve.) v.. '' : . 1 OCCUPATIO! RESIDENTS OF BOMBARDED ENGLISH TOWNS RETURN TO WORK HOLDING INQUEST OVER VICTIMS The Testimony yesterday Brought to Light Some Pathetic (By AwocUUd Prm.) LONDON. Dec. 17.-Residents of the towns of Scarborough, the Hartle pool and Whitby, which yesterday were bombarded by German cruisers, resumed their ordinary occupations today. The only departure from the regular routine was the arrival ot crowds of camera-berring tourists, the return of those who had fled and busy mechanics at work repairing damage done by the shells. The msyor of Scarborough placard ed the walla with posters advising the people to keep cool, hot thia hard ly was necessary, for beyond grief tor the loss of friends and nieghbors and the little pride displayed at the attention they attracted, citisens went about their business In a natural way. It will not be long before all marks of the gunfire will be removed. The attitude of the people 01 Eng land is much the same as of the bom barded towns. There ls no excitement, and the only effect of the bombard ment ia the demand that naturalised [Jarmans and those who have not been naturalized shall he excluded from areas open to a sea attach* and a slight boom in recruiting, which had been Blackening at the approach of Christmas. The Rt Hon. Thomas J. MaoNamara? parliamentary secretary to the edmir fclity, said the German raid waa worth two army corps to Kitchener's army. It to believed now that the Ger m?n squadron included at least four battle cruisers qt the superdread naught class and two armored cruis ers. The shelling of the Hertlepooio md Scarborough waa. simultaneous, mt Whitby was visited after the war? mips hsd left the other towna. There hes been some activity on the part of the Allies in other parta of he world. British ships bare been jombardtng the Germana along the Handers coast and the Turka la the juli ot Ssros, while the Russian Slack Sea baa sunk a German steam* ?r and an unidentified vessel, suppos? ? kl to be a Turkish warship. Austria, it is reported, has lost the raining ship Beethoven, which, it it vas being used for training purposes, would luve at least 200 cadets aboard. leanest' Being Beal* HARTLEPOOL, Via London, Dec. 17.-An inquest began here today >ver the bodies ot 79 victims of the lennon bombardment, killed ta Har lepool and West Hartlepool. In opening the court the coroner laid that never before (n English h le ery had an inquest been held under t similar circumstance and that he toped the occasion would never ce rn r sgain. The testimony brought to light some >athetlc cases. An old woman waa licking ap coal dropped from cara m the railway embankment when she ass killed by a shell. An old man and ito two daughters wara starting ireakfast in the kitchen whoa a shel: ?lled all three.. A young woman went to tba house >f her aged mother, intending to con tact her to a place ot safety. Enter ng the passageway sha stumbled ?ross her mother's body, A shell had ri arced tho root and killed har? Ai el lerty rusa, who thought the gan fir ag waa that of Britlah ships at prac ice, sat down unconcernedly to ireakfast. A shell carried away the orner of bis hom**, killing his two grandchildren. The verdict rendered hy the coron* r's jory was that the deaths of the 9 persons were due to bombardment ?f the twin boroughs, "hy nil an HS j. >f the twin borough, "by an enemy, under the cover ot a dense fog, fired hot and abell into the towna? killing nany unarmed* cl villana." . Directed at Signal statte*. WHITBY, Dec 18.-(via Landon? ?15 a. m.)-At the incest today erar he bodies of the two men ?lied In he German narai raid, a coast gaari iffleer testified thai tho entire hem wrdment waa directed at the signal dation. Between 100 and 160 chalka sere fired. The first struck the cliff ace, which gare the coast guardsmen ima to escapo. The Jury returned a verdict that tue* Bett came to their deaths from i hells bred from German ships. rtra KBseif IS Weaaded. "* LONDON. Dec 17.-(10:53 p, m > rna. light cruiser Petro, and the de ?Toyer Doon were am jag the Britlah drip* which stuck-d the German misers raiding the .lortheaet cot?* of England. Both were ??treck by shelia. They lost fire mea, killed end 15 I faades ?_,__